Shmups in Mame

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:50 pm

Anybody know to a list which just lists shmups that run on Mame, it'll make my job easier than havin to sort out all through the whole lot.

Cheers in advance.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:11 pm

You mean like this horrible piece of shit?

Oh and anyhoo, I don't have a list, but I suppose I could make one or something.

RotateMe · Post by **RotateMe** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:20 pm

There's a wonderful list with many reviews at shmups.com, most of them run fine in MAME. Don't just DL every shmup that works, stick to some otherwise you won't get any better. At least in my experience.

incognoscente · Post by **incognoscente** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:04 pm

There may be a way to prune MAME's listxml, but barring that:

Go to MAWS. On the left sidebar, set Genre to Shooter and click the Search button.

If you only want vertical scrolling shooters, set the Category to Shooter / Flying Vertical.
There are other categories to choose if you'd prefer something else.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:05 pm

Yeah, my route was reading reviews from the arcade section in shmups.com and then checking out if they work on

http://www.mameworld.net/maws/

This site show very detailled information on any MAME rom, and you can look games up with certain filters - shooting vertical or shooting horizontal for instance, or by developer (i.e. "Irem" or "Cave").

And then I get teh romzz in a dodgy industrial sidestreet from some foreigners.

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:42 pm

Vertical
Horizontal

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:05 pm

About that B-wings video... there is another button to discard your current wings when you get a new pair, or dive to avoid fire. The game is quite unpolished. The NES version is a little better, but equally as boring. Hard to believe this is the same company that gave us TumblePop, Joe and Mac, DragonNinja, Robocop and Heavy Barrel.

Guardians Knight · Post by **Guardians Knight** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:52 pm

Boo

still no Ketsui then!?!

anything new on the shooter front in mame? - ive had my head under a rock for about 6 months so the last thing i got excited about in mame was RF/2/Jet/Viper working at last

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:58 pm

Thx folks

gunbird18 · Post by **gunbird18** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:10 pm

Guardians Knight wrote:Boo

still no Ketsui then!?!

anything new on the shooter front in mame? - ive had my head under a rock for about 6 months so the last thing i got excited about in mame was RF/2/Jet/Viper working at last

And RF/2/Jet/Viper were like getting a "Seibu Collection" ported to a console. I was giddy for months!

PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:53 pm

There're a ton of shooters that I haven't been able to get to work in MAME, even though they're supposed to run fine.

PepsimanVsJoe · Post by **PepsimanVsJoe** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:00 pm

Wow that MAWS site is awesome thank you.

Been looking for something to fill the void mame.dk left.

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:41 pm

PepsimanVsJoe wrote:Wow that MAWS site is awesome thank you.

Been looking for something to fill the void mame.dk left.

MAWS merely takes the XML output of MAME and sorts it into easy to read webpage data.

Using MAME's various --listgame flags, you could find the same information yourself. People don't realise how much information is actually held in the MAME executable. Remember that MAME's primary objective is and always will be to DOCUMENT arcade games. The ability to play them is (and I quote MAMEDev) "a convenient side effect".

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:50 pm

PFG 9000 wrote:There're a ton of shooters that I haven't been able to get to work in MAME, even though they're supposed to run fine.

Such as?

PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:39 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:
PFG 9000 wrote:There're a ton of shooters that I haven't been able to get to work in MAME, even though they're supposed to run fine.
Such as?

Raiden 2, Raiden Fighters/2/Jet, Raiden DX, Batsugun, Battle Bakraid, Blazing Star, Cotton, Cotton 2, G-Darius, Earth Defense Force, Gradius, Gradius 2, Parodius, Sexy Parodius, Shienryu, Souky, Sengoku Ace...

For non-shooters there's Bubble Bobble, Double Dragon, Rainbow Islands, Pole Position, Strider 2, and S.T.U.N. Runner.

Probably a bunch more, but you get the idea. I realize some of these, like Batsugun, have known emulation issues, but I see no reason why freakin' Pole Position shouldn't work.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:03 am

PFG, sounds like you're missing some BIOS files, at least for some of the games you mentioned. For example, to run some of the Konami games, you need a konamigx.zip in your roms directory.

Don't know about the ST-V though. I never bothered since my computer is too slow and I have a real ST-V anyway.. but it might be the same kind of thing.

PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:22 am

I don't think I ever downloaded a BIOS file like that, so you're probably right. But I can't even get them to show up in my rom list (yup, I've tried refreshing the list several thousand times). It's weird though. Some games, like Raiden and R-Type, wouldn't show up when I first tossed them in the roms folder, but several months later they started showing up for some reason.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:39 am

Blazing Star needs the Neogeo.zip bios for instance. Battle Bakraid works fine in MAME 0.99b - I have no idea whether or not Mame ports have issues with game that run in the normal command line release, but I would suggest you to do without the commodities of MAME32 or other ports and try the plain command line releases. Maybe that helps.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:41 am

Ah yes, I've been using the command line versions myself, and if you're missing a BIOS file, it tells you what files you are missing. I don't know if the 3rd party GUIs do that for you.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:15 am

Alright, something I meant to mention earlier - it seems that B-Wings has a powerup system, similar to Terra Cresta. It actually predates that game by a bit (at least according to the copyright information), although it certainly isn't older than Moon Cresta. Still, the shock of recognition caused me to wonder if it wasn't actually a bit more interesting than it seems to be.

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:30 am

PFG: all these games works fine for me. Check your roms and bioses. What files should cointain roms and bioses is on MAWS page. Or you can use Audit option in MAME32 after right mouse click on specified game.