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

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

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

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 !

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

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

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

yes this is the last update and dd one on neogeo is not compatible.

HBMAME 0.245.25 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2025-05-10 0.245.25 New Games --------------------------------- - [gladmort] Gladmort - [pulstara] Pulstar (alt 1) - [pulstar02] Pulstar (alt 2) - [sf2prime] Street Fighter II': Prime (v0.50) - [sf2prime45] Street Fighter II': Prime (v0.45) - [spkick] Super Power Kick (beta 1) - [vaporous] Vaporous intro

HBMAME 0.245.24 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2025-03-27 0.245.24 New Games --------------------------------- - [68kng] 68k Inside intro - [doubled1b] Double Dragon One demo (2025-02-17) - [mustache01] Mustache Boy (Europe) - [neopl] Neo Puzzle League (from CD) - [pakupaku3] Paku Paku (v0.03) - [roadkill] Roadkill demo (problems with inputs and sound) - [sf2mix] Street Fighter II: Dream Battle (Mix 1.4) - [sf2prime3] Street Fighter II': Prime (v0.3) - [sf2prime4] Street Fighter II': Prime (v0.4) - [sf2prime] Street Fighter II': Prime (v0.41)

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

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...

HBMAME 0.245.23 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2025-02-27 0.245.23 New Games --------------------------------- - [bpanicdx] Block Panic DX (2025-01-01) - [flapchck] Flappy Chicken (2023-04-30) - [goldaxen] Golden Axe (Neo-Geo port) - [jumpnrund] Jump n Run Tech Demo - [karnovn] Karnov (Neo-Geo port) - [mpatrolut] Moon Patrol (Unknown Territories) - [pown] P.O.W. (Neo-Geo port) - [samsho2pe1] Samurai Shodown II (Perfect v2.4, 2025-01-27)

You mean some scaling option in the video driver from nvidia, set it to 150% ? But even so, there's 1/3 of the resolution less to go from 1920x1080 to 1280x720, which would not match a 150% ratio ? Anyway it seems like a crazy idea to use such an option here... There is no change in the rendering compared to 0.97.2 at least ? For the shaders, all this glsl stuff is about running shaders, even the ones we currently have, but yeah I am annoyed not being able to run these .glsl shaders. No noticeable progress so far though, but at least the black screen you found shows there is another error that I missed, I'll fix it later.

It actually started in 0.97.3 because I played a little bit with the glsl stuff, I had tested and it didn't seem to break anything, but with this particular shader because it doesn't affect all shaders, there is indeed a problem. Anyway it's fixed.

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.)

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 !

Nope sorry, no change on this side, and the region is not even in this dialog, and I can't reproduce your problem so I'll need some more info, obviously something changed on your system which initialized the language, which is quite a feat because I just noticed that I had forgotten the windows language detection function and it doesn't even know about pt_BR... ! It knows only about english, french and spanish, that's all ! So I guess you must have something in your environment which does that, type win+R and type cmd in the dialog to run a terminal, then type set and return, it will display your environment variables sorted in alphabetical order, check if you have something for LANG or LANGUAGE and report here. (you can scroll the window).

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/

Sorry, dll update mandatory after all, libstdc++ which is linked to gcc-14.2, for some reason it managed to read what it needed in linux despite the thing not being in the directory, the error shows only in windows. So return to the latest downloads, refresh the page eventually, the dlls are now for 0.97.3, still 4.1 Mb. It's annoying, but after all the last time I had to update it was in september 2023, so it's more than 1 year ago, not that bad. If someone else except you tested this, got the error and didn't report it, shame on him !

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.

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

1 - I was tempted to say it's not really a bug, it's super minor and you are the only one using this at least from what's reported on the forum, but the fix is trivial, just reset exit_options when opening the game options, so I did it. 2 - gui options / return mandatory C - yeah if it can't find the key you just pressed in the following games in the list, then is starts to look for it anywhere in the game title, that's for when you don't remember the whole title ! This thing is made to be used very fast, and I can confirm it does its job well ! D - not sure, well just press return in this case, I won't bother to look why it didn't select it as it should have done in this particular case.

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)

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.

Well you can always test the last sdl1 version to check, sdl2 started in 0.92, so the last sdl1 must be in 0.91.15. Also if you saw the post in the other thread, we became xp incompatible with 0.97.2, so it's probably because of the new function to detect the soundcard. It doesn't really matter anyway, xp is ancient now, and you are bound to hit an incompatibility like that if you keep adding new functions. Also something you probably didn't think about, but if you set Autodetect as default, then you will never see which card is selected, it probably doesn't matter much anyway as long as it can be heard, but if you want to have the detect and store result as before, the only way is not to have this autodetect as default. (or modify the interface to show which card was detected when Autodetect is selected, but I prefer to keep things as simple as possible). And for the unexpected return of the black border : I had actually tested this in windows, but apparently this function doesn't return the same thing when you call it in windowed mode and fullscreen ! So it got me, because I didn't think about saving the config and run again. And it doesn't make much sense, it's supposed to be state-less normally... ! Anyway !

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.

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

For the soundcard detection and handling when there is more than 1 soundcard on the system ! All this went haywire because sdl2 SDL_OpenAudioDevice never returns 1 for compatibility with sdl1... !!! And also the fact that I never had the opportunity to test on a proper system with 2 soundcards. So if you have only 1 soundcard and everything works fine, no need to update this time ! http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

After some thinking, it's not so hard to add a small test for the video info to keep the window within the screen boundaries in case the physical screen has changed since the config was recorded, so I did just that. And in case the recorded soundcard is not available to just force a re-detection of it. 2 small workarounds for people who change their config all the time on their laptops while still keeping things easy, it should work... But I won't track the z80 error, yeah it can report an error like that if sound config is messed up when booting the game, even if I can't seem able to reproduce it for now no matter what.

Not for me, and really I get more and more tired of this... !

If you want... You know normal people don't keep on deleting their config files all the time, usually sound setup is done in a few seconds only once and never after that, so it doesn't really matter which device is selected by default usually... But it's your day of luck, sdl2 thought about people like you and it knows about selecting a default device instead of just the 1st one, so that's what I'll do now. I can't test it now because I don't have any pc with 2 soundcards, maybe the mini but it has no raine for now because of a very small disk... I might test this later then. (but I don't guarantee sdl2 default will be the one in your desktop, but maybe !). edit after trying : no luck, the mini has only 1 soundcard detected, I got an old pc with 2 but this one hasn't been powered on for 3 years now and everything is too outdated on it to test something like that ! Oh well, you'll test that next time... ! Anyway I have no pc with 2 soundcards and windows installed on it !

No, there's no good reason to re-add it. The main reason why most games prefer desktop fullscreen games is probably because there are less issues when alt-tabing out of the game and you can have some windows visible on top of the game screen without issue, which is impossible with the real fullscreen, it's totally exclusive and it can have sync issues sometimes. The desktop fullscreen is the modern way to do that, the real fullscreen was the old way. Glad to see it's finally fixed, it was the most annoying series of bugs to fix, especially when you think that it was not even related to real emulation ! Most of the fixes are short, it's not complex code, but you just need to guess what needs to be done, there are more comments in the code and in the git log about all that.

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

And an update on this too, I recently bought a new one, chose one recommended by tom's hardware : Nacon EVOL-X Really good compared to the piece of crap I had previously, you sense some resistance in the joysticks moves which is very nice (more precision and durability probably), and even in the cross. Really not comparable to what I had before. Worth mentioning : it's for the xbox one apparently, it requires that the pc sends some initialization command through usb otherwise the gamepad remains inert (and its power led is off). It's done automatically by windows since they push to have xbox controllers to become standard on pc, but it's not in the mainline linux kernel yet, so you have to use an alternate driver for this one, I got xone-dlundqvist-dkms-git from arch, works flawlessly with that.

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

They have already made a backup in internet archive, the site is still available for now. It's mainly for the consoles, but there are a few arcade hacks though. Just found 2 for tgm2p that I didn't know, I converted the one to stop the music to a cheat for raine, it's committed in git for now (incompatible with currently released version, because there was no way to modify a sh2 rom in this version !). It's right that the game is good but the music is a disaster and it's actually better with just the sound effects ! The news : https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/08/02/1810215/the-best-rom-hack-website-is-shutting-down-after-nearly-20-years The index of arcade roms hacks : https://www.romhacking.net/?page=hacks&platform=26&perpage=20&startpage=1

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

Ok, the stupid windows are fixed again, but this time I forbid fullscreen from a maximized window to preserve my sanity, things becoming too crazy at this point and making too many problems. All the other situations tested afaik.

Just did a mistake while reinstalling msys in windows, installed gcc instead of the w64-x86_64 version, very easy to do and you are in a hell of trouble if you do it. Anyway problem fixed, back to sanity, but I had to delete the whole msys directory and restart from scratch to fix it... what a mess... !

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

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.20 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART MAME XP

Is there a changelog ? Am I the only one to have the problem with the tree in the ryu's stage then ? For some reason I had put some code to forbid loading a cps1 with bad crcs which is not standard, normally a bad crc is a warning, not an error. No idea why I did that, this driver is very old, it was cps1 at the beginning ! It dates from 2013 when I backported the load_progress function from the standard version of raine to the dos version (allegro). There was probably a reason at the time to add that... ! Anyway this allows to load your update with a warning that's all. Maybe I'll update the crcs this time in the source but I won't do it all the time. And what happened to the ogg files you were supposed to make with mer-curious ? edit : anyway just switched to v0.31 in git, also the rom is downloaded from your official github page now which is much faster than internet archive. (and internet archive still has 0.30). By the way all the nice save states from mer-curious are incompatible with this 0.31 apparently !