Re: Super Mario Bros stymied (solved)

Other AdvanceMENU users,

In the process of getting the C64 emulator VICE running, I stumbled
across two crucial pieces of information which allowed me to finally get
AdvanceMESS (the Multiple Emulator Super System) running.  One was the
description of the AdvanceMESS emulator in fine manual:

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advmenu.html#4.3

and the other was about the C64 BIOS roms on this forum page:

http://www.bannister.org/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Forum/7/topic/0=
02564/Number/0/site_id/1#import

My biggest problem was that I didn't understand how BIOS roms worked,
and that the error message "Emulator advmess without roms files,
ignoring it." meant *BIOS* roms and not *cartridge* roms.  Now, I have
the BIOS roms for the C64, NES, and SNES correctly named and in the
right location and AdvanceMESS works (well, as well as the support of
the emulation for each system works). =


Thanks for y'all's help,
Anderson Mills

P.S. Just so y'all know, I'm sticking with FCE Ultra for NES emulation
and ZSNES for SNES emulation.  They're support is more current and
better than AdvanceMESS's.  I'm not sure about SDLMESS, but I've got
months' worth of games to play at this point.  Yay!



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Eric and others,

I sure did, and I put copies of the games in every directory I could
think of.  Also, if I use advmess directly from the commandline, it
finds the roms without me having to specify a path to them, so it sure
seems that advmess.rc is set up correctly.

At this point, I've given up on advmess, and I'm running NES games using
FCE Ultra and SNES games through ZSNES.  Unfortunately, I have to load X
for each of those, but at least I'm able to play the games (I have
advmenu run a shell script which loads X before running those emulators).

Also, just for knowledge, it turns out that the arcade game, "Vs. Super
Mario Bros," is pretty different from the NES game, "Super Mario
Bros."  The arcade game is more difficult (Koopas (turtles) replace
some Goombas (mushrooms), less 1up's, etc), and uses different level
maps, especially later in the game.

Much appreciation,
Anderson Mills


> It seems just a problem whit rom_path in advmess.rc. Did you check =

> exaustivelly if all *_paths are correct?
> =

> I=B4m using advmess/advmenu on my 15Khz arcade cabinet and it works fine.
> =

> sds
> =

> Eric
> =

> ----- Original Message ----- =

> From: "Anderson Mills" <[email protected]>
> To: <advancemame-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 5:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [advancemame-users] Super Mario Bros stymied
> =

> =

> >Pardon me.  I definitely didn't make it clear that I'd like to be able
> >to play the series, 1 through 3, and eventually even Super Mario World
> >(SNES).
> >
> >This will give me my fix on the first one, (thank you!) but I'd like to
> >find out how to run the NES and SNES roms with AdvanceMESS if possible.
> >Has anyone seen the "Emulator XXXXXX without rom files, ignoring it"
> >error before and successfully ripared it?
> >
> >Anderson Mills
> >
> >>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 h=
as
> >>> 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" butt=
on =

> >>> to
> >>>   one of our buttons so I can choose "Super Mario Brothers" as the ga=
me
> >>>   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 o=
ne
> >>>   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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