Join the beta test team (SFZero3)?!!!

[sbnr21]

I just did an update all on my MISTer FPGA and I’m getting this message to join the beta team at patreon.com/topapate

What gives - never did this before?!!!

[jca]

Which game?

[sbnr21]

Street fighter zero/alpha 2 & 3?!!

I tried going to that site and following the instructions to get the games to work without that script on the tv screen.

Even did another update all.

No dice!

[Shaneus]

I'm guessing something's accidentally broken when he updated his older cores? I did notice during update_all that a bunch of his cores were updated, so that might be it.

Try the other cores by him (not just CPS2-based ones) and see if they do the same thing.

Edit: Just renamed my jtbeta.zip (which removes that message for non-public cores) and my SFZ3 loaded fine. Not sure what the problem could be then :/

[sbnr21]

Rename the "jtbeta.zip" to what?

[jca]

In _Arcade I only have Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha (Asia 960826) but I don't have any Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha.
In Arcade/alternatives/_Street Fighter Alpha 2 I have 2 Street Fighter Alpha 2 and a bunch of Street Fighter Zero 2.
At this point I stopped counting as there are a gazillion of Arcade/alternatives/_Street Fighter... subdirectories and within these subdirectories a gazillion mras.
In Arcade/Arcade Offset/_CP System II there are several Street Fighter and Super Street Fighter.

I tested a bunch of them but none exhibited the problem you get.
The screen you get is for Jotego cores when they are in beta and you are not on his Patreon. But all these games have been released to the public a long time ago so you should not get this screen.

I have a few questions:
Did they worked before?
Did you setup MISTer yourself?
If you did not set it up yourself do the following:
Start the update all script when it says that you have 15 seconds left to enter the setup press the up arrow, enable JTCORES for MISTer, SAVE the settings and EXIT ...

[sbnr21]

I already double checked that setting.

Still wouldn’t play without that script onscreen.

[jca]

...
I have a few questions:
Did they worked before?
Did you setup MISTer yourself?
If you did not set it up yourself do the following:
...

This is what I said.

[sbnr21]

Yes it worked before.
I double checked the jotego enable cores setting via the update all script when it asks you to hit the up arrow.
Never had this problem before.

Any possible solutions.

Thx.

[jca]

Today I ran the update all script before your post and everything seems to be working properly. I did not test all the SF as there are too many of them but I guess it was enough testing.
Today all Jotego cores were updated but it was to remove the timestamp of the cores. You could check the name of the cores and they should be something like jt1942.rbf, not jt1942_20230201.rbf.
I guess you are not on his Patreon: if you have a beta.zip in games/mame delete it.
I guess that in the settings for Jotego Cores you do not have Install Premium cores enabled.
At this time I do not have any other idea.

[aberu]

That core isn't locked behind the patreon paywall, so this message being received means either you have an older beta version of the core on your system or something went wrong with an update.

[wark91]

in the message the date is 2021 it could be a very old core.
Maybe on the SDCard there is more than one RBF for jtcps2

[jca]

@sbnr21 Have you been one of his patrons in the past?
sbnr21 as 2021? beta.zip from 2021. Coincidence?
AS the update is basically the removing of the timestamp in the core name it must be the source of the problem.
Even his patrons have some problems:
viewtopic.php?p=69498#p69498
jtkiwi is in beta.
viewtopic.php?p=69517#p69517
Sega16 is public but this patron has a similar problem as @sbnr21.

[sbnr21]

I got my MISTer FPGA back in summer 2021. I have been a patreon of his in the past. I ran the update all script again. No go. I’ll try deleting that zip file and see if that works.

Thx for the responses.

[sbnr21]

Deleted both jtbeta.zip and the beta.zip in the games/mame folder didn’t fix the issue

[jca]

Did you check that one?
"You could check the name of the cores and they should be something like jt1942.rbf, not jt1942_20230201.rbf."

[sbnr21]

If they have that longer extension, do I edit them to something else or delete them etc ?

[wark91]

Deleted both jtbeta.zip and the beta.zip in the games/mame folder didn’t fix the issue

You need to remove those files (jtcpps2_2021xxx.rbf

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[jca]

Now I see you posted a picture.
Just delete the ones with the timestamp, jtcps2.rbf is the good one and you keep it.
The problem is partially due to the "stupid" update of removing the time stamp: when you run the mra the most recent core (as per the timestamp in the name) is run. In your case it was using the 20210618 version.

[sbnr21]

Yes!!!!!!

It’s working!!!

: D

Thanks to everyone.

[jca]

Glad it is solved.
Beta.zip causing some problems and removing the timestamp from the core name causing more problems.
I don't know how the update script will manage with futures updates to jtcores but we may have some strange things happening.

[PikWik]

glad you got it working!

now you should check out Street Fighter Zero 3 mix - https://sfz3mix.github.io/
its from the same team who created Street Fighter 2 Mix - https://sf2mix.github.io/

theyre both included in the update_all script (if you ran arcade offset)

[Aspie]

I always dread these kind of updates. The first thing I check after it's done is Track and Field. And every time it's the same, Track and Field gets changed back to an old version and the high scores and records won't save. I have to go in and replace the 'new' rbf with the one I have saved that I know works.