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05237 Crash/Freeze Critical (emulation) Always Jul 28, 2013, 19:14 Jan 8, 2022, 06:36
Tester Tafoid View Status Public Platform
Assigned To peterferrie Resolution Fixed OS
Status [?] Resolved Driver
Version 0.149u1 Fixed in Version 0.240 Build
Fixed in Git Commit e3dd459 Github Pull Request #
Summary 05237: cosmicg: Demonstration stops at end of 2nd loop
Description When you demonstration happens, the ship dies eventually and things are looped back. On the 2nd death, the game sort of hangs there. AFter a while longer, the score starts to flash. You can credit and attempt to play but when you die the game ceases again, this time you need to RESET or RESTART MAME.
Steps To Reproduce
Additional Information Notice if you credit, you see the bullet which was hung up continues on it's way to the bottom of the screen.
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Regression Version 0.122u8
Affected Sets / Systems cosmicg
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jpg file icon 2013-06-19 23.43.41.jpg (1,075,214 bytes) Aug 7, 2013, 20:28 Uploaded by Haze
cosmicgi PCB
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No.09674
NekoEd
Senior Tester
Jul 28, 2013, 23:35
SDLMAME64/Linux 0.149u1 - Confirmed.
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No.09679
AWJ
Developer
Jul 29, 2013, 02:02
Zsolt removed a ROM patch from the driver init at the same time he did some other cleanups. Maybe it shouldn't have been removed?
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No.09681
Robbbert
Senior Tester
Jul 29, 2013, 12:07
Confirmed on win7

Screen doesn't flip in cocktail mode either.
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No.09710
Haze
Senior Tester
Aug 7, 2013, 20:24
interesting thing of note, this does NOT happen on the cosmicgi set I just added

furthermore
ROM_LOAD( "7.8h", 0x1800, 0x0400, CRC(84656c97) SHA1(2180faa07dd5bc618c80ae033babfc1191a0b890) ) // standard label but different anyway?

this ROM from cosmicgi appeared to be an unmodified universal one from the label ,and using it prevents this from happening although there are more than a few bytes changed.

note, the cosmicgi set has a different issue with the graphics leaving trails but that happens on the real pcb too, and could be some deterioration of rom 4.

I wouldn't bet against both sets having minor rom corruption, it's a very old board.
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No.09711
Haze
Senior Tester
Aug 7, 2013, 20:30
(note, I've attached the cosmicgi PCB picture I was given, 3,5,6,7 appear to have more original stickers / stamping than 1,2,4,8 which are the ones modified for Spanish language on this bootleg)

I recommend an original Cosmic Guerilla PCB be dumped for comparison.
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No.13542
Badacoin
Tester
Jan 19, 2017, 16:18
This also happens outside of the demonstration during regular gameplay.

If you play the game normally, get a game over, then start a new game, the game will freeze on your first death.
At this point, the only thing you can do is add credits, with various side effects (garbage line, erasure of the score, beeps, ...).
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No.19619
peterferrie
Developer
Jan 4, 2022, 02:26
fixed in 92c5f8ae84bd90393ca06ff84138b5ff50f0edb9
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No.19627
Haze
Senior Tester
Jan 5, 2022, 02:29
fixed with what I'd say was a hack though, I do wonder if MT needs a new 'resolved' type for that, because I think a better solution is still needed.
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No.19631
Fujix
Administrator
Jan 5, 2022, 04:57
A major hack will need to add new resolution to mt ;-)
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No.19652
Osso
Moderator
Jan 7, 2022, 08:36
Since the consensum it this is due to a bad dump and the bad dump has been patched (again), I'm marking this as closed.
Hopefully another PCB will be found and the bad ROM will be redumped.
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No.19660
Osso
Moderator
Jan 8, 2022, 06:36
Although the fact that boot the original and the bootleg have the same presumably bad bits does seem to throw a wrench in this theory.