NBA Play By Play not Working on Mame2010 Core

I am wondering how can I get around this Error?

Using the Latest Version MAME Rom and also 1 from 0.139ui Pack

Actually nevermind my previous reply, while i do think handling romset versions without clrmamepro is a bad idea, i think it’s more likely to be a core bug or a save-related bug.

I’d recommend making sure savestate-based features are disabled (runahead, rewind, …) and deleting any eeprom/nvram saved on disk. If it doesn’t work, then mame2010 is probably broken for this game, as expected from that core on a 3d game.

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Where on Disk would I delete them From?

I found it very hard to Figure out clmamepro

This is how you do it in FBNeo : https://docs.libretro.com/library/fbneo/#why-do-the-self-tests-at-boot-fail

MAME is probably very similar.

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I don’t think that game will work on MAME 2010; it has been functionally supported since version 0.281.

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What was fixed in 0.281 was the bad music speed and the missing half of the frames, the game was technically “playable” before those fixes, like shit though.

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But you needed a beast of a machine; even now, you need at least a 4th generation i7 to run it smoothly.

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To be more precise, the requirements went up now that MAME doesn’t skip half of the frames anymore.

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Have they done something to the driver? It works faster now, just like Terraburst from the same driver.

I tried the game and I get the same error (-01N), and the save folders are empty.

I only got that game, I don’t think it needs anything else. The drive is probably inside the zip file.

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It shouldn’t be necessary to mention it if you properly applied the recommendations from the documentation, but mame2010 and mame-current use different romsets, specifically they use different dumps for this game’s main program and security eeprom. Failure to use the correct romset is likely to cause this security error.

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Yes, and I verified it with the dat.

I haven’t done the whole set. Maybe the driver is missing? Although I suspect that the m48t58… is the driver. I also checked it in Arcade Data Base and it does not require any additional files.

It would not be surprising, as the 2003 Plus itself has many games that do not work.

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I got game from older romset but same issue happened

Then it must mean the game was not playable back in 2010, which is kind of surprising since it wasn’t flagged as non-working back then (well, mame flags can be wrong). You might want to try your luck with 2016 if the recent fixes in current are too much for your computer ?

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I looked and there is no MAME 2016 Core I could see on Retroarch

Oh, i just checked and it seems to be unavailable from the online updater indeed, it’s only available if you are willing to build it yourself. Maybe someone who built the core for your platform can share it ? I’d recommend opening a separate topic about it though.

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Okay I found Mame 2016 and Also Mame 2015 Core

I tried both and Mame 2016 was going about 42FPS and Mame 2015 Core was going around 52fps so that is Just Playable but runs Slow and Speeds up a Bit