nothing really interesting has been added.
-it now remembers cheats in your save data
-saves are checksummed to protect against corruption
-I have a working memory card code (in my custom MAME build) that uses a 2MBit card properly. 900+ 256 byte saves are confirmed working so I have plenty of headroom to fit everything I'll need if NTM ends up making a large expansion mod for the system.
-made cheat engine bit more robust. Should feel like softdips:
The last 'cheat' looks dumb compared to the rest but it's one the things I didn't like about NAM. The crosshair moves too slowly so I patched the game to allow fine tuning. Same thing with magician lord patched to let more than 2 shots on screen at a time. Various tweaks will come later on.
SS1/SS2 have terrible load times for what they are and I'm pretty sure I can reduce them a bit if my plan is any good. Other games will follow if the interest remains. Games like turfmasters are already well optimized (I saw it use RAM very effectively to cache what is frequently needed) so I obviously won't bother with those sorts of games unless the speedup is very easy.
-it now remembers cheats in your save data
-saves are checksummed to protect against corruption
-I have a working memory card code (in my custom MAME build) that uses a 2MBit card properly. 900+ 256 byte saves are confirmed working so I have plenty of headroom to fit everything I'll need if NTM ends up making a large expansion mod for the system.
-made cheat engine bit more robust. Should feel like softdips:
The last 'cheat' looks dumb compared to the rest but it's one the things I didn't like about NAM. The crosshair moves too slowly so I patched the game to allow fine tuning. Same thing with magician lord patched to let more than 2 shots on screen at a time. Various tweaks will come later on.
SS1/SS2 have terrible load times for what they are and I'm pretty sure I can reduce them a bit if my plan is any good. Other games will follow if the interest remains. Games like turfmasters are already well optimized (I saw it use RAM very effectively to cache what is frequently needed) so I obviously won't bother with those sorts of games unless the speedup is very easy.
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