FinalBurn Neo-Geo Arcade Machine

FinalBurn Neo

FinalBurn Neo (also referred to as FBNeo or FBN) is a multi-system emulator (Arcade, consoles and computers) under active development. It is the follow-up of the FinalBurn and FinalBurn Alpha emulators. The libretro core provides wide compatibility with platforms and features supported by libretro.

Difference from MAME
FBNeo strives for accuracy, just like MAME. There are some arcade boards where one or the other will be more accurate, but for the most part they should be equally accurate. The main difference with MAME is that FBNeo doesn’t mind including “quality of life” hacks, while MAME is mostly focused on preservation and documentation. “Quality of life” hacks include things like :

  • improving original game’s sound (some games like “Burger Time” have noise which was clearly unintended by their developers, we are removing it)
  • implementing alternative colors for games where the colors don’t look right (sometimes there are controversies about which colors are right for an arcade board, like “Tropical Angel”, we implement alternative colors as dipswitches)
  • having control alternatives that didn’t exist on original cabinet (play rotary stick games like twin-stick shooters, use lightguns in “Rambo 3”, use simplified 8-way directional controls for “Battlezone”, etc..)
  • improving the gaming experience by cutting what we deem as unnecessary aspect of emulation (you don’t have to spend 20 minutes “installing” CPS-3 games, neither 100s loading Deco Cassette games)
  • reducing hardware requirements by cutting what we deem as unnecessary corners in the emulation code
    supporting popular romhacks Note: some of those “quality of life” hacks might be doable with programming skills and lua language on MAME