I was wondering if it's possible to add Neo Geo compatibility for BizHawk, maybe in the future?
What I really wanted was making it Arcade compatible, but I know that's extremely complex. Neo Geo however is a home console with very few games, so I thought it'd be much simpler than adding Arcade compatibility.
Maybe you guys could use NeoRageX 5.0's core for that, since it's a good emulator. What do you guys think of this idea?
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Last I checked, it was closed. Almost all the Neo-Geo source is closed. Only open ones I recall off hand are in FBA and MAME.
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The requirements
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makes it non-open source.
"Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose."
lol, so what? You're confirming yourself this is open-source. Being distributable to anyone means that you're allowed to give the code to whoever you want.
jlun2 wrote:
The requirements
-You may not sell, lease, rent or otherwise seek to gain monetary profit from FB Alpha;
-You may not distribute binaries which support games with copyright dates less then three years old;
1: Nobody here is going to sell, lease or rent BizHawk/FBA.
2: All games supported by BizHawk and FBA are above three years old.
Besides:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/FB_Alpha
There's no English Wikipedia article, but the first paragraph says "é um emulador de código aberto" which translates to "is an open source emulator" (I can read Portuguese as well since I'm from Brazil).
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3digo_aberto
If you're still doubting it, click on the English version of the article above and you'll see how "código aberto" translates exactly to "open source"
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By your definition jlun2 this means any project licensed under the GPL v3 license non-open source.
why put Neo Geo compatibility for BizHawk?FBA no already can emulate all Neo-Geo Games?(I see some movies of neo-geo games),right,I know that FBA desync much but for this there are several versions no?would like an idea of a possible MAME emulation because Mame have more games that FBA can't emulate,is only a question that think about Neo-Geo and why not Mame?I'm not 100% sure,but have a many emulators in the internet modified using a open source,then maybe can be add to TAS,by the way have a Mame TAS emulator but leave many years ago,is only my opinion but I think that Mame is better to add than Neo-Geo,but i would like to wait a reply of who understands more this.
why put Neo Geo compatibility for BizHawk?FBA no already can emulate all Neo-Geo Games?(I see some movies of neo-geo games),right,I know that FBA desync much but for this there are several versions no?would like an idea of a possible MAME emulation because Mame have more games that FBA can't emulate,is only a question that think about Neo-Geo and why not Mame?I'm not 100% sure,but have a many emulators in the internet modified using a open source,then maybe can be add to TAS,by the way have a Mame TAS emulator but leave many years ago,is only my opinion but I think that Mame is better to add than Neo-Geo,but i would like to wait a reply of who understands more this.
That's because apparently MAME isn't open Source. While FBA is.
I created the topic with Neo Geo in mind because I wasn't aware FBA was open source back then, but now I am. So yes, it's much better adding FBA's core than NeoRageX's in order to make BizHawk compatible with some Arcade games too.
why put Neo Geo compatibility for BizHawk?FBA no already can emulate all Neo-Geo Games?(I see some movies of neo-geo games),right,I know that FBA desync much but for this there are several versions no?would like an idea of a possible MAME emulation because Mame have more games that FBA can't emulate,is only a question that think about Neo-Geo and why not Mame?I'm not 100% sure,but have a many emulators in the internet modified using a open source,then maybe can be add to TAS,by the way have a Mame TAS emulator but leave many years ago,is only my opinion but I think that Mame is better to add than Neo-Geo,but i would like to wait a reply of who understands more this.
That's because apparently MAME isn't open Source. While FBA is.
I created the topic with Neo Geo in mind because I wasn't aware FBA was open source back then, but now I am. So yes, it's much better adding FBA's core than NeoRageX's in order to make BizHawk compatible with some Arcade games too.
HOW?the open source isn't more open?because as I've said many users modified the emulator and created differents versions,but actually I don't know if is open more,sorry.
Does that mean we'll have Arcade and Neo Geo compatibility!?
Yaaaay! I'm really glad to hear this, maybe I'll finally be able to make some tool assisted videos about those games with lower desync probability.
