Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo

barbudreadmon

@johnodon said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

Was this change by design?

The change follows MAME change : https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/ba113f167cf4e08efe92f164f3b2fec9cb6d5c3f#diff-b7295a09783ff0178e3add3fe5cb5b84
It was done after MAME 0.224 release and will be part of 0.225. Yes, the file is out in the wilds :).

I'm not 100% sure why euro is now the parent rom, but here is my guess :

parent roms are usually the most recent version of the game (because of possible bug fixes), and euro version was probably released after japan version
then why japan instead of usa previously ? i'm even less sure about that one, but it might be something about usa version generally having some form of censorship ?

Edit : oh, actually i just noticed jojoba doesn't have an usa version

johnodon

@barbudreadmon said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

It was done after MAME 0.224 release and will be part of 0.225. Yes, the file is out in the wilds :).

Thanks for the explanation. Found the file. Tank god for google translate! ;)

sirhenrythe5th

@barbudreadmon: congrats for v1.0.0.0!! Awesome work, very much appreciated!
Just a question: has "DoDonPachi II: Bee Storm (World v1.02)" been updated? I does not run anymore after updating FBNeo yesterday from source. I guess i need a newer dump of this romset?

dankcushions

@sirhenrythe5th does it not say the reason via a verbose log?

in any case, as per FBA, every release is synced to current MAME romset, AFAIK.

sirhenrythe5th

@dankcushions you are right in both cases, the verbose log tells me about missing/wrong roms and the FBNeo-Dev-Team changes to current MAME-Roms as soon as they get available.

I just had a look and it seems that "ddp2.zip" wasn´t changed / redumped within the current MAME 0.226, so i guess it was changed allready in one the previous updates (last time i played it was in August of this year). Barbudreadmon allready pointed me in the right direction with "DoDonPachi III", so i hope he has a hint here once again ;)

barbudreadmon

@sirhenrythe5th said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

Just a question: has "DoDonPachi II: Bee Storm (World v1.02)" been updated?

i don't see a recent change for ddp2, please consult your logs to see what's going on

dankcushions

@sirhenrythe5th does it matter when it was changed? just get the one from current MAME and you're sorted :)

sirhenrythe5th

You were right again, did that and worked :D
Im so used to struggle with annoying problems with my Raspberries, that i dont realize when issues are easy to solve xD

Thank you @dankcushions !!

A Former User

I just installed Stretch on 3B+ fresh, and that comes with FBAlpha. Is that the "best" core of choice these days or should I be looking for FBAlpha2018? Looking for max compatibility and performance as usual.

dankcushions

@sainirahulk17 said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

I just installed Stretch on 3B+ fresh, and that comes with FBAlpha. Is that the "best" core of choice these days or should I be looking for FBAlpha2018? Looking for max compatibility and performance as usual.

well, stretch has been superseded by buster for about a year and a half, and fbalpha has been superseded by neo for even longer. for a pi3B+ i don't think there's any real benefit for using older versions of FBA/raspbian.

barbudreadmon

@sainirahulk17 said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

FBAlpha2018

Omfg, should i really delete that personal backup so that people understand that they shouldn't use it ?

mitu

@barbudreadmon said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

Omfg, should i really delete that personal backup so that people understand that they shouldn't use it ?

It's spam, copied from https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/19741/goodbye-fbalpha-welcome-fbneo/30 (last year). Would have looked really weird if you had removed that backup though :).

barbudreadmon

Added support for :

2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge
Judge Dredd proto
NBA Hangtime
NBA Jam
NBA Jam TE
NBA Maximum HT
WWF: Wrestlemania

dodonpachi

@barbudreadmon Is there any word on progress for the CV1000 driver?

barbudreadmon

@dodonpachi said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

@barbudreadmon Is there any word on progress for the CV1000 driver?

we don't accept requests
we don't give ETA

barbudreadmon

Added support for Battletoads.

Also forgot to mention that the following games were added in late december :

Gladiator
LSA Squad
Daikaiju no Gyakushu

barbudreadmon

Added support for more arcade hardware using that tms34010 cpu from midway games :

Cheese Chase
Stone Ball
Ultimate Tennis

@roslof you might want to follow this topic for compatibility list updates : FBNeo is probably a better choice than mame2016 for the NBA hangtime games if that one got no sound (are you sure it's not an issue with sound being too low in service menu ?).

roslof

@barbudreadmon said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

@roslof you might want to follow this topic for compatibility list updates : FBNeo is probably a better choice than mame2016 for the NBA hangtime games if that one got no sound (are you sure it's not an issue with sound being too low in service menu ?).

Sounds good @barbudreadmon. I'll definitely check it out. A lot of the time, the ROMsets are compatible, but if you update the ROMset to a newer version, I can't really verify, but I can follow, test, and minimally update the notes if you believe things work properly. But for NBA Hangtime, I think I have what I need to check.

roslof

@barbudreadmon a quick test shows everything looks good on Pi4B. You were correct: Test Menu volume issue. Interesting that some of these Midway games default to such a low volume. I noted in the compatibility list how to increase the volume for each game that requires the change.

Noted a couple of times (and might already be a known issue) that when long-pressing start to enter test mode, when returning to a game, sometimes the game speed would get thrown off (too fast) until a restart. Not a major problem, but worth noting.

Love the software!

barbudreadmon

@roslof said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:

when long-pressing start to enter test mode, when returning to a game, sometimes the game speed would get thrown off (too fast) until a restart

oh ? does it happen too on fbneo ? (or are you actually talking about fbneo ?)