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Issues with classic arcade roms like Galaga, Frogger, Centipede, Galaxian

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Alturis:
Hey guys,

I am new to the whole MAME emulation scene. Just got a RetroPie setup and found some roms of classic arcade games which were my primary interest in setting the system up.

There seems to be a consistent issue with older roms like Galaxian, Galaga, Frogger, Centipede, Pac-Man and the like when running on fba.

I see two primary problems

1) The high score display is garbled both at the top of the screen as well as in the score list display.

2) Issues with audio occur such as the lack of sound mixing or missing sounds. e.g. the Galaga death explosion just never plays.

I was wondering if others have experienced similar issues or had any suggestions for solves?

Update: Trying the exact same rom on my PC with mame64.exe does work correctly though. So its an issue with the Raspberry Pi version only it seems.

dink:
For Galaga, you'll need the samples.   Grab them here: http://samples.mameworld.info/Older%20Samples.htm
and put them into the samples folder.

bye for now,
- dink

Alturis:
Cool thanks! Is the samples folder something that already exists?

Any thoughts on the garbled hi score displays?

dink:
I'm really not sure about the samples folder, it should be in the same place the roms folder is at.
That's really strange, if there is an option to enable/disable high score saving, turn that off.  It might be somehow related.

Alturis:
I discovered some new information about the high score issue. I think what is happening is that something is wrong with the way the high score file is saved out when I quit from the game. In the .../bios/fba folder there is the samples folder. Figured that out and the new sounds works great thanks!

There is also a file called hiscore.dat which seems to spell out where the high score data is read/written to for each game by byte offsets and lengths.

But as an experiment I deleted the galaga.hi file (which appears to be the file that keeps the high scores per game)

When I booted up galaga the next time the high score display worked correctly and I was able to enter a new high score and my initials and everything was displaying correctly.

However when I exited out of the game and started it back up again the high score was all garbled again. So there appears to be an issue with how the .hi file is being saved out.

As a related note: When I exit from any game I am always hitting A and X together to bring up the RetoAarch menu and going back to the primary menu and selecting Quit Retroarch. Is there a better or more proper way to exit out of the games?

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