A lot happened since my last progress report, so it might be a good time to keep you updated about FBNeo progress.

NES/FDS support

I see most of you saying “Isn’t FBNeo an arcade emulator ?”. Well, not exactly, we do some console emulation too, i already mentioned it in my last post. You might think there is nothing exciting about having a new NES/FDS emulator, but here is the deal : it’s probably one of the best ones available, we have yet to find glitches, even on games known for glitching on pretty much every other NES/FDS emulators. The downside is that, since it’s accuracy oriented, it won’t run that well on low-end devices. The emulator was written from scratch, mainly by reading nesdev, dink worked on it for 7 months, getting tons of help/testing/code/imagery from team 🙂

If you try to find another emulator that will render the following screen without any kind of glitch, you might be in a pinch, codemasters games are generally the bane of nes emulation.

As usual, usage of specific romsets is required (dat files are available at the usual place), it’s mostly based on No-Intro dumps. If your favorite NES/FDS game (even hacks or unofficial translations) is missing, you can request support on our forum. Currently we support around 1300 games.

New arcade games

I’ll probably forget some :

Rabbit : a fighting game from 1997, one of the only Electronic Arts arcade games

: a fighting game from 1997, one of the only Electronic Arts arcade games Express Raider : a beat’em’up from 1987

: a beat’em’up from 1987 Super Dodge Ball : a dodgeball game from 1987

: a dodgeball game from 1987 Tom Tom Magic : a flipper game from 1997

: a flipper game from 1997 Thief : a maze game from 1982

: a maze game from 1982 Shark Attack : a game where you are a great white shark who attacks divers, from 1981

: a game where you are a great white shark who attacks divers, from 1981 NATO Defense : another maze game from 1982

: another maze game from 1982 Victory : a shooter game where you defend an island, from 1982

: a shooter game where you defend an island, from 1982 Sega System 24 : a Sega arcade hardware from early 90s, you can see the list of games here

: a Sega arcade hardware from early 90s, you can see the list of games here Akka Arrh : a space shooter from 1982

: a space shooter from 1982 Alien Rescue : a homebrew from monstersgoboom.itch.io, running on pacman hardware

: a homebrew from monstersgoboom.itch.io, running on pacman hardware Magic Purple : a platform game from 1996

: a platform game from 1996 King of Boxer : a boxing game from 1985

: a boxing game from 1985 Dead Angle : a shooter game from 1988

: a shooter game from 1988 Buggy Challenge : a racing game from 1985

: a racing game from 1985 Denjin Makai : a beat’em’up from 1995

: a beat’em’up from 1995 Godzilla : a fighting game from 1993

: a fighting game from 1993 Heated Barrel : a run’n’gun from 1992

: a run’n’gun from 1992 Legionnaire : a beat’em’up from 1992

: a beat’em’up from 1992 SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow Tairiku Senki : a run’n’gun from 1993

: a run’n’gun from 1993 Pitpat Puzzle : a puzzle game from 1997

: a puzzle game from 1997 Berzerk : a maze/shooter game from 1980

: a maze/shooter game from 1980 Frenzy : follow up of berzerk, from 1982

Here is a screenshot of rabbit

New hacks

Final Fight 30th Anniversary Edition : an advanced hack of Final Fight, among other features/improvements it supports 3 players

: an advanced hack of Final Fight, among other features/improvements it supports 3 players Otto Project PZ : do you know about crazy otto ? if not you might want to read this. This hack is an attempt to reproduce this game which was a prototype of ms pacman.

: do you know about crazy otto ? if not you might want to read this. This hack is an attempt to reproduce this game which was a prototype of ms pacman. Lots and lots of hacks of many popular games and systems, including neogeo, cps, donkey kong and mortal kombat

Here is a screenshot of Otto Project PZ

Improvements and fixes

There are hundreds of them so i’ll just mention the latest improvement i did : i added a Hires 1080p mode to every vector games, you can enable it through dipswitches (in core options)

You can find more about what was fixed by looking at our issue tracker

Improvements and fixes specific to the libretro port