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Galaga broken in current MAME?
atog:
I upgraded to the newest MAME exe last night, from an older version of smoothmame (I was bummed to find out that the smoothmame author has abandoned his code).
I briefly loaded up most of the classics, and they all worked fine except for Galaga. Galaga would just flash a black screen very quickly before shutting down.
Can someone try Galaga in the newest MAME and validate or refute my experience? I want to know if its the new code or if something blew up in my Galaga rom.
Thanks guys!
8bit:
Have you tried any other roms?? Thats the easiest way to narrow down the problem right there.
atog:
Centipede, Klax, Ulitmate Tennis, Ataxx, Tetris, all the usual stuff my wife and I play worked fine last night. Galaga worked fine in .79 smoothmame but then didnt work when I updated to .83 MAME.
ErikRuud:
There were several changes made to Galaga in version 0.79u1.
--- Quote ---removed these galaga clones: nebulbee (copyright/name change), galagab2
(mix 'n match of ROMs from other sets), galaga84 (copyright/gfx change),
galagads (1-byte hack to get fast shoot,
reproducible with this line in cheat.dat:
galaga:1:070D:0D:100:Fast Shoot)
- added Galaga rev. B, which is now the main set, renamed the other galagao.
- added galagamk, a different Midway version.
--- End quote ---
You will need to get a newer set of roms for Galaga.
SirPeale:
Or use ClrMAME to fix the ones you have.