GroovyMAME 0.220

[JonnyG]

Hi all, hope everyone is keeping well and staying safe.

If you're looking for a little job to keep you busy then updating your machines to GroovyMAME 0.220 is now possible.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xWJV4MeSvfmNjooaeXfSDVTB8Svc9ba3

 

[Retroman839]

result
just getting back into groovy mame now
as well

 

[TechnoFreek]

Thanks dude. I'm on groovymame 200 for ages now. 220 sounds like a good round number to update to for an isolation activity!

 

[Retroman839]

whent on a mission to get cmos batteries today
now got 2 pc’ up and running...
gettin um groovy ready to pop in the cabs

 

[RygarR]

Evening All,

I've just upgraded my horizontal set-up with Groovymame 0.220. Cheers Johnny!

I've also upgraded my ROMSET to match.

I haven't played many of the games yet, but Kung Fu Master is running a bit strange. The music is wobbly, and the action seems a little fast.

Wierdly, using the slider to shrink the vertical size of the screen so that the hi-score line is visible seems to cure most, but not all of the audio wobble.

Anyone know what to do?

Should I roll back Groovymame to an earlier version?

 

[InsertManyCoins]

Thanks for this Jonny its been a fair few years since I last installed Mame so forgive what may be a silly question. Do I download the latest Mame 2.20 and replace the exe with the file you have provided?

 

[JonnyG]

Yeah, exactly that. Depending on how long ago you were using MAME the plugins feature for hiscore etc might be different to what you were used to but there's plenty of guides about.

 

[JonnyG]

RygarR...

Maybe post on the GM forum at BYOAC if you're still not getting it to play right. I've been meaning to have a go on my cab for the last few nights but haven't gotten around to it yet. Will try it when I do though.

 

[RygarR]

Cheers J,

So far, it's just Kung Fu Master out of the 20 or so games I've played that has wonky music.

I'll try t'other forum too.

RygarR...

Maybe post on the GM forum at BYOAC if you're still not getting it to play right. I've been meaning to have a go on my cab for the last few nights but haven't gotten around to it yet. Will try it when I do though.

 

[InsertManyCoins]

Thanks buddy I’ll look into the plugin system as it was about 6 maybe more years ago when I installed it

 

[tronads]

I haven't played many of the games yet, but Kung Fu Master is running a bit strange. The music is wobbly, and the action seems a little fast.

Just tried one of my Groovymame setups and its playing fine for me.

Can you run it from a dos prompt, ie "mame64 kungfum" and play it for a minute or so, then paste what comes up in the dos window after you escape the game, that might tell us something...

You aren't running any kind of bezel graphics are you ?

It sounds like frameskip is kicking in to me from the description, I assume your pc is more than powerful enough and its not that ?

 

[RygarR]

Yeah, I did wonder about frameskip. The slider is set at 0. I suppose frameskip could be kicking in, but this is a fairly vanilla installation. I'm using Chunskin's Windows 7 / Attract Mode bundle in a cab, with the GM exe and ROMset updated to 0.220. There's no bezel, or any other progs running. Also the PC should be powerful enough. It's an I3 running at 3.7 GHz or something like that, with an SSD. Boots to Attract Mode in 18s! Maybe something in my setup is corrupt. I'll try and get some more diagnostics later.

I haven't played many of the games yet, but Kung Fu Master is running a bit strange. The music is wobbly, and the action seems a little fast.

Just tried one of my Groovymame setups and its playing fine for me.

Can you run it from a dos prompt, ie "mame64 kungfum" and play it for a minute or so, then paste what comes up in the dos window after you escape the game, that might tell us something...

You aren't running any kind of bezel graphics are you ?

It sounds like frameskip is kicking in to me from the description, I assume your pc is more than powerful enough and its not that ?

 

[RygarR]

Hi again,

I pulled the SSD from the PC, deleted the MAME exe file and copied over a fresh version. I left all the other files as they were. On starting up, Kungfu Master worked flawlessly!

I then checked a few other games (all seemed to be fine), left it for a few mins, then went back to KFM. And the problem was back. Aaaargh! I'll have to leave if for tonight, but will try again tomoz. Sigh.

I haven't played many of the games yet, but Kung Fu Master is running a bit strange. The music is wobbly, and the action seems a little fast.

Just tried one of my Groovymame setups and its playing fine for me.

Can you run it from a dos prompt, ie "mame64 kungfum" and play it for a minute or so, then paste what comes up in the dos window after you escape the game, that might tell us something...

You aren't running any kind of bezel graphics are you ?

It sounds like frameskip is kicking in to me from the description, I assume your pc is more than powerful enough and its not that ?

 

[JonnyG]

When you updated to .220 did you update your entire MAME directory with the new binary as well as my .exe?

I would rename your current MAME folder and test out a new install using

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/releases/download/mame0220/mame0220b_64bit.exe

replacing the included mame64.exe with my gm version. If that works its probably an ini or cfg conflict.

 

[RygarR]

Thanks Johnny,

I'll give that a try later on this evening.

Cheers.

When you updated to .220 did you update your entire MAME directory with the new binary as well as my .exe?

I would rename your current MAME folder and test out a new install using

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/releases/download/mame0220/mame0220b_64bit.exe

replacing the included mame64.exe with my gm version. If that works its probably an ini or cfg conflict.

 

[RygarR]

Right,

I returned my system to read-write and reactivated Windows.

Then I renamed the MAME folder, created a new folder called MAME and extracted MAME 0.220 into it. After that, I deleted the MAME64.exe file and replaced it with the GMAME.exe. Finally, I copied over ROMs folder and restarted Attract Mode.

I'm not sure that was exactly the right way to go about it, bit there was an interesting side effect. When I selected Kungfu Master, MAME started up, but with nag screens showing. The first one had a warning, 'Imperfectly emulated features sound'. Guess that explains that one...

 

[tronads]

When you updated to .220 did you update your entire MAME directory with the new binary as well as my .exe?

I would rename your current MAME folder and test out a new install using

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/releases/download/mame0220/mame0220b_64bit.exe

replacing the included mame64.exe with my gm version. If that works its probably an ini or cfg conflict.

Would doing this not cause him to lose his switchres settings from the mame.ini file ?

 

[JonnyG]

Yeah, if he's going to stay with the new install he needs to run VMMaker to get the modelines installed, enable the hiscore/suppression patch in plugins, copy over any artwork and per game cfg files.

Just wanted to see if the behaviour changed with a clean install.

 

[RygarR]

Thanks Guys,

MAME itself suggested there was a prob with sound emulation on KFM (see above).

I've done a complete reinstallation of everything from Windows up, and the issue is still there.

What I'd forgotten, however, is that the layouts I'd been using didn't show all the available ROM variants. I'll check through these later and see if any of them work better.

 

[tronads]

I noticed that mame does say sound emulation is not perfect, but I cant notice anything wrong with it, and I have the PCB as well so I would like to think I would notice.
Past your mame.ini file so we can take a look.