Category: <b>Arcade</b><br><br>Haze has posted up some work in progress news regarding Gaelco’s Squash arcade game. Here is what Haze posted over at his site.
Head on over to Haze's site for some screenshots of the game in action.
:: Haze's MAME WIP Site
A couple of months back Mike Coates reported some progress with Gaelco’s Squash.
I’ve decided to make this the next thing I look at, and have started off by cleaning up the driver a little so that the game runs correctly.
From his previous work I’ve corrected the loading of the GFX and Sample roms. The crash mentioned before was caused by the OKI banking which and the game attempting to play invalid samples. The game actually seems to be fully playable now (although I don’t know the rules of Squash) but still requires a table of around ~1.5gig in size to actually decrypt at runtime.
The next task is obviously to try and reduce that table to something sensible which is a better representation of how the hardware works, at this point I have no idea of the size of this task.
Again I stress this will ONLY help Squash.
I’ve decided to make this the next thing I look at, and have started off by cleaning up the driver a little so that the game runs correctly.
From his previous work I’ve corrected the loading of the GFX and Sample roms. The crash mentioned before was caused by the OKI banking which and the game attempting to play invalid samples. The game actually seems to be fully playable now (although I don’t know the rules of Squash) but still requires a table of around ~1.5gig in size to actually decrypt at runtime.
The next task is obviously to try and reduce that table to something sensible which is a better representation of how the hardware works, at this point I have no idea of the size of this task.
Again I stress this will ONLY help Squash.
Head on over to Haze's site for some screenshots of the game in action.
:: Haze's MAME WIP Site