[arcade] QMameCat II 0.2b20

QMameCab II (linux). Fot by EmuNova

QMC2 0.2.b20 comes with a fairly big number of new features, improvements and bug-fixes. The most important changes this time include:

• Many useful MESS-related improvements such as an added cabinet detail, a customizable (default) software-folder and a number of usability enhancements based on comments and requests from users (special thanks go to Anna Wu, Kaylee, R. Belmont, etabeta78 and Micko over at the Emuversal Bulletin Board)
• New command line option -qmc2_config_path to allow for overwriting the path where QMC2 reads & stores its setup
• Updated template format (v0.2.4) to support pre-defined and dynamically filled selection lists (i.e. BIOS selections, available video modes etc.) and multi-part floating point values as used by the new HLSL PixelShader 3.0 options
• Variant launching is now also supported on Windows
• QMC2 can now also be built using the MinGW (GCC) compiler on Windows (see build instructions for more details)
• The user can now decide if ROM status icons are to be shown or not in any of the game-/machine-list views
• Searching for games/machines can now also be done by entering (parts of) its short name
• Added a number of tool functions to allow for forced removal of all game-/machine- and software-list related caches at run-time
• Avoid potential (and rare) blocking when synchronously calling external programs (emulator binaries)
• The Phonon post-mortem crashes on Mac OS X are supposed be history now (according to reports from users)
• Added a built-in YouTube video player for game-/machine-attached video streams, implemented as a new game-/machine-detail (make sure you’ve a decent Phonon back-end installed, together with good Codec support for FLV and MP4 video formats; see the detail-setup to activate/deactivate this feature)
• WIP: Improved support for software-lists, still incomplete though (note that the official binaries will NOT include this feature as they’re built with ‘make WIP=0′!)