Back in 1998, a fake CPS2 emulator sprung up named "Kallus 2". I tried to get the guy writing it to come clean and failed.
Around 2000, Dayvee (original Final Burn dev) added support for a small number of CPS2 games. For whatever reason, he was...reluctant to add newer games to the emulator even though it would run them. As a result, I wrote a perl frontend that simply shuffled the roms around to where Final Burn expected to find them, then launched Final Burn - and named it CPS2Extender:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010304172111/http://www.hksilver.net/
That lasted for a few days, at which point Dayvee lost his cool, went over to Retrogames to complain. I finally acquiesced and pulled my Frontend:
(ctrl-f, search for Numbski)
http://www.retrogames.com/022001.html
Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of it. Dayvee wound up pulling ALL support for CPS2 games from Final Burn (don't even recall why, but he literally took his ball and went home) and told everyone to "wait for MAME".
That prompted me to take the last version that supported CPS2, and support ALL of the games. MAME did finally add support - but not before one of the regulars at EmuChrist wrote a song (and recorded an mp3!) called "CPS2Lame". The following thread even has someone using a line from that song as a signature. I thought I had it sitting around here, but I can't find it right now.
Notice who is right in the middle of all of the drama though...
http://www.retrogames.com/cgi-bin/w...en&Number=80156&page=4&view=ex&mode=flat&sb=6
Around 2000, Dayvee (original Final Burn dev) added support for a small number of CPS2 games. For whatever reason, he was...reluctant to add newer games to the emulator even though it would run them. As a result, I wrote a perl frontend that simply shuffled the roms around to where Final Burn expected to find them, then launched Final Burn - and named it CPS2Extender:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010304172111/http://www.hksilver.net/
That lasted for a few days, at which point Dayvee lost his cool, went over to Retrogames to complain. I finally acquiesced and pulled my Frontend:
(ctrl-f, search for Numbski)
http://www.retrogames.com/022001.html
Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of it. Dayvee wound up pulling ALL support for CPS2 games from Final Burn (don't even recall why, but he literally took his ball and went home) and told everyone to "wait for MAME".
That prompted me to take the last version that supported CPS2, and support ALL of the games. MAME did finally add support - but not before one of the regulars at EmuChrist wrote a song (and recorded an mp3!) called "CPS2Lame". The following thread even has someone using a line from that song as a signature. I thought I had it sitting around here, but I can't find it right now.
Notice who is right in the middle of all of the drama though...
http://www.retrogames.com/cgi-bin/w...en&Number=80156&page=4&view=ex&mode=flat&sb=6