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Thank you for the insight & analysis Z80_Man!

Great news!

Thanks for letting me know and supporting the project.

Enjoy!

Hi UKrobm

Thank you for your interest in the project.

Error code -1 usually indicates you have supplied an incompatible ROM file.  Does the ROM file you have work with MAME?

Can you try a different ROM file?

Let me know how you get on.

Thanks,

Ok, you’re close.

That message just  means you do not have one of the supported Rom files.

Not sure which one you have.  Try using a different Rom file if you can.

That is strange.  The unzip command has created a “ starforc_nex” subfolder and put the files there instead of in the Downloads folder.

Easiest thing to do would be to use Finder to copy the files & folders from the “starforc_nex” folder to Downloads folder.

Then retry the xattr command again.

Hi

Thanks for the feedback.

Is the distortion based on volume level or in general?

Must admit, testing was only done on the official (and latest) core.

Don’t give up!

Are you using Mac or Linux?

You need your Rom file and the starforc_nex.zip file from here in the same folder - this will usually be your Downloads folder on your machine.

Then you should be able to follow the appropriate section of the video guide here: https://youtu.be/bfyol449GFY?si=-wBsZQV4TbxifBGb

Yes, the Rom file needs to be a .zip or 7z file which contains the dumps of the original arcade ROM chips.  It’s the same type of Rom file that MAME uses.

While in the terminal, can you post the output of a “pwd” and “ls -l” command from your terminal?  You don’t need the quotes.

No, you need to copy the prepared starforc.nex file which the included tool produces…

The tool which can be run on Windows, Mac or Linux (see the video) combines the starforc.nex.np file with your star force ROM file to build the starforc.nex file; that is the file you copy to your SD card.

Once you have prepared the .nex file, you can copy it the SD Card that is in your Next.

Once copied to the SD card and reinserted into the Next, you can use the Browser to navigate to and run it.

Happy to hear you are up & running! 👍

Enjoy!

Great!

Let me know how you get on.

I have tested the download with AVG on MacOS and although I was able to download the file, I have reproduced your issue once I unzipped the downloaded file.

I have reported the utility to AVG as a False Positive.  I am awaiting their response.

If you would like to use the file, you can do so by following this process.

Thank you for the feedback!

Thank you for the great feedback and all your support! 👍

Thanks!

Yes, any future release will more than likely be a separate download.  The nature of the conversions process means that specific optimisations have to be made that do not necessarily work for all games.

Thank you!

I researched a few versions of this game during development but not that one…. I will check it out.

Thanks for the great feedback!

Yes, that was something I did think about.  I will look into that for a future version.

That is strange.

Do you have another machine or VM you could try downloading the file on?