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      AdamBeGood @Folly
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      @folly Great effort! I'll try this out when I get the chance. Brilliant detective work.

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        AdamBeGood @AdamBeGood
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        @adambegood I've had a go now but I get a black screen when the game shoud lanuch. I'm using mame fmtowns -6m

        I'll have another try in a bit.

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          Folly @AdamBeGood
          last edited by Folly

          @adambegood

          -6m is not needed with this game it works with the default (2m).
          -6m is not bad though ;-) .

          Make sure you load with game-specific, otherwise, when you edit the mouse setting, other games will have no mouse.

          Good luck !

          I use these files (running the .cue with fmtowns) :
          pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie/roms/fmtmarty $ sha1sum M*
          876ab6b804a0f3da6fd1cbeb1a7d2230e2adfcc3 Mad Stalker.ccd
          24807473d74f384bc130400fa7287803812c0012 Mad Stalker.cue
          05280e943e6fd90c64a495e4c8e3c65df6a3481d Mad Stalker.img
          f2883a900489beef51f3880ff697b1635e72eaa5 Mad Stalker.sub

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            AdamBeGood @Folly
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            @folly Hmmmm I have a .chd, maybe the file is bad then. I'll look for your version.

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              Folly @AdamBeGood
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              @adambegood

              Btw
              You should use frameskipping,
              It can take a while before the game starts.
              It takes about 30 seconds, on my end.
              With a CHD it can take longer because it's CHD is compressed.

              You can check your mailbox.

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                AdamBeGood @Folly
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                @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                @adambegood

                Btw
                You should use frameskipping,
                It can take a while before the game starts.
                It takes about 30 seconds, on my end.
                With a CHD it can take longer because it's CHD is compressed.

                You can check your mailbox.

                I left it for ages...

                I've actually found it myself but I'll check my mailbox. I have to go out now but I'll try the Folly version later! :)

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                  Folly @AdamBeGood
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                  @adambegood

                  I have to out too.
                  I hear it later.

                  Good luck !

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                    AdamBeGood @Folly
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                    @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                    @adambegood

                    I have to out too.
                    I hear it later.

                    Good luck !

                    I'm still seeing black screen, I presume I just run the .cue yep?

                    Should I update my MAME core?

                    Hope you're having a good day.

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                      Folly @AdamBeGood
                      last edited by Folly

                      @adambegood

                      I had to work, thankfully no rain.

                      It's good to update mame.
                      The binary is equal or higher than 0237.

                      But I think it's something else.
                      Do other games run ?
                      Does lr-mess work ? (or is it the same story ?)

                      Check your runcommand.log.

                      Btw:
                      Autoframeskipping doesn't work that good over here.
                      With F9 you have to press until it's on frameskip 10 to get almost fullspeed.

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                        AdamBeGood @Folly
                        last edited by AdamBeGood

                        @folly Let me have a play and report back. I'll have a look at the log.

                        Other games do work on MAME for FM Towns. lr-mess is the same story.

                        Edit: is this the island postie job? Glad you didn't get rained on.

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                          Folly @AdamBeGood
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                          @adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                          @folly Let me have a play and report back. I'll have a look at the log.

                          Yes you should check that.

                          Other games do work on MAME for FM Towns. lr-mess is the same story.

                          Strange !
                          If this works than it looks like the files of Mad Stalker are wrong somehow.
                          I tested the version I recommended, unzipped and running the .cue should work.

                          Edit: is this the island postie job? Glad you didn't get rained on.

                          Not today, but I still do that, often, twice a week.

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                            AdamBeGood @Folly
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                            @folly It was the version of MAME. Updated from Source and the game works fine! Thanks so much for all the help.

                            I was very surprised when it loaded up!

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                              Folly @AdamBeGood
                              last edited by Folly

                              @adambegood

                              Nice,

                              Now we have to play, after all the effort involving ;-)
                              Let me know how it goes.

                              With mame we can (we can pause first with P) :

                              • save states with : shift-left + F7
                              • load states with : shift-right + F7

                              Can you defeat this one, in stage 1 ? :

                              Screenshot_20211205_122911.png

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                                AdamBeGood @Folly
                                last edited by

                                @folly I didn't have time to properly play but I'll let you know when I get a chance to play - probably tomorrow. It seems quite hard from a quick play!

                                Thanks for the save state help also!

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                                  AdamBeGood @AdamBeGood
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                                  @Folly - on a totally distinct issue, a bit off-topic I'll admit; I've got a Sinden Light Gun now and thought about getting it to work with Saturn tonight (I've got NES, SNES and Dreamcast working so far).

                                  However, I need to try it on a libretro core and for some weird reason my Saturn games are all launching straight to Yabasanshiro regardless of how I have them set up in emulators.cfg. Some games are set to other cores, but it doesn't make a difference - I get no runcommand menu and Yabasanshiro just boots straight up.

                                  Any idea where I look to resolve this? I don't remember changing anything here...

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                                    Zering @AdamBeGood
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                                    @adambegood That's because standalone yabasanshiro doesn't use runcommand. You would have changed that in your es_systems.cfg when setting up yabasanshiro.

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                                      AdamBeGood @Zering
                                      last edited by AdamBeGood

                                      @zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                      @adambegood That's because standalone yabasanshiro doesn't use runcommand. You would have changed that in your es_systems.cfg when setting up yabasanshiro.

                                      Thanks, @zering. I guess I just hadn't noticed. Can I have yabasanshiro installed and still choose other emulators? Or do I have to take a line out of config every time to do that?

                                      I didn't expect a response from you on this one!

                                      Edit: Take that line out and put a normal runcommand line in and that seems all good now.

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                                        testudo @Folly
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                                        @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                        @adambegood

                                        Nice,

                                        Now we have to play, after all the effort involving ;-)
                                        Let me know how it goes.

                                        With mame we can (we can pause first with P) :

                                        • save states with : shift-left + F7
                                        • load states with : shift-right + F7

                                        Can you defeat this one, in stage 1 ? :

                                        Screenshot_20211205_122911.png

                                        Concur, brilliant detective work! I can only get it to boot using the lr-mess-fmtowns config, the other fmtowns and mame runcommand selections do not work. But, changing the Joystick port 2 to <nothing> removed the in game freezing and it plays great. I'll just manually change it back to <mouse> when done playing. No luck in my first attempt to defeat the stage 1 Boss.

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                                          DTEAM @testudo
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                                          @Folly
                                          On FM Towns Marty, some games like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge or 4D tennis require a CD ROM and a floppy disk.

                                          Does somebody already managed that?

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                                            AdamBeGood @DTEAM
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                                            @dteam said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                            @Folly
                                            On FM Towns Marty, some games like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge or 4D tennis require a CD ROM and a floppy disk.

                                            Does somebody already managed that?

                                            I'd be surprised if Folly hasn't cracked that, I think it might have been discussed at some point.

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