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Title: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: rbarr110 on January 08, 2006, 07:59:32 pm: Ok, I am aware of holding F2 and F3 to get past thee eeprom check, however, I can't get that far. I am running mamewah with mame.103. WHen it starts loading the game (extracting the zip I believe) it just goes back to mamewah.

The DOS screen flashes something very very fast, as far as I can tell it is missing part of the ROM. (Yes i have the zip and chd, the zip contains 1 file : simpbowl.25c)

I thought this worked in Mame on a realtively fast pc? Am I wrong, or am I really missing part of teh rom?

THanks
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: Brad on January 08, 2006, 09:23:27 pm: Run it from a cmd prompt so that you can see the error.

Brad
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: rbarr110 on January 09, 2006, 11:15:37 pm: Ok - finally got a chance to check running from command line. Here is the error

999a01.7e file not found
Error: required files missing, the game can not be run

Any clues?

Thanks
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: rbarr110 on January 09, 2006, 11:27:08 pm: Ok, fixed the problem.
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: RayB on January 09, 2006, 11:28:15 pm: .exe ??
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: rbarr110 on January 09, 2006, 11:41:59 pm: Now I just need to figure out how to release the damn ball when playing.
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: brophog on January 10, 2006, 12:28:13 am: Roll the trackball. ;D
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: rbarr110 on January 10, 2006, 01:55:20 am: It took me a while to figure out that you dont roll back then forward, just forward when in the green area.
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: AE35 on January 10, 2006, 10:20:25 am: Can this game be played with joysticks?

Thanks,

Nicholas
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: RayB on January 10, 2006, 12:26:06 pm: Quote from: AE35 on January 10, 2006, 10:20:25 am

Can this game be played with joysticks?

Not really. Maybe with one of those analog joys.
The force and angle that you roll the ball at determines where and how fast the bowling ball moves. So...
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: AE35 on January 11, 2006, 08:04:21 am: Okay...need trackball then.

Is the game fun? does it run perfect on MAME? Does it take a
lot of power?

Lot of ?'s, as always with me.
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: brophog on January 11, 2006, 12:05:11 pm: You'll need a pretty fast CPU for it. Personally, I think there are much better bowling games than Simpsons Bowling.
Title: Re: Simpsons Bowling.....
Post by: Daniel270 on January 11, 2006, 04:40:34 pm: Simpsons Bowling is pretty good for the Simpsons nostalgia, but I think that World Class Bowling is a much better game.