MAME Testers - ISSUES

04661: (calchase) Assert while doing initial memory test

warning: assert: src/emu/render.c:2451: m_live_textures == 0

04657: (cotton2, seabass) Game hangs in a black screen

Game hangs in a black screen

04656: (Various Sets) "Timer Error" shows before start of game each time, showing odd time during setting

A number of games on Super Kaneko Nova System are giving a "Timer Error" and take you to the Time Set screen or just immediately going to it without a prior screen (like Saru-Kani-Hamu-Zou). It also happened in the last version (0.144u6), and with all the galpanis sets working again, they're all doing the same thing. It can also display odd times for the currently set time (over 24 hour time?).

This happens each time you load the game, accepting the time with or without changing it will get you through, but you'll be seeing it again every time.

There are exceptions (Cyvern, Gals Panic S2 & S3, Guts'n, Panic Street, Puzz Loop, Sen-Know...) that just start the game without the error, I haven't checked their time settings yet. It happens mostly for all four Electro Design mahjong games and various Kaneko titles.

Sengeki Striker is an odd case. During the checks, it'll say the clock is NG, and you'll need to push a button to go into the Test Menu, where you'll need to use Clock Adjustments, then Exit afterwards. It didn't seem to be showing 42:##:## as the time, either. The others just immediately take you to the set screen.

04655: (rsgun) Graphic is heavily corrupted

Graphic is heavily corrupted

04654: (All sets in stv.c) All sets do not start or play correctly (Timing, Auto Credit, Sound)

Among the issues related are:

COTTON2: Game hangs in a black screen
GROOVEF: Game hangs after pressing P1 start
HANAGUMI, PBLBEACH: Game hangs when you choose character
MYFAIRLD: P1 start button doesn't function
RSGUN: There is no music and sound effects
SHANHIGW: No music is played
SHANHIGW: The game starts with 2 credits inserted

04651: (geimulti) geimulti - 13 game roms are loaded, only nine are listed in-game and playable

13 game ROMs are loaded in the Greyhound multi-game system driver, but the game itself only reports nine games available. The ROM test lists 9 ROM banks detected and good.

The in-game game list then contains 13 entries and scrolls out of the proper area. Only the first nine are selectable.

04650: (m1coro11n, m1coro11np, m1coro12n, m1coro12np, m1coro21n, m1coro21np, m1coro22n, m1coro31p, m1coro32n, m1coro32np) Game descriptions contain a TAB character.

The game descriptions in -listxml output for these two games contain a tab character inconsistently.

Coronation Street (Maygay) v1.1 (Newer)	(M1A/B)
Coronation Street (Maygay) v1.1 (Newer)	(Protocol) (M1A/B)

04649: (deroon) Stage 6 is almost always reported as Stage 5

I have been playing this a lot as of late and noticed an oddity that most of the time (but not always) when you reach the fanfare for Stage 6 (White Alien character) the screen will announce Stage 5 instead.

04648: (All sets in btime.c) Misplaced graphics for player 2 in cocktail mode

In all tested games in the driver, the cocktail screen (for the second player) is placed incorrectly as well as a good deal of the other graphics/sprites.

04647: (cabal and all clones) "Bonus Lives" settings are wrong

"Bonus Lives" settings are wrong. Here are what they should be :

PORT_DIPNAME( 0x0c00, 0x0c00, DEF_STR( Bonus_Life ) ) PORT_DIPLOCATION("SW2:3,4")
PORT_DIPSETTING( 0x0c00, "150k 650k 500k+" )
PORT_DIPSETTING( 0x0800, "200k 800k 600k+" )
PORT_DIPSETTING( 0x0400, "300k 1000k 700k+" )
PORT_DIPSETTING( 0x0000, "300k only" )

04646: (brix) Lock keyboard input if you will allow artworks.

Activating the bezel, any key press has no effect (either the Esc key to exit).

04645: (montecar) wrong behavior,

checked montecar 144u6 to 137. Overall pace of game seems to be slow (framerate is 100%). Top speed varies when it shouldn't. Enemy cars turn sideways at the wrong time. Colors change befor extended play. I havn't checked the rest of firetrk.c

04644: Tilemap viewer always broken / displays in shades of Blue

Tilemap viewing is always broken, even on games where it should work fine.

Gumbo is an easy example, the tilemaps in the viewer now show in various shades of blue.

(This isn't a driver with custom handling of the tilemaps, but instead the most basic use case, so it should work, and did work prior to the recent updates)

04643: (All sets in chsuper.c) [debug] Exception after OK with debug build

Exception after OK with debug build

Exception at EIP=01CCCDCC (chsuper_state::screen_update(screen_device&, bitmap_ind16&, rectangle const&)+0x004a): ACCESS VIOLATION

04642: (kickboy) [possible] Default dip switch for life is 5

Maybe it must be 3

04641: (dacholer) [possible] Default dip switch for life is 1

Maybe It must be 3 lifes and not 1.

04640: (golgo13, g13knd) Segmentation fault on exit

These two games (possibly others in the driver, I have not tested any others) will segfault upon exiting MAME; this also occurs when using Shift+F3 for a cold reset. All configuration and NVRAM files are saved properly upon exiting, making this a relatively minor bug, however I have marked it as Critical (MAME) since it IS a crash.

04639: (wheelfir) Missing foreground layer.

Missing foreground layer, you basically only see the road and sky during gameplay/attract.

04638: (All sets in hng64.c) Missing 3D graphics.

Missing (all?) 3D graphics.

04637: (chukatai) Garbage sprites on the left side of the screen.

Garbage sprites on the left side of the screen, see image.

04636: (mquake) [debug] Exception after OK

Exception at EIP=00449479 (es5503_sample_r(address_space*, unsigned int)+0x0061): ACCESS VIOLATION

04635: (terrafb, terrafjb) [debug] Graphics corruption on both sides of the screen

Graphics corruption on both sides of the screen, even during the introduction.

04634: (All sets in csplayh5.c) [debug] Memory leak shown upon exit in Debug

Memory leak shown upon exit in Debug

--- memory leak warning ---
#014671, nofree 262144 bytes (src/emu/video/v9938.c:262)
a total of 262144 bytes were not freed

04633: (rollerg and clones) Graphics corruption on right side of screen

As evidenced from the snapshot attached, there is an issue with graphics on the right side of the screen - almost overlapping.

04632: (oldsplus) [debug] Assert before OK

assert: src/emu/emucore.h:340: dynamic_cast<_Dest>(src) == src