PiTrex Star Wars?

[Yosikuma]

I'm probably an idiot, but I finally got the PiTrex working -- great news! -- but I get "some ROMS not found" when trying to run Star Wars on the current BareMetal version. I'm not even sure how to find which ROMS it can't find.

 

Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

[+sramirez2008]

5 minutes ago, Yosikuma said:

I'm probably an idiot, but I finally got the PiTrex working -- great news! -- but I get "some ROMS not found" when trying to run Star Wars on the current BareMetal version.

You’re not alone. I got the same message for Star Wars and haven’t had time to get back to this.

[mikesk8]

I have quickly checked. Download dev file from http://mirrors.arcadecontrols.com/aae/ .Then, go to Release->Roms folders.

[Yosikuma]

God bless you. It works swimmingly now! You don't know how giddy you got me!

[mikesk8]

I am very happy I could help  

[Carey85]

On 9/23/2023 at 6:02 PM, mikesk8 said:

I have quickly checked. Download dev file from http://mirrors.arcadecontrols.com/aae/ .Then, go to Release->Roms folders.

You win the internet for this post. I got so frustrated with trying to get MAME roms to work on my Pitrex that I ended up ragequitting and selling it. I might buy another one and give it a go.

[aotta]

On 9/24/2023 at 3:17 AM, Yosikuma said:

God bless you. It works swimmingly now! You don't know how giddy you got me!

Which version of Pitrex fw do you use? i checked the roms in aae roms folder but they don't work for me, and they are in different size than the rom.txt wants...

[Yosikuma]

I have been using Pitrex Baremetal, found at http://vide.malban.de/pitrex/pitrex-baremetal-download.

 

Did you get the ROMs from the directory I responded to above? At least Star Wars worked for me there.

[aotta]

23 minutes ago, Yosikuma said:

I have been using Pitrex Baremetal, found at http://vide.malban.de/pitrex/pitrex-baremetal-download.

 

Did you get the ROMs from the directory I responded to above? At least Star Wars worked for me there.

Yes Star Wars works fine, and some others AAE emulated but not all roms... thank you anyway!

[Yosikuma]

Any specific ones? I know I had some from another set of games but I need to remember where I got those from.

[aotta]

For example red baron.. but i found on the net an older mame version that works 

[Yosikuma]

There were some games on The Internet Archive and several of those worked when others didn't.

[oracle_jedi]

Huge thanks to @mikesk8 and everyone in this thread - been playing Star Wars on the Vectrex just now and it looks and sounds great!

 

I only recently acquired a Vectrex so missed out on the whole Fecfever thing, but the PiTrex seems a very capable device and I have been impressed so far.