MK2.5 and MK4 games should work, but there are not enough dumps out there to really test the hardware (for example, there are no reel slots, keno games or non-NZ poker games dumped yet). In fact, without the PE+ King himself, we probably wouldn't even have IGT emulation at all. As for other slot hardware which is not working and/or in hiatus, there is Konami Tasman, Konami Endeavour, VLC Winning Touch and probably countless 'golden era' video poker games which are sitting in MAME not working. In fact, MAME still doesn't even get past the POST since the new code refused so many times that we gave up (in fact, we got as far as Golden Pyramids showing graphics (and crashing afterwards) in Arculator with a few hacks to bypass some additional beyond-POST hardware checks, but with the exact same code ported to MAME, it doesn't get as far).Īs for MK6, no-one in the dev team seems interested, even with the similarities between the recently emulated Sega NAOMI (Dreamcast) and the MK6 system, which uses the same CPU, but a different video chip despite both being PowerVR chips (the MK6 having a PowerVR 250, which is not emulated).īasically, the emulation is a one-man band (the core code is not by me either, my additions to MAME are only trivial such as adding ROM dumps and fixing minor errors), we desperately need people willing and able to contribute code and help get these systems up and running.Īdditionally, the current MK6 emulation doesn't actually do anything yet the system chips are not even hooked up (its inclusion in MAME is just a placeholder to preserve the EPROM dumps for now).

Thirdly, there were a number of 'political' issues with the MAME dev team at one point, where our submissions were rejected outright by the then-coordinator ('lead dev' if you will) without anyone even trying to help fix what was wrong. the Acorn A3010 emulation which the MK5 is based on), or whether the MK5 really is a touch-and-go system which barely works, but works well when it does. We are not sure whether the problems lie with the core code (e.g. Secondly, a few devices are still not emulated which may also contribute to the problem, however, as far as emulation goes, these devices aren't even accessed yet (driver board, comms for example). With Aristocrat MK5, we hit a technical brick wall with the emulation, namely, we couldn't get around it from its number of trap calls which it performs after something fails, which is followed by a watchdog reset, POST, then crash again in an infinite loop. I'd like to see MK5 and MK6 emulation as well but no news so far?

Just wanted to see if anyone had any info regarding MAME and Aristocrat MK5-MK6 emulation.įrom what I understand MK4 is currently only supported?

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