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--- Quote from: paigeoliver on October 01, 2012, 06:23:18 pm ---Also the following titles are not SNES games.

Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3.

They are Nes games.

This is important since they are the only games you mentioned and you seem to be trying to run them in the wrong system.

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Although you can run the excellent All Stars versions of them, which would also get you the original (rage inducing) version of SMB2.

Vigo:

Yeah, I assumed he meant Mario All stars. I think one of the versions (Maybe a European release) even tossed in Super Mario World. That is a ton of awesomeness packed in one cart.

Haze:


--- Quote from: Vigo on October 01, 2012, 10:33:48 pm ---Yeah, I assumed he meant Mario All stars. I think one of the versions (Maybe a European release) even tossed in Super Mario World. That is a ton of awesomeness packed in one cart.

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ume snespal smas  < (euro, regular)
ume snespal smasw  < (euro, the one with super mario world as a bonus)
ume snes smasu  < (usa, regular)

all at least boot

special SNES cases include

ume snessfx starfox   < this is how you have to launch ones using the superfx chip, for example starfox although those are painfully slow, I wouldn't bother.  Super Mario World 2 (Yoshi's Island) also uses this chip and is likewise too slow to really play under the MAME architecture.

ume snesdsp smkart  < the DSP chips for Mario Kart etc.

I'm not sure the SA-1 chip and a couple of the other rarer ones are properly emulated at all mind you.

for the nes version

ume nes smb
ume nes smb2
ume nes smb3

also you can use the Famicom disk system (Japanese NES with a disk drive)
ume famicom -flop smb   < the oriignal super mario bros, disk version
ume famicom -flop smb2  < the original super mario bros 2, aka 'lost levels' (although it has a glitch on the status bar)

the gameboy colour version also works
ume gbcolor smbdx

the original gameboy super mario land and sequel
ume gameboy sml
ume gameboy sml2

you can even play some of the dodgy pirate things with mario like the genesis game
ume genesis smario2

there's also super mario bros special for the x1, but it's a terrible game
ume x1 smbspa

deriving from the point slightly, the virtual boy is also pretty playable for some games these days, the Wario one for example seems alright if you fancy some red on black action ;-)

ume vboy wariolnd

or course there's plain vs. super mario bros in MAME

ume suprmrio

the playchoice 10 version (utterly pointless tho, the game rom is the same as the nes version, but there's an extra menu to limit your play time)

ume pc_smb

you can even run mario kart 64, but again it falls into the 'too slow to bother with' category, MAME has never been hot on 3D systems ;-)

ume n64 mariokrt

most of the Super Mario Advance games for the Game Boy Advance also appear to run with varying levels of correctness  (the ports of Super Mario Bros to it fare less well, but are rather pointless anyway)

ume gba sma4

Hotel Mario in the CDI is mostly playable (although the Zelda games on the same system are not)

ume cdimono1 hotmario

so yeah, MAME can do a lot more than you probably imagined, even if most of that functionalty is locked away in the relatively unknown 'MESS' by default, or in the UME builds I'm providing.  It might not be perfect, but for a lot of cases it's certainly good enough to get used more than it does.

I know some of you are probably wondering why the heck MAME / people working on MAME have bothered to emulate all this stuff as well when there are still so many imperfect arcade games, but many components are shared, be it CPUs or entire systems, and the home systems give many more tests cases alolwing arcade systems based on the same tech to be emulated more accurately with higher levels of confidence.  Of course a lot of this still lags behind the single / dedicated emulators in terms of compatibility but the projects are always looking for developers, and by keeping the scope open there is a higher chance of appealing to people who could possibly help the projects in ways we can't yet begin to imagine with their own set of skills.


nemo1966:

@ Haze - thanks for the great info. I like the sound of the Mame/mess/ume as i like flexibilty.

thanks

found binaries.

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