Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
CHICKEN RESTORE LIKE A ROBOT (Berzerk) *IT LIVES*
ChadTower:
So, I stuck a couple pause commands in autoexec.bat so I could get a better look at the boot sequence. Near the beginning of the dos driver loads I see:
--- Code: ---============================
Arcade Monitor Driver v1.0 Loaded
------------------------------------
Horizontal Total : 105
Vertical Total : 4
Center X : 8
Center Y : 8
============================
--- End code ---
So, for whatever reason, it seems to be loading and then unloading? And then reloading when I exit MAME back to the command prompt... only to exit again when I launch MAME. WTF...
SirPeale:
post both your autoexec.bat and config.sys files.
arcmon.sys is a TSR, it *should* stay in memory.
When you load Mame, did you turn the arcade monitor flag on?
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Peale on October 02, 2008, 01:09:48 am ---post both your autoexec.bat and config.sys files.
arcmon.sys is a TSR, it *should* stay in memory.
--- End quote ---
I'll do that tonight.
--- Quote ---When you load Mame, did you turn the arcade monitor flag on?
--- End quote ---
Possibly not. I'll check the readme for which key that is in mame.cfg. Thanks for the tip.
ChadTower:
Well, here's one part of the likely solution. DOSMame config item:
--- Code: ----monitor NNNN (default: standard)
Selects the monitor type:
standard: standard PC monitor
ntsc: NTSC monitor
pal: PAL monitor
arcade: arcade monitor
--- End code ---
I haven't changed that from the default. So that would explain why Mame is not running in 15khz. It doesn't explain, though, why the TSR is not staying resident at initial boot. I'm not booting straight to the front end yet, just to the DOS prompt.
ChadTower:
Setting -monitor to arcade does the trick nicely... except that now Berzerk won't run at all. Frenzy pops up on the screen nicely in 15khz... monitor needs some adjusting but it's fairly close as is. When I try to run Berzerk, though, I get the "press any key" screen, then the expected screen flashes as Berzerk "boots"... and then nothing. The screen stays black. I tried re-copying in the rom zip, I deleted the .cfg and the nvram files... no difference.
:banghead:
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