mohanned85 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 hi guys can someone give me command line for mame for these consoles Amstrad CPC, Philips Videopac+ and is there some certain bios set you need to get them to work thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 For the Videopac Plus G7400 command line is g7400 -cart bios is g7400.zip Note that as this machine is a clone you will also need the parent bios odyssey2.zip For the Amstrad CPC 464 command line depending on game format is for cassette games with .wav or .cdt file extensions cpc464 -cass for dumps of games with .sna file extension (if -snap doesn't work try using -dump instead) cpc464 -snap for disk games with dsk extension cpc464 -flop1 or cpc464 flop1 -flop2 bios is cpc464.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohanned85 Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 i have some weird issue are you on discord bro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 @mohanned85 I'm not in discord. Regarding the Videopac+, I forgot to mention that a device is also needed called ef9340_1.zip Sorry about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohanned85 Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 Hi mate none these consoles are loading for me can you tell me all that needed incase i forgot something thanks the consoles are as follows amstrad cpc, apple 2, apple 2 gs, bally astrocade, casio loopy, Entex Adventure Vision, Epoch Super Cassette Vision, Fairchild Channel F, GamePark GP32, Hartung Game Master, Tiger Game.com, VTech CreatiVision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Your Associated Parameters look ok, and your Associated Platforms naming seems to be correct too at least going by the last three which also show in your Platforms Sidebar. It's very unusual to have so many MAME software systems not working. I have or have tested quite a few of them and they do work. Just wondering if it's a common issue. Some of those systems do not use a bios such as Casio PV-1000 Emerson Arcadia 2001 Funtech Super Acan Watara Supervision It might be worth getting those to work first. Do you have the bios for any system that needs one, and does MAME's ini file know where they are located? Is your MAME ini file in MAME's folder? Which MAME are you using? Also, can you post an image of the Details tab of your Edit Emulator window? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohanned85 Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 ok with those consoles that dont need bios they work fine mame ini knows where they are located i have bios i think for all of them and mame ini knows where it located mame ini in mame folder and i using the latest mame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Bios are always the tricky part, even if you think you have the right bios you may not. I ran into that issue on several occasions trying to the non arcade stuff running through Mame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 My mistake, I misread things haha. So it's the systems that use a bios that are refusing to work. If you have a full MAME games set then the bios files will have come with it. If not, they need to be sourced. Taking the Entex Adventure Vision the bios is advision.zip and it should have these 2 files inside b225_ins8048-11kdp_n.u5 b8223_cop411l-kcn_n.u8 See if you have this rom and check it's in a folder (normally MAME's roms folder) that your MAME ini file's rompath line is aware of. If all this is ok and LaunchBox is pointed to your Entex Adventure Vision games they should launch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohanned85 Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 the screen goes black as if going to load then crashes and those 2 files are in the zip btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 It looks to me that MAME cannot find the bios, or the game rom is invalid, or LaunchBox is passing MAME a game path but the actual game is elsewhere. I keep all my bios roms in a subfolder named bios which is in my MAME roms folder and this is what my MAME ini rompath looks like. rompath roms;roms\bios;roms\chds;roms\device;roms\software Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohanned85 Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 so should i make a folder called bios in roms? do u have teamviewer pal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohanned85 Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 my rompath is D:\LaunchBox\Emulator\Mame Console\roms\bios Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohanned85 Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 looks like have issue with these just now amstrad cpc, gamepark gp32, Hartung Game Master any idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 The Game Park 32 and the Hartung Game master both work but not great in MAME. The gp32.zip bios should have 5 bin files inside and, if your version of MAME is recent, it also should have a 6th file named x2c32.jed in order to work. The Game Master needs the rom gmaster.zip which should have the file d78c11agf_e19.u1 Your first Associated Platform doesn't make any sense as the software system Amstrad CPC and it's parameters cpc -flop don't exist. The Amstrad CPC was actually a collection of home computers such as Amstrad CPC464 Amstrad CPC464+ Amstrad CPC6128 (a clone of the CPC464 in MAME) Amstrad CPC6128+ Amstrad CPC664 (a clone of the CPC464 in MAME) and the game console Amstrad GX4000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohanned85 Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) so for the cpc what is proper parameter if i want all them to work and is it certain bios i need or bios the rest working fine now thanks Edited January 23, 2020 by mohanned85 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 There is no software system called Amstrad CPC as far as MAME is concerned and the parameters used are meaningless. Here is the full list of Amstrad machines supported by MAME (non Amstrad clones not included). Amstrad CPC464 Amstrad CPC464+ Amstrad CPC6128 Amstrad CPC6128 (France, AZERTY Keyboard) Amstrad CPC6128 (Sweden/Finland) Amstrad CPC6128+ Amstrad CPC664 Amstrad GX4000 Amstrad PC20 Amstrad PC2086 Amstrad PC2386 Amstrad PC3086 Amstrad PPC512 Amstrad PPC640 What games have you in your Amstrad CPC platform? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohanned85 Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 3099 games buddy lol way to much mention lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I don't think he meant it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 MAME supports the three Amstrad software lists cpc_flop cpc_cass and gx4000. Have a look inside one of the game zips in your Amstrad CPC platform and see what the game's extension itself is. If it's dsk then try the parameters cpc464 -flop1 If it's wav or cdt then use cpc464 -cass If it's bin or rom then use gx4000 -cart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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