Region change for Magical Drop 3 in MAME?

[Davey]

I must be an idiot. I'm trying to set the region on Magical Drop 3 to Japan so I can try out Hard mode. From what I've read online, this should be as simple as going into the dip switch settings and changing the region there. But when I go there, there's nothing related to region, or in the service mode when hitting F2.

Has anybody else been able to do this? I'm using MAME .98, btw.

[Davey]

In the unlikely event that anybody cares, I found a half-assed solution to this: using an older version of MAME. I tried this out with MAME .63 (which was before all those Neo-Geo ROMs got redumped), and the Territory setting is there, plain as day. However, .98 doesn't have it (as I mentioned above), and I downloaded .101, which doesn't have it either.

I'd rather just have one MAME executable if possible... does anybody know what the deal is here?

I also don't get the territory setting in the newer MAME versions. Despite all the text being in English, all the character voices are in Spanish... Cuidado! Cuidado! Bien Trabajo!

[Danny]

If you are using the MAME32 emu right click on the rom name and click properties then click on the misc' tab. Near the bottom of the menu there should be a bios setting, just change that to the jap MVS bios and the game should now run as if it's runing though a Jap MVS so you'll get the Jap version of the game.

I am also a huge fan of Magical Drop 3, in fact my favourate charater is Death because I find her funny (yes I know I'm odd). The Jap verson is much better than the US or europe versions.

[Davey]

I don't use MAME32, I just use the regular old command-line MAME. Well, not really, I create shortcuts and dump them in my Start menu (which, admittedly, is probably unnecessary work, given the existence of MAME32).

Regardless, I finally figured out the "right" way to do this: just add this to the argument list:

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-bios japan

As it turns out, information on the internet may be old and/or unreliable. Who knew?

[Danny]

Heh cool glad you got it to work, now you can listen to the proper japanese voices (yes a lot of them were cut in the other vserions) and play the adventure mode 2 player with cpu!