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| AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: f4phantomii on February 11, 2008, 08:23:30 pm ---You don't need to have the same version of mame as your roms. I think I'm using roms for v0.79 or something like that. Many games don't work, but a whole bunch do. I think I'm using Mame32 v0.116. --- End quote --- Well I know that when I switched to v55 of Mame on a really old machine, about 3/4 of the v98 roms did not work. Theres a good chance his problem is elsewhere, but matching the roms to mame should be his first step in correcting his problems. |
| TheShanMan:
You can also use clrmamepro to audit your roms against the mame exe you have. |
| joshlindem:
thanks for the suggestions on the ROM info. I'll give that more of a look once I get things working. I noticed something late last night, just before heading to bed, which may be my problem, though I'm having a little problem in itself trying to fix it. Suggestions? So last night I started thinking more about the sound. I still find it odd that I can boot up and during that Mame MPG hear the sound as well as in the ArcadeOS screen, but I guess this is a normal problem. Sadly all this came to me around midnight so I didn't take too long working on it. Anyways, last night I started looking even more closely to the boot up. During the first mame boot screen I hit ESC, to watch it load the CDROM and sound. and just before the screen blinks away I was noticing that the sound was going on IRQ10. Odd huh? After a couple quick reboots I kept watching and sure enough, IRQ10. Then I started reboot and watched the POST. You know after that first POST screen you get the 2nd one that looks like a really big chart? It took me a number of immediate reboots to catch what was on that screen but I finally found that IRQ10 was being used by my PCI sound card + the onbaord AGP, and another onboard device. Keep in mind, I've been in the BIOS, turned off the onboard sound, and turned off the onboard AGP and boot off the PCI video. I even tell the BIOS that IRQ5 goes to PCI Slot 1 (my sound card). This is my motherboard = http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=1407 This is my soundcard = Creative Labs (PCI) Model: CT4750 looks exactly like this http://cgi.ebay.com/Creative-Labs-CT4750-Sound-Card_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQitemZ170162263819 Now I'm not sure if the CL sound card has a hardcode of using IRQ10 or what. I have (2) of these cards and they both do the same thing. unfortunately there are no jumpers on the card or any way I know of that can change this. I was hoping to stay with this card because I have a backup/spare. I do have a "C-Media" PCI sound card that I've been able to download drivers for. I'm going to see if I can replace my current PCI128 sound drivers with the ones I have of this card. Not my first choice of card to go with, but when I installed this one into PCI Slot 1 it pulled IRQ5 immediately. But I didn't have the DOS drivers installed so when it got to ArcadeOS it booted out to the DOS. Again, this was just after midnight last night so I didn't spend took long messing around with it. Any thoughts to the onboard sound card? It's a Realtek AC97. Do we know if that could work? Is there a DOS driver that we could use? Just starting to wonder about that as I write this. |
| gonzo90017:
Can't help you with your problem but if you press "Pause Break" on your keyboard you can pause those post screens. |
| Tiger-Heli:
Been a long time since I've used DMAME, I haven't ever had much success with AdvanceMAME, and I never tried TV out, so here goes. --- Quote from: joshlindem on February 11, 2008, 12:48:55 pm ---. BUT... If I attempt to play any game... then all I get is a black screen. That's it... nothing more... no sound...no video. I pretty much have to shut down the computer and restart it again. --- End quote --- Could likely be from the roms not being correct. --- Quote ---Now, the roms that I have were received 4 years ago, and at the time I believe were "made" with\for Mame0.80. Does this mean I should be using dmame0.80 and not dmame0.100? --- End quote --- Yes - both to match your ROMS and b/c that machine due to it's speed will run better on an older version of MAME. --- Quote ---Are people actually loading windows, and then a DOS session, or I think I've read how people install Win98, but then modify the boot so it doesn't load Win98 but goes directly into DOS. Is there any benefit of doing this over what I'm currently doing? --- End quote --- Only advantage I could see is Win98 might be a fairly recent version of DOS at the core - like 7.1 instead of say 5.0, but FreeDOS should be fairly new. Other advantage is you can use Windows frontends and there are many more of those than DOS fe/s but then you aren't really running DOS. RE - version of ROMS - You can't look at a ROM collection and know what version of MAME they are good for. As mentioned, you can run clrMAME and it will check the roms for you, tell you which ones are good, which ones are missing, and (if you tell it to), try to fix/rename roms for you, but unless you just ran ClrMAME with MAME 0.50, 0.51, 0.52, etc. until it came back with no errors, that's all you can do. RE - the sound card - I thought DMAME had an option to tell it what type of sound card you had - seems like if you ran MAME? or just MAME, it would prompt you and you needed to enter a number - seems like 3 was the good one for it. You can get Dos MAME 0.81 here - http://www.emu-france.com/?page=fichiers&idFile=2749 from the readme.txt: -soundcard n select sound card (if this is not specified, you will be asked interactively) I don't think there are DOS drivers for onboard soundcards. Recommend you find a rom that will work in MAME and then try to get sound etc. working with it first and then go from there. Hope this helps!!!! |
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