FB Alpha 0.2.97.17 released

[Robert]

Get it here --> http://www.barryharr...view.php?id=169

 

This version features mostly localisation fixes, kindly reported by Benjamin Siskoo.

• Fixed various localisation issues [barry, reported by Benjamin Siskoo]
  
• Fixed some dipswitch descriptions in Boogie Wings and Major Title 2 [doomking]
  
• Fixed CRC error in CPS Changer version of Warriors of Fate [pmc2]
  
• Fixed Unicode title for Japanese versions of Dynasty Wars [kof2112]
  
• Fixed Unicode title for Japanese versions of Warriors of Fate [DsNo]
  

Version 16 was released yesterday, here's the changelog:

• Added driver for Super Locomotive [iq_132]
  
• Added clone of Warriors of Fate to the CPS-1 driver [barry]
  
• Added Bygone to the Legend of Kage driver [iq_132]
  
• Added colour PROMs to Birdiy in Pacman driver [iq_132]
  
• Fixed spriteram2 mapping and sprite rendering in Birdiy in Pacman driver [barry]
  
• Added correct dumps to kovsgqyz and kovsgqyza in the PGM driver [iq_132]
  
• Added clone of kovsgqyz to the PGM driver [iq_132]
  
• Fixed character selection screen in kovsgqyz and clones in the PGM driver [iq_132]
  
• Improved PGM sprite rendering [iq_132]
  
• Added PGM sprite generator to makefiles [barry]
  
• Made V3021 RTC an external device, seperate from the PGM driver [iq_132]
  
• Removed Street Fighter II' - champion edition (street fighter 2' 920803 USA, alt) as it is a bad dump [barry]
  
• Fixed some input and dip switch issues in the Bank Panic driver [barry]
  
• Added a debug device tracking module and updated all device, sound and CPU modules to support it [barry]
  
• Tidied all drivers in the cave, cps-3, megadrive, pgm, psikyo and toaplan folders, and updated to use Burn Memory module, as well as correcting any issues reported by debug tracker [barry]
  
• Updated M6502 CPU core interface to allocate memory rather than use an array [iq_132]
  
• Updated Vez CPU core interface to allocate memory rather than use an array, and added support for auto-acknowledging IRQs [iq_132]
  
• Fixed crash when taking screenshots of vertical or flipped games using blitters other than the D3D enhanced blitter [barry]
  
• Added option to DirectDraw blitter to force flipping as it isn't usually detected as available, see help file for more information [barry]
  
• Fixed issue with string translation in localisation templates [barry, doomking]
  
• Fixed issue with exporting localisation templates in GCC builds [barry, doomking]
  
• Converted all the outstanding hard-coded strings I could see to translatable strings, let me know if you see any untranslatable strings [barry]
  
• Tidied the string resource ids to minimise future impact on translators [barry]
  
• Updated help file [barry]
  
• Matched all sets to MAME 0.144u3 [barry]
  
• Matched the Megadrive sets to MESS 0.144u3 [barry]
  
• Updated the libpng library to v1.5.6 [barry]