FlightSuit

Oh! Right, right, right! Thank you again! You are a treasure! Between MAME OS X and Quicktime Pro 7, I am coming to terms with the fact that I must never update my Mac beyong MacOS Mojave, because I don't want to ever break compatibility with this software. I would be so screwed if I had to find a proper replacement for MAME OS X and then seek out a current ROM set.

By Jove, you have solved my problem! Switching to Open GL in my video preferences did the trick! Now then, my keyboard mapping seems to have possibly changed, and I can't find a screen or preference for changing which keys correspond to what buttons on an arcade cabinet. Could you remind me, please, where and how I can change that? Thank you!

Hi everybody, long time no post! I'm hoping you can help me with a problem that recently developed with MAME OS X: When I launch a game, I can hear the game running, but the game window just displays a black screen. When I first choose the game from the list of available ROMs, its start screen displays for a second on the right-hand side of the menu screen, but once the game is running, I get the black screen. I had not changed anything in MAME OS X's preferences, or under its "view" or "effects" dropdown menus, but maybe I need to fiddle with something there? This is MAME OS X version 0.135, running under MacOS Mojave 10.14.6. I did try telling MAME OS X to audit my roms, but that does not seem to have helped. The Read Me file inside my ROMs folder doesn't say which version of the rom set I have, but it's pretty old. That shouldn't matter, though, because I have not updated MAME OS X at any point, right? Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!

Thank you for this amazing knowledge, ballyalley!

I've spent my whole life believing all Astrocades came with the ability to plug in a cassette tape drive, and that, along with the BASIC programming cartridge, is what enabled enthusiasts to keep the system alive, and make new games for it, after it was discontinued. However, I was just perusing the Wikipedia page for Astrocade, and it seemed to imply the cassette tape port was only added if you got some kind of computer expansion module that sat underneath your Astrocade. I suspect this is not true, and just an example of a Wikipedia page not being clearly written. What say you?

Unfortunately, some of the console ROMs I am most interested in playing are not available in a certain place. So I need an additional hints. DM's are open. :D

Thank you for the excellent hint, Mr. Me!

I'd drifted away from this hobby, but find myself firing up OpenEmu again. Problem is, i've been out of the loop, so I don't know stuff. Some questions: 1. I've got OpenEmu 2.0.6.1 on my Macintosh. Assuming there's a newer version out there, would I be breaking compatibility with my existing arcade ROM library if I were to update to the latest version of OpenEmu? 2. And is there a reason to update to the latest version? 3. When I play M.A.M.E. games in OpenEmu, the screen flickers. I assume this has something to do with which display mode I choose in the preferences. What's the best one to select in order to stop the flicker? I'm playing on my iMac's built-in screen. This is a late 2013 iMac, and it's not a Retina display or anything ancy. 4. I'd love to also play some console games in OpenEmu, but I'm not sure if iy comes with the "cores" for each console built in or if I need to add those. Assuming it's the latter, how do I do that? 5. I know we can't link to or recommend sources for ROM libraries in this forum, but any hints that don't violate the TOS would be appreciated. 6. When it comes to ROMs of console games, can I play a given game if I just have the ROM for that game in particular, as opposed to a whole library? I ask because back when I was out there tracking down M.A.M.E. ROMs, it was weird, because in many cases, you couldn't play a specific game unless you also had the ROMs for its cousins, 'cause they were all somehow related. Thank you for your help!

I don't even know how to build from source, but I downloaded the experimental version of Openemu linked to early in this thread, pointed at my MAME Rom set, and it's working nicely. Should I not expect that to be the case with console ROMs? Do I need to find bioses elsewhere? Thanks again!

I'm glad I read this thread, 'cause it clued me in regarding Openemu, and I'm enjoying it. Thing is, I need rom sets for things like the Odyssey 2 and whatever else. I know we can't link to sources here in these forums, but if anybody could give me hints as to where I should be looking, I'd be most appreciative. I've been kind of out of the loop in recent years.

Sometimes when I'm collecting data, the game prompts me to hit the options button. Does it matter if I do that? Also, are the snapshots and videos I appear to be collecting stored some place where I can look at them later and share them to Facebook or something?

Ah, thank you again. Now that I think about it, this might mean I've never actually reached those stages using Godzilla.

OK, well this is weird: I decided to play again as just simply Godzilla, but this time, even though I'm betting to over 100 meters, several of the final stages are locked. Not just one final boss stage, but several. What could I be doing wrong? Does it have something to do with me failing to do all that data collection nonsense properly? That part of the game still doesn't make much sense to me, and I'm not sure if I'm doing it right. Speaking of which, what are these red and purple flashes I keep seeing on the map? I walk over to them, they're kind of like beacons, for lack of a better word, but nothing happens when I'm on top of them. By "map," I mean the little radar thingy, as opposed to what's on the main screen. I was thinking maybe those beacons are where I'm supposed to activate the camera? But that doesn't seem to be it.

Yes, thank you; Destroyah proved somewhat easy to defeat. I'm playing as him now, but I gotta say he's not the most fun kaiju to wield. His aim doesn't seem so good!

Alright, that bit about fury chains totally got me over that hump! I was able to grow Burning Godzilla to over 105 feet, and have now, at long last, met Destroyah on the battlefield! Thank you again for all your help with this! And to answer my own question, fighting the easy enemies did not in any way impede me on my journey toward the 100+ meter club. At one point, however, the easy enemies were in the submarine level, which, of course, has no buildings to destroy. So at that point, I chose the hard enemies, which were on land, and therefore had some buildings I could destroy in order to gain height.