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Retro Screen Saver for MESS and MAME


This is a MS Windows screen saver which runs MESS and MAME with available softwares/drivers on your machine.

When Retro Screen Saver runs :
- ESCAPE key exit from the screen saver
- BACKSPACE key stops Retro Screen Saver but leave the current MESS/MAME running
- PAUSE/BREAK key changes the software running

Read the README.txt file for help


Download RetroSS 2.4.2 (compatible with MAME/MESS 124 and above)

Download RetroSS 2.4.1 (compatible with MAME/MESS 124 and above)

Download RetroSS 2.4 (compatible with MAME/MESS 124 and above)

Download RetroSS 2.3 (compatible with MAME/MESS 117 and above)

Download RetroSS 2.2 (compatible with MAME/MESS lesser than 117)

Download RetroSS 2.1 (compatible with MAME/MESS lesser than 107)


New in RetroSS 2.4.2 :

- Added "pcb" as a directory where RetroSS search for png files to display for MAME.

New in RetroSS 2.4.1 :

- Fixed the default MESS's bios path from "bios" to "roms"

New in RetroSS 2.4 :

- Displays a picture during splash screen. This picture is a PNG file located either in the cabinets, cpanel, flyers, marquees, titles MAME's directories, or in cabinets, cpanel, flyers, marquees, titles, pcb MESS's directories. Zip files containing PNG files are not supported yet. If no picture is found for the selected system or driver, the splash screen background stays black.
- Changed the font and color of the splash screen
- Changed the default emulator option to be sure to run full screen even if the configuration file of a system/driver is configured in windowed mode.

New in RetroSS 2.3 :

- Fixed a bug which could cause the screensaver to quit after first game was displayed.
- change default option for both MAME and MESS

New in RetroSS 2.2 :

- Fixed a bug when MESS/MAME binaries path contains space character
- Added more sanity checks

New in RetroSS 2.1 :

- Fixed a zip archive bug related to a change of zip support in MAME/MESS 110
- Added a check box to run only perfectly emulated MAME drivers. This avoid the "press OK" screen of non-working drivers.

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