Final Burn Legends 1.3

-Fixed controls for

Mega Man - the power battle
Mega Man 2 - the power fighters

I was going to post about this but I didn't think fixing two games would of been worth it.. I'm glad you fixed it though! thanks for the update :-)

ha thanks I just updated my stuff yesterday and dont mind updatin again, keep it coming Nes!

Thanks dude.

Again glad your still workin on this so hopefully that other guy wont yous your shit just yet, is there anyway we can get the emu to recognize one video preview for all the clones/bootlegs/regions ect....thus causin us to save a shit load of hdd space and make every game have a vid. Oh and yeah I know you can have the game list display only parent roms...which kinda solves what Im asking..

Wow, fast update! Great news!

- Bender

hey i just tried this emu but none of my neogeo roms work. "ROM Error: Invalid CRC"
but all of this roms work fine with finalburnxxx
why is that?

You did run your roms through a rom manager first, with the appropriate FBL .dat file, didn't you ?

Or he have the wrong neogeo bios.

Hey Nes,

Great work with yet another update!

I was just wondering if you had any plans of implementing an 'analog stick dead-zone' setting into FBL? I would love the option to be able to adjust the deadzone setting, because for now the dead-zone is way too big and I'd like to be able to make it smaller.

Keep up the good work!

Great work Nes.

I don't know much about processors for these emu's but is it possible to input an overclock option for whatever cpu the sega 16 games use, or have a core toggle for preffered speed or accuracy on these few titles?

It is allready there.

Umm, I'd like to suggest, like FBA-XXX Pro had, a way to bypass the CRC check.

One thing I like to do is run hacked versions of fighters (grabbed from here), and while I could in FBA-XXX (after minor tweaking), it won't work here.

Further, when I -do- attempt to run one of the hacked ROMsets, I get the CRC error screen, telling me to press A to continue, but then it tries to load the game again, bringing up the CRC error message. An infinite loop occurs, and the only things I can do are hold L+R+Back+Start to get to the dashboard or power off and back on.

I dumped FBA-XXX in favor of this when I found it didn't use the XORs for CPS2 games, but having the ability to run hacks removed makes me want the former back.

Edited to add: The problem with the CPS2 hack I tried in FBA-XXX, was that when the edited section of the game tried to load, the game (vampj) reset.

I could add the hacks if you gave me information about them. What all the ROM names are and the size and CRC of each. 7-Zip will tell you all that.

As far as disabling CRC checks, that won't happen. I used to think that was a good idea too. That was until I spent half a day trying to figure out what I had broken when After Burner 2 wasn't working correct. Turns out it was a bad ROM. If I take out the CRC check then the forum will get flooded with people saying:

User 1: <My favorite game> doesn't work!
User 2: Are you using a verified correct ROM?
User 1: What does that mean?

Yeah I have gotten broken roms on many occasions.. it is nice to get the heads up rather than messing with rom settings and all that trying to figure it out. But on Mame they have that advanced settings area where if you venture into it it warns you that you are messing with stuff that could cause problems, couldn't you implement a system like that? That way you could check your roms, then when you know its all verified and working you could turn off the check.

I'd agree with that. Maybe 'passcode-protect' an advanced users menu, where you'd have to find the combination in the documentation next to a warning about knowing what you're doing.

Edited to Add: Better yet, maybe make it a 'per-game' setting?

Like for instance, pressing Start while a game's highlighted might bring up a menu with "Play Game", "Add to Favorites", "Disable CRC enforcement" (and then highlight the set in red to reflect the disabling), and other such functions.

If you chose "Disable CRC", bring up a warning box saying "Enable at your own risk" (or similar), and passcode it. Kinda like how the UnleashX dashboard does for its advanced users menu.

That's the other thing. These ROMs weren't given any other name, since they were designed to be inserted into the standard vampj set.

I suppose, though, if they had to be given names, they'd be:

vamjbh.03a, CRC 55C1BE82
vamjbh.04b, CRC 9C12017E

Naturally, the 'bh' is for 'Boss Hack', since it adds Huitzil and Pyron to the selectable cast.

But, if I were to know where to look to change the CRCs it was looking for, I'd be able to do this myself (since I'd know what I'm doing in 99% of cases).

Great update, it's very much appreciated nes,

I have the street fighter 3's but none work. Is it my roms, or do they not work with the emu? Thanks for any help.

I realise we're probably past the point of requesting features for Final Burn Legends but I'd like to make this request for FBL, Zsnexbox, and your possible Nestopia port.

Could you add a Widescreen setting to the video options which automatically reduces the horizontal width of the game screen by 25%? This creates a proportional 4:3 image on a 16:9 display. Thankies.

Quick question for anyone who knows....

Is the datfile for all supported games included with the release?

Thanks,
~Rx

You can find the dat in version 1.1.
The only new game is Final Fight Bootleg, i think,
and thats in version 1.2.

So there were no additional games supported between 1.1 and 1.3 then?

I love the Genesis emulator with this, it's quite a bit better than NeoGenesis in my opinion. Only thing I noticed was that Load State doesn't work. Also if you would bother for feature requests could you add an option in the launcher to change each emu's screen size/position? It is a minor inconvenience to change the setting for each individual rom.

OK- Here's my story:

I downloaded Final Burn Legends from xbins version 1.1 and replaced files up to 1.3
Now when I go to load a rom the emulator says "please wait" and just freezes. I deleted the saves folder from TData and UData and generated a rom list as well as checked my roms with romcenter before attempting to load a game.

Anyone know what's up?

Could be a few particular roms. How many and what ones did you try? Do they work on FBA 0.2.97.07 for PC?
Roms have to have a particular name, CRC, and size.

The FAQ can tell you a lot about ROM issues, if you haven't done that already.

nes6502 if you plan on releasing a new version with a fix for Sega Genesis save sates, could you also include a debug logging feature so we can help you out if we come across anything?

Look at the bottom of this thread and youll get your answer...
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?sho...02354&st=15
Im sure hes busy working on something else "Nestopia" and will surprise us with a release later on this year...

Thats a shame, and I probably should have read that too. I guess I'll just have to go back to NeoGenesis for savestates.

The PC version doesn't have savestates so the port won't either. In fact the PC version doesn't have SRAM support. iq_123 added it for me so the Genesis games could at least save as they did on a console.

Yoy should use NeoGenesis. It's 1000% better for Genesis games (and supports 32X and SegaCD). I consider the Genesis support in FBL just a bonus.



Maybe later this month.

Very modest of you NES6502, refreshing and appreciated, to see from an emu author.
Judging by your comments im guessing the Nestopia port is go !
This will please a lot of users as the NES system is very popular.
Well done.

Off topic here nes, but are you at all interested in refining/updating DaphneX? Long shot, I know...

Good to see that nestopia is a go. Looking forward to it!!

Hello everyone. I have a few questions about FBL now that I'm using it and I finally managed to acquire a full romset.

1) Does anyone know if there is a way to filter out clones without manually creating a favorite's list?

2) Does anyone know if there is a way to hide the extra info on a game name, for example "1942 (Revision B )"

3) Does anyone know if there is a way to get the movies to play for the clones as well without having to copy the movie and give it the clone's filename?

Thanks,
~Rx

P.S. Love the emu, by the way.

1. Yes its in the options, last page.
2. No, not that im aware.
3. No, not that im aware.

I can't seem to get 1.3 to work, I've copied and recopied files over, but consistently, after install when I choose "select game" I get "Final Burn Legends has encountered an error, press A to exit"

I've searched around, but haven't found a lot of support documentation or anything to explain this specific error.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Im no expert but, now for the silly questions.

Did you check them first with a rom manager.
Have you rescanned for roms. (options\rebuild rom list)

Sounds like you are missing files.

Easiest way to fix it.

Install 1.1 into an EMPTY directory. Don't modify the Path.ini
Then copy 1.2 files over 1.1.
Then copy 1.3 files over 1.2
Put roms in the roms folder
Start the emulator

Make sure EVERYTHING is transferring to your Xbox. Some FTP programs will skip files.



No. I find this information extrmemely usefull. However, if you want to get rid of it, then you can:

1) Add all your favorites to the Favorites list.
2) Modify the Favorites.ini file and rename the display names anything you want.



No. I didn't want to slow the ROM browser down by having to do an extra check for every file. It is expensive to "try" to open a file that isn't there. That would mean for every file, it would look for a screenshot, if not there a parent, a movie, if not there a parent. Four checks for every file it too much. Nothing I hate more than a sluggish GUI.



Very interested in that and a new NeoGeo CD emulator. But I won't be doing either. I just don't have the time anymore.

Didn't actually think you would be interested in DaphneX nes, so thats a suprise!
I don't think this emu gets the attention it deserves....bummer.

I grew up playing MACH 3 and Dragon's Lair in the arcade. Draon's Lair was the first game I ever saw that took 50 cents to play.

aahhhhh... the arcade. i kinda miss it. when you got to play games that clearly kicked the consoles butt. sf2 just isn't the same and i know it's the actual game in fbl but, well you know what i'm talking about.

don't forget about samsho 2 either... i had a 40+ winning streak against a bunch of people. i used UKYO!!

Yeah, those were the days eh? I remember when I first saw Dragons Lair running in the arcades,
that was truly mind-blowing back then. Especially compared to the other arcade games...
The High Quality version of Dragons Lair looks great in DaphneX btw. From memory, MACH 3 doesn't run.

I've decided I want to keep the full romset in-tact, and with the answers I've gotten that is doable. We can filter for only parent roms, which was the big thing.



Good, that will work. Much nicer doing this work than it would have been to try to figure out the "best" version of each game.



I will have to consider how I'm going to handle this for the Xtras. If it doesn't add too much space I may add clones of the videos to support alternate roms. I'm thinking it's going to add a whole lot of needless space taken up though so I may just have one rom for every parent and if you have a clone as a favorite on your rig, you'll have to live with just a screenshot (assuming that can be done, I'm still new to this emu).

Thanks for the tips, NES & cbagy,
~Rx




EDIT: That was a little tricky, but I got it. Seems that once you've added too many favorites it takes forever for the emu to update a new game to the favorites list. I broke them up into 3 favorites lists to get around this and then was stumped for a minute why everything from the second favorites list was showing the zipfile name and everything from the 3rd favorites list was showing "NULL". Turns out I had 2 line breaks in there that were causing it.

I'm going to remove the excess characters from them now and probably dump the demos and mahjong and other unplayables from the favorites list now, then I'll see about those videos.




Two more qustions:

1) When we use just the "Parent" roms, we can be sure that there is representation for every game, right?

2) Has anybody been working on making the missing videos? It looks like we have most of them for FBL but I noticed a few playable games that didn't have them while making the list.

Here's my favorite's list for it with the file names cleaned up: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5Q0RANBD

This is just a preliminary list of 787 games taken from the parents of the full FBL 1.3 set. I believe I've removed all porn games, all mahjong and other japan text heavy games like quiz games, tech demos and other garbage. No Genesis games are included in this list.

All I need now is some people to help test these games on my list and let me know if any of them are not working so I can see if one of the clones work instead.

Thanks for volunteering in advance!

Here is a spreadsheet I'm making to keep track of which parents work, and which games we still need videos for:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tjC...amp;output=html

If you'd like to help test, PM me your email address and you can let us know in the spreadsheets which games you played that worked. Also, let me know if I left in any text heavy unplayable games, and let me know if there are still porn games in there since the filter isn't 100% correct and I've pulled out a few of them by hand already.

Thanks!!!!!


EDIT: Spreadsheet is ready for testing. Assuming I didn't miss any games, it looks like we only need 12 videos to complete the set. If anybody takes a look at the spreadsheet and has any of those videos, I'd appreciate it you send them to me.


EDIT: Here is a preliminary datfile for the parent roms http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GKCH2YH8

Some parents don't seem to work without the clones, so we're testing for that right now. First step is to figure out which parents work without the clones.

I'll do your laundry for you. That should save you a couple of hours a week!

LOL

This was sad news though, but I can definitely relate to the time issue.

By the way, if there are any iPhone/iTouch users out there, the Dragon's Lair port is pretty good. So is Space Ace. The animation on those games is amazing.

I can just imagine DaphneX with your interface/GUI & features nes....that would have been awesome.

I've finished testing of parent roms through part of the letter "D" for FBL 1.3.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0At...p3bHc&hl=en

If anybody has gotten any of the non-working roms to work, let me know. They're marked in red.

I've also marked roms as working even if the sound doesn't work or some other things. They're marked in purple under the "Notes" section, so if you guys know how to get them working that'd be great.

When we're finished testing the parents, I will try clone roms to see if they work if the parent didn't. I already know that this will work for some games like Metal Slug 5 (the parent doesn't work, but one of the clones does).

The Metal Slug 5 parent sets:

Metal SLug 5
Metal SLug 5 (JAMMA PCB).

both work. Metal SLug 5 (JAMMA PCB) doesn't work in HD.

As far as parent sets working worse than the clones. MVSC is one of them. The parent set crashes after beating the game. The US set does not crash.

I couldn't get the MS5 parent set working either. Just comes up with the crosshatch screen.

PS: That spreadsheet link doesn't work.

Rx, perhaps you should consider keeping in the Japanese clone of Vampire Savior. It's the only fully uncensored version there is. Even with the Euro parent and US clone, there is no way to get the game to run in that state; turning off 'Regulation' in the diagnostic menu does not accomplish this.

You might also want to consider keeping the Japanese versions of the two previous games in the series around too. Both Vampire (DarkStalkers) and Vampire Hunter (Night Warriors) have more voice and slightly more sound effects than the US and Parent versions.

Of course nes is also correct about mvsc. The only version that crashes after you beat the game is the parent. The US and J clones do not.

This is completely up to you though. These differences might be minor to some people.