SDL MAME Wii

[berighteous]

Originally Posted by wats4lunch

yes but where do i put them? sd card or ext hd. do i unzip the rom? I can't find clear instructions on how to get it work

You put them in a folder called "roms" in a folder called "mame" on the root of your sd card.

Originally Posted by rolandpibb

How can I get all my roms to show up on the selection screen?

You can't in this version. It picks a random selection each time the menu loads. I'm sure it will be made better eventually.

[kevenz]

cowboys of moo mesa doesn't work for me, I have the most recent version (.135)

not enough ram to run it

[wats4lunch]

Still can't get it to run..wish I knew what I am doing wrong?

[Toad King]

Originally Posted by wats4lunch

Still can't get it to run..wish I knew what I am doing wrong?

Did you place the zip files in "/mame/roms"?

[clobuwhi]

bookmarked and b back l8er,i need more info, :-)

[wats4lunch]

Originally Posted by Toad King

Did you place the zip files in "/mame/roms"?

Here is what I did, I downloaded the EMU unpacked it to the apps folder on my sd card which contains my HBC . I downloaded a rom from your list(134) and loaded it (zipped) to the mame folder. I also made a copy of the mame folder and added it to the root of my sd card. When I go to HBC and start the EMU I get no roms found message. What am I doing wrong????

[Toad King]

Originally Posted by wats4lunch

Here is what I did, I downloaded the EMU unpacked it to the apps folder on my sd card which contains my HBC . I downloaded a rom from your list(134) and loaded it (zipped) to the mame folder. I also made a copy of the mame folder and added it to the root of my sd card. When I go to HBC and start the EMU I get no roms found message. What am I doing wrong????

Make a folder called "roms" inside the mame folder and put the zip file in there.

[linker86]

Great player but I have worked faster than the real.

[ChrisandCebu]

Is there a way to prevent or stop a code dump with smaller roms. I would really like to get GunSmoke to work but I get a code dump

[musicman]

Hey Toad King, just to let you know when you go in settings on the new version you cant move left to fix settings (like tv horizontal, vertical ect......)You can only more right. I think this did work in .2. Just letting you know. Again great work you are doing.

[fullmetalengineer]

Originally Posted by kevenz

cowboys of moo mesa doesn't work for me, I have the most recent version (.135)

not enough ram to run it

Doesn't work for me either trying new and old romsets.. I wonder how some dude a few pages back got it working on his compatibility list.

[FunkyBaboon]

Originally Posted by fullmetalengineer

Doesn't work for me either trying new and old romsets.. I wonder how some dude a few pages back got it working on his compatibility list.

If you want that game to work then revert to Toad Kings 0.2 version of mame.

[SonicMegaDrive]

I don't have anything insightful to add, but I do wish to thank you, Toad King for all your hard work. The emulator works fantastically! This is something I've waited years for.

Thanks!

[oblachubs]

Works well for some games. The trick is put the zip files in the x:\mame\roms direcory. Don't unzip them.

I love playing the classics again. Does anyone remember the arcade game where the alien got out of his ship and took a piss during the demo sequence? I have been trying to remember the name of that game for years. It's like Guerilla or something like that. Thanks in advance.

[azrael11]

hey Toad King how the things going ?
.............
If you have time answer

[Black_Knight]

Alright, I'm at a loss with how to operate this. Must be me though although a few suggestions.

• Create a general guide/FAQ, for how to install, how to operate and other tabits of information that can help people. (I've seen bits and pieces, but something that encompasses everything would be nice)
• Show what sites have the updated and most complete ROMS/BIos for what works. (This is the largest problem, I've been trying to get Battletoads to work for the past 5 hours, no dice)
• Make interface more user friendly in next ver. (just personal preference since I have to point my wii-remote to select what little ROMs I got working)

But yeah getting the ROMs to get recognized is the largest issue IMO, is there a particualr site that keeps itself updated? (Or is that not allowed in this forum?)


But in all seriousness, I've Tried all the Gradius/Salamander games, and only Gradius III worked for me. (Even then I got stuck at the disclaimer screen)

[dorm3nt]

Originally Posted by Black_Knight

Create a general guide/FAQ, for how to install, how to operate and other tabits of information that can help people.

1: Unzip to root of SD card or USB.
2: Get 0.134 roms.
2: Copy them still zipped to root:\mame\roms (root being your SD card or USB device.)
3: Run from HBC or whatever method your using.. I think maybe not in the apps folder if your using something else, not sure.
4: Pick a game from the list (it only shows 12 or a so I believe at the moment)
5: Load game
6: Play controls can be adjusted from the menu as well as video scaling options under "sliders".
7: Play game, have fun. :P
8: Controls and any other info you might need should be in the first post, controls etc.. USB keyboards work as well.

Make sure the game your trying is also in this list(Confirmed by users here):
1941
1942
720 (control issues)
Afterburner (control issues)
Aliens
Alien Syndrome
Altered Beast
Arkanoid
Asterix
APB (control issues)
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja
Battletoads
Black Panther
Bomb Bee
Bomb Jack
Bubble Bobble
Captain America and the Avengers
Captain Commando
Carrier Air WIng
Centipede
Championship Sprint
Chelnov
Combat School
Commando
Cotton
Crudebusters
Dark Seal
Darius (need to adjust video settings because the arcade was 3 screens wide)
Dig Dug
Double Dribble
Dynamite Dux
Dynasty Warriors
Enduro Racer (control issues)
Empire Strikes Back
Eswat
Exed Exes
Forgotn Realms
Final Fight
Firebeast
Galaga
Galaga 88
Galaxy Force II
Gauntlet 2p & 4p version
Ghosts n Goblins
G I Joe
Golden Axe
Goonies
Gradius
Gradius 3
Green Beret
Gyruss
Hang On (control issues)
Haunted Castle
Imago
Karnov
Magic Sword
Mario Bros
Mega twins
Mercs
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker
Midnight Resistance (control issues)
Millipede
Mr Do
Nemesis
Ninja Gaiden
Osman
Outrun (control issues)
Out Zone
Operation Wolf (control issues)
Pacland
Pac mania
Paperboy
Parodius
Pole Position (controls were a little 'meh')
Pole Position II (ditto)
Popeye
Punch Out
Rainbow Islands
Rampage
Rastan
Return of the Jedi
RoboCop
RoboCop II
Rygar
Salamander
Shadow Dancer
Shadow Warriors
Shinobi
Sidearms
Simpsons (both 2p and 4p version)
Silkworm
Sly Spy
Snow Bros
Snow Bros 2
Son Son
Space Invaders
Space Launcher
Space Harrier (control issues)
Splater House
Spy Hunter
Super Sprint
Star Wars
Street Fighter II - the World Warrior
Street Fighter II - Champion Edition
Street Fighter II - Turbo Hyper Fighting
Strider
Super Bubble Bobble
Super Contra
Super Pac-man
Sunset Riders (2p & 4p versions)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (both 2p & 4p version)
Tetris
The King of Dragons
The Punisher
The Real Ghostbusters
Thunderblade (control issues)
TMNT II - Turtles In Time (both 2p & 4p version)
Track and Field
UN Squadron
Varth
Vendetta
Yiearkungfu
vs Castlevania
vs Ice Climbers
vs Super Mario Bros
World Cup 90
Willow
Wild West C.O.W. Boys Of Moo Mesa
WWF Superstars
WWF Wrestlefest
Xmen (2p and 4p versions)
Zero Wing

or try others from :
http://www.toadking.com/wiimame-0.3.1.txt

and let others know how you make out with any not tried so far.

Originally Posted by Black_Knight

But yeah getting the ROMs to get recognized is the largest issue IMO, is there a particualr site that keeps itself updated?(Or is that not allowed in this forum?)

Not allowed, afaik.

Originally Posted by Black_Knight

But in all seriousness, I've Tried all the Gradius/Salamander games, and only Gradius III worked for me. (Even then I got stuck at the disclaimer screen)

I got more than just III working, I forget which others, but I know more than just one. Hope this helped.

[Toad King]

Originally Posted by azrael11

hey Toad King how the things going ?
.............
If you have time answer

I've been busy with real life stuff for the past week. However, I did get some work done in the emulator, fixing most of the serious bugs on my list (specifically stereo sound and having more than 15 games displayed in the ROM list) and adding Wiimote pointer support. I tried to start working on the GX renderer, but that kind of stalled since I have pretty much no experience with graphics programming at all, let alone GX.

I might make a release with what I have fixed next week.

[Black_Knight]

Originally Posted by dorm3nt

1: Unzip to root of SD card or USB.
2: Get 0.134 roms.
2: Copy them still zipped to root:\mame\roms (root being your SD card or USB device.)

Alright, zipped I didn't do but I'm not following the whole 0.134 roms. If anything because when I look them up, it just gives a a list of all these files and get things like '32x_scd.zip' or 'a5200.zip' to name a few. Or a torrent that's 26 GB large. (And it's been shut down to make it all moot)

Originally Posted by dorm3nt

Not allowed, afaik.

I hope I'm not the only one who appreciates the irony of that.

Could I have hint, like a phrase to google? Since I'm just stumbling around blind, death and dumb. Hell my MacMAME revolted on a me a while back and refuses to play any sounds.



Predicting I get all this sorted out, let's jump ahead. If you want to play a game like Life Force, which needs Salamander to work. Is there a way yet for the current system to recognize they're together to be able to play it, or is that for a newer project?

[Hugh Verdam]

Originally Posted by Toad King

I've been busy with real life stuff for the past week. However, I did get some work done in the emulator, fixing most of the serious bugs on my list (specifically stereo sound and having more than 15 games displayed in the ROM list) and adding Wiimote pointer support....

I might make a release with what I have fixed next week.

That would be brilliant! I'd love to have a better ROM menu. Thank you!

[DComyns]

Toad King,
Do you have any idea why a forwarder channel won't work with this program, but it's fine through the Homebrew Channel? That seems weird. I think I remembered that the HB passes in the "home directory" path, while forwarders don't - could this be it? I've tried creating a forwarder for this thing, but can't get it to go.

[Toad King]

Originally Posted by DComyns

Toad King,
Do you have any idea why a forwarder channel won't work with this program, but it's fine through the Homebrew Channel? That seems weird. I think I remembered that the HB passes in the "home directory" path, while forwarders don't - could this be it? I've tried creating a forwarder for this thing, but can't get it to go.

This is almost certainly the reason. Unfortunately, I don't really plan on fixing it at the moment. SDL MAME Wii depends on the starting directory to figure out if we're using the SD card or USB drive. This is really something the forwarder should take care of.

[FunkyBaboon]

Originally Posted by Toad King

I've been busy with real life stuff for the past week. However, I did get some work done in the emulator, fixing most of the serious bugs on my list (specifically stereo sound and having more than 15 games displayed in the ROM list) and adding Wiimote pointer support. I tried to start working on the GX renderer, but that kind of stalled since I have pretty much no experience with graphics programming at all, let alone GX.

I might make a release with what I have fixed next week.

A nice GUI in time would be great (not essential though) - but thats ideal that you've sorted out the stereo sound and the emu's number of games displayed bugs (plus wiimote for light gun games sounds quality!).

Happy days.

[MENTALDOMINANCE]

toad king:
Yeah GX support would rock - screw the gui - GX would give it speed! 8)
Hopefully someone who knows it will help you.
I have got M.A.M.E. to run on multiple systems (including WII LINUX) but
am in no way competent enough to help with adding hardware gfx.
Thankfully though it seems many are. 8)
God bless the WII homebrew scene! 8)

[eke-eke]

I think the SDL Wii port already uses GX rendering for display:
http://code.google.com/p/sdl-wii/sou...SDL_wiivideo.c

To me , it seems to be the same (or similar) code used in "GX" emulators (i.e good old softdev's code), I'm not sure if you can get significant speedup for SDL-Mame on that side...

[Blaming Halo]

Would it make sense to use an older version (like say, 0.112) as a basis rather than the newest one? Mame gets resource hungrier with development and changes after all.

[Toad King]

Originally Posted by eke-eke

I think the SDL Wii port already uses GX rendering for display:
http://code.google.com/p/sdl-wii/sou...SDL_wiivideo.c

To me , it seems to be the same (or similar) code used in "GX" emulators (i.e good old softdev's code), I'm not sure if you can get significant speedup for SDL-Mame on that side...

The problem with using SDL for the graphics is that it doesn't support textures, so MAME decodes them in software which uses a lot of CPU cycles. SDL 1.3 is supposed to have texture support, and MAME can be built to use it, but that hasn't been released yet or ported to the Wii. (Somebody could port a development build of SDL 1.3 to the Wii, but nobody seems that interested in it.)

Originally Posted by Blaming Halo

Would it make sense to use an older version (like say, 0.112) as a basis rather than the newest one? Mame gets resource hungrier with development and changes after all.

I learned this the hard way, and backporting my patches to an earlier version might be difficult because a lot of the SDL code in MAME changed over time. I'm planning on sticking with 0.135 from now on unless some major bug in MAME appears, and hopefully GX support will fix most of the speed problems.

[azrael11]

Originally Posted by Toad King

I've been busy with real life stuff for the past week.

Real life is everything i think everybody understand that.....
The reason i can't help you is REAL LIFE...

Originally Posted by Toad King

However, I did get some work done in the emulator, fixing most of the serious bugs on my list (specifically stereo sound and having more than 15 games displayed in the ROM list) and adding Wiimote pointer support. I tried to start working on the GX renderer, but that kind of stalled since I have pretty much no experience with graphics programming at all, let alone GX.

I might make a release with what I have fixed next week.

Great i think from my little research of GX Graphics isn't so scary.
Good Try.

I hope have time to try your new release...

[dantemugiwara]

Mr Toad King, can you make a forwarder for the SDL mame, the others forwarder doesn´t work to this emulator

thanks