marcosgaming Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Hi guys, how to setting emulation of platform Sord M5 on Launchbox ? How to do ? I'm sure that it needs an old version of MESS but i don't know exact setting and if needs a command line. I import 11 roms but not starts with MESS. My roms are in folder roms in MESS and there is present bios file too.... Bios is ok for emulator! Please help me if you do it ! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 I use MAME 0.235 for the Sord M5 which needs the bios m5.zip The parameters will depend on what you wish to play. For cartridge based games I use m5 -cart1 For the tape games there are two parameter options, depending on whether a game is auto-load and run, or whether it requires to be Chained. For the auto-load and run games such as Baseball I use the parameters m5 -cass For the ones that need to be Chained I use m5 -cart1 basici -cass When the Basic-I Ready screen opens, type CHAIN and press return to load the cassette. By the way, the auto-load and run tapes can also use the Chain method but not vice-versa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcosgaming Posted September 3, 2021 Author Share Posted September 3, 2021 Thank you. Can you send me screen in LB on your details emulator with flag on boxes etc..? Thanks. Tomorrow I try it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 I'm not quite sure if this is the image you're looking for. I emulate the Sord M5 using the software lists m5_cart and m5_cass, so my "Use file name only..." box is set. With different parameters needed depending on the game, I set Associated Platforms default parameters for the carts and use custom parameters per game for the cassettes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcosgaming Posted September 5, 2021 Author Share Posted September 5, 2021 Thank you so much. Now works perfectly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcosgaming Posted September 5, 2021 Author Share Posted September 5, 2021 Only last question spycat. How you know this command lines specifics.... m5 -cart1 ? Exists any website that contains all lists of commands line ? Or you can send me a message with all list ? So this can help me in others configuration as like : Apple IIFS, Philips CD-i and Fujitsu FM Towns Marty that miss me too... Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 I used to use projectmess, but that's showing the 404 error for some time now. Progettoemma (the MAME arcade side of things) is under maintenance, so maybe the sites are being merged I hope. I don't use the 3 systems you mention but you could check the ArcadeItalia site or ask on the forums here. By the way, if you care to download and extract the attached zip in this post you can drop the file m5.ini into your mame ini folder and this will automate the "type chain and press Return key" bit for you for the tapes that need chaining. sord_m5.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcosgaming Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 Thanks spycat, with my MESS old version it works perfect, but i try with MAME and not starts. I don't know if it needs different settings. I try to put this file .ini in main root of Launchbox but nothing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 3 hours ago, marcosgaming said: I try to put this file .ini in main root of Launchbox but nothing... The m5.ini he gave you needs to go into the MAME ini folder. Not LaunchBox. Example: D:\Emulators\MAME\ini\m5.ini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobrady69 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Hi, I would like to understand where to find the em_5.zip file which expands the memory of the m5 system to 36kb necessary to start games like Drops, JumpJack and many others Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 It doesn't seem to be part of the m5_cart sw folder. However, it shows in MAME, so it may be internal, and using m5 -cart1 em_5 may mount it. But the m5_cart xml lists em_5 as unsupported so things may not work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobrady69 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 There are many games that require 36kb memory expansion such as Drops, baseball, falc, reversi, tankbtl and others... can you make them work? I don't know if it's my problem or the Mame still can't perform them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 (edited) There's a mention here about an issue with carts needing 36K RAM. With a bit of luck it might be sorted in the next MAME build. https://mametesters.org/view_all_bug_page.php Edited January 17 by spycat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 2 hours ago, spycat said: There's a mention here about an issue with carts needing 36K RAM. With a bit of luck it might be sorted in the next MAME build. https://mametesters.org/view_all_bug_page.php Thanks! That works. Well, if you do a little backtracking. Using MAME revision 0.226 mame64 m5 -ram 36k drops 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Good to know. Hopefully this will be fixed in a near future build of MAME. I'm on 0.261 but also using 0.239 just to be able to play Akai Katana! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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