MisterTemaki/fbneo-ps5 v2.3

FBNeo PS5 2.3

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FBNeo PS5 2.3

New: Daytona USA (Sega Model 2)

• Four sets: daytona (Revision A), daytonase (Special Edition), daytona93 and daytonas (with Saturn advertisements). This is FBNeo PS5's first Sega Model 2 game, ported from MAME (commit b7f483f), including:
  • the main board's i960 and its TGP geometry coprocessor;
  • the Model 2 3D renderer;
  • the System 24 tilemaps;
  • the Model 1 I/O board;
  • the Model 1 sound board.
• It needs the I/O board's ROM, epr-14869c.25. Put it in model1io.zip (MAME's name; the DAT lists it as a board set) or in the game's zip.
• Controls: the new Driving layout is chosen automatically for Daytona USA.
  • Steer with the left stick.
  • R2 is the accelerator and L2 the brake, as far as you press them.
  • R1 / L1 shift up / down.
  • Square, Triangle, Circle, Cross are the four view buttons.
• It starts in English: the game's own settings say Japan, so the port sets the country to USA at every start. A choice made in the game's test menu lasts until the game is closed.
• Single cabinet: the link board isn't emulated, so the game is set to a single cabinet. There is no force feedback.
• The README has the details.

New: Favorites

Requested by dsb2020 in #5.

• On the shelf, Circle adds the selected game to your favorites, and Circle again removes it. A favorite has a gold star on its card and its line.
• L3 / R3 show Favorites right after "All games": only your favorite games of the current storage tab.
• The list is kept in /data/fbneo/favorites.txt, one set name a line, shared by every storage tab.

Also in 2.3

• Smoother games that don't run at 60 Hz: their picture is now drawn on its own thread while the next frame runs. If a frame would still make the sound run low, that one frame is skipped (never two in a row) instead of leaving a gap in the sound. 60 Hz games draw as before.
• Buttons 7 and 8 in Settings > CONTROLS. A game's pedal on L2 or R2 is pressed as far as the trigger is.
• The NVRAM save no longer pauses the game: the periodic NVRAM file is written on its own thread.
• FBNeo's MultiPCM sound chip now includes upstream's state fix. For Sega Model 2 only, each sound write takes effect at its exact time in the frame, as in MAME.

Updating

• From 2.2: Settings > SYSTEM > Updates offers 2.3. Or send FBNeoPS5-v2.3.elf to your payload loader (port 9021).
• Put the new ELF in your autoload in place of the old one.

Files

• FBNeoPS5-v2.3.elf: send it to your payload loader (port 9021). It installs the app, then stays running as its helper.
• FBNeoPS5-v2.3-PPSA99924.zip: the app folder, used by Settings > Updates. You don't need to download it yourself.
• FBNeoPS5-v2.3-arcade.dat: the ROM DAT of the sets this version plays (for ClrMamePro / RomVault). It includes the Daytona USA sets and model1io.

Status

Tested on a PS5 with this build.

• Daytona USA runs at full speed with the default CRT Easymode style shader.
  • In a three-minute session the race held its 57.5 frames a second, with no gap in the sound and no frame skipped.
  • The music, "Gentlemen, start your engines" and the voices play correctly, and the engine sound is smooth.
  • The game starts in English.
• Favorites: Circle adds and removes a game, and Favorites shows on the shelf.

On a PC, the Daytona USA sound board's output was compared with MAME's at the same commit, with the same inputs:

• MultiPCM writes and key-ons match to within 0.02%.
• The engine's pitch matches MAME's (median 257.8 Hz in both).

The build passes 820 host tests.

If something goes wrong, turn on Settings > SYSTEM > Debug logs (off by default), open the app again and attach /data/fbneo/logs/boot.log and helper.log.

Licences

FBNeo's licence (non-commercial) applies as before. The Sega Model 2 code (i960, MB86234 TGP, the Model 2 video, the Model 1 I/O and sound boards) is ported from MAME, BSD-3-Clause, and used as part of FBNeo. libsmb2 and libnfs are LGPL-2.1-or-later; the LZMA SDK is public domain.

Port by MisterTemaki.