Saturday, September 30, 2000

	Traverse USA in JAE
	(posted by fixo - 13:07) Another arcade game has been added to JAE, the online Java Arcade Emulator from Norbert Kehrer. This time it is Traverse USA, a motorbike riding game from Irem released in 1983. Follow the link below to have a go at this new release and some 20 other classic arcade games, all playable in original form via your browser!  Link: JAE

	Game of the Week: Super Dodgeball
	(posted by Chris - 12:42) Chrono of Chrono's Mix did it again. Read the interview of this cool sports game at the site linked below.  Link: RetroBase.com

Friday, September 29, 2000

Sega 32x emulator release to happen soon?

(posted by Chris - 19:28) RooFer, author of Magical 32x, has updated his page again. He states that a working beta of his emulator has been sent out to two close friends today. He also says that a public release will much likely follow within a few days. Keep your fingers crossed, dudes :) For more info, check out the official W.I.P. page linked below, hosted by RetroBase.  Link: Magical 32x W.I.P.

	OverClocked #132
	(posted by fixo - 15:42) Episode #132 of the excellent online emulation comic strip OverClocked has been posted today. Check out the link below for this new episode called "Mame Pron".  Link: OverClocked #132

Family Emulator v0.02

(posted by fixo - 14:20) Some might say it's weak-NES but this sure seems to be a NES week! FE, another Japanese NES emulator for DOS had it's second ever update released today. Don't expect another Nesticle just yet from this command prompt interfaced emu, though taking a look at the .cfg file reveals support for about 30 different controller inputs. The lzh archive can be downloaded at the official site linked below.  Link: Family Emulator

DC-Emu Project a Fake

(posted by lilac - 11:02) That's right. Totally fake. The screenshots are obviously doctored. There should be NO blur on an emu-in-progress screenshot. Some distrotion and other mistakes are possible, but nothing as severe as this. If anything the pictures should be clearer and simpler (less colors, less effects) than the real thing. And to top it off the DC is a 3D based graphics system, so there should be no square-shaped 2D graphics displayed like the ones in the first screenshot. Take a look at the nearest wall to you at an angle. You know its rectangular but from your point of view the far edge looks shorter than the near edge. It's simple depth perception that everyone learns about in art class. There's absolutely no explanation for a supposedly next-gen system emulator to display 3D graphics as perfect squares because that's a clear sign that there's no 3D rendering happening. All the author has done is resample a game picture to a smaller resolution then resize it to a larger res. Try it on any image and you get the same effect.  Link: The Culprit

	Working Dreamcast Emu?
	(posted by SkankinMonkey - 08:26) Someone sent me an e-mail today with a link to a 'Dreamcast Emu' that plays crazy taxi. I looked at the screenshots and they appear to be faked, but who am I to judge people? Go take a look for yourself and talk on our messageboards.  Link: Dreamcast Emulator

Thursday, September 28, 2000

	G-NES v0.42
	(posted by fixo - 12:47) G-Nes, a NES emulator for Windows which is hosted at Retrogames, has been updated to v0.42. Due to this being coded by a Japanese author, info on what's new is lacking. Fans of NES might give this one a try by downloading it at the link below, though it's not quite the most convenient NES emu to use at the moment.  Link: G-NES

	JoseQ Rumor Mill!
	(posted by SkankinMonkey - 00:14) Well, on my tour off all the Emu News Sites, I happened to go to JoseQ's website and see a brand spankin new Rumor Mill! This one has a bunch of good rumors in it. So go check it out!  Link: JoseQ's Rumor Mill

	NAZ returns!
	(posted by SkankinMonkey - 00:06) Naz, that crazy rom dumper has brought his webpage back! You better watch out for that background music though! Go check his site out!  Link: Naz!!!!!!

Wednesday, September 27, 2000

Yape .16 released!

(posted by SkankinMonkey - 23:59) YAPE ("Yet Another Plus/4 Emulator") has been released today! Here's whats new: optimised screen rendering (YAPE runs almost two times faster) minor raster improvements (well, maybe not in all cases)... two bugs in the CPU found and corrected (the Monties and Arthur Noid run well now) corrected the timing of the cursor blinks synchronising to the 50 MHz timer is available Go try this emulator out! It is my favorite Plus 4 emu!  Link: Yape HomePage!

	hi!
	(posted by SkankinMonkey - 21:22) I'm SkankinMonkey and I'm the newest poster to emucamp. I'll post news as it comes! Later  Link: SegaXtreme

RockNES 1.303

(posted by fixo - 20:52) RockNES, one of the fastest NES emulators for DOS, has been updated three times this week with build 1.303 being released today. Here's what's new in this version: Fixed trainer support (bug from previous version) Small mistakes with 'while' loops fixed Fixed some problems with FDS driver, more games are playable Fixed broken mapper #43 from previous version Head over to the official homepage for the download!  Link: RockNES homepage

A quick hello before I begin

(posted by fixo - 19:27) Hi everyone, my name is fixo and I am the newest staff member here at Emulation Camp. In the past I've been helping out at several emulation sites and ran an emu interview site called the fixo files. Together with the rest of the EC team we will continue to bring you the latest and most accurate emulation news out there. Stay tuned as in the distant future you can expect even more of our usual articles, interviews and features all coming very soon!

	Virtua progress
	(posted by Frogacuda - 16:54) Virtua, the Sega Model 2 emu, has updated it's homepage. There are 5 new screenshots to enjoy, of Manx TT Superbike and Virtua Cop. No polygons, yet, but still worth a look. Follow the link.  Link: Virtua

	We're not dead!
	(posted by Frogacuda - 16:49) I want let everyone know what's up with the lack of news. Basially we are sorting out things with new staff and I have a few more people to interview still, but things will be back and better than before very soon. Bear with us.

	Magical 32x update
	(posted by Chris - 15:12) RooFer, author of the Sega 32x emulator Magical 32x has just updated his page with news on his progress and a possible beta. Check it out yourself at the link below.  Link: Magical 32x W.I.P.

Monday, September 25, 2000

	New fake Sega Cd emulator
	(posted by Frogacuda - 22:58) A few sites posted about a new Sega CD emu called SCD Emu. It does not actually emualte any funtion of the SegaCD, and I have it on good authority that it's just a rip of Genital. Don't be fooled.  Link: SCD Emu

Meka 0.55 RC1

(posted by lilac - 19:30) Our good friend Zoop has given birth to more Meka goodness, with the big thing being 3D glasses support. On to the low down on what's new: Added builtin text viewer for the documentation. Added both software and hardware 3-D Glasses mode: Software mode let you play 3-D games by showing only images of a choosen side (left or right). Hardware mode supports REAL Sega 3-D Glasses connected on your PC through the communication port! Added CodeMasters cartridge mapper emulation (for both Master System and Game Gear modes). Fixed sprite collisions in certain cases. The following Colecovision games are now perfectly playable: Carnival (Bonus Level is ok) Jumpman Junior (Ladders on level 3 are ok). Pitfall 2 (No false hit on the third screen). Venture. Fixed hard pausing. You can now safely take screenshots when pausing and with messages shown on the screen, as they won't be shown on the screenshot. Fixed loading of very small ROMs, which affected Tic Tac Toe on Colecovision, and maybe your very own demos programs. Fixed the Eagle blitter which was not centered and showed garbage in some machines. Also fixed the default Eagle blitter configuration which limited speed to 30 FPS even on a very fast system. What a loss! Plenty of minor fixes here and here. Changed the key to save screenshots from F12 to PrintScreen. Added F12 shortcut to hard pause emulation. Added various name and checksum entrys, corrected existing ones. Should have noted out all Game Gear games running in Master System mode, fixed some Colecovision names and date (thanks to Luke2). Added new GUI themes, and more pictures available from the homepage. Everyone on the licensced users list knows where to find the new binaries.

Now Hiring

(posted by Frogacuda - 14:54) Well real life seems to have claimed another victim. Once again EC needs help to keep the news up. Aber had to leave, and I have been tied up with school work and other real-world duties, and haven't had much time, and as you've probably noticed the news has suffered greatly. This is not Ok. If you have the time dedication and skill to help you are encouraged to contact me about a position on Emucamp. Please try to find me on EFNet on #retrobase (#emucamp is no longer run by us), or if all else fails, by email. Thnk you.

Real Life Intervenes

(posted by Aber - 14:38) Howdy guys....I hate to do this, but unfortunately "real life" has made it impossible to continue my news posting position here at Emucamp. I'm in the Air Force, & am currently working on designing 3 websites as part of my job. With only myself & one other person working on the project, I simply have no spare time to devote to EC. It wouldn't be fair to myself, the rest of the EC staff, and you, the site visitors to try & stay on & do a half-assed job. So, I must resign, much to my dismay, as I had hoped to be with EC for a long period of time. I want to thank both Zoop & Frogacuda for the opportunity to work for the Best emu news site out there. These are two of the nicest guys involved in the scene, and the emu community would be a far better place if more people acted like them rather than people like Dave from you-know-where. Anyways, thanx for all the kind emails & such, it's been fun.

	New 32x emulator released!
	(posted by Chris - 13:58) Woohoo... can you believe it? Another Sega 32x hit the surface of earth today. Well, kinda. It's still a W.I.P. project. Anyway, check it out at the link below, as there's a cool screenshot of Magical 32x running Doom. Thanks to myself at RetroBase for the news (kidding ;)  Link: Magical 32x W.I.P.

Sunday, September 24, 2000

Keropi 0.50

(posted by Frogacuda - 13:41) Keropi, a top notch, open-source Sharp X68000 emu for windows, has been updated. Here's what's new: SCSI CD-ROM Support (Preliminary) Fixed 16x16 BG color bug Fixed BG-Text transparency Fixed Transparency in the 16 colors graphic mode Fixed return value from CRTC register Fixed interrupt in the DMA continuous mode Now Keropi counts bootup time/count and stores them in SRAMDownload the source or the executable from the homepage.  Link: Keropi

YAPE 1.4

(posted by Frogacuda - 13:36) YAPE, a Commodore Plus4 emu for Windows, has received yet another update. Here's what's new: almost 20% speed improvement (still a long way to go...) found an ugly bug in the CPU (ORA) bug in the video memory relocation corrected (Tom Thumb works now!) many new illegal opcodes are implemented relative speed counter and dumb debugger added debug reset added (hard reset with memory intact) The homepage reports that compatibility is greatly improved with this release with Revs, Powerball, Bongo, and more now working properly. Dpwnload the emu at the link below.  Link: Name

MasterGear 1.4

(posted by Frogacuda - 13:27) Marat Fayzullin has updated MasterGear, one of the oldest SMS/GG emulators in existance. Here's what's been done: Added many new command line options: -sg1000, -fm/-nofm, -drums/-nodrums, -eeprom/-sram, -static/-nostatic. Added YM2413 (OPLL) FM chip emulation (-fm/-nofm). It works best with MG-Windows midiOut sound drivers or MIDI soundtrack logging. Added option to simulate SN76489 (PSG) noise channel with MIDI drums (-drums/-nodrums). Added 93C46 serial EEPROM chip emulation (-eeprom/-sram). World Series Baseball and Majors Pro Baseball can save and load data now. Added special SG1000 mode (-sg1000). Added ability to load 8kB cartridges. Added static color allocation option (-static/-nostatic). Added separate handling for line and VBlank interrupts. Changed the way interrupt enabling flags work. Changed interrupt and display enabling flags in VDP. Saved state (.STA) file format has changed. Fixed mapper problem affecting state saving. Sound API has been rewritten to accommodate MIDI instruments, dynamic instrument changes, drums, etc. New sound and MIDI logging APIs have been integrated. Added F6 to save emulation state in MG-Unix. Changed Setup Panel GUI in MG-Windows. Fixed window resizing when changing model in MG-Windows. Fixed several problems with MG-Windows waveOut sound drivers. A heft list of changes, but even still probably not enought to bring it up to par wit BrSMS or Meka. But unlike those emulators MasterGear is easily portable. The FreeBSD port is online, and the other ports should follow soon.  Link: MasterGear

	It's soundtrack time
	(posted by Chris - 09:37) I have uploaded various game MIDI and MP3 files for you all to enjoy today. Get them over at RetroBase. Happy leeching ;)  Link: RetroBase.com

Saturday, September 23, 2000

This Week in ROMs

(posted by SkankinMonkey - 12:55) Rather than clutter up the news with lone daily ROM/ISO releases I decided to try a week-end summary of this week's releases. Here's what Genesis Power released this week: #269: Shinobi 3 - Return Of The Master #270: Shinobi 3 - Return Of The Master (E) #271: Spiderman and Venom - Maximum Carnage #272: Spiderman And Venom - Separation Anxiety #273: Strider Returns (U) #274: 688 Attack Sub #275: Addams Family Here's the arcade boards that Team Japump dumped this week: Othello Shiyouyo (For JAPAN)(c)1998 SuccessST-V system Tekken (JPN Ver.) (c)1994 Namco Ver.B Namco System11 Eight Forces (c)Tecmo 1994 by Noel Miruru Super Street Fighter II - The New Challengers - (JPN Ver.) (c)1993 Capcom Ver.931005 & 930911 CP System II Rezon (JPN Ver.) (c)1991 Allumer As usual, you'll be able to get these when you need them. I think that's about it for this week. If I find more I'll add them. Let me know what you think of this new format.

	Handheld Atari VCS
	(posted by Frogacuda - 12:28) It's just a lone homemade model, but it is just sooo cool. I am envious. Follow the link to check out pics and info. Thanks to Retrogames for the link.  Link: Atari VCSp

	OverClocked ReMix
	(posted by Frogacuda - 12:20) Today OC ReMix have 3 new classic game remixes for us to download ane enjoy. We have, for your downloading pleasure, Castlevania 'Wicked Orchestra', ,Super Mario Bros. 2 'Phazeremix Rag', and another Castlevania mix 'VampireKiller DeadCorpse'. Enjoy.  Link: OverClocked ReMix

Snes9x news

(posted by Frogacuda - 12:13) The Snes9x developers jornal has been updated with a few good tidbits. Gary is woring on improving the compatability and squashing a few age old bugs, after that he plans to optimize the SA-1 emulation by detecting idle loops, and after that he plans to impliment C4 (MegaMan X2, X3) emulation, and even furthe down the road he plans to finish the DSP-1 emulation to work with more than just Mario Kart (Pilotwings, please). Head on over to read the full posting.  Link: SNES9x Dev Journal

	G-NES 0.41
	(posted by Frogacuda - 12:04) GIGO's japanese NES emu for windows has been updated. The page is in japanese, but the list of changes appears to be quite substantial, so if you like this emu the update is recommended. Head for GIGO and Hii's page.  Link: GIGO and Hii

YAPE 0.13

(posted by Frogacuda - 11:59) This Commodore Plus4 emu got another update Thursday. Here's what's new: 'd tried some speed improvements but it got worse, so I changed them back :-) Will try later I was wasting GDI memory (that may have crashed Win98), this is now hopefully fixed saving screenshots is now possible raster interrupt largely improved (tons of games work now because of this!) multicolor bitmap graphic is done (Treasure Island works great!) added loading PRG files from file system most importantly: the cursor is now blinking! :-) Keep 'em coming! Head to the homepage to download.  Link: YAPE

Friday, September 22, 2000

Some thoughts..

(posted by Zoop - 18:08) As you have probably heard already, Sega shutted down several sites related to the Dreamcast warez scene recently, sending them a letter explaining their point and asking the site to be closed or else they will take legal actions against it. Well, EmuGaming.com has posted up a rebutal letter about it, with which I do not agree at all and that I'd like to comment. I think the problem of people arguing the same way as the guy at EmuGaming does, is that they are either completely out of reality, or else full of hypocrisy. To be honnest, I am a bit sick of the general hypocrisy being around in the mind of several people in emulation, and that is why I wanted to comment about it. The first fact is that only an extreme minor of copied games are for backup purpose, the second being that only an extreme minor of people do buy games they like after pirating them, and of course not in the case of all games. Oddly enough, it is usually people the most familiar with piracy and the scene going around that do buy games. Any talking regarding making backup copy to preserve your own games is pure and simple hypocrisy, period. If you buy a car then burn it, it doesn't entitle you to steal a second car. And if ever one of your games stops working, then you'll be surely able to find a copy of it AFTER this unlikely event. At my opinion, sites like dcisos.com or dcwarez.com dodid mainly promotes piracy, even if some or their content are not - who said development ? You must keep in mind that most development projects going around with free technical informations that is supposed to be given only under contract is also out of law, so are the cover and manual scans - which obvious purpose is to let you get backup copies of your covers which got accidentally burned, right? This not a rent against piracy. I may have 400 or so ROMs in their original and legal cartridge form, I'm also sure I have ROMs from cartridges I don't own myself. Being honnest, I never have much cared for the law around video game piracy, so I bet are most of you. But I do follow my own rules (which of course are legally not valid) which are not to hurt anyone, and pirating games for recent and still selling systems is hurting, not Sega mainly, but developers behind those games who are humans and who need to feed their family. On the other hand, I'm convinced that spreading Master System ROMs is a non harming event for anyone and so I do it with a clean conscience. Between being a hypocrit pirate and a pirate, I prefer being a pirate. Long live Sega! Of can make of this text what you will. And surely you can voice your opinion on our EmuGaming Article

Thursday, September 21, 2000

	RetroBase redisign
	(posted by Frogacuda - 16:22) RetroBase, a great source for game info/screens/music/reviews/stuff for Genesis, Lynx, TurboGrafx, Jaguar, and Neo-Geo has gotten a complete redisign. Make sure to head over and check it out.  Link: RetroBase

	DBoy 0.70a
	(posted by Frogacuda - 16:05) Boukichi's excellent DOS Gameboy Color emu based on the VirtualBoy sources has been updated. I can't read Japanese, but it looks to be a minor update, and there's something mentioned about SideWinder support, and a private beta. Anyway, head for the homepage to download.  Link: Boukichi

ElectrEm beta 4

(posted by Frogacuda - 16:01) This spiffy Acorn Electron emu with DOS, Linux, and Windows/DirectX ports has been updated to beta 4. This is a BIG update. Here's the full list: reformatted and rewrote large parts of the source code. Most of the mess, and the increasing problems are now gone. Much easier for others to follow also. closer again to correct Electron timing. I'm fairly sure modes 4-6 are now entirely correct, but I still haven't chanced upon the correct scheme for modes 0-3. Most games use modes 4-6. fixes to the buffered sound engine. It now works quite well. In Windows for example, a best case latency of ~348ms has become an always case latency of ~46ms optimised the palette changes in a great way. Which means a faster emulation of many programs, including BASIC in mode 2 (16 colour mode). Small fix so that the load file path in the config file is not ignored in some versions of Windows added configurable keyboard mapping. Two maps are currently available - physical/game (where PC keys are mapped to Electron keys via their relative locations, as in previous releases) and logical (where PC keys produce their correct symbols, regardless of location on an Electron keyboard). The keyboard maps reside files external to the main executable, so adding others and correcting those already provided shouldn't be hard. I'll add a proper menu for the next beta, hopefully. A side effect of this is that the 'enter GUI' and break key (still hard mapped) have been moved. See the docs! improved fast tape loading - some (a small number) games load now that did not before, including but not limited to Bug Blsater, Sphere of Destiny, Psycastria and Ravenskull. changed the way screen start address &0000 is interpretted, at least fixing three Bug Byte games (one about Ice Hockey, one about Cricket and another one I forget, but which is very visibly based on the same code set as the previous two). This may be a mistake - the accurate way may be to treat one of the screen start address bytes as a trigger, or it could be that the bits that 'must' be 0 in the low byte have effects when not 0, I shall have to investigate. did away with the sudden quit approach to unknown opcodes. Now a GUI screen pops up informing you of what has happened with some fairly basic information and the option to carry on regardless or to reset the Electron. added support for external GUIs with information passing via the config file added *cat to the vDFS added straight SSD and DSD loading to the disk drive mechanism. Both are assumed to be DFS types (i.e. 256 bytes/sector, 10 sectors/track, 80 tracks/side) sound volume and overall speed is now adjustable the code is now much more specific about what fails when it tries to init, so it should be easier for me to diagnose problems via e-mail. Its also much more stringent on making sure it starts okay in DOS & Linux. the cheat related code has been removed. Due to optimisations made to the CPU core since its addition, placing persistant values in the zero page (or indeed the stack page) is now impossible which - without checking - would mean many games would not be cheatable in the expected way. The code will probably rematerialise next time I have a change of heart some small memory allocation & deallocation bug fixes here and there and such like Quite alot of work. Grab the new version now at the link.  Link: ElectEm

Visual Boy 1.4.6

(posted by Frogacuda - 15:54) Visual Boy, a Gameboy emu for Windows/DirectX 7, has gotten a nice update. Check out what's new: digital sound support for Perfect Dark, Warlock, Chessmaster and others SGB border on supported CGB games drag drop support command line passing of ROM to start with directories configuration speed up button capture button configuration fullscreen mode changed to 640x480 (and centered) emulator type (automatic, CGB, SGB, GB) fix sound bug on Tetris DX, Zelda DX and others increased speed emulation (found a nasty thing holding up emulation speed) Head for the homepage to downoad for Win9x, or WinNT/2K.  Link: Visual Boy

	Final Burn 0.020
	(posted by Frogacuda - 15:47) Everyone's favorite After Burner emu receives yet another minor update. This one is a tweak for the scanline blitting, which should speed things up a bit. Head over to FinalBurn.com for te download.  Link: Final Burn

	Dreamer 0.000001
	(posted by Frogacuda - 15:45) The mysterious Dreamcast emu finally has a name, and a new release to go with it. Say hello to Dreamer. This one IS legit, folks. It plays a couple demos, runs ghetto pong, and even shows signs of life with Gleam. Nothing commercial, or even 3D yet, but it's definately a start. Head to the ne homepage to download/learn more (provided you know spanish).  Link: Dreamer

	RumorMill
	(posted by Frogacuda - 15:32) JoseQ put up the latest RomorMill, covering all the usual suspects, and a few new bits. Head over and check it out.  Link: JoseQ

Wednesday, September 20, 2000

	Anex96 2.27
	(posted by Frogacuda - 11:02) Anex86, a japanese Epson PCx86 emu for windows, has been updated. No translation of what's new is availible as of current. Download from the homepage.  Link: Anex86

Laser 0.11, 0.11a

(posted by Frogacuda - 10:53) Yesterday Lopantu gave us 2 updates to his multi-arcade multi platform emu in a single day. Here's what's new: 0.11 Sound is enabled with -sound now. 4 Player Bowling is now playable (with graphics errors). - I couldn't figure out how to play it, so I only assume it's playable. I couldn't figure it out in MAME either :) 0.11a Space Invaders now features complete sound. Somehow I missed the saucer sound - I don't know how I did that - but it's in there now. You can download the emu from its new home hosted by Retrobase.  Link: Laser

Final Burn 0.019

(posted by Frogacuda - 10:42) Final Burn, which emulates the After Burner arcade hardware in windows, has been updated again.Here's what's new this time: v0.019 Fixed the engine sound - it was to do with looping samples. I also increased the accuracy of the PCM emulation - the Vulcan gun now sounds better I think. v0.018 Blanked out the incorrect engine sound, to save our poor ears for the time being... v0.017 Changed the scanlines method (to avoid vertical banding effects on cards which do bilinear filtering). Head to the official homepage to download. Thanks to gwenju for the news.  Link: Final Burn

Zophar leaves

(posted by Frogacuda - 00:43) Zophar has left the site that he founded almost 4 years ago. His reasons are not scene related, but rather that he wants to focus on his education. From now on SwampGas will maintain Zophar's Domain. ZD has contributed alot to this scene, and for a long while it was the best emu site out there. It's sad to see Zophar go, but I agree that real life must be the priority. Emucamp wishes him the best of luck. Head to ZD to read his full departing post.  Link: Zophar’s Domain

Tuesday, September 19, 2000

YAPE 0.12

(posted by Frogacuda - 22:16) This Commodore Plus/4 emu has been updated again. Here's what's been done this round: yet some more speed improvements (still sluggish below P2 though) CPU bug fixed (SBC) two illegal opcodes are implemented (NOP $0000,X) palette selection in GDI mode (monochrome rulez!!) multicolor character mode done preliminary joystick emulation vertical TED register is ready wrong color handling in high resolution bitmap mode fixed stupid PRG loader bugs fixed, more decompressors work fine added yet some more games to the package some new bugs introduced :-)) Head for the homepage.  Link: Plus4

	fMSXSO 0.81
	(posted by Frogacuda - 15:17) This enhanced windows port of Marat's fMSX has gotten a little update. Here's what's new: Name change from MSXSO fo fMSXSO. The reason is ofcourse the fact that it's based on fMSX Updated SCC Drivers Opdates PSG & OPLL Drivers Fixed a bug in the audio log Download from our good freinds at MEP.  Link: MEP

YAPE 0.11

(posted by Frogacuda - 15:10) YAPE, a Windows Commodore Plus4 emu, has been updated. Here's what's new: speeded up a bit, now you only need an Athlon 600 :-))))))) 100% of regular opcodes are implemented several CPU bugs fixed high resolution bitmap graphics done (GRAPHIC 2 works!!!!!!) raster interrupt is improved (still not 100% accurate) added more games to the distribution package several new bugs introduced :-)) Head to the homepage to download.  Link: YAPE

DarcNES dn9a0916

(posted by Frogacuda - 15:05) A new version of DarcNES was released a few days ago, for Windows, GTK, and X11. Here's what's new: Fixed 6280 ADC overflow calculation. Fixed 6280 SBC D mode carry flag clobber. Fixed 6280 cycle-count bug for PL[APXY]. Converted 6280 to use lazy flag evaluation. Fixed 6502 SBC overflow calculation. Fixed 6502 SBC D mode carry flag clobber. Fixed 6502 lazy flag evaluation SBC bug. Cleaned up iNES ROM header parsing. Fixed minor bug with PCE CD debug output for reset command. Fixed (hopefully) compile problem with SVGAlib version. Removed unused references to errno and errno.h from video_x.c. Head to the homepage to download.  Link: DarcNES

EX68 v214

(posted by Frogacuda - 14:56) EX68, which emulates the Sharp X68000 under Win32, has been updated to v214. I don't know Japanese, so I'm afraid I can't tell you what's new in this version yet. Until then follow the link to download. Irrelevant side note: I apologize for the lack of updates lately. Aber is tied up with work and will be for sometime, and my computer was too screwed up to post, and I only now have had time to straighten it all out. Hopefully things will get better now.  Link: EX68

	OverClocked
	(posted by Frogacuda - 14:49) OverClocked has put up a new strip. I think it's awful, so I'm quitting the emulation scene unless David apologizes.  Link: OverClocked

Monday, September 18, 2000

	Final Burn 0.015
	(posted by Frogacuda - 22:44) Here we have anothe small update to this excelent multi-arcade emu. This latest update gives us fullscreen mode. Enjoy.  Link: Final Burn

Laser Progress

(posted by Lopantu - 19:29) I have been working on Laser, trying to get the release out that was mentioned in JoseQ's Rumor Mill. I have some good news and some bad news regarding this release. First, the good news: Laser has moved to it's own domain. It can now be reached at www.laseremu.com. I have been working on adding more games. 4 Player Bowling has started to work. Now the bad news: I've come across a stumbling block. I can't figure out how to emulate some of the controls. ie: The 2 player controls in Space Invaders, and the controls in 4 Player Bowling and Chess. If you can help me with these problems, I would be greatful. I have looked through every source I could think of to no avail. Thank you in advance for any help, Mickey McMurray  Link: Laser

WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 has been released

(posted by Bernd - 08:35) Several bugs have been fixed in this Windows based Amiga emulator: For example it is now possible to create hardfiles. There are also minor changes in the keyboard- and joystick emulation. With this release it is now much easier to emulate an Amiga harddisk. Unfortunately the sound emulation problems on some systems have not been fixed. But if you are in Amiga emulation you should of course download this new release.  Link: Fellow homepage

Sunday, September 17, 2000

Final Burn 0.014

(posted by Frogacuda - 23:13) Final Burn, Dave's awesome and speedy After Burner emu for windows has been updated. Here's what's new since the last release: v0.014 Fixed some kind of config saving bug v0.012 Preliminary GUI panel. Press Escape to show and hide the panel. Keyboard support. While a game is loaded, press "Input" and select "Use Keyboard" The keys are Up/Down/Left/Right/S/D. Settings are saved to disk. I haven't put the 'Use Video Memory', 'Sample Rate' and 'Bass Filter' options in the GUI yet, but they can be changed by editing cfg\finalburn.ini Ahh... finally, keyboard support. Now all we need is that Road Emulation... Can't we just rip the System16 source already? :) Download at the homepage.  Link: Final Burn

AMI Sector One has just been updated

(posted by Bernd - 14:45) This time we have got permission from the companies Polarware and Talking Birds to upload their Amiga games on our site. Some of the concerning games like "Oo Topos" (adventure which was already coded in 1986) and "Der Trainer" (phantastic football manager game which got very good reviews in the press) can already be downloaded. Of course we have also added other games like "Thromulus", "High Reflection" and many others. Please check our newspage for a detailed list of new additions. Besides credits for further 200 Amiga games have been added. Also the muic section has been updated with many new soundtracks of Amiga games. The new Deliplayer for the PC is ideal to listen to these tunes because of some exotic sound formats. Coverscans (front and back) for another 30 classic Amiga games complete this update.  Link: AMI Sector One

	New WinUAE 0.8.14 R3
	(posted by Bernd - 12:04) In this new release of the Amiga emulator WinUAE there have been fixed some bugs like Picasso 96 problems. Download it from the official WinUAE page.  Link: WinUAE page

Radical Dreamers translation

(posted by Zoop - 06:16) People at Demiforce opened a page about their upcoming translation project: Radical Dreamers for Super Famicom/Nintendo. Released in 1996, this is the real sequel to the famous Chrono Trigger, before Chrono Cross was released, and it covers points about the plot not in Chrono Cross. Demi (heading the project) is looking for experienced (read: experienced) Japanese speaker in order to help translating the game. He's also looking for a programmer familiar with "LZ77 compression method and its variant". I guess anyone with Super Famicom technical skill could figure it out with some goodwill and time. So if you are interesting in helping out with the translation of what is surely a good game (Super Famicom, 1996, hmm..), be sure to do so!  Link: Radical Dreamers at Demiforce

Saturday, September 16, 2000

SMS Power

(posted by Frogacuda - 19:52) SMS Power has a twofer today. First we have Monopoly (version 1, and 2). This is a dman respectable port of the classic board game. Two versions exist, one labeled Mono Poly on the cart and a later one labeled Monopoly. Both are included in the release. The second release is more of a curiosity: GG Portrait: Akira. This is a little animated storybook featuring a super-defeormed Akira from Virtua Fighter. Download them both at the link below. Thanks Zoop!  Link: SMS Power

WinEMU 0.48R3 & D64Explorer V1.0

(posted by Lando - 16:59) The C16/Plus4 Emulator WinEMU written by Zsolt Prievara has be updated. Changes and new features: Fixed memory mapping in 16 and 32k modes, D64 support (read only), improved PC-Dir 1551 emulation. D64Explorer V1.0 is a must for anyone using commodore .D64 disk images! This little utilitie is a D64 disk reader. Just setup your D64 filetype to open D64Explorer.exe and every time you click on a D64 file a small window will list the contents. I cant wait for the updates when you should beable to copy the files to PC directory! Go check out the latest offerings from the link below.  Link: WinEMU

GBAEmu is a fake, FireFly's emu cancelled

(posted by Frogacuda - 14:45) Apparently the anonymous author of GBAEmu was anonymous for a reason. GBAEmu is nothing more than a rip of a back version of FireFly's emu by Peter Claeyssens. What's more is that this act of lameness has caused FireFly to cancel his project and close his site altogether! This kind of thing really disgusts me. I hope that Peter is exposed fully, and Tim is able to continue his great work. Read the full announcement at the link below.  FireFly's homepage

PCSX Back!

(posted by Aber - 00:12) PCSX updated its site with the GREAT news that despite the childish actions of the FPSE team, they are back in action. The post (rant) by the FPSE team yesterday understandably upset the PCSX team (and damn near the whole emu community), and prompted the PCSX team to call it quits. However, it appears that the positive reaction by the emu community towards PCSX (and some cooling off time)has helped reverse yesterdays decision to call it quits. Hopefully this will all just go away so we can continue to see these projects progress. Go to the link below for more info.  Link: PCSX

Friday, September 15, 2000

CMNES v0.12 a & b

(posted by Aber - 21:45) CMNES, a Win32 NES emu was updated today with a new release. Here's the what's new: Running faster now due to some really small changes. The author of Handy told me that 95% of the gain comes from 5% effort and this is a good rule to work with when looking to improve speed. Some palette problems finally fixed, smario and others are looking pretty good now! Fixed transparency problems with spy vs spy and cmclogo. (code from version 0.6) Added ability to swap from full screen to windowed using Ctrl+W (not perfect) Fixed a few cosmetic interface bugs. Fixed 8x16 sprites again! Gradius sprites now look correct. Added mapper 2 but it is not working correctly, the x-men title screen is displayed and you can select your character but then it locks. Other titles don't even display the title screen! Thanks to Eli / Delta from the Pretendo team for help getting my head round bank swapping efficiently. In addition, the author is asking for some help with the following: Gamepad does not work with m-tetris, what is different about this title? Why does mapper 2 not work? (very simple mapper) - I suspect the problem is not the mapper code. I suspect that the title screen of smario makes use of mid hblank VRAM writes, can anyone confirm this? Why does the drill in digdug display as a red block? Go to the link below to download or offer some help  Link: CMNES

Gameboy Advance Emulation!

(posted by Frogacuda - 21:38) Well no sonner did Nintendo flood the world with its GBA dev kits do we have not one, not two, but three working Gameboy Advance emulators! At least two are able to play the famed Yoshi's Story demo to some extent, the only real availible peice of software you'd want to run at this point. GBAEmu: This emu which is being hosted at Gameboy advance Development is being coded by an anonymous author. It plays Yoshi's story, and shows sprites, but is still very early. Download it/read more here FireFly's GBA Emulator/Debugger: This emulator, coded by Tim Schuerewegen, is currently the more advanced of the three it seems, but unfortunately it is not public. You can head to the homepage and check out some screens at the homepage. IS-AGB-Emu: This is the third GBA emu, written by Intelligent Systems, but this one's in japanese (or another asian language I don't have the font for) so I really know nothing about it. Download it here. I don't really know what to think of this. This, to my knowledge, marks the first time there has been a working public emulator of a system a full year before it's launch. You must admit, though... it is a very cool preview of what's to come.

	Gleam! News
	(posted by Aber - 21:33) Gleam!, the NES emu for the Sega Dreamcast updated with news that a new compatability list has been added just a day after the old one was taken down, only this time it's not interactive.  Link: Gleam!

	ClrMAME Pro News
	(posted by Aber - 21:23) ClrMAME Pro, the popular rom manager, had a small update today with the release of a new NGPC datfile by Darren Bradbury  Link: ClrMAME Pro

	Genesis Power release #266
	(posted by Aber - 21:08) Genesis Power continues it's "Spidey" theme today with release #266, Spiderman And The X-Men - Arcade's Revenge. As always, head over to GP to grab a copy.  Link: Genesis Power

Team Japump News

(posted by Aber - 21:05) Team Japump updated with news of the following dumps: Nouryoku Koujou Iinkai(c)1995 Tecmo (developed by NMK?) by Noel Miruru Daiku no Gensan (JPN Ver.) (c)1990 Irem M72 system by Uki Super Muscle Bomber - The International Blowout - (JPN Ver.) (c)1994 Capcom Ver.951024 CP System II Marvel Super Heroes (JPN Ver.) (c)1995 Capcom Ver.940808 CP System II by Chackn And bad roms redumped were the following: Thunder Cross 2 (JPN Ver.) War of Aero - project MEIOU - Soldam (JPN Ver) by Chackn  Link: Team Japump

Sega System C2 Emu 0.2b

(posted by Aber - 20:54) Looks like JoseQ was right, Charles MacDonald released a new (bugfixed) version of his Sega System C2 Emu for dos today. Here's a list of the changes: Haze submitted fixes for sample ROM loading in Stack Columns, and a bug with sprite width clipping. Fixed version number display. Improved sound channel disable switches. In addition the release, MacDonald says that another minor update isn't far away & he was going to be assisting NeoZeed with his in-development Windows port.  Link: Sega System C2 Emu

	ePSXe News
	(posted by Aber - 20:46) ePSXe, the in-development PSX emu for Win9x, updated its homepage with the news that work continues on the emu, and a release can be expected very soon. In addition, screenshots of 3 more commercial games were posted, including the Squaresoft masterpiece, Chrono Cross!!. You can see those new screenshots (and man, do the look good) at the link below.  Link: ePSXe

	Rom Hackers World News
	(posted by Aber - 20:39) Our hosted site, Rom Hackers World, has updated their excellent hack, Mighty In Sonic The Hedgehog to version 1.5. Added in this version is more edited sprites & Knuckles Chaotix fonts.  Link: Rom Hackers World

	NeoPocott v0.35b
	(posted by Aber - 20:35) As announced yesterday, NeoPocott v0.35, the excellent Neo Geo Pocket Color emu for windows, was released to the public today. Scroll down to yesterday's post to see the (large) list of what's new. Thanks to PnP of NGPWorld for the news. Go to the link below to grab the new version of the best NGPC emu out there.  Link: Emu5ever

FPSE v0.08 & News

(posted by Aber - 20:28) Well, hopefully cooler heads have prevailed, as the misguided rant from yesterday has been taken down. In it's place is the first release of this free PSX emu, Linux v0.08. Here's some features of this initial release: The same features of Win32 and AmigaOS. Plugin technology: Supports X-Windows, Svgalib, SDL or AAlib. Supports Real CDs or ISO images A configuration tool. In addition, you will need the PSX bios SCPH1001 for the emu to run. Also, you can see a screenie of the BeOS version at the homepage, which can be found at the link below.  Link: FPSE

SNEeSe v0.48

(posted by Aber - 20:20) SEeSe, an open source SNES emulator for Dos was updated today with release 0.48. This marks the third release in just over a week. Here's what's new: Source: Ported the sprite decoder/plotters to NASM Source: Ported the background layer decoder/plotters to NASM Source: Ported the hardware port handlers to NASM Render: Removed a sprite 'fix' I put in back in 0.47 - did nothing except slow things down Display: Removed an unnecessary part of the screen mode setup code Render: Fixed a bug that caused sprites to be disabled when mode 7 layer was disabled Memory map: Added support for the special memory map used by Rock Man X and Mega Man X (allows uncracked ROMs to work properly) Get both the source & the binary at the link below  Link: SNEeSe

Video Games World Records

(posted by Zoop - 18:03) I am back after nearly a week with no working computer. For the little story, my video card, power supply and cache memory all died on the same time - and I finally found new parts (S3 Virge rules!). I got an e-mail about a site referencing world records for thousands of videogames. I am wondering myself how does a videogame world record can be set and proven, but there might be a videogame event in Sydney that I didn't heard about. Check out the site and its giant database at the link below!  Link: Video Games World Records

Thursday, September 14, 2000

Dejap News

(posted by Aber - 23:41) A short while ago, Dejap released the famous beta patch that an unscrupulous beta tester had leaked & another translation group had claimed as their own. Dejap decided to make the beta "officially" available, with the warning that it was very buggy. Well, today Dejap updated with the news that the patch was corrupted, causing the text to be very difficult to read (I can attest to that...yeah, I'm impatient & grabbed it myself, so sue me :0]). A new patch was made available today correcting the problem. Again, Dejap DOES NOT recommends this patch, since it IS buggy & will in no way represent the final version. If, however, you're impatient (like me, heh), you can get it at the link below.  Link: Dejap

	Spinal's INI's News
	(posted by Aber - 23:26) Spinal released the Italian translation of the Nemu64 v3.7 INI. get it at the link below.  Link: Spinal's INI's

AGES News

(posted by Aber - 23:17) AGES, the Genesis/32X emu for Windows got an update at it's homepage today with some encouraging news. Quintesson Stated that work has been done done on the emu, but a release isn't quite ready yet. However, he's been given the go ahead by his advisor's to make the emu his senior project. Hopefully this will mean the emu will see faster development (especially in the 32X area...hint, hint ;0]). Credit JoseQ of Emuviews for the news.  Link: AGES

	Genesis Power release #265
	(posted by Aber - 23:09) Genesis Power made release #265 available today, and it's SpiderMan - The Animated Series, based on the short-lived cartoon series here in the states.  Link: Genesis Power

	Sega C2 Driver WIP
	(posted by Aber - 23:03) Haze updated the Sega C2 Driver WIP page with some news that quite a few have prolly been waiting for. He says the MAME driver should be submitted within a week to two weeks, and things are progressing quite nicely.  Link: Sega C2 Driver WIP

	Romcenter News
	(posted by Aber - 23:00) RomCenter, the excellent rom auditing utility, was updated today with new datfiles for the following: Sega System 2 v0.2a (Haze & Logiqx) Final Burn 0.11 Logiqx Go to the link below to grab 'em  Link: RomCenter

FPSE Starts A War

(posted by Aber - 22:52) FPSE, the new PSX emu for several platforms, had rather odd update on their page today. This is what I'm talking about: WOW... we make and all Other copy :-)) 1) Jackal (I think it's dead) 2) Sope 0.4 3) Pcsx 4) ePSXe And now???? What emulator do U want to make with our sources today? Hmmmm.....hate to see these things flare up...however, a claim like that needs some proof in my book, and with _Demo_, one of the main coders for the ever popular SNES emu zSNES, being part of the ePSXe team, makes the claim a little hard to believe. The fallout from this? Well, PCSX, the recently released PSX emu had this to say at their homepage today: I am in the diffucult position to anounce I am abandoning the Pcsx project since some lamers accused me of copying their sources (sounds familiar fpse authors?). Pcsx contains 100% clean code that was written from its authors (Nocomp,Shadow,Roor). If the Fpse team believes that what all we can do is losing our time to seeing their buggy sources, perhaps it's time to change their minds. I am sick to hear unbased accuses made by people that are in the PSX emu scene less than me. If someone can claims that we "stole" something,it's PSEMU PRO, since we are useing its plugin system for which we had taken the permission to do. So after all these facts I made my mind to abandon the Pcsx project. The continuation of the project will be decided in a week or so, when will see how things are going. If the emu scene doesn't do something about this then count Pcsx off the PSX emus. The stupidity of some people is sometimes out of limits It's a shame to see these developments, as the PSX emu scene was finally beginning to approach the same level of excitement & anticipation that we saw prior to Bleem's release. Hopefully this will soon die down, afterall, it IS just a hobby, right?

FrontDboy v1.3

(posted by Aber - 22:34) A new version of this great Dboy (A very good GB/GBC emu) frontend for windows was released. Here's what's new: Updated languages files. Corrected a small bug in the load of the messages. Eliminated the option "to use less characters" in the menu configurations Added the option "Rename file to Title", in the menus, that it changes the name of the file for the internal Title of the rom. . If you haven't tried this frontend out yet, give it a go, as it is very easy to use & makes using Dboy a breeze. Thanx to Oscar Cerda for the news.  Link: FrontDboy

NeoPocott v0.35b to be released tomarrow

(posted by Aber - 22:28) PnP of NGPWorld gave us some very good news regarding a new PUBLIC release of this awesome NGPC emu for windows. Just a day after the private release, we will see the public release tomarrow over at Emu5ever. The new version will be a big one, with the following changes: "Run/Pause/Resume works better now Add also *.* for file loading Add *.NGC for file loading (asked by many people) Improves Rom Info Window (dynamic) Registers Window works independantly better Add help for memory dump commands Add more CPU registers in the Registers Window", Add CPIR opcode Change XSP to 0x6C00 at reset as the real NGPC (thanks to Judge) Cotton - Fantastic Night Dreams Game WORKS PERFECTLY !!! Magical Drop Pocket Game WORKS PERFECTLY !!! TPaint Demo WORKS BETTER NOW !!! Add Keyboard Configuration Add CHG opcode (thanks to Toby Carvan's TPaint)", Add Blanking Status support (thanks to Toby Carvan's TPaint) Frame speed adjusters added (please play with them to have the wanted speed on your PC...) VSync added (thanks to Brian Peek & Charles Doty) CPU registers show in another window Independant Windows Many changes to code (portability, clarity) Optimize flags emulation (ZF/SF) Fixes flags emulation (CF/OF/HF) Completely rewrite flags emulation (huge work...) Many opcodes checked (huge thanks to Regtest by Ivan Mackintosh) Fixes current directory when loading roms Fixes all DIV/DIVS opcodes (huge thanks to Regtest by Ivan Mackintosh) Add overflow tests for all DIV/DIVS opcodes In addition, Dos & MacOS ports should shortly follow the windows release. Keep an eye on the link below tomarrow for the release of this emu, prolly the best NGPC emulator availbale right now.  Link: Emu5ever

	Kojotes Legal Emulation News
	(posted by Aber - 22:14) Kojote sent us an email today regarding his legal emulation/rom site today. You can now find over 650 freeware/public domain roms at the site, much of which is homebrew stuff (which I'm a BIG fan of, in case ya didn't know). So if you want to stay on the legal side of things, head on over to the link below & check it out.  Link: Kojotes

	Sega Cover Library Opens
	(posted by Aber - 22:09) Franz sent me an email today announcing the opening of this new cover scan site for Sega today. For now, only the Saturn is covered, but Genesis, 32X & SMS should be on the way soon.  Link: Sega Cover Library

NLMSX v0.29

(posted by Aber - 22:07) Ok, time to catch up. Please excuse the lateness of our posts lately, some of our staff member's have had some technical difficulties & me...well, I work 10-12 hours a day & flag football has just started here on the USAF base I work on which means lots of beers after every game :0]. Expect things to get back to normal here shortly. Anyways, time to press on. NLMSX v0.29, the MSX emulator for windows updated with a new release. Here's what's new: Added full support for a normal SCC. Added full support for a SCC+ with 128kbyte ram. Added a SCC+ memory type. Multiple SCC/SCC+ cartridge combinations are possible. Changed the arabic configuration. Memory mapper in slot 3-2 and the disk rom in slot 3-3. Thanks to Husni Lutfi. Rewrote sound mixing to fully use DirectSound's own mixing algorithms. Scanlines are removed, but this may give performance problems. Thanx to the MEP Crew for the heads up. You can go to their page here to grab a copy or go to the official homepage at the link below.  Link: NLMSX

	Opinews.com
	(posted by Chris - 09:26) Now this is kinda funny: Have you ever asked yourself what the web's most active and maddest emunews poster, Opi, does after he's done with posting the same news all over different sites? Well, he founded his very own site ;) Visit the link below to learn more about it.  Link: Opinews.com

Eidolon's interview madness

(posted by Chris - 09:20) Eidolon aka Christian, maintainer of Eidolon's Inn has opened a new section at his Sega devoted site, named "Interview Irrsinn" ("Interview madness"). This new section contains interviews with some well-known people of the Sega emulation scene. Read interviews with Pascal Bosquet, Stephane Dallongeville, Charles MacDonald, Tim Meekins, Steve Snake and others! It's all there! Excellent work, dude :)  Link: Eidolon's Inn

New Rumor Mill

(posted by Aber - 00:04) JoseQ has offered up yet another one of his fantastic Rumor Mills. This one is a biggie, giving you the goods on Javanese, Handy, Sega System C2, Final Burn & MAME, JAE, RockNES as well as the secret Sega CD emu & HanaHo, makers of ArcadePC (which JoseQ tortured us poorer folks with earlier this year with those pics of his very own). Anyways, you know where to go, what are ya waiting for? Thanx to JoseQ for the heads up on our IRC channel :0)  Link: JoseQ's Rumor Mill

Wednesday, September 13, 2000

	Gleam! News
	(posted by Aber - 23:47) Gleam!, the NES emu for the Sega Dreamcast updated it's page with news that they have decided to take down the compatibility list that was just added a couple of days ago due to some abuse on the part of users. Also mentioned, was more progress has been made to the CPU core.  Link: Gleam!

ClrMAME Pro News

(posted by Aber - 23:38) ClrMAME Pro, the popular rom auditing utility, updated it's homepage today with this info regarding the recent 1.8 release: When using the MAME or the MAME DATFILE engine you should see 3 systems (Standard, NeoGeo, Nintendo Playchoice 10) in the scanner and the rebuilder ! If you only see "Standard" you should remove the file "_last.cmp" and restart ClrMamePro. The progressbar doesn't work properly when doing a fastscan....Don't worry....It looks a bit weird but the scanner works correctly...It's just a display problem. If you've encountered these problems with the current version, this should help ya out.  Link: ClrMAME Pro

HuC Demo Released

(posted by Aber - 23:23) Zeograd mentioned today that a new HuC demo was released by the main author of the PC Engine C compiler, David Michel, tentatively called Tank. PC Engine always had the hardest of the hardcore of fans, and the HuC project continues to prove this. Who'd have ever guessed that PCE games would still be developed late into the year 2000? Keep an eye on the link below if you've got a fancy for either PC Engine or homebrew games.  Link: Utopia

M.A.M.E. WIP

(posted by Aber - 23:08) Some odd happenings over at the MAME WIP page today: 13th September 2000, 20:35 UTC: The lifepod contained more surveillance video, giving more proof to the "Giant of Light" theory. 13th September 2000, 19:48 UTC: One survivor has been found floating in a lifepod. 13th September 2000, 17:14 UTC: Devastating new weather patterns have developed, causing massive floods and rains in the Asian region. 13th September 2000, 14:20 UTC: Security video of the Antarctic happenings has been leaked. The only interesting frame of video was captured and sent to various newsgroups. 13th September 2000, 11:56 UTC: Conflicting reports of the actual happenings circulate the Internet. Some claim that this is a revenge from various gods, but no proof has been provided. 13th September 2000, 08:00 UTC: United Nations has issued an official press release. The reason of the catastrophy is a huge meteorite which hit the Antarctic over 10% the speed of light. Several countries are in a state of emergency. 13th September 2000, 06:39 UTC: First satellite surveillance photos have been taken. This is the horrible truth that replaced what was previously a beautiful frozen continent. All in the Antarctic continent are presumed dead, body count in southern hemisphere countries' coastal areas rising. 13th September 2000, 02:42 UTC: Enormous tidal waves are reported at south coasts of Australia and South America. Huge casualties estimated. Reason might be a huge meteorite impact on the Antarctic continent. 13th September 2000, 02:42 UTC: Enormous tidal waves are reported at south coasts of Australia and South America. Huge casualties estimated. Reason might be a huge meteorite impact on the Antarctic continent. And what did all this lead to? Dunno, but at least some new drivers added some semblance of normalty to good ol' MAME. Here's what was (finally) added: 13th September 2000: Nicola Salmoria added Macross II to the Bombjack Twin driver. Jürgen Buchmüller fixed some bugs in the new NES sound core. 12th September 2000: Nicola Salmoria fixed the missing Macross background and merged it with the Bombjack Twin driver. Luca Elia added Blaze On to the Kaneko16 driver. Matt Conte submitted a NES sound core update, and it definitely sounds better now. Sure is an interesting way to introduce a new update, eh? Check Here to see the pics which accompanied the previous story (and turn yer speakers up while yer at it :0)). You can also see pics of Macross II in action as well as some other cool screenies at the link below.  Link: M.A.M.E. WIP

ePSXe Announced

(posted by Aber - 22:31) After a long lull on the (free) PSX emulation front, we've now seen a resurgence of free PSX emulators with the recent releases of PCSX & FPSE Linux. Well, you can add another the the list with the announcement of ePSXe (Enhanced Playstation Emulator) for Win9x. The emulator has apparently been under development for about 6 months, & supports some commercial games with sound, mdec & memory card support. It uses the same plugins for the now defunct PSEmupro, and will also need the Playstation bios. There are currently pics of Driver, Crash Bandicoot 3, Spyro the Dragon and 5 others running under the emu which can be seen at the link below along with a FAQ and other info. Hopefully we'll see a release soon, stay tuned :0)  Link: ePSXe

Xmame v0.37b7.1

(posted by Aber - 22:16) Xmame, a Unix port of MAME, was updated today with a new release. Here's what's new: - Everything from mame 0.37b7, no mess yet Added support for USB joysticks under FreeBSD thanks to: Christian Weisgerber Fixed xmame hanging with the message: WARNING: the game might not run correctly. Press any key to continue Made the debugger always use the aspect ratio of the actual monitor, instead of the aspect ratio of the emulated game. In addition, a patch will be released once a version of MESS has been added. Check the link below to donwload the new version.  Link: Xmame

	Preview YAPE 0.01
	(posted by Lando - 15:56) YAPE,(Yet another plus/4 emulator). It`s still very early days and dont expect much for now, but author Attila Grósz gets the merit for his devotion to the Plus4 scene. Once Plus4 gamer come hacker to coding an emu cant be bad. Take a look at the link below.  Link: C16/Plus4 Retro page

	FPSE News
	(posted by Aber - 12:58) The homepage of FPSE, the new free PSX emu for multiple platforms was updated today with some exciting news. And That news is that the Linux version is set for release in just 2 days! The wait is almost over, check the link below to see the FAQ, and get more info.  Link: FPSE

Neopocott v0.35b3

(posted by Aber - 12:39) PnP sent us email about a new release of this aewsome Neo Geo Pocket emulator for Windows. The release is exclusive to the french NGPC site, NGPWorld. Unfortunately, the release is private. The new version adds increased compatability & some debugger imrpovements. Keep your fingers crossed for a public release, as this emu is far better (IMO) than a certain other NGPC emu. Until then, if you can read french, check the link below to get more info.  Link: NGPWorld

	Genesis Power release #264
	(posted by Aber - 12:26) Genesis Power continues the Olympics theme today with release #264, Olympic Winter Games - Lillehammer '94.  Link: Genesis Power

Tuesday, September 12, 2000

	Sega C2 Emu News
	(posted by Aber - 23:32) Neozeed, author of the SG-1000 emu, Past-O-Rama, reported today that he has reached an agreement with Charles MacDonald, author of the impressive Sega System C2 emu, to do a windows port of it. He mentions that much of the works is already done, and has posted some nice screenies for you to gawk at :0) Check the link below for more info.  Link: Sega C2 Emu for Windows

Boob!boy News

(posted by Aber - 23:15) Seems like emulation on the Dreamcast is on the forefront of the emu scene these days, with the recent news of a Hu-Go! port being worked on, & Gleam! already in action. Now we have a new update on Boob!boy, the Gameboy emu for the DC. The homepage for Boob!boy was updated today with a porject status, it's looking quite well. Here's the numbers: Emulation Core - 100% DirectX - 80% Directsound - 10% Directinput - 90% GUI - 30% Once all the sections reach 100%, the emu will be released. Shouldn't be far off since the most important part (the emu core) is already done. Check the link below for more info.  Link: Boob!boy

	Genesis Power releases #261, #262, & #263
	(posted by Aber - 23:04) Genesis Power is gearing up for the Olympic Summer Games today with 3 releases. #261 is Olympic Gold - Barcelona 92, #262 is Olympic Gold - Barcelona 92 - alternate dump, and #263 is the PAL version Olympic Gold - Barcelona 92 (E).  Link: Genesis Power

	Sega C2 Driver WIP
	(posted by Aber - 23:00) Small update today from Haze over at the Sega C2 WIP page today. He mentioned that the MAME driver is being worked on to get it to render at a decent speed.  Link: Sega C2 Driver WIP

	MIMIC News
	(posted by Aber - 22:56) The MIMIC homepage was updated with some intersting news today. Mike Beaver mentioned that he was checking out the specs of the Colecovision and discovered they were almost identical to the Sega master System. After about 15 minutes, he made an HWC, and got the bios working. Take a look at the pic at the link below & get more info on this project.  Link: MIMIC

	HuC 1.4.2
	(posted by Aber - 22:50) If you saw our post yesterday, you know that Zeograd promised some suprises in the PC Engine development scene soon. Well, today that suprise was revealed. The suprise was a new version of HuC (a C compiler for PC Engine) & Magic Kit. You can currently download HuC v1.4.2 at the link below as well a hack of Pong at the link below.  Link: Utopia

WinUAE 0.8.14 Release 2

(posted by Aber - 22:38) WinUAE, the Win32 Amiga emulator, was updated for the second time in less than a week today. Here's wha's new in this version: FIXED: Picasso96 screen-modes weren't being drawn/updated correctly. FIXED: Sound-buffer slider gets disabled when no audio output is selected. FIXED: German GUI DLL is accurate now. (Thanks Georg) ADDED: Flicker-free Amiga screen updates when full-screen. Doesn't affect Picasso96 screens, though. CHANGED: Sound output tweaked again, should be "slightly" better. Nice to see this emu updating again after such a long time off. grab the new version at the link below. Thanx to Deepcut for the heads up.  Link: WinUAE

Rom Hackers World News

(posted by Aber - 22:32) Yuski, from our hosted site, Rom Hacker's World, sent me an email regarding a new release of Mighty In Sonic The Hedgehog v1.4. Added to this release is the following: A custom level (Green (Mecha) Hill act 1) Object positions Crack error FIXED. Now works on GENECYST More edited sprites Download the new version of this great hack at the link below.  Link: Rom Hackers World

DPCE News

(posted by Aber - 22:18) I received another email from the (anonymous) author of the newly released PC Engine emu for DOS, DPCE. The author states that he simply doesn't have the time to continue to work on it and that it's public domain. The download from yesterday included the source code, so any would be emu authors feel free to give it a go. The author states that there is still plenty of work to do on it, including the asm core, the delphi GUI part & sound. You can download the source & executable from the link below.  Link: DPCE

	OverClocked
	(posted by Frogacuda - 09:15) Episode 130 of OverClocked, To Mock or not to Mock, takes a crack at the RealityMan issue which has been plaguing us all. Head over to check it out.  Link: OverClocked

	Bit Rot Issue 3
	(posted by Frogacuda - 09:11) Bit Rot, the very funny emu spoof newspage, has released their 3rd issue. This one even takes a couple stabs at Emucamp. Check it out. It's funny stuff.  Link: Bit Rot

Gleam! News

(posted by Aber - 01:13) Couple of updates from the Gleam! homepage. In case ya don't know, Gleam! is an NES emulator for the Dreamcast. Speaking of the homepage, Gleam! got a new home, which can be found at the link below. In addition to the move, there is mention of quite a bit of work to CPU core that the author hopes will make it faster. Also, a compatibilty list & engine were added which you can contribute to. Go to the link below for more info.  Link: Gleam!

	Sega System C2 Emu v0.2a
	(posted by Aber - 00:54) Charles MacDonald updated yesterday's release of his Sega System C2 emulator for dos. The new version fixes colors that were wrong in Borench. You can go to the link below to get a fixed copy.  Link: Sega System C2

	DPCE download
	(posted by Frogacuda - 00:30) DPCE has been uploaded and is now availible for download at the link below.  Link: dpce.zip

Monday, September 11, 2000

Emuloader 1.3.1

(posted by Aber - 23:47) Emuloader, the slick looking Win32 MAME frontend was updated from last week's release. This version is mainly to correct some bugs. Here's what's new: Fixed the Categories Manager. It was not updated with the latest core Added the resource files to the list (NEO GEO BIOS). Playchoice-10 BIOS will be added when it's ready Added a file with game sizes (in Kbits or Mbits Select a game and look at the right side of status bar Mode View is back again! (Large Icons, Small Icons, List and Details) This feature is re-activated so Emu Loader can have real icons instead of those color pacman ones. I'm planning to use MAMu_ icons Disabled the filters option. This feature will be disabled until it's finished Fix an "I/O Error" when trying to build a database and all .dat files are already created Changed the favorites folder. Now all .fav files are in "resources\favorites" folder If you have favorite lists, please, just copy them to this new folder Updated file "el-readme.txt" with copyrights of all components used in the frontend Also added were the following "Important notes": Be sure to rebuild the database so Emu Loader can create the game sizes file. Don't forget to take a look at the files "el-bugs.txt", "el-todo.txt", "el-readme.txt" and "el-listformat.txt" before use Emu Loader... If you get an error when building a database or after the built, please delete all .dat files from "resources" folder and try again. The XAudio DLL's do not need to be copied to the Windows folder. You can put the in the same folder as Emu Loader's executable. Make sure that the file "categories.ini" is replaced with the new file from this release. It is updated to the latest MAME, 0.37 beta 7. This is one the better frontends available & should definitely be checked out.  Link: Emuloader

	FPSE News
	(posted by Aber - 20:45) FPSE, the new (and rapidly developing) free PSX emu, was updated with a new FAQ concerning the Bios & GPUrend probs. In addition, a new FPSE plug-in was released allowing the use of ISO's. Go to the link below to check out the new FAQ & download the plugin.  Link: FPSE

	Genesis Power release #260
	(posted by Ab