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Offline Death Metal

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(New) Cave drivers?
« on: July 09, 2005, 11:13:14 PM »
We all know that the roster of emulated Cave games in FBA is almost complete, if not by 4 black sheep (Hotdog Storm, Mazinger Z, Metamoqester and Power Instinct 2), so I got a couple of questions about them. Does anyone know why is it that drivers for said games were never released by the official FBA Team (or any other FBA developer, for that matter)? I mean, is there some technical issue with those games that currently prevents them from being emulated in FBA or is it plain lack of interest specifically in those titles?

I am asking because I have already made a few comments addressing this isse to the original FBA Team, but never got a response from them. So, in other words, basically how close are we to emulating those drivers in FBA? Anyone has any idea?

Thanks in advance.

[Edit: damn typos. :/]
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Re: (New) Cave drivers?
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2005, 07:23:52 PM »
Mazinger Z / Hotdog Storm / Power Instinct 2 - Using Sound Chips YM2203 no emulated by FB Alpha. :redface:

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 4:40 pm
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I wonder to know if the FBA next version will support powerinst2?
Probably, if I have time to hook up the YM2203 emulation in FBA. It's not very good, BTW.

Metamoqester - I do not have idea of the reasons... :confused:


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Re: (New) Cave drivers?
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2005, 10:46:06 PM »
I see. Thanks a lot for clearing that up, Bison.

About Metamoqester, though, I would think that its driver would be Sailor Moon's one with with some minor ajustments to reflect the real hardware... or am I totally wrong? :p

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Re: (New) Cave drivers?
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2005, 11:41:34 PM »
seems to be a matter of changing a few of the writes and then the entire memory map,
much easier than the rest though, I think. ^^


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Re: (New) Cave drivers?
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2005, 01:06:51 AM »
Hmm... MAME 0.98u1 add new Cave game! :cool:
Koro Koro Quest (Japan) :eek:


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Re: (New) Cave drivers?
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2005, 07:29:06 PM »
Hm, Koro Koro Quest... is this another hardware? Because System16 doesn't point this game as a known one for the old, standard Cave hardware (http://www.system16.com/other/hrdw_cave.html).

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Re: (New) Cave drivers?
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2005, 11:56:02 PM »
Hm, no.  It's Cave.  Just not listed on system 16 ;)


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Re: (New) Cave drivers?
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2005, 11:11:06 PM »
I see. Thanks. I guess the guy over there is just a bit carefree. :smilie: