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Title: Can someone tell me how to remove this box?
Post by: acvieluf on October 30, 2017, 08:21:04 pm
This box stays on the screen for the entire time but only for this game, (Raiden 2).

Possibly unrelated, while playing this game no bullets show up. Not mine nor the enemies.

How do I remove this, and is the bullet thing just a display issue, since this memory info is on the screen?

Thanks.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=149895.0;attach=363341;image)

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Title: Re: Can someone tell me how to remove this box?
Post by: Howard_Casto on October 31, 2017, 02:30:59 pm
This game's driver isn't finished, the box at the bottom is memory info for the devs, the bullets don't work, because, again, it isn't finished. 
Title: Re: Can someone tell me how to remove this box?
Post by: acvieluf on October 31, 2017, 03:11:54 pm
This game's driver isn't finished, the box at the bottom is memory info for the devs, the bullets don't work, because, again, it isn't finished.

I see.  Thank you.  So this has to do that i'm on an older version of mame, i suppose.  (although that's assuming that it's been fully finished after mame .151 at some point) 

Title: Re: Can someone tell me how to remove this box?
Post by: PL1 on October 31, 2017, 03:47:36 pm
This game's driver isn't finished, the box at the bottom is memory info for the devs, the bullets don't work, because, again, it isn't finished.
I see.  Thank you.  So this has to do that i'm on an older version of mame, i suppose.  (although that's assuming that it's been fully finished after mame .151 at some point)
From info.dat:
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- 0.155: Angelo Salese and Olivier Galibert fixed Raiden II - Game now playable.


Scott
Title: Re: Can someone tell me how to remove this box?
Post by: acvieluf on October 31, 2017, 03:48:21 pm
This game's driver isn't finished, the box at the bottom is memory info for the devs, the bullets don't work, because, again, it isn't finished.
I see.  Thank you.  So this has to do that i'm on an older version of mame, i suppose.  (although that's assuming that it's been fully finished after mame .151 at some point)
From info.dat:
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- 0.155: Angelo Salese and Olivier Galibert fixed Raiden II - Game now playable.


Scott
Excellent. Thanks Howard and PL1. Makes perfect sense.

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Title: Re: Can someone tell me how to remove this box?
Post by: Haze on November 01, 2017, 10:21:28 am
Well there should have been a big red warning box before that when you launched the game telling you that it wasn't working.  We put those in there for a reason, although some idiots do still seem to strip them out tho.

But yes, Raiden 2 has been fixed for quite a long time now, testing with the latest version always makes sense too.
Title: Re: Can someone tell me how to remove this box?
Post by: acvieluf on November 01, 2017, 02:09:29 pm
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Well there should have been a big red warning box before that when you launched the game telling you that it wasn't working.

Yeah, well i had those removed, as the gameex screensaver was only showing a blue box for 80% of the time, so now i don't see the red boxes.

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although some idiots do still seem to strip them out tho.

oh, ummmm...yeah. Admittedly, i'm new to this hobby, and MAME in general.  I wouldn't say i'm an idiot though. 

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testing with the latest version always makes sense too

Well this is my first project.  Found a .151 set of "things that we cannot discuss", so i use MAME .151.  I didn't find out about updating everything until much later in the project, so i wasn't going to be experimenting with something that was nearing completion. Although I suppose i can understand your attitude.  If i had lovingly built/developed something, that someone else then changed to their liking, I'd probably be an a-hole, too.  :cheers:
Title: Re: Can someone tell me how to remove this box?
Post by: yotsuya on November 01, 2017, 03:04:12 pm
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Well there should have been a big red warning box before that when you launched the game telling you that it wasn't working.

Yeah, well i had those removed, as the gameex screensaver was only showing a blue box for 80% of the time, so now i don't see the red boxes.

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although some idiots do still seem to strip them out tho.

oh, ummmm...yeah. Admittedly, i'm new to this hobby, and MAME in general.  I wouldn't say i'm an idiot though. 

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testing with the latest version always makes sense too

Well this is my first project.  Found a .151 set of "things that we cannot discuss", so i use MAME .151.  I didn't find out about updating everything until much later in the project, so i wasn't going to be experimenting with something that was nearing completion. Although I suppose i can understand your attitude.  If i had lovingly built/developed something, that someone else then changed to their liking, I'd probably be an a-hole, too.  :cheers:

I like how you roll with the punches, brother!

/High five
Title: Re: Can someone tell me how to remove this box?
Post by: Le Chuck on November 01, 2017, 03:34:48 pm
We've all been that idiot
Title: Re: Can someone tell me how to remove this box?
Post by: Haze on November 01, 2017, 09:55:04 pm
We've all been that idiot

Indeed, although this serves as a good example as to why those screens are there.

Anyway, there have been a lot of improvements since the build being used, not least for this game.

Finding a complete updated set as basically a 1-click download if you have a torrent program installed is nothing more than a google search anyway.