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      zerojay @markwkidd
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      @markwkidd said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

      @zerojay said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

      @markwkidd said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

      @zerojay said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

      nvram doesn't get written out

      Could you say more about what you mean by this?

      nvram doesn't get written to disk.

      Yes, under what emulator and circumstances? All retroarch arcade emulators should be writing nvram.

      mame2000. Looks like the source version does indeed write it out now but the binary one needs to be recompiled.

      Now if only we could get into the service menu or the usual MAME tab menu with just a controller...

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      • darkniorD
        darknior
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        https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/168

        @gamez-fan Hook up sound MCU for Vimana
        Actually i spoke to soon it was possible to do this one without the input tags :)

        Life is game, just play it !

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          markwkidd @zerojay
          last edited by

          @zerojay said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

          Now if only we could get into the service menu or the usual MAME tab menu with just a controller...

          Thank you for checking on this. Could I ask you to post your experience trying to use the TAB menu with source-compiled mame2000 in this github issue? https://github.com/libretro/mame2000-libretro/issues/25

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          • darkniorD
            darknior
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            https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/172
            https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/171

            Make DJ Boy work

            Life is game, just play it !

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            • darkniorD
              darknior
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              https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/173

              New Driver which supports 5 games
              Code via iq_132 with some graphical updates by myself for Cute Fighter

              • Baryon - Future Assault (c) 1997 SemiCom / Tirano
              • Cute Fighter (c) 1998 SemiCom
              • Rolling Crush (c) 1999 Trust / SemiCom
              • Gaia - The Last Choice of Earth (c) 1999 SemiCom / XESS
              • Dream World (c) 2000 SemiCom

              Life is game, just play it !

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                zerojay @arcadez2003
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                @gamez-fan said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                @zerojay said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                I was really hoping that openice would be one of the games that would get these speed boosts. Oh well. Right now, it runs with slowdown on mame2003 and runs perfect speed on anything older but nvram doesn't get written out so it's useless.

                Totally experimental as i found it can break the sound in some T-Unit games not using the DCS soundcore, which will require a workaround to sort
                but just now for testing purposes if you can compile your own build in the MAME-2003 source goto src/vidhrdw/midtunit and do this.......

                #define FAST_DMA 1 /* DMAs complete immediately; reduces number of CPU switches */

                This should boost up the performance in Open Ice Challenge but enough to playable on the Rpi im not sure..?? you'll need to try it and see.

                I compiled with the change and it appears that retroarch is unable to load the compiled .so file that results from it:

                [ERROR] Failed to open libretro core: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so"
                [ERROR] Error(s): /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so: undefined symbol: driver_baryon

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                • arcadez2003A
                  arcadez2003 @zerojay
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                  @zerojay said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                  I compiled with the change and it appears that retroarch is unable to load the compiled .so file that results from it:

                  [ERROR] Failed to open libretro core: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so"
                  [ERROR] Error(s): /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so: undefined symbol: driver_baryon

                  Yeah i just added a new driver dreamwld.c which will likely need to be declared in the overall sources hence the above compile errors
                  if you can point me towards the sources then i can fix this.

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                  • dankcushionsD
                    dankcushions Global Moderator @arcadez2003
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                    @gamez-fan said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                    @zerojay said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                    I compiled with the change and it appears that retroarch is unable to load the compiled .so file that results from it:

                    [ERROR] Failed to open libretro core: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so"
                    [ERROR] Error(s): /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so: undefined symbol: driver_baryon

                    Yeah i just added a new driver dreamwld.c which will likely need to be declared in the overall sources hence the above compile errors
                    if you can point me towards the sources then i can fix this.

                    https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/blob/master/link.T
                    https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/blob/master/Makefile.common

                    i think that's it

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                    • arcadez2003A
                      arcadez2003 @dankcushions
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                      @dankcushions said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                      @gamez-fan said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                      @zerojay said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                      I compiled with the change and it appears that retroarch is unable to load the compiled .so file that results from it:

                      [ERROR] Failed to open libretro core: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so"
                      [ERROR] Error(s): /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so: undefined symbol: driver_baryon

                      Yeah i just added a new driver dreamwld.c which will likely need to be declared in the overall sources hence the above compile errors
                      if you can point me towards the sources then i can fix this.

                      https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/blob/master/link.T
                      https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/blob/master/Makefile.common

                      i think that's it

                      Thanks i've declared the new driver in the makefile that should fix the compile errors

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                        zerojay @arcadez2003
                        last edited by zerojay

                        @gamez-fan said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                        @dankcushions said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                        @gamez-fan said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                        @zerojay said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                        I compiled with the change and it appears that retroarch is unable to load the compiled .so file that results from it:

                        [ERROR] Failed to open libretro core: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so"
                        [ERROR] Error(s): /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so: undefined symbol: driver_baryon

                        Yeah i just added a new driver dreamwld.c which will likely need to be declared in the overall sources hence the above compile errors
                        if you can point me towards the sources then i can fix this.

                        https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/blob/master/link.T
                        https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/blob/master/Makefile.common

                        i think that's it

                        Thanks i've declared the new driver in the makefile that should fix the compile errors

                        No go. Dumped my copy of the lr-mame2003 source and pulled down a fresh copy, made the change for DMA as we previously mentioned and compiled.

                        When running with verbose logging:

                        Parameters:
                        Executing: SDL_VIDEO_EGL_DRIVER=/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so SDL_VIDEO_GL_DRIVER=/opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch
                        -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/rom
                        s/mame-libretro/openice.zip" --verbose --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
                        [INFO] RetroArch 1.6.7 (Git 8e8bdaa)
                        [INFO] Redirecting save file to "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/openice.srm".
                        [INFO] Redirecting savestate to "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/openice.state".
                        [INFO] === Build =======================================
                        Capabilities: NEON VFPv3 VFPv4
                        Built: Sep 10 2017
                        [INFO] Version: 1.6.7
                        [INFO] Git: 8e8bdaa
                        [INFO] =================================================
                        [INFO] [Config]: loading config from: /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg.
                        [INFO] Config: appending config "/dev/shm/retroarch.cfg"
                        [INFO] Loading dynamic libretro core from: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so"
                        [ERROR] Failed to open libretro core: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so"
                        [ERROR] Error(s): /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so: undefined symbol: driver_baryon
                        /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1014: 16143 Segmentation fault SDL_VIDEO_EGL_DRIVER=/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so SDL_VIDEO_GL_DRIVER=/opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.
                        so --config /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/openice.zip" --verbose --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

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                        • Z
                          zerojay
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                          Actually, just noticed your change didn't yet get pulled so I applied it manually. The game loads and runs but even on my overclocked pi3 with resolution at 640x480, it seems to go back and forth between full speed and very slow (though audio sounds fine).

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                          • arcadez2003A
                            arcadez2003 @zerojay
                            last edited by

                            @zerojay said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                            Actually, just noticed your change didn't yet get pulled so I applied it manually. The game loads and runs but even on my overclocked pi3 with resolution at 640x480, it seems to go back and forth between full speed and very slow (though audio sounds fine).

                            Open ice does the exact same thing on the Xbox with the DMA off but i noticed when i turned it on the game did get a slight boost not as much as MK2 or MK3
                            which is what i really use it for, i thought it was worth a try on the Rpi incase you got a better speedup via the DMA change but alas it was not to be which is a pity,

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                              zerojay
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                              I am able to play it with advmame 0.94 with my overclock and it's pretty playable there. Thanks for the help.

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                                yevaman
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                                Hi ! First of all, thanks for your work !

                                I use retroarch and just saw in the new changelog that there is a Mame2003_midway core.
                                I found the site with the source but can't find the DLL
                                When i Update the core in retroarch section I only can see the tradionnal 2003 core but not the midway one.
                                Can you help me to reach this dll ?

                                Thx

                                Regards

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                                  zerojay @yevaman
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                                  @yevaman said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                                  Hi ! First of all, thanks for your work !

                                  I use retroarch and just saw in the new changelog that there is a Mame2003_midway core.
                                  I found the site with the source but can't find the DLL
                                  When i Update the core in retroarch section I only can see the tradionnal 2003 core but not the midway one.
                                  Can you help me to reach this dll ?

                                  Thx

                                  Regards

                                  I'll take a run at it today.

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                                  • darkniorD
                                    darknior
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                                    Rock'n Tread 1 - 5 (Japan) : https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/178

                                    Tetris Plus 2 World : https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/177

                                    Life is game, just play it !

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                                    • darkniorD
                                      darknior
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                                      Fix : https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/179

                                      Driftout 94 remove incorrect protection :


                                      Monster Slider fix incorrect level logic game now playable :

                                      Twin Eagle II add dsp handling and fix graphics game now playable :

                                      Add Dyna Gears new working game : https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/180

                                      Life is game, just play it !

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                                      • UDb23U
                                        UDb23
                                        last edited by UDb23

                                        @gamez-fan Thanks for all your great updates & patches.

                                        I know I'm insisting on this as I already made this comment on github..
                                        but is there any chance to get sound in "Deep Scan" (sega vicdual) ?
                                        That would be so great!

                                        Recently samples were added to another vicdual game (more info here). I asked if it is possible to add a similar "sample player module" to Deep Scan on that thread but no answer. Samples are available; they are the same as Depth Charge.

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                                        • darkniorD
                                          darknior
                                          last edited by

                                          Lets get Fire Barrel playable : https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/182

                                          @gamez-fan Fix sound and improve the bad graphical layer, original code by BP and myself

                                          Life is game, just play it !

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                                          • arcadez2003A
                                            arcadez2003 @UDb23
                                            last edited by arcadez2003

                                            @udb23 said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

                                            @gamez-fan Thanks for all your great updates & patches.

                                            I know I'm insisting on this as I already made this comment on github..
                                            but is there any chance to get sound in "Deep Scan" (sega vicdual) ?
                                            That would be so great!

                                            Recently samples were added to another vicdual game (more info here). I asked if it is possible to add a similar "sample player module" to Deep Scan on that thread but no answer. Samples are available; they are the same as Depth Charge.

                                            I take it you mean this game it's the only one i can see called Deep Scan in the MAME78 vicdual driver..........

                                            GAMEX(1979, invds, 0, invinco4, invds, invds, ROT270, "Sega", "Invinco / Deep Scan", GAME_IMPERFECT_SOUND )

                                            It seems to have sound but your saying it needs to use the same samples as depth charge..?? it should be easy enough to hook it
                                            to those samples in the driver if thats what the game requires i honestly haven't played this one.

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