Tron question

[DataWest]

MAME says that Tron isn't 100% working. What is the matter with it???

Of all the games to not be emulated perfectly.....

[DeLuSioNal29]

I looked it up at the MAME Maws website and here's what I found:

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info 0.128u4 [Nicola Salmoria]

0.28 [Christopher Kirmse, Aaron Giles, Nicola Salmoria, Brad Oliver]

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Bugs:

    [possible] In MCP cone stage, text layer appears behind Tron sprite. Luigi30 (ID 03377)

WIP:

    0.136: The clones Tron (6/17) and Tron (6/15) don't appear to have a valid working cocktail mode video or controls (upright player2 works fine). Flagged as GAME_NO_COCKTAIL [Tafoid].
    0.135u3: Tafoid hooked up cocktail (P2) fire button in Tron so that it can be used in-game and in test mode.
    0.133u1: Kevin Eshbach updated all of the TRON sets with location of the roms and the board they belong to.
    0.128u4: Tim Lindquist added dates to Tron revisions. Swapped tron/tron2 now that we know tron2 is the later version. Changed description of 'Tron (set 2)' to 'Tron (8/9)', of 'Tron (set 1)' to 'Tron (6/25)', of 'Tron (set 3)' to 'Tron (6/17)' and of 'Tron (set 4)' to 'Tron (6/15)'. Renamed (tron) to (tron2) and (tron2) to (tron).
    0.120u4: Vas Crabb added DIP locations for Midway Tron. Added 5x 'Unused' dipswitch.
    25th February 2007: Mr. Do - A few months ago, Rohan lent me a Tron bezel shroud. Now that I have a decent enough camera that can take pictures in RAW format, this has been added, along with the backdrop piece courtesy of the BYOAC purchase.
    0.98u1: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 2496000 Hz and coins input.
    0.87u3: MASH added clones Tron (set 3) and (set 4).
    26th January 2003: Stephane Humbert added a few different versions of Tron to the MCR-2 driver.
    0.34: Juergen Buchmueller fixed bug in the Z80 emulator which caused crashes in Tapper and Tron.
    0.34b4: Nicola Salmoria added clone Tron (set 2).
    16th June 1998: Dick Millikan dumped Tron (8/9).
    0.31: 'Dial Joy Inc' can now be properly set in Tron [Brad Oliver].
    0.28: Added Tron (Bally Midway 1982). Press F2 before initial screen to configure. Christopher Kirmse, Aaron Giles and Brad Oliver provided a MCR I/II/III driver, supporting: Kick, Solar Fox, Tron, Two Tigers, Domino Man, Satan's Hollow, Wacko, Kozmik Kroozr, Journey, Tapper, Discs of Tron, Demolition Derby, Timber, Spy Hunter and Rampage.
    31st March 1995: Al McCormick dumped Tron (6/25).

DeLuSioNaL29

[DataWest]

Thanks. No worries then, that's just a minor problem if its even there.

[Turnarcades]

Take the MAME audit and nag screen logs with a pinch of salt. Remember the MAME project is striving for accuracy, and many of these kinds of notes are notes for developers and contributors. This is why I've always removed nag screens from my MAME builds and why I always hand-filter the game selection down myself rather than let programs do it for me, as what's actually playably working is different to what a software report would list as working.

[DataWest]

Take the MAME audit and nag screen logs with a pinch of salt. Remember the MAME project is striving for accuracy, and many of these kinds of notes are notes for developers and contributors. This is why I've always removed nag screens from my MAME builds and why I always hand-filter the game selection down myself rather than let programs do it for me, as what's actually playably working is different to what a software report would list as working.

Interesting...so there are games that DO work but say they dont? Anything worth playing?

[scofthe7seas]

Most of them have slight bugs (some don't). But I'm pretty sure all of the ones that say "THIS GAME DOES NOT WORK" don't work. At least not the ones I've tried.

[Turnarcades]

Most of them have slight bugs (some don't). But I'm pretty sure all of the ones that say "THIS GAME DOES NOT WORK" don't work. At least not the ones I've tried.

Not necessarily. I can't think of any titles off the top of my head and it will likely depend on the MAME version you're using, but more than a few said this and I found they were playable, even if sound was absent or a later level crashed or something.

[DataWest]

Huh. I wonder if any of them are good titles.

[scofthe7seas]

Huh. I wonder if any of them are good titles.

Me too! Like I said, I tried a few and none of the ones I tried worked, but I bet some good ones are in there!