lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport

markwkidd

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

Thanks for the vector settings I will test them out and see how they look. I think to compete will AdvMAME it will need all the options available. I am not sure if you ever looked at AdvMAME but I can post a pick of Tempest or something as following Cavers vector doc they look pretty incredible.

I started to post a link to the RetroPie forums thread pertaining to the mame2003 vector rendering bounty, but I guess we don't have a thread for that in these forums. Maybe there should be.

There is a github issue for it: https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/issues/332

And there is currently an $80 bounty for solving the problem.

Your screenshots of AdvanceMAME would be welcome in that issue, especially if they can show tempest with a similar screen to the comparisons I've put up between MAME 0.78 and mame2003.

Riverstorm

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

I started to post a link to the RetroPie forums thread pertaining to the mame2003 vector rendering bounty, but I guess we don't have a thread for that in these forums. Maybe there should be.

I did add to the bounty last week. I think it would be great to see all games under one emulator. If you want to start a thread and add the bounty info that would be great that way you can always update the first post with relevant information. I will work on a screenshot to add.

While I was working through games this past weekend I was also updating my snaps to HD. The scraped snaps are fuzzy and blurry on a 4k TV and I figured eventually higher resolutions snaps will be preferred.

A few vector games don't snap well and I had to take multiple shots then use Photoshop to overlay sections that would flicker blank to make a complete snap. Basically like a box for example 2 sides would be present and two blank. I also had to strip off the shaders as they create a moire effect and don't look very good as snaps vs. real time playing. I basically use Photoshop to clean up snaps. Like adding color to Circus or Depthcharge for example that used some type of translucent cellophane over the screen or using selection masks for Golden Axe 2 that seems to flicker players 1 and 3 info in one frame and players 2 and 4 in the next frame.

markwkidd

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

I did add to the bounty last week. I think it would be great to see all games under one emulator. If you want to start a thread and add the bounty info that would be great that way you can always update the first post with relevant information. I will work on a screenshot to add.

Ah hah, can you believe that I didn't realize that you and Wilstrom are one person? Now everything makes sense! :) Thank you for contributing to the bounty!

Riverstorm

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

Ah hah, can you believe that I didn't realize that you and Wilstorm are one person?

Yeah, sorry, I never thought about it but that's true. Whatever pops to mind of a few login names gets used. I should change it to match if it's possible.

grant2258

@riverstorm the changes to the timing are in mame2003 are the issues with the games present in mame2003 and mame2003-plus or just one

markwkidd

The weekend's work on mame2003-plus just got merged into mame2003, so both are now needing an update in RetroPie-Setup. I submitted a new PR that takes care of both: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2370

Riverstorm

@grant2258 said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

@riverstorm the changes to the timing are in mame2003 are the issues with the games present in mame2003 and mame2003-plus or just one

Sorry you mean the games listed above are they having the same issues in both lr-mame2003 and mame2003_plus?

grant2258

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

@grant2258 said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

@riverstorm the changes to the timing are in mame2003 are the issues with the games present in mame2003 and mame2003-plus or just one

Sorry you mean the games listed above are they having the same issues in both lr-mame2003 and mame2003_plus?

sorry should have specified

Arkanoid (US) (arkanoiu) - Player 2 flipped upside down (vertically)
Dragon Spirit (dspirit) - Player 2 filled upside down (vertically)
Kick (kick) - Player 1 and 2 only flip horizontally (lays on left and right side)
D.D. Crew (ddcrew) - Crashes black screen
Pig Newton (pignewt) - Crashes black screen

Riverstorm

@grant2258 said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

sorry should have specified

You want me to test these in lr-mame2003 and see if they do the same in both emulators?

grant2258

just want to see if its somethign we broke am going to work in a few minutes. Ill look into them two games that arent working at all as well an see why there not loading

markwkidd

(mame2003-plus should start building again now once folks update RetroPie-Setup)

Riverstorm

@grant2258 said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

just want to see if its somethign we broke am going to work in a few minutes. Ill look into them two games that arent working at all as well an see why there not loading

Ok will test both emulators here in a bit and let you know.

grant2258

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

@grant2258 said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

just want to see if its somethign we broke am going to work in a few minutes. Ill look into them two games that arent working at all as well an see why there not loading

Ok will test both emulators here in a bit and let you know.

i went into service mode in dragon spirit an activated the flip it cocktail mode being active on that game might be the same for the rest but am leaving for work now. Its just doing a cocktail flip for p2

Riverstorm

@grant2258 said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

i went into service mode in dragon spirit an activated the flip it cocktail mode being active on that game might be the same for the rest but am leaving for work now. Its just doing a cocktail flip for p2

Shoot, ok I never tried service mode. Will check Dragon Spirit tonight.

Arkanoid (US) (arkanoiu) - Player 2 flipped upside down (vertically)

Dragon Spirit (dspirit) - Player 2 filled upside down (vertically)

Kick (kick) - Player 1 and 2 only flip horizontally (lays on left and right side)

D.D. Crew (ddcrew) - Crashes black screen

Pig Newton (pignewt) - Crashes black screen of them do the sa

All these games are the same in both emulators.

Arkanoid (World) (arkanoid) does work correctly with defaults for player 2. Arkanoid (US) (arkanoiu) does not work with defaults. Maybe a code paste or something simple.

Kick (Upright) (kick) seems like it expects the monitor to be rotated 90 degrees but also the writing is written backwards on screen.

D.D. Crew is a great 4 player fighter side scrolling game. There's not enough 3 and 4 player games.

Pig Newton is a cheesy little game but still kind of fun.

Riverstorm

@grant2258 - It might be irrelevant being a different emulator altogether but all these seem to work correctly in AdvMAME.

Riverstorm

Something seems off or the settings are not taking effect. They are located in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg. The settings I used for each emulator are listed below with screenshots. Quite different. I tried matching the settings where possible. Also I see no flicker with mame2003_plus.

mame2003_plus settings I used:

mame2003-plus-vector-resolution-multiplier = "1"
mame2003-plus-vector-antialias = "enabled"
mame2003-plus-vector-translucency = "enabled"
mame2003-plus-vector-beam-width = "1"
mame2003-plus-vector-flicker = "10"
mame2003-plus-vector-intensity = "2.5"

AdvMAME settings I used:

vector/display_resizeeffect filter
vector/display_rgbeffect triad3dot
vector/display_scanlines no
vector/display_antialias yes
vector/display_beam 1.2
vector/display_flicker 10
vector/display_translucency yes
vector/display_intensity 2.5

Riverstorm

@grant2258 said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

i went into service mode in dragon spirit an activated the flip it cocktail mode being active on that game might be the same for the rest but am leaving for work now. Its just doing a cocktail flip for p2

This worked for you? When I went into service mode by default 'Flip' is set to off. When I turned it on Player 1 was flipped upside down and Player 2 was correct. This options seems to compensate for if you mounted the monitor in the cab incorrectly or something.

Arkanoid (US) (arkanoiu) the same thing it just flips the monitor for P1 and P2.

Kick has options but I couldn't get access them once at the service menu.

grant2258

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

@grant2258 said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

i went into service mode in dragon spirit an activated the flip it cocktail mode being active on that game might be the same for the rest but am leaving for work now. Its just doing a cocktail flip for p2

This worked for you? When I went into service mode by default 'Flip' is set to off. When I turned it on Player 1 was flipped upside down and Player 2 was correct. This options seems to compensate for if you mounted the monitor in the cab incorrectly or something.

Arkanoid (US) (arkanoiu) the same thing it just flips the monitor for P1 and P2.

Kick has options but I couldn't get access them once at the service menu.

This tells me its cocktail mode kicking in i dont see any dip switch settings for it. Ill need to check the driver .I did have the cocktail flip not working added to the xml dat must have been removed its not really needed anyway can check manually. WIll do this after i catch some zzzs. Then ill check them two games that arent loading and try see whats going on

grant2258

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

@grant2258 said in lr-mame2003 driver improvement and backport:

i went into service mode in dragon spirit an activated the flip it cocktail mode being active on that game might be the same for the rest but am leaving for work now. Its just doing a cocktail flip for p2

This worked for you? When I went into service mode by default 'Flip' is set to off. When I turned it on Player 1 was flipped upside down and Player 2 was correct. This options seems to compensate for if you mounted the monitor in the cab incorrectly or something.

Arkanoid (US) (arkanoiu) the same thing it just flips the monitor for P1 and P2.

Kick has options but I couldn't get access them once at the service menu.

Sorry im never very clear when i explain things sorry about that i was just saying its set to cocktail mode

goto the service menu dip switch put it on
reset the game
change type to b
turn service mode off (make sure you dont change the setting when in the menu on the dipswitch to put service mode off). I personally just use the service button and press reset instead of the dipwitch

the point where you turn service mode off is when it saves the nvram so dont reset to get out of the service menu

you should be good to go. This is

going to have to be set per user people with cocktail cabs wont be happy is this is set wrong by default.

again for kick you need to turn service mode on -> reset turn off it will be good.

ddcrew driver does need fix its broke in mame078 as well and marked as not working

pignewt
cpu.u25 NOT FOUND (NO GOOD DUMP KNOWN)
WARNING: the game might not run correctly.

need to see if there is a good dump for this rom this fix will only apply plus as we cant mess with the 078 set in mame2003

had a look at the source I can fix this for both newronpig sets but i dont wanna dance the baddump nodump issues again with you. Its the way the latest mame is doing it too. The fix is to use the bad dumps available and see if it works.

@markwkidd will the disable rotation in retroarch fix these issues

Riverstorm

@grant2258 - Thanks for the instructions I will test this out. I am not sure I would have figured that out how to flip them.

Do the same instructions work for both Arkanoid and Dragon Spirit?

Do you want me to create an issue on Github for each game that doesn't work properly so you may document on a per game basis or do you prefer them in small lists or something else? I figured if they are documented even if they don't get fixed or it takes a while it's alright. I am ok creating a ticket for each if it's preferred.

I agree I know they substitute 'Bad Dumps' for 'No Dumps' to get games up and running. Sometimes they substitute so many ROMs it's a different game...it's like is it man or machine! To merge or not to merge that is the question! As John Lennon said...let it be! ;)