Re: Super Mario Bros stymied

The "real" arcade Super Mario Bros. is "Vs. Super Mario Bros."
(suprmrio).  That's the one I would try, if I were you.

-J



Anderson Mills wrote:
> Hi there AdvanceMAME folks,
>
> I've been trying to get any version of Super Mario Bros working on my
> (debian etch Linux) AdvanceMAME cabinet and I'm stymied.  If anyone has
> any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.  Here are the ways that I'm
> blocked so far...
>
> 1 - Playchoice
>   My first thought was to use the pc_smb rom.  This *does* work, but
>   everytime I start the game, I have to remap the game's "Enter" button to
>   one of our buttons so I can choose "Super Mario Brothers" as the game
>   I want to play.  I shouldn't have to remap a key everytime I want to
>   play the game (we use this MAMEcabinet at parties, and we don't
>   leave the PC's keyboard out).  The reason I can't specify the remap in
>   the advmame.rc file is that the playchoice's "Enter" button isn't one
>   of the "DIGITAL" values AdvanceMAME allows in it's "input_map[]"
>   command.  I'd love for someone to show me that I'm wrong about that.
>
> 2 - AdvanceMESS
>   I can get advmess to run the Super Mario Bros roms from the command
>   line, and there are sound emulation problems, but I can kind of live
>   with that.  The problem is AdvanceMENU keeps telling me "Emulator 
>   advmess without rom files, ignoring it," so I can't get AdvanceMENU to
>   show even show me the games in order to play them.  Since the games
>   play without specifying paths on the commandline, I'd assume that I
>   have them in the right place (/usr/local/share/advance/image/nes).
>
> 3 - ZSNES
>   I know this list isn't the place to talk about other emulators, but I
>   can't quite get the console version of this to work.  I get a low
>   intensity, green-only, non-responsive image of the ZSNES GUI.
>
> If anyone can give me any suggestions on how to move forward on any of
> these options, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Anderson Mills
>
> ------------------
>
> mame@pinkmame:~$ advmenu --version
> AdvanceMENU 2.4.13
> Compiled Oct 1 2006 with gcc-4.1.2
>
> Drivers (in priority order):
> Video: fb sdl none
> Sound: alsa oss sdl none
> Keyboard: event raw sdl none
> Joystick: event sdl none
> Mouse: event raw sdl none
>
> Directories:
> Data: /usr/local/share/advance
>
> Configuration (in priority order):
> Host configuration file (R): /advmenu.rc
> Command line (R)
> Home configuration file (RW): /home/mame/.advance/advmenu.rc
> Data configuration file (R): /usr/local/share/advance/advmenu.rc
>
>
> mame@pinkmame:~$ advmame --version
> AdvanceMAME 0.106.0
> Compiled Sep 13 2006 with gcc-4.1.2
>
> Drivers (in priority order):
> Video: fb sdl none
> Sound: alsa oss sdl none
> Keyboard: event raw sdl none
> Joystick: event sdl none
> Mouse: event raw sdl none
>
> Directories:
> Data: /usr/local/share/advance
>
> Configuration (in priority order):
> Host configuration file (R): /usr/local/etc/advmame.rc
> Command line (R)
> Home configuration file (RW): /home/mame/.advance/advmame.rc
> Data configuration file (R): /usr/local/share/advance/advmame.rc
>
>
> mame@pinkmame:~$ advmess --version
> AdvanceMESS 0.102.0.1
> Compiled Sep 29 2006 with gcc-4.1.2
>
> Drivers (in priority order):
> Video: fb sdl none
> Sound: alsa oss sdl none
> Keyboard: event raw sdl none
> Joystick: event sdl none
> Mouse: event raw sdl none
>
> Directories:
> Data: /usr/local/share/advance
>
> Configuration (in priority order):
> Host configuration file (R): /usr/local/etc/advmess.rc
> Command line (R)
> Home configuration file (RW): /home/mame/.advance/advmess.rc
> Data configuration file (R): /usr/local/share/advance/advmess.rc
>
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