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                              Final Burn
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Basics!
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                   Final Burn is an arcade emulator.
 It requires the rom images of the original arcade machines to emulate them.
            Final Burn is free for non-commercial use only.
        The current web-page for Final Burn is www.finalburn.com

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What's new?

v0.506
+ Added sound emulation to Out Run
+ Added road emulation to Out Run
+ Added Altered Beast (preliminary)
+ Added Golden Axe (preliminary)
+ Added Shinobi (preliminary)
+ Updated Zip loading code to ZLib 1.1.4
+ Added Strike Fighter (preliminary)
+ Added a preliminary trainer function
+ Added dynamic multiply port support (Final Fight, SF2 etc)
+ Added dynamic board ID support (Final Fight, SF2 etc)
+ Added high background tile support
  Fixes priority problems in Final Fight, Forgotten Worlds, Ghouls 'N' Ghosts,
  Magic Sword, Megaman, Street Fighter Zero (CPS Changer), Strider and U.N. Squadron.
+ Added Knights of the Round
+ Added U.N. Squadron
+ Added Strider Hiryu (Japanese version)
+ Added Capcom Sports Club
+ Added Forgotten Worlds
+ Added 1941
+ Added Mercs
+ Added Magic Sword
+ Added Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha
+ Added Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara
+ Added Armored Warriors
+ Added Battle Circuit
+ Added Street Fighter Alpha 3

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Using Final Burn
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Put the romsets (zipped) in the subdirectory (folder) called "roms".

Note: the emulator colors will appear wrong if your desktop is in 256-color (8-bit).
Right-click on your desktop, properties, settings, and raise you color depth to 16-bit or higher
before you run the emulator.

Now Run the emulator and select your game, click Load, pick the game you wish to play.

To Configure Input
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Press Input to bring up the input list.
Then double-click on an input, and press a new key for it.

Emu Keys
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Escape: Toggle Options Panel
Alt-P : Pause/Unpause
Alt-O (while paused): advance One frame
Alt-I : Increase speed (toggle on/off)
Alt-L : (CPS games only) Press to toggle background layers on or off.
F8    : Increase speed (while pressed)

Default Game Keys
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  1 = Start button
  5 = Insert coin
 F2 = Diagnostic Button

(Keyboard = Player 1)
  Up/Down/Left/Right is on keyboard
  Z = Fire 1 / Low kick
  X = Fire 2 / Mid kick
  C = Fire 3 / High kick
  A = Fire 4 / Low punch
  S = Fire 5 / Mid punch
  D = Fire 6 / High punch
  F = throttle up
  V = throttle down

(Joystick = Player 1)
  Button 1 = Fire 1 / Low kick
  Button 2 = Fire 2 / Mid kick
  etc...

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