u/ArtisticDiscount2802

Hi, I want to play games for the Japanese Sharp X1 computer. I’d like to use MAME, since I already have it installed and am used to using it. I installed the BIOS (x1.zip) and placed it in the ROMs folder; I also created a subfolder named "x1" inside the ROMs folder for the games—specifically, floppy disk images in .d88 format. However, I don't know how to get MAME to recognize these games. I can access the BIOS, but when I select a floppy disk interface, it just keeps reading and nothing happens. I saw that I might need to use the command prompt, but I don't know how to do that. Can anyone help me?

I was trying to play Intellivision games on the JzIntv emulator; I had the ROMs in .int format, and the exec and grom files in that format as well. It seemed to work—the emulator didn't throw any errors and the games appeared to launch—but most of them either got stuck on a dark screen that flickered occasionally, or, in the case of Pole Position, had glitched graphics like this. I also tested Dig Dug and Microsurgeon; Sega's Zaxxon was the only game that actually worked. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I recently downloaded the BlueMSX emulator and wanted to run it in full-screen mode. I’m not interested in image filters or anything like that—I like the pixelated look—but I don't know how to achieve that in this emulator. I set the emulation and monitor options to "None" and increased the full-screen resolution to 1400x1050 (a higher resolution that maintains the 4:3 aspect ratio), but it still doesn't look the way I want. It seems like there’s some kind of bilinear filtering going on; how do I turn that off? There’s also a black overscan border that I don't know how to remove. I know the Ares emulator isn't the most accurate, but at least it displays the image that way by default.

A Forzathon challenge appeared requiring me to complete a race at the Hockenheimring circuit in a German car to earn the Dodge Dart GT Forza Edition. The challenge only specifies completing the race, so winning isn't mandatory. I raced using the BMW #55 BMW Team RLL Z4 GTE, the Mercedes-Benz #63 Sauber-Mercedes C9, and the 2016 Audi R8 V10—running a one-lap race—but for some reason, nothing worked. Could this be a bug?

I had previously downloaded MAME 0.283, and some Namco System 21 games had an issue where sprites appeared behind 3D elements; *Air Combat* was the worst case, as it made the game almost unplayable. I saw that the issue had been fixed, so I downloaded the latest version. However, the game is now running a bit slower and stuttering—it used to run at 90% speed, but now it's around 70%. Why is this happening?

The Motorola 68EC020 was a low-cost version of the 68020 featuring a 24-bit address bus—like the original 68000—instead of a 32-bit one, limiting memory access to 16 MB. However, since only sixth-generation consoles would reach that amount of memory, this wouldn't have been an issue for the Saturn.

It was an inexpensive yet highly capable CPU; Namco used it in the System 22—the arcade board powering Ridge Racer and Air Combat 22—which rivaled Sega's Model 2.

The 68000 architecture was widely popular, used in the Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST and Falcon; the Mega Drive/Genesis and other Sega arcade boards also utilized the Motorola 68000, so developing and porting software for the Saturn would have been easy.

The only caveat is that it likely wouldn't be quite as powerful as a single Hitachi SH2, but I think what I mentioned could have made up for that.

Jazz fusion in its purest form. Composed by Hiroyuki Kawada

I wanted to do oscilloscope deconstructions of chiptune music in a program called "SidWizPlus" (like this video) . This program depends on FFmpeg and FFplay to work, but an error message appears every time I try to render a video, saying "Expected number for y but not found: -hide_banner Failed to set value '-hide_banner' for option 'y': invalid argument".

How do I solve this problem?

I was playing the game Ace Driver: Racing Evolution on MAME, and I was typing in my initials when suddenly almost all the textures turned white, but when the race started, they went back to normal.

Does anyone know what happened?

Recently, Ace Driver Arcade Archives was released, and in it, a trick was discovered that allowed you to race with the "C-Cars," cars that are only controlled by the game's AI.

On the "Cutting Room Floor" website, on the Ace Driver: Victory Lap page, there was a question about whether this trick worked in that game. I tested it, and it worked!

You need to hold brake when coining up (or stepping on the gas pedal to start if set to free play), then hold the gear shifter up or down after selecting the racing class until the lights are out and the racers are set to go.