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| vidmouse:
;D I ended up getting it working alright... but only half-and-half. My 17GB drive works great and is now recognized as one C drive (vs several 2GB drives). My 40GB drive doesn't appear to work :( I loaded Win98SE but now seem to have an issue with MAMEWah.. I've been using MAMEWash v97 and never had a problem but now it doesn't want to show screenshots. Loaded Rogue Squadron 3D on it for the 1st time... ooh, that was sweet. Heh, finding more and more of my old games now. Oh, and my D&D player's handbook is 3rd printing, Jan 1979 |
| Zebidee:
Maybe you need to create two partitions for the 40GB drive with fdisk. Older FAT32 systems might have problems at > 32GB, so try breaking it up into a 30GB & a 10GB, or similar. Maybe your win98 system can't recognise .png files, or similar? I think I've heard of this before, but my brain is fuzzy on this now. You might need to install something like a codec pack to make it work. But I could be off-track ...? Are you doing a DOS install from Win98? From the date of your AD&D(?) Player's Handbook, it appears to be the "older" one. This is different to the Dungeon Master's Guide, but part of the basic set. I recall that in at least one later print run of the Players Handbook (early-mid 80's) that the pages tended to fall out. Check they are all there! You have given me some incentive to get more games up and running now too I also posted some files and a bit of a guide on how to set up the latest Daphne for cabinets, in the Software Forum. So check it if this could be useful. I'm about to list my Galaxy cab for sale (ebay + elsewhere), either tonight or tomorrow. |
| vidmouse:
Not quite sure about the 40GB disk... everytime I connect it, my system can't even load from a startup disk in the floppy drive. I'm wondering if there's either some kind of bus conflict or maybe even a weird power drop because it's all off the same tap. I'm not in any hurry to figure it out, the 17GB is already twice what I was willing to live with before No, the system can read png files via internet explorer. I'm wondering if it's something in MAMEWAH that I didn't configure right. I just ran a test on my WinXP desktop system as well, same version, and it didn't give me a screenshot either. I'm wondering HOW I ever got it to work before now. I konw I still have it running ok on my laptop, I might just try a brute-force copy over and see if it works. My list of games I've tried that seem to work well or at least look cool on my cab: Star Wars Episode I Racer Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3d (apparently doesn't work under XP?) Spider-Man (the orignal game not the movie version) Mechwarrior 3 Battlezone 2 Gonna probably try European Air War and Anachronox next... Good luck on your auction! |
| Zebidee:
Have you tried the master/slave settings for the new HD? The 17GB HD might need to be set as master, and the 40GB HD as slave. Can you get to the BIOS? You might need to tweak something there to recognise 2 drives as well. Also, some HDs from different manufacturers can create conflicts. I'd guess that your problem with screenshots is to do with your mamewah *.ini files. Make sure your paths are right in your mame.ini etc. Also, check the mamewah.ini, play with the settings eg "keep_image_aspect 0" and "safe_mode 1". They are both either 1 or 0 (on or off), so try other combos too. On a PII, you will probably want to set "refresh_images 0" to improve performance. Make sure that you have the latest MameWAH too (ver 1.62b13a). Those games would look cool on a cab .... do you run them from MameWAH? next on my list will be Alone in the Dark .... although there is a 3DO version of it, the original PC game runs in something like 320x240 so would look F'kn great on an arcade monitor. I liked the game on a keyboard back then, and my initial experiments with it in an arcade cab joystick/buttons were pretty good. Looks like my ebay listing will happen tomorrow 'cos I fell asleep --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type--. I don't want to list it at like midnight, because then it finishes at midnight as well. |
| vidmouse:
I did think about master/slave settings. My system has two HDD controllers IDE0 and IDE1. Here's things I've tried: > Hooking up just the 17GB to either IDE0 or IDE1 -- works > Hooking up 17GB to IDE0 and 40GB to IDE1 both as master -- doesn't work > Hooking up 40GB to IDE0 as master -- doesn't work > Hooking up 17GB and 40GB to IDE0 with 17GB as master, 40 GB as slave -- doesn't work I haven't tried to partition the 40GB in my desktop where it used to work... this would involve reinstalling it there, partitioning, then uninstalling it and reinstalling it in my cab --- a lot of work b/c my desktop is hard to get to b/c it's hidden in my desk. I did finally get Mamewah to work with screenshots! :applaud: Had to go BACK to version 0.963 to do it though. Chalk up another win for Saint's book, the CD from the book is where I got it from. Still have no idea why 0.97 didn't work but don't care now... I must've been using 0.963 before I reformatted drives and just forgot about it. One of these days I'll get around to fiddling with v 1.62... I think I did at one point but didn't like it because of how it reacted with my older system (? -- can't remember). I don't run the PC games from MAMEwah (at least not yet), been too busy fiddling w/ just getting them to load, getting MAMEwah to show images, etc. Alone in the Dark sounds like a great choice--heard the game was spooky though--- reminds me that I also wanted to try System Shock 2, another spooky one. I know I said FPS's can make me a little nauseous but I'm hoping w/ some like SS2 that the fact it's more RPG than FPS will help. You can delay your listing on Ebay so that it will list at the time/date you want it. I usually aim for 10pm on Sunday's but I'm not sure what an optimum time is. |
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