Golden Tee Fore and CHD/Eagle BIOS issues....other CHDs have worked for me fine.
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According to the game's MAME history, support for it was added in 2015, so neither Mame2003 nor Mame2010 would run it. As for why mame2016 doesn't work, that's hard to say without a detailed log file - it's probably a missing or mis-named file.
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@mitu Yeah I was pretty sure it would only run in 2016, but figured I would try all just anyway. That being said, Im pretty sure none of the files are named incorrectly.
I have the gtfore06.zip and the iteagle.zip located in "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade".
And in that same folder I have the CHD(unzipped) in its own folder named "gtfore06" (/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/gtfore06/CHD file)
This according to the docs and wiki should be correct right?
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@sssetz said in Golden Tee Fore and CHD/Eagle BIOS issues....other CHDs have worked for me fine.:
This according to the docs and wiki should be correct right?
Not necessarily - do you have the right ROMset for Mame2016 ? Was it validated ?
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@sssetz Same EXACT problem for me too. I have a more powerful PC that can run it fine so it might be the RPI4 just isn't powerful enough, but my PC is also running a more updated version of MAME. If the latter is the case then the problem is probably the rom zip file because I think Mame2016 can run romsets up to 1.74 (or something close). It's possible that the rom zip file is too up-to-date for Mame2016 to run it properly.
There's also someone on youtube (therexershow) who commented to me that he's going to try and make a video about making Golden Tee Fore run on the RPI4.
I'm actually really tired right now so I hope what I wrote makes sense, lol.
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@sovereign120 Hey sov, thanks for helping me confirm Im not the only one.
Just as a sanity check, I'm pretty sure I have the correct roms and CHD for mame2016. I found them from the
removed site(edit: links removed). Ive also found them MANY other places, but these ones seem like the most reliable, especially for 2016.I guess my eagle BIOS file could be bad, but not sure where to find a reliable one of those as most seem to be all the "same"?
@sovereign120 if that video ever surfaces of GTFore on a RPI4 PLEASE LEMME KNOW :) :)
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@sssetz Please remove the links to ROMs, as per the forum rules.
EDIT: if you want to diagnose this further, please provide a log file from running the ROM (taken from
/dev/shm/runcommand.log). Enable verbose logging from the Runcommand launch menu before launching the game. -
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@mitu Here is a picture of the errors I am getting from running GTFore06 (sorry not sure how to actually get the text log from the RPI to my comp?)
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Looks like a generic ROM is not good error.
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@mitu ok, and by that you mean just the generic gtfore06.zip file? or the iteagle? Cause isnt the iteagle technically the rom file for games like GTFore?
I'll try to get a different gtfore06.zip file right now and report back, thanks again for the help!
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I'm not sure if it's worth the hassle. In the log file you notice there's one message about a particular ROM that doesn't have a good dump (
g4c-us-u.u53), hence the warning about 'The machine might not run correctly'. It could be that thegtfore06ROMset was incomplete at the time and was promoted to working later on. -
@mitu Ok, but im not really sure what that means? Can you clarify for me a bit more? Obviously some people have got this game to work....thanks for your input in this sitch, really appreciated.
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@sssetz said in Golden Tee Fore and CHD/Eagle BIOS issues....other CHDs have worked for me fine.:
Obviously some people have got this game to work.
The other reply in this topic suggests otherwise.
Let me explain my previous reply. Sometimes games/machines are added to MAME even if their emulation is imperfect or not working at all. Some of them are missing parts of the original (see the message about missing ROM in the log). In time, emulation improves and they're 'promoted' to working. You can see for instance the release notes for the latest version, which mentions which games are working/which are marked as non-working, etc.
It is possible that this particular version of the game was not complete in the MAME version you have (2006) and it's not working or the emulation is not complete. -
Awesome, thank you for this info. I definitely understand that issue, but still dont completely understand as I have seen people emulate this game successfully. But I'll keep looking into it as it doesnt seem like a clear error at this point.
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@sssetz basically what @mitu is saying is as the emulator improves, it’s also discovered that the older rom dumps are not that good. MAME, as a project, will no longer support an older version of a dump. Unlike NES or SNES etc, if a dump is bad, the emulator will attempt to play regardless. Their may be no issue running a bad dump. It may not even effect the emulation at all. It’s just just a byte for byte dump of the rom. But MAME needs the correct rom version to run.
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@lostless Appreciate the input from you and @mitu but I'm still not sure why it wont load in the end. I'll keep tweaking it and see what I can get but I'm getting to the end of my options....as I've scoured every forum for GTFore and cant seem to distinguish why I cant get it to run. Ive gotten other CHDs to run, and even though they are slow I can get them to atleast boot and run.
Even if GTFore doesnt run great, I'd still love to diagnose why its not actually booting. You mentione "it will no longer support an old version of a dump. But SNES/NES does..." Does that mean its an emulator issue or a rom issue with a older version of a dump...
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Check your error message it's saying this rom has not been found "ROM_LOAD( "g4c-us-u.u53", 0x0000, 0x0880, NO_DUMP )" it should be inside gtfore06.zip
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@sssetz what about older versions of gtfore! like 2002 (gtfore02.zip) and 2003 (gtfore03.zip). They all use the same bios file, just need the diff rom/chd.
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@stoney66 said in Golden Tee Fore and CHD/Eagle BIOS issues....other CHDs have worked for me fine.:
@sssetz what about older versions of gtfore! like 2002 (gtfore02.zip) and 2003 (gtfore03.zip). They all use the same bios file, just need the diff rom/chd.
I have tried those and all give the same result unfortunately...
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@arcadez2003 said in Golden Tee Fore and CHD/Eagle BIOS issues....other CHDs have worked for me fine.:
g4c-us-u.u53
Thanks for this in depth response, but are you saying I should just try to use the gtfore01.zip and gtfore01 CHD files and see if that will work? Or somehow rename them for use with the gtfore06 CHD? Or are you saying look for different CHD files? As far as I can tell rom zip files are basically empty directory folders for games like GTFore, is that right?
Ive tried gtfore01 and gtfore02 (with their respective CHDs in a folder named after the rom) and they wont work either.....
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