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Hey Slaanesh,

I just realized today that we've lost compatibility with at least two games - Alien Storm and Altered Beast. Altered Beast in particular I'd just beaten the night before the update to 1.1. But now, when you start playing it - there's an odd glitch where the enemies won't die or disappear - and eventually you can't move past the opening screen. Alien Storm now won't boot at all, and it was working with 1.0.

Any idea why that would happen and if it may be rectified? I thought it might be a Sega issue - but I tested Golden Axe and Shinobi, and both worked fine.

I'm thinking I might keep both 1.0 and 1.1 on my memory card - separating the roms that work best with each.

PolloLoco wrote:Hey Slaanesh,

I just realized today that we've lost compatibility with at least two games - Alien Storm and Altered Beast. Altered Beast in particular I'd just beaten the night before the update to 1.1. But now, when you start playing it - there's an odd glitch where the enemies won't die or disappear - and eventually you can't move past the opening screen. Alien Storm now won't boot at all, and it was working with 1.0.

The only possible reason for these no longer working must be the change in the compiler. I'll have a look at these cases and see what's going on.

EDIT: The game is actually running but it's a black screen. Trying getting the FPS up and you can see that it is running. Other functions also work except of course the screen. The other odd thing is that if you insert credits, you do get the START message. Odd. I'll investigate further.

I think it's running out of RAM. I would say that the previous release was using marginally less memory but just enough to let the games run correctly. Now the MAME executable has gotten too large and there is insufficient free RAM. Many of the drivers do some naughty things - allocating memory and not checking that it's been successful and then assuming it has been successful. Unpredictable things happen then.
A future release will hopefully see a decrease in the size of the executable.

Gotcha, thanks for the explanation Slaanesh!

I don't have my Dingoo yet, so forgive me the question... But is it possible to use the button next to the D-pad as the fire button? Because otherwise one of your hands must go to the top of the Dingoo to press 'fire'.

Hi

You can set the B button as fire and you can see all the screen (I assume your talking about rotating the Dingoo to play vertical shooters)

For most classic arcade games (Donkey Kong, Pack Man etc etc.) indeed, you have to rotate the Dingoo 90 degrees. Then the hand that operates the B button (i.e. 'Fire') has the tendency to obscure the screen, and I think it plays a bit odd...

Hi

I know what you mean but I play all the games holding the Dingoo horizontal and have the games scaled to fit.

Can't play them with the Dingo rotated.

Hi,

I cannot get any roms to work with MAME4All, I've tried different roms site and even download the MAME GP2X_Wiz 2.2 Full Romset but nothing works, after I pick a rom and set the CPU speed and start the game, the screen goes blank. Can anyone help?

ardkor wrote:Hi,

I cannot get any roms to work with MAME4All, I've tried different roms site and even download the MAME GP2X_Wiz 2.2 Full Romset but nothing works, after I pick a rom and set the CPU speed and start the game, the screen goes blank. Can anyone help?

Me neither. One has to convert one's roms to an old Mame format. Somewhere on the internet there is a tool for that. But I can't find it anymore (the various Mame4all sites on the internet do not mention this either).

[edit] Seems this might help: http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/download.htm . Complete mystery to me however how to use it...