[Feature Request] Freeplay options available in libretro core

[rtomasa]

[Feature Request] Freeplay options available in libretro core

[dinkc64]

Hi,
I'm not aware of this feature, where exactly are you seeing it?

best regards,

• dink

[rtomasa]

It is here: https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo/blob/master/README-PI.md down below in Command-line switches section.
I think that a new Freeplay option with Disabled/Native(dipswitch)/Hack values should be OK to match these options

[barbudreadmon]

@dinkc64 It looks like someone wrote some code for this at https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo/blob/master/src/burner/pi/main_pi.cpp#L51-L85. I can't imagine how it could work though considering it makes a case-sensitive search for "freeplay" or "free play", which are never seen in our codebase. It looks like that pi port is badly documented. Nvm, it's actually case-insensitive search.

@rtomasa I'm not that much interested in "bypass hacks" for dipswitches, in my experience sometimes they are not gonna be safe. I somehow tolerate the "Neo-Geo mode" core option (for "simplified" bios selection) in the libretro port, which is something similar, but if you ask me my opinion about it, it was a workaround when dipswitch support was missing in that port and it should have been removed when they became available. I'll only consider implementing this if it becomes something available in standalone (the real one on windows, what you linked is a half-finished unmaintained alternative port and should probably be refered as the "pi port").

[rtomasa]

It's fair to me. I did not check in the codebase, so I assumed that this feature was something already present in the mainline project and not an isolated hack for the Pi version.
The -f solution sounds very tricky to me too. The -F has more sense since is just an extra button press that works well in most of the cases (I have this already mimicked using Retroarch mappings).
In any case thanks for looking into this and provide these details.