Mame Roms... :)
I have just *aquired* some Mame roms (complete pack 20gb)...
Some of them dont work with the lastest Mame Emulator (ver. 0.333)...I use Emu Loader as the front end....
I have heard of a program called "clrmamepro"...supposed to merge/clean the roms, aint got a clue how to use it :(:(
Anybody shed some light on this matter please spec-chums?? ;-)
Thanks
Some of them dont work with the lastest Mame Emulator (ver. 0.333)...I use Emu Loader as the front end....
I have heard of a program called "clrmamepro"...supposed to merge/clean the roms, aint got a clue how to use it :(:(
Anybody shed some light on this matter please spec-chums?? ;-)
Thanks
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I have only used MAME a couple of times or so ... but anywho ... I thought I had read it somewhere here on WoS that the newest(newer) version(s) of MAME had something introduced or removed which screws up some ROMs ... so they probably still work under older versions.
But I could be wrong/remember incorrectly/be making it up.
Your best bet is to run it like I do - have two separate installations of Mame. One the latest, another going back to 2004/5. You'll find you'll then be able to run 90% of the roms with one or the other.
I'm still going to keep it coin driven though.
was trying stuff like kung fu master, strider, pacman plus
not played mame for years.............still never got anywhere near a full set...anybody got a linky?
The bit when you blow the big round thing up (forgotten what its called) and concentric circles are drawn whilst the music played used to screw up.
Outrun is fun though, exept when you have to pick your mouse up and put it down without crashing your car so as not to run out of table space.
Don't know if its me but I used to be able to play star wars with the mouse on mame, don't seem to be able to do it any more :(
I've found that I can go left and right but not up and down. I'm not sure what is going on. I'll tinker with it some time and get it working again.
Me and a mate two-player blowing zombies and mutant doggies to bits, such a shame it won't work :mad:
If you want help, or maybe even want to compete in MAME games go here:
http://replay.marpirc.net/
I too have no idea why that doesn't work. There just seems to be no way to calibrate the guns so that they fire where they should. Shame as this and Carnevil are two of my favorite arcade shooters and neither of them work properly. Even with a pretty powerful machine like I have, Carnevil is very choppy at best :(
Pretty new machine though innit, only a couple of years old though, so it's emulation is probably still a bit sketchy, much like the newer arcade machines from a few years back that ran crappy now run perfectly on a newer mame (while Double Dragon 2 suddenly stops running properly on a monster PC :D).
No doubt in a year or 2 you'll be able to run Carnevil on a 286, but Mr. Do! will run like you're trying to run Oblivion on a NES :D
i tried all my galaxians yesterday and for some reason i couldnt press 5 to insert a coin????????
the other games all work ok
I've seen some Youtube clips of it running full spped in MAME, but that's because someone has compiled his own version and overclocked his PC to do it. I'm not going to start overclocking my PC, just to play an old arcade game. I did once however, find a different build of MAME called HK2V9 that almost runs Carnevil at full speed, but it's bassed on an early MAME build as it crashes after each level, just like it did when it was first emulated.
It would be great if someone made a dedicated emulator for the Seattle arcade board as I'd love to be able to play MACE: The Dark Age as well. I can't see that happening though :(
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Have a dig around there was an emu site a while back I found that had a load of weird arcade emu's like one's dedicated solely to the Streetfighter EX games, and one's for just running the SEGA hardware the Saturn was based on (can't remember it's name now?).
I actually thought MACE ran on mame though? Failing that you could always get an N64, and see if you could find it for that? It may not look as good as the arcade but with it being a console chances are you'd get some extras for your troubles. I'll have a looksy through my bookmarks and see if I can find that site, I'll PM you the address if I do. No idea if it'll turn anything up, but you never know there was that many crazy dedicated emu's on there you might find something else you'd like instead :D
I had a similar prob with Ghosts n' Goblins a while back, it'd let me insert as many coins as I wanted, and start the game, but try as I might I couldn't continue once I lost my lives. It got really annoying, although I did actually get bloody good at the game because of this prob cos' I was determined to finish it (I didn't when it wouldn't let me continue).
The prob seems to have fixed itself, it'll let me continue now, but since it's been a year or so since I played I'm now really crap at the game again :roll:
Cheers. I've just had a bit of a dig bout myself and I Googled "Carnevil emulator -mame" and found one. OK, so it's turned out to be an early MAME once again (0.102 I think, my normal one is 0.15x I think), but it can pre-loaded with the Carnevil rom, I just had to add my CHD and it's working very well. Still a little bit choppy and slows down here and there, but if I close my internet browser next time, it may be alittle smoother and I'm going to turn off tripple buffering too and see if that helps.
MACE is emulated, but again, it's on the slow side and has no sound, or at least, I can't get the sound to work on mine. This was also the 1st game that I brought for my N64 after I'd got the initial bundle games. It's a solid conversion, but nowhere near as good as the arcade original.
thanks again :D
That reminded me of the PC version of Star Wars I dug out the other day.
CGA version. It was playable in the early-90's when you could de-select the turbo button that PC's had hardwired back then to throttle the CPU back to the original PC processor speed - 4 Mhz or whatever it was. My first PC was a 486 overclocked from 25 to 33Mhz.
Even in DOSBox throttled it is utterly unplayable. Shame as it was a decent conversion of the coin-op and was very playable with the mouse. If I could slow it down more I'm sure it would mention that Bo Janeborg (Fairlight) had something to do with it or am I thinking of the ST version?
enable mouse input in properites, run game, if you don't want pilot controls then press tab and select analog controls and change AD stick y reverse to ON.
Just tried this, after I enable mouse input in properites, game runs fine.
There's nothing wrong with the way the game runs, it's just the aiming is totally out of whack usually it's like the crosshair from the mouse is onscreen but the the game only seems to be able to shoot in the extremes of each direction you move, which seems to be the corners and edges of the screen.
Making the game completely unplayable, now if the aiming works fine on yours then I am quite curious?
Stop talking about Mame, you're the Mame Angel of Death you are!
You'll jinx everyone elses ;)