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Similar to my other topic about disks but for tapes this time - R-Type on cassette loads the main game on Side A, which works fine, then asks 'Turn to Side B and press Space'. I use the 'attach unit8' option to insert my 'R-Type Side B' image, when I press space it asks.... 'Press Play On Tape'...

A pause button for Master System would be great, several games need it to access maps/inventories etc. Any chance it could be added please?

Yes, works fine.

By the way, there's an unzip option within Vice but it doesn't seem to do anything - can anyone get it to work? Would be very handy. EDIT: Unzip only seems to work for single file zip archives. Which is quite useless!

It's ok, I figured it out almost as soon as I posted :rolleyes: My Turrican image was zipped, and contained both sides of the disk. Vice doesn't seem to let you select a file within a zip, it just chooses the first. Unzipping the file, loading side A then using the 'attach unit8' to insert...

Does anyone know how I can turn/flip the disk in Vice? For example, Turrican after the title screen asks 'Turn the disk! Then press space'. Vice doesn't automatically flip the disk, if space is pressed the message is repeated. 'True drive emulation' makes no difference. What's a C64 emulator...

Sorry, I meant it's a backup for my current Wiz, not that I had a problematic machine from Thinkgeek. I should have worded that better.

I've just got a replacement Wiz from Thinkgeek this week, and it's running Pocketsnes just fine - 7.1.0 version, 1.2.6 firmware, compatible version run through .ini launcher. So it's possibly a bad batch?

Either run/stop as mentioned or space are the usual keys to get past crack intros.

I thought the latest version's readme explained that the fast and compatible builds are pretty much one and the same, so you're not missing out speedwise using the compatible version.

I never got on with that emulator, did you know PicoDrive now has Master System emulation? Works well.

Do you have the audio performance hack enabled in settings? Lots of games won't start if that's on.

Yes, but they don't run properly. There's quite a few games that are on the list but don't work, some SEGA stuff also crashes. Probably to do with it being a MAME port, where those games work on the original version.

If we get a new version of this, could the option to have aspect-ratio scaling be added? I'd like to be able to play vertical-based games holding the Wiz horizontally with borders on the left/right. This is because the Wiz is horrible to hold vertically, cramp-inducing within minutes!

Strangely I can overclocker higher with some apps (SNES, Picodrive - 810mhz) than others (MAME - max 790mhz). Maybe it's to do with the RAM tweaks.

Hmm.. Bubble Bobble runs fullspeed for me at 790mhz, no frameskipping. Is it maybe because Video CPU is set to 80%, so the emulated machine is slowing down rather than the Wiz? (if you get my drift) Try setting it to 100%. Splatterhouse won't run well with sound, no matter what settings I use...

Mortal Kombat 1 works if you run the mame_vm.gpe, which uses virtual memory to load larger roms. It's very choppy with sound on though, even with overclocking and playing with all options. MK2/3 etc. don't work in this version of MAME.

So am I right in thinking that when my Wiz eventually contracts the pixel plague, these guys are able to replace the screen? I don't mind paying the $50, the screen quality and controls make that worth paying over getting a Caanoo. Hope they stick around for a while - is the Wiz screen a fairly...

Good god, no. That's why we own Wizs instead of phones.

This is right up there with Picodrive as one of the best emulators on the Wiz, great work. There does seem to be a problem with the VM version when loading larger roms, in particular Neo Geo stuff like Metal Slug 2. At the point where the non-VM version reports an 'out of memory' error, the VM...