New FBA released: 0.2.97.43

Sano

Woohoo :
Improved DonPachi and DoDonPachi timing to respond to inputs in 2 frames instead of 4 [dink]

barbudreadmon

@sano said in New FBA released: 0.2.97.43:

Woohoo :
Improved DonPachi and DoDonPachi timing to respond to inputs in 2 frames instead of 4 [dink]

This improvement was actually included in lr-fbalpha a month ago.

spartan

I can change settings by holding START in-game, but I don't know where they are saving...

Any ideas?

barbudreadmon

@spartan All i can say is that the core is working properly.

spartan

@barbudreadmon 0.2.97.42 was reading core options

spartan

FBA 0.2.97.43

barbudreadmon

@spartan i'm not sure what you are complaining about, at first i thought you were complaining about core options not being saved/loaded properly, but actually they do ? At the very least they do for me, and anyway it's not something performed by the core.

You are only complaining about one specific dipswitch doing nothing ? Well, there are some dipswitches that do nothing in fba, especially in cps1/cps2 games, the "flip screen" one is another example. Could you explain to me the expected behavior of this "demo sound" dipswitch ?

Edit : nvm, it seems some dipswitches in cps1/cps2 are indeed acting weird, it's probably related to https://github.com/libretro/fbalpha/issues/185 again. To be honest i don't think i'll fix it, the first time i worked on this i severely broke the core for a few dipswitches that seemed totally useless.

spartan

@barbudreadmon "Demo Sound" switch was working fine on FBA 0.2.97.42 , it allows to play background music and SFX on the classic Street Fighter intro.

barbudreadmon

@spartan Fixed, i hope it won't cause new issues...

spartan

@barbudreadmon thanks!!

semisolidwhale

Is there anything special I need to do to get this to update in Retropie? I just updated lr-fbalpha from source, everything seemed to run fine but it still shows v0.2.97.42 even after a reboot.

UDb23

@semisolidwhale if you updated from source you should get .43.
I’d suggest to retry, first updating retropie setup script and then lr-fba from source.

BuZz

@udb23 the binaries should be .43 also. Built last week or so.

Sano

@buzz
For information, I just did a full update, and lr-fbalpha is still in 0.2.97.42.
That said, it is for testing, I'm not in a rush to replace my FBA ROMs again :)

Edit : My Bad here !
Package description and update scripts indicate 0.2.97.42, but the retroarch menu tells 0.2.97.43 after update. It's just a description issue IMHO.

Second edit : I won't open a topic for that, but it seems the /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-81.sh was partially edited on windows and has bad new line characters : here is what I get when launching retropie_setup.sh :

/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-81.sh: line 2: $'\r': command not found
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-81.sh: line 11: $'\r': command not found
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-81.sh: line 17: $'\r': command not found
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-81.sh: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `$'{\r''
'home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-81.sh: line 18: `function sources_lr-81() {

BuZz

@sano Have corrected the line endings - will sort the version info for fbalpha. thanks.

MapleStory

Despite having the 0.2.97.43 rom set, I can't manage to get Chuka Taisen (and some other games, have to double check) to run at all. It runs without issue on 0.2.97.42 (which I still have installed on a second pi 3).

This was tested on a fresh RetroPie 4.4 install with all updates applied.

mitu

@maplestory The new version has a few changes regarding the ROMsets, make sure you're using a compatible ROM.

MapleStory

@mitu I've attempted to launch Chuka Taisen and all of its' clones to no avail. All files are in the same folder. There are many other games in the same folder that run without issue (Taito subfolder under fba). Again, the roms came from the 0.2.97.43 set, running on Retroarch 1.7.3 and FB Alpha v0.2.97.43 a949908 according to the Retroarch menu.

EDIT: The roms also fail and crash Final Burn Alpha on Windows 10 with the following error:

Exception 0xC0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) thrown.

barbudreadmon

@maplestory Thanks for the report, the issue was affecting nearly all games from the same driver, i just fixed it in https://github.com/libretro/fbalpha/commit/5e771b0fcdb560a543b016d28e65b7bd37d33348.
Next time come directly on github if you have an issue with a game while having the right romset.

2Play

@evert
Official:
I can't launch Killer Instinct, Rampage, Mortal Kombat 3 and other MIDWAY games, why ?
Support for those games was removed from the libretro port. They are buggy in FB Alpha and have serious compatibility issues with this port. Let's hope someone will fix them in a future release of FB Alpha