MAMEHawk testing https://yadi.sk/d/am8GsuKl0zixgw File -> Open Advanced ........... put bios near the rom you're using don't unzip roms
tried to load a game in MAMEHawk, but it threw up an error. even stranger, it calls for a namco58 and a namco56 rom. while i am 100% aware of the namco supplementary ROMs and how some games refuse to run in mame without them, this is different, as: 1) my actual current download of MAME is perfectly fine running this without a namco58 or namco56, so like it's not that i don't have these ROMs in the wrong folder or w/e 2) when i ran a different namco game that has one of these dependencies, it worked just fine--it's not that MAMEHawk doesn't work with those supplementary roms, as it evidently does. 3) perhaps the weirdest one; neither namco58 nor namco56 actually exist to my awareness? i've looked up full ROM lists and neither of those two actually seem to exist even in modern MAME. i haven't a clue where one would get either of them. or if they even exist. either that or namco58 and namco56 are somehow spoofed in the current versions of MAME, but MAMEHawk lacks it thus far. if it helps, the game i'm trying to run is The Tower Of Druaga (New Version), known as todruaga in MAME itself. i was theorizing making a tas on that game just for fun and figured, hey, i may as well take initiative and maybe try making it real! also, since i'd be obviously foolish to not include it: the error itself
Found a fix for that too, and the solution is simple: All you have to do is feed the game's .zip empty files named after whatever is being asked. Example: King of Dragons asks for a "kd29b.1a" file, so you just create an empty file named kd29b.1a (1a being the extension) and put it in the game's archive. Emulator then stops nagging about it and the game runs. This trick works even in the previous version of mamehawk (before warnings turned into errors).
From a quick check, the namco56 and namco58 I/O files are part of a larger file called namcoio.cpp, which is needed to run a number of older Namco arcade games. From what I can tell that file is already part of MAME proper. I can't quite help out why BizHawk can't seem to find those files, though.
Since it's just a warning, I just need to make it not block launching the game.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the game does have resolution changes and the encode has the resolution stretched more horizontally than it's supposed to, though I probably could've avoided that by forcing the correct screen resolution in the encoding settings.
Here's an Aqua Rush screenshot taken in MAME 0.237:
When playing the game the screen is at the correct 4:3 screen ratio in both emulators, so it might be just how the graphics are handled on the hardware itself.
Hi! I also tried MAMEHawk two days ago and did a test on some capcom (Super Street Fighter II X: Grand Master Challenge) and neogeo (KOF 2002, Rage of the Dragons) roms, and some actually worked. (although MAMEHawk will likely not respond and crash when I use TAStudio) I've been wondering why "The Last Blade I and II" always crash after the green screen disappeared despite its file size smaller than the others. Does it have something to do with the difference between TLB I - II and other neogeo roms?
Nice work on arcade Contra, by the way. This seems to indicate that contra.cpp is a sync stable driver in MAMEHawk, though of course it seems to only be used by Contra and its different sets.
Here is the .bk2 file in case anyone wants a look for themselves. (You can use it as long as you have the rom for this game, titled "contra.zip") drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=19HSrFeUIqGV33511VOqzGGvsfdLJuH3b
