David 'MameHaze' Haywood

One thing I didn't realise when the first of these Tou ma Pet devices was dumped is there are different versions of them (different OK-xxx codes, different case stiles) which presumably have different software. Here are 3 of them.

The Wiii3 was dumped, although I don't have proper controls hooked up yet (this is one of those where the code to read the controls is messy and is going to take a bit of figuring out)

YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood Further MAME Xavix Sound Emulation Improvements from Ramacat (testing Champiyon Pinball)

Another high effort XaviX game was Champiyon Pinball from Tomy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vBR...
This again has some nice music with Ramacat's fixes, and I hadn't previously uploaded gameplay footage, only attract demo.

YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood Further MAME Xavix Sound Emulation Improvements from Ramacat (testing Gururin World)

Another pair of XaviX highlights are the very obviously Sonic inspired Super Dash Ball and Gururin World, both from Epoch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUCJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0-0...
Super Dash Ball uses trackball controllers, Gururin World is a tiny unicycle.
Sound is improved in both.

YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood Further MAME Xavix Sound Emulation Improvements from Ramacat (testing Geigeki Go Go Shooting)

..and if you play only one XaviX based game, make sure it's Geigeki Go Go Shooting. This shmup doesn't deserve to be a plug and play exclusive. Satoshi Fujishima formerly of Compile was involved in the development. The new sound emulation does it justice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRAL...

YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood Further MAME Xavix Sound Emulation Improvements from Ramacat (testing Radica Opus)

and here is Radica's Opus with the new code
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8xG...

YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood Further MAME Xavix Sound Emulation Improvements from Ramacat (test with e-kara ec0050, The Beatles)

XaviX sound improvements in MAME from Ramacat
Here's a video of e-kara cartridge 'ec0050' "The Beatles" with the new code www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Rd...

YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood Sega Model 2 Texture Filtering Improvements in MAME from Nitch2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO8w... Sega Model 2 (Daytona etc.) texture filtering improvements in MAME, from Nitch2024

Just regular footage of a selection of the games from current the code currently in the MAME Git repository.

YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood Hyper NeoGeo 64 "Xtreme Rally" Sound Improvements for MAME 0.282 (from R.Belmont)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9P8... Hyper NeoGeo 64 sound improvements for Xtreme Rally / Off Beat Racer, which previously sounded much worse than the others. Thanks to R.Belmont

YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood Hyper NeoGeo 64 Sound Improvements for MAME 0.282 (from O.Galibert & R.Belmont)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVrX... another video showing more upcoming sound improvements for Hyper NeoGeo 64. These changes will be in 0.282

YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood Hyper NeoGeo 64 Sound Improvements in MAME 0.281 (from R.Belmont and Happy)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEK1... Here's some raw footage of how Hyper NeoGeo 64 will sound in the next MAME release. Some games fare better than others with the recent improvements, with Buriki, Beast Busters, Fatal Fury and Road's Edge improving the most.

MAME avoided it for a while due to the MPEG stuff, but beyond that, lack of interest from anybody capable of implementing it.

YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood Sega / Coreland '119' - Rare Arcade Game, Further MAME Footage

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDuE... some further progress in a video this time

a PCB for the Sega / Coreland game '119' turned up. Probably has colour PROMs that still need dumping.

Hardware seems to have roots in Galaxian type designs (sprite RAM looks very Galaxian-like but isn't hooked up yet)

While not identical, the Soccer game in the PDC200 and the Backyard Soccer in the Atari/Hasbro Backyard Baseball+Soccer Plug and Play feel very similar.

I've noticed in some of these cheap crappy handhelds the Mega Man 3 pause / selection menu is broken.

(it might sound illogical, but MAME tends to be best tested after a release as more eyes are on it, so without a monthly release little regressions, like the SEEPROM issue which broke a bunch of stuff, can creep in unnoticed, so longer cycles tend to result in buggier builds)

New MAME is out 0.279 www.mamedev.org?p=553
www.mamedev.org/releases/wha...

Not a huge amount of new working stuff from me in here this time.

A few important bugs with the new sound system were fixed, so worth upgrading from 0.278 as due to the 2 month cycle that wasn't the most stable of builds.

these ones are almost certainly different though, as they're different in ways other than the colour externally, and are different PCBs

No idea if these Punirunes will have the same ROM as each other (or the same ROM as the one you can buy in the UK) as they're all the same generation, but the stripes on the SPI ROMs do seem to have slight tints of the unit colours, so....

ahh, I didn't try reattaching them, that's actually kinda smart, I didn't think it would be able to tell.

.. it boots to a Takara splash screen and the menus are in Japanese.

also the plastic stuff is turning into sticky goo, this is disgusting.

Takara distributed one of the earlier PDC models (2006 version) in Japan

I expected it to probably just be the same software in a different box but...

I'm also not allowed to disassemble it unless I'm a professional... (we all know I'm going to anyway)

This 'H6' VT based Famiclone really wants to be a Switch. You hade to slide the controllers off to use them. They also require their own power source as a result, which is not great.
Obviously it doesn't really contain 1000 games either.

Twitter is pretty awful, but if they resist doing this it becomes the more functional platform.

It's also the one where I have a more established audience, which is why I've not been able to shut it down completely already.

I got an 'F1 game' handheld and an 'F5 game' handheld. Both seem to be running the same software, although I have a feeling this software was originally designed for the F1 unit, which is actually shaped like a car.
Bit disappointing as I thought the F5 would be different.

Since there's now a workaround for the creepy personal data demand on here I've reactivated the account for now.

If the workaround stops working the account will be disabled again, as I don't wish people to think they can chat to me only for those messages to drop into a black hole.

Gotta love it when your parcel tracking gives you jump scares.
Tuesday I got a notification of "Destroyed according to sender's instruction" for one of my parcels from Japan.

Yesterday the parcel arrived just fine. Magically undestroyed, in perfect condition.

They're not part of the team, that's independent research, as you'll notice a lot of it is earlier (80s, early 90s) units, as even they can't process the later ones. I'm not aware of them being on Bluesky.