American Laser Games (Mad Dog McCree and others)

[acidbottle]

I just run the uae config files from the zone and set the paths up, in the rom tab, to direct to my correct roms etc. directories. I can run the rom fine (for mad dog at least) but have no video.

Assumed the .avi goes in the game folder but no dice? Confused.com.

[vulture]

Originally Posted by acidbottle

I just run the uae config files from the zone and set the paths up, in the rom tab, to direct to my correct roms etc. directories. I can run the rom fine (for mad dog at least) but have no video.

Assumed the .avi goes in the game folder but no dice? Confused.com.

Heya acidbottle,

DamienD asked me to post this for you


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Please take a look on the TURRAN FTP under "~Uploads/DamienD/ALG".

Everything you need is there:

1) <gamedirs> containing the .AVI files that I painstakingly converted from the original .LDIMG format.
2) Configuration files with everything setup ready to go.
3) The required ALG ROMs (note that you may need to point to where you store your "KS ROM v1.3 (A500,A1000,A2000)" though).
3) .NVR files with setting and perfect gun calibration.
4) Correct resolution and horiztonal screen centering.
5) Title, screenshots and associated boxart.

Enjoy!

[Westonboy88]

I'm trying to play space pirates v 1.4 I've down loaded both the 1.4 and the 1.4b roms from the DLP but its not working I keep getting a black screen with the workbench disc on screen help please?

[phasermaniac]

For me Space pirates 1.4 roms either works, But 2.2 does. Why are you interested in 1.4?

By the way, any new on the problems with WSJR and The Last Bounty Hunter?

[SirScotty]

I have done a bunch of searching and reading, and am still coming up empty.... Am I correct in my assumption that WSJR does not work? Everything else is fine, but WSJR goes through the garbage on the screen and then locks up. No video. I have Singe II, and it (along with everything else on there) works fine, but the video looks so much better with the AVIs on WinUAE. TIA.

[phasermaniac]

No, as far as I know it wont launch.
Last Bounty Hunter has some input problem
Platoon seems tohave problems when it has to link a new video and works clunky and slow.
Yes, Winuae works a lot better than other options: 2p, no buggy hitboxes, no amateur overlay redrawns... only the real arcade thing.
It's a shame the guys that have converted the Lds of Marbella Vice, Los Justicieros and Tierras Salvajes, don't seem very interested in converting them to avi and share to play them in other thing than Mame.

[Toni Wilen]

Late answer but recently released WinUAE 4.9.2+ betas should support previously unsupported ALG ROMs.

[phasermaniac]

Thanks Toni! WSJR works now.
Any other I'm missing?
Any clue on LBH trigger not working ingame? should work now?

[ransom1122]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Late answer but recently released WinUAE 4.9.2+ betas should support previously unsupported ALG ROMs.

DamienD asked me to post the following:

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As Toni mentioned, given that all ALG games are now playable in the latest WinUAE 4.9.2+ beta series... time to update the required files:

Grab this new archive from the TURRAN FTP:

/~Uploads/DamienD/ALG/Configs & NVR & ROMs/ALG_Boxart & Config & NVR & ROMs & SShot & Title_WinUAE v4.9.2 beta.rar

Following these instructions:

... Download and extract the latest WinUAE 4.9.2+ beta.
... Delete the ROM "C:\WinUAE\ROMs\alg_md_v2.02_u1.bin".
... Delete the ROM "C:\WinUAE\ROMs\alg_md_v2.02_u2.bin".
... Delete the ROM "C:\WinUAE\ROMs\alg_wsjr_v1.5_u1.bin".
... Delete the ROM "C:\WinUAE\ROMs\alg_wsjr_v1.5_u2.bin".
... Download and extract into "[B]C:\WinUAE[B]".
... Apply the "WinUAE.reg" file or copy the "WinUAE.ini" file into "C:\WinUAE".

The "WinUAE.reg" or "WinUAE.ini" files can be found here on the TURRAN FTP:

/DamienD's WinUAE Collection/GUI - .INI & .REG/WinUAE v4.9.2 beta_GUI_INI & REG.rar

Enjoy

[phasermaniac]

Thanks DamienD and ransom1122.
Regarding those new 4.9.2 versions, do you know if:
-is trigger on LBH fixed?
I know people from recreativas.org preserved video content of "Los justicieros" and "Marbella Vice" with Domesday86. It's not public yet, but only out of curisity:
-Should "Web Picmatic Zorton Brothers (Los Justicieros) (128k)" rom work? when I run it I get "Ram lost, initializing" "Los Justicieros 1993" in Spanish, and it reboot.
-There's a marvice.zip from mame which contains .u2, .u3 and .u13 files. Is it usable in Winuae in some way?

Thanks.

[elpablo]

What light guns are you guys using? Anyone using a Sinden? Trying to determine the best option for a CRT.

[mrbabbage]

Here's something that may be useful (nothing to do with me)
https://archive.org/details/marbella...-laserdisc-pal

The .mp4s are full dumps of the disc content in the appropriate languages, but the .tbc is a full Domesday Duplicator read of the original. You guys have the Picmatic emulation, don't you?

[Toni Wilen]

5200b7 (today's beta) fixes Marbella crash and implements missing LD player command. It seems to work better now but no idea if it is playable or if all inputs work (didn't find any controller tests in service menu, only aiming test).

[Toni Wilen]

Marbella Vice reads player 2 gun but expects player 1 gun. I guess Picmatic hardware was always single-player only.

winuae.7z updated, gun calibration now works. (and probably game can be also played now)

EDIT: maybe it was originally correct and I had wrong player selected in service menu.

[phasermaniac]

Amazing. You mean 5200b7 (3/2/2024 15:18) or there is another update I miss?
Looking at the documentation, marbella vice and los justicieros are two player games. Also the cabinets have two guns.
Maybe it's like crime patrol 2, that is one player by default but in service menu you can change to two player mode.
I'm gonna test it. Thanks!

[Toni Wilen]

Service menu says "TEST PISTOLS" (not "PISTOL") but it only reads single player gun position and trigger only.

[mrbabbage]

Marbella Vice (Picmatic) hardware is a clone board of the original Mad Dog hardware, using a PAL spec player.
The version I saw was 1 player only, even though I've seen cabinets with 2 attached. It's all very strange, how much of it is dedicated cabinets as opposed to just putting kits in existing ALG machines I don't know.

I'm currently looking at the raw video stream in that archive post, there's space for a very good quality video but it'll take me some effort with decoding etc. I've been looking for an excuse to set up the necessary toolchain for other reasons, so I'll experiment on this and report back. I could make it look better than the ALGs Damien and I did, in theory, as it's a theoretically dropout-free PAL video.

[phasermaniac]

Nice!
At the moment I'm testing with "Marbella Vice - Picmatic 1994_Laserdisc_CAV_PAL_Spanish.mp4" converted to avi, and it shows up, but video doesn't match with the game timing.
Tested diferent options but no way

[Toni Wilen]

You can add "-ldlog 2" in command line to enable LD player message logging (winuae.exe -log -ldlog 2).

Game sends frame number where to start playback (and then polls the position to stay in sync the video). I can't see anything that would mess up the timing except wrong video file.

Check the log for playback start frame numbers and check if video matches it.

[phasermaniac]

Thanks, do you know some program to see video frameline?

VIDEOGRAB EVENT 0000000E 00000000 00000000
LD: Frame Mode
LD: SEARCH 41071
LD: ADDR INQ 41071
Does this means it goes to the frame number 41071?

Should I choose "American Laser Games LaserDisc Player" or "Sony LaserDisc Player"?