FB Alpha 0.2.97.02 Release
Here's the what's new;
- Added a driver for games on Galaxian hardware, 177 new sets [Barry]
- Added support for insane sample Galaxian sound sample hardware and the various AY8910 interfaces in the Galaxian driver [Barry]
- Moved PPI8255 module to the burn folder so it can be accessed by all drivers [Barry]
- Added support for a third PPI8255 [Barry]
- Added driver for Aquarium [iq_132]
- Added driver for Dark Seal [iq_132]
- Added driver for games on Deniam hardware [iq_132]
- Added driver for games on Midas hardware [iq_132]
- Changed the left and right sound channels in the CPS-3 driver [Barry]
- Fixed the speed-up hacks for Jojo's Venture [Barry]
- Improved analog controls in the Sega drivers when used with analog devices [Captain CPS-X]
- Added some clones to the Toaplan2 driver [Barry]
- Added some new Phoenix sets to the CPS-2 driver (provided by bonky0013) [Barry]
- Some renames of roms in Neo-Geo decrypted sets as reported by pmc2 [Barry]
- Fixed the aspect ratio in the Arkanoid driver [Captain CPS-X]
- Added support to the Game Information dialog for Select, Versus, How To, Scores, Bosses and Game over previews [Barry]
- Added configurable path support for the above new previews [Barry]
- Fixed issue with selection dialog when clicking filters too fast [Captain CPS-X]
- Added buttons to the selection dialog for tasks in the context-sensitive menu [Captain CPS-X]
- Moved the options in the selection dialog to their own tab [Captain CPS-X]
- Tidied the selection dialog [Captain CPS-X]
- Tidied the rom and support path dialogs and made them less cumbersome [Captain CPS-X]
- Changed the PNG load functions to use PNGlib [Captain CPS-X]
- Added support for loading support files from zips [Captain CPS-X]
- Added filter for Galaxian hardware to the selection dialog [Barry]
- Matched all set to MAME 0.129u3 [Barry]
- nb, the source is now doule-zipped similar to MAME for better compression
You can download the new version here;
16 Comments:
Posted by NEo on 1 February 2009 at 19:58
Thanks for fixing cps3 sound issues.. you're the man Barry :)Posted by warengine on 3 February 2009 at 02:02
is it just me or is SFIII3 not working?Posted by warengine on 3 February 2009 at 02:03
to be a little clearer, it doesn't see the zip in the roms folder...Posted by Volumetric on 3 February 2009 at 02:45
@warengine: yeah, im getting the same thing, can see sfiii NG but none of the others. Has there been a change in the mame rom sets that im unaware of? On a more positive note, it seems that analogue control is now working great. Im off to play afterburner!!Posted by Volumetric on 3 February 2009 at 02:50
@warengine: dont know if this helps, but i can still load 3rd strike, it gives me an error, i press ok and it loads, just turn off "view only available roms" in the options.Posted by Volumetric on 3 February 2009 at 03:55
@warengine: ok, sorted, there has been a change in the mame romset, im guessing it came in with v129 as i couldnt see it listed in any of the update packs (eg u1/u2/u3) just update your roms and you should be fine Posted by CaptainCPS-X on 3 February 2009 at 12:08
CPS3 drivers were updated by David Haywood in v129u3, here you have a quote: "...Fixed the remaining CPS3 sets that were left broken from the previous
half-done set renames. Also reworked the code a bit to make it harder
for somebody to break it in future (removed the config table & moved
keys to driver inits, define region sizes, allocate memory in init
for CD based games.) Should be no functional changes, although it
might be a fraction of a % faster due to there being less region
lookups. [David Haywood]..." SeeYaa!Posted by Volumetric on 3 February 2009 at 13:26
And there you have it, update those roms now kids!! Not sure if this is appropriate for the comments section, but if you're having trouble finding up to date roms check out planet emulation / Retro-roms / pleasuredome . These sites seem to keep their sets pretty much up to date (i got up to date sfIII3s from planet emu). Many sites are slow to update, and dont tell you what version roms they have, so if you've re-downloaded and its not working, you have an out of date rom. Posted by warengine on 4 February 2009 at 01:10
Thanks peepz for the fast responses, but I have since fixed the rom issue. It seems the rom I have is good, except missing a certain file - sf33usa.binPosted by msbhvn on 5 February 2009 at 09:31
Re: CPS3 Changes. No new files need to be downloaded. The current zips just need to be renamed. For example, the 3rd Strike alternate set is now the main set and vice versa so you need to rename sfiii3an to sfiii3n and sfiii3n to sfiii3an.Posted by Volumetric on 13 February 2009 at 14:48
Hey there guys, one problem im having at the moment is with the bakraid rom, (had a similar prob with batrider which was solved by renaming the zip. I have been downloading what i thought were up to date roms (from retroroms) yet FBA seems unable to see the bakraid rom? Also FBA seems to think that the unlimited version is the parent rom, which differs from mame. Have i missed something here? cheers guysPosted by Volumetric on 14 February 2009 at 05:58
ok, think ive sorted it out. Would i be right in saying that bakraid is one of the roms that hasn't been matched to mame 129? Anyone else havin probs, try dl'ing from the retroroms FBA section, instead of the mame one.Posted by barry on 14 February 2009 at 08:13
All the sets match MAME 0.129u3. Battle Bakraid changed as well as anything else.Posted by warengine on 14 February 2009 at 17:42
anywhere to find cheats that match?Posted by Dran Dragore on 18 February 2009 at 22:47
please, can add support for hotkeys to neogeo games ?
thanks ! =)Posted by jjkkyu on 2 March 2009 at 07:21
An IPS support bug report:
When I choose the ips option in the ips manager, it saves a wrong ini file in the folder \config\ips with a wrong filename. So the "Play game with IPS patch applied" menu is still disabled and cannot apply IPS patch.
Hope this can be fixed in the next version, thanks.View article to leave a comment
