New Taito 20-game image for Hanaho Gameroom Classics boards

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New Taito 20-game image for Hanaho Gameroom Classics boards

The main complaint people seem have about the 20-game image for the Hanaho multi-Taito board is that the menu is lame. And it is pretty boring compared to the menu on the 10-game. So I decided to put together my own menu for it. On the left side you scroll through game title graphics, while the right side shows the game flyer for the selected game. I was going to make an animated GIF to show a preview of what the menu looks like... maybe it's more exciting if you just install it and see. Maybe someone out there can post a quick video of it later.

You just need to download the new image, copy it to an SD card as "master.img", and pop it in your Gameroom Classics board.

Oh, and I did make some other simple changes besides the menu. I'll leave it up to you to figure them out. I'll give you a hint about one of them though... I hate the word "Nastar".

I hope you all like it. Please let me know what you think.

Happy Holidays.

Matt

P.S. In case you missed it, I also made a new Neo-Geo image for the Hanaho board a few months back that has a couple new games on it.

P.P.S. This image is made for the original run of Hanaho Gameroom Classics boards. It most likely will not work on the second version of boards that were sold by Paradise Arcade Shop (I don't have one to test on).
 
Where would one find/buy one of these "Hanaho multi-Taito boards"? :confused:

They came in uprights and bartops sold by PVG Tech:

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Some good games there. What is the quality of the emulation? Is there a CRT in the cab or a LCD monitor?

It looks pretty good on the surface anyway.
 
Very cool... thanks! I'll try it out when I get a chance.

DogP
 
Quick question.... I have a few of these pcb's but I don't recall there being a way to exit the game you are playing and return to the menu. Is my memory failing or is there a button combination that does it?

Matt, are you able to change up what buttons control what?
 
Quick question.... I have a few of these pcb's but I don't recall there being a way to exit the game you are playing and return to the menu. Is my memory failing or is there a button combination that does it?

Matt, are you able to change up what buttons control what?

The menu button is on the JAMMA "Tilt" pin.
 
Thanks, Matt. I have one of these and will have to try it out!

Scott C.
 
Cool, thanks for posting the preview... looks great!

BTW, have you tried running Jungle King instead of Jungle Hunt? I noticed mine would give an occasional red screen of death running Jungle King... seemingly corresponding to the Tarzan yell. It was weird, because it sometimes worked, sometimes didn't (sometimes it'd crash on the first level... other times it wouldn't crash until later).

DogP
 
Cool, thanks for posting the preview... looks great!

BTW, have you tried running Jungle King instead of Jungle Hunt? I noticed mine would give an occasional red screen of death running Jungle King... seemingly corresponding to the Tarzan yell. It was weird, because it sometimes worked, sometimes didn't (sometimes it'd crash on the first level... other times it wouldn't crash until later).

DogP

Yes, I saw the same thing. For some odd reason that simple change causes a memory leak that crashes the board. :(
 
That is pretty cool I am going to have to try that on mine.
 
Finally got around to dropping this image on my Taito card... looks great! Thanks for posting it.

DogP
 
How did I miss this?

I will try this tonight on mine. I responded to your other thread about the NG games, but never got back to testing that image. My original board got a forced firmware upgrade to that of the PAS ones and ever since cant run the 20 image fully (notes in that thread).

I will try these two and see if it magically works, though not holding out a lot of hope. If not, is there a way to find the version # in the firmware and fake it out by increasing the old version # ever so slightly to allow the old one to be re-updated over the bad PAS version?

I've messed around with editing the video files and repacking, but not dug into the actual binary images.
 
CRUD! (See previous post for details of an original board that got accidentally firmware upgraded to the PAS run version that now is locked there and has bugs in the only working 20 in one image available--no return to menu). Unable to apply this mod or the NeoGeo mod :(


Bottom text in inverse red: "Incorrect size in syscheck.img"

6.15 appears in the upper right in white.

The 20-in-1 image I have shows ver 0.1.t20 in the upper left.

So, any ideas how to force this to back-update to the older version of bios or package it so that it works with the new bios images?
 
The main complaint people seem have about the 20-game image for the Hanaho multi-Taito board is that the menu is lame. And it is pretty boring compared to the menu on the 10-game. So I decided to put together my own menu for it. On the left side you scroll through game title graphics, while the right side shows the game flyer for the selected game. I was going to make an animated GIF to show a preview of what the menu looks like... maybe it's more exciting if you just install it and see. Maybe someone out there can post a quick video of it later.

You just need to download the new image, copy it to an SD card as "master.img", and pop it in your Gameroom Classics board.

Question: Do you mean I first need to mount the image on my computer, and drag the files from the image onto my SD card and then name the SD card "master.img"?

I attempted to just download that image file, rename it to "master.img" and copy it to an empty 16GB SD card, but it did not load. Perhaps I did this wrong or need a specific SD card.

Thanks for your input.
 
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