Starskins Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Hi! I've been able to import some TI 99/4a games in launchbox but for some reason, half of them are not imported. The emulator I use is MAME64 and I can play any TI games directly from it. I've unchecked any options while importing to make sure they weren't filtered out with no luck! I even tried to import a single file and while it can be chosen, it will not appear in the final import dialog box. Why oh why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Starskins said: I've unchecked any options while importing to make sure they weren't filtered out with no luck! I even tried to import a single file and while it can be chosen, it will not appear in the final import dialog box. My guess is the games that did import are ports of Arcade games. Just a guess though. Possibly even an "educated" guess. TI99 is not innately part a MAME's 'regular' full set [of Arcade machines]. Thus not included in LaunchBox's MAME full set import wizard. It is however within MAME's softlist (Software List) sets (called 'ti99_cart'). It has 318 +/- roms. Though not necessarily all 'games'. If you have that set (or a curated portion thereof), you can use the Software List Importer plugin to import them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starskins Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 7 hours ago, JoeViking245 said: My guess is the games that did import are ports of Arcade games. Just a guess though. Possibly even an "educated" guess. TI99 is not innately part a MAME's 'regular' full set [of Arcade machines]. Thus not included in LaunchBox's MAME full set import wizard. It is however within MAME's softlist (Software List) sets (called 'ti99_cart'). It has 318 +/- roms. Though not necessarily all 'games'. If you have that set (or a curated portion thereof), you can use the Software List Importer plugin to import them all. Wow! Thanks a million! I will try this and give you feedback! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starskins Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 It worked!! I've been trying to make these games appear for the last 3 days without any success but you fixed my problem! Thank you sooooo much!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 35 minutes ago, Starskins said: It worked!! I've been trying to make these games appear for the last 3 days without any success but you fixed my problem! Thank you sooooo much!!! Glad I could help. The main thing is that you learned why it wasn't working before and discovered how to resolve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starskins Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 Exactly! Now I was wondering... Could you tell me what needs to be done to make the speech synthetiser work? I tried the command ti99_4a -peb:slot3 speech -cart that I randomly found on the internet without any success! Thanks again a million times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 6 hours ago, Starskins said: Could you tell me what needs to be done to make the speech synthetiser work? Nope. Not that I won't. It's that I can't. I've never tried it. I do however have in my notes: ti99_4a -ioport peb -ioport:peb:slot2 32kmem -ioport:peb:slot3 speech -cart I'm guessing the "-ioport" parts are important. It also looks like this will also add(?) 32K memory. Note: you'll need "ti99_speech.zip" if you don't have it in with your roms already. I assume 32kmem is part of the bios (ti99_4a.zip). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starskins Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 6 hours ago, JoeViking245 said: Glad I could help. The main thing is that you learned why it wasn't working before and discovered how to resolve it. 9 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said: Nope. Not that I won't. It's that I can't. I've never tried it. I do however have in my notes: ti99_4a -ioport peb -ioport:peb:slot2 32kmem -ioport:peb:slot3 speech -cart I'm guessing the "-ioport" parts are important. It also looks like this will also add(?) 32K memory. Note: you'll need "ti99_speech.zip" if you don't have it in with your roms already. I assume 32kmem is part of the bios (ti99_4a.zip). Good lord you are a god... Thank you so much it worked the first try! Maybe you could help me with a LAST little thing that annoys me!? Is there a way to ask mame to keep the high score of that computer ? Each time I quit, the high score of Parsec resets! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 6 minutes ago, Starskins said: it worked the first try! I'll add that to my notes. lol Glad it worked. 7 minutes ago, Starskins said: keep the high score of that computer That information is not in my arsenal. But depending on where you read, it does support Save States. And it does not support Save States. But these are Save States, not to be confused with saving high scores. So ya, no idea. Just keep your camera phone handy. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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