SFIII 2nd Impact NoCD

[MickyMac]

@GoldenGlover I see 2x new dumps of SFIII in the new mame 277. Is that you?

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future (Asia 990512, NO CD) [Goldenglober]
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future (Asia 990608, NO CD) [Goldenglober]

Any idea on the differences?

 

[djsheep]

GoldenGlober!

 

[GoldenGlover]

Yes that’s me. Or, supposed to be me.

I dumped this BIOS.

@Darksoft Can the 3rd attempt at my MAME credit *please* be spelled like my username here?

 

[GoldenGlover]

@GoldenGlover I see 2x new dumps of SFIII in the new mame 277. Is that you?

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future (Asia 990512, NO CD) [Goldenglober]
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future (Asia 990608, NO CD) [Goldenglober]

Any idea on the differences?

Yes.

Hard as f*ck AI.

I swear it reads your mind ahead of your inputs.

 

[kazuo]

It might literally be reading your inputs. Wouldn't be the first time a Street Fighter game did that.

 

[msamiullah]

Folks, I have this CD labelled CAP-3GA0A0. The game loads up as 970930 so I am assuming its the same content as CD labelled (and already in MAME database) CAP-3GA000 but the label is different because this is a different region, probably NA? Thoughts?

 

[Darksoft]

Folks, I have this CD labelled CAP-3GA0A0. The game loads up as 970930 so I am assuming its the same content as CD labelled (and already in MAME database) CAP-3GA000 but the label is different because this is a different region, probably NA? Thoughts?

MAME is your best source. Check here: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/capcom/cps3.cpp
Well spotted on those CD IDs. Looks like that one is dumped and 971016 is the version needed. The cart chooses the REGION but the game version comes from the CD, so we still need a CD that loads the game version 971016.

 

[msamiullah]

MAME is your best source. Check here: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/capcom/cps3.cpp
Well spotted on those CD IDs. Looks like that one is dumped and 971016 is the version needed. The cart chooses the REGION but the game version comes from the CD, so we still need a CD that loads the game version 971016.

great, thanks.

 

[MetalliC]

Thoughts?

you may find out version/revision of CPS3 games from CD ring code, and that's the only visual way iirc.

 

[msamiullah]

you may find out version/revision of CPS3 games from CD ring code, and that's the only visual way iirc.

thank you. Mame write-up is outstanding, really helps understand how the revisions work.