RAINE 0.90.2

RAINE is an arcade emulator that emulates M68000 and M68020 based games.

An revised emulator it's here! Raine is an emulator, it emulates some M68000 and M68020 arcade games and is mainly focused on Taito and Jaleco games hardware.

It started as an experiment with the Rainbow Islands romset, dumped by Aracorn/Romlist. Raine can emulate many nice games now, including new additions from Cave and other companies.

Sound was improved thanks to the work of Hiromitsu Shioya. More recently. Several new programmers have joined Raine Team, adding drivers & making improvements.

Emulating cpu's and sound chips takes quite a lot of coding time, so, like most of the current emulators, Raine uses emulation engines already available when possible.

drivers updates :

• pbobble2 becomes pbobble2o, and add pbobble2 v2.30 (I didn't see any improvement to this one and I even wonder if it's really a newer version).
• bubsymph & bubsymphu disappear and are replaced by the region switch for bublbob2 which is much nicer for me. Also :
• the old bublbob2 which was version 2.50 becomes bublbob2o
• add the new v2.60 as bublbob2
• add the prototype as bublbob2p (it's an interesting prototype for once, it's like bublbobl but with the 68020 features).
• The pixel layer emulation is redone because of this game in taito f3, you get better colors, and some experimental strange line scroll effect, afaik it's only visible in the buble boble 2 prototype, the values are strange I should look into it some more later.
• syvalion was fixed, its mouse control was broken, making it almost unplayable
• more cpu power to arkanoid2, just to make it more fun when the screen is covered with balls... !
• prevent rodland & megablast to crash when loaded

There was a fix for garou in neocd which was reverted because it was creating to many problems elsewhere. Problem is I lost the details of the garou bug (and the savegame), so I tried a few things, for me it works but I can't be sure.

• hiscore.dat : the new mame format is also supported (but the old one too, and at the same time !), and it tries to detect when its area is cleared (after a reset or service mode for example, and can survive it now).

Planned : I might try to switch to sdl2 for windows users and their fullscreen problem, but sdl2 is not an evolution of sdl1.2, it's more a new lib which happens to have a very few things in common with sdl1.2. Which means that if I add support for that, it will be like a revolution, I'll have to get rid of a lot of things and eventually re-add them later differently. So it will be a big mess. For now no promise.

• RAINE 0.90.2 [Windows] [64-Bit Intel] Hits: 399 Size: 5,06 Mb