Capcom and Cave

Capcom CPS1, CPS2 and CPS3 games

Every Capcom CPS1, CPS2 and CPS3 game of FinalBurn Neo is recognized, with MAME as with RetroArch. That makes 88 games and their 942 sets. A version, a bootleg or a hack takes the file of its original game, with its own name when it has one (Street Fighter II' Magic Delta Turbo, for example). A version whose own cheats put a value elsewhere reads it there, in the "per_game" section of the file (the second revision of JoJo's Venture, Quiz & Dragons' Japanese resale, the US Eco Fighters). The files are made by tools/cps_games.py from the list and the cheat database of FinalBurn Neo, completed by MAME's (the cheat collection of mamecheat.co.uk). MAME gives Street Fighter Zero (CPS Changer) all its values, the credits of Final Fight and Varth, and the characters of JoJo's Venture. RetroAchievements (its public scripts on GitHub and the data tools/ra_notes.py downloads) gives the score of 1941, 19XX, Three Wonders, Armored Warriors, Battle Circuit, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Capcom Sports Club, Captain Commando, Eco Fighters, Final Fight, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Knights of the Round, Mega Man 1 and 2, Mighty! Pang, Night Warriors, Pang! 3, Progear, Quiz & Dragons, Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Strider, Super Gem Fighter, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, The Punisher, U.N. Squadron and Warriors of Fate, and the rounds won of Marvel Super Heroes, Street Fighter Alpha 3 and X-Men vs. Street Fighter, to be checked in game.

• What is read. Each player's health, the timer, the lives, the bombs, the super gauge, the characters and their names, the stage, and the credits when the game keeps them. The timer shows when the cheat gives all of it. In 23 games it only gives a part, one digit, the seconds of a clock or a counter that is not the timer seen in the game. ArcadeDMD then reads it only to see that the game runs, without showing it. The score is not in the cheat databases, learn it with learn.bat (Learning the score, below).
• Who plays. The Capcom games have no BIOS that tells it. ArcadeDMD watches the timer, the score once it is learned, the health, the lives and the bombs. As long as they move, player 1 plays. After 10 seconds without any change, the coin screen comes back. This needs the timer or the score (or the health in a fighting game), because the lives and the bombs alone change too seldom. Without them, the game stays on its game scene. When the game's credits are read (learned with learn.bat if needed), one or two credits spent are a start, and player 1 plays from the select screen on, for 45 seconds until the fight moves.
• RetroArch. FinalBurn Neo core. CPS1 and CPS2 share 64 KB of RAM from 0xFF0000, CPS3 its 512 KB from 0x2000000, with its bytes reversed in 32-bit words that ArcadeDMD puts back in order. A value outside of this RAM (the credits of some CPS2 games) is read with MAME only. 1944 and Dimahoo keep all their values outside of it, so RetroArch shows nothing of them and the log says so. Launch these two games with MAME to see everything (in LaunchBox, Edit, then the Emulation tab). Mercs is set for three players in FinalBurn Neo, and with two controllers one of them drives two players. Set its DIP switches to Play Mode 2 Player and Coin Slots 1 (Quick Menu, Core Options, DIP Switches), then restart the game.
• Credits. Under RetroArch most Capcom games do not give their credits. Once coin_buttons.bat has shown ArcadeDMD your coin buttons, it counts them. A coin gives a credit, and a player who begins takes one. Once the START buttons are shown too, a player who presses START with a credit begins at once. Otherwise the start is seen when the game starts moving, a continue and player 2 joining in when the lives come back from 0 by 2 or more (an extra life is only 1), and in Mercs, which has no lives, when the energy comes back from 0. Player 2 also takes one when his values start moving after 45 seconds without (his score goes up, a life or a bomb spent, a hit taken), out of the fighting games where his health is the computer's. Game files say it in their "coins" section. It stays a guess. For an exact count, learn where the game keeps its credits with learn.bat (credits=0, credits=1, credits=2...), the game itself then gives them, continues included.
• Fighting games. On the panel, the health bars, the timer, the names, and on the bottom line the super gauge of each player, blue as it fills up, gold and blinking when it is full. On the HD screen, the fight scene on the game's own stage, with the place under the stage banner (CHINA, INDIA, FEAST OF THE DAMNED...), and the super gauges under the fighters. Street Fighter II, its Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting, Super Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha and Night Warriors read the rounds won by each player (cheat database), X-Men: Children of the Atom too (found in captures made on a cabinet). They are gold stars under the bars on the HD screen and gold squares next to the timer on the panel, and the winner of a round is the one whose count goes up. Since 1.31.1, Samurai Shodown III to V Special, SNK vs. Capcom, Garou, the three Real Bout Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting 1 and 2 and Kabuki Klash read them too (RetroAchievements code notes, to confirm in game). A health bar that goes below zero at a K.O. (0xFF in its byte, Street Fighter II, the King of Fighters and since 1.31.1 most Neo Geo fighting games, "zero_from") reads empty, it read full and the K.O. was missed. In the King of Fighters '96 to 2002 a fighter at 0 still fights, only below zero is a K.O., so 0 reads 1 ("add": 1). Rage of the Dragons and Ragnagard read their health as a signed 16-bit word for that. Fatal Fury, King of the Monsters and Legend of Success Joe keep the computer's fighter in a block of its own, the right bar shows it against the computer and player 2's when he plays. The King of Fighters '94, '96, '98, '99 and 2002 and Real Bout Fatal Fury Special tell their select screens (select, RetroAchievements code notes), where VS shows and no event of a fight comes, on the HD screen as on the panel. Both bars emptied at once (the select screen after START, the end of a game) are not a K.O. The super gauge of Marvel vs. Capcom, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men vs. Street Fighter and X-Men: Children of the Atom has levels, like the game. The bar is the one of the current level (power), with POWER and the level beside it (power_level, "max" for the top level, where the bar shows full with POWER MAX). Since 1.36, X-Men: Children of the Atom and Marvel vs. Capcom show how to do the supers under the gauge, as the desperation moves of The King of Fighters '98 ("hyper" in the game file). X-Men shows the fighter's Hyper X at Level Max, and its name in big when the gauge falls back to the first level. Marvel vs. Capcom shows the Hyper Combos of the fighter on screen one after the other from the first level, those the level allows, for the human players. Each level spent puts a big title on the marquee (the super's name when only one can be it, VARIABLE COMBINATION for two levels at once, HYPER COMBO otherwise). X-Men also shows FIGHT! with the game's own, read on the fraction of a second of its timer ("start"). In Marvel vs. Capcom, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter and X-Men vs. Street Fighter each player has two fighters who take turns. The health and the name shown are those of the fighter on screen, made by the engine from the values of both ("tag" in the game file, a "team" expression), and the team is K.O. only when both are down. Player 2 is a human or the computer. Street Fighter Alpha, Alpha 3, Marvel vs. Capcom, Vampire Hunter 2 and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure read it in the game (cheat database, "human" in the activity section), and so do Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, X-Men vs. Street Fighter and X-Men: Children of the Atom (found in captures made on a cabinet). Player 1 is the computer when player 2 plays alone, read in these games, seen in the others from player 2's START followed by a credit the game spends. In the other fighting games, player 2 is a human from the moment his score goes up (once it is learned, but not in the Marvel games where the computer scores too, "cpu_scores" in the activity section), he presses START with a credit, or a credit is spent during a fight (a challenger), until nobody plays any more or his score has not moved for two minutes. Street Fighter II reads its credits and the score of player 1, learned with learn.bat on a cabinet under RetroArch. Player 2's score is taken at the same place in his own block and is still to be confirmed. A credit spent is then a start, seen at the character select. The fighter of Street Fighter III: New Generation is told by two bytes, a row and a column of the select screen, and the game file joins them ("join").
• Values read at every frame. A value marked "fast" in a game file is read at every frame (the stick and buttons of The King of Fighters '98, since 1.32). The MAME plugin reads it at each frame, and the RetroArch reader asks for it at each frame between its other reads, which it then asks all at once. Each change keeps the time it was read.
• The other games. Each one has its own panel scene and HD scene, see Capcom games done one by one just below.
• demo_capcom.bat plays the demo of a Capcom game, most of them with the coin screen first.

Game	System	File	Health bars	Timer	Character names	Super gauge	Stages (HD)
Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness	CPS2	cybots.json	yes	yes	yes (10)	yes	yes
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors	CPS2	dstlk.json	yes	yes	yes (12)	-	yes
Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition	CPS2	hsf2.json	yes	yes	yes (17)	yes	fixed
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	CPS3	jojoba.json	yes	yes	yes (25)	yes	fixed
JoJo's Venture	CPS3	jojo.json	yes	yes	yes (16)	yes	fixed
Marvel Super Heroes	CPS2	msh.json	yes	yes	yes (13)	yes	fixed
Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter	CPS2	mshvsf.json	yes	yes	yes (25)	yes	fixed
Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	CPS2	mvsc.json	yes	yes	yes (22)	yes	yes
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters	CPS2	megaman2.json	yes	-	-	-	fixed
Mega Man: The Power Battle	CPS1	megaman.json	yes	-	-	-	fixed
Muscle Bomber Duo: Ultimate Team Battle	CPS1	mbombrd.json	yes	-	-	-	fixed
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge	CPS2	nwarr.json	yes	yes	yes (14)	-	yes
Red Earth	CPS3	redearth.json	yes	-	-	-	yes
Ring of Destruction: Slammasters II	CPS2	ringdest.json	yes	yes	-	-	fixed
Saturday Night Slam Masters	CPS1	slammast.json	yes	-	-	-	fixed
Street Fighter Alpha 2	CPS2	sfa2.json	yes	yes	yes (24)	yes	yes
Street Fighter Alpha 3	CPS2	sfa3.json	yes	yes	yes (29)	yes	yes
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams	CPS2	sfa.json	yes	yes	yes (13)	yes	yes
Street Fighter II': Champion Edition	CPS1	sf2ce.json	yes	yes	yes (12)	-	yes
Street Fighter II': Hyper Fighting	CPS1	sf2hf.json	yes	yes	yes (12)	-	yes
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior	CPS1	sf2.json	yes	yes	yes (12)	-	yes
Street Fighter III 2nd Impact: Giant Attack	CPS3	sfiii2.json	yes	yes	yes (15)	yes	yes
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future	CPS3	sfiii3.json	yes	yes	yes (19)	yes	yes
Street Fighter III: New Generation	CPS3	sfiii.json	yes	yes	yes (11)	yes	yes
Street Fighter Zero	CPS1	sfzch.json	yes	yes	yes (13)	yes	yes
Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha	CPS2	sfz2al.json	yes	yes	yes (21)	-	yes
Super Gem Fighter: Mini Mix	CPS2	sgemf.json	yes	yes	yes (12)	yes	yes
Super Street Fighter II Turbo	CPS2	ssf2t.json	yes	yes	yes (16)	yes	yes
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers	CPS2	ssf2.json	yes	yes	yes (16)	-	yes
Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers Revenge	CPS2	vhunt2.json	yes	yes	yes (21)	yes	yes
Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire	CPS2	vsav2.json	yes	yes	yes (19)	-	yes
Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire	CPS2	vsav.json	yes	yes	yes (18)	-	yes
X-Men Vs. Street Fighter	CPS2	xmvsf.json	yes	yes	yes (19)	yes	fixed
X-Men: Children of the Atom	CPS2	xmcota.json	yes	yes	yes (13)	yes	yes

The addresses come from the cheat database of FinalBurn Neo and still have to be confirmed in game (test_retroarch.bat shows them). "fixed" means the game always gets the same backgrounds, taken from a list that fits it (the ring of the Slam Masters, the laboratory of Mega Man).

Capcom games done one by one

Like the Neo Geo games, the other Capcom games got a panel scene and an animated HD scene of their own, fifty of them. Everything is drawn by the program, no image, character or logo comes from the games.

• The games with characters, like Metal Slug (1.30). The beat'em ups, the action games and platformers, the two Pang and Mercs show no character drawn by the program any more. The place of the game stays behind, calm and darker. Each player has a panel with what is read in the game (gauge, lives, score, bombs, weapon, level), and the middle shows the logo, TIME when the timer is read whole (red when little time is left) and the credits. The game's events show between the panels. Points are a blow in the middle, a punch, a shot, a slash, a thrown weapon, a spell or a balloon that bursts. A bomb or a special leaves the panel and the middle blows up. A life lost turns the panel red and shakes the screen, health that comes back says + LIFE, and a level gained says LEVEL UP! Player 2's panel lights up when his health, his lives or his score move, and goes dark 45 seconds after they stop.
• Shoot'em ups. Once the score is learned, an enemy only blows up when the game scores points, as with the Neo Geo. A bomb spent sweeps the screen, the weapon picked up and the plane chosen are named. On the panel, the plane, the ship or the soldier of the game flies and fires. Player 2 comes in when his score goes up, or when he loses a life, spends a bomb or takes a hit, and leaves 45 seconds after they stop. The credits show under the logo. Mercs shows in panels, like the beat'em ups.
• Action games and platformers. In their panels, the weapon held is read in Ghouls'n Ghosts and Three Wonders, the armour in Ghouls'n Ghosts, the partner and the floor in Magic Sword, the hero in Willow, and the points of Pang! 3 and Mighty! Pang burst a balloon. Strider and Willow keep one panel, the players take turns.
• Puzzle games, quizzes and mahjong. They play by themselves, with our own questions, tiles, gems and bubbles, and follow what is read in the game. A life lost in a quiz is a wrong answer.
• The small games (Frog Feast, Pokonyan! Balloon, Magical Pumpkin, Ganbare! Marine Kun) play by themselves too. The frogs leap, the balloon flies over the savanna, the pumpkin carriage rolls through the town, the sight follows the fish.
• Final Fight Anniversary Edition and Final Fight EX (CPS2 hacks) take the scene of Final Fight, Tenchi wo Kurau II CPS Changer the one of Warriors of Fate.
• The values come from the cheat databases of FinalBurn Neo and MAME 2003-Plus and still have to be confirmed in game (test_retroarch.bat shows them). The score is in neither of them, learn it with learn.bat, the title of the game takes its place on the panel until then. The King of Dragons counts its experience, which is read.
• With nobody playing, the coin screen (see Who plays, just above).
• demo_capcom.bat shows them without playing. Pick the game in the list, or give it directly, demo_capcom.bat ffight for example.

Game	File	Panel	HD screen
Final Fight	ffight.json	the yellow gauge over red, TIME in purple, =lives, the brick tenements	panels on the brick slum of a big American city by day. LIFE yellow over red, the lives, the score, punches in the middle
Captain Commando	captcomm.json	the green gauge, xlives, the glass fronts and their neon	panels on a city of the future by day, its glass fronts and their neon. The name of the hero chosen in the game, LIFE in green, the lives, the score, punches
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs	dino.json	the yellow gauge, =lives, the broken columns and the old car	panels on a town swallowed by the jungle, smoking volcanoes far off. The name of the hero chosen in the game, LIFE yellow over red, the lives, the score, punches
The Punisher	punisher.json	the cyan gauge, xlives, the grenades	panels on the hall of a mobster's mansion at night. LIFE in cyan, the lives, the score, the GRENADES, shots in the middle. A grenade thrown (read in the game) flies from the panel and the middle blows up
The King of Dragons	kod.json	the green gauge, the level L, xlives, the experience EP as score	panels on a forest of huge old trees in the sun. LIFE in green, the lives, the experience as score, LEVEL, SWORD and SHIELD that go up (LEVEL UP!, SWORD UP!), slashes in the middle
Knights of the Round	knights.json	the red gauge, the level L, xlives, the half-timbered houses	panels on a village of half-timbered houses, the castle far off. LIFE in red, the lives, the score, LEVEL that goes up, slashes
Warriors of Fate	wof.json	the yellow-green gauge, xlives, the palisade and its banners	panels on a forest of ancient China and the palisade of a camp. LIFE yellow-green, the lives, the score, slashes
Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara	ddsom.json	the green gauge, the sandstone cliffs	panels on a canyon of warm sandstone, a dark castle far off. LIFE in green, the score, slashes
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom	ddtod.json	the green gauge, the golden hills	panels on green hills in the golden light. LIFE in green, the score, the DAGGERS of player 1, slashes. A dagger thrown (read in the game) flies to the middle
Alien vs. Predator	avsp.json	the yellow gauge, the special gauge, xlives	panels on a ruined industrial city at dusk in a green haze. The name of the hero chosen in the game, LIFE in yellow, the SPECIAL gauge, the lives, the score, shots. When the special gauge empties (read in the game) the middle blows up
Armored Warriors	armwar.json	the blue gauge, xlives, the steel hangar and its hazard stripes	panels on the steel hangar of the war machines. The name of the machine chosen in the game, LIFE in blue, the lives, the score, shots
Battle Circuit	batcir.json	the yellow gauge, xlives, the stands of the arena	panels on an arena of the future at night. LIFE in yellow, the lives, the score, COIN and the money read in the game, punches
Final Fight Anniversary Edition, Final Fight EX (CPS2 hacks)	ffightaec2.json, ffex2u.json	the panel of Final Fight	the scene of Final Fight (nothing is known in their memory yet)
Tenchi wo Kurau II, CPS Changer	wofch.json	the panel of Warriors of Fate	the scene of Warriors of Fate, with its values (MAME cheat.dat, same addresses as Warriors of Fate)
1944: The Loop Master	1944.json	the score or the title, the energy gauge and the bombs, the plane that flies and fires, BOMB!, POWER UP	the deep blue Pacific seen from the sky as in the game, huge battleships with their wooden decks and their wakes, an atoll now and then. Our silver twin-boom fighter against green fighters and bombers, warships below, its side fighters at its sides. A bomb spent is a salvo of missiles that clears the sky, a big WARNING announces the boss. The HUD in the spirit of the game, 1P in red and the score, POW (the energy) in yellow, and at the bottom left the bombs as B medals, the side fighters in stock in their frame with their number, the gold crystals picked up, 2P in pink. Read with MAME only, the side fighters and the crystals still to confirm in game, the WARNING and the score to find with RAM captures
19XX: The War Against Destiny	19xx.json	the score or the title, the planes left and the bombs, the plane that flies and fires, the weapon picked up	high in the sky over the sea and its islands as in the game, white clouds flying by faster. The plane chosen in the game (the twin-boom fighter, the canard fighter or the twin-engine one), big four-engine bombers. 1P and the score, the planes left, the round bombs at the bottom left and the name of the plane
1941: Counter Attack	1941.json	the score or the title, the VITAL gauge, the plane that flies and fires, the weapon picked up	a dark blue sea between two snowy rocky coasts as in the game. Our twin-boom fighter against the red-nosed fighters and the bombers, warships below. 1PLAYER and the score, the VITAL gauge in seven segments, the weapon picked up and its time
Varth: Operation Thunderstorm	varth.json	the score or the title, the planes left and the bombs, the plane that flies and fires, POWER UP, the weapon	a military base of teal plates seen from the sky as in the game, hangars and round pads. Our jet and its two guard pods turning around it, tanks on the taxiways. SCORE and the score, the planes left, the bombs, the weapon and the missiles of the pods
U.N. Squadron	unsquad.json	the score or the title, the stock of the special weapon, the plane that flies and fires, BOMB!	our jet over a desert canyon as in the game, mauve mesas, the towers of a refinery, tanks on the concrete, enemy helicopters. A special weapon fired blows up the screen. 1 PLAYER and the score, the special weapon read in the game and its stock at the bottom
Carrier Air Wing	cawing.json	the score or the title, the FUEL gauge, the plane that flies and fires, POWER UP, the weapon	our big navy jet high above a whole city seen at an angle as in the game, white clouds flying by, enemy jets. 1PLAYER and the score, LEVEL and the money, WEAPON, its ammo and the FUEL gauge at the bottom
Forgotten Worlds	forgottn.json	the score or the title, the VITAL gauge, the soldier who flies and fires, the weapon	our flying soldier and his gun module turning around him over a dead city as in the game, a huge green planet in the black sky, golden lizard warriors. The zenny picked up show, the weapon bought at the shop is named. 1P and the score, ZENNY, the VITAL gauge
Giga Wing	gigawing.json	the score or the title, the planes left and the bombs, the plane that flies and fires, POWER UP	an old steel fortress cut by rivers of glowing lava, seen from the sky as in the game, tanks on the rails. Our jet against the gunships, a bomb spent lights the golden barrier and clears the screen. 1P and the score, the planes and the bombs, the pilot chosen, REFLECT OK. The score of player 1 and the credits are known (learned on a cabinet), player 2's planes and bombs show when he plays
Progear	progear.json	the score or the title, the planes left and the bombs, the plane that flies and fires, POWER UP	our steam age fighter over an old European town as in the game, red roofs and a great stone aqueduct, the flying steam gunboats. P.1 and the score, the planes left and the bombs, the POWER gauge in eight steps, the plane chosen (Gambler or Militant)
Mars Matrix	mmatrix.json	the score or the title, the ships left, the ship that flies and fires, POWER UP	a rust-red mechanical base seen from the sky as in the game, round pads, pipes and warning stripes. Our mech fighter against orange war drones. 1P and the score, the ships left, LEVEL at the right
Dimahoo	dimahoo.json	the score or the title, the lives and the magic bombs, the beast that flies and fires	a magic sky of violet clouds seen from above as in the game, floating rocks. Our wizard on his flying beast against little dragons and big eye beasts, a magic bomb sends rings of light. PLAYER 1 and the score, the lives, the bombs as stars, the hero chosen
Eco Fighters	ecofghtr.json	the score or the title, the ships left, the pod that flies and fires, POWER UP, the weapon	our little ecological pod and its turning gun arm over a bright sea as in the game, ochre cliffs and their waterfall, polluting robots in green shells. 1P-SCORE and the score, ARM-LV and the ships left, the weapon of the arm
Mercs	mercs.json	the score or the title, the energy, the time, the mega crashes, the name of the weapon picked up, MISSION COMPLETE then the next mission, our mercenary who runs and fires	since 1.36, panels laid out like Metal Slug on a sandy track across the desert. ENERGY at the top, the score in big, the weapon held drawn on a card with its name (ASSAULT RIFLE, FLAMETHROWER, SHOTGUN, GRENADE LAUNCHER) and its POWER level (a pip per POW, read in the game), the MEGA CRASH bombs and the game's four weapons with the one held lit. Each enemy downed is shot from the weapon held, the big ones blow up. A mega crash blows up the whole marquee. WARNING! A BOSS IS COMING when a boss shows up (the biggest life of the game's enemy table), its bar under the logo, BOSS DESTROYED! then MISSION 1 COMPLETE!. MISSION and its number under the logo, TIME in red under 30 seconds
Ghouls'n Ghosts	ghouls.json	the score or the title, the lives	panels on the place of the executions under the storm. The weapon the game says the knight holds (lance, dagger, torch, sword, axe) and his armour (silver, gold, ARMOUR LOST!), the lives, the score. Each point throws the weapon to the middle
Strider	strider.json	the score or the title, the lives	one panel on the city of the first stage at night and its golden domes (the players take turns). The lives, the score, the OPTION ROBOTS, slashes of light
Pang! 3	pang3.json	the score or the title, the lives	panels on the painted wall of a temple in Egypt. The lives, the score. Big balloons bounce in the middle, the points read in the game burst one and it splits in two
Mighty! Pang	mpang.json	the score or the title, the lives, the time	panels on the highest mountain of the world under the falling snow. The lives, the score, TIME, the balloons of Pang! 3
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo	spf2t.json	the two wells gem by gem, the falling and next pairs, the scores, the rounds, the chains, the attacks	a violet night under a pink moon. The game's own wells face to face with VS between them, gems dropping into place, bursts breaking into pieces with the screen shaking, power gems shining as they form, counter gems flying to the other well. The fuller a well, the faster its side beats red, up to DANGER. The matches won by each of two humans (1.34)
Mega Twins	mtwins.json	the score or the title, the health gauge, the lives	panels on the bright forest of the first stage. VITAL in blue, the lives, the score, slashes
Magic Sword: Heroic Fantasy	msword.json	the score or the title, the health gauge, the time	panels on a floor of the tower, its grey stones and its torches. VITAL, POWER that glows when full, the KEYS, the partner read in the game, FLOOR and its number, slashes
Willow	willow.json	the score or the title, the health gauge	one panel on the village of the first stage, its timber houses and red roofs (the players take turns). The hero read in the game, VITAL, the lives, the score, balls of magic
Nemo	nemo.json	the score or the title, the lives	panels on the palace of the land of dreams, its pale blue arches and its moon. The lives, the score, the SPECIAL ATTACKS in big, the stars of the wand. A special attack (read in the game) flies from the panel and lights up the middle
Three Wonders	3wonders.json	the score or the title, the lives	panels on the forest of Midnight Wanderers, its orange cliffs and its mushrooms. The shot the game says the elf holds, the lives, the score. Each point throws it to the middle
Dynasty Wars	dynwar.json	the score or the title, the health gauge	panels on the field of battle, its cliffs and its pines. VIT, the score, LEVEL that goes up, slashes of the halberd
Puzz Loop 2	pzloop2.json	the score or the title, the balls	the sky of purple clouds and the carved track of the game. A chain of coloured balls rolls toward the hole, the launcher in the middle fires a ball into it, three of a colour burst and the chain closes up. BALLS and SCORE
Capcom Sports Club	csclub.json	the score or the title	the football match of the game in a stadium in the late afternoon, the full stands and the flags on the roof. Our own two teams pass the ball, shoot, the keeper dives. The flags of both teams at the top, as in the game
Quiz & Dragons: Capcom Quiz Game	qad.json	the score or the title, the lives, the question and its answers	the hall of the dungeon and a red dragon of our own painted on the wall, a knight and a wizard of our own, the green panel and its four answers. The score going up gives a big circle, a life lost a big cross. The questions are our own
Adventure Quiz Capcom World 2	cworld2j.json	the score or the title, the lives, the question and its answers	the board of the adventure, its green lands, its blue sea and its path of squares, two little adventurers of our own, the blue panel and its four answers. The questions are our own
Quiz Tonosama no Yabou 2: Zenkoku-ban	qtono2j.json	the score or the title, the lives, the question and its answers	the castle of a warring lord against a red sky, its flames and its war banners, a lord and a ninja of our own, the question panel and its four answers. The lives read in the game decide right or wrong. The questions are our own
Quiz Nanairo Dreams: Nijiirochou no Kiseki	qndream.json	the score or the title, the lives, the question and its answers	a town park at dusk, its trees, its street lamps, its fountain and a pale rainbow, a girl and a boy of our own, the question panel. The questions are our own
Jyangokushi: Haoh no Saihai	jyangoku.json	the title, the tiles	the green felt in its red lacquer frame, the tiles with blue backs, a tile drawn, a tile thrown, and now and then a hand wins with RON or TSUMO. The points on the right
Janpai Puzzle Choukou	choko.json	the title, the tiles and the golden line	the tiles laid on the red silk in its golden frame. Two equal tiles leave when a line with two turns at most joins them, the golden line shows the way, the tiles are shuffled when no pair is left. PAIRS
Gulun.Pa!	gulunpa.json	the score or the title, two wells of blobs	the starry purple sky and its planets, two wells between golden pillars. Pairs of round little creatures of our own fall and pop four by four, the chains shine. NEXT beside each well, 1P and 2P in the middle
Pnickies	pnickj.json	the score or the title, the well, the angel and the imp	the pastel sky between heaven and the underworld, an angel of our own on the left and a little imp on the right, the well in its pink frame. The pairs fall and pop four by four. NEXT and the score beside the well
Frog Feast	cps1frog.json	the title, the pond, the frogs and the flies	the blue pond between two tall pines and its two lily pads. Two frogs of our own leap from their bank to their pad and catch the flies with their tongue. Each one's score on its wooden post, TIME in the middle, TIME UP at the end
Pokonyan! Balloon	pokonyan.json	the title, the balloon and the rising balloons	the savanna seen from the sky scrolls below, zebras and giraffes walk, our hot-air balloon and its little explorer drift above. The balloons of all colours rise and pop when the basket touches them
Magical Pumpkin: Puroland de Daibouken	mpumpkin.json	the title, the town and the pumpkin carriage	a fairy-tale town of round pastel houses and its pink castle scroll by, our pumpkin carriage rolls on the candy road by the river and picks up the stars that float ahead
Ganbare! Marine Kun	ganbare.json	the title, the sea, the fish and the sight	the open sea between its rocky stacks, the fish that leap out of the water. The red sight follows them, locks on and hits, the medals add up at the bottom

Cave games

Every Cave game of FinalBurn Neo is recognized, with MAME as with RetroArch. That makes 37 games and their 158 sets. The games of the Cave board with its 68000 (DonPachi, DoDonPachi, ESP Ra.De., Dangun Feveron, Guwange, Puzzle Uo Poko), the games Cave made for the IGS PGM (DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou, Ketsui, Espgaluda, and DoDonPachi II that IGS made under Cave's licence), the games of Cave's own CV1000 board with its SH-3 (Mushihime-sama, Espgaluda II, Ibara, Pink Sweets, Muchi Muchi Pork!, Deathsmiles, DoDonPachi Dai-Fukkatsu, SaiDaiOuJou, Akai Katana...), and the games other companies made on the Cave board (Power Instinct 2, Sailor Moon, Air Gallet, Hotdog Storm, Mazinger Z...). A version, a bootleg or a hack takes the file of its original game. Progear, made by Cave for Capcom's CPS2, is with the Capcom games. The files are made by tools/cave_games.py from the list and the cheat database of FinalBurn Neo, completed by MAME's (the cheat collection of mamecheat.co.uk), which knows more for many games.

• What is read. The credits, the lives, the bombs and in DoDonPachi and Dai-Ou-Jou their slots (three at the start, one more for each ship lost, six at most), the shot level, the combo gauge that drains, the ship chosen (TYPE-A, TYPE-B, TYPE-C), the stage or the round, the hero of Guwange and his energy, the multiplier of ESP Ra.De., the spirit stones of Espgaluda, the energy of Deathsmiles, the loop of DonPachi and DoDonPachi (cheat databases of FinalBurn Neo and MAME). The fighting games read the health of each player and the timer, the beat'em ups the health and the lives.
• What to learn. The score and the hit counter are not in the cheat databases. Learn them with learn.bat (Learning the score, below), score= and score2=, hits= for the number of the HIT counter, stage= for the stage. DoDonPachi's are already learned on a cabinet, the score of each player with the continues used as its last digit as the game shows it, the hit counter of each player, the credits. The CV1000 games read their credits, lives and bombs from MAME's cheats, their score is still to learn. RetroAchievements gives the score of DonPachi, ESP Ra.De., Dangun Feveron (the sum of its stages), Puzzle Uo Poko, Gaia Crusaders, Power Instinct 2, Gogetsuji Legends, Sailor Moon, Ketsui, Akai Katana, Deathsmiles and its MegaBlack Label, and Puzzle! Mushihime-Tama, to be checked in game.
• Versions. A version whose own cheats put its values elsewhere reads them there, each value where the same cheat of that version writes (Dai-Ou-Jou V100 and its Black Label, Guwange Special, the first versions of DoDonPachi II), in the "per_game" section of the file. A value its cheats do not give is left to learn rather than read at a wrong place. The world version of Dai-Ou-Jou (DoDonPachi III) has its own cheats in MAME, its credits, lives and bombs are read there and its shot level and combo gauge are left to learn.
• RetroArch. FinalBurn Neo core. The 64 KB of the 68000's work RAM of the Cave board, from 0x100000 (0x200000 in Guwange, 0x300000 in Hotdog Storm and Koro Koro Quest, 0x340000 in Crusher Makochan, 0x400000 in Power Instinct 2 and Gogetsuji Legends), the 128 KB of the PGM from 0x800000, and the CV1000's RAM from 0xC000000, as far as the values of the game go (2 MB for most of them, up to 6 MB for Muchi Muchi Pork! and Dai-Fukkatsu). The bytes are swapped in 16-bit words, and ArcadeDMD puts them back in order. Metamoqester keeps its values out of this RAM and is read with MAME only.
• Credits and who plays. Like the Capcom games. A game whose credits are not read counts them from the coin buttons (coin_buttons.bat). Once the score is read, player 1 plays while it moves, and the coin screen comes back 10 seconds after it stops. Until then the game stays on its game scene. DoDonPachi says it itself, its game state gives player 1 alone, player 2 alone, both, a continue or the ship select, and each player's ships tell who came in (1.31).
• DoDonPachi on the HD screen. Seen from the sky like the other vertical shoot'em ups, the ship flies to the right over the stage and the enemies answer the way Cave's games do. Rings and spirals of pink and blue bullets from the gunships, fans of needles from the helicopters, aimed bullets from the little fighters, big slow orbs from the tanks on the roads. The three ships are read in the game, the red fighter of the focused stream, the helicopter whose guns follow its turns and whose pods turn around it, the blue fighter of the spread, in other colours for player 2. Each one fires its laser when the fire is held, a thick blue beam that bites the enemy in front. An enemy blows up each time the game counts one destroyed, told by its hit counter that climbs, three at most at once, and its points rise where it was (+330). A burst of hits, the laser on a big one, makes it spark, and every 50 hits the chain glows. The points that come without a hit (a medal, a boss, the bonus of the stage) blow up an enemy or count as a bonus, and a big gain (a boss, a big machine) turns all its bullets into gold stars that fly to the ship. A bomb turns the screen white and shakes it hard, three rings sweep it from the ship, five waves of blasts burn everything in front and every bullet is wiped away. A ship lost blows up, the bullets vanish for a moment and the new bomb slot it gives glints. A P item taken shows POWER UP over the ship with the level reached under it, POWER MAX at the top. At the WARNING of the game itself (in the Japanese and Arrange versions a few seconds before the stage stops scrolling where its boss comes), WARNING and the red alarm, then its name (SUZAKU, SENKOU, KAKOU, RAIKOU, RANKOU, RYUUKOU, HIBACHI), and its boss comes in to the middle, firing thick rings, twin spirals and fans, a machine of our own for each stage in the dominant colour of the game's (a green flying wing, a huge khaki tank, a great sand-coloured saucer, a purple gunship, a light blue flying battleship, a deep blue hexagonal fortress, a golden crescent for the last one). Its name stays over a long gauge of its life, read in the game (a signed 32-bit number learned on a cabinet), which glows at each blow, and it blows up when its life reaches 0, as in the game, or at the latest with the results of the stage, blasts all over it. The information in big, the action going on behind under a dark veil as an animated background. Each player has a glass panel with its score as big as it fits, the ships left (2 at the start, as the game shows them) and the level of the shot (POWER and a case per level, MAX at the top), the hit counter with its gauge that drains and the best chain, the bombs with the empty slots still to come and MAX when they are all full, the ship chosen. Between the panels the stage, or the boss and its life, the credits at the bottom in the middle as in Metal Slug, the coin with the symbol of config.json in its gold-edged pill, a coin falling onto it for each credit put in and +1 CRÉDIT rising. Its six stages after the maps of the game's, the dark forest crossed by giant branches, the base on a red planet then its craters, the blue rocky peaks, the base and its highway then the ruined city, the great grey machine and its green channels, the orange and purple hive and its honeycomb grates, a new stage changing the backdrop under a STAGE banner. The second loop is announced, and its stages recall it under their banner. Everything is drawn by the program, no ship, character or emblem of the game is drawn.
• The other Cave games on the HD screen. Each one has its own scene, built on DoDonPachi's. DonPachi with thinner bullets, Dai-Ou-Jou with the thickest rain of the series, Dai-Fukkatsu and SaiDaiOuJou in brighter colours, DoDonPachi II over the sea. Young psychics of our own over the Tokyo of the future by night (ESP Ra.De., its multiplier beside the gauge). A wanderer of old Japan who walks the village at dusk while his guardian spirit flies around him (Guwange, the hero and his energy read in the game). A night of fever on a floor of neon (Dangun Feveron, the fighter and the round read in the game). Two attack helicopters and their lock-on over the city (Ketsui). Winged heroes and the awakening that slows the bullets down, turns them gold and the screen violet when the spirit stones drain (Espgaluda, Espgaluda II). A great horned beetle over the forest of the insects (Mushihime-sama and its sequels). Fighters high in the sky (Ibara, Pink Sweets), flying pigs (Muchi Muchi Pork!), a gothic flyer over the graveyards seen from the side (Deathsmiles), fighters of the age of steam seen from the side (Akai Katana). Hotdog Storm, Mazinger Z (its energy) and Air Gallet with our jet fighters, Uo Poko and Mushihime-Tama with the bubbles of the puzzle games. The fighting games get the fight scene, Sailor Moon, Gaia Crusaders and Thunder Heroes the player panels of the beat'em ups.
• On the panel. The Cave shoot'em ups have a panel of their own in the spirit of DoDonPachi. Pink and blue bullets drift by, 1P and the score at the top with the ships left (the title until the score is learned), the hit counter in the middle (the ship chosen when there is no chain), the bombs and their empty slots at the bottom with MAX when they are full, and the combo gauge that drains. When a boss comes (DoDonPachi), WARNING! then its name, and during the fight its life in a thin bar above the bombs.
• demo_cave.bat shows them without playing. Pick the game in the list, or give it directly, demo_cave.bat ddonpach for example.

Game	Board	File	Sets	Read (cheat database)	HD scene
Air Gallet	Cave	agallet.json	12	credits, lives, bombs, shot level	its own
Akai Katana	CV1000	akatana.json	1	score (RetroAchievements)	its own
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon	Cave	sailormn.json	34	credits, lives, health, timer, score (RetroAchievements)	panels
Crusher Makochan	Cave	crusherm.json	1	to learn	-
Deathsmiles	CV1000	deathsml.json	1	credits, energy, score (RetroAchievements)	its own
Deathsmiles MegaBlack Label	CV1000	dsmbl.json	1	credits, energy, score (RetroAchievements)	its own
DoDonPachi	Cave	ddonpach.json	3	credits, score, hit counter (learned on a cabinet), lives, bombs, bomb slots, shot level, combo gauge, ship, stage, loop, the boss of each stage and its life	its own
DoDonPachi Dai-Fukkatsu Black Label	CV1000	dfkbl.json	1	credits, lives, bombs	its own
DoDonPachi Dai-Fukkatsu Ver 1.5	CV1000	ddpdfk.json	2	credits, lives, bombs	its own
DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou	PGM	ddp3.json	9	credits, lives, bombs, bomb slots, shot level, combo gauge	its own
DoDonPachi II - Bee Storm	PGM	ddp2.json	18	credits, lives, bombs, shot level, combo gauge, stage	its own
DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou	CV1000	ddpsdoj.json	2	to learn	its own
DonPachi	Cave	donpachi.json	5	credits, lives, bombs, shot level, combo gauge, area, loop, score (RetroAchievements)	its own
ESP Ra.De. - A.D.2018 Tokyo	Cave	esprade.json	3	credits, lives, bombs, shot level, multiplier, score and stage (RetroAchievements)	its own
Espgaluda	PGM	espgal.json	2	credits, lives, shot level, spirit stones	its own
Espgaluda II	CV1000	espgal2.json	3	credits, lives, bombs	its own
Fever SOS	Cave	feversos.json	2	credits, lives, bombs, shot level, ship, round, score (RetroAchievements)	its own
Gaia Crusaders	Cave	gaia.json	1	credits, lives, stage, health, timer, score (RetroAchievements)	panels
Gogetsuji Legends	Cave	plegends.json	3	credits, shot level, health, timer, score (RetroAchievements)	fight
Guwange	Cave	guwange.json	2	credits, bombs, shot level, combo gauge, energy, hero	its own
Hotdog Storm - The First Supersonics	Cave	hotdogst.json	1	credits, lives, bombs, shot level	its own
Ibara	CV1000	ibara.json	2	credits, lives, bombs	its own
Ibara Kuro Black Label	CV1000	ibarablk.json	2	credits, lives, bombs	its own
Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi	PGM	ket.json	16	credits, lives, bombs, shot level, combo gauge, score (RetroAchievements)	its own
Koro Koro Quest	Cave	korokoro.json	1	credits, round	-
Mazinger Z	Cave	mazinger.json	2	credits, bombs, shot level, energy	its own
Metamoqester	Cave	metmqstr.json	2	MAME only	fight
Muchi Muchi Pork!	CV1000	mmpork.json	1	credits, lives, bombs	its own
Mushihime-Sama	CV1000	mushisam.json	3	credits, lives, bombs	its own
Mushihime-Sama Futari Black Label - Another Ver	CV1000	futaribl.json	2	credits, lives, bombs	its own
Mushihime-Sama Futari Ver 1.5	CV1000	futari15.json	3	credits, lives, bombs	its own
Mushihime-Sama Matsuri Ver 1.5	CV1000	matsuri15.json	1	to learn	its own
Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara	CV1000	pinkswts.json	5	credits, lives	its own
Power Instinct 2	Cave	pwrinst2.json	5	credits, health, timer, score (RetroAchievements)	fight
Puzzle Uo Poko	Cave	uopoko.json	2	credits, stage, bubble, score (RetroAchievements)	its own
Puzzle! Mushihime-Tama	CV1000	mushitam.json	2	credits, lives, score	its own
Thunder Heroes	Cave	theroes.json	2	credits, lives, stage, health, timer	panels

The addresses come from the cheat databases of FinalBurn Neo and MAME and still have to be confirmed in game (test_retroarch.bat shows them). DoDonPachi's were checked on a cabinet.