diff --git a/srcpkgs/sdlmame/template b/srcpkgs/sdlmame/template
index 3d01aa9e2b..0d55c285ba 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/sdlmame/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/sdlmame/template
@@ -1,27 +1,22 @@
 # Template file for 'mame'
 pkgname=sdlmame
-_distver=0147
-_patchver=4
+_distver=0148
+_patchver=0
 version=${_distver}u${_patchver}
 revision=1
 wrksrc=mame-${_distver}s
 homepage="http://mamedev.org"
 distfiles="${homepage}/downloader.php?file=releases/mame${_distver}s.zip"
-short_desc="Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator"
+short_desc="A port of the popular Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator using SDL with OpenGL support"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="mame"
-checksum=4567df6ff381248fdf6e731a87f784d242b17086a1e0dd46826fac29f9304d68
-long_desc="
- A port of the popular Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator using SDL with
- OpenGL support."
+checksum=78d8a68ba53934fdfc895f450c08682dada81f7ec3e74a98fb042539506d9321
 
 noextract=yes
 nonfree=yes
-
 fulldepends="liberation-fonts-ttf"
-
 makedepends="unzip perl pkg-config SDL-devel>=1.2.15_4 SDL_ttf-devel
- libXinerama-devel gtk+-devel GConf-devel python"
+ libXinerama-devel gtk+-devel GConf-devel alsa-lib-devel python"
 
 do_extract() {
 	# mame source code is double-zipped to save space.