The mame76 bug?

[zlk]

This cloak and dagger inp works for me, but not for some others:

http://marp.retrogames.com/inp/5/4/e/zl ... _win76.zip

Perhaps other people can test it. Make sure that you play the inp back with nosound or it will not work.

[Chad]

i can't play it back and i'm in the same set so this isn't the 63 bug,tried no sound and sound with mame76. maybe it's core or sound issue?

[zlk]

It is a windows blinds bug. I bought a geforce FX 5950 today and recorded the inp with windows blinds enabled. Since many people couldn't play the replay back, I tried to playback my win75 recording of cloakfr. With windows blinds enabled, the inp would desync, with windows blinds disabled it played back perfectly. So I uninstalled windows blinds and tried to playback my 76 inp and it desycned immediately.

Why this bug appears is beyond me. If someone is really desperate to watch my cloakgr inp, install windows blinds, enable it, and it should work. I am however going to record a new inp in the next few days that should work for everyone.

[Zwaxy]

I have had a similar problem before, but with a program called 'quick macros', not 'window blinds'.

If I made a recording of Omega Race with quick macros loaded it would only play back with quick macros loaded.

Quick macros apparently attaches one of its dlls into each running process. I guess window blinds is doing the same.

As for why this would affect playbackability, and only for some games, I don't know.

Chris.

[Zwaxy]

I just installed window blinds and it is the same problem.

When window blinds is running and I look at the DLLs MAME is using, the list includes:

C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds\wbhelp.dll

and

C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds\wblind.dll

I uninstalled it as soon as I could afterwards, too. Yuck!

Chris.

[Weehawk]

Plays back fine for me with -nosound.