Monday, April 30, 2001

	FPSE moves to EU
	(posted by fixo - 15:47) The homepage of FPSE, a Playstation emulator for Windows, has moved to Emulators Unlimited. Check the site below for some nice screenshots of rather recent PSX games in emu action and don't forget to update your bookmarks.  Link: FPSE

Sunday, April 29, 2001

I, Robot VRML models

(posted by Zoop - 08:02) John Manfreda, author of the old and first I, Robot emulator, has managed to extract models from the game into VRML format. Quoting from the homepage: "I, Robot was a milestone in video game history -- it was the first video game to rasterize 3-D polygons in real-time. Not the wire-frame models mind you, but real solid 3D objects. The game is a testifies to the hardware and software inginuity present at Atari in the early 80's." If you're curious about toying with the models, and your web navigator supports VRML, be sure to give it a check!  Link: I, Robot

Saturday, April 28, 2001

	The Bottom Drawer
	(posted by Chris - 17:08) Looking for tutorials on ROM hacking, utilities or actual hacks? Here's a new site for you guys, which looks promising. Check it out at the link below :)  Link: TBD

RIP EmuViews

(posted by Frogacuda - 14:17) EmuViews, one of the best, and oldest emulation news sites still around, has been layed to rest, by it's maintainer and proprietor JoseQ. This is the result of repeated attacks of a particular individual, who has been masking his IP, impersonaing JoseQ, and flooding the boards with offensive (and largely incohearant) posts. Unable to find a good way to deal with this right now, JoseQ has decided to close EmuViews.com. He is undecided as to wether or not it will ever re-open. While this seems like an extreme course of action, I don't think we can fault JoseQ for what he's done. I'd just like to go on record as saying that things like this make me sick. JoseQ is one of the few people I've known in this scene who's always stayed clean of dirty site politics, and flame wars, and always been good and decent to just about everyone (even those who don't deserve it). The fact that anyone would deliberately want to sabotage him is just repulsive. It's really to disheartening to see a scene that was once about fun, to have come to this. If you'd like to go stare at the abyss where EmuViews once was, follow the link below.  Link: EmuViews

D64 RECALL comes to CBM Plus/4 World!

(posted by Lando - 10:06) D64 Recall is the start of something new! It will become one of the biggest gatherings of Commodore Plus/4 D64 files ever seen online. What you will find here is one mega backup of an entire generation of Plus/4 users (The sceners!). Emulation overload here we come :-) Find out more from former C16/Plus4 ClassiX to the now Commodore Plus/4 World`s news page:  Link: Commodore Plus/4 World

ZSnes does Pilot Wings!

(posted by Zoop - 09:31) ZSnes homepage has been updated with pictures of Pilot Wings (Super Nintendo) running for the first time through emulation, with the correct pseudo-3d environment. Despite being one of the first game released for the system(it was released on the 21th December 1990), its custom math chipset was previously a problem for emulator authors. Now that the project is Opensource, it is safe expecting a new version of ZSnes in the following weeks!  Link: ZSnes - Current Progress

Friday, April 27, 2001

	RetrogamingTimes 44 out
	(posted by Lee - 15:46) Better late than never, its Retrotimes Issue 44! Including: Phillyclassic, Classic Baseball, Atari2600 Raiders of the Lost Ark, The New Zealand Story, PAL vs NTSC, Out of Control, The Many Faces of...Jr Pacman, The TI/99 (Phew!)plus loads more...  Link: RetroTimes44

Thursday, April 26, 2001

	Game trades, discussions, cheat requests, help with emulators, and more...
	(posted by Chris - 18:57) Read and post them on RetroBase's all new messageboard (it requires no annoying registration). I think this is a neat idea for game collectors and people who are stuck in a game :) Go check it out at the link below.  Link: RetroBase.com

Raine for Linux 0.31a

(posted by Frogacuda - 18:12) Raine, a popular multiplatform, multi-arcade emu, optimized for speed, has had it's Linux port updated. Here's what's new this go-round. Palette problems in f3 games fixed Many fixes in f3 sound Guwange : music was stopping at the begining of game cave games : crash fixed for zoomed sprites out of screen Crash fix (palette) in : Asuka And Asuka Bonze's Adventure Earth Joker Galamedes Jigoku Menguri Maze Of Lott All Quiz Games (except Sekai Wa Show By Shobai) : Quiz Chikyu Bouei Gun ; Quiz Crayon Shinchan ; Quiz Crayon Shinchan 2 Quiz HQ ;Quiz Jinsei Gekijoh ;Quiz Torimonochoo Pick it up at the link below. Thanks to Stuart Axon for the news.  Link: Raine for Linux

Tuesday, April 24, 2001

Back in Time competition

(posted by Lee - 11:05) Navvie from Keep it Retro sent me this email about the up and coming Back in Time 3 CD release party in the UK... Back In Time live is set to be the biggest event of the C64 calendar this year, a massive launch party for the third Back In Time CD being held in Birmingham's DNA nightclub. With appearances by Jeff Minter, Rob Hubbard, David Whittaker, Allister Brimble, A nice drinks promotion, Professional dancing girls wearing nothing but Rob Hubbard T-shirts, and C64 tunes playing all night long... the stage is set for a terminally mental night! Keep It Retro has teamed up with the organisers of Back In Time Live to offer you the chance of winning some nice prizes... - Two FREE VIP tickets to Back In Time 3 launch, which also get you entry to the main club event. - All three Back In Time CDs - A poster from the event - A Back In Time booklet signed by your C64 heroes To be in with a chance of winning, just visit our Back In Time competition page, and email us your answers! ..thanks Navvie, As Ive said before Im going (Someones got to represent Emucamp:) and it looks like good fun  Link: Make it Retro

Monday, April 23, 2001

Blade64 Work-in-Progress 3

(posted by fixo - 16:02) Blade64, a new promising Nintendo64 emulator for Windows, had it's third WIP released and here's what's new: Bade no longer requires PathPicker.dll, I changed this due to lack of compatability with other OS's It now uses windows standard "Browse For Folder". Started to implement Save features. As this is what you have requested along with Plugin support :) Blade64 name change no longer "Blade64 v1.0.0 (WIP X)" now it's just "Blade64 (WIP X)". Still working on Plugin specs. Implementing "Expansion Pack" support for TWINE, Road Rash etc. Refresh added to file menu so if new roms are added to your roms folder after opening blade it will then re-create the list view so their is no need to exit from Blade. Blade now checks for DX8 sorry but some plugins require DX8 to work (TR64 Input Plugin). WIP 3 code is still a little buggy so if any errors found please e-mail me so I can correct the problem ASAP. Click the link below to visit it's homepage for the download, compatibility list and a nice FAQ.  Link: Blade64

	ColecoVision
	(posted by Chris - 06:15) Nice update over at RetroBase.com - stop - more homebrew games added - stop - gotta check it out - stop :)  Link: RetroBase.com

	Atari Nexus transformed
	(posted by Lee - 03:38) The great Atari2600 site, Atari nexus has now been transformed into AtariAge! with a new site design with many new features and now covers the Atari 5200 and 7800 consoles. check it all out at the link  Link: Atariage

Sunday, April 22, 2001

	Chromance release new C64 translation on PIRATES PORTAL!
	(posted by rOuGh - 17:30) The 'Game of Life' was translated from German into English including the manual and is downloadable at the link below. Besides that Pong!64 had a minor bug which was now fixed to 1oo% And the usual game info updates.  Link: PORTAL

Friday, April 20, 2001

	SNESamp release
	(posted by Lee - 03:40) Release of SNESAmp 2.1 FR, it's French translation of this great plugin that allows you to play SPC files with Winamp. what's new? - Full Translation of the plugin - Full translation of .hlp file that comes with it - Great Spimp installer The Official website for French version is Power3D (Click the link) Thanks to Top50 for that  Link: Power3D

Site Based On A Message Board

(posted by Lopantu - 02:15) Here is a novel idea - Expanding on the idea of letting visitors post news themselves (used by such sites as Emuforce) and posting comments about the news (used by such sites as Emuviews), this site lets you do both, as it is entirely a message board. It is a neat idea, and it is incorporated nicely - it keeps the site neat, with the forum topics being the headlines, which you can click on to see the whole news, or you can just click on the WinZip icon to download the program you want right from the main page.  Link: Laser Emulation

Thursday, April 19, 2001

	Calice32 Release 0.2.0
	(posted by fixo - 18:18) Calice, the Capcom arcade emulator for Windows, just had anew release bringing it to v0.2.0 and ... adding Cps2 emulation! There's also tons of changes regarding new Cps1 drivers, fixed drivers, better emulation and improved GUI. To see the complete list and the download, visit the Calice page.  Link: Calice

Rumor Mill

(posted by fixo - 07:29) A bizarre trend in the emulation scene these days is the unfortunate closing of sites because of reasons one is all aware of and it looked like JoseQ's EmuViews also came dangerously close to shutting down. Let's hope it won't ever happen as it's top Rumor Mill has just been updated again with news concerning Squeem, Genital68K, FreezeSMS, Gens, Zeograd's game, Bliss and Ages. Head over!  Link: The Rumor Mill

Wednesday, April 18, 2001

Megasis 0.06

(posted by Frogacuda - 19:10) For the first time in over a year we get an update of the lovely Windows-based Genesis/Maga Drive emulator Megasis. Was it worth the wait? Well here's what's new: fixed VDP emulation added intelace mode2 emulation (320x448) fixed Shadow/Highlight emulation added 68000cpu clock setting added surface memory type select added NoWait emulation mode fixed 68000cpu bug added sound mixing mode added zip,lzh files Give it a download at the link below.  Link: Megasis

AdvanceMAME release

(posted by Lee - 03:32) AdvanceMAME is a unofficial MAME version with an advanced video support for helping the use with TVs, Arcade Monitors, Fixed Frequencies Monitors or in general if there are video problems. This new version adds many features such as a new effect to simulate the aspect of an Arcade Monitor with a PC monitor Check the new option "rgbeffect" among other new things.  Link: AdvanceMAME

Monday, April 16, 2001

	MEP (MSX Emulator Page) has closed down.....
	(posted by Lando - 18:18) Sad news folks for those of you keen in the MSX scene. TFH/Fony reveals his aftermath as to why his page is to close... All the best TFH/Fony AKA Arnaud de Klerk Cheers for the good times also!!  Link: MEP

	JAE Adds Tempest
	(posted by Lopantu - 01:48) Norbert Kehrer has added the popular Atari vector shooter, Tempest to his Java Arcade Emulator. So, go to the site below to check it out, and to try out the other 34 arcade classics that JAE supports.  Link: JAE

Sunday, April 15, 2001

	C16/Plus4 ClassiX Updated!!
	(posted by Lando - 12:43) 28 new (egg) images are up for grabs to use with YAPE or Artifex (C16/Plus4 emulators). As ever these TAP`s have never be made available on the net until now! Oh yeah, Happy Easter Dudes. Enjoy!! Back to work Tuesday dont forget AHHhhhhh! ;-)  Link: C16/Plus4 ClassiX

Saturday, April 14, 2001

dNSFp launches

(posted by Lee - 05:57) Today, the dintendo NSF project (dNSFp) officially launches. dNSFp is a project to manually convert all existing NSFs to more convenient encoded files (such as mp3s), allowing them to be burned to CD The goal of dNSFp is to compile all these NSFs in mp3 format as individual songs, and then release them on a single compilation CD, free for download on the site Check out the site for more information Thanks go to dintendo for that news piece  Link: dNSFp

Thursday, April 12, 2001

Translation Help

(posted by Roni - 20:05) My bestest of best internet buddies asked me to ask you for help on his latest tranlation. recluse formerly of Gaijin Productions who did the translation of Do-Re-Mi Fantasy for the Super Nintendo (a cool side-scroller too, I might add). recluse has the script dumped and is looking for a translator to translate it into english for him. The game is another SNES classic entitled Metal Max Returns! If you feel you can help him please send a mail to him with the link provided below. Also he asked me to put this picture of the game up here too, so here you go... he's such a comedian.. ;)  E-Mail: recluse

Raine 0.31 DOS version

(posted by fixo - 19:30) A new version of RAINE, a fine multi-arcade emulator, has been updated to version v0.31. Here's the introduction from what's new: This release adds mostly new graphic functions to allow almost every driver to support 16bpp/rotation. It was done mainly to see if f3 games would benefit from it. Apparently : not that much, except maybe for popnpop ?. Anyway with this, and automatic rom loading, adding new drivers should be easier now. Since it's quiet now, and we have also included many fixes and improvements, time was good to make a release. For more details on this release and of course the download, head over to the official page and enjoy this early Easter gift!  Link: RAINE

	Rumor Mill
	(posted by fixo - 09:22) Over at EmuViews, JoseQ has updated his weekly report about what's about to happen in emulation. Check out this week's Rumor Mill!  Link: The Rumor Mill

Wednesday, April 11, 2001

Gens v0.98 with kaillera support

(posted by fixo - 18:17) As the topic says, say welcome to a new Gens release, with a nice feature added : Netplay by Kaillera! Here's the complete list of what is new: Netplay support (Kaillera). The games aren't synchronised on DirectSound buffer during Netplay (du to some low frame rate problems) so the sound have some bad noises :( GYM loggin added. VDP debug informations added. VDP RAM write fixed (broken in Gens 0.8) Bug with hilight/shadow effect over sprite fixed (broken in Gens 0.8) Because of some incompatibilities with Visual C++ 5.0 and Kaillera, Gens is now compiled with Visual C++ 6.0 Polish, Catalan and Hungarian menu translation added. German, Dutch, Greek and some others updated. Add a FAQ section to the "gens.txt" file. A special italian version of "gens.txt" in this release (not updated for Gens v0.98) Others minors things... Head over to the link below for the download! Cheers SirJaguar for the news.  Link: GENS

Sunday, April 08, 2001

	Modeler WIP and screenshots
	(posted by fixo - 17:36) A new batch of screenshots has been added to the gallery at the Model homepage.. Alien 3, Holosseum and Super Visual Football now have correct colors and Rad Mobile has had some color improvements as well. Let's hope a new release is due soon!  Link: Modeler

Saturday, April 07, 2001

	MAME v0.37 Beta 14 "Various" released!
	(posted by Roni - 16:50) The newest build of MAME is out there for your downloading pleasures. Here's the whatsnew.txt for your viewing. As of now only the DOS standard, i686 and K6 builds are available.  Link: http://www.mame.net/

Nebula v1.1 released!

(posted by Zoop - 16:37) Ah yes, and new version of this nice CPS2 emulator for Windows has been released. Here is all the changes: Raster effects!!. Preliminary. Some games have graphic glitches. Ssf2 y ssf2t work perfectly. Added the 400x300 and 640x400 resolutions. Fixed the crashes when using ALT-TAB to switch task. Added manual frameskip (keys + and -) Added command line options. Fixed problems with video cards that create non-linear surfaces (S3 Savage) (not fully fixed) Fixed the 3 punch in player 2 bug. Modified keypress detection. Now it's easy to make half circle moves. Added 2xSAI y Eagle. Removed the old interpolation modes.  Download: Nebula v1.1

	RetroBase does Intellivision
	(posted by Chris - 15:36) Good news for all you Intellivison lovers out there :) RetroBase.com has added a completely new section dedicated to Mattel's old-school console, featuring all known games with screenshots (including homebrew titles). It's pretty cool, so I recommend to check it out at the link provided below.  Link: RetroBase.com

Ages v0.25a

(posted by fixo - 13:52) A new update of Ages, the Sega Megadrive/32x/CD emulator for Windows, has just been released. Straight from the homepage, here's what's new: Fixed some CD bugs that screwed up most Sega CD games Fixed the rotate/scale graphics Added Sega CD "font" graphics support ZIP support PNG screenshot saving, even though I know you all were hoping for BMP or PCX instead ;) Added lots more dialog box items and menu items to multilingual engine Auto frameskipper (and delayer) Added autodetect of 565/555 graphics modes (fixes 32X color on the 555 systems) Added AGES demo file saving and loading Added powerful new autonaming engine for saved states, patches, screenshots and demos Overhauled Genesis render 11 % speed up (to ~70 fps) on my PII 350 crappy CPUs like AMD and Celeron should have even more than 11 % speed up Added *FULL* shadow and highlight support Added sprite masking support Added sprite limiting support Fixed many graphics glitches for 32-cell Genesis games Added statusbar "Yes, I do intend to soon restart work on the 32X emulation as well as the 32X/CD emulation. Anyone eager to speed the latter process along can set up a well-behaved FTP server and post CUE/ISO/MP3 images of the 32X/CD games on it. Yes, I have been working on FM sound emulation, but I didn't feel it was ready for release in this version."Click the link below to visit to Ages page and download.  Link: Ages

	Daedalus N64 emulator released 0.01b
	(posted by Lee - 06:57) New emulator alert:) Daedalus, A brand new N64 emulator has now had a public release. Plus the source for Daedalus will be released next weekend. Sounds good to me  Link: Daedalus

	Z80Stealth v0.450 released
	(posted by Lee - 06:53) New version of the Z80 Stealth Sinclair Spectrum emulator with LOADS of new features. Click for more info.  Link: Z80Stealth

Just wanted to mention my daily updates on PIRATES PORTAL...

(posted by rOuGh - 00:36) Newly landed is a C16/Plus 4 section which doesn't show any special offers YET Congo Bongo (disk version) is now available for download and not everybody knows it, check it out, it's far more advanced than the cartridge release As a gimmick you can search under SPECIAL for games in 'Far East', 'Wild West' and 'Pirates' topic I'm very sorry for the lack of news posted lately but we are busy with other stuff.  Link: PIRATES PORTAL

Thursday, April 05, 2001

	The Rumor Mill
	(posted by fixo - 06:58) Every week all emulation fans can look forward to some spicey rumors of what's yet to come. This week's Rumor Mill at JoseQ's Emuviews sure has some positive notes that help forgetting the current state emulation is in. Head over and enjoy.  Link: The Rumor Mill

Wednesday, April 04, 2001

A sad day.

(posted by Roni - 23:27) I'd like to post a moment of rememberence for Dave and all the programs he has created. As of today, Final Burn, the infamous CPS2 emulator has been discontinued. From a little DOS emu called DTMNT, to DGen to Final Burn; Dave has created some very good programs and I salute him for this. His programming has brought back some great memories for me. The funny thing is, I thought Afterburner I & II was the best part of Final Burn, not CPS2 stuff. I wish it didn't come to this, but with the current state of people in emulation, it didn't surprise me in the end. Dave has contributed all his information from Final Burn to MAME. Please visit the link below to read Dave's version of the story. Bye-bye ;(  Link: Final Burn

Back In Time 3 party guests...

(posted by Lee - 03:02) Remember the C64 Back in Time 3 CD release party coming soon in an UK nightclub that I posted last month? The guest list of old c64 stars has started to get better and better. Coming to the club are... Jeff Minter aka YAK (Attack of the Mutant camels plus loads more, token brillaint programmer) Tony Crowther (Trap, Blagger) Robb Hubbard (Mr C64 music man himself!) Mark Cooksey (Music man of BombJack and GhostsnGoblins) Fred Gray (music hero of Cobra and Mutants) Gordon Houghton (ZZAP!64 editor) Plus loads more C64 heroes If the Commodore 64 means something to you, Be there. Chris Abbott seems to be making this the C64 event of the year (and being in a nightclub makes it better). For more details see the website  Link: BackinTime3

Tuesday, April 03, 2001

The funny thing is...

(posted by Roni - 21:57) Sorry world, I just had to post this. I just mailed bleem! yesterday about getting a refund - not knowing the post by fixo would end up here below (see a few updates ago). Maybe we can form some kind of reform against bleem! LLC. After reading those mails sent by Zach I was half tempted to call him up since I live in the same area code as the number listed for him and start up a movement ;) We could call it: "bleem! against the world" ... it's honestly sad things are coming to this with that company.

	Gens to support Kaillera
	(posted by fixo - 20:42) The next version of Gens, v0.97e will be the first version to support Kaillera providing multi-player support over the internet. SirJaguar from the French emu site Consolemu had the pleasure to test this as one of the first and provided some screenshots at his page linked below - check first post of the day.  Link: Consolemu

What's going on with bleem!?

(posted by fixo - 20:26) The post we did yesterday about the happenings with bleem! sure was not the first of it's kind. While I have never been really familiar with bleem!, it sure drew my attention as obviously many people who are emulation's biggest supporters, are simply upset and deeply dissapointed by the lack of updates and news from the bleem! team. A few reactions to this news post came in, one of them was written by Zach of ZTNet and it's basically another session of mails going back and forward between an angry customer ... and the bleem! chief.  Link: What's going on with bleem!?

Monday, April 02, 2001

	Yape For SDL/ Linux/ Solaris!!
	(posted by Lando - 19:15) Ati has just finished off porting Yape (Commodore Plus4 emu) to SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer). This means many other systems or operating enviroments could or can have Yape because the sourse code to port this little baby over is up for grabs!!! Hit the home page now for the full story!  Link: YAPE Homepage

Big ol' RetroBase update.

(posted by Frogacuda - 18:46) It's been a while since anything huge has been added to RetoBase, but that is going to change. We're kicking off our first new system since NeoGeo: the Colecovision, just one of several new sections coming soon. Head on over and browse through our database of all 156 Colecovision games. We're also looking for new members to the Retrobase team, so if you're interested in helping please contact us.  Link: RetroBase

MAME Work-In-Progress

(posted by fixo - 18:05) Shoot'em up fans should head over to the MAME WIP page for some nice screenshots as this is the news of today: David Haywood added Thunder Dragon 2 to the Bombjack Twin driver. Olivier Galibert fixed a bug in the tilemap system which caused crashes under certain conditions. Jarek Burczynski added state saving support to ADPCM and OKIM6295 sound emulation cores. Nicola Salmoria fixed Lady Killer from crashing and improved performance in Mouja.  Link: MAME WIP

bleem!

(posted by fixo - 17:53) The link below contains an overview of some mails going back and forward between an unhappy bleem! customer going by the name of Lee Hyde and the VP of of bleem! llc, Will Kempe. According to mr. Hyde himself, "these emails have not been edited in anyway and nor have I commented on them. I shall let you draw your own conclusions, and have published these emails for information purposes, and as an insight into the operations of bleem! llc. That is also the reason why we're posting this.  Link: bleem! mails

Sunday, April 01, 2001

	Chromance releases two new translations of...
	(posted by rOuGh - 23:49) lame games: Pentagramm and Pong!, both for the Commodore 64 available from the link below including their manuals.  Link: PIRATES PORTAL

	Final Burn v0.113
	(posted by Roni - 12:25) Released a little bit ago is a great new version of this arcade emulator Final Burn!! With these new added stuffens: Added X-Men Vs. Street Fighter Added region switch for Cyberbots and X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (Thanks again to Malice for finding these!) Go get it and celebrate your April Fools Day with some good ass-kickin' in xmvsf !!  Link: Final Burn

	Sega Arcade Project Sneak Preview
	(posted by Lopantu - 11:58) I have released a special sneak preview of SAP Monaco GP in the message boards of Laser Emulation in this thread. It also discusses some of my decisions on how releases for the Sega Arcade project will be done. So if you are interested in the Sega Arcade Project, check it out.  Link: Sega Arcade Project

	April Fools' day
	(posted by fixo - 08:51) It's the 1st of April today and just like in the previous years, also expect some rather strange and unusual (untrue?) news all the emulations scene. How about some MAME WIP?