> Hi everyone, I hope I'm putting this in the right place - I'm still waiting for my
> account to be verified so I can post this to mametesters.
>
> Running rungun2 from the command line with "mame64 rungun2" spits out a ton of errors
> when you get to gameplay that look like this:
> GXT4: unknown protection command 125c (PC=209948)
> GXT4: unknown protection command 3a56 (PC=209948)
> GXT4: unknown protection command 1b55 (PC=209948)
> GXT4: unknown protection command 3357 (PC=209948)
>
> I saw this reported in the bug tracker, and the comments there made it sound like it
> shouldn't be that big of a deal, BUT when you run the game from the built-in GUI, it
> runs WAY faster than from the command line. When I run it from the GUI, I get 160%
> speed during gameplay (leaving plenty of headroom for 60fps all the time), and when I
> run it from the command line, I only wind up with about 70% speed (making the game
> unplayable).
>
> Does anyone know what's going on with this or how to disable the error messages from
> showing up? I can't just "run it from the GUI" because I'm using a different
> front-end for my games and obviously they get run from the command line.
>
> Any help is most appreciated! Thanks!
printf spam to console window takes emulation cycles, no doubt about it. If you capture the output to a file it should react the same as the GUI [ > output.txt 2>&1 ].
But, in this case, since it isn't under active development - commenting the printf should be ok.
I'll see that it is changed - no need to log a bug about it.
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