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Mars Matrix Weird Behaviour?

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:24 pm
by RiotRay

Hi!

I just came across the Mars Matrix core for mister. Well....I don't know the arcade board, but I would be surprised if the timings of the game were corect like on mister. Everything seems to be way to fast and the game speed even seems to vary...

Is this a known issue?


Re: Mars Matrix Weird Behaviour?

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:55 am
by Toya

If you have a board that you can compare with or recording, would you mind creating an issue here: https://github.com/jotego/jtcores/issues
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Re: Mars Matrix Weird Behaviour?

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:12 am
by FPGA64

I would say dont raise an issue. You need to find actual footage from an arcade board, not an emulator and compare it. Games often had slowdown. Vague guesses dont help. Documented facts help


Re: Mars Matrix Weird Behaviour?

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:53 am
by Chris23235
RiotRay wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:24 pm

Hi!

I just came across the Mars Matrix core for mister. Well....I don't know the arcade board, but I would be surprised if the timings of the game were corect like on mister. Everything seems to be way to fast and the game speed even seems to vary...

Is this a known issue?

I would be surprised if the speed of this game is not correct. The game runs on the CPS2 core and I never heard people complaining about the core being at the wrong speed.
Mars Matrix is a game with high speed in general.


Re: Mars Matrix Weird Behaviour?

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:59 pm
by ExCyber

My time with Mars Matrix was with the Dreamcast port roughly (checks notes) 20 years ago, but I'm also in the "surprised if the speed of this game is not correct" camp. It has a hyperactive visual style that feels like the spacetime continuum is being featured on an episode of "Will it Blend?", and it definitely takes some time to learn all of the rhythms involved.