


About:
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The generator is a little project of mine that I have been working on, on and off, for 
more than two years.  The main goal of this project is to make the creation of Neo-Geo 
drivers for various emulators very simple and very easy.

Note:
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The generator is primarily for creating FBA drivers.  MAME and Nebula were added as a bit
of an afterthought; they are both now very good and should make some very nice drivers.


The generator has been tested with:
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (Most likely it will work with IE 5.0+)
Mozilla Firefox .8+ (Most likely will work with any Firefox build and most Mozilla builds)
Opera 8.53 (Most likely will work with earlier builds, but has only tested on this one)
Konqueror 3.4.1 (Most likely will work with earlier builds, but only tested on this one)

What The Generator can and can't do:
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The generator can:
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Generate Neo-Geo drivers for FBA, MAME, and Nebula and read rom info from Nebula, MAME,
FBA, ClrMAMEPro, and Romcenter drivers/dat

The Generator can't:
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Generate Drivers for any other system than Neo-Geo.
Compile MAME and FBA for you.
Generate special per-game fixes (Inits and Nebula fix numbers)


Have a feature request, bug report, or other issue with my generator?
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Please contact me here: http://neosource.1emulation.com 


Some helpful links:
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http://neosource.1emulation.com   		- My website, contains a link to my forums.
http://fba.emuunlim.com         		- Final Burn Alpha homepage
http://kawaks.retrogames.com    		- Kawaks Original homepage
http://cps2shock.retrogames.com			- Kawaks Current homepage
http://nebula.emulatronia.com   		- Nebula Homepage
http://www.mame.net             		- MAME homepage
http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa 		- MAME32 homepage
http://mame.emu-zone.org	      		- MAME32 Plus homepage
http://fbap.1emulation.com			- FBA Plus! Homepage (Ferchogtx's build)
http://fbevo.snk-neofighters.com		- FBA Evo Homepage (Jimmy_Page's build)


Some helpful compiling links:
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http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/help/mame32_compile.htm
http://www.logiqx.com/HowTo/WinMAME.shtml


Credits:
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The generator was coded completely in Javascript and HTML by iq_132 using Notepad.
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Thanks to Ilya S. Lyubinskiy for the dropdown code.
http://www.php-development.ru/
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The Generator translation team:
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English (default) translation by IQ_132 (English.js).
Spanish translation by EvilS0u and Ferchogtx (Spanish.js).
French translation by Squaresoft74 (French.js).
Br-Portugese translation by Minoplis and Jimmy_Page (Portugese.js).

Beta tested by:
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Jimmy_Page, James, and the translation team.

A big thank you to:
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The FBA team (Final Burn Alpha)
The MAME dev team (MAME)
El Semi (Nebula)
MHz and Razoola (Kawaks)

Also thank you to:
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Squaresoft74 and Ender1978
Shams for the great advice

File list:
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These files should be contained in the zip file.
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generator.htm (The Generator HTML interface file)
Read Me!.txt	(This file!)
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files/error.js              (Contains the error checking code of the generator)
files/generator.js          (Contains the main body of code used by the generator)
files/parser.js		    (Contains the driver reading code of the generator)
files/paste.gif             (Image for the Paste button)
files/settings.ini	    (Contains settings -- Duh...)
files/sham.htm              (Contains the interface for sha1 [file hashing] stuff [Used by MAME, CLRMAMEPro], and rom merging (CLRMAMEPro, romcenter))
files/shared.js		    (Contains some shared functions)
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files/lang/english.js       (English translation of the generator)
files/lang/french.js        (French translation of the generator)
files/lang/portugese.js     (Portugese translation of the generator)
files/lang/spanish.js       (Spanish translation of the generator)
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files/dropdown/dropdown.js  (Dropdown menu script)
files/dropdown/down.gif     (Down menu image)
files/dropdown/up.gif       (Up menuimage)
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docs/changelog.txt          (List of changes the generator has undergone)
docs/faq.htm                (This contains a few commonly asked questions and the answers to these questions)
docs/Nebula Fix Numbers.txt (Contains nebula fix numbers and the games that use them)


Copyrights:
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The Generator was coded (almost) completely by me (iq_132).  Please do not distribute it without this 
Read Me!.txt and/or the copyright in the bottom of the page.  I did a lot of work on this; if you want
to do a project that uses a large chunk of my code, please contact me at http://neosource.1emulation.com
and ask me.



