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FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« on: December 26, 2008, 07:16:16 PM »
FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release



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Here's the what's new;

    * Added driver for Black Tiger [iq_132]
    * Added driver for Block Out [iq_132]
    * Added driver for Mug Smashers [iq_132]
    * Added driver for Pirates [iq_132]
    * Added driver for Tao Taido [iq_132]
    * Added clone of Double Dragon 3 to the Double Dragon 3 driver [Barry]
    * Added clone of Power Instinct to the Power Instinct driver [Barry]
    * Added Street Fighter 2 Rainbow Set 3 to the CPS-1 driver [Barry]
    * Applied fm.c fixes from MAME 0.128u2 [Barry]
    * Added support to Zet to get the DE register [iq_132]
    * Fixed the sound in Double Axle [Barry]
    * Corrected the clocks in Prehistoric Isle fixing the music tempo [Barry]
    * Fixed decryption for Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha and clones [Barry]
    * Matched all sets to MAME 0.128u7 [Barry]
    * Changed the version string to include leading zeros in the final section [Barry]


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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2008, 07:28:15 PM »
Great News...Thanks Barry :biggrin:

PS: The Scanning ROMs process is very long now, is it normal? Is it possible to improve it in next Release?


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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2008, 08:02:49 PM »
Great News...Thanks Barry :biggrin:

PS: The Scanning ROMs process is very long now, is it normal? Is it possible to improve it in next Release?

In my way of seeing it, it seems normal to me, the factor that slows down FBA is the Hardware + OS response, if there are lot of files / ROMs in the directory FBA (or any application) is scanning it will get slow, why? well because when some application request directory data, the system has to do basic checking process of the directory + contents and then it will return the found values, or the error values if the directory is not found or any other reason like corrupted data, etc (error results doesn't take much processing time).

For example, if FBA had the issue then you would have the same scanning times if you leave the ROMs paths empty, but what will happen when you leave the ROMs paths empty is that the OS response is very fast (the OS doesn't have to check any directory structure), making FBA finish the scanning process in less time.

Finally, FBA has approx 1,700 sets it has to scan, and if we calculate an approximate number of ROMs per game , I would say it's like 1,700 x 7 and that would get us to ~11900 files  in compressed ZIP files, so it have to: [ Get dir / file data -> Decode / Read packed data -> Compare ROMs / CRCs -> continue...] ~1,700 times, and if you have all the sets in place it will take a few seconds to complete, and that seems normal to me ^^.

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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2008, 09:24:29 PM »
gracias por esta nueva version de este estupedno emulador multiarcade
aca les dejo el link del FB Alpha 0.2.97.01 Release:

FB Alpha 0.2.97.01 :  http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yzkdy4mkm1f

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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2008, 10:06:18 PM »
gracias por esta nueva version de este estupedno emulador multiarcade
aca les dejo el link del FB Alpha 0.2.97.01 Release:

FB Alpha 0.2.97.01 :  http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yzkdy4mkm1f

Gracias por el enlace! ^^ Por cierto recomiendo que estes muy atento, por que muy pronto vendre con una sorpresa dedicada a FBA y a los fanaticos leales tambien ^^ :biggrin:

Saludos! y Felices Fiestas!

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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2008, 08:38:19 AM »
Gracias Captain CPS-X for the infos about the Scanning Process :biggrin:

Of course, there are now many sets added in FBA...Hope more games will be added (Thanks iq_132 and Barry for your work on drivers FBA)


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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2008, 01:20:18 PM »
muchas gracias amigo por los saludos, tambien queria preguntarte CaptainCPS-X  cuando sale una nueva version del FB Alpha Enhanced eso es todo nos vemos

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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2008, 01:47:43 PM »
muchas gracias amigo por los saludos, tambien queria preguntarte CaptainCPS-X  cuando sale una nueva version del FB Alpha Enhanced eso es todo nos vemos

Pues espero no decepcionarte ni a los compas de habla espanol, pero ya no estoy trabajando en esa modificacion de FBA, ahora estoy trabajando en conjunto con IQ / Barry haciendo colaboraciones directas para la verison official. Recientemente no he podido colaborar tanto, pues he estado ocupado en la Universidad estudiando Ingenieria en Tecnologia Electronica pero en cuanto me ajuste al tiempo de estudio volvere a seguir colaborando con el proyecto official de FBA ^^. Muchas de las cosas que habia implementado en FBA Enhanced las pase a la verison oficial, es por eso que recomiendo tanto utilizar la oficial. Por ciento hay varias cositas que tengo en proceso de terminar que seran aniadidas a FBA en algun momento ^^.

Saludos! y no dejes de visitar NeoSource, auque no postees mucho pero por lo menos asi te enteras de lo que pasa con FBA mas rapido que en cualquier otro lugar  ;p

Cuidate man!
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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2008, 11:22:33 AM »
Nice release!

I was assuming what's change in Neogeo code, that's only bios and few romsets or more? I just wanna update my build properly :biggrin:

Thanks in advance ;p

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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2008, 01:27:29 PM »
Yeah - it's just set changes to match MAME. The uni-bios rom changed to the proper 2.3 and the other uni-bios roms were added to builds when ROM_VERIFY is defined in the makefile (for debugging).
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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2008, 09:31:07 AM »
Thanks for the answer :wink:

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Re: FB Alpha v0.2.97.01 Release [Official]
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2008, 07:42:40 PM »
hola men quisiera que cambiaran el logo del FB Apha al estilo del FBA Enhanced o a otro estilo mucho mejor, bueno eso era todo me despido hasta la proxima nos vemos saludo a todos os amigos de foro. bye