The Beginners Guide to MAME

What a friend of mine on keyboard does it set up the three punches regularly.

For this example assume button “X” is the button that is for 3K. Buttons A, B, and C, are the original buttons on your controller configured for lk, mk, and hk. Where A = lk, B = mk, and C = hk.

So you have inputs 4,5,6, already configured for lk, mk, and hk. After setting input 4, for lk, hit enter on it again and hit “X”, now it’ll show that it accepts two different inputs as being lk. (“X” and “A”) Then go and do the same for input 5 (mk), and 6 (hk). Now you have three inputs that all take their original configured input (A, B, an C) and X.

So X shows up as an input for all three kicks, and when you hit it you get all three.

Sorry if this is confusing.

I’m lucky to have a 6-button pad, so I don’t have to worry about it, but I think everyone can feel the pain of those confined to bad options. (I should get a converter, but I really don’t play fighters on emulator enough to wanna.)

A friend and I are using the Mame 118 version with Kaillera client integrated.
I haven’t used it for a while, but the main issue I have is that no matter how you change the BIOS and region for a game (lets say Samurai Shodown 2)
once we connect to play, it defaults everything back to JAP.
Has anyone had this issue before?

Normal behavior.
The emulator would probably desynch otherwise.

Ok so just got mame .118 and I’m trying to play kof2k2 but I keep getting eror messages like “Error: A8R8G8B8 format textures not supported.” and “Unable to initialize Direct 3D.” I have no idea what’s going on o.O

edit: Oh and I have the neo geo bios.

change your “video output method” from direct3d to whatever else works. You can access that option on Options->Default game options->Advanced

Ok so that worked, thanks.

That’s also a strange error I’ve had if I change the video settings after running the ROM at least once; deleting the config files for that ROM fixes it.

Thanks for the help everyone.

I have 2 more questions pertaining to Mame + + .118 with Kaillera

1.)I can’t for the life of me find the Scanline option. I always play with a 25% scanline

2.) is there some magical way to “join” a game? For instance, I join a server fine, lets say Sonic Cage and My friend will start a game, the status is at 1/2 players and is at “waiting”. Once the game loads up, it seems like we both have different games going, because about 90% of the time, I enter quarters and i’m the only one playing, the same goes for him. ABout 10% of the time it works fine. I have even upgraded my kaillera dll to the anti3d version and we have tried on all speed options as well.

Thanks again for your help.

For #1, while you’re in game hit tab and there’s a place to check for different screen displays.

In the MAME32 GUI:
Options> Default Game Options> Advanced> Select Effect.

Known synch bug.
You can’t prevent it from happening, as far as I know.

Thanks again,

No matter what I have nothing to choose from in the Effects box except for None.
It doesn’t matter if I choose GDI, Direct3D or Driect Draw.
All of the Image Enhancements are there, but None of those seem to add scanlines.
Even from in the game and hitting tab will only let you go through the Image Enhancements.

Weird,
Maybe this version i downloaded has some issues.

Oh, please download this:


http://rapidshare.com/files/49578987/MAME_special_effects_pack_by_M.Bigode.rar

Is it normal for games the crash right after someone gets K.O.'ed its been happening alot it looks bad.

also any tips for getting better performance besides the ones in default game options?

1:Get a powerful processor.
MAME benefits from CPU powah !

2:Take a little look at the help files.
Use the recommended configurations.
Read it carefully…

3:Close all applications when using MAME.
Seriously, close EVERYTHING.

4:A good video card.

That’s all.
RAM is purely optional, 250~300 MB of RAM is good enough, AFAIK.

so im a bit curious, what mame client is the most popular right now? Still 32k 64, or the 32++ 0.117? if its the 0.117 should i be using 0.117u3? I’m looking for the most popular and best for SF:3s

64 doesn’t play 3s.

You can only choose between 0.117 and 0.118, thanks to the Kaillera retarded kids.

OMG I was looking everywhere for this thread! (friggin “search” function)

so I want to play fighting games online…

and I have these games

MSH
MvsC
XmenvsSF
SFA3

etc.

they work perfectly on this mame I had from before…

but on this online one…they don’t load up and say they are missing some files or something.

What do I do?

I don’t like playing mame32k or mame32++ because the sound is fucking horrible, always choppy. Is there a way to make it more linear? Any hints modifying the sound buffer?

You need to get newer sets, obviously.