FB Alpha 0.2.97.16 Release

FB Alpha 0.2.97.16 Release

Posted by barry on 16 December 2011 at 21:20:00

New FB Alpha release. You can download the new version on the FB Alpha page.

• 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]