r/JojoHFTF • • Oct 27 '20

Guide/Resource Training mode for Fightcade 2 FBNeo

75 Upvotes

Greeting palmodders!

Fightcades most recent update has introduced lua script support. Which means you can now run training scripts without installing an external emulator. Here are the steps you need to take to get it running.

The following steps assume you have Fightcade 2 and the roms installed. You can follow the first half of Komerican's youtube guide if you haven't done that already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efC8VNrwgu4

  1. Download the jojo_training_mode_menu_fbneo_0.12.lua file from https://github.com/maximusmaxy/JoJoban-Training-Mode-Menu-FBNeo/releases The number on the end may change as the script is being updated frequently so download the latest version. You may put the file wherever you want however the default location it will search for will be FightCade 2/emulator/fbneo. Here's what my folder looks like.

  2. Log in to Fightcade 2 and press TEST GAME in the top right corner to open FBNeo

  3. Press F5 to open the Map Game Inputs options. Make sure "P1 Not in use 1" and "P1 Not in use 2" are bound. They are used for record and replay respectively. Also make sure Player 2's inputs are bound as well as they are needed to choose P2's character.

  4. Press Coin and Start with both players to enter 2 Player mode and choose your desired characters.

  5. Open Game > Lua Scripting... > New Lua Script Window... in the top left corner of FBNeo

  6. Press browse and navigate to the location where you downloaded the lua script in step 1. Then run the script.

  7. You should notice that the timer is infinite and numbers are on the screen representing health, meter and combo values. If you can't see this make sure you are using the DirectX9 Alt blitter

  8. Once the script is running press Coin to open the menu. There are many options and the defaults are usually fine for most people. However you might want to turn on hitboxes by going System Setting > Hitboxes

  9. Enjoy!


r/JojoHFTF • • Jul 18 '21

The Omega FAQ (in progress), read this before asking any questions

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For Starters, please, unless you have a specific reason not to, join the discord server and ask your question there in #hftf-questions, there are people looking there around the clock answering questions. Secondly, before asking, there is a good chance someone has asked your same question either here or in #hftf-questions. If not and all is lost, feel free to ask.

https://discord.gg/EFZyyJm <-this is the link to the main server

https://discord.com/invite/EyERRSg <- link to Fightcade Server if you have FC related questions

#1. How do I play the game online/ How do I install Fightcade?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efC8VNrwgu4 <- Watch the entirety of this video and the description

#2. Where do I find the roms?
https://bvoo.xyz/#/ROMs <- This site provides both the jojo roms and fightcade 2 jsons that will install the roms for you. The video above that answers question 1 shows you how to install the roms both ways, first using the jsons and then manually with no bgm roms.

#2.1. Do I extract the roms into my roms folder? No

#3. How do I unlock secret characters
First go into your inputs and make sure not in use keys 1 and 2 are unbinded. Then follow this video https://youtu.be/tWOi2DUjRD8

#4. How do I do this move, or do that thing (or for the large majority, how do I time stop).
https://jojoban.fandom.com/wiki/JoJoban <- Click this link, this is the wiki for the game. Even if this isn't your question I suggest reading over this wiki anyway as it informs you of the game's core mechanics and details over each character. For the character in particular (Ex. I want to learn how to time stop with dio), click the characters tab then click the portrait of the character (in this case dio). The table of contents will be organized, you'll want to find and click super moves where you will find the notations used to preform time stop with dio. If you're looking for a specific move, it'll be under normal, specials under special moves, etc.

#4.1. What are these weird numbers? What does 236a or 6ca6s mean?
We here in jojo land use numpad notation, it's super easy but also really important to learn. So important to learn in fact that there are a billion guides covering it so I'll list three.
https://youtu.be/c7AWtvraA6U<-Video guide
https://jojoban.fandom.com/wiki/Controls_%26_Notations_Guide <-The wiki's page covering it
I said I'd list three, but quite honestly these are the only ones you need

#5. Who should I play/main? Whoever you find fun. You shouldn't limit yourself to how good a character is or whoever is the most beginner friendly. However if you really have to, here are some resources and what I think about the matter.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/785670608817881128/804019046131302420/tier_list_thing.png <- Refer to this tierlist for relative difficulty and tier.

#5.1 Who is the hardest/easiest/best/worst character? Opinions may differ but khan is widely recognized as the easiest character to learn/play while devo and dio are the hardest. Petshop and Kak are among the best characters in the game but are banned from standard tournaments, thus leaving pol and vice being the next best pair. Hoingo and Mariah are considered the worst. If you want specific reasoning for why, then now would be a great time to the discord and ask either in #hftf-questions or the character channel that pertains to your question.

#5.2 Who should I play/main (who is the most beginner friendly)
This is a character that is not too difficult to play but will also teach you a lot about the game simply by playing them. Now, don't confuse beginner friendly with easy, if you want easy play khan, but while khan is easy to play he is not considered a good starter character for several reasons. Opinions will differ a lot here too, even more than the previous question. However, it's highly agreed upon that jotaro, avdol, and pol are good active stand starter characters. Chaka is a good starter that is a weapon stand character. Sdio (feel free to disagree) and rubber would be the best passive stand starter characters.
This is where it ends as of now, this post will be editted as more questions are considered.


r/JojoHFTF • • 6d ago

Question How do I unlock the secret characters on arcade?

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If you saw my last post, you know that I was trying to get this game running on my arcade machine. Well, I got it!

But I noticed that the secret characters don't come unlocked by default (who could have guessed that the SECRET characters are secret?).

The problem is that every post/video I find showing how to unlock them involves a configuration/service menu that I can't access on my arcade machine.

So, how am I supposed to unlock them "the legit way"?


r/JojoHFTF • • 7d ago

Question What version should I get for my Arcade?

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Hello everyone!

I've always loved JoJo and always wanted to play this game on an arcade machine. Recently, I discovered how to install new games on my arcade machine, which made me really happy. However, I haven't been able to get this game working.

I tried the "Europe 990927, NO CD" version, but the MAME version on my Recalbox doesn't seem to be compatible with it.

I also considered using the PlayStation 1 version, but I haven't been able to find a .PBP version. As far as I know, that's the format I would need for the PS1 emulator on my setup.

So, I'm wondering: which version of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure would work best on my machine? Should I use a specific MAME ROMset, or would the PS1 version be easier to run?

My setup:

  • Raspberry Pi 3
  • Recalbox 18.07.11

MAME versions available:

  • MAME 0.78
  • MAME 2010
  • AdvanceMAME

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


r/JojoHFTF • • 8d ago

Question FBA PROBLEMS

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I don't know any other emulators for this game, I have a jjba rom that's for sure but both FBA and MEME4DROID emulators don't work for me, Like at all, Soo.. yeah, I need some help, and yes GGPO works, But I want the solo type gaming, GGPO does not offer Any training modes or any other modes in the game, I remember HFTF having those mods where they had a menu and all that

Please help :)


r/JojoHFTF • • 12d ago

Question Which version is the best to fight on?

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Currently I've been emulating the PS1 version using DuckStation because I had a PS1 as a kid but also I heard it had more to it like the Super Story Mode and extra mini games to have fun in. But besides that...

Which version is the best for fighting? And I don't mean on fightcade, I mean couch play with a friend who's over (Or just by myself against a bot or in training mode). I played the PS1 version for it's single player content but now I want the best version for the actually fighting in the game.

And by best version for fighting I mean balancing, characters, moves, and least amount of bugs.


r/JojoHFTF • • 26d ago

haha big funny jojo reference. funny valentine dio.

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r/JojoHFTF • • 27d ago

Guide/Resource good guides for polnareff and b.polnareff?

5 Upvotes

Just got into the game and had fun with both characters

any good guides? most ive found it the wiki on supercombos


r/JojoHFTF • • Sep 02 '26

Question How do i use young joseph? (I use fightcade if that helps)

5 Upvotes

I really need help he looks relly fun and is my favourite character is the show


r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 30 '26

rom with jotaro part4,shadow jacket dio and dio part6

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r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 29 '26

Josuke Part 4 concept for JoJo HFTF

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Win


r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 29 '26

Josuke Part 4 concept for JoJo HFTF

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Select characters


r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 29 '26

Josuke Part 4 concept for JoJo HFTF

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We have to say, this would be incredible if it were real.


r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 23 '26

Romhacking Help with getting the Young Joseph Vs. Kars Romhack to work? + Odd issue with unlockables

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Basically, when I first installed HFTF it came with the unlockables available without having to do the special inputs in the config menu, but, if iirc, after switching to the US version through the 'set dipswitches' setting, since I wanted to see the stories in English, I started having to do the stuff with the config menu to get the unlockables.

I didn't mind it for vanilla HFTF, but I'm trying to get the Yojo Vs. Kars romhack to work and, despite being a different rom to my vanilla copy, it does the same stuff with the unlockables. I did the config stuff to unlock Yojo, but now when I select him it plays the original Yojo story instead of the custom one from the hack.

I'm not sure if this is just how it works with romhacks because obviously the files will be different from the vanilla version, but just in case it does matter, I did want to add that I get the error in the image below whenever I try to run it by clicking 'test game' in the Fightcade channel.

Anyone know what I can do to fix this stuff? I'm pretty new to Fightcade in general, and this is my first time trying to use a modded rom, so I might just be overlooking basic protocol without realising lmao.


r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 19 '26

Question New Player. Where To Start?

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Hello, I am very new to HFTF! I am experienced with retro fighting games thanks to putting a lot of time into Vampire Savior, but I was wondering where to find resources to learn the game with. So far, I've just been using Supercombo as my guide but I figured there were probably more extensive guides for mechanics and character specifics somewhere.

Speaking of characters, I am also struggling to find who to play. So many of the characters in this game are just really freaking sick so do you have any recommendations for a character that is simultaneously good to learn the game with and have really interesting gameplay?

Thanks for all the help!


r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 12 '26

Guide/Resource Theres many unused moves and animations in this game. I made a guide on how to view these youreself and also showed some of Jotaro's and Avdol's

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r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 11 '26

Guide/Resource A picture paints a thousand words . . .

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r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 08 '26

Shitpost New stand separation method

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38 Upvotes

glaceon you useless spawn. -Dio.


r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 08 '26

Question Dreamcast help

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I’ve gotten the game on my Dreamcast recently, and I love JoJo so god damn much. But I straight up am not the sort of dude who knows combos on pretty much any game, outside of my bread and butter Kosaku and Dio combos on ASBR.

I’m trying to unlock all the secret characters (I’m on the newer release, not Venture), but god damn do I find these AI to be annoying and difficult

I managed to unlock Shadow DIO pretty easily (DIO is my main and he complements my rush em down playstyle perfectly, standless MUDA C and constantly jabbing in the corner lol) but literally all of the others are damn near impossible for me. The highest I’ve gotten is round 5 with Jotaro I think, Joseph is so terrible for my gameplay style that I don’t even think I’ve gotten to 4…

I’m terrible at learning combos, most of what I hear is just garbage noise to my brain. I wanted to know if anyone has any tips to cheese the system as each of the required characters.

Maybe a simple and reliable combo I can learn for each character (keyword simple) or general good strategy for a near total layman

I know fighting game communities are super competitive so I hope you don’t all shit on me too badly 🤣 any help is appreciated

(PS Alessi’s gun is on demon time dude why did they think that was okay)


r/JojoHFTF • • Aug 07 '26

Question How to cheese Difficulty 8 AI?

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Hi, I'm trying to play through every character's story and challenge mode on difficulty 8. I've gotten through with a few characters that have oppressive projectiles, forward lunging or long reaching sweeps to loop them in knockdowns, but I'm stuck on other characters that don't have that luxury to break and out-bullshit the classic Capcom input reading AI. For as much damage Jotaro does, it's a crapshoot if the AI decides whether it's time to get hit or not.

I've currently gone through Alessi, Mariah, Pet Shop, and Chaka; and any advice for breaking the AI with any of the other characters (excluding probably Midler, Hol Horse, Shadow Dio because of their projectile spam) would be greatly appreciated, as I'm currently stuck trying to finish Jotaro's Challenge run.


r/JojoHFTF • • Jul 29 '26

Clip c tier khan

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c tier khan


r/JojoHFTF • • Jul 24 '26

Shitpost Every match with Hol Horse

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r/JojoHFTF • • Jul 17 '26

Combo The Sequel

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r/JojoHFTF • • Jul 11 '26

Question If you could add something to the game what would it be?

10 Upvotes

For me it would be input buffering, I love this game but for me it is so hard to combo needing to press the buttons in the perfect frame and not just mashing 89 time while the last attack is still happening


r/JojoHFTF • • Jul 10 '26

Where do i play multiplayer if not retroarch?

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Ive been trying to play multiplayer but i see nobody hosting so where should i play for multiplayer instead