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Data East games display a mame popup text box at launch #298

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Loggahead opened this issue Jun 24, 2018 · 22 comments
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Data East games display a mame popup text box at launch #298

Loggahead opened this issue Jun 24, 2018 · 22 comments

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When I load various Data East games (Bad Dudes, Gate of Doom, Robocop, Robocop 2) there is a small mame pop up menu box at the bottom of the screen with about 5-6 characters in it that is gibberish. This pop up box goes away after a few seconds and doesn't come back. It doesn't seem to affect gameplay or cause any issues, it is just a minor annoyance.

So far, this only seems to affect Data East games (probably using the same driver?)
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I am using retropie 4.4 on an rpi3b.

I have my collection under arcade and checked my retroarch.cfg for arcade and its the default, clean one with no settings. For what it's worth, if I change the emulator for those games back to the regular mame2003, the weird pop up box is gone.

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ghost commented Jun 26, 2018

I got a mini pc (i5 8 gig) and use launchbox(bigbox) and vanilla emulators now for my barcade.

I bought one of these last week ! I got a refurbished mini Small Form Factor Core i5-2400 with 8GB Ram for £89 ! It runs the latest MAME 0.198 great for a good majority of the games. It also came with a keyboard and mouse. I don't see the point in using a Raspberry Pi anymore when you can get a mini Core i5 for that price. That also means I can run my favourite Amiga WinUAE at full speed.

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markwkidd commented Jun 26, 2018 via email

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@grant2258 - I think you're on to something worth exploring somewhere between a Pi and PC for this type of stuff would be refreshing. I always keep a mid to high end PC around but I thought about getting one of those Intel NUC's for the longest time but never really had a good reason. They are pretty small around 4 inches or 100MM squared with a few upgrade-able options like M.2 SSD/2.5" HDD, RAM, etc.. You do like Launchbox? Bigbox requires a purchase to use is that correct?

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@Arcadez @markwkidd Thanks guys, sounds good. No worries if it takes a while, just reporting this as a bug.

@grant2258 So I have gone back and forth on throwing an x86 pc into my arcade cabinet (an original 1982 Robotron that i recently restored). A few years back, I used to have a WindowsXP system in there running the MALA frontend. It worked well enough but I really hated having Windows as my OS. Bloated services took up resources, applications would error out or crash and my cabinet would be sitting at the desktop and I would have to have a mouse handy and would track on the side of the cabinet to click on MALA to launch it again. Ugh. Overall just left a bad taste in my mouth. I really would like my arcade to be like an appliance. I turn it on, it boots to my frontend and never have to worrk about background services, windows updates, CTDs, etc. That's why I really latched on to retropie. All that said, if I went x86, I was thinking of just loading Debian or Ubuntu and then running retropie on there but installing lr-mame2016 instead if that works well in retroarch? I am under the impression that it's just an issue with horsepower on the rpi3?

Anywhoo... that's my thoughts. TLDR: Im on the fence on putting a core i5 pc (have one sitting around) in my arcade but am torn on the O/S and frontend to power it with.

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markwkidd commented Jun 27, 2018 via email

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@grant2258 - Thanks for the information. Launchbox looks really nice. I think I will try a mini PC when I catch one on sale probably this fall or earlier depending on holiday sales. They look for anything to create a sale. "It's national burger day and boy do we have a PC sale for you today and today only!" :)

@Loggahead - I was looking at a i5 7th gen also, i7's price to performance ratio curve is to high. What you're saying makes sense if you do find an O/S that works well you'll have to let us know.

I've been messing around with Debian lately on an overclocked Pi 2 for downloading and as a seedbox. I have all these older Pi's sitting in a box collecting dust. It's a big sluggish occasionally but it actually works fairly well running 24/7, It boots quick and definitely feels more lean then Windows.

@Arcadez - Hopefully you get a break from the heat! We've been running fairly humid and hot here too after several inches of rain. I don't think the river has crested yet and some of the smaller rural towns are fighting with it. I always find it amazing when they give you the day it will crest but I suppose it's some calculations with flow rate, etc. that's probably not very mysterious to the NWS.

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@markwkidd - I'll probably take a look at Lakka too. It's probably good to test some alternatives out there.

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Loggahead commented Jun 27, 2018 •
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@markwkidd I guess this is getting a little off topic so just tell me to shut up if we need to take this to another thread somewhere, but Lakka I thought was geared to console emulation mainly and not arcade? Is Lakka good for MAME or FBA as well?

Arcade emulation is my main goal since this is all going into an arcade cabinet. I do put SNES / NES / Genesis on there too as I like the feel of even playing classic consoles with an arcade joystick.

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@grant2258 Sounds good. I do actually really like ES sitting on top of retroarch and is why I've sort of latched on to retropie for now. I have everything set up with a theme i like and have preview videos for my entire arcade collection. I feel like I've come so far that I may as well keep on moving forward with it? Controls really have been a piece of cake with my Ipac2 board other than my one issue for select / cancel in the tab menu with lr-mame2003-plus, which is really minor.

If I get to that point, i'll keep you posted on mame2016. My thoughts are that I don't really care for any of the arcade games made after 2003, I am just wanting more accurate emulation of the older games with better performance on an x86 platform. An example here is Golden Axe II: Revenge of Death Adder. Even in mame2010, there is an issue with the shadow sprites. I'd like to see more accurate, less errors, emulation by using 2016.

My gut feeling is that I may just try out retropie installed on top of Ubuntu or Debian since I can essentially copy/paste all of my progress thus far into the new install and then start playing around with newer romsets for 2016 and see how it goes.

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#1 - How do I put in a pull request? Played around with it up above but wasn't sure what I was doing so I stopped.

#2 - I noticed last night that Black Heart by Capcom also does the little pop-up box on my rpi3b on retropie 4.4. Earlier I had reported just Data East games this was happening on. Maybe it's also on Capcom Commando Hardware?

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Sounds good. Will do. I'll also retest Black Tiger (not Black Heart, my bad earlier) by Capcom tonight and see if it's also fixed.

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Confirmed all is working normally now including Black Tiger by Capcom. Thanks so much guys!

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