Universal Blood Bros Arcade Machine (Hidden emulator?)

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  1. tommi8080

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    Just took a look, its not an authorised port as it seems to be by an indie dev. The buttons look familiar to MAME, but is this really a 'one game' app or something else ? NOT saying it is, i dont know anything about this at all. Suppose people will have to wait as once reviews come flooding in you can normally tell if its something else or not

    Someone has to spend 2 dollars to take that risk !!
     
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    Gridlee was -apparently- a single game too.
    Maybe...
     
  4. psj3809

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    Yeah maybe i'm reading too much into it. Indie dev seems to be behind it (only his second game on the app store), perhaps his developer fee is up and hes not going to renew it and so has added this. Ahhhhh i'll take one for the team, give me a few mins
     
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    #5 psj3809, Jul 11, 2014
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    Well i ran the game, looked so so (As i remember you had to run the gridlee game before so it sets up the directories)

    I then looked into iFunbox and i can see a lot of folders (artwork/roms/samples/) which to me looks like MAME etc, seems to have all the same folders as Gridlee (apart from 'cheats').

    I closed down the app properly after adding some roms via iFunbox

    Restarted BloodBros BUT its still the same game. I'm pressing combination of buttons etc to try and get to some sort of hidden menu but nothing.

    Perhaps later today we'll read about it more on sites, i 'think' its a MAME game but i cant seem to get the games listed

    Once more sites hear about this and someone 'cracks' the combination to activate MAME i'm sure it'll get taken down very quickly. So its a risk, buy it now before its banned, yet i'm not sure of the combination !
     
  6. slamraman

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    Damn! Even when I delete the Blood Brothers rom and add in, say Donkey Kong, I still get Blood Brothers. I'll keep trying though.
     
  7. psj3809

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    Yeah i reckon its just a combination. I tried contacting the dev on his tumblr site, see if he gets back to me.

    The way it has the structure i'm certain means its a MAME emulator, just trying to figure the combination !
     
  8. slamraman

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    Yep - when I saw the file structure it was like bumping into an old friend - granted, this one doesn't remember who I am yet!
     
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    I've already got Gridlee but i'm interested to know if this is a better version, if it allows more games etc.

    Searched on the net, all quiet on other sites regarding this app. I cant believe its 'locked' down due to the folder structure we can see
     
  10. slamraman

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    Yep, I'm just dying to have a crack at Defender (the best game of all time, including the future) with an MFi controller.
     
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    Speaking of gridlee, I asked seleuco the dev if he had plans to optimise & add 64-bit support to the next mame4ios reloaded. He said he would like to update it. He said maybe later this year.
     
  12. slamraman

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    Good stuff - this one has seleuco's instructions and everything in it and uses the same romset as gridlee .139u1 or something but I can just can't figure out how to get rid of blood bros and get to the mame page. Not spent too much time on it I have to say but it's deffo iMame. I'm just not savvy enough to get the rom menu up. Doesn't help that I'm using a new mac instead of PC now and iExplorer and Finder aren't as user friendly as iExplorer and Explorer on the PC. Someone cleverer than me will get it, I'm sure.
     
  13. jorgemoag

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    It's interesting. I found the 'help.html' file from seluco's project in this game. However, the seluco's project has neither 64-bit support nor MFi compatible, whereas this game really does. It seems a new MAME compiled.
     
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    I'll keep clicking around random button combinations to figure out the trick to getting into the rom menu. It looks like this has promise
     
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    I admire your resourcefulness! :) :) :)

     
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    any news? It seems it has same source code of Gridlee plus mfi support and multiplayer.
     
  17. slamraman

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    Can't get to my mac today but for the life of me I couldn't get rid of blood bros yesterday.
     
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    Any updates? It's still in the App Store FWIW
     
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    I'm very interested to see if this is what everybody thinks it is too? I did an update and lost my gridlee :-/(lost everything for that matter)
    Anyways I'm still searching for a new good arcade emulator. I had my gridlee packed full of great games and it was super fun playing in my icade jr.
    Besides people thinking this could be the next emu, how is the actual game that we are buying here? It looks like some old school classic goodness from what I could see on YouTube. I never heard of blood bros. I'm thinking of DL just because the arcade looks fun. Also wonder if it'll work w icade jr. ? Any help would be appreciated :)
     
  20. psj3809

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    I deleted the bloodbros.zip in the roms folder. But every time the game starts a new copy appears. It's copied from the main folder as there's another bloodbros.zip there

    When I delete that one the game crashes after the loading animation

    Sill can't work out how to get other games to play. I emailed the dev but nothing. Found his site after googling as the contact support link for the game doesn't work. Still a mystery!
     

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