MAME X- and Y-Board Link W.I.P.

[SailorSat]

You would not believe how hard it is to get an actual image of a X-Board Link-PCB...

"soon (tm)"

[buttersoft]

ooooh! Amazing work, and I'll be watching this one keenly

[MrThunderwing]

Well, this has just blown my mind! I had no idea those 2 old Sega classic games even had any multiplayer link-up functionality. Incredible!

[baritonomarchetto]

Powerdrift is one of my favourite racing games 

[SailorSat]

PowerDrift proofs to be a hard one - I cannot get them synced up "reliable".
Sometimes the game runs smooth as butter, then on the next try, the game keeps glitching out *sighs*

[baritonomarchetto]

We already know that you will fix it, Arianne

[Nuexzz]

PowerDrift proofs to be a hard one - I cannot get them synced up "reliable".
Sometimes the game runs smooth as butter, then on the next try, the game keeps glitching out *sighs*

I have no idea of ​​the addresses that you have manipulated, perhaps one is the wrong one and it only ignores the address as a consequence, for example, it changes to master only because you select ID 1, I know the case that the value of an address changes the value of another.

 

to find it I remember to put a non-existent value and then look for the correct address with a real value.

[MrThunderwing]

So, is this a publicly available MAME build or a still WIP private one?

[SailorSat]

I can share them, but it still is kinda glitchy.

[MrThunderwing]

No worries SailorS, I'm interested to try some link-up in those 2, but not in any kinda desperate hurry to do so if it still needs a bit of fine tuning.

[SailorSat]

Please setup the dip switches before trying anything else! - Also take note DIP-Switches are stored in the CFG folder.

Consider it still W.I.P. - (64-bit windows only)


Super Monaco GP [smgp]
http://files.arianchen.de/cabmame/xbd.zip




Power-Drift (Link) [pdriftl]
http://files.arianchen.de/cabmame/ybd.zip
( comm_framesync should be set to 1 )




smgp-1to4.bat

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@echo off
start xbd.exe smgp -nvram_directory nvram1 -cfg_directory cfg1 -comm_localport 15112 -comm_remoteport 15113 %1 %2 %3
start xbd.exe smgp -nvram_directory nvram2 -cfg_directory cfg2 -comm_localport 15113 -comm_remoteport 15114 %1 %2 %3
start xbd.exe smgp -nvram_directory nvram3 -cfg_directory cfg3 -comm_localport 15114 -comm_remoteport 15115 %1 %2 %3
start xbd.exe smgp -nvram_directory nvram4 -cfg_directory cfg4 -comm_localport 15115 -comm_remoteport 15112 %1 %2 %3

pdriftl-1to4.bat

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@echo off
start ybd.exe pdriftl -cfg_directory cfg1 -nvram_directory nvram1 -comm_localport 15112 -comm_remoteport 15113 %1 %2 %3
start ybd.exe pdriftl -cfg_directory cfg2 -nvram_directory nvram2 -comm_localport 15113 -comm_remoteport 15114 %1 %2 %3
start ybd.exe pdriftl -cfg_directory cfg3 -nvram_directory nvram3 -comm_localport 15114 -comm_remoteport 15115 %1 %2 %3
start ybd.exe pdriftl -cfg_directory cfg4 -nvram_directory nvram4 -comm_localport 15115 -comm_remoteport 15112 %1 %2 %3

[SailorSat]

To actually see each other in Super Monaco GP you have to complete the qualifing lap with each participating player.

[SailorSat]

So Power Drift will run until 6 cars have reached the finish line.
However - there are 12 cars on the track, so if 8 players are human controlled but nobody actually finished the race, the game will never end.

Player 0 actually is a live spectator mode.
Player 9 and 10 actually have unique car colors, but will overwrite data for player 1 and 2.

Now to hack the game rom to "fix" players 9, 10 and maybe even beyond

[MrThunderwing]

Please setup the dip switches before trying anything else! - Also take note DIP-Switches are stored in the CFG folder.

Consider it still W.I.P. - (64-bit windows only)


Super Monaco GP [smgp]
http://files.arianchen.de/cabmame/xbd.zip



Thanks SailorS, I've been able to get the 4 way Super Monaco GP link-up workining without issue (thanks for sharing all the info to stick in the batch file to launch simultaneously). I've run into a bit of hitch with Power Drift though, in that I cannot for the life of me finding a working Power Drift


Power-Drift (Link) [pdriftl]
http://files.arianchen.de/cabmame/ybd.zip
( comm_framesync should be set to 1 )




smgp-1to4.bat

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@echo off
start xbd.exe smgp -nvram_directory nvram1 -cfg_directory cfg1 -comm_localport 15112 -comm_remoteport 15113 %1 %2 %3
start xbd.exe smgp -nvram_directory nvram2 -cfg_directory cfg2 -comm_localport 15113 -comm_remoteport 15114 %1 %2 %3
start xbd.exe smgp -nvram_directory nvram3 -cfg_directory cfg3 -comm_localport 15114 -comm_remoteport 15115 %1 %2 %3
start xbd.exe smgp -nvram_directory nvram4 -cfg_directory cfg4 -comm_localport 15115 -comm_remoteport 15112 %1 %2 %3

pdriftl-1to4.bat

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@echo off
start ybd.exe pdriftl -cfg_directory cfg1 -nvram_directory nvram1 -comm_localport 15112 -comm_remoteport 15113 %1 %2 %3
start ybd.exe pdriftl -cfg_directory cfg2 -nvram_directory nvram2 -comm_localport 15113 -comm_remoteport 15114 %1 %2 %3
start ybd.exe pdriftl -cfg_directory cfg3 -nvram_directory nvram3 -comm_localport 15114 -comm_remoteport 15115 %1 %2 %3
start ybd.exe pdriftl -cfg_directory cfg4 -nvram_directory nvram4 -comm_localport 15115 -comm_remoteport 15112 %1 %2 %3

Thanks for this Sailor S, I've managed to get Super Monaco GP running in a 4 Player link-up with no problems at all - thanks for sharing the info to easily launch them in a batch file too, very handy!

Edited: Both games working in both a 4 player and 2 Player link-up now, thanks for this Sailor S, great to see these classics in multiplayer.

[SailorSat]

i doubt it, as the link version appears to have a nearly unique rom set.

[MrThunderwing]

Managed to get a mate over to test out the 2 player mode in Super Monaco GP.

[buttersoft]

hah, that's great. I'm loving the progress of this, Sailorsat!

[MrThunderwing]

Some Power Drift 2 Player.. sort of