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Sunday, February 28, 1999

Atari 2600
(posted by Raven - 1:54)
 
Bradford W. Mott has updated Stella to version 1.1. Changes include:

  • DOS and Linux versions support real Atari 2600 paddles using a special PC game port adaptor
  • Linux version uses the new 1.2.x joystick driver API
  • Added support for the "-display" option to the X Window version
  • Added support for private colormaps to the X Window version
  • Fixed a few bugs in the Supercharger emulation
    - A major bug in the ROM loading routine was fixed
    - Multi-loading in "Escape from the Mindmaster" works correctly
    - All Supercharger games load and execute at this point
  • Added a small hack to the TIA code to fix a display problem in "Escape from the Mindmaster"
  • Improved TIA emulation to support the RESPx multi-sprite trick

Saturday, February 27, 1999

Nintendo
(posted by Zoop - 23:56)
 
DRR has just made a kick'ass release to DRR-NES, his Nintendo emulator for DOS, made in Quick Basic. First of all, this version should be fifty (50) times faster, due to memory handling optimization. Some mappers were also implemented (six mappers, actually) lot of CPU bugs were fixed. Quoting the author: "Most games run at 12-15 fps on my P166 with the exception of mapper #1 games that do about 1.5 fps because of constant bank switching. Demos go over 60 fps. ".

Links: DRR-Nes Homepage - DRR-Nes 0.30 [90 kb]

Master System
(posted by Zoop - 22:32)
 
To prepare you for the upcoming Meka and BrSMS releases, I am releasing the first two SC-3000 roms. For those of you who don't know, the SC-3000 is Sega Computer. The first rom is the Sega Basic Level 3, in it's first european version, and the second one is a music composer program. Although both roms are for the first time publicly released, they were dumped about ten years ago (!) by the group Image/Helsinki/Finland. Thanks goes to Lasse (of the same group) for sending them to me.

Site
(posted by Zoop - 21:18)
 
Emu News Service is back online at http://www.emunews.net ! Be sure to bookmark it's new location.

Super Nintendo
(posted by Raven - 14:12)
 
Gary Henderson has updated SNES9x to version 1.18 for Linux, Solaris, and SunOS. Quoting directly from the page, new changes are as follows:

  • Implemented a sync-sound mode where sound data gets generated in sync with SPC700 instructions being executed. Finally the sound Williams Arcade classics can be heard. Also helps slight sound timing problems in many other games but doesn't fix Mortal Kombat 2 like I thought it would. :(
  • Added interpolated sound - gives low frequency sounds much more bass similar to a real SNES especially with the playback rate ramped up to 44KHz.
  • Added on-screen messages as various emulation options are toggled on and off using the in-game keys.
  • Fixed a PPU register read bug with the sprite register write position. Thanks to Takehiro TOMINAGA for the bug report.
  • Altered the auto-frame skip timing code to only wait and re-sync to the end of frame when frames haven't been skipped. Again thanks to Takehiro.
  • Speeded up the colour addition and subtraction code using ideas from Takehiro.
  • Linux and UNIX sound code now driven directly from signal timer handler rather than the timer handler just setting a flag which had to be polled in the main emulation code. Slightly faster execution.
  • Fixed the crash bug in the ZSNES Super FX asm code with Vortex - the game's polygons still aren't visible though.
  • Implemented bent-line increase and exponential decay and sustain volume envelopes - they should match, or at least be very similar to the real SNES sound DSP chip now.
  • It would seem ROMs can key on sound channels even if the channel hasn't been keyed-off, Pac-In-Time requires it. Changed code to allow it.
  • Quick mod to ZSNES Super FX code to get Winter Gold working - it was already working with the C Super FX code.
  • Added emulation of the extra 1/2 scan-line per frame on PAL and NTSC - should help improve music speed emulation.
  • Worked around the click sound heard when ROMs use 0 volume envelope attack rate.
  • Removed the 'check for IRQ already happened' H-IRQ position register setting code - it was causing problems for Ninja Warriors and was not required by F1 Grand Prix.
  • Fixed a bug in the new sound code - the sustain part of the attack-decay-sustain-release volume envelope was being skipped if the sustain level wasn't at 100%. The fix has helped some music notes from being cut off early in a few games.
  • Added fix to Pro Action Reply support (again). Thanks to Paul Shoener III for the original fix and Gil Pedersen for reminding me to apply it!
  • Finally fixed the Tales of Phantasia 'bum note' problem! The ROM set its sample directory to the upper-most page and I forget to code for the hidden 64 bytes of RAM, that appear when the boot ROM is switched off, when fetching sample addresses.
  • Adjusted the relative cycle length between the 65c816 and the SPC700 slightly to get Terranigma working again.
  • Oops, the emulated joypads 3 and 4 via the emulated Multi-player 5 interface weren't working. Thanks to Steffen Schwenke for the bug report.
  • Optimised the echo sound code - by-passed the the FIR filter code if only a pass-through FIR filter was defined by the ROM.
  • Modified V and H-IRQ register changing code to trigger an IRQ immediately if V-IRQ is enabled and the scan-lines match and either H-IRQ is not enabled or the electron beam position has already gone past the trigger point. Fixes the screen flicker in F1 Grand Prix.
  • Modified the priority-per-pixel mode 7 code to use BG#1's clipping data if the top bit of the mode 7 pixel is set. Fixes initial track drive-through display in F1 Grand Prix.
  • Modified the sprite priority levels for the priority-per-pixel mode 7 display. Now the car can be seen in F1 Grand Prix.
  • Wrote a sound DSP register recording scheme which 'plays back' the register changes in sync with the sound generation code. I'm bit disappointed, it only improves the sound in a very few games... Scrapped the code, it actually causes more problems than it fixes. Oh, well, another 3 weeks work wasted...
  • Fixed a SPC700 wake up problem for Lufia I - made the SPC700 also wake up when the 65c816 read from one of the four comm ports.
  • Included lots of sound code speed ups and sound quality improvements from Takehiro TOMINAGA - many thanks go to him.
  • Look out for stage 1 3Dfx support (bi-linear filtering in hardware) in an upcoming release and stage 2 support in a future release that will use the hardware to render the SNES screen. Expect a large increase in emulation speed.
Thanks to RetroGames for the news.

P.S. Can someone e-mail me and let me know what distro of Linux I should go for? I used to have Red Hat 5.1 but when I did a full install of the whole CD, kernelcfg still wouldn't run :(

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 4:47)
 
TransBRC has just released another complete translation! This one's Gameboy Wars 2 for the Gameboy Color, and it's a neat little strategy game. :) The game is 100% English, so go and enjoy this excellent translation!

Friday, February 26, 1999

Master System
(posted by Zoop - 22:42)
 
Just a word to say I have (finally) opened an homepage for my upcoming Sega 8-bit emulator. Be sure to check the homepage if you want to know more about it. Don't quote me on that, but hopefully I will release a first version soon :-)

Thursday, February 25, 1999

Arcade/CPS2
(posted by DaemoN - 16:19)
 
I talked to Jakesh, author of Kallus2 (the supposed CPS2 emu, and he told me that D&D: TOD support is coming along nicely. Screenshots will be coming in a few days, let's hope we have a working CPS2 emu someday! ;P Also - a beta was sent to Atila of retrogames, we should have news soon 8)

POST NEWS UPDATE!
Atila tried the "beta" and told us on #retrogamers (IRC) what it is:
[atila] fake
[atila] it loads the roms
[atila] and that's it
*** Gridle changes topic to 'Kallus2 is still fake. $100 for the dude who figures what Jakes tries to do.'
That shows us where peope are leading our beloved emulation scene :~( *sigh*

Gameboy
(posted by lilac - 02:55)
 
Unbeknownst to me, BouKiChi, author of Dboy, has made another demo for us to enjoy! GB Tracker allows us to make our own sound clips, and it saves them too in the saved RAM file. I assume this demo is to also help BouKiChi improve the sound in his emulator.

Wednesday, February 24, 1999

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 20:03)
 
A 100% complete patch for Hello Kitty World (NES) has just been released by Hello Kitty Kicks Ass Translations. :) Everything should be translated, including the title screen and ending screen. From what I've seen, this is an excellent translation, and the only way you would know that this wasn't official was if someone told you. :) Many thanks to everyone involved.

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 19:55)
 
Magic Translations (partially responsible for Villgust SNES, I think) has released a preliminary patch for Egypt, an odd little puzzle game for NES. Some parts aren't translated, and what IS translated doesn't look that great, but it shouldn't ruin the game for you. Thanks to Dando for the news.

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 19:49)
 
I meant to do this update last night, but I was too busy playing Picross 2. :) It's the sequel to Mario's Picross for Gameboy, and was translated by Zed. The patch isn't complete, and Zed needs a fluent Japanese translator as well as a script dump to keep going, but the game is still addictive as all hell. :)

Tuesday, February 23, 1999

Site
(posted by Zoop - 23:58)
 
I removed Shion's change after noticing it generated a Javascript error on my browser. Anyway, the reason for the change was that our counter crashed. We will try to fix it as soon as possible.

Site
(posted by Shion - 23:49)
 
If you've noticed the huge leap in hits to our counter, don't worry, we aren't lying to you :) We've just repaired it so that it now includes the 350,000 or so hits we received at the old Emucamp.

Colecovision
(posted by Zoop - 22:59)
 
Unbelievable! Marcel De Kogel has released a long awaited update to ADAMEm, his portable Colecovision and ADAM emulator. ADAMEm is one of the oldest emulator, as it was firstly released in 1996 (on the same time as Marat Faizullin's emulators). Judging by the changes list, you can consider this version as a major improvment over the previous one:

  • Replaced sound files and improved sound emulation
  • Replaced Marat Fayzullin's Z80 emulation code with Z80Em
  • Improved ADAMNet emulation
  • Replaced the colour palette
  • Added parallel port emulation
  • Added expansion RAM support
  • Added snapshot support
  • Added 80-column TDOS support
  • Added cheat-code support
  • Added reverb and stereo support for SBPro and SB16 compatibles
  • Fixed some minor bugs

Links: Homepage - ADAMEm 1.0 Sources [559 kb] - DOS Binaries [605 kb]

Monday, February 22, 1999

Nintendo
(posted by Raven - 20:32)
 
Fx3 has released a new version of RockNES again. Changes include:

  • Removed detection if there are +than 8 sprites at current scanline, which was breaking Rambo and others (Zelda 2 has perfect title screen again)
  • Re-adjusted the NES RAM size (Zelda was hanging)
  • Fixed joypad bugs and some others.

Links: RockNES Homepage - RockNES 0.73 [240 kb]

Sunday, February 21, 1999

Turbo-Grafx 16 / PC Engine
(posted by Raven - 21:27)
 
Once again, "Most updated emulator" champion HU6280 has been updated again. Changes include:

  • Improved detection of usa roms, now SPACE HARRIER (USA) & LEGEND OF HEROTONMA (USA) work ok.
  • 'Final Soldier Special Version' (JAP) now runs ok.
  • Added Detection of supergrafx roms (taste the message!)
  • Fixed a dirty bug in shutdown code... :) should leave your system sweet after a shutdown now... :)

Arcade
(posted by Raven - 21:59)
 
I know we don't have that much of an arcade emulation section here, but I am good friends with Rodimus Prime. He was being a lazy bum (like he usually is :) and didn't want to update his site with the new AMAME and PMAME, so I told him I'd do it for him. So I have uploaded the new versions to Emu Camp. They were originally on my homepage, but I had a feeling Xoom would take them off. :) There are new 68000, 6808, and z80 asm cores and the checksums are fixed for Samurai Showdown 3.

Links: PMAME/AMAME Homepage - AMAME 0.35b3a [1,300 kb] - PMAME 0.35b3a [1,342 kb]

Nintendo
(posted by Zoop - 21:45)
 
Fx3 have just released a new version of RockNES that fixes the crashing bug in pure DOS mode, and another bug that prevented save states to work.

Links: RockNES Homepage - RockNES 0.72 [245 kb]

Site
(posted by Zoop - 21:37)
 
Posted on Emu News Service:

"I have a very important announcement to make and I'm not sure where to begin, but I'll try to do my best. A little less than a year ago, I moved this website from its original location on America Online to ClassicGaming.com. Without going into the nitty gritty details, it was a mixed blessing. Sometime after my move, ClassicGaming.com (which is a part of Critical Mass) registered the domain name www.emunews.com. They did so without telling me. In fact, I didn't even find out about it until much later. You can imagine my surprise when I read about it in a posting on Zophar's Domain's message board.

Furthermore, for some reason, www.emunews.com leads to ClassicGaming.com's main webpage, not EMU News Service. When I tried talking to them about this, they refused to discuss it. In fact, they never bothered to respond to my e-mails or ICQs. This went on for months. I finally got sick of it and last week I sent them an ultimatum. Only then, did they finally respond. And when they did, they refused to transfer the domain name over to me. So I sent them a personal letter, pointing out all the things I have done for them over the past year and asked them to reconsider. They refused. I was told, in no uncertain terms, that ClassicGaming.com is not about emulation; that it's a business. They value money over people.

On the one hand, it's only a domain name. In the grand scheme of life it's not that important. But on the other hand, I sort of feel betrayed. I thought they were my friends. I thought they were people I could rely on. But they did all of this behind my back. For months, they continuously ignored my e-mails and ICQs. They handled this whole thing very unprofessionally. And even though I was willing to pay them what they paid for the domain, they still refused.

Before I go any further, I want to make it perfectly clear that I firmly believe that both ClassicGaming and Critical Mass are entitled to run their business anyway they want. I respect their right to run their business as they see fit. I have no quarrel with that. However, it is now clear to me that these are not the type of people I wish to work with or with which I wish to be associated. Therefore, effective March 1st, I am permanently moving EMU News Service off of ClassicGaming's server. It is vitally important that everyone go to this page and bookmark it now. If anything happens between now and March 1st, this page will be the only way you can find out where I've moved.

There's a very good chance that once ClassicGaming finds outthat I've decided to leave, they will kick me from their server. You may come back tomorrow only to discover that this site doesn't exist anymore. So, please bookmark this site now. You may not get a second chance.

With that said, I fully intend to continue to update this page on a daily basis until March 1st (or as long as ClassicGaming/Critical Mass permits me to do so). With any degree of luck, they might be nice and even let this site stay up for a couple months after I move so people can find my new address.

Also, I want to take this opportunity to make a second announcement. I've been working on a complete site redesign for some time now. With the exception of a few odds and ends, it's been done for almost 2 months now. But because I was having all these problems with ClassicGaming.com, I didn't want to debut the new design until these matters were settled. Even though things did not work out in my favor, I will debut the new EMU News Service about a week (or so) after it moves to its new location. It's going to really cool and you can expect to find quite a few sup rises :) I think everyone's going to like it a lot. And for those who were worried that I might change the site too much, worry no more. I have something special planned just for you.

Finally, I want to thank everyone for their support over the last 2 years. It's been a bumpy ride and this webpage could not have survived this long without your support. Thank you very much.

- Jim Pragit
Creator and Maintainer of EMU News Service

Again, please go to this page and bookmark it now. "

I don't think it is necessary to add any comments to Jim's message. If you want to know more about how Classicgaming proceed, you can also read the message on MAME Homepage. As it was not enough, NoFrendo homepage, that was closed on Classicgaming, was shutted down by it's author for the same reasons as Emunews.

Playstation & N64
(posted by Zoop - 14:21)
 
Sam Pettus has released not one, but two new compatibility charts ! The first, dedicated to Playstation, gives result for more than 100 games under PsEMUPro. The second chart is a Nintendo 64 one, and 216 games were tested under UltraHLE. As for today, I suppose the N64 one is on hold, and Sam will focus on the Playstation chart. Be sure to contact him if you can help testing games!

Saturday, February 20, 1999

Turbo-Grafx 16 / PC Engine
(posted by Raven - 21:27)
 
Jamsponge and Mr. Kipling have updated the Windows port of HU6280 once again. Changes include:

  • Added a .ini file, edit this for your own custom settings... (rompath,savegamepath,screenshotpath and sound options)
  • much more friendly loading and saving games... (assumes a nice filename)
  • much more friendly saving screenshots (assumes a nice filename)
  • Fixed a memory leak

Nintendo
(posted by Raven - 21:12)
 
Fx3 has updated RockNES again to version 0.71. the list of changes include:

  • Compiled with the new Allegro 3.1, which was compiled with pgcc
  • Fixed NES RAM size (too big)
  • Fixed a couple of minor bugs, like unused variables.

Links: RockNES Homepage - RockNES 0.71 [245 kb]

Nintendo
(posted by Roni - 6:15)
 
I haven't updated here in a while because I haven't had time but I figured I would put this up before I go to bed. A secret LoopyNES beta was discovered by Archaic Ruins' recluse a few days ago and I noticed it wasn't noted here so I felt I should post it myself. To find the page it is on click on the first "l" in the loopyNES link on the homepage to find the link to the "secret" page. I don't know what's new but at least it shows Loopy hasn't given up on his emulator.

Links: Homepage - LoopyNES Beta [48 kb]

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 5:10)
 
Since ShadowSlayerX has come to a stopping point in Ys 5, he's decided to translate Deep Dungeon 3 for the NES. I don't exactly know what's been translated though. Get the rom from the homepage. Thanks to Justinffx for the news.

Friday, February 19, 1999

Super Nintendo
(posted by _Bnu - 19:55)
 
Guess what. That's right, I'm still on the EmuCamp staff :) It's just that I've had very little time lately. Well, anyway here I am. And here's a new version of ZD-SPC, the SPC Player made by Nitro of ZD. The new stuff is quite a few keyboard shortcuts for all the common functions, some timer bugs are fixed and other small stuff. Have fun.

Links: ZD-SPC homepage - ZD-SPC 1.81 [243 kb]

Sega Smash Pack Hits
(posted by PrOfUnD Darkness - 18:34)
 
Sega is releasing a new set of Genesis games to your PC, all classics. In this pack you will find those cool games: Altered Beast, Columns, Golden Axe, Outrun, Phantasy Star 2, Sonic Spinball, Super Shinobi and Vectorman.
This smells like a emulated Genesis pack, but I liked it! Who knows Sega doesnt want to bring Phantasy Star Collection to our PC too? :) Well, my birthday is a little far away but if someone wanna give me a gift, you already know what I want ;)

Link: Seganet

Search Engine
(posted by Zoop - 13:06)
 
Tony Tonchev e-mailed us about an interesting search engine he created: dedicaced to video games, GamePages provides an easy way to find anything related to video gaming - including, but not limited to emulation. Go check it out! (and yes, I am aware our own search engine is broken ;-)

Link: Game Pages

Nintendo
(posted by Zoop - 12:37)
 
For those who downloaded RockNES 0.70 yesterday, you probably noticed the program was crashing on startup. A fixed version was uploaded later, so if yours is crashing, re-download it.

Links: RockNES Homepage - RockNES 0.70 [204 kb]

Thursday, February 18, 1999

Nintendo
(posted by Zoop - 17:28)
 
RockNES 0.70 released! Fx3 and Krizt have (finally) released a new version of their Nintendo emulator for DOS, introducing tons of new changes. Judge by yourself:

  • Mid-HBlank writes fixed (or almost perfect)
  • PPU Name Table setting fixed
  • Some changes in the NES interrupt code for a better PPU support
  • Major changes in the CPU/PPU functions (Read/Write)
  • Fixed scrolling problems (works ok)
  • IRQ emulation fixed, now you can see raster effects, for example
  • Detection if there are more than 8 sprites at current scanline
  • Fixed a palette color bug (Darkwing Duck now works fine)
  • Added Mapper #78 (untested, but probably it works)
  • Mapper #68 fixed (AfterBurner 2 works fine, thanks Nyef)
  • Mapper #66 fixed and working
  • Mappers #21 and #25 merged (partial support, bad for now)
  • Fixed some bugs in the Mapper #16 (not working yet)
  • Fixed a minor Mapper #7 bug
  • Fixed a problem with Mapper #1 (MMC1)
  • Auto search for a valid gfx mode if the selected isn't supported
  • Added Game Genie codes support
  • Fixed RockNES shutdown (when you quit to DOS prompt)
  • Fixed problem with '-nosound' option (no more crash when you quit)
  • RockNES startup messages changed
  • Added '-info' command line option to show information about the ROM
  • Removed '-revmirr' command line option (bah)
  • 6502 working with non-decimal mode
  • Fixed minor bugs in the 6502 emulation core
  • Changed the source around a lot making a GUI now possible
  • Working Super Mario Bros.3 *perfectly* :-P
A preliminary compatibility list was also added to the homepage. You can check it by clicking here (most games are now working ;-).

Links: RockNES Homepage - RockNES 0.70 [204 kb]

Gameboy
(posted by Raven - 01:24)
 
Hey, remember me? :) DBoy has been updated to version 0.44c that fixes an LCD problem and the initial state of SIO (whatever that is :). Thanks to Dave's Classics for the news.

Links: DBoy Homepage - DBoy 0.44c [73 kb]

Wednesday, February 17, 1999

Arcade
(posted by Zoop - 12:28)
 
A guy named Jakesh is (supposed to be) working on a CPS-2 emulator. As he state on his homepage, Kallus 2 does "run" some games, and (black & white) screenshots from X-Men: Children of the Atoms are available. There was two fake CPS-2 emulators announced in the past, so let me talk about this one. First, X-Men: COTA was ported and released to PC, and the port even includes the hardware tests that are shown on the only available screenshots. Secondly, if you go backward on Jakesh's Geocities account, you will notice this guy is a warez collecter, so basically it isn't the type of an emulator author. Third, I don't see a reason why the pictures were streched to 400x300, as it is a very un-common resolution. Now if you want to believe, there is a technical document about CPS-2 encryption on the page, and it seems legit (although I do not know a lot about 68k processors). Now go and make your own opinion..

Turbo-Grafx 16 / PC Engine
(posted by lilac - 03:07)
 
One time "Most-updated-emulator" champion HU6280 has also been upgraded again. The newest Windows beta adds support for saving and loading states.

Gameboy
(posted by lilac - 02:52)
 
Current "Most-updated-emulator" champion DBoy has been updated once again! Does BouKiChi ever sleep?

Links: DBoy Homepage - DBoy 0.44b [72 kb]

Tuesday, February 16, 1999

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 23:44)
 
TransBRC is really busy lately! An update To Nectaris (GB) has been released today. This fixes all bugs and is 100% complete. I'm listed in the Thanks part of the readme, so be sure to check that out ;) Get the rom from the TransBRC homepage.

Gameboy
(posted by lilac - 14:15)
 
DBoy has been updated again to version 0.44a, adding improved support for the TAMA5 and MBC1 controllers.

Links: DBoy Homepage - DBoy 0.44a [72 kb]

Arcade
(posted by Zoop - 12:21)
 
A pre-version of Retrocade 1.2 was recently sent to beta testers, improving speed and adding support for some new games, including (but not limited to) Tobbin'. All I can say is that the game is smooth and playable on my crap P120, so if you were waiting to play this one (Atari's most stupid game ;-) you'll be served. No release date has been announced yet.

Monday, February 15, 1999

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 18:34)
 
Another complete translation from TransBRC! This time it's Gamera Daikaijuu (GB), starring that lovable giant turtle and friend of children, Gamera! If you've ever seen any of the Gamera movies (on MST3K or otherwise) then you've GOT to play this :) This is a turn-based fighting game, and you can get the rom from the TransBRC page. Have fun, and send any special moves you find to TransBRC.

Playstation
(posted by PrOfUnD Darkness - 12:32)
 
Hi all! I am PrOfUnD Darkness and I am joining Emucamp staff right now. I am here to help mantain this news page.
Is sad to start like this, but I have some bad news for you all out there: Kazzuya is leaving PSEmu to go work in a game company! Yes, first was Tratax, some days ago Duddie left the project too, now Kazzuya is going to follow the same way :( Well, what can I say? Good luck for him in his new job, and we all hope to see him in the emulation scene again in the future.

Sunday, February 14, 1999

Gameboy
(posted by Puyolin - 07:15)
 
A new version of DBoy, everyone's favorite Gameboy Color emulator, was released hot off the press! Again, I have no idea what's new (docs are in Japanese), so when there's a "what's new" translation, I'll be sure to post it here. Thanks to Gameboy Emulation Heaven for the news!

Link: DBoy Homepage - DBoy 0.44 [72 kb]

Saturday, February 13, 1999

Gameboy
(posted by Puyolin - 19:05)
 
A new version of GBFAN PLUS was recently released. How exciting... I have no clue what's new because the docs are in japanese. Note: I've "newbie proofed" it; the .lzh is now in .zip format :)

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 5:42)
 
Just to let everyone know that rom-hacker and translation page maintainer extraordinaire Kueller has said that Dragoon-X Translations will most likely be releasing a 100% complete translation of Deep Dungeon 4 (NES) sometime this weekend. You'll see it here first, of course.

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 5:35)
 
A promising new translation group has been formed recently. Their first project is Wonder Project J, an awesome game for the SNES, made by Enix. Tentatively named the Wonder Project J Translation, its members are Justinffx and animefx, a couple of very excellent hackers, so this will definitely be one to watch in the future.

Another one of Justinffx's projects is Digital Devil Story, the first game in the Megami Tensei series. The only game in this series that was released in the U.S. is Persona for PSX. I'm looking forward to this one. :)

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 5:25)
 
The PL Translation Force released a complete Polish translation of Super Mario Bros 2 yesterday. This release coincides well with the debut of the Polish translation coverage at Emucamp. As of now, there are only two: Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros 2, but more will follow, I'm sure. Thanks to the super-cool Dando for the news.

Friday, February 12, 1999

Sega Master System
(posted by Raven - 20:24)
 
Ricardo Bittencourt has released BRSMS 1.17 to the public. There is a few new added effects available and also a detector for bad dumps at startup according to the homepage. You can grab it in our Files & Goodies section or from the following link.

Links: BRSMS Homepage - BRSMS 1.17r for DOS [94.8 kb]

Gameboy
(posted by lilac - 15:11)
 
Yet another new version of helloGB. According to the homepage this is a sound bug fix. Get it now while it's hot.

Links: helloGB Homepage - helloGB 02/12 [191 kb]

Reviews
(posted by Shion - 14:43)
 
Seems I haven't posted much news in a while. Well, here are two new NES reviews- one of Cobra Triangle, the other of Kart Fighter, both courtesy of Kalle Wallin. Enjoy, and remember that you're more than welcome to contribute some yourself :)

Thursday, February 11, 1999

Neo-Geo
(posted by Raven - 23:00)
 
Apollo69 has posted a new version of NeoMAME to update it for the recent release of Stakes Winner 2 from NeoCharity. Get it at the following link.

Nintendo
(posted by Raven - 22:36)
 
Marat Fayzullin has made an unexpected appearance (to me at least :) to make an update to iNES. New to version 1.0 is:
  • Rewritten and extended documentation. READ IT!
  • Famicom DiskSystem emulation.
  • VS System emulation.
  • Majorly bugfixed PPU emulation.
  • Completely rewritten mapper code.
  • NES 6502 does not support decimal math.
  • Direct saving of soundtrack to MIDI files.
  • Default palette can be loaded from a file.
  • Speed control in iNES-Windows.
  • Window size/position snapshots in iNES-Windows.
  • Keyboard assignments added to iNES-Windows.
  • Added speed control to VGB-Unix.
  • Removed description of the .SND format.
  • Moved .NES format description to the hardware document.
  • Many other small fixes and improvements.
You can get all the updated freeware versions at the links below. The Windows demo has not been released yet. :(

Wednesday, February 10, 1999

PC Engine / TurboGrafx 16
(posted by Zoop - 21:51)
 
Another new beta of the Hu6280 Windows port was released. This one adds sound emulation (as in the DOS version), although the author recommends a very fast PC. A palette bug was also fixed.

Site
(posted by Staff - 17:45)
 
I'm glad to announce we received our 500000th hits yesterday, as before the (long) downtime the counter showed 350000 but we had to reset it when re-opening. We would like to thanks everyone who kept visiting the site and sent e-mails regulary. Thank you for your support!
Zoop: I will be away for about two weeks, due to exams. So don't panic if you don't receive a quick answer to your mails :-)

PC Engine / TurboGrafx 16
(posted by Raven - 14:15)
 
After just one day, Jamsponge and Mr. Kipling have released a new version of their Windows port of Hu6280. The most noted fix is that is uses a 16-bit palette so now you can see all 512 colors! Thanks to Zophar's Domain for the news.

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 7:47)
 
Here's a bit of good/bad news: Akujin, someone who was translating Mystic Ark for SNES, found out about another Mystic Ark translation that was making excellent progress.. So he's decided to quit his own translation and move on to a different game. In doing so, he's released a patch that shows his progress up to this point. It's estimated to be about 5% complete, and has not been extensively beta-tested.

Two groups remain who are attempting Mystic Ark (also known as 7th Saga 2): EmuO Translations (which has recently started over with a new team), and a group affiliated with the Confederated Translation Company, which is looking extremely promising at this point, and which has no webpage as of yet :)

Tuesday, February 9, 1999

Gameboy
(posted by lilac - 18:51)
 
Here's a new version of helloGB thanks to pop3. This one improves Super and Color Gameboy emulation. Also for those of you who couldn't get older versions to work (this includes myself), this new version fixes the bugs that caused the strange error message to appear.

Links: helloGB Homepage - helloGB 02/09 [190 kb]

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 3:05)
 
Finally, Spinner 8 delivers on one of his promises! The French translations have been updated. If I missed one, feel free to drop me a line since I probably DID forget something.

Monday, February 8, 1999

Master System
(posted by Puyolin - 23:55)
 
According to the Massage homepage, a new version (version 1.0) of this excellent Master System / Game Gear emulator should be released very soon! This is great news for those Massage fans such as myself :) Keep an eye out! Thanks to Ultimate News and Emulators for the news.

PC Engine / TurboGrafx 16
(posted by lilac - 20:05)
 
Have you been wondering what the HU6280 team has been up too the last two weeks? After all, they seem to release a new version of thier emulator, HU6280, every other day! So what's been the holdup? Wouldn't you know it, it's a Windows port! HU6280 1.89 Beta for Windows runs just as smooth as the DOS based version. Check it out.

Site
(posted by Raven - 19:13)
 
I was going through the Files & Goodies section yesterday and I realized a bunch of stuff was missing from the page. I have readded a few things, although I know there is probably a lot more missing. So mail me and let me know what all you guys think is missing and I'll see if I can't get it fixed.

Gameboy
(posted by Roni - 09:07)
 
Here's a new version of everyone's favorite Gameboy emulator, DBoy!! (for DOS). As usual I have changed the file from the .lzh to a .zip extension (which I call lamer proofing). Have fun with this now.

Links: DBoy Homepage - DBoy v0.43a-x [71 kb]

Sega 8-bit
(posted by Zoop - 12:13)
 
Sam Pettus has finally released his long awaited Sega 8-Bit Chart. For those who don't know him (which I doubt), he is the author of a Genesis Chart and a Super Nintendo one. The goal of these charts is to list all games for a specific system, rating them, and comparing their behavior on different emulators. This new document features all Master System, Game Gear and SG1000 games released so far (313 games) and the tested emulators are BrSMS, Massage, Master Gear and MEKA.

Link: Sega 8-Bit Chart 1.00 [13 kb]

Arcade
(posted by Puyolin - 05:55)
 
A new version of JFF (short for Just For Fun) was released today. This is a multi-game arcade emulator for DOS that runs games like Ambush, Ninja Kid II and Higemaru, among others. Version 0.18 includes new features such as support for Mutant Night and now uses the PMode DOS Extender, as well as the usual bugfixes.

Link: JFF 0.18 [36 kb]

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 1:18)
 
Gaijin Productions has finally released a complete version of Rainbow Silkroad for the NES! From the screenshots, this looks to be quite an original RPG. You can find the rom at the Gaijin homepage, or in a certain passworded rom site (which has a really crappy translation section, by the way) under the name Niji no Silkroad.

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 1:08)
 
xabbott has let me know about a couple of translations for Pokemon Green (GB) and Pokemon Yellow (GB). Although they're nowhere near finished, and the project was abandoned, the translation looks very clean and compares well with Nintendo's translations of Blue and Red.

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 1:01)
 
Thanks to Aegis who reminded me to update the non-English translations. Arg! The Spanish translations are now as up-to-date as I can get em, and the French translations will be finished by tomorrow. If there are any that I missed, please feel free to let me know about it.

Sunday, February 7, 1999

Nintendo
(posted by Zoop - 18:40)
 
For those who thought RockNES was dead, some news were just posted on the homepage. The upcoming release will feature a more accurate interrupt code (allowing for raster effects) and with emulates the eight sprites per line limitation (as some games depends on it). Last but not least, the speed was slighty improved (there was a problem with the old interrupt system that caused the emulator to slow down a lot). Expect a release soon..

Gameboy
(posted by Raven - 00:11)
 
Also an update for GBFAN98 to version 1.06e. It's also in Japanese so I don't know what all is new again. Mail me and lemme know what all is new :)

Links: GBFAN98 Homepage - GBFAN98 1.06e [47 kb]

Saturday, February 6, 1999

Gameboy
(posted by Raven - 22:10)
 
New update for DBoy to version 0.43. Since I can't read Japanese, I don't know what all is new, so feel free to mail me with what all new info is included.

Links: DBoy Homepage - DBoy 0.43 [69.5 kb]

Site
(posted by Raven - 21:58)
 
Hello all emu fans. I'm Raven and I'll be handling some new emu releases, updates and that kind of stuff that comes up around here. I've been a big supporter of this page for a long time, so I figured I'd help out around here. I hope I can be of some use around here since I am online most of the day, so I hope this page can be updated more often with me around. :)

Nintendo
(posted by Zoop - 14:37)
 
As promised, the source code for uNESsential 0.20 was uploaded today on the homepage. If you were wondering how to program a Nintendo emulator (in Quick Basic), this is one of the source to check.

Master System
(posted by Zoop - 03:12)
 
Following BrSMS release, Ricardo Bittencourt has updated his page with a small tool called SMS Fix. Basically, it will fixes your bad roms when possible. If you got a message when running BrSMS with a certain rom, then it's time to fix it !

Links: BrSMS Homepage - SMS Fix [27 kb]

Friday, February 5, 1999

Gameboy
(posted by lilac - 18:18)
 
After weeks of promising I've finally delivered on opening the Gameboy demos and legal roms section! Emulation Camp is now the number one source for free and legal Gameboy games (and for other systems as well!) on the net with a stunning total of 102 ROMs! And for you coders out there we've got source for 13 of those ROMs! Enjoy!

Link: Gameboy ROMs

Thursday, February 4, 1999

Master System
(posted by Zoop - 22:26)
 
BrSMS 1.17 was finally sent to registered users, introducing the new Parrot filter, which will make the graphics looks much better in certain cases. Standard interpolation (the same as in ZSnes) was also added. Last but not least, the usual minor bugs were fixed. And for those who are wondering, Ricardo is now working on a Gameboy emulator.

Nintendo 64
(posted by Roni - 10:35)
 
TrueReality was updated the other day, I don't suggest clicking on the link unless you can download files of that type or else you'll get some strange stuff. Here's what's new:
  • Fixed native debugging messages
Note from Zoop: this is an Unix emulator. Basically, if you don't know what is a TAR.GZ file, then don't download it :-)

Nintendo 64
(posted by Zoop - 12:02)
 
Lemmy has just released an update to Nemu 64, his Delphi-made Nintendo 64 emulator. This version fixes the usual bugs and adds emulation for some new opcodes. Last but not least, it is now much faster. For those who forgot after the UltraHLE rush, Nemu 64 is still the best emulator to run demos.

Wednesday, February 3, 1999

Gameboy
(posted by lilac - 23:19)
 
DBoy has been updated once again. This time BouKiChi has added HuC3 support and 2 player Super Gameboy emulation!

Links: DBoy Homepage - DBoy 0.41a [69 kb]

Gameboy
(posted by lilac - 23:19)
 
Yessiree I love the Gameboy emulators! More news on helloGB: pop3 (author) has emailed me in attempts to track down the nasty bug some people are having. It seems ot work for some people but not for others, but the reason why is not currently known. Thanks to Big Ernie and Erick Hauser for e-mailing me thier specs, which makes hellGB seem to be on par with DBoy as far as function, but for Windows instead like SmyGB.

Links: helloGB Homepage - helloGB 01/31 [182 kb]

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 17:49)
 
Hey! The translation pages are now completely up-to-date, or at least as far as I know anyway. As always, please feel free to mail me about anything I might have missed. And spread the word guys! I don't want all this work to go to waste. :P

Tuesday, February 2, 1999

Translation
(posted by Spinner 8 - 20:37)
 
Hey it's me, Spinner 8, helping out PiR2 on the translations until he gets settled in. Hopefully over the next week all of the translation pages will be completely up-to-date once again, so watch out kueller! :) Anyway, TransBRC has a page once again, and has released two new, COMPLETE translations: one for Cosmic Wars (NES) and one for Nectaris (GB). Also on the page is a completed translation for Technos Ice Hockey (NES) that I didn't even know about. :) You can download the Nectaris rom directly from the TransBRC homepage, since it's a little hard to find. Have fun!

Links: TransBRC - Cosmic Wars 0.993 [6.17 kb] - Nectaris 1.0 [4.70 kb]

Gameboy
(posted by lilac - 20:11)
 
Here's a new Color Gameboy emulator that surfaced over the weekend. helloGB is for Pentium class machines running Windows with DirectX 5.2 or higher but other than that I can't tell how good it fares compared to the others. I don't think it runs on non-Japanese Windows platforms. If any of you could send an e-mail saying how well it is I'll post it here and make you famous!

Links: helloGB Homepage - helloGB 01/31 [182 kb]

Monday, February 1, 1999

Arcade
(posted by Zoop - 21:47)
 
You though they were dead? After a few months of idle, the Dead Serious Clan, authors of the very first NeoGeo emulator (Gekko) have released the long-awaited update to Shark, their multi-arcade emulator for Windows/DX. This version seems to be a complete rewrite, and it already supports fifteen games, including a lot of un-emulated ones - judge by yourself:
  • Flying Shark
  • Sky Shark
  • Hishou Zame
  • Same! Same! Same!
  • Fire Shark
  • Twin Cobra (Europe & USA)
  • Kyukyoku Tiger
  • Out Zone
  • Truxton
  • Vimana
  • Zero Wing / Hell Fire
  • Rally Bike
  • Teki Paki
  • Tiger Heli
  • New Zealand Story
Most of them are running with sound, and the emulation features a cool graphical user interface. As for the (short) documentation, it will be automatically generated when running the program. Enjoy!

Link: Download Shark 3.0 [235 kb]

Various
(posted by Zoop - 21:32)
 
I was about to compile a new Linux kernel today, when I saw on the changes list that native support for Master System, Super Nintendo, Playstation and PC Engine controllers was added. If you were looking for a good reason to switch to Linux, then you definitively found one :-)

Link: Kernel.org

Arcade
(posted by Scifi - 02:00)
 
Raine 0.18 released!!! 26 new games supported including Snow Bros 2, Truxton 2 and Legend Of Makaj. Also lots of bug fixes, additions, sound in all the games added, internal zip support, language files, new Eagle 0.41, another 12 Vesa modes added...and the list goes on...

Links: Raine Homepage - Raine v0.18 [600 Kb]

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