clones of Wboy

moreno-df · Post by **moreno-df** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 7:18 am

I have 2 clones of wboy ( wboy4 and wboy4u ), not have in the marp this clones for submit.

M O R E N O - D F.

Abbe · Post by **Abbe** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 9:10 am

All of the Wonderboy sets were renamed somtime during the b37-cycle.
As I recall it the romset names were changed like this:

Old name -> new name

wboy -> wboyo
wboy2 -> wboy3
wboy3 -> wboy
wboy4 -> wboy2
wboy4u -> wboy2u

Since MARP uses the latest rom names this means that if you want to submit a wboy4 game recorded with mame 36 you have to submit it as wboy2.

Post by **gameboy9** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 11:34 am

I was wondering about that...

cso2040 · Post by **cso2040** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 4:09 pm

And what should I do if I want to submit a recording for a clone that is not listed at the records page?

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 5:08 pm

cso2040 wrote::?: And what should I do if I want to submit a recording for a clone that is not listed at the records page?

I think the answer to that is you can only submit gamenames that are valid for the current latest version of mame. If you have a recording with an older version of mame that maps to "gamename1" you'll have to find the name change history (once available from http://www.mame.dk) to get which current "gamename2" mapped to "gamename1".

In other words, get the latetest version of mame, do mame -listclones wboy , and the output of that will show you which versions of wboy are available for current submission.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 6:39 pm

So,what's the need in having in the database removed sets like rtypeb or gcastle?

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 7:25 pm

i couldn't find rtypeb's but the gcastles I found should have been moved to the right clone rom name that took over it's rom. Mistakes happen or more likely things don't get done because there's lots of other stuff to do.

From Abbes's response, if you record wboy4 with an older version of mame you must upload as wboy2 (and state in the description that you used wboy4 romname), if you record wboy4u use wboy2u, etc. Or you can just use the current version of mame and play the game name that you record, mame wboy2 -record wboy2

cso2040 · Post by **cso2040** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 9:32 pm

Chad wrote: I think the answer to that is you can only submit gamenames that are valid for the current latest version of mame. If you have a recording with an older version of mame that maps to "gamename1" you'll have to find the name change history (once available from http://www.mame.dk) to get which current "gamename2" mapped to "gamename1".

In other words, get the latetest version of mame, do mame -listclones wboy , and the output of that will show you which versions of wboy are available for current submission.

Thanks for your reply Chad but I wasn't refering only to wboy, actualy I was refering to a clone (of any game) that is valid for the latest version of MAME and it's not listed at the records page (i.e. there are no records for that particular clone) for example: xmcotau is a clone of xmcota in the current version of MAME, but there are no recordings for this clone at MARP. So my question would be: can I submit recordings of games that are not listed at MARP even when they are valid for the current MAME release?

(Sorry for my Engrish

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Post by **mahlemiut** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 10:08 pm

If there are no scores for a game, then it's pretty likely that it doesn't work (either the clone itself, or just playback). But if it does, then you're lucky.

cso2040 · Post by **cso2040** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 11:42 pm

mahlemiut wrote:If there are no scores for a game, then it's pretty likely that it doesn't work (either the clone itself, or just playback). But if it does, then you're lucky.

Well, xmcotau works fine and seems to playback correctly.
I think I am lucky.

Post by **mahlemiut** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 12:00 am

cso2040 wrote:Well, xmcotau works fine and seems to playback correctly.
I think I am lucky.

Must check that set out then.