The Empire Strikes Back On Gpmame 1.3

[RatchetMan]

Has anyone managed to get this to work correctly? The game starts for me but then it just freezes as soon as I start playing the first level.

 

[thegrimreaper]

Has anyone managed to get this to work correctly? The game starts for me but then it just freezes as soon as I start playing the first level.

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I was quite excited too when the game loaded up, I've never even heard of this game before, but unfortunately it's the same for me, maybe it's a bad ROM

Does this work on the msdos 0.34 version of Mame? Or any other version?

If it doesn't work in msdos 0.34, but does work in a later version, then maybe I could fix it.

 

[Hooka]

Sorry I was thinking return of the jedi... my apologies for this....

 

[thegrimreaper]

I'll check again on MAME 1.3 but I know for sure that it was playable in 1.2...

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But The Empire Strikes Back was a new game added in 1.3 ???


http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=19668&st=0#

 

[Gruntfuggly]

In theory it should work - it was based on the same hardware as Star Wars. It was never a dedicated machine in it's own right - it was an upgrade for Star Wars, as far as I remember...

 

[Gruntfuggly]

Actually, I don't mean it *should* work - just that it *could* work...

 

[thegrimreaper]

Good news, good news.

I found a site that has all the old versions of Mame32 (which makes using Mame on Windows a real breeze).

Get your old versions here:
http://mame.joymonkey.com/mame32/

I tried version 0.34 and it even warns you that "There are problems with this game". Pretty cool.

But 0.35 seems to work reasonably well. I'll have a look at the differences between the 2 versions when I get some free time.

 

[RatchetMan]

Good news, good news.

I found a site that has all the old versions of Mame32 (which makes using Mame on Windows a real breeze).

Get your old versions here:
http://mame.joymonkey.com/mame32/

I tried version 0.34 and it even warns you that "There are problems with this game". Pretty cool.

But 0.35 seems to work reasonably well. I'll have a look at the differences between the 2 versions when I get some free time.

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Many thanks grimreaper, you are the mann

 

[e_b]

In theory it should work - it was based on the same hardware as Star Wars. It was never a dedicated machine in it's own right - it was an upgrade for Star Wars, as far as I remember...

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IIRC Empire didn't work on PC MAME when Star Wars did way back when. I remember arguing the same reasoning myself!