Wednesday, February 28, 2001

	YAPE 0.30 hits the web!!
	(posted by Lando - 17:20) Only days ago one of the coolest Commodore Plus4 emulators has been updated once more. Ati's been working on his new external monitor functions and with some neat results. There's also some news on Aftifex! Check out the full story and more from the YAPE homepage NOW!  Link: Yape Homepage

JapandMules streaming radio

(posted by Lee - 14:21) Top50, the guy who translated Snes 9x, Zsnes, Rocknes X and Bleem into French has created a streaming radio over the net called Jap and Mules ( French joke .. a mix with japanese, Emulation and "Mules" French word that describes old shoes...strange:)) Dispite the wierd name it covers emulation. Top50 already did a parodic interview of Zeograd (in French) who was the first guy interviewed and its been already broadcasted so it's available at the link. To get the show streaming use: http://www.power3d.com/poweradio.pls in Winamp or Media player. Obviously its in French so French emu-fans can get some emulation news:))  Link: Power3D

	Zsnes French translation
	(posted by Lee - 04:19) After the Snes 9x 1.36 translation released yesterday, There has now been a translated version of Zsnes for Windows (1.17 r0.85 WIN-Latest version) to French. You can grab it over Power 3D...Thanks again, Top50  Link: Power3D

Tuesday, February 27, 2001

	Squeem progress
	(posted by Frogacuda - 18:54) Dead Body's windows based NES emulator is showing some nice progress. He put up some screenshots of his latest rewrite, which look to be showing alot of improvement. Hopefully we'll see a release before too long. Check it out at the homepage.  Link: Squeem

	tgemu Port Mania!
	(posted by Charles - 10:55) My PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 emulator, tgemu, has been ported to Windows by Pascal Bosquet, and also to BeOS by Caz. You can get the BeOS version here: www.infernal.currantbun.com The Windows version is available for download at my webpage, which is linked below.  Link: My Homepage

	send more mail!
	(posted by Lee - 03:26) I feel in a good posting mood today. Send me loads of emu-news please  Link: Emucamp

	French Snes9x 1.36
	(posted by Lee - 03:23) New French version of the top Snes 9x 1.36 emulator! Obtain it from Power 3D Thanks to Top50 for that  Link: Power3D

RuMSX v0.23

(posted by Lee - 03:21) urh! popups! Lando, I agree..Kill them all:)) RuMSX v0.23 has been released. RuMSX is a MSX Emulator for Windows by Rudolf Lechleitner. You can download the new version at ,as always, the MEP: (Nice helpful link provided) New features are: - Activation of different Desktop-Themes or the "high-contrast" option could result in a strange layout and required RuMSX to be restarted. - Last-error field in Video-tab of the "Devices" property-sheet did not have a word-break (single line) - Locale-option "Windows keyboard" is now disabled, because still not implemented yet! - KEYBOARD.ZIP updated with old keyboard-layouts and replaced *.KBD files with new ones. Please note that the 1digit MSX-locale within the new files is for information only. - In some cases RuMSX V0.22 corrupted savestate-files. This occured if saving a new state-file where the state was restored from a previous RuMSX-version (i.e. V0.21). Message "ERROR: stream VIDEOA(0) has an illegal size!" - Added QuickSave- and QuickLoad-Option (for evaluation only, hotkeys may change) - Tape forward/rewind-buttons changed - Propietary configuration files failed to load Kanji-ROM (also happened to the outdated file MSXTRold.cfg) - Updated MSX2P.ROM with 2nd release of ROM (Thanks to Jirou Kaneda, ATARULUM@hitel.net) - Dialog Options/Media enhanced to configure behaviour of used tape-images. Tape-support improved. - Minor corrections in support of new medias (tape, disk) which discarded previously choosen files, if canceled - Minor corrections in localized dialogs to improve national language support - InstallShield remembers directory of previous installation (useful if default-directory was changed to another one) thanks again to the mighty TFH/Fony  Link: RuMSX

Sunday, February 25, 2001

Pretendo stirrings

(posted by Frogacuda - 11:12) After the apparent discontinuation of this venerable windows/BeOS NES emu, we see signs of life again on the Pretendo camp. It seems the authors have been very busy since they "killed off" the emu. There are a whole slew of new screenshots of the emu showing very good accuacy and compatability. What's more it is shown to be running in Linux and BeOS! A comeback can't be far behind. Keep your eye on this one.  Link: Pretendo

Bliss updated

(posted by Lee - 03:05) The great Intellivision emulator BLISS has been updated. New features include:- Added the ability to save (F5) and load (F6) a game. You can finally replay those difficult levels over-and-over again. - Finally found and fixed the bug some users experienced where double-clicking on Bliss.exe did nothing. - Added a partial translation to Spanish. Thanks to Juan Fernando Rivera Pernía for this translation! - Added a complete translation to Portuguese. Thanks to Leandro Stevanato Alves for this translation! - Moved reset to F9. Reset was previously documented as being on F2, but because of a bug, it was actually F6, which was intended to eventually become the “Save” button. However, a user astutely pointed out that F2 was far too close to the “Pause” button (F1), so the final resting place for the reset button is now F9. Note that all of these buttons will eventually become configurable just as the input is configurable now.  Link: Bliss

	LEMON new carts
	(posted by Lee - 02:57) Over at the C64 site, LEMON you can get newly dumped C64 cart versions of The Activision Decathlon and Popeye the Arcade game. Popeye! One of my favs has returned!  Link: Lemon

Saturday, February 24, 2001

	New unofficial highscore.dat
	(posted by Lee - 11:23) Leezer writes: Hi, Ive just released a new unofficial highscore.dat file over at www.mameworld.net/highscore for use with MAME also added a q-bert zip that gives full highscore support for q-bert leezer :0) Q*bert, like that:) Download the highscore.dat at the link  Link: www.mameworld.net/highscore

Friday, February 23, 2001

	Megabase new version release
	(posted by Lee - 10:15) A new version of this multi-console Front-end is ready and is now at version 4.1 Thanks AleTsg for letting us and the world know Note from me: Sorry to here about the bad news over at Genesis Power :( It will be missed guys!  Link: MegaBase

Thursday, February 22, 2001

CPS2Mame

(posted by Frogacuda - 13:44) Yesterday, CPS2Shock released the decryption tables for Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, which, when emulated ran extremely fast. 33% too fast, to be pecise. Some people began to suspect the CPS2 board's main CPU actually runs at 12 Mhz and not 16. Raz tested the theory, and as it would turn out, it was indeed 12Mhz. So Raz has released a new build of CPS2Mame set to 12Mhz. Don't fret, because the clock speed change doesn't slow down any other games, and should actually bring a slight performance boost to those folks with slower computers. This build also corrects some Q Sound issues, and is worth checking out. Get it at CPS2Shock.  Link: CPS2Shock

Classic games convention

(posted by Lee - 08:56) This weekend (feb 24th/25th) there will be a giant classic games convention in the Washington state. People from all over the north west US and south west Canada will be there. If you live nearby, Grab your joystick and get playing There also will be the 5th annual Atari Championship this weekend. wish they did this stuff in the UK, Im a wizard at KABOOM!:)  Link: ClassicConvention

NLMSX new release

(posted by Lee - 08:53) A few news posts..Need coffee..Been on a night shift...:( NLMSX V0.34 has been released today. NLMSX is a MSX 1,2,2+ emulator for Windows, partialy based on the fMSX Emulator by Marat. The new version can be downloaded at the awesome MEP as usual. New features are: - Added performance enhanced version of the EMU2413 made by Mitsutaka Okazaki. - Some enhancements regarding the VDP interrupt system. - Solved a crash that occurred when the sound had been disabled.  Link: MEP

Wednesday, February 21, 2001

	The biggest update on PIRATES PORTAL!
	(posted by rOuGh - 16:28) Many many C64 games were added or updated in the games encyclopaedia e.g. Lazytech prv (a new and cool Katakis clone), Dictator (including a Finnish version), Night Racer (with .tap) and a cover scan of Mr.Wimpy Enjoy!  Link: PORTAL

Final burn v0.100

(posted by fixo - 14:14) A new release of the better emus around: Final Burn v0.103! Here's what's new: Added Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (ETC). Fixed SSF2 crc. Fixed a bug where CPS1 games would not start if sound was disabled. Doh! - there was a stupid bug: the video/system memory switch in finalburn.ini actually selected the wrong one! Fixed now - instead of reversing it, I just renamed the variable to nAppUseSysMemory. Remember, if Final Burn runs very slowly, before you buy a new PC, just try changing nAppUseSysMemory to 0 or 1 in finalburn.ini and see if it helps at all. So there you go - head over to the official page linked below for the download.  Link: FinalBurn

Tuesday, February 20, 2001

	MAMu_icons_0.37b12
	(posted by fixo - 11:39) If you like MAME and more particularly icons to go with them, have a look at the link below MAMu_ just released a new set of icons for MAME to go together with recent release 0.37b12.  Link: MAME Icons

	Happy Birthday Vintage Gaming!
	(posted by Lee - 04:18) Just a quick Happy Birthday to Dave and the lads at Vintage Gaming that has been online now for 5 years! Formally known as Dave's Video game classics, I remember first finding the site on my first day on the net and discovering all the fantastic emulators..Unbelivable! Anyway thanks guys and all the best from all at Emucamp  Link: VintageGaming

	Retrogaming Times
	(posted by Lee - 04:11) New issue of Retrogaming Times is up. Have a read of the latest retro-happenings in the last month at the link  Link: RetrogamingTimes

	Z80Stealth v0.410
	(posted by Lee - 04:03) The Spectrum emulator has got a new version out with KAY1024 emulation improved and support for real HDD from KAY1024 added Read more about this in z80s faq  Link: z80

Sunday, February 18, 2001

	New z26 release 1.43
	(posted by Lee - 04:29) New version of the Atari 2600 emulator, z26 which now reaches v1.43 is now available for download Whats new: It is no longer possible to generate *impossible* joystick signals such as pressing left and right simultaneously. This prevents some games like Boing from acting weird when this happens.  Link: z26

Saturday, February 17, 2001

	New PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Emulator
	(posted by Charles - 15:37) I've released the first version of tgemu, my PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16 emulator. You can get the DOS binary and source code at my homepage, linked below, and Macintosh users should visit www.bannister.org for the excellent MacOS port.  Link: tgemu

ZZAP! C16 Supplement Scans!

(posted by Lando - 10:55) Just what did the C64's little brother (Commodore C16) have to offer in the eye's of a popular Commodore C64 magazine? ZZAP! 64, Issue 28, August 1987 rolled out an 8 page extended feature (a one off) which was a mini-encyclopaedia covering as many C16/Plus4 games they could lay thier hands on. Head on over now for the FULL low down taken from this very issue:  Link: C16/Plus4 ClassiX

	PocketEngine release
	(posted by Lee - 04:25) PocketEngine, a PC Engine emulator for Compaq iPAQ PocketPC (WinCE) devices has been released. It supports sound, virtual joystick, frameskip, normal and landscape display mode and runs at full speed. Thanks Domenico  Link: Pocketengine

Modeler 0.1.1a

(posted by Lopantu - 01:20) Modeler, the Sega System 32/Model 1 emulator for Win32 and Linux (and soon Macintosh too) has been updated to 0.1.1a. Here's what's new: General Disabled debug logging. On systems with slow harddisks this could dramatically slow down the emulator, and it tends to fill up your disk pretty quickly too. Fixed slowdown problem (thanks to Richard Bannister over on the Mac port for the diagnosis). Added "Force 555 video" option. If colors are weird, give it a shot. Another video autodetect fix. This one is believed to work correctly in all cases, including 24 and 32-bit desktops and 555 video cards. (8-bit desktops aren't supported, so don't try ;-) Linux-specific Minor changes to sound buffering that should slightly improve quality. You can grab it at the URL below.  Link: Modeler

Friday, February 16, 2001

Final Burn 0.101

(posted by Frogacuda - 21:36) Aaahhh... Good to have things back to normal. I was really worried for the future of one of my favorite emus, but again we see 4 versions in a day, and we can be assured that things are back to normal. 0.101 adds just what everyone's been sking for. It now uses MAME ROM sets, and it adds support for Aliens vs Predator. With the newly improved accuracy and support, MAME's CPS2 support suddenly seems alot less exciting. Head over to get downloading.  Link: Final Burn

	Lemon adds more C64 .Tap files
	(posted by Lee - 16:17) First time on the net sees the release of Cæsar the Cat, Excaliba and Hunchback II (I used to love that, dunno why?) in .Tap form Anyway these lovely games can now be downloaded at LEMON  Link: Lemon

Final Burn 0.100

(posted by Frogacuda - 16:06) Well after many (including myself) had given up on seeing any further development of CPS2 in Final Burn, the ever-forgiving Dave has seen fit to return to the system. Now you can play all your old favorites, as well as Super Street Fighter 2, and Marvel Super Heroes. What's more the emulation has been improved and all sprite Priority issues seem to be resolved. Some might be disappointed to learn that there is no support for Aliens vs Predator, and that there still exists that nasty backround glitch in SSF2, but I'm sure these will be corrected shortly. Have fun and be glad for what you've been given this time!  Link: Final Burn

CPS2mame

(posted by Frogacuda - 15:56) The good folks over at CPS2Shock have released a specially optimized CPS2-only port of MAME. This should help some of those people who get berderline performance. I haven't tested it yet (I get full speed anyway) but reports are that it helps. Also Razoola has released the decryption tables for Marvel Super Heroes, an announcement which should make many people happy.  Link: CPS2Shock

Walter (Twin Galaxies) Day Interviewed on radio

(posted by Lee - 15:44) Tonight, X-Treme Gaming Radio Interviews Twin Galaxies’ founder, Walter Day Tonight at 8:00 pm EDT, X-treme Gaming Radio will broadcast a 45-minute interview with Walter Day, Chief Scorekeeper at the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard, the industry authority on player rankings, gaming statistics and championship tournaments for 20 years. Walter gives his unique perspective on the past, present and future of gaming, from Centipede to Unreal Tournament. In a frank discussion about his role as Chief Scorekeeper for the past 20 years, he gives exclusive information on the complex validation process and scrutiny each new world record receives before being verified for Twin Galaxies’ Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, the industry's official book of records. To listen to the show, go to X-TREME GAMING RADIO Thanks to Kai Butler for the news  Link: X-Tream

	New Megabase4 plug-in
	(posted by Lee - 10:46) A new plug-in is ready for Megabase4 front-end. It is called Megarom and it alllow you to automaticly add roms in the database. Obtain it from the link, Thanks AleTsg  Link: Megabase

	Rumor Mill
	(posted by Lopantu - 01:45) JoseQ has posted another edition of his Rumor Mill. This week it covers rumors on Sega Arcade Project, GENS FPSE, SMOG, and Bliss. As always, this is well worth the read. So click the link below to see just what AgentQ's agents have dug up this week.  Link: EmuViews

Thursday, February 15, 2001

MAME 0.37 b12 (CPS2 release)

(posted by Frogacuda - 18:39) MAME, everyone's favorite massively muti-system arcade emu has been updated once again, now with the hotly anticipated support for Capcom's CPS2 games. Yes it supports Super Street Fighter 2, as well as all the other games supported by Final Burn (Although DarkStalkers seems to run badly corrupted), as well as Aliens vs Predator, and a few games whose decryption tables have not been released yet, like Street Fighter Alpha 2, and Mavel Super Heroes. And despite MAME's notorious speed issues the speed is pretty brisk, holding 120% with no frame skipping on my AMD Durun/650Mhz. Also of note is Robocop 2 and Mobile Suit Gundam. Here's the full list: The Karate Tournament [Luca Elia] Poitto! [Luca Elia] Toride II Adauchi Gaiden [Luca Elia] Pururun [Luca Elia] Cannon Ball [Luca Elia] Shocking [Luca Elia] Strike Gunner S.T.G [Luca Elia] Mobile Suit Gundam [Luca Elia] Quiz Kokology [Luca Elia] Ultra Balloon [Luca Elia] Blomby Car [Luca Elia] Grand Champion [Ernesto Corvi, Phil Stroffolino] Cosmo Gang the Puzzle [Phil Stroffolino] Emeraldia [Phil Stroffolino] Tinkle Pit [Phil Stroffolino] Chinese Hero [Phil Stroffolino] VS Gong Fight [Phil Stroffolino] Looping [Phil Stroffolino] Sky Bumper [Phil Stroffolino] Fire Truck [Phil Stroffolino] Championship V'Ball [Paul Hampson] lots of Nichibutsu mahjong games [Takahiro Nogi] Shoot the Bull [David Widel] Fighting Roller [Ville Laitinen] Street Fighter: The Movie [Aaron Giles] Battle Cruiser M12 [Guru] Star Luster [Howie Cohen] Ice Climber Dual [Howie Cohen] Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom [Paul Leaman] Vampire: The Night Warriors [Paul Leaman] Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams [Paul Leaman] Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire [Paul Leaman] X-Men: Children of the Atom [Paul Leaman] Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers [Paul Leaman] Aliens vs. Predator [Paul Leaman] Street Fighter Alpha 2 [Paul Leaman] Marvel Super Heroes [Paul Leaman] Robocop 2 [Bryan McPhail] Sky Kid (set 2) Pang Poms (Mitchell) NBA Hangtime Spelunker (Japan) Kitten Kaboodle (= Nyan Nyan Panic) Klax (Germany) You can download from the MAME homepage, and keep an eye on www.mame.dk for the new ROM sets.  Link: MAME

	Vectorman Soundtrack at Sega Xtreme
	(posted by Frogacuda - 18:20) Techno junkies rejoice! IceMan2k has put up a full set of music recordings from the Genesis game Vectorman. Unfortunately this is not the commercially released arranged sountrack put out some years back, but it still sounds good. Check it out at the link below (and if you see any of those Genesis Soundtrack CDs lying arond let me know!).  Link: Sega Xtreme

	MEP downloads return
	(posted by Lee - 15:12) TFH/Fony lets us know the MEP (Great place for MSX emulation) is back up online and now the downloads are all in place again. Good to see you back :))  Link: MEP

Wednesday, February 14, 2001

	Modeler for Macintosh
	(posted by Lopantu - 21:31) Richard Bannister has updated his website with news that he is working on a Macintosh port of the Sega System32/Model 1 emulator, Modeler. You can see a screenshot of the emulator running Spiderman Arcade at the link below.  Link: Richard Bannister's Software

MAME WIP

(posted by fixo - 17:35) The work in progress page of MAME has been updated with the following news: 14th February 2001: Jürgen Buchmüller improved the sound CPU communication in the DECO Cassette system driver and added Boulder Dash - the original version. With Nicola Salmoria's help, he also fixed some 6808 CPU core bugs that prevented Fire Truck from working. Olivier Galibert fixed a small bug in the K054539 sound chip emulation that caused a few missing sounds in X-men. Quench fixed the Toaplan1 games to work correctly in 16bpp mode. Andrea Mazzoleni added a nice filtering sound resampling algorithm for the driver that do not produce sound at the requested sample rate. Screenshots of Boulder Dash and Fire Truck have been posted.  Link: MAME WIP

Modeler 0.1.1 Windows / Linux

(posted by fixo - 17:30) Modeler, the Sega System 32 and Model 1 arcade emulator, has been updated to File: modeler 0.1.1 for both Linux and Windows platforms. Here's what's new: General: Yet another attempt at the 555 fix. If it doesn't work please post the contents of the "stdout.txt" file created by the emulator. PCM banking improved. This fixes many missing sound effects in GA2, including the sword swinging and the character select screen noises. Background graphics greatly improved for Sonic. This and other fixes made Arabian Fight about as playable, so I've enabled it. Disable sound" checkbox added to GUI. Note that sound is used to generate the emulator's timing so the 60 FPS limiter is disabled when sound is off. We'll fix this at some point. Win32 specific: DirectSound driver bugfixed, so sound is much clearer now on Win32 for many soundcards (it was fine for me before with SB Live / LiveWare 3.0, but apparently it wasn't for many others). This may also have caused unnecessary slowdowns on some machines. Upgraded to the new SDL 1.1.8, which allows us to enable Sidewinder gamepad support (this was only available on Linux in 0.1.0 and 0.1.0a). The "M" button inserts coins and the "Start" button is player 1 start. You should be able to figure out the rest :-) Download and more info on this emu can be found at the link below.  Link: Impact

10+ MB of exclusive Atari videos commercials!

(posted by Lando - 15:03) Chris from RetroBase sent in this cool news and what a collection! "This is what Atari fans have been waiting for. Over 10 MB of great Atari commercials for both, computers and consoles. Now, before you start downloading, let's thank Jeff C. from Canada for the time and money he spent on those rare videos as well as Tortri aka Curt M. from the U.S. for digitizing them. By the way, I recommended the Lynx commercials the most; they are extremely fun to watch..." Cheers Chris! I`m hending your way right now :-)  Link: RetroBase

Tuesday, February 13, 2001

	Yape 0.29 hits the web!
	(posted by Lando - 18:52) This hot Commodore Plus4 emulator has just been graced an update with: emulated disk SAVE to the file system (D64 save not in yet) Save as PRG dialog window is now hexadecimal started adding a monitor/debugger some minor UI changes The new save support is great to see and comes one step closer to the real thing :-) Hit the homepage for your copy!  Link: Yape Homepage

ZX81 is back

(posted by Lee - 16:19) Back when 1k was enough came the mighty cool ZX81 (or known as the Timex 1000 elsewhere other than in Europe) The first, in the UK at least, Affordable ready-made home computer and it was great. There is now an online emulator available from Jeff vavasour's webpage so check that out. Would be cool to play 3D MONSTER MAZE again (possibly the most atmospheric game of all time..well in its time :)  Link: ZX81online

Monday, February 12, 2001

Final Burn 0.097

(posted by Frogacuda - 16:16) Well I don't know how many of you are aware of the recent scandal surrounding Dave's magnificent arcade emu Final Burn, but it has been quite an ordeal. Apparently when Dave took too long (read: 2 days) to add support for Super Street Fighter 2 they began to nag, whine, call names, and worse yet hack the emu. So dave decided he would tak e a little break from CPS2 to work on the old Sega games in FB. And more name-calling, suicide threats, etc ensued. So now Dave has decided to wash his hands of the whole sordid affair, and has removed CPS2 emulation from Final Burn. He is now taking a break from the scene for an indeterminate length of time (as I agree he should and he deserves) but a few sick individuals are still angry with him (how you can be angry with somone who has given you so much for free, and done nothing against you is beyond me, but I guess it's not a rational thing). But for those of us who were behind Dave all along, he has given us a new version of Final Burn which, while it may lack CPS2 support, features soem very nice fixes for Thunderblade, Galaxy Force and Poer Drift. I reccomend a download. Pick it up at the homepage.  Link: Final Burn

Update of Genital68K to Version 0.22

(posted by Lee - 14:49) ...Here's what's new: - Added a PC-relative read mode (useful in very special circumstances) - Removed some unused data - Removed sign-extended byte read functions (they were not being used) It's fine to continue using Version 0.21, since this isn't really a bug fix version but the PC-relative read mode is applicable to some exotic hardware. Thanks to Bart again  Link: Genital

Sunday, February 11, 2001

	Raine Linux release
	(posted by Lee - 15:08) New release of that fantastic emulator Raine for Linux (0.30a) Obtain it today at the link Thanks go out to gwenju for letting us all know:))  Link: Raine

	The MEP Moves!
	(posted by Roni - 11:32) I received a mail from TFH/Fony stating that the MEP (MSX Emulator Page) will be moving to a new server in the Netherlands. So, the MEP will be offline for a day or two. I hope they have a safe move and are online again quick (if they aren't back online yet... ;)  Link: MEP

Genital v1.1 released

(posted by Lee - 03:44) New release of Genital (v1.1)-The Sega Megadrive/Genesis emulator. Whats new: - Debugger "l" command now prints an error if no file was specified - Allowed layers (Scroll A/B, sprites, window) to be toggled individually - Blitter is no longer responsible for centering H32 display, renderer is - FastMemset() and FastMemcpy() are now part of the Genital core - More VDP information is shown when the debugger's "v" command is used - Fixed a nasty bug in the VDP RAM read/write functions - Rewrote tile renderers to be quicker and more efficient - Fixed vertical scrolling in interlace 2 (corrects Sonic 2 split screen) - Changed GetWord() and PutWord() into macros, huge speed increase - Fixed up keyboard configuration code - MMX is now used for fast 64-bit memory transfers (if detected) - Backup RAM files now use the .GSV extension - Fixed a watch processing bug - Added GYM logging - Assembly procedures are now much safer - Modified Genecyst save state management, added dedicated SSP and USP fields (thanks to Charles MacDonald and Quintesson for the info) - SIGSEGV and SIGILL are intercepted - Different directories for ROMs and save files can be specified - Debugger's 68K register display now shows which SP is A7 - Added support for ALT- combinations to the input system. Many keys have been re-mapped to use this, please check README.TXT! - Removed key for "Z80 reset", use the debugger to do it - Added a Z80 disassembler to the debugger - Added a lot of new features to the Z80 debugger making it quite usable - Minor changes to the 68000 emulator - Changed Z80 IRQ handling a bit - Added a "bus" command to both the 68000 and Z80 debuggers - Minor changes here and there It comes with source and a DOS binary. All available at the link, Thanks Bart  Link: Genital

Saturday, February 10, 2001

Megabase 4.0 updated

(posted by Lee - 04:20) The new version of Front-End 'Megabase 4.0' is now available for download The new features: - Support for 10 console inc. Gameboy, Nintendo, SuperNintendo, Lynx, Master System, Genesis, GameGear, PcEngine, Msx and Amiga. - Already 1389 roms in Database with complete set of Screenshot and details. - Some Ready Plug-ins for automatic add the roms stored in a directory, Screenshot conversion etc... - Savestate of games available on the web site - New cool graphics Get it all from the Link, Thanks AleTsg  Link: Megabase

Friday, February 09, 2001

Sega support emulation!

(posted by Max - 19:18) Sega are brining out a home development kit so it will now be easier than ever for more emulators for the Dreamcast to be made. From DCemulation.com "The March issue of Next-Gen preludes us to some potentially great news. On pages 16-17 Next-Gen reports Sega will be releasing a home development kit for the Dreamcast. Basically anyone with a PC, and enough coding experience will be able to produce working code on the system. This is keeping in a sort of tradition with failed Sega systems. Just before the death of the Saturn, Sega had released official tools for amateur Saturn developers to work with. Such a move for the Dreamcast will really give the scene a kick in the pants." Forthcoming Dreamcast projects include a perfect Snes emulator (DreamSNES) and ports of ICQ and Mame. Head over to DCemulation for more info :)  Link: DCemulation

	MAME championships
	(posted by Lee - 15:31) The MARP site (MAME Action Replay Page)are organising a tournament called MAME CHAMPIONSHIPS. Registration deadline is Feb 17th. Beginning of tournament is Feb 18th. All details and sign-up are available at the link. Get your MAME trigger happy fingers ready Thanks to Lagavulin for letting us know  Link: MARP

	Source code release of DreamMSX
	(posted by Lee - 02:58) Jos Kwanten has released the sources of DreamMSX V0.2f. DreamMSX is an MSX Emulator for the Dreamcast, based on the source of fMSX v1.5 by Marat. Get to that link...Thanks TFH/Fony too early in the morning in the UK here, Need sleep...  Link: DreamMSX

Thursday, February 08, 2001

	Interview with hWnd
	(posted by Lee - 10:51) hWnd of Nemu64 is interviewed over at EmuRealm.com Thanks to alby13 for letting us know :))  Link: EmuRealm

High scorers celebrated

(posted by Lee - 02:37) Walter Day of Twin Galaxies has some news.... "Commemorative edition of video game record book celebrates Twin Galaxies' 20th Anniversary." As they enter into their twentieth year of record keeping for the video game industry, Twin Galaxies has launched a global campaign to identify the world's greatest computer gamers for all titles, genres and game platforms, by soliciting the help of fans and industry players across the globe to provide record-breaking scores and achievements. The findings are slated for publication in a special commemorative edition of Twin Galaxies' "Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records," the industry's official book of records. Twin Galaxies invites the public to nominate players displaying stellar accomplishments for this volume. The current world records can be viewed on-line at http://www.twingalaxies.com. Again thanks Walter for this piece of news  Link: TwinGalaxies

Wednesday, February 07, 2001

	Play C64 games online
	(posted by Lee - 13:05) LEMON site has been updated now to play some C64 Java games online. Now you can play Lazy Jones in your browser!  Link: LemonC64

AMI Sector One - Update

(posted by Bernd - 13:01) Some days ago I updated AMI Sector One: You can now download all Amiga games from the company Alternative Realities which has recently allowed us to upload their games. These games are "Climbing Up" and "Falling Down". Of course there are many other new games and coverscans. Besides there is a test of the PC Competitor which makes it possible to use Amiga, AtariST etc. joysticks on the PC.  Link: AMI Sector One

	DeliPlayer 1.20 now available
	(posted by Bernd - 12:54) This popular module player was updated to version 1.2 some days ago. Now it supports more than 190 soundformats! Some new features in this version include subsong support in all major tracker formats, SAP player (Slight Atari Player) support, a lot of fixes etc. etc. For more information please visit the DeliPlayer page.  Link:

Tuesday, February 06, 2001

Want that portable Atari2600?

(posted by Lee - 10:12) Around the net a few months ago, There was news of a fan-made portable Atari2600 unit. Well, This cool item could be yours to own as Benjamin J. Heckendorn is considering selling the product for around $300. Atari2600 Missle Command on the move? Cool! Funny news post this as Ive just found all my old Atari carts in the shed in the Garden, Nice find. Have a read of Benjamin's site for more info....  Link: Portable2600

Monday, February 05, 2001

New release of H2 v0.52

(posted by Lee - 14:29) Release v0.52 of H2 - along with a new DATPack Updated For support for RAINE and Final Burn (But due to the many updates of FBurn its slightly behind) The main addition is H2CTRL - A control panel to launch H2F - it simplifies the process of filtering on game title / author etc - for example: If you type 'mario' into the search box and search on 'title' it'll show you all the games that contain Mario, regardless of platform. Thanks to Ian for that news  Link: WarmToe

	CALICE updated
	(posted by Lee - 12:56) more games now supported: Final Fight (Usa) Strider (world) Willow Unsquadron (world) Pnickies (japan) Chiki Chiki boys (megatwins) Varth Quiz and dragons (Usa) Nemo 1941 Dynasty wars (Japan) [Not working] Some great games to now go and play... Thanks to Mark M. for letting me know  Link: Calice

Sunday, February 04, 2001

The ATARI 2600 Championships

(posted by Lee - 14:58) Hey Charles, Two posts, A minute out..Just missed you there :)) Hi*Score Arcade is holding the 5th Annual Atari2600 Championships on February 25th in Seattle, Washington. The site says... "Open to one and all the championship tests every Atari skill to the limit. Contestants challenge themselves and go head to head in a brutal elimination match. Be it Ms. Pacman, Kaboom, Warlords, or Missile Command, the action never stops. Watch the pixels fly" Sounds like great fun! Get those emulators warmed up..for futher info, Click the link  Link: Hi*scoreArcade

	Final Burn new version out....
	(posted by Lee - 14:48) arcade jockies behold! A Brand new version of Final Burn (v0.095) is ready and waiting for you with some more changes. Nice:)  Link: FinalBurn

	Sega Genesis Hardware Notes
	(posted by Charles - 14:47) I've updated my notes on the Sega Genesis hardware again, with more information on the 68000 and Z80 memory maps and a few miscellaneous topics added. This should come in handy for those of you writing emulators or programming the Genesis. You can get it at my homepage, linked below.  Link: Sega Genesis Hardware Notes

Tomb Raider Tokyo, Level1 Demo!

(posted by Lando - 09:00) MIRAI (Intelligentsia) mailed me out of the blue today with just a link, now comments or info regarding what it was. Well, MIRAI was an old 8bit coder covering C64,C16/Plus4 and many other platforms. He later went to live in Japan to compose all kinds of computer music which you can find here along with a full list of games and stuff he`s done in the past! Emulation or not we all like a slice of Lara and I`d need not say anymore other than, grad your mouse and go see for your selfs.  Link: Tomb Raider Tokyo

	TKGBC v0.09 has been released!
	(posted by Lando - 07:58) A new version of TKGBC is out (Japanese emulator of the Nintendo Game boy). Here`s some info which was translated from Japanese: MBC2 is corrected (The bug to which saga 1 cannot be saved is corrected) Correction of some CPU instructions Thanks to Consollection for the news and translation!  Official site in Japanese : TKGBC

Saturday, February 03, 2001

New AGES release

(posted by Lee - 14:47) New version of the Genesis/Sega CD/32X emulator for Windows Whats new: . Sega CD music track playing . Sega CD rotate-scale graphics . Sega CD font conversion graphics . Emulated load times are shorter . Added CUE support . Added RAR'd CUE + CD image support . Multiple file-per-RAR support . Genecyst state loading . Multilingual engine . BRM directory browser . Genesis system ROM support . Fixed the infamous Phantasy Star 4 glitch . Numerous Sega CD bugfixes for improved Sega CD compatiblity Get the all spanking new version at the link  Link: AGES

	New unofficial highscore.dat release
	(posted by Lee - 14:39) New release of the highscore.dat (Version 6.6)for MAME Have a download over at www.mameworld.net Thanks leezer  Link: MAMEworld

Friday, February 02, 2001

	24 Commodore C16/Plus4 Tape Images!
	(posted by Lando - 17:08) The world`s only C16/Plus4 tape archive has just got bigger! Uping the total available to a stonking 123 Tap images. All 11 games which came with your +4`s are now in the collection and are sure to bring back the memorys of Xmas day...... some 15million years ago ;-) As ever hit the link for the full offering:  Link: C16/Plus4 ClassiX

	New C64 Cart dumps
	(posted by Lee - 14:58) LEMON has just updated with two new carts for C64 fans. Jack Alien has produced Rootin' Tootin' and Miner 2049er dumps. He has also redumped Jumpman Junior so that it runs 100% with the CCS64 and VICE emulators (Jumpman Jnr is a stunning game, Love that one) The site and games are available at the link as always  Link: LEMON

	Final Burn V0.092
	(posted by rOuGh - 13:06) if you need it. :)  Link: Click Here!

Thursday, February 01, 2001

	ZZAP! editor gets a PeeknPoke...
	(posted by Lee - 15:38) PeeknPoke's been updated with an Interview with ZZAP!64's (The classic and ultimate Commodore 64 guide magazine in the 80s) editor, Gordon Houghton. Find out what it was like to work, Sleep and play games in the hayday of the C64. Also Ive reprinted the Interview I did with Thomas Jentzsch who programmed an amazing version of THRUST for the Atari2600  Link: Lee's PeeknPoke

CCS64 V2.0 beta released

(posted by Lee - 04:29) The all new version of CCS64, the Commodore 64 emulator has been released. This new version includes: Fixed bug with Ocean Cartridge. Fixed multiple simultanous keypresses bug. Support for C64 Game System Cartridge. Support for Warpspeed Cartridge. Support for Dinamic Cartridge. Improved C1541 emulation, now emulates acceleration of step motor for the read/write head. You can get it from the link  Link: CCS64

	Final Burn v0.090 released
	(posted by Lee - 04:15) The fantastic emulator that never stops! Dave has released the new version of FINAL BURN and the homepage is now showing it playing X-Men: Children of the Atom.  Link: FinalBurn

More Sega stuff....

(posted by Lee - 04:05) Looks like this news will roll and roll... Classic Sega (hosted here at Emucamp) has put up a new section called the "rise of Sega" this section presents news on the future of Sega. Lando, I love the Dreamcast (Never said otherwise:)) and agree with everything Frogacuda, Max and yourself have said. Yeah, Frogacuda Its going to be a very interesting and good year for Sega fans :)  Link: Classic Sega