New FBA released: 0.2.97.43

UDb23

New release today; last update was July 2017.
Lots of new drivers and fixes. Hope we see this version soon in Retropie too.

Among those:

Added driver for Toaplan-1 games: Vimana, Outzone, Same! Same! Same!/FireShark, Demon's World, Zero Wing, Hellfire, Truxton and Rally Bike, replacing the older individual drivers [iq_132]
Added driver for Nibbler, Pioneer Balloon, Fantasy, Vanguard, Sasuke and Commader and Satan of Saturn on RockOla/SNK6502 hardware [iq_132, dink]
Added driver for Crazy Ballon [iq_132, dink]
Use 4-Way inputs for Volfied, making the game playable [dink]
Fixed distorted sounds in Time Pilot, Time Pilot '84, Tutanham and Commando Sega [dink]

Evert

Great news, it's been a while. Unfortunately still no support for Mortal Kombat games or Killer Instinct.

matchaman

Is there any change to the ROMset whatsoever?

UDb23

@matchaman It seems so as in the changes sync with newer mame roms is mentioned.
Someone will probably create a dedicated .DAT.

barbudreadmon

@matchaman said in New FBA released: 0.2.97.43:

Is there any change to the ROMset whatsoever?

Why ask ? There are changes with EVERY new release.

Just finished updating lr-fbalpha with the new codebase, let me know if you find issues.
PS : i didn't add the new dats to the github repo yet.

UDb23

@barbudreadmon Thanks!
Can we get it in Retropie thru update from source ?

barbudreadmon

@udb23 said in New FBA released: 0.2.97.43:

Can we get it in Retropie thru update from source ?

Yes

UDb23

@barbudreadmon Installed .43 today and played some games. No issues so far.
Only noticed that "the end" still has very low sound (compared to original machine and lr-mame2003). That game has sound effects + some "continuous beating" background music (reminds me of "jaws" soundtrack when the shark comes). Can this be fixed ?

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.