Too close for comfort? the revival?

[Siren2011]

I am currently going through Ibara Kuro withdrawals, and they're harming my social and academic life, so you know that Cave did something right.

A big thanks to everyone involved. These ROMs look incredible on my somewhat seasoned Vaio desktop PC. But I couldn't get into Futari 1.5 at all. It was either skull numbingly boring (Maniac, Original), or so hard it wasn't even enjoyable for me (Ultra). Of course the scoring system appears to be similar to Mushihimesama, but I prefer the scoring of the first game over the sequel.

NOTE: Scratching is fun in Black Label, but I still prefer Psyvariar 2 for that, as well as the original Ibara. It just felt more "Garegga" because you had to die to decrease rank (bombing wouldn't do that ), which brought the tension skyrocketing.

[emphatic]

When you're done, sound is already working?

Erm, I doubt it? Isn't the problem that the sound isn't emulated yet?

I cant imagine itl be to long given the awesome levels of progression already , after watching muchi pork superplays im almost greatful there isnt sound . I would love sound solely for futari though.

I was trying to be funny quoting the "it takes forever" but sometimes my jokes are too far-fetched apparently.

[shmuppyLove]

I was trying to be funny quoting the "it takes forever" but sometimes my jokes are too far-fetched apparently.

Ah gotcha, actually that is funny

Without sound it's kind of sucky ... but Mushihimesama already plays far far better than the PS2 port running with pcsx2, that's for sure.

I'll just play some chiptunes in the background, make "pew pew" sounds and random whiny japanese girl noises

[Vamos]

A big thanks to everyone involved.

+1

[z0mbie90]

I'll just play some chiptunes in the background, make "pew pew" sounds and random whiny japanese girl noises

lol.

[Nasirosuchus]

I just play the OST's for each game in the background. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor actually started just as I reached Tyrannosatan in Death Smiles.

[ratikal]

I'll just play some chiptunes in the background, make "pew pew" sounds and random whiny japanese girl noises

lol.

I thought I was the only one!

[Jockel]

I'll just play some chiptunes in the background, make "pew pew" sounds and random whiny japanese girl noises

Sounds like my sex-life.

[O. Van Bruce]

I'll just play some chiptunes in the background, make "pew pew" sounds and random whiny japanese girl noises

Sounds like my sex-life.

Get it farther. Take the OS of Mushihime futari and ram it to your head for 5 hours AFTER playing mushihime for 4.

Yesterday I didn't sleep at all...

BUT I WANT IT IN THE ROM...

[BIL]

Just for the fun of it could somebody please remind us why we shouldn't be downloading and playing these roms, preferably from the moral highground and in capital letters with derogatory references to the homeless and chemically dependent if possible.
Thanks...

Haha. You're still asshurt over that homeless bum comment? I'm quite happy just reading this thread, thanks. Enjoy the "free games!11!"

[IseeThings]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/newyae

this is MAME SVN revision 14244 (171011)

both 32-bit and 64-bit builds in there.

The RTC is emulated in this one, so the clocks work in ib backgrounds.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tpqmzq

this is MAME SVN revision 14257 (191011)

again both 32-bit and 64-bit

There have been some slight optimizations to the SH3/4 core, which give a speed up in some situations that were demanding before, although it's highly conditional on what the SH4 is doing, for the more complex maths parts it's no faster, for some basic operations it's 20-30% faster. If you were borderline (95% ish) on some stuff before it might be worth trying.

[ptoing]

Is that one MT?

[TrevHead (TVR)]

I'll just play some chiptunes in the background, make "pew pew" sounds and random whiny japanese girl noises

Sounds like my sex-life.

Haha very funny

Just for the fun of it could somebody please remind us why we shouldn't be downloading and playing these roms, preferably from the moral highground and in capital letters with derogatory references to the homeless and chemically dependent if possible.
Thanks...

Haha. You're still asshurt over that homeless bum comment? I'm quite happy just reading this thread, thanks. Enjoy the "free games!11!"

I think everybody who was pissed has pritty much said all that was needed to be said. Plus the fact the MAME guys are now handling it, I can put any worries that DFK might suddenly appear as 100%working

But enough of that im looking forward to playing these games same as everybody when they are fully working in a number of months from now

[ptoing]

Also, general mame question. Is there a way to make it scale with even pixel sizes when using D3D?
I do not care if it is as big as possible, I want that all pixels are scaled the same.

[RNGmaster]

this is MAME SVN revision 14257 (191011)

again both 32-bit and 64-bit

There have been some slight optimizations to the SH3/4 core, which give a speed up in some situations that were demanding before, although it's highly conditional on what the SH4 is doing, for the more complex maths parts it's no faster, for some basic operations it's 20-30% faster. If you were borderline (95% ish) on some stuff before it might be worth trying.

So does this version use the blitter shortcut that causes all the glitched textures and flickering?

[IseeThings]

this is MAME SVN revision 14257 (191011)

again both 32-bit and 64-bit

There have been some slight optimizations to the SH3/4 core, which give a speed up in some situations that were demanding before, although it's highly conditional on what the SH4 is doing, for the more complex maths parts it's no faster, for some basic operations it's 20-30% faster. If you were borderline (95% ish) on some stuff before it might be worth trying.

So does this version use the blitter shortcut that causes all the glitched textures and flickering?

No, these are official builds. They're threaded, but done in a safe way. The only build with the glitchy textures and flickering was the one Metallic posted, before proper thread support was added.

[mjclark]

Just for the fun of it could somebody please remind us why we shouldn't be downloading and playing these roms, preferably from the moral highground and in capital letters with derogatory references to the homeless and chemically dependent if possible.
Thanks...

Haha. You're still asshurt over that homeless bum comment? I'm quite happy just reading this thread, thanks. Enjoy the "free games!11!"

Thanks BIL! Knew we'd be able to count on you
Roll on Demul 0.5.7...

[BIL]

No problem, pulling people up on their passive-aggressive junk is my speciality.

[Vamos]

Will the next mame release rectify the issue so we dont have to use command line to launch deathsmiles?

[joeboto]

Will the next mame release rectify the issue so we dont have to use command line to launch deathsmiles?

just grab the right roms somewhere.

[xgunnBlaze]

Playing Ibara Black Label without sound isn't too bad; making your own sound effects can be fun.
"BURNAAHHH!" "BOMBAHHHH!" *Pew pew*

Thanks to all of the people who helped out with this!

[mjclark]

No problem, pulling people up on their passive-aggressive junk is my speciality.

Is "junk" a drugs reference lol...anyway there's no underestimating the power of words to irritate people, so well played all round

I tried playing MMP with the OST in the background but somehow it's not quite the same.
On the Russian Demul forum they said that they's succeeded in emulating the Yamaha aac codec to get sound in these but that's not mpeg is it? Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick?

[BIL]

Is "junk" a drugs reference lol...

It was actually (albeit noted after the post was written)! But I didn't know if it would be considered derogatory so I left it for someone to point out. I suppose I deserve a smack! (<--ROFL)

[captpain]

ugggggggggggggggggggh

[RNGmaster]

CLRMAMEPro won't detect my roms even if I direct it right to my rom folder.
Not sure if even Ibara Kuro for free is worth this bullcrap.

[moozooh]

On the Russian Demul forum they said that they's succeeded in emulating the Yamaha aac codec to get sound in these but that's not mpeg is it?

AAC is part of a MPEG-4 standard. Patent encumbrance won't wear off for a while with this one.

[Siren2011]

Hey RNGmaster, I had the same problem. Try copying the ROM files to another place (Such as "desktop.") and change MAME's directory accordingly. It worked for me... Good ruck wit dat. And I have no idea why this problem exists in the first place.

[shmuppyLove]

What's really sad is, even at 50% speed I still suck at Cave shmups

[RNGmaster]

Using romcenter. It says that all the files are present, but MAME doesn't recognize futari15_u2 and u4 even though they're clearly there. Strange.

[RetroRepair]

On the Russian Demul forum they said that they's succeeded in emulating the Yamaha aac codec to get sound in these but that's not mpeg is it?

AAC is part of a MPEG-4 standard. Patent encumbrance won't wear off for a while with this one.

AAC has nothing to do with it. The codec is called AMM and is a Yamaha proprietary format.

That said, we've yet to see if Yamaha use some form of mpeg compression in the codec. If so, forget it.