Sunday, September 30, 2001

BoycottAdvance Online v0.11

(posted by fixo - 18:08) The online edition of BoycottAdvance, a Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator, has been updated to v0.11 with following changes: Let user choose the startup file Add Splash screen by Karine Add skin support & default skin by Karine Add Frameskip support (+/- keys) Add Reset option (Z key) Add Pause option (P key) Small optimizations Fixes some bugs Improve progress bar  Link: BoycottAdvance Online

Zsnes DOS v1.337 / Windows v1.05 / Linux v0.37

(posted by fixo - 17:16) Some serious new updates for the Dos, Windows and linux versions of Zsnes, a Super Nintendo emulator, were just released, here's the long list of all changes: All ports: Added a customizable key to toggle display of the game clock [pagefault] Added support for up to 100 SPC file saves per game [pagefault] Added customisable keys to increment and decrement the save state slot [pagefault] Added a customisable key to quickly save an SPC file [pagefault] Added force NTSC/PAL and force HiROM/LoROM options to GUI [pagefault] Added a customisable key to toggle the display of the FPS counter [pagefault] Added keyboard shortcuts to video options menu [pagefault] Added feature to automatically increment save state slot after each save [pagefault] Added new 8-point sound interpolation and two new lowpass filters (requires a fast processor, 8pt interpolation and high quality lowpass requires an MMX processor) [kode54] Fixed an annoying bug when the menu selection bar would be floating in thin air (Thanks to EMu LoRd for pointing this out) [pagefault] Fixed MMX toggle option, now saved when you restart ZSNES [pagefault] Fixed freeze/crash when saving SPC files [pagefault] Fixed filtered GUI option with 2xSaI enabled not refreshing the screen [pagefault] Fixed graphics when reseting a game with 2xSaI engine on and the FPS counter and/or game clock on [pagefault] Fixed Vortex, Clayfighter 2, Mr. Nutz, Tenchi Wo Kurau Sangokushi Gunyuden and others now working again [_Demo_] Fixed Umi Hara Kawa Se and Tin Tin in Tibet [_Demo_] Fixed LoROM/HiROM detection code, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and possibly others now working [pagefault] Fixed Front Mission: Gun Hazard and Pocky and Rocky, now working again [_Demo_] Fixed Neugier and Battle Grand Prix freezing after a certain point in the game. [_Demo_] Fixed bug in rom header information and checksum status display, fixes Tales of Phantasia and others [pagefault] Fixed Marko's Magical Football copy protection [pagefault] Fixed problem with Filtered GUI enabled and parts of game screen would show up in GUI menus [pagefault] Fixed frameskip command-line offset [pagefault] Fixed Sim Earth, now loads but map is still not visible [_Demo_] Fixed crash in Home Alone when starting a new game [_Demo_] Fixed sprites in Super James Pond 2 and Kirby Avalanche (Thanks Snes9X for the info) [_Demo_] Fixed 256x239 SNES resolution offset in Windows and Linux ports, games that use this resolution should now be displayed properly in these ports [_Demo_] Fixed freeze in Accelebrid after a few seconds of gameplay [_Demo_] Fixed cursor getting messed up in Windows and Linux ports when using a 16-bit desktop [_Demo_] Fixed bugs when switching between fullscreen and windowed modes with fullscreen button in Windows and Linux port [pagefault] Fixed Triple Buffering and vsync options so they can't be enabled at the time (Triple buffering includes vsync automatically) [pagefault] Fixed sprite layer disappearing when changing screenshot formats or moving the F1 menu [pagefault] Fixed a clipping offset bug in the new gfx engine [pagefault] Fixed BG3 issue with sub-screens in new graphics engine, fixes gfx in Bahamut Lagoon's intro and lots of other games [pagefault] Fixed timing problem in Clock Tower that caused it to freeze randomly in-game, implemented a hack for now [pagefault] Fixed Cu-On-Pa freezing when starting a new game (Thanks to Lordtech for the help) [_Demo_] Optimised global code base, most people should see a performance increase [pagefault, stainless] Moved vsync option from game options menu to video options [pagefault] Improved S-DD1 decompressed pack loading and execution, increases performance in S-DD1 decompressed pack games [pagefault] Lots of debugger fixes and additions [byuu, bongo] Removed disable screensaver text from DOS and Linux ports [pagefault] Updated water effect code to using lighting effects [stainless, kode54] Improved SPC700 sample processing, fixes sounds in numerous games [_Demo_] Disabled H-DMA for Bahamut Lagoon and Mortal Kombat, fixes some gfx problems [pagefault] Changed default keyboard layout for player 2 as some keys were overlapping player 1 (Oops!), If you were having problems buying things in FF4 or in other games make sure to change your keys for player 2. [pagefault] Cleaned up config file in Windows and Linux ports, removed DOS related comments [pagefault] MMX option now checks for a MMX processor when enabling it in the GUI, also no longer crashes on processors without a cpuid when detecting MMX [pagefault, kode54] Last netplay IP address used is now saved in Windows and Linux ports [pagefault] Reorganized sound menu; removed sound interpolation checkbox and made a new list of different types of interpolation: gaussian (original interpolation with enable interpolation option), cubic spline and 8-point interpolation. Also made a new list of lowpass filters. [pagefault] Removed FPU copy from -? option on command line message, since it is no longer supported. Also cleaned up that message in general [stainless] FPS at program start option no longer enables FPS display when auto framerate is not enabled [pagefault] Updated video interpolation code, now looks better than before [kode54] Lots of misc GUI fixes and cosmetic tweaks [pagefault] DOS v1.337: Added grayscale mode toggle to GUI [pagefault] Added support for 5 SNES gamepads on LPT1 [ZDrumm] Added two new 256 color linear VGA video modes, 256x224 and 256x240 [stainless] Added proper gamma correction, now ranges from 0 (1.0) to 15 (~2.0) in 8bpp modes [stainless] Fixed Filtered GUI option, now works [pagefault] Fixed full scanlines disappearing in some modes [pagefault] Fixed a handful of bugs in the joystick code which may cause the joystick not to work if it has a driver installed under Win9x control panel [stainless] Fixed date problem in S-RTC games not reporting the proper day of the week [stainless] Fixed issue with some sound blaster compatible cards not workingproperly in the DOS port [kode54] Reordered video modes in alphabetical order [stainless] Improved SNES pad reading routine, any speed hit now should be minimum when using a snespad adaptor [pagefault] Improved interpolation performance [stainless] Default keys for player 1 are now the same as Windows and Linux ports [pagefault] You can now use / in command line options in addition to the previous - character [stainless] Win v1.05: Added option to toggle the trap mouse cursor feature which prevents the mouse cursor from leaving the window by accident [pagefault] Added 640x480 DS WIN; 1024x768 DR FULL; 1280x960 S/DS WIN, S FULL; 1280x1024 DR/R/DS WIN and FULL resolutions [pagefault] Added a more meaningful message when changing to a resolution isn't supported [pagefault] Fixed problem with SRAM not being saved when pressing ALT-F4 in game [pagefault] Updated icon yet again, looks really nice [enigMa] Fixed possible crash when exiting [pagefault] Fixed bug when scrolling in scrollboxes in the GUI would not trap the mouse cursor inside the scrollbox like the DOS port does [pagefault] Either alt key can now be used when using the alt-enter combination to switch to fullscreen [pagefault] Removed triple buffering option from windowed video modes (it does not work in windowed mode) [pagefault] Optimised some Windows port specific code, should give a small speed boost for most people [pagefault] Rewrote mouse input code, much more efficient now. [pagefault] Reordered video modes in alphabetical order; removed 64x52 and 128x112 resolutions (Thanks to Terrorcide and McGuiver for helping me test this out) [pagefault] Improved performance in 32bpp windowed modes [pagefault] Rewrote some of the audio code to be much more efficient, also added MMX optimisations [pagefault, kode54] When switching to windowed mode from fullscreen, the window position is now remembered [pagefault] Removed large sound buffer and exclusive mode option, they shouldn't be needed anymore [pagefault] Now uses idle task priority when in GUI and window is not active, should also smooth task swtiching on slower computers [pagefault] Linux v0.37: Added autoconf support for easy compiling [Diablo-D3, amit, theoddone33] Fixed sound buffering in linux port to improve sound on some cards [Diablo-D3] Implemented S-RTC time functions, FEoEZ and other S-RTC games will now report system time in game [pagefault] Now supports compiling with gcc 3.0.0 [EvilTypeGuy]  Link: Zsnes

VisualBoyAdvance 0.5

(posted by fixo - 17:03) VisualBoyAdvance, one of the top Nintendo Gameboy / Color / Advance emulators for Windows, has been updated to v0.5 with following list of changes: fixed bug accessing the BIOS (caused apparent hang in some cases) reverted the ARM to previous version (sound distortion fixed) fixed a bug in the 16-bit and 32-bit cheat search fixed a slowdown on GB emulation fixed screen capture to only take one shot while the button is pressed fixed problem of not saving battery file when using recent menu fixed problem starting from double-click on binary image (association) fixed missing GB filters when selecting files to open removed unimplemented opcode for SWP opcodes added auto-fire option for buttons A, B, L and R added full screen mode (640x480 only - 320x240 will be enabled later) added DirectDraw option for Emulation only (removes filtering problem) and use video memory (may speed up some machines) added graphic filters: TV Mode, 2xSaI, Super 2xSaI and Super Eagle (adapted from Snex9x code). Note: fast machine needed full screen option to stretch to fit image added option to associate emulator with GB and GBA files added priority option to avoid problems on some machines added dialog with cheats in use added option to freeze memory location: infinite money, lives, etc...  Link: VisualBoyAdvance

	NeoGeo CD Emulator ver.0.1.8
	(posted by fixo - 16:53) Yet another new version of this Japanese only NeoGeo CD Emulator for Windows is available for download from the link below. Even for this version there's a fix already, but no clue what's new!  Link: UOMAME32j Home Page

VirtuaNES 0.31

(posted by fixo - 08:38) VirtuaNES, a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for Windows, has been updated for the second time this weekend bringing it to v0.31. Here's what's new: Addition: The optional addition that doesn't do CRC checks such as a state, a disk image, a movie. Please turn a clause of "CrcCheck" less than [Emulation] of an INI file into 0. Can set it only with an INI file. Change: Because disk image save data form included malfunction, change data form. Revision: Fixed sprite 0 hit processing. Fixed clear timing of sprite 0 hit flag and NMI flag. The title which revised movement defectiveness and a quiver of a screen with a version of this time.  Link: VirtuaNES

z26 v1.50

(posted by fixo - 08:20) z26, an Atari 2600 emulator by John Saeger for DOS platforms, has been updated to v1.50 with following changes: Kinder gentler sound routines. Known to work better on some PCI audio cards and with audio built into some motherboards. Don't know if it is any better with XP though. A vertically squished video mode that displays alternate scanlines. You can turn it on with the -h command line switch and it works with the linear videomodes (0 - 3). Although many games don't look good with it, it's the fastest video mode of all for games that look O.K. With that, we've used up all of the command line switch letters. So we probably won't be adding too many new features to the DOS version of z26.  Link: z26

Saturday, September 29, 2001

	Expanded NesterDC 3.0t5-pre3
	(posted by Lopantu - 23:57) Console Vision has released a build of the unofficial version of the Dreamcast port of Nester, Expanded NesterDC, enabling games to run full screen.  Link: Console Vision

retroDrive Release 3

(posted by fixo - 12:38) Tim Meekins has updates retroDrive, his Sega Genesis & 32X emulator for Windows, to Release 3 with following notes: "I’ve been busy working on retroDrive recently and have lots of things under development and coming soon. This update includes a number of bug fixes and a few newly broken games (soon to be fixed). I’ve also been able to tweak the speed of the emulator and it’s much faster now and I believe I can make a lot faster than this. And best for last, retroDrive now has 32X PWM sound!! If you’re computer is a bit too slow for the audio to sound correct, turn on the frame skip mode, though it could make the games harder to play.  Link: retroDrive

Jagulator goes Open Source

(posted by fixo - 12:37) RealityMan is releasing the source code of Jagulator, the one and only Atari Jaguar emu for Windows. Below statement was posted at the official page: After some consideration I have decided to release the source of Jagulator to the public. I have two main reasons for this decision: (a) I am finding it difficult to spend the time on this project that I would like, hence causing the development of Jagulator to suffer considerably. (b) I really want others to start developing Jaguar emulators not only for Windows but for other platforms too (e.g. Lunix, BeOS etc). You might ask, "does this mean that the Jagulator project is over?" - simple answer NO! It is continuing all the time, just not at the pace I or others would like. The source to Jagulator v1.5.1 can be found on the Download Page. When extracting make sure you extract with directories so that the correct file structure is maintained. I have included te StarScream 0.26a object file with the source. If you wish to build your own version of this 68000 core then you can find the distribution at such sites as Zophar's Domain. The only conditions I lay down on the use of this source code are as follows: (a) If any part of Jagulator is used in any other Jaguar Emulator then do the decent thing and include a greet, thanks or other information that mentions the fact. (b) Don't just recompile the code and release it as something else, thats just plain LAME !. (c) Have Fun :) :) :)  Link: Jagulator

	NeoGeo CD Emulator ver.0.1.6
	(posted by fixo - 12:30) Just a quick note that another new version of this Japanese only NeoGeo CD Emulator for Windows is available for download from the link below.  Link: UOMAME32j Home Page

VirtuaNES 0.30

(posted by Lopantu - 06:08) VirtuaNES, a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for Windows, has been updated to 0.30. Here's what's new: Addition: Addition of speed adjustment by the number of frame skip. Note) Do it with shortcut key during emulation. A movie, addition of folder appointment of WAVE recording. Addition of a rerecord function of a movie. Note) Can't do postscript with rerecord in a movie file of a former version. Addition of a WAVE file output function. Add a button to a formal page to version information DIALOG. Change: Change it to store setting in an INI file. A change of a key arrangement of a default. Change it so that be assigned joy-stick to shortcut. Note) When the heavy case and number of frame skip are big, there can be the thing that is dull of reaction of a key. Change it to be able to regulate volume of expansion sound according to a kind. Note) A sound mute abolishes setting with DIALOG, and change it to do a mute in every channel (expansion sound is every channel) during emulation by shortcut temporarily. Change sound streaming processing. A change of a processing method of FDS mapper. Note) Can't use former state save data. FDS disk image save data and a change of state data in FDS. Note) Because changed it, and a double circle didn't take a disk image in difference minute data form, may get possible to distribute it again. A movie is similar, too. Revision: Fixed deadzone of joystick. Fixed NMI timing. Fixed envelope of rectangle. Fixed octave of triangle for NSF keyboard. Fixed N106 source sound. Fixed 3P&4P player. The title which revised movement defectiveness and a quiver of a screen with a version of this time. Link: VirtuaNES Interesting Site (posted by Lopantu - 6:06) As I was doing my daily routine of visiting many emulation sites, I noticed on Emu-LMAO, that a new site has been started called Project Leaks. I don't know if this is going to be like Leaked Betas, and provide emulation satire like Emu-LMAO, but I thought I'd give them a mention.  Link: Project Leaks bleemcast! News (posted by Lopantu - 02:45) At the bleem! webpage, they state that bleemcast for Metal Gear Solid and Tekken 3 will be shipping in 12 days. They also have an online ordering page where you can preorder directly from bleem! b!DC for Tekken 3 is $6.95, and b!DC for MGS is $7.95. Shipping to anywhere in the US is $5, shipping to Canada is $6, and anywhere else in the world is $7.  Link: bleem! Friday, September 28, 2001 Super Sonic Racing! (posted by Frogacuda - 18:00) IceMan2k has put up all the cheesy-but-you gotta-love-it tunes from Sega's Sonic R for the Sega Saturn. What's more, he even has the game's ISO up, so go leech right now. "Everybody was super sonic racing...." Ah, memeories. In other news, no I'm not dead, I was just without internet for a very long time. I look forward to contributing regularly again from now on.  Link: Sega Xtreme Modeler 0.9.2 (posted by Lopantu - 16:29) Nice surprise for the weekend: both the Linux and Windows versions of Modeler, a Sega System 32 / Model 1 arcade emulator, have been updated to v0.9.2. Here's the full list of changes: Fixed some V60 CPU core bugs that were afflicting Alien3 and Title Fight. Fixed Z80 banking for Super Visual Football and Alien3. Both games now play correct sounds. Changed EEPROM and savestate filenames to use the game name rather than the internal number. This allows us to add and reorder games in the future without causing strange problems. You should delete the old contents of your EEPROM folder before running this version to reduce clutter (the old files won't be used anymore). Arabian Fight protection fixed (all 4 players are now playable). Support for up to 4 joysticks (may not work properly until SDL 1.2.3 is released). Hopefully fixed the problem with uncalibrated joysticks (it works for one up/left "wandering" joypad FF had around). Fixed crash when pausing with sound disabled. Second screen is cleared correctly in dual monitor mode (fixes test menus mainly). Thanks Tourniquet. Fixed a sprite positioning bug (Sonic: Double Robotnik, ARF: ppl on carpets, Outrunners: stuff on the road). Thanks CoolBurn and Haze. Fixed a rare hard-to-notice off-by-1-pixel sprite positioning bug (Alien3: energy bars). Fixed Alien3 controls for player 1 (use the mouse, it works great!) Fixed start and coin inputs for Alien3 (they're now wrong in the test menu but correct in the game). Fixed color 0 masking with lineselection and scrolling. (RadRally/RadMobile background). Thanks Haze. Fixed a bug in mouse steering (sometimes it was not detected correctly that the mouse had stopped). Implemented experimental trackball support for Sonic (activate "mouse steering" to try it). Give it a shot if you have a trackball. Fixed a desync bug in multiplayer (the eeprom and backram are not read anymore). Thanks Guile_Charlie. Fixed Z-buffer out-of-range writes (Sonic: portion of background being clipped out). Thanks Torniquet. Reordered game list to group games by type. Alien3, Rad Mobile, and Hard Dunk promoted to "playable", Title Fight added as a "watchable" game (you can play it, but there are some serious graphics glitches). Known problems: (do not waste time on the boards asking about these) Controls do not work if you change the cabinet type from the default. This also happens on the real PCB because 2 player cabinets have a different input daughtercard than 4 player ones. Thus, you must use the US ROM sets to play GA2 or Spiderman with 4 players. Also, you must not change the US sets to "2 player" in the test menu. Sound is not correct in Hard Dunk. The pitch (field for those who don't speak futbol) is not drawn properly in SVF. SVF appears to lock on a black screen after the intro. Not true, just insert a coin to continue.  Link: Modeler Mimic 1.09 (posted by fixo - 11:10) Seems like Mike Beaver managed to iron out some buys that he reported earlier during development of his generic hardware emu MIMIC as today sees the release of new v1.09. Here's what's new: Fix: SN76489 now accurate with noise channel Fix: GUI now in 320x200 Fix: System E bug fix Fix: SMS/SGG/System E VDP fixes New: 6809 cpu core (Expiremental) New: SH2 cpu core (Expiremental)  Link: MIMIC 1964 news (posted by fixo - 10:57) Small update over at the official 1964 page saying that the final beta of this Nintendo64 emu for Windows is being released to testers this weekend and planned for release in the weekend of October 6.  Link: 1964emu WinUAE 0.8.17 Release 2 (posted by fixo - 10:55) WinUAE, an Amiga computer emulator for Windows, has been updated to 0.8.17 Release 2 with following changes: FIXED: Fixed the center_image() routine which was causing crashes with centering inside of screens less than 800x600. FIXED: Remove hard dependency on RegisterDeviceNotification API so that WinUAE still works on Win95. FIXED: Event timing works better now, and shouldn't hang any demos or games. (Bernd Schmidt) FIXED: Max out at 512-Megs of ZorroIII RAM, since 1-Gig won't work. FIXED: Merged in some CIA-related save-state changes. (Bernd Schmidt) FIXED: Banshee AGA and Lemmings3 AGA are now mostly working, thanks to new delay-offset code. See the "KNOWN BUGS" section above for further details. (Toni Wilen) FIXED: Sound-syncro settings can be changed on-the-fly. (Jose Gil) ADDED: New version of "uaediskchange" utility. Put this inside your "Amiga" installation, and call it in your startup-sequence like "run >nil: c:uaediskchange cd0:" to watch cd0: for disk-changes. You can watch more than one drive. (Bernd Roesch) CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-syncro code again. (Jose Gil) CHANGED: Creating an AmigaDOS .adf file from the GUI will now create a formatted disk. (Toni Wilen) REMOVED: No restriction on only being able to run one instance of WinUAE.  Link: WinUAE Thursday, September 27, 2001 NeoGeo CD Emulator ver.0.1.5 (posted by fixo - 17:45) Fans of NeoGeo CD emulation might be happy to know that there's is a new release of the NeoGeo CD Emulator for Windows available for download. Unfortunately, both the page and documentation still are in Japanese only so we can only guess as to what's new.  Link: UOMAME32j Home Page MIMIC WIP (posted by fixo - 17:34) The official site of MIMIC, the generic hardware emulator, has been updated over the last days with following Work In Progress news: 25 September 2001: Well, what a week? I found a major stuff up in the SN76489 code. The frequencies I was generating were way too low. The result being that you couldn't hear half the sound. This is fixed along with the noise channel being emulated now. I have also added the option to turn the sound off. I also changed the video mode of the menu to 320x200 (for now). A few 'little' quirks have emerged in the emulation. I will fix this tonight or tomorrow and then do an 'as-is' release :) 27 September 2001: Those 'little' quirks seemed to be holding the code together as, once they were fixed, everything hit the fan :(. I have fixed things up a lot and even fixed the line interrupts on the SMS/SGG/SystemE code up a bit. I also changed the menu background. Release soon as it is stable again.  Link: MIMIC NLMSX v0.35 beta 4 (posted by fixo - 17:31) NLMSX, an msx/msx2/msx2+ emulator for Windows, has been updated to v0.35 beta 4 with the following change: roms and disk images can now be associated with NLMSX. Just doubleclick on the file to start NLMSX  Link: NLMSX Daphne 0.99.3.a (posted by Lopantu - 02:51) Daphne, the world's only multiple laserdisc arcade emulator, has been updated to 0.99.3a. Here's what's new: YUV hardware acceleration was not working for dragon's lair, space ace, or thayer's quest in windows. This should be fixed now. Multiple mpeg files were not working with daphne either, although just 1 big mpeg file worked fine. Multiple mpeg files should now work, so you don't have to have just 1 big file anymore. Super Don sound samples have been redone (thanks Warren) and now sound better. Vera Lanpher has also released a utility which allows you to convert the VOB files on the Dragon's Lair DVD-ROM (not the DVD Video Version) to MPGs supported by Daphne. Due to server overloads, you can download the utility directly from us.  Link: Daphne Wednesday, September 26, 2001 Interview with Heliophobe, author of SMEG (posted by fixo - 16:18) Slow news day so it's good to have a read I guess: consolevision is starting an interview feature and will be publishing interviews with people from the Dreamcast scene every day for the next two weeks. The first one is with Heliophobe, author of SMEG - a Sega Master System/Game Gear emulator for DC.  Link: Interview with Heliophobe PocketSNES 1.01 (posted by fixo - 13:49) PocketSNES, a Super Nintendo emulator for the WindowsCE PocketPC's, has been updated to v1.01. Here are the changes: Update to Snes9x 1.39 Minor bug fixes Size optimization (especially apparent on MIPS and SH3)  Link: PocketSNES StretchMame32 0.55 with Kaillera test 29 (posted by fixo - 13:46) A new test version of StretchMAME, an unofficial MAME port, has been released with following changes: Fixed AY8910 crash bug Fixed Break Thru and Darwin 4078 black screen bug(brkthru055red) Fixed Namco Classics crash bug Fixed Chopper I sound Fixed System18 sprite bug Rewrote NEOGEO driver Added state save support to several games  Link: StretchMame32 Interview with Peter Hirschberg (posted by fixo - 13:08) The guys from EmuIta have interviewed emu author Peter Hirschberg, the man behind projects such as "Vector Dream", "Marble Madness Emulator", "Retrocade" and "LEDhead". Thanks to Retrogames for the tip!  Link: EmuIta interviews Peter Hirschberg Tuesday, September 25, 2001 Pretendo needs new host (posted by Roni - 22:57) Delta asked me to let everyone know that they need a new home for Pretendo (Nintendo emulator). Within the month, their domain will disappear and they can not afford to renew it. If anyone can help Delta and PrOxY out, I urge you to read up on their site and send them off a mail.  Link: pretendo.org NeoGeo CD Emulator v.0.1.4 010925 (posted by Roni - 22:14) Yet another build of this Windows NeoGeo CD console emulator has been released. Production seems to be moving swiftly on this program, so give it a download and try it out.  Link: UOMAME32j TR64 OpenGL Plugin (posted by fixo - 18:23) The official homepage of TR64, a Nintendo64 emulator for Windows, has been updated with a beta release of the new TR64's OpenGL plugin which has following improvements: Speed. I have rewritten the texture caching completely Better handling of combine modes Full screen mode support  Link: TR64 Snes9x v1.39 source code for Snes9x porters (posted by fixo - 18:17) Programmers, porters or the occasional techie might be interested in knowing that the Snex9x developers have made the source code of the recent v1.39 release available for download.  Link: Snes9x Source Download AdvanceMAME 0.55.0 (posted by Lopantu - 17:23) AdvanceMAME, the unofficial build of MAME with special features for Arcade monitors, has been updated to 0.55.0. Here's what's new: The `[gamename]' options are now correctly read. Renamed the option `video_mode_reset' to `videomodereset' The command line boolean options now don't need the argument "yes". You can disable them with the format -noOPTION.  Link: AdvanceMAME CPC Zone update (posted by fixo - 10:38) Fans of Amstrad emulation should pay a visit to the CPC Zone where eight classics have been reviewed and made availble for download.  Link: CPC Zone ClrMamePro 2.22b (posted by fixo - 10:26) ClrMamePro, a tool for keeping your MAME ROM collection up-to-date, has been updated to 2.22b with following changes: added: optional no drag'n drop warning for scanner->rebuild dropped files added: switch to show/hide missing roms in 100% missing sets fixed: remove-rebuilt-BIOS-source files didn't work in all cases fixed: number of rebuilt bios files isn't correct misc: detection of MAME sample/rom merge errors(thehand/gotcha) misc: biosets are now checked like the other sets, too misc: hiding parentset messages in clonesets in fullmergemode misc: new method to detect a running ClrMamePro  Link: ClrMamePro Monday, September 24, 2001 NeoGeo CD Emulator ver.0.1.3 010924 (posted by Roni - 12:41) OK apparently there has been at least two more revisions of this emulator posted in the last day. I do not have any idea of what has been changed or fixed. So all you users really must experiment, and hope for the best. Go get the newest version of this NeoCD emu for windows at the link below.  Link: UOMAME32j Homepage NeoPocott/SDL 0.38b R2 (posted by fixo - 11:46) NeoPocott/SDL, a SNK NeoGeo Pocket emulator for multiple platforms, has just been updated for the first time in six months bringing it to v0.38b R2. Releases for Win32 and Linux OS are already available now, with the BeOS to follow later on today. Here's the list of changes for this update: Redone scaling/scanline routines Redone keyboard/joystick handling Implented FPS counter Implented multiple snapshot loading/saving Implented multiple screenshot saving Implented new scanline option for proper scanline mode Implented in-emulator B&W/Colour selection Implented/Fixed scaling output Implented country select switch Implented disable/enable gfx< layers selection Fixed sticky keyboard bug(s) Fixed joystick handling Fixed fullscreen output  Link: NeoPocott Sunday, September 23, 2001 Cygne BETA (Win) (posted by fixo - 19:01) Cygne, the first ever Bandai Wonderswan (Color) Emulator for Windows, just got it's first release out and here's what's new for this beta: Windows version (directX + MMX + 16/32 bit desktop) Built-in 'cheat search engine' Save states SRAM saves (files are automatically written into Sram folder) Support for zipped roms Configurable keyboard Frameskip and vsync Partial WSC emulation...  Link: Cygne BoycottAdvance Online v0.10 (posted by fixo - 18:50) The online version of BoycottAdvance, a Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator available for multiple platforms, has just been updated to v0.10. Many demos are available to try straight into your browser showing off the capabilities of this GBA emu. Here are the changes in this version: Add support for Mode 0/1 Add OAM rotation/scale support Add OAM support for all modes Improve interrupts support Fixes DMA Fixes some CPU bugs Add some BIOS functions Small optimizations Highly better compatibility (300 demos & commercial roms !!!) Improve (maybe) ROM Loading Improve Zip support Improve ROM Selection  Link: BoycottAdvance VisualBoy Advance WIP (posted by fixo - 14:34) VisualBoy has been on the web for 2 years now and for this special occasion author Forgotten did a news post to thank everyone for their support and help while also giving a status update of what's going in on in development of VisualBoy Advance: Fixed one problem that causes a game to "freeze" (actually, it is not a freeze but a big count down) Fixed a problem in the cheat search which was not searching for 16-bit and 32-bit correctly Adding fullscreen mode Adding graphics filtering  Link: VisualBoy 1964 WIP (posted by fixo - 14:15) The official homepage of 1964, a Nintendo64 emulator for Windows, was updated with new screenshots of beta 0.6.4 and the following news: "The beta is about 75% compatible now (and higher for partially playable games). We're trying to do up the next release really nice, so we're not sure when it will be released. But it'll have some nice surprises for you!"  Link: 1964 NeoGeo CD Emulator v0.1 010924 (posted by Roni - 13:35) A new version of this japanese NeoGeo CD emu for Windows has been released. The link on the homepage is bad so I have mirrored the file here for now. So download and enjoy.  Links: UOMAME32j Homepage - Download CPS2Shock! WIP (posted by Roni - 12:46) If you head on over to the CPS2Shock page you will find some interesting information about NeoGeo "S" roms and where they disappeared to in newer games like Garou.  Link: CPS2Shock MAME WIP (posted by fixo - 07:58) The Work in Progress section of the official MAME page has been updated with the following development news: 23rd September 2001: Brian A. Troha added quite several clone ROM sets to various drivers. 22nd September 2001: Luca Elia added correct linescroll emulation to the Kaneko16 driver. David Graves fixed a few more graphics problems in the Taito Z driver. 21st September 2001: Bryan McPhail fixed the DIP switch settings in Prehistoric Isle, and added 3rd and 4th player controls to Ninja Baseball Batman. 20th September 2001: William Kucharski fixed a Space Invaders Deluxe overlay problem. 19th September 2001: Troy Gratton submitted an updated Gottlieb driver with support for Cobra Command, but like Mach 3 and Us vs. Them, the laserdisc backgrounds aren't emulated. 18th September 2001: Jarek Burczynski fixed Metal Soldier Isaac II sound CPU interrupt problem. Yasuhiro Ogawa resubmitted some Taito F3 driver changes by Uki. 17th September 2001: Adam Hourigan added artwork to Boot Hill. Nicola Salmoria implemented correct y zoom for the Neo Geo hardware thanks to help from Miguel Angel Horna, but it causes some problems sometimes. Aaron Giles made the Exidy driver sounds much more accurate.  Link: MAME WIP Saturday, September 22, 2001 z26 1.49 (posted by Lopantu - 23:58) z26, an Atari 2600 emulator for Windows, has been updated to 1.49. Here's what's new: A faster Pentium optimized routine for video modes 0-2. (Thomas Jentzsch) A sideways video mode for games like Merlin's Walls that can be used in video modes 0-2. This is enabled with the -z command line switch. (Eckhard Stolberg) You can now toggle through the NTSC, PAL, and SECAM palettes on the fly by pressing the "-" key. (Eckhard Stolberg) Some other improvements to PAL game detection and the CPU emulator. (Eckhard Stolberg) A more descriptive error message when z26 thinks you need a VGA. It turns out that on some Geforce 2 MX-200 and Geforce 2 MX-400 video cards, you need to set the program properties, by right-clicking on z26.exe from the Windows explorer to screen usage "full-screen", or else you get the error message. Thanks to James Bell for help figuring this out.  Link: z26 Petes ASPI Playstation Plugin 1.7 (posted by Lopantu - 23:56) Pete has updated his ASPI/IOCTL plugin for Playstion emulators to 1.7. Here's what's new: Native io-control support no forced ASPI layer needed anymore with NT/2K/XP  Link: Pete's Plugins TGB Dual Vol. 7 (posted by Lopantu - 23:54) TGB Dual, a japanese Gameboy emulator for Windows by Gigo, has been updated to Vol. 7. Here's what's new: fixed some problems with the file logging GBA mode change function added  Link: TGB Dual CPC Zone relaunched with new design. (posted by rOuGh - 22:23) CPC Zone on Emu Unlimited is back with a new design. It now has a more 2001 looking outfit and reminds a bit of AtariAge. CPC Zone is a site dealing with emulation and games for the Amstrad/Schneider computer which were popular in Mid-Europe (mainly France) in the middle of the 80s.  Link: CPC Zone DAPHNE v0.99.3 (posted by fixo - 06:24) DAPHNE, a laserdisc arcade emulator, has been updated to v0.99.3 for both Windows and Linux platforms. This type of emulator is not one's kind of daily stuff so without further do, check the official DAPHNE page linked below for the download, updated documentation and FAQ on how to get it working.  Link: DAPHNE BeGNUBoy 1.0.2 (posted by Lopantu - 01:04) The GNUBoy port to BeOS by Caz has been updated to 1.0.2. Here's what's new: fixed some sound issues fixed some problems in some games some small fixes  Link: GNUBoy Friday, September 21, 2001 bleemcast! News (posted by Lopantu - 16:54) Randy Linden, the developer of bleem! and bleemcast! has said that he dropped the final masters for MGS and TK3 off yesterday at the facility. This means that bleemcast! for Metal Gear Solid and Tekken 3 are going through their final pressing, and should be released into stores soon. The reason for the wait was a last-minute issue with MGS for the Japanese versions. Bleem has decided to go ahead and master MGS for US/Canada/Europe seperately from the Japanese versions. Japanese versions of MGS, including Integral, will not be compatible with the bleemcast! MGS pak for US/Canada/Europe, but the disc will run on Japanese machines. Similarly, the Japanese bleemcast! MGS pak will not be compatible with US/Canada/Europe, although it will run on any DC. Mastering for BOTH titles (MGS and TK3) should be complete by mid-to-late next week, and manufacturing will begin immediately after. Manufacturing is VERY quick, and usually requires three-to-four days for finished packages. Direct online sales should begin early next week, and shipping will begin as soon as the CDs have been pressed. Full details will be posted at the bleem! homepage in the next few days once the production has started.  Link: bleem! Gens 1.10 (posted by Lopantu - 16:31) A new version of Gens, a Sega Genesis and now Sega CD emulator for Windows, has been released. Here's what's new: Prelemenary SEGA CD emulation added : Sub 68000 (100%) Prg Ram and Word Ram implemented (95%) PCM chip (100% but stil buggy) GFX rotation and enlargement (60%) Font color/data (100%) CDD (70%) CDC (60%) BRAM saves supported No graphics conversion, no ISO support, no save state support yet Added an option to improve the DAC sound (voices) or not. This option can be enabled/disabled only by key-shorcut (see in the shorcuts section) because i don't recommend you to always use it since this can cause sound bugs with some games. Added the possibility to force software blit for Fullscreen "Normal" and "Double" render mode. This option can be enabled/disabled only by key-shorcut (see in the shorcuts section) because almost people don't need to use it, try it only for speed issue. We can now choose the order of country detection. Undocumented scroll mode implemented. Undocumented plan size mode implemented. Rewrite the VDP IO control part, little speed increase. Fixed VDP sprite table register (bug added in Gens 1.00) Fixed a bug in the 68000 Starscream core (bit-shift instructions). Fixed a bug in VDP control decoding (Gens v0.8 was right about it). Fast-blur fixed for no MMX processor. A minor bug in DAC recovering sound has been fixed. other minor changes. Link updated by Fixo :)  Link: Gens StretchMame32 0.37 beta16a (posted by fixo - 11:49) StretchMame32, an unofficial version of MAME32 with video mode stretch, has been updated to 0.37 beta16a. Here's what's news in this release: Added Marvel Super Heroes (Japan 951024) Added Super Muscle Bomber (Japan 940808) Added Super Muscle Bomber (Japan 940831) Fixed Quartet crashing problem Fixed Atari RBI Baseball crashing problem Fixed Xexex BG scroll Fixed Salamander 16bit color sprite problem Integrated NJ's NEOGEO driver Fixed many many problems. Now you can play Super Dodge Ball!! Added 'Disable PerformanceCounter' option - If emulation speed is unstable, try this option Some ROM names changed: 19xxj -> 19xxjr1, ddsomj -> ddsomjr1, slam2e -> ringdest.  Link: StretchMame Modeler 0.9.1a (posted by fixo - 11:31) The Linux and Windows versions of System 32/Model 1 emulator Modeler got another update following the earlier release; v0.9.1a now takes care of following bugs as well: Fixed crash when the frame counter was displayed and e.g. switching in or out of full screen mode Fixed weird sprite lagging behavior when frameskip was non-zero Promoted SVF to playable - the white box no longer blots out the screen after you score a goal (this is a result of the GA2 Death Adder fix)  Link: Modeler Nebula v1.91b (posted by fixo - 11:24) Yet another update for Nebula, a CPS2 emu for Windows, has been made available bringing it to v1.91b. Here are today's changes: Fixed kof99 (and some other games) sound "clicks" Due to a stupid bug, the new delta-t interpolator was no enabled in previous versions (they were using the old one) Now Ninja Commando and Ninja Combat music sometimes work (and sometimesoesn't :( ) 640x480 scanline modes are now centered on the screen  Link: Nebula Modeler 0.9.1 (posted by fixo - 04:48) Modeler, a System 32 / Model 1 arcade emulator, has been updated to 0.9.1 with following changes: Win32 specific Rewritten DirectSound driver (with inspiration from Final Burn) that fixes the major sound-related slowdowns people were seeing. Also behavior is much better when the framerate is below 60 (sound will no longer break completely up except on extremely slow computers). Linux specific Changed "Multi32 second monitor" option to the more useful "Multi32 dual screen". This is also consistent with the Win32 version. Common improvements On-screen message added when the mouse grab/ungrab toggle is used. Keyboard steering for the driving games added. Frameskip and autoframeskip added. GA2 black screen bug when fighting Death Adder fixed. Sound clipping in the F1 games and Burning Rival improved. Speed throttle added for no sound mode. Known problems: (do not waste time on the boards asking about these) Sound can be screwy in the type B and Multi32 games, especially Super Visual Football and Hard Dunk The pitch (field for those who don't speak futbol) is not drawn properly in SVF. SVF appears to lock on a black screen after the intro. Not true, just insert a coin to continue. Due to incomplete protection emulation, Arabian Fight only works with one player. Control isn't great in the driving games or Alien3.  Link: Modeler Thursday, September 20, 2001 NLMSX v0.35 beta 3 (posted by fixo - 18:18) After several months of private betas and a recent makeover of it's official page, NLMSX -an msx/msx2/msx2+ emulator for Windows- was updated to v0.35 beta 3 with following changes: Better GUI MSX-AUDIO (Y8950) support.  Link: Name Nebula v1.91a (posted by fixo - 18:08) Nebula, a CPS2 emu for Windows, has gotten a bugfix update with version number 1.91a today following yesterday's release. Here's the fixes: Fixed macro support that was broken in previous version. Fixed a stupid bug in default control, hotkeys and macros that prevented it from working. Fixed the size and crc for the NG-LO.ROM file, it should be 64k (65536 bytes) and CRC: E09E253C. Also the author says he forgot to mention an experimental option called -blade15, which generates 15Khz output signals (for arcade monitors) on Trident Blade3D video cards. You'll need the BLADEIO.VXD file from the Blade15khz package in blade15_24.zip (mirror because the original page is about to disappear).  Link: Nebula Rare Dizzy game dumped to .TZX format (posted by rOuGh - 16:34) On one of our Dizzy tribute pages you find Dizzy CS, a Spectrum 48K game in Czech language, which is even in its home country quite uncommon.  Link: Mondo Dizzy NeoGeo CD Emulator 010920 (Beta 4) (posted by Roni - 13:08) NJ has released another beta of one of his attempt to make a Windows emulator for the NeoGeo CD console.Our news script don't seem to have japanese language support, so I'll have to leave you with my idea of what it might say on the page ;) From the looks of the page, I would venture to say this release deals with ADPCM sound and Samurai Shodown RPG. So go give it a download and put in your favorite unreadable NeoGeo CD RPG and see what it has to offer. (Unless of course you can read japanese ;)  Link: UOMAME32j Homepage Dega source online (posted by Roni - 08:07) A quick jump over to the Dega homepage will find you Dega source code and a little explaination on how to compile it. Is this a new trend? Hopefully this in no way signifies the end of the emulator, but hopefully a way to increase people giving back to the project.  Link: Dega Wednesday, September 19, 2001 Nebula v1.91 (posted by fixo - 16:26) Nebula, a Capcom CPS-2 emulator for Windows, has been updated to v1.91 with following changes: Added a "Smart" romset name recognition Balanced AY and YM volumes New interpolation mode for Frecuency control type (Delta-t) ADPCM sound samples Added the new Kof99 decrypted set (kof99d), you'll need files from the 3 kof99 romsets Fixed double dragon (and probably many more) FMV intro sound problems Added Hotkeys Added a new stretch mode called "Keep aspect" that keeps the original aspect while using the bigger possible screen area Added FreePlay switch to the Machine Settings menu Added a Control configuration menu for GUI keys Rewritten the rom checking code - now it's faster and has a progress bar  Link: Nebula NeoGeo CD Emulator Beta 3 (posted by Roni - 14:15) The new windows based NeoCD emulator by NJ has been updated to Beta 3 today. I cannot read Japanese so I am unaware of what has changed. But feel free to download it and give it a try.  Link: UOMAME32j Homepage Snes9x v1.39 for Windows 9x and Solaris (posted by fixo - 14:05) Snes9x, a Super Nintendo emulator, has been updated to v1.39. Releases are available for Windows and Solaris (Sun sparc workstations) platforms. Here's what's new: Added SDD-1 unknown graphics data logging at the dumper's request. A bit late but might help with Street Fighter 2 Alpha's data dumping. Implemented 16-bit texture support for OpenGL modes in Windows and Linux. Removed the Bump map OpenGL mode from the Windows port (didn't look so good anyway and was slow). Added a hidden novelty OpenGL mode (clue: a keyboard shortcut activates it) Reverted back to FMod version 3.20 after reports that version 3.33 broke AD3 support. Implemented a better work-around for the broken select system call in the Linux kernel. Added the same speed-up hack to the OpenGL code that the Glide code already supported. Hopefully fixed Glide support. Reverted back to the original colour blending code. Included multiple Japanese games fixes from Iswashi San. Fixed a timing problem caused by a speed up hack that was affecting Top Gear 300 (still not playable yet)  Link: Snex9x gnuboy v1.0.2 (posted by fixo - 13:59) gnuboy, a GameBoy Color emulator with versions for both Windows and DOS, has been updated to v1.0.2. Here are the many changes: fixed bugs in rc_setvar calls in sys_initpath fixed multiple definition of cpu struct in cpu.h corrected behavior of ch1 sweep function when freq is written during sweep emulated wave pattern corruption to fool "emulator-detectors" updated savestate code to handle these changes, incremented minor version (this should not affect compatibility with old savestates) fixed major bugs in sound channel 4 perfected channel 4 output sequence to sound like a real Gameboy (much thanks goes out to Lord Nightmare for all his hard work on this!) default channel 3 square wave is no longer 4 octaves too high make DI cancel pending HALT...is this correct? (fixes Konami Collection #1) fixed reversed stereo channels tweaked frequency cutoff points that prevent aliasing corrected default wave pattern (noise) when running in dmg mode fixed sound reset bug that messed up pitch after pausing in Bubble Ghost added new sample palettes fixed major interrupt/HALT bug that kept Amazing Penguin from running fixed sound channel 3 length regiser (info in gbspec.txt is bogus) tweaked volume of channel 4 removed FFL3 tile glitch from the known bugs in the README (it was caused by a bad dump and/or hacked rom, not a bug in gnuboy) added emulation of DMG STAT register write bug (causes interrupt - this fixes Legend of Zerd and perhaps one or two other games)  Link: gnuboy Tuesday, September 18, 2001 FinalBurn Alpha v0.137a (posted by fixo - 18:22) Just a minor release this time from the FinalBurn Alpha emulator as it fixes problems that have come to light following the release of v0.137 earlier this week: Fixed auto-pause Fixes to dozea.asm Fixed HotRod inputs Fixed an input menu bug when there's no DIP-SW data available Updated and fixed dipinfo.dat file Updated fbcheat.dat file Added volume control Added more accelerators  Link: CP-Systems2 Turbo AdvanceMAME v0.53.2 (posted by fixo - 18:21) Andrea Mazzoleni's AdvanceMAME, an unofficial MAME DOS version with an advanced video support for helping the use with TVs, Arcade Monitors, and also for PC Monitor, has been updated to v.0.53.2 with following changes: Revised the readme.txt/mame.txt/install.txt docs Added the -cfg option to specify an alternate name of the configuration file Added a new and improved fuzzy game name compare Readded the soundcard=NUMBER options Solved the hidded user interface bug Solved a configuration bug that prevented the vsync option to work Minor bugfix. While there, also check out his updates on the arcade emu frontend AdvanceMENU v0.14.2 and screen tool AdvanceCAB v0.9.  Link: AdvanceMAME WinUAE 0.8.17 Release 1 (posted by fixo - 14:14) A new version of WinUAE, one of the best Amiga emulators for Windows, has been released. There's too many updates to post them all here so check below link for the official page (though it's main page does not seem to be updated yet) where the download section takes you to one of the many mirrors.  Link: WinUAE Dega v1.07 released! (posted by Roni - 10:51) Dave is working hard on more features for this great Windows Master System / Game Gear emulator. Here is the list of new stuffens: Added native Dega save state format, .dgz These save states are GZip compressed and also store the FM chip state. To load and save in .dgz format, use Load State and Save State. This format is also used for the auto save/load function. To import and export in Meka's .s00 save state format, use Import Meka and Export Meka. Changed the window sizing routine since it was changing a bit too much, now the window is just simply 3/4 of the desktop space.  Link: Dega Homepage ace v1.5 (posted by fixo - 03:21) Ace, a cps1, cps2, system16, system18 and neogeo emulator, has been updated to v1.5. Here are the changes in this release: Added System 16, System 18 and NeoGeo emulation! Added Shinobi Added Shadow Dancer Added Puzzle de Pon Added Puzzle Bobble Added Neo Drift Out Added Metal Slug 001 Removed midas11.dll - exe filesize is only 165k! Code is more object oriented Added the "usesysmem" parameter in the ini file - be sure to try it out if emulation is slow  Link: ace Xmame 0.55.1 (posted by Lopantu - 03:05) Xmame, the port of MAME to X11/Unix has been updated to 0.55.1. Here's what's new: in sync with MAME 0.55. Removed the romcheck script until its author considers it far enough along for public consumption. Added mamecds to contrib/tools. (Carlos Calzada Grau) Updated the ALSA 0.9 support: Added -alsa-buffer replaced the use of SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16_{LE,BE} with SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16 changed -alsapcm(-pcm) to -alsa-pcm(-apcm) changed the default value of -alsa-pcm. (Shyouzou Sugitani)  Link: Xmame Homepage C4PC 0.28 (posted by Lopantu - 01:36) C4PC, the first emulator for the wireless PDA, the Cybico, has been updated to 0.28. Here's what's new: Dialog box "Unknown IRQ index (11)" would appear after short time (due to fake IRQ getting triggered by accident) Console file transfer gave a lot of CRC errors while there should be none (due to calling interrupt handler while it was still busy) Changed the way 8-bit timer0/1 interrupts are handled (greatly decreased the number of triggered IRQ / sec)  Link: C4PC HomePage Modeler 0.90 for Macintosh (posted by Lopantu - 01:29) Richard Bannister has updated his port of Modeler to the Macintosh. It is now in sync with the latest Windows and Linux release.  Link: Richard Bannister Software Monday, September 17, 2001 Bliss32 v1.9c (posted by fixo - 18:15) A new update for Bliss32, an Intellivision emulator for Windows, has been made available. Here's the changes: Fixed the surface bit-depth bug Fixed the Y-Offset graphics glitch Implemented a new, more accurate Intellvision memory model Added the ability to select the starting ROM as a command line parameter  Link: Bliss Modeler 0.90 (posted by Lopantu - 14:21) Modeler, the only playable System 32 and preliminary Model 1 emulator has been updated to 0.90. There are many changes for this release, so here they are: Win32 specific: All-new frontend GUI Kaillera Internet/LAN play support for some games Linux specific: Improved frontend GUI Now statically linked against everything except SDL and it's dependancies, so the binary should work on many more systems. Common improvements: Completely new graphics engine with tilemap and palette caching, z-buffering, etc. Sourced linescroll, rowscroll, alpha blending, and window effects are now supported. RAM based sprites, indirect palette/priority lookups, and other fun tricks are now fully supported. Correct graphics, colors, and priorities in most situations. Shadow support Perfect audio in type A games, improved in type B but not correct Cool audio filters and effects. Alpha blending System 32 Multi support, including sound Model 1 sound support (only works for Virtua Racing right now) Improved V60 CPU core for better compatibility On-screen status readout added Known problems: (do not waste time on the boards asking about there) Sound can be screwy in the type B and Multi32 games, especially Super Visual Football and Hard Dunk The pitch (field for those who don't speak futbol) is not drawn properly in SVF. SVF appears to lock on a black screen after the intro. Not true, just insert a coin to continue. Due to incomplete protection emulation, Arabian Fight only works with one player. Control isn't great in the driving games or Alien3.  Link: EmuHype SNEeSe 0.60 (posted by Lopantu - 13:09) SNEeSe was updated to 0.60. Heres whats new: Render: Fixed a bug in mode 7 vertical-flip Render: Rewrote sprite rendering again - improves speed Configuration: Restructured config file Render: Added independent horizontal/vertical stretch options Source: Now linking with Allegro 3.9.34 DMA: No longer preventing HDMA register from being written to during display - fixes some graphics glitches in Chrono Trigger PPU: No longer allowing writes to VRAM and OAM outside v-blank, force-blank PPU: No longer allowing writes to CGRAM outside v-blank, h-blank, force-blank 65c816: Modified cycle counter and wait-for-interrupt emulation Timing: Improved 65c816<>SPC700 timing slightly GUI: GUI is now by default DISABLED because of instability - those who still wish to bear with it can enable it via a commandline switch Commandline: Added several new configuration switches  Link: SNEeSe HomePage MAME32 Version 0.55 test (posted by fixo - 07:19) MAME32, the specific Win32 GUI port of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, has been updated to coincide with yesterday's main release 0.55.  Link: MAME32 Sunday, September 16, 2001 MAME 0.55 (posted by fixo - 18:46) A new version of MAME has just been released over at the official project page. They're up at v0.55 now (3123 supported ROM sets, 1778 unique games) and next to the usual source, sound, graphics and clones updates, here's the list of newly supported games: Ninja Baseball Batman [Bryan McPhail] Sports Match [Sports Match] Zero Hour [David Haywood] Sky Smasher [David Graves] New York New York [Darren Olafson] Crazy Rally [Mathis Rosenhauer] Space Fortress [Mike Coates] Ultraman Club - Tatakae! Ultraman Kyoudai!! [Luca Elia]  Link: MAME MAME WIP (posted by fixo - 16:19) News from the MAME Work In Progress page: 16th September 2001: Luca Elia added Ultraman Club to the Seta driver. Nicola Salmoria fixed Space Fortress from crashing (4 screenshots). 15th September 2001: Aaron Giles fixed some problems with 68k CPU interrupts. Andrea Mazzoleni fixed a ROM loading problem which may have caused slow loading or unwanted network accesses.  Link: MAME WIP Bliss32 v1.9b (posted by fixo - 13:42) Bliss32, an Intellivision emulator for Windows, has been updated to v1.9b. Here are the changes: Video performance fixes! Sprite collision bug eliminated Improved error detection/reporting New INI options for automatically pausing the emulator when you bring up the menu, and for starting with the menu already active.  Link: Bliss VisualBoy 0.4 and VisualBoy Advanced 1.4.12 releases (posted by fixo - 13:31) The VisualBoy page has been updated with news on releases of both the VisualBoy and VisualBoy Advance emulators. VisualBoy is now at v1.4.12 and has following changes: fixed freeze loading VisualBoy 1.4.10 save game fixed reset problems on some CGB games fixed 24-bit screen capture VisualBoy Advance v0.4 includes these updates: can now play Gameboy and GameboyAdvance games recent menu with 10 recent loaded roms save state slots (like Snes9x) fixed 24 bit screen capture fixed sprite corruption added 3 missing BIOS calls (DiffXbitUnfilter calls) fixed freeze loading VisualBoy 1.4.10 save game fixed reset problems on some CGB games fixed a timing issue that caused blinking sprites  Link: VisualBoy XPCE 0.12b translated to English (posted by fixo - 07:17) XPCE, a PC Engine emulator for Windows that was once only written in Japanese, has been translated to English by Jace of Fuse. This release named XPCEE catches up with original version 0.12 and more information on this translation can be found here or click below link for the direct download.  Link: XPCEE download G-NES 0.54a (posted by Lopantu - 03:20) G-NES, a japanese Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for Windows has been updated to 0.54a, fixing some CPU emulation bugs that cause some games to not work properly.  Link: G-NES Homepage Saturday, September 15, 2001 Daphne WIP (posted by Lopantu - 19:37) Daphne, the first and only multiple laserdisc arcade emulator for Windows and Linux, will be released on Friday, September 21st. This release will have MPEG-2 support so you can use your Dragon's Lair and Space Ace DVDs instead of having to use an actual Laserdisc player hooked to your PC.  Link: Daphne Homepage ClrMamePro 2.21 (posted by fixo - 14:04) ClrMamePro, a Windows based tool to keep your MAME rom collection up-to-date, has been updated to v2.21 with the following changes: added: SaveMissing and SaveLogFile buttons are back misc: little change for biosdetection (for future logiqx's datfiles) misc: deleting a profile removes the linked fastscan & logfiles, too misc: UseDefaultPath isn't hooked to FixMissing on/off anymore  Link: ClrMamePro NeoGeo CD Emulator 010915 Alpha (posted by Lopantu - 11:08) A new NeoGeo CD emulator has been released by NJ, author of the improved NeoGeo driver for MAME. Here are the features so far: FM/SSG sound joystick support (unconfigurable at the moment)  Link: NJ's homepage Win68K 0.61 (posted by Lopantu - 10:05) Win68K, a Sharp X68000 emulator for Windows, has been updated. Here's what's new: Now WinX68k changes screen mode to 16bit by itself on startup Fixed Windrv.sys volume label Fixed OPM DT1 table calculation Fixed mouse area bug on mouse mode  Link: Win68K UnrealSpeccy 0.03b (posted by Lopantu - 10:02) UnrealSpeccy, a ZX-Spectrum emulator for Windows, has been updated. Here's what's new: fixed bug when TRDOS reads index even if no disk, that appared in 0.02b fixed kempston mouse [credits to Kuba Adamowicz] added SwapButtons and MouseSpeed fixed small bug in tape traps fully customizable keyboard kempston joystick on keyboard keymatrix effect 1T screen update for best border effects and multicolors faster screen output mode without border and multicolors for slow PCs load from archives and archives inside archives ;=) fixed bug when boot not attached to SCL several speed optimizations new video filter - chunky 2x2 new video filter - smart scaling. sorry, not optimized yet  Link: UnrealSpeccy Friday, September 14, 2001 dipinfo.dat update for FinalBurn Alpha v0.137 (posted by fixo - 17:53) Users of the latest version of FinalBurn Alphahere should check below link as an updated dipinfo.dat file for use with v0.137 has been made available fixing "a couple of errors in the previous dat" according to the authors.  Link: CP-Systems2 Turbo BGB v0.64 (posted by fixo - 17:47) BGB, a GameBoy/Color emulator for Windows, has been updated to v.064 with the following changes: Minor update+bugfix. based on diagnose roms. Fixed speed of envelope sweep, it is now 1/64 sec per unit as in reality. Sound registers now behave more like on real gb. OAM is now zero filled on reset, sprites were flipped incorrectly.  Link: BGB MAME WIP (posted by fixo - 15:17) The Work In Progress section of the official MAME page has been updated for the second time in two days with the following development news: 14th September 2001: Aaron Giles fixed Battler fire buttons and Empire City 1931 / Street Fight which were broken due to the interrupt handling and he fixed the Leland driver graphics which were broken due to the AY8910 changes. Jarek Burczynski sent in some preliminary screenshots of Metal Soldier Isaac II.  Link: MAME WIP CustomGB 0.012 (posted by Lopantu - 13:53) CustomGB v0.012 has been released to celebrate the Nintendo GameCube release in Japan. Here's what's new: Added real-time save/load states. Changed some routine to assembler in GB-CPU core. Slightly speed-up on CPU and graphic routine. Fixed bugs in Pocket Printer emulation. Fixed bugs in new GB-CPU core. Improved task management routine. Fixed HuC1 and HuC3 emulation, now Pokemon Card GB and Pocket Family work properly.  Link: CustomGB ViciMame 0.54.1 (posted by fixo - 08:01) A first release of ViciMame, an own MAME port by ViciGamer, has just been released. This version features main program changes regarding Mameinfo, MameMerge, Multiple Save States Saving, Turbo Tape in DECO Cassette games, Listclones check, Screen flipping in cocktail mode, Listinfo, Sound Fixes, Graphic Fixes and several driver fixes including support for the newest CPS2Shock releases. Check out the ViciMame page for the download and full details.  Link: ViciMame Thursday, September 13, 2001 FinalBurn Alpha v0.137 (posted by fixo - 19:54) Final Burn Alpha, a CPS-1&2 emulator for Windows based on the source of the original FB, has been updated to v0.137 over at CP-Systems2 Turbo and here's what's new: Added a new GUI Added rom scanning to check what roms you have Added options to show all, CPS-1 only or CPS-2 only games Added option to only show the games you got Added esc=exit for all dialogs Added CPS1 QSound (thanks for info ElSemi) Added IIR low pass filter Added Dip Switches Engine Fixed stupid error I made with the cheat dialog column widths :P Set nApplyCheatEveryXFrame to 0 as standard Fixed so the 4 player fix for batcirj only applies to netplay Added light blue background as standard for SFA3 + clones in netplay Added flip monitor as standard for XMvSF in netplay Added drivers for ddsom, dstlk, dstlkr1, sfa & sfar1 Updated cheats file  Link: CP-Systems2 Turbo MIMIC WIP (posted by fixo - 19:35) Mike Beaver posted a new WIP update on his MIMIC page: The SH2 core is about 85% complete and is running the Saturn BIOS. It seems like its waiting for an interrupt or something as Video RAM is not even touched so I don't have any screenshots to show :( Anyways, it seems like that won't make it in the next release (1.09). I have fiddled around with the sound emulation but it still doesn't sound right. I mean SMS sounds OK, but the SystemE in comparison to MAME seems like only one chip is being written to ...hmmm... A few things that WILL be in the next release are 1) An option to turn the sound emulation off. This is for troubleshooting with non-Adlib compatible cards 2) A different video mode for the menu. This is for the non-VGA compatible cards which are starting to appear on the market. A little tidbit here to Saturn emu authors: I found out that the BIOS version number is located 2048 bytes into the BIOS. It appears as a string like this... BTR_AAAABBCCCCCC Where "BTR_" stands for BooTRom AAAA = Version number eg. "1.00", "1.01" BB = Unknown but best guess is either checksum or region CCCCCC = Date is YYMMDD format I also noticed this in the Titan BIOS, at the same location, but the "BTR_" is "STVB". The versions I have are (if you have others, get in contact with me)... Saturn BTR_1.00D1940921 BTR_1.000U941115 - "Sleep" routine moved to begining of ROM BTR_1.0191941228 - Copyright changed from "1994" to "1994, 1995" ST-V Titan STVB1.13J0950425 - Japanese STVB1.13U0950425 - USA  Link: MIMIC [d]cs2600 public beta 13/09/01 (posted by fixo - 19:30) A first public beta of [d]cs2600, an Atari 2600 emulator for Dreamcast, has just been released. This is apparantly the first working DC Atari 2600 emu that supports multiple games. Get the file by visiting below link which takes you to the site of author Marc Dietrichstein, who also released a DC Colecovision and Odyssey2/Phillips G7000 emu before. Thanks to DC Emulation for the news.  Link: [d]cs2600 MAME Work-In-Progress (posted by fixo - 19:15) The officiale page of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator - MAME, has been updated once again with the happenings in development over the past days and some news of what's to come in the near future: 13th September 2001: Nicola Salmoria fixed the graphics in Crazy Rally (check link below for 4 screenshots), and hooked up the AY8910 sound chip correctly. 12th September 2001: Nicola Salmoria partially decrypted the original program ROMs of King of Fighters '99. 11th September 2001: Jarek Burczynski added the USA version of Volfied. Phil Stroffolino reported some progress with the Namco System 2 driver, specifically the sprites are now perfect but the road is not yet working. David Haywood added an unprotected bootleg of Ichidant-R to the Sega C2 driver.  Link: MAME WIP BoycottAdvance Online 0.08 (posted by Lopantu - 07:32) The Java Version of the Gameboy Advance emulator BoycottAdvance has been updated. Here's what's new: Added support for Mode 5 Added support for interrupts Fixed DMA Fixed some CPU bugs Added some BIOS functions Small optimizations (memory acesses, DMA, ROM Loading) Better compatibility (124 demos !!!) Added a nice progress bar inside the applet Improved ROM Selection  Link: BoycottAdvance HomePage Wednesday, September 12, 2001 Kawaks v1.31 (posted by Lopantu - 23:04) Kawaks, a CPS-1, CPS-2, and Neo-Geo emulator for Windows has been updated. Here's what's new: Corrected the NeoGeo zoom system. It now uses original X zoom patterns as verified on a real HW. Support for the new 'kf99_s1d.rom' in KOF99. Many CPS1 fixes: Captain Commando set to 4up in netplay. 4up mapped in Captain Commando. 3up mapped in Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. 3up mapped in Warriors of Fate. Test mode now accessable in CPS-1 games. EEPROM not saved for eepromless games. Timing fixes (Mercs, Pang! 3, etc). Sprite/bg sync fix. Added language switches for DDtod.  Link: Kawaks HomePage CPS2MAME 2.54 (posted by Lopantu - 23:01) Razoola released a new version of the CPS2-only version of MAME, CPS2MAME. Here's what's new: Supports the Latest XOR releases added a fix for triple buffering.  Link: CPS2Shock HomePage CPS2Shock Releases (posted by Lopantu - 22:57) CPS2Shock has released new XOR files: #56 - D&D: Shadow over Mystara (Euro 960209) #57 - Street Fighter Alpha (Euro 950727) #58 - Street Fighter Alpha (Euro 950605) #59 - Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (US 940818) #60 - Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (US 940705) Razoola has also released a new DAT file for Nebula, to allow this emulator to play these new releases.  Link: CPS2Shock Homepage T98-Next 12a Beta (posted by Lopantu - 22:52) T98-Next, a Japanese PC-9821 emulator for Windows, has been updated to 12a beta. This fixes a bug in the previous version.  Link: TI-98 Next HomePage Mimic WIP (posted by Lopantu - 22:32) The multi-arcade as well as multi-console emulator, MIMIC, has had a WIP update on it's site: The SH2 core is coming along VERY nicely. It now is running the Saturn BIOS but is getting stuck in a loop after setting up RAM. I also am trying out the STV Titan BIOS and this too is looping like crazy (at an earlier point, though). This may be a bug in one of the branches ...hmmm... I can't wait until some of the 2D video starts to get used. I must thank Gareth for the STV BIOS and the STV roms that I probably won't be able to get stuck into for a while. The release will still happen this week, but it would be nice to see the Saturn display something first :) PS: Anybody got Saturn BIOS 1.01-PAL ?  Link: Mimic Homepage Generator/MacOS 0.33 (posted by Lopantu - 22:28) Richard Bannister has updated his port of the Genesis emulator Generator to bring it up to date with the UNIX version.  Link: Generator/MacOS HomePage z26 v1.48 (posted by Lopantu - 22:26) The Atari 2600 emulator, z26, has been updated. Here's what's new: Screen capture now works in all video modes. If you hold down the = key, you get a fairly continuous stream of pcx files. New fast video modes. These are accessed with the -e command line switch. This allows the Mode-X routines to do 32-bit accesses to the video card. On my computer this more than doubles the speed of the emulator when running in these modes. Unfortunately, they may not work on all video cards. The -e command line switch also enables tall and narrow 160 pixel video modes for modes 0, 1, 2, and 3. These are very fast modes, and they give your games a Vectrex like feel. Added support for a couple of new ROM images. Fixed a stack overflow bug in the GUI. Thanks to Eckhard Stolberg for help with this version. I did not suspect that so much more speed could be had from the video system.  Link: z26 Homepage Site News (posted by Lopantu - 22:24) I love this site, so let's get this site back to it's former glory. I was hired as a news poster, as well to help with the files section. I will be posting everything I can, as well as updating the files sections. In a few days, I hope to have this be the best place to come for all your emulation needs.   Sintendo WIP (posted by Lopantu - 19:03) The home page for SNES emulator for Dreamcast, Sintendo, has been updated with a progress report. Here is what the author has finished so far: Preliminary sound has been added, but has been taken out because he's grown quite frustrated at it and want to work on a few other things for the moment. To make up for the lack of sound, Sintendo can now play a wav file, and has menu music. He may also add an option to continue playing menu music once the SNES has begun playing, as though you were listening to a CD while playing a video game. Background bitmap emulation is near completion, and should certainly be expected with the next release. Background bitmaps lead an interesting transition of using the same (or similar) code to render transparencies using the Dreamcast hardware which would be faster than in the Snes9x software The author will be updating the page later with progress news and a timeline for release. Thanks to Sega Dreamcast Emulation for the news.  Link: Sintendo WinEMU 0.50 Released!! (posted by Lando - 15:46) WinEMU the Commodore C16/Plus4 emu was last update back in January 2001 which was ment to be the final release ever! What a surprise it was to find Zsolt has updated it once again! The following improvements have been added: ADC/SBC are fixed and working fine (a lot more games working fine) added 'Font' key on PC Delete key small changes in the Setup program Keyboard bug has been fixed Many thanks Zsolt for your work once again! May I also say, if you have'nt seen Tom Thumb running under PC emulation then WinEMU is the must have for your C16/Plus4 emulation collection. Head on over to the homepage now!  Link: WinEMU Homepage Monday, September 10, 2001 Meka 0.59b (posted by fixo - 18:08) Small update, small message from Meka author Zoop: "Meka 0.59b is available and is basically a bugfix over Meka 0.59 which had some quirks left. This isn't extremely important to get it now, but it might be needed by some games!" Get it at the MEKA link on your right.  Link: MEKA Saturday, September 08, 2001 Meka 0.59 (posted by fixo - 13:52) Meka, the multiple console emulator from EmuCamp's Zoop, has been updated to v0.59. Changes in this versions includes better periodic noise emulation, VGM logging, 'Dodgeball King' mapper emulation, Italian & German translations, and many other little fixes and changes. If you wonder what VGM is, it stand for Video Game Music and is a newly created format that supports logging for