mame2003-plus: hundreds of new games, improved input, features, new bugs - now with runahead support

Riverstorm

@ranma - If it helps most of the ROMs are identical so for the most part you should be good to go.

Mame2003 has approximately 4,721 ROM sets and m3plus has approximately 4,922 ROM sets. So about 96% of the sets are the same.

Most of the ROMs can be found in current MAME and rollback MAME but a few you'll need to locate on your own as they were never part of any official MAME version.

Basically m3plus has approximately 200 more than mame2003 and of those 200 about 76 are updated ROMs from mame2003 so if you don't include the m3plus exclusive games 98% of the ROMs are the identical.

Some of the updated ROMs are major games that we all know and need update ROMs after the devs did the Namco driver updates.

You found the changlelog which is very well documented and lists most of the new and updated ROM sets.

mat

Just a basic question,

How long does it take to install from source for a Pi3?

Would binary be added in the future?

Darksavior

@mat Like 30min.

keithk2581

Tried searching multiple places but couldn't find the answer. Every rom of lethal enforcers I have is in Spanish, how do I change this or access the service menu to change it? Thanks in advance. Raspberry Pi 3 RetroPie 4.4

BuZz

@keithk2581 you already have a post for this. Maybe noone knows the answer but no need to repost in another thread.

keithk2581

Sorry thought this might have been a better place after my first post since this game and others like it are/were being discussed here. I'll remove the post, sorry for the double.

Riverstorm

@keithk2581 - What is the name of the ROM you're using? Also just to verify you're using mame2003-plus? Usually 'F2' will get you into the service menu. The other option is TAB but I'm not sure that's accessible with the default settings depending on the emulator core.

grant2258

There is no need for service mode language is set in the dip switch menu. Remember after changing the dip switches in fba or mame you need to reset the game for it to take effect it set in english for mame2003-plus by default not sure about fba

keithk2581

Right now I'm using fba, haven't tried mame2003 yet since it worked first on fba, how do I access the dip switch on both?

Riverstorm

@grant2258 - Thanks, then he'll need to use TAB through the options menu or change his input interface to keyboard or simultaneous if his settings are at the defaults to access the dip switch settings.

Riverstorm

@keithk2581 - I'm not sure on FBA but on mame2003-plus you need to access the Retroarch menu with Select+X (user defined keys). Then go to Quick Menu -> Options and there should be an option to display the MAME menu. You'll find your language dip switch settings there.

grant2258

Well mame2003-plus is default is english anyway. For fba the dip switch setting are in quickmenu->options where you set the core options. I havent tested this game on fba but that is where the dip switches are set

keithk2581

Found the setting in fba, switched it to English, but it's still in Spanish. I'll have to keep playing with it I guess, unless any other ideas?

grant2258

First of all make sure your on the latest version of fba (compile from source) . Set the Dip switch and make sure your reset the game if its still in spanish report the issue here. https://github.com/libretro/FBAlphaFB

Riverstorm

Could it be possible the .cfg or .nvram needs reset? That's a strange error.

keithk2581

Set the language to English and reset, but no change. Rumor has it that it's known that it doesn't work in fba when you change the language. How do I reset those items you stated?

Riverstorm

@keithk2581 - Unless it's been fixed in a very recent build (mines a bit older) and I get the same issue as you. It defaults to Default Language (Spanish) as default. If I change it to English and reset it stills boots as Spanish.

You might need to open an issue at the link @grant2258 posted above. The guys that maintain FBA are pretty helpful and had fixes out for an issue I opened within a day or so.

Just to mention mame2003-plus Lethal Enforcers does work fine in English and runs at full speed.

REK607

Hello! I started to use mame2003-plus yesterday and it's fantastic, congratulations! I'm writing because I think I found a little bug in Michael Jackson Moonwalker. Hostage children don't have the blue force field sparking around them. You can check a gameplay in YouTube if you want to know what I mean. CD OST is working great and makes the game really special, but makes the game to load a bit slow. Shall we write here non-working games and bugs? Thank you

grant2258

As far as i know there is no active developers on mame2003+ anymore. Last time i spoke with arcadez he hinted its the end of the line of the port as well. You could try posting an issues on the github page was really only me and arcadez that kept it going mostly arcadez to be fair.

mat

@grant2258 How come development is stopping?