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by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/20/2006, 3:39am PDT |
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Fussbett wrote:
So to celebrate my new full time job that destroyed my June, I've decided to dedicate July to building a MAME cabinet. This is a big deal, as people may remember that I'm terrible with my hands. So "cabinet" is going to be a loose guideline, instead of a blueprint. The victory condition is merely getting solid arcade controls going, so if my cabinet ends up being a sheet of plywood and many wires streaming out of my computer to the Happ controls, I'm fine with that.
I am trying the same thing, with imperfect results. I wanted to build a little box before tackling an entire cabinet. Here's my progress so far:
The knobby thing in black is a spinner. There's an IPAC-2 keyboard inside the box, from Ultimarc. I actually got a problematic one: it only registers about 3 out of ever 5 clicks, be it clicks from buttons or the microswitched Happ Super. This happened to a few people recently, and my braying like a hyena paid off: the very nice, very responsible owner of Ultimarc shipped out fixed chips last week. I should get mine tomorrow.
Much of my 1.5 Gigs of ROMs that (mostly) worked in MAME32 0.36 are now of course broken in MAME32 0.62 (don't ask me how I got this version yesterday) and MAME32 1.06. Stuart's warnings aside, I was more surprised by how many of my ROMs were now reported as incomplete. They were complete in 1999, but they're incomplete in 2006. I don't know how that can possibly occur, but if I load MAME32 0.36 I get to play seemingly perfect Double Dragon and 1943, but in later versions I can't. Audits (rounded):
This is a mess and a real problem - I have a large number of ROMs from MAME .61 (which you are welcome to), but it's not complete. The big boys are mostly there, but every once in a while I'll notice that something is missing, like Popeye or what have you. Very frustrating. I have "Homo" but not Ikari Warriors.
The problem with the 13 gig pile from the latest version is you have no idea what perfectly working game those cocksuckers derezzed for no obvious reason. Well, that and it's thirteen goddamn gigs. All it takes is one dev to say that the knocker isn't emulated correctly in Q*bert and they will take away your Q*bert. They used to maintain an easy-to-follow WHATSNEW.TXT doc, but if I remember correctly that file has fallen by the wayside in recent years.
Is there a good site where everyone downloads individual ROMs? I'm thinking this might be better for me as I don't need 50 versions of Mahjong.
The only thing that has helped me is typing the exact filename into Google and going from there. I was missing smashtv.zip from MAME .61 and managed to grab a copy with a search. There used to be sites that offers individual ROMs in an easy-to-obtain manner but if they are still out there I don't know about them.
the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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"MAME Over" by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/02/2006, 1:06am PST 
GAME OVER! ...Sorry, but it had to be said. NT by Souffle of Pain 03/03/2006, 9:07pm PST
Is this somebody atoring to make SofP look dumber? by Reichsminister Doktor Goebbels 03/04/2006, 12:52pm PST
Re: Is this somebody atoring to make SofP look dumber? by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/04/2006, 2:32pm PST
So the other person is INC? NT by Entropy Stew 03/04/2006, 3:37pm PST
It's either me or you, ES. NT by I need clarification 03/04/2006, 7:33pm PST
That's mind boggling by Lizard_King 03/04/2006, 7:47pm PST
Sorry.......................................................................FAG! NT by I need clarification 03/04/2006, 9:40pm PST
I suck (children of) cocks. NT by Lizard_King 03/05/2006, 8:11am PST
Why are you checking IPs? NT by Tony 03/04/2006, 9:38pm PST
He's gone mad with power! by motherfuckerfoodeater 03/05/2006, 1:57am PST
He's insane. Time for a new admin NT by I need clarification 03/05/2006, 3:01am PST
The transistor from his Crystal Castle display is going to explode by motherfuckerfoodeater 03/05/2006, 3:46pm PST
Quality of Service Metrics by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/05/2006, 5:20pm PST
Well stop it, before you jeapardize the success of the whole Caltrops experiment by Tony 03/06/2006, 12:34am PST
^-- for example >:( NT by Tony 03/06/2006, 12:37am PST
Re: Well stop it, before you jeapardize the whole Caltrops by Druids 03/06/2006, 4:02am PST
At first I read that as "jeeping", which also seemed to apply NT by Entropy Stew 03/06/2006, 9:15am PST
MAME advice by Fussbett 06/20/2006, 3:20am PDT
Re: MAME advice by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/20/2006, 3:39am PDT
Re: MAME advice by Zsenicorpse 06/20/2006, 7:46am PDT
Oops, I see Zseni provided that link too. by Fussbett 06/21/2006, 10:23pm PDT
See? I told you he was building one. NT by I need clarification 06/20/2006, 4:29pm PDT
I don't know how ICJ kept this a secret from me. NT by Fussbett 06/21/2006, 10:09pm PDT
because you didn't read his other website NT by obviously 06/21/2006, 10:54pm PDT
Along with blaming me for ruining Caltrops... by Fussbett 06/22/2006, 2:56pm PDT
Yeah or this one, Obvious(ly a fucking moron) by I need clarification 06/22/2006, 8:13pm PDT
Re: MAME advice by Fussbett 06/21/2006, 10:17pm PDT
I had the variants and simply needed "popeye.zip" by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/23/2006, 12:40am PDT
Which joystick did you pick? NT by Fussbett 06/28/2006, 10:51pm PDT
Re: Which joystick did you pick? by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/28/2006, 11:24pm PDT
Today I bought the Happ Competition from a local parts place. by Fussbett 06/29/2006, 5:05pm PDT
The Happ Competition is awesome NT by Fussbett 07/04/2006, 12:00pm PDT
I only tested the first one. by Jerry Whorebach 06/20/2006, 4:05pm PDT
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