Friday, March 31, 2000

Emucamp Prize Giveaway

(posted by uzplayer - 23:05) Please note.. The deadline for claiming prizes is Saturday, April 1, at 12PM EST. For those that I have not emailed, it means that your IP has NOT been verified. For the prizes that have not been claimed, they will be given away in a #emucamp EFNet trivia game (Date To Be Announced.) Please have all claims in by noon EST Saturday April 1st. All people who I have verifed: Please send me your mailing address now. We will be sending the prizes out hopefully throughout the month via. conventional mail, and you will be notified about the online prizes by the respective companies. Patience during this procedure is appreciated. My apologies for not posting about this sooner. (I was detained for a while.)

Short BeOS Review

(posted by Railmaster - 22:24) For those of you with fast connections and multi-gigabytes (is that a word?) of hard drive space free, I suggest you download the BeOS Personal Edition. Initial impressions are confused for one who has not used it before. Dubbed the "media OS," it is very fast with most types of media. The OS comes with the ability to play mpgs, mp3, wav, and most other common media formats. In addition, there are thousands of software ports to this system. I installed BeOS on two computers - flawlessly, with no reformatting or partitioning nessecary. On both computers, all hardware was detected and used perfectly. BeOS even ported my network card settings over from Windows 98. With literally no hassle, I was using my cable modem again in no time. I have as yet only installed BeCQ (ICQ for BeOS) and Quake 2. Both perform perfectly. I mention this on an emulation site because there are several emulators out there written and/or ported to BeOS. The personal edition is 5.0. I had previously owned BeOS 4.5 and I have seen the OS crash only once - when my anger in Q2 multiplayer caused me to kick my computer, and subsequently causing the slot 1 processor to crash to the bottom of my full tower case. CPU falling out is usually bad. It is a fast operating system. The DL is 43Mb.  Link: Official BeOS page

	Top 100 Emulators of All Time - 91-100
	(posted by lilac - 22:24) The lowest ten that made the cut have been revealed. (Thanks to the nearly 1100 people that participated!)  Link: Top 100 Emulators of All Time

Technews - Celeron 2?

(posted by Railmaster - 22:07) Celeron 2 news hit me by storm. Had no idea they were after a two, probably in response to that Spitfire cpu I posted earlier. Either way, news of this cpu has apparently been around for weeks : "The Celeron II sports a somewhat new SEE-hungry core, the Coppermine128. But don't let the cognomen fool you into thinking that this thing runs on anything but a 66MHz FSB. It's .18 micron, 1.5v core is overclock-crippled in the range of 8.5-9 @ 66MHz, since scoring a FSB of 100MHz would push the tiny beast into the 900MHz range (unless HstCLk +33 is used). Neither reviewer was able to to get the CPU up on a 100MHz FSB, and oddly Anand worked very hard to excuse Intel's choice to keep the Celeron on a 66MHz bus. I suspect that Intel has made another error in underestimating AMD. With the cost of a pizza separating the Celeron II 600MHz and a 650MHz Athlon, and with Spitfire coming in fast, Intel should've put this sucka on a 100MHz bus, and come out of the gates as strong as possible."

Ys 100% Translation

(posted by Reiginsei - 21:23) David has released a 100% English translation of the original Ys for the NES. I play RPGs a lot, and I've never tried out any of the Ys series, but I've heard nothing but good things about them. I guess the first in the series would be a good place start ^_^ David's page also state that Ys II is close to completion, woohoo! You can pick up the Ys translations at the site below. Thanks to RPGd for the news.  Link: David's Homepage

	Geoshock - the Nets biggest NeoGeo resource is alive
	(posted by Opi - 19:28) Geoshock ist back with a flash ! Want some NeoGeo stuff ? Check katharsis's fine site and you're SHOCKED :-) Thanks to katharsis for letting me know !  Link: Geoshock

Holme's Atari 8bit Games updated

(posted by Opi - 18:14) If you're looking for some Atari 8bit stuff check Holme's site - you wouldn't be dissapointed ! "Thanks to everyone for the offers of help with the new webpage, and logo, I have a couple of very talented people working on the page and logo, so expect a big change soon. I'm not giving any dates as I'm not sure when it will all be ready yet. I can say though, that the games section will come back at over 1800 games instead of the 850? or so now. Also, look out for Atari console support as well. I'll be updating the emulators section to a seperate page, with ALL atari emulators listed (includes ST & Lynx, and eventually Jaguar as well). Why would I have those when I'm a 8bit site? Mainly for convenience, as many 8-bitters also upgraded to the 16 or 32bit machines as well. That said, there are no plans yet for a ST section. There are many good ST Games sites out there, so I dont want to compete with them".  Link: Holme's Atari 8bit Games

	ZX updated - 38 new Spektrum games online
	(posted by Opi - 17:49) ZX has been updated once again, adding another 38 games to the extensive collection including : Cauldron Cauldron 2 Cluedo Charlie Chaplin Chiller Colony Malc Jennings has also added another MP3 recording for you to record back to cassete and play on the real thing - this time it's the classic Wizards Warrior by Mastertronic. Thanks to Malc for the email !  Link: ZX

MacMame 0.36 FINAL released

(posted by Opi - 17:00) The MacMAME team did another great job for all Macintosh MAME addicts - these are the FINAL changes : In sync with DOS 0.36 final. [Aaron Giles] MacMAME now recognizes a new folder: "Misc Support Files". It expects to find all the miscellaneous data files thave have no other home in there (cheat.dat, history.dat, mameinfo.dat, etc). The MacMAME.mov file is also now expected to live there as well, instead of its prior home in the "Screenshots" folder. [Brad Oliver] Pressing Command-leftarrow and Command-rightarrow in the front-end will now cycle through the tabbed panes. [Brad Oliver] New report options to generate lists of non-working games and games that have been flagged with imperfect or incomplete emulation. [Brad Oliver] Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.  Link: MacMame.org

	Dreamcast & Emulation - Play Genesis and Turbo Grafx on your DC
	(posted by Opi - 13:52) Sega of Japan today released an official statement about the DreamLibrary system, which, as reported months back, will let Japanese Dreamcast owners play hundreds of Megadrive (Genesis) and PC Engine (Turbo Grafx) games on the Dreamcast. Read the full story - HERE ! Thanks to Prophet from Retrogames for the link.

	DBoy V 0.58 UPDATE - here's what's new !
	(posted by Opi - 05:24) Got another mail from our japanese friend BouKiChi ! Here are the changes in his last DBoy update : Fixed -keys option. Fixed again MBC3&HuC3 clock. Fixed a CPU speed change. Added a show message.  Link: DBoy

	Cinder's Wallpaper Archive now online
	(posted by Opi - 04:41) Want some nice homemade wallpapers (using 100% Paint Shop Pro) ? then visit this new site hosted at Retrogames ! My fave is "American Pride" Great job Cinder ! - and thanks to Dutch for this cool link !  Link: Cinder's Wallpaper Archive

	Genesis Power released Jewel Master (JUE)
	(posted by Opi - 04:34) Thanks to Dutch for the news.  Link: Genesis Power

	Roms4All opened its door - search the net for games
	(posted by Opi - 03:21) Roms4All provides links to sites containing ROMs for various video gaming systems. Roms4All rates the ROM pages for the content, speed, game description ..... Cool idea - BUT IT MAKES ALL LISTED SITES VULNERABLE ... VERY VULNERABLE !  Link: Roms4All

	Amiga Emulation Zone updated
	(posted by Opi - 02:45) Shane R. Monroe and his team have updated the Amiga Emulation Zone game archive with the following game images : Fright Night International Karate + (IK+) Road Blasters Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.  Link: Amiga Emulation Zone

	DBoy V 0.58 released
	(posted by Opi - 02:38) As usual - don't know what's new ! BouKiChi !!! please report your changes :)  Link: DBoy homepage

Thursday, March 30, 2000

squeem 0.06 released

(posted by lilac - 21:52) squeem (all lowercase mind you), the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for juggalos, has been updated to version 0.06. Here's what Mr. Dead himself has to say about it: Fixed a problem with default cycles per scanline Little side note (im pissed): wasted a day looking for a bug because i changed the type of a variable. That really sucks a fat one eh? Added full mapper32 and mapper78 support Added partial mapper9 and mapper34 support Loading and saving of SaveRAM now Fixed mapper2 bug Completely rewrote mapper1 Pulse1 (Square Wave1) channel added (but no sound for you...yet) Made 2 sound plugins (wavsound and nulsound) Added fameskip-ish thing (uperiod in ini file) Started to add Famicom DiskSystem support (dont use it yet :) A windowed video plugin (using windows dib)...but its slow. New settings dialog added Save/Load state (squeem is almost the shit now, eh? :) Customizable directories (roms and saves so far) Fixed up the user interface a little (easier to use) Started mapper4 and mapper15 (nothing works yet) All the things in the menu works (except for the webpages, too lazy to add them) Thing to see the average fps in the debug file when you quit (not quite working) Improved lots of mappers (more games work) Completely rewrote the mapper system, faster hopehully (i might have broke some games, and i might have fixed some games, who knows? :) New menu item to load another rom without having to quit (big wow here :) You can resize the window now if your using a windowed video plugin PPU renderer plugins now, mainly for testing Working on new renderer, which will be 100% accurate when finished (i hope it is) Started my OWN 6502 emulator (currently with 3 opcodes and questionable addressing) He also wants to thank "nesdev for helping out with really retarded questions about the nes, delta and proxy for general help with more dumb-ass questions, and the very few users i have for using my emulator."  Link: squeem Homepage

	GoodN64 v0.986 released by Cowering
	(posted by Opi - 17:49) GoodN64 is a Nintendo 64 ROM renamer that recognizes 870+ ROMs. Recent Additions: First release There ARE some misnamed ROMS, i'm fixing them ASAP No PD Demos this release.. next release for sure..

	Aoi-chan released new RomCenter datafiles - NGPC and Atari Jaguar
	(posted by Opi - 15:38) Aoi-chan has sent me two new datafiles for RomCenter ! 1. An Atari Jaguar datafile (including stuff that isn't dumped) ! 2. An updated NGPC datafile which recognizes 69 games (including stuff that isn't dumped) !

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 VMS File Hack

(posted by Reiginsei - 15:24) GameFAQs has posted a hacked VMU save file for those of you who have bought the import of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 for your DCs. This hack will unlock all 56 characters for you to play with. You'll most likely need this file since I'm sure not most of you importers frequent the arcades in Japan, which is where you'd need to go to gain access to most of these hidden characters ;) Visit the link below to get the file. Thanks to an IRC topic for the info. (It's times like this I wish I had a DC....any donations???) ^_^  Link: MvC2 VMS File Hack

	Project A.Y. opened - ZX Spektrum music resource
	(posted by Opi - 15:14) This page is fully dedicated to ZX Spektrum music and the Yamaha A.Y. sound chip ! There archiv of AY sound rips contains more that 250 music titles - the only drawback right now is that they offer their AY files only within a complete archive - a 816k ZIP ! PS - the C-64 sound chip SID - is much better :-) Thanks to Retrogames for the news.  Link: Project A.Y.

	VZEM 1.3 released
	(posted by Opi - 14:47) This DOS Laser 200 emulator was updated to version 1.3 - it was written in Borland C++ v3.0 and uses the Z80 cpu emulation routines were written by Marat Fayzullin. Thanks to Cloy from Kinox for the email !  Link: VZ200/300 Resource Page

	OT - Soda - constructor - THIS IS SOMETHING REALLY COOL
	(posted by Opi - 13:52) Do you want something cool - something REALLY COOL ???? Then check out Soda's cool constructor ! I've never seen such a cool thing on the net - amazing ! Thanks to the guy, who posted this as topic on a well known IRC channel !!!

New MAME WIP - long live Gridle !!!!

(posted by Opi - 13:45) 30th March 2000 Aaron Giles sent in a driver for Rabbit Punch / Rabio Lepus. Nicola Salmoria fixed yet more problems with he Astrocade video hardware, and he added a correct R-Type romset. Zsolt Vasvari did some fixes and cleanups to the 8080bw driver. 29th March 2000 Nicola Salmoria fixed the Astrocade hardware star and sparkle generators, and he added Professor Pacman to the driver (however it doesn't work at all). Manuel Abadia added cocktail support to Double Dribble. Phil Stroffolino sent in some tilemap system fixes. 28th March 2000 Manuel Abadia added cocktail support to Baraduke, Metro-Cross, Gaplus and Pandora's Palace. Nicola Salmoria added better emulation of Astrocade hardware palette registers, affecting Extra Bases, Seawolf 2 and Robby Roto.  Link: MAME WIP

	OverClocked - #102 "Top 10 Emu-Songs"
	(posted by Opi - 08:10) Episode #102 - "Top 10 Emu-Songs" is online Also available are the new OC ReMix - Castlevania, by Subliminal Labs and check out OC's still-running COMPETITION!!  Link: OverClocked

Dreamcast Emulation Anyone?

(posted by Lycia - 06:28) EmuForce has just posted a small article about the impact that a Dreamcast emulator could have on the emulation scene on their site. My opinions vary as I like to see new systems emulated, however, I believe that new systems should be given a chance to breath before coders attack it and create emulators for it. I mean, we all know what happened when UltraHLE and bleem! hit the scene, right? Here's a portion of the article here: Let's talk about the possible consequances of an Dreamcast emulator on the emulation scene. IMO this will kill the scene. I don't want the emulation scene to become the warez scene! True emulation people may remember what happened at the time of NeoRAGEx release. A ROM request and exchange flood! You can read this article by visiting the following link: Dreamcast Emulation Article Thanks to EmulationHQ for the news.

	CPC4X 0.21 released by Ulrich Cordes
	(posted by Opi - 05:05) CPC4X 0.21 is an AMSTRAD CPC emulator, it runs under Linux and X11. It uses the Z80 microprocessor emulator by Marat Fayzullin and S.u.S.E-Linux for developing. The page is in German language available too ! Note - Before you can start the emulator, you have to compile it. Help is given at the CPC homepage ! Thanks to Retrogames for the news.  Link: AMSTRAD CPC

	ClrMAME v1.2a released by Roman Scherzer
	(posted by Opi - 04:02) Changes in this update : changed RAINE parser....now it's damn fast (Thanks Logiqx) major sourcecode cleanup Shark datfile updated by Matthew Coulson Rage datfile updated by Logiqx Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.  Link: ClrMAME

RockNES v1.050 for MS-DOS Released!

(posted by Roni - 00:03) That's right, we have a great new version of a great NES emu from Fx3 today. Here's waht's new: Compiled with the newest DJGPP (everything's much better), hence LFN (Long FileNames) are supported; Fixed a CHR switching bug from 1.04 in mapper # (Bigfoot is ok again); Fixed a stupid CHR/PRG page select bug in mapper # (more games work); Fixed PRG bank switching (some values were being truncated); Fixed MMC3 (mapper #4) 4-screen mirroring (Gauntlet works fine), and a bug with CHR bankswitching, now Taito Chase HQ works with no gfx corruption; Added/fixed mapper #19 support (preliminary, thanks Nori for the info); Fixed mapper #70 (mirroring bug); Added mapper #41 (Clatron / Myriad Games 6 in 1 unlicensed cart), untested, thanks to K.Horton for the info; Removed SaveRAM write-protection when a trainer is present (hacked japanese Parodius works fine again); A couple of bugs fixed, general junk removed, a lot of code cleaned; Documentation slightly changed. I would offer it locally but I'm busy right now and don't hav time to download it, so go to the homepage to get it :)  Link: RockNES Homepage

Wednesday, March 29, 2000

	Thoughts on BeOS R5
	(posted by Delta - 22:27) I've taken my time to write up a few words about BeOS R5. You can find it in the news section of the Pretendo site.  Link: Pretendo site

Technews - More on Spitfire / BeOS is now FREE / Soyo 1Ghz

(posted by Railmaster - 20:43) "Athlon core. Intro flavors will be of the 550, 600, 650, 700Mhz variety. Sounds a like the celeron eh? Well, while the celeron line continues to make multipliers into the stratosphere and run 66Mhz FSB, the Sptifire will take advantage of the smoothastic 200Mhz Bus. And what of pricing? Check this: AMD will be competitive with Celeron, with the cost per chip expected to range from about $75 for the 550MHz to $175 for the 700MHz." *** BeOS fans have finally got what they have been waiting for. The release of BeOS V5.0, is now a free OS! Many of the sites mirroring this file have been hammered due to the incredible demand. You can download it at the BeOS site linked above, if its allowing you to connect. We will try and mirror it here, once all the server issues are taken care of. For those of you who don't know what BeOS is, it is an operating system programmed for maximum performance on your PC computer. It is *fast*. I recommend downloading it just to try it out. 45Mb download. If you already have win9x, you can install BeOS for a multiple boot option. *** SOYO sent a pretty tasty press release our way, announcing that they're coming out with three new KX133-based boards that are specially designed for the 1GHz Athlon and two new VIA 694X-based boards that are designed for Intel's 1GHz PIII. The PIII boards will use SDRAM and not RDRAM. The VIA chipset-based boards in Loki's recent CuMine mobo roundup did really, really well, so I'm looking forward to seeing how the 694X performs. A new contender in the cpu wars.  E-mail Railmaster technews here

	NGPC RomCenter datafile released by Aoi-chan
	(posted by Opi - 16:12) Aoi-chan has made a little NGPC RomCenter datafile - it recognizes all dumped and released NGPC ROMs (15) You can contact her on EFNet - thanks to James for the info !  Link: RomCenter

	Consolemul hits 500 000 visitors ! Congratulations
	(posted by Opi - 15:02) Today, Consolemul has hit 500 000 visitors (since January of 1999) - to celebrate this anniversary and to thank all these visitors, Sir Jaguar has released all MP3 tracks of DBZ and Saphire on TG16.  Link: Consolemul

	Flash Emuware announced new ROM Doctor
	(posted by Opi - 07:47) A version with renaming support for EVERY (major) console will be released soon with 100% support for ZIPped and RARred files. You can download a Teaser version with 4.54 Mb (a smaller download will be available soon) Look at this example - looks very promising ! Thanks to Morpheus 72 (aka morph72) for the email :-) btw - don't hurry man - i can wait !  Link: Flash Emuware

	SegaXtreme updated - many Saturn ISOs were added
	(posted by Opi - 06:10) Marvel vs. Street Fighter Dungeons and Dragons Collection Panzer Dragon 2 Worms Ultimate Mortal Kombat Radiant Silvergun Resident Evil Tombraider If you have some GIGABYTEs free on your hard drive - visit SegaXtreme to fill them - hahahahaha  Link: SegaXtreme

	Genesis Power released Castlevania Bloodlines US
	(posted by Opi - 04:46) Thanks to Dutch from Retrogames for the news.  Link: Genesis Power

The Video Game Museum updated

(posted by Opi - 02:39) Mek has uploaded lots of cool stuff in the last days : 33 Arcade games to Gamepics 54 Genesis games to Gamepics 14 NES Aladdin Deck Enhancer to GameScans 15 Genesis scans to GameScans 4 new Game Boy Color endings 2 Saturn scans to GameScans 2 PC-FX scans to GameScans 9 new C-64 scans to GameScans 10 Game Boy scans to GameScans 1 Intellivision scan to GameScans Feel free to contribute to my friends page - he deserves it !  Link: The Video Game Museum

	ClrMame - new datfile for NGPC
	(posted by Opi - 02:23) Darren Bradbury updated the NGPC datfile (now it's RC3) ! Also the japanese NGPC emulator, located HERE - MAY have a come back - watch Emucamp for more informations.  Link: ClrMame homepage

	Amiga Mania updated - 10 new disk images online
	(posted by Opi - 02:03) Fiendish Freddy's Flood Iron Lord Jim Power Lethal Xcess Lost Dutchman Man Nitro Ports of Call Targhan Unreal Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.  Link: Amiga Mania

Tuesday, March 28, 2000

Vortendo 1.0 Bacteria Released

(posted by Reiginsei - 23:46) Ti-B0ne has updated his NES emulator, Vortendo, and seems to be following the recent trend of giving new versions of emus creative names ^_^ Here's what is new * Fixed bug when loading a non-supported ROM image. Now Vortendo knows what he can emulate. * Fixed a bug when loading the OpenROM Dialog. Now it probably should work fine for everybody. * Saves the actual frameskip, and load the last frameskip. * Saves the directory of the last loaded ROM. And always use the last loaded ROM dir as default in the OpenROM dialog. No more problems with having Vortendo in one dir, and ROM's in another. * Fixed a bug in the 6502 core, now it runs the entire cicle before going to other. * Added handle for 2 more opcodes, used in Mapper #0 games, now 81% of it emulated. You can download at the Vortendo site linked below.  Link: Vortendo

	NeoCDX News Update
	(posted by Reiginsei - 22:17) The Neo Geo CD Emulator site has been updated with some new tools for those wanting to help with the development of the upcoming Win32 NeoCDX. The new tools deal with the MemoryCard. Thanks to HalJordan for the news.  Link: Neo Geo CD Emulator

Keroppi & Keroleen's Splashbomb 100% Translation

(posted by Reiginsei - 19:03) Keroppi & Keroleen's Splashbomb has been translated fully into English by Suicidal Translations. This is a very cute game that plays a lot like Bomberman. If you're having trouble running this game, just try out some other emulators, it runs great on rew., Loopynes, and BioNES, but doesn't run at all in Nesticle and NESten. Click on the link below to go to their homepage and pick yourself up a copy of the patch. Thanks to SGC for the news.  Link: Suicidal Translations

ZD-spc v2.8 - bug fix release

(posted by Opi - 17:07) "There was a small bug in the version I released earlier today preventing you to have the 32bit sound card visualization on at the same time having the keyboard visualization off. So I have uploaded a fixed version. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. You don't need to download this version however; all you need to do without being annoyed with the caps lock changing is to disable the visualization from the preferences. It is recommended by me to download this version". Finally fixed visualization to work with newer sound cards! Added systray recovery in case Explorer crashes Fixed a window placement bug Fixed a MAJOR bug with all Internet plugins Sped up visualization Fixed some crashing bugs Re-arranged menu's  Link: ZD-spc homepage

SMS Power - Third Year Anniversary !

(posted by Opi - 15:38) To celebrate this anniversary - Zoop released some new Sega classics : Wanted - a Master System Light Phaser game Addams Family for the Master System Lord of Sword (Japan) for Mark 3 / Master System Pop Flamer for the Sega Game 1000 Virtua Fighter Mini for the Game Gear (This is a complete and working dump) *** So that's 299 releases in total - great job Zoop !!!!!!! Where light is - the shadow is near too : "On the bad news front, I have lost about 350 unanswered e-mails but still have the sender and subjects field stored in a file. So now I am in the process of e-mailing everybody. If you have send any e-mail to me in the past 6 months and did not receive an answer, send it again, thanks!"  Link: SMS Power

	SubPort - Surfing Tip
	(posted by Opi - 15:21) Just for you to remember - SubPort is THE game boy color resource in the web - check it out ! Latest additions are - lots of demos - some Pokemon translation patches and lots of other useful stuff !  Link: SubPort

	Badge's Lighthouse updated - PC98 section added
	(posted by Opi - 15:05) Sunny boy Badge has made another nice update - he added 8 new SNES reviews and a new PC98 section ! First PC98 review is Arcus 3  Link: Badge's Lighthouse

	M.E.P. updated - new Database Engine online
	(posted by Opi - 14:57) The MEP-Crew informed me that they added a Database Engine to their games section. You can enter it directly at MEP's main screen at the moment or via the Games section. Via this database, you will be able to download over 1300 games that are available at the moment. They also added the UK MSX Sytem ROM !  Link: MEP

	OverClocked Tidbits
	(posted by Lycia - 05:20) As Opi pointed out, a new episode of OverClocked has been released and my name is in it! Yay! Just thought I'd point that out to everyone. What a cheap shot at fame, huh? *wink* Be sure to check it out. OverClocked: #101 - "Emu-Oscars" Thanks to David for another great episode.

Team Japump dumped 5 new japanese arcade games

(posted by Opi - 05:12) GKokontouzai Eto Monogatari (JPN Ver.) - (c)1994 Visco Puyo Puyo Sun (JPN Ver.) - (c)1996 Sega / Compile - ST-V system Zen Nippon Pro-Wrestling Featuring Virtua (JPN Ver.) - (c)1997 Sega - ST-V system Pro Mahjong Kiwame S (JPN Ver.) - (c)1995 Athena - ST-V system Golfing Greats (JPN Ver.) - (c)1991 Konami Where will these ROM sets pop-up ?? - Thanks to Mr. ARCADE - Till from Sys2064 for the news.  Link: Team Japump

	Congratulations - to Vintage Gaming and GuruChoc :-)
	(posted by Opi - 05:05) Congratulations to Arcade ROM Heaven and his site op GuruChoc for donating another member to the Emu Comunity real soon :-))) Congratulations to The Vintage Gaming Network for stayin alive over 4 years and reaching 40.000.000 hits !

MAME WIP updated by Gridle

(posted by Opi - 04:58) 27th March 2000 Phil Stroffolino sent in a preliminary Thief driver, but only attract mode works. Nicola Salmoria added Air Duel to the M72 driver. Manuel Abadia added cocktail support to Grobda. 26th March 2000 Andrea Mazzoleni fixed an input port bug affecting debug modes. Manuel Abadia added cocktail support to Sky Kid and Dragon Buster. Aaron Giles added cocktail support to Exerion. Darren Hatton added another Astro Blaster romset. Karl Stenerud updated the 68020 core a bit. 25th March 2000 Aaron Giles finally added the background graphics to Exerion, however a few color problems might still remain. 24th March 2000 Zsolt Vasvari added overlay support to Space Encounters. Manuel Abadia added MSM5205 sound to Splash! Mathis Rosenhauer added support for true color backdrops to artwork.c. Thanks to dutch from Retrogames for the news.  Link: MAME WIP

	OverClocked - Emu-Oscars
	(posted by Opi - 04:51) And the Oscar for the best online emulation comic goes to .................... OVERCLOCKED !!!!!!!!!!! Episode #101 - "Emu-Oscars" :-)  Link: OverClocked

EX68 v1.11

(posted by Lycia - 04:37) This emulator is on fire! Two updates in 2 days. This emulator is the best x68000 emulator there is available for the Japanese computer. As The Vintage Gaming Network reports, some games that are ported to this computer are: Afterburner, Arkanoid, Bosconian, Gradius I, II, and III, Street Fighter II, Super Hang On, Xevious, and a ton more. Because this emulator is in Japanese, that means that the documentation is ALSO in Japanese so I can't report to you what's new. You can grab a copy of your VERY own by downloading the following file: EX68 v1.11 Thanks to The Vintage Gaming Network for the news.

	MAME32 translated into Japanese
	(posted by Lycia - 03:44) RSFactory has just translated MAME32 into Japanese. Grab a copy by downloading the following file: MAME32 v0.36 - Japanese Thanks to The Vintage Gaming Network for the news.

Gens v0.36

(posted by Lycia - 01:15) A new version of Gens, a Genesis emulator for Windows, has been released! Here's a list of what's new: Gens now uses the new MZ80 core of Neil Bradley (v3.4) and it corrects some sounds bugs ! Fix special version auto-detection (Toy Story ...) SRAM implemented (Landstaker, Light Crusader ... now works correctly !) but not yet saved in file. Choice of the game speed added : NTSC (60 FPS) or PAL (50 FPS). If a game runs too fast, just switch to PAL version. Sound timing of some games (vector man ...) fixed. Fix switch state shortcut. Fix the stupid bug which exits after setting keys ! Fix load state crashs with starscream. You can pick up this fine emulator by downloading the following file: Gens v0.36

SMYNES News

(posted by Lycia - 01:04) SMYNES, an NES emulator, has finally released specs on what the new NES emulator will have. The emulator will be supported in Chinese, Japanese, and English versions. Here's a list of what the specs are: SPECS: 100% ASM CPU 100% ASM PPU Full sound support Extra Sound support (100% Namco special sound chip and VRC6 sound chip) Nintendo Keyboard full 3P/4P support 100% Bandai Datch games support (both 8 digit and 12 digit barcode) Game Pad support Powerful GUI support (almost all kinds of setting you can change yourself) Powerful Cheat function Real time Save/Load Powerful Roms Database Special roms preview function (no need to capture any games picture) Chinese / English / Japanese support MAPPERS Japanese mapper 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 101, 118, 180, 184, 185 USA mapper 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 34, 64, 66, 69, 71, 79, 119, 228, 232 Chinese mapper 74, 83, 90, 91, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 187, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 256, 257 Other mapper 8, 15, 122, 225, 227 This emulator seems extremely promising as it already has a ton of features on it. You can check out the SMYNES page in the link provided in this post.

Monday, March 27, 2000

Dream64 News

(posted by Lycia - 22:17) Dream64 has just reported with some news about their N64 emulator. Here's what they had to say: We have a new member, Frazzman, who I'm sure you've all heard of from the FutureSF project. He is helping out with RDP right now and since we've had bad luck with graphics coders, I've decided that I'll take it on. We'll see what happens. So far, with the RDP, the OpenGL is coming along great. Well, my fingers are crossed as much as all of yours. Just keep in mind that the project is still very much alive. Also, once they're available, I will post up some screenshots. Could we see a release next month? Stay tuned to find out. Visit their page in the link provided in the post.

	Turrican Forever Hosted on Emucamp
	(posted by uzplayer - 19:48) Not sure if we announced this, (the contest threw me off), but we now are the hosts for a website called Turrican Forever. This website deals with everything that has to do with the Turrican series. Check it out at the link below.  Link: Turrican Forever

Connectix Virtual PC To Ship with Windows 2000

(posted by uzplayer - 19:46) Connectix has annouced today that it will now start shipping Windows 2000 with it's PC emulator, Connectix Virtual PC. Here's some of the features: o Run Windows Programs from the Mac for true cross-platform compatibility o Full Ethernet Support provides access to PC Networks such as Novell NetWare (IPX), TCP/IP, Microsoft Networking (NetBEUI), Microsoft Remote Access Services (RAS) o Bi-directional Drag and Drop of text, graphics and files between Mac and windows environments o Extensive USB device support provides connections for popular peripherals o AppleScript support to automate repetitive tasks in both Mac and Windows o Shared Internet connection; one address shared between Mac and Windows environments Users will be able to buy the emulator starting March 27th from Connectix so check it out. Thanks to Candelori Communications for the information.  Link: Connectix Website

	DBoy v 0.57 - changes infos from BouKiChi
	(posted by Opi - 17:33) Just received a mail from the coding master himself !!! These are the changes in DBOY ver 0.57 : fixed MBC3&HuC3 Clock. changed keymap. RealTimeSave [F1]..[F5] Load [F6]..[F10] waitskip [F11] quit without save S-RAM [F12] If this fine emulator would be upgraded with a GUI - it would become the BEST Game Boy emulator arround !!! HINT HINT :-)  Link: DBoy homepage

	MAME highscore datfile v2.5 released
	(posted by Opi - 17:24) This new release supports 244 games by using 122 score saving entries ! Please visit Sys2064 for more infos and the file (i'm tired) :-) Thanks Till !

	ClrMame - new datafile for MESS v 0.36 RC2 released
	(posted by Opi - 17:10) Thanks to EmulationHQ for the news.  Link: ClrMame

Happy Birthday Emulation Camp!

(posted by lilac - 10:56) Today Emulation Camp celebrates its third birthday of serving the emulation community. As many of you don't know the full history behind the site, allow me to summarize. March 27, 1997 - Zoop founds Master System Camp, an originally French site dedicated to news about the Sega wonder. January 4-February 1, 1998 - Zoop and I prepare to move the recently renamed Emulation Camp to what was then a more stable SimpleNet. February-August, 1998 - Emulation Camp experiences very prosperous times as one of the Big 4 Emulation News Sites. August 1998 - Simplenet inserts a new policy into thier service agreements. Although we strongly petition that emulators themseleves are legal and EmuCamp hosts no commericial files of any kind, Simplenet pulls the plug anyway. October 1998 - Emulation Camp resurfaces at its current position on Emulation World and resumes is duty as a news site with a new Sonic-theme design. Late 1998-2000 - EmuCamp grows to regain its status as one of the premier emulation sites on the web. Particular articles and the yearly countdown of emulators of the year make EmuCamp one of the most controversial sites in emulation. March 20, 2000 - Emulation Camp recieves its 2 millionth hit, prooving success for us is earned with hard work. Another milestone occurs on Friday, when Emulation Camp will begin to produce the list of the Top 100 Emulators ever, as voted by you, our readers. If you haven't yet participated in this first-ever countdown, please do. You're part in the Emulation Camp of the future is as important as the staffs. We thank all of you.  Link: Emulation Camp

GEM V 0.31 released

(posted by Opi - 10:04) GEM - a Game Boy emulator for MSX2/turboR running MSX-DOS2 ! was updated to v 0.31 with these changes : Refixed I/O handler. [Castlevania 3] Emulation of Divider register, fixes games that use it. [Tetris] and these are changes in v 0.30 released on the same day (emulation is wonderfull - isn't it ?) : Fixed bug in the I/O handler, this makes MANY more games work and fixes glitches in a lot of the already working ones! Added a configuration file. Sound, frameskip, colors and timing related settings are included. Read GEM.CFG for details. Many games seemed to think GEM emulates a SGB, this is now fixed and decreases startup time of these games considerably. Improved balance in sound output volume. Channel 3 was too loud. New pattern conversion routines, they're better and much faster. This also fixes a color fading bug. Added configation mode with frameskip adjust, sound on/off and reset. Thanks again to Retrogames for the news.  Link: GEM

	The Webulator moved to Kinox
	(posted by Opi - 09:57) The Webulator has found a new home at Kinox ! Please update your bookmarks to --- www.kinox.org/eDen Thanks to Retrogames for the info.

	D-BOY V 0.57 released
	(posted by Opi - 06:00) BouKiChi released another version of his great Game Boy / Game Boy Color emulator D-Boy - hosted here at Emucamp. Can't say what's new in this D-BOY ver 0.57 ! Sorry ...  Link: D-Boy

ZX Updated - 48 classic spectrum titles added

(posted by Opi - 05:57) MC WildStyle has updated his ZX Spektrum dedicated site with 48 Spektrum classics ! Included are Spektrum Hits like : Atic Atac Alien 8 Battle For Midway Battle Of Britain BTW - i always have problems with this page using my Netscape browser - seems he didn't designed it "Netscape friendly" - if you encounter these problems too - use IE (if you can) ! Thanks to EmulationHQ for the news.  Link: ZX

	Vortendo moved to Zophar's Domain
	(posted by Opi - 05:11) The NES emulator Vortendo has been moved to Zophar's Domain. The new URL is - http://vortendo.zophar.net/ - please update your bookmarks Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

	Team Japump dumped 18 new games
	(posted by Opi - 05:06) Besides dumping like wild - they also released a Taito F3 checksum check-list - Check V0.910 Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.  Link: Team Japump

	vBAY Updated
	(posted by uzplayer - 00:20) vBAY for Windows and DOS has been updated. The current versions are 2.1 (windows) and 1.666 (DOS). Both have various improvements. You can download them from the link below. Thanks to Random for the information.  Link: vBAY Website

Sunday, March 26, 2000

	Sega System 24 Page Updated
	(posted by uzplayer - 20:35) The Sega System 24 page hosted on Emucamp has been updated. Check it out at the link below. Thanks to cgfm2 for the information.  Link: System24 Website

Technews - 3DFX sells / New "Spitfire" CPU

(posted by Railmaster - 20:34) For those of you thinking 3DFX, 3DFX, 3DFX... The recently announced 3dfx 'special technology group' (Basically old STB employees who were spun off a while ago) have been bought up by Enseo, Inc. (STB was bought by 3DFX awhile back.) Also, if you want faster emulation of the more complicated systems, but have little money, these CPUs might be for you : The Register has pricing details of the Spitfire, which is AMD's "Celeron" launching April 24. On launch they will also cut prices of the current Athlon processors. According to Guella's site, a Spitfire 550MHz will cost $79, a 600MHz $99, a 650MHz $140, and a 700MHz $175. Athlon prices, as we have reported here in the past, will be aggressively pitched against Intel's offerings. The 1GHz will drop to $1071, the 950MHz will cost $722, the 900MHz will cost $589, the 850MHz will cost $429, the 800MHz will cost $323, the 750MHz will cost $242, the 700MHz will cost $187, the 650MHz will cost $163, and the 600MHz Athlon will also cost $163 as it is shuffled out of the equation. For those of you who have heard a Celeron is cheap, think again. In most benchmarks, my Celeron 450 is only 1% slower than a P3-450. At the purchase time, the prices were $100/$350 respectively.  Link: The Register

UltraHLE - another Voodoo3 fix

(posted by Railmaster - 20:24) I saw over on the Offical UltraHLE page that there is another V3 fix for the messed up graphics. This is of course for all those people who have been having problems with the textures on a V3 being slightly offset in UltraHLE. "Walter Mundt sent me a new fix for Voodoo 3 owners. I had a couple people test it and they reported the graphics were now perfect and no more texture misalignment. Make sure you read the included text file and follow the instructions exactly. You can download the v3fix.zip file from the downloads section. -jandaman" Of course if you actually bought one of those pieces of junk, you deserve it! Get a TNT2 Ultra! :-)  Link: Official UltraHLE page

	Game of the week on Classic Gaming
	(posted by uzplayer - 19:37) Classic Gaming's Game of the week is Bubble Bobble. A great game starring those loveable characters Bub and Bob. (Sarcasm spree!) Check it out at the link below.  Link: Classic Gaming

	Vintage Gaming/Daves VGC hits 40,000,000!
	(posted by uzplayer - 18:58) Vintage Gaming, formerly known as Daves Video Game Classics has hit the 40,000,000 hit milestone! A big congratulations to Dave for such an accomplishment! May you get 40,000,000 more! :-)  Link: Vintage Gaming

	Generator32 V0.13a released
	(posted by Opi - 17:13) Generator32 .13a is out now !!! Many new features have been implemented - including: Windowed Video Mode Keyboard Controls Splash Screen And More !! Thanks again to Mr. Neo Geo - katharsis for the info - given on IRC #rareroms !!!  Link: Atani Software

	GoodPCE v0.986 (BETA) released by Cowering
	(posted by Opi - 17:00) GoodPCE v0.986 is a TG16 / PC Engine ROM renamer by Cowering. GoodPCE Stats: 916 entries Recent Additions: - More Japanese names updated, and some trained ROMS labelled - Duplicate Files with differing extensions now reported - newest scanning engine Thanks to katharsis for the news ! hehe - he think he's LAME !

	Come Back 64 - v0.3 ALPHA for Cassiopeia E-105 released
	(posted by Opi - 16:45) Page news: "Cassiopeia port released! Fast/accurate sprite draw routines, partion .T64 file support, DSA mode for fast screen display". Cassiopeia is a small palmtop with Windows CE ! Thanks to MGandhi from Kinox for the info - given on IRC #emucamp  Link: Come Back 64

	Lots of spanish ROM translations released at SGC
	(posted by Opi - 16:16) Bokudono released lots of new spanish translations over at Jandar's SGC - most of them are from DJ Traducciones - CHECK it out !  Link: SGC

Ages released - sadly only the Genesis emulation part

(posted by Opi - 15:49) "WinAGES v0.17c (Quark) is available for download. The code name is Quark because the emulator has been stripped to its bare essentials (Genesis emulation only). Anybody wishing to speed up development of AGES can always help me out by testing AGES and making notes for me. Compare AGES's performance to your favorite highly-compatible emulator with rasterFX, Z80 emulation, and sound turned off. If you observe any differences write them down. For now, do not email me about it, I will put up a "contact" page a little later with some guidelines. You can email reports to me then".  Link: AGES

	New Generator32 pictures online
	(posted by Opi - 15:17) Check them out - HERE and HERE - hehehe - these are surprise links ! Thanks to Ben-J for the news !

	Genesis Power released Bram Stoker's Dracula
	(posted by Opi - 15:03) Todays gift is the Genesis Release #79: Bram Stoker's Dracula.  Link: Genesis Power

FDS Spray 1.0 final (or final beta) :) released!

(posted by Roni - 14:59) A new and imporoved version of FDS Spray has been released by the Webulator with these fixes: Small bug fixes (of course) Options, Options, Options! Temp files are not backed up (no need, as they come from the original backup) Plus options for Spraying a single ROM from the command line and spraying only .fds or .fam files is added. Plus the ability to safely (I think :) remove savegames from ROMs. All that and the homepage has also been moved to Kinox, go get it at the link below.  Link: eDen (FDS Spray Homepage)

	EmuDX - new status report
	(posted by Opi - 14:56) A new EmuDX version with native psxpad support is available ! "EmuDX development has not stopped. Due to items of a more pressing nature (namely a paid job), EmuDX has had to take the back seat as far as priority of time goes, but rest assured, development has not stopped and there will be a status updated soon, so watch this space".  Link: EmuDX

	Daily Emulation News redesigned
	(posted by Opi - 14:52) platano17 needs feedback on the new layout !!! So don't be QUIET !  Link: Daily Emulation News

MAME32 V0.36 final released

(posted by Opi - 14:36) Stay tuned - i'm just uploading the file - it will be up in a few minutes ! Sorry for being late today - i had a meeting with some friends and their children (we made a BRUNCHDI - breakfest, lunch and dinner) and now i'm tired after killing all that food :-) UPDATE - MAME32 v0.36 FINAL can be downloaded from HERE ! just as hint again - WWW.MAME.DK for all your NEEDs ! Thanks to Michael Soderstrom, Christopher Kirmse, Mike Haaland, Mohammad Rezaei, Dan Miller, Jeff Miller and John Hardy IV for their efforts and GREAT WORK !!!!  Link: MAME32 Q&A page

Bleem! Reviewed

(posted by Lycia - 13:41) 3D-Unlimited has been updated with a review of the popular PSX emulator bleem! Here's a portion of what was said on the review: “Bleem!” is a Sony PlayStation emulator. What is an emulator, you ask? An emulator is something that emulates, or mimics, something else. Bleem! Emulates PlayStation games. What this means is that with Bleem! you can play your favorite PlayStation title on your PC, provided Bleem! supports it (which it likely does), often in much higher resolutions and graphical splendor than an ordinary PlayStation console can handle. You can check out the review by visiting the link provided in this post.  Link: bleem! Review

AGES News

(posted by Lycia - 13:33) The AGES site has been updated with news on their emulator for 32X for Genesis. Perhaps we'll see a release soon! Here's what they had to say on their Scant Z80 emulation seems to be the problem with AGES's Genesis compatibility. I will have to finish implementing it and fully connect it internally. I am still planning on releasing the Genesis-only version of AGES soon. Also, I added a few random screenshots to the history section. You can check out their site and the screenshots over at the AGES site.

EmuCult Updated

(posted by Lycia - 00:59) EmuCult has updated its site with a slew of new stuff to take a peek at. Please remember that if you find bad language offending, that you're cautioned to not visit EmuCult. Here's what was updated on the site: World's first Game Boy Advance emulator. Added a saved page devoted to EmuCult.com Added A fake emulators page. Updated the manboobs movie with music and non-looping voice effect. IRC Logs Page Zophar's Domain Page Spoof PumpersVMX added and more! Be sure to check out the cult today. EmuCult

Generator32 WIP

(posted by uzplayer - 00:27) Atani on the #emucamp EFNet IRC channel dropped by to give us all an update on Generator32. From IRC: " Generator32 news update !!!! Graphics in the windowed mode is near perfect. Speed increased as well.. most games run at 50-60FPS on this machine. (AMD K6-2 300). More screen shots to be posted soon" Check out Generator32 at the link below. Once again thanks to Atani for the information.  Link: Generator32 Website (Atani Software)

Saturday, March 25, 2000

	OverClocked updated !
	(posted by Opi - 17:06) OC ReView #15 - Revolution-X Zeroes Unlimited - OC 100th tribute Zeroes Unlimited - POWER INSTINCT expose Twilight, Inc. - Zelda Story review  Link: OverClocked

	Scav (Pagan N64) was interviewed by Mark from EmuForce
	(posted by Opi - 16:49) Scav (Pagan [N64 Emu]) was interviewed by Mark from EmuForce Thanks to Dutch from Retrogames for the news.

Retrogaming Radio 3/25 now on air !

(posted by Opi - 16:24) Shane R. Monroe has published another of his interesting Retrogaming Radio shows ! "RetroGaming Radio is a monthly audio/visual show devoted entirely to video gaming of the past. he show covers old arcade games of the 80's like PacMan and Donkey Kong; classic video game consoles like the Atari 2600/5200/7800, ColecoVision, and Intellivision; classic computers like the Commodore 64 and Amiga; and vintage handheld games like Atari Lynx, the Merlin, and single game varieties" Thanks to JoseQ's EmuViews for the news :-)  Link: Retrogaming Radio Online

Redump 64 updated - 14 new tape images online

(posted by Opi - 15:56) Arcadia 64, Batman The Caped Crusader, Championship Wrestling, Crazy Kong, The Curse Of Sherwood, Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters, The Evil Dead, Hunter Patrol, On Cue, Return Of The Jedi, Slap Fight, Space Pilot, Swoop, Transformers and Zaxxon. Peepo also added some more cover scans - try some of these old tapes and feel very "RETRO-ACTIVE" !!! :)  Link: Redump 64

	1 Year anniversary NO$MSX Released
	(posted by uzplayer - 12:22) The 1 year anniversary version of NO$MSX has been released. Here's what's new: o Preliminary Disk Support o Preliminary MSX2 Emulation o 256K Memory Mapper Support o Several MSX-1 Bug fixes Check it out at the link below. Thanks to the MEP Crew for the news. (BTW: Congrats to the author, Martin Koth for this achievement.)  Link: MEP Website

	3 New Games & 1 New Review Added!
	(posted by Chris - 11:32) The games: Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball, Generations Lost, and Jeopardy - Deluxe Edition! Plus, Streets of Rage has been reviewed (all Sega G/MD). Check it out! :)  Link: Digital Relicts

Decrom v2.0 and RockNES Page update!

(posted by Roni - 10:32) Well last night I noticed this but had not the time to post it here. But Fx3 has updated the RockNES homepage with this to say: RockNES X was having problems due the major changes to suit the new CPU core (hence no new version yet), but now it´s ok, working and in sync with the unreleased version 1.05. Problems with the GUI and general bugs were squashed. Ale is very busy with his band and life, not sure when a new version will come out. About the DOS version, it´s much better, with tons of problems fixed (Mapper #4 mirroring, now Gauntlet works fine), sound cleaned up somewhere and more. I´m using the newest DJGPP package (hence long file names are supported). There´s a new Decrom today (version 2.0), my NES tool. It decodes NES graphics into an ascii file. This version fixes a couple of problems & bugs. Good news I'd say so look for new versions of both RockNES's soon and for now go satisfy your ROM hacking needs and go download Decrom from the RockNES Homepage. P.S. Fx3 is still looking for someone to make him a WinAMP skin for RockNES, is it really that hard ?

	ANEX86 v2.14 released
	(posted by Opi - 10:23) Don't know what have been changed - tell me them i you can understand japanese ! Thanks again to Navarone's emulation 9 for information.  Link: ANEX86 Homepage

zx32 V2.00.03.22 (BETA) released

(posted by Opi - 10:19) zx32 is a ZX Spektrum emulator for Windows - the best one in my opinion ! Contented memory effects for the +2A/+3 are now emulated in accordance with the guidelines in the comp.sys.sinclair FAQ. All 24- and 32-bit color depths are now supported indirectly (i.e. you're missing the 'direct' bit of DirectX when you use them J). Screen update speed for these color modes should be relative to your video adapter's general 2D performance and about 10 times slower than 8-bit color updates. Thanks to Navarone's emulation 9 for the news.  Link: ZX Spektrum Emulator

	SNEeSe V 0.441 released
	(posted by Opi - 10:06) APU skipper: Fixed a nasty bug that caused the emulator to crash upon entering the GUI if the APU skipper was enabled  Link: SNEeSe homepage

	MESS V0.36 RC 2 released
	(posted by Opi - 10:04) The official MESS page isn't updated yet - but you can download the binary at Vintage Gamings MESS page ! These new drivers were added : MSX1 UK [Sean Young] C16 (c1551) [Peter Trauner] Plus4 (c1551) [Peter Trauner] Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.  Link: Official MESS page

	New MAME WIP - infos about the last 13 days !!!
	(posted by Opi - 09:50) This should be one of the biggest MAME WIP page updates ever ! Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.  Link: MAME WIP page

Friday, March 24, 2000

ZD-spc v2.7

(posted by Lycia - 21:41) A new version ZD-SPC, an SPC player, has been released! Here's a list of what's new: Added SPCCore from SPCTool to ZD-spc and Internet plugin! Thanks AntiRes! Added SPC altering to ZD-spc for the SPCTool core Added Advanced Configuration for the ZSNES & SPCTool core Changed the ZSNES core to the newest version (Thanks zsKnight) Changed title bars to be less WinAMPish Thanks Saffith! Fixed a bug with volume being reset Fixed more bugs with internet plugins Fixed some problems with changing spc cores This SPC player is great and seems to run pretty good on lower end processors if you use the ZSNES SPC core. Snes9x's core offers you some benefits as far as quality goes, but you might just want to switch between the two core to see which one you like best. You can download this new version at the following link: ZD-spc v2.7 Thanks to Nitro187 for the news.

	One more Lemon update. 101 New Games! :)
	(posted by lem0n64 - 18:47) Alright, it's been a while since the last games update. This time Lemon brings you 101 new C64 games, all requested by the visitors of the site. Many of them are rare and can't be found anywhere else on the internet. I hope you will enjoy them.  Link: LEMON - The C64 Game Source

	Atani Software Interview
	(posted by Delta - 17:45) Someone over at Consollection, a French (I think!) emu site has interviewed Atani, of Atani Software. Atani is known for for his emulator, SegaEMU, as well as the win32 port of Generator. Go check out this interview if you are interested. Thanks to Ben-J for the news.  Link: Interview at Consollection

	Amiga Emulation Zone offers 2 Amiga shareware games as full versions
	(posted by Opi - 16:06) I missed that yesterday - Shane R. Monroe and his team are offering : "both of the hottest FMV action games for the Amiga ever made!" DESERT APACHE TOMCAT hehe Amiga and HOT FMV ACTION ??? - hmmm OK check it out !!!  Link: Amiga Emulation Zone

	Kim Lemon's Logo contest - the results are up
	(posted by Opi - 11:29) WOW - i'm impressed - very impressed ! Look at all these beautiful Lemon Logos ! And than visit Emucamp's PEARL - LEMON - the great C-64 retro-gaming resource !

DreamNES v1.8 released

(posted by Opi - 07:23) This NES emulator is as chinese and english version available - it was updated with these changes : MMC3 IRQ Timing Fixed.Now Kick Master run! Added IRQ Timing Adjust Function. Mapper 16 Timing Fixed. Added Support for Mapper 65.Daiku No Gensun 2 run! Noise and DMC Channel Fixed DreamNES - ROM Encyclopedia V2.2 Release! Add 100+ ROM to the database.Now identify 650+ NES ROMs! Build-in NSF Player and Database is coming up! Thanks to Emulation 9 for the news.  Link: DreamNES homepage

	EX68 1.09 and WinX68k 0.06b 1.1 released
	(posted by Opi - 07:17) EX68 1.09 - EX68 homepage WinX68k 0.06b 1.1 - WinX68k homepage *** As usual - i can only provide you with the pure release news - due to the japanese language of these emulators ! Thanks again to Cloy from Kinox for the news.

	CCS64 V2.0 B Win 95/98/NT released by Per Håkan
	(posted by Opi - 07:12) The Win 95/98/NT version of this great C-64 emulator was updated with these changes : Fixed - The graphics problems under Windows 2000 and DirectX. Added - Possibility to change between new and old version of SID. Thanks to Cloy from Kinox for the news :-)  Link: Computerbrains Headquarter

	SNEeSe v0.44 released
	(posted by Opi - 05:59) Chances in this release : - Render: Implemented correct sprite priorities (helps MANY ROMs: Chrono Trigger, Super Mario Allstars, Terranigma to name a few) Thanks to bwb from EmulationHQ for the news.  Link: Sneese homepage

	Genesis Power finished the Ecco series - Ecco Jr. is out
	(posted by Opi - 05:08) Genesis Release #78: Ecco Jr. - if you like Genesis Powers work - than - please support them !!!!  Link: Genesis Power

	MAME32 v0.36 Final SOON - watch the MAME32 Q&A page
	(posted by Opi - 05:06) Latest update reads as follow: "Test pass complete, no stoppers, help file source submitted". Today or tomorrow should be the release day (my thoughts) !  Link: MAME32 Q&A page

	SNK announced Metal Slug 3 as MVS cart for March 2000
	(posted by Opi - 05:01) SNK just opened the official webpage for Metal Slug 3 - it will be released as a MVS-PCB in March 2000 ! Could you say - NEO GEO ??? :-) Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.  Link: SNK's Metal Slug 3 Page

Cloy's Utopia did'nt cracked NO$GMB !

(posted by Opi - 03:22) I was informed, that there was some misunderstandings with our story about the closed NO$GMB homepage and a cracker group called Utopia ! Please note that the person Cloy and the group releasing the keygens and cracks for NO$GMB are totally different. Cloy maintains his own french emulation page and hasn't done any criminal action : "Just a small word for saying that I'm not the author of the crack of NO$GMB. I respect the authors of emulator and I bought several licences for various emulators. For I think that it is necessary to encourage the small programmers independants against these large companies (that I don't respect) which make only shit for money." Thanks to the various people which mailed me about this !

Thursday, March 23, 2000

	Pretendo Updates.
	(posted by Delta - 23:49) Check out the Pretendo website for new screenshots, as well as a small news update.  Link: Pretendo Website

	Nemu64 0.7a
	(posted by Delta - 23:46) The nemu64 team has randomly released a new version of their emulator. This was a nice surprise. This version fixes bugs and has all sorts of changes. Nemu64 is probably the second best n64 emulator... second ofcourse to UltraHLE. Thanks to GT for the news.  Link: Nemu64

	Nemu64 Authors Interviewed
	(posted by uzplayer - 22:33) Lemmy and Lac, the authors of Nemu64 has been interviewed by the site Emulation64. Check it out at the link below. Thanks to Martin for the information.  Link: Emulation64

Squeem! Put On Hold?

(posted by LrdEFN - 18:56) Unfortunately, Dead_Body, the author of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator, squeem!, is having a few technical problems. His computer seems to be messed up, and won’t even boot up. Therefore, he is attempting to fix his computer and expects it back within a month. Because of this, squeem! will not be able to be updated. Dead_Body is accepting any donations he is offered.. I wish Dead_Body the best of luck with his computer, and hopefully things will get better for him. Until then, stay tuned to EmuCamp. Note: Lrd has 3 projects to do, all due on Wednesday, therefore updating is kinda hard.. Children, never put your work aside until the last week when you are bombarded with stuff to do..

	New Romcenter datafiles
	(posted by Opi - 16:43) SNES System 16 Amiga NeoRageX Mess 0.36 RC1 Webulator has done a little utility to create and convert RomCenter datafiles from other formats. It is called EmuAide. Thanks to bwb from EmulationHQ for the news.  Link: RomCenter Homepage

	Game Review #1 Now Online: ToeJam and Earl
	(posted by Chris - 16:32) Check it out @ Digital Relicts!  Link: Digital Relicts

Vortendo - version 1.0 Alcaline for Windows released

(posted by Opi - 09:27) Vortendo is a NES Emulator for Win9x, coded in Visual Basic 6.0 by Ti-B0ne ! "I finally got some free time to code this week, and the result is here. The first public release of Vortendo. This is the version 1.0 Alcaline for Windows, and i think it's pretty good, however it got bugs, and they will be corrected, as soon i fix them, a new version, will be released". Thanks again to Emulation9 for the news.  Link: Vortendo WebSite

	XGS/32 V1.6.3 released by Steven W. Mentzer
	(posted by Opi - 09:23) XGS/32 is an Apple IIgs Emulator, based on the original XGS core. It is the only Apple IIgs emulator that is fully Windows 9x/NT/2000 compatible. "The joystick actually works. Kinda brings new life to the emulator. Try it, and if doesn't work, email me". Thanks to Emulation9 for the news.  Link: XGS/32 homepage

EmuCult Updated

(posted by Lycia - 05:12) EmuCult has updated its site with quite a few things that are sure to amuse you. They are: A section devoted to the emulation of Sega Dreamcast's VMU (Visual Memory Unit.) which contains ROMs, a creator, and and an emulator. A log of Zophars appearance in EFNET's #EmuCult Zophar's underworld #3, now downloadable. TONS of new irc quotes such as: [Zophar] my favorite dude was always the nigger GurtGurt's New Manboobs Dance mix. You can check out all this stuff and more by visiting the following link: EmuCult

	MAME 0.36 final - processor optimized versions online
	(posted by Opi - 03:11) Gridle has uploaded the K6 and I686 optimized binaries of Mame 0.36 final ! The How to compile -page was updated too. Thanks to Dutch for the news.  Link: Official MAME homepage

	Genesis Power released the two ECCO games
	(posted by Opi - 03:08) Ecco The Dolphin Ecco 2 - The Tides Of Time Please visit Genesis Power Sponsors !!!!  Link: Genesis Power

No$gmb emulator homepage - CLOSED

(posted by Opi - 01:36) Martin Korth seems to be pissed about a crack" or "key-gen" released by a group or person called "utopia" that makes his very good (i lisenced it) Game Boy Color emulator FREE for everyone ! So he decided to close his page (for a while ???) to explein his reasons - he wrote: "No$gmb seems to be published by somebody called "utopia" now, so this webpage doesn't appear to be of very much use anymore. Please inform me if anybody knows the identity (real name, and address) of this so-called "utopia" group or person. For anybody else, I haven't decided yet if I continue to release freeware/shareware updates in future. If I decide to do so, then it will be probably limited as follows:" Read all his limitations at the linked page ! Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the information.  Link: NO$GMB homepage

Unofficial MAME32 with AutoFire v0.36 final released

(posted by Opi - 01:23) "This is an unsupported, unofficial build of MAME32 based on the MAME DOS source and the MAME32 source with assorted modifications. It is not supported by the MAME team nor any other human being on this planet". Thanks to Peter from EmulationHQ for the news ! If you have problems with the latest MAME release check out Peters self-compiled version - he used a fixed MAME 0.36 Final source and a patched compile of Seal 1.07 which includes a fix for Sound Blaster 64/128 PCI cards.