AdvanceMAME

I am having a problem running the advcfg and advv programs with advmame. =
 I keep getting the erro that I need to load svgawin.exe.  But looks =
like that program only works with windows 2000, xp.  I am currently =
running win98 on the PC I am trying to use advmame on.  If anyone else =
has gotten this and was able to get around it please let me know.

Or if anyone is successfully using advmame connected to a TV by S-Video, =
using advmame.rc for filling the screen without cutting off any edges =
please reply and let me know what I am doing wrong.

Thanks

John

Greetings:

	The version of Vanguard that I most enjoyed in the arcades had
two joysticks.  I also saw some with 1 joystick and 4 buttons 
(Joystick1 = move,   buttons or J2 = fire).

Using the default install of advmame for Linux, it seems to have the 
JS + 4 button setup.  One can map the output of the 2nd joystick to the
4 buttons, but this does not work completely.


From experimentation, it seems that buttons are handled by MAME as 1
keystroke per press.  Joysticks generate a continuous stream of
keypresses when you hold it a certain way.  Both will generate a
continuous stream when focus is set to a text window, so this is not an
IPAC issue.

How can I get the joystick behavior for the game (in essence an
autofire) instead of the button?

Some initial investigation into admame.lst, indicates that I may be able 
to change things there.  But, I have no idea what to change it to.


Thanks for any help.
Schemm

Hi guys,
 
I recently created my own custom CD to boot, load advmenu, and launch
games via advmame (similar to the AdvanceCD you can download) except my
CD supports networking, internet, and the roms are mounted from an
autodetected hard disk at boot time, and then shared on my network using
samba (so I can drag/drop files to update my roms, titles etc).
 
I do however, have one problem (which also occurred when I used
AdvanceCD). When I try to play some games, such as X-Men VS Street
Fighter, or anything that is recent, advmame crashes. The whole PC just
locks up hard, and is unrecoverable. Any ideas on why this would happen
?
 
My system specs are as follows:
 
P4 2.4Ghz
1024Mb DDR Ram
SB Live! Soundcard
GeForce4 Platinum Ti 4200 SE
 
Any more information you need ?
 
Thanks in advance.
Travis.

I am looking for some advice.  I built my cab about 18 months ago and it
was lovely.  Its all DOS based using advancemame and andvancemenu and is
still running well.  But what is the next steps.  I've not really
touched it since the early days.  It uses an arcade monitor and the
J-PAC interface.  If I want to add support for other emulators is it
best to stay with DOS and use advancemenu and DOS emulators or should I
now be looking at running it in Windows?  If I go Windows what solutions
are there now to get the monitor to sync under Windows.  The main
emulators I would like to run are Sega Mega Drive / Genesis and NES /
SNS stuff.=20

I appreciate that this info might be already answered somewhere so if
someone has a pointer I would appreciate it.

Regards

Jon Warburton

AdvanceMAME v0.71.1 has been released at :

	http://advancemame.sourceforge.net

AdvanceMAME is an unofficial MAME version with an advanced video
support for helping the use with TVs, Arcade Monitors, Fixed Frequencies
Monitors and also for PC Monitors.

It runs in Linux, Mac OS X, DOS, Windows and in all the other
platforms supported by the SDL library.

This is the list of changes:

* Added a new mouse driver for Linux which supports up to 4 mouses
  at the same time.
* Partially fixed some problems on games that need
  to change the display area at runtime like "orunners".
* Added the `misc_fps' option to change arbitrarily the frame rate
  of the games (like SmoothMAME).

I'm hoping you guys can help me clear up some
information I've read on arcadecontrols.com and 
http://easymamecab.mameworld.net.

If I'm using a Wells Gardner D9200 can I use any of
the cards listed on
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-cardlinx.html
to take full advantage of all the hclocks for the
D9200?

The easymamecab site says only the ATI 7500 will do
it, and the guys on arcadecontrols.com seem to prefer
the Ultimarc ArcadeVGA.

Can someone help me decide what card to get? Will any
of the listed cards work? Or should I be looking for
something special to use with this monitor.

I'll be running Linux, if thats a factor.

Thanks,
Chris


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Any Issues with DELL desktops, Help required please.

my PC died, motherboard i think, it doesn't do anything, apart from.
various fans spin, HDD LED lights, and drives spin, but nothing else.
no BIOS type beep!

as the technology is old it's probably not going to be cost effective to =
fix it.
i was considering getting a DELL desktop, would this be a good move?

i assume it will have XP as the OS,
(perhaps a dual boot system would be an idea?)

are there any know issue in configuring it to run my favourite =
emulators?

advanceMAME under arcadeOS
DL / SA under Daphne
pinMAME and visual pinball

i read somewhere that DELL had some issues running one of the above,=20
but for the life of me i can't find the relevant 'wise words' now.

perhaps one of you knowledgeable people would be able to point me in the =
right direction.

many thanks in advance for your time.

regards,

GaRy:o)=20

What I need to do to patch the svgalib 1.9.17 with the 
ADVMAME video patches? I saw that correct a lot of fixes for 
ATI Rage/Radeon and Geforce videocards.

Thanks

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Scale2x v1.6 has been released at :

	http://scale2x.sourceforge.net

Scale2x is a real-time graphics effect able to increase the
size of small bitmaps guessing the missing pixels without
blurring the images.

It was originally developed for the AdvanceMAME project
in the year 2001 to improve the quality of old games running
at low video resolutions.

This is the list of changes:

* Added an example of the fast implementation of the effects
  applied to a generic bitmap. There is also an
  example for the not obvious Scale4x effect.
* Revised the command line tools. Now they support all the
  formats of .PNG images. Also images with 16 bits per
  channel.
* Fixed a linking problem with some libpng installations.

i keep getting the following message when i select a game from advance menu. 
im running smooth mame as the emulator, and it worked grand 2 day ago, but i 
dunno what i did to fuck it up, anyway the error message reads

Error process exited with status 1.

any help.

also know any good third party software to change reolutions , i have power 
strip buts its conveluted, know any others?

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On 07/18, Martin E. Weiner wrote:
> I have two trackballs and I want to build a control panel with them and
> run games like marble madness.  Does anybody have suggestions for how to
> go about this?
The next version of AdvanceMAME for Linux will support up to 4 mouses
at the same time.

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Hi folks I am using advance menu frontend with windows MAME in a cabinet 
using my tv-out video card
I have almost everything automatic and the front en is in showing the games 
with the List mode and the mouse pointer is always in the center of the 
screen and I need to jack the mouse in move the pointer out of the preview 
and jack it out....

so the question is... how can I  hidde the mouse pointer from advmenu??? do 
I have to do it form the advmenu.rc  file?

Thanks for any comments and I hope this question wont sound silly

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I'm not a "SmoothMame" user.
That being said, and for what i can tell,
'smoothmame' is build from Mame core, and like Mame itself, does _NOT_ include any special graphic drivers for running at arcade resolution.
Only the OS system resolutions are available.

Thus, for running 'smoothmame' at a given arcade resolution,
you will have to provide a third party PC to arcade graphic mode utility, and load it _before_ launching 'smoothmame'.
The only thing 'smoothmame' is able to do is, smooth scrolling in games whose original refresh rate was different from 60Hz, by tweaking the game driver to run at 60 fps. Nothing more, nothing less.

If you're a newbie, then i'll advise you to use AdvanceMame in conjunction with AdvanceMenu.

Neomania
.

 
> i am using advance menu as my frontend for a certain emulator.
> the emulator is smoothmame, a slighty different build of the windows bulid 
> of mame.
> 
> in advmenu.rc i have the follow lines:
> 
> emulator "smooth_mame" mame "D:\Arcade\smoothmame\smooth_mame.exe"
> emulator_roms "smooth_mame" "D:\Arcade\test\roms"
> 
> my problem is, how can i tell smoothmame that im running advmenu at a arcade 
> resolution and i want smoothmame to do the same.
> 
> is it sumthing that i need to my  lines in advmenu.rc or do i need to create 
> a rc file for smoothmame and set the resolution for it in there?
> 
> any help appreciated.
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i am using advance menu as my frontend for a certain emulator.
the emulator is smoothmame, a slighty different build of the windows bulid 
of mame.

in advmenu.rc i have the follow lines:

emulator "smooth_mame" mame "D:\Arcade\smoothmame\smooth_mame.exe"
emulator_roms "smooth_mame" "D:\Arcade\test\roms"

my problem is, how can i tell smoothmame that im running advmenu at a arcade 
resolution and i want smoothmame to do the same.

is it sumthing that i need to my  lines in advmenu.rc or do i need to create 
a rc file for smoothmame and set the resolution for it in there?

any help appreciated.

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PC in a jamma cabinet with arcade monitor running dos

If I have vga.exe loaded and run advancemame or advanceconfig, the system 
crashes on exit, leaving the screen blank with a blinking cursor.

Now, I have to have vga.exe loaded for a mameloader program I wrote that 
uses mode 13h
(available at spaceroy.mine.nu when my comp is on).
The setup works fine without vga.exe loaded, except that the mameloader 
program is out of sync. I can start advancemame and exit multiple times from 
the program without any crashes.

Any help on how I can get it working, would be....well... helpful. thanx

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i want to run smoothmame on my monitor, so what do i need to do...
why must i include in the rc file for smmoth mame and where shud i put it.
also wud this emulator be generic or mame in advmenu?

by the way im running on a arcade monitor.

any help greatly appreciated.

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On 07/17, Paul Finn wrote:
> when i currently try to run a game from the raine emu eg. puzzle bobble 4
> it bring up the raine emu interface and not the game.
> 
> emulator "raine" generic "D:\Arcade\raine\raine32.exe"
> emulator_roms "raine" "D:\Arcade\raine\roms"
> 
> what have i done wrong?
You should also pass the game name in some way. For example this work for
DOS Raine :

emulator "raine" generic "D:\Arcade\raine\raine32.exe" "-game %s"

The complete decription of the % options is in the advmenu.txt file.

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On 07/16, Jari Jokinen wrote:
> Magnify [3] 3
> if I change the Rgb Effect to scan3vert, the filter effect doesn't
> do much difference
With am high magnify effect the filter isn't able to blurry a lot the image.
It works best with a magnify 2.

> Also, I would expect the filter effect to be a little different on 16 bit
> and 32 bit colour depths, but I can't see a difference.
The difference from 16 bit to 32 bit it's hard to see in normal image.
Generally it's detectable only with a color gradient.

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