07840: motofren and clones: Issues with collision detection; Missing dual board support for motofrenmd

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
07840	Gameplay	Major	Always	Jan 7, 2021, 18:26	Jan 14, 2021, 15:25

Tester	Hydreigon	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To		Resolution	Open	OS	Windows 10 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Acknowledged			Driver	atari/atarigx2.cpp
Version	0.227	Fixed in Version		Build	64-bit
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	07840: motofren and clones: Issues with collision detection; Missing dual board support for motofrenmd
Description	These games use an additional unemulated ADSP-2105 for collision detection, force feedback and game linking with another cab. The Mini Deluxe versions use a dual board setup with the ADSP-2105 and 8k x 8 shared ram between both boards (meaning it can only be operated as a dual cab). Regardless of version, the collision detection issues happen in all motofren related sets to the point the game itself is almost unplayable. This will be a multi-part process in figuring out how the main cpu communicates with the ADSP-2105 and dual pcb comms for motofrenmd. Also motofrenmd's ADSP-2105's program rom is undumped.
Steps To Reproduce	Play the game
Additional Information	While the other games, spclords and rrreveng, are also only meant to operate as a twin cab by having both pcbs bridged to ram, they don't have any of the same issues compared to motofren (at least spclords as rreveng isn't marked as working). The method of linking a twin cab with the two also differs having the bridged ram linked to a COM2002I ARCNet controller instead of an ADSP-2015. Also kind of a ripoff that motofrenmd has support for four total players if linked while motofren only supports two. motofrenmd's manual: https://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals-videogames/M/Moto_Frenzy_Mini_Deluxe_TM379_1st_Printing.pdf spclord's manual: https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Arcade//Manual/formated/Space_Lords_-_1992_-_Atari.pdf
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Affected Sets / Systems	motofren and clones

Attached Files	motofren.inp (268,115 bytes) Jan 14, 2021, 02:41 Uploaded by Hydreigon

No.18372 Tafoid Administrator Jan 14, 2021, 01:40	Hydreigon: Perhaps you could provide an .inp file or recorded video made with 0.227 illustrating the malfunction?
No.18373 Hydreigon Tester Jan 14, 2021, 02:43	Input file uploaded. May (or may not) record a video later on. Come to think of it, this was an arcade machine I recall seeing (the twin cab at least) when I was rather young. I do not recall these issues happening on actual hardware. A pcb recording of this would be nice to see someday.
No.18376 Haze Senior Tester Jan 14, 2021, 12:51 edited on: Jan 14, 2021, 12:52	Peter seemed to indicate that the game played as badly on a PCB as it does in emulation (as they had to verify the protection stuff was correct) I'm not sure what role the ADSP-2105 plays.
No.18377 Hydreigon Tester Jan 14, 2021, 15:25	I've stated the roles in the description but also found this: "The game depends on correct results when creating sprite lists and road data, without the CLARN board present the sprite positions and road display are corrupt making the game unplayable." In other words, if you remove the CLARN board, the game will run but with faulty collision detection. Because of how much documentation this game has and the fact it doesn't have any major flags, I personally consider this a bug.