Finalburn Alpha 0.2.96.72 Released!

[Lefteris_D]

A new version of the arcade emulator Finalburn Alpha is now available. Here is what is new in this release:

v0.2.96.72
This is still an alpha release!

Note that, if compiled with GCC, you will need to use version 3.3.x, and
the experimental DirectX 9 blitter is not built.

This list is nothing like exhaustive. These are only the highlights of a big new version;

- Thanks to the contributions of OopsWare we have some nice new drivers
- PGM Hardware
- Video System Hardware
- 1945k III
- Gals Panic
- Power Instinct
- Shadow Force

- I have been busy with the following
- Added a Sega System 18 driver
- Added Ace Attacker, Excite League and Super League to the Sega System 16 drivers
- Added various bootlegs to the Sega System 16 driver
- Added driver for Kaneko 16 Hardware
- Added Honey Dolls, Snow Bros. 3, and The Winter Bobble to the Pandora based driver
- Added a generic lightgun interface to the burn library and converted all existing drivers to use it
- Emulated column and row scroll in System 16 tilemaps (still has a few issues with a few instances)
- Added support for (multiple) YM2612/3438 sound chips (as used by System 18)
- Added support for the RF5C68 PCM sound chip (still has issues which escape me at present, used by System 18)
- Fixed an issue with high BPP support in the generic tiles interface
- Matched all sets to MAME 0.117u3 and added some clones to various drivers

- Added Ganbare Ginkun and Riot to the Tecmo 16 driver [BisonSAS]
- Added kev's preliminary Dec0 driver to debug builds [kev]

You can get it from here.

[Epsi]

This is still an alpha release!

... By that you mean it's a Finalburn Alpha release? Because I can't find anywhere they state this is an Alpha or even Beta release.

[Lefteris_D]

That text is taken from the readme file in the ZIP. Try downloading the zip and read it yourself, it's right there.

[Epsi]

That text is taken from the readme file in the ZIP. Try downloading the zip and read it yourself, it's right there.

I did download it... Only read on the site thou. Never the readme files. Sorry my bad.

[Lefteris_D]

I copy my changelogs from the "readme" files. I only use sites when a changelog is not available in the zip or the emulator is in EXE form(installable).