00171: lethalen: mask rom check they all come up bad.

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
00171	Misc.	Trivial	Have not tried	Jan 24, 2008, 19:10	Aug 30, 2010, 00:10

Tester	-Misc Reporters-	View Status	Public	Platform
Assigned To		Resolution	Open	OS
Status [?]	Confirmed			Driver	konami/lethal.cpp
Version	0.106u7	Fixed in Version		Build
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	00171: lethalen: mask rom check they all come up bad.
Description	Mask rom check they all come up bad.
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Affected Sets / Systems	lethalen

Attached Files	0000.png (1,284 bytes) Aug 29, 2010, 22:58
Attached Files	0001.png (1,341 bytes) Aug 29, 2010, 23:02

No.02268 Luigi30 Tester Aug 29, 2008, 23:09	This affects all clones of lethalen.
No.06655 robiza Developer Aug 29, 2010, 23:01	some konami registers are not kooked up and in konicdev probably there's a problem in READ8_DEVICE_HANDLER( k053244_r ) if we change: addr = (k053244->rombank << 19) \| ((k053244->regs[11] & 0x7) << 18) \| (k053244->regs[8] << 10) \| (k053244->regs[9] << 2) \| ((offset & 3) ^ 1 ); with ........ ((offset & 3) ^ 3 ); a10 test and a8 test are ok (see the second file)
No.06656 Haze Senior Tester Aug 30, 2010, 00:00	lethal enforcers is the most ugly hack of konami hardware ever. they double up tilemap chips to give 8bpp instead of 4bpp, mame cheats. usually to fix the rom check the correct way is to fix the graphic rom loading and the decode so that everything is in the order it expects. in this case that's harder due to the absurd hackery konami used when putting this system together.
No.06657 robiza Developer Aug 30, 2010, 00:10 edited on: Aug 30, 2010, 00:12	sprite are 6bpp; there's an hack in the code for proper decode the sprite (gfx2) gfx3 and gfx4 are created with a copy from gfx2 maybe, with a driver init, we can have the correct maskrom for gfx3 (a10 test) and gfx4 (a8 test) ROM_REGION( 0x400000, "gfx2", ROMREGION_ERASE00 ) /* sprites - fake 6bpp decode is done from here */ ROM_LOAD( "191a04", 0x000000, 0x100000, CRC(5c3eeb2b) SHA1(33ea8b3968b78806334b5a0aab3a2c24e45c604e) ) ROM_LOAD( "191a05", 0x100000, 0x100000, CRC(f2e3b58b) SHA1(0bbc2fe87a4fd00b5073a884bcfebcf9c2c402ad) ) ROM_LOAD( "191a06", 0x200000, 0x100000, CRC(ee11fc08) SHA1(ec6dd684e8261b181d65b8bf1b9e97da5c4468f7) ) ROM_REGION( 0x200000, "gfx3", ROMREGION_ERASE00 ) ROM_COPY("gfx2",0,0, 0x200000) ROM_REGION( 0x200000, "gfx4", ROMREGION_ERASE00 ) ROM_COPY("gfx2",0x200000,0, 0x200000)