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And you can find the .dat files I built for the ips patches from romhacking there : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/extras.html Notice that the long text of some of the dat files (especially strider) will be displayed correctly only for versions more recent than 0.95.5c !

Yeah ok, I'll try to post that there soon, or in the extras section of the download page. For qsound sorry, that's the only area where we share a lot of code with mame. A long time ago the sound drivers were developed in common for mame and raine, now I just kept a thin compatibility layer to be able to use their code with as few changes as possible (but since they keep on changing their interface all the time we have an old version of their sound drivers now, but they are good enough for me for now). So the gurus who decide how to make a sound chip to sound are not here, even in the mame source there is no email, just a name, and the maintainers changed over the years. But no mention of any low pass filter here. So you can forget about this low pass filter for now.

Yes, and it's saved in the config file. Disagree on the capital letters, short game names are lower case, not upper case, and it's sfz3j not sfz3, but I can add /sfz3j to be more precise. And I agree for the announcer. Luckily there are already some quite long options there so this one can be long without any trouble. And translatable of course. edit : actually sfz3j and sfz3a are region clones, that is their only difference is their region bytes, so they are removed. The text and what the announcer says is based on the region : zero 3 for japan, and alpha 3 for the rest.

Well these are just qsound sound commands associated to samples of the guy speaking, I had to change to sound commands dialog to accept commands on more than 2 characters because his sounds seem to be from $100 to $13a. Filtering these out would silence him. But it would not be a cheat it needs to be included in the code, and I guess the option would go to sound options then, because I am not going to create a cps2 options just for that... It's committed, last option of the sound options dialog. After doing the sound associations for cps2 it was quite easy actually !

I didn't know there was a possible crash when loading different games using ips patches in the same session, if it's been reported it was lost, anyway I just fixed it. Yeah from what I remember only 1 collection was serious, it must be the fba pack. But emufrance allowed to fix this load_continue thing, so it's fine too. Found a few oddities in romhacking there : https://www.romhacking.net/?page=hacks&genre=&platform=26&game=&category=&perpage=20&order=&dir=&title=&author=&hacksearch=Go actually you have to rebuild the .dat files manually there, they didn't even include them, the majority is clearly for consoles but there are a few original arcade ips, including : - bublbobl ultra : more a proof of concept than a real bublbobl extension like buble bobble redux, but it's not worthless. - donkey kong : this is the one which made me bring bps patching to raine, although I knew I wouldn't like the graphics, nes graphics are horrible usually, but I was still curious to see it. - strider : some rom fixes from a real fan. he went as far as finding there was a music which should play when out of time in the rom and which never played, and managed to fix the rom to make it play, plus improved a few of the graphics. Maybe I should post at least some of the dat files I rebuilt by hand, but it's not very hard to do. I just enhanced the .dat parser to allow spaces or tabs as separators and any number of them. They have a few street fighter patches which are totally equivalent to some of the cheats here, so they don't seem interesting at all. These patches are clearly to burn some real eeprom and not to be used inside an emulator, but why not use them anyway ?

Well you have my thanks, because I even if I couldn't make my ips work, I added some code to handle this load_continue anyway, but the ips files I had were too unstable for any testing. This one works perfectly, I didn't need to change anything, the 2 hidden characters appear and are selectable without any trouble. Perfect ! You'll just need to wait for the next binary then... If nothing new happens till then, next week-end probably ! (but I wonder how these files on github can work, it was updated 2 months ago so it's recent... maybe for some modified emulator ? Anyway it's from a guy from Japan so it's hard to ask questions !). And it's normal loading this ips in the current official version hadn't any effect, all its offsets are > $100000 which means all the changes are inside the load_continue area !

After a quick look : - the github repo doesn't even have this file, but it has a crash when trying to select the char on the bottom left corner - it seems it's because it tries to patch a rom loaded with a LOAD_CONTINUE, which really makes things a lot less clear about what are the allowed offsets. I'll try to do something about it... ! But you could have reported this earlier, once again ! After looking : it's some crazy stuff as often from this repository. For example, the .dat starts by : #define IPS_EXTROM_INCL EXP_VALUE_002 if this line has a meaning, it's totally lost, it shouldn't be there normally, it's ignored by raine. Then the .ips inside try to patch a rom loaded with a continue which is already a risky endeavor, but they try to patch after the offset $200000 which is totally impossible with neogeo (the rom can't physically have a size over $200000, it's already split if it goes over $100000 but then $200000 is the last limit). So these patches are lost, if they are supposed to do something here, it's less than obvious. Anyway after playing with these patches (actually your file isn't even in the github repository anymore, but the 2 .dat files there produce a crash in the character selection screen when trying to reach the bottom left part), they always crash the game no matter what I do. So there must be some hack somewhere, but it's not obvious, and really I think I am starting to get really too much of this stuff ! Anyway I don't plan to emulate fbneo, I just wanted an easy way to handle rom patches, it was at the beginning just some support for ips files after the rom has been loaded, no .dat files. Then I added some .dat files because after this it seemed the logical next step (and I already got much more trouble with the file selector than what I had anticipated !), but here it goes really too far. So my suggestion is just to switch to fbneo and to stop to post pictures from fbneo, thanks !

Just posted 0.95.5c version, there are very few changes inside, mainly the few text changes from mer-curious, the change to allow more ips files, 2 new cheat files from ffman1985 : sfa3 and sfa3jr2, and that's all. It's just that there is nothing big in the works for now, so there is no real reason to wait for the ips fix. 0.95.5b was linux only to fix a make install problem. And there should not be any 0.95.5d !

Yeah nice find, I didn't even notice yesterday. It's fixed, 1 message only now, and it doesn't crash on you when too many ips files ! No idea, but for sure they are very different and not comparable. Maybe one day I'll look into it again... ! For your edited commit, well it was already pushed so it had no effect at all here, but don't worry, I just changed the message on my side... !

The message should probably be too many ips instead of too many roms... ! Anyway... !

As usual it seems you wait for a release to test something like that... And yes it's quite astonishing that all these files work without any conflict ! The normal max number of ips files was 20, which seems already a lot considering the conflicts. With 30 it's still not enough. With 40 it works, and without any conflict. The fix is very easy to do, if you had tested that before the release you would have it already... ! It's an interesting combination for others I guess... !

Screenshots of the currently selected game already appear in the background if you have some screenshots saved from this game (ctrl-s by default to save a screenshot). There is also a script to get some screenshots from the internet and save them in the screenshots directory, but you need perl for that. And no, raine never used dos4gw even if it was also the time of dos4gw in this time, it used something equivalent though (djgpp/go32 at the time). If you are curious about the "screenshots grabber", it's in the Extra part of the downloads page, towards the bottom of the page. In linux you must run it from ~/.raine, and you already have perl installed on your system so you just have to run it that's all.

Well for now there is not much content and it's still quite high in the topics list, so it's good as it is for now, maybe later

Excellent, you didn't waste anything here, glad it works anyway !

I'll take a look later at your kof2003 problem, but this kind of path is begging for problems here : spaces + even simple quotes and [ inside a path, and it's so long it becomes ridiculous. Normally there are workarounds for that and this kind of crazy path is accepted, but I hope you at least tried a simpler path before reporting that.

It started by ffman1985 scripts. Found a way to make them compatible with the normal cps2 versions and not just the phoenix versions. Then he noticed the sound associations didn't work well in cps2, normal since they were never really tested. He says there is a site in the internet with re-arranged versions of the cps2 tracks which sounds very nice with the associations... so they are fixed now, it was much easier than neogeo, their major commands stay the same for all drivers. Then I used the cheats to convert some region bytes switches to some regions which can be changed in raine gui, it allowed to identify region clones, that is clones whose only difference is the region byte itself, and get rid of them since we can now change the region to whatever we want. Notice some games like choko don't have english texts for the non japenese versions, which is not a surprise. Then there was the problem of some long standing graphical glitches because of the dreaded priority masks. So I finally added some emulation for these priority masks, it's quite amazing that the driver worked quite well without them for all this time actually ! (and thanks go to mame for their code, even if I couldn't believe it for very long, they probably spent a long time to find this). Except that : - the list of games now using the console scripts from ffman1985 is longer, see his thread for details. Here it is : hsf2d, sf2cejc, sf2ce, sf2hfj, sf2hf, sf2j, sf2, sf2ad, sfa, sfz2ald, sfz2alj, sfz2al, ssf2ud, ssf2xjd, ssf2xj, xmcotar1d - progear had been broken for 1 year ! It's now fixed. - the ips files can now be bps files when referenced in a .dat file. If you don't know what bps files are, never mind ! - some minor fixes in the multiple files selector for "load ips dat files" - since they never fixed sdl2_image 2.6.x which does not return palettes anymore for 256 colors png, I finally merged the right version of their load_png function to be able to keep the color cycling in the raine dialog on systems with a recent sdl2_image (linux only !) - raine can optionally be compiled using clang, it's mainly useful for debuging - add back button in game controllers to switch between dialog headers and main parts in the gui - Plus some minor stuff... ! That was quite a big update this time : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html Also both appimage files, 32 bits and 64 bits have been updated to 0.95.5, and there was a small problem in the makefile which forced me to make a 0.95.5b version just for the linux packages.

Yeah big update on cps2, ffman1985 started it with his scripts then he found the sound associations didn't work that well in cps2 which was not a surprise since it has never been really tested, so we fixed that, then he complained that we still have some graphical problems in some cps2 games, which were because of the way these crazy priority masks work, after a big hesitation I finally added some emulation for that, we also found a lot of region bytes for cps2 games and could identify clones where the only difference is the region byte, since it can be changed from the gui now it allowed to remove quite a few useless clones. I'd like to check a few more things but a release is probably going to happen soon. For the strings, yeah I saw, I'll check that later (but it can't be applied immediately because I need to check if it breaks some translations or anything else 1st). For your guide mapping, you are free to remap it to whatever you like on your setup, it's just a default configuration, it can be changed as all the default controls, but I won't change it again for now, sorry, absolutely not interested. Same thing for guide to close all gui dialogs, if nobody provides a patch for that, then it won't happen anytime soon. And I absolutely don't care at what retroarch does ! I am not against it if somebody writes the code and provides a patch, but I don't want to try to do it for now. Yeah left key on the keyboard is not exactly logical in this way, well it's because basically this gui is supposed to be very simple and it shows here, left and right keys are going to next or previous item if there is one on the current line, but if there is none then the current item is selected. In the game selection dialog, the game is loaded. Oh well, never mind, I didn't even know that actually, but it doesn't really bother me. edit : for the joystick mapping, it should logically be left and right either shoulder or trigger now to change pages, the reason why it's left and right for now is because it was added before sdl2 and its game controller interface which allows to identify precisely the controls. I agree I should change that one day, but well the left and right do their work for now... !

I just added support for bps files, not sure it will really be useful, but I found an example of a patch using a bps here : https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6689/ and I was curious to see it working, even if nes graphics are quite ugly... ! In the end it works. You need to create a dat file manually for this example, extract the bps files to a dkong directory in the ips directory, then put this into the dat file : c-2j.bpr c-2j CRC(d6412358) c-2k.bpr c-2k CRC(e273ede5) l_4m_b.bin l_4m_b CRC(59f8054d) l_4n_b.bin l_4n_b CRC(672e4714) l_4r_b.bin l_4r_b CRC(feaa59ee) l_4s_b.bin l_4s_b CRC(20f2ef7e) v_3pt.bin v_3pt CRC(15e9c5e9) v_5h_b.bin v_5h_b CRC(12c8c95d) [en_US] Kana Kong Arcade v1.0 The crc infos are totally optional, in fact these crcs are given in the bps files, but they are just used in the end to check everything went correctly for now. It was fun adding this anyway ! this bps support doesn't check for conflicts, I wouldn't imagine applying more than 1 bps file to a rom even if in theory it's possible...

Good news I had some fun with this crazy setup to build appimages again, a docker container having ubuntu bionic in it, customized with an up to date sdl2 (2.0.26.5 for both 32 and 64 bits now). I added some code to detect the lua-5.3 from bionic, I don't guarantee it will work for every distribution but at least it works for arch and ubuntu bionic ! So it works, I have some appimage files, and I had even forgotten some file in it last time. But you'll have to wait a little more, the next version is not ready yet.

The bug was fixed in 0.95.4, as stated in the release : - revert a neogeo optimization which made unibios crazy with its strange screensaver (a black screen when using their cheat menu) I won't update the appimage all the time, sorry, but the bug happens only when you try to display an unibios specific screen while ingame, so just don't do that. I'll try to update the appimage next time.

After thinking, we could add a shortcut for the joystick to switch to the top entries where the most recent commands are, with the keyboard it's the tab key. Any proposal for the default button to use on the joystick ? (probably select or start) edit : it's done, with the back button, which is select on a playstation controller.

And it has lua as new dependency, but I tested it here too, works perfectly yes !

For now just use button 2 instead of guide, and it just closes the current dialog as does ESC key. If the guide key was handled here it would have to close all dialogs to return to the game, there is currently no function to do that. Just press button 2, it would be B, it's must easier ! Very fast if you use the direction pad left, and keep it down, there is an auto repeat which brings you to the top in a super short time. But the fastest remains the alphabetical keys in the keyboard, you can't beat this to quickly find a game in the game list, it even makes most recent lists useless.

And you got a 0.95.4b, a bug specific to windows and which doesn't happen all the time displayed very weird script error messages. And the lua label was missing for the lua console script for sf2, that's all so it's sill 0.95.4, just an update.

Yeah, ffman1985 was making bigger and bigger scripts which were harder and harder for the old script system, so I tried an lua interface instead, and it made wonders, I can have 0% in Misc with a console script active in linux with the 32 bits version constantly ! The console scripts are available for xmcotar1d, sfz2ald, sfad, af2, af2j, sf2hf, sf2hfj, sf2ce, sf2cejc. For now the old normal version is still available for comparison, but since we couldn't find any bug it will probably be removed next time. The lua version has [lua] at the end of its title. There is a perl converter to convert from the old scripts to the new lua syntax, but it's useful only for those writing scripts ! You can read more details about the crazy work from ffman1985 with these scripts there, and post something for him too : This means you get a new dll, it's included in the raine32 and raine64 zip files for now. Except that : - some last fixes for the multiple files selector to preload ips dat files - a setting to disable ips files globally (at the top of the "preload ips dat files" file selector) - revert a neogeo optimization which made unibios crazy with its strange screensaver (a black screen when using their cheat menu) - a fix so that keys which open a gui dialog are not seen as always down when returning to the game Get it from there : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html linux binaries updated (except the appImage) edit : oh by the way, the how to compile guide was updated too for lua, and I added a part about the minimum things to know about mingw if you install it only to compile raine.