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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #135 on: November 17, 2016, 05:39:17 PM »
I did a full review (opcode by opcode) of TMS34010 and did not find anything wrong :S DCS refuses to work on WUnit.  :redface:
So, I'm now working on KI again. KI driver needs a proper CHD reader.

Ok :( Good Luck/Work in CHD reader :)
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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #136 on: November 17, 2016, 08:49:35 PM »
Possible put PlayStation/Nintendo 64 (MESS/UME/MAME Emulator) in FBA  :S ?

I think its an insult to even ask such a thing...

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #137 on: November 17, 2016, 10:25:41 PM »
I think its an insult to even ask such a thing...

Ok deleted T_T

Sorry  :redface: without intention.

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #138 on: November 18, 2016, 01:13:13 AM »
I did a full review (opcode by opcode) of TMS34010 and did not find anything wrong :S DCS refuses to work on WUnit.  :redface:

So, no sound for Midway Wolf Unit games... when and if you have time, you could try with Midway T Unit and Y Unit games, they should have a different audio sub-system ("more conventional")... in any case, thanks a lot for your work! :)


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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #139 on: November 18, 2016, 05:34:20 AM »
I think its an insult to even ask such a thing...
By the way, i had a discussion with someone about how you choose the systems you add, and i was unable to answer properly because i didn't find any information on the website, so could you confirm :
- FBA is 2D only (and "false 3D" in games like Killer Instinct) ?
- You add consoles only if you have cpu/spu/gpu already emulated for an arcade system ?

On a side note, N64 is a mess to emulate, i think the best emulator for that right now is libretro-parallel, it is far from perfect and need vulkan to run.

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #140 on: November 18, 2016, 08:17:03 AM »
By the way, i had a discussion with someone about how you choose the systems you add, and i was unable to answer properly because i didn't find any information on the website, so could you confirm :
- FBA is 2D only (and "false 3D" in games like Killer Instinct) ?
- You add consoles only if you have cpu/spu/gpu already emulated for an arcade system ?

Yea, those are the 2 main points, of course.  Then there's personal favorites and/or stuff  the driver writer always wanted to add, which naturally get a little more effort thrown at them.  I probably wont add anymore consoles/computers, but super cassette vision is on the maybe list.

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #141 on: November 18, 2016, 04:49:38 PM »
Yea, those are the 2 main points, of course.  Then there's personal favorites and/or stuff  the driver writer always wanted to add, which naturally get a little more effort thrown at them.  I probably wont add anymore consoles/computers, but super cassette vision is on the maybe list.

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I'm not very familiar with Super Cassette Vision, but looking at some game screenshots, it seems to be an interesting second generation system. :)

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #142 on: November 19, 2016, 01:13:14 AM »
I'm not very familiar with Super Cassette Vision, but looking at some game screenshots, it seems to be an interesting second generation system. :)

Yes, the Epoch Super Cassette Vision was a third (not second) generation console, almost unknown in Europe... it has a little software library, about 30 games, with some interesting japanese titles! A "funny" info: the main CPU, a NEC PD7801G, was also used in some old electronic cash registers ('80s), like the SHARP ER-2540 ! :P

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #143 on: November 21, 2016, 11:05:19 AM »
With some hardcoded values for sample generation interval (IRQ) and a proper resampler, killers instinct now sounds much better, not perfect yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB91jB5KocY

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #144 on: November 21, 2016, 01:43:01 PM »
With some hardcoded values for sample generation interval (IRQ) and a proper resampler, killers instinct now sounds much better, not perfect yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB91jB5KocY

nice!!!
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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #145 on: November 22, 2016, 12:53:09 AM »
With some hardcoded values for sample generation interval (IRQ) and a proper resampler, killers instinct now sounds much better, not perfect yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB91jB5KocY

Nice work! Finally Killer Instint is closer to be "fully emulated" by FBA! :)

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #146 on: March 01, 2017, 10:06:42 AM »
Hi Romhack,
have you news about Wolf Unit audio driver and/or Killer Instint driver?

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #147 on: May 17, 2017, 07:22:14 AM »
Hi guys, any progress on the Wolf Unit driver, particularly the sound in the MK games?
GENTLEMEN: START YOUR ENGINES!!

Daytona USA is emulated for the PC.

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #148 on: May 17, 2017, 08:06:11 AM »
The last Romhack's post said:
I did a full review (opcode by opcode) of TMS34010 and did not find anything wrong :S DCS refuses to work on WUnit.  :redface:
So, I'm now working on KI again. KI driver needs a proper CHD reader.

The DCS (Digital Compression System) was a sound sub-system of various Midway/Williams arcade boards (including Wolf Unit)... I hope I'm wrong, but probably there's no progress...

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Re: Romhack's WIP thread
« Reply #149 on: December 03, 2018, 12:33:58 AM »
"Treble Winner vs. dink: Romhack's midway spiffing championship"

The other day Barry made some nice changes to Midway - he fixed the screen offsets and changed video over to pTransDraw instead of direct buffer, to work with all palette depths, etc.

I thought: wouldn't it be really nice to complete the emulation by adding sound?
after a couple days and many hours of derping around, Wolf Unit games have sound! - yay -!

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