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Moon patrol not working?
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:02 pm
by QRS
Long time since I played moon patrol, so I decided to try it yesterday with the 090u3 build. It says there are a few roms missing. (I do have a complete romset fully checked with clrmamepro.) I decided to try earlier versions of mame. Same thing there... 078 is the earliest version I have tried. I also tried with all kinds of roms - from older sets - but still it doesn't work. Anyone else who has noticed this? Maybe it has been broken for a long time?
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:34 am
by QRS
11 views and no answer?!!? Give me a hint god damn it!!
Can someone try moon patrol in 078 (or later)?
Thanks!
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:38 am
by The_Pro
Tried with various versions and I'm always missing file 2a. The file names changed somewhere before mame53 it seems. My oldest after that is mame37 and it asks for various roms files that have slightly different names than the current ones plus the 2a file. I know I've played this before a while ago, so perhaps that file was included at some point in an older romset? Kinda like how mspac has an older set that you need for certain replays?
Edit: There were changes in 78 to 79 and from 37b6 to 37b7, probably other places too. Why the heck do they always rename/modify all this stuff, what a headache.
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 2:04 am
by QRS
Thanks for the replay Martin. For a while I thought I was the only one missing files here
Strange though... clrmamepro tells me nothing
Maybe Barry can drop Malzak and take a look at this?
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 2:12 am
by Weehawk
Martin is correct.
The Romset changed in .79. I have not installed .90 yet.
I think the ROMs I'm using are .80, they work fine for this game from .79 to .89.
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:52 am
by Frankie
My mpatrol Rom runs perfectly in Wolf90.
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:44 am
by NotMan
Mine works on Wolf .90 & .78, due rom name changes on mame .79.
The only thing that game is missing is the missing background graphic of moon base when you reached the end of level Z. This was been that way for a long time. No wonder the Mame dev hasn't fix the bug, yet.
Don't you hate it when the Mame Dev added rom name changes on the Sega re-write.
Later,
NotMan
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:41 am
by Buttermaker
ROM name changes don't matter. Only the name of the Romset needs to be correct because MAME loads ROMs by CRC.
In .79 Moon Patrol's 2a (CRC 0f193a50) was replaced by mpc-4.2a (CRC 07f99284).
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:04 am
by The_Pro
Ok, so I can play the game on recent versions. Why didn't I try those first. I could play this game a looong time on the appleII.
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:57 pm
by Stig
NotMan wrote:Mine works on Wolf .90 & .78, due rom name changes on mame .79.
The only thing that game is missing is the missing background graphic of moon base when you reached the end of level Z. This was been that way for a long time. No wonder the Mame dev hasn't fix the bug, yet.
Don't you hate it when the Mame Dev added rom name changes on the Sega re-write.
Later,
NotMan
Heheh, thank god for ClrMamePro, check out
http://www.aarongiles.com if you hate romname changes. He changed all the sets in the sega driver almost.
Stig