Windows 7 Read Only GroovyMame Image

[chunksin]

I've built an image for installing 15khz GroovyMame running Windows 7 Embedded so you can write protect the OS partition and not have to worry about powering off your cab and PC at the same time and Windows getting corrupted. It has Attract Mode as the frontend with Windows completely hidden and comes with all of the software and applications you need and an automated installer process if you're not familiar with how to install and configure drivers and modelines.

You can grab the image here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pue_kw ... p=drivesdk

And instructions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f5- ... p=drivesdk

 

[werejag]

thanks

 

[rewrite]

Excellent! People are always asking about this. Hopefully it helps a bunch of folks.

 

[glocknyne]

Used this the other day and successfully got my groovymame setup for my Astro city up and running. Thanks a lot.

 

[PascalP]

Need to try this, sounds excellent !

 

[mR_CaESaR]

Sorry for the necrobump but I'm using the opportunity of a corrupted HDD to install this build of groovymame.

Only way I could get the USB to be read was when I changed the BIOS from Legacy to UEFI - eventually got the USB to boot and the image restored.

After rebooting though, I've received a nice little blue screen

Anyone ever come across this before? Tried doing my searches, but I don't think there's many that has this build installed.

 

[PascalP]

Have you switched the Bios back to Legacy?

 

[mR_CaESaR]

Yeah switched it back to legacy.

I then also tried creating a legacy based boot disk but still ended up with a bsod. Also tried clean fresh disk, but still no good.

PC is an optiplex 990. Maybe I'll just go back to a normal win7 build

 

[Robbbert]

Stop 7B means inaccessible boot device.

Microsoft has a whole bunch of info about what you could try.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/troubleshoot-inaccessible-boot-device

 

[evilsim]

Windows 7 doesnt really work anywhere near as well as Windows 10 in terms of picking up different sata/disk controllers... Thus your BSOD.

@chunksin would have to inject extra drivers (to what end) into his Windows 7 image to accommodate _all_ the different disk controllers out there.

There would be some tool out there to let you manually inject/insert disk controller drivers into an existing windows 7 installation but it just turns into a time waster some of the time - especially with branded hardware like HP who use odd disk controllers as opposed to other "white box" systems of the same era.

@mR_CaESaR try a different motherboard if you have any spare hardware. The more generic the better probably eg Gigabyte, ASUS, etc mainboard. Change the disk settings in the bios controller as suggested too.

good luck!

@chunksin excellent work and thankyou for providing this for everyone. Until more cores are made available for the Mister, MAME is still a favourite for many and mostly unnoticeable in terms of it being emulated instead of simulated. How else am I going to play Turtles in Time (too expensive), Ivan 'ironman' stewarts super off road (wheel and stuff is expensive)!?

 

[mR_CaESaR]

Thought I should update this post for future reference

I noticed the default settings on my BIOS had SATA operations configured as "RAID On"

The moment I changed to that to AHCI, I was able to get through the installer and everything else in the documentation

It took me a while to realise any edit I made when "rotated" was going to a totally different folder in attract. So after a few hours on it, I managed to get demul to work for the few vertical shmup on naomi. Also struggled with the copying of roms - every time I used the copy roms/videos from the ui

https://i.imgur.com/qc7FLf6.mp4

I love how I can set it to read only and how windows is pretty much hidden, down to the mouse cursor (one of the things I disliked with demul was the cursor that always appeared when I launched a game, even though I had no cursor - maybe it was me who didn't know how to get rid of it).

The hardest part I'm having with this build now is when it comes to modifying anything, I either have to turn the windows settings back on or unplug the hdd and make the necessary edits (only edits I'm making is in attract and moving files around)

Once again, thanks Chunksin for providing this for everyone. I'm now going to do the same for a horizontal build and am currently trying to work out how to configure the "cpu" settings in mame as I'm reading a bit about CPU and Blitter settings for CV1K games (I found blitter settings, but can't find CPU)

Edit: found the CPU setting by changing the "cheat" parameter of the mame.ini from 0 to 1 under the # CORE MISC OPTIONS section. Once I did this, I could see it in the slider settings.

 

[RealMFnG]

Immmafuggggwiddiss. Let you guys know what I think.

 

[bdlou]

Was just made aware of this recently. Finally took the time to walk through this and got it up and running first try. Thanks so much for putting this together!