Goodbye FBAlpha, Welcome FBNeo

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Due to a “controversy”, all devs bar one from FinalBurn Alpha moved to a new fork called FinalBurn Neo. If you were using the FBAlpha core we recommend you move to the new FBNeo core by updating your core list and info files.

FBAlpha/FBNeo is a very active project with exciting features added regularly so it might be a good opportunity to talk about recent additions !

Support for Midway/Williams/Atari classics

A lot of people have been asking about them over the last few years, a lot of them are now playable !

Support for vector games

Tempest, Black Widow and other classic vector games are now playable too, some of them with resolution upscaling !

 

Support for Neo-Geo CD

Neo-Geo CD is now fully playable as a subsystem, including its exclusive title : Samurai Shodown RPG !

NB : this game was only available in Japan, but fan translations exist.

Other noteworthy improvements

  • Many of you might not know, but this core also supports a few consoles as subsystems, and it does it pretty well, recently we even added “Super Game Module” support for CBS ColecoVision.
  • Many control schemes were added to the core recently, you can now play with mouse, trackball or lightgun, there is also keyboard support for ZX Spectrum.
  • There was a major improvement to QSound emulation a week ago, now CPS1/CPS2 sound is clear as day. Actually there was also sound improvements for a lot of other games, leading to faster emulation and clearer sound.
  • There is now RetroAchievements support for popular arcade games, this implementation even added support for cheats as a side effect.

F.A.Q

Check our F.A.Q if you need help ! If your question isn’t already covered, ask on libretro’s forum.

You want to contribute ?

You are a coder ? You want to help the project ? Join us on our forum ! We are always happy to see new contributors. A few things we might be especially interested in :

  • Adding support for CHD.
  • Porting our MIPS3 dynarec to other archs, it’s only available for x64 at the moment.
  • Improving our TMS34010 CPU core, it’s still WIP and its developer can’t find the time to finish it.
  • Adding a SH3 CPU core, preferably interpreter+dynarec(s), if someone can do that we promise you support for cv1k (Cave 3rd generation board) in the near future.