MAME benchmarking and sync tweaks for your Arcade Cabinet’s CRT

[wboy]

dee2er can confirm but yes that seems to be a error carried over from an old ini...

Match the value as seen in the 192 ini and yes the gorf samples in /boot/sample should play fine.

Something else for dee2er... the samples folder in mame172 is actually a text file (icon it seems) that has execute rights.

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pi@arpicade3:~/mame172 $ ls -al samples
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 67 Jul  3  2017 samples

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pi@arpicade3:~/mame172 $ cat samples 
[Desktop Entry]
Icon=folder
Type=Link
URL[$e]=file:///boot/sample/

mame192 seems right as it is a folder

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pi@arpicade3:~/mame192/samples $ ls -al
total 32
drwxr-xr-x  4 pi   users 4096 Nov 28 05:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root  4096 Feb 15 10:14 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   users   32 Nov 28 03:43 dir.txt
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   users 4096 Nov 28 05:17 floppy
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   users 6671 Nov 28 03:43 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   users 4096 Nov 28 05:17 MM1_keyboard
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   users  238 Nov 28 03:43 README.md

[dee2eR]

Good catch there! No idea why it's executable, it should just be a symlink (well actually at this point it shouldn't be there at all...). An older version of MAME (maybe 171? I can't remember now) needed the symlink to use a non standard sample folder due to the config being broken... I should have changed the sample path in the ini and deleted the symlink when I moved the samples off /home/pi anyway.

Will fix it for the next release.

[wboy]

May explain why GORF seems to play with no sample sounds??? Sample file is in boot/sample on Arpicade side/drive/folder

Seems the gorf.zip file may not be complete either as it has a few 0 sized files that throw up on screen error post game.

Checking my own file hording collection it seems it came I too have the same zip file from the archive.org 106 samples. Their archive.org 078 ones seems the better one to use! Same amount of file within too.

Also quickly checked all the other sample files are fine, no 0 sized files within the zips.

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[cool_factor]

Do you have a link? Also, was that correct on changing the path? I haven't tried it yet. Have you fixed the executable to a folder nd how to do. Thanks.

[wboy]

Visit http://samples.mameworld.info/ and search for gorf within the page using your browser (items dated May 22, 2008).

Seems the 0.125u2 update is the same zip file. Odd. Just below is the older version.

If you could be bothered grab both. Extract the gorf.zip already in /boot/sample to /boot/sample/gorf and delete the original gorf.zip.

Within /boot/sample/gorf replace all the 0 sized files with extracted ones from the gorf_older2.zip. That should make a best set I imagine.

Don't worry about the current sample folder in mame172... just edit the mame.ini within and set the sample path to /boot/sample

P.S. Did you get my recent PMs.. they seem to be stuck in my PM forum outbox??!!?

[MarkOZLAD]

For the Wonderboy issue with horizontal scrolling.

I have both the genuine sega Wonderboy arcade PCB and RaspberryJAMMA in my cab. I can report that the horizontal scrolling is clearly jerky on the RaspberryJAMMA when compared to the genuine article (which is as smooth as butter). It is noticeable in the movement of the trees in the background.

I read somewhere recently that Wonderboy allows scrolling in half pixel increments, not sure it this applies here.

I believe I would have the latest release as I only purchased it from dee2er a couple of weeks ago.

Happy to help test any tweaks you guys suggest.

[MarkOZLAD]

Have played Wonderboy on the arPIcade a fair bit and I'll have to say that, despite the little bit of jerkiness in the background scrolling, the game plays really very well. It's not quite as good as the original PCB but it is still great. Would be cool to get it scrolling perfectly but I'm OK with it.

[MarkOZLAD]

So after playing a heap on my genuine PCB I returned to the AdvancedMAME version that I was running and found it unplayable.

I have changed to MAME 172 and have found that it is smooth as butter. Massively better. Just a small amount of lag.