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HBMAME 0.245.10 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2023-03-13 0.245.10 New Games --------------------------------- - [240ptest] 240p Test Suite - [ckongpt2s01] Crazy Kong with DK colours and graphics - [looptrsp] Looptris Plus (2022-12-24) - [pitfall2u01] Pitfall II trainer (2002-10-15) - [pollen] Pollen Angel - [sf2mix] Street Fighter II: Champion Edition (Mix 1.3) - [vr01] Virtua Racing Rival Edition V7 (2023-02-22) - [xeviousn] Xevious (NeoGeo, beta 1, 2023-03-07)

MAMEoXtras 10th Anniversary Year Release 2 by arcadez New games now supported Angler Dangler Hypernoid Marble Madness II Megumi Rescue Games fixed and now playable zeroize Games with graphical improvements R-Type Leo Games with sound improvements Tough Turf (Japan) General Fixes And Improvements Added invincibility flashing effect to R-Type Leo [Haze, arcadez] Fixed broken graphics and colour cycling effects in R-Type Leo [arcadez] Added Megumi Rescue to the Sega System E driver [Haze, arcadez] Added support for the super rare Atari prototype Marble Madness II to the batman driver [Mame Dev, FBN Dev, MAME2003+ Dev Team] Added support for Angler Dangler to the decocass driver and fixed Zeroize at the same time [Mame dev, arcadez] Added Hypernoid to the NeoGeo driver [arcadez, KMFDManic] Fixed sound and music and added missing speech support for the Japan version of Tough Turf [mahoneyt944] New roms included in the download. link [code]https://www8.zippyshare.com/v/8HHiM7lD/file.html[/code] mirror [code]https://1fichier.com/?3ipt9hjp4w8joscvoxve[/code] mirror [code]https://anonfiles.com/L4a4Udn8y8/Mameoxtras_10_anniv_year2_rar[/code]

Bigger archive than usual because new sdl + new muparser + new history.dat inside ! Except that : - it's mostly the big update of the translations. I couldn't contact the spanish or the italian translator, so only the french and brazilian ones are really updated, for the others it's just the minimum updates so that they continue to work. mer-curious sent more patches to change some texts in the english GUI too. - added some console functions to handle save states from a post in the forum, we'll see if it's useful or not - added the ability to choose a japanese font, see the thread about that in the forum for details (it's optional). For the drivers which had a japanese name, you can now see it from the About dialog, "Driver information" - fix a weird crash in windows 64 bits only when using -nogui and a cps2 game (probably related to gcc, used a dummy statement to work around it), and fix another bug related to -nogui when you call the cheat dialog using the keyboard shortcut despite the fact that you started with -nogui ! - arkangc : finally discovered that the 1st bit of the dipswitch is used for the initial ball speed in this version, it's now handled correctly (I used the cheats to control the ball speed with it so far). - fixed some bug in the controls related to mouse buttons, especially for the right mouse button (found out while trying to use the new trick to access the 50 last levels in "arkanoid returns", there is another topic in the forum about that). - fixed controller mapping while translating it : the joystick index was wrong, and the window to define the mapping only appeared the 1st time you used this function ! Which makes quite a few changes just for a bug fix release ! Get it from there : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

Although MESSUI and MAMEUI are officially dead, similar technology is used by HBMAMEUI, which is still alive. So I wanted to find out what could be done to get WinUI working with a compiler newer than GCC 10.1. For whatever reason, ARCADE64 is fine with GCC 11.2 and has been using this version for some time. Since MESSUI is extremely unlikely to be seen again (since nobody has said anything since it was cancelled), I've done my experiments with it. The main issues with a newer GCC are: - Crash while building the tree (the things in the left pane) - All icons missing - A crash when a certain invalid screenshot was encountered. The screenshot issue was the first thing to fix. apexc.png was internally a wav file, so the code thought it was a jpeg and ran out of memory. This has been fixed, so now it will think the file doesn't exist. The treeview crash - I couldn't locate the exact bad code, so I used the version from ARCADE64 and then had to make extensive modifications to get it to fit in. But finally it's working. Lastly - the icon problem. Again, I haven't found the exact line of code, but I did learn quite a bit of how a listview works (or is supposed to work). MESSUI and MAMEUI have 3 listviews (main game list, loose software, swlist software), while ARCADE64 and HBMAMEUI only have 1 (main game list). A listview can have a choice of displays (small icons, large icons, list-only, and report (various columns)). We also have a variation of report called grouped (the clones are indented). When tested, the small icons and large icons were very slow to work, and in MAMEUI it appeared to hang. This stuff has been removed from ARCADE64, you just get report mode only, with a choice of small or large icons, and a further choice of indented or not. This works quite well. With a listview in report mode you can either have WIndows do the work for you, or you can have code to do it yourself, if it's something that is outside the scope of what Windows does. The loss of icons happens in this custom code, but I'm not sure exactly where yet. ARCADE64 gets Windows to do it, so the custom code doesn't exist. I decided to make the icon displays in MESSUI (main game list) the same as ARCADE64, as it is much faster. However this means that the choice of clone colour no longer does anything, so it will have to be removed. For the software lists, if you chose a different icon display for the main list, the software lists went a bit crazy, because of a bug joining them together when they should have been separate. This has now been fixed. I've left the software lists with the custom code, so their icons will be blank with the newer GCC. Everything else works the same as before. So, at this stage, MESSUI is working fine with the newer GCC, except that - You can't choose a separate colour for the clones - No icons in the "SW Files" tab (they will show if compiled with older GCC) I'll keep working on this, because eventually it will need to be transferred into HBMAMEUI.

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.9 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART GOOGLEDRIVE

- Finished galaga, savegames are more reliable and added a cheat to select the starting stage - revamped the "most played games" in the game selection dialog, now you can choose between "most played" and "most recent", which opens a new dialog with all the games you played. The list of "most recent games" is initialized the 1st time from the dates of the game files in savedata, if you kept them. - 5 new kof hacks found by ffman1985. These are quite good hacks, it's for kof super fans only of course, and most of them can't be found in the internet archive (but kof2000ps2 can !). - a few fixes for the console - mer-curious changed a few texts around the interface, and I updated the translations so they continue to work anyway. Hey, it's been quite a long time since I had 2 people contribute to a version, thanks guys ! Find it there : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

Yeah galaga after all this time, talked about adding it long ago, I didn't forget, it just took me very long to find the motivation. Read the details and how to have the explosion sound there : It comes with an update to history.dat and hiscore.dat, which makes the archive slightly bigger than usual. There is also a cheat file. except that : another fix for multiple cpu games which tend to hang (got the case with bublbobl, what a shame), I really hope it's the last time, it should. And another one for -nogui on the command line, when trying to load a neocd game (it worked with normal arcade games). This combination was probably not used by lots of people for sure. And a fix when taking screenshots from a window with an odd width (like 773), it could produce a very distorted image. I have no idea how my window reached such a width to produce this result, but at least it allowed me to fix one more bug ! And lots of improvement for the sound associations, new games supported, and improvements for quite a lot which were already supported, find the details in the forum if you are interested. There was also a fix for the automatic "skip silence" used for audio tracks which could eat the beginning of the actual track in some situations. (thanks to ffman1985 for all his tests and suggestions) Find it there : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

This one kept me busy for a few days, the windows version looses time in the conversions between double numbers and ints. It doesn't happen in linux, and I don't know the exact reason, it's probably related to mingw32, but anyway the fix is to merge muparser into raine and change its base type to "unsigned int". The consequence is that float numbers are not recognized anymore in the console, I'll just hope that no script used them, but I don't think any did. It goes with a dll update, a few dlls were updated including sdl2, so it's advised to update for all windows users, the new packages are dlls32-0.95.7z for 32 bits and dlls64-0.95.7z for 64 bits. The linux version didn't have this problem, but since I don't want to maintain 2 different versions the merge is done there too, and so raine doesn't need muparser to be installed anymore in linux. We get a very small speed improvement in linux too because it allowed me to make a few more optimizations since no type conversion is needed anymore now. Except that there were a few small bug fixes for the recent 0.94.12b, but the really big thing is the merge of muparser inside raine and the gain of speed it brings. https://raine.1emulation.com/

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.10 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART GOOGLEDRIVE

Hello everyone! I'm not exactly new here as I joined last October. So basically I was a MAMEUI user for the longest time and after knowing the project was discontinued I looked for alternatives and found ARCADE, so that's why I joined the forum.

MAMEoXtras Decade by gamezfan [quote] New games now supported Back Fire (Tecmo) Big Fight - Big Trouble In The Atlantic Ocean Heavy Unit Hook (Japan Version) Snapper Woodpecker games fixed and now playable Deroon DeroDero Freekick (official Sega Version) Golden Axe (Version 2) Jungle Hunt / Jungle King / Pirate Pete (crash on final level) Shooting Gallery Space Cruiser Space Seeker Toukidenshou - Angel Eyes games with graphical imrovements 64th. Street - A Detective Story Alpine Ski Avenging Spirit Beast Busters Big Striker Bio Attack Chimera Beast Cybattler Double Dragon 3 E.D.F. : Earth Defense Force Elevator Action Elevator Action Returns Hachoo! Highway Race In Your Face Jungle Hunt / Jungle king / Pirate Pete Legend Of Makai Mario Bros Mechanized Attack Mega Blast P-47 - The Phantom Fighter Plus Alpha Red Clash Rod-Land Saint Dragon Shingen Samurai-Fighter Taxi Driver The Astyanax The Combat Tribes The Tin Star Water Ski Wild Western Zero Hour games now with sound Special Forces Special Forces II Zero Hour games with sound improvements Big Event Golf B-Rap Boys Congo Bongo Great Thousand Mile Rally Great Thousand Mile Rally 2 Hachoo Inferno Kick Goal The Legend Of Silkroad games now with sound sample support Zero Hour Games Now With New And Improved Samples Congo Bongo general fixes and imrovements Added a totally new driver with pandora drawing hacked cpu banking and Mermaid MCU to support Heavy Unit [arcadez, Mistydreams] Fixed the official romset for Free Kick [MAMEDev, arcadez] Added a previously missing graphical effect for Mega Blast now when you get the green pickup the shield orb on your ship can be seen [HAZE, arcadez] Added support for the Tatsumi driver supporting Big Fight - Big Trouble In The Atlantic Ocean [Mame2003 Dev Team] Updated the Tecmo Sys driver to MAME126 both Deroon DeroDero and Touki Denshou - Angel Eyes are now playable [Haze, Arcadez, dink] Hooked up the missing SN76496 sound for Special Forces and Special Forces II in the dkong.c driver both games now have Sfx and music [arcadez] Fixed some serious graphical problems affecting Zero Hour wrong colours bullet width tilemaps etc etc Red Clash will also benefit from this [Hap, dink, arcadez] Added sound sample support for Zero Hour which was totally silent previously [dink, Otto_Pylotte, MistyDreams, arcadez] Sorted broken dip switches in Mr Do's Castle, Do! Run Run and Mr Do's Wild Ride plus fixed the sound for Indoor Soccer [MAMEDev, arcadez, SapphireDrew] Fixed broken sound in Hachoo and Kick Goal plus sorted some graphical priority issues for 64th. Street - A Detective Story [MAMEDev, arcadez] Added sprite buffering to the megasys1 driver improving the gfx for 64th. Street - A Detective Story, Avenging Spirit, Chimera Beast, Cybattler E.D.F. : Earth Defense Force, Hachoo, In Your Face, Legend of Makai, P-47 - The Phantom Fighter, Ninja Kazan, Plus Alpha, Rod-Land, Saint Dragon Shingen Samurai-Fighter, The Astyanax + more also added missing prio prom dumps for the games that did not have em already [MAMEDev, arcadez] Fixed Dragon Gun from locking up on the final boss and sorted an issue with the energy bar being missing also on the final boss [MAMEDev, arcadez] Added missing dac sounds speech and crowd cheers etc etc to Taito's Big Event Golf [arcadez] Fixed broken sound for the classic Williams game Inferno by backporting a sound cpu hack from later MAME [Aaron Giles, arcadez] Prevented The Electric Yo-Yo from hanging during the attract mode by interleaving the CPU's [MAME Dev, arcadez] Updated some parts of the Taito SJ code to MAME 103 vastly improving the emulation for Elevator Action, Jungle Hunt, Sea Fighter Poseidon and more [MAME Dev, arcadez] Fixed an issue where Space Seeker would not coin up and start due to a previous commit which added an invalid input game now playable again [arcadez] Stopped Space Cruiser from crashing on the asteroids level and added the dedicated button for the continue mode [MAMEDev, arcadez] Fixed Jungle Hunt / Jungle King / Pirate Pete from crashing on the last level [MEMEDev, arcadez] Sorted a gfx niggle with Mario Bros where the screen would shake incorrectly left/right rather than up/down when you hit the POW box [MAMEDEv, arcadez] Added support for Woodpecker to the pacman.c driver [MAMEDEv, arcadez, mahoneyt944] Added sound banking to the OKIM6295 in silkroad.c fixing missing Sfx and Speech in The Legend Of Silkroad [MAMEDev, arcadez] Added the Prom dump for Taxi Driver and hooked up the palette init fixing colours in the game [MAMEDev, arcadez] Improved the sound for Congo Bongo by adding new samples and reclocking the 2nd SN76496 channel to fix the drums tempo [MAMEDev, arcadez] Added support for Back Fire to the Tecmo driver [MAMEDev, arcadez] Fixed broken attract mode and likely other problems with the japan sets of Undercover Cops due to incorrect speedup addresses [Bryan Mcphail, Scandy] Fixed some missing graphics in Beast Busters and Mechanized Attack then sorted sprite priorities on level 2 in Beast Busters [bmcphail, dink, arcadez] Added a new hack to fix the lights dont go out when shot in Elevator Action Returns and clones which doesn't break the gfx on the game ending [dink, arcadez] Fixed some serious graphical issues on the final level in Double Dragon 3 and the third level in The Combat Tribes [arcadez, Cibomatto2002] Fixed collisions in Golden Axe (Version 2) and improved the irq timers for Body Slam [mahoneyt944] Added support for Snapper to the system16 driver and hooked up the sound and music [mahoneyt944, arcadez] Fixed sound popping on B-Rap Boys and some sound banking niggles with The Great Thousand Mile Rally games [Mistydreams, arcadez] Added support for the Japan version of Hook to the m92 driver [arcadez] Fixed Shooting Gallery in dkong.c by adding the inputs and lightgun crosshairs [arcadez] [/quote] download includes emulator,new roms and new samples. link [code]https://www79.zippyshare.com/v/vXbRCVSE/file.html[/code] mirror [code]https://1fichier.com/?viz18o5efftgx9mf9y9u[/code] mirror [code]https://anonfiles.com/Oar9P5a6za[/code]

I hadn't planned to make a 0.94.11, but things didn't go as planned, and ffman1985 found new ideas to make crazy scripts, so... - daioh displays correctly its controls in the gui, and not as a 6 buttons fighting game anymore - update for the turbo key (DEL by default) : it was still displaying the fps as an int when it has been a float for years now, so its display was totally wrong, it now displays the fps reached while the speed was unlimited, and opengl double buffer is temporary disabled when using this so that the speed is not limited by the video hardware. - fix bad color for the status bar in the cheats dialog when there is a message... - fix for a crash in 32 bits, it happened in linux, but it could happen in windows too, it was a stack misalignment because starscream uses 4 bytes boundaries and the SSE functions in sdl2 require 16 bytes boundaries (which is huge !). There is a function attribute to fix that, so it's fixed simply but it was hard to find. Except that on scripts : - you can now make hidden scripts which don't show in the gui dialog. It's useful only if you want to start it like you would call a procedure in a high level language by using the start_script command. It allows to move a block from a script there. It's more an experiment, I find the thing hard to use, but it was easy to make, so I keep it in case it's useful one day. Just replace the "script" command by "hidden", same arguments, same syntax, it just doesn't appear in the gui. - Better error messages : I added the error messages at lightning speed, but there were case where they were really not very helpful. Now you can see which script triggered the error, in which section and what line. And if it's in a run: section, the script is stopped to avoid an endless loop of errors ! - poke extension, can use a string of any length as the value to poke, the string must be enclosed between ' ' or " ", there is a foum post with an example, and it's in use in the xmcotar1d script (Console script). - The big optimization of the scripts : they now preserve their parsed result to avoid to redo the stuff in each frame. Now I got some very strange behavior from windows and I still didn't understand everything here, but windows execution appears slower than linux for some reason (see the script cpu load in the Misc section of the profile display, f11 key). The 64 bits binary seems ok, I am not totally sure about the 32 bits binary, I saw it working well, but not always ! I don't know what triggers this slowdown, maybe with time I'll have more ideas. What I can say is that even when it works at its best, it's still slower than the linux version, I get 2% only in Misc while the console script is in startup (when you just start it), even with a non optimized debug build ! So see by yourself, your results might vary. That's all for this time ! http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

The big focus of this one is the fix around the cps2 driver for the win64 binary, but since these are some bugs which can affect all the versions even if it's less obvious for the others, everyone should update. See the forum thread for the gory details about this bug. Except that : - added some rnd() function to the console to get some random number, help included, I also added some help for the basic peek/dpeek/lpeek functions. - New GUI options : "background animation" to eventually stop the background animation for those who suffer from motion sickness, and "Autostart drivers", essentially for me, when I don't want the driver to start in the background as soon as it's loaded. - some minor text changes "Action Replay cheats" -> "Game cheats". Oh yeah there is an optional update for the dlls, I removed 4 dlls from the big list by tweaking the build settings for freetype, these are not the biggest ones, but they sure were useless in windows, so it's a little better. You can keep the old version, the update doesn't bring anything except removing these 4 dlls, and I should probably rename the dlls to some other package because I am bound to have some incompatibilities with old versions, but it will be for next time... ! And I finally used a script to update the windows binaries to avoid the kind of mistake of last time ! Find the update there : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

Following mer-curious changes I had to update the translations, that's where I discovered that I lost the spanish translator mail (he didn't leave it in the header of the translation file as he should have !). And the Italian didn't reply yet. I took the opportunity to improve the french translation which I stopped way too early, but I won't be able to fix all the translations alone. The last active translator except me is the Brazilian Portuguese one ! (and it's not mer-curious !). Anyway it's not an emergency, in the worst case, the spanish and italian versions might see a few surprises appear in the next release... ! edit : actually the errors for the spanish and italian versions were because of some old text changes which were never propagated to the translations, not related to the recent changes. I finally updated both with the help of google translate, luckily it's just about very short texts so it should be ok, and it's better than an obviously bad translation !

The french translation is finally more complete than ever, I had only started it before, but never ended it, I prefer the english version because the keyboard shortcuts use the beginning of the displayed strings, and the beginnings are all the same in french ! But anyway it's the biggest update to the translations since their creation in 2015. The most annoying part to translate is also probably the least used one : the dipswitches !!! The cheats are mostly untranslated because they depend on external files, and no I don't plan to add anything to translate this, there's a minimum english level to have here... ! Same remark for history, external file so can't be translated and it would be crazy. And the console remains untranslated, it's some dev work after all and most of the dev stuff is in english ! Except that all is translated, and quite a lot more than before for the french version !

It's mainly to give a binary to those who don't compile from git, because there was a bad bug in 0.94.7 which broke the region switch in all the games which had one ! So basically, it's just this fix, + the fixes for soldam discussed in a recent forum's thread. Sorry, I had my share of problems this month, so no shiny new additions, just some official binaries for this important fix (it was because of mer-curious changes in the menus, but I should have noticed it, I wasn't careful enough). Find 0.94.8 there : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

As most of you know, various members of MAMEdev like to expound on the legal situation now and then. Since nobody knows any better, everyone assumes that the statements are correct, right? Right? WRONG! Well, about half right. Nobody from MAMEdev has ever taken legal action against anyone, and most likely never will. It would need to be personally funded - there's no company account here. Who in their right mind would do that, for a hobby that has no income, and therefore no damages? Since legal action won't happen, they (the "3 stooges" in particular) resort to bullying, lying, trolling, influencing, cancel-culture, and doxxing to get their point across - even if it has no legal basis. Some of the things they do verge on law breaking in some countries. This series has 3 parts: 1. About MAMEdev 2. The trademark 3. The license Disclaimer: Like all of MAMEdev, I am not a lawyer. However, unlike them, I have spent the last month intensively researching the situation, and have uncovered a number of unpleasant surprises, both for me and for them. In some cases, the required information hasn't been found, and so I've taken the liberty of drawing a logical conclusion. You may wish to correct me, but you need to provide proof. Just saying something doesn't make it so. Trolls will of course be banned. Don't depend on any of this as legal advice. You should always get the opinion of your lawyer/attorney first, before using anything here.

For my part I would like to see again MAMEUI (complete) with softlist support and the same for HBMAME (why it would be only arcade?)

HBMAME 0.245.9 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2022-11-17 0.245.9 New Games --------------------------------- - [dkong05-17,20] Donkey Kong (various hacks) - [futari15bc] Mushihime-Sama Futari Ver 1.5 (2006-12-08.MASTER VER. 1.54. BLK COLOR) - [futariblc] Mushihime-Sama Futari Black Label - Another Ver (2009-11-27 INTERNATIONAL BL - ORIG COLOR) - [futaribljc] Mushihime-Sama Futari Black Label (2007-12-11 BLACK LABEL VER - ORIG COLOR) - [grdians41] Denjin Makai II (LBS Edition, 2022-10-14) - [ibarablkcs] Ibara Kuro Black Label (2006-02-06. MASTER VER. COLOR SAT) - [ibaracs] Ibara (2005-03-22 MASTER VER.. COLOR SAT) - [mhavocpe] Major Havoc 1.0 (English/French/German/Tournament versions) - [ngmontst3] Neo Geo Monitor Test Tool v1.3 - [pacyuyu] Pac-Yuyu - [pandajump] Panda Jump - [sf2mkot01] Street Fighter II': Magic KO Turbo - Nightmare Crack (set 2)

Part 3: The License The primary license is the GPL 2.0 - the various legal aspects of this license are covered in many places including wikipedia, so I will limit myself to the interaction between it, MAMEdev, and creators of derivatives. Text of the license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html Compatibility with other licenses: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html The main points of this license are: - Unlimited distribution of the binary (at any price); - The source of the released binary must be available and should accompany the binary if practical; - If the source is not with the binary it must be easily available for 3 years after the release date of the binary; - Nobody can place conditions upon what is done with the source - it will be freely able to be examined and modified without restriction; - it's a "viral" license - it covers all the code that is used in a binary, exclusively; - it forms a contract which will be legally binding in some countries; - it must accompany any distribution of the source and binary, so that the recipient knows what is expected of them; - the license should also be used for all derivatives, with the points above continuing to apply. Some licenses can cause incompatibility by accident. For example, the JSON license says the software should only be used for good, not evil. This is a restriction which is not allowed. Another more ridiculous case is if you took a copy of the license and called it John's License (you can do that). Now you have 2 licenses which are competing for exclusiveness, and so they are now incompatible. MAME has a number of third-party modules, each with its own license. In the 3rdparty folder is a readme which lists the licenses used by each module. Are they compatible? Mostly, yes. The rapidjson license includes the problematic JSON paragraph, however the associated code has been removed, thus rendering the JSON license ineffective. The Microsoft DirectX end-user agreement is problematic in many places, but the GPL allows parts of the operating system to pass by unscathed so it's not an issue. What does all this mean in the end? MAME software complies with the license, however statements by certain devs do not. - Attachment of a fraudulent copyright notice and then trying to control what's done with that code - all illegal; - Trying to stop nonag features being added - it's illegal to impose such a restriction; - Insisting that in-progress source code be available online - no, source code doesn't need to be available until the binary that uses it is released; - Complaining that comments breach the license - wrong, comments are not part of the binary, so cannot breach anything. Don't be fooled by what they say. Use of code from incompatible licenses. The old MAME license, and also the FBNeo license, contain a clause prohibiting commercial use and selling of the works. This is incompatible with the GPL. However, the copyright holders can give special permission to allow the incompatibilty to be overcome (as has been done by the FBNeo developers). Such code, if reused in MAME or derivatives will then become covered by the GPL 2.0 license, but still copyright to the original author. A comment containing the date and author's name must be attached. Other legal matters. What is a patent: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/patent-process-overview MAME is not patented. The license only allows a patent that imposes no restriction of any kind. Like trademarks, patents only apply within the countries in which it has been registered. The area of patents is a minefield and there's always the chance that somebody will deliberately try to cause havoc. Be watchful of what's going on. Each country has its own rules regarding legality, licensing, and contractual arrangements. Some countries do not care at all, while some others slavishly follow all the American rules. You need to find out where your country or state stands.

Part 2: The Trademark What is a trademark? Like copyright and licensing, trademarks are part of Intellectual Property (IP). The purpose is to associate a symbol, word, or phrase to a product in a customer's mind. For example, Nike shoes have a slash that looks a bit like a checkmark. When a customer sees that symbol, he will associate it with Nike shoes. By registering the symbol (the "mark"), it legally prevents anyone else from using it to mislead or misrepresent another product as a Nike shoe, and thus depriving the Nike company of revenue. https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/trademark-faqs#type-browse-faqs_191016 In America, trademarks are registered with the USPTO, but this only gives protection within America. You can then register with WIPO, a Swiss registry that will apply your trademark to another 128 countries. The remaining 66 countries will need to be dealt with one by one. The total expense will be considerable. These registries do not protect your trademark from abuse; they are just registries. It's up to the trademark holder to defend himself in court - the registration simply serves to remind the judge of who really owns it. In the early days, although MAME had a name, a logo, and an icon, none of this was protected. Despite the "no commercial" clause in the old license, the selling of MAME cabs complete with roms was rife in the industry. On 2005-01-11, a certain David R Foley, a seller of MAME-equipped cabs, tried to trademark the MAME logo. You can see this at https://uspto.report/TM/76627578 . After an outcry, this application was cancelled on 2005-03-14. This prompted Nicola Salmoria to trademark MAME to prevent others stealing it. He began proceedings on 2005-03-02 and was finally granted the trademark on 2006-08-01. Eventually he decided to leave the scene and the mark was transferred to Gregory Ember on 2016-09-20 (although the document didn't get produced until 2016-11-29). But what was actually trademarked? Have a look at https://uspto.report/TM/78578919 and do you see it? Just those 4 letters "MAME" in that font. That's it?? Yep, that's it. No logo, and no icon. If you look for other registrations of those 4 letters you'll find 3 more by other people, although their "mame" is for other things. So, despite mamedev.org stating that the logo is registered and requires permission to use it, it isn't registered at all. A search of WIPO revealed no record of any MAME trademark. It must be assumed that the protection only exists inside America. Take a look at https://www.mamedev.org/logo.html - they state "Although this logo does not appear in the official MAME trademark filing, it is still covered by and governed by the rules of the MAME trademark.". Wrong, if it isn't trademarked, then you have no control of it. Copyright remains with "chemical" - whoever he might be. What do we have then? The letters MAME are trademarked in the USA only. There's no other trademarks anywhere in the world. If you're an American citizen you need to apply to the trademark holder for permission to use the mark. But if you're anywhere else, do as you please.

So, on to Part 1: About MAMEdev What is MAMEdev? A collection of developers of the MAME emulator. It isn't exactly known how and when the name came into being, but I'd estimate around the year 2000. At that time one person acted as a "coordinator", making the decisions and preparing the releases. The known people in this position were Nicola Salmoria, Mirko Buffoni, David Haywood, Aaron Giles, Angelo Salese, Miodrag Milanovic and finally Vasantha Crabb. What isn't MAMEdev? It isn't registered as a charity, a business or company anywhere that I could find. This means it is not a "legal entity", as such it doesn't exist in the legal sense. There's nothing wrong with that, but it means that it cannot be sued, it cannot sue anyone, it cannot send or receive C&D requests, and it cannot prepare legal documents or receive them. MAMEdev doesn't have a constitution, it has no address, it has no assets, it has no tax number, it doesn't have an annual meeting or prepare an annual report. Until 2016 it had no office bearers. What is a legal entity: https://www.diligent.com/insights/subsidiary-management/meaning-legal-entity/ Legal notices, C&D requests and lawsuits will need to be addressed to an individual who is a member of MAMEdev. Around 2015-2016 a number of changes occurred. These comprised: - merge of mess developers ("MESSdev") into MAMEdev; - merge of mess codebase into MAME's codebase; - transition from old mame license to GPL 2.0; - assign copyright holders to every piece of code; - elect a president and 5 "board" members; - change from SVN to GIT; - move private MAME repository to Github and make it public - this permits the use of Issues and Pull Requests; - each developer to choose a suitable license and agree to his code being transitioned to it; - any code that couldn't be assigned a license for whatever reason was stripped out. On 2016-05-24, Vasantha Crabb set up an election system with cornell.edu - each eligible member received a unique URL to permit voting. As such, Vasantha Crabb was both the returning officer and a candidate - a clear conflict of interest. I'm not suggesting he did anything wrong, but he shouldn't have been involved with the election process. On 2016-05-29 (5 days later), the election was closed and the results announced. You may view them at http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_e50bb608b05e915c Miodrag Milanovic ("Micko") became President and a board member, while Olivier Galibert ("OG", "Sarayan"), Vasantha Crabb ("cuavas"), "R.Belmont", and Gregory Ember ("Stiletto") became the other 4 board members. Almost immediately, Micko handed control of everything to the other 4, and disappeared. Stiletto plays almost no part in proceedings, while the other 3 are still active. Vasantha Crabb became release coordinator, probably because no other board member wanted the job. In the more than 6 years since, there has not been another election and it's certainly overdue. Now, while the idea of a "board" may have been seen as a good idea at the time, it made a 2-level structure of MAMEdev, where you have the bosses and the rest, and the bosses have more rights than the others. What was equal is no longer so. This has created numerous strains through the structure, and it needs to be reconsidered. Next, let's discuss the website https://mamedev.org - I believe it is "owned" by "OG". Our only interest is in the legal aspects. The front page says "Copyright (c) 2022 MAME", but who owns the copyright? MAME isn't a legal entity, so it must belong to whoever designed it. Who is that? https://www.mamedev.org/about.html - "Therefore, it is strongly against the authors' wishes..." is entirely irrelevant - wishes have no legality. https://www.mamedev.org/legal.html - "Copyright (C) 1997-2022 MAMEDev and contributors" - MAMEDev is not a legal entity and cannot hold copyright on anything. It also insinuates that a member of MAMEdev who has contributed nothing has some kind of control over other people's code. It would be better to just say "contributors". - There's a number of references to the MAME logo being trademarked, but that is not the case (more on that later). - Some of the common questions say commercial use is not allowed - that is false. The license specifically allows commercial use. - Some more questions attempt to put limitations of roms with mame, but the distribution of roms varies from country to country with their own laws, and mame cannot abrogate that. Further, it is against the license to impose conditions. - The entire page is unsigned, so it's not known who is responsible for the content. I very much doubt that a lawyer was consulted. Most of the information there is unenforceable.

Works perfect. Thanks

In ClrMamePro you can still create Raine .dat file by clicking "Create" in the Profiler window, pointing to Raine.exe and specifying "RAINE" as emulator type. That's how I maintain my set.

- An amazing bug was fixed which made it impossible to run a game from the command line in windows... and it's been here for very long. Does it mean that nobody use frontends with raine anymore in windows ? - Big acceleration in the console for mouse tracking (which displays some underlying text in reverse video), and scrolling speed once the window has reached its maximum size (actually you don't even see it scrolling anymore, but the result seems good). Also added some colors and sorted the commands for the help command. - Improvements for the sound associations for real bout fatal fury and samurai shodown, hoping it didn't break any other game... !!! Get it from there : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html edit : I forgot to commit the sound association fixes to git, so they were not included in the linux binaries. I just rebuilt them because of that, 0.94.4a, linux only, windows had them.

After a long fight of a few hours, I was finally able to make my very old backup (from 2015 already !), to work, with php8 and mariadb. The least I can say is that it was not easy ! And it was worth a picture. Don't look for it, it's a local webserver on my machine, no connection to the outside, I was just curious to check a few old posts... but it's right that it was a nice forum !

This one is mainly for linux since these leds emulation can't be done in windows, description in the forum there : The other small improvements : - fixed a big bug where games with more than 1 cpu of the same type like darius would break during the intro behind the menu. This one has been there for a long time, so either nobody played with these old games, or they didn't bother to report it ! - Improvement to sound associations for rbff2 - command.dat included is shorter which makes a smaller archive (removed useless stuff). - Also for some unknown reason, command.dat was bundled with the windows version, but not the linux version ! It's now fixed, and it's in git too. I have hesitated quite a lot to add this leds emulation thinking it would not be very useful, but in the end it's fun to see working, and it was quite easy to do, so no regret, it's just too bad it's not used by more games ! http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

Yeah not a big release, mainly small fixes but I had enough of 0.93 already. Main changes : - the new "most played games" feature, which shows the 5 most played games sorted by time in the game selection dialog. You can get details about that in the forum. It wouldn't be too hard to add a dialog to get the stats for all the games played and not only the 5 tops, eventually for later. More details on how it works can be found in the forum. - A small fix for downloads with curl, if downloading a clone and the parent was not in the last rom directory tested it was downloading the parent even if it was already in another rom directory, should be fine now. - A long overdue update for the profile display (the one where you get % times in the upper right corner of the screen). In all the time since I added support for sdl, I never realized that all the sound processing was done in a separate thread, so the profiling must be moved there. This makes the display more precise, also the results are rounded now instead of truncated. - The slow down in kof97 for the 64 bits version was found and fixed. - double buffer gets a "forced" option to ignore completely adaptive vsync, need more feedback on this from testers to see if it's really useful. - a workaround for sdl-image 2.6.2 which doesn't handle png files with a palette anymore, preventing the colors from the raine logo to cycle ! I can't do anything about it for now, so in this case the logo is displayed statically without color cycling, but it's advised not to update the sdl2_image.dll for now (or equivalent in linux). It will help for linux distributions like arch where 2.6.2 is already the official version, I posted this to their bug tracker so we can hope a solution will be found. - quite a few memwatch fixes, most of them were harmless, a few in the console might have been useful, I fixed them without investigating. - kurikinj is removed because it's exactly the same romset as kurkint except for the region byte, making this version the 1st version which actually supports less roms than the previous one ! More details about that in the forum too. - quite a few hiscores updates in the hiscore.dat file ! Now that it's bundled with the raine binary and in git too, it's easier to make our own updates on it. Actually I had added some scores in it for old games from the multi15 rom a long time ago, around 2019, but they were clearly lost in a hiscore.dat update, so I have put them back in, mostly for some pacman clones, adding xenrev which never had a hiscore entry before (the main goal of this version is to make the player lose !). Also battle bakraid finally gets a hiscore entry for its normal and unlimited versions. There was an update for sdl2 to 2.0.24, nothing essential there, mostly things related to game controllers, maybe I should merge the binary update in the dlls packages. For now I left 2.0.22. Ok, this small update is there : https://www.1emulation.com/forums/forum/126-raine/

Ok, confirmed, that's if using 2 neocd games which both read their files from an iso, it's a 1 error mistake, forgot to clear a file after freeing it. Workaround : extract all the files from the iso and put that in a zip file, then delete the iso, it will take less space and it will work ! It's fixed anyway...

Ok done. The game selection dialog now displays the 5 most played games at the top (in the header, which is now separated more clearly from the main dialog), sorted by play time. The number of times a game is loaded and how much time it's played are tracked (watching the game intro behind the menu is not considered playing time !), and it's tracked even if you close the window without using the quit command. All this is saved in a new file "stats" in the savedata directory, the contents is ascii but it's not supposed to be edited by the user. Games stats are stored by the short name of the game, which means that if a game is renamed for its short name the stats are lost (it happens almost never in raine anyway). Neocd games are not supported, only arcade games (well neocd games are not even loaded from this dialog so it would be quite a problem, and they don't have a real short name), the picture behind the game selection dialog is not updated when selecting one of this favorite games in the header because it's not worth the effort and it would make some duplicate code, and I don't like that. 5 only for now, because the header doesn't handle any scrolling bar and can't scroll its content, it should be enough for a start anyway. I'll test this a little more, but it seems good now (fixed some bugs related to the header display at the same time).

Nothing fancy here, just some fixes and little improvements here and there. Actually 0.93.4 was using libmpg123 for mp3 decoding, and this version reverts to the decoder included in sdl2_sound, which makes quite a mess in the dlls. So the dlls are updated for this version, be sure to update from the right dlls package (32 or 64 bits). The unofficial binaries I released in the forum had at least a bug to load any neocd game, that's why I finally release this binary with everything fixed and tidy. You can see the changes in git, nothing exciting here as I said, I started to remove the old analog input section from inputs which has been broken for ages, but so far the new way to handle this works only for chasehq & contcirc. I had planned to add a new driver with something more consequent for these new inputs, but I missed time and motivation for that sorry, I lost a dog who shared my life for 15 years at the end of march, then some family problem, then the heat in the beginning of june... ! Anyway raine is not dead at least, and you get this new binary. I tested it in linux only but everything should be fine. http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

Hi all Between 2002 and 2004, a group of crazy fans of RAINE published a free web magazine called Zzap!Raine. The magazine focused on reviews of games emulated by RAINE. The style and inspiration was drawn from the English and Italian videogames magazine: Zzap! I was one of the staff. During the past 18 months, I have "converted" the old website into an actual paper book with all the colours of the rainbow (just like Rainbow Islands well deserves ) I have also added new contents such as an interview to Emmanuel "Tux" Anne - author of RAINE and new sections and introductions. The book is almost ready and is now available for pre-order via Paypal and credit card. 170 pages (high quality), hardcover glossy pages, 100% translated into Italian. It can only be purchased via pre-order at the below address. https://www.progettoiskandar.com/prodotto/zzapreine/ The price is 36 euro incl. registered shipping to Italy. Shipping worldwide is available however please contact me on luca.madrigal.antignano@gmail.com for the right shipping fees. Since the print is quite expensive, I cannot afford to print hundreds of copies, so I will print just enough copies to satisfy all pre-orders. Therefore if you don't pre-order now, chances are that there will be not enough copies left to satisfy everyone else. Pre-orders close on 15 July 2022. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thanks Luca "MADrigal" Antignano

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.242 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART GOOGLEDRIVE

Bang, Iccuslus suddenly exited from hibernation and fixed sdl_sound... ! See there : https://github.com/icculus/SDL_sound/commits/main almost 1 month later, but better now than never of course... Now I hesitate : is it better to remove the new mp3 dll and return to the old decoder and just forget all that and stay with what we have ? Well luckily only 1 version used the new dll, and it was included in the raine archive, so removing it now will have no consequence. So I guess it's probably the thing to do, the mp3 decoder used in sdl_sound is still smaller and maybe faster... Oh at least I'll have to try it first. Apparently the bug was that when the decoder returned something less than the expected bytes to read (which happens for the last block), it was understood as eof (end of file), and so the last block was not handled. Oh well... He finally closed the bug thread on github with this fix. edit : yeah, the fix works !

And I still didn't understand how you got 2 kof97 directories, I can't reproduce that here... About your strange looking window with the big blue area : it's because you are again at the minimum window geometry, 640x480, I should include a setting just for you that would forbid this setting, but anyway... ! It's just that this area reserves at least 224 pixels in height so that the pictures would still look like something (most have a size of 304x224, a few rare ones are bigger, for those they are resized to fill in the blue area). Anyway this blue area doesn't look so big if you have a "normal" window area which would be much bigger than that !

The most broken dat file found so far is for double dragon, doubledrsp_20220717.dat its 1st ips references the code rom beyond its size, thanks to the new size limit for avoiding the crash and then the 2 following ips files in the dat file don't even have the same name as on disk, so they can't be found ! It's almost a shame to add some support for something which can be so broken... ! So don't worry if you have problems with all that, it was worth an experiment, but probably not worth loosing too much time on it. At least the code to add support for that is short, there won't be any problem with that !

After a longer look, it's lacking more descriptions for sure ! It's in the spirit of bootlegs where sometimes you really wonder what the difference is... ! Found a few oddities like the sailormn ips which make the game crazily harder, oh well.... the kf2k5uni which does an update without telling what is in the update and it's not obvious... ! Except that a ton where I couldn't tell what the difference is actually ! I'd say for now it's not motivating at all to add more support for that, I'll try to have a look at the video though...

Just click on the line one day... ! why do you think it's flashing ? To be clicked !!! But there was an error here that I didn't notice from the conversion from sdl1, the bg color of the text has become green instead of blue, it's a common bug in the color conversions, it's fixed in git.

Hello, just update the cheat for Street Fighter Alpha (phoenix edition, sfad.zip). Now, the "vs mode"," training mode"," pause" are combined into one: "Console Mode". And the "Enable Bosses" keeps seperated. (*The “console mode “ cheat does not work in free play mode in which the title screen is skipped. In my cheat, you don’t have to worry about the credit.) Features and how to use: Enable the cheat at the startup. Then the title screen becomes the menu screen. Press up or down to select the mode. There includes a few modes: Arcade, Verus, Training, Akuma/Gouki, Dramatic. Training Mode: After player 1 have chosen character, then controller 1 can use to select character of player 2 and vice versa. To change character, press the coin button first and then start putton (no more "New Challenger" screen in the update.) Versus Mode: Not rely on savestate after the update. Akuma/Gouki, Dramatic Mode: these are included in the original txt file. I just add them in the “console mode” cheat. Pause function: the coin button to pause game during battle is included in the "Console Mode" script. Enable bosses: press down button in the ?box to select the 3 bosses. It is just like the ps or ss version (after entering the codes for the first time.) Please find the download link at the first post of the topic.

It's not essential at all, it's for these cases where a text containing these extended glyphs which include japenese characters is about to be displayed, since the default font does not contain any japenese character, it's a good idea to have a fallback... There are sometimes japenese characters in the history.dat file, and I also just finally found a safe way to convert these old japense long names that some drivers had to utf8, so they are now displayed in the "driver info" you can access from the "About..." dialog. And you can get japenese characters in the file selector if some rom dumps or neocd images filenames contain japense characters of course ! About these long japenese names in some drivers : even Antiriad forgot where they come from and how they were maintained ! They were displayed until now only when using the -gameinfo or -li command line switch, so on the console, and since most of these japense names hadn't been converted to utf8, it didn't display anything usable ! Now afaik they have all been converted to utf8, so they display correctly everywhere assuming you have configured a font for that. Nothing much to say about it, by default there is no japenese font, so you'll see probably empty squares instead of the chars, that's what is used the most frequently. A good selection in linux is the droid font, DroidSansFallback.ttf works well. In windows just take a very big font, malgun.ttf which is distributed as standard with windows 10 works well. If you select as japenese font a font which doesn't contain these characters, it's like doing nothing of course. There are high level APIs for that which automatically select a font installed on the system which contains the missing chars, but it would be overkill for raine, so you have to select the font manually at least once, it's better than nothing and we avoid 1 more dependency !

* Atari++ 1.85 [Atari 8-bit] - http://www.xl-project.com/downloads.html * ARCADE64 0.251.0 [Arcade] - https://arcade.mameworld.info/ * Vice 3.7.1 [Commodore 64] - https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/ * BigPEmu 1.04 [Atari Jaguar] - https://www.richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.php?content=download * Ares v131 [Multi-system] - https://ares-emu.net/download * WinArcadia 29.35 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * Nestopia UE 1.52.0 [NES] - http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ * Rom Properties 2.1 [Rom Manager] - https://github.com/GerbilSoft/rom-properties/releases * Rom Vault 3.5.2 [Rom Manager] - https://github.com/GerbilSoft/rom-properties/releases

* SDLMAME 0.250 for Ubuntu - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/ * NegaMAME 0.250-1 - http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm * Qemu 7.2.0 [PC] - https://download.qemu.org/ * BML3MK5 1.9.1 [Hitachi BML3 computer] - http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bml3mk5/download.htm * Hoxs64 1.1.2.1 [Commodore C64] - https://www.hoxs64.net/ * VBA_M 2.1.5 [GB/GBA] - https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases * BigPEmu 1.01 [Jaguar] - https://www.richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.php?content=download * Pantheon 12.144 [Multi-system] - http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/Download.htm * WinArcadia 29.33 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * PPSSPP 1.14 [PSP] - http://www.ppsspp.org/downloads.html * RetroArch 1.14.0 [Front-end] - https://www.libretro.com/

Ok, it's fixed for good this time apparently, sorry I had broken the region switch for this game and since I didn't play raine a lot lately I didn't notice, it happened because of mer-curious string changes in the main menu... ! But I should have noticed that anyway. I also fixed the hiscore.dat for soldamj But even in english, I am not sure I completely understand this game, my lines don't always disappear... oh well !!! This means adding the english romset is not necessary, just use the region switch in the main menu to switch to "sodam - america", and the texts turn to english.

I'd say it's too bad you can't make a pull request on git, because all these changes are minor and wouldn't require any coding skill, they just require time and determination. For me all of this is minor, I might take a look, but it's quite boring, so motivation is very low. Plus changing a string here might break the translations, even if it's probably minor. I was right to sleep on my changes for the "most recent" and most "played" games, I have some new idea on how to initialize the "recent games" the 1st time. I didn't do it first for the very rare cases where there might be a bad disk cache and initialization takes too much time. But it can be safety be done when raine is launched, and these settings updated only if there is not any info on "recent games" already saved, so even if there is a slow down it will happen only once, and here it's not even a slow down, I guess it will go unnoticed everywhere... So this option will disappear from the gui, and it will become automatic, much better ! edit : just did that, and fixed the category alignment issue you found. I had thought about that when creating the dialog first, and never looked at it twice actually, I just reserved the max width for it based on the longest game category we had, it doesn't show that much because it's a variable width font. Anyway now it just uses the actual width of the current category to display instead of that. Notice that for the info on the left there uses a margin, but I forgot the margin for the right aligned info ! I guess I'd better leave it like that for those with small screens anyway, eventually remove the margin on the left.

Ok, it's done, the list directly in the header of the game selection dialog is gone, instead you have now "Recent games" and "Most played games". It displays the list in 2 columns with the times / number of times played on column 2, which means you won't see any of this 2nd column if using a vga window because these game names are way too long !!! But since the list is sorted, and you'll probably want the 1st entries anyway, it's ok even without seeing the times. Switch to fullscreen if you want to see them. Also added an option to initialize the "recent games" from the access time of the files in savedata. It's the access time which is tested (last time the file was read), in a file selector it's usually the modification time you see, which is older. And if the time becomes > 1 year, it counts in years and does not display days or times in this case because they don't have much meaning anymore. This should finish this option for good this time, but it's right it needed some improvements ! It's pushed to git. edit : on 2nd thought, limited the names of the games in these 2 dialogs to 40 characters max, much better readability. Also the desktop is also resized now on windows resize events (the reason why the drawing was not updated behind the dialog after your window resize).

The bbcode function doesn't seem to work, I wonder if bbcode hasn't been disabled here, but except that embedding pictures here works very well. This one above is done by dragging a local file from here to the attachment zone on the bottom left zone. Once it's inserted into the document, you can drag and drop it to the exact point you want it in the text. And for the 3 old pictures in the console search posts, these are external pictures, so it's the "other medias" in the bottom right corner, insert image from url, it requires the url to be https, but it's not too important since everything is https these days. Same thing for this one, the picture is inserted where the cursor is when using the function, and you can drag and drop it later to adjust placement if you want, all in all it works rather well ! But yeah, this forum was nice, but on the other hand maintaining it took me quite some time, so it was nice to say bye bye to all the maintenance part here, even though we lost a few small things... ! (I have some bad memories with the spammers, and also our theme which had become incompatible after an update of the forum, forcing us to switch to an horrible white theme for a while, until I finally took the time to fix everything in the theme to make it compatible again. The irony here is that this good old theme worked out of the box, but the upgrade did not, it failed miserably while trying to update the database, so it would probably be a nightmare to maintain again... !).

You are in luck, my nephew will lend me one tomorrow for testing ! (but I am almost certain I won't have that many problems !)

Sorry I can't reproduce anything with this save, the graphics are totally garbled when loading it, I don't know how you did that, but the game is not frozen, it still reacts to inputs, I can press a+b+c to get to full power but it has no effect on any music playing or not. After that a makes the final punch, victory, and still nothing happens for the music. Ok, finally did it, there are random sounds playing, one of them stops the music, which gives us 2 more prefix commands, because I tested some more manually, and another test build. This one should be good everywhere, assuming it doesn't break things in the other games of this kind, but it shouldn't. exp.7z

Maybe a problem with adaptive vsync ? Well we both have an nvidia and I almost never see any tearing (except sometimes very briefly in a windowed mode). I can always add an option to just ignore adaptive vsync, and you're gonna be the happy tester... edit : "forced" is added to the double buffer options, the default is still "yes" which tries to use this adaptive vsync.

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