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 :