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Title: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: More Cowbell on November 16, 2006, 11:22:23 am

I have a Mame cabinet that I want to play all of the Hyper Sports and Track & Field variations. Hyper Sports works like a champ but Track & Field is weird. When you tap both of the buttons you can only get up to about 850 or so, but if you tap only one button you can get up over 1000. Why is it cancelling itself when you tap two buttons quickly? This happens the same way on two different cabs so I know it's not the buttons.

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: fatfingers on November 16, 2006, 12:25:46 pm

I have noticed the same thing for one button vs. two buttons.

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: neil324 on November 17, 2006, 10:48:34 am

Yes same problem here to, its the right hand button for me just press this instead of the 2 in turns ???

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: fatfingers on November 17, 2006, 11:11:39 am

I'm running MAME .106

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: Turnarcades on November 17, 2006, 01:28:10 pm

Could be MAME's accuracy spoiling the gameplay a little again. If the original game had issues with delays/buttons cancelling each other out then it may have transferred to the rom dump as well. This isn't definite, just a theory as to why this happens.

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: More Cowbell on November 17, 2006, 01:30:25 pm

I've run it in several versions of MAME so I'm guessing it is ROM related. I'm just hoping maybe someone has found a setting or something that helps.

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: ahofle on November 17, 2006, 06:15:45 pm

Did you try the 'comb trick'?  I thought that was pretty much the only way to get good scores in that game.

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: squirrellydw on November 17, 2006, 09:22:02 pm

Kinda off topic but in my version, all the running events don't keep the top 3 times.  Any idea why??

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: ahofle on November 18, 2006, 12:24:06 am

What version of MAME?  High score support was removed recently.

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: RetroBorg on November 18, 2006, 02:24:18 am

Quote from: squirrellydw on November 17, 2006, 09:22:02 pm

Kinda off topic but in my version, all the running events don't keep the top 3 times.  Any idea why??

I'm not sure if things have changed in the latest versions of mame but I reckon you need the NVRAM files to save these.

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: squirrellydw on November 18, 2006, 06:42:54 am

Quote from: RetroBorg on November 18, 2006, 02:24:18 am

Quote from: squirrellydw on November 17, 2006, 09:22:02 pm

Kinda off topic but in my version, all the running events don't keep the top 3 times.  Any idea why??

I'm not sure if things have changed in the latest versions of mame but I reckon you need the NVRAM files to save these.

What are NVRAM files and where can I get them?

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: RetroBorg on November 18, 2006, 08:33:27 am

I could be wrong about NVRAM files, there's a list here but nothing for Track and Field.

http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/nvramtest.htm

I was sure Track and Field needed these but now I'm not too sure, unfortunately I lost my entire mame collection recently in a computer accident.  :cry:

I'm sure there are much more learned MAME users here that can set you straight.

Title: Re: What's wrong with Track & Field
Post by: squirrellydw on November 18, 2006, 01:03:41 pm

The high scores work on the other versions of T&F I have but not the real version.  I am running the last version of PowerMame with a slighty old ROM set, .98 or 101 I think