(SVN repository access)

$ svn co https://qmc2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/qmc2/trunk qmc2-svn

To update your local copy to the latest SVN revision do this (in the top-level source directory called qmc2-svn above):

$ svn update

See here for instructions on how to setup the repository (QMC2 is in the nonfree section) — thanks to Christopher Stone and Julian Sikorski

There’s a (meanwhile older) 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 13.37 by opennix.com.

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

Qt-wise, the package is self-contained, that is it already includes the Qt 4 framework (4.7.3). You only need to additionally install the SDL framework (1.2.14), which is required for MAME & MESS anyway on that platform. The binaries require Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and have been created and tested on 10.6 (x86 architecture).

If you want or need to build QMC2 from source (explained in this FAQ), note that XCode 4.x is currently NOT supported, only XCode 3.2 (due to a Qt limitation; community patches for qmake to support XCode 4 already exist, though)!

Please also note that there’s a Qt/Phonon bug that may cause a post-mortem crash on exit, which you can safely ignore (though it may be annoying). If it happens to you, there’s nothing we can do about it, but you can disable the annoying crash report dialog if you will:

$ defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none

To re-enable the crash report, just replace none with prompt.

Community builds:

• David Ely actually maintains the Mac OS X builds now; he also keeps builds of recent SVN revisions on his server.

• Installer: qmc2-win32-0.34.exe
• Archive: qmc2-win32-0.34.7z

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

Community builds (not officially supported):

• 64-bit MinGW builds are available here — thanks to Dr. Spankenstein
  
• 32-bit MinGW builds are available on Anna’s Playground — thanks to Anna Wu
  

• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rreucher/

Packages for QMC2 SVN revisions (development) for openSUSE 11.4, 12.1 and Factory are available from a separate repository (sub-project):

• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rreucher:/qmc2-svn/

There’s also an alternative repository maintained by Asterios Dramis which includes separate qmc2-sdlmame and qmc2-sdlmess RPMs that are supposed to be pre-configured conforming to PackMan’s mame and mess packages:

• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/adra/

Accessing the repository

Use this command to automatically add the repository and import its key:

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

Installing QMC2

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

Updating QMC2

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

Important: This package now also requires (SDL)MAME/(SDL)MESS from Wallyweek’s repository! See here for details on how to add his repo:

• http://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/repository/

There’s also a nice video series about MAME and QMC2 on Ubuntu:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpnK6F_8Im8

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWHHBLr19g0

For MESS, AntoPISA now also has machine icons on his MESS page: http://www.progettosnaps.net/mess/

This is a set of simple bash scripts I made to support me in the process of keeping my ROM collection clean of (meanwhile) obsolete files (zipped ROMs and CHD files).

Important usage notes:

• You need to edit all scripts and change the values of the variables MAME_BINARY, ROM_PATHS and OUT_FILE to fit your local requirements.
• Nothing will be changed by the scripts, only the results are written to the output file (OUT_FILE).
• It’s assumed that the filenames of all your ROMs and CHDs contain only lower-case letters!
• The ROM path(s) may contain any valid character-combination except white-space characters which are used as separators (in case of multiple ROM paths)!
• ROM files that are not stored as ZIPs (but in separate sub-directories) are not supported and may result in false-positives (in case of check_for_invalid_files)!
• Files in your ROM path(s) that do not end in .[zZ][iI][pP] or .[cH][hH][dD] (respectively) are ignored by most scripts, but check_for_invalid_files will find them.
• Don’t just blindly remove the files that are reported in OUT_FILE, move them away and check your ROM state again before you finally remove them !
• The scripts are known to work on Linux/UNIX and Windows with Cygwin (works, but is very slow); they should also run fine on Mac OS X (untested).
• Programs & tools required: a working MAME binary and the GNU versions of bash, awk, grep/egrep, colrm, find, tail, wc, du, rm, tr and touch.

These self-extracting archives extend the MAME dev-tools with Qt 4.7.4 and zlib 1.2.5 development libraries to make QMC2 build in this environment as well. Choose the one for your architecture, or both if you want to produce 32- and 64-bit builds.

See the included file README.add-on for installation instructions!

• mingw-mame-w32-QMC2-add-on-20110905.exe
• mingw-mame-w64-QMC2-add-on-20110905.exe

Old version (Qt 4.7.3):

• mingw-mame-w32-QMC2-add-on-20110528.exe
• mingw-mame-w64-QMC2-add-on-20110528.exe

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 developers for support even with this patch applied. But please state it clearly, if you do.