MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: There is something *very* wrong in the Robotron driver

> I just hit what might've been the 'enforcer bug' - while being in the top part of the
> screen, just left of middle, and firing up-left!!
>
> Of course, I was stomping it's fucking ASS with at least 600k (I was on difficulty
> level 5, even), and I don't know how many dudes in store. (The last time it reset,
> the situation was similar.)
>
> Also, another phenomenon that is quite disgusting, is this 'swoosh' together of
> you're too close to a baddie. I'm thinking it's related to refresh.
>
> I played original hardware last week, and while I think it was still there, it was
> ANYwhere near this bad.
>
> This was on 144u5, so unless something has seriously changed in the last two releases
> (not to mention these issues have been present for aeons), these seriously need
> looking at.

So, it's resetting the game.. crashing MAME.. what exactly is it doing?

I've heard sporadic reports over the years of this game resetting during play, but no one could effectively reproduce it. I have also seen other players have resets in other game of the Street Fighter-type where it turned out that the controller the person has, when using a certain controller combination of movement buttons and timing, was effectively sending a keycode for "F2", which caused the reset. Given the intensity of the game and range of movement that rapidly changes, I would not be at all shocked to see that this is the cause of the resetting.

Your best bet would be to make sure when you play - you record it to an .INP file, so all the keystrokes can be saved and reproduced/replayed if you indeed get another reset.