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Hoya!

Wow, quite a long time since my last post... :-/

OK, I think this is the most relevant forum for my question...

I am a dinosaur! I LOVE those good ol' arcade games from the 70's, 80's and early 90's (bitmap only!).

As a consequence, I LOVE MAME!

Well, granted that MAME on 060@50+AGA is not the best one, anyway... I hope to get a Mediator and a Voodoo in a couple of months...

Back to my question...

Since it is possible to rip mods from the Amiga's memory, is it possible, despite the fact that MAME works differently, to rip its mem to get all those great tunes (Street Fighter anyone?)???

Then, would it be possible to convert the memory dump to MP3?

I guess many obstacles are on the way but I have been thinking about this for quite a long time...

BTW, has anyone ripped the Ninja Warriors tune???

Be funky

M A D

Ey up!

I'm not sure if Amiga versions of MAME support WAV output to disk - I'm not patient enough to try!

I am, however, working on another project at the moment that is based around arcade game soundtracks. I'd be happy to provide MP3s of the arcade version of Street Fighter 2 - if that's the soundtrack you're after?

With regards to ripping tunes from arcade game ROMs - I doubt it. Ironically, the only arcade games you might have a chance of ripping music from are actually running on an Amiga! Check out the following...

http://unmamed.mame.net/non_other80.htm ... eaderboard

I'm sure I read something in an Amiga magazine about a possible Zool arcade game. Wonder if it ever saw the light of day?

Lemmings ended up becomming an arcade game. Whether it ever went public or not, it ended up in MAME.

Hoya!

Well, SF2 got some cool tunes too! Especially Ryu's Theme

I was talking about Street Fighter though...

Anyway, if it is possible, I WOULD be delighted!!!

Be funky

M A D


PS: are sigs disabled?

MAD wrote:Since it is possible to rip mods from the Amiga's memory, is it possible, despite the fact that MAME works differently, to rip its mem to get all those great tunes (Street Fighter anyone?)???

Not quite. There is a MAME music player called M1 that plays music straight from the MAME romsets, you should look it up. People have worked out where in the ROMs the music is, and play it alone, without the game. Together, they produce a data file (much like the hiscores.dat that tells MAME where hi-score data is written to, or cheats.dat which lists places to poke to get cheats).

M1 homepage

You can save music in M1 as a .wav file, which you could convert to MP3.

BTW: Personally, I prefer Ken's Theme

Hoya!

Hey! Sounds DEAD cool!!!

But does it work on Amiga? I guess it will be a peecee-thingy...

Be funky

M A D

EDIT: As I feared it is a peecee-thing... BUT! I can go to my local cybercafe, download it, install it, get the roms I want for MAME, RIP 'EM!
And save the lovely music on my MiniDisc player! ;-D

I will keep you informed on how it goes!

I can still provide MP3 versions, if needed?

Hoya!

I tried it, got some roms and it works!

So far, I got the soundtracks from Chelnov, Dangar, Robocop and Bad Dudes Vs DragonNinja!!!

More to come!

To bad such a proggy does not exist on Ammy. It would not be that hard to make some dumps and turn them to WAV I guess?

Anyway...

Be funky

M A D

MAD wrote:To bad such a proggy does not exist on Ammy. It would not be that hard to make some dumps and turn them to WAV I guess?

Why not write a mail to the person who ported MAME to the Amiga to port M1 to the Amiga? M1 is just a cut-down version of MAME, after all.

Hmmm, Ridge Racer and Daytona running on an Amiga?

Ridge Racer's audio doesn't even play in realtime on a P3 500!

Hoya!

@Kyz

Sounds sensible mate! I will.

@XtC

BTW, what is this project you are talking about??? Or maybe it is classified...

Be funky

M A D

PS: sigs are disabled, right?

Ey up!

MAD wrote:BTW, what is this project you are talking about??? Or maybe it is classified...

The M1 player uses source code from MAME and few other emulators.

Games such as Ridge Racer, Daytona USA and Sega Rally, which aren't currently emulated by MAME, are supported in M1 - so you can listen to their soundtracks / sound fx.


I remember posting a request to the MAME Team back in 1998 asking if they could implement a system of replaying just the music from the games, which sparked a LOT of interest. They told me, in not so many words, that it wouldn't be possible.

How things have evolved...

Not that I'm obsessed with game music or anything!

MAD also wrote:PS: sigs are disabled, right?

Erm, dunno. Maybe BuZz can shed some light...

Hoya!

It is dead cool one can listen to arcade games soundtracks now!

It would be even cooler if such a proggy existed on Amiga!

MAME is one of the most impressive proggies EVER, IMHO...

Video games music RULEZ! (Well, the good one anyway...)

Be funky

M A D

MAD wrote:It would be even cooler if such a proggy existed on Amiga!

MAME is one of the most impressive proggies EVER, IMHO...

Ironically, the father of MAME, one Nicola Salmoria, gave us NewIcons on the Amiga before disappearing to start writing his emulator.

At least, I think it's the same Nicola Salmoria? Anyone?

XtC wrote:Ironically, the father of MAME, one Nicola Salmoria, gave us NewIcons on the Amiga before disappearing to start writing his emulator.

At least, I think it's the same Nicola Salmoria? Anyone?

Nicola did a little more than just NewIcons. For example, the multi-fs that allows more than one kind of filesystem on the disk drives (rather than having seperately mounted DF0/DS0/PC0, just have one DF0 that changes format automatically).

And yes, it's the same guy. There are a number of Amigans that went on to further adventures, such as Matt Dillon (FreeBSD kernel hacker and leader of DragonflyBSD), Wouter van Oortmerssen (see www.cubeengine.com), Thomas Richter (now an image compression researcher and part of the JPEG2000 team) and Bastian Spiegel (now writing tkscript.de).

Oh, and Toni Wilen (author of FileMaster 2, my favourite file manager) is now the maintainer of WinUAE.

Hoya!

WOW! I did NOT know it was the same guy!!! Respect.

I will email him, definitively!

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M A D