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Ok, nothing major this time, release mainly due because of an update for the appimage files for non arch linux distributions ! So here are the changes anyway (mostly in chronological order): - lots of script updates from ffman1985, including sf2 serie (sf2, sf2hf, sf2ce, ssf2 and ssf2t, hsf2), the sfa serie (sfa, sfa3, sfz2a1, sfz3jr2, sfz2alj), and the marvel serie (mvsc, mshvsf, xmvsf) ! Impressive work... ! - Rom region selection in the gui for sf2hf, sf2, sf2ce, sfa, xmcota, mshvsf - some big fixes in the converter I used to convert the cheats from mame, which allowed to fix quite a lot of things, I didn't fix everything because there was no report at all about that, and it's a long process. I just fixed the biggest games. - Fixed black screen for shaders when using scanline-3x during game - mer-curious updated samurai shodown 2 perfect edition to the latest romset - added some cheats and hiscore saving for dkongex and dkongjp (all dkongex cheats are not tested). That's all, nothing major, but still quite a lot of changes... Oh yeah also the 2 appimage files are updated to be in sync with the latest windows builds, and I'll update the linux arch files now... ! http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

MAMEUI64 0.274.0 has been released. Available at https://messui.1emulation.com Changes: - Fixed minor issues with galaxian-based games such as 4in1, frogger, pacmanbl, mooncrst and jumpbug [MT 02074, 02077, 09084, 05208, 01598] - Centralised version control to the top of the makefile - Fixed crash sound in drivfrcg and clones [MT 01595] - ELF2: fixed numerous bugs to get this system working [MT 09076] Please note that gameinit.dat which previously only contained arcade-related info now additionally has console, computer, and pinball information. You can grab a copy at https://github.com/Robbbert/Startup/blob/main/gameinit.dat . This information will show at the top of the history tab.

For the 3-4 people that still happen to visit the Zzap!Raine site, I have some news. I always thought that the website "didn't really age very well" and the menu icons in particular were very old and quite ugly. So I redesigned all icons with a Bubble Bobble style, and also fixed the general site layout to make it look better on modern web browsers. However the site counts about 120 independent HTML pages and I do not have the time to fix all of them at once, so the main pages were fixed and the rest will be done at a later stage. The site logo has also been redesigned, as well as other minor icons. I hope you like it. Link to site: https://raine.1emulation.com/zzapraine/index.html Link to image:

After fixing the windows compilation problem in arch (!), here it is. So the main thing is the new shinobi neogeo driver, see there : Otherwise, fixes/improvements included : - the changes for mer-curious changing his physical display and/or soundcard on his laptop are inside, there is a thread about all this somewhere. - fixed a crash when opening the console after an error while loading a game - fixed a bug in the game options dialog, there is another post about this somewhere too, thanks to mer-curious... - fix the region selection which got broken while moving around entries from the main gui menu. - Restore mouse position when exiting the program, mainly useful for linux, for window managers which react to this - Now use SDL_OpenURL to open an url from the gui, it probably doesn't change anything for now, but it will be useful if raine is recompiled for something else than windows or linux. For once the linux binaries were ready a few hours before windows because of an update problem in my arch setup, nothing major finally, but very annoying ! http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

And what took me so long ? Finding something to use for the sh2 emulation in 64 bits, and it was not easy ! Finally I took the sh2 emulation from an old mame version (153), and modified it to be compatible with what gens did, so that it's compatible with the psikyosh driver. The result is slightly slower than the asm version, but not by a lot, so it will do for now. I lost a lot of time with yabause which I looked at before that. Except that the windows status bugs seem fixed for good for those who missed the latest update of this painful story in the forum, there was a binary specific for that. And you can update your dlls for 0.96 if you want a more recent sdl2 version, but it's not mandatory, it should work fine with the old dlls. Have fun : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html Oh yeah, I also added some links to some strategy guides in the about dialog for galaxian, pacman & clones, and dodonpachi. It's nothing fancy, it will just open your current browser with the corresponding page in the web, some kind of integrated bookmarks to raine, but I thought these guides deserved some more visibility !

And the magazines have finally been delivered! Time for a few group photos!

It mainly fixes the untested games in 0.97.0, but I took the opportunity to totally overhaul the disassemblers in the console, they are not external anymore, they use the functions provided by mame to disassemble. With that you can disassemble z80 encrypted roms which is convenient, but I did it mainly because my offsets arrays was becoming way too big with the sh2 emulation, it had been done for the 68000 for 32k regions, here it was really far over the limit ! But those who don't use the console shouldn't notice anything. Except that added the "psikyo SH2" driver to the drivers list in the game selection dialog options to be able to select these games more easily. That's all, the overhaul of the disassemblers is a very big change in git, it gets rid of most of the directories settings too. http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html For the gory details : dz80 was one of the external disassemblers, the one used by the z80, it was with raine since the old allegro dos version actually ! Very good disassembler, but it can't cope with encrypted roms... ! Also there was no support for the 6502 disassembler in the console, although it supported an external disassembler ! The list command changes because of that although its functionality remains the same, now the pc line is not in the middle of the listing but at the top. That's all for now, it was a very furious coding session !

The usual stuff, but some of these fixes are quite surprising, at least for me : The updates first : samsho2pe updated to its latest version but can already be retrieved from internet archive, sfz3mix v0.31 and it's now downloaded directly from its site instead of internet archive. Also the pbobblen "rotary" version is now supported, see the post about that there Fixes : - the sdl2 default rendering was mostly broken, now it works again, it's good to have this one as default rendering even if it has less features than opengl - the fps displayed when using the turbo key (DEL by default) were wrong ! - fixed the mess added in previous version about window size, position and status, hopefully for good this time - fixed slowdown when choosing to have an opaque hud in opengl !!! This one was very surprising, I only found it because I tested the sdl2 rendering and so I chose opaque hud there, and kept it when returning to opengl after. It took me a long while to understand where that incredible slowdown was coming from ! It can be particularly felt if using the turbo key, it was much slower if using an opaque hud ! Anyway it's done totally differently now and should work all the time. - got rid of the borderless option in video options, it was replaced by desktop fullscreen in sdl2 it should have been removed earlier. And you can now cancel a rom download before the end, just use either the ESC key or a right click on the progression dialog. http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

At least this time I took a good week for this one so I had more time ! For sf2mix it's another clone from zero800, not as spectacular as sfz3mix, but still interesting. For the fixes, most of them are described in this forum thread with plenty of pictures posted : Except that ffman1985 did it again, this time on "fatal fury1", and the very special thing this time is that he added the ability to play in coop with the computer! One of the most surprising bugs was probably the bad initialization of the sound driver in the sound options dialog, we probably had this one for very long ! Anyway find it there : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

Actually found another curious hack from the link given by mer-curious : https://rotary-bobble.mattgreer.dev/ some people thought about using a rotary control for puzzle bobble, when taito never did that for its 4+ games (4 major versions), afaik at least. So I was curious to emulate this to test with a mouse the result. It's not bad, but it's very similar to the precision you get when playing on keyboard ! The mouse becomes better in extreme situations when you need a 1 pixel precision... Anyway I'll commit this to git in case somebody wants to test that, it was interesting anyway to revisit puzzle bobble this way. In case you have a memory card saved for this game, disable it because the part where the game asks about the memory card is not converted to the rotary control so it's just impossible to select an answer ! It's probably the bios which does this part. Just move pbobblen-neogeo.bin out of the savedata directory before starting the game. Added the ips files with the dat file in the extras section of the downloads, but you need the git version to use the mouse with this game. (it detects when the ips patch is in use and switches automatically the control to the mouse).

Mainly because I broke the top of the main menu in the previous version ! 1 line fix, but an important one... !!! Anyway except this one I manage to fix some alignment issues in sfz3mix (16 pixels on the right for scrll2, scroll3 and the sprites, I can't say I had a lot of time to test it, but it looks better). And a fix for a mer-curious crash, see his thread for the details, it was probably specific to ssrpg, but it obliged to change the way samples were handled ! I hope there won't be another critical bug in this one because I plan to cool down for a few days after this ! http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

kof94te is at version 1.3.0, out of beta, including the patch for this problem. By the way he could confirm the problem happens only on raine, not on the original hardware, so maybe 1 day I'll have to change the way sprites are drawn. But for now it allows me to do things faster for sure, so everything is good. I can keep the patch in the source since it checks the contents of the rom before patching it, so it doesn't try to patch 1.3.0, just tested with the a95 patch. This is the end of this problem then !

Yeah well I finally was convinced to release an update to have sfz3mix, and it was quite a lot of work for what was supposed to be just a hack... ! It's actually the biggest cps2 game so far, using a resolution higher than the original hardware and with such huge rom regions that it had to use quite a few modifications in the emulation to work. You have the links in the forum to the site's project, thanks to zero800 for that. It also obliged me to fix some bugs in the cps2 emulation, so there should be some improvement especially related to line scroll in the background layer which sfz3mix uses a lot. Except that ffman1985 did it again, he added a lot of console scripts, as a reminder the neogeo ones are for aes only, non arcade mode. His new scripts are for at least fatal fury special, fatal fury 2, kof94, kof95, and samsho3. And then quite a lot of small fixes, most of them coming from the gcc sanitizer, really efficient at his work, a lot of minor stuff and some buffer overflow in the line scroll in cps1 and zoom code in the psikyosh driver (sh2). The translations were updated too, mostly the brazilian one. Thanks to mer-curious for the bug reports and the help for the translation. http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.19 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART MAME XP

MAMEUI64 0.276.1 has been released. Available at https://messui.1emulation.com Changes: - Various minor adjustments in the GUI - New working system: Macbug-1802 (Debugging console for Cosmac CPU) - New not-working system: Jantar 0801 (Polish clone of Osborne Executive)

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.24 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART MAME XP

Done in git, notice that dead zones are not really necessary afaik in linux, at least all the joysticks I could test don't return anything when the joy is at its default position, which is the expected behavior but it means no dead zone necessary, but that's not what happens in windows at all ! That's why I added this big dead zone... At least this way people will be able to fine tune this... ! It's in the inputs dialog, like mouse sensitivity, same principle, a slider.

For those who have downloaded the file - Sound Associaition List (SF Series)(31-1-2025), plz be aware that for the list for street fighter zero 2 alpha, the rom name is wrong (sfz2alz is not exist). You may download it again, but I prefer to change it yourself, because differnt people play different rom ver. Note: for english ver., it is sfz2al which is the parent rom. And for japanese ver., it is sfz2alj. And the original sfa2 may also use the list which I didn't checked.

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.23 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART MAME XP

1.4.2 is since July 2024. I actually cloned their git repository so I have been using this 1.4.2 for a very long time already, by using the ips patches of course. I have some symlinks in the ips directory which point directly to their cloned repository so when it's updated, the ips directory too. Very good work I agree even if I don't play this kind of game usually.

HBMAME 0.245.22 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2025-02-02 0.245.22 - NAM-1975: Enabled the demo in the attract mode - Galaxian hardware: fixed bugs in sprite drawing cocktail mode New Games --------------------------------- - [cbarrel] Captain Barrel - [doubled] Double Dragon One demo (2025-01-23) - [doubled1] Double Dragon One demo (2025-01-03) - [galaxiann2] Galaxians (beta 2, 2023-06-23) (Neo-Geo port) - [pakupaku] Paku Paku (v0.01) - [pakupaku2] Paku Paku (v0.02) - [sgz] Shadow Gangs demo - [shinobin] Shinobi v1.0 (Neo-Geo port) - [shinobin1] Shinobi v1.1 (Neo-Geo port) - [shinobint] Shinobi Test

And I had to make a new dlls-0.97.4 package because gettext got broken in the last one creating many problems with the translations. So you'll need to donwload the new dlls-0.97.4 package, and if you downloaded raine 0.97.4 before this new dll package was available, you'll need to update it too ! Sorry for the inconvenience, it was worse for me, windows is really a nightmare to maintain lately. No wonder nobody wants to do it ! At least I took the opportunity to update to the very latest sdl2 version...

Well sorry I can't guess what you broke in this case ! Actaully from your screenshot the locale gets initialized to Portuguese but raine doesn't even detect it so it stays in english internally, you even have an half translated screen : Background animation should have a translation normally, I checked and there is one for pt_BR. Eventually make sure that the contents of your locale directory is only 4 directories : es fr it pt_BR. I guess you should be able to overwrite the language setting from the gui anyway. (eventually select another language 1st and then once it works you can select what you want). For info yes here the language detection function works fine in windows so it detects french and so my raine starts by default in french, I usually change that to english because I am used to the english keyboard shortcuts. In next version the windows language detection function will recognize pt_BR and italian too by default, but you'll see that only if starting without any config file, otherwise the choice in the config file has the priority. All this might be because of the dll update, maybe the detection got clever and has its own windows language detection now... ! But normally when raine can't detect the locale, it falls back to C, which is english normally (default locale), so I am really not sure how you can do that !

I took the time out of curiosity to search when they did that change : in mame 177 precisely, it was in 2016! It doesn't come for this rom alone of course, there are quite a lot of changes in the cps2 roms, and they can't be applied automatically because there are some differences in the way raine and mame load these roms. Which means that I'd have to manually test each change, plus it would make the new roms incompatible with the version for raine on internet archive ! Well if you manage to find at least 1 useful change in all these changes, I'll consider it, otherwise just forget it ! The ideal would probably be to be able to load roms from some external definitions files so they can adapt to all these crazy changes for those who want to follow, but it would require quite some changes... ! Plus it would probably create some other problems in some drivers which modify the rom and expect some precise bytes at some precise places (which is not the case of the cps2 driver thankfully !).

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.21 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART MAME XP

No problem, it's very easy to reproduce. It comes from the very special nature of the console, contrary to other dialogs in the interface, it always exists, but since the interface has a parent system to be able to draw the background, it can create problems when the parent of the console disappears. Here because of the error, it takes one of the temporary messageboxes as parent and so the 1st time you try to display it, it just crashes because the parent has disappeared ! Yeah it's normal, this part of the gui is a hack, because I wanted the console to always exist, which is not the normal way of working for this gui. So there is a workaround, not too complex, maintain a list of active dialogs to be able to check if the parent is still active when drawing a dialog. If it's not, just remove the parent that's all. So patch very short and efficient. Pushed to git.

xp last update was in 2010 or 2011, so it doesn't make much sense to loose too much time on it. I would have kept compatibility but virtualbox removed direct3d support for xp in 6.1 because of a big security hole in their driver, I would have preferred that they would simply add a big red button to click to allow users to install this despite the security hole, but they just removed direct3d support, so it's impossible for me to run any version of raine in xp in virtualbox now, so too many people want xp to disappear. On my end I quite liked some custom xp editions like tinyxp : small, fast and efficient, but oh well, I guess it's too outdated now. And it's not hardware obsolescence, you still do what you want with your hardware, you can install something else on it, it's software obsolescence only here. And the next victim will be win7, but maybe I won't have to deal with that... !

1) autodetect as default : we used the other way for years and you are the 1st to have a problem with that, I think we can keep the old default for now, I prefer to see precisely my soundcard name when I go to options. 2) your haunting black border : well not for me in linux. Maybe it's windows only... I am terribly tempted to simply stop to support windows, what a marvelous idea it would be ! I might try that in windows later, but for now in linux : 1) removed my config file, started raine, went to fullscreen loaded dino, took a screenshot of the title screen, then quit 2) run raine again in the same config, loaded dino, took the same screenshot, got exactly the same picture, end of the test for now. ... and same result in windows, same picture in both case (compared the files they are identical). got it, I hadn't the latest binary in windows, it's still the same old problem because I changed the way to get the screen coordinates, in windows we get the height of an invisible windows title bar added, not in linux. 1 line fix, a function name instead of another, but it's really annoying. At least the site is fixed, back with some disk space, you can get the ultimate test binary there : https://raine.1emulation.com/archive/tux/raine.7z

Oh, ok I surrender, I added an Autodetect choice for the soundcard in the gui, and I fixed the detection of the sample rate which was linked to the sound driver instead of the soundcard... ! You won't have a test binary for now because after the forum, it seems the ftp is broken for now, I can't send raine.7z ! (deleted the file to avoid any mistake). It's still a rare case in my opinion, but it's quite interesting to see how it can be done without having something too big. Since I had to fix the sample rate detection too it's a little longer than what I anticipated but it's still ok, and maybe someone else would use that ! Notice that the behavior is the same as before : if you don't choose "Autodetect" explicitely and you have no config file, then it will detect the soundcard only once, there's no reason to detect it all the time except on a crazy laptop changing its output device all the time ! Difference from before : now if you change the soundcard in sound options and the sound card driver has a preferred sample rate, you'll see this sample rate selected in the options in real time. Not all drivers have a preferred sample rate, if there is none the frequency is not changed. By the way the error on the server is because of a full disk !

Nope, sound_card becomes a string value in the config file for sdl versions from now on, the old config file is converted on the fly so you don't have to edit it manually. Actually sdl2 accepts only a soundcard name when opening a soundcard, not an id, so it's easier this way. While testing I stumbled upon the case where you get a strange soundcard name with trailing spaces, in this case the trailing spaces are removed when reading from the config file which added another case to fix... ! Anyway it should work in all cases now, hopefully ! Test your thing... same link.

Oh well you can always test this binary, since normally it can now work around the issue of soundcard not present you shouldn't be able to reproduce this error with it. https://raine.1emulation.com/archive/tux/raine.7z

MAME, WOLFMAME AND MAMEUI 0.271 32bit available (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART MAME XP

Maybe it's just a sync problem when you choose the real fullscreen mode, normally these modes have nothing special for sync, but except that... But anyway knights is a 16:9 game, 384x224 it's 1.71 16:9 being 1.78), but I guess you took care not to use real fullscreen modes here again didn't you ? Anyway if the scaling parameters are normal it tries to apply the same scaling value to w and h so that at least one dimension takes the whole screen. For knights it's normally the horizontal screen which is full, there is a very thin black border on the top. That's why it's impossible to get a black border around the whole picture here, it's either w or h which is maximized. Unless your super windoze chose a video mode with some sync problem which forces black borders, use desktop fullscreen only, it uses the same sync as the desktop so there should be no black borders, and I really don't understand how you could miss that you were using real fullscreen modes, if you want to do it from windowed mode you have to choose left in the gui... anyway removed soon if I make another binary one day. (or you have something which reports a wrong resolution, I never heard of that). For the gui screenshot I might be able to add some code to be able to take a screenshot from raine (I guess just make the same keyboard shortcut to work from the gui), but you can't do much for the way windows does things here. And the reason I disabled maximized -> fullscreen is because it becomes almost impossible to restore the window for maximized state in windows, so it's still the case. And for the print screen key not working, it might be microsoft's way to try to discourage the use of opengl programs in favor of direct3d, except that it's stupid since if you want to be able to run your program on something else than windows, direct3d is not an option ! edit : another "confidential" binary for you to play with, it recognizes the 1st 2 emulator keyboard controls from any gui dialog, the 1st being screenshot, and the 2nd switch to fullscreen. Which means that poor windows users who can't take a screenshot using the print screen key will now be able to use the standard raine key for that at least ! And you'll be able to switch to/from fullscreen using your chosen key, alt-return by default. By the way real fullscreen is removed. By the way the code to take a screenshot from the gui is shamelessly copied from the old dos allegro version with minimal modifications : png instead of pcx, and calls ogl_save_png in the end to save the picture (same thing as the game drivers). Contrary to the allegro version, you'll get a message box telling you the filename of the screenshot when it's done. The link is still the same : http://raine.1emulation.com/archive/tux/raine.7z

Yeah all this because they forgot a credential in an open server and it stayed there for years until this stupid group decided to use it... Millions of credentials stolen after that, what a mess... ! Anyway, I guess it should be fixed soon now. For switch emulation those interested kept the binaries already, and suyu is still maintained. I might take a look at your window problem later at least to check if it's so easy to fix, but I doubt it. edit : of course it doesn't happen in linux, at least not in window maker which I use. Now seeing why this stupid windoze broke things again will take more time, so maybe later !

Found that some zn games were crashing, so fixed that and uploaded version 0.268.1 - it's recommended that you get this one, and throw 0.268.0 in the bin.

Hello, i have some new thought about the ips function. Although i have no opinion whether it should be included in the main menu or not, i think it should not be the first choice of the main menu. The reason is that many people not using ips. Even using ips, they may not need to enter the ips menu every time since the setting is saved. (For me i apply the boss hack ips once only). The load rom option on the first choice should be convenient to most users.

Perfect update for github, you deserve praise for that since you do it blindly without even compiling ! Just added the option to cancel the curl transfers, no part file, the file is just deleted if the transfer is aborted and you get a clear message that the transfer was aborted. It was handled by curl so it was easy to add. Just try to close the loading progress dialog by the ESC key or right mouse click on it, both methods work, even if there is a slight delay because the event can be handled only when the dialog is updated. I think we have everything for a release now, I'll just wait a bit because it's still morning here and I am still quite sleepy !

I finally fixed all this, took me a good 1+ hour, because I had to reboot multiple times to compare linux and windows... ! Anyway, in the end the patch is quite short. It's my fault for having started that, I was surprised also that the code seemed so simple when I did it in the previous version, I should have guessed there were some pitfalls ! Anyway I hope it's fixed for good this time. Yeah maybe a way to cancel the download without killing violently the program in case you get a slow server could be an idea, not for now because I had enough of stupid occurrences with these window positions/sizes/status, but I agree it would be a good idea (but not so obvious to add in the code, this dialog is very special, it's the download function which updates the dialog in a callback, so let's hope there is a way to cancel the thing...).

Over the past few months I also published Issue 9, Special Issue Christmas 2003, and Issue 10. One only issue remains: Issue 11 - it will be published on 30 June, then the project will be complete https://raine.1emulation.com/zzapraine/issues.html

Errr, this feature was made to be practical, not to make the perfect program which works in all imaginable cases ! I might try to fix some, but really you loose really too much time on details.

Yeah yeah... the thing about the hotfix version is that it fixes only the emergency. Here the emergency was that I succeeded to break all the top of the raine's main menu ! The one with sf2mix and all the fixes contained in this thread will be released today, I hesitate to do it now because I am still currently a little sleepy so it's not a very good idea to do anything like that in such a state... ! But promised, it will be released within at max 8 hours and very probably earlier.

No didn't know it. It looks less innovative than sfz3mix though, a lot like the zillions of clones of sf2... but yeah maybe it could be an idea to try to add it... Ok, added out of curiosity, much easier to add than sfz3mix ! Added the custom dsw as indicated on the web site...

Hello mer-curious, you can contact me on Discord (user zero800) and help me make a soundtrack that's even better than the current sfz3mix samples. I came across this forum by searching on google for a TAS video from SFZ3Mix. I started reading the thread and couldn't believe there were people wanting support for my hack

Ok, zero800 just released the new binary with the sfz3mix support. You can try the sound associations for yourself with this version, I have verified that it's working with sfz3mix. It's in Sound options / sound associations. Mer-curious is the local expert at creating playlists to go with the kof games, he is from Brazil too, there must be something about kof games in Brazil !

Yeah well I don't feel like investigating this for now sorry, I'll release what I have so far and we'll see later...

Thank you for your commitment to supporting this hack. I used 8-bit samples just to make them smaller and take less time to load the game. That was the reason, just to gain a little more performance and reduce the file size. But with the .ogg format you don't need that reduction. I still have the original songs and I can convert them, I just don't have a lot of free time to do it. Is the .ogg loop done manually? If so, it would be even better because most songs have an intro and then I'd loop it.

Hi, I'm Zero800, creator of SFZ3Mix. I found it very interesting that another emulator wanted to emulate the new SFZ3MIX, because I spent a long time asking other emulators to accept this challenge. To emulate this hacked rom correctly, you'd have to solve at least these two problems. 1. Increasing the resolution to 416x234 2. Make the emulator use the extra graphics (gfx2.bin) when an unused bit is set. 3. Manage the .wav samples by making them play if there is one with the same ID as the song and mute the original cps2 audio when this happens Regarding the initial audio of the rom that says "Street Fighter Zero 3 Mix", it has been added to an extra audio bank, thus doubling its maximum size. The same was done with the graphics, which were doubled and signaled for the emulator to interpret when a bit not used in the original cps2 was used. Try checking the mame driver on the game's website or how it has been better implemented in FBNeo. SFZ3Mix is based on the sfa3us rom but I've mapped all its pointers to insert new code anywhere in the rom. That's why each version has nothing to do with the other, nor would it be possible to use only .ips applied to the original rom. Even though I'm not much of a programmer, I'll help you with whatever I can answer.

And ffman1985 understood these folders : That is the portrait in the character screen. https://github.com/city41/kof94te/blob/main/resources/avatars_a94_256.png https://github.com/city41/kof94te/blob/main/resources/avatars_a95.png So, the a94 is the one nearer to the original. So you must either apply a94, or a95, not both. Here is then the a95.dat file, on the same model, it's just a copy and paste of a94.dat with a94 replaced by a95 : 055-c1.bin kof94_a95.055-c1.c1.ips CRC(b96ef460) 055-c2.bin kof94_a95.055-c2.c2.ips CRC(15e096a7) 055-c7.bin kof94_a95.055-c7.c7.ips CRC(62f66888) 055-c8.bin kof94_a95.055-c8.c8.ips CRC(fe0a235d) 055-p1.bin kof94_a95.055-p1.p1.ips CRC(f10a2042) 055-s1.bin kof94_a95.055-s1.s1.ips CRC(825976c1) [en_US] a95 from https://github.com/city41/kof94te Notice that this method has only advantages, you can choose which version of the patch you use : at the top of their git tree is the 1.30 beta, but you can revert to any version to get the one you want, the .dat files will remain the same since the crcs are the crcs of the rom files, not the patches. In linux you can use symlinks for the a94 and a95 files to make them to point to their git directory, and then choose the version you want in this directory... !

Yeah you could do it on git, but since you don't compile of course it wouldn't be super convenient... Ok, it reminded me that the finalburn roms are on internet archive too, so I got my update from there, crcs updated and tested, finally... !

MAMEoXtras Even More Odds N Ends Important Please note try as we might we could not find a vmm value that would work for Cyborg Force but fear not it will work if you turn on the default vmm via the emu options. just remember to switch it off again after playing as to make sure all your other games which require vmm will still boot correctly. New games now supported Cyborg Force (NeoGeo) Top Roller Games Fixed And Now Playable Exerion (game breaking protection issue sorted) Hammer Away Games with graphical improvements Chinese Hero Hammer Away Performan Sky Lancer Wild Fang / Tecmo Knight Games with sound improvements Bomber Man World (World) Go Go! Mile Smile / Susume! Mile Smile Karate Champ New Atomic Punk - Global Quest (US) Performan General Fixes And Improvements Fixed missing graphical layer for Hammer Away in the Sega System 18 driver so it is now playable [grant2258] Emulated a missing graphical effect for Wild Fang / Tecmo Knight the screen now shakes when enemies break through walls and you land after a big jump [arcadez] Fixed Player 2 Start Button for Namco's Tinkle Pit [MAMEDev, arcadez] Added missing button 3 inputs for Strike Gunner S.T.G used to combine both ships into one during a two player game [MAMEDEv, arcadez] Updated the protection code for Exerion to prevent the game from ending should you die at anytime after the first bonus round [MAMEDev, arcadez] Added a new game Top Roller to the yamato.c driver and reworked the cpu encryption making it compatable with the MAME78 codebase [grant2258, arcadez] Fixed some graphical niggles with Chinese Hero on level 7 [MAMEDev, arcadez] Improved the sound for Go Go! Mile Smile / Susume! Mile Smile by adding sound banking and reclocking the sound and CPU speeds [MAMEDev, arcadez] Fixed some grahical niggles throughout the game and with the cocktail mode for Orca's Sky Lancer [MAMEDev, arcadez] Added support for Cyborg Force to the NeoGeo driver [arcadez] Fixed broken sound and incorrect background graphics in Performan [MAMEDev, arcadez] Fixed sound clipping in Karate Champ [MAMEDev, arcadez] Fixed sound samples not playing in two versions of Bomber Man namely Bomber Man World (World) and New Atomic Punk - Global Quest (US) [MAMEDev, arcadez] link(includes new roms) [code]https://www.sendspace.com/file/2ib7c7[/code]