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| The Raine Report - June 17, '98 by Mario Silva
| A while ago we InterViewed Richard Bush, the author of RAINE.
We have learned that much awaited games like Double Dragon 3 are in it, and most
of us, can't wait to see it. Although it is still a few weeks ago, Mario Silva,
one of the beta testers, volunteered to donate an illustrated report about his experiences with
the emulators. Here it is with screenshots included, The Raine Report, by Mario Silva.
I know that many of you are waiting for the next Raine version...and now
you have even more reasons to look forward for it. But first everyone will
have to wait two weeks or so until Richard Bush improves the emulator, removes
some of the bugs, or maybe try to add a few more games. And here he wants your
cooperation, because he needs more 68000 based boards dumped (Taito games would
be great), even 68020 Taito F3 boards would be nice. If you can help, you can
contact him Here. Please no nagging
mail.
According to Richard you'll see the next version in about two weeks if
everything goes according to his plans. So please don't flood him with
questions like: "When will Raine will be available?", because that only
delays his work and when it's out you will see it in every major emulation sites.
Now to the good stuff, let me tell you some of the new features of Raine:
Bonze's Adventure is now semi-playable, because Richard managed to discover
a way of emulating some of the C-chip processor functions, unfortunately he
still needs more info on this to make this 100% playable. Every time you
die, you restart at the beginning. So if any of you have a board of Bonze's
Adventure or any other game with a C-Chip, don't hesitate to email Richard
and offer your support.
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Bonze's Adventure
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There is now joystick support in Raine. This is, at the moment, under
more improvements. I can say that my gamepad works great with the games and many other beta
testers reported that different types of joysticks were compatible.
As some of you already know we have some more great games emulated and all
of them fully playable, they are:
- Ninja Warriors - Taito
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This game had a 3 screens display in the arcades, so you can all start
looking for bigger monitors... Here is one third of the screen only!
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Ninja Warriors
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- Double Dragon 3 - Technos
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Many of you I know are waiting for this one, and you will be happier when
you know that it has sound support. I hope you have a friend to play with
you, because this isn't an easy game just for one player. I got tired of
hearing the wicked smile when I inserted more and more "virtual" coins in
the game.
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Double Dragon 3
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- Space Gun - Taito
- This is a Operation Thunderbolt style of game, but in space...nobody can
hear you scream.
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Space Gun
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- Terra Cresta - Nichibutsu
- had a small improvement in the background game area, but it
still has messed up sprites. :-(
Other improvements are scanlines, experimental save/load game feature (this
was very useful in testing Double Dragon 3), auto frameskip and a general
speedup in the other supported games.
There is also sound support in two other games, Zero Zone and Wrestlefest
(yes, I know that many of you have been asking for this for a long
time...so now you can stop posting messages asking for it).
When the new release is available, I only ask you all one thing: Read the
docs first, and ask valid questions later. Don't email Richard with
messages like: "Ninja Warriors has no sound."
Mario Silva
One Article Up: Callus 0.41 with Qsound emulated!
One Article Down: Puzzle Bobble is here!
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