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| | | | This surprisingly small collection of mostly the usual Namco suspects has a big problem: it doesn't seem to support my ASCII arcade stick at all. How can any self-respecting collection of retro games not respond to input from an arcade stick controller? This is incredibly lame. Guess I'll have to try the GC version. At least they're cheap... |
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| | | | Also, the resolution is bad. : P |
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| | | | I no longer own it though, I guess I returned it after the arcade stick debacle. |
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| | | | Gotta get it again--it's cheap on eBay--'cause you can extract the arcade roms: https://github.com/arpruss/xsr . Mappy's the only one I care about that I still need, I suppose. |
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| | | ^ Looks like it may not dump Xevious. And "Not all the games will work"--but Mappy appears to work in MAME 0.267. Would be nice if could get an updated version of Dig Dug out of it, I suppose.
The games in the collection are
Bosconian
Dig Dug
Dragon Spirit
Galaga
Galaga '88 (40K in Galaga to unlock)
Galaxian
Mappy
Ms. Pac-Man
Pac-Man
Pac-Mania (15K in Pac-Man, 20K in Ms. Pac-Man to unlock)
Pole Position
Pole Position II
Rally X
Rolling Thunder
Sky Kid
Xevious
By Digital Eclipse. |
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| | | It indeed did not dump Xevious.
The short version is they all run in some version of MAME, BUT
- Xevious doesn't dump
- Pac-Man is non-functional
- Rolling Thunder has spotty sound
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In WSL, with the xsr stuff I ran
python3 xsr.py -o extracted NAMCO50.SR
./generate-old-mame.sh
./generate-new-mame.sh
This gave:
"new" (work in current MAME -0.267- except as noted):
dspirit.zip
galaga88.zip
galaxian.zip
mappy.zip
mspacmab.zip
pacman.zip (non-functional--mostly black screen)
pacmania.zip
rallyx.zip
rthunder.zip (spotty sound)
skykid.zip
"old" (work in MAME 0.130 except as noted):
bosco.zip (not past MAME 0.119)
digdug.zip
galaga.zip
polepos1.zip (not past MAME 0.119)
polepos2a.zip
(and duplicates of all the "new")
Old did indeed not run in current MAME 0.267. The documentation says has to be older than MAME 0.131u3 (2009). 0.130 works for all but Bosconian and Pole Position--those run in MAME 0.119, the last pre-64-bit MAME; they don't run in MAME 0.120.
(The ROMs from Steam's Arcade Game Series Dig Dug and Galaga also run in 0.130, and are about half the size of these 50th ROMs.)
Of the "new" ROMs, they all run in current MAME 0.267, BUT Pac-Man launches but to a mostly blank screen, and Rolling Thunder has very spotty sound (the player's gun is barely audible, and only occasionally, for instance--which doesn't seem to be a problem with other ROM versions of Rolling Thunder). Going to MAME 0.149 for instance didn't help those two; neither did using their "old" ROMs. |
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| | | | Hey I was wrong about the Arcade Game Series ROMs, those are stuck at MAME 0.119. |
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| | | So I did indeed get a slightly updates Dig Dug ROM, bonus.
Big wins are arcade Mappy, and arcade Galaxian--which sounds AMAZING compared to the PS1 Namco Museum Vol. 3 version, and runs at a higher resolution, too; that Galaxian never grabbed me but this one in MAME 0.267, WOW! ^ _^ |
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