Cave shooters MAME 0.178b

[master333]

Every Cave game I try Deathsmiles, Much Muchi Pork on MAME 0.178b is stuttery to the point of unplayability. I try F8 & F9 to sort it but nothing really helps.

 

Has anyone got these running buttery smooth or do I need another emulator or am I missing an important video option??

 

i7 4970

gt 980ti

16gb ram

[SentaiBrad]

Try Final Burn Alpha as the emulator for those games. If they are already set up, just edit that specific game and change the emulator to FBA. You will need to add your MAME rom path to the rom paths for FBA so it knows where to look for any BIOS it may need, otherwise you're trying to load games with no direction.

If you need more help:

 

[DOS76]

Those games work in Demul also you need the -run=cave3d -rom= command  and you need certain checkboxes checked

[SentaiBrad]

Ooh, I didn't know Demul ran cave games.

[master333]

Thanks both for your input.

FBA didnt have all the CAVE games supported so it was a no go.

Demul works amazing! but @DOS76 Please can you let me know the rest of your instructions so I can run these games from LB instead of Demul standalone?

I have a platform called Cave which I have added into LB Demul emu settings as default platform and added your code above but when I double click nothing happens! I need the rest of your instruction. Thanks.

[SentaiBrad]

You add your platform to the associated platforms tab (the names need to match), and add -run=cave3d -rom=  as the default command line parameter. Back on the first tab for the emulator are check boxes, there is on here that says "Primarily for demul", check that and you should be good to go.

[SentaiBrad]

Gah, I got the names of the emulators confused (this is what I get for not checking first). You're on the right path though. Check the "Use file name only" box. The nullDC check box shouldn't be needed. I know Final Burn Alpha needs the left 2 checked, but demul might only need the bottom one (of those 3).

[SentaiBrad]

*sigh* I went to go remove one of your double posts as you also removed one, so now none exist... Either way, that should be the solution.

[Charco]

I didn't realise Demul played Cave games either! I guess I 'll have to create a Cave platform now in Big Box and die every 3 seconds in some bullet hell shooters

[master333]

It has not worked.

I have the cave games in zip files and I also have demul as an associated platform for dreamcast.

The Cave games work fine in Demul without Launchbox so its not the zips and its not Demul!!

I have the games in a mame folder but demul is pointing to it and again it works in demul.

Any other ideas?

[master333]

Demul is great with Cave games - best emu I have seen them working on. Cheers @DOS76 for the heads up.

[SentaiBrad]

if associated platforms page is set properly (system names match, proper command line), the check box combination is set (It might be both on the left or just the bottom one), the roms and bioses path is set, you should be good to go. Though in demul's case, I guess this is why users resulted in creating multiple entries of demul instead of using the associated platform, because now the BIOS path is potentially wrong for the other systems.

[Lordmonkus]

Not sure why you are having troubles with the Cave shooters, with your system specs it should be fine.

I run an AMD 8350, GTX 970 gpu and 16 gigs of ram (even though GPU and ram really don't matter unless using shaders) and they all run perfectly fine in Mame 178 for me.

[master333]

tried another copy of demul and still LB refuses to open the games!

@lordmonkus What are your Video settings set to? I use auto but I have tried opengl and d3d. i dont have vsync or triple buffering on.

[DOS76]

Here are the two checkboxes you need.

[master333]

Thanks. Not working....using demul 18aug16.

Will temporarily use a shortcut to demul and add that so that demul opens when I click on a game in LB and then I use the mouse to select the game to play in demul for now.

MAME is too unacceptable with that stuttering.

[Lordmonkus]

I use BGFX.

Something to try even though I doubt it will make any significant impact if any at all is turn sleep off.

[DOS76]

make sure your extract rom checkbox isn't ticked that will break everything for arcade games.

[master333]

Fixed it - all the issues - it was a typo!

 -run=cave3d -rom=  is what you said

 -run=cave3rd -rom= is what was needed. Now it runs using LB and Demul.

Now I see Demul doesnt support as many Cave games as MAME so I reinstalled MAME and used bgfx video option now all games work in MAME and run smooth!

Thanks guys and take note of the typo!

Edited October 25, 2016 by master333

[DOS76]

Sorry about that I've never actually played these I just saw the option in Demul before so knew it was supported.