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)

[markwkidd]

Pressing enter gives me two different views after I press F4 in mame 0.139 but I can't get it to show anything like the character set that is showing up in mame2003-plus

[ghost]

ill need to access my other box going to check the service mode out on this game as well

[ghost]

just to rules them options out

[markwkidd]

@arcadez I noticed this which seems like a possible clue. Does it mean anything to you?

0.103u2: Tomasz Slanina fixed sprite flipping in the Data East MLC driver, this fixes the graphics in Avengers in Galactic Storm. Fixed sound1 rom loading.
10th January 2006: Tomasz Slanina - Fixed another long-standing bug in DECO MLC driver (gfx flipping).
0.103u1: Fixed gfx rom loading in Avengers In Galactic Storm - Game now playable. Changed description to 'Avengers In Galactic Storm (US)'.

[ghost]

We already have those graphical fixes i'll go over the driver again later today i had to radically rework it as it had mirror hacks tied to the memory maps added by iq_132 which aren't compatable with this core.

Obviously by doin the above i might have made a mistake but i cant rule out we're missing some updates for this game via the SH2 CPU core anyway i'll review all the code sunday

Regards

[ghost]

sorry for the headaches @arcadez ill be awol for a while i love skull thanks for adding it thats why ill be awol!

[ghost]

Now problem check out the new cheat dat it'll open up a new special mode for Skull Fang right i've been over the code today i cant see anything wrong so i think the SH2 CPU we have might be wrong for Avengers In Galactic Storm so i'll tag it as not working in the driver.

It never worked before the update and it's no great loss as it's a pretty shit game Skull Fang is the real prize here, i'll close this now as i got the answers i was after cheers guys.

[ghost]

Confirmed just for the record the SH2 CPU core would need updated to handle the extra op-codes and dma shuffling Avengers In Galactic Storm uses frequently

[ghost]

you want it tested again mate ? or just giving us the info. There is one issue with data east as well robocop had no credit sounds will need to check out the latest mame see if thats been fixed along the way

[ghost]

Yeah just adding the info for reference really i dont plan on updating the SH2 CPU core as for Robocop the game plays IMHO it's not the end of the world that people cant hear the credit addition sounds ;)

There's nothing i can see in the MAME WIP that mentions them fixing the coin sounds allthough maybe they added coin counters asp