Running Xeno Crisis Neo Geo version in Mame
Xeno Crisis is a 2D game (originally for Sega Megadrive) developed by bitmap bureau and funded with a kickstarter in 2019.
This game is available for many platforms and on some platforms it uses 2 sticks: one for moves and one for fire direction like robotron.
The Neo Geo vesion doesn't have twin-sticks.
The instructions to setup the game for mame is like this:
Create a folder or zip file called xenocrisis with the supplied MAME ROM files and then copy the text from the provided neogeo.xml into the neogeo.xml file found
in the hash folder inside MAME's root.
I created a zip file with the rom file and placed it in ~/mame/roms/:
BB01-c1.c1
BB01-c2.c2
BB01-m1.m1
BB01-p1.p1
BB01-p2.p2
BB01-s1.s1
BB01-v1.v1
zip xenocrisis *
mv xenocrisis.zip ~/mame/roms/
The path for neogeo.xml from mame is:
/usr/share/games/mame/hash/neogeo.xml
I added the content of the provided neogeo.xml before the last line in /usr/share/games/mame/hash/neogeo.xml:
Last line in /usr/share/games/mame/hash/neogeo.xml:
</softwarelist>
The development kit bitmap bureau used for Xeno Crisis is SGDK: Sega Megadrive Development Kit
Digging in the links, I found grafx2 which is a Deluxe Paint clone: Grafx2
I noticed bitmap bureau is developing a game called Terminator 2D which will be released on the 2025-09-05, it looks great in the preview (it is robocop style).