testers needed for new Data East games

[ghost]

I've just updated a few things in the core which nets us some more playable Data East games i have tested all the newly supported games and previously supported games which are affected by this and they all pass with flying colours

Two however escaped me due to memory limitations with my xbox test core, and im keen to know if they're actually playable and with regards to Skull Fang to see what fps you get.

Avengers In Galactic Storm Backfire! Skull Fang (Just a performance check)

[ghost]

you want this tested on a pc or the raspberry pi @arcadez

[ghost]

Whatever folks are using really

[ghost]

There's a question mark over Avengers In Galactic Storm as im not sure if i have to to make some changes in the SH2 cpu for that one, as for Backfire! some folks reported they could not add coins or control the game the change to the ARM CPU should sort this.

Skull Fang i know it works but im just keen to know what fps folks are getting with it

[ghost]

Topical point Skull Fang is the last game in a trilogy for those that dont know.....

Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation (1989) Rohga Armor Force (1991) Skull Fang (1996)

I thought it better to have em all for this core :)

[ghost]

ok ill compile on pc and pi and get the romsets built ill get back to you mate.

Another off topic point i was using robocop on fba alpha and reported asked on the pi forums if it was running bad for anyone(i meant slow). The subject changed to fba was better because robocop has sounds when you put credits in. It was unrelated but we are missing credit sounds in robocop

[ghost]

sorry i was so long was playing skullfang love it full 58 fps on my i7 @arcadez ill hey the other 2

[ghost]

Nice one hopefully it wont drop framerate too much on the Rpi or similar hardware i only get 20 to 25fps on the ole xbox but the game is perfectly playble none the less

[ghost]

ok there is a problem with Avengers In Galactic Storm there are no dip switches and the screen is disaplaying this. Im guessing we need a nvram. but need the service menu in the dipswithes to make one.

[ghost]

backfire inputs are working for me again no dipswitches bit its playable! ill test framerates on the pi now.

ps this game reminds me of neo drift out!

[ghost]

be back in a but with Skull Fang on the rasp pi 2+b not the fastest pie hopefully someone with i p 3+b will report as well

[ghost]

These games have virtual dips to access em you have to bring up the remap this game options look for service mode then asign it a button once you press the button they should pop up.

I added a nvram file to the romload table this worked with Skull Fang and the Hoops games but maybe the driver wasn't setup to use the nvram for Avengers at this point in the MAME dev cycle.

The nvram is setup as an optional load try removing it from the rom then delete avengrgs.cfg and nvram then boot the game once more you'll have to do the above with the service mode to get it to work though from memory all you have to do is enter and then exit the service mode then the game will startup

[markwkidd]

The Avengers in Galactic Storm romset does have an nvram file as part of its mame 0.139 romset. I can add this nvram to the bootstraps in a bit to see what happens

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ok there is a problem with Avengers In Galactic Storm there are no dip switches and the screen is disaplaying this. Im guessing we need a nvram. but need the service menu in the dipswithes to make one.

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[ghost]

need to do a clean compile on the pi getting a black screen on skull fang on the pi will recompile from scratch and report back

[ghost]

Yeah that happens unless you have the latest ARM CPU from the core

[ghost]

yea ive been messing with the code on the pie as well will just do a clean compile mate so everythign is as it should be. Will be about 20 minutes to compile

[ghost]

@markwkidd i already added a bootstarp so to speak but im thinking the driver might not be correctly setup to use it in the romload.....

ROM_REGION( 0x80, REGION_USER1, ROMREGION_ERASE00 )
ROM_LOAD_OPTIONAL( "avengrgs.nv",  0x00, 0x80, CRC(c0e84b4e) SHA1(e7afca68cc5fa69ded32bc0a1dcc6a59fe7f081b) )

ROM_END

It's optional though so if it's removed from the avengrgs rom then the game will boot without it but will then need setup via the service mode, a quick delete of the previous cfg and nvram for this game will let me know if the problem is via the nvram or maybe i need to then check the SH2 CPU we have in this core is correct for the game to work

[ghost]

maybe marks nvram code is changing something not sure ill try the service mode it tricky now you cant reset from the tab menu i forget the reset key for retroach lol.

[ghost]

Skull Fang [libretro INFO] [MAME 2003+] Allocated 80 bytes @ 145E7230 [libretro INFO] [MAME 2003+] Opening ROM file: avengrgs.nv [libretro INFO] [MAME 2003+] Loading ROM data: offs=0 len=80 mask=FF group=1 skip=0 reverse=0 [libretro INFO] [MAME 2003+] Verifying length (80) and checksums [libretro INFO] [MAME 2003+] Verify finished

i definatly loading arcadez

[ghost]

@markwkidd could you bootstrap code be over riding this ?

[ghost]

mame 078 doesnt have a service mode per say its usually set in the dipswitches arcadez

INPUT_PORTS_START( aburner ) PORT_START / player 1 / PORT_BIT( 0x01, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_BUTTON3 ) / unknown / PORT_BITX(0x02, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_SERVICE, DEF_STR( Service_Mode ), KEYCODE_F2, IP_JOY_NONE )

the ui doesnt have a universal map for this in mame078 every driver seems to do it like this

[ghost]

lemmie check the game in my other Xbox MAME core to see how the service mode is activated

[ghost]

there i sonly service 1 2 3 4 tried them all none are doing anything

[markwkidd]

No the bootstrap code only drops in a nvram file if the game is listed as needing one in mame.c which this isn't yet. my code only operates in the file handling code so I didn't need to touch anything about nvram processing or service mode

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@arcadez for cps2 in the driver INPUT_PORTS_START( 19xx ) PORT_START / IN0 (0x00) / PORT_BIT( 0x0001, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_RIGHT | IPF_8WAY | IPF_PLAYER1 ) PORT_BIT( 0x0002, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_LEFT | IPF_8WAY | IPF_PLAYER1 ) PORT_BIT( 0x0004, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_DOWN | IPF_8WAY | IPF_PLAYER1 ) PORT_BIT( 0x0008, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_UP | IPF_8WAY | IPF_PLAYER1 ) PORT_BIT( 0x0010, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_BUTTON1 | IPF_PLAYER1 ) PORT_BIT( 0x0020, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_BUTTON2 | IPF_PLAYER1 ) PORT_BIT( 0x0040, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN ) PORT_BIT( 0x0080, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN ) PORT_BIT( 0x0100, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_RIGHT | IPF_8WAY | IPF_PLAYER2 ) PORT_BIT( 0x0200, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_LEFT | IPF_8WAY | IPF_PLAYER2 ) PORT_BIT( 0x0400, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_DOWN | IPF_8WAY | IPF_PLAYER2 ) PORT_BIT( 0x0800, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_JOYSTICK_UP | IPF_8WAY | IPF_PLAYER2 ) PORT_BIT( 0x1000, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_BUTTON1 | IPF_PLAYER2 ) PORT_BIT( 0x2000, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_BUTTON2 | IPF_PLAYER2 ) PORT_BIT( 0x4000, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN ) PORT_BIT( 0x8000, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )

PORT_START      /* IN1 (0x10) */
PORT_BIT( 0x0001, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x0002, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x0004, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x0008, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x0010, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x0020, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x0040, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x0080, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0xff00, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )

PORT_START      /* IN2 (0x20) */
PORT_BIT( 0x0001, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_SPECIAL )   /* EEPROM bit */
PORT_BITX(0x0002, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_SERVICE, DEF_STR( Service_Mode ), KEYCODE_F2, IP_JOY_NONE )
PORT_BIT( 0x0004, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_SERVICE1 )
PORT_BIT( 0x00f8, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x0100, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_START1 )
PORT_BIT( 0x0200, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_START2 )
PORT_BIT( 0x0400, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x0800, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x1000, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_COIN1 )
PORT_BIT( 0x2000, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_COIN2 )
PORT_BIT( 0x4000, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )
PORT_BIT( 0x8000, IP_ACTIVE_LOW, IPT_UNKNOWN )

INPUT_PORTS_END

[ghost]

probably a mame078 thing

[ghost]

Right service 1-4 are in the general input options, we want input this game options were you will find service_mode

[ghost]

anyway ot might be quicker to just delete your cfg and nvram for this game and i'll disable the nvram in the driver then @markwkidd can give the game a bootstrap instead

[markwkidd]

I removed the nvram file from the mame 0.139 romset and then loaded the modified romset in mame 0.139

It starts up fine that way without the glitches. I'll try using our bootstrap system but I'm thinking maybe its not nvram related

[ghost]

@arcadez f2 is set as service mode nothign is happening i wonder is this is the mame gfx view screen. Im pretty sure that has been hacked out of mame2003 though so you cant turn it on and off

[ghost]

Yeah on the xbox we highlight it press a then assign it another button and when you press it in game up pops the service mode which contains the virtual dips for the game similar to what you get in the older style dips that most games use

[markwkidd]

My mistake -- actually you do have problems if you remove the nvram from mame 0.139.

Adding the nvram as a bootstrap cleared up a lot of the video glitches but there is now clearly visible the problem that @grant2258 noticed -- the mame gfx screen is up by default

Edit: No it's not the MAME Gfx screen although it looks like it. it's like the character set. Let me push a commit so you all can see what I'm seeing

[ghost]

For example in Avengers i get.......

Game Options Sound Options Coin Options I/O Options Versus Options Story Options Screen Options Screen Check Color Check Initial Game Mode

[ghost]

@markwkidd in the original driver i ported the only game with the nvram setup was Skull Fang i added the rest for ease of use for the users the Hoop's games are fine but Avengers maybe not.

I dont think we need it as it looks fine without the nvram im playing it now on the xbox

[ghost]

@markwkidd thats a core issue if is ineede the gfx screen showing. might need to add the key to toggle this on and off back in

[ghost]

its could also be 64 bit issues ill get back to you after its compiled on the the pie

[markwkidd]

yeah it's starting to seem like an issue in the mame2003 core

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[ghost]

its doing the same thing on the pi as well @arcadez on a pi2+b not overclocked skull is runing at 37.fps will be better on a pi 3+b though hopefully someone reports the bug.

something isint right with avengers its either core or something we are missing can you vie the gfx and see if that matched the screen shot @arcadez that option has been ripped out of this core not sure why

[markwkidd]

you can still display the gfx in mame2003-plus. map it to a button in the MAME menu. it is not the same as what is showing

[ghost]

i get the feeling its because we changed the order of this structure i wish people would just set it not set anything here instead of messing the structure up.

struct ipd inputport_defaults[] =

im going to put the default one back in and test

[ghost]

actually there is no point in doing tht its been hacked everywhere even in drivers

[markwkidd]

I can't see how changing the default input mappings would cause this problem, but also I can't see why it would be hard to put back in the original ones to test. It's a straightforward structure.

inputs in the drivers are mapped by name to inputs in inptport -- it doesn't even matter what order they're in except for saving the .cfg file

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actually there is no point in doing tht its been hacked everywhere

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[ghost]

we need to confirm its the mame gfx screen first before hunting. I did try deleting the cfg files didnt help. We will just need to try find out whats going on it might not be the mame gfx screen. I have to redo my default.cfg everytime this structure changes

[markwkidd]

It's definitely not the mame GFX screen.

Map MAME GFX to a button in your MAME menu in mame2003-plus then you can see MAME GFX

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we need to confirm its the mame gfx screen first before hunting. I did try deleting the cfg files didnt help. We will just need to try find out whats going on it might not be the mame gfx screen

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[markwkidd]

[markwkidd]

This is what the GFX screen looks like in avengrgs

[ghost]

toggle through the screens

[ghost]

im ging to test this on latest mame in the service mode and the show gfx see if we can replicate it with settings from wother

[markwkidd]

That is the only screen that displays if I press the Gfx button :man_shrugging:

[markwkidd]

I'm going to try it in mame 0.139

[ghost]

http://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Using_the_GFX/TileMap_viewer_(F4)