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libretro / fbalpha2012_neogeo

Final Burn Alpha 2012. Port of Final Burn Alpha to Libretro (0.2.97.24). Standalone core for Neo Geo.
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As a standalone NeoGeo core, it should get more attention. #35

Closed SumavisionQ5 closed 5 years ago

SumavisionQ5 commented 5 years ago

Add all pre-decrypted ROMsets from latest FBAS. It will be very helpful for poor performance platforms such as Wii, 3DS. It will shorten the loading time a lot and reduce the RAM demanded.

Wiimpathy commented 5 years ago

I don't know about 3DS but it won't really change for the Wii. The max size that used to fit in Ram is(was?) Sengoku 3, 48MB. All other larger games use a cache system thanks to the nand memory. See #26

ji125443 commented 5 years ago

Is it okay to add support to (kof10thd.zip)?

SumavisionQ5 commented 5 years ago

Ported "insert coin" fix from latest FBN.

SumavisionQ5 commented 5 years ago

I don't know about 3DS but it won't really change for the Wii. The max size that used to fit in Ram is(was?) Sengoku 3, 48MB. All other larger games use a cache system thanks to the nand memory. See #26

Another advantage for adding them is to reduce the ROM size to almost half when you use decrypted ROM sets.

Wiimpathy commented 5 years ago

As it is now, it won't work for the Wii. The decrypting part is already skipped for those games. It's done with the Rom converter app. The romcnv app must be modified with the drivers you've added too. Moreover, I can't see a difference in size between svc and svcd for example. They're both around 88MB.

In fact, it could take a few extra crucial bytes for nothing. Like the pcb versions of some games that are much too large for this platform, they should be excluded since they won't run anyway.

SumavisionQ5 commented 5 years ago

As it is now, it won't work for the Wii. The decrypting part is already skipped for those games. It's done with the Rom converter app. The romcnv app must be modified with the drivers you've added too. Moreover, I can't see a difference in size between svc and svcd for example. They're both around 88MB.

In fact, it could take a few extra crucial bytes for nothing. Like the pcb versions of some games that are much too large for this platform, they should be excluded since they won't run anyway.

For nothing? I don't think so. Wii is too old, and It does not deserve a new version. People can use old version instead. But for platforms such as RPi, I added those decrypted ROM sets and the sizes of zip files can be greatly reduced with decrypted C-ROMs. The size I mentioned here is not RAM size but storage size on SD card. For Wii, because you decrypted with a program and there is no difference. If you dont like it, I will just close this PR. Anyway, they will stay on my fork.

Wiimpathy commented 5 years ago

Ok, since you're talking of RPI and storage now, so yes you're right. Don't take it wrong, I'm just saying that for the Wii, it would require extra work for no real benefit for Ram usage and loading times. I was thinking of adding the drivers with conditional #ifdef. That's a good idea and you do as you want, it's not up to me to decide anyway.

But regarding old platforms and people using old versions, I thought it was one of retroarch's goal, aiming old and new platforms. And specifically this core being an older fba version.