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That's because that dat file is generated by the Pandora version of Mame4all. I'll add cave in and see how it runs. Should be fine.

Just having a look at how the cave.c vidhrdw driver works. Typically, not very efficient in terms of memory usage.
It's possible to halve some elements of the sprite graphics storage so I'm looking into doing this and hopefully get some more cave.c games to work.

Ah good old Indy!
I did some fixes for this for the Dingoo A320 version - something to do with previous PC for the M68000.

I'll have a look.

Quote from: slaanesh on May 09, 2017, 04:42:19 am

Ah good old Indy!
I did some fixes for this for the Dingoo A320 version - something to do with previous PC for the M68000.

I'll have a look.

Thanks for all this work Slaanesh, looking forward to "Beta 4"...

Anyway, since you ask I can see there are some other games in the list that do not show up when running any of the cc/c3s files:
- MK2
- EspRade, Gunbird
- Joe & Mac :cave man ninja
- Shadow Dancer / Shinobi
- Vigilante

Other games I think should be possible to run although they may be on the limit are Guardians (Denjin Makai II) -what a  masterpiece by the way-, Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder, Methamorphic Force, Ninja Baseball Bat Man, Gaia Crusaders,  Night Slashers, Mutant Fighter, Secret Agent. All of them are below the 12 mb limit and I believe they have been in MAME since times immemorial so maybe it can be done.

What I think it won't be possible at all is to add any IGS/PGM games, a shame, as some are really good (demon's front, Knights of valour,...).

But anyway, and again, thanks a lot. I was playing yesterday Gradius II, something I sorely missed since I sold my Saturn last year, and it blew my mind off how well it runs.

Unfortunately the games you mention are all fairly big. The size limit is the expanded size after it's been uncompressed.

For example guardians (grdians.zip) is about 14MB but uncompressed the files inside are 36MB. Too big for our little Gemei A330. I know what you are thinking - but it's got 64MB! But it doesn't really and the memory it does have is not contiguous. Ie. about 20MB block is the largest single block.

Other games you mention: MK2, EspRade, Gunbird, etc are too big.
All these games would work on a GCW-Zero or Pandora though and run very nicely.

"Ninja Baseball Bat Man" should actually be included in DeasIrem module but it's dead slow running.
Tried some improvements to it but it's just too much.
"Secret Agent" exists - look at "Sly Spy" in DeasIrem.
"Joe and Mac" is Caveman Ninja in DeasIrem.
"Vigilante" should  also be in DeasIrem.
"Shadow Dancer" in VectSega.

Any others you are interested in? Best bet are games up until the early 90s.
I've tried getting Enduro Racer going but it's such a pain!

Cave games status on Gemei A330.
The basic problem still is lack of RAM despite halving some of the RAM requirements for the sprite graphics.

Working:
DonPachi, Hotdog Storm, Mazinger, Dangun Feveron

Almost working:
DoDonPachi, Air Gallet

Not going to work:
EspRade, Guwange, Uo Poko

@slaanesh Did you get any progress worth mentioning on Mame4All? Long time passed since latest news.

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Thanks Slaanesh, I have finally managed to find another Gemei A330 so will be using mame at some point

I want to get the Pandora and GCW-Zero versions out now, so just creating the associated PND and OPK files for that.
Those guys have been waiting a long time.

That's good to hear.

Can you give a quick update on the progress of Mame and possible release dates for other handhelds as well like GP2X, Wiz and Dingoo A320.

Do you have any plans for Mame development on the upcoming dragonbox pyra?

Yes I've made a few other changes, added some more drivers and more fixes to various others.

I haven't done anything Gemei A330 specific for some time though.

I had a quick look at getting Temper going so that's also on the cards.

I want to get the Pandora and GCW-Zero versions out now, so just creating the associated PND and OPK files for that.
Those guys have been waiting a long time.

Great! I'm also a GCW Zero owner, but the Gemei A330 will always have a special place on my heart for it's size and good design.

Temper? Oh, yes!!!

Thank you very much @slaanesh !!!

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Glad to see you're still on the scene slaanesh. I agree with dcervi that the Gemei A330 is a great handheld. Looking forward to Mame4All update, and Temper too. Thanks slaanesh

Yeah it's a nice handheld I agree, though of the smaller form factor handhelds, my heart has always been with the Dingoo A320

So I'm doing the packages for Pandora and GCW-Zero; the executables run from the package but obviously MAME needs a host of support files in the form of configs, snapshot files, hi-scores and of course ROMS.
So I'm creating a means of specifying just exactly where this stuff lives. So far so good! Shouldn't be much longer.

In case anyone is still following this, I will have an updated build for this soon.

Looking forward to it! I'm always pleasantly surprised when I with-draw this console for some gaming There is so much potential!

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