Final Burn Alpha (Page 1 of 3)

I've been having trouble getting certain titles to work under FBA, namely Third Strike. Is there any specific ROM or setting requirements to get certain games to run? Do I need to also have the game's CHD for it to run?

OK, got around to updating FBA libretro to 0.2.97.27 today and (FINALLY) added the 'Use' button binding for Dungeons & Dragons Shadow over Mysteria and Thunder of Doom.

Are there any more games with improperly bound controls? Let me know so I can get to them all before the next impending point release.

Umm, I just tested RetroArch on PC with FBA 0.2.97.27 and the controls for Street Fighter Alpha 3 P2 (CPS2 game) are definitely correct - they are not in reverse order at all.

However, for ddsom it does appear in the reverse order - I think this only affects non-Street Fighter CPS1/CPS2 games hence why I might not have noticed this before.

BTW, the compile script is something I want to get rid of as it serves no more purpose.

OK, I've spent quite some time today reimplementing all the controls - I try to do it 'right' this time by iterating over the controls of each game, seeing what the button descriptor is, and then assigning a key to it. This way, the vast majority of games should be properly configured - it should save ages of time having to pre-configure specific games / game types which would be close to impossible to maintain given the vast amount of games FBA supports.

Anyway, analog controls (which were previously 'simulated' as digital) are not in right now - so games like Power Drift, Outrun and so on don't control right now. I'll have to think of a way to properly implement analog this time instead of 'faking it' - perhaps use the ANALOG features provided by Libretro.

However, it would mean I would have to start properly implementing analog support in the input drivers for the console port - right now it's just digital only.

A few more observations:

In Altered Beast, enemies are supposed to "come crash into the screen" when you kill them. This works well in the original FBA but the enemies sprites just stay there in RetroArch. (Win, Linux, Wii)

In Carrier Air Wing, the game freezes 30 sec into the game. Right before it crashes, some enemy planes appear as some black mosaic-like mess (Win, Linux, Wii)

Sorry, I meant Final Burn Alpha on Windows.

All I can tell you is how the CPS2 controls are mapped to the fictional 'RetroPad'-

Strong Punch - L1
Strong Kick - R1
Weak Punch - Y
Medium Punch - X
Weak Kick -  B
Medium Kick - A

Basically, the Street Fighter-style controls are laid out like how the Street Fighter II ports on the SNES were laid out (and PS1 too I suppose).

The current version (Github repo) is not recent.

I've pushed a new patch to the FBA devs. Once they have synced this (they told me they would look at it this weekend - as of yet it hasn't been synced yet), I'll upload the latest version of their repo to the Github fork repo.

You should try again then if you still experience these issues. If so, we'll fix it and I'll push a new patch upstream once again.

Hiyas! just reporting that CPS1 games are having issues on the PS3 implementation.

Here you have a screenshot that shows the problem:

SeeYa!

Hi there CaptainCPS-X,

thanks for packaging up those RetroArch versions earlier. I might need your help in the next coming days again when I release a new version of RetroArch for PS3 - a lot of bugfixes in the cores at least.

I see from your documentation (I actually RTFM!) that save states don't work if you quit the game and then reload. Is this a FBA issue or are you trying to fix? Similarly rewind doesn't work for Neo Geo games (which is not in the manual, and it will not let you play a Neo Geo game at all). Do you know if the FBA team are currently working to change the way it works to allow rewind?

Here is the Wii compatibility list I have been working on. All parents from FB Alpha 0.2.97.28 have been tested.

When a problem occurred on Wii, I checked against the PC port. When the bug was common to both, I checked against the original FBA to make sure it was a librerto quirk.

As expected, a majority of Wii problems are endianness related. Then, comes the lack of CPU power/RAM to run games full speed/fit games into memory. Quirks common to both Wii and PC ports are mostly controls related (Mahjong, Light Gun, Quizzes, rotary joysticks) but on a few occasions also graphics-related (wrong color palette).

Some bugs might be worth relaying upstream (there are cases when libretro gets the right screen orientation contrary to FBA). There might be some stuff left I haven't seen or picked up on, 1152 games is a lot of games!

Any help is welcome to refine the process/confirm/infirm the info on there.. and there are still 1917 clones to go through! I plan on adding the game titles at some point, if I can find a convenient way to extract them from dat files (read: that does not involve coding )

FBA Compatibility List

Oh just to be clear, this is just meant as what it is: a compatibility list for the end-user. I  don't expect nor do I want you to "fix xxxx" PLZ!!!???!??!? Most of the problematic games are minor s*** nobody has ever heard about anyways.