Re: Two ZVG questions

Thanks guys!

I got my control panel fully wired up and spent the morning playing Tempest (no spinner yet alas), Gravitar, Space Duel, etc. with my 8-year old son. I tracked down some samples but haven't tried them yet for the Sega ones.

And a big thanks to Zonn for the ZVG!

From: Chad Gray
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 9:49 AM
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Two ZVG questions

There are some ZVG related options you need to put into your mame config file if you don't already have them, specifically:

zvg_menu = yes

which will prevent Mame from closing the ZVG on exit, so when control returns to the menu it can carry on drawing vectors.

You may also want to add:

zvg_artwork = yes
zvg_overlay = yes

The former draws the on-screen boundaries in Armor Attack and Warrior, making them much more playable without an overlay. The latter emulates the coloured gel overlays and will colourize vectors for B&W games on a colour monitor (or maybe that's the other way around...)

As Dan says, the Sega games need samples so ensure you have them where mame expects to find them.

Chad

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Danny Pearson <dannypearson@hotmail.com> wrote:

  1) Yes, the ESC key should exit the game and take you back to the VectorMenu. If you are using a I-PAC this should default to P1 Start and P2 Start being pressed at the same time. If you're not using an I-PAC you'll have to change your mame config from ESC to some other key press combination. Press TAB while in a game (connected to a VGA monitor), and it's something like INPUT(ALL GAMES) to get to the write options.

  2) IIRC the Sega games all require sample files for the sounds. These were a real pain to get right on my setup as they all were generally much louder than the mame generated sound effects. I had the edit them all to get them to an acceptable level.

  HTH

  DanP

  From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org [mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Werner Sharp
  Sent: 11 July 2010 00:13
  To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
  Subject: VECTOR: Two ZVG questions

  1. Is there a way to quit a game and go back to the vector menu?

  2. I have sounds for Atari games but not the Sega ones. I had someone share their ROM images with me but still no sounds. Any ideas how I can get sounds for the Sega games? This is a DOS setup running the original VectorMAME 0.96 from the zektor site.

  Thanks.

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