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New CRT-friendly emulator : Final Burn Neo
donluca:
--- Quote from: cyb on October 16, 2020, 11:11:00 pm ---as someone who hasn't used fb in years, are there any advantages to using it over MAME?
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AFAIK, it is a clusterfuck of speed hacks and optimization to make games run on older/modest hardware with very low processing power requirements, at the expense of emulation accuracy.
This could be interesting, for example, for owners of those chinese Pandora's Boxes that use FBA to run games.
I have one but it runs at a fixed 320x240 60hz resolution, it would be a nice upgrade to have it switching resolutions automatically with the correct refresh rates.
cornerstone:
--- Quote from: cyb on October 16, 2020, 11:11:00 pm ---as someone who hasn't used fb in years, are there any advantages to using it over MAME?
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The main reason is to take advantage of Fightcade 2, a program that runs FBNeo as the emulator base and allows for online matchmaking for a lot of games. I believe the Neo version was built specifically to run with fightcade, as opposed to the Alpha.
Substring:
The story between Alpha and Neo is not that nice in fact ... When Capcom decided to get its share of the retrogaming hype and release their arcade stick, they "bought" a licence of FBA to its main author, but contributors did not get a single penny in exchange of their countless nights spent working on improving FBA. And anyway, they totally disagreed with the main ahtor behaviour, so they forked to Final Burn Neo, which almosy instantly killed Final Burn Alpha.
Now why FBN ? Because it's not as demanding as MAME and can run on smaller configs.
But that Fightcade thing ... I'm afraid it doesn't work with the SDL2 port we're using for CRT switchres ... I mean : regarding netplay
cornerstone:
Darn
Calamity:
--- Quote from: Substring on October 17, 2020, 11:21:55 am ---But that Fightcade thing ... I'm afraid it doesn't work with the SDL2 port we're using for CRT switchres ... I mean : regarding netplay
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No, they're using their own fbneo fork https://github.com/JordiRos/fightcade-fbneo
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