M.A.M.E. Catalog / Launcher II - also referred to as QMC2 - is the successor of one of the first UNIX M.A.M.E. GUI front ends available on this planet called QMamecat (derived from MAMECAT, which was text-only). QMamecat was based upon Qt 2; its development was frozen in 2003.
By the beginning of March 2006, we started to build QMC2 from scratch as a Qt 4 project. Parts of the design and code were inspired by its predecessor, but it's not just a remake. We tried to make the new design as flexible as possible to minimize dependencies from front end and CLI related MAME changes, which was a major deficiency of QMamecat. QMC2 now uses a template based emulator config scheme, which can easily be enhanced with additional command line options (defined in an XML template file).
As a result of this flexible design and countless hours of work, QMC2 today is not only a stable, feature-rich and fast multi-platform GUI front-end for M.A.M.E. but also a fully-featured ROM manager for this emulator (and its derivatives, older versions of MAME or even foreign emulators when they use the same/similar XML data) through the built-in ROMAlyzer.
Today, only Qt 5.4+ is supported. Note that for the full functionality of QMC2 Qt 5.11+ is required (Qt 5.15 is recommended)! Qt 6 isn't supported yet.
It's as simple as this:
$ make [-j
Followed by
$ sudo make install ...
This builds the main GUI - actually all you'd need. But if you want to build and install qmc2-arcade (additionally) or qchdman (works stand-alone), you'd need to run (either of) the following:
$ make [-j
$ make [-j
Run
$ make help
to see the full list of build targets and
$ make config
to get a help on configuration variables that you'd want to change. However, most of the time the defaults are okay.
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