BeMAME is a port of MAME to the BeOS. Apparently, this version is up to par with the 0.36b5 DOS version. Unfortunately, I can't tell what else is new :(. MAME is a fantasic arcade emulator that needs no explanation.

David Raingeard (of BeGameboy fame) has done it again. This time he brings PC-Engine/Turbo Graphx 16 emulation to the BeOS. Although this is the first version of BePCEngine, it features complete emulation, with only things like audio, and save/load states missing. BePCEngine features a GUI, as well as Joystick support, Scanline Effects, as well as frameskip. BePCEngine is also fully multi-threaded. To my knowledge, this is the only PCE emulator for BeOS.

Apologies to all for the lack of news today. A CGI Problem with our newsupdate script has occured. Now it's fixed. Hopefully we should be able to catch up on all the news now.

Hey all. A new version of BeBochs has been released. This time it's 0.5. BeBochs is an optimized version of Bochs, the x86 PC emulator, for the BeOS. BeBochs features a BDirectWindow (fast!) for rendering graphics, as well as mouse support. New in this version: CD-ROM support, Windows 98 support, and configuration errors detection.

MAMED (MAME for Digita) has been updated to version 36b15 and now has another emulator to join it's ranks. MESSD (MESS for Digita) is now available to. This means you can now play console games on your Kodak DC220, DC260, DC265, and DC290 digital cameras! The reason why I just say console games is because the computer systems wouldn't work too well since the cameras have no keyboards. You can download the new builds of both emulators at the homepage linked below.

Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

Sorry about the lack of updates recently, but things slowed down a bit due to various reasons (one of them being, that I'm about to start my own business these days).

Well, the good news is, we have finished making screenshots for over 930 Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, creating ~930 HTML files, etc. I bet you can imagine how many, many hours went into this ;) Now we are at adding facts with a little help of the great "G3"-list by Sam to all games, including known alias' as well as manufacturer info, genre and so on.

There's also a little "surprise" to be revealed soon, because we have added _complete_ screenshots and facts for another gaming system. Wait and see... we are not dead :)

More to come soon.

Speaking of EmuGaming, platano17 sent an e-mail to Matt Conte, the author of Nofrendo, since it hasn't been updated in over a year. He got a response back and here's what he said:

Status: still being worked on. My job takes up most of my time, but lately I've been finding a half hour here and there to work on it. If you haven't heard, my NES sound core is being used in MAME/MESS, zd-spc, and MSP(miscellaneous sound player), and it's pretty much as close to the real thing as you can get. The rest of the emulator is getting there as well, and there should be ports to at least 3 or 4 popular platforms by the time of the release.

Zeograd has released a frontend for his emulator Hu-Go!. According to his homepage, it only launches HuCards right now and Hu-Go!.exe has to be in the same directory as the frontend executable. Thanks to EmuGaming for the news.

GuruChoc has uploaded Chase HQ 2, Guerilla Wars, Kodure Ookami and much more stuff for MAME and RAINE !

Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

Four new releases today - thanks to richard from Retrogames for the news.

*** Frodo/MacOS v4.1.9 - a C64 emulator for the Macintosh.

*** Generator/MacOS v0.11a - a Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator for the Macintosh.

*** ROM Info Bundle v1.4 - The ROM Info applications are sold in a bundle, which costs just $20

*** SoftVMS/MacOS v1.8 - is a Dreamcast Visual Memory System emulator for the Macintosh.

One of my friends, Rodimus Prime, has released some AMD/Celeron/P2 and Pentium builds of EmuDX. These builds give speed increases just like A/PMAME do for MAME, so if you like MAME and EmuDX, give it a try.

Dave has updated his Genesis emulator DGen to version 1.21. Here's what's new:

+ Switched to Richard Mitton’s excellent RAZE Z80 emulator, which fixes
the out of time music on some games.
Most of you described the problem as ’the music isn't in
sync with the game’. Anyway, this is now fixed.

+ Sonic1/2/3, Aladdin are all fine now. I imagine there will be others.
Eternal Champions’s music is okay and you can play the game with Musashi.

+ DAC sound plays at the right pitch now (e.g. ’Sega’ chord, ’Eswat’ speech)

- No shadows yet (e.g. Sonic2 bonus game)

Thanks to RetroGames for the news.

Here are the site changes (thanks to _MADrigal_ for the email):
- Las Vegas (Bandai) updated to 1.03 (minor bugfix)
- PuckMan (Tomy) updated to 1.01 (better simulation routines)
The next simulator, "Donkey Kong Circus" (Nintendo's Panorama Screen Series) will be ready soon with the first public beta. Expect it before next saturday.

SSF the new Saturn emulator, has gotten a page update today. Below is a rough translation by Ben-J:

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It makes the fX ply To indicatory part it is is in trial, but Is the fact that it has failed in emulating the DSP probably cause? fX ply To drawing command at the time of logograph is the fCfJfO ,Ä. In indication on only of the line the battle fKfOfbfK was moving cleanly because,
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With being the case that it is said, When it reaches the point where it can do the bug correction and fX ply To indication of the DSP it raises."

Thanks to Consollection for the news.

GEOShock has uploaded Jaleco's Parallel Turn (1984) dumped by D-Zine - this is no NeoGeo game, it is an unemulated arcade romset.

Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

This cool Jump'n Run was dumped by Kai1 and is the #51 Genesis dump released at Genesis Power.
The URL doesn't work right now - seems they had used their full transfer rate for this month again - just wait !

The next version of this Apple II emulator for Windows was released on 01/27 - here are the changes:
*** Improved long filename support for all Apple II Oasis programs
Apple II Disk (image) Manager:
*** Apple II Disk Manager now is able to display different file types in different colors. This feature is controlled from View/Options menu.
*** View/Short (8.3) Filenames menu is another new option. It defines how will be displayed the short filenames - in lowercase or uppercase.

Thanks to Navarone's emulation 9 for the news.

EmuForce has interviewed the author of DGen. The interview is good and if you are interested in this emulator you should read it, since it explains some stuff about the future of DGen.

*** 28th January 2000: Bryan McPhail added some Guerrilla War and some Bermuda Triangle clones to the SNK driver. Zsolt Vasvari fixed speeds in some TMS34010 games and highscores now display in Trog. Jürgen Buchmüller added color overlay simulation to the Gee Bee driver.

*** 27th January 2000: Phil Stroffolino got Fighting Soccer playable and he also cleaned up the SNK driver. Andrea Mazzoleni did some more key/joy functions' merging in the core.

*** 26th January 2000: Pongkang added Yosaku To Donbee, Space King and two different Space War games to the 8080bw driver. Zsolt Vasvari and Takahiro Nogi fixed Sindbad Mystery sound.

*** 25th January 2000: Jürgen Buchmüller added sound to Warp Warp. Tatsuyuki Satoh fixed a cpu_setOPbaseoverride bug. Aaron Giles fixed a Turbo sprite bug, and he cleaned up the Williams sound system drivers. Zsolt Vasvari fixed a Fitter invulnerability problem.

*** 24th January 2000: Jürgen Buchmüller sent in a driver for Navalone, Kaitei Takara Sagashi and SOS. Phil Stroffolino did some minor SNK driver bugfixes. Zsolt Vasvari fixed Exerion crash bugs.

*** 23rd January 2000: Nicola Salmoria added an original version of Gee Bee, and new romsets of Bomb Bee and Cutie Q to the Gee Bee driver. Zsolt Vasvari fixed Gottlieb driver's graphics bugs.

Yuppers, that's right, they have updated. Sadly, no Tenchi Muyo patch yet =( But they do say it will take just a little longer. But the good news is that they've announced their new project, Record of Lodoss War, and it's already 43% done. This should be another great translation to keep a watch out for. Thanks to Deflux for the news.

Well, a short time after all the .DX files were uploaded to the site, the actual emulator was too! You can now download EmuDX v1.0 at the homepage linked below! Oh yeah, you must have all the .DX files (around 20 megs) for it to work right, make sure you get those too. =)

Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

The german SNES site was updated once again - 40 new game reviews (in german) and 42 new Roms were uploaded ! And the SNES Zone team welcomed a new member - Seppatoni - to their staff !

At the Palm Computing Platform is a new version of the Palm OS® Emulator available. This current version 3.0a3 is available for Windows and Mac OS.

Thanks to Navarone's emulation 9 for the news.

Something BIG is near - "you're soaking in it"

Mike Green the creator of EmuDX has been interviewed by Fixo of EmuGaming about his EmuDX project !

Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the link.

The Unix port of MAME is now in-sync with the latest DOS release. Please look HERE for the Unix specfic changes !
There is a patch available - to upgrade from 0.36b14.1.

Thanks to Chris from Retrogames for the news.

David & Cédric Michel have released the Macintosh version of their great PC-Engine emulator Magic Engine. All the key files have already been sent to registered users - if you didn't got yours - mail them !

Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.

Just a little post on this boring Friday night here. If your wandering around the net and have nothing to do, then come chat with the staff of EmuCamp on the EFNet IRC channel #emucamp. Lots of staffers frequintely visit there including me (r0ni), uzplayer, lilac, Reiginsei, Delta, and the rest. Also our channel operator Lrd[EFN] is always there making this happen for us along with c0njurer helping out too, and our visitors; SillyCon-, Lycia (from ZD), Drewbert, SAV2880, Ghola, Emulord (maintainer of the Portugese mirror) and many more! If you don't have a IRC client get one from the site below and come chat with us!

Zoop has updated his Sega site - SMS Power - three new dumps are upladed:

*** Scratch Golf for the Game Gear
*** Zippy Race for the SG-1000.
*** E-Swat (alternate) for the Master System.

Rodimus Prime has released his A/P CPU optimized MESS version 36 beta 15. "All Beta 15 builds should be faster!"

Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

Lemon added 53 much requested C64 games today. Enjoy!

The game "EVE - Burst Error" for PC98 is raedy for download !

*** OC ReView #6 - Snacks'n Jaxson

The great duo JamSponge/MrKipling have released the next version of their PC-Engine emulator Hu6280.
JamSponge wrotes :"Take a look at the .ini file for options...
Please let me know if this works on your system, I`m getting ready for a super big release...! (please email hu.log file)
Please send me feedback NOW, so i can get everything right before the release...!"

Thanks to dutch for the news.

ShinobiZ has added a lot of flyers, game-entries and new screenshots to his web-page ShinobiZ's Home.
Greatest addition was the new romdump of the Sega System 32 game: "Dragon Ball Z V.R.V.S."

Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.

Here are the changes:
* 2x screen mode, makes use of 640x480 fullscreen instead of 320x240.
* 2x screen mode allows usage of 100% scanlines.
* Whole lotta core bugs fixed. (I had forgotten an opcode :P)
* Mapper 1 fixed, now (nearly) all MMC1 games work.
* Only the 512k version (correct dump?) of DW4 will work.
*Please delete the old .INI files. (They will still work, but contains old info :)

Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.

The 50 Genesis release - Gunstar Heroes (E) dumped by NeoZeed.

David Raingeard has released a new version of his great Gameboy emulator for the BeOS. This time it's version 0.63. He says that joystick support is now working properly.

NesToy Version 2.82 was released with a massive Database update !

Bobic and Hippie2000 have updated the best Amiga site on the net !
Here are the new games (legal with permission - but only for Back to the Roots) :

** Hannibal a classcic german Starbyte game
** Conquest of the Longbow another Sierra classic
** Legend of the Lost from Impressions
** Rorke's Drift another Impressions game
** Jazznic a fantastic Puzznic clone
** Torque an Uridium alike shoot'em up.
** Age of Rock a different tetris clone
** Waponez - cool shoot'em up

The demo-section was updated with some fine ECS demos ! Check 911 Rescue - a totally differnt intro, which especially all Star Trek Fans should check out. They enhanced their former Links section to the initial version of a hand crafted "Amiga related Web Directory". And finally music from Ruben Monteiro, Andromeda, Radix and Sidewinder together with tons of new brilliant chip tunes were uploaded too.

KGB is a Gameboy CoLoR emulator and was updated today ! Here are the new features :

*** added a little box to let you change the keys.
*** there is now an option to change the size of the screen; Small, Normal, Big and Really Big.
*** new are 50% scanlines.
*** a favorites list to allow fast easy access to your 10 favorite games.

And again - thanks to Retrogames for the news.

"We are proud to present the first ever publicly released LP on the GameBoy. This ROM file contains 11 songs composed by a few of our studio musicians using our inhouse music composition suite named Beyond Tracker".

Features:
- 3 Featured Artists
- 11 Full Length Tracks
- Song Playback Control
- Realtime Equalizer Bars
- Realtime 3d Graphic Effects
- Supports Original & Pocket Gameboy

A really cool idea - very creative - thanks to Retrogames for the link.

Einstein II (cool name) has released a new version of his helpful N64 utility: "In this version 413 ROMs are recognized via roms.ini and another 49 ROMs by using the special CRC1-method."
This utility is available in English and Deutsch :-) - Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

News reportdirect from EmuDX :
"VegaX has written an update for the DX process page explaining one of the less painful ways of creating DX graphics from the originals. Hopefully this will soon be joined by some information from myself on how the emulation part works in more detail, and possibly some from our musicians too.

The release is still looking good for Saturday. Many of the remaining graphics and sound effects are finding their way into the dx files. The music and sound effects files for the 1.0 games will be uploaded very soon.

The law of the shooter ---> "Just Press the Buttons"

This japanese PC98 emulator was updated again. If YOU can translate the changes - please inform me !

Thanks to Navarone's emulation 9 for the news.

Now you can download both emulators direct from Emucamp - emjoy !

--- MAME32 v0.36 Beta 15

--- DGen 1.20

To calm down the Raine ROM hunting mania - Warlock has set up a new unofficial Raine WIP page with preliminary report on the 53 wip games that were enabled in Raine v0.28f .

I've been waiting :) hehehe, Go an see if you can get it from one of the mirrors. I know I can't :( I need MAME32...need it...

Dave has updated the greatest Genesis emu for Windows out there! :) Here's what he coded up for us this time:

I did this a minute ago and the news script screwed on me.. (damnit...recluse and your messages...smurfette...please...your sick...). Anyway's a new version of Generator for Unix is out..

Straight from the mail:

"K.O.F. Perfect has added an almost complete NeoGeo Cartridge Cover Scans. Totalling up to 30M+ of images file, with some including the US and Japanese version."

SSF has been updated to version 0.02c on the 18th (a few days ago but still news) Also the page is in another language and Ben-J has posted a translation of the page by Leto_II here. I don't think it plays anything yet but it will be fun to watch develop :)

Thanks to Ben-J of Consollection once again for the news :)
The binary is here...

The Nintendo 64 emulator, MiGen64, had a update today at the website, here's what it says:

"I have corrected some main bugs, so now Dextrose demo is running on MiGen64, Fzoom too, and also Pong :). If you want you can check out some screenshots of demos and games working on MiGen64 in the Screenshot Section."

Thanks to Ben-J for the news via ICQ.

Arcade Roms From Japan released Armed Police Batrider aka Raizing for RAINE ! Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

Retrogames reports the port of Retrocade to OS/2 !
Here is the posting from the Official M.A.M.E. for OS/2 web page which has made this Retrocade version:
"An ALPHA version of Retrocade for OS/2 is available for download. It still has a little ways to go before getting my final seal of approval, but I would like early feedback on this project if possible. It is working enough to run most games and give you a feel for what the emulator is like. I hope you enjoy it!"

Name me a better source for Sega Cd ISO's on the whole net ? Iceman2k's Sega Xtreme rooooocks !!! Here are his new additions:
** Power Monger ISO and MP3's for Sega CD
** Cotton 2 ISO for Saturn
** Outlaws 2 ISO and MP3's for Saturn!!!
** Shining Force 3 part 1 ISO for Saturn!!!
** Virtua Fighter ISO and MP3's for Saturn!!!

HA ha haha ahahaaa . . . what is SNOW ???
Hmmmm ... Snow ??? isn't that inside Meka's "SNOW" theme ???

M.E.S.S. was updated with lots of fixes and tweaks (according to Vintage Gaming)
Newly included driver are :
*** AdventureVision [Dan Boris]
*** Commodore64(NTSC&pal), Max [Peter Trauner]
*** Apple1, Nascom1 [Paul Danials]
*** MicroBee (32,56k) [Juergen Buchmueller]
*** zx80, zx81, ts1000, aszmic, pc8300, pow3000 [Juergen Buchmueller]
*** laser 110, 210, 200, 310, 350, 500, 700, tx8000 [Juergen Buchmueller]
*** cpc464, cpc664 [Kev Thacker]
*** kc85_4 (preliminary) [Kev Thacker]

Don't forget to grab the new BIOS-images at Oliver's Emulator-Seite (in german)

The Official M.E.S.S.page hasn't been updated - so please visit Vintage Gamings M.E.S.S.page

NAZ has updated his CPS2 DAQ to version 1.77 -> Full CPS2 ROM FAQ 1.77 = 2.314Mb !!!

Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.

Pl@netEmu has translated the official UltraHLE FAQ to Italian. Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.
Right now the link doesn't resolve - i hope they can fix their problem real soon !

The latest version of MacMAME has been translated to french ! Download it from the official MacMAME page!

Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.

The Video Game Museum got it's own Domain name "http://www.vgmuseum.com/" - please update your bookmarks !

GuruChoc has lost his Host CYBERStream ! He needs suggestions for another and better host for his roms !
Some Mame and all Raine ROMs are back online - visit his site for th full story --- Thanks to NeoSigma for the email !

Today they released their #49 Genesis redump - Olympic Summer Games - Atlanta 96 (F). Please visit their sponsors tp support their efforts !!!

Hey guys! 'Tis I Delta again. I just have a little bit of news for all. First off, I have updated the Pretendo site with some news regarding the emulator, and my CPU core, Cake. Secondly, it has come to my attention that Pretendo needs a new icon. If you are good with making icons (I know I suck) then send an icon to me. There's no real deadline for the icon since I dont' know when the next Pretendo release will be. The winner's icon will be the new Pretendo icon, and he/she will get credit someplace. Finally, a friend of mine (trzy) has released the sources to the tile renderer of his NES emulator called Naughty. Although it's not the best renderer, it's good for starters who want to see graphics in their emulator quickly.

Yousei has posted some more pics from the FF3 Editor, and I must say, they look beautiful and are making me very anxious for a release =) While you're there, be sure to check out the new messageboard, you can field your questions about the editor there and get some answers to. Just don't ask when it's going to be released, that's a no-no since it's a stupid question, the simple answer to it is "When it's ready" of course... Oh yeah, and don't forget the SPC Disassembler, there's a message board for it too, and it's a great program if you want to learn some info about the insides of SPC Files.

GoodGB V0.30 now knows about 2298 GB ROMS - recent changes:
-- larger database, MANY more correct Japanese names
-- no more ZZZ files.. are files are classified now
-- More GBRedump project info added to filenames
-- moved all GB color roms to GoodGBC
-- added list of GB roms needing a redump.. help if you can

According to GameDaily, Eidos has announced that they are extending a deal with Capcom to have publishing rights to release some games on consoles, namely Resident Evil Survivor on PlayStation and Resident Evil: Code Veronica on Dreamcast in Europe and Australia.

OK everyone, I've gotten an e-mail from half the emulation scene now about that psemu.net update being a picture from the English series of Monty Python. I for one have seen the movie but don't go out of my way keeping a mental picture of the whole thing in my head for later reference (but that's what you guys are for :P). Anyways, thank you ALL for your e-mails but I now remember the scene and about half of the movie after that too :)

Some guys in asia has started a Petition to lift the ban !
"This is really a sad day indeed. After 1 year the release of Halflife. Halflife is ban in Singapore by the board of cencorships & the ministry of arts".

Thanks to Drewbert of Pure Emulation

As usual, after some days, the once "avaiable only for contributors & mirrors" release can now be gathered from one of Neo Geo Team 2000 mirrors, also, after some chatting with Shernand on IRC, he told me exclusively that the next release will be a fighting game, which is far the most well-known saga from SNK.

Shane Monroe has reopened his Amiga emulation site with a totally new design! Thanks to dutch from Retrogames for the news.
" We've tried to make this a unique source for Amiga emulation content, plus provide you with the friendliest, fastest, easiest to use layout. We currently have 50 quality titles online for your download pleasure, with more on the way. This site makes heavy use of CSS, so while you can get around and stuff in Netscape4, the page is prettier in Opera and Internet Explorer".

The new sprite rip on the top left is from Rips 'r us!

Todays comic strip - "OverHacked" is a story about nudity in the emulation scene - boooaaaah !!

BREAKING NEWS - ZEROES UNLIMITED is hosted by OverClocked.
If you like OverClocked you'll love Zeroes Unlimited - look yourself !

This is a new japanese Sega Saturn emulator for DOS with the following emulation status (according to Vintage Gamings Translation) :
- Direct control routine (for CD access) of 25% IDE controller
- 60% S H2 emulator task
- 25% CD block task
- 5% VD P1 treatment task
- 5% VD P2 treatment task
- 0% Voodoo drawing treatment task
- 70% SCU treatment task
- 20% SMPC treatment task
- 15% 68000 emulator tasks
- 0% SCSP treatment task

There's still a lot to do - thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.

ShinobiZ needs your help - He like to buy an original Out Run/Turbo Out Run or After Burner/Thunder Blade stand-up cabinet from Sega in my area. Please, if you known where I can buy one of these arcade cabinets in the regions of Belgium, North of France, West Germany, Netherlands or Luxemburg, contact me asap at shinobiz@advalvas.be ! Thanks ! - I'm also searching for the 512Kb version of Shinobi on PC-Engine (TurboGraphX 16) in rom format :) - Some bad links were fixed too !

_Bnu from Zophar's Domain reports: "[Vector] has done something really nice: Ported DarcNES, a multi system emulator formerly mostly for DOS and Linux/X11 to Windows! This version is based on the dn9a0115 version, so it uses the most recent version of the source code. It works in Windows 2000 too, I tried it, hehe".

Please visit this site to get the windows port.

Fresh news from this cool site:
* Message Board opened (use it)
* Anex86 2.10 has been uploaded
* New link to Neko's PC98 HP on the links page. Neko's page has the game Yu-No available for download.
_Bnu also reports that Anex86 and Ex68 are running much faster in Windows 2000 than in Windows 98, so if you have a decent computer then try out Windows 2000! Japanese support rocks ! (Not my opinion - it's a statement from _Bnu !!!)

After the alpha releases - Famtasia (a very good japanese Windows based NES emulator) now reached beta status ! I'm very bad in reading japanese - so i don't know whats new :-)

Thanks to Navarone's emulation 9 for the news.

Can you believe it? Neo-Geo is still not dead after 8-9 years of being in existence! The latest game for this system, Strikers 1945 Plus (an MVS Plus cart :) was reviewed by GameFan magazine. Thanks to Haze of GeoShock for the news.

The next beta version of this great C-64 emulator was just released - Håkan seems to worry about version numbers above 2.0 - nevertheless visit his site and take this new version. He offers updated DOS and window versions - here are the changes :
*** Quiting with Alt+F4 in Windows version now should save the configuration file.
*** Strange filenames like pi, should now be correctly loaded when using the automatic reset and load feature.
*** The pause mode with interlaced mode should now work better.
*** The windowed mode for DirectX with 32-bits of color resolution should now work better.

Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.

Rodimus Prime has released a new update (insync with the latest DOS release) of his Pentium and Pentium MMX processors optimized Mame version. Rodimus mentions that this should be the fastest beta built he made - he totally rebuilts his compile environments.

Thanks to dutch for the news.

Newly uploaded .dx files for you to download ready for the release on the
download page.

Mike wrotes: "New screenshots have been uploaded representing Ms Pacman and Pacman, as will be featured in the forthcoming release. The new Pacman artwork was inspired by the new Ms Pacman graphics that VegaX had recently sent in. See for yourself on the screenshots page the new graphics in action".
Thats not all the update - please look yourself :)

Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.

Guru-Choc's Arcade ROM Heaven is now offering all MAME roms (execpt NeoGeo) and Impact roms (more to follow) ! So please visit his sponsor to keep this service alive ! -- As he said: "suck it dry" !!!! - thanks to dutch from Retrogames for the news.

I don't know if this project is for real, so decide yourself. Quoting from mail:

"I've started a N64 emulator called Under64 and now
were at a point where we need more info on emulating
the N64. I was hoping you could help us by putting
out a request to help direct us to some more info on
the N64. -- benjii"

If you can help them, please click at the link below.

Well, this is interesting. A few people are developing an open source NES emulator for learning purposes. If you're into programming and have knowledge of C/C++, then this is for you. Check it out at the link below.

The DGen site has been updated with the following news:
If I were you I'd avoid playing Phantasy Star 4 on DGen - it has a problem where the screen blanks and the game crashes on some battles a fair way into the game. That would certainly annoy me if I was playing it...
Haven't a clue what's causing it. I get a few e-mails every week about this. Other games with trouble are War Song and Shining Force 2 I think. Regarding old versions and speed, any idea which was the best version in terms of speed? Speed seems to have really dropped between 1.00 and 1.19, but it's hard to say where the code was the 'best' (e.g. speed/compat tradeoff).

Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.

PC-Dragon v2.06 Source Code was released on 17 January 2000 at the homepage of the author ! Please visit this emulator page - they offer lots of Tandy and Dragon related things.

Thanks again to Vintage Gaming for the news.

Well now that Zoop has released a new meka to the public I've updated WonderTheme, my theme editor for Meka, as well. New in this version: directory search for meka.thm, the neat "snow" effect, and a gradient shading bugfix.

Vintage Gaming reports the release of AMAME V0.36 beta 15. It will offer a slight speed increase on AMD processors over the normal build. Please visit Vintage Gaming's Mame site to get this MAME port. Pentium optimized version should be available tomorrow !

The Do-Re-Mi Fantasy: Milon's Quest translation for the SNES is another milestone for us non-japanese players. Without the efforts of people like recluse and musashi from Gaijin Productions we could never really enjoy these japanese games ! Do-Re-Mi is a fully translated made by recluse !

Please visit Gaijin Productions to get the patch. Thanks to Neil_ from SGC for the news.

The MacMAME team has released their Macintosh version of this great emulator update - and here are the changes:
*** In sync with DOS beta 15. [Aaron Giles]
*** Added "Attach clones to parent" option in the sorting menu. [Aaron Giles]
*** Fixed folder alias handling in the frontend. [John Butler]
*** Some internal reorganization for faster compiles. [Aaron Giles]

Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.

Both artworks Space War and Warrior were made for resolutions up to 1024 x 768.
*** Space Wars was made by Nathan Strum
*** Warrior was made by Bobby Tribble
Get them at the Official MAME's download section !

If you're looking for various computer bios-images for the new included Mess drivers - look no further !
Visit Oliver's german emulation site and grab what you need:
- Sinclair ZX Aszmic
- Sinclair ZX80
- Sinclair ZX81
- Tandy Radio Shack Color Computer 3

Thanks to dutch from Retrogames for the news.

This is the updated Windows port of Snes9x 1.29 and here are the changes:
*** Disabled the SPC700 noise feature simulation used by Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 3 until I work out why its being triggered by sound effects that don't use it.
*** Rewrote/reorganised the DirectX and 3D/fx handling code, now both are never enabled at the same time in Snes9X. It might fix the crashing problems some Window port users are seeing. Changing between DirectX and Voodoo 3D/fx modes now requires Snes9X to be restarted.
*** Tracked down and fixed the Chrono Trigger black screen problem on the Windows port: a rogue asm instruction was left in by mistake after some code edits - it was only by chance that the code worked on the Linux port.
*** Added some SNES debug options to the Windows port, but disabled by default, on the shipped version.
*** Clicking on the column headings in the OpenROM dialog in the Windows port now sorts by that column; plus added some slight screen update optimisations.
*** Added an optimisation to graphics rendering: don't add or subtract sub-screen from background layers, or clear the sub-screen, if SNES fixed colour is black and no background layers are enabled on sub-screen, even if ROM tries to enable translucency effects for every background layer. Discovered Sonic was doing this, there will be others.
*** Forgot to enable auto S-RAM save on Windows port, oops!

TNSe released a new version of his great NES emulator, here is what's new.

* RAW PCM added. Adds voice and *THWUMPS* to games
* Game Genie Codes.
* Saving/Loading of Cheats.
* Sound Engine now requires way less CPU power.
* Illegal opcode showing is now optional.
* Dynamic fullscreen mode is now removed.

BTW, he also mentions to check out the Cheat Console. You can download from the homepage linked below.

Thanks to JoseQ's EmuViews for the news.

For more infos about these not yet released games visit this great Arcade Resource - thanks to platano17 from Daily EmuNews for the mail :-)

Genesis Power has released Earthworm Jim 1 (U) today. In case you didn't know, Earthworm Jim was/is one of the best platformers of its time, very fun and very humorous. You can download it from the Genesis Power homepage linked below. Thanks to Drewbert for the news.

On a sad side note, I'd like to say that I will really miss RAINE, it is IMHO, one of the better emulators out there. It made me waste a many an hour in front of my PC. Good bye RAINE, we will miss you.... *sniff* And I wanted to play Macross at least once.... *sniff* =(((

UPDATE - just noticed the posting made by katharsis on Geoshock : "This version 0.28f is something like a compile of one the newest beta versions and includes all the preliminary drivers and nonworking or WIP gamese, and all games with yet unreleased dumps. This does not mean that you must beg for these roms, neither in IRC nor in the Raine-team's e-mail boxes.
... as sad I am about the end of my very favorite emulator ... I'm still glad that I can call Antiriad a friend ... and as long as losing RAINE does not mean to lose his friendship, I can stand it ... greets go out to the complete RAINE-team ... thank you very much for giving me so much fun, I will never forget that, and RAINE surely will stay my favorite emulator, forever".

Todays story "The Cow Explanation" is about the impact of flying cows inside the PSX emulation

The Official Raine Homepage was updated with the following words: "Gotta go now! *waves* " ---> waves is a link to the file: raine028f.zip !
Speculations were made - this should be the FINAL version of Raine - FOREVER ! The only difference inside this new release i found - was a a newly compiled Raine version (that file was 12 hours later compiled) and i can't say what's changed.

MAMEZine, the online MAME magazine has published it's February issue today! Nice read for all you MAME fans. So now I have something to read while I update my horribly out of date MAME ROMs :)

Thanks to Drewbert of Pure Emulation for the news.

This great source (formerly known as Gamepics & Game Scans) for Video Game related material was updated once again.
Mek is working like a Berseker to put all the stuff online he had received ! Total caunts now:
- Gamepics (game screenshots) - 5286 featured games
- Game Scans (boxes, cartridges and cd scans) 401 games

Latest additions: 99 NES scans, 74 Sega CD scans and a Dreamcast section.

The RockNES Homepage was updated with some WIP infos:
*** Major sound fix, all channels work too much better, including the noise. Added preliminary 5th sound channel support (PCM), sounding pretty good with a lot of games, but with a bit of static. That´s it! :-)

Fx3 is also running a new poll : "Which problems you have using NES emulators for DOS?" The results will be up in the next monday.

Zoop has released his GREAT Sega 8-bit (+ Coleco Vision) to the public. Visit the Meka homepage to download the new version 0.40 !

*PLUG Yes, it closed a while back (although the old page is still online for a few more days I can no longer access it...) I have moved and re-opened my SMS Power mirror thanks to katharsis at GeoShock I spent the other day uploading all the files to the server and successfully finished :) So if you need to get some of those great SMS ROMs released by our very own Zoop then look no further than my site, I've got 'em all!! END PLUG*

yep here is the new version of Hu6280 for Win9x. Here's what's new:"Added joystick support VIA DirectInput (see .ini file for details, buttons setup for microsoft sidewinder pad), Cleaned up exit code, shouldn`t crash as much now... ;)-~"

So go get it right from here or from the homepage...

Anyone check there lately? Upon a tip from Ben-J today, I quickly checked the page to find it is black and and has a strange image of a castle with a flying cow in the corner. The image is entitled "lavache.jpg" which according to Ben-J means "the cow.jpg" in French, whether a cow has anything to do with anything or if the page has been hacked, neither of us can tell. In the source code though there is a statement reading "The chase is better than the catch". What does it mean? I don't know, but maybe we'll find out soon :)

Thanks to Ben-J for the news and explanation of this strange update to psemu.net.

A new version of the TG-16/PC Engine emulator was released today, it's mainly a bugfix, but you should still check it out nevertheless. Both DOS and Linux binaries can be downloaded from the homepage linked below.

Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

Yes, that's right, a new version of the awesome emulator, RAINE, has been released! You can download it and the new fonts (needed for the Japanese fonts in the GUI) at the homepage below, I strongly urge you to get this great emu, for it is one that has made me waste many hours in front of my computer ^_^

Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

*** 22nd January 2000: Vernon C. Brooks fixed Dangerous Seed title screen and did some other Namco System 1 driver cleanups. Phil Stroffolino added a hack to display the background in Avengers.

*** 21st January 2000: Zsolt Vasvari fixed some problems in Cosmic Alien. Takahiro Nogi sent in a Kodure Ookami driver. Jürgen Buchmüller fixed some problems in Gee Bee.

Thanks to atila for the news.

Sega CD Power opened - the goal of this site is: "to simply provide a means to get Sega CD games to the masses via the Internet. It is also of prime importance to provide two things to our visitors:
*** Accuracy of releases, and original quality sound tracks. That's why original releases from here will be featured in BIN/CUE format for CDRWin users. We also want to help modem users experience the Sega CD to the fullest possible ability, so we will mirror ISO + MP3 versions of already available images on the Internet of Sega CD games.
*** This site will deal almost exclusively in Sega CD games (thus the name), but we will also post an occasional 3D0 CD Image here. At the current, this site will be dedicated to providing images to people who own Sega CD systems, and hopefully can also be a means of providing interest and images to promote future Sega CD emulation".

RELEASE #1: Bill Walsh College Football (170 MB Compressed)

Thanks to atila from Retrogames for the news.

Umihara Kawase v1.0 for Super Famicom was fully translated by satsu ! He also offers a guide to play Wonder Project J and much more - please foolow the link below right to get the translation patch ! Thanks to SGC for the news !

Gaijin Productions known for great translations like: Rainbow Silkroad , Super Bonk 2, TetraStar and Kero Kero Kerropi's Big Adventure, released a fully translated patch for The Adventures of Musashi NES. Screenshots and the ips-patch can be found HERE and here are SOME other projects in developement:
- Destiny on an Emperor 2 95 %
- Do-Re-Mi Fantasy: Milon's Quest 50 %
- Holy Umbrella - Dondera's Wild!! 5 %
- Little Master Episode 3 15 %
- Sanrio Cup Ponpon Volley 85 %

All these WIP pages are worth a look - thanks to SGC for the news !

The X68000 games pile is now offering a DOS Startup disk for the PC98 , new game info pages were added and some new X68000 games uploaded :

*** Dive On from Human Experiment !!!
*** Gaia Fighter - shooter
*** Kaizoku - shooter

Vampiloup has setup a new X68000 help page - first hints are for Mai, a little RPG - and here are some statements from _Bnu: "We have progress! :D My computer club very very likely be up soon. That means PC98 games! :P I know a lot of you want 'em :) Anyway, I'll have a bunch of X68000 games coming up soon, too, so sit tight and wait for the soon to come message board, too! :)"

NesToy is a NES ROM management utility for your Nintendo/Famicom ROMs. Changes in version 2.81 - Database update. Please read the section in nestoy.txt under Mapper Information for new information concerning some mapper 4 to 118 changes to several games.

Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

GROM is a simple Genesis ROM tool, it can convert SMD format ROMs to BIN format and display information from the Sega cartridge header regardless of what format the file is in. Run GROM to find out how to use it. You can get it at the official homepage or HERE ! - thanks dutch for the news.

Today is a MAME day ! As we all wait for the official port of MAME32 - P2L97 has released an unofficial build of MAME32 with autofire support ! The site where i found the last unofficial built isn't updated - so here's a link to Vintage Gamings MAME page

Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.

Gridle has uploaded i686 (Pentium Pro, Celeron, P2) and K6 optimized binaries on the official MAME site. Don't forget to visit the download section and grab your new sample sets for Star Cruiser and Space Invaders !
Thanks to dutch from Retrogames for the news.

The NeoGeo Team 2000 has released a new ISO/MP3 called Final Romance 2, which is dedicated to Haze. No mirrors for it yet that are listed on the page, but some of the usual mirrors already have it. Also, they have a new page design which looks a lot better IMHO.

Todays Genesis Power release is their Genesis Release #47: Berenstain Bears Camping Adventure (U).
I never heard of this game - if you have kids (like me) - grab it and let your kids try it out !

Stop - don't wast your time in downloading full MAME sets - better visit Till's Sys2064 and use his service.
He offers two new fixfiles with only the changed parts of the updated MAME rom sets !!!

Crokk has uploaded 5 new games, changed his list (150 new games) and the wanted list - uploaded are:
*** Kirby Super Deluxe - Japan
*** Parlor! Para 1 - Japan
*** Slam Dunk-SD Heat Up - Japan
*** Super Dany - France
*** Zan 3

These uploads are the good news - Crokk told me also - that his PC98 page will no longer contain games !

MAME 0.36 beta 15 has been released, and it supports now 1971 games. - New games supported:
*** Great 1000 Miles Rally [Luca Elia]
*** Shanghai [Nicola Salmoria]
*** Gee Bee [Juergen Buchmueller]
Here are the complete Changes !

Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

If you want to know where's the butt of a dragon - read this Space Harrier review !

And here are the changes of this update:
*** In sync with DOS beta 14. [Aaron Giles]
*** Rewrote the frontend dialog code, adding a number of sorting and filtering options. [Aaron Giles & John Butler]
*** Added the ability to select fonts, sizes, and styles for the main list. [Aaron Giles & John Butler]
*** Fixed a bug that caused the RAVE plugin to not work properly on a second monitor. [John Butler]
*** Sped up a number of operations, including auditing and reports. [Aaron Giles]
*** Added a feature to not display screenshots of the parent if the clone's screenshot wasn't found. [John Butler]

Thanks to dutch from Retrogames for the news.

Zophar and his team has updated their GYM Archive and their SPC Archive. 10 complete GYM-soundtracks and 2 complete SPC-soundtrack (and several uncomplete) were added. A lot od save states are uploaded too.
As far as i know Zophar's Domain offers the biggest and most complete game music collection on the net - give it a try !

It needed some brutal actions from atila of Retrogames to force Gridle to do his duty !!! Visit Retrogames for the whole story !!!

*** 19th January 2000: Jürgen Buchmüller sent in a driver for Gee Bee and Marco Cassili fixed the dipswitches.
*** 18th January 2000: Bryan McPhail did some minor fixes to the M92 driver. Aaron Giles fixed a crash bug in the Williams sound system. Keith Wilkins sent in a minor Namco System 2 update with some cleanups.
*** 17th January 2000: Tatsuyuki Satoh added a gain pump function to the sound streams system.
*** 16th January 2000: Nicola Salmoria updated some more drivers for the new macro systems and removed support for 8-bit sound streams.
*** 15th January 2000: Frank Palazzolo added Jatre Specter to the 8080bw driver. Nicola Salmoria added another Tiger Road romset and sample support for the Japanese set. Bryan McPhail got the two original Side Pocket romsets working by simulating the i8751 MCU.
*** 14th January 2000: Andrew Prime added some System 16 clones, both working and non-working ones. Zsolt Vasvari added another Wiz romset. Nicola Salmoria fixed Side Pocket with a new PROM.
*** 13th January 2000: Mathis Rosenhauer resent a vector intensity update.
*** 12th January 2000: Luca Elia sent in a Kaneko16 driver with one working game, Great 1000 Miles Rally. Zsolt Vasvari fixed Eyes and Ponpoko crash bugs. Quench sent a driver for some later Toaplan games such as Teki Paki, Ghox, Dogyuun, Knuckle Bash, Pipi & Bibis, Whoopee, Snow Bros 2.
*** 11th January 2000: Bernd Wiebelt fixed the -verifyroms bug. Andrea Mazzoleni fixed a small bug with -listinfo and merged some other key/joy core updates.
*** 10th January 2000: Jürgen Buchmüller sent in a new version of his Z80 core with yet more fixes to the timing. Luca Elia added Soldam to the Mega System 1 driver and fixed some bugs. Mathis Rosenhauer fixed the Cinematronics games' mirroring. Andrea Mazzoleni fixed another key/joy core bug.

Hey all! Looks like I'm the newest addition to the staff here at Emucamp. What ever possessed them to give me this job? ;). If you don't know who I am, I'm the guy (along with PrOxY) behind that NES emulator, Pretendo. I like cake. Well, enough about myself, and down to business. I've been running BeOS (along with Windows) for about 4 months now. With all the recent hype about R5 being free and stuff like that, I have a feeling that people will see it as a nice OS to write emulators for. It is mainly for those reasons why I have joined the Emucamp staff. I'll mainly be handling any BeOS related news, so if you have any, don't hesitate to contact me. Damn, I talk too much. Okay how bout an update?

Sweet16 1.3.2 has been released. Sweet16 is an Apple IIgs emulator for both Intel and PPC based BeOS systems. It emulates most IIgs functionallity and is highly compatible. This version is mainly a bug-fix version, however, the author mentions that HGR graphics now work right on Intel systems, and low-level mouse support also works.

Lycia from over at Zophar's Domain has interviewed Pretzel and Green from OverClocked. Surely a interview you don't want to miss! On a side note, the ZD Newsletter #7 is out and features Site of the Week: EmuCamp! Go read 'em both!

Thanks to Lycia herself for the news.

katharsis from Geoshock has added a new section to his site. This time it's a download section for the Raine roms . Be sure to visit it regularly because he plans to add new roms daily. Also available is the Genesis game Powermonger !

Apparently this Windows emulators newest version was released a few days ago, but I surely didn't notice... oh well here is the newest version of the Japanese NES emulator. I re-zipped it for your convienience.

This great ROM renaming, organizing, re-zipping utility has finally made it to version 1.0. The author states that this may just be the beginning for ClrMamePro. I wonder what that means? You can also use ClrMamePro for Callus, Impact, M72, MESS, and any other emu with datafiles available from the homepage. You can also make your own datafiles for use with it.

Thanks to Destination Emulation for the news.

I recieved a mail from Mike Green today with a picture of the background to Pengo, which should be making an appearance in EmuDX sometime soon :) OK the compressed one I made looked like crap, so I uploaded the whole thing and you can click on the link to it instead.


Hats off the the EmuDX team for their continued excellent work!! Mike states that the page should be updated soon with more information.

Yes, Zoop at long last has gotten this impressive version of MEKA out the door (well for me anyway :P). The changes text is below and as said before, it's huge!!

On Tuesday I've posted a quite large list of missing screenshots for Mega Drive (Genesis) games. Thanks to Rysley of Rysley Emulation (http://rysley3.online.fr), some screenshots could be done. Sometimes all you need is a *working* ROM instead of a corrupted one ;)

More on the largest Sega 16-bit archive on the web soon - you read it here first!

I uploaded the fixed zip file from the DGen page here at EmuCamp, plus I've updated our local files for the Mac port. You can get the files from our genesis emulators page linked below.