07962: mspactwin: 2 player dots finished but game will not advance to level 3

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
07962	Gameplay	Minor	Have not tried	May 2, 2021, 05:22	May 3, 2021, 12:24

Tester	TrevEB	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To		Resolution	Open	OS	Windows 10 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Acknowledged			Driver	pacman/jrpacman.cpp
Version	0.230	Fixed in Version		Build	64-bit
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	07962: mspactwin: 2 player dots finished but game will not advance to level 3
Description	2 player game playing the second level. Player one is game over before completing dots. Bottom 1/4 of screen with dots. Player 2 completes his colored dots but the game will not advance. Curiously player one pacman comes back but is just in attract mode while player 2 is still running away from ghosts.
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Affected Sets / Systems	mspactwin

Attached Files	k.zip (20,498 bytes) May 2, 2021, 21:00 Uploaded by Tafoid Save State 0.231 - Player 2 Alive to obtain Energizer and show bug

No.18784 Tafoid Administrator May 2, 2021, 20:58	While I cannot exactly duplicate your report, I can report some oddness happening only when Player 1 (left-red) had died and the Player 2 (right-green) has survived. I was able to complete the level I was on when Player 1 lost the last life, but on subsequent boards, once I got an energizer, the Player 1 shows as alive/appears on the top right of the screen and can be controlled by the Player 1 controls in a limited left-right area. I'd assume the program still thinks that the Player 1 is alive and started drawing and following the movements. My hunch is if this is not original behavior, the decryption may not be 100% correct. In any case, it is surely behavior that isn't expected. I've attached a save state (k), for current MAME which, when you start it, sets up the condition where if you get an energizer, the Player 1 sprite appears on screen.
No.18785 Tafoid Administrator May 2, 2021, 21:03	To TrevEB: It would help to can create a Save State from 0.231 if you can replicate it again. Perhaps I just didn't set it up correctly.
No.18794 Haze Senior Tester May 3, 2021, 12:24	It's almost certainly just a bug in the game. The whole thing is an elaborate hack, that feels very shaky, so overlooking of some logic cases isn't surprising.