Nice to see it running smoothly, since it seems most videos on CZcams showing Beatmania III don't have the video quality of the game running as smoothly as when playing the actual machine in person. (Isn't it running at 60fps?) I played this game years ago and loved it, especially with how smoothly the game ran compared to Beatmania and Beatmania IIDX at the time. And also how clear the music was compared to other arcade games. It's pretty amazing how an emulator can make the game run this well.
it's honestly impressive! i've never been able to play this game in person (but have wished to for years), so this is basically a whole new opportunity for me! the game runs at a nice 60hz, which equals smooth clean gameplay
update it's in main mame and popn will work if you remake the CHDs per this NOTE: Even with this PR, pop'n music will not boot as-is currently due to lack of support for the DVD CHDs. The CHDs are made as HDD CHDs which can't be loaded by the CD-ROM emulation code. The pop'n music games will work if you extract the raw data from the existing CHDs and rebuild them using chdman createcd but that is just a workaround. I will try to fix this in a future PR.
Hey, I'm glad that firebeat is finally working in MAME. I already compiled the MAME, downloaded Beatmania III THE FINAL ROM and CHD, since I can't find the OG Beatmania III ROM and CHD online, but it seems that MAME can't recognize the ROM files (972maina01.21e NOT FOUND, gcc01-jc BAD DUMP, a21jca03.3q NOT FOUND). I can't find 972maina01.21e and a21jca03.3q anywhere online. Does that mean I have to wait for a new ROM dump? I can't wait to play beatmania III!
yep, some new ROM dumps were made for various so you might have to wait until those pop up, whenever that is. not sure when they'll be publicly available as of yet?
Is anyone here experiencing some lag in specific moments? for me the game gets really choppy on the warning and title screen, when the song is loading and on random gameplay moments.
Same happened to me, i think that it has something to do with v-sync? I dont think my setup is weak to run this game (1660gpu + 16gb of ram and a ryzen 3600 cpu)
Congratulations! It's been a long time coming.
What a time to be alive.
And it runs perfect!
There are operator unlock codes (try the wayback machine), then setting to Event Mode unlocks all songs. No need for the FDD!
yeah, that's entirely true, although i'm one of those weirdos that wants to clear through everything and have save progress and song hi-scores :P
It's happening. So nice to see it.
10:34 - 12:08 now that's a Perfect Play
ive been waiting 15 years to play this!!
Nice to see it running smoothly, since it seems most videos on CZcams showing Beatmania III don't have the video quality of the game running as smoothly as when playing the actual machine in person. (Isn't it running at 60fps?) I played this game years ago and loved it, especially with how smoothly the game ran compared to Beatmania and Beatmania IIDX at the time. And also how clear the music was compared to other arcade games. It's pretty amazing how an emulator can make the game run this well.
it's honestly impressive! i've never been able to play this game in person (but have wished to for years), so this is basically a whole new opportunity for me! the game runs at a nice 60hz, which equals smooth clean gameplay
update it's in main mame and popn will work if you remake the CHDs per this NOTE: Even with this PR, pop'n music will not boot as-is currently due to lack of support for the DVD CHDs. The CHDs are made as HDD CHDs which can't be loaded by the CD-ROM emulation code. The pop'n music games will work if you extract the raw data from the existing CHDs and rebuild them using chdman createcd but that is just a workaround. I will try to fix this in a future PR.
if you do that you can run the popn music games from cmd
Hey, I'm glad that firebeat is finally working in MAME.
I already compiled the MAME, downloaded Beatmania III THE FINAL ROM and CHD, since I can't find the OG Beatmania III ROM and CHD online, but it seems that MAME can't recognize the ROM files (972maina01.21e NOT FOUND, gcc01-jc BAD DUMP, a21jca03.3q NOT FOUND). I can't find 972maina01.21e and a21jca03.3q anywhere online.
Does that mean I have to wait for a new ROM dump? I can't wait to play beatmania III!
yep, some new ROM dumps were made for various so you might have to wait until those pop up, whenever that is. not sure when they'll be publicly available as of yet?
@@infinitephantasm they are out now
Not bad. Runs really good! Aside from some crusty graphics.
how do you input turntable keys? i've been trying to figure it out and can't
Runs a FDD image and running in mame
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Is anyone here experiencing some lag in specific moments? for me the game gets really choppy on the warning and title screen, when the song is loading and on random gameplay moments.
Same happened to me, i think that it has something to do with v-sync? I dont think my setup is weak to run this game (1660gpu + 16gb of ram and a ryzen 3600 cpu)
@@TuetanoRoto Yeah, i tried turning v sync off but i didn't work