The second one plays back for me, but improperly. It is as if you hit f3 instead of f2.

I'm guessing that these issues are specific to Robotron, not MAME itself. I know that Zookeeper has issues of this type as well.

Yes indeed! Your game ended with 87975, right?

If so, we are in business! One thing, though: it is contingent upon the verifier (not you) to open up Robotron for him or herself first and choose the "Reset Factory Settings" option. Then, close out the game, and playback the inp like normal. If you don't do this, it appears that Robotron will open with whatever settings you last used and modify those. In this case, had I not resetted to factory settings, your inp would have changed the difficulty from 5 to 7 (since I had it on 5 the previous time I opened it).

Make sense?

Rejected! :-)

Actually, I think I was slightly wrong above. It is contingent upon EVERYONE (players and adjudicators) to "pre-run" Robotron, reset to factory settings, close it down, and then restart the game using only F2 to enter the correct settings. Again, I believe that ZK is a similar (or)deal when recording on MAME.

Originally Posted by anningmay

I am having trouble playing this back, so I may need some advice.

First, I played back as is, but the difficulty was at 3, and the game ended on wave 3.

Knowing that this wasn't correct, I set the difficulty at 5 myself and played back again. Settings screen from your playback looked like this, which I believe is correct:

Attachment 2408

This time, it seemed to playback correctly until Wave 9, when the game ended unceremoniously at 197,025.

I am definitely using the correct romset (robotron.zip). Does anyone have any thoughts?

Dave

I can extract a fresh Wolfmame 159 directory, place the robotron rom in the roms directory, place Mark's inp file in the inp in the inp directory, open a command prompt and type playback robotron robotronTG and it plays back fine for me.


If I try using an older version of Wolfmame (106) to playback Mark's inp, I get an incorrect playback.

What version of Wolfmame are you using to playback, Dave?

Originally Posted by smoke4659

I can extract a fresh Wolfmame 159 directory, place the robotron rom in the roms directory, place Mark's inp file in the inp in the inp directory, open a command prompt and type playback robotron robotronTG and it plays back fine for me.

Hmm, never mind. Mark's file does NOT play back correctly for me either. I moved the wrong inp file and was playing back one of my own files.

My bad!