Mjolnir emulator looking good

[SGT]

For those that haven't been following Phil Stroffolino's new emulator, MJOLNIR:

Version .3 is now out:  http://machna.com/games/index.html

This emulator makes the Namco System 21 and 22 roms play at an acceptable speed.  Seems Starblade and Prop Cycle have been the focus in the early going with both playable.  Sounds like drivers for the other roms will be improved after Starblade is perfected.

Now if there was only a new release of the M2 emulator.

[Red]

SGT,

What games will this emulator play?  Is there a list?  Thanks.

Red

[SGT]

Well as I mentioned, Starblade and Prop Cycle is working pretty good right now.  Below is a list of System 21 and System 22 games that I assume will work sometime soon.

Air Combat (Japan)
Air Combat (US)
Cyber Sled (Japan)
Cyber Sled (US)
Driver's Eyes
Solvalou (Japan)
Starblade
Winning Run 91
Winning Run Suzuka Grand Prix
Ace Driver (Rev. AD2, World)
Ace Driver: Victory Lap (Rev. ADV2, World)
Air Combat 22 (Rev. ACS1 Ver.B)
Alpine Racer (Rev. AR2 Ver.C)
Alpine Racer (Rev. AR2 Ver.D)
Alpine Racer 2 (Rev. ARS2 Ver.B)
Alpine Surfer (Rev. AF2 Ver.A)
Cyber Commando (Rev. CY1, Japan)
Cyber Cycles (Rev. CB2 Ver.C)
Prop Cycle (Rev PR2 Ver.A)
Rave Racer (Rev. RV1 Ver.B, Japan)
Rave Racer (Rev. RV1, Japan)
Rave Racer (Rev. RV2, World)
Ridge Racer (Rev. RR1, Japan)
Ridge Racer (Rev. RR2, World)
Ridge Racer 2 (Rev. RRS1, Japan)
Ridge Racer 2 (Rev. RRS1, Ver.B, Japan)
Ridge Racer 2 (Rev. RRS2, US)
Time Crisis (Rev. TS2 Ver.A)
Time Crisis (Rev. TS2 Ver.B)

[ARTIFACT]

Ridge Racer?! AAAhhh!!!Awesome... I played this one so much in the arcades 10 years ago...

Thanks for the link!

So... He mentions submitting a driver to MAME... Is this going to be part of MAME then? or should we setup this as a separate emu, like Model2?

[SGT]

From what I gather, he will continue to have a separate emulator because it will be too slow in Mame.  Some comments by R. Belmont and A. Giles on mameworld sounds like some changes to Mame might make those games play fast enough, but who knows how long that will take.

[Popcorrin]

Ridge Racer?! AAAhhh!!!Awesome... I played this one so much in the arcades 10 years ago...

Thanks for the link!

So... He mentions submitting a driver to MAME... Is this going to be part of MAME then? or should we setup this as a separate emu, like Model2?

Since you like Ridge Racer you could try out viva nonno.  It does a pretty good job emulating it.

[TAG]

Since you like Ridge Racer you could try out viva nonno.  It does a pretty good job emulating it.

Actually, according to the readme file, Ridge Racer is not supported.  Having said that, I've found that vivanonno does a GREAT job of emulating Ridge Racer 2 and Rave Racer.  In fact, I just picked up one of those clearance Nascar steering wheels at Target, and that makes it even better. 

I'm looking forward to seeing how Mjolnir compares once those games are running on it, because it does a great job with Prop Cycle.  (I can't get Starblade to work...it keeps telling me I have a romz problem, even though the game runs (albeit slowly) on Mame with the romz I have...go figure).

[SGT]

Thanks for the heads up on vivanonno running Ridge Racer 2 and Rave Racer.  Giving it a go now.

[ARTIFACT]

ohh that's good to know

does viva nonno use the same roms as MAME's for these games?

thanks

[SGT]

does viva nonno use the same roms as MAME's for these games?

Nope, they are totally different.

[TAG]

does viva nonno use the same roms as MAME's for these games?

Nope, they are totally different.

Well, I don't think that's *ENTIRELY* accurate.  IIRC, they are the same roms, but they have different file names.  I believe I had to go in and just rename the MAME roms to correspond to what vivanonno was looking for (which I think was in the readme file, or one of the other files that comes with vivanonno).  So unless I'm remembering it incorrectly, you just need to take the time to rename the ones it sounds like you already have.

[SGT]

Am I missing something?  Here's the contents of rv2.zip for vivanonno:

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rv1ccr-h.bin
rv1ccr-l.bin
rv1cg0.bin
rv1cg1.bin
rv1cg2.bin
rv1cg3.bin
rv1cg4.bin
rv1cg5.bin
rv1cg6.bin
rv1cg7.bin
rv1data.bin
rv1pot-l0.bin
rv1pot-l1.bin
rv1pot-l2.bin
rv1pot-l3.bin
rv1pot-m0.bin
rv1pot-m1.bin
rv1pot-m2.bin
rv1pot-m3.bin
rv1pot-u0.bin
rv1pot-u1.bin
rv1pot-u2.bin
rv1pot-u3.bin
rv1wav0.bin
rv1wav1.bin
rv1wav2.bin
rv1wav3.bin
rv2.txt
rv2prgllb.bin
rv2prglmb.bin
rv2prgumb.bin
rv2prguub.bin
Here's what Maws says Mame is looking for:

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rv2prllb.4d
rv2prlmb.2d
rv2prumb.8d
rv2pruub.6d
c71.bin
c71.bin
c74.bin
rv1data.6r
rv1cg0.1a
rv1cg1.1c
rv1cg2.1d
rv1cg3.1e
rv1cg4.1f
rv1cg5.1j
rv1cg6.1k
rv1cg7.1n
rv1ccrl.5a
rv1ccrh.5c
rv1potl0.5b
rv1potl1.4b
rv1potl2.3b
rv1potl3.2b
rv1potm0.5c
rv1potm1.4c
rv1potm2.3c
rv1potm3.2c
rv1potu0.5d
rv1potu1.4d
rv1potu2.3d
rv1potu3.2d
rv1wav0.10r
rv1wav1.10p
rv1wav2.10n
rv1wav3.10l
rr1gam.2d
rr1gam.3d
rr1gam.4d
rv1eeprm.9e

Seems like an awful lot of work when the vivanonno roms are easy to find.  Maybe not.  Easy enough to change the extension to "bin" with one command and then hand rename several to put a dash in the appropriate spot.  On the other hand, there's only two roms to download, taking a couple of minutes.

[TAG]

Seems like an awful lot of work when the vivanonno roms are easy to find.  Maybe not.  Easy enough to change the extension to "bin" with one command and then hand rename several to put a dash in the appropriate spot.  On the other hand, there's only two roms to download, taking a couple of minutes.

No, you're right, it was more work than it needed to be.  But my point was just that you *CAN* use the MAME roms if that's what you have.

On a similar topic, and bringing the discussion back to Mjolnir, does anyone know if there's something I need besides the MAME roms to play Starblade?  Seems like that's all you'd need, since Mjolnir is a MAME derivative, but I can't get it to work.  I get the dos box popping up, but it closes so quickly that I can't read it to see what the error is!

[SGT]

does anyone know if there's something I need besides the MAME roms to play Starblade?

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c67.bin
Check the mjolnir forum for more information.

[TAG]

does anyone know if there's something I need besides the MAME roms to play Starblade?

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c67.bin

Yeah, that did it.  Thanks!

With that, I can say that, with Mjolnir, both Starblade and Propcycle work very smoothly on my old P4 1.8 gHz Dell.  Far better than under MAME .119: no stuttering, no choppiness, nothing.  The emulator's looking great so far!

[ARTIFACT]

OMG... cant wait to play Ridge Racers...

thanks