GNOME Video Arcade 0.8.4 is now available for download

Aug 27, 2015 04:00 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME Video Arcade software, an open-source app that acts as a front-end to the well-known and cross-platform MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) emulator, has been updated to version 0.8.4.

According to the internal changelog, which we've attached at the end of the article for reference, GNOME Video Arcade 0.8.4 is here with major updates to its code to be compatible with the latest versions of the GTK+ 3.x and MAME software.

The music feature has been removed from the Properties window because the website (arcade-history.com) from which it was streaming music no longer offers the respective audio files. As a consequence, GStreamer is no longer a dependency.

Moreover, the empty Gallery tab has been removed from the Properties window as well, as it no longer serves any purpose. Support for XMAME has been dropped too from version 0.8.4 of the GNOME Video Arcade software.

"Been awhile! This is just a bug fix release mainly to repair deterioration caused by backward-incompatible changes in recent releases of MAME and GTK3," reads the announcement.

Bugs have been fixed, translations have been updated

In addition to the changes mentioned above, GNOME Video Arcade 0.8.4 fixes multiple issues that were reported since the previous version of the software. Among these, we can mention adaptation to the new sound options available in MAME 0.154 or later, and the switch from the gnome-doc-utils package to yelp-tools.

Not all available games will be displayed as favorites, the /game/machine has been renamed to be compatible with MAME 0.163, and the screensaver is now properly inhibited. Furthermore, the Bosnian, Greek, and Serbian language translations have been added.

Last but not least, GNOME Video Arcade 0.8.4 updates the Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, French, Czech, Galician, Slovenian, Polish, Swedish, Spanish, and Turkish language translations. Download GNOME Video Arcade 0.8.4 right now from Softpedia.

GVA 0.8.4 Changelog