Topic: New Megadrive Driver Post - Post Your Working Games and the Driver Files!

[nganiere]

Here is an updated driver for megadrive with Splatterhouse 2 (and clones) and Splatterhouse 3 (and clones) as well as a renaming fix for Toe Jam and Earl (the clone was a japan dump, Rev 2)....enjoy, might post driver with other working games later, testing some as we speak....

[iq_132]

Cool beans Would posting a version with all of the md games enabled help get people motivated to test them?

[MasterPhW]

It would.

[iq_132]

http://www.fbadev.info/iq_132/fba_029702md.zip

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE POST ANY GAMES YOU TEST HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE.

[iq_132]

The response so far doesn't inspire confidence...

[MasterPhW]

Sorry, hadn't time yet, will post results at weekend.

[JacKc]

Sorry iq_132...I'm testing it since yesterday but don't have a lot of time to do it

Sure if i encounter any bugs, i will post here

[iq_132]

No need to apologize. I just was expecting a bigger/faster turnout given the number of people who've been bitching about expanding the MD list.

[Aquashark]

Mortal Kombat 3 and UMK3 have no visual glitches or dropping framerates
but the intro music gets stuck in a humming loop and there's no in-game SFX

- savestates give this error on load (see attach)
- F1 framerate unthrottle doesn't work with sound disabled

will test more days to come..

can you mention some guidelines / methods of testing so it will be relevant to you?

[iq_132]

Mortal Kombat 3 and UMK3 have no visual glitches or dropping framerates
but the intro music gets stuck in a humming loop and there's no in-game SFX

- savestates give this error on load (see attach)
- F1 framerate unthrottle doesn't work with sound disabled

will test more days to come..

can you mention some guidelines / methods of testing so it will be relevant to you?

Neither of those are bugs. F1 is disabled if the sound is disabled and save states aren't supported for megadrive yet.

As for guidelines, details are nice. Information like:
What game did you test: including rom name (g_xxxxx) and title (as It doesn't help if I have no idea what game you tested ).
A short description of how well it's working: Perfect, minor graphic glitches, minor sound glitches, major graphic issues, major sound issues, freezes, crashes fba, ate my cat, etc.
Crash/Freeze? if so, where/when does it crash/freeze?
Glitch? if so, what type of glitch, and when does it glitch? A savestate of a few seconds before before the glitch would be helpful if it happens later on.


Example:
Earth Worm Jim (U)(!)
Perfect Graphics
No Sound (at all)

*edit*
I've re-uploaded a version with savestate support.

[JacKc]

* All tests made with fba_029702md

- Zoop (U) [!] (g_zoop)
@ 1995 Viacom International Inc.
crashes fba

- Zoop (E) [!] (g_zoope)
@ 1995 Viacom International Inc.
crashes fba

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Guru Meditation # 000005.004A6E86
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Exception 0xC0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) thrown.
EIP: 0x004A
 (attempting to read address 0x0000C900)

EAX: 0x000010FA, EBX: 0x0000007C, ECX: 0x00000CC9, EDX: 0x000000C9
ESI: 0x0000C900, EDI: 0x000007E8, ESP: 0x0023BBF4, EBP: 0x00000000

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- Zoom (JU) [!] (g_zoom)
@ 1988 Discovery Software International Inc.
Perfect Graphics
No Sound (at all)

- Zombies Ate My Neighbors (U) [c][!] (g_zomb)
@ 1993 LucasArts Entertainment Co.
Minor graphics glitches (see attached pictures)
Major sound issues (No in-game SFX and Music)

- Zombies (E) [!] (g_zombe)
@ 1993 LucasArts Entertainment Co.
Perfect graphics
Major sound issues (No in-game SFX and Music)

- Zombie High (U) (Prototype) (g_zombhb)
Crashes fba

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Guru Meditation # 000005.004A6E86
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Exception 0xC0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) thrown.
EIP: 0x004A
 (attempting to read address 0x0000E640)

EAX: 0x00004200, EBX: 0x000000D4, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x000000E6
ESI: 0x0000E640, EDI: 0x0000000F, ESP: 0x0023BBF4, EBP: 0x00000000

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- Zero Wing (E) [c][!] (g_zwin)
TOAPLAN Co., Ltd 1991
Perfect Graphics
No Sound (at all)

- Zero Wing (J) (g_zwingj)
TOAPLAN Co., Ltd 1991
Perfect Graphics
Major sound issues (SFX and Music support is incomplete or not entirely accurate)

- Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel (E)[!] (g_ztkse)
Sun Corporation Of America, 1994
Perfect Graphics
No Sound (at all)

- Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel (U)[!] (g_ztks)
Sun Corporation Of America, 1994
Perfect Graphics
No Sound (at all)

- Zany Golf (UE) (REV00) [c][!] (g_zany)
(c) 1990 Will Harvey - Electronics Arts
Perfect Graphics
Note : Cannot pass first stage (No sprite/object for the ball) (see attached picture)

- Yuu Yuu Hakusho Gaiden (J) [!] (g_yuyuga)
(c) Yoshihiro Togashi / Shueisha.Fuji  TV-ST.Pierrot 1994 SEGA
Minor graphics glitches (wrong colors map in dialog box for some character's faces) (see attached pictures)
Major sound issues (SFX and Music support is incomplete or not entirely accurate)

[iq_132]

Excellent Thanks JackC. Btw, another thing that would help immensely is adding some information like:
Developer and Year (usually in the game's title screen)
and Genre - Platformer, Vertical Scrolling Shooter, etc.
These info's will be added to the fba driver for these.

*edit*
Added High color support.

[JacKc]

OK iq_132...I will add thoses infos in my previous post...And i'm also very happy and proud to help you to improve the MD driver

[iq_132]

Cool. I've added all of the info you've provided JackC

[JacKc]

Note to iq_132 and to others Testers : To improve tests accuracy, i've decided to check how games running on HazeMD and after on FBA.

- Ys III - Wanderers from Ys (U) [!] (g_ys3)
Copyright 1991 Falcom
Perfect Graphics
Major sound issues (SFX and Music support is incomplete or not entirely accurate - For example, the Intro music gets stuck)

- Ys III - Wanderers from Ys (J) [!] (g_ys3j)
Copyright 1991 Falcom
Perfect Graphics
Major sound issues (SFX and Music support is incomplete or not entirely accurate)

- Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Beta) (g_yindcb)
No Info
Missings some graphics (see attached pictures)
* 1 HazeMD
* 2 FBA
No Sound (at all)

- Young Indiana Jones - Instruments Of Chaos (U) (g_yidy)
(c) 1994 SEGA (R) TM & (c) Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Perfect graphics
No Sound (at all)

- Young Indiana Jones - Instruments Of Chaos (Beta) (g_yindyb)
No Info
Missings some graphics (see attached pictures)
* 1 HazeMD
* 2 FBA
No Sound (at all)

- Yogi Bear's Cartoon Capers (E)[!] (g_yogy)
Copyright 1994 : Entertainment International U.K. Ltd. - Empire Software
Perfect graphics
No Sound (at all)

- XZR (J)[!] (g_xzr)
Riot
Minor graphics glitches (see attached pictures)
Minor Sound issues (Music support is not entirely accurate)