04383: starwars and clones: Dipswtich changes have no effect.

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
04383	DIP/Input	Minor	Always	Jun 20, 2011, 17:23	May 31, 2023, 11:58

Tester	russ h.	View Status	Public	Platform
Assigned To		Resolution	Open	OS
Status [?]	Confirmed			Driver	atari/starwars.cpp
Version	0.142u6	Fixed in Version		Build
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	04383: starwars and clones: Dipswtich changes have no effect.
Description	When changing starting shields and bonus shields, I can see it change in the service menu, but its having no effect on the game, which is odd.
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Regression Version	0.138u2
Affected Sets / Systems	starwars and clones

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No.07557 Tafoid Administrator Jun 20, 2011, 17:25 edited on: Dec 10, 2015, 22:08	Testing seem to point the problem first happens in 0.138u2, where there was a hookup of X2212 in the Star Wars driver. https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/6d1884e511d74797444a26b43a9d488124ec947b
No.17427 Osso Moderator Feb 27, 2020, 09:17 edited on: Feb 27, 2020, 09:19	Sorry, I misread the report.
No.21475 Haze Senior Tester May 31, 2023, 11:58	The current behaviour is that the game reads the dipswitches if there's no nvram data present. After that you must change them in service mode. This is consistent with some other games which do similar, basically the dipswitches only provide the DEFAULT values, or the values to be used if the nvram chip fails. I don't think there's any bug here, at least not in current versions.