There’s actually a nice video about QMC2 and MAME on (Arch) Linux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDts9-ivMNw

Here’s an alternative QMC2 build service for Slackware 13.1 by opennix.com.

Also, here’s a link to an ebuild from the roslin overlay: Gentoo Portage Overlays — thanks to Ycarus

Qt-wise, these packages are self-contained, that is they already include the Qt 4.6 framework they were built upon. You only need to additionally install the SDL framework (required for MAME & MESS anyway).

The binaries require Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and have been created & tested on 10.6 (x86 architecture). If you need binaries for a different platform, you’ll have to build them from source (explained in this FAQ).

Please note that there’s a Qt/Phonon bug that causes a post mortem crash on exit, which you can safely ignore (though it may be annoying). There’s nothing we can do about it, it needs to be fixed by the Qt/Phonon developers.

For now, if you would like to disable the annoying crash report dialog, just enter this in a terminal:

$ defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none

If you’d ever want the dialog to start appearing again, just replace none with prompt.

The included binaries are known to work on Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP using the original MAME and MESS variants (MAMEUIFX32 is supported as well through a replacement template for the MAME variant).

You may also look here for builds of intermediate/test releases (and the latest final release): Win32 packages

openSUSE 11.3

RPM packages for openSUSE 11.3 are here: openSUSE 11.3 RPMs

Please note that we can not create binaries for any platform, only for the i586 and x86_64 architectures at the moment. If you need binaries for a different platform, simply use the source RPM and rebuild it using this command to create them:

$ rpmbuild --rebuild <source-rpm>

Ubuntu 10.04

Ubuntu 10.10

Accessing the repository (method 1)

For Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

$ deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mmbossoni-gmail/emu/ubuntu karmic main

For Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

$ deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mmbossoni-gmail/emu/ubuntu lucid main

For Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

$ deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mmbossoni-gmail/emu/ubuntu maverick main

Get the signing key of the repository (in order to verify packages):

$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 3212DC8B

Accessing the repository (method 2)

Alternatively, you can just use this command to do it automatically, including the import of the repository key (should work for all Ubuntu releases mentioned above):

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mmbossoni-gmail/emu

Install QMC2

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qmc2

Update QMC2

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Note that Marcelo also took effort to bring QMC2 into the main Ubuntu distribution. See here for its current status: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/508954

As we don’t have the written permission to publish the (converted) icons, you’ll have to convert them yourself.Here’s a simple script which does this job. It’s based on ImageMagick’s convert utility and requires that all *.ico files are in the current working directory. The *.png files will be created there as well.

This is obsolete now. QMC2 includes built-in support to remap shortcuts & GUI control keys since version 0.1.b11!

Note: if you use this patch you are not entitled to ask the MAME and/or MESS developers for support, at least not without mentioning the use of this patch! Better ask for support at the PS3 Bodega Forums instead!

Note: you are entitled to ask the QMC2 devs for support even with this patch applied. But please state it clearly, if you do.