Dragon Saber - Playback?

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 1:13 pm

Whenever I try to record a game of Dragon Saber, I get to around the middle of Level 2 and end up dying a stupid death, and the game is over because you only get one life. (I'm still learning the game, ;P) Anyhow, when I try to play it back, it will not playback. I have tried recording sound off, playing back sound off w/o and w/ frameskip speed up. I have also tried sound on, playing back with sound on w/o and w/ frameskip speed up. When I play back w/o frameskip speed up, I leave it on Frameskip 0 right from the start of the game. It never plays back to where I got to, it always stops somewhere on the first level. I am using regular MAME (not DOS or MAME32) and the newest version, .59 . I see that only Bubble's recordings have been confirmed. Anyone remember what settings they got those to playback on? I'll play on MAME .36 if I have to. Or maybe someone knows how I can get it to playback in the current versions? Any help would be nice.

(BTW, my NVRAM folder is deleted, could that make a difference?)

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 2:43 am

http://marp.retrogames.com/inp/jms_dsab ... m36b15.zip

bubbles recording playsback OK with dosmame. unfortunatley WITH a default nvram file.

I could not playback jvls with or with out nvram...

http://marp.retrogames.com/inp/jvl_dsab ... m37b15.zip

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 2:50 am

Did you try MAMEW? Without scanlines? It should playback correctly, as someone did indeed confirm it..

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 3:11 am

oops forgot that there was a mamew version for m37b15 and m37b16, works with mamew... and sound.

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 12:54 am

http://marp.retrogames.com/inp/kal_dsab ... mame59.zip

tried dos with sound and with out sound with out nvram.

tried official with and with out sound with and with out nvram.

can't get it to playback passed 21k...

Post by **mahlemiut** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 3:47 am

Wow, I only managed to get it to playback to 15k.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 12:48 pm

Should playback fine using manual frameskip , DMAME and ym3812opl = no...

Post by **mahlemiut** » Thu Apr 25, 2002 4:12 am

I tried it in XMAME 0.59.1, and it played back to 26k (early stage 2) with the -noafs switch. Will try DOS version "eventually"

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 12:35 pm

Hmm...
Strange,playbacks at the first time,now it doesn't.Guess it's because of that wrong ROZ layer.OK,now I will just delete it and have peace with myself...

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 12:47 pm

thanks. with out sound might be better next time (even though less enjoyable it'll potentially playback better)... don't think it's the first time a recording has played back once only, i hate when that happens.