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The usual stuff, but some of these fixes are quite surprising, at least for me : The updates first : samsho2pe updated to its latest version but can already be retrieved from internet archive, sfz3mix v0.31 and it's now downloaded directly from its site instead of internet archive. Also the pbobblen "rotary" version is now supported, see the post about that there Fixes : - the sdl2 default rendering was mostly broken, now it works again, it's good to have this one as default rendering even if it has less features than opengl - the fps displayed when using the turbo key (DEL by default) were wrong ! - fixed the mess added in previous version about window size, position and status, hopefully for good this time - fixed slowdown when choosing to have an opaque hud in opengl !!! This one was very surprising, I only found it because I tested the sdl2 rendering and so I chose opaque hud there, and kept it when returning to opengl after. It took me a long while to understand where that incredible slowdown was coming from ! It can be particularly felt if using the turbo key, it was much slower if using an opaque hud ! Anyway it's done totally differently now and should work all the time. - got rid of the borderless option in video options, it was replaced by desktop fullscreen in sdl2 it should have been removed earlier. And you can now cancel a rom download before the end, just use either the ESC key or a right click on the progression dialog. http://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

Perfect update for github, you deserve praise for that since you do it blindly without even compiling ! Just added the option to cancel the curl transfers, no part file, the file is just deleted if the transfer is aborted and you get a clear message that the transfer was aborted. It was handled by curl so it was easy to add. Just try to close the loading progress dialog by the ESC key or right mouse click on it, both methods work, even if there is a slight delay because the event can be handled only when the dialog is updated. I think we have everything for a release now, I'll just wait a bit because it's still morning here and I am still quite sleepy !

I finally fixed all this, took me a good 1+ hour, because I had to reboot multiple times to compare linux and windows... ! Anyway, in the end the patch is quite short. It's my fault for having started that, I was surprised also that the code seemed so simple when I did it in the previous version, I should have guessed there were some pitfalls ! Anyway I hope it's fixed for good this time. Yeah maybe a way to cancel the download without killing violently the program in case you get a slow server could be an idea, not for now because I had enough of stupid occurrences with these window positions/sizes/status, but I agree it would be a good idea (but not so obvious to add in the code, this dialog is very special, it's the download function which updates the dialog in a callback, so let's hope there is a way to cancel the thing...).

Actually found another curious hack from the link given by mer-curious : https://rotary-bobble.mattgreer.dev/ some people thought about using a rotary control for puzzle bobble, when taito never did that for its 4+ games (4 major versions), afaik at least. So I was curious to emulate this to test with a mouse the result. It's not bad, but it's very similar to the precision you get when playing on keyboard ! The mouse becomes better in extreme situations when you need a 1 pixel precision... Anyway I'll commit this to git in case somebody wants to test that, it was interesting anyway to revisit puzzle bobble this way. In case you have a memory card saved for this game, disable it because the part where the game asks about the memory card is not converted to the rotary control so it's just impossible to select an answer ! It's probably the bios which does this part. Just move pbobblen-neogeo.bin out of the savedata directory before starting the game. Added the ips files with the dat file in the extras section of the downloads, but you need the git version to use the mouse with this game. (it detects when the ips patch is in use and switches automatically the control to the mouse).

Is there a changelog ? Am I the only one to have the problem with the tree in the ryu's stage then ? For some reason I had put some code to forbid loading a cps1 with bad crcs which is not standard, normally a bad crc is a warning, not an error. No idea why I did that, this driver is very old, it was cps1 at the beginning ! It dates from 2013 when I backported the load_progress function from the standard version of raine to the dos version (allegro). There was probably a reason at the time to add that... ! Anyway this allows to load your update with a warning that's all. Maybe I'll update the crcs this time in the source but I won't do it all the time. And what happened to the ogg files you were supposed to make with mer-curious ? edit : anyway just switched to v0.31 in git, also the rom is downloaded from your official github page now which is much faster than internet archive. (and internet archive still has 0.30). By the way all the nice save states from mer-curious are incompatible with this 0.31 apparently !