Favourite Emulators

[vroom6sri]

Cheers! I'll check those out. Gametronik only seems to be in French but I think I can get the jist of the options on there.

Anyone got any pictures of the original arcade version of Robocop running under MAME?

Right... downloaded MAME32 and am completely lost. Do I need to "find" a load of the bios roms to get the games running coz nothing's working on it yet. Any help would be appreciated!

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by vroom6sri

Anyone got any pictures of the original arcade version of Robocop running under MAME?

http://www.planetemu.net/index.php?s...wrom&id=590723

Originally Posted by vroom6sri

Right... downloaded MAME32 and am completely lost. Do I need to "find" a load of the bios roms to get the games running coz nothing's working on it yet. Any help would be appreciated!

You only need Bios roms for some games (like Neo-Geo), most don't though...

The thing you need to remember when getting MAME roms is that there are "parents" and "clones". Download the parent roms

A site that makes it very easy to identify the difference is PlanetEmu... Let's use Robocop as an example:

There are quite a few different sets:

... Robocop (Japan)
... Robocop (US revision 0)
... Robocop (US revision 1)
... Robocop (World bootleg)
... Robocop (World revision 3)
... Robocop (World revision 4)

The parent rom is the one above in bold. When you click on the link for Robocop (World revision 4) you will notice that there is no "Rom Parent" information under the details. This means it is the parent:



If you click on any of the other Robocop links you will notice that there is "Rom Parent" information under the details. It will tell you which is the parent rom and is also a link:



Hope this makes sense

[Photon]

WinUAE and WinVice.

Too bad 100% emulators for Archimedes are as scarce as the software for it.

Luckily there's the real thing.

Hardware > emus any day 8)

[laffer]

I love a lot of emulators but I like these two the most -
winUAE and CCS64.

Great emulators for kickass systems.

[vroom6sri]

DamienD - Cheers for the help. I'll try again. But how does MAME32 know where to access the downloaded (parent) version of Robocop? I get the impression that it's trying to access the files from the Internet each time I select that title from the list??!!!

Photon - I used to agree with you totally but I am now so impressed with WinUAE that I have not unpacked my A1200HD for about 3 months now! And may even consider selling it!!

Laffer - I loved the C64 & Amiga. CCS64 is great. I'm gonna have to regsiter it.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by vroom6sri

DamienD - Cheers for the help. I'll try again. But how does MAME32 know where to access the downloaded (parent) version of Robocop? I get the impression that it's trying to access the files from the Internet each time I select that title from the list??!!!

MAME32 definitely doesn't try to access files from the Internet. Here's a very quick guide for setting up / running MAME32:

... Download MAME32.
... Download the parent roms you want to you want play.
... Extract Mame32 to the root of your Local Drive (C). This will create a directory C:\MAME32.
... Copy all parent roms to the directory C:\MAME32\roms.
... Start MAME32 by double-clicking on C:\MAME32\Mame32.exe.
... Let MAME32 search for available games, once complete select View --> Custom Filters, tick Unavailable and click OK.
... Select Options... --> Inferface Options... and then untick Search for new games on start and click OK.
... Exit and restart MAME32. You should now see only the games that you've added to the C:\MAME32\roms directory.
... Double-click on a game to run it.

Note: after adding new games into the C:\MAME32\roms directory, in order for MAME32 to add them into your available list press <F5> to run a search / audit.


A suggestion, I think that scanlines make the games look better. In order to turn on scanlines, do the following:

... Select Option... --> Default Game Options...
... On the Display tab from under Effects, tick Use scanlines and change None to 25% scanline.
... Click OK.

Hope this helps, if not let me know by PM and I'll assist you more

[vroom6sri]

Awesome! Thanks!

Finally got Robocop working thanks to your simple tips (and much random key pressing until I realised how to "add" credits and select 1 or 2 player start!). Great to be able to have a blast on this again. Am I right in thinking the processor was only 10mkhz for the arcade machine?!??!

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by vroom6sri

Finally got Robocop working thanks to your simple tips (and much random key pressing until I realised how to "add" credits and select 1 or 2 player start!).

Shite, reading your post just reminded me... I was supposed to include this in the last post (which would have saved you some hassle):

I should add that once the game starts, these key do the following:

... tab = brings up menu (here you can re-assign keys, dips switched, add/remove cheats etc)
... 5 = Coin1
... 6 = Coin2
... 1 = Player One: Start
... 2 = Player Two: Start
... Up Arrow = Player One: Up
... Down Arrow = Player One: Down
... Left Arrow = Player One: Left
... Right Arrow = Player One: Right
... Left Ctrl = Player One: Button 1
... Left Alt = Player One: Button 2
... Space = Player One: Button 3
... P = Pause game
... ESC = Exit game

Note: if you want to use cheats grab the latest file from Pugsy's MAME Cheat Page and then extarct it into the root of your MAME32 directory

[vroom6sri]

AWESOME! Thanks, D!

[vroom6sri]

WOW! Just had a play with Project64. Impressive! Shame all the decent ROMS seem to be restricted from downloading. Anyone know any crafty sites still allowing download of the Mario games, etc.?

[DamienD]

http://romhustler.net/roms/n64

[vroom6sri]

Thanks DamienD! I can be such a useless pleb at times. I ASSUMED that because one site was banned from having them as downloadable that ALL the main sites would have too!

Sorry.

[gizmomelb]

Originally Posted by Photon

WinUAE and WinVice.

Too bad 100% emulators for Archimedes are as scarce as the software for it.

arculator just had a new release - v0.9 - has support for 2x IDE HDDs and the FDC works correctly now, so more games work