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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: atog on June 23, 2004, 10:30:01 am
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I upgraded to the newest MAME exe last night, from an older version of smoothmame (I was bummed to find out that the smoothmame author has abandoned his code).
I briefly loaded up most of the classics, and they all worked fine except for Galaga. Galaga would just flash a black screen very quickly before shutting down.
Can someone try Galaga in the newest MAME and validate or refute my experience? I want to know if its the new code or if something blew up in my Galaga rom.
Thanks guys!
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Have you tried any other roms?? Thats the easiest way to narrow down the problem right there.
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Centipede, Klax, Ulitmate Tennis, Ataxx, Tetris, all the usual stuff my wife and I play worked fine last night. Galaga worked fine in .79 smoothmame but then didnt work when I updated to .83 MAME.
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There were several changes made to Galaga in version 0.79u1.
removed these galaga clones: nebulbee (copyright/name change), galagab2
(mix 'n match of ROMs from other sets), galaga84 (copyright/gfx change),
galagads (1-byte hack to get fast shoot,
reproducible with this line in cheat.dat:
galaga:1:070D:0D:100:Fast Shoot)
- added Galaga rev. B, which is now the main set, renamed the other galagao.
- added galagamk, a different Midway version.
You will need to get a newer set of roms for Galaga.
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Or use ClrMAME to fix the ones you have.
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Thanks guys, will work on them tonight.
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I used CLRMAME Pro to try and fix up my current ROMS, it said that they were fine. I also tried to get Gallag to work, but no go on that either.
I opened up the galaga.zip to see the contents, my rom has the following files in it:
1C.BIN
1D.BIN
2N.BIN
5C.BIN
gg1-1
gg1-10.4f
gg1-11.4d
gg1-2
gg1-3.2m
gg1-4
gg1-5
gg1-7
gg1-9.4l
prom-5.5n
If anybody who actually has Galaga working in mame.82 or newer could check their file to compare, and let me know what I am missing, that would be great. Galaga is one of my favorite games and if I cant get it to work I am going to have to go back to an earlier MAME version.
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why not check yourself ?
MAME GALAGA -verifyroms
see what it says.
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Thanks!
Ok, just checked for myself. ROM is not ok according to -verifyroms. So I run clrmame, it renamed some of the files inside the zip. Then I re-checked it using -verifyroms but it is still not ok.
So I re-ran clrmame and tried to rebuild the rom. It ran the rebuild and says its ok, but again when I try the -verifyroms, it says it is not ok.
This is like the second time I have ever messed with clrmame, so I am definitely open for ideas on what I am doing wrong. I read the tutorial and followed it exactly, and it seems like its working, but MAME doesn't like the rom it is giving me.
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The contents of clrmames new "fixed" galaga set is:
gg1-10.4f
gg1-11.4d
gg1-3.2m
gg1-9.4l
prom-5.5m
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Thanks!
Ok, just checked for myself. ROM is not ok according to -verifyroms. So I run clrmame, it renamed some of the files inside the zip. Then I re-checked it using -verifyroms but it is still not ok.
So I re-ran clrmame and tried to rebuild the rom. It ran the rebuild and says its ok, but again when I try the -verifyroms, it says it is not ok.
This is like the second time I have ever messed with clrmame, so I am definitely open for ideas on what I am doing wrong. I read the tutorial and followed it exactly, and it seems like its working, but MAME doesn't like the rom it is giving me.
are you sure you are telling clrmame to use the same exact MAME.exe version as the one your using in the command line ?
Try running MAME galaga
it should give you the exact error whats wrong.
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That was my thought too! I figured somehow MAME and CLRMAME weren't on the same page, so I double checked that CLRMAME is indeed pointing to the right MAME exe, and it is. Weird huh.
Yeah when I run galaga it tells me exactly whats wrong, it's missing a bunch of bins, etc. But CLRMAME says the file is ok. Once the next version of MAME comes out I will re download CLRMAME and try again, maybe I got a corrupt download of it or something weird.
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I doubt that. If you got a corrupt build of ClrMAME it likely would not run @ all. I'm guessing you have the latest version?
Can you post the exact error you're getting, as well as the contents of the 'galaga.zip' set?
Oh, and are your sets split, merged or non-merged?