Wow! Look what I stumbled upon, courtesy of Cory... FwNES has updated their page! The last update, I believe, was on October 30th 1999! Tuxedo Mask claims that "FWNES IS NOT DEAD, it is just progressing very slowly.". Here are some of the updates:

The latest release of Nemu64 v0.7 has a large echo inside the N64 emulation scene. Explosion Net has updated their compatibility list for the N64 emulators and released an alternate Nemu.INI !

Thanks to Ben-J from C o n s o l l e c t i o n for the information - given on IRC #rareroms.

This fine Windows frontend for MAME was updated today !

Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

Speccyal is 48k Speccy emulator for Windows, it was updated today to version 0.72b - here are the changes:

T98 is a japanese PC98 emulator, it was updated to version 0.25b - as usual - i don't know whats new !

Thanks to Navarone's emulation 9 for the news.

Comeback 64, a Commodore 64 emulator, has moved to a new site. This emulator offers ports in DOS, Windows, a few Unix flavors, OpenVMS, WindowsCE, and Java!

So, if you're a fan of this emulator, then please change your bookmarks and visit their new site:

Snes9x has updated its site with some news about the emulator and other tidbits like netplay! Here's what Gary Henderson had to say on the site:

Over a month with no new release, but I've been busy...

Spent over a week trying out a new sample decompression routine from Anti Resonance, the SPC Tool author. This routine finally allows the wind sound effects in Chrono Trigger and FF3 to be emulated more or less 100% correctly. The bad news is that the routine causes sample glitches on a few other games I tested so it might have to be switchable.

Still relating to SPC Tool, Anti Resonance has offered, well, actually, I asked, if his SPC700 and sound DSP assembler emulations could be included in Snes9x - after all, he did user Snes9x source code as a reference - and he said yes! I would of had o rewrite them in asm anyway, one day, but I'm sure Anti's code would be a lot better and faster than mine. The catch is that SPC Tool code is 16-bit and Snes9x is a 32-bit app. But fear-not, Anti is currently converting his code to 32-bit as I type.

Network game-play (both local network and Internet) on the Windows port is progressing; no GUI yet, but several rewrites later and I can now play multi-player games between machines on my mini-network at home. There are some Windows threading issues I still have to look into - basically if Snes9x can't hit 100% frame rate, the main emulation thread seems to steal all available CPU time from network client and/or server threads and emulation speed doesn't remain constant. Also, I need to improve the protocol: slim-line it some more, otherwise just two people playing will saturate a modem connection, and add additional messages; but its getting there.

On another speed related issue, I found a nasty problem with the auto-frame skip code in the Windows port - if Snes9x couldn't hit 100% frame rate rendering, the auto-frame skip code made it skip even more frames, 16 out of 17 times you ran Snes9x! Whoops! The few Super FX and SA-1 games which weren't fun to play on my 266MHz notebook computer due to speed, are now very playable.

Oh, and I'm hot on the trail of the Voodoo 3 problems people are having, well, I have a theory, at least.


It looks like that the next version of Snes9x could be a major release. Let's hope. And as always, . . .

Stay tuned!

Nemu seems to be an interesting alternative to UltraHLE according to THIS unofficial NEMU compatibility list.

Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.

The final version of NogginKnockersX, Bloodlust Software's zany game has finally been released! This is a great release as it has a lot of stuff that's new in this release. Here's what's new in this release:

Latest dumps:

SadNES 0.12 is available with improved compatibility and more SPEED !

Thanks to Dutch for the news.

A new ReView is up at the OverClocked site! This ones pretty good, so you'd better go check it out or Green will have to bust a cap.

Check it out by visiting the following link:

The Sega 16-bit Project aka "D...... R......" is now in its final stage. And guess what? Nobody can stop it ;-)

Stay tuned. EmuCamp readers will see the truth FIRST.

After GeoShock is gone, i can't say where these new Team Japump dumps will be up first !
Email me if YOU find them !

If you've been experiencing some difficulties running Nemu64, then here's some helpful hints from the site:

JoseQ has updated his great ROM section - all MAME v0.36 RC1 and some newly dumped Atari 7800 ROMs were uploaded.

New Atari ROMs are:

Shane R. Monroe: "We have added new functionality to the site. The Files Area now shows NEW FILES added in the last 48 hours! Now you can quickly see what new has been added to the site in the way of files". Doofus, Dracula, Jetstrike, AGA, Maverick V5 and Mysterious World were added to their games archive.

Thanks to atila fromRetrogames for this info.

DarcNES is a multi-console emulator for Linux. These are the change:

Yes, the quality stinks, the content stinks, and the computer it was done on stinks, but it's the Emucamp Radio Show Volume 1. As this show has barely any content whatsoever, we will name this episode "A Preview of what's to come." It'll get better. Trust me. But hey, that's what you get for doing something late when you have work in the morning. Check it out at the link below. "Any complaints that you have may be forwarded to that brick wall over there."

Oh and check out next weeks show. I should have more content by then.

Note: This episode may not be appropriate for anyone under the age of 16. Parents, please use caution before allowing your children to listen to this show.

The Dirk Stevens RetroFX interview conducted by myself and Drewbert of Pure Emulation live on the #emucamp IRC channel has been posted. To access it, click on the interview link on the sidebar. Many thanks to all the people who have made this interview possible.

A new version of Nemu64, a N64 emulator, has been released! It's been some time since the last release and its nice to see that its still being worked on. Here's a list of what's new in this version:

TNSe has released yet another version of his already awesome NES emulator, NESten. Here's what's new

* Finally fixed weird colors for good? (Please let that be a yes :)
* Added a mapper header editor for .NES files.
* Moved all mappers out to DLL files.

Since the mappers are now external, you, the end user, can make your own mapper support files (if you know how of course, heh). More info on this, plus an SDK with some examples can be found at NESten's homepage linked below, which is where you should go to download the new version also ^_^

Thanks to Zophar's Domain for the news.

It is rare to say that Emucamp has helped a site get a domain name. You would always hear about it from such sites as Retrogames and Zophars Domain when a site moves to a domain name. Thus we are proud to annouce that ROAR, The Video Game Museum has moved to it's own domain name, courtesy of Emulation World.

In addition, they have started out great as they have two hosted sites. The CVGP which was a previously hosted on ROAR and Neo Geo Pocket Shock which was hosted at the now defunct Geoshock. We here at Emucamp wish Daemon luck on his new site and urge you to check ROAR at the link below.

Zoop has uploaded these new dumps:

Cowering has released an update to the Atari 2600 version of his great rom identifying utility series (i forgot it last night)

Good2600 0.98 has zip support and is able to scan subdirectories !

GoodGBX was updated today to version 0.98 with the following changes:

- Updated scanning engine
- some name updates / redump updates
- added a few more GBC roms

Again, not directly emulation related, but Microsoft has just registered the X-Box domain name! Even though they haven’t made an official statement reguarding X-Box yet, this is quite a clue that X-Box may just be real!

Be sure to check out the NSI Domain Search Results for Xbox.com!

Note: If you try to visit Xbox.com, you will get an error message.

A new version of blini! has just been released! What is blini!? blini! is software that allows you edit your bleem!.ini file. Does that mean I can add support for more games?! No, not quite. Bleem!'s ini file has NOTHING to do with the games that work and the games that don’t work. All it does it tell Bleem! the game’s status. This is not quite UltraHLE.. This was really just a small bug-fix update, but a very important one:

Neo Geo Team 2000 isn't dead - they improved their team with katharsis from the lost GeoShock. They have good & bad news !
"First the bad news : Many mirrors are down, and probably the biggest Neo Geo Site on the net (Geoshock) is down too :(
Our latest release (Super Sidekicks) has some bad audio tracks, they contained clicks and noises. If anyone could send us this game to us in order to fix the "broken" tracks, it would be great ;)

And here are the good news : To avoid this "bad" tracks in the next releases, we've a new staffer which many of you know ;)
It's our good friend katharsis who is joining us, in order to check the upcoming releases for bad tracks before they're released to the public, this will ensure that what happend to Super Sidekicks won't happen again ;)
A big welcome for him from SpkLeader & me (Shernand) ;)"

Thanks to katharsis for the infos given on IRC #emucamp

Rodimus Prime released his Pentium and AMD optimized versions of MAME v0.36 RC1 !

Pfau Zeh is a Commodore VIC-20 emulator, available for Win32 and Linux - here are the changes in the Win32 version :

A new version of RockNES, an NES emulator, has been released. Here's a list of what's new:

Emucamp is proud to annouce that the XGS32 Website has moved over to Emucamp. XGS32 is a great Apple II Emulator for Windows. Check it out at the link below. (Thanks to Sasha for reminding me :-) )

A new version of the japanese NES emu for Windows has been released. Go get it. And for those who wonder where I find these releases, I get them from the Alpha/Beta Page at the site linked below.

Nicola has just released the first version of SNAME (Simulation and Non-Arcade Machine Emulator)! What is the purpose of SNAME you ask? Its main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. If the hardware these historical games run on ever stops working, the games will be lost, so this project attempts to keep that from happening. As a nice little side effect, to preserve these games, you must also be able to actually play them! SNAME and it’s source code are completely free! It's a small download, so you should give it a try and see what it has to offer!

A new version of GL2Ideal, a Glide Wrapper, has been released. This version contains the source code.

Thanks to EmulationHQ for the news.

Gridle has uploaded three 400x300 fixed binaries on the MAME homepage ! If you want to compile your own version check Retrogames for fixing infos. "The bug that was causing Mame v36rc1 to crash in 400x300 8 bit mode is an Allegro 3.9.31 WIP bug, not a Mame bug"

Gridle has uploaded new infos about the MAME progress:

26th February 2000:
Michael Soderstrom fixed some Galaxian memory handling bugs. Zsolt Vasvari sent a driver for Got-Ya.

25th February 2000:
Vernon C. Brooks fixed Namco System 1 DAC.

24th February 2000:
Manuel Abadia fixed bad tiles in the ending of Haunted Castle. Aaron Giles added the Japanese romset of Pole Position 2. Phil Stroffolino fixed Dark Adventure romset. Vernon C. Brooks fixed Super World Stadium 92, and it works now.

23rd February 2000:
Zsolt Vasvari got Dream Shopper playable. Mike Coates fixed Cosmic Guerrilla. Vernon C. Brooks added Face Off to Namco System 1 driver.

Cowering released new versions of his great ROM identifying utilities - GoodSMS 0.98, GoodGG 0.98, GoodPCE 0.98

All releases now using ZIP capable scanning engine !

A new version of this great Sinclair Spektrum emulator has been released - lots of improvements and fixes were included.

Expect a release of the soure code real soon - thanks to cloy from Kinox for letting me know :-)

Atani has just given me a small progress report of his emulator, SegaEMU. Here is the current state:

Dith has moved his MAME samples dedicated page Dith's Enhanced Mame samples to a new location !

Please update your bookmarks to : www.mameworld.net/dith

The popular Amiga emulation site has been updated with various new stuff. A highlight is the game "The Adventure of Maddog Williams" which has excellent gameplay, graphic and sound. It was formerly a commercial product, but now it is freeware.

Other new games are

- Serene 3 (Shoot 'em up)
- X Balls (Strategy)
- Smash Telly (Action)
- Jinx (Puzzle)
- Matchstix Man (Jump & Run)

New rare scene demos, coverscans and soundtracks are also ready to be downloaded.

This is Genesis Release #58 - Alien Storm (JUE) (!).

MC WildStyle's ALE was updated : "Good news for the fans of this site and bad news for the rest of you - the Internet charges in the UK have been dropped to a flat rate of £10 a month....what's that got to do with you? - well ALE can be updated a hell of a lot more often!".

These games are newly uploaded :

Joris Verschoor has released version 2.1 of fMSX BeOS, an MSX emulator for the BeOS. There is not too much info about this emulator at the time, however it is based on the code of fMSX UNIX, originally by Marat Fayzullin. There's no sound, all the keys aren't mapped yet, and there's no config panel.

Zoop has released an new Meka version to his beta-testers :
"Release Candidate 3 is now available, should be the last version before 0.41 final". These are the changes:

- Reduced savegame size for SG-1000 and Colecovision systems.
- Implemented better systems difference to allow detection.
- Fixed pending interrupts that were screwed in RC2.
- Fixed Back to the Future 3 for Master System (minor bug on title screen).
- Fixed Out Run for Game Gear (musics now play).
- Fixed Sonic Drift 2 for Game Gear (bottom of screen is now perfect).
- Sega Basic Level 3 Version 1.1 Japanese now works with a patch.

Gridle has uploaded the K6 and I686 optimized MAME binaries.
Note: Using the graphics mode 400x300 causes a crash, this is an Allegro bug.

Till has uploaded a new fixfile for MAME v0.36 RC1 - with fixes for:
avspirit, bermudaa, darkadv, ffantasy, getstar, gtmr, polepos2, poleps2a, rodland, streetsj and wardnerj !

The C64 TAP Central, a site that attempts to dump the old C64 classics so they are now lost forever, has just been updated! Here are the new dumps:

I have just been informed that Fusion, the Mac emulator for PC has been updated to version 2.2... Fusion allows you to have the pretty little MAC Desktop on your PC.. I posted this because it still falls under the category of emulators, depending on how you wish to define it.. So if you like MACs but are stuck with a PC, you should really give Fusion a try!

Special thanks to Ghola, once again, for this update!

Note: Although it has been updated to verison 2.2, the site currently only has 2.1.. I know, it’s odd..

A new Portuguese GameBoy emulator based on HASH has just been released. It's name is GameBBR (I’m guessing it stands for GameBoy BRasil). This is what the authors had to say in their site: (Note: These were translated from Portuguese to English.. Lucky for us we had a translator to help us out!)

Danmanya has been nice enough to compile and release an unofficial version of MAME32 for Windows! A Japanese version of the MAME32 Version 0.36 beta 16 was released! A few of the new changes include:

QPlayer is a QSound emulator that can play the music and sound effects from several arcade games based on Capcom's CPS-2, ZN-1n and ZN-2 hardware. These are some of the games tested:

CPS 2

MAME CE, the Windows CE port of MAME has just gotten it’s own domain! You can now find it at http://www.mamece.com instead of the old URL, http://www.vintagegaming.com/hosted/mamece . The author also claims to have a better installation shield (Although it seems to require both Installshield and package for the web to do a self extracting install.) He is also making changes to the ’common.c’ video routines to optimize video performance and setting up a scheme for dynamic recompilation of the Z80 cpu.

Special thanks to The Vintage Gaming Network for this update!

David Lloyd from OverClocked passed a message on to me saying that Green and Pretzel would have a cameo appearance in NogginKnockersX, a game by Bloodlust Software.

That would be the most amazing thing to see those two in a game by Bloodlust!

You can see a screenshot by visiting Bloodlust's site that's provided in this post

Thanks to David for the notification on IRC.

Hahahahaha! Serves him well! Oops! A new ep of OverClocked has just been posted! I really enjoyed this one! You really should check it out! Hehehe. Dave does it again!

Well, again this is not directly related to emulation, but it's pretty important news in my opinion.. Electronic Arts has stated that they have acquired DreamWorks Interactive. Under this deal, DreamWorks Interactive becomes a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. This is what Spielberg had to say:

"We have been extremely pleased with the working relationship that has developed over the past two years with Electronic Arts. EA brings world-class production processes, strong global distribution, and an unmatched marketing infrastructure to DreamWorks Interactive's top-notch creative talent."

I find this to be good news and bad news.. It’s good because Electronic Arts knows how to use the companies to produce good games, however it’s bad to have a Microsoft in the gaming business..

Well after seeing a new MAME release today and realizing there is no more GeoShock for a NeoMAME, I had thought of a fitting tribute for the site. I got the new Allegro, got the MAME source and compiled a up-to-date NeoMAME, just like GeoShock would do. This is my way of saying thank you to Haze and katharsis for hosting my page and for being all around good guys since meeting them!

P.S. I only edited one file from the source, and I've included it in the zip, also remember this is a unofficial release, so don't bother the MAME team.

Another big update on on the worlds greatest emulator - MAME !

I would call this released the KICK-OUT edition ! - Read here WHY and what's new in this release !

Here is the binary :-) ... Thanks to Retrogames for the news and the file !

Earlier today I posted that Emucamp was about 20k hits away from the 2,000,000th hit. Thanks to Lilac for pointing out my mistake, we arent really. In fact we are about a lot over 100k away from the 2,000,000th hit. Keep visiting. Who knows who will win our contest! For more information and prizes, click on the link above where it says "Who wants to be an Emu2millionaire?"

Zoops SMS Power is still alive - here is your proof :-)
These games were just uploaded - after GeoShocks death (mirror) it may take some time to find them !

* Galactic Protector (SMS/J)
* Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story (SMS)
* Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story (GG)

Donations are needed to aquire the following games:
"Stuff we are looking for if you have some bucks to spare":

- Caesar's Palace (undumped)
- GP Rider (GG) (need verification)
- Hook (GG) (undumped)
- Star Wars Return of the Jedi (GG) (need verification)
- Out Run (GG) (because it rules)
- Pinball Dreams (GG) (undumped)
- Zenki (emulation purpose test)

After all these bad emulation news - here is a GOOD one !
Innocent Emulation - a site which has every released US NES ROM ready and much more.

CHECK IT OUT ! Start the HUNT :-) - Thanks to Innocent Yossi for the email :-)

If you have SURF TIPS - please contact ME !

I ask every site i post for permission - so i could take some time until the submitted tips are online !

A new version of GBFan Plus, a Gameboy emulator for Windows, has been released.

Thanks to EmulationHQ for the news.

A new verison of RomCenter, a ROM management utility, has been released! Here's a list of what's new:

A new version of the popular Gameboy color emulator has been released! This one is a Win9x/00 port!

Check it out today.

You can visit the official site by visiting the following link:

Oliver has uploaded two more MESS Bios images: Commodore C65 prototype and Philips P2000 T.

Thanks to Cloy from Kinox for the info !

A new version of Lanzador, a frontend for MAME, has been released! Here's a list of what's new with this version:

Bobic and Hippie2000 got another exclusive license to legally offer games for download, this time, from the french company Lankhor.

Newest "Back to the Roots" game archiv additions :

A new version/beta of the popular compression utility for Win9x/00 has been released.

The great Emucamp contest, who wants to be an emu2millionaire sponsored in part by Telegames is now approximately 20,000 hits away from giving it's first prize away! Keep your browsers tuned to Emucamp for the latest! In case if you dont remember the prizes, scroll up and click on the "Who Wants to be an emu2millionaire" link and don't forget, the ZDU CD has been replaced with a 3rd PSX game of your choice for the 2,000,000th hit.

"A little message to anyone who still mails me with ROM-beggings ...

... BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS ... WE ARE OUT OF BUSINESS ..."

I can't believe, that there are really such dumb-ass ROM beggers are out there !

this "note", a picture and a farewell message from katharsis will be last things to post about GeoShock - FOR NOW - maybe ...... who knows !

Yes, that's right, folks! As I'm sure you know, I maintained the newsletter over at Zophar's Domain, but since I no longer work there, I've decided to bring my newsletter over to Emulation Camp! However, I need your help, Campers! I need you to come up with a name for the newsletter because quite frankly, EmuCamp Newsletter just doesn't sound catchy enough. So, what's in this for you? Well, at the bottom of EVERY issue of the letter, your name will be mentioned for coming up with the name! Imagine that? Your name, in EVERY issue! Now, you're probably wondering, What's this thing going to have in it?!? That's a VERY good question. I've decided to include the following:

Game Launcher, a universal frontend for DOS has been released! Here's a list of emulators that it currently supports:

Japans famous emulation news page emulation number 9 has been moved to -

http://www.emulation9.com/ - please update your bookmarks !

Blazemore has updated his cool NeoGeo devoted page - a bunch of new scans are online:

Top Hunter, Twinkle Star Sprites, Neo Cup '98, Ultimate 11, Neo Mr. Do, Neo Bomberman, Double Dragon, Puzzle De Pon!, Puzzle De Pon! R, Pop 'n Bounce, Super Dodge Ball, and World Heroes Perfect.

If you ever wanted to see and collect the original move-lists (MVS Sticker, Marquee Card, Flier) that were shipped with the arcade MVS boards - you'll come to the right place !

Here's an example for Fatal Fury Special feat. Joe Higashi + Andy & Terry Bogard - 396 k
As you can see from the file size above - these scans are pretty huge !
But the quality is really GREAT - they must robbed some arcades to get all this great stuff :-)

Thanks to Dutch from Retrogames for this great surfing tip !

MAMELang32 has just been updated, making it Version 0.36 Beta 16. MAMELang32 now supports the following languages:

Oh my God! PSXEmu is currently in critical condition.. Due to some problems, PSXEmu may well be facing death soon! What on Earth is up with all these Deaths? Bobbi decided to post this on their website:

"I'll take this as a place to send out an excuse to a real friend for something that happened, that went a way I never wanted it to go. All I need to tell him is : It went a way I didn't wanted it to go, your things ARE out, was nice to meet you.

Maybe PSXEmu will be back later - When I'm in the mood to continue this - But I won't if it still goes the way it's going right now, since this isn't worth running the risque (what happened now) to loose some real friends.

Signoff
- Bobbi"

We hope that the emu will be revived.. And to Bobbi, we wish you the best of luck! Stay tuned to EmuCamp as news about this tragic story unfolds..

Well I figured I better post this here since I can't post anywhere else about this. My SMS Power and Genesis Power download mirror site, Sega Power, which until earlier was hosted by GeoShock is also dying along with the unexpected closer of GeoShock. I have no free time to re-upload files to a server, sad really, I was going to do some massive stuff to the site today... unless I find a host for the site (and honestly I'm not really looking) then the unexpected closing of one very good ROM site (GeoShock) has closed yet another good ROM site. I would like to personally apologise to the users of GeoShock, my site, and all the other hosted sites from GeoShock. We never saw this coming. And I'd like to wish all the members of GeoShock luck in their future projects on the internet. It was fun for the short time I was there.

Dead_Body, the author of squeem was nice enough to tell us of the new things he plans to include in version 0.4 of squeem!

Zatos in the channel #gamersuplink has informed me of a recently started translation news site called Trans-Flux. This is a great resource for the latest in translation news. Check it out at the link below. Thanks to Zatos for the news.

We now have an official date for our second of three live IRC interviews live from the #emucamp EFNet IRC channel. Sasha of the legendary emulation news site Emunews will be interviewed on Sunday, March 5, 2000 at 8PM. Be sure to log on that night as there may be a surprise in store for everyone.

And added to our third IRC interview, the entire EmuDX team will be interviewed! Stay tuned to Emucamp for the details.

If you dont have an IRC client, Click here to download mIRC

The latest emulator for the NES, Squeem will soon be hosted on Emucamp. Check back for more details

Looks like we have a new X68K emulator! WinX68K seems like a promising emulator, except that it requires a pretty nice computer to be run on.. But nonetheless, it looks quite promising, so I think you guys should give it try and some time..

A new version of Gens, a Genesis emulator, has been released! Additionally, the emulators official site has moved! You can visit it by visiting EmuForce. Here's a list of what's new:

We are glad to give you guys a small progress report on EmuDX! It seems that the emulator is doing quite well, since the Beta testers haven't reported many errors! Be sure to check out some of the screenshots!

Special thanks to MikeDX for informing me of this update on IRC!

This has to be the most thorough NeoRAGEx Japanese site ever! It takes you through every aspect of NRX, from importing new games into the list to an explanation of the Debug BIOS all in the Japanese language, this site is a MUST for any Japanese readers of EmuCamp who love the Neo Geo. Oh yeah, even Non-Japanese people may want to check this site out, I have a feeling there are a few pictures you might find here that may REALLY invoke your curiosity! You won't be sorry ^_^ Thanks to FR for this site.

I was just over at EmulationHQ and I saw that Mathieu Rainville sent them an article on MAME in the Linux Journal. This article speaks about what MAME is and exactly what ROMs are. It also gives the writer's comments on emulation. It's definately worth a look!

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Alright, this really may not be directly related to emulation, and unfortunately, it is bad news.. According to Nintendo, the Gameboy Advance and the Dolphin console are going to face a major delay! According to our sources, we have been informed that the Nintendo Dolphin console and the Gameboy Advance have moved up their release dates to the third quarter, 2001. So much for a September release of the Gameboy Advance.. Well, I guess that means that the members of the Gameboy community have a bit longer to prepare themselves for a big task..

The site has seen a pretty large update - far to much to post it here :-)

They released a new X68000 game, one of these strange and unusual japanese hentai :-) games !
It's called "Prostitute Maker" Hmmm - what does this mean - i don't understand it - hehehe

Great news, everybody! Come Back 64 has updated it's page and released Come Back 64 DOS V0.9G! Here’s what the site had to say reguarding the update:

Some of the new features in this release are: Hardsid at selectable address; The emulator will run if a SoundBlaster exists but is busy; Removed unnessecary frameskips.

There were only minor bug fixes here, and it’s Open-Source, so if you haven’t downloaded the V0.9F, go and download V0.9G.. That’s all for now! =)

Badge has updated his page with 8 new SNES game-reviews - CHECK IT OUT !

GeoShock is DEAD ! katharsis site-op from GeoShock - wrote:

"Geoshock is dead and most likely will never return. All links were removed and all files but the main index are down now. I wanna thank Zucan very very much for what he has done for us, although he stayed allways in the background, without him this site would never have been possible.
There were some bandwidth and legality issues raised about the site and since it was run from a department within a university, it was determined by the powers above us that it should be shut down. Noone had control over the matter and apologize for the action and the quickness that it happened. I had really a nice time here, and wanna thank everyone who ever dropped me a nice mail or gave me some nice words in IRC ... this time had some negative aspects, yes .. but all in all it was great fun and am happy that I did it ..."

Thanks to katharsis for this very sad info - given on IRC #emucamp !

I personally found this to be rather odd, but this was posted at The Vintage Gaming Network from a reliable source:

"It seems that a major developer of emulation software is finishing work on a Sega approved emulator that will play Playstation (version 1, I'm assuming) software on the Dreamcast hardware. Probably will debut at E3. Given the extremely short supply of PS hardware that we will see thru the end of the year and the EXTRE MELY SHORT supply of PS 2 hardware that we expect, this could be a major boon to Sega. Look for Sony to squeal like a stuck pig and for Sega to be showing Sony 3rd party titles in their booth at E3."

I found this to be extremely weird, and I’m not sure whether to believe this or not, but I trust VGN, so I’ll have to approve.. Well, hopefuly we’ll see soon..

Special thanks to The Vintage Gaming Network for this update!

I have decided to replace the ZDU CD Prize with a 3rd PSX CD of your choice. So now instead of getting 2 PSX CD's and the autographed ZDU CD, the 2,000,000th hit will now win an additional PSX CD of their choice.

You're probably asking yourself, "what about the outtakes?" Well, look for them on Emucamp this weekend. I feel that you should be able see them all so instead of including it on a CD, I will be offering all the outtakes (about 10 of them) online for you to watch for yourselves. If you still wish to recieve a CD of it all, email me and we can arrange something.

Well, the author of P©SX project has posted some real sad news... This is what he posted:

"It is with great regret that I must announce the end of my work on the P©SX project. A change in work has resulted in my inability to legally continue PlayStation emulation. I have had a lot of fun with this project, and I hope the project will be continued by the rest of the team - I know they have what it takes. Hopefully this will not be another failed emulator."

It's sad to see a growing emulator come to a sudden halt.. We here at EmuCamp request that somebody that has what it takes to try to pick up on P©SX.. NoComp, we wish you luck with your new job, buddy..

Recently on Emucamp, we brought you the information that lator.com was going to reopen with a new approach. Today, lator.com has reopened only this time, it is split off into two different news sites. Lator Console which is dedicated to the backup unit news (NES, N64, etc) and Lator Emulation which will be emulation news. It is still under construction, but there is content up. Check it out at the link below. Thanks to Cleric for the information.

David Tucker of Reality Boy celebrates his birthday today! Happy birthday, David! He decided to update his Reality Boy webpage today, and this is what he had to say:

"Well Im officially older, I got a lot of cool toys for my B-Day including a pocket watch with a music box in it (very cool). I took yesterday off and worked on the VB all day (yes). I made some great progress, fixing a bug in the controller read operations, and decoding the majority of the pins on the link port. My demo is going a lot better now. Hopefully I will have something worth looking at soon."

Goody! A possible update soon! I'd recommend you guys stay tuned for the release of Reality Boy and further news!

Looks like Lrd just stumbled upon some good news for NES fans! I decided to drop by EmuSchool's site today, and looks like they have just updated.. Here's what EmuSchool had to say:

"Despite what many people have thought, EmuSchool is not dead. I got a new hard drive about 3 weeks ago, and re-installed Windows and Linux. I just recently got everything back to normal and installed Visual Studio again. However, I'm getting a really weird error running (not building) my latest beta. So, I'm going back to the version 0.1.7 source, which is the latest one that still runs correctly. Look for an update soon."

As a Nintendo Entertainment System fan, I really hope they will update soon! I can only hope.. I can only hope.. =)

Looks like I have some good news! The Nintendo 64 emulator, 1964, has updated their site! They have posted two new pictures and had wonderful news for us! Here's what they had to say:

"Hi! This is an update to let you know that 1964win development is back in full force. I have ported Gerrit's Mac1964 OpenGL code to the windows version and we are starting to see our first HLE stuff :). Here's a taste.. notice the way cool endian (byte ordering) and color problems.."

Hopefully a new release of 1964 will be available for download. Until then, stay tuned for new information on this great emulator!

We are glad to inform you that Memory Card Captore Sakura (MCCS) has recently been released, making it version 1.62a.. Here are some features included in this new release:

Retrogames has reported that MAME32 now supports the ACTLABS PC light gun.

The following message was the latest update at the official MAME32 page :

"ChrisK has added support for the ActLab gun system so you can use this light gun through DirectInput. He says it's quite fun w/ the Exidy shooters like Cheyenne, Crossbow etc. Although he hasn't tried it, T2 should also work as would any shooting game using a cross-hair".

That's cool - when MAME adds a Lethal Enforcers driver - such a gun would be great ! I wonder if i can buy this weapon in Germany ?

Sir Jaguar informed me, that Consolemul is back online and ready !
It was close during one week, due problems with his webhoster. If you're looking for a emulation news page in french language - click on the Consolemul link and give it a try !

A few months back, Emucamp reported about the finding of the rom Super Mario Bros 2 Japanese. The file was what really was soppose to be released to the United States but instead of that, we got a different version. Well Tek7 has emailed Emucamp to state that ironically, the file has not been taken offline from Geocities. In addition, he has made a startling discovery about Super Mario All Stars. More info will be available when the site is made public. Until then, if you havent, click on the link below to grab a copy of SMB2J.

Thanks to tek7 for the info.

Please note. My email address has changed. My new email address is now uzplayer@cenetworks.com. Please update your email lists.

James Surine has moved his Mame for Digital Cameras site MameD! over to digita.mame.net
Please update your bookmarks - support for Minolta and HP cameras will follow soon !

Thanks to Dutch from Retrogames for the news.

Warlock has added some more games to his arcade info site - the newly added games are:

Daves Video Arcade has moved - please update your bookmarks to - http://www.davesvideoarcade.co.uk/

Very special thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news :-)

If you downloaded the ROM Zipper 1.35 Beta yesterday, then you will probably want to download it again! It's nothing major, but rather a few small bug fixes, so things like pressing "Cancel" would cause the program to crash..

Special thanks to Vintage Gaming for this piece of work!

A new episode of OverClocked has just seen light! In this episode, Proffesor Pretzel and Green hold a funeral for RAINE.. To me this is sad, watching this great emulator die away. However, despite the tragedy, OverClocked was nice enough to make me laugh, so you should definately go check out the new episode!
Also, congratulations to OverClocked as he reached the 100,000 visitor mark! Frankly, I'm not surprised, OverClocked IS a GREAT strip that every emulation fan should check out! As for David, keep up the great work and keep feeding us with more strips and remixes!

Special thanks to Dave for grabbing my attention on IRC!

Guru Choc reports :"RAINE is dead, it won't be making a comeback at all :( Richard has a job as a games programmer, so you will still be able to enjoy his excellent work at some time in the future. It has nothing to do with MAMEDEV".

The original RAINE page is still available - HERE

Despite the fact that RAINE is dead (I had a hard time dealing with it..), Japump, one of the sites hosted by RAINE sure isn't! In the past few days, Japump has dumped several games, such as (Note, these are ALL JPN Versions!):

RockNES has updated it's site with great news! The Windows port of RockNES is running currently at 47 Frames Per Second on the author's Pentium 166, which now makes it faster than the DOS version, even with sound emulation!

Hopefully RockNES wil be released this weekend, so until then, be watching for more news updates on this great emulator!

Special thanks to Vintage Gaming Network for this one!

Wow, after several months of disappearance, Emulation Happenings returns, courtesy of Arcade@Home! It's good to have the site back!

Special thanks to Vintage Gaming Network for this one!

A new version of the French MacMAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator for Macs, has just been released! Here are some of the new additions to this version of MacMAME:

Program Improvements:

A new version of Thingy 32 has been released. Thingy32 is the Windows version of thingy, a rom translation utility. Here is a list of updates:

I have just been informed that SkulleateR has updated his Jagbag site! This is what he had to say:

"This text is dedicated to all that are involved..... Thanx for all your mails, gifts and ICQ msg´es....All you guys helped us alot, but there are too many to be mentioned here.....anyway, I would like to thank every single person involved in this, special thx to Jimbo btw, he will focuss on the development of JagBag while i´m gone, so hey...i´ll msg you soon man, you´re just great IMHO !"

We here at EmuCamp send our depest reguards to SkulleateR and his dad. It's good to know that everything is alright, SkulleateR..

This is a brief little post, but a new, unofficial version of MAME32 (.36b16) has just been released! Cheers everybody!

Special thanks to DarkMazda of DarkMazda's Domain for informing me!

Pretendo, the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator by Delta and PrOxY, has just updated it's site! With a new layout, this is what they had to say:

"After nearly a month of not working on Cake (my 6502 core), I had this sudden urge to get cracking again. For starters, I have cleaned up the code a LOT, and re-worked many things. It's now in Object-Oriented C, so it's loads cooler than before. I've also re-written lots of functions/routines to be faster, and more efficient. Unfortunately, I will have to re-do the Address Modes system from the ground up, and change my method of opcode emulation. It's looking a lot better than before, so I shouldn't be complaining. Hopefully it will be complete by the time the next version of Pretendo rolls around. Speaking of Pretendo, PrOxY has completed the cheat finder, and it boasts compatibility with NESten cheat files. We're working on our plugin system also, and we've just added preliminary support for CPU cores. Mapper plugins are also on the way. That's all for now."

I'm a big fan of Pretendo, and according to Delta, they are working VERY hard to get normal sound on the emulator! So guys, stay tuned!

Special thanks to Delta for bringing this to my attention on IRC!

NES9x, a brand new Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for DOS has just been released. Here are some of it's features:

Today a new version of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator, SNEeSe, has been released. Here's a list of what's new:

RabidFrog from Total Emulation has informed me that he and BisH (of EmuGaming) are planning on a updated port of "Chaos: The Battle Of Wizards" to the PC. The original was written by Julian Gollop in 1984 for the 48k ZX Spectrum (He is most famous for having developed the X-COM series). Here are some features they hope to include:

Wow, what's this? A Pac-man MP3! DJ Maui has been nice to us and has brought us a Club/Dance ReMix of Pac-man! This song has been pretty successful among the clubs in Europe according to Vintage Gaming. I personally found this song to be pretty neat and worth the download. Be sure to check it out!

All of a sudden, Nintendo Entertainment System emulators have taken a boost. ZNES is becoming popular, NESticle keeps it's great reputation, and new emulators are beginning to pop up! Delta and Proxy