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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Chemixtry on March 17, 2004, 04:51:58 pm
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I am running MAME 79 and Mamewah frontend on a 750mhz PC. There are some games that just don't work. When I try to run them I just get a black screen. No error message, nothing. I can push escape and I get back to Mamewah. Some of the games are asteroids, spyhunter, xenophobe, and rampage. These games surley can't be to fast for my system since I can run much newer games. Is there some mystery setting I need to use to get these to work?
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I am running MAME 79 and Mamewah frontend on a 750mhz PC. There are some games that just don't work. When I try to run them I just get a black screen. No error message, nothing. I can push escape and I get back to Mamewah. Some of the games are asteroids, spyhunter, xenophobe, and rampage. These games surley can't be to fast for my system since I can run much newer games. Is there some mystery setting I need to use to get these to work?
Not sure if you're updating from a previous version or not. Make sure your ROMS are correct for 0.79. Make sure these games aren't broken in MAME0.79.
Not much of a pattern to the games, bad roms usally will flash a brief error message on a black screen and then MAME exits. Odd that you seem to be saying the screen stays black until you Escape, though.
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I've had this problem for a while now. I thought maybe I ahd downloaded some bad roms so I got an entire 0.79 set from a Lazarus burner. The same games still don't work. I tried different monitor resolutions but that didn't do anything. Any other suggestions?
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try running them in the command line. Skip any frontends that your using and start from there.
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Still doesn't work
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Sounds like you got some bad roms then, just because a Lazarus burner did it, doesn't mean it's always going to be perfect unfortunately.
I had the same issue a while back, got some new roms, and bam, the games worked again....
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Make sure you have "show dos box to auto" in mamwah settings, the dos window gets hidden if you don't and mame may be asking for you to press a key or something.
Cave
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If the ROMs were bad, there would likely be warnings.
Try changing the games resolution.
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When you say games resolution do mean monitor resolution because I tried that. If not could you explain to me how to do it?
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I am running MAME 79 and Mamewah frontend on a 750mhz PC. There are some games that just don't work. When I try to run them I just get a black screen. No error message, nothing. I can push escape and I get back to Mamewah. Some of the games are asteroids, spyhunter, xenophobe, and rampage. These games surley can't be to fast for my system since I can run much newer games. Is there some mystery setting I need to use to get these to work?
I have a problem with some, not all, of the vector games, they run at a resolution that is too high for my monitor (it puts up a box saying out of range). If they have some artwork around them eg. Battle Zone, they work fine. If I run them from a command line and get them to come up in a window, they work correctly, so I'm not sure why they are trying to select such a high resolution.
Martin
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Thanks Peale!!!! ;D ;D ;D When I changed the mame.ini file resolution to 1024x768 all the games that didn't work before worked just fine.
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I had the same problem with some of the games you mentioned, so I figured that was your problem.