Anyone Got Double Dragon & Bubble Bobble Working?

[BazookaJo]

Got the 0.34b romset but can't get the above games working.

Fantasy Zone has a go, but comes up as garbage on screen.

Double Dragon and Bubble Bobble just go black and hang the machine.


Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Joe.

 

[craigix]

I'm sure i've had DD running, it was slow as it uses a non-asm core, but that was on an older version.

 

[Batman2]

Played Double Dragon from start to finish on my GP2X with no problems.
That was using the MAME emulator from a couple of versions ago, not tried it recently.

 

[suj]

Yep Double Dragon works fine, make sures its the bootleg version

Also on the latest Mamegp2x 2.9 it runs at near enough full speed if you overclock to at least 255mhz

 

[Franxis]

Got the 0.34b romset but can't get the above games working.

Fantasy Zone has a go, but comes up as garbage on screen.

Double Dragon and Bubble Bobble just go black and hang the machine.


Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Joe.

Fantasy Zone: It does not work correctly.
Double Dragon: Use "Double Dragon (bootleg)", it runs ok.
Bubble Bobble: Use the "Bobble Bobble" romset, it runs ok.

 

[BazookaJo]

Cheers guys - got Double Dragon bootleg up and running

Still no joy with Bubble Bobble - just a black screen.

1st version I tried was from version from the 0.34b romset that's doing the rounds (ROMS dated 24/12/96). Next version was from a well know Rom site - same rom dates and alas still no joy on either the basic mame or comaptible version

Does anyone have any specific details I can use to identify the correct romset I need?

Strange...

Bobble Bobble plays okay (sound glitchy at start but then seems fine).
Super Bubble Bobble plays okay too.

Oh well plenty to keep me happy

 

[vampire8bit]

Got the 0.34b romset but can't get the above games working.

Fantasy Zone has a go, but comes up as garbage on screen.

Double Dragon and Bubble Bobble just go black and hang the machine.


Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Joe.

Fantasy Zone: It does not work correctly.
Double Dragon: Use "Double Dragon (bootleg)", it runs ok.
Bubble Bobble: Use the "Bobble Bobble" romset, it runs ok.

Why do only the bootlegs and not the original roms for these games? and will the originals ever
work?

 

[sbock]

Why do only the bootlegs and not the original roms for these games?

Afaik because the protections in this games are not emulated in the MAME version used for MAME GP2x...

and will the originals ever work?

Perhaps. Maybe Franxis knows the answer. But why? I thing the bootleg versions are running great...

Regards,
Stephan

 

[Franxis]

and will the originals ever work?

Perhaps. Maybe Franxis knows the answer. But why? I thing the bootleg versions are running great...
Regards,
Stephan

I would like to have the original games working, but to make them to work is needed to investigate the changes in later versions than MAME 0.34, and sometimes it is very difficult to put the modifications in MAME GP2X. For example i tried to fix Bubble Bobble without success some time ago.

 

[slaanesh]

If you want to read about the difficulties of getting the original Bubble Bobble going check out the following:

Bubble Bobble MAME History

I've also had a go at getting it to run, without much success.

 

[BazookaJo]

If you want to read about the difficulties of getting the original Bubble Bobble going check out the following:

Bubble Bobble MAME History

I've also had a go at getting it to run, without much success.

Cheers Slaneesh - can you get the bootleg version working? If so, what is the name of the bootleg file - I've tried various versions of bublbobl.zip but to no avail.

Quote from above MameWorld link:

At last, thanks to excellent work by Trinity, the original MCU ROM has been extracted. This required removing the cover from the chip, taking photographs of it under a microscope, and manually decoding the contents of the ROM bit by bit. T

Holy Sh!t - These MAME guys really are the Dog's Bo11ocks - I kneel before their majesty