Konami Hornet arcade system emu, heres whats new:
-bugfix and added same ops
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> Konami Hornet arcade system emu, heres whats new:
> -bugfix and added same ops
> homepage
>

I saw this on Emulatronia and decided to give it a go, but couldn't get it working (though I didn't spend too much time with it). You need gradius4.zip in the same directory, which is all fine and dandy, but it's also case sensitive, so I had to unpack gradius4.zip and rename everything in uppercase, then throw it back into a zip..

..and then it complained about needed a file that isn't used by MAME so it's not in the set.

Sooo.... has anyone got a set that works with it, and if so, how well does Hornet work in comparison to MAME? Are there visual differences and/or performance differences?

Personally i don't care for Gradius IV, but I love neat little emulators like these.

> > Konami Hornet arcade system emu, heres whats new:
> > -bugfix and added same ops
> > homepage
> >
>
> I saw this on Emulatronia and decided to give it a go, but couldn't get it
> working (though I didn't spend too much time with it). You need gradius4.zip in
> the same directory, which is all fine and dandy, but it's also case sensitive,
> so I had to unpack gradius4.zip and rename everything in uppercase, then throw
> it back into a zip..
>
> ..and then it complained about needed a file that isn't used by MAME so it's not
> in the set.
>
> Sooo.... has anyone got a set that works with it, and if so, how well does
> Hornet work in comparison to MAME? Are there visual differences and/or
> performance differences?
>
> Personally i don't care for Gradius IV, but I love neat little emulators like
> these.
>
>
Good question, no idea myself as I dont think I have anything to try with it, I reckon anyone with answers could benefit many people here.

The wise man knows when he does not know enough

> Sooo.... has anyone got a set that works with it,

I'm told the MAME set should work, you just need to rename one file in it.

> and if so, how well does Hornet work in comparison to MAME?

It's not playable at all. No graphics are shown.

MAME emulator project @ http://www.mame.net/
Santeri Saarimaa <gridle@mbnet.fi> - Gridle on ircnet or efnet

> > Sooo.... has anyone got a set that works with it,
>
> I'm told the MAME set should work, you just need to rename one file in it.
>
> > and if so, how well does Hornet work in comparison to MAME?
>
> It's not playable at all. No graphics are shown.
>
> MAME emulator project @ http://www.mame.net/
> Santeri Saarimaa gridle@mbnet.fi> - Gridle on ircnet or efnet
>

Meh. Why did I even bother if it doesn't work? Anyway, from the source I found that these are the ROM requirements:

gradius4.zip = 14,502,296 bytes
837A10.14P
837A09.16P
837A05.14T
837A04.16T
837A14.32U
837A13.24U
837A16.32V
837A15.24V
837C05.27P
837_A08.7S

silent_scope.zip = 14,458,594 bytes
SS830A10.14P
SS830A09.16P
SS830B01.27P
SS830A08.7S

racing_jam.zip = 14,838,073 bytes
676nc01.bin
676gna08.bin

No clue why the archive sizes are included. My gradius4.zip is smaller by about 400K and hornet doesn't complain. Anyway, the filename differences are 837_A08.7S in hornet as opposed to MAME's 837a08.7s, and 837C05.27P as opposed to 837c01.27p in MAME. And the capitalization of course. Note the number difference in the second ROM. Probably a typo on Hornet's coder's part. Maybe the underscore on the first ROM is too. Of course, as Santeri pointed out it doesn't work. In fact, once Hornet loads Gradius 4 nothing seems to happen at all- just the same black box you get if it doesn't load anything. And yes, I tried the emulation options (run/stop/reset) in the menu. Maybe in a future release...

Still doesn't do anything for me other than hog all of my CPU cycles. Maybe if I let it sit for an hour it'd get to an attract mode.