Another Pac Man speed topic, help

[mclaught]

Ok, I went digging through the options on Ms. PacMan the other night, I couldn't leave well enough alone. I turned on the "service mode" in options page, the screen flashed, sort of locked up. I had to exit and restart. Now, all my pacman games are unstable. They start out slow, sound is skipping, then the entire game speeds up to turbo speed. then it slows down and glitches, then speeds up. I've tried deleting all the pac game roms, reinstalling them, no help. I've gone back to the options menu and turned service mode off, then on and off again about 30 times, same thing. I've tried resetting the game, I've reset all the options in the mame properties window from the GUI to default, it still is acting the same. I tried using an earlier version of mame, 37b5, it still acts up. I am currently using version 61, using mame32 for windows. My other games are working fine, it's only the pac games. I've read the other topic about game cheats and speeding up the pacman, that's not my problem. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

[hooded_paladin]

try deleting all the pacman/mspacman/whatever .cfg files you find in mame:\cfg
just an idea, I don't know exactly what's wrong so I don't know if that'll change anything

[mclaught]

Sounded like a great idea, and I hadn't done that. But I just tried deleting every pac game cfg files and it's still whacked. I know it has to be something I did in the dipswitch menu or input menu, that's when it started acting up. I've reset those menus numerous times, or at least attempted to. Anyone else have any ideas?

[_Iz-]

does pacman have a nvram? if so, delete it. how about a .hi? Toast that too...

[hooded_paladin]

I know it has to be something I did in the dipswitch menu or input menu, that's when it started acting up.

that's what I was thinking, so I thought deleting the .cfg files would fix it

[mclaught]

no nvrams for pac games, I deleted the hi's, cfg's and anything else I could find. It's still messed up. Unbelievable. Anyway, tonight I guess I'll delete my entire mame folder, reinstall everything from scratch and see what happens. Thanks for the replies, if anyone has any last second ideas to save me from a re-install headache, it would be greatly appreciated.

[SirPeale]

You shouldn't have to do that.  Everything that mame depends on is within that folder.  Leave your ROMs alone, and all your extras.  

Did you delete default.cfg?

Frameskipping is 0?

Throttle is off?

You didn't mention CPU speed, memory, etc.  Since you jumped up quite a few versions, this could have an adverse effect on performance.