Wednesday, January 30, 2002

	LASER 2nd Birthday
	(posted by Lopantu - 21:51) My multiple arcade emulator, Laser, is celebrating it's 2nd birthday. Send in drivers, and help make 2002 it's most exciting year ever! :)  Link: Laser

JavaGear Beta 1

(posted by Roni - 00:34) A new Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator has been released written in Java. JavaGear can run as a applet, embedded in a web page, or as a stand-alone application. Here are the current features: SMS and GG Emulation (Compatiblity 80%) Region Setting (Application Only) Ability to load ROMs from ZIP files User Friendly GUI Sound Recording to WAV files (Application Only) The author is also looking for someone with some artistic skills to design a logo for him, if you think you can help out send him a mail! Find out more and also try the test version at his site linked below.  Link: JavaGear Homepage

Tuesday, January 29, 2002

BoyCott Advance 0.2.6

(posted by Roni - 13:38) Gollum's GameBoy Advance emulator has had a major release today. The list of fixes/changes is far to long for me to copy here. But most features seem to be dealing with sound and then plenty other fixes for games. Go check out the full list and get downloads at the homepage. There is also a fix for Sonic Advance (which makes it playable) posted after this binary release.  Link: BoyCott Advance

Monday, January 28, 2002

	Mael of GBonGBA interviewed
	(posted by Roni - 12:32) GameBoy Hell Advance has done another interview. This time with the author of GBonGBA the GameBoy emulator for the GameBoy Advance system. Nice interview, explains some things about the author and his program. Check it out at the link below.  Link: Mael Interview

Another Satourne WIP

(posted by Roni - 12:08) It seems author Fabian of Satourne works really quickly, and honestly if you go check out the screen shots on the website compared to yesterdays, you will be surprised also. He has done some work on the VDP2 processor and it is showing very big graphical progress. Things are looking pretty good in the world of Saturn emulation. Thanks, of course, to Ben-J of Consollection for the news.  Link: Satourne Homepage

	ePSXe 1.5.0
	(posted by Roni - 00:43) Today we have a new release of ePSXe for all you PlayStation emulation addicts out there. There is plenty of new bugfixes and such, and now offers a Windows and a Linux binary. Downloads can be had from our PlayStation emulators page.  Link: ePSXe Home

Calice 0.5.4 update

(posted by Roni - 00:30) Calice, the CPS1 and CPS2 emulator for windows has been updated to include the recent Marvel vs. Capcom xor releases from CPS2Shock. Please note this is only a update to your existing 0.5.2 install, unzip the file in your calice directory and follow the instructions.txt file to install correctly. This update can be obtained from our Multiple Arcade page.  Link: Calice Homepage

Sunday, January 27, 2002

	Satourne WIP pics
	(posted by Roni - 10:23) Ben-J has mailed me stating that the Satourne site, has had some new pics posted to it. Satourne is a Sega Saturn/ST-V emulator for Windows. The new pics are of Power Instinct 3 and progress is being made on the internal palette on Satourne currently. Go check it out with the link below.  Link: Satourne Homepage

Saturday, January 26, 2002

Meka 0.62

(posted by Roni - 05:30) Meka is a DOS emulator of the Sega Master System and other similiar systems. Here is what's new from the author himself: "This version introduces a few things I was hoping to do since a long time, mainly a new 93c46 EEPROM emulator, meaning that the Game Gear baseball games that wouldn't save properly before are now perfectly emulated (saving their 128 bytes EEPROM on disk). Plenty other emulation fixes were done also, Z80 things (Rambo 3 Game Over screen is now showing properly), added emulation of onboard 64 kb RAM chip of Ernie Els Golf (GG), and started to add support for the four variations of the SMS/GG video processors, with some of their subtles differences (Japanese version of Ys now play as on a Japanese Master System 1, without glitches, and that without any of the previous hacks). " Of course at this time this version is only available for registered users but should be available to the public soon, along with maybe a windows version of Meka for you all to enjoy.  Link: Meka Homepage

Thursday, January 24, 2002

	Jagulator WIP
	(posted by Roni - 20:43) It seems RealityMan author of the Atari Jaguar emulator for Windows did a work in progress update two days ago. It seems Jagulator has been split into two different versions, a "gamer" version and a "developer" version. Follow the link below to find out more information.  Link: Jagulator Homepage

	NesterDC 5.0 pre4-fix
	(posted by Roni - 19:31) A fix of the other days release of Expanded NesterDC has been released at the site. The small fix contains these corrections: fix the bottom blank bar bug. speedup on Punchout. Pick it up at the homepage linked below.  Link: Expanded NesterDC

New messageboard system

(posted by Roni - 19:00) Today (actually in the past few days) I have been doing some internal site work. One of the things you will notice is a new message board system provided by phpBB. it's very basically setup right now, things still must be changed until it is completely integrated with emucamp's design and colors and such, but feel free to go register and post some discussions. NOTE: You may have to refresh the left frame before you get the link to the new board from the menu on the left.  Link: emucamp message board

Author Loopy interviewed

(posted by Roni - 17:22) A site called Game Boy Hell Advance has done a interview with Loopy whom, in the past made the infamous DOS emulator LoopyNES and more recently has taken some of that program and made a very good Nintendo emulator that plays on the GBA; PocketNES. The interview is a decent read and offers some insite on what to expect from Loopy and his PocketNES program in the future.  Link: Interview with Loopy

Wednesday, January 23, 2002

	Nebula 1.97
	(posted by Roni - 20:06) Before I just skip doing it, I updated our local download of Nebula on our Multiple Arcade page. News of the release of course was stolen from CPS2Shock, so check there for the whats new to save on my webcOpi time spent. As of this writing, the official Nebula homepage has yet to be updated reguarding this release.  Link: Nebula Homepage

Kawaks 1.41

(posted by Roni - 14:59) Kawaks which emulates CPS1, CPS2, and NeoGeo on the Windows operating system, has been updated. Here's the changes: New drivers: - Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (US 980123) - Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (Japan 980123) - Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (Japan 980112) - Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (Asia 980112) - Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Euro 940705) Changed kof2000, garou, kof99 and clones romsets to be MAME 57 compliant. ## READ THE INCLUDED 'ROMCHANGES.TXT' FILE FOR MORE INFO. ## Big optimisations to NeoGeo rendering Added frame interpolation (replaces flickering by transparencies) I recommend you use this only if you have a powerfull PC enough, and with AutoFrameskip disabled Added starfield emulation (CPS1. Affects Strider, Forgotten Worlds and their clones) Fixed a NeoGeo calendar bug. Date is correct now Fixed Street Fighter II' - Champion Edition (Japan) (CPS1) Changed tracklists format for the better (more compact, and more flexible) The format it now the same as ElSemi's excellent JukeBox program Also, tracklist is handled dynamically: no need to reload the game to reload the tracklist. Added the ability to cycle thru sound codes for CPS1 and NeoGeo games. Use Numpad +/- (It was already implemented for CPS2 games) Hopefully fixed sound issues in Kof99 and clones thanks to Overlander Fixed missing button 4 for CPS1 Quiz games Hopefully fixed crashes if the Kawaks is run from a CD (or a non writeable directory) Fixed bug causing (for example) Kof2000 chars to taunt at the end of a movie replay Fixed some tick marks errors for record input slot and bg color in menus Of course this version can be picked up on our Multiple Arcade page.  Link: Kawaks

	CPS2Shock
	(posted by Roni - 14:42) Well it seems Razoola was feeling a bit different today, because CPS2Shock now has XORs for Marvel vs. Capcom on the site. Four versions have been released (USA, two Japan revisions, and a Asian version). Also released is Darkstalkers euro version. Available on the site are news about new versions of Kawaks, Nebula and CPS2MAME also being released.  Link: CPS2Shock

	NesterDC 5.0 pre4
	(posted by Roni - 14:23) Takayama Fumihiko has been doing some improvements on his continued port of nester to the Dreamcast. Here is the latest additions: fullscreen support. FDS sound support. speedup. bug fix. change config file name. use "queue based TA driver". This release can be picked up in binary form or source code from the homepage linked below.  Link: Expanded NesterDC

Kega 0.02

(posted by Roni - 02:18) Steve Snake has been at it again, and released another bugfix version or his Genesis / Sega CD emulator for Windows today. Changes in this release are: Added workaround for bug in Nero's WNASPI32.DLL (thanks to all who made me aware of this problem) Added the "incorrectly named ROM" fix to the ZIP support also, forgot to do that last time ;-) Rewrote a SegaCD fix - I discovered why Snatcher keeps pausing a long time ago (before Kega's first release), and fixed it. I told Stef and he fixed it in Gens too. The difference is, Stef's fix actually worked, and mine didn't, because of a stupid typo. Should be OK now. MANY compatibility fixes - more games should now work. Added YM SuperHQ mode. When this mode is selected, the sound rate will automatically change to 44100Hz, and my YM2612 core will go into SuperHQ mode. This is probably about as accurate as a YM2612 core can get at this present time (well, it will be once I finally get around to adding LFO support!) - the Sonic "signpost" sound is now accurate, for example. But this mode is probably (I haven't timed it...) a fair bit slower, so you should probably only enable it for games that need it, or if you really care about the odd sound not being *quite* right. This release can be picked up from our Genesis page. Enjoy.  Link: Kega Homepage

a.c.e 1.8

(posted by Roni - 02:14) Released yesterday was a new version of this CPS2 emulator for Windows. New changes are as follows: Added Metal Slug 3 (nd). Added Rockman the Power Fighters 2 (Japan). Added Viewpoint. Finally fixed save state bug in NeoGeo savestates. Now you can save and reload without hanging the sound chip. Fixed music in Shock Troopers (now it doesn't hang after intro). Added some basic renderers. Fileselector recognizes your mousewheel! Extended pro-Logiqxetor crc32 support and rom search. Source: rewritten video interface code. Now the interface should be pixel correct & portable (I hope!). This can be downloaded from our Multiple Arcade page.  Link: a.c.e. Homepage

Tuesday, January 22, 2002

Yape 0.33

(posted by Roni - 10:14) A new version of this Commodore 16 - Plus/4 emulator has been released, this time only the Windows version was updated. The following changes were implemented: added display contrast, brightness and gamma correction one missing key added (oops) numeric keyboard now always acts as cursor keys, even when joystick emulation is on reworked INI file a bit window always on top option the original palette is now the default Downloads can be picked up from the homepage linked below.  Link: Yape Homepage

Monday, January 21, 2002

FCE Ultra 0.74

(posted by Roni - 00:34) Xodnizel has been doing some work on his Nintendo / Famicom emulator recently and has made a new release available. Here is the changes: Added/Fixed support for iNES mapper 248. Fixed several bugs in the Namco 106 extra sound channel emulation code. Games using this chip sound much better now. Thanks to "Mamiya" and "Applepie" for help. When an NSF file is being played, FCE Ultra will no longer go through its scanline rendering loop. This speeds up NSF playback substantially. Fixed some iNES mapper 18 IRQ counter emulation bugs. "Ninja Jajamaru Ginga Dai Sakusen" now works. Rewrote large pieces of the iNES mapper 64 emulation code. Changed the way CPU/PPU cycle timing/counting is done. This should have no affect on NTSC emulation, but PAL emulation is more accurate now. Changed the behavior of indirect indexed CPU instructions to behave more like they do on a real NES. Header information is now displayed when an NSF file is loaded. Changed the format of the iNES header information output. There is a few OS specific changes on the Windows version, quoted above is the Linux readme. Downloads locally available are the Windows, Linux, DOS, and source code. They can be obtained on the Nintendo emulators page.  Link: FCE Ultra Homepage

	VirtuaNES 0.40
	(posted by Roni - 00:28) A new version of this Nintendo / Famicom emulator has been released. Changes include a cheat code function added, sound fixes, "rapid-fire" fixes, mapper 19 fixed, and other game / windows fixes. Get it from our Nintendo emulators page.  Link: VirtuaNES Homepage

Sunday, January 20, 2002

	Gens 1.60b
	(posted by Roni - 10:33) Apparently, there was a bug in last nights release of Gens. The author states: "I accidently broken the CDC DMA to Word RAM in Gens 1.60, GENS 1.60b fix the problem.". Gens is a Genesis / Sega CD emulator for Windows and the file can be downloaded here or directly here.  Link: Gens Homepage

Saturday, January 19, 2002

Gens 1.60

(posted by Roni - 18:21) Stef has updated his Genesis / Sega CD emulator once again to fix more Sega CD game emulation bugs. Here are the changes: [SEGA CD] Vector GFX engine fixed. CELL conversion fixed. Minor fix in CDD emulation. BRAM emulation fixed. Some minors others fix. [GENESIS] Minor fix in Z80 timing. [GENERAL] Game genie codes list no more sorted. Added an option to remove SCD LED. Go to our Genesis page to get it.  Link: Gens Homepage

Friday, January 18, 2002

Kega 0.01

(posted by Roni - 00:48) Steve Snake has released a bugfix version of Kega which should fix most incompatibilities that people have been having. Here is the specifics: Fixed stupid Shadow/Highlight bug in DOUBLE mode (I accidentally deleted a line) Added 15-Bit Colour support Added information on what to do if your display is in 32-Bit Colour mode. This will later be replaced by 32-Bit Colour support. Kega no longer requires ASPI to be present (Just had to remove one line!) Made a few changes to the CD-ROM functions. Hopefully CD-ROM problems will be gone now. Rewrote Joystick handlers. Most, if not all, joysticks should work now. Added the ability to remap Joystick Buttons. See below for more info. Fixed the "APPLY" button, even though it isn't really neccessary, it was causing some confusion with several users. So now it works. ZIP support. This is my own UNZIP code, using nothing but the RFC docs for reference. (in ASM ;-) ok, I'm a speed freak...) Kega does not require ZLIB.DLL. Rewrite/Speedup to some CDC emulation code. Should improve SegaCD speed slightly. Fixed stupid bug in .BIN format for SegaCD images. Altered Genesis .BIN/SMD loader to handle incorrectly named files. Thanks to Dave for the hint ;-) Several compatibility fixes. More games should work now. Improved Country AutoDetection. Thanks to Eidolon for the info. Cleaned up ASPI code. Several other small fixes that I've forgotten about... Download it from our Genesis emulators page.  Link: Kega Homepage

Thursday, January 17, 2002

RetroBase breaks the 300,000 visitors mark

(posted by Chris - 12:05) This is truly a great day for RetroBase, the probably largest classic videogames preservation archive on the web. They have broken the 300,000 visitors mark today and are still going strong, although a bit silent right now. By the way, if you're interested in helping with existing console sections or even creating new ones, make sure to contact RB's webmaster.  Link: RetroBase

Wednesday, January 16, 2002

NeoPop 0.13b

(posted by Roni - 23:47) Quoted from the website: "Yesterdays release had a few problems with it that I felt a bit annoyed about, namely the memory leak problem I mentioned. "I've spent today fixing up all the silly holes in the code that made commercial roms mess up the settings. Also, I've updated the compatibility list for commercial roms - most are black screen status, but some at least do something. This is very rewarding. "I'm also very pleased by the obvious interest in this project, thanks for all of the messages of support." This is a Neo Geo Pocket / Color emulator for Windows / Direct-X 8. Go to the site for more information and downloads.  Link: NeoPop Homepage

RetroCoder Spectrum Emulator 1.07

(posted by Roni - 23:39) Definately don't hear about emus for the PSX very often, but here is a team that has modded a PSX to use a standard PC keyboard through the serial port, and produced a Spectrum emulator to use it with! Not only has this company done this, they have also many other products based on other systems (most are for sale items, so I won't touch on those) but the emulator and knowledge to hook up your keyboard to your PSX is free. From the mail it looks as though it can be burned to cd or used with caetla to run it from your PC to the PSX. You also need the Spectrum bios and any needed rom images. You'll have to click through a few links to find the Spectrum emu, but I'm sure if your interested you'll get there just fine. Thanks goes to Anthony Ball (of the company) for the mail.  Link: Double Dutch Designs

Gngb 20020111

(posted by Roni - 11:12) While this update is a few days old (site dated the 14th) I'll post it anyways. gngb is a Gameboy / Color emulator using the SDL library for Linux. With preliminary Win32 support (meaning results may vary when trying to compile). Here is what is new: Improve FrameSkip code (should be more accurate) Opengl mode now resizable (as YUV) Add SDL_OVERLAY_YUY2 support (use option yuv_type 1 ) Add support for getopt_long (ex: --sound) Thanks goes out to LinuxEmu for the news. Get it from the homepage linked below.  Link: Gngb Homepage

NeoPop 0.13

(posted by Roni - 10:53) This is a Neo Geo Pocket Color emulator for Windows using Direct-X 8. Here is what is new: Incorporated the RAZE z80 emulator, no sound yet, but it does boost compatibility a little with some commercial roms. Made a start on a scanline based renderer but it still needs more work, so the tile based one is used here instead. Fixed and Added a lot of instructions, "Bust-a-Move Pocket" now shows a lot of progress - but it is still unplayable. Added manual memory alteration and status flag changes for homebrew developers to fiddle with (Hope this helps Flavor :-) SMALL NOTE: A lot of commercial roms exploit a known memory hole in the emulator and can corrupt the internal settings. This means that the path, zoom and control settings will be forgotten. Sorry about this, but it's not a huge problem and simply comes about from incomplete emulation. (This problem has existed since v0.111 so it's not really a new thing, it's just that with more roms getting further into their execution, there are more that can corrupt the settings). I have tried to list all of the roms that cause this problem in the compatibility list, but I may have missed some. I you find a rom that isn't mentioned in the compitability list as corrupting settings, then please e-mail me and i'll amend the list for the next version. A lot of greyed out menu options have been included, these will be enabled as the features are added - I have no idea of when though. My focus is on compatibility features just now. You can pick this up from the homepage for now.  Link: NeoPop Homepage

Monday, January 14, 2002

Gens 1.56

(posted by Roni - 22:49) Well hot off the presses is yet another new version of Gens; a Sega Genesis / CD emulator for Windows. Here is what's new: [SEGA CD] CDD timing emulation fixed. CD read improved (better CDDA playback from real CD). Perfect Synchro optimised. [GENESIS] Fixed VDP write. Fixed the infamous TAS bug. [GENERAL] Minor bug with auto detection fixed. Download available on the Genesis page. Thank the author for the posting on the Eidolons-Inn message board for the news.  Link: Gens Homepage

Kega 0.00

(posted by Roni - 16:11) Steve Snake author of the infamous KGen98 which has always been a high standard emulator has released a new emulator; Kega. This emulator is for Windows and features emulation of the Sega Genesis and Sega CD. Needed for emulation is Direct-X 8. This is a complete rewrite and is not a updated Kgen98, so don't expect it to be that. Compatible with some formats established in Gens and very much similiar in look and compatibility with Gens this is a very good emulator upon it's first release. You can download this emulator from the Genesis emulation page.  Link: Kega Homepage

	Lemon site update
	(posted by Roni - 15:32) Kim Lemon sent me a mail reguarding the latest update of the site Lemon. 125 new games have been added to Lemon's already huge archive. For those who do not know, Lemon is a huge site about the Commodore 64 and includes a unbeaten archive of roms for all your Commodore 64 needs.  Link: Lemon

Friday, January 11, 2002

Gens 1.52

(posted by Roni - 19:46) Another bugfix release of this great Windows Sega Genesis emulator was released today. Here's the lowdown: [SEGA CD] PCM sound fixed (Popful Mail voices). Fixed the memory management bug added in Gens 1.50 [GENESIS] Z80 reset modified. [GENERAL] Bug with Vsync really fixed this time. As usual, this release can be picked up on our Genesis emulators page.  Link: Gens Homepage

MasterGear 1.5

(posted by Roni - 07:57) Well it seems good old Marat Fayzullin has been hard at work on his Master System emulator, MasterGear. Released today is v1.5 with the following changes: Added initial support for SF7000 disk-based home computer (-sf7000). Added support for the CodeMasters ROM mapper (-cdms/-nocdms). Added separate and correct emulation for i8255 PPIs. Increased default VPeriod to 65100 (Back To The Future 3 works now). Small fix to DI instruction. Correct emulation of IFF1/IFF2 latches (thanks, Zoop!). Multiple timing fixes in the Z80 core (thanks, Zoop!). Fixed Z80 interrupt handling after EI (thanks, Maarten!). Fixed SMS and GG palettes to range from black to true white. MG-Windows now runs in 16BPP HiColor mode. Added debugger to MG-MSDOS and MG-Windows (F1). So far it appears the FreeBSD, RedHat, and Solaris versions are available for download. The Windows version of course has a $35 registration fee and I am unaware if it has been released yet. I will update our SMS downloads page later today to reflect the changes, for now go pick the binaries up from the homepage linked below.  Link: MasterGear Homepage

NLMSX 0.36.2

(posted by Roni - 00:12) Another release of NLMSX has been made. Here is what's changed in the five and a half hours between releases: solved a bug in the windows API call GetPrivateProfileSection which caused problems when loading configurations on older windows systems the arabic and matsushita configurations have been removed and are available in the Plugins section on the site along with a lot of other configurations  Link: NLMSX

Thursday, January 10, 2002

Bye for now!

(posted by fixo - 19:03) Hello everyone, just a quick note to say goodbye to the staff (Zoop, Roni, Lopantu, ...) and -most important- all visitors of EmuCamp! After posting for this excellent site for about two years now, time however has come for me to move on. I will now be contributing again to our friendly site Emulators Unlimited, the place where also my own fixofiles and interest in emulation scene kicked off many years (and years....) ago. So all there's left for me to do, is to wish the whole EmuCamp team all the best and good luck for years to come. Thanks, goodbye for now and hopefully see you soon!

	NLMSX 0.36.1
	(posted by Roni - 17:42) As posted earlier, a new version of NLMSX is out for the second time today. This time fixing up a few things that needed to be corrected from the earlier release. Here's the changes: solved a color bug when switching to fullscreen with 32 bit colors solved a couple of ROM naming problems in the configuration files  Link: NLMSX

	AGES Support Files
	(posted by Roni - 12:01) Over at the AGES website, author Quinntesson has done some work on his GoodGEN and Good32X DLL plugin files for AGES, and has posted new builds of them online. Included in the download is documentation on how other authors could add them to their emulator to identify ROMs. Please check the site for more information.  Link: AGES Homepage

NLMSX 0.36

(posted by Roni - 11:37) A new version of NLMSX has been released for Windows. NLMSX supports the MSX, MSX2 and the MSX2+. New in this release is the following: More stable VDP Command emulation Existing screenshots will not be overwriten anymore Added an extra address column in the configuration editor 32 bit color support Added more common roms to support the soon to release extra configurations  Link: NLMSX Homepage

Gens 1.50

(posted by Roni - 01:36) Another great release of Gens; the Windows Genesis / Sega CD emulator has been unleashed on the public. Here is the changlist for this version: [SEGA CD] Fixed a bug in CDD (bug was added in Gens 1.40) Hard reset improved. SRAM Cartridge support added. Communication register fixed/modified (thanks Steve Snake). Minor fix in memory management. [GENESIS] Minor change in Z80 timing. Fixed the CHK instruction in 68000 Starscream core. [GENERAL] Bug with Vsync in Fullscreen with NVidia video card fixed. The refresh rate problem with Win XP and Win 2000 is fixed. Minors changes. You can pick this release up from our Genesis emulators page.  Link: Gens Homepage

Wednesday, January 09, 2002

Hu-Go! 2.08 alpha

(posted by Roni - 13:37) Another new "alpha" version of Hu-Go! has been released. Hu-Go! is a Turbo-Grafx-16 / PC-Engine emulator. Available for Windows, Linux and DOS. The Windows and Linux versions are currently being ported to SDL. Here is a quote from the homepage about Zeograds current progress.: "9 Jan '02 : Here comes a new alpha version of hugo. It features color improvement as well as keyboard handling fixes. The configfile is read anew correctly. Furthermore the windows binary is also available this time :) This version is then 2.08 alpha. So, are coming soon : reenabling of sound, of cd support, of menu during execution, of throttle limitation. Thanks to scaramouche for his help."  Link: Hu-Go! Home (Zeograd's Lair)

Tuesday, January 08, 2002

Xega 0.10

(posted by Roni - 12:13) Well today we get a fresh version of Xega a Genesis / Megadrive emulator for Windows. New features in this great emulator are as follows: 32X emulation !!! (without PWM sound) Please read Xega.txt very carefully on how to get started with 32X emulation. Because of a timing issue you need to do a trick to get 32X emulation started. New DirectDraw code New DirectInput code (with full joystick support) Stretch option Added Doze Z80 core Fixed CDC DMA transfers SegaCD internal backup ram saving/loading Fixed stopwatch timer Added repeat bit to scaling/rotating engine Command line options FM Timers rewritten Sync options Fixed dot conversion Added cell conversion Fixed 68K -> VDP DMA Major rewrite on VDP part Fixed bugs in Z80 memorymap Changed Z80 cycles Please be aware that 32X emulation is slow, don't bother me about it (you should know it takes a LOT of CPU time to emulate 2 SH2's, a 68000 a Z80 and 2 VDP's and the sound emulators)  Link: Xega Homepage

BoyCott Advance SDL 0.24b R1

(posted by Roni - 03:50) Niels has been hard at work at improving his SDL port of BoyCott Advance for us all to play with. Here's what's new: Insync with BoyCott Advance 0.24b (=0.23b + additional patches) emulation core; Implented OpenGL rendering (scaling/fullscreen); Implented YUV 1:2 overlay rendering (scaling, might not work entirely on Linux and FreeBSD); Implented configuration file; Joystick/Keyboard configuration (through configfile); Redone soundsupport, sound is now about the same quality as the official WIN32 release; Several optmisations and bugfixes; Binaries of the Win32,BeOS, Linux and FreeBSD SDL versions are available at the homepage.  Link: SDLEmu

	PCSX 1.0 Update
	(posted by Roni - 03:38) It seems the authors of PCSX (a Playstation emulator for Windows/Linux) had forgetten a few bugs on the 1.0 release, and has fixed them and updated the files for download. Version numbering has not changed. Download the update from our Playstation emulators page.  Link: PCSX

Sunday, January 06, 2002

	1964 0.7.3 Patch
	(posted by Roni - 14:35) A patch upgrade to yesterdays release of 1964 0.7.2 has been released to fix some bugs with some games working properly. You must have installed 0.7.2 to upgrade with the 0.7.3 patch. The download is available from our Nintendo 64 emulators page.  Link: 1964 Homepage

XMAME 0.57.1

(posted by Roni - 03:57) What is better than a MAME release? A XMAME release, that's what! Changes to this distribution of MAME for Linux include: Everything from MAME 0.57. src/cpu/z80.c now builds with gcc 3.0.x using -O3. (Andrea Mazzoleni) Fixed a minor typo in src/cpuintrf.c. (Quench) Fixed a bug in src/vidhrdw/nmk16.c that caused bad/leftover sprites in gunnail. (David Haywood) Added experimental network support. To enable it, uncomment MAME_NET=1 in the makefile. See src/unix/doc/multiplayer-readme.txt. (Steve Freeland) Get this from our Multiple Arcade emulators page.  Link: XMAME

PCSX 1.0

(posted by Roni - 03:37) Today the Windows and Linux Playstation emulator PCSX released it's 1.0 version. As of this release, the project has also gone open-source under the gpl license, and has received a sourceforge account to manage this new development idea with the crew. Here is the new stuff for ya: Rewritten recompiler and speeded up. Speeded up memory handling and made it safer. Mdecs now using fixed point (faster). You can change cdroms while you play, only if the cdrom plugin supports the CDRgetStatus function, only my linux plugin by now. Fixed some cdrom stuff, Tekken 3 working fine now. HLE bios (experimental). Nicer about :). You can use the interpreter now (slower). Better console output (thanks to psycojak). Added Spu Irq Always Enabled option. General cleaning for source release. Better cdrom runnig code (thanks to shunt). And maybe more ;). This can be picked up on our Playstation emulators page for your downloading pleasure.  Link: PCSX

Saturday, January 05, 2002

1964 0.7.2

(posted by Roni - 14:08) A surprise today is the new release of 1964 a Nintendo64 emulator for Windows. To quote the homepage: "Belated Happy New Year Greetings!" Here is what's new: 1964 support for mempak/rumblepak in N-Rage and SJR input plugins A few emulation bug fixes Optional 32bit-only core compiler option for more speed (WIP). Read Advanced_Users.txt for more information. For games that can use it, it's cool. Mario64 and many other games can use it. Try it out. (Disabled by default) New Azimer audio plugin 0.4.0 with improved MP3 support. Azi's 0.3 (Old driver) is included as well Optional cpu usage profile stats are viewable in the status bar to see r4300i %, video %, audio %, and idle % A lot more speed Enhancements and bug fixes to the GUI  Link: 1964 Homepage

	Gens v1.42b
	(posted by Roni - 13:59) Gens is a Windows Sega Genesis emulator with very good support for the console and growing (also very good) support for the SegaCD add-on. This release fixes a sound bug in the code from 1.42. Pick it up from the link below.  Link: Gens Homepage

Wednesday, January 02, 2002

	MAME32 0.57
	(posted by Roni - 12:20) Of course after I update all the new MAME downloads, MAME32 adds itself to the list of growing MAME 0.57 builds to get and I have also uploaded that. To get your favorite flavor of MAME you can go to the Multiple Arcade emulators page or visit the homepage linked, as usual, below.  Link: MAME32

	MAME 0.57
	(posted by Roni - 11:05) Released last night was the newest version of the great arcade emulator; MAME. Adding plenty of the newer Neo-Geo sets and other highlights such as Battletoads, Pachinko Sexy Reaction, Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Drift Out '94 and more. This is one release that offers plenty to keep you playing! Go check it out at the homepage linked below.  Link: MAME

Tuesday, January 01, 2002

	Happy New Year!
	(posted by Lopantu - 00:12) Happy New Year 2002! Have a safe day, and try not to drink too much :) Let's hope 2002 will be as exciting for emulation as 2001 was.