02818: spacewar: Freezes after 2 seconds into a game

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
02818	Crash/Freeze	Critical (emulation)	Always	Jan 12, 2009, 14:45	Jan 12, 2009, 15:16

Tester	moietu	View Status	Public	Platform	MAMEUI
Assigned To		Resolution	Invalid report	OS	Windows XP/Vista 32-bit
Status [?]	Closed			Driver	cinematronics/cinemat.cpp
Version	0.129	Fixed in Version		Build	Normal
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	02818: spacewar: Freezes after 2 seconds into a game
Description	I'v collected spacewar.zip rom and samples on the net and installed into appropriate dirs of the current mameui. The game is checked ok and starts, but 2 seconds into the gamplay (ships start to move) it freezes and only the star is animated.
Steps To Reproduce	just start a game
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Affected Sets / Systems	spacewar

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No.03562 moietu Tester Jan 12, 2009, 14:50	Never mind, insert coin / start game with 5 or 1. Sorry.
No.03563 Tafoid Administrator Jan 12, 2009, 15:15 edited on: Jan 12, 2009, 15:19	There never has been any demo mode (at least CPU controlled) as it's a 2 player game only. As you discovered, the game credits and I was able to start after choosing the the type of game I wanted (0-9). If you have the artwork package, the game types will be showing at the bottom of the screen. Invalid. If you are at all unsure of a bug you are about to report, don't report it. Talk about it with a friend or post it in an emulation forum or something and see if others might have some insight on it. Many times a problem is simply a misunderstanding of the function of a game.

No.03562

moietu

Tester

Jan 12, 2009, 14:50

Never mind, insert coin / start game with 5 or 1.
Sorry.

No.03563

Tafoid

Administrator

Jan 12, 2009, 15:15

edited on: Jan 12, 2009, 15:19

There never has been any demo mode (at least CPU controlled) as it's a 2 player game only. As you discovered, the game credits and I was able to start after choosing the the type of game I wanted (0-9). If you have the artwork package, the game types will be showing at the bottom of the screen.

Invalid.

If you are at all unsure of a bug you are about to report, don't report it. Talk about it with a friend or post it in an emulation forum or something and see if others might have some insight on it. Many times a problem is simply a misunderstanding of the function of a game.