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

[JacKc]

- X-perts (U) [!] (g_xper)
(c) 1996 SEGA
The game gets stuck at intro screen (see attached picture)

- X-Men 2 - The Clone Wars (UE) [!] (g_xme2)
No Info
Perfect graphics
No sound (at all)

- X-Men (U) [!] (g_xmen)
(c) 1993 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. - Game (c) 1993 SEGA Of America, Inc.
Perfect graphics
No sound in-game (SFX and Music)

- X-Men (E) [!] (g_xmene)
(c) 1993 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. - Game (c) 1993 SEGA Of America, Inc.
Perfect graphics
No sound in-game (SFX and Music)

- Xenon 2-Megablast (E) [c][!] (g_xen2)
(c) The Bitmap Brothers 1989, 1992
Perfect graphics
No sound (at all)

Time to make a 1st record :
- On FBA graphics are well emulated (refering to HazeMD)
- On FBA the major problem is SFX and Music which are not correctly emulated and/or absent

[MasterPhW]

Great job you are doing JacKc! Thanks for that!

[JacKc]

- X-Dazedly Ray (J)[!] (g_xdaze)
UNIPACC 1990
Minor graphics glitches (see attached pictures)
No sound (at all)

- WWF Wrestlemania Arcade (U)[!] (g_wmar)
1995 MIDWAY @ Manufacturing Company sublicensed by ACCLAIM Entertainment, Inc.
Perfect graphics
Major sound issues (SFX and Music support is incomplete or not entirely accurate)

- WWF Wrestlemania Arcade (Alpha)[!] (g_wfwaal)
No Info
Game doesn't boot (black screen)

- WWF Super Wrestlemania (UE)[!] (g_wfsw)
(c) 1992 TitanSports.
Source Code and Object Code (c) Flying Edge, Inc.
Minor graphics glitches (wrong map colors for Faces - see attached pictures)
* 1 FBA
* 2 HazeMD
No sound (at all)

[Barry Harris]

To help with this effort I have decided we need a way to allow users to edit the driver and cut out some of the effort. To this end I have done the following;

- Imported the necessary details from the HazeMDs driver to a MySQL database (the current driver in FBA has various import errors so I decided to start from scratch)
- Wrote a PHP script to output the driver details to an FBA driver from the MySQL data

Now I just need to write a web interface to the MySQL database and we will be able to update this big driver fairly easily rather than just pick up various bits from this thread and manually amend the driver.

I should be there in a couple of days and this should make this whole process much easier and accurate.

[iq_132]

That'd be fantastic.

[Barry Harris]

A bit of WIP - not too far away now.

[JacKc]

WOW...Thanks Barry

With this tool, it would be faster for me to give more infos !!!

[Barry Harris]

Going to be slightly delayed. Desktop PC has died and I can't get at the Megadrive stuff (or even my current FBA source, which is a complete pain) until such time as I can fix it. 

[iq_132]

Going to be slightly delayed. Desktop PC has died and I can't get at the Megadrive stuff (or even my current FBA source, which is a complete pain) until such time as I can fix it. 

What happened??

[Barry Harris]

Looks like motherboard has died. It is seven years old so it owes me nothing! Going to try a different PSU in a bit but I'm not hopeful.

It doesn't even POST or beep. Last night I managed to get it to POST but this morning I connected the drives back up and booted Windows but it BSODed before completing boot with an unknown hardware STOP error and now it's back to failing to POST again. Definitely looks like motherboard, which is a pain cause now I need a new board, new processor and new memory and funds are extremely limited at the moment.

[JacKc]

Sounds bad...How can we help you Barry?

[Barry Harris]

Sounds bad...How can we help you Barry?

You can't really - other than being patient and waiting for the next release.

[kev]

I currently do not have a working build enviroment due to a recent reinstall so this is something that really only applies to IQ:

I have spent some time looking at the megadrive driver in the past. The only trouble is I now have 3 versions
1) Oopswares port of picodrive
2) my port of picodrive
3) my port of genesisplus

I also have no idea which version is which but that should be obivous. IIRC, the code in the megadrive directory has the most compatiblity graphics wise but the sound was really f***ed. Also I am 99% certain that this code is also out of date with a newer version on my laptop which is currently on the other side of the country.

Anyway, take a look and let me know if any of the games run better.


EDIT: hmmm, file attachment limit. I don't have my ftp login details to hand either so this will hopefully do.

[JacKc]

You can't really - other than being patient and waiting for the next release.

When i mean "help", i don't talk about FBA Release (it will comes when it comes  ) but about helping you about getting a new PC...

[Barry Harris]

When i mean "help", i don't talk about FBA Release (it will comes when it comes  ) but about helping you about getting a new PC...

There isn't much anyone can do about that really.