Radar Zone broken in Mame32

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Abbe

Radar Zone broken in Mame32

Post by Abbe »

I just watched theBSM:s recording of Radar Zone and discovered that the game, and all of its clones, are broken in Mame32 0.37b13. The moving sprites are missing. You can't see your own car, although you can control it and thus play the game. The enemies are gone too, I played for a while without being able to crash into any of them, a task that is not very hard to accomplish under normal circumstances. :)
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I suggest we ban Mame32 recordings of Radar Zone until the problem is fixed.

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Kaidi Echitra

Post by Kaidi Echitra »

I say just ban recordings in MAME32 0.37b13. No sense in banning it
in versions of MAME32 where it works.

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Abbe

Post by Abbe »

I agree with you. No point in banning working versions. I just found
the bug and haven't checked if the game works correctly with older
versions of Mame32. If anyone has any info, please post it.

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/Abbe

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QRS

Post by QRS »

The fact is that all games made by "century electronics" are broken
in mame 32 037b13 (I have tested it in winversion only)

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The games I have tested is:

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Radarzone
Outline
Heart attack
Hero
Cosmos
Logger

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there are a few more, but I don´t have the roms here right now.

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It seems to be some kind of sprite problem.
My suggestion is to not allow any recording that uses mame32 037b13
I have no idea about the dos version.

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Ex. In heart attack, you can probably go on forever without losing a
life:)

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Regards

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QRS

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Abbe

Post by Abbe »

Radar Zone and its clones works fine in dos mame 0.37b14 at least. We
just have to wait and see what beta14 of Mame32 will bring.

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/Abbe

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Chad

Post by Chad »

This one is a no brainer. QRS, if you can think of any other games
besides those you mentioned please let pat and me know. I only found
offending clones of BSM recorded with 37b13 the others looked clean.
nice that mamedev fixed it in 37b14, i'm sure it'll be fixed in the
next windows version.

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Tommi

Post by Tommi »

I'm beaten here and there but not here this time :) I was just
seriously considering defending my title this time, trying to beat
few more invisible screens. That would be quite easy without enemies
though, what were you thinking BSM?

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Gladly now I can keep on concentrating what ever I was concentrating
on = I've recently downloaded Atari 2600 emulator and Vectrex
emulator, talk about nostalgy! And I never even was a great fan of
2600, more of a Mattel man...

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Vectrex really has only couple of good games: Minestorm and Scramble,
but Scramble is so hard after 3 rounds(after supertight! tunnel) that
it IS unplayable! At Minestorm I used to be good at, but it's funny
how I suck at it at the moment, gravely.

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Anyone have tried 2600 T&F, Alex? I just scored 79K at it, TG record
being 84K. Maybe there's some trick I haven't found out? Sixfingers
works at it, but doesn't seem to be much faster compared to other
methods. Then there's the issue of Decathlon, best played using 2
fingers :) And I can get only half of Todd Roger's score, looks like
he plays two rounds while I'm playing one. Maybe there's some dip-
switch setting there. Or a 10K bonus? Who ever decided to put 1500
meters into that game: 3,5 minutes of running, its a spoiler.

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Hey, this is wrong board and wrong thread, so better stop now. I
really just wanted to say "phew". Wonder if anyone answers or even
reads this.

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Retro greetings, TJT, 7,47

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