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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1515 on: June 04, 2020, 06:54:13 PM »
Lovely. Both "Hot Chase" and "WEC Le Mans" are emulated by MAME, but the controls suck.

amstrad, not interested ...

As a former Amstrad CPC user, I protest. However, I understand FB Neo is not going to emulate every console and computer out there.

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1516 on: June 26, 2020, 10:35:53 PM »
Neville, did you have a chance to try our Hot Chase and WEC Lemans emulation?
A lot of extra effort went into:
Making steering nice (this took many days of fine tuning to get right)
Making WEC Lemans as accurate to PCB as possible

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1517 on: June 26, 2020, 10:41:13 PM »
Mag Max completes our Nichibutsu Arcade collection!
(note: not counting the hundreds of mahjong they did in their later years...)

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1518 on: June 27, 2020, 04:46:02 AM »
Making steering nice (this took many days of fine tuning to get right)

The steering input works very well (in my opinion the best setting for the "analog sensitivity" is 82-85%)

Making WEC Lemans as accurate to PCB as possible

The wheels animation and brake lights (of player car) are "fully operative" during the gameplay! ;)

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1519 on: June 27, 2020, 09:29:12 AM »
Neville, did you have a chance to try our Hot Chase and WEC Lemans emulation?
A lot of extra effort went into:
Making steering nice (this took many days of fine tuning to get right)
Making WEC Lemans as accurate to PCB as possible

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Thanks for asking. "WEC Le Mans" is indeed extremely nice, much better than in MAME. "Hot Chase" is a bit worse, but it could be the game's fault. It is certainly far more responsive than in MAME.
« Last Edit: July 01, 2020, 10:02:12 AM by Neville »

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1520 on: June 27, 2020, 11:45:44 PM »
thanks for your feedback, Neville and Gab75 :)

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1521 on: June 27, 2020, 11:47:54 PM »
iq_132 simulated the protection for Photo Y2K II (py2k2) on PGM HW, making the game fully playable :)

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1522 on: June 29, 2020, 09:08:58 AM »
iq_132 simulated the protection for Photo Y2K II (py2k2) on PGM HW, making the game fully playable :)

Very Impressive!!

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1523 on: June 29, 2020, 09:13:04 AM »
Neville, did you have a chance to try our Hot Chase and WEC Lemans emulation?
A lot of extra effort went into:
Making steering nice (this took many days of fine tuning to get right)
Making WEC Lemans as accurate to PCB as possible

best regards,
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Some nice work there, now that FBN supports Wec Le Mans it is worth mentioning that Hyper Crash uses the same steering wheel inputs
as an alternative control method, you might want to look at porting the selected_ip code across to d_nemesis.cpp sometime as it really does
improve the controls.
« Last Edit: June 29, 2020, 09:28:42 AM by Arcadez »

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1524 on: June 29, 2020, 10:39:59 AM »
Arcadez thanks for the heads up, buddy! :)

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« Reply #1525 on: June 29, 2020, 10:41:01 AM »
Photo Y2K 2:  It turns out the protection was slightly more advanced - but last night a solution was found, and I played all the way to the end to test it - though, we need to do some more testing because the game is somewhat random.

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1526 on: June 30, 2020, 02:55:47 AM »
iq_132 simulated the protection for Photo Y2K II (py2k2) on PGM HW, making the game fully playable :)

Excellent work guys! I played all 40 stages without any problem! :)

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1527 on: June 30, 2020, 07:03:44 PM »
Thanks Gab75, that was a big help - since the game has a bit of randomness to it, we had to do at least 2 plays to be sure :)

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1528 on: July 01, 2020, 08:08:14 PM »
Excellent work guys! I played all 40 stages without any problem! :)
Thanks gab! I got to 40 (with a timer-disabling cheat) and got bored


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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1529 on: July 03, 2020, 02:30:56 AM »
This now works in FBN :)