Topic: CaptainCPS-X's FB Alpha Extra Stuff WIP

[CaptainCPS]

FB Alpha Extras R20 - WIP 02

http-//fightercore.freepgs.com/fbaex/ (EDIT: October 3, 2008 : no longer active)

KEV released his current progress with the Data East DEC0 hardware, and I took the time to add it to the upcoming release of FB Alpha Extras, this may be added in the next version of the official FB Alpha but just to be sure it is :-).

Today’s main WIP is the modification of the Game Selection dialog , check the pictures to find out (Look on the Game List Filters & Options ^^).

SeeYaa!
 

[CaptainCPS]

ThanX doomking! 

SeeYaa!
 

[CaptainCPS]

FB Alpha Extras R20 - WIP 03

I have'nt got much time to post WIP's but I got good news, here are some pics...













There is something I need to know about Inputs, because when the Map game input dialog comes up, it will not detect any key Im pressing resulting in not being able to configure (for now), if someone can help me with that it would be appreciated a lot ^^

Btw, there is a nice feature coming soon if I can implement some of the ideas I got right now so stay tuned 

Oh, and before I go, ThanX to JiMMy_Page for the CPS-2 XORs saving code, and IQ_132 for letting me use the code to Save Neo-Geo decrypted ROMs 

SeeYaa!
 

[CaptainCPS]

Before I go to sleep here is the FB Alpha Extras R20 - WIP 04

Favorite Games List feature! (Still WIP, but its loading games already!  )



(ThanX to KEV for helping me with some rom loading stuff)

I'll update later, because I havent sleep and here is ~5:00A.M. and Im like @____@ xDD lol

SeeYaa!
 

[CaptainCPS]

Just to update, Im working with the next release of FB Alpha Extras R20, and if everything goes well It will include lot of cleaning in the sel.cpp related with the Tabs, OwnerDraw buttons, Input Mapping from there, DIPSwitches configuration from there too, and the newest addition, the Favorite Games List...

I post because this will take me some more days, this is due to some unexpected error with compilation with VCToolkit, it make the executable and all, but when I select a game it crashes, I really dont know why Im having problems since the MinGW build compile fine, but I  m currently redoing the changes to the Sel.cpp piece by piece and making everything sorted so is more readable.

well that was it, I will post some WIPs later 

SeeYaa!
 

[Death Metal]

OMG YOU ARE AWESOME!

Sorry for not having anything else really useful to post, but I just wanted to make sure that you know this.

[KingHanco]

Take your time.

[KOF2112]

 

The extremely good function, anticipates your work
 

[KingHanco]

Thanks for the Street Fighters skin.

[CaptainCPS]

FB Alpha Extras R20 - WIP 05 (Beta)

Sorry for not updating with WIP these days, I've been working on some new features, and I wanted to get them working the best way posible, and here I bring pictures to reveal 'some' of the changes for the next release,... btw, for now the 'What's New' is not well documented so there is no list of changes at this moment (I'll be organizing the list of changes before I release the R20 beta binary).

Enjoy the pics!    ...
(I will enjoy them by thinking there was no much coding / testing involved with all this WIPs xDD lol)

EDIT - "NOTE!: THIS ARE NOT ALL THE CHANGES MADE, THERE ARE STILL LOT OF STUFF NOT SEEN  OR MENTIONED HERE!"

Recent Played Games



Extended information available in Favorites (+ Play Times Counter  )



Fully featured UNICODE titles support in Favorites



Don't worry ^^, Full support for ASCII titles in the Favorites Too! (lol)



Sort Favorites by Ascending / Descending, Romset, Title, Hardware, Year, Manufacturer, Max Players or Played Times  order!





Favorites Context menu available with options to make life easier 



Updated Game List context menu with more options



Soon I'll be releasing the beta binary, both UNICODE and ANSI builds...and the SRC will be available later, to make sure any bugs or details are reported before doing a final release.

ThanX everyone for the support! ^^

SeeYaa!
 

[Duck King]

Awesome work, Captain !

I need to see these features in action !!!

[KOF2112]

 :eek:Extremely good function. Anticipates your issue test
 

[lxd_bruce]

awesome awesome awesome awesome 

[KingHanco]

Now that is plain cool. I'm thinking that FBA will be the hell a lot better than Mame.

The only thing FBA probably won't have is the artwork system and can runs chd games. (This might not ever to come true. Maybe in another 100 years. )

[CaptainCPS]

Hi there everyone! here I have a little thing revealed from R20 version, ...

I didn't like changing the resolution every time for different type of games so...

Configure both Vertical Oriented Games and Not Rotated Games resolutions





I've added 2 more Preset Resolutions too in both type of configurations, and fixed an actual issue in FB Alpha when switching between Screen Modes, the one happening when you right click on the screen to disable the menu, now it will change screen mode when you release the mouse button and not instantly when you click, this means you're not gonna see the annoying  Windows Explorer context menu while changing the screen mode  .

As you can see there are some resolution options not available in the new Vertical Oriented Games resolution menu, I'll be working on adding them later.

SeeYaa!