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Gorf "Insert Coin" - help please!
#298718 - 11/10/12 05:01 PM
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Hi,
I'm new to this forum, in fact I just signed up to ask you this one question:
Does anyone know how I can make the Gorf game work properly on MameUI 0.143u6?
All my ROMs and samples are up to date and correct for this version of MAME, in fact I am delighted with my MAME game collection.
But the whole reason I became interested in MAME so many years ago was so that I could play Gorf. And it's the only game not working properly!
When I play it, everything else works perfectly - all the sounds, speech samples etc. But it does not say "Insert Coin" while I am waiting to play it. All the other sounds play, but not those two special words.
If I go into the Gorf.zip samples I can see and hear that Insert.wav and Coin.wav are present.
I have the same problem with all the versions of the Gorf game on MAME.
So why won't the game say "Insert Coin"? Huh?
Thanks,
Damien
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There were some changes to gorf a few versions back, so it's recommended to use the latest version of MAME.
If you can't compile it's always attached in the news section in the release post.
Works fine here on latest version 
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Re: Gorf "Insert Coin" - help please!
[Re: damienx0x]
#298721 - 11/10/12 06:28 PM
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> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this forum, in fact I just signed up to ask you this one question:
>
> Does anyone know how I can make the Gorf game work properly on MameUI 0.143u6?
>
> All my ROMs and samples are up to date and correct for this version of MAME, in fact
> I am delighted with my MAME game collection.
>
> But the whole reason I became interested in MAME so many years ago was so that I
> could play Gorf. And it's the only game not working properly!
>
> When I play it, everything else works perfectly - all the sounds, speech samples etc.
> But it does not say "Insert Coin" while I am waiting to play it. All the other sounds
> play, but not those two special words.
>
> If I go into the Gorf.zip samples I can see and hear that Insert.wav and Coin.wav are
> present.
>
> I have the same problem with all the versions of the Gorf game on MAME.
>
> So why won't the game say "Insert Coin"? Huh?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Damien
It plays when the game program triggers it. I was able to get it reliably triggered by changing the coin options in the dipswitches to 2 coin = 1 credit. I rebooted the machine (SHIFT-F3), then coined three times, leaving 1 1/2 credits. Played the game and died and after game over, high scores show, the screen "INSERT ADDITIONAL COIN" and after several seconds, you'll hear a sound effect and then the "Insert Coin".
You might be mis-remembering, too. Another astrocade game, Wizard of War, instantly says and rather "Hey, Insert Coin" as soon as it boots. As you enter more coins, it continues to speak phrases. AFAIK, Gorf does not nor ever had this behavior.
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Re: Gorf "Insert Coin" - help please!
[Re: damienx0x]
#298723 - 11/10/12 07:08 PM
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> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this forum, in fact I just signed up to ask you this one question:
>
> Does anyone know how I can make the Gorf game work properly on MameUI 0.143u6?
>
> All my ROMs and samples are up to date and correct for this version of MAME, in fact
> I am delighted with my MAME game collection.
>
> But the whole reason I became interested in MAME so many years ago was so that I
> could play Gorf. And it's the only game not working properly!
>
> When I play it, everything else works perfectly - all the sounds, speech samples etc.
> But it does not say "Insert Coin" while I am waiting to play it. All the other sounds
> play, but not those two special words.
>
> If I go into the Gorf.zip samples I can see and hear that Insert.wav and Coin.wav are
> present.
>
> I have the same problem with all the versions of the Gorf game on MAME.
>
> So why won't the game say "Insert Coin"? Huh?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Damien
On the real machine in the arcade, you had to walk up to the machine and bump the joystick in any direction while the game is over and it will say "Insert Coin" once per sequence. It's part of the attract mode. Try it in MAME. It can also say "Long Live Gorf" or "I Have a Gorfian Empire" (in MAME you will only hear "I Have a Gorfian" during attract mode due to the sample driver not 100% accurate) If you remember it always saying "Insert Coin" on a real machine, that was because the original joystick used leaf switches and if the stick had enough wear the stick could lean into one of the switches triggering the sound, or the switches were not adjusted properly.
Edited by Gyrovision (11/10/12 07:18 PM)
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Re: Gorf "Insert Coin" - help please!
[Re: Tafoid]
#298747 - 11/10/12 11:44 PM
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Hey, that worked!
Thanks to all you MAME experts, my gaming life is now complete.
I was seven years old when I played this game previously, so perhaps my memory of how it worked had faded slightly over the past 30 years.
Thanks to everyone who replied.
Damien
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