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Title: Missile Command wonky in 115
Post by: jasonbar on July 16, 2007, 04:05:14 pm

Howdy-

Dumb question:

Missile Command on MAME .115 has messed up graphics--only a few flashing horizontal lines.  The same ROMS running on MAME32 .115u2 looks great.

I see in MAWS: "0.115u1: Aaron Giles fixed corrupt graphics in Missile Command."


I'm pretty well invested in .115 & don't want to update my MAME, lest I mess up who knows how many other games.  Any suggestions or feedback on how to fix this?  Was Missile Command actually messed up until just a few months ago @ release .115u1?

Thanks,
-Jason

Title: Re: Missile Command wonky in 115
Post by: FrizzleFried on July 16, 2007, 04:20:35 pm

There was a regression at some point.

Title: Re: Missile Command wonky in 115
Post by: rockin_rick on July 17, 2007, 09:55:06 pm

You could always run just missile command with an older version of mame.  Most FEs allow you to do this.

I also just tested MC with mame32 and 115 and I got the messed up graphics-horz lines...  Kinda disappointing as I was settling on 115...

Rick

Title: Re: Missile Command wonky in 115
Post by: jasonbar on July 19, 2007, 12:55:58 am

Poopie--I was hoping to avoid having to run multiple MAMEs...  setting this stuff up has already been hard enough for a computer simpleton like myself... :[

-J

Title: Re: Missile Command wonky in 115
Post by: rockin_rick on July 19, 2007, 07:56:41 pm

Upgrade your roms then....

I don't THINK that it's all that difficult to run different versions of mame (although I've never tried or even seen how).  I'm guessing that all you have to do is download an older version of command line mame, and tell the FE to use that path (to the older mame version) for that one game.  Most likely your roms will be OK with a not too much older version of mame.

Rick

Title: Re: Missile Command wonky in 115
Post by: RayB on July 20, 2007, 11:34:07 am

Does a minor release like "115u1?" even require rom upgrades? I doubt it.

Title: Re: Missile Command wonky in 115
Post by: jasonbar on July 20, 2007, 12:27:10 pm

Yup.

For an example, take a look at Bio-Ship Paladin on MAWS: http://www.mameworld.net/maws/   (search for bioship)

It shows the following:
"0.112u2: Guru added clone Space Battle Ship Gomorrah. Fixed rom names and added missing proms ($0, 100, 200 - V-sync hw, H-sync hw and ?) to Bio-ship Paladin. "

-Jason