Topic: dink's FBN Development & Fixes thread

[Freddy]

dink's FBA devlog update for.. today!

After tons of debugging & porting new sprite code and other fun things, I'm happy to say that Streets of Rage 1 & 2 now both work perfectly with FBA!   

best regards,
- dink

The improvements in Streets of Rage 1 are very obvious! the game is now much more fluid.
Great job, Dink

[dink]

The improvements in Streets of Rage 1 are very obvious! the game is now much more fluid.
Great job, Dink

Thanks for helping me test things

best regards,
- dink

[dink]

Hi guys,
After 2 days of debugging (maybe I'm a little slow..) I found the cause and fixed a problem with some PCEngine games having static (or fast clicking) ontop of the music.  woohoo!   Splatterhouse being the one I used as a testcase, but there are several others that exhibit this behavior as well.

Another thing I am trying to find a good solution to is the conflicting romset names between systems.
For example, there's an arcade raiden.zip, Megadrive raiden.zip and PCEngine raiden.zip. The MD & PCE drivers will try to load the arcade raiden.zip, and that won't work.
On my personal version of FBA, I changed the Megadrive raiden.zip to raidenmd.zip and PCEngine version to raidenpce.zip, and it works good..

Do you guys think this is a good idea?  If yea, I could write a little proggy to find all the duplicates between the systems, and name them accordingly.. because there are quite a few.

Thats it for today...
best regards,
- dink

[Barry Harris]

Hi guys,
After 2 days of debugging (maybe I'm a little slow..) I found the cause and fixed a problem with some PCEngine games having static (or fast clicking) ontop of the music.  woohoo!   Splatterhouse being the one I used as a testcase, but there are several others that exhibit this behavior as well.

Another thing I am trying to find a good solution to is the conflicting romset names between systems.
For example, there's an arcade raiden.zip, Megadrive raiden.zip and PCEngine raiden.zip. The MD & PCE drivers will try to load the arcade raiden.zip, and that won't work.
On my personal version of FBA, I changed the Megadrive raiden.zip to raidenmd.zip and PCEngine version to raidenpce.zip, and it works good..

Do you guys think this is a good idea?  If yea, I could write a little proggy to find all the duplicates between the systems, and name them accordingly.. because there are quite a few.

Thats it for today...
best regards,
- dink

dink,

Check the help file section on rom paths for full details the details about the last ten paths and their special usage.

[dink]

Thanks, TrebleWinner!

[iq_132]

Your fix actually improves a lot of games. They sound MUCH better. I was playing 1943 before the fix and it sounded like sh**.

[Barry Harris]

Your fix actually improves a lot of games. They sound MUCH better. I was playing 1943 before the fix and it sounded like sh**.

Nice work dink.

[dink]

We are a great team!

best regards,
- dink

[Freddy]

Another thing I am trying to find a good solution to is the conflicting romset names between systems.
For example, there's an arcade raiden.zip, Megadrive raiden.zip and PCEngine raiden.zip. The MD & PCE drivers will try to load the arcade raiden.zip, and that won't work.
On my personal version of FBA, I changed the Megadrive raiden.zip to raidenmd.zip and PCEngine version to raidenpce.zip, and it works good..

To avoid conflicts, I created two ROMs directories.
Shadow Dancer (arcade and mega drive) has the same file name too. Despite the same name, are entirely different games.

[JacKc]

The best way to avoid conflict with zipnames ROMs is to create folders like this :

[dink]

Thanks for the suggestions, guys - I got it working good now w/o conflicts.

best regards,
- dink

[Barry Harris]

Maybe we need to distribute an FAQ with the emulator for things like this?

[dink]

Treble Winner, thats a great idea - I can already think of some things that should be in it (stuff I'm always repeating to my friends when I ask them to try it, etc)

best regards,
- dink

[JacKc]

Why not also include all those folders by default?

[Barry Harris]

Why not also include all those folders by default?

Now that is a good idea - SVN incoming.