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Monday, November 30, 1998
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Translation | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 23:44)
Lots of patches released recently. Here goes:
- Kikuyama has released patch version 0.05 of Square's Tom Sawyer (NES).
- Lord KnightHawk has re-started his Sailor Moon: Another Story (SNES) translation from scratch, with an improved font, and released patch 0.01b. The old patch has more translated, so it's still available for download. Note that you'll need the SRX expanding program to apply the new patch.
- ShadowSlayrX started work on Ys 5 (SNES), and released patch Beta 1.
- Ultima Translations released patch 0.0001 ALPHA alpha alpha alpha alpha for Final Fantasy 6 (SNES). Obviously not quite done yet :)
- Zealsoft Translations released a patch 0.085, a minor update for Dragon Quest 5 (SNES). Also, they have decided to drop Maison Ikkoku (NES), and are asking for translators to help with an as-yet-unknown project.
All of these patches are now online at Emucamp, as well as the SRX program. As for other languages, I'm still busily working! They should be up by this week. As always, feel free to mail me if I'm missing anything.
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Reviews | |
(posted by Shion - 20:00)
I've just added a new review. This one is of RBI Baseball for NES, and it's written
by our very own Feesh. Check it out, enjoy it, and download the ROM if you like ;)
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Master System | |
(posted by Shion - 20:00)
SMSFAN98, the Japanese Master System emulator for Windows, has been updated to v1.04. I
can't really tell you what's new, seeing as I don't understand Japanese, but it's available here
for download. Enjoy!
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Master System | |
(posted by Zoop - 17:30)
BrSMS 1.12 was just released for registered users ! Game Gear and SG1000 games are now supported, as well as the one which use 3D Glasses. Various other bugs were fixed.
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Sunday, November 29, 1998
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Arcade | |
(posted by Zoop - 17:40)
vMAME, the "enhanced" version of MAME, has been synchronized to the latest official version. Please note that it's probably the last vMAME release, since the final MAME 0.34 will incorporate the additionnal code.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Zoop - 11:24)
MAME 0.34b8 released! As usual, tons of changes were introduced. Stereo sound/music was implemented in YM2610 (used by the NeoGeo driver) and YM2151 emulators. Last but not least, about 40 new games were added ! Here is a list:
The Empire Strikes Back (not playable), Liquid Kids, Growl, Speed Ball, Sauro, Magic Sword (USA) (merged), P.O.W., Ghostbusters, Maze Hunter, Oscar (2 sets merged), RF2, Gradius, Galactic Warriors, TwinBee, Galivan, Jail Break, Kram (not playable) (2 sets merged), Meadows Lanes, Heiankyo Alien, Cheeky Mouse (not working), Kid Niki, Spelunker II, Ghosts'n Goblins (new Cross set which replaces the old), Yankee Do! (merged with Mr. Do!), Gunsmoke (US set 2, without the reset bug) (merged), Legendary Wings (US set 2) (merged), Smash TV (rev 5) (merged), Trog (rev 3) (merged), Total Carnage (protottype) (merged), Mr. Do! (bugfixed) (merged), Galaxy Rescue (merged with Lunar Rescue), Heli Fire (set 2), Invader's Revenge (Dutchford), Super Invaders, Sinistar (revision 2) (merged) (also renamed oldsin to sinista1), Pacland (set 1) (merged) (also renamed all of them, they are now pacland, pacland2, pacland3, paclandm), Polaris (set 2), Snow Bros (set 1) (merged) and Tetris (Cocktail set 1) (merged).
Happy merging, guys :-)
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Genesis | |
(posted by Shion - 09:48)
Sam Pettus has released v1.30 of Eidolon's Genesis Compatibility Chart, an awesome
guide to (you guessed it) the compatibility of Genesis games (with KGen 98 and Genecyst X.XX emulators).
It also includes ratings and other interesting tid-bits of info on the side.
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Saturday, November 28, 1998
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Site | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 23:44)
Hi! Finally, the translation pages are done (NES, Gameboy, Gamegear, SNES, Genesis, PC Engine), complete with every living translation I can think of, and the patches of any dead translations that I can find. ^_^ If I missed anything, or did something wrong, PLEASE feel free to notify me. I'm trying to make this the best there is, so any comments are very welcome. Translations for languages other than English are coming soon, I promise!
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Interview | |
(posted by DaemoN - 20:06)
I have conducted a entertaining (and somewhat fun) interview with Marcin Dudar (Duddie) and David Pasca (Kazzuya), wich are PSEMUPRO's authors - read all about the mysterious TAB team, exclusive informations on development and much more!
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Friday, November 27, 1998
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Genesis / Sega-CD | |
(posted by Zoop - 16:25)
Apparently, yesterday's version of Virtual Genesis was a private beta. I don't know who started spreaded it, but I'm sorry for having helped spreading it. Well, Jason Meehan has just released a public version of it. You can know choose the Sega-CD BIOS to use from the interface, and a documentation is available. Also, be sure to run it under Windows. Although it may crash when quitting, it won't run at all under pure DOS - probably because it uses some un-allocated memory.
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 16:24)
Akilla has released another new version of his new (but promising) Nintendo emulator, NES4PC. It introduces tons of bug fixes, SRAM support, preliminary Zapper support, and various interface improvments. NES4PC is for Windows, and features a very complete interface (mainly for programmers).
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Site | |
(posted by Zoop - 16:23)
I did received a few e-mail about the fact I linked to files on Retrogames yesterday. Let me clear the situation: both sites are running on the same server, and the files are on the same hard drive. So it was useless to copy them to Emucamp's directory. And I made a little agreement with Atila, too. So don't complain to him if he's linking to our files ;-)
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 16:22)
Nitro has released a new version of ZD-SPC, his SPC music player for Windows. Main changes are skins support, surround sound, implemented DDE server, and a few other things.
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Atari ST | |
(posted by Zoop - 16:21)
TosBox 1.07, a shareware Atari ST emulator dedicated to run applications (but some games are working), is out. The most important improvment is that you can read data from Atari ST floppies. Printer emulation was also improved.
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Virtual Boy | |
(posted by Zoop - 16:20)
Wanted to know more about the Virtual Boy? Azrail sent us an interesting mail about it:
"The VB ist a portable HMD (Head Mounted System). That's virtual reality for your home. It has a 32-bits Risc Processor, 16-bit Stereosound, a six-button Joypad and 4 color dual (for each eye) display. I sent you a picture of it (I got that picture from VB page, but I don't know which one it was). And I know a page, with instructions to build your own VB."
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Thursday, November 26, 1998
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Arcade | |
(posted by Scifi - 23:00)
A Jailbreak (Konami) driver was sent for submission by Ernesto Corvi for Mame. No word if this driver will make into the next beta.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Scifi - 18:45)
A new Karnov & Chelnov driver was sent for inclusion in Mame by Brian McPhail, the game is now fully playable. Bryan managed to emulate the microcontroller that prevented this game from working.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Scifi - 18:45)
The Raine webpage has just been updated with news about the upcoming version, there are screenshots of Saint Dragon & Plus Alpha. Both Jaleco games will be playable in the next version with sound.
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Sega-CD | |
(posted by Zoop - 15:40)
A new version of Jason Meehan's Virtual Genesis has been found on the Internet.. with preliminary Sega-CD/Mega-CD support! Ok, don't expect to be able to run your games yet, but it shows the bios screens. To try them, you'll have to rename a file to us_bios.bin then change country flag to the appropriate one (under the interface). As for the version number, it says 0.13 while the previous version was 0.18, and the emulator still play Genesis games. So maybe it's an old version with preliminary Sega-CD/Mega-CD support, maybe it's an unsupported beta.. I cannot say much since it's doesn't have documentations. Contact me if you have any additionnal informations.
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Virtual Boy | |
(posted by Zoop - 15:39)
If you were looking for Virtual Boy Roms, Virtual Tetris and Space Squash were released by Imid. More should be available soon (from the same site).
For those for were wondering, the Virtual Boy is an unknown portable 32-bits system by Nintendo, with black and red graphics.
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Genesis | |
(posted by Zoop - 15:38)
Sam Pettus has released a public beta version of his upcoming Genesis Compatibity Chart. It contains emulation related informations for 916 different Genesis games. If you don't know why one of your rom doesn't works with the emulators, this document is for you. Keep in mind that it is a beta version, so it's a bit messy. Compatibility for Megasis (the new Genesis emulator) will be added later.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Zoop - 15:37)
Richard Bush has added support for Comba Tribes in his multi-arcade emulator for DOS, Raine. The game is working well, and already has sound support. No release date was announced for a new version. While we're speaking of Richard, he mentionned dropping Raine on a recent interview. Check the link below for more informations..
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Wednesday, November 25, 1998
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Virtual Boy | |
(posted by Gav - 18:51)
A Virtual Boy emulator has just been released by David Tucker. It's currently an early Beta, and is only compatible with a few games. I've little idea of the speed, although I'm reliably informed a P-II is certainly reccomended.
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Tuesday, November 24, 1998
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Arcade | |
(posted by Zoop - 17:29)
Richard Mitton has just released a new version of his New Zealand Story Arcade Emulator! This is mainly a maintenance release, as it adds joystick support, scanlines, re-definable keys and some sound fixes. TNZS-Emu is for DOS, and features a cool graphical user interface.
He's also looking for informations about the NEC V60 processor. Contact him if you can help.
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Playstation | |
(posted by lilac - 10:15)
The PSEmu Pro and Psyke teams have just announced a merger!
The new team, called TAB, have already begun work on thier next emulator which should give Bleem (assuming it's even real) a run for it's money.
Thanks to Azrail for the news.
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Monday, November 23, 1998
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Reviews | |
(posted by Shion - 19:09)
The reviews section is just booming at the moment :) Two new reviews are up- one of
Ghostbusters for Spectrum 128, by Feesh, and the other of Fantasy Zone
for Master System, by Lord B. Roms of both are also available for download, so read
and enjoy, and feel free to send in some reviews of your own!
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Site | |
(posted by Gav - 18:26)
Secain of the Snes Emulation Centre has E-Mailled us with the following request;
"The SEC is currently in the process of expanding and needs some help finding a wide range of information on all manner of SNES releated things. A full list of what we need can be found on our site. Please take the time to check it out and help if you can." Think you can help out, check out the link below.
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MSX | |
(posted by Zoop - 15:27)
A new version of BrMSX, Ricardo Bittencourt's lightning fast MSX emulator, was just released! This version fixes several CPU emulation bugs, and introduces a few new command line options (including one to be able to play the mapper version of R-Type). An Italian translation of the manual is also available on the homepage.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Zoop - 15:26)
MAME32, the Windows port of MAME, has been synchronized to the current DOS version, adding support for Midway games, as well as some other cool stuff. As for specifics of this port, the Neo-Geo BIOS is no longer displayed as a clone in the user interface, and the code for the pause button is now the same as in the original version. For those who were away last year(s), MAME is a multi arcade emulator, supporting tons of games (about 1000).
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 15:25)
Another new version of RockNES released! This one adds support for three new mappers: 16 (not working), 21 (used in Gradius 2, should be perfect), and 18 (working, but a bit buggy). RockNES is a Nintendo emulator for DOS.
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Genesis | |
(posted by Zoop - 15:24)
Sam Pettus has dropped a note on our messageboard about the upcoming release of his Genesis Compatibility Chart. If you are interested in Genesis emulation, this is definitively the document to read about it.
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 15:23)
Nitro has updated ZD-Spc, his Super Nintendo music player to 1.20. Main changes in this version are drag'n drop support, improved interface and increased Bass. Tons of bugs were also fixed. And I won't make any comments about the graphical user interface, sorry Nitro :-)
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Site | |
(posted by Zoop - 15:22)
Emu24x has moved to a new server (again). Be sure to update your bookmark, if it's not already done.
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Sunday, November 22, 1998
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - :)
Fx3 has just released RockNES 0.58, a new version of his Nintendo emulator for DOS. As usual, support for new mappers (15 and 18) was added and some were fixed (23, 33 and 34). Other changes includes a VDP Status Register fix (cart.nes is now working at the correct speed, and many games should be fixed now), as well as preliminary support for realtime save/load. Next version may introduces sound emulation, but don't quote me on that :-)
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Bulletin | |
(posted by Zoop - :)
It tooks a long time to be done, but I have finally fixed the color of the border for Internet Explorer users. On the same time, I changed messageboard's colors so you'll be able to distinguish new messages from old ones.
You may notice problems with our counter and some other scripts. We are aware of these problems. They should be fixed tomorrow.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Zoop -13:24)
A release candidate of Retrocade 1.1 should be available for beta testers very soon. If everything goes well, the public version will be released this week.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Scifi - 13:00)
The *fourth* build of vMAME Beta 7 has just been released, you can choose between a Pentium Optimised version or a Standard version. It's now using a Pentium optimized version of the SEAL Library, as well as a few minor screen bugs being fixed.
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Saturday, November 21, 1998
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Site | |
(posted by Zoop - 17:21)
Kalaramu e-mailed me about a site he founded recently, called Too Much Tang. It features news, roms (a new one everyday) and a kick-ass design. Be sure to check it out!
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Manual | |
(posted by Mandible - 14:36)
Entrax has typed up his King of Fighters '94 for NEOGEO manual (thank you) and you can download it here. On a very related note Emulation Camp will soon be opening a video games manual archive. We've got piles to offer from all over and from as many systems as possible however we still don't have ALL of them. If you'd like to help remedy that type up your manuals for any console video games you have and send them to me. More to come.....
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 14:28)
You probably already heard it somewhere, but Super Mario RPG will be playable in the next version of ZSnes (0.800). Something you probably don't know is that the rom which is everywhere on the net wasn't dumped correctly, so you'll have to get a new one. Which was not yet released yet..
By the way :-) , we are looking for webspace to host certain roms. If you can provide us a permanent account somewhere (not on Geoshities or Xoom) with ten megabytes of space or more, then contact me. It'll help.
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Translation | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 00:39)
Hey, Midas just released his latest 100 World Story (NES) translation, version 0.BLAH. Lots of improvements in this release! The patched rom is right here, so you no longer have an excuse! Well, that's not exactly true.
But anyway!
I was going to do this later, but I decided to be spontaneous and announce the NES Translation page, newly added to Emucamp. I want this to be PERFECT, so any translations I missed (alive OR dead, especially non-English) or anything I did wrong is very very welcome. Other systems are in the works.
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Friday, November 20, 1998
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Site | |
(posted by lilac - 16:57)
We welcome our new neighbor, Zophar's Domain, to the emulationworld.com server. We're happy that they'll have no more dates with the "down-time fairy" but hope they know who's the boss around here! ^_^
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Nintendo | |
(posted by _Bnu - 8:48)
Akilla has released version 0.15b of his NES emulator NES4PC and this update features TONS of new things. Among others the 8bit display mode has been perfected and is now much speedier than the 16 or 24bit modes. This emulator looks really up and coming!
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Thursday, November 19, 1998
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Docs | |
(posted by Shion - 19:36)
news-u-lator has released a new technical document called speed. It is a small
list of methods to help emulation programmers improve the speed of their emulators.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Shion - 19:36)
Barry Rodewald has updated GalEmu, his Galaxian arcade emulator. Version 0.23
fixes a sprite-related bug. By the way, the homepage now has a new URL.
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Gameboy | |
(posted by lilac - 13:34)
Gollum has taken a break from his PCott PC emulator for Unix project and released new versions of his Gameboy emulator, Boycott. Theres tons of improvments, too many to list, but most involve improved compatability with VGB configuration files.
Linux and MacOS versions are on the way.
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Saturn | |
(posted by Zoop - 8:52)
Mike Shaffer has released UltraSat 0.03, a very preliminary version of his Saturn emulator. Do not expect to run any games yet, since it only shows basis informations from a CD. It has been tested on nine games. I won't mention that the "emulator" was made in Quick Basic (for DOS) and that the author claims it's for Windows, because you may think it's not a serious project (but it's virus free, you can trust me :-)
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Playstation | |
(posted by lilac - 00:25)
A new beta of Playstation emulator PSEmu Pro has been released. Thanks goes out to Azrail for the e-mail.
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Wednesday, November 18, 1998
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Site | |
(posted by Shion - 20:22)
Interested in the kick-ass FAN98 emulators out but don't understand Japanese? Well
fret not, because a FAN98 Unofficial English Page has been opened up at news-u-lator.
Providing information about all the emulators and a place to download them, English versions of
the emulators' documentations are in the works, as are translated versions of the programs.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Gav - 18:46)
Lord B has released a new build of vMAME Beta 7, which features a joystick fix, and a new build of the Seal libraries, which he confindently claims makes it the fastest version of MAME. Find out for yourself now!
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Utility | |
(posted by lilac - 17:21)
The final version of NeoFix is now available. The new version features all the replacement ROMs needed for correct dumps as well as NeoRAGE to MAME zip converters and other nice tools.
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Gameboy / Game Gear / Master System / Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 11:53)
Ok.. you thought a new Genesis emulator was not enough? A guy called Maechiko has just released, not one, but four new emulators ! They are:
The bad news is that all of them are in Japanese, Chinese, or another asian language we cannot read without the appropriate font and knowledge (Ctrl-c). They're all running under Windows/DirectX, and seems to be shareware. All have sound and musics emulation (far from perfect in the SMS/GG emulators, but I cannot judge the GB/NES one). You should give them a try.
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Genesis | |
(posted by Zoop - 11:52)
Megasis, a brand new Genesis emulator, was just released! Judging by the homepage (which is mostly (Ctrl-v) in Japanese, Chinese, or another asian language we cannot read without the appropriate fonts and knowledge.. :), it already has full sound support (DAC and FM musics). I cannot say much about it, since I only tried two games - it was pretty slow (on my crap computer), but both were running. Megasis is for Windows/DirectX.
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 11:51)
Grog has posted some informations on our (empty) messageboard about a new project he's working on: it's called SNIDE, and it's.. a complete development kit for Super Nintendo! You don't know 65816 assembly? SNIDE will features a full Basic compiler, will all necessary librarys to be able to develop a small demo in a few minutes. It has built-in tiles and musics editors, as well as tons of other goodies. No public release yet, since Grog is looking for people experimented with NES and SNES programming to help giving suggestions. Last but not least, Grog just started a Virtual Boy emulator. Do not expect to see anything running yet, but it's promising. Check his homepage for more informations about both projects.
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 11:50)
Cleric of news-u-lator has updated his Nintendo Emulation FAQ. Additions includes a new emulator list, a new "Interesting Things" section, and general fixed and additions to the "Game Specific" area.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Zoop - 9:42)
Some news about the next version of Retrocade (multi-arcade emulator for DOS, to be ported to MacOS and Unixoids systems soon): a Bosconian driver was recently added, as well as the possibility to record inputs into a file (so you'll be able to re-play it later). No release date was announced - yet.
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Tuesday, November 17, 1998
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Neo Geo | |
(posted by Gav - 16:30)
Neo Gem 0.005 has been released, with increased game support including Giga Board support for Real Bout FF2. Sound isn't yet implemented but has made good progress, with "Z80 emulation and comunication with the Motorola added".
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Utility | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 01:47)
Benji York has released SNESKey 1.63 Beta for DOS. If you didn't know, SNESKey lets you use various console controllers on your PC. New in this release is Playstation controller support. The Win9x port is not yet available, but is soon to come.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 00:50)
Well, a new vMAME version 0.34 Beta 7 has been released. As far as I know, the only difference in this version is a joystick fix. vMAME is for DOS.
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Monday, November 16, 1998
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Translation | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 22:23)
I could have sworn this was already mentioned, but I guess I was wrong. Anyway, you all can go to CyBeRGoth's page and download patch v1.7 of his Tales of Phantasia (SNES) translation. All of the menus are translated, along with most of the spells and items.
No dialogue is in this release, but CyBeRGoth is teaming up with Dark Force to produce a full translation sometime in the future, complete with ASM modifications. Also note that you'll need the 1-file rom in order to use the patch.
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by lilac - 13:39)
The DOS port of SNES9X without GUI has just been updated to version 1.12. This release is not officially supported by the authors but it may have some neat options not found in the current builds for any of the Unixoid versions.
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Translation | |
(posted by lilac - 12:55)
Fellow Emulation Camp maintainer Spinner 8 has released his first translation patch for Dragon Quest III (NES).
The preliminary patch it can be found at the site below.
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Site | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:22)
I don't even know what happened, but the Messageboard is back. All messages were lost, so you can start posting on a cleared area ;)
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:21)
Cleric of news-u-lator has just released a NES emulator FAQ, called NEmu. "If you are into the NES, it would be a good idea to check this out."
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Sunday, November 15, 1998
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Gav - 19:00)
fwNES 0.302, has just been released. Features updated include, a fix to the SRAM save bug in the GUI, and various Mapper support fixes.
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Site | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:03)
Our Messageboard is having some problems. I'm working on repairing it, so it should be back tonight. Thanks goes to Blizzard for telling me the problem (I didn't noticed it myself..).
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Gameboy | |
(posted by Zoop - 11:40)
Another update to Gameboy 98, the new Gameboy emulator for Windows:
"Fix a frontend bug which broke the colors in the emu, more work on Timer interrupts and trying to find out what causes some roms to just plain die. With the lack of relevant documentation on the GB hardware, this is a difficult task and it may take a while."
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Site | |
(posted by Shion - 7:49)
After being down for over a year, news-u-lator, an emulation site "dedicated to bringing all of the emulation news to you on one site",
has returned. Strictly a news site, it is simple, fast-loading, and as you'd expect, news-packed.
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Saturday, November 14, 1998
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Atari 2600 | |
(posted by Zoop - 20:12)
John Saeger's Atari 2600 emulator, z26, was updated to 1.20. This version includes "a number of minor adjustements, mostly having to do with graphics of specific games", so objects are now correctly positionned in Ms.Pacman and Yar's Revenge.
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Arcade | |
(posted by coredump - 12:57)
Hans De Goede has released X-Mame 0.34b7.1, the Unix port of Mame, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. This release catches up with the DOS beta, adds some graphic speedups and is able to emulate the mouse as an analog joystick (this could prove useful on some games).
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Gameboy | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:31)
Adam Polanski has released a new beta version of Gameboy 98, his new Gameboy emulator. TIMA emulation was now implemented, so games that uses "random" values based on it (Tetris, Dr Mario..) will now work correctly. A debug message viewer was also added, although only authors will be interested in it. Finally, the filesize was slighty reduced.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:30)
A Pentium optimized version of DTmnt 0.54, the well known Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade emulator, was just released. Don't except much of it, since it's only a re-compiled version - should be 10% faster on Pentium processors.
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Neo Geo | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:29)
A new version of Danji, the new "mysterious" Neo Geo emulator, was released. This version runs King of Fighters 96 and 97, as well as King of Warez 99 (which was not yet dumped - not even in stores, in fact).
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Site | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:27)
Dave's Video Games Classics is finally back, after having some legal troubles (check the news on the site, to know more about that). Things are returning to normal, except the fact that the site won't carry roms anymore.
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Friday, November 13, 1998
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Translation | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 23:08)
Almost forgot... The page for Off Course Translations has been updated, showing the latest screenshots from the Dragon Quest Monsters (Gameboy) project.
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Translation | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 22:51)
Good news for Dragon Quest V (SNES) fans! Partial Translations has merged with Dragoon-X Translations, and translation patch v0.14 has been released. The next patch is promised to include dialogue (a first for DQ5, to the best of my knowledge). Fortunately an ASM hacker has been found, and they are now in need of translators for the project. If anyone can help, please contact them.
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Reviews | |
(posted by Shion - 22:26)
The reviews section is looking pretty busy at the moment. We've just added two new
Genesis/Mega Drive reviews- Rolo to the Rescue and Flashback (an awesome game,
by the way). Both are by written by Simon, the kick-ass guy who wrote our Phantasy
Star 2 review, from which you can now download the PS2 rom in English or Portugese. Enjoy!
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Site | |
(posted by lilac - 12:16)
We apologize for any confusion caused by Wednesday's story concerning the IDSA (Interactive Digital Software Association).
We did not intend to mislead anyone by erroneously typing ISDA (Innovative Systems Design).
The two organizations have nothing to do with each other, but because we made a typo, several irate readers of our site contacted the wrong company.
Hopefully everything has been settled and we again apologize to ISDA for leading people to believe they had done something they had not.
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Neo Geo | |
(posted by Scifi - 01:30)
A new version of the Neo Geo emulator Danji was just released ! It now supports Art Of Fighting 3.
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Thursday, November 12, 1998
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Translation | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 23:14)
Hello everyone. Starsoft Translations has released translation patch v0.10 of Bahamut Lagoon for SNES. New in this release is new intro dialogue and various fixes.
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Gameboy | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 16:33)
Adam Polanski has just released Gameboy 98 version 0.04 Beta 1t. This is a fairly new emulator, with many features yet to be implemented. It's got somewhat decent compatibility, and it's slower than most, but at least it's updated regularly.
Note that this emulator has nothing at all to do with Paul Robson's Gameboy 97 emulator. Gameboy 98 is for Win9x.
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Thomson TO8 | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:02)
A new version of TEO, the one and only Thomson TO8 emulator was just released. This version can read and write directly to TO8 disks, using a standard PC disk drive. The TO8 is an old french computer, mainly designed for education purposes, but there are a few games for it, too.
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Translation | |
(posted by Spinner 8 - 00:24)
Neil_, the leader of one of two groups currently translating Dragon Quest V, has informed me that he is desperately in need of an ASM hacker to help him with the compressed font in the game. If he does not get any help by Friday, this (combined with a lack of enthusiasm from the rom-hacking community at large) will cause him to permanently abandon the translation. Any SNES ASM rom hackers who have an interest in seeing Dragon Quest V in english are URGED to mail him here and help him out.
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Wednesday, November 11, 1998
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by Shion - 19:41)
Keith Cowgill has updated SNES GameCenter, his 'no-hassle' Win95 frontend for
SNES9X and ZSNES, to version 0.5a.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Gav - 18:45)
vMAME has been updated to the Beta 7 release of MAME. vMAME is a pentium enhanced version with alternate routines for scanlines, to help optomise performance.
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by Gav - 14:55)
Archeide of SNEmul, has sent an E-Mail to Emucamp about a server move (new links below). He also states "the sources (without the GUI) will be released before the end of the year", surely something well worth waiting for.
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Site | |
(posted by lilac - 13:42)
Lazarus, by far the largest Amiga emulation resource on the internet, is back (again). Brownie points to Throck for the news.
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Site | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:03)
More information about Dave's Classics. The address is now accessible, and you can read the following message on it:
"Hello. You have obviously noticed problems lately trying to connect here. We are experiencing some difficulties here at the moment, as well as other issues. Do not panic. As far as when things will return to normal, I have not been told exactly when yet, but hopefully soon. A lot of things may come into focus sometime on Wednesday, the 11th of November. In the meantime, if you want to discuss things live with other users of this page, stop by our two IRC chat rooms, either of EfNET #davesclassics, or davesclassics.liquidnet.org #davesclassics. You may also discuss any emulator or page related topic in the MAME message board, since the MacMAME.org hasn't come back yet. Until them, hopefully all will be well, and thank you to everyone for your concern."
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Tuesday, November 10, 1998
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Reviews | |
(posted by Shion - 20:11)
Hmmm... I thought I'd added this news already, but obviously not. Anyway, two new reviews
are up- a review of Zaxxon 3D for Master System, and a review of Phantasy Star 2 for
Genesis/Mega Drive, courtesy of X-DooMer and Simon respectively. Read them and enjoy,
and feel free to contribute with your own reviews sometime!
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Site | |
(posted by Shion - 19:40)
Serious sources say that Dave's Videogame Classics, one of the largest
and most popular emulator sites, was closed down by the IDSA. It
hasn't yet been confirmed but the site does not appear to be available
(check the link below to see for yourself), so things don't look good...
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Arcade | |
(posted by Scifi - 22:15)
The emulator DTMNT, has their own domain now. DTMNT is a DOS standalone emulator for the Konami arcade game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Bulletin | |
(posted by Zoop - 13:37)
I don't know what's happening with the clock at the top of the page, but it's not the GMT time, and worse, it seems to be screwed. So do not pay attention to bad time stamps on news. We'll fix it as soon as possible. While we're talking about the site, here is a quick list about what is still missing (to be added):
- Articles
- Contests
- Savegames
- Search Engine (sic)
- Tricks'n Tips
- Voting Booth
- and a lot of files sections (emulators, roms, patchs, utilities..).
Everything will be back as fast as possible. Until then, you can help by joining us - we are still in need of motivated people to help maintaining the site. Contact me if you're interested.
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 13:36)
ChiPPy has opened a site called the SNES Pad Support Site. It focuses on giving informations to users about how to connect SNES joypad (using a specific adapter) to your computer and use them with emulators. Authors will be also interested, because the necessary source code to easily adds support for the SNES controllers is available from the site.
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Nintendo 64 | |
(posted by _Bnu - 20:15)
Andrei deBenson has released Beta 2 of his Win32 Port of NINCEST 64. This new version does DirectX Fullscreen, has the ability to change between Windowed and Fullscreen mode without restarting the emulator and it has received a minor speed increase.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Gav - 20:15)
The DOS Port of MAME Beta 7 has just been released, which, amongst other things adds support for Smash TV, Mortal Kombat and T2.
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PC Engine | |
(posted by Zoop - 18:23)
Hmm.. not much to download these days? To keep your modems busy, Harry Tuttle (of the well known The Dump), had the good idea to distribute a compressed PC Engine CD game: Dracula-X (which is nothing but Castlevania). Here is the deal: Harry is looking for several 70 megabyte (sic) web mirrors, then he will distribute the thing (compressed ISO files + MP3 audio tracks. Yes, you will need a CD burner to play it). Check the page below to know everything about his project, and prepare your modems ;-)
"This game (which happens to be part of the Castlevania series) was never released in the US, and it's highly sought-after. This project should hopefully give this game the exposure it so richly deserves."
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MSX | |
(posted by lilac - 13:00)
Ricardo Bittencourt has released yet another new version of BrMSX, the top MSX computer emulator in the world. BrMSX is for DOS and new version 1.153 features and option to modify the amount of MegaRAM to use and a bug fix for the EI (Enable Interrupts) opcode.
"Feud / Halloween", "Cross Blaim" and "Yawara / Goonies" games are now playable.
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 11:54)
NES4PC, a brand new Nintendo emulator for Windows, has been just released. So far it's only a preliminary beta version, so don't expect support for hundred of mappers and full speed on a 386, but it haves a very useful debugger (at least for NES programmers) and it is promising. The author also posted a few homebrewn roms on his page - I suggest trying them if you can't get any commercials games to work with the emulator.
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Neo Geo | |
(posted by Shion - 11:42)
Everybody knows that Neo Geo rom dumps are bad, so Eric Bole-Feysot (the author of the Neorage
frontend, Run It) has written a utility named NeoCut, to repair the roms.
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by _Bnu - 10:28)
John Stiles of www.emulation.net has released
SNES9x for Macintosh 1.1.1.1. The big news in this release is that it
runs Mario Kart much better than before.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Scifi - 09:15)
The emulators System16 & M72, have both a new page with their own domain and to celebrate this Thierry Lescott released a Atomic Point driver for version 0.80 of System16.
Also there are news about the next M-72 upcoming release, it now supports Irem M-92 games, that means another 8 new games: Gun Force, Blade Master, Undercover Cops, In The Hunt, R-Type Leo,
Lethal Thunder, Hook & Maho-Keibitai Gunho-Ki (Mystic Raiders). Unfortunatelly, there is no sound support yet
for M92 games.
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Zophar's Domain | |
(posted by Mandible - 23:15)
In a very short time Zophar's Domain will turn 2 years old. WOW!! Although emulation sites seem to drop faster and more often than zippers at an orgy Zophar's Domain remains. A testament to Zophar. Thanks for the hard work. Here's to many more years!
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Microsoft Windows | |
(posted by coredump - 23:05)
Wine 981108 is out, it includes the usual round of bugfixes plus, More common controls, Better separation of X11-dependent code, More DOS support and, Winsock IPX support. WINE is a Microsoft Windows emulator for many unix's, including linux, capable of running WIN16 and WIN32 applications and games very well (It even runs StarCraft :).
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Reviews | |
(posted by Shion - 19:53)
If you haven't checked out Emucamp's growing reviews section yet, now would be a good time, because a review of the SNES
game Contra3: The Alien Wars was just posted, courtesy of Maverick. If you'd like to contribute with your own
reviews (for any emulated systems), please do.
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Game Manual | |
(posted by Mandible - 19:01)
If you're having trouble playing Samurai ShoDown 2 you download the manual for it right here at Emulation Camp. Thanks go out to Entrax for typing it up (tsk, tsk Zoop heh). More to come.....?
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Neo Geo | |
(posted by Zoop - 18:01)
A brand new Neo Geo emulator was just released ! Called Danji, it's already pretty fast and it has sound emulation (no musics yet). So far it support only one game (Samurai Shodown 2) because the released version is a teaser. To run it with Samurai Shodown 2, you'll have the convert the roms in a special format (converted files are the same name that the files on a Neo-CD, by the way..) using a provided tool. We do not have more informations, since the homepage is in Korean and there is no documentations shipped with the executable. One last thing: Danji is for Windows, and should take advantage of Direct Draw hardware acceleration. Enjoy!
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Spectrum | |
(posted by Zoop - 17:24)
James McKay has released a new version of X128, his ZX Spectrum emulator for DOS. This version (0.9) is mainly a maintenance release (the Z80 core is being rewritten) and it fixes a crash bug when using the 240 lines mode. The files are not yet available on Emulation Camp since I wasn't able to download them myself (the server is overcrowded). While we're speaking about Spectrum, I suggest visiting Anestis World, where you'll find informations about upcoming new games for Spectrum (Doom, Mortal Kombat, Sonic, and more).
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Master System | |
(posted by Zoop - 17:23)
There was a little problem with my yesterday's update, about Master System Scanned Boxes. Some people thought I had scanned all these boxes myself, and some other didn't appreciated (and they are right) the fact that I forgot to mention from where the files where coming. Most of them (at least, of the one which were uploaded yesterday) were scanned and are coming from the SMS Museum, and since the webmaster of the site complained (and he is right, again), I prefered removing most of the scans from our page. They will be back if (and only if) we'll find an agreement with the various "authors" of these scans. For now, I suggest visiting these sites if you are in need of Master System related material, and visiting our Messageboard if you are in need of flaming someone (me). Enough said.
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 17:22)
ZSnes authors have released a WinAMP plugin to play SPC files from the well known Windows player. Although it's still a preliminary version and it has some bugs (as described in the ReadMe), it'll let you play your favorites Super Nintendo musics (who said Final Fantasy ?) under Windows, and this is definitively a good thing :-)
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Saturday, November 7, 1998
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Virtual Boy | |
(posted by Shion - 21:37)
Just when you thought they'd emulated everything, along comes a Virtual Boy emulator!
Written by David Tucker, the emulator won't be released to the public for some time, but until
then you can check out the cool homepage for programming info, diagrams, specifications, links,
and the latest progress.
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Master System | |
(posted by Zoop - 18:17)
The guys at Dump Masters have just released six new roms! These includes four Genesis games (three are Brazilian version of already dumped games: Phantasy Star 2, Wonderboy 5 and Carmen Sandiego) and.. two new Master System games: Blade Eagle 3D and Sapo Xule (which is an official hacked version of Psycho Fox released in Brazil, and which really sucks, as most hacks :-). On the same time, I just added a Master System scanned boxes section on Emulation Camp, and uploaded my whole collection (137 scans). More are coming..
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 07:25)
Megabyte has updated his english translation of the Famicom emulator to 4.04. If you didn't downloaded the original version (which was released recently) because of the Japanese menus, then you don't have any reasons to skip this one :)
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Arcade | |
(posted by Zoop - 6:56)
A new version of GalEmu was released! New features includes sound - using samples - in all games (except Zig Zag) and various bug fixes (Moon Cresta now looks better than it does on MAME, no more invisible rocks in Pisces..). GalEmu is a multi arcade emulator supporting a total of 17 games based on Galaxian/Pisces hardware.
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Atari 2600 | |
(posted by Zoop - 6:55)
John Saeger's Atari 2600 emulator, z26, was updated to 1.19. The main change is a better frame synchronizer, so that the program will run smoother under a multitasking environment (who said Windows?).
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 6:54)
Fx3 of the RockNES team is looking for informations about the NES Mapper #9 (used in Punch Out). Informations about this mapper on Firebug's NES documentation are incomplete. Contact Fx3 if you can help.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Zoop - 16:41)
X-MAME (the X-Window port of MAME, for Unix users) has been updated to 0.34b6. As well as including all changes of the original DOS version (Sound in Neo*Geo emulation and about twenty new drivers), it improves the network code, adds OpenGL support (based on GLMAME) and fixes a few bugs.
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Nintendo 64 | |
(posted by Zoop - 16:40)
A new version of True Reality, the Nintendo 64 emulator for Unix, was released. Controllers emulation was implemented, as well as a few other things. The following demo roms are now working: Fire, Pong, Rotate and SP_Crap. Also, a Nintendo 64 emulators page has been added to Emulation Camp.
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 16:39)
The DOS version of QND 0.21 is now available, adding long file name support and fixing a few bugs. QND is "a tool for the manipulation of iNES format NES ROM images" and allows you to convert iNES format ROM images to Doctor PCJR format.
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Gameboy | |
(posted by Gav - 19:12)
A variety of ports for VGB 1.3 by Marat Fayzullin are now available for download on Emucamp. A demo Windows version has yet to be released.
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Thursday, November 5, 1998
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Arcade | |
(posted by Scifi - 22.15)
DTMNT emulator version 0.54, Dave's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade machine emulator was released and the main news is that the emulator added support for the complete sound roms.
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Wednesday, November 4, 1998
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TurboGrafx-16 | |
(posted by lilac - 19:12)
The HU6280 team led by Jamsponge have released a new version of thier excellent Tg16/PC Engine emulator for DOS, HU6280.
Also their hucard ROM identification tool, PCEID, has been ported to Linux, Solaris, and SunOS.
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Gameboy | |
(posted by Gav - 14:15)
Marat Fayzullin has just released the Windows port of VGB 1.3. This update features numerous bug fixes, and additional Mapper support, with UNIX only TCP/IP support for Netplay. No downloads are available at present, and additional ports should be forthcoming.
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Tandy 1000 | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:28)
A new version of Tand-Em, the one and only Tandy 1000/PCjr emulator, has been just released ! This version features "cycle-exact opcode emulation", so programs using some tricky synchronization effects should be working now. For those who are wondering, the Tandy 1000/PCjr machines were enhanced PC, and some old games are taking advantage of the improved hardware they had (including a 16 colors video mode and a three voices music chipset).
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Site | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:27)
Atila's Retrogames is back ! The domain name ( http://www.retrogames.com) will be working in a few hours/days, because the information is still being spread throughtout domain name servers. Until then, you can access the site at http://207.153.6.84.
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Arcade: Mame WIP | |
(posted by Scifi - 04:45)
Today a Exciting Soccer driver was submitted to Mame by Ernesto Corvi & Jarek Parchanski. This is a 1983 soccer game made by Alpha Denshi Co. Both the original & bootleg sets of the game are playable.
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Tuesday, November 3, 1998
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Arcade | |
(posted by Scifi - 23.30)
MAME32 0.34 Beta 6, the Windows port of MAME, was released today and it's now up to date with the latest Dos port. You can now enjoy all the latest games and the Neo Geo sound.
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Arcade | |
(posted by Gav - 12:43)
vMAME, a Pentium Optimised version of MAME for Dos, offering alternative routines for scanlines for enhanced performance has been updated to Beta 6. Whilst currently not as recognised as other ports, it's received excellent feedback, and is well worth checking out.
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MSX | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:43)
A new version of BrMSX, Ricardo Bittencourt's lightning fast MSX emulator, is out. Changes includes support for new video modes (as used in the Atselous demo) and a fast forward key (to skip the boot). Ricardo also mentionned he shouldn't release any new (major) version of BrMSX and BrSMS before the end of the year, because of a lack of time.
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 12:42)
RockNES 0.57 has been released ! As well as fixing tons of bugs, this version introduces support for seven new mappers and increases speed (a bit). Games such as Zelda 2, Ducktales or Twinbee3 are now working properly. RockNES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for DOS.
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by Gav - 19:15)
Snemul has begun work on a Windows/DirectX Port and a UNIX/NetBSD for all your Super NES needs. What's more, work has reportedly been started on DSP/SFX Emulation. Sure to be one to watch out for.
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Neo*Geo | |
(posted by Feesh - 18:30)
This seems to be my first posting for EmuCamp.. so it had better be good, right? Well, how about the first release of my new compatability chart for the Neo*Geo? Well, I suppose that'll do for now. Go and visit the N*GL homepage for information of this exciting event!
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Super Nintendo | |
(posted by Zoop - 07:06)
Sam Pettus has updated his Snes Compatibility Chart to 1.51. This is mainly a maintenance release, so no new games were tested. The Snes Compatibility Chart (SCC for short) is described as "The Ultimate Super Nintendo Games Emulator Compatibility and Ratings Compendium". For those who are wondering, Snes9x have an average compatibility rate of 93.2%, just behind ZSnes, with 93.8%.
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Nintendo | |
(posted by Shion - 19:38)
Johannes Holmberg has just released v0.13 of uNESsential, his Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator.
This version features a new sprite engine, 8x16 sprite support, various bugfixes, and more.
Source code (in Qbasic :) is available at the homepage.
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Lynx | |
(posted by SciFi - 18:49)
Keith Wilkins just released Handy version 0.52 this is a emulator for the Atari Lynx.
There are plenty of bug fixes in this version, the main feature is the new DirectSound implementation for Lynx Sound SubSystem.
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Emucamp is back ! | |
(posted by the whole Staff - 18:00)
Ladies and gentlemen, after a long wait, Emulation Camp is finally back ! As most of you already know, our account at simplenet.com was mysteriously suspended four months ago, forcing Emulation Camp to close. Instead of quickly finding a new host and re-opening, we prefered using the "delay" we had to offer you a brand new experience when visiting the site, with even more features and better resources to provide them (we now have our own domain name, and a dedicated server).
Because nothing is perfect in the real world, we prefered re-opening the site without having all sections up, allowing us to open it sooner. It means that you may (and you will) encounter the famous 404 error when browsing the site, and that most files (including emulators) are not yet available. We are working on adding them, so it should be a matter of weeks to see everything back. The search engine is not yet available, either, so do not waste your time trying to fill the search box with the word "roms" :)
There are now nine of us. We each have differents roles, and the work is shared between staff members.
In case you wanted to submit a news (a good idea), we've had an e-mail address set up so that you can contact the whole staff at the same time.
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