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Jericho
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Game boot stuck at "Program loading verification ok"
#396407 - 06/13/23 04:16 PM


Hello dear community,

I've downloaded some Aristocrat MK6 roms, including the MK6 software base, and then I tried booting up "50 Lions" and others.

In the Bootscreen everything is marked as "ok" and it eventually reaches the point "Program loading verification ok".

This is where it get's stuck and nothing happens further.

I uploaded an image of the Bootscreen here:
https://ibb.co/SXc3ThB

My MAME Version that I'm using for this is MAME 0.236 and the rom file is called "50 Lions (10120511, NSW/ACT)".

Thank you in advance for any help!



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Re: Game boot stuck at "Program loading verification ok" new [Re: Jericho]
#396410 - 06/13/23 09:04 PM




> MAME Version that I'm using for this is MAME 0.236 and the rom file is called "50 Lions (10120511, NSW/ACT)".

There were some updates to the Aristocrat MK6 hardware since .236 release from September 2021

https://www.mamedev.org/oldrel.html


But the Aristocrat MK6 hardware is advanced hardware and not even close to being fully emulated since 2021 even though some updates did take place and the error messages might appear different in case updating to a newer version of MAME.

Current code (links below) show details of what still needs to be done.

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/aristocrat/aristmk6.cpp

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/11d...ristmk6.cpp#L15



It may be a while before MK6 hardware is emulated.



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Re: Game boot stuck at "Program loading verification ok" new [Re: Jericho]
#396420 - 06/14/23 01:31 PM


> My MAME Version that I'm using for this is MAME 0.236 and the rom file is called "50
> Lions (10120511, NSW/ACT)".

In that case, your MAME version should present you with a big red screen that says, in capital letters, "THIS GAME DOESN'T WORK," prior to the driver itself starting up. You will have been prompted to either type OK or move your joystick left and right in order to proceed past that modal.

Is there something ambiguous about the wording on that particular screen, which the team could improve in order to make the message more clearly understood?



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Re: Game boot stuck at "Program loading verification ok" new [Re: MooglyGuy]
#396421 - 06/14/23 02:18 PM


> > My MAME Version that I'm using for this is MAME 0.236 and the rom file is called
> "50
> > Lions (10120511, NSW/ACT)".
>
> In that case, your MAME version should present you with a big red screen that says,
> in capital letters, "THIS GAME DOESN'T WORK," prior to the driver itself starting up.
> You will have been prompted to either type OK or move your joystick left and right in
> order to proceed past that modal.
>
> Is there something ambiguous about the wording on that particular screen, which the
> team could improve in order to make the message more clearly understood?

actually these days you only have to press a button, rather than any kind of 'OK' or 'Left + Right' which was done in an attempt to appease the idiots hacking out the screens as some kind of compromise.

Maybe the problem is they're now *too* easy to bypass, so people aren't paying attention to them, and the old behaviour should be restored.



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Re: Game boot stuck at "Program loading verification ok" new [Re: Jericho]
#396476 - 06/18/23 07:21 PM


> Hello dear community,
>
> I've downloaded some Aristocrat MK6 roms, including the MK6 software base, and then I
> tried booting up "50 Lions" and others.
>
> In the Bootscreen everything is marked as "ok" and it eventually reaches the point
> "Program loading verification ok".
>
> This is where it get's stuck and nothing happens further.
>
> I uploaded an image of the Bootscreen here:
> https://ibb.co/SXc3ThB
>
> My MAME Version that I'm using for this is MAME 0.236 and the rom file is called "50
> Lions (10120511, NSW/ACT)".
>
> Thank you in advance for any help!


Despite the fact that you already got an answer here, you still felt the need to ask the same question over at mamedev.org :

https://forum.mamedev.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=918

where you got - obviously- the exact same answer.


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