galaga question??

[dcninja]

when was the last time galaga was updated in mame? I can't seem to get the rom to work at all on my mame cab... I'm on mame 152 or 153 I believe.

thanks for the help!

[ballboff]

Does it not load at all?  Some of the games I had trouble with I just downloaded the missing files and put them in the zip.  Alternatively find out what version of the game you have and then update or downgrade your mame executable, or the other way round.  I found it was just easier to get a copy of the mame distro that matched the roms that I had.

[Malenko]

delete the inf, ini and NVRAM files (if any) for Galaga

[twistedsymphony]

when was the last time galaga was updated in mame? I can't seem to get the rom to work at all on my mame cab... I'm on mame 152 or 153 I believe.

thanks for the help!

I've got galaga running on .152

IIRC one of the updates around .14x moved around a lot of the old Namco roms.

in addition to the galaga.zip you'll need:
namco50.zip
namco51.zip
namco52.zip
namco53.zip
namco54.zip
namco64.zip

otherwise you'll get an error about missing rom files... this also effects dig dug and a few other namco games from the era.

I ran into a few problems like this on one of the machines I built recently because I wanted to use just a small handfull of games instead of a complete mame rom set.

[JDFan]

when was the last time galaga was updated in mame? I can't seem to get the rom to work at all on my mame cab... I'm on mame 152 or 153 I believe.

thanks for the help!

I've got galaga running on .152

IIRC one of the updates around .14x moved around a lot of the old Namco roms.

in addition to the galaga.zip you'll need:
namco50.zip
namco51.zip
namco52.zip
namco53.zip
namco54.zip
namco64.zip

otherwise you'll get an error about missing rom files... this also effects dig dug and a few other namco games from the era.

I ran into a few problems like this on one of the machines I built recently because I wanted to use just a small handfull of games instead of a complete mame rom set.

This -- except IIRC it is Namco62.zip rather than 64 -- had the same problem with Dig Dug when I went from 0.139 to 0.149 awhile back.

[ballboff]

when was the last time galaga was updated in mame? I can't seem to get the rom to work at all on my mame cab... I'm on mame 152 or 153 I believe.

thanks for the help!

I've got galaga running on .152

IIRC one of the updates around .14x moved around a lot of the old Namco roms.

in addition to the galaga.zip you'll need:
namco50.zip
namco51.zip
namco52.zip
namco53.zip
namco54.zip
namco64.zip

otherwise you'll get an error about missing rom files... this also effects dig dug and a few other namco games from the era.

I ran into a few problems like this on one of the machines I built recently because I wanted to use just a small handfull of games instead of a complete mame rom set.

Yeah I think I had to download these too.  I put them all in a namco zip, as I think some of them were needed for some other games too

[dcninja]

you put the zips in the zip? or the files from the zips into the zip?

[EMDB]

you put the zips in the zip? or the files from the zips into the zip?

The mentioned zip files should be in your roms folder besides galaga.zip.

[dcninja]

they are and it still did not work, but not a big deal because I have ms. pac man/galaga on there I just have to remember to go the M section for it haha

[Generic Eric]

you put the zips in the zip? or the files from the zips into the zip?

did you x*zip*it them?   sorry op.  these guys are one track to help figure it out.

[dcninja]

did I what?

[Generic Eric]

did I what?

x to the z - xhibit...nevermind

I missed the layup on that one

[matt4949]

did I what?

x to the z - xhibit...nevermind

I missed the layup on that one

fo shizzle my nizzle keep my elbows grizzled

[dcninja]

matt-- that's snoop. - this board is so not full of hood people...

but back on topic...

I have the namco zips individually in my roms folder, but galaga still won't work...dig dug works though, another namco game.

[twistedsymphony]

matt-- that's snoop. - this board is so not full of hood people...

but back on topic...

I have the namco zips individually in my roms folder, but galaga still won't work...dig dug works though, another namco game.

do you have all of the namco zips or just the ones listed earlier?

I seem to recall the Namco games needing access to the Namco "MCR" roms but I don't recall if the MCR stuff was in it's own zip or inside one of the Namco zips

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In addition to Dig Dug those namco files are also used by Bosconian, and Xevious if those games are working for you too then I would suspect the problem is with your galaga rom.

[dcninja]

i have the one's listed. never heard of mcr?

[Thenasty]

if you verify your Galaga romset, MAME will exactly tell you what's missing (start there, instead of guessing if this and that is missing).

Even thou you got a particular rom set, it maybe missing something inside it.

Verify it and go from there.

[dcninja]

how do i go about verifying the galaga rom set?

[abispac]

how do i go about verifying the galaga rom set?

http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/ but be very carefull as it can do damage to your sets if you dont know what you doing..

[Thenasty]

how do i go about verifying the galaga rom set?

Seems lke you have not read the MAME DOC

but here is the FAQ

http://www.mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php?title=FAQ:ROMs

[Caparo8bit]

I always use this web to find all the roms files inf. And i download  rom from diferent webs and all i do is unzip and zip back the files i need. http://www.mamedb.com/list.php?fuzzy_name=galaga

[barkman]

I am in the same boat, I cant get it to work. I am new to mame so i am not sure how to verify the rom. any help would be  appreciated. Galaga is the main reason I want to build a bartop.
just in the planing stage, but have a old computer i am setting up.

Thanks Barkman

[EMDB]

I am in the same boat, I cant get it to work. I am new to mame so i am not sure how to verify the rom. any help would be  appreciated. Galaga is the main reason I want to build a bartop.
just in the planing stage, but have a old computer i am setting up.

Thanks Barkman

It's VERY simple: match the ROM set and MAME version.

[Thenasty]

I am in the same boat, I cant get it to work. I am new to mame so i am not sure how to verify the rom. any help would be  appreciated. Galaga is the main reason I want to build a bartop.
just in the planing stage, but have a old computer i am setting up.

Thanks Barkman

did you even bother to look at the link I provided ?

The answer was right there.

[barkman]

As I said, I am new to mame, but thanks for all the help!

[Caparo8bit]

DUDE JUST GET GALAGA (NAMCO REV. B) OR GALAGAO (GALAGA NAMCO) AND
NAMCO 50XX
NAMCO 51XX
NAMCO 52XX
NAMCO 53XX
NAMCO 54XX
NAMCO 62XX
JUST PLACE ALL THIS IN ROM FOLDER.....

[dcninja]

did not work. ty for the rude graphic tho

[Caparo8bit]

did not work. ty for the rude graphic tho

ok easy fix use mame .144 all roms work in there

[dcninja]

you are so right lol

[dcninja]

and it works!

[Caparo8bit]

 

[dcninja]

i actually somehow got it to work on my 153 with nags removed and high score added. dunno how but it randomly popped.