Asteroids BRRRRP!

[deano728]

I just changed over from Mame version 1.23U3 to 1.25U1.  The flying sound in Asteroids sounds like a perpetual burp.  It still sounds fine when using version 1.23.

What am I missing?  Do I need to do something to the games when changing Mame versions?

[(+_+)]

I have no idea but "perpetual burp". That's funny.

[TheShanMan]

I recall hearing that asteroids was broken in 0.125.

Edit: It looks like it's fixed in the upcoming 0.125u4: http://mametesters.org/mantis/view.php?id=1699

[wbassett]

I have a really dumb Mame question...

Since Mame doesn't load into the registry, or at least not that I am aware of, can't a person run multiple versions of it on the same machine?  Of course not at the same time but different version levels depending on which games work for what version.  I know that's a dumb sounding way of doing things, but say a person has a couple of favorite games that work on one version but not on a newer version of Mame, yet the newer version of Mame lets them play some games that might not work (or work as good) on the older version.  Just wondering because I have multiple versions of the same MAME installed.  Why?  I have a desktop icon for Mame32 for my wife and one for me.  When she clicks on hers, she only gets the games she likes instead of the whole list she needs to sort through. 

I haven't played with any front ends yet, so what I am doing probably is handled better with a front end.  With that in mind, couldn't a front end be configured that for say game A it launches version X of Mame, and for game B it launches it using version Y of Mame?

I guess I'm asking because Mame has such little overhead and Mame itself doesn't take up that much drive space it seems like a person could have multiple versions that are known to work best with certain roms.   I also tried putting my roms in a seperate folder and then mapped each version of Mame to that rom folder and it seemed to work fine that way.

For someone like deano, they could have say 1.23U3 for Asteroids and some other games that work well with that version and then 1.25 for the rest.  Seems like it would work and if a Front End can deal with that, which I don't see why it can't, then versions are kinda a moot point.

[Ginsu Victim]

You could run every version of MAME if you wanted, you just might need to setup the older ones different than the newer versions.

[deano728]

Thanks for the info guys.  I really appreciate it!

[Ummon]

You could run every version of MAME if you wanted, you just might need to setup the older ones different than the newer versions.

And you can run multiple versions simultaneously. I have before when comparing color palettes between before and since the re-write, for instance. Both are mame32 builds and I just toggled between them by pressing the desktop button and then selecting the other from the task bar. However, for different versions in one list, that's what Headkaze's Multi-mame is for. Or, you could compile your own build with the various drivers for each rom you wanted in there.

[deano728]

I just compiled 128u6 and get the same noise for asteroids.  Is this happening for anyone else?  I checked the mametesters site and didn't see any open issues....  I figured I'd see if I was the only one and if not I'll figure out how to report it.