jca wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:59 pm
1. After opening the project Quartus says that I should update some IPs which happens frequently when I compile various cores. I suppose it is because of the Quartus version, may be they have been compiled with 17.0, not 17.0.2. When this happens I do not update: this happened way back with the latest version of Multicomp before the new rbf was published, I did update the IPs and the core was funky, not updating gave a good rbf.
2. The rbf in the release folder is 3,454KB and the rbf I compiled is 3,097KB.
With both cores I get the same result:
With the zero wing mras I get a white screen filled with vertical bars (may be !) and nothing is moving.
With outzone I get a lime screen which changes to a different lime color and a little square with the original lime color, after that the screen goes black with the little lime square in a different position. The screen then cycles thru these 2 displays. It may be due to the zips downloaded by mame getter but for the time being I leave it like that as it is a work in progress and I don't intend to pull my hair (I have not much left).
So for the time being it will be the original zerowing.mra and zerowing1.zip for me.
1.)
I have installed Quartus 20.1.1 on my ubuntu, but I'm not using it for the building, because I want to avoid possible side effects.
I'm using the docker image located at
https://hub.docker.com/r/theypsilon/quartus-lite-c5 version 17.0
I think using quartus 17.0.2 and ignoring IP updates should build rbf properly.
2.)
My rbf size is 3 179 588 B. I suspect every build is unique, because of the included build_id.v, so we cannot count on md5sum and should not on size too.
I had the same problem with stripes and lime background. I just forgot to update the rbf file to new a one. The old rbf is not working with new mra files.
They have changed the offsets i think.
First make sure, you have build the new rbf with up to date git repo ( git pull origin main ).
Also check you have the right zerowing.rbf at /media/fat/_Arcade/cores.
MRA tag <rbf> points to the correct .rbf file, so make sure, you don't have any other versions installed by side.
To be sure, you can remove outzone and zerowing zips from /media/fat/games/mame folder and run download_all and the mame downloader should download proper roms from archive.org
mra goes to /media/fat/_Arcade
rbf goes to /media/fat/_Arcade/cores
zip goes to /media/fat/games/mame
Take a look at screen shot. Do your rbf make same main menu results ?
You should see only Video Settings, DIP Switches and Reset
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