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Title: Metal Slug
Post by: Domia on March 02, 2009, 09:15:53 pm: Hi all,
I have the latest version of Mame (0.129u5) on my XP pc with a few roms working fine on it but I cannot get the Metal slug games to work.
I have the "Neogeo.zip" in the rom directory, the games loads to 80% then goes back to mame.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thx
Dominique
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: TelcoLou on March 02, 2009, 09:17:57 pm: Methinks you're missing the Neo-Geo BIOS.

And don't ask where to get it!!! ;)
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 02, 2009, 11:17:39 pm: Quote from: TelcoLou on March 02, 2009, 09:17:57 pm
Methinks you're missing the Neo-Geo BIOS.

And don't ask where to get it!!! ;)

Says "I have the Neogeo.zip in the rom directory"
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: TelcoLou on March 02, 2009, 11:19:13 pm: oh sorry .. I'm still snowblind from hours of shoveling out my driveway this morning. :banghead:
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: chrisnack on March 03, 2009, 12:13:26 am: Quote from: Domia on March 02, 2009, 09:15:53 pm
Hi all,
I have the latest version of Mame (0.129u5) on my XP pc with a few roms working fine on it but I cannot get the Metal slug games to work.
I have the "Neogeo.zip" in the rom directory, the games loads to 80% then goes back to mame.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thx
Dominique

have you verified your roms with clrmame pro or rombuilder? to make sure they are indeed intact?

I just played all the way through metal slug tonight, fun game :)
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: Visitor Q on March 03, 2009, 07:07:07 am: Hail Metal Slug!
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: Domia on March 03, 2009, 08:10:02 am: Sorry I posted to another topic instead of replying but this is what I posted:

Hi all,
I have the weirdest problem!
I have 2 versions of Mame running on my windows XP machine : Mame 32 and the latest dos version (0.129u5) . They both share the same roms directory where I only put 1 game "Metal Slug3", I also have the neo geo bios file in there. Mame32 runs the game fine but impossible to get it to work with the DOS version (and as you can imagine that's the one I need). The game loads to 85% then go back to DOS, I see the message "missing file or CHD blah blah blah" flickering.
I tried an older version of mame but same problem..... any idea because I'm lost?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thx
Dominique
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: YoGaBaR on March 03, 2009, 08:42:29 am: Have you checked maws to see if you do indeed have all the right filed in the MS.zip?
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: BobA on March 03, 2009, 09:24:10 am: Have you configured the dos version? Link (http://strategywiki.org/wiki/MAME/Configure)
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: severdhed on March 03, 2009, 09:26:50 am: Quote from: YoGaBaR on March 03, 2009, 08:42:29 am
Have you checked maws to see if you do indeed have all the right filed in the MS.zip?

MAWS has been down for a while now...

sounds like the rom you have may not be the right version for the command line version of mame you are using
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 03, 2009, 10:59:22 am: Quote from: severdhed on March 03, 2009, 09:26:50 am
MAWS has been down for a while now...
http://maws.mameworld.info/maws
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: Organic Jerk on March 03, 2009, 01:24:46 pm: Quote from: Ginsu Victim on March 03, 2009, 10:59:22 am
Quote from: severdhed on March 03, 2009, 09:26:50 am
MAWS has been down for a while now...
http://maws.mameworld.info/maws

So its .info now?

tsk tsk...
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: u_rebelscum on March 03, 2009, 07:09:11 pm: Quote from: Organic Jerk on March 03, 2009, 01:24:46 pm
Quote from: Ginsu Victim on March 03, 2009, 10:59:22 am
http://maws.mameworld.info/maws

So its .info now?

tsk tsk...

What are you saying?

The important part is the domain name is not under znet's control anymore. This off line due to not renewed domain name seemed to happen every year, and the old domain was under znet's control.

There was a reason the mameworld forums went to .info a long while ago.
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: Ummon on March 04, 2009, 04:20:26 am: Mslug is broken right now I think. Or the bios changed.....
Title: Re: Metal Slug
Post by: u_rebelscum on March 04, 2009, 12:35:22 pm: Quote from: Ummon on March 04, 2009, 04:20:26 am
...Or the bios changed.....

Yup. From MAWS (http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/neogeo):

"last change(s) .128u6 .128u5 .127u6 .109 .092 .090u4 .090u3 .084u6 ...." (bold added by me)