Mame attract videos

[mopwr]

The mame attract videos hosted on my website http://darrensweb.org have been updated. There were around 112 new videos this time around. Big thanks to all that have worked to create this collection

Update 10/2004 - It is suggested that you do not use the official bittorrent client but rather something like bittornado as it lets you limit the upload speed as not to choke your cable/dsl line (ALSO NOTE that your download speed is proportional to your upload speed so don't limit too much or you hurt everyone, including yourself)

Please visit here if you are still having connection problems connecting to the download, spyware can also slow your download run Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D  

The videos are used for 3d Arcade and the newest Mamewah (If there are any others let me know)
Additions: Dragon King, Kymaera and ultrastyle also supports Videos.

The videos are of the games in attract mode which is the view that you would see if you where walking by in the arcade. They have the insert coin messages, high scores, sounds to grab your attention and etc.

I am developing a tracking system that can be used to report problems, submit new, add notes, request videos (as well as anything else that can be suggested.

Today's download stats (real time):

Dark Blue = People currently downloading
Light Blue = Completed downloads
Green = Current number of seeders

The complete list of avalible videos in the most current release:
For a total of 389 Videos!!!!!
1941.avi 1942.avi 1943.avi 720.avi 88games.avi aburner.avi aburner2.avi airwolf.avi alien3.avi aliens.avi aliensyn.avi altbeast.avi amidar.avi apb.avi arabian.avi arcade222.avi archrivl.avi area51.avi arkanoid.avi arlingtn.avi astdelux.avi asteroid.avi astrob.avi atetris.avi avsp.avi baddudes.avi badlands.avi bagman.avi batman.avi berzerk.avi bionicc.avi blaster.avi blktiger.avi blstroid.avi bnj.avi bombjack.avi bosco.avi btiger.avi btime.avi btoads.avi bubbles.avi bublbobl.avi bwidow.avi bzone.avi captavnu.avi carnival.avi cawing.avi ccastles.avi cchasm.avi cclimber.avi centiped.avi chasehq.avi chplftb.avi clowns.avi combasc.avi commando.avi congo.avi contra.avi csprint.avi ddragon.avi ddragon2.avi ddragon3.avi ddsom.avi defender.avi devstors.avi digdug.avi digdug2.avi dkong.avi dkong3.avi dkongjr.avi docastle.avi domino.avi dotron.avi dstlk.avi dynamski.avi elevator.avi elim2.avi eprom.avi esb.avi eswatbl.avi ffight.avi flicky.avi foodf.avi forgottn.avi frenzy.avi frogger.avi fshark.avi ga2.avi gaiden.avi galaga.avi galaga88.avi galaxian.avi gatedoom.avi gaunt2.avi gauntlet.avi gberet.avi ghouls.avi gijoe.avi gladiatr.avi gng.avi goldnaxe.avi gorf.avi gravitar.avi gunsmoke.avi gyruss.avi hattrick.avi hcastle.avi headon.avi hiimpact.avi hyperspt.avi ikari.avi ikari3.avi invaders.avi irobot.avi jedi.avi joust.avi joust2.avi jrpacman.avi jukebox.avi jungleh.avi junglek.avi junofrst.avi kangaroo.avi kchamp.avi kicknrun.avi klax.avi knights.avi kotm.avi krull.avi kungfum.avi ladybug.avi lair.avi lkage.avi magdrop3.avi mamesong.avi mappy.avi marble.avi mario.avi mercs.avi mhavoc.avi mikie.avi milliped.avi missile.avi mk.avi mk2.avi mk3-alt.avi mk3.avi monitor.avi moo.avi mooncrst.avi moonwalkb.avi mpatrol.avi mrdo.avi mslug.avi mslug2.avi mspacman.avi msword.avi mtrap.avi nam1975.avi nbajam.avi nemesis.avi omegrace.avi opwolf.avi othunder.avi outrun.avi outzone.avi pacland.avi pacman.avi pacmania.avi pang.avi paperboy.avi pbobbl2u.avi pbobble.avi pbobblen.avi pengo.avi pepper2.avi phoenix.avi pitfight.avi pkunwar.avi polepos.avi polepos2.avi pooyan.avi popeye.avi pulstar.avi qbert.avi qbertqub.avi qix.avi quantum.avi quartet.avi raiden.avi rampage.avi rampart.avi rastan.avi reactor.avi renegade.avi rmpgwt.avi roadblst.avi roadrunn.avi robocop.avi robotron.avi rocnrope.avi rthun2.avi rthunder.avi rtype.avi rygar.avi scramble.avi sectionz.avi sf1.avi sf2.avi sftm.avi shadoww.avi shangon.avi sharrier.avi shdancer.avi shinobi.avi shollow.avi sidearms.avi simpsons.avi sinistar.avi skykid.avi smashtv.avi spacduel.avi spacfury.avi spyhunt.avi ssi.avi ssprint.avi ssriders.avi starcas.avi stargate.avi startrek.avi starwars.avi strider.avi stunrun.avi sundance.avi superman.avi superpac.avi tacscan.avi tapper.avi tdfever.avi tempest.avi terracra.avi tetris.avi theend.avi tigerh.avi tigeroad.avi timeplt.avi tmnt.avi tmnt2.avi toobin.avi totcarn.avi trackfld.avi tron.avi turtles.avi tutankhm.avi twincobr.avi vanguard.avi venture.avi victroad.avi viewpoin.avi warlords.avi wow.avi wwfmania.avi wwfsstar.avi wwfwfest.avi xevious.avi xmcota.avi xmen.avi xmencota.avi xmvsf.avi yard.avi yiear.avi zaxxon.avi zookeep.avi 1944.avi 19xx.avi aafbb.avi ace.avi airbustr.avi alpine.avi amspdwy.avi aof.avi arknoid2.avi avengers.avi bega.avi bladestl.avi blasted.avi blazer.avi bouldash.avi brkthru.avi cadash.avi cameltry.avi captcomm.avi cclimbr2.avi chplft.avi circusc.avi citycon.avi ckong.avi clbowl.avi cliff.avi cloak.avi cobraab.avi columns.avi columns2.avi ddribble.avi ddtod.avi demoderb.avi dorunrun.avi dspirit.avi duckhunt.avi esh.avi excitebk.avi fbfrenzy.avi frontlin.avi galaxy.avi ghostb.avi gtg.avi hogalley.avi hook.avi indytemp.avi interstellar.avi jackal.avi journey.avi jumpbug.avi karnov.avi kick.avi lair2.avi llander.avi lnc.avi looping.avi lwings.avi mach3.avi maketrax.avi mia.avi minigolf.avi moonwlkb.avi mplanets.avi msh.avi mslug3.avi mtlchamp.avi narc.avi peterpak.avi pitfall2.avi policetr.avi pow.avi primrage.avi punisher.avi pyros.avi qix2.avi rambo3.avi ringking.avi rollerg.avi rushatck.avi sdq.avi sf2ce.avi skullxbo.avi skyshark.avi slammast.avi slyspy.avi swimmer.avi sxevious.avi szaxxon.avi tazmania.avi teamqb.avi temptube.avi thayers.avi timber.avi tmek.avi toki.avi tp84.avi truxton.avi twinhawk.avi upndown.avi uvt.avi vangrd2.avi vigilant.avi vindctr2.avi vindictr.avi wacko.avi willow.avi wjammers.avi wrestwar.avi wwestern.avi xevi3dg.avi xexex.avi yamato.avi zerowing.avi zoar.avi zombraid.avi zwackery.avi

[simplygriff]

Cool. Thanks!
-G

[Howard_Casto]

Dragon King... supported them since day 1.  

[hulkster]

okay i looked around for some explanation for the videos and such, but your FAQ was blank, so im just gonna ask.  what are the videos for???  are they screensavers?  are they intro movies when you start up your cab?  what are they for??

[Goz]

I'm pretty sure this is accurate:

They are videos from the games captured in attract mode.

attract mode is the game play / credit / high score scenes you see when a game is idle and not being played.

Some front ends support them in skins.

-Goz

[PedroSilva]

Finally got the complete set ... kinda disapointed cause some of them have no sound ...   ... but hey ... that's a start ...  

[PacManFan]

Kymaera www.pacmanfan.com has supported preview movies since day one as well.

-PMF

[Chester]

I'm trying to get these, and the available users sharing this at present are pretty rare... Could a few of you fire up your BitTorrent clients for a little while longer?

I'll leave mine up for a week to share the wealth. I've uploaded about 400MB of it to others in the time it's taken me to download 800MB of it. I'm running a fast cable line, so it shouldn't take me long to get it complete once some clients get online.

Thanks,
Chester

[simplygriff]

I had mine up all weekend and completed the file.  I ended up uploading around 2.1 Gigs of info total.  Thanks for the files!
-G

[mopwr]

There a large number of seeders as well as downloads so you should be getting some very good download speeds.

If you are having problems with speed or just bittorrent in general visit http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=17671

[Chester]

If you are having problems with speed or just bittorrent in general visit http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=17671

Cool. That seemed to have fixed it. Should have known better than to rely on the default settings! Once I set-up proper port-forwarding settings, my download speed really took off.
Thanks Mopwr!

Chester

[cdbrown]

it's going well for me - 5 peers, 5 seeds - nearly taking up all my bandwidth.  Wish my other torrents would go this well.  I'll make sure to keep the torrent going for a long while after it's finished.

[gap]

How about a few of you guys jump back in and reseed this for a while?

TIA.

[DaemonCollector]

be happy too

[ErikRuud]

I am trying to download these right now.

I have currentll downloaded 345MB and Uploaded 383 MB.

There appears to be one or two others also trying to download.

We could use a few more people to jump in and speed things up a bit.

[gap]

I ran it all night and got up to 80-something, but was sitting at 0/0 this morning so went ahead and shut down my computer before heading to work.  

I'll restart when I get home from work.

Now if only someone at 100% would jump in tonight and let us finish.

Pretty please?  With sugar on top?

[quarterstringer]

There appears to be one or two others also trying to download.

We could use a few more people to jump in and speed things up a bit.

I asked someone from another forum to help out because he had the complete file. I can leave it open all weekend, so hopefully we can help each other out.

[ErikRuud]

Ok, its starting to move a little faster.  I've made it to 33%!

I'll leave mine up as long as possible.

[Chris]

Is the "lair.avi" in the list above Dragon's Lair?

--Chris

[ErikRuud]

I'll let you know when I get it all.

Now seeing 2 seeds and 2 peers.

Downloading at 10KbS, Uploading at 25Kbs!

[Crazy Cooter]

OK, I'll bite.  I've been out of the p2p scene for awhile, I need a toorent client where I can limit the upload bandwidth as a percentage (so the girle can still surf).  Name it and I'll get it rolling all weekend long.

[Chris]

I'll let you know when I get it all.

Now seeing 2 seeds and 2 peers.

Downloading at 10KbS, Uploading at 25Kbs!

I'm down in 12, up in 10, 80 hour estimate.

[gap]

OK, I'll bite.  I've been out of the p2p scene for awhile, I need a toorent client where I can limit the upload bandwidth as a percentage (so the girle can still surf).  Name it and I'll get it rolling all weekend long.

Azureus.  It allows you to set global upload and download bandwidth limitations.  It's not percentages, but rather bytes per second.

[ErikRuud]

BitTornado does as well.

[Crazy Cooter]

Went with BitTornado.  I remember someone at the last LAN talking about that one.   I'm on but nobody sharing?  All I have is a red light.

[ErikRuud]

I'm on now, and the upload is going at 24kbs.

Down is only 8kbs.

[Crazy Cooter]

strange, I've popped off and on 3 times, it has never shown any action but I have some of the vids. I'm confused as ever.  Still shows a red dot.  Files downloaded so far won't open with media player or quicktime.  Any ideas?

Well, I seem to have them all (windows explorer).  I'm not sure exactly how since BitTornado still doesn't show I downloaded anything...  I think I found a bug  .

[ErikRuud]

The files are probably not complete yet.

Click on the word "Detail" on the mani BitTornado window to see which files are actually complete.

[Chris]

I'm on now, and the upload is going at 24kbs.

Down is only 8kbs.

I'm at 45 down, 22 up.

[quarterstringer]

Thanks for that BitTornado suggestion. I was using the official BitTorrent and it was slooowww.

BitTorrent -  Down 5 Up 11

BitTornado - Down 30 Up 15

[pointdablame]

When you start a torrent, all the files you are downloading are placed in your download directory as a sort of placeholder.  The second you click that .torrent file, all of the files will seem like they are there.  They aren't of course... they won't run at all b/c they aren't really downloaded yet.

I wish I had seen this thread earlier today.  I went home this weekend and could have let it run on my desktop at school all weekend.  I'll throw it up Sunday night, I've had the whole set for a while now, might as well help out

[gap]

Well, I seem to have them all (windows explorer).  I'm not sure exactly how since BitTornado still doesn't show I downloaded anything...  I think I found a bug  .

Yeah, like the other guy said.  BT downloads in pieces, in no particular order.  So when you start the dl, your client creates all the files at full size, but they're empty.

Then it fills them in piece-by-piece as they're downloaded.

You might have a NAT error and need to setup port forwarding.  Search for those terms and you'll find numerous sites explaining more.

[Crazy Cooter]

That's whats up.  Only got parts of everything.  It wasn't showing any details before and then windows "self updated" on me.  I've got it rolling again, now with a yellow button.  Now just have to blow a hole in the router...

Green light guys.  I'll be up the rest of the weekend.

Down @ 75, up @ 30.  My share rating is in the tank.  Where's all the leeches?  

[Chris]

I finished last night, but I've stayed up all day.  I'm at 24 up, which is pretty near my max (cable provider gives 256k upload).

--Chris

[ErikRuud]

I finished up early this morning.

I have left the connection up and it is currently going out at 23kbs.

I got a lot of configuring to do before I can open up the port forwarding.

[ErikRuud]

Is the "lair.avi" in the list above Dragon's Lair?

Yes, it is!  lai2.avi is for Dragon's Lair II Time Warp.

[Fuzzguitar]

I can't even get the download to start. I've left it on a few times but it just keeps saying "connecting to peers". The version I'm using is Bit Torrent 3.4.2. Maybe I'm on at the wrong times?

[Fuzzguitar]

Whoa, funnily enough it began just after I posted that. Thing is, it has 1718 hours and counting upwards to go and my download speed is: 0, upload 0. Doh! I'm on ADSL too, not dial up!

[quarterstringer]

I left my computer on all last night and it crashed during that time. But I got all the files. I just turned it on tonight. Also I had better results using Bit Tornado.

Okay it's uploading now at 25 kb/s.

[nighthawk2099]

 

16 hours later.... I have them all now.  I'll stay up as long as I can as well.

Now all I find myself doing is opening them all up in a play list in Media player and watching them all......

I think the Dragon's Lair ones are great.....

ahhh.... the memories.....

[papaschtroumpf]

bittorrent client has been sitting in the "connecting to peers" state for a while now but has not downloaded a byte yet  
And yes, I've used bittorrent before so it shouldn't be a setup/router/firewall issue on my side.

[nighthawk2099]

I put mine back up.  I'll keep it going for as long as I can.  Leech away.

[papaschtroumpf]

great! after sitting for 1/2h in that state it finally started downloading.

About  17 hours to go.

I'll leave bittorrent up until Sunday night when I have a competitive match of Unreal Tournament 2004  that requires full access to my bandwidth..

[Silver]

are there any more updates planned to the movies collection? Are there a group of contributors?

[JoyMonkey]

are there any more updates planned to the movies collection? Are there a group of contributors?

There were a few guys at the 3D Arcade forum making the videos, not sure if they're still doing it. But I think they did outline their method of creating new movies.

[papaschtroumpf]

Things picked up speed and the download finished earlier than I thought!
My bittorrent client is still up and still pumping data out at full speed.

[vincemash]

Trying to download now....really slow

can I get some people to jump in to speed things up a bit?

[tshizzle.com]

no seeds right now, but looks like 3 of us are sharing

need a seed guys =)

[Crazy Cooter]

Seeded.  I'm late, but I'll keep it up until Sunday Night.

[ErikRuud]

I started my client up last night, and I will leave it up until early tomorrow morning.

Currently their are four peer downloading from me.

I have downloaded a few different screen capture programs, so I can try and create some more videos.

[papaschtroumpf]

Yes is there a howto or guidelines on how to make then somewhere?

I have fraps, so capturing videos is a snap, but what format/resolution/.... should I make them into? Maybe this is netter asked in the 3D arcade forum.

[Crazy Cooter]

If you find directions on how to do it, can you post a link?

[Lilwolf]

Anyone willing to reseed?  I would love to download these!  

Of course, I've been looking at the office where bit torrents will get me fired... And forget when I get home.

Anyway, I will keep it up for a few weeks if anyones willing to seed overnight.

[papaschtroumpf]

Give it a try now.
I will have to take it down tomorrow night, but I've got 600+Kbps upload until then.

about 1.2G worth of videos.

[papaschtroumpf]

Ooops, I forgot that I had bittorrent throttled to 250kbps so upload is slowerthan advertized.
I served 1.5G overnight thoguh, so it's working.

[Lilwolf]

cant test it... (at work) but I kept it up.

hopefully I got it.  I will keep it up for a while so if you need to take a few days off.... we can keep a seed up.  (love bit torrent)

trouble is... I only have 40mbps upload (and usually throddle it down... so I can webserf)

[GGKoul]

Anyone seeding these or posting this to and IRC site?  As I would love to start download these tonight.

[papaschtroumpf]

per the exchange above ,they are currently seeded, jsut use the links on the first page tio get the torrent.

[GGKoul]

Anyone sharing this?? As it's been sitting at 0 for the last 30 minutes.

[papaschtroumpf]

seeding again but don't expect me to do this for very long, I need the bandwidth for telecommuting.

Someone please post here when you've acquired a full set and leave it running for a while.

[cdbrown]

Ok - I have the full set and have opened up BT for seeding.  Don't have a great connection but should help get the last bits of the puzzle.  Will leave it up as long as I can, but may need to come down for short periods.

edit - just checked my client and I have actually only d/l 99.9% of it (95% completed aafbb.avi, 90% completed 88games.avi, 0% completed thumbs.db - all the rest are done) so I won't be able to provide all the pieces yet.

[GGKoul]

At 9am on Wednesday: 136 hrs 6mins 24 secs to go.
At 6pm on Wednesday: 138 hrs 41mins 13 secs to go.

[papaschtroumpf]

I've "served" over 1G today alone so something must not work properly on your side, someone *is* getting data from me. Which client do you use? Does it tell you how many seeds and distributed copies you're seeing?

[cdbrown]

I'm trying my best but I'm only getting upload speeds of 3kB/s but I do have a share ratio now of 626.625  But it looks like I'm the only seed on at the moment.  Hopefully the person that's currently at 94% keeps the client running after finishing.

[grueinthebox]

Just finished up, and am seeding...  Was actually seeing a number of other seeds on, and was getting good download speeds here.  *shrug*

Will likely leave it up for a few days until my next reboot.

[GGKoul]

25% completed... 77 hours 43 mins 16 secs left

[cdbrown]

I guess you have a good upload speed papa - my upload is 64k which is only slightly better than dialup (56k).  I'm going to have to stop mine for a while.

[papaschtroumpf]

upload speed on dial pup is nto 56K, it's worse (only down speed gets to 56K)
I'll restart it but it will have to come down over the weekend.

[GGKoul]

52% - 46 hours 21 min 48 secs remaining...

[nighthawk2099]

Put mine back up.  Will keep it up throughout today....

[papaschtroumpf]

52% - 46 hours 21 min 48 secs remaining...

Did you ever use bittorrent before? did you open/forward ports in your firewall/router?
with several seeds yuo should be getting much better speeds.

[ddockery]

I'm seeding now and should be until Monday morning at the earliest.

[nathan118]

Seeding also.

One small note, since I haven't seen anything on how to actually set these videos up. To put them as a screensaver, go into the mamewah config file and change saver_type from slideshow to movie.

[coachcarstens]

Ok, I have put this into my torrent client, hopefully uploading/downlaoding will start soon.  Howevert, I have noticed that my torrent says "mame videos shrunk" is this the correct one?  Aslo, what is the difference between these and the 4 gig advance menu movie files?  thanks for any help you can give me.

Chris

[Howard_Casto]

The advance mame videos are 4 gigs and only advance menu supports them and it's likely that advancemenu will be the only fe to ever support them. 

Answer your question?   

[coachcarstens]

Yes, that answers my question, thank you.

Chris