Any way to play Vimana with sound?

[Xyga]

Oh by the way Toaplan samples work in MAMEUIFX too.

[masclthrcub]

Hi there I just wanted you to know that the sound samples for "Vimana" in MAME that you submitted Part 2 of Vimana was empty nothing was in the RAR file.

I downloaded the files from the link that Ruldra posted.

What exactly is the problem ?
My zip archive said that "Part 2" of Vimana was empty didn't you read my post. I copied the files he posted
Part 1 "I D/L was fine had no problems unpacking it.
Congrats to you for having a good D/L on Part 2
Don't understand why Part 2 was empty and you could D/L it.
Do you still have a copy of Part 2 of Vimana that you can share looks like you do by your post.
Do you have sound for Vimana ??? that's my question. Seems after reading so many post nobody has sound or knows where to get some sample wav files for this game.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

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>unrar l vimana.part2.rar

UNRAR 5.00 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2013 Alexander Roshal

Archive: vimana.part2.rar
Details: RAR 4, volume, recovery record

 Attributes      Size    Date   Time   Name
----------- ---------  -------- -----  ----
    .......  37912598  01-05-10 00:00  04.wav
    .......  36383486  01-05-10 00:00  05.wav
    .......  41278630  01-05-10 00:00  06.wav
    ..A....   5415022  01-05-10 00:00  07.wav
    ..A....     78100  01-05-10 00:00  08.wav
    ..A....    185720  01-05-10 00:00  09.wav
    ..A....     57174  01-05-10 00:00  10.wav
    ..A....   2733566  01-05-10 00:00  11.wav
    ..A....   2733566  01-05-10 00:00  12.wav
    ..A....     61092  01-05-10 00:00  13.wav
    ..A....     77380  01-05-10 00:00  14.wav
    ..A....     39280  01-05-10 00:00  15.wav
    ..A....     41894  01-05-10 00:00  16.wav
    ..A....     56646  01-05-10 00:00  17.wav
    ..A....     26490  01-05-10 00:00  18.wav
    ..A....     27356  01-05-10 00:00  19.wav
    ..A....     33430  01-05-10 00:00  20.wav
    ..A....   1287246  01-05-10 00:00  22.wav
----------- ---------  -------- -----  ----
             90516078  volume 2        17

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@masclthrcub

I downloaded the archives from the link Ruldra provided yesterday so they are good.

The md5sum of the archives are:

013b95111064ed845b14bd7a0714c3a5 *vimana.part1.rar
bdc75f9b5f94561e39320f5042ca3a9e *vimana.part2.rar

The first thing you have to do is get hold of these archives and verify the md5sum. If you are unfamiliar with md5 GIYF.

[pbsk8]

Thanks to this thread I could play it with sound.

Only that MAMEUI doesnt support samples, I had to change to MAMEUIFX.

Is there a list of games that need samples? I download all those from mediafire link.

[Xyga]

Among the Toaplan shmups it's only Vimana, Fire Shark, Ghox...

If you want to know the full list of 'games with samples' supported by a MAME build, just start it and look for the 'samples' folder.

[pbsk8]

This Fire Shark I could not find the samples for it.

Even with the samples fullset for mame 0.157 it is not there.

[Xyga]

It's samesame.zip (link on 1st page)

[JBC]

I got this set up today because I'm a big fan of this game's visuals & music. However, the basic shot sound effect is highly annoying & overpowers the tunes. I just removed sample 15 from the folder & it worked like a charm. At first I tried adjusting the sliders but it didn't seem to have any effect.

I tried the autofire option in ThunderMAME but it really takes away from the feel of the game.

[OmegaFlareX]

I didn't see it mentioned on this page, but for anyone interested, this works with Shmupmame 4.2 as well. Apparently vanilla MAME is supposed to support samples but I couldn't get it to work with the same files even though they're enabled in the .ini.

[BPzeBanshee]

Vanilla MAME only supports samples for really old games on really old drivers, mainly Space Invaders and the like. The modified toaplan2.c driver for samples doesn't exist in MAME and is considered to be a gross hack by the official developers.