Mameox128 - Working Romset Project Options

[neil222]

WOW....
Everyone take a big deep breath in now........and out.......

[ressurectionx]

Okay..... and how am I supposed to fix anything without source?

All I'm capable of fixing is game names and categories. Otherwise, I can only make suggestions.

I can't test any of your fixes without an updated build either.

[neil222]

Keep going ressurectionx, I like what you do.
All those games for Pcsx compatibility were awesome...

Cheers.

[RMM]

BritneysPAIRS, thanks for all the hard work. Im not registered on the other forum but I thought I would post my vote here since I saw your question over there. I would say:

A) All games including ones people havent heard of and all the cheap games


Maybe you could have a rubbish folder containing all the cheap games with a menu option you could check or uncheck that would allow the user to be able to see all the cheap games if they wished. If people didnt want to be bothered by all the cheap games they could leave the "show rubbish games" unchecked. It would be a win/win situation for everybody IMO.

[marioxb]

I haven't had time to read all 10 pages, so what exactly has been done here? On my Xbox, I have two copies of MAMEoX version 0.76.1b. One of them I hex-edited so that it saves in a different location so I can have one for horizontal oriented games and one for vertical. I want to turn a TV/monitor on it's side to replicate the monitors for games like Donkey Kong, Pac-Man and 1942. Then I have:

Kawa-X 0.11 (copy 1) with these games:

Neo Geo:
Aero Fighters 2
Aero Fighters 3
Aggressors of Dark Kombat
Alpha Mission II
Andro Dunos
Bakatonosama Majong Manyuuki (Japanese)
Bang Bead
Baseball Stars Professional
Baseball Stars 2
Battle FlipShot
Blazing Star
Blue's Journey
Burning Fight
Bust-A-Move
Bust-A-Move Again
Captain Tomaday
Crossed Swords
Cyber-Lip
Digger Man
Eight Man
Football Frenzy
Ganryu
Ghost Pilots
Goal! Goal! Goal!
Gururin
The Irritating Maze
Jyanshin Densetsu: Quest of Jongmaster (Japanese)
King of the Monsters
King of the Monsters 2: The Next Thing
Last Resort
League Bowling
Legend of Success: Joe
Magical Drop II
Magical Drop III
Magician Lord
Mahjong Kyoretsuden (Japanese)
Master of Syougi (Japanese)
Metal Slug
Metal Slug 2
Metal Slug X
Metal Slug 3
Money Puzzle Exchanger
Mutation Nation
NAM-1975
Neo Bomberman
Neo Bomberman: Panic Bomber
Neo DriftOut: New Technology
Neo Mr. Do!
Neo Pong
Neo Puzzle League
Nightmare in the Dark
Ninja Combat
Ninja Commando
OverTop
Pleasure Goal: 5 on 5 Mini Soccer
Pop 'N Bounce
Power Spikes II
Prehistoric Isle 2
Pulstar
Puzzled
Puzzle de Pon
Puzzle de Pon R
Quiz King of Fighters (Japanese)
Quiz Daisousa Sen: The Last Countdown (Japanese)
Quiz Daisousa Sen 2: Quiz Meintantei Neo Geo (Japanese)
Robo Army
Sengoku
Sengoku 2
Sengoku 3
Shock Troopers
Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad
Soccer Brawl
SpinMaster
Stakes Winner
Stakes Winner 2
Strikers 1945 Plus
Street Hoop
Super Baseball 2020
Super Dodge Ball
The Super Spy
Tecmo World Soccer '96
3 Count Bout
Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
Top Player's Golf
Thrash Rally
Twinkle Star Sprites
Viewpoint
Wind Jammers
Zed Blade
Zupapa

CPS1:
Buster Buddies (Pang! 3)
Captain Commando
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Carrier Air Wing
Dynasty Wars
Dynasty Wars II: Warriors of Fate
Final Fight
Forgotten Worlds (uses rotary knob w/ button)
Ghouls 'N Ghosts
The King of Dragons
Knights of the Round
Magic Sword
Mega Man- The Power Battle
Mega Twins
Nemo
Pnickies (Japanese)
The Punisher
Strider
U.N. Squadron
Willow

CPS2:
Alien vs. Predator
Armored Warriors
Armored Warriors II: Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness
Battle Circuit
Capcom Sports Club
Dimahoo
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom
Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara
Eco Fighters
Giga Wing
Mars Matrix
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters
Mighty Buster Bros. (Mighty Pang)
1944: The Loop Master
Super Gem Fighter: Mini Mix
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

Kawa-X 0.11 (copy 2) with these games:

Neo Geo:
Fighter's History Dynamite: Karnov's Revenge
Kabuki Klash: Far East of Eden
The Last Blade
The Last Blade 2
Ninja Master's
Samurai Shodown
Samurai Shodown II
Samurai Shodown III
Samurai Shodown IV: Amakusa's Revenge
Waku Waku 7

CPS1:
Saturday Night Slam Masters
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
Street Fighter II: Champion Edition
Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Street Fighter Alpha- Special CPS1 Edition

CPS2:
DarkStalkers: The Night Warriors
Night Warriors: DarkStalkers' Revenge
Darkstalkers 3: Jedah's Damnation (Vampire Savior)
Darkstalkers 3: Vampire Hunter (Vampire Hunter 2)
Darkstalkers 3: Vampire Savior (Vampire Savior 2)
Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters 2
Street Fighter Alpha
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
X-Men: Children of the Atom
Marvel Super Heroes
X-Men vs. Street Fighter
Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes

Kawa-X 0.11 (copy 3) with these games:
Neo Geo FF/KoF Series:
Fatal Fury: The King of Fighters
Fatal Fury 2
Fatal Fury Special
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
Real Bout Fatal Fury
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers
Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves
The King of Fighters '94
The King of Fighters '95
The King of Fighters '96
The King of Fighters '97
The King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest
The King of Fighters '99: Millenium Battle
The King of Fighters 2000
The King of Fighters 2001

FBA-X Beta 4 v0.2.94.97 with these games:

Art of Fighting
Art of Fighting 2
Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior
Breakers
Breakers Revenge
Double Dragon: The Movie
Fight Fever
Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle
Neo-Geo Cup '98: The Road to Victory
Neo Turf Masters
Ragnagard
Riding Hero
Savage Reign
Super Sidekicks
Super Sidekicks 2: The World Championship
Super Sidekicks 3: The Next Glory
Super Sidekicks 4: The Ultimate 11
Voltage Fighter: Gowcaizer

Notice my custom names for some games? That is just what I refer to the game as. The reason for all of the Kawa and FBA copies is that I want to have three/four different default controller setups and the versions of these emus I have do not support different button mapping for each game. I still need to hex-edit and or find other versions of the emu to have the settings stored in different places.

What I want is only working/ non duplicate (unless there is a significant difference between a Japanese/ other country/ clone game) games with all of the Neo Geo/ CPS (listed above), daphne-supported, Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat games removed. I am perfectly fine with playing the MK series via the official Xbox retail versions, since they don't work too well in Mame. Same goes for Street Fighter 1 and Three Wonders (Capcom Classics vol. 2). The Neo Geo and CPS games NOT in my above lists- I want them in Mame instead, such as 19XX (vertical- since my Kawa-X doesn't support TV flipping), Galaxy Fight: Universal Warrior, World Heroes Perfect, World Heroes, World Heroes 2, World Heroes 2 Jet and the Capcom trivia games which don't use a joystick, I'd prefer in Mame.

I want the World Heroes games in Mame instead of Kawa/ FBA since they don't all use the same control scheme and I want them together, and Galaxy Fight- well I forget why I wanted it in Mame instead.

I'd like separate categories for adult games, text-heavy Japanese games (I have friends that read Japanese) and maybe more.

This post has been edited by marioxb: Feb 29 2008, 05:37 AM

[ressurectionx]

Hey marioxb,

Send me a PM with your email address and I can send you my spreadsheet when I get a chance. It's still a work in progress, but you should be able to get some use out of it. I'm not interested at all in Kawa myself so I'll leave any of that work to you to look at. My list has purged all of the duplicates (probalby a few still in there, as it's a work in progress).

I have a majority of the working adult games separated and a whole bunch of working foreign games separated as well, but they are probably not complete lists. You'll notice in my spreadsheet that there is a large section of "untested" games. Most of these are Cassette, Play Choice 10, Megaplay, etc. but there are also quite a few Mahjong, Quiz and other foreign games that I just didn't want to devote any more time to. If you decide upon viewing that you'd like to test these and alter the spreadsheet to indicate which games work I'd be happy to have the help in that area and add them to my findings. I just have no desire to test any of those games as I'd never have them on my own emulator. Would be nice to have working romcenter datafiles of all of the working adult and foreign games to provide for others who would want them. If you do test them, I'd recommend using either MAMEox128 and/or MAMEdox Arcades to test (Preferably Arcades), as those are what I've used to test all of my games so far. Make sure you say which emu you used to test, as the results can vary greatly from emulator to emulator.

I'd be very interested in talking to you about your abilities in hex editing and exactly what it is you can do to an .xbe file with a hex editor. I'm only aware of the ability to change the way that game names show up in the GUI, but I'd love to learn a few more tricks for altering a build that has no available source code.

This post has been edited by ressurectionx: Feb 29 2008, 06:03 AM

[ressurectionx]

FYI....

Though there has been no release yet, I just saw this post on the other forum:

http://www.thraxen.com/BritneysPAIRS/added.txt

Not sure of the exact count, but I believe it's like 270 roms or so. It can be expected with more than 99% accuracy that all games added are keymapped perfectly and properly named and categorized, and 100% accuracy that they work if he added them. Thanks goes to BritneysPAIRS for all of his work adding these roms to the emu.

This post has been edited by ressurectionx: Feb 29 2008, 06:28 AM

[ekszbox]

I'm only aware of the ability to change the way that game names show up in the GUI, but I'd love to learn a few more tricks for altering a build that has no available source code.

Unless you have advanced Assembly & reverse engineering skills, then there are not exactly many things you will be able to alter this way.
I find it odd that the names are being changed in the xbe in the first place, and not in the source code.

If you still need help getting the xdk setup, send me a PM.
Do you have the source code for Arcades now, or what is your plan there?

KM

[ressurectionx]

Hey ekszbox,

Lol... I don't even have remedial assembly & reverse engineering skills.

Using the hex editor was just the way I was taught to do it. Probably would look much cleaner if I had the source and could really get in there and clean it all up. Using the hex editor tool though, you can't delete things like "(US)" in the title. You can only overwrite them with spaces. Something about there needs to be the same amount of characters after editing as there were before. Real pain in the butt, but the only means I'm aware of doing it without source.

I don't have source for Arcades, and I don't believe that I ever will. No plan really at this point. I really don't want to re-invent the wheel and start with another version of MAME and re-do a lot of things that BP has already accomplished in Arcades, but there are certain things that a lot of us want to see in Arcades that are likely never going to happen. I would like to get my hands on the tools necessary to start working on a version of MAME though. Who knows? If I like doing it, I might try my hand at my own emulator.

~Rx

This post has been edited by ressurectionx: Mar 1 2008, 05:21 AM

[ekszbox]

You having to use a hex editor because he didn't want to give you any source code is just unreal

KM

[ressurectionx]

Yeah, I know.... what a lamer. Looks like I'm the bad guy now on the other forum too because he took to hiding in his parents basement and won't talk to anyone now. Sorry, but I'm not going to get in the line to kiss his ass when he has an incomplete project and he won't release what's necessary to complete it. Especially when all he does anytime he opens his mouth is insult people. Well, either that or speak in some weird English-hybrid language that I guess only his kind of folk can understand.

[BritneysPAIRS]

Ill be handing you the source...soon and I wont help you in any way we will see who the Newbee is remember no help we will see your skill level

[BritneysPAIRS]

http://www.thraxen.com/BritneysPAIRS/arcadesSource.rar you have 24hours to grab it before I remove it take care remember no questions I wish you all the best you can do all keymapping and rom naming in here

rx quote " - I dont need you, I need the source"
Fine Print - I dont support this or put my name to this in any way shape or form

im so wanting to say I told you so, prove me wrong rx, the challenge is set, pride is on the line

[Moonkeeper]

Good luck to you too. Happy to have wasted the last two weeks of my life going in a direction on this that you aren't going to complete when you said you would.

....and Lennon and McCartney refused to reconcile......

[RMM]

....and Lennon and McCartney refused to reconcile......

They nearly did on SNL.