1. Mahou characters are unlocked. No more konami code every credit!
2. Rank no longer gets worse with every game played. You won’t have to reset your board after a bunch of consecutive plays to restore default rank
One note: since I’m lazy I took the easy way out for getting around the ROM checks. They always say ‘OK’ even if whatever it’s testing is totally screwed up. I couldn’t find where the ROM0 signature was (I found ROM1) and I got tired of looking at it; so I punted.
At least one of these can already be accomplished via MAME cheat.dat, but that's not useful to those of us with real hardware. I've verified the roms work on my PCB and MAME.
I had Steph @hobbyroms sort out the patch integration. Fine job as usual.
'z' is for zakk, btw.
Thanks again for doing this!
How about Batrider 'zero rank at powerup' for the next project? :)
i only had my gregor pcb 2 evenings and i'm already getting pissed off with turning off my cab to reset rank.. i dunno if it's just in my mind but the o.g jap revision seems harder(faster rank increase mebbes?) than the saturn vers to me..
you should have sent me the patched roms oxstu
anyone in europe or uk who can burn me the patched set??
charlie chong wrote:
anyone in europe or uk who can burn me the patched set??
i have a buddy here in sweden whos a whizz at this kind of stuff, if anyone wants a set PM me and ill see if i can sort you out
EXCELLENT effort zakk!!!
i too vote for a no-rank batrider rom, id even spot some cash for your work to give you some motivation if you want (im sure we could get a pool going as i doubt im the only one who wants em?).
the destruction of everything, is the beginning of something new. your whole world is on fire, and soon, you'll be too..
charlie chong wrote:
anyone in europe or uk who can burn me the patched set??
i have a buddy here in sweden whos a whizz at this kind of stuff, if anyone wants a set PM me and ill see if i can sort you out
EXCELLENT effort zakk!!!
i too vote for a no-rank batrider rom, id even spot some cash for your work to give you some motivation if you want (im sure we could get a pool going as i doubt im the only one who wants em?).
For zakk,
Thanks for the awesome work on the Garegga ROM patches. With such a patch, it ain't a "plain vanilla" (umodded) Garegga PCB anymore. ^_~
Count me with sven666 for a "no-rank" Batrider EPRom...there are bound to be some other fellow Batrider PCB owners who feel the same way. ^_~
charlie chong wrote:i only had my gregor pcb 2 evenings and i'm already getting pissed off with turning off my cab to reset rank.. i dunno if it's just in my mind but the o.g jap revision seems harder(faster rank increase mebbes?) than the saturn vers to me..
I know ... just been putting some time into mine and it feels like I am starting again......I can barelky break about 2.5 Million at the moment
Batrider sane rank on game start shouldn't be that bad to do. I've got a few other things taking up my time right now, but I'll get to it soon-ish.
Btw, you can 'reset' the rank by going into the test menu and exiting it. Still somewhat of a pain in the ass, but much better than waiting 30 minutes.
I've finally managed to get a Garegga PCB but don't have a ROM burner. Would anyone please be able to provide a set of patched ROMs, as these look great?
Changes in this rom. Bold indicates new changes for 2019.
Mahou guest characters unlocked
ABC ship type selectable via start button
No rank carry over between credits. Rank starts at power on default every credit.
Item drop order reset to initial value every credit
Quick reset: start+ABC resets to the copyright screen
Scoreboard display bug fixed. Top scores will show the proper letter instead of punctuation for 10M+
Autofire rate display. Bottom left and right display current autofire rate for respective player.
Rank display. Real time display of current game rank.
Rank change display: Per-frame display of rank change during the frame. This excludes per-frame rank adjustments and any rank changes due to shooting (normal and option).
Rank percentage display. Should line up with the rank percentage in the M2 port.
I made a slight revision, the GitHub repo and the download site are updated.
Changes:
Rank display is adjusted when in Harder/Special/Extended mode so as not to overwrite the mode indicator on screen.
I hijacked the "Stage Edit" dip switch so it enables/disables the custom hud (autofire and rank related displays).
The default for that dip switch is OFF. So if you want fancy rank display, be sure to flip it to on.
You can still access stage edit mode by starting a credit while holding the C button.
If you forget to flip the dip switch on, you can do it in the middle of a credit and it will immediately start to display the HUD, no reset needed.
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