gunbird

Baby Bonnie Hood · Post by **Baby Bonnie Hood** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:46 am

http://marp.retrogames.com/inp/8/a/f/bb ... lf74u1.zip

I know I cleared GB1's first loop with this INP, but for some odd reason it won't play back properly. It sometimes desyncs at 1-1 (sometimes getting past that just fine but then desyncs in a later stage), and sometimes 1-1 isn't even the correct stage!

I don't get it, what could be wrong? There was no CFG, no NVRAM, no MEMCARD, and definitely no HI and hiscore.dat. I was hoping to fix this problem before uploading it, but it seems that I can't fix it. So here, I uploaded it in the hopes that maybe someone here can help me...

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:26 am

Looks like this game must be recorded and played back with -nosound to playback correctly.

Post by **mahlemiut** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:12 am

Gunbird can have issues with hiscore.dat. Try adding it, see what happens.

Baby Bonnie Hood · Post by **Baby Bonnie Hood** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:45 am

How do I add hiscore.dat, and where should it go?

Baby Bonnie Hood · Post by **Baby Bonnie Hood** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:46 am

Argh. Stupid dial-up...

Buttermaker · Post by **Buttermaker** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:02 pm

http://www.google.com/search?q=hiscore.dat

Post by **mahlemiut** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:04 pm

Just place it in the same folder as the MAME executable. And don't forget to remove it from there when you start recording too.

Baby Bonnie Hood · Post by **Baby Bonnie Hood** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:06 pm

Well, here are my findings. With the hiscore.dat, the INP keeps starting at the castle stage (not the right stage, though). And with -nosound (without the hiscore.dat), it keeps starting at the train stage (still not the right stage). So with those, the INP is consistent...

Which makes me wonder why the INP plays back so erratically when played back normally. Where are all the random numbers coming from? Or perhaps there's a reason why most of the other gunbird INP's use MAME's that are no newer than v0.61?

I guess I have no choice but to do it again, either with -nosound or with mame61...

Baby Bonnie Hood · Post by **Baby Bonnie Hood** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:06 pm

Dammit, not again! >_<

Baby Bonnie Hood · Post by **Baby Bonnie Hood** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:12 pm

New INP up, and this time it's stable. Used mame62 (I didn't realize the old rom was that buggy; Ash was basically unplayable there!).

I still wonder why the old INP was so erratic, at least with sound on...

Abbe · Post by **Abbe** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:13 am

The new recording works perfectly. Good job.