Taito F3 emulation progress (MAME)

[Keade]

Good news, everyone !

Taito F3 driver got improved, which fixes many bugs. https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/11811 passed review and got merged, which means it should be in MAME 0.266 (until then it is possible to compile from source).

Shmups that run on that system:
Ray Force / Gunlock
Space Invaders '95 : Attack Of The Lunar Loonies / Akkanvader
Space Invaders DX
Twin Cobra II / Kyukyoku Tiger II
Gekirindan
Grid Seeker : Project Storm Hammer
Darius Gaiden

[hyp36rmax]

Good news!

[copy-paster]

If this fixes the lights in Elevator Action Returns, graphical flicker glitch in Grid Seeker and some other stuff it'd be one of the greatest moment in emulation history.

[copy-paster]

Someone sent me the latest nightly build and good news, longtime-standing EAR's lights glitch has been fixed! Took them over 2 decades really




But Grid Seeker's classic 5th boss explosion glitch is still there unfortunately


Fortunately they're aware about it and said it would be fixed sometime in the near future, once they figured out of the sprite limit

[BIL]

Big news! EAR2's busted lights... or rather, non-busted lights have been a constant forever now.

[copy-paster]

Yeah F3 bros will be so back when 0.266 drops. Grid Seeker is unfortunate case but on the bright side it's also restoring another longtime missing VFX like the fadeout effect in Darius Gaiden (when you entering the 4th zones), fade-in with glow effect logo appearance in Gekirindan's title screen etc.

[Bassa-Bassa]

Do you mean this one?
https://mametesters.org/view.php?id=7776

Are these also mentioned?
https://mametesters.org/view.php?id=1923
https://mametesters.org/view.php?id=1922
https://mametesters.org/view.php?id=1924

Never thought I'd live to see a serious attempt at improving F3 emulation in Mame at this point, it was nobody realized the importance of this system, despite its complexity.