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Robotron on 0145u2 is brilliant.

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LeedsFan:

I'm very much interested in this update as I'm currently building a mini Robotron bartop. But I'm a bit confused by the whole thing. I'm quite prepared to wait for Mame v.146 to be released rather than compile .145u2. The project is still ongoing so there is no rush.

But when 146 is released will I need to get an updated Robotron Rom? Or will I need to hack the rom or just get a new romset for 146? I take it the Solid Blue Rom is still the main parent rom?

1500points:

Sean Riddle did submit one more cpu/video timing fix to Aaron that hasn't yet been released.  Maybe that's the fix you are talking about for 146?

The blue rom is the main rom you'll use, OR you can get the patched blue rom from Sean Riddles website, make a few changes to the values for the rom's in a williams.c file. then you'll be able to play the blue rom set with the Digital eclipse fix, so it'll never have the "firing in the corner" reset problem.

In my observation during testing this "soon to be released" fix makes Mame on hardness setting 0 about identical to Real on hardness 5.
I had a friend, who is a master level player since the 80s, try the latest mame fix and he rated it at within 95% of a real robotron machine.

LeedsFan:


--- Quote from: 1500points on March 27, 2012, 09:08:36 am ---The blue rom is the main rom you'll use, OR you can get the patched blue rom from Sean Riddles website, make a few changes to the values for the rom's in a williams.c file. then you'll be able to play the blue rom set with the Digital eclipse fix, so it'll never have the "firing in the corner" reset problem.

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This is one of the bits I don't understand. I downloaded that "Patrobotron" file from Sean's site. And it explains that some values need to be changed within it. But when I unpack the downloaded file I cannot find the williams.c file anywhere. Where exactly is this file and do I just change the values to what Sean says on his site?

1500points:

you'll have to rename patrobotron.zip to robotron.zip, in the roms folder.

and if you don't have the SRC folder that means you didn't download the mame source code, you must just have the basic files for running mame.

this is the instructional i used which talks about how to download the mame source code.
http://mrdo.mameworld.info/compile.html



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When you say "hardness", are you referring to the difficulty of play. I always play on Difficulty 10. Does that mean it
is more like 15? It doesn't seem to be to me. It is just crazy all the time, so I didn't really notice.

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