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So I scanned all the source code looking for all calls to time() - that's the function call which gets the current real time. It's in quite a few source files, and only one of them (neogeo.c) has the fix for playback/record: c:/Chris/programs/mame/src/drivers/ddenlovr.c c:/Chris/programs/mame/src/dr...

I tried what you suggested about the interlace setting, but as soon as I left service mode it changed back.

Perhaps that's because I have nvram disabled?

Chris.

The easiest fix may be to add a new line to src/drivers/namcos12.c just before this line: time(&curtime); at line 325 saying this: if( record != 0 || playback != 0 ) return 1; '1' is a valid value for every field (hours, minutes, days, etc). Maybe the game won't notice or care that the time is c...

Well, I found the code that needs changing. For the neogeo real-time clock, src/machine/neogeo.c, around line 80 has if( record != 0 || playback != 0 ) which only uses the current date/time if we're not recording or playing back. For Mr. Driller we need to do something since around line 328 of src/d...

I just tried playing the recording back twice. I noticed that the very first thing that shows is the *current* time of day, plus one hour. The date's wrong, but the time changes each time you playback. So you're right - this probably is an RTC issue.

If MAME is reading the PC's clock and using that to seed the random number generator in Mr. Driller, then how on earth did Chad get the game to play back correctly? As an aside, why can't I get Mr. Driller to play at anything above 60% or so, even with full frame-skip? Mr.Driller (the player) tells ...

What's the RTC, and how does it affect playback/recording? I'm guessing "real time clock" - but what's the story? Also, the Mr. Driller game was recorded with MAME32 0.89u2, not MAME32 0.89. Could that be the problem? Should people use the official releases, not "u" versions? Chr...

Yeah. You get 100k points, but the game speeds up, making it very much harder. Your choice.

I guess the point is that on the new leaderboard 2nd and 3rd place scores only count when there is a tie for the number of 1st places. Instead of chasing hundreds of 2nd or 3rd place scores they would be better off trying to get a few 1st place scores. One 1st place score is worth more than a thousa...

OK, OK, I'll try to do it some time, but at the moment my home PC is unable to get on the net at all and my work connection doesn't allow me to ssh or ftp to the MARP server, so I can't change anything. Does anyone have a Linux PC and a broadband connection on which they can run a proxy server for m...

On MARP you set 2 email addresses - your public address and your private address. The public address is what appears on the site, and what viruses can use, but the private address is only used to contact you. Viruses can't get at that, since it never appears on the web pages. If you remove your publ...

JoustGod wrote:Obscure Freidman reference in the final part of those lyrics.

Care to explain the reference? I missed it.

Could be worse. As in the Bastard Son of Dean Freidman...... Go figure. If anyone can figure out that reference, good luck to you. I saw them play live once. Pretty dreadful as I remember it. :) Well I heard a lovely rumor, that Bette Midler had a tumor, so gleefully I went to tell my friends. But ...

Have one that does the proposed "1-0-0". Have another that shows "10-3-1". Have another that shows the current system. And so on. All should be easily accessible from the main "leaderboard" page. Which one is the default? Ideally, it should be the logged in user's pref...

I was curious to see what the leaderboard would look like using this 'olympic style' system, so I wrote a script to work it out.

The script currently updates a text-only version of the leaderboard every 15 minutes. You can see it here:

http://marp.retrogames.com/olympic.txt

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