FinalBurn Alpha
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| FinalBurn Alpha | |
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| Developed by | FinalBurn Alpha Team |
| Latest release | 0.2.96.81 / April 28, 2008 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Console emulator |
| License | GNU |
| Website | http://fba.emuunlim.com/ |
FinalBurn Alpha is an arcade emulator for MC68000/Z80 based arcade games. It mostly plays Capcom games on the CPS-1 and CPS-2 boards as well as most of the Neo-Geo MVS arcade games.
[edit] Origins
FinalBurn Alpha is based on Dave's Finalburn emulator. Finalburn started in the 2001 as an emulator for Sega System 16 and Sega X Board arcade games. It was the first arcade emulator to run games like the After Burner series or Power Drift.
Dave's greatest success, however, was to help emulate the CPS2 arcade board. Together with the XOR tables released by the CPS2 Shock group, Finalburn started offering CPS2 emulation almost immediately, and until the creation of other CPS2 emulators such as Kawaks or Nebula his emulator remained the only option available.
However, the frantic speed of CPS2 Shock releases contrasted with Dave's more laid back approach, and Dave soon got tired of the pressure of releasing new versions of his emulator every time a new XOR was produced. This pressure, together with the constant hate mail, finally took a toll on him. One of the latest versions of Finalburn offered Sega only emulation as a means of protest, and soon later Dave completely abandoned the emulator. Latest version available is v0.518, and can still be downloaded from his website. It emulates most CPS2 games dumped by the time of its release, together with some Sega and CPS1 titles.
[edit] Present day
Since then, the various incarnations of the FinalBurn Alpha derived project have taken over. They started by adding more CPS2 games as soon as the XOR tables were available, but since then they have included support for NeoGeo MVS, more Sega games, as well as for games developed by Gaelco, Konami, Taito and other.
More recently, from version 0.2.96.73 onwards and thanks to Oopsware's driver, CPS3 emulation has been added.
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