[Arcade] Raine v0.90.6

Posté le 02/04/2020 à 17:24 par Jets

Raine est un émulateur Arcade/NeoGeoCD ainsi qu’une excellente alternative à MAME.

En résumé:
So here is directly raine 0.90.2, probably the ultimate version, I guess a 1.0 version would use sdl2, but there are tons of things to rewrite, it could be done quicker by writing something less efficient but it’s not the way of raine, so it will probably never happen, at least not any time soon.
The link is as usual there for the download page : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

For those who missed it, the huge change in 0.90 explaining the huge jump in version numbers is finally the availability of a pure C version, which can then be compiled in 64 bits and which is totally portable to anything then, that’s the big problem with asm, portability.
Except that the other big thing is that raine knows how to find some roms on internet (from the internet archives for those which are officially hosted there). All the neogeo roms are available. From a fresh install with an empty rom directory, this version is able to download any neogeo game + its bios if required.
I had to reinstall my cross compiler to create these binaries, so I created a topic on the subject in case it’s useful to anyone who would want to do the same, and so that I don’t forget if I have to do this again one day… the advantage is that last time I had only a 64 bits compiler for windows, this time the 32 bits version is back too, so you get 2 versions at the same time, normally there shouldn’t be a noticeable difference between the 2, but inside they are totally different, a ton of asm code for the 32 bits one, and only C and C++ for the 64 bits one.

Ah also if you ever want to use some japenese character in the gui, you need to change the default font to something containing japenese characters, there is a separate topic for that in the forum, I can’t provide such a font because most of them are not free, and they are huge compared to the Vera font ! + it’s easy to replace, most of the fonts in the default windows fonts directory should work.

I also uploaded a version of the history.dat file in the extras section with the names fixed for raine where I found any problem, also it’s much smaller than the official file, just install it in the raine directory if you are interested, and then you get info from the About section when a game is loaded.

There are also quite a few fixes as usual in this 0.90 branch, I won’t describe everything here, go see the git log if you are interested…

It should be the last raine version normally, unless we get 6 months of confinement and I get really too bored !