Donpachi sound emulation on MAME

MattR · Post by **MattR** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:31 am

Hi,

There is a post on MAME Testers regarding problems with Donpachi sound. Can someone with the real game please provide some input?

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh ... #Post82740

Cheers,
Matt

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:38 am

AFAIK, Donpachi is horribly mutilated on Mame. My ROM has disappearing sprites, does not display bullets and the sound doesn't work. I've always wondered what was wrong with that one.

MattR · Post by **MattR** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:48 pm

Mine runs ok. Both Donpachi and Dodonpachi have a status of "good" on the current build so you might want to update mame and verify the rom.

Cheers,
Matt

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:33 pm

Mine rom works fine. Update rom.

Gopher's Ambition · Post by **Gopher's Ambition** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:34 am

AFAIK, Donpachi is horribly mutilated on Mame. My ROM has disappearing sprites, does not display bullets and the sound doesn't work. I've always wondered what was wrong with that one.

Those sound an awful lot like problems associated with DDP2...

Do you have a relatively new version of Mame? Have you tried downloading Donpachi again?

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:32 am

Sounds like a bad rom or a bad copy of Mame.

I had to roll back to Mame32 .95 because version 1.07 ran choppy on this piece of crap called a laptop.

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:53 pm

Something wrong was with Cave driver from version 100 if I good remember.

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:02 pm

The sound on my PCB goes up and down on L1. I am not sure where off the top of my head but it certainly does that.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:05 pm

Yeah, it's almost like Bee Storm (and about that, has it ever worked?) and I'm downloading another Donpachi right now. I'll let you know.

MattR · Post by **MattR** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:36 am

DDP2 is prelim. It works but there are problems with it. You can check driver status on the MAWS database at http://www.mameworld.net/maws/

Cheers,
Matt

Post by **system11** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:37 am

Donpachi PCB has multiple high/low volume points, fairly annoying really.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:36 am

Yes, the PCB really does sound like that--AM-radio quality, skips, and all. In fact, one of the recurring questions on the Hardware forum at shmups.com is "I just bought [insert title of 16-bit Atlus/Cave game]; is there something wrong with my PCB or my harness, or is it actually supposed to sound this bad?"

From AWJ at mameforums.

Basically Cave used crappy sound hardware (understandable since you can't really hear a damn thing in arcades anyway) but this means the ports have better music than the PCB.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:25 pm

Neon wrote: Basically Cave used crappy sound hardware (understandable since you can't really hear a damn thing in arcades anyway) but this means the ports have better music than the PCB.

Now here's a question: What is the noisiest thing in the arcade?

I think it's the DDR and Fighting games.

ASK · Post by **ASK** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:32 pm

FatCobra wrote:Now here's a question: What is the noisiest thing in the arcade?

Children crying as they realize they spent all their money and have nothing to show for it besides carpal tunnel syndrome?

antron · Post by **antron** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:19 pm

ASK wrote:
FatCobra wrote:Now here's a question: What is the noisiest thing in the arcade?
Children crying as they realize they spent all their money and have nothing to show for it besides carpal tunnel syndrome?

that's why I would go to Aladin's Castle and get the early bird special. $5 worth of tokens for $2. Play till noon and sell $2 worth to some other kid.