gizaha wrote:Start+key = Akuma
Select+Start+key = Akuma CPU controlled

True? So it was a silly mistake on my part! Thank you very much for your clarification. Now just enjoy the wonderful work you've put into this great game...

Seeing this port, and every Snes arcade port, and after making some graphical tests, i realized how far and impossible is to port any arcade game art wise because of its incredibly lame 256x224 res. If anyone wants to port any game in the future via PVSNES LIB (like some are already doing it for the Sega Genesis via SGDK) will see that it's almost impossible, i don't mean doing re drawings like in the 90s. I think the 512x224 res should be used somehow to reproduce games that are over 256x224 and below 512x224, i know that the 512x224 res is extremely limited and practically useless, but the Snes should take advantage of the 512x224 res to make almost arcade perfect ports a reality. Of course the Snes would need an external "help" (lower resolutions in 512x224 would display vertical black borders, so the image should be upscaled to fullscreen), like a new chip to achieve it, and in a future that "help/chip" could be an update to the FXPAK PRO.

And obviously, this "help/chip" should give the 512x224 res the possibility of displaying all the modes/colours/capabilities of the 256x224 res, and why not, some extra sprites/tiles would be welcomed.

That sounds like an unbelievable amount of work! Inventing a custom chip that then requires you to redo all the art assets and code the entire graphics engine over again from scratch...

Not to say it's impossible, but I can hardly even imagine the person who would take that project on.

512 resolution will fill the vram very soon, it will not fit all backrounds.
With 256x224 and vram data hardly fit.
A custom chip, since no cartridge can communicate with s-ppu, would require for cartridge to have video out, like 32x.
In total there will be a cartridge with custom processor, custom ppu and video out, so snes would do almost nothing. This is so Sega.

There's nothing wrong with 256x224 IF all arcade code (game's heart) is running on snes.
Snes has restrictions but that's the interesting part. It has the good amount of restrictions, not too many like NES, not too powerful like newer consoles. And how you use or overcome them is art. There is no art without restrictions.

you might be able to get around some of the vram size limitations via hdma use, but it just sounds hellish lmao

I've patched the game with a rom (crc 9c59ddff), and gives graphic errors with BSNES plus v05, and hangs before the first combat with snes9x v1.60.

I will try with another emulators.

90s comeback wrote:Seeing this port, and every Snes arcade port, and after making some graphical tests, i realized how far and impossible is to port any arcade game art wise because of its incredibly lame 256x224 res. If anyone wants to port any game in the future via PVSNES LIB (like some are already doing it for the Sega Genesis via SGDK) will see that it's almost impossible, i don't mean doing re drawings like in the 90s. I think the 512x224 res should be used somehow to reproduce games that are over 256x224 and below 512x224, i know that the 512x224 res is extremely limited and practically useless, but the Snes should take advantage of the 512x224 res to make almost arcade perfect ports a reality. Of course the Snes would need an external "help" (lower resolutions in 512x224 would display vertical black borders, so the image should be upscaled to fullscreen), like a new chip to achieve it, and in a future that "help/chip" could be an update to the FXPAK PRO.

Why not redraw?, or, Why not to crop?. I see more problem with the color accuracy of another platforms than the resolution.

The 512x224 is more recommended for patterns instead for fully detailed backgrounds, but you can achieve great and detailed scenarios with all that extra definition without compromising the vram so much.

Anyway, snes is snes and has its own ways to do the best arcade ports possible.

I think hires is only for backgrounds, sprites are maximum 256x224 (check rpm racing title screen -text are sprites)

Amazing stuff you guys managed to do with this game. Congrats on the really great work!

Question: Is there any patch that only applys the fixes to the rom, but allows to keep the original soundtrack of the game? I mean, only apply the patch so you can just load the rom instead of needing to have the msu and pcm files?

Edit: Nevermind. Found some stuff related to my question browsing through the old posts. Thank you.

Hello! Is the msu-1 patch for the japanese Zero 2 version no longer available?

It isn't, sorry.

Is there any possible improvement in the game in the issue where the sound effects of punches and kicks disappear in some moments? I've been playing this MSU-1 version for 2 years and I'd say that's the only aspect I'd like to see changed.