iPad iMAME (iOS iMAME4ALL in App Store) by Jim VanDeventer

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  1. Rasterico

    Rasterico Well-Known Member

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    They have pc before them cause they're from the play choice 10 cabinets (an awful thing that Nintendo released into places years ago where you paid for time but could play all 10 of the games included on the cabinet) I remember putting a not insignificant amount into one of these just to see marios end credits roll!
     
  2. Hammer09

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    Can you explain how these work please?

    They don't seem to come up in iMame, I have for example pc_smb2.zip and playch10.zip which is the bios, but it's not appearing.

    Are we sure that IMame supports this and has the drivers ?
     
  3. RotaryP7

    RotaryP7 Well-Known Member

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    It's not working for me neither.. :( It doesn't show up.
     
  4. freezesicle

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    if you are wondering whether a game has sound or not you can go to the imame options menu and turn on 'Show Info/Warnings'.

    then when you start a game up it will pop up a message window with information of known issues for the game you are trying to play.

    for example on batsugun it says ''The game lacks sound"

    it can be helpful sometimes.
     
  5. freezesicle

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    hmmm i don't see these on the supported games list:
    http://code.google.com/p/imame4all/wiki/GameList

    according to the link below the playchoice-10 games were added as of mame version .37b7
    http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/MAME_0.37b7

    as far i know imame is based only on mame .37b5 so it doesn't appear that the playchoice-10 games are supported. but i only have the .37b5 roms so i haven't tried any .37b7 specific games myself.
     
  6. RotaryP7

    RotaryP7 Well-Known Member

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    Actually I have 0.37b7 games. I just can't get the PC10 games to work? It doesn't show.
     
  7. freezesicle

    freezesicle Well-Known Member

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    #567 freezesicle, Dec 27, 2011
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    right. the games that were specifically added on .37b7 won't work on .37b5.

    most games from the .37b7 romset are probably ok since they didn't change much from .37b5 to .37b7 but the *new* games they added on .37b7 wouldn't work on imame since it is based on .37b5.

    that includes the playchoice-10 games.


    but since i see this quote below i am not sure of it all now hahaha. Jonbazookaboz needs to check in to clarify this all.

     
  8. raskinny

    raskinny Active Member

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    Bottom line will play choice games work yes or no?
     
  9. freezesicle

    freezesicle Well-Known Member

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    user Jonbazookaboz says yes. others are having problems.

    we don't have a bottom line answer right now.
     
  10. raskinny

    raskinny Active Member

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    While I am here, did anyone get a double dribble or open ice to work.
     
  11. freezesicle

    freezesicle Well-Known Member

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    double dribble -> boots but after initialization stays at black screen
    open ice -> not on supported games list
     
  12. raskinny

    raskinny Active Member

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    That's what I got also. Just thought maybe by luck someone had it. Thanks.
     
  13. freezesicle

    freezesicle Well-Known Member

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    #573 freezesicle, Dec 27, 2011
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    from the 'readme.txt' included with imame:

    my interest is in this part: plus some additional games from newer MAME versions.

    Seleuco or Lesbird or JimVanDeventer my question is this: what additional games can we add from newer MAME versions?

    is this list at http://code.google.com/p/imame4all/wiki/GameList comprehensive or is it just the .37b5 games?

    thanks for any information you can give
     
  14. eev

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    honestly most of these games are so so, it is just nostalgia or something like that. but one game is really great even by current standards, it's dodonpachi. a bit complicated to use the virtual stick but the game is great. of course the iphone port is much better but still mame version is interesting because of different bullet patterns and level design.
     
  15. psj3809

    psj3809 Moderator

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    'So so'. ???

    Come on. Many of these games are superb and are classics. Yes the graphics and sound might sound and look old but the gameplay remains strong. Strip down many graphics/audio from current gen games and they're all very basic

    Plus you've got an emulator with 900 or so games on and still people moan about the quality of games? Pathetic

    There's many great classics in this version
     
  16. UnderStorm

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    I downloaded it, but it's a pity that Apple remove it from the market..
    (I know that iMame was an emulator and it goes againts Apple's laws..:( )
     
  17. dnk

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    Exactly the kind of uninformed people I was talking about before. They always blame Apple for the disappearance of stuffs iMAME and VLC, lol.

    Please read the story first before blaming Apple.


     
  18. Jonbazookaboz

    Jonbazookaboz Well-Known Member

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    After some checking. Playchoice was only added to mame 0.37b7 (which work perfectly btw) however the only bios i can find for this set is the neogeo.zip. SO i am not sure if there is a working bio OR youre outta luck. HOWEVER with this many great coin-op and neogeo games working it is not a great loss.
     
  19. eev

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    #579 eev, Dec 27, 2011
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    erm, where do you see it? i am not saying anything about emulator. that's simple my opinion about most of the games which can be emulated with 37b5 and i wanted to say something good about really great game dodonpachi and that people should check it out. if you think than mb, dk and other praised classics in this thread still have such strong gameplay compared to current ios arcade or platformer games that's fine with me.
     
  20. Jonbazookaboz

    Jonbazookaboz Well-Known Member

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    #580 Jonbazookaboz, Dec 27, 2011
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    Just thought id add these other shooters that are brilliant too:
    Dodonpachi, esp ra de, dangun feveron, sonic wings 1,2 & 3, air buster, blazing star, pulstar, gang busters,Outzone, metal slug 1 &2, moonwalker, p-47, prehistoric isle, r-type 1 & 2, Raiden, truxton/Tatsujin 1 & 2, UN Squadron, Varth, Twinkle star sprites, viewpoint, twin cobra & eagle, 1941, 1942, 1943. Im sure there are dozens more but these work for sure and are awesome!
     

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