A few noob questions if you please . . .

External Since: Jan 28, 2008 Posts: 19

After watching "The King of Kong" I got nostalgic and downloaded
MAME32 and a bunch of ROMs. I ended up deleting two thirds of them
because I remembered all too quickly how much I hated them. However,
a couple of questions remain:

1. Has anyone ever come across sound samples available for "Wizard of
Wor?" I LOVED this game and still do, and would dearly love to hear
the wizard taunt me again in his archaic 8-bit voice.

2. Is it common for some games to not function when you first run the
self test but will work the next time you run MAME (had this happen
with Joust)?

3. What simple USB joystick would people recommend for games where
you can rove all over the screen (specifically vertical and side-
scrolling shooters like Sidearms and R-Type?

4. Some line games like Star Castle won't display properly due to (I
THINK) my current screen resolution, which is 1280 x 1024. Is there
another setting I can change to which may help with this?

5. Also, many vertical games have a large section of the bottom of
the screen cut off so that I cannot see my avatar (Centipede, for
example). What can I try to fix this?

Thanks very much in advance for your advice!

Dave S.

External Since: Sep 26, 2006 Posts: 209

David Simmons wrote on 29. January 2008:
>
> 1. Has anyone ever come across sound samples available for "Wizard of
> Wor?" I LOVED this game and still do, and would dearly love to hear
> the wizard taunt me again in his archaic 8-bit voice.

If not found yet, I got it and can email it.

> 2. Is it common for some games to not function when you first run the
> self test but will work the next time you run MAME (had this happen
> with Joust)?

Yes, I think is this the natural behavior of certain Williams
games. Defender and Stargate do this too. So properly emulated.

> 5. Also, many vertical games have a large section of the bottom of
> the screen cut off so that I cannot see my avatar (Centipede, for
> example). What can I try to fix this?

Trying to force a certain resolution to the games in question.
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