Konami Shmup "Tobe! Polystars" Promoted to Working in Mame

[Master O]

Konami Shmup "Tobe! Polystars" has now been promoted to working in Mame .205:

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh ... ber=380331

[Keade]

It is not ""actually"" playable due to being unbearbly slow at the moment (runs at about 35% here on a stock i5-4690K). According to the devs, there is hopefully a lot of room for later optimization.
Never heard about this game or Konami M2 hardware before, this is a nice Christmas surprise of some sort

edit: here is a homemade video with the game running realtime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eizzGwQtpTY

[donluca]

That's super cute! Hopefully it'll get some optimization, really looking forward trying this one!

[xxx1993]

Finally! But what about Battle Tryst? I always wanted to try that one.

[Udderdude]

Looks great, can't wait for some optimizations so it's running at 100% speed.

[Master O]

Finally! But what about Battle Tryst? I always wanted to try that one.

I'd also like to note that this is a good place to look:

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/ma ... namim2.cpp

Click on history to see any changes to that particular driver, which also includes Battle Tryst.

This driver is called the Konami M2 driver. Malc also did a review on Tobe Polystars if anyone here is curious:

http://shmups.com/reviews/polystars/index.html

Malc owns the physical game though. He was not reviewing emulation of the game.

[Keade]

I agree the source code is the best reference there is, but the official whatsnew files always tell which game got promoted or demoted from a given status.

Machines promoted to working
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Evil Night (ver UBA) [Phil Bennett, Ryan Holtz]
Fruit Bonus 2010 [David Haywood, Canil Babypet]
Tobe! Polystars (ver JAA) [Phil Bennett, Ryan Holtz]
Total Vice (ver EBA) [Phil Bennett, Ryan Holtz]

Battle Tryst is not playable yet. Come back in a month, it might then be

[xxx1993]

Total Vice I always wanted to try, though. That game is like Konami's answer to Virtua Cop. I do hope they don't take too long with Battle Tryst, on the other hand.

[louisg]

Total Vice I always wanted to try, though. That game is like Konami's answer to Virtua Cop. I do hope they don't take too long with Battle Tryst, on the other hand.

Hehe I remember Total Vice! Don't get your hopes too high for it; I remember it being only OK.

Polystars being emulated is exciting. That game's fun.

[xxx1993]

Still a sucker for light gun games, though. Problem is, though, it's not working on MAME for me. What am I missing?

[Master O]

Still a sucker for light gun games, though. Problem is, though, it's not working on MAME for me. What am I missing?

Which game? If you're referring to Lethal Enforcers, I think that is fully working, last I checked. Also, make sure that for whatever game you're running in mame that your roms are the correct ones for the games you're playing.

[BrianC]

Still a sucker for light gun games, though. Problem is, though, it's not working on MAME for me. What am I missing?

Make sure the light gun is set correctly in the mame.ini input settings.

[xxx1993]

I'm referring to Total Vice. I downloaded it, but when I tried running it, it says that files are missing.

[Master O]

I'm referring to Total Vice. I downloaded it, but when I tried running it, it says that files are missing.

With arcade games in Mame, you must have all the roms that the game specifies or else it will not run. In addition, some arcade games require an additional file type, known as a CHD, which is a dump of either an arcade game's hard drive or even compact disc image.

Total Vice not only needs roms, but also its corresponding CHD file.

For example:

c:\mame\roms\totlvice.zip

and

c:\mame\roms\totlevice\639eba01.chd

How do you find this information out? Very simple.

1) Open a command prompt and go to your mame folder.
2) Type

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mame totlvice -listroms

and press enter.
3) You'll notice in the command's output the filename "639eba01" has no file extension. This is your CHD file.
4) For CHD files, you must place them in your roms folder under a subfolder with the rom name.

c:\mame\roms\totlevice\639eba01.chd

totlevice is the CHD subfolder because the romname is totlevice.

5) When you've done all of the above, type

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mame totlvice -verifyroms

and press enter. If mame says the roms are all OK after you run this command, you can then run the game.

For legal reasons, I cannot tell you where to find roms, though. However, you can google it and I'm sure you'll find rom sites.

[xxx1993]

Sounds kinda hard to do... I don't know where to find the CHD file either...

[Master O]

Sounds kinda hard to do... I don't know where to find the CHD file either...

It's not particularly hard. It just involves specific steps.

Another thing I recommend doing is reading these, which will help you understand ROMs and CHDs in general:

https://docs.mamedev.org/usingmame/aboutromsets.html

https://docs.mamedev.org/usingmame/commonissues.html

Also, if you're on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/

You can ask rom-related questions there, too.

[xxx1993]

Don't have Reddit. Should I make one? I feel like ask them about Data East's Locked 'n Loaded, see if that game will ever become playable.