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I'm having second thoughts on this idea, for the same reason that HBMAME is still at 0.245, so sorry to alarm you all. You can still give your opinions though. Also, the forum performance is horribly slow, possibly due to the rampant bots that seem to be infesting many other forums, as they harvest everyone's input for their own nefarious use. So, sorry about that. It might be that we'll have to restrict guest access entirely. We'll see.

Mameoxtras 2025 by arcades. New games now supported Bubble Buster (Special clone of Puzzle Bobble with different levels and music) Captain Barrel (NeoGeo) Gladmort (NeoGeo) Knights Chance (NeoGeo) Quick Shots (clone of Target Hits) Games fixed and now fully playable Express Raider (game could stall on level 2) Extreme Downhill (crash on ending) Secret Agent / Sly Spy (Special moves logic for the bosses) Risky Challenge / Gusson Oyoyo (protection crashes fixed) Games with graphical improvements Asura Buster Bomber Man World Dead Angle Ghouls N Ghosts Forgotten Worlds Joyful Road / Munch Mobile Magical Cat Adventure Nostradamus N.Y. Captor Strider Taito protection MCU Hooked up the M68705 MCU for Taito's Field Day removing the dodgy simulation code game is now 100% emulated. link includes new roms added and sourcecode. [code]https://www.mediafire.com/file/8szal4su7bn7lug/MAMEoXtras+2025.rar/file[/code]

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

For the fans... : http://store.steampowered.com/app/3012220/

HBMAME 0.245.27 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2025-10-10 0.245.27 New Games --------------------------------- - [baddudesn] Bad Dudes vs Dragonninja Burger Edition 2-stage demo (2025-06-28) - [bublboblu2] Bubble Bobble (Ultra) - [doubled1] Double Dragon One beta 3 (2025-09-16) - [foodfn] Food Fight (Neo-Geo port) [iq_132] - [inthuntn] In the Hunt 30-second demo (2025-05-18) - [jurl] Jurl (2025-06-14) - [kof2001s49] The King of Fighters 2001 (All Boss Plus 2025-05-31) - [kof2002s116] Kof2002 (Plus 2025) - [pacupacu1] Pacu Pacu (v1.1) [Sokurah] - [pbobblen04] Puzzle Bobble (precise controls) - [sf2ce68] Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (Re-edit v0.29.7) - [sf2mix] Street Fighter II: Dream Battle (Mix 1.5) - [sf2prime] Street Fighter II': Prime (v0.66) [zero800] - [sinistar01] Sinistar (balanced ver) [Synamax]

Yeah nothing major this time, it's more because a few things were committed to git this week to finish properly stuff in 0.97.5, and since there's nothing in the works for now it's better to release some new binaries now rather than wait an indefinite amount of time... So the changes : - Add a configuration for the joysticks dead zones in the inputs dialog, all joysticks share the same setting, don't complain since arcade joysticks don't use precise placement, it's just up left down right and center that's all. - cheat dialog: fix bug when text for the status bar is too long to fit on the screen normally the bar flashes and you can click on it to get the full text. Except the click has been broken since the transition to sdl2 ! At least this feature is not used often, which is not a surprise. - new region switches for xmvsf, mvsc, hsf2 - mshvsf: Enable "Norimaru" for all regions. It's an extra character which was reserved for Japan only previously, but it didn't make much sense to keep it only for Japan after adding a region switch to this rom. - And ffman1985 produced a new console script for sf2hfj. That's all, and this time it should be the last release for quite a while ! AppImage files updated too by the way, since sdl was updated it was too bad not to include the updated version... I didn't update the sdl2 dll in the dlls package for windows, you can grab the updated version directly from github if you are interested, but it's really about minor fixes inside, nothing major. win64 dll: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/download/release-2.32.2/SDL2-2.32.2-win32-x64.zip win32 dll: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/download/release-2.32.2/SDL2-2.32.2-win32-x86.zip I didn't even update the version number, but you can check the date of the binary either in the archives or in the about dialog, compiled a few minutes ago!

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.26 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART MAME XP

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:

NestopiaX v2.5 Preview Build by Xtecuterx73 [quote]Hi all, I'm still working on finishing up the full update for NestopiaX and i mentioned it would be out this weekend but i got caught up in some real life getting in the way on Saturday and wasn't able to get it finished completely where i want it. BUT In the meantime i AM releasing a special preview build here with some goodies and fixes thrown in: *The naming of the XBE has changed to 2.5 instead of '21. This will fix any issues with the "'21" naming convention. *I reverted a change way back in NestopiaX 1.2 where FDS games would autoload. FDS games not autoload when selecting so no more having to manually insert the disk *Fixed a bug where the lightgun cursor was garbled and unresponsive when playing lightgun games. Not sure how no one caught this one! *Fixed *Backport of Full Mapper 555 support - Nintendo Campus Challenge '91 now plays. You HAVE to have the second controller set to lightgun just like Nintendo World Championships to get this game to load in NestopiaX. *Backport of Handling of special battery flag cases with NES 2.0 Mapper 30 ROMS - This fixes Adventure of Panzer 3 and possibly other games on this mapper to now be fixed and fully playable. *Backport of Full Mapper 354. Powerful 250-in-1, 400-in-1, and 1050-in-1 are now playable. *Backport of Allowing 32K CHR RAM on MMC3 boards with extended PRG ROM size - This fixes and allows full quiet and garbage pail kids to now run correctly. There are more code changes and cleanup in this preview but these are the ones people will mostly notice. Until the full release is made enjoy this preview build with NestopiaX[/quote] link [code]https://gofile.io/d/BduTre[/code] mirror [code]https://www.mediafire.com/file/xnqedua5is57dku/NestopiaX_2.5_Preview_Build.rar/file[/code]

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 !

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.27 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART MAME XP

I'm having thoughts on adding the HBMAME romset to ARCADE64, with the eventual aim of closing down HBMAME. It will be a very slow process, taking more than a year. But first, I want your thoughts on this idea. Good? Bad? Don't care?

As far as I know, game configs work exactly on traditional MAME, MAMEUI, ARCADE and, if ROM available in the list, HBMAME. Just move the appropriate folder ("cfg", "autofire", etc.) from one emulator's path to another. The same goes for other INI and CFG settings. I generally keep ARCADE and HBMAME in the same folder. I even merge their ROMs, and everything works fine. Only Knights Of Valour 1: Super Heroes Plus had problems with different file sizes when checksums were the same, but as of a certain release (0.279, it seems), that's in the past.

In the arcade side, MAME tries to make the latest version the parent, which is completely opposite to what it should be. Definitely not the original. So, this suggestion has been accepted and implemented. Also, in the treeview (thing on the left side) it already says Parent.

Hmm. Weird. Going with your 2nd suggestion didn't work for me. I get the error regardless of what I pick. Ah well. I'll just wait for the next release or might roll back to 277.

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

Thanks for adding that feature ! Tested with latest version and works with PS4 DS4. Now are more easy to do moves using analog stick 😃 Have an nice week.

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.

Oh you could speak more clearly by saying they finally released sdl3 as I suspected would happen soon... Well I didn't know, but if the switch to sdl3 is as involved as the one from sdl to sdl2 then it won't happen now for raine... edit : and after a quick look : yes it's involved, and so it will take time, and well maybe the time is right to stop raine here, sdl2 will continue to be supported anyway.

Done ! I finally switched to linux mint, which is based on ubuntu but with some more usable interface (at least for me) and it gave me less problems too, except its very long installation time ! Anyway you get 2 appimage packages for 0.97.5, which means the current version in git, I didn't plan to release now, but why not ? I'll make the windows binaries tonight or tomorrow, got enough building and configuration for now, with a proper announcement, nothing major in it, mainly some scripts updates, but lots of them to fix some long standing problems which means that not enough people are using them otherwise they would have been reported by now. It's a shame, these scripts are not only about cheats, they sometimes allow to see things you wouldn't see without them in a game ! And ffman1985 added some too. And mer-curious updated some romset to its latest version. I guess you are using the 64 bits version ? Well the 32 bits version seems surprisingly easy to run, see the comments on the download page, just 2 basic packages to install 1st to get a good amount of base packages for i386, and everything should be fine ! There will be another update tomorrow because I forgot some debug code in the launcher for the i386 version and forgot to update hiscore.dat and history.dat inside... Also ffman1985 managed to contribute a few more scripts a few seconds after I posted this ! I never found why the vbox shared dirs didn't work in ubuntu or in mint this time, I did it with a nfs mount instead, I don't know what they messed, the problem is probably in ubuntu, and since mint is based on it... ! Anyway...

Golden Axe port to Neogeo is available, as is Karnov port. I've got the P.O.W. port as well, but only on neogeoCD currently. I'll see if it's possible to make roms out of it. There's a Double Dragon One demo, also for Neogeo, that's in the current HBmame.

Nope apparently the resolution change is because of something done at low level, raine has absolutely no control on that, it just thinks that the real resolution is the one it displays in video info. And that's the goal of this function anyway to scale the screen and make everything on it to appear bigger. Normally this kind of thing is handled by a dpi setting, but dpi is mainly for text, then the graphical parts of the interface should scale comparatively, linux seems to do a good job for that, although it's been a long time I have seen a linux or a unix run on some really big screen, but when I switched to linux at university the servers were already using some very big screens ! I am not into the hd stuff because I find usually after 1k the improvement of the picture seems minor in most cases when switching to 2k, 4k, or anything beyond, but the increase in size for the pictures or the videos is absolutely huge, which means more storage, more processing power needed, and all that seems mostly wasted. When you think that we used screens at 576p for pal, and 480p for ntsc until not so long ago and it lasted for tens of years and nobody complained, all this seems quite crazy. But the world is turning crazier and crazier lately anyway !

The enhancement in the arranged soundtrack in street fighter alpha 1,2 are not so big as compared to the difference between neogeo cd and rom. The most clear track to notice the difference is chun li theme. I know the existence of the ast because i played these games in sega saturn when i was young. I think Tux has done an amazing work in the sound association function and I hope more people should know about this, that’s why i share my list here. (Unfortunately, it seems not many people interested.)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/02/donkey-kongs-famed-kill-screen-has-been-cleared-for-the-first-time/ This famous kill screen can be optionally fixed by a cheat from mame included in current raine versions anyway, but the article is still interesting ! Extreme way of playing just to pass this kill screen without actually fixing it... ! And here is how this bug is fixed by the cheat, with some heavily commented z80 code : http://donhodges.com/How_high_can_you_get.htm About the next page from the article about the pacman bug : this time the fix is still needed and the cheat is correctly converted for that, you can enable it before starting the game if you are crazy enough to try to reach level 255 ! last edit : finally the dkong kill screen fix still had a bug because of the converter. It's now fixed in git, along with cheats for fatfurspa.txt fatfursp.txt p47j.txt p47.txt samsho2.txt sgemf.txt superspy.txt truxton2.txt (the txt extension is the extension for raine scripts). These are all in git, along with the fixes for the converter.

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.

The king of fighter 94 team edit (kof94te) has released the final version before. The author stated that:The hack is complete with no planned additions, 1.4.2 is the final version. So, it is a good time to add support in raine. https://github.com/city41/kof94te

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

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.22 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART MAME XP

I got hold of the "Double Dragon One" demo and added it to hbmame. It looks a little bit like the Taito version, but not really. I also got the Shadow Gang demo, but it's a disappointment. You only get a few seconds play before being killed. When that happens the screen goes black and the sound stops, and it seems to be game over.

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...

Ok, it's fixed for good this time, could reproduce it in linux and in french. You need to download the new dlls-0.97.4 and redownload the latest raine version too ! Sorry for the inconvenience, it was worse for me, I had to rebuild a few packages manually, windows is really a nightmare lately. All 0.97.3 is removed, dlls and raine versions. A few more details : apparently the gcc libs became incompatible with the gettext version I had installed. In a normal system all of this is updated at the same time so you never see incompatibilities like that, except that since I cross compile, that is I prefer to build raine from linux instead of from windows, some of the packages are not in binary form but in source form only, and I need to recompile them when i want to update them, gettext is in this category, and it's very long to compile, so I avoid to compile it as much as possible. Except there is no warning about incompatibilities, and they are easily missed in such a setup ! I would really need someone to take care of the windows version from windows, it would be easier for everyone, but I don't want to do it because rebooting all the time would be longer. Anyway I hope this mess will be over for quite a while !

Yeah but packages sizes add up on the server, the other day it ran out of space ! So it's best to try to save as much space as possible, even if these dlls are annoying. Actually if windows was less of the crazy os it is, these dlls should be shared in the system directory and not in the raine directory, that's what happens in linux, so in linux I don't need to maintain all these annoying dlls, I just give the list of what's needed and that's all. dlls are supposed to be libraries of shared functions useful to most applications, that's what these dlls contain here, but they are not shared at all because it's windows ! For the changelog, it's mostly the git log, I just added a few details that's all, you can see the current git log here : https://github.com/zelurker/raine/commits/master/

Since they took so long, I decided to make a new release of MAMEUI - 0.273.1 Extra changes: - cdibios: fixed crash at start [MT9037] - vp415: fixed regression and crash at start [MT9024] - svision: fixed crash at start if no cartridge [MT9017] Happy New Year 2025.

D : I remember now, it's just that the key sequence you type is the sequence which is searched, so if you type twice D, it means you are looking for DD, which can be dangerous in case you have a game whose label contains DD, like top hunter, the neogeo game... ! If you are not sure, it's better to enable the "return mandatory" option. I didn't do that to be standard, just to find a way to be as fast as possible with the keyboard, it works well. And for the mame update : it's a never ending headache, I stopped following their nonsense years ago, all this should have been done differently normally (preserving the old rom sets and just adding the new ones with an increasing number when they are found), it would preserve compatibility with all versions, and usually the most recent version hasn't got very important changes. So well I accept patches to update the romset if you feel like it, if not, you'll have to be patient because I really hate doing this stuff !

HBMAME 0.245.21 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2024-11-13 0.245.21 New Games --------------------------------- - [bubblem01] Bubble Memories: Black Edition (World) - [bubblemu01] Bubble Memories: Black Edition (USA) - [dilith] Dilithium Lift - [dkongjr01] Donkey Kong Junior (bugfixed) - [galaga03] Galaga Challenging Only (2024-03-26) - [knightsch] Knight's Chance - [kof94s40] Kof'94 (Team Edit Edition v1.4.2) - [quarth01] Quarth (Cooperative) - [redearthep] Red Earth (NO CD, Easy Password) - [sf2ce59] Street Fighter II' (Golden Magic) - [sf2ce60] Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (Aimed Barrels) - [sf2ce61] Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (Aimed Fires) - [sf2ce62] Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (Barrels of Fun) - [sf2ce63] Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (Bird in Hand) - [sf2ce64] Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (Burning Fires) - [sf2ce65] Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (Fire Serpent) - [sf2ce66] Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (Vampiric) - [sf2ce67] Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (L735 [CL1785]) - [sfz3mix] Street Fighter Zero 3 (Turbo Mix 0.31) [zero800] - [ssf2t10] Super Street Fighter II Turbo (940223U, difficulty fix)

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.

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

It's a miracle we can still post to the forum with a full disk, maybe the database uses another disk ? Anyway here is a mega.nz link for now : https://mega.nz/file/OYVAXI4b#uMADM9P6tyzFjRN3kUj90s1spQKI-B188WSJmvIBYDE

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 !

Centering the window : of course raine keeps as many coordinates as it can, it's since we added all these windows statuses which created so many problems ! So it knows where to position precisely a window when exiting from fullscreen to return to its previous state, but if the physical screen changed and now the resolution is not the same anymore, then it will mess things up. There's not much which can be done about it, it's obliged to reduce the size to stay in the screen, but then should the position be changed too and how ? For now it isn't touched, it's the safest way, it would really become crazy to try to adjust position when the size has changed too. The black screen in windowed mode : yeah my fault, I didn't get the right values for the desktop resolution, now I ask the desktop resolution for display 0, hoping we will never handle more than 1 physical display because I don't plan to use more than 1 here. autodetect sound all the time : yeah but it would force to have a special value which says "detect the soundcard but don't store the result, just stay in autodetect", so it's a little tricky, and not necessary in most setups, your setup when plugging a new dispaly changes the soundcard priority is quite original. And always detecting the soundcard is not a good idea neither in the case where you run without a desktop, which I do on the mini computer, it has a bare environment, no desktop, and in this case it can get some rather crazy value for the detected soundcard. Now I admit that if I was to use regularly raine on that machine, I would put a window manager, at least for fullscreen, here it's bothersome... ! Anyway since it takes you only a few seconds to adjust manually, it's the easiest solution for now.

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.

For the smaller screen : yeah it can be done, I thought about it after posting this binary, easily done. For replacing 1 soundcard by another one : not convenient for now, it obliges to change a number by a string as a setting, and for now I prefer to avoid it, so I think it's going to be my limit, you'll have to live with it ! edit : actually it might be possible to do something for the soundcard too, it's not convenient because it breaks compatibility with the dos version, but it shouldn't be too complex to do, I might have a closer look later.

I won't try to recreate a rare bug, it's rare so just avoid it that's all. There are known issues in sound like changing the sample rate in a game which use fm music after the game has started will produce bad sound, the known workaround is just to quit when you change the sample rate. Yeah I know it's not super ideal, now if someone wants to send patches to improve all this, I'll accept them ! It's assumed people can setup their sound once and then keep the settings for normal play. A program which works in all conditions is a crazy thing, that's something you learn quickly when you learn how to program, even if you try to do it with some sample code it can quickly become crazy. Now for some safe environments where it's a necessity, people try to keep programs small to avoid that things become too crazy. For raine it's already very big, you have to be a minimum reasonable about what to do in this case, it's already working as well as possible with some pitfalls which can be easily avoided.

This part alone almost made me crazy. There is a compatibility hack in sdl2 to stay compatible with sdl1 so that it never returns the device id 1 on success when opening an audio device ! So it means you must ignore the returned device id (if using something else than autodetect). Crazy stuff... I'll fix that ASAP... It's changed in sdl3, it correctly returns the logical device id which was opened, I guess sdl3 is soon now. I would have spotted this earlier if I hadn't changed my installation here, no 2nd audio card to test... oh well... !!! Ok, fixed. The autodetection is totally different now, it can't rely on opening the device as it did before, so it might work better for you now. Tested in many configurations, it should be ok everywhere. For the neocd bios, yes it looks for neocd.zip in the raine directory, it can't look anywhere else since there are no roms directory in neocd. It's always been like that.

Ok, it happens, windows only of course I would have spotted this long ago in linux, it's not so old it started around 0.96.10, because of the windows tricks which was probably the worst idea I ever had ! It's even worst that what you say because once the video is broken this way, it's saved in your config file and you'll find the same broken video next time you launch raine. It's easy to fix manually though, it's just screen_y in the config file which gets a bad value, just put your real screen height here and it will work, at least until you return to the windowed mode before switching again to fullscreen this way. It's not easy to fix because this has become an intricate mix of craziness to work around the strange behavior of windows, my 1st attempt to fix it triggered an even worse bug. So for now either switch back to 0.96.9 or before, use the keyboard, or switch to linux ! For info the size of the black border on top is exactly the height of the title bar for a maximized window, it's a windows bug you see here, it doesn't happen when using the same binary in wine in linux. I am tempted to remove all this windows craziness, but even that has become complicated for now, so for now it will just remain as it is for now, I might return to it later, I already lost way too much time on that.