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Thursday, December 31, 1998 |
 | Misc |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 21:06)
Ever wonder what happened to Sardu (ie. Bloodlust Software), and when the hell was he ever going to update Nesticle, Genecyst, or Callus? The answers can be found at EmuSphere. I don't know how they knew about it, but it's interesting just the same.
Link: EmuSphere |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 19:51)
Nyef has released (again) a new version of his new DarcNES emulator for both DOS and Linux. Since version 98/12/20a, the following things have changed:
Links: Homepage - DarcNES 98/12/30 for Linux/x86 [88 kb] - Sources [68 kb] |
| Site |
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(posted by Zoop - 19:50)
Megabyte's site is celebrating it's first anniversary, almost on the same time than Emu X-Press' second one. Although Patent Pending is not a well known site, it has a pretty good content and it's worth visiting it - and Megabyte saved a piece of cake for you :)
Link: Patent Pending |
| Genesis |
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(posted by Zoop - 07:48)
I received an e-mail from Charles Mac Donald pointing that the Super Mario Bros / Genesis rom posted Tuesday appears to be "an incorrectly dumped multi-game cart, and has five other games in it, including Flicky, Columns, Fatal Labyrinth, Blockout, and Ping-Pong". If you want a proof, Charles has made a little batch file to cut/split the ROM and extract the games inside of it.
Links: Previous News - Super Mario/Genesis Extractor [26 kb] |
| Site |
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(posted by Shion - 06:58)
EmuXpress is now two years old! What started out as a mere Master System site is now one of the more popular emulation news sites on the 'net (sounds like another site I know...). It stayed alive, even with rebellious ISP's and nothing more than news. Erm... you'd better visit the site for the full story ;-)
Link: EmuXpress |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 05:37)
RockNES 0.60b is now available from the homepage, only a few minutes after the previous release - *sigh*. This one fixes a few bugs (Mario 3 should be working better and you can disable sound without crashing the program).
Links: RockNES Homepage - RockNES 0.60b [183 kb] |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 05:25)
RockNES 0.60 released ! The RockNES team have finally release their long awaited update, adding sound emulation and many many other changes (include tons of new mappers :). Grab it while it's hot!
Links: RockNES Homepage - RockNES 0.60 [183 kb] |
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Wednesday, December 30, 1998 |
| Translation |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 21:50)
In what may well be the most futile translation since Dragon Quest 3 and 4 (hey wait a minute), the creatively titled Pyre Was Bored And Had Nothing To Do Translation Group has taken it upon themselves to translate Super Mario RPG (SNES) into English. Their first patch changes all the Japanese characters to their Romaji equivalents, so you can have an easier time of figuring some of the stuff out.
Link: Homepage - Super Mario RPG 0.001 [2.42 kb] |
| Site |
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(posted by Shion - 11:54)
Console Programmers Forum is a new messageboard dedicated to helping people make homebrewn
roms and hacks for commercial roms. It's gaining popularity fairly quickly and there's a few threads
starting to happen. A webpage and archive will follow up at a later date.
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| Reviews |
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(posted by Shion - 06:30)
Now isn't it digusting when Mario games appear on Sega, and vice versa? :-) Here is a review
of the Super Mario Genesis rom that Zoop announced in yesterday's news. It was written by
Ashley, who recently submitted our Ninja Gaiden review. Check it out!
Links: Reviews Section - Mario Bros Genesis Review |
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Tuesday, December 29, 1998 |
| Genesis |
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(posted by Zoop - 19:10)
Here is a nice rom: Super Mario Bros for Genesis. You would have guessed, it is not an official game. It was probably made by some Hong Kong developers - maybe the same one who made Somari ? Anyway, it is quite good for an un-official game, although it is not exactly the same as the original. Graphics were ripped from Super Mario All-Stars on Super Nintendo, but you cannot kill enemy by jumping on them. You'll have to throw them objects, just like Super Mario 2 USA. Quite strange, heh.
 Download [649 kb] - Genesis Emulators |
| PC Engine |
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(posted by Zoop - 19:09)
Another new rom today: Jam Sponge has released an update to Jamanoid, his free arkanoid clone for PC Engine. This version was compiled with Magic Kit 2, and adds shadows. A nice game to download, too.
Links: HU6280 Homepage - Jamanoid 0.6 [13 kb] |
| Arcade |
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(posted by Scifi - 07:26)
More news from the Raine emulator webpage.
There are screenshots of two playable games to be included in the next version, Puzzle Bobble 2X a Taito F3 game and
Astyanax a Jaleco game very similar to Legendary Axe on the PC Engine console.
Link: Homepage |
| Atari 2600 |
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(posted by Zoop - 03:10)
John Saeger have just updated Z26, his Atari 2600 emulator, to 1.23. This version improves frame synchronization so it should work better under Windows 98, as well as some other minor improvments.
Links: Z26 Homepage - Z26 1.23 [39 kb] - Source Code [85 kb] |
| Master System |
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(posted by Zoop - 02:52)
While I've been fixing tons of bugs in my own emulator, Ricardo Bittencourt sent BrSMS 1.13 to registered users. This version fixes various emulation bugs, improve speech emulation (you can even hear the sound thought PC speakers now), and introduces a brand new interruption code, allowing many more games to work. BrSMS is a Master System / Game Gear / SG1000 emulator for DOS.
Link: BrSMS Homepage |
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Monday, December 28, 1998 |
| Arcade |
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(posted by Zoop - 18:37)
Barry Rodewald, author of GalEMU, has ported his multi arcade emulator to Windows, using Direct X. You can expect a speed increase if your video card support hardware blitting, otherwise, the upcoming version (for both DOS and Windows) will features a graphical user interface to choose the game you want to play. No release date was announced.
Link: GalEMU Homepage |
| Arcade |
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(posted by Zoop - 18:36)
I have just received an e-mail from Sumide about the Callus screenshot posted yesterday, stating it is a fake:
"Okay. I would like to *confirm* the image of this emulator running, as a fake. Let me tell you a couple of things about it.. First of all.. the word out there is.. someone made it as a joke. Secondly, if you take a close look at the image, you'll see that it's actually a stretched out image from another emulator.. take a look at the top energy bars. there's a dark blue-ish pattern which is uneven.. it should be: Just can check the picture here and make your own opinion about it. You are also invited to discuss on this subject on the Forum. |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 17:04)
uNESsential 0.14 released! Johannes Holmberg (author of Massacre) and Björn Aström (which is new in the staff) have just released a new version of "the crappiest NES emulator ever made" ! This version introduces many emulation fixes, as well as some changes to the interface. Source code for this version should be available later. Note: Jim Pragit of Emunews wrote it is version 0.15 and many other sites copied his news *without even checking* on the homepage. Good job guys :) Links: Homepage - uNESsential 0.14 [57 kb] |
| Translation |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 07:47)
Emuroms Translations has released English-to-Portuguese patches for Excitebike (NES) and Megaman 2 (NES). Since the page is (naturally) in Portuguese, I can only assume that these translations are at 100%. Thanks go out to X-DooMer for the news.
Links: Emuroms Translations - Excitebike patch [1.44 kb] - Megaman 2 patch [1.09 kb] |
| Arcade |
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(posted by Zoop - 03:05)
A picture of Callus running Street Fighter Alpha 2 is floating around the net. No one can confirm if it's real or not, but remember that Capcom System 2 support was planned by Sardu (Callus' author) since a few months (if not years). Stay tuned for more informations later.. (and let's hope it is a fake)
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Sunday, December 27, 1998 |
| Gameboy |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 03:57)
Yup, another DBoy. This time it's version 0.36. Your guess as to what's new is as good as mine, unless you can read Japanese.
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| Neo-Geo |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 03:47)
Go ahead and stop by NAZ to pick up the new King of Fighters 97 Sound ROM Fix. Thanks go out to Ultraseven for the news.
Link: NAZ |
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Saturday, December 26, 1998 |
| Super Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 19:36)
The ZSnes team have released an assembly only version of their killer Super Nintendo emulator. This is nothing but the same as version 0.800c, but without DSP1 emulation and network support. In exchange, the file for this one is much smaller, and it may works for you if you had problems with recent versions (this is Lilac's case, judging by the news he posted yesterday :-)
Links: ZSnes Homepage - ZSnes 0.800a [267 kb] |
| Various |
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(posted by Zoop - 18:32)
Just a word to tell you I do not agree everything of what is being said about Marat Faizullin, by other people of our staff (including, but not limited to Lilac and Shion). If you have something to say, you are invited to voice your opinion on the messageboard.
Link: Messageboard / Forum |
| Gameboy |
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(posted by Shion - 07:43)
Everyone's favourite Gameboy emulator, DBoy, was once again updated- this time to version 0.35a. Merry christmas Marat!
Links: Homepage - DBoy 0.35a [66 kb] |
| Site |
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(posted by Shion - 07:42)
A new emulation site named EmuSphere opened up a couple of days ago. It features the latest
news, emulators, frontends, utilities, links and other goodies. A good alternative to Emucamp, it
has great potential, so be supportive and check it out when you get a chance.
Link: EmuSphere |
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Friday, December 25, 1998 |
| Super Nintendo |
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(posted by lilac - 09:17)
Merry Christmas and here's your piece of coal: ZSNES 0.800.
Here's the list of what's new:
In case you've been at the north pole for the last year and a half, ZSNES is a top-notch Super Nintendo emulator for DOS. Links: ZSnes Homepage - ZSNES 0.800 [740 kb] |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 05:23)
Some good news from the RockNES front: mappers #9 and #10 are now working perfectly, so Punch Out will be playable in the (upcoming) next version. As for the sound, it has been slighty improved, and should be almost perfect (but expect an huge slow-down until they optimize it :-)
Link: RockNES Homepage |
| PC Engine |
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(posted by Zoop - 05:16)
I just received a mail from David Michel, the author of Magic Engine, which was the very first PC Engine emulator and was very advancer for it's time. Almost two years have passed since the first release (0.6, then 0.8 came quickly), so it was time for a new one. Magic Engine 1.0 will definitively features:
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| Gameboy |
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(posted by lilac - 04:47)
Marat Fayzullin has apparently gotten wind of BouKiChi's overhaul to VGB-DOS, Dboy, and he's mad about it.
Word is that Marat has emailed the author asking that all non-original source be replaced or DBoy discontinued.
Within a matter of days DBoy stole away all of the former VGB-DOS faithful (including myself) and has already become the leading Color Gameboy emulator.
Note to Marat: You've already cancelled VGB-DOS, and you have little or no intention of ever making a public trial version of VGB-Win despite what you're webpage says.
Shutting down DBoy will only cause you to be more despised than you already are for your anti-"spirit of emulation" mentality. Make people happy for a change by allowing DBoy to be continued.
After all, it's Christmas, <sarcasm>and it's not like he's trying to make money off of it.</sarcasm>
Links: Homepage - Dboy 0.35a [66 kb] |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by lilac - 04:47)
Andou has updated his Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom emulator, Pasofami to the next level.
Now called Pasofami '99 the emualtor features a toolbar or people who dont like to use the menus.
Pasofmai '99 is for Windows 95 and 98 and requires DirectX to run.
Links: Homepage - Pasofami '99 0.0h [729 kb] |
| Translation |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 01:32)
Hey, it's already Christmas in the U.K. :) To start the day off, kalevan has just released his first patch for Penguin Dream Story, a pretty nifty little NES game. It's not yet at 100%, but all essential dialogue has already been translated. You can find the rom in some places under the name "Yume Penguin Monogatari."
Links: kalevan's tavern - Penguin Dream Story 1st Release [4.80 kb] |
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Thursday, December 24, 1998 |
| Site |
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(posted by Staff - 14:19)
All of us (well, I think all of us :-) at Emulation Camp would like to wish you a very merry christmas and a happy new year. Thanks for your support.
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| Super Nintendo |
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(posted by Shion - 14:18)
Keith Cowgill has released a new version of SNES Gamecenter, his no-hassle Win95
frontend for SNES9X and ZSNES. Version 0.6b doesn't add any new features to version 0.6, but it
corrects some nasty bugs. Read-only rom files no longer result in file access errors, the frame-skip
problem caused by changes in the latest versions of SNES9X is no longer there, and ZSNES
configuration files can be regenerated if accidentally deleted.
Links: Homepage - SNES GameCenter 0.6b [1085 kb] |
| Site |
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(posted by Shion - 14:17)
news-u-lator have interviewed another emulator author. This time it's Loopy-
funnily enough, that's the author of LoopyNES :-) A good read for NES emulation fans.
Links: news-u-lator - Loopy Interview |
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Wednesday, December 23, 1998 |
| Translation |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 21:04)
Desperate for a new Rockman and Forte patch? Well wait no longer! Yonin no Translators (formerly AAGT) has released patch 0.5 of this really really good SNES game. It's not quite done yet, but all plot-relevant dialogue is 100%.
Links: Yonin no Translators - Rockman and Forte 0.5 [7.11 kb] |
| Translation |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 20:58)
Transrelic (formerly Lash's Domain) has released patch 0.105 beta for Treasure Hunter G (SNES) on their message board. Make sure to check out the readme, and keep in mind that this IS a beta.
Links: Lash's Domain - Treasure Hunter G 0.105 beta [57.2 kb] |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 20:50)
After all this crap from the IDSA, it's refreshing to find a company that finally sees the light. :) Emulators Unlimited, in association with ZTnet, has made an agreement with Wisdom Tree to distribute roms for NES games made by Color Dreams. This means that as of right now you can legally download roms for Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu, Tagin Dragon, and Mission Cobra, with more roms to come after the holidays. Remember that this is an exclusive agreement, so please read ZTnet's license agreement and ask permission before posting the roms on your site.
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| Utility |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 20:33)
Necrosaro has just released version 0.98 of his excellent hex editor, Thingy. New in this release is pointer calculator support, and various changes to the script inserter.
Links: Homepage - Thingy 0.98 [64.6 kb] |
| Super Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 20:06)
You thought NLKE was dead? Five months after the previous release, it has been (finally) updated! This version introduces lot of fixes and changes, so even more games should be working now. Partial DSP1 emulation (as used in Super Mario Kart) was implemented, as well as new mappers (Tales of Phantasia, BS-Zelda..). Last but not least, NLKE now features a graphical user interface.
Links: NLKE Homepage - NLKE 0.03b [342 kb] |
| PC Engine |
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(posted by Zoop - 20:05)
A second version of Magic Kit, David Michel's homemade PC Engine development kit, is now available for programmers. This one can be considered as a major update, and major part of the hardware are now documented (which is a good thing for someone who want to write an emulator). Also, this version can be used to compile Nintendo programs, although not all features are available with the Nintendo compiler.
On the same time, Jam Sponge, the author of HU6280, has released a first version of Jamanoid, an Arkanoid clone for PC Engine made with Magic Kit :-) Links: - Magic Kit 2.01 [326 kb] - Jamanoid [12 kb] |
| Gameboy |
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(posted by Shion - 08:35)
DBoy, the world's best Colour Gameboy emulator, has been updated yet again, to version 0.34.
Links: DBoy Homepage - DBoy 0.34 [65 kb] |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by Shion - 08:34)
FCE Ultra, Zaik's FCE-based NES/Famicom emulator, has been updated to Beta 2, adding a built-in rom that adds Game Genie support.
Links: FCE Ultra Homepage - FCEU Beta 2 [86 kb] |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by nIRV - 03:38)
Just a little note to remind you that Nofrendo is due for the end of 1998 as written on the homepage of the author with all the exciting new features he described. If you don't remember, his emulator is now as fast as NESticle and has a "killer" GUI. Is he keeping his emulator for a christmas gift? Who knows..
Link: Nofrendo Homepage |
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Tuesday, December 22, 1998 |
| Various |
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(posted by Zoop - 23:30)
Hmm.. it seems that all of us are busy or away these days. Including me. So here very quick news:
- The RockNES homepage on Geocities has been deleted because the page was "inconsistent with their current guidelines". Let's hope Geocities is not affiliated with IDSA :) - Snes9x as been updated to 1.16, improving SPC700 accuracy and timing. The SPC700 is the chipset in charge of sound/musics in the Super Nintendo. More games should be working now. Links: Snes9x 1.16 for DOS [307 kb] - Snes9x 1.16 for Linux libc5 [397 kb] Please note that although the Linux Libc6 version was not updated, the Libc5 one should work on Libc6 systems (it's working on mine), at least. - The second release candidate for MAME 0.34 is now available, fixing even more bugs. Hopefully the next one will be final. Links: MAME Homepage - MAME 0.34rc4 for DOS [1185 kb] |
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Monday, December 21, 1998 |
| Amiga |
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(posted by Zoop - 20:22)
A new beta version (0.8.6 r6) of WinUAE, the Windows port of the Unix Amiga emulator, is now available for download. As usual, dozens of bugs were fixed, and some new features (such as an auto-mounter) were included in this "Merry Christmas" version. To celebrate it, I have just uploaded one of my favorite Amiga demo, called State of the Arts. Every Amiga fans should drop a tear when seeing it :~)
Links: Homepage - State of the Arts [659 kb] - WinUAE 0.8.6r6 [662 kb] |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 20:21)
Nyef has released not one, but two new versions of DarcNES since yesterday ! The latest public version fixes a bug with Super Mario Bros 1 under the DOS version, and introduces preliminary support for saved battery ram. A pre-compiled version is now available for Linux/x86, but the author suggest downloading the source code, as documentations are not included with the binaries.
Links: Homepage - DarcNES 98/12/20a for Linux/x86 [84 kb] - Sources [64 kb] |
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Sunday, December 20, 1998 |
| Reviews |
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(posted by Shion - 23:41)
A new arcade review was just added, courtesy of Ashley. This one is of Ninja Gaiden.
Two versions of the rom are available for download- an English version that works with MAME and
Raine, and an English/Japanese merged version that only works with MAME.
Links: Reviews Section - Ninja Gaiden Review |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 10:30)
Alastair Bridgewater (aka Nyef) has released a brand new Nintendo emulator called DarcNES. It features sound and supports the most common mappers. The good news is that DarcNES is distributed as source code, and you should be able to compile it for Linux/x86 and DOS. The bad one is that no pre-compiled versions are available from the homepage. I'll try to compile it later, and upload both versions as soon as possible. Please note that Nyef is also affiliated with the RockNES team, and that he's one who first added sound into (the yet un-released) RockNES. As for RockNES's future, we cannot say anything now. Stay tuned.. Links: DarcNES Homepage - DarcNES 98/12/19 Sources [62 kb] |
| Master System |
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(posted by Zoop - 10:29)
Michel Brideau has just opened a new site called SMScene. Dedicated to the Sega Master System, the site features different sections covering everything from system's history to cheats and emulators.
Link: SMScene |
| Genesis |
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(posted by Zoop - 10:28)
Sam Pettus distributed a beta version of the upcoming Genesis Game Guide 1.0, which is nothing but the biggest and greatest game list around. For those who are not afraid reading a 22729 lines document describing thousand of Genesis/32x/SegaCD games, go ahead and download it :-)
Link: Genesis Game Guide 0.98 [254 kb] |
| Nintendo 64 |
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(posted by Zoop - 10:27)
Lemmy strike again, releasing Nemu64 0.006 ! Even more bugs were fixed, you don't have to restart the emulator anymore in order to load another rom, and a rom header editor was added inside of the interface. Nemu64 is a Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows, still in early stage of development (although it runs many demos perfectly).
Links: Nemu64 Homepage - N64 Demos - Nemu64 0.006 [258 kb] |
| Site |
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(posted by Zoop - 10:26)
Cleric's news site, the News-u-lator, has moved to a new location with it's own domain name (http://www.lator.com). Be sure to update your bookmark !
Link: News-u-lator |
| Arcade |
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(posted by Zoop - 10:25)
Don Jarret has updated PCSloMo, adding Mr.TNT support and improving the Eyes driver (which should be perfect now). PCSloMo is a (slow ;-) multi-arcade emulator for Windows.
Links: PCSloMo Homepage - PCSloMo 0.24br5 [166 kb] |
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Saturday, December 19, 1998 |
| Dreamcast |
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(posted by Zoop - 08:40)
It seems that some people are still not realizing that the Dreamcast picture I posted Thursday was nothing but a joke. So please stop complaining on our messageboard and/or e-mailing me, and try using your brain a bit more :-)
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Friday, December 18, 1998 |
| Reviews |
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(posted by Shion - 22:29)
Two new Master System reviews were just added, courtesy of Simon- one of Zillion
and the other of Psycho Fox. Enjoy!
Links: Reviews Section - Psycho Fox Review - Zillion Review |
| Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 09:17)
Nestra 0.51 is out, fixing a VRAM mirroring bug and adding an option to change mirroring manually. Nestra is a Nintendo emulator for Linux/x86, using dynamic recompilation and distributed in the source code form.
Links: Nestra Homepage - Nestra 0.51 [37 kb] |
| Contest |
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(posted by lilac - 00:07)
For those of you participating in the Emulation World Sound Blaster Live! Contest, please note that our Sonic icon on the top of pages like this one does not count.
You'll know what the real icon looks like when you find it.
Link: Contest Rules |
| Gameboy |
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(posted by lilac - 00:07)
Everyone's favorite new Color Gameboy emulator, Dboy, has gotten yet another facelift, this time to version 0.33.
Also, for those of you still having trouble getting color support to work, try making the first line in dboy.cfg "-cgb" instead of the last.
Links: DBoy Homepage - DBoy 0.33 [64 kb] |
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Thursday, December 17, 1998 |
| Dreamcast |
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(posted by Zoop - 14:55)
A Dreamcast driver was recently submitted to the MAME team. Although there is some graphic problems, the sound is playing perfectly and it's running at a good speed (about 30 FPS) on my Pentium 120. Good job, guys!
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| Arcade |
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(posted by Scifi - 01:15)
We keep getiing more and more great news about Raine on the official webpage.
There are more screenshots of two playable games to be included in the next version, Bubble Shymphony a Taito F3 game and
Plotting a fun puzzle game also from Taito emulated in Raine by Richard Mitton the author of The New Zealand Story emulator.
Link: Homepage |
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Wednesday, December 16, 1998 |
| Site |
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(posted by Shion - 21:17)
Our favourite, erm... interviewers at news-u-lator have conducted another interview.
This time it's Akilla, author of NES4PC, who gets the treatment. This is their
fifth interview in a week ;-)
Links: news-u-lator - Akilla Interview |
| Site |
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(posted by Shion - 20:21)
Any emulator authors interested in adding Microsoft Sidewinder joystick support to their
projects, be sure to check out this link.
Link: M.S.S.F.U.E |
| MSX |
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(posted by Zoop - 16:51)
Everyone thought it was dead, but Marat Fayzullin just released a new version of fMSX, his portable MSX emulator. I bet most of you didn't even know what was emulation when the previous version was released :) Hats off to Marat for keeping releasing the sources of his emulator while he's charging for the Windows port (the other are free). This version is a complete rewrite, so I won't bother describing what are the "changes". Expect better emulation, and some new bugs introduced - maybe. Links: fMSX Homepage - fMSX 2.0 for Unix based systems [417 kb] |
| Nintendo 64 |
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(posted by Zoop - 16:50)
Lemmy has released an update to Nemu64, his new Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows. Even more demonstrations should work in this version.
Links: Nemu64 Homepage - N64 Demos - Nemu64 0.005 [253 kb] |
| Gameboy |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 06:10)
BouKiChi's FREE CGB emulator DBoy has been updated to version 0.32. If you know Japanese, then you can look at the readme and tell me what's new. There's a somewhat translated manual of 0.31 at Dave's, if you want to check that out.
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Tuesday, December 15, 1998 |
| Contest |
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(posted by Zoop - 13:26)
Beginning on Tuesday the 15th, and running for seven days (through Monday the 21st), Our host, Emulation World will be running a contest in which one of our frequent visitors will have the chance to win a Soundblaster Live! Value Edition soundcard. Your task is to find icons on seven of the major Emulation World sites, including this one. Each day, a different site will place an icon of a retrogaming character on their site for 24 hours only. If you find all seven icons over the next week, you will be in a drawing to win the soundcard.
The seven participating sites are Emulators Unlimited, Retrogames, RAINE, PSemu Pro, Zophar's Domain, Emulation Camp, and System16. If you are affiliated with any of these sites, or with Emulation World, you may not participate. Entries must have all seven icons identified and show which sites, and on which days they appeared on. Entries must be sent to contest@emulationworld.com.
Link: Rules and Information |
| Translation |
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(posted by Spinner 8 - 04:36)
Kikuyama has released some new translation patches. Here's Square's Tom Sawyer (NES) 0.07
and Hanjuku Heroes (SNES) 0.0025. I don't really know what's new in these, but I think it's safe to say
that more has been translated than in the previous patches. The zip for Square's Tom Sawyer contains the rom,
by the way.
Links: Kikuyamas Translation - Square's Tom Sawyer 0.07 [153 kb] - Hanjuku Heroes 0.0025 [2 kb] |
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Monday, December 14, 1998 |
| Site |
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(posted by Shion - 22:02)
This is becoming a bit of a regular occurence :-) news-u-lator have conducted two more
interviews- one with Christian Gyrling (of the TheSE team), and the other of
Tratax (of the PSEmu team). Enjoy!
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| Nintendo 64 |
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(posted by Zoop - 18:33)
While some people are announcing fake Nintendo 64 emulators, Lemmy started working on a real one. It's called Nemu64, and it's quite promising. It does runs most demos (as shown on the homepage) and you can even see the Nintendo screen at the very beginning of WaceRace64, proving it's not a fake at all. And since no emulators can be used without roms, we started putting Nintendo 64 demos roms online for your viewing pleasure :) Thanks goes to Daniel Lehmann and Geoff Trowbridge for the news.
Links: Nemu64 Homepage - N64 Demos - Nemu64 0.04 [253 kb] |
| Super Nintendo |
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(posted by Zoop - 12:52)
Sam Pettus has released an update to his Snes Compatibility Chart. This is mainly a
maintenance release, as no new games were added to the (big) list. As of version 1.15, Snes9x
runs more games than ZSnes (ratios are 94.5% and 94.0%, on the 1094 games tested).
Link: Snes Compatibility Chart 1.53 [39 kb] |
| Master System |
|
(posted by Zoop - 12:51)
Believe me or not, but I ported my Sega 8-bits emulator from DOS to Linux in less than
one hour (I never thought it would be so easy to do!). It's not as fast and complete as the
original DOS version (many features are missing), but hopefully both versions will be
synchronized and released on the same time.
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| Super Nintendo |
|
(posted by Zoop - 12:50)
Snes Game Center 0.6, "one of the easiest, most comprehensive front-ends" for Snes9x
and ZSnes has been released. This version introduces an updatable cheat code database, and
some changes to the interface.
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| Gameboy |
|
(posted by lilac - 11:21)
More Gameboy goodies: Gollum has updated both Linux and Unix/DECX/OSF1 ports of Boycott to version 0.43e, featuring autodetection and support for 8, 16, and 24 bit-per-pixel video modes as well as Pentium class optimizations.
Links: Boycott Homepage - Boycott 0.43e for Linux [32 kb] - Boycott 0.43e for Unix/DEC/OSF1 [51 kb] |
| Gameboy |
|
(posted by Spinner 8 - 07:35)
Can't get enough of those crazy Japanese emulators? Well here's DBoy 0.31 for DOS, written by BouKiChi. There's no GUI and runs on a 486/66 (heh), since it (from what I can tell) seems to be based on some old VGB-DOS code. The big news, however, is in its Color Game Boy emulation! Be sure and type -cgb at the command prompt :)
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| Arcade |
|
(posted by Scifi - 00:15)
More Raine news on the official webpage, seems that there is no official release date for the new version due to the massive code changes of the emulator, especially on sound.
But they promise more good news soon. There are more screenshots of three playable games to be included in the next version, P-47 a great shoot-em-up and Avenging Spirit / Phantasm a platform game also from Jaleco. Link: Homepage |
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Sunday, December 13, 1998 |
| PC Engine |
|
(posted by Zoop - 13:27)
Jam Sponge and Mr Kipling have released a new version of HU6280, their free PC-Engine / Turbo Grafx 16 emulator. This version introduces the following changes:
Links: HU6280 Homepage - HU6280 1.24 [181 kb] |
| PC/XT |
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(posted by Zoop - 13:26)
Juergen Buchmueller is working on a PC/XT driver for MESS, the multi-system emulator. The current development version is already able to boot DOS 3, and hopefully some old games will be playable in the upcoming version of MESS. For those who don't see an interest in emulating old PC, you may have forgotten that MESS is a portable emulator (non-PC users are able to use it) and most old games are running too fast on recent machines.
Link: MESS Homepage |
| Translation |
|
(posted by Spinner 8 - 03:21)
Hey, remember me? Anyway, here's the new stuff:
All of these patches are now online at Emucamp, as well as Tasuki's (discontinued) patch for Lunar: Magic School. I'll be playing this until SSS Complete comes out. :)
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Saturday, December 12, 1998 |
| Site |
|
(posted by Shion - 21:18)
news-u-lator strikes again! This time they've interviewed Thomas Djafari, who talks about some of his earlier projects (emulators VCS2000 and CULT), and his current involvement in a multiple-system emulator.
Links: news-u-lator - Interview |
| Master System / Nintendo |
|
(posted by Zoop - 18:22)
The mysterious Maechiko has just updated three of his emulators today: SMSFan'98 (Master System), GGFan'98 (Game Gear), and FCFan'98 (Nintendo). Since none of us read Japanese, I cannot tell what was updated. All emulators are for Windows, are in Japanese, and are shareware. Good luck :)
Links: SMSFan'98 1.06 [58 kb] - GGFan'98 1.05 [56 kb] - FCFan'98 1.04 [57 kb] |
| Arcadia |
|
(posted by Zoop - 11:04)
Paul Robson, the author of 2001 (the one and only Emerson Arcadia emulator) is about to send the sources of his emulator to the MESS team. Hopefully, the machine will be emulated by the next version of MESS. It is a good point, considering the fact some new roms were recently dumped and are causing problems to Paul Robson's emulator - now let's hope the talented programmers behind MESS will improve it's emulation.
Links: MESS Homepage - Emerson Arcadia emulators |
| Master System |
|
(posted by Zoop - 11:03)
The Sega Master System mailing list that was hosted on segasages.com has recently moved to a new location, at timsnet.com. Also, a mailing list dedicated to the Megaman series of games is featured on the same network. Check the following links if you are interested in subscribing to one of them. (I suggest subscribing to the first one :-)
Links: Master System List - Megaman List |
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Friday, December 11, 1998 |
| Master System |
|
(posted by Shion - 23:03)
Sega fans get ready to download, because we've just released a new Master System rom!
This one is of Dick Tracy, a fairly well-known action game starring the comic book
crimefighter. Many thanks go to Yakmo for making this release possible. It isn't the
best SMS game out there, but it's ready and waiting for you to try it out. So click on this
screenshot to read the review and download it. Enjoy!
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| Nintendo |
|
(posted by Gav - 21:31)
Nestra 0.50, a NES emulator for UNIX based systems, has been updated, with the following new features: - Split-screen character table switch is implemented - Sprite transparency is correct now (a bit expensive in CPU time tho) - Differential redraw is implemented (only changed scanlines are redrawn) - Disassembly is now a command line option - Minor updates to the dynamic recompiler + eliminated some compiler warnings Links: Homepage - Nestra 0.50 [39 kb] |
| Genesis |
|
(posted by Zoop - 21:28)
While other sites are telling you about some changes to be included in the next version of Generator, the portable Genesis emulator, we're bringing you a Windows port (the original was for Unix based systems), by Jason Nelson.
This is not an official port yet, and you won't find it anywhere on the homepage. It may officialized, depending on the success it'll receive.
Links: Homepage - Generator 32 0.03 [149 kb] |
| Atari 2600 |
|
(posted by Shion - 20:43)
John Saeger has updated z26, his DOS/Win95 Atari 2600
emulator, to v1.22, only a week after releasing v1.21. This version adds a simple file selector/
GUI. Source code is also available for download.
Links: Homepage - z26 1.22 [39 kb] z26 1.22 (Source Code) [39 kb] |
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Thursday, December 10, 1998 |
| Arcade |
|
(posted by Zoop - 17:54)
The X-Window port of MAME has just been synched to the latest DOS version, adding support for the fourty new games and stereo sound, as well as some Unix specific changes. Direct Graphic Access (under Linux) is now supported, and you can use up to four joysticks on the same time (Gauntlet fans will appreciate).
Links: Homepage - xMAME 0.34b8.1 Source Code [2.5 megs] |
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Wednesday, December 9, 1998 |
| Site |
|
(posted by Shion - 21:31)
news-u-lator has interviewed Cosimo De Michele, the author of WinNES (an
NES emulator for Windows). This is the first of many interviews they plan to conduct.
Links: news-u-lator - Interview |
| Frontend |
|
(posted by Shion - 21:31)
WinFronT 1.0 (formerly known as Run-It), a Windows frontend for M72 and
Neorage, was just released. Features include a complete game list with game details, games
filter and sorting, and more. The link to the new homepage is below.
Links: Homepage - WinFronT 1.0 [535 kb] |
| Reviews |
|
(posted by Shion - 21:31)
A review of Stardust for Amiga 500 was just added, courtesy of Interceptor.
Check it out, and download the disk images if you like, but expect to wait a while, as they are
2.25 mb in total :-)
Links: Reviews Section - Stardust Review |
| Super Nintendo |
|
(posted by _Bnu - 19:14)
Snes9x 1.15 for Linux has been synched to the last DOS version. The new features are:
DSP Emulation has been fixed. Mario Kart should be almost 100% playable. 48Mbit Memory Map implemented, Tales If Phantasia should work now. FPS Display added.
Mode 7 optimized a bit. Go download it, now. :)
Link: SNES9x 1.15 for Linux libc5 [364 kb] |
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Tuesday, December 8, 1998 |
| Site |
|
(posted by Shion - 20:12)
The IDSA (Interactive Digital Software Association) have caused plenty of controversy
where emulation and ROMs are concerned (especially after the Dave's Classics ordeal). A guy named
Cameron Mac Millan has put up an 'arguments page' regarding the IDSA and their trying to
stop making ROMs available for download.
Links: Response to IDSA page |
| Genesis |
|
(posted by Shion - 19:51)
Everybody's favorite Genesis Chart (aka Eidolon's Genesis Compatibility Chart)
has been updated to v1.31.
Links: Homepage - Genesis Chart 1.31 [28 kb] |
| ACE 32 |
|
(posted by Zoop - 18:25)
Edward Patel has released two versions of his new Jupiter ACE 32 emulator, called Vace. Although it doesn't have sound support, sources (for Unix based systems) are available so we can expect the best in futures version. For those who are wondering, the ACE 32 is an old computer machine based on a Z80. Something real nostalgists will be sure to appreciate.
Links: Homepage - Vace 1.0 for Windows [48 kb] - Sources (Unix) [37 kb] |
| Arcade |
|
(posted by Gav - 17:53)
DTMNT 0.55 Beta has been released by Dave, featuring an improved 8 Bit palette, and Scan Lines, to give that Arcade Monitor experience. Whilst the visuals are improved, it should be noted that performance does take a hit, so it may not be worth the download if you have a lower Spec PC.
Links: Homepage - DTMNT 0.55 Beta [339 kb] |
| Super Nintendo |
|
(posted by Gav - 17:53)
SPCAmp 401, a popular Winamp Plugin which plays ZSnes's SPC files has been updated, this version fixes the Sound overflow bug,
Links: Homepage - SPCAmp 401 [42 kb] |
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Monday, December 7, 1998 |
| Master System |
|
(posted by Zoop - 13:12)
BrSMS 1.12 was just released for non registered users, with Game Gear and SG1000 support, 3D glasses emulation and various bug fixed. BrSMS is a (fast) Sega 8-bits emulator for DOS.
Links: BrSMS Homepage - BrSMS 1.12 [80 kb] |
| Arcade |
|
(posted by Zoop - 13:03)
Turaco 1.0 is the first released version of a brand new Arcade graphics editor, by AGE authors. Unlike their previous editor, Turaco features an easy to use GUI so you can modify or draw your own sprites more easily. The other important change is that you can modify or add drivers without having to recompile the program (if the 226 drivers provided by default are not enough for you).
Links: Homepage - Turaco 1.0 [285 kb] |
| Site |
|
(posted by Zoop - 08:50)
Megabyte has just announced the return of his site, Patent Pending. You may have heard that, just like us, his account on Simplenet was cancelled..
"After a month of downtime after SimpleNet kicked us off for breaking their ignorant ToS, Patent Pending is back! We have decided to create a game site network, under our old emudev name Konfiskated Teknologies. We now have our own domain and are hosted by maindomain (which is a lot nicer that SimpleNet). My computer suffered a hard drive crash, and we were not able to retrieve all of our files. Most notably, the whole Emulators section was lost. We are rebuilding as fast as we can however, and I should have about 50% of the site up by tomorrow night. After that, pages will have to be replaced one-by-one. It will be slow at first, but we have great plans ahead! Link: Patent Pending |
| Arcade |
|
(posted by Zoop - 08:49)
The homepage for xMAME, the X-Window port of MAME, has moved to a new location (on retrogames.com). Be sure to update your bookmark, Unix freaks :)
Link: xMAME Homepage |
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Sunday, December 6, 1998 |
| Super Nintendo |
|
(posted by Zoop - 18:40)
Gary Anderson of the Snes9x team has been interviewed by Geechy. He's mainly talking about why Snes9x was stopped for a while, and that's an interesting point.
Link: Gary Anderson Interview |
| Site |
|
(posted by Zoop - 18:10)
Not enough news these days? Ok, we're here to bring you some fun, then: I just discovered a site called Gay Games: emulation for homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, crossdressing transgendered and other sexual minority games players. Although it wasn't updated since a few months, I suggest visiting it for having a good laught :-)
Link: Gay Games |
| Super Nintendo |
|
(posted by Zoop - 14:56)
Nitro has released ZD-Spc 1.6, a new version of his SPC music player for Windows. Changes are a new default skin, improved interface, some optimizations and various minor fixes.
Links: Homepage - ZD-Spc 1.6 [419 kb] |
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Saturday, December 5, 1998 |
| Super Nintendo |
|
(posted by Shion - 21:04)
Now isn't this good timing? Just as our SNES emulators section goes back up, Snes9x 1.15 is released! New features include a fixed DSP (so Mario Kart should now be almost 100% playable) and a 48Mbit memory map (so Tales of Phantasia should also be playable). The DOS port is now maintained by Cyber Warrior X (as before) and TeleKarawu.
Link: Homepage - Snes9x 1.15 [302 kb] |
| Arcade |
|
(posted by Zoop - 06:35)
Retrocade 1.1 released! A few months after the very first release, Retrocade, the multi-arcade emulator for DOS, was finally updated! This version introduces support for six new games: Bosconian, Dig Dug, Power Drive, Max RPM, Missile Command and Galaga. Other changes are tons of bug fixes (including the "quarter screen" one) and the following new features were added: scanlines, faster starting sequence, game recording, game history informations, plus other things you'll discover by yourself :-)
Here are the files:
Retrocade 1.1 - the Emulator itself - 717 kb
Please note that having all the packages installed is not necessary to play the emulator, as it's working even without it's rocking Graphical User Interface. Link: Retrocade Homepage |
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Friday, December 4, 1998 |
| Super Nintendo |
|
(posted by Shion - 20:07)
It wasn't easy, but Emulation Camp's SNES emulators section is back up! All the latest
versions of emulators are there, but let us know if you discover any broken links.
Link: SNES Emulators |
| NEO*GEO |
|
(posted by lilac - 19:54)
A new NeoDanji capable of running 26 games is now available. Yum yum, tasty morsel - try it out and see if you taste the same!
Links: Homepage - NeoDanji 4 [363 kb] |
| Arcade |
|
(posted by Zoop - 18:06)
Barry Rodewald has just released a version 0.26 of GalEMU, his multi-arcade emulator for DOS. Zig Zag is now playable, and some video modes requires VESA 2.0 in this version (don't ask me why, I don't know!).
Links: Homepage - GalEMU 0.26 [203 kb] |
| Atari 2600 |
|
(posted by lilac - 12:36)
John Seagar has updated z26 to version 1.21 with the following adjustments:
Links: Homepage - z26 1.21 [35 kb] - z26 1.21 source code [81 kb] |
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Thursday, December 3, 1998 |
| Arcade |
|
(posted by lilac - 19:07)
Since no one else wants to update today I suppose I'll have to do it.
Anyway, theres yet another unofficial port of M.A.M.E. out, one that strips all non-NEO*GEO code and drivers, creatively called NeoMAME.
Not much difference in emulation than the original M.A.M.E., only smaller.
<sarcasm>Something is wrong when this "multiple machine classics" emulator emulates a single new age system.</sarcasm>
Link: NeoMAME 0.34 Beta 8 [554 kb] |
| Master System |
|
(posted by lilac - 19:07)
SMSFAN98 has been updated to version 1.05. Like most people I don't read Japanese, so I can't tell whats new, although I expect it's DirectX problems to be fixed so it can be more compatible with more machines.
Links: Homepage - SMSFAN98 v1.05 [55 kb] |
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Wednesday, December 2, 1998 |
| Arcade |
|
(posted by Scifi - 00:47)
More Raine news on the official webpage, more screenshots of two playable games to be in the next version The Combatribes a Technos game with full sound support & Puchi Carat a Taito F3 game, a cross between Puzzle Bobble & Arkanoid.
Link: Homepage |
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Tuesday, December 1, 1998 |
| Atari ST |
|
(posted by Zoop - 12:51)
Back in July, a new Atari ST emulator named Oids was released. After four months, the author has just released a new version of it, fixing emulation bugs and adding sound support - and it's now called Echo. Although it's not as good as PaCifiST in compatibility, it's the first emulator which runs the game "Oids" correctly. And that's why the emulator used this name before :-)
Links: Homepage - Echo 0.1 Beta [394 kb] |
