Tuesday, October 31, 2000

	NES Dev cart plans
	(posted by Frogacuda - 23:51) Dead Body, author of squeem, has put up some plans and instructions for making an eprom dev cart for the NES. This will allow you to burn homemade games to a cart to play on a real NES. So if NES devlopment intrests you, head on over and check it out at the link below.  Link: unrom dev cart

	Top 100 Emulators of All Time - Top Ten Revealed
	(posted by lilac - 21:27) Does ZSNES repeat as champion? Can MAME, Meka, Callus or any of the other five emulators left steal the crown? Find out now.  Link: Top 100 Emualtors of All Time: Round 2

	Sintendo page news
	(posted by fixo - 19:40) The official page of Sintendo, the Snes emulator for Dreamcast, has been given a new look. Also there's a quick status update on the progress of this project and a screenshot of the new GUI. Check link below for the full load.  Link: Sintendo

Final Burn 0.052

(posted by Frogacuda - 18:52) Dave updated hit Sega 16-bit arcade emu with a minor tweak: Added a rom path variable 'szAppRomPath' to the cfg\finalburn.ini config file. Final Burn will search in this directory for rom zip files. By default it will search in the folder 'roms'. Ok, so it's not G-Loc or road emulation, but it is a feature I've been wanting. So it's still worth a download.  Link: Final Burn

Monday, October 30, 2000

Top 100 Emulators of All Time: Round 2 - Next to Last Day

(posted by lilac - 20:13) The big suprise in today's group, numbers 11-30? UltraHLE. Nope, no Nintendo 64 emulators in the top 10. And no Playstation emulators either for that matter. Welcome back to the Retro-age, folks. Which remaining emulator do you think will win? (The complete list of the final ten is at the bottom of the page.) Think you know the answer? Say so on our mesageboard! Check back tomorrow night for the official results when the Fall-Winter champion is crowned.  Link: Top 100 Emulators of All Time: Round 2

Hu-Go! v1.29 Dos and Linux

(posted by fixo - 19:22) Hu-Go!, the PC-Engine emulator for multiple platforms, was updated to v1.29. Author Zeograd released both DOS and Linux versions today with the Windows one to follow soon. Here's a list of what's new: Ability to dump images in order to gather them into a video file Joypad support under Linux thanks to Lester Barrows Sources put in CVS form, I hope soon accessible trought public anonymous access Restructured sources Added image dumping in a VIDEO subdirectory (only available in DOS version) Download at the official page where there's something more to report, what do you think of this:"I'm making this release with not a lot of feature since next one may be called Hu-go! v2.0. If I can implement something which I wanted to do for ages and seems realisable right now...". Check the link below for more.  Link: Hu-Go!

	TR64 WIP3
	(posted by fixo - 18:08) A new version a TR64, a Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows has been released. Nicknamed WIP3, this new version adds Flash Ram support, making Zelda Mask of Majora playable plus adding the ability to save in several other games. Also the team mentions a new FAQ, so head over to the TR64 page for the goods.  Link: TR64

	Exclusive Emulation-X interview!
	(posted by Lando - 18:03) Emulation-X has just hit Sin of Sintendo (Snes9x port to Dreamcast) with one cool interview. This is the Dark Side of the way cool Dreamcast that SEGA did`nt want you to use it for ;-) So grab a copy now! Thanks to -Emulation-X for the news.  Link: Sin Interview

Final Burn 0.051

(posted by fixo - 18:00) Dave has updated his Final Burn emulator bringing it to version v0.051 now. Here's the news from the readme.txt: Changed to DirectDraw 3+. To run the emu you need: DirectDraw 3 or higher. DirectInput 5 or higher. DirectSound 3 or higher. So DirectX 5, 6 or 7 are fine. Not exactly sure what exactly the impact of this is concerning the normal run of the emulator, but the download is available at the Final Burn page.  Link: Final Burn

	Laser 0.9 for Compaq Ipaq
	(posted by Lopantu - 16:22) The multiple arcade machine emulator, Laser, has been ported to the Compaq IPAQ by Domenico Dato. This version supports 15 games, and has sound support.  Link: Laser Emulation

	new gleam release
	(posted by fixo - 09:50) A new version of gleam!, the NES emulator for Dreamcast, has been released. Most important update seems to be compatibility. Check out the gleam! page for the download and more important, the burning instructions.  Link: gleam

Sunday, October 29, 2000

	Top 100 Emulators of All Time: Round 2 Update
	(posted by lilac - 09:22) I have been extremely busy the last few days so if anyone noticed I was a little tardy getting the list uploaded I apologize. The list has now entered the official Top 100, with the lower 60 revealed. Needless to say there are more than a few suprises!  Link: Top 100 Emulators of All Time: Round 2

Lemon64.com Gets Updated!

(posted by Lando - 09:19) Oh yes indeed! Up for grabs are 8 very rare C64 tape images and these are some of the best yet. Here`s the line up: Ghouls'n Ghosts, Ikari Warriors, Impossamole, The Last Ninja 3, Rallycross, Rick Dangerous, Turrican and Turrican II. "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE", sit back and emulate the classic Commodore64 how it was ment to be. Were talking Flashy Cyberload lines included. :-)  Link: Lemon64.com

Saturday, October 28, 2000

OverClocked ReMix

(posted by Frogacuda - 18:31) Wow. It has been a while since I've done an OC ReMix post. Well David has uploaded 3 new subissions and I must say the the Zelda Darworld Jazz ReMix is a very refreshing break from the usual techno contributions, and one of the best I've heard come out of that site to date. The Tetris mix is very well done too, and worth a look. Metroid fans will also find a new remix of the NES classic. Head over and check it out.  Link: OverClocked ReMix

	SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL! ;)
	(posted by Lando - 16:00) Want to chat about Commodore 64 gaming and memories? Then join the C64 Chatroom over at Lemon64 and chat with other C64 fanatics right now! HAVE FUN! :)  Link: Lemon64.com

Java Arcade Emulator updated with sound

(posted by fixo - 12:47) Great news comes from Norbert Kehrer's JAE, the online Java Arcade Emulator. He managed to make the first really emulated sound now! As he would say it: The Namco sound chip used in Pacman, Ms. Pacman and Pengo has now been emulated in Java. This time this was not done by only playing pre-recorded samples of the game,but by constructing the sound for the Namco 3-voice sound generator in real-time. The result is not very nice, when compared to MAME (due to the limitations ofstandard Java). But maybe I can improve the concept in the future. "Sounds" like a very nice improvement to me! Head over to the JAE to some serious classic gaming with even sound now for the games above.  Link: Norbert's Emulator Software

SNEeSe 0.53

(posted by fixo - 12:38) Author TRAC keeps the SNEeSe releases coming! A new update of this SNES emu for DOS, has been released and here's what's new: 65c816: Fixed a bug in the MVP/MVN opcodes that could seriously disrupt timing (fixes Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest) Seems like a small update this time, but who knows where this emu will be in a few months time after all the work recently put in it. Download current release at the SNEeSe page linked below.  Link: SNEeSe

Friday, October 27, 2000

50 NES Roms Uploaded!

(posted by Lando - 19:23) RS 500 has delved into the world of the NES aswell as the SNES and uploaded 50 of the classic 8-bit system's games! These are: 1942, 1943, A Boy and his Blob, Altered Beast, Bad Dudes, Bards Tale, Battle of Olympus, Bionic Commando, Bomberman, Castlevania, Contra, Contra Force, Defender of the Crown, Double Dragon, Double Dragon 2, Double Dragon 3, Dragon Warrior, Duck Tales, Duck Tales 2, Fatal Fury Special, Faxandu, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy 2, Fist of the North Star, Friday the 13th, Ghosts and Goblins, Galaxian, Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2, Golf, Gradius, Jackie Chan, Jurassic Park, Life Force, Marble Madness, Mega Man, North and South, Prisoner of War, Punch Out, Shadowgate, Super OffRoad, Tetris , Tombs and Treasure, Ultima: Warriors of Destiny, Uninvited, Zelda, Zelda 2 Head on over now and take a look!  Link: RS 500 Super Nintendo

	Total Emulation.org News
	(posted by Chris - 18:02) Here's the official word: "Total Emulation (.org) has just updated the site with the second of our now weekly RetroRant's "Emu Faking". The URL is: http://articles.totalemulation.org [...]" Go and check out Total Emulation now. It has a cool design, btw :) Thanks to RabidFrog aka Leigh for the info.  Link: Total Emulation.org

	Project #51 first release
	(posted by fixo - 11:50) A new NES emulator for Windows hits the scene, please welcome: Project #51. A DOS version also is in the works, but apparantly that one still has some glitches that need to be ironed out before a first release. The Windows version works kinda well (and fast) so keep an eye out for this one and give it a shot by downloading at the Project#51 page!  Link: Project #51

U64Emu v1.07

(posted by fixo - 11:35) U64Emu, the Killer Instinct arcade emulator, had another update. Here's what's new: A new input config screen has been made which should work with the keyboard and most joysticks. It will work with any DirectInput devices. Fixed a problem "TestMode" that was preventing people from changing difficulty. Bug that crashed emulator when performing a fatality should be fixed. Download at the link below!  Link: U64Emu

	Columns & Tetris online games
	(posted by Chris - 11:04) RetroBase has put up a two new Java arcade games, namely Columns and Tetris. Both are pretty nice clones of the original game, so check 'em out at the link provided below.  Link: RetroBase

Thursday, October 26, 2000

	Total 64 Logo Competition
	(posted by Max - 17:59) As I'm currently working on the new version of my Commodore 64 site Total 64 I've decided to let you make the new logo for the new look. The person who makes the coolest logo will not only get there work of art on every page but they will also win a suprise C64 gift. So if you think you've got what it takes then visit Total 64 and send your work of art in.  Link: Total 64

	Commodore Scene 31 has been released!
	(posted by Max - 17:55) The great new issue of the UK C64 magazine from Allan Bairstow has been released. It contains the usual mix of reviews and news from the Commodore world today. To find out more or order your copy. Visit the official site.  Link: Commodore Scene

Wednesday, October 25, 2000

Nintendo emulation related W.I.P. news

(posted by fixo - 19:17) The homepage of Sintendo, the Super Nintendo emulator from Dreamcast, has been updated with news that the project is currently slowing down a bit due to the author running into time and programming problems so a next release could be a while further in the future as for now. More news plus the development new sections are both nicely updated as always. On the page of another Nintendo related emulator: Apollo, a N64 emu for Windows, you can find screenshots of some first generation Nintendo 64 games in action within the emulator. Looks promising!  Link: 1 - Sintendo 2 - Apollo

U64Emu Fix

(posted by fixo - 19:03) The newly released U64Emu, running Killer Instinct arcade, received it's first bugfix. According to the page, this one should fix the draw problem and it might help some of the other problems people have had. Also another tip from the page: If you are having problems with Killer Instinct games saying "draw" without you getting to play do the following: Delete "ki.dat" after using the emulator so that it remakes that file everytime. This should fix the problem. Downloads at the link below!  Link: U64Emu

Tuesday, October 24, 2000

	Top 100 Emulators of All Time: Round 2 - 401 to 500 Revealed
	(posted by lilac - 22:39) If its not already obvious by the title and the banner overhead, the countdown has officially begun on the Fall Top 100 Emulators of All Time list. The fun begins at number 500.  Link: Top 100 Emulators of All Time: Round 2

	8 More Plus/4 Java Games!
	(posted by Lando - 19:53) Over at C16/Plus4 ClassiX hosted here on emucamp every ones gone mad over the last update of Java games! So much so that 8 more titles have been added to keep you lot happy. The new update of C16/Plus4 Java games are way cool. Check out Sabouter, Space Pilot, and Trailblazer as these rock!  Link: C16/Plus4 ClassiX

	Sneese 0.52
	(posted by fixo - 19:31) A new version of SNEeSe, a SNES emu for DOS, has been released. Here are the changes for v0.52: Stability: Fixed a serious bug in the tile decoder that has caused crashes since the decoder was rewritten in 0.40 Timing: Corrected an error in the CPU timing Interface: Added a fast-forward key (tilde) Head over to the SNEeSe site for the download.  Link: SNEeSe

KIAME turns into U64Emu and has first release!

(posted by fixo - 18:52) The highly anticipated KIAME, the Killer Instinct arcade emulator for Windows, was finally released today. The name of the emu has changed into U64Emu, which stands for the Ultra64 hardware found in the cabinets of these series. As it's the first release, here's the introduction post straight from the official homepage: This emulator was formally known as KIAME but author RCP is hoping that eventually the emulator can be expanded to play others games based on similar hardware to Killer Instinct. This emulator is for Windows and is very fast! It has no sound currently but maybe someone can add it later on. Enjoy :) U64Emu emulates the hardware that Killer Instinct, Killer Instinct 2, and other games run on. So far it only runs Killer Instinct but if there is a lot of interest in this emulator it might be made open source in order to add support for other games. Seems that arcade emulation is rocking like never before so head over to U64Emu page right now to download this masterpiece!  Link: U64Emu

	NES now 15 years old
	(posted by Chris - 17:16) Well, the subject says it pretty all. Happy birthday :) Please note that 15 years refers to the U.S. market. In Japan it became 17 years old this month.

	New rare PC-Engine/Turbo Grafx 16 game
	(posted by Chris - 17:14) It's called "Bomberman '93 - Special Version". I don't know what's so special about this version (I assume new levels), but just check it out at the site linked below :)  Link: RetroBase

Updates at The Sega SG-1000 and SC-3000 Page

(posted by fixo - 13:50) ILB4EVER_2000, webmaster of The Sega SG-1000 and SC-3000 Page, hosted here at Emucamp, updated his site and here's what's new: SG-1000 "GAMES" Page (sggames.htm) updated and tinkered with: Game list color-coded, Space Slalom and Champion Ski added to list, Game-specific information updated, Year column added to list. Links page (links.htm) updated Still need SG-1000 game reviews *Coming soon - More complete emulation section To find out more about these rather unknown Sega system, check out the link below.  Link: Sega SG-1000 and SC-3000 Page

Monday, October 23, 2000

SMS Check 0.2

(posted by Zoop - 18:30) I have written a small and simple utility to display checksum out of a Master System ROM, taking account of some header informations that previous checksummers would ignore, and thus giving a good checksum on some game that are marked as bad in some listings. Also keep in mind the SMS internal checksum does not always cover the whole data range so a good checksum in certain case doesn't means everything in the ROM is ok, but in most cases with ROMs equal or smaller than 256 kb, it is reliable.  Link: SMS Check 0.2 (Sources included)

Gens v0.88

(posted by fixo - 17:31) Excellent! A new version of Gens, one of the better Sega Genesis (Megadrive) emulators for Windows platforms has been updated to v0.88. Here's an impressive list of what's new: Country select feature added Menu language support improved English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Hebrew menu language are actually supported Screen-Shot feature added Direct Draw code modified: 'Normal' and 'Double' render mode uses hardware blit in Fullscreen. My 68000 core and MZ80 core are removed (RAZE and custom Starscream are accurate) Debugger rewritten for Starscream Message drawing code rewritten GENS becomes cardware I figured that Gens played Genesis voices (especially in SSFII) better than the real genesis, the bug is now fixed so voices are now more crap with almost game :( Others little fix or add Head over to the official Gens page for the download right now!  Link: Gens

MameCE3 Release Version 0.36b8.0

(posted by fixo - 14:19) Should you ever want a valid reason for a PocketPC then look no more. A few ports of MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, are in development for the current existing PocketPC's and the earlier versions running WinCE. One of them, called MameCE3 has been updated to v0.36 and is up for grabs as we speak. Visit the MameCE3 page for tons of more info and instructions.  Link: MameCE3

More MIMIC WIP news

(posted by fixo - 14:12) The official page of Mimic, the Generic Hardware emulator, has been updated once again with some WIP news: "Added SMS line interrupts (rewroted). Lots more SMS stuff working now. I started checking out DJGPP and managed to get the FIRE code compiled without too many dramas. Problem is it almost made me sick (literaly) because it is too damn quick :) The EXE is quite large for such a simple program, but what a trade-off! And this is WITHOUT any of the optimisation options turned on! Needless to say that all development of Mimic is now completly on hold while I convert the rest of the code. Expect a BIG performance boost." More Mimic at the link below!  Link: Mimic

Signs of life from GENSX

(posted by Frogacuda - 08:47) After not seeing an update since August, we finally have some news on GENSX front. It seems the author of this Genesis/32X emu for windows, Tim Meekins, experienced a bit of coder burn-out and hasn't done much lately, but he is now once again hard at work. He is now writing a 68000 core (main Genesis CPU) following which he will impliment Sega CD support due to popular demand. Good news, indeed. Head for the homepage for the full score.  Link: GENSX

Sunday, October 22, 2000

20 New Plus4 Online Games!

(posted by Lando - 17:30) C16/Plus4 ClassiX hosted here at emucamp has taken delivery of an update to Minus4 Java (Commodore Plus4 online emu). At last joystick emulation has been added in! At the same time another 20 classic games have been added in and some of these will knock your socks off! Big Mac Blagger BMX Simulator Bongo Demoliton Icicle Works Kikstart Manic Miner In total 57 games are ready to go. So if your at work and dont have time to install an emu head on over now. Just dont get cought by your BOSS!  Link: C16/Plus4 ClassiX

MAME WIP

(posted by fixo - 10:42) The Work In Progress page of MAME, the biggest arcade emulator around, has been updated with news from the last days: David Haywood submitted yet another Sega C2 driver update with another romset of Ichidant-R added. Shingo Suzuki fixed the Darwin 4078 speed and volume balance. MungJing fixed the Libble Rabble CPU speed. Gareth Hall added the correct MCU dump to the Fairyland Story driver, which is now playable. More news and screenshots can be found at the official site.  Link: MAME WIP

Grand Opening of an All New Snes Site!

(posted by Lando - 07:20) We have an exclusive for Emucamp visitors today: an all new Super Nintendo website! Dedicated to preserving the memory of the fantastic 16-bit Nintendo machine and its' games, RS 500 as it's called features the following sections, which are all under heavy construction at the moment but the webmaster assures me are to be updated regularly! MIDI Music - Over 1000 MIDI music scores from 37 games! Featured are the likes of Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III, Secret of Mana, Zelda III, Donkey Kong Country II, plus tons more... Original Reviews - Currently features reviews of 12 games, with screenshots, written by the webmaster and a friend. The webmaster plans to do many more himself but is also looking for more review writers, so if you've written some you are invited to get them published here! Backup Devices - A wealth of information, with pictures, of the many game backup devices available for the SNES. These devices allow you to download ROMs off the internet and play them on your console! Message Forum - There are very few discussion boards out there dedicated to the SNES and its' games. Hence you are invited to discuss every aspect of the fantastic machine here! FAQ - All your SNES questions will be answered here. A veritable wealth of information on every aspect of the classic machine. Overview - A look at the three incarnations of the Super Nintendo system, including pictures and technical specifications Dedicated Super Nintendo sites are certainly hard to find nowadays, and this brand new one features extensive coverage of the machine and its' games. Don't miss it!  Link: RS 500 Super Nintendo

Saturday, October 21, 2000

	BOLO II - a new preview for the C64
	(posted by rOuGh - 20:53) got released by Go64! and First Blood, the first glance tells you it's a Tanks clone but it is not. It plays like a very simple Bomberman version. The main music by Dwayne Bakewell is a cover of 'Dawn Patrol' by Megadeth. Available from the link below.  Link: Pirate's Portal

	ZZAP64 issues online!
	(posted by rOuGh - 16:15) If you haven't noticed yet some former editor of the probably most well-known C64 magazine ever has started putting up entire and huuuuge and detailed scanned issues of Zzap64!  Link: The Def Guide to Zzap 64

	Rail Chase ROMs
	(posted by Frogacuda - 10:52) Well upon eagerly downloading the latest release of Final Burn, if you were like me and alot of others, you were a bit distressed to find that there was seemingly no ROM set availible for the latest addition, Rail Chase. Well JoseQ has hooked us up with a good dump. Thanks go out to JL_Picard and y0shi for this one. Head on over and download away.  Link: EmuViews

	Gleam!
	(posted by fixo - 08:03) Gleam!, the NES emulator for Dreamcast, received an update. This new release makes it possible to save your games to the VMS, just as if it would be saved on an original cart (not to be confused with saving any game whenever you want). Check the Gleam! page for the download.  Link: Gleam!

Friday, October 20, 2000

Mimic news

(posted by fixo - 15:32) The official Mimic page -temporarily at another URL- has been updated with some WIP news: "I changed the GUI to allow the user to just type the first letter of the menu entry to jump to the first match. This is pretty much standard in windows (ie. I got sick of all that scrolling when I was testing). I also changed the SMS VDP to be in 320X200 mode to allow me more room down the side for debug. I may allow this as an alternate video mode in 1.05. I fixed the crud that was appearing at the top of the SMS VDP. It seems that the first 28 lines after the vblank are not counted, thus scanline 28 is counted as scanline 0. I also allowed more than 256 scanlines per frame, although only the first 256 will be drawn. I also am going to try using DJGPP as the 32 bit compiler as the licensing quirks that I didn't agree with have been lifted in the current version (for a while actually). I will try and compile a simple graphical program like the starfield or fire (flamefield ?) to see if I can make it do the do." More on this project and download of current release over at the temp Mimic site.  Link: Mimic

Final Burn 0.50

(posted by Frogacuda - 00:05) Dave has updated his much lauded Sega Arcade Emu, making yet another prviously unemulated sega classic playable. Behold the Rail Chase release. That's basically all that's new, but that's no small thing, so I doubt we should complain :). I'll let you know when the ROMs become available. Until then head to the homepage for the download and some tasy new screens.  Link: Final Burn

Thursday, October 19, 2000

	Dead Body's 6502 core
	(posted by Frogacuda - 22:36) Dead Body has finished his latest rewrite of his 6502 core. HE note that it is basically an NES only core. You can download it from the squeem homepage.  Link: squeem

	RockNES X (Win) 1.42
	(posted by fixo - 19:00) One day after the DOS release, RockNES X, the Windows port of this nice NES emulator, catches up brining it also to v1.42. New features in this update: Windows 2000 bug solved! Small GUI problems fixed (now you know when the ROM is incorrect) Better noise emulation (by Fx3) The official homepage linked below should guide you to the download with ease.  Link: RockNES

	Immortal C64
	(posted by Zoop - 15:24) I'm pleased to announce a new nice site coming under the Emulation Camp network: Immortal C64. Dedicated to the Commodore 64, the site features various things, including emulators but also some art scans and selected SID musics (get your HardSID card now!) - more at the link below.  Link: Immortal C64 & M.O.N.A.

	Rumor Mill
	(posted by Frogacuda - 00:19) JoseQ has put up his latest Rumor Mill, with a few good tidbits about AGES, RockNES, The unnaqmed Sega CD emu, a new Final Burn pic, and some very nice ArcadePC cabinet pics. Head on over and read up.  Link: EmuViews

Wednesday, October 18, 2000

	Top 100 Emulators of All Time Voting
	(posted by lilac - 19:54) I regret to inform everyone I will be out of town this weekend so the Top 100 countdown will not begin Saturday as planned. Hence, voting will be extended through Tuesday, with the countdown beginning later that night. Sorry for the unexpected delay.  Link: Top 100 Emulators of All Time: Round 2

	RockNES 1.41 French Translation
	(posted by Frogacuda - 15:37) Top50 has put together a French translation of RockNES 1.41. You can head over to Power3D and check it out. He also notes that you should delete your old rockconfig.dat, or you won't be able to save your configuration.  Link: Power3D

	SNEeSe v0.51
	(posted by fixo - 07:59) A new version of SNEeSe has been released. They're up to version v0.51 now and here's the tiny bit that's new for now: Render: Fixed a bug that caused some sprites to be corrupted Visit the SNEeSe site for more info and as always, the download.  Link: SNEeSe

RockNES 1.420

(posted by fixo - 07:47) A new version of everyone favorite Nintedo 8-bit emulator for DOS has been released. RockNES 1.420 features following updates: Better noise emulation Added an option in the GUI to save sprite ram within all informations for each sprite, like a text file Added stretched mode, due the request (delete the old config file to setup this option) Minor optimization in the scanline blitter Fixed some GUI options that were working when no game was loaded Visit official site for the download.  Link: RockNES

Tuesday, October 17, 2000

	The Taito Project
	(posted by fixo - 19:28) Opi just reported an update of the Taito Project page. Over there, you can see how many lovely Taito arcade games still are to be emulated, among with a whole lot that already are of course (do I need to say Raine?). A great site to look at for all emulator -and more specifically- Taito arcade fans.  Link: The Taito Project

	SYS2064 revamped
	(posted by fixo - 19:16) SYS2064, one of the best arcade emulation news sites that has been out there for ages, has just got a complete new lay out which looks very nice. Cheers to webmaster Till (it's his birthday as well even, keep it up and all of you, pay him a visit!  Link: SYS2064

C-64 TAP Central updated

(posted by fixo - 18:58) I've just been informed that the C64 TAP Central has transfered another 25 TAP files for C64, bringing the total up to 99. All images are transfered from our their own originals. So what's that TAP things I may hear you ask? A C64 TAP is an image of an original tape. In the C64 days, one could use a tape as a storing media for multiple games but the original games came on a single tape. A TAP is an image of such tape. Anyway, more info and download over at the link below!  Link: C-64 TAP Central

TR64 WIP release 2

(posted by fixo - 18:46) A new Work In Progress release of TR64, the so called True Reality windows port N64 emulator, was posted at the official page. This update focused on plugin and interface fixes but most important ... it doens't seem to work as of yet. Though the hosts over at EmuHQ reported the "Cannot find core.dll" error message everyone is getting has been fixed and a new release (fix) should be available soon. In a hour? Today? Tomorrow? Keep an eye on the official page to be there to grab it as it comes.  Link: TR64

FreezeSMS build 69

(posted by fixo - 18:23) FreezeSMS, a brand new Sega Master System emulator for Windows introduced here only some posts ago, received already another update. In the meantime, the project moved over to a new host, being at Emulators Unlimited. New in this release, called build 69: Increased (Talk about 400% increase) Speed, should be easily playable on a pentium 100 Increased Compatibility: A few bugs from last version should be gone, also a few more games are now playable which should have been in the last version. ie Bubble Bobble Head over to it's new location (page still in construction) for the download.  Link: FreezeSMS

One flew over Pac-Man’s Nest

(posted by fixo - 13:42) Over the last year or so, sometimes emulation got into a bad daylight cause of certain legal issues and more law related difficulties in which I'm not an expert. Some people are though, such as the publisher of "One flew over Pac-Man’s Nest", which he describes as "An Authoritative Study on Emulators and the Problems that they Pose in Relation to Intellectual Property Rights". Not the easiest read around, but defenitely worth to check out.  Link: One flew over Pac-Man’s Nest

Monday, October 16, 2000

FreezeSMS

(posted by fixo - 17:27) A new Sega Master System emulator for Windows, called FreezeSMS, had it first public release today. Since this emu is still in early stages, what better way is there to introduce is using the authors own words: FreezeSMS is a Sega Master System emulator for Windows 95/98. It utilizes DirectX 7 for Graphics, Input, and Sound(When thats added). Some of you might be wondering why the emulator is so slow, and well thats a good question. You will probably need a P2-500 to run this emulator full speed at the moment. I think this is partly due to the fact that I'm mixing C(Marats Z80 core) andC++(Windows and DirectX) and the function overhead with doing so. Also there is another way I could speed it up, by adding a tile cache, but I havn't got that far yet as this emulator is only 1 week old :). Fans of the Sega 8-bit machine are advised to go to the official page right now for the download!  Link: FreezeSMS

Sunday, October 15, 2000

ePSXe goodies

(posted by Frogacuda - 20:52) Well I finally got the chance to sit down and play with the new greatly anticipated free PlayStation emulator, ePSXe, and I must say it delivers. To varying extents ePSXe delivers on the promises of bleem!, VGS, and FPSE. It outshines bleem! is both speed and graphics enhancing effects. the compatibility (with the 10 or so games I tested) is about on par with VGS, and it's free. For a quick comparison I took a shot of Crash Bandicoot running under ePSXe, and VGS. The difference is pretty remarkable. Alot of people (myself included, I'll admit it) have had trouble getting ePSXe running. So to help smotth things along PSXEmu has put up a very nice installer fully loaded with all the plugins/frontend/stuff you need to get running. They have also put up a useful FAQ, along with a screenshot section and more. Head on over and check it out. Oh, and of course the ever elusive BIOS files. I wouldn't forget those. Nab them here.  Link: PSXEmu

	VENOM BLAZER - New C64 Game Preview
	(posted by rOuGh - 20:32) a Trailblazer clone has been released by Secret Lab Productions on the Willow Party 2000 - available from the link below.  Link: Pirate's Portal

Final Burn WIP

(posted by Frogacuda - 15:25) Dave, never one to keep a secret for long, has put up another teaser screenshot of his latest work... Unfortunately, the sound and graphics ROMs haven't been dumped yet, so it's a little sparce to look at, but at Dave's usual rate of progress we will be playing Rail Chase in no time. While I never considered this one of my all-time favorites, it's definately one of the mre memorable arcade games from the early 90's. I'm eager to play it again.  Link: Final Burn

RockNES X 1.41

(posted by fixo - 14:46) RockNES X, the Windows port of the famous and fast RockNES, caught up with the recent DOS release bringing it to v1.41 and here are the latest changes: Improved Rendering Engine Windowed Mode Support VS Palettes Support Pause Key Improved Joystick Support GUI bug fixes GUI support for NES, VS and FDS roms and... ALL the core is in sync with the newest RockNES (DOS) version (TONS of changes to describe here!) There you go! So people who don't like DOS based emulators have absolutely no excuse anymore not to use this one; download at RockNES page linked below!  Link: RockNES

Final Burn v0.041

(posted by fixo - 10:19) A new version of Final Burn has been released. This cool arcade emulator running Sega games such as the Afterburners, Power Drift and Galaxy Force II is now up to v0.041. Here's what's new: Fixed the energy display in Galaxy Force II Fixed the speed display in Power Drift. Added sound support to Thunder Blade. Updated DirectDraw code to DirectX 7. Added nDSoundSegCount to the finalburn.ini file. If you want you can lower the value for a faster sound effect response time. You can raise the value if the sound 'echoes' or breaks up. Slightly changed the flag bAppUseVidMemory to nAppUseVidMemory, with -1 meaning don't specify video or system memory. It's the default. Hopefully video card drivers will pick the fastest option! Follow the link below to visit the official Final Burn page for the download.  Link: Final Burn

Ages 0.22a Borg

(posted by Frogacuda - 02:58) Working SegaCD emulation. Yep, the race to emulate SegaCD has ended, and the surprise last minute enty has taken it. We shouldn't be too surprised though, considering Quintesson is the only only one to successfully reverse engineer the Sega 32X (GENSX author Tim Meekins is an ex-32x coder). Here's the full list of changes: New GFX render: supports rasterFX and now runs Genesis games at full-speed with no frameskip on a 350 MHz PC. Compatibility boost: numerous Genesis games + Afterburner 32X, Fifa 96 32X, and Primal Rage 32XRAR'd file support In-memory IPS patch loading (somebody please test this and inform me if it works right or not) Sega CD driver So what's missing? Well you can get everything you need at Eidolon's Inn. The emu will run real sega CDs, copied Sega CDs, and ISOs. You can take advantage of the special set of ISOs being offered at Sega Xtreme on some real, old fashioned http space, too! Falls into place, nicely, eh?  Links: AGES - Eidolon's Inn - Sega Xtreme

Saturday, October 14, 2000

	ePSXe Version 1.0.0
	(posted by fixo - 19:38) The first ever public release of ePSXe, a new Playstation emulator for Windows, has just been unleashed! This emulator resembles the late PSEmu Pro and also needs the original PSX bios and various plug-ins to run anything. More news, documentation and ofcourse the download can be found over at the official ePSXe page!  Link: ePSXe

Manic Miner Fan Site

(posted by Lando - 19:15) Manic Miner Technologies is a bit of a bargin when surf over! The site has just had a major face lift and looking very cool indeed. You can find the low-down on almost all things Miner Willy got upto over the years and downloads for many systems and emulators! If your after intresting facts about one intresting classic then head on over to the link below:  Link: Manic Miner Technologies

	YAPE has another update!
	(posted by Lando - 18:52) YAPE ("Yet Another Plus/4 Emulator") regular delve in the updates hits an all time high! Joystick emulation via the keyboard has now been moved to the curser keys making it much more fun to graps those old classics. Clearly aiming for update overload Yape is hotting up all the time :-) Find out more from the homepage below:  Link: YAPE

Wanted!

(posted by rOuGh - 17:23) You surely know Remember, the group who improves old C64 games to have manual, many trainers, bugs repaired etc. Now we are looking for certain C64 originals including Box and Manual. If you have any of these leave e-mail to me via the adress above: David's Midnight Magic Pinball Construction Set Castles of Dr.Creep Kennedy Approach Spelunker and any other Broderbund game Would be great to hear from you! Besides Pirates Portal has regular updates adding many C64 games with their covers, highscores etc.  Link: Pirate's Portal

nester public beta 2

(posted by fixo - 13:23) Over the last weeks, emu pages were flooded with news concerning unofficial updates of nester, a nice open source NES emulator for Windows. For the first time in months, the official nester was updated with following message from the author: Most of the changes from the unofficial version of nester will be rolled into nester,and will be included in an official release as soon as nester reaches a stable state again. If you want an experimental, cutting-edge version of nester, use an unofficial copy.If you want a version that's more likely to be stable, use the official version. None of us could have said it any better so what's more for me to do than guiding you to the official nester page for the latest release.  Link: nester

SNEeSe v0.50

(posted by fixo - 13:18) More Nintendo releated emulation news: SNEeSe, a long time around SNES emulator for DOS, received it's second update this week brining it to v0.50. Here's what's new straigt from the official page: History: Inserted a description of a change left out of the history for 0.49 65c816: Completed the memory mapper changes started in 0.49 Source: Moved some debugging-related code into its own file Source: More source cleanup Stability: Fixed bugs in SRAM loading/saving (files opened weren't being closed) - appears to have fixed the last of the exit crashes Config: Changed the default save RAM file extension to SRM, and removed support for the old 'frameskip' setting in the config file Head over to the SNEeSe page for the download.  Link: SNEeSe

	UltraHLE.com updated
	(posted by fixo - 13:10) The UltraHLE.com domain, former home of the most popular Nintendo64 emulator ever, seems to be back online. Don't expect any exclusive news about a new release let alone a return of the emulator. We see a flash animation about Super Mario 64. What it means, no one seems to know as of yet but at least it's better than a blank page I guess.  Link: UltraHLE

Friday, October 13, 2000

	OverClocked
	(posted by Frogacuda - 08:48) Way back in the early days of OverClocked, we saw Pretzel pledge that he would deliver his eternal soul and a tasty pudding snack to whoever was first to deliver Galxy Force 2 emulation. Well as I'm sure you know by now, Dave has delivered, and so... OverClocked #133.

Thursday, October 12, 2000

	Galaxy Force II ROMs
	(posted by Frogacuda - 16:35) A freindly donor sent me a fix for the Galaxy Force 2 ROMs, so now I have good sets of both US and jap versions up. You can download here.

Final Burn 0.040

(posted by Frogacuda - 15:51) This is the updaye many have been waitng for... Galaxy Force II now runs under Final Burn. But wait! There's more!: Galaxy Force II! What was up with the GF palette? Turn out there's a palette reference into an EXTRA palette (a possible 32768 colors), which in turn goes into the normal main palette (16384 colors), which in turn goes into the GLOBAL palette (4 million colors). The word 'nightmare' comes to mind, but it's sorted now! Power Drift almost totally ignores this 'feature' (apart from the spinning wheels), which is why that worked okay. Added a new option for Auto-Centering Keyboard!(Thanks, Dave! ;) To use, first you must load up the game you wish to play, bring up the menu panel if it isn't already visible (press Escape), click Input, and then click Keyboard (Auto-Centering). It works really well with Galaxy Force II, Power Drift (in-game anyway!), ThunderBlade and Out Run. For After Burner however, it's much easier to aim if you select the normal Keyboard option. * In fact, Keyboard with Auto-Centering works so well that I have also made it the default. People who want to use a joystick should now configure games by clicking Input and then Joystick 1 (only need to be done once per game).* Note, now F = Burners, G = Brakes (or you can use A and Z if you are using Joystick 1 2-button or Keyboard.) Galaxy Force Hardware uses a powerful tilt/rotate effect, which isn't emulated yet. Lots of glitches - don't e-mail, I know about them! Galaxy Force II uses a LOT of sprites in the tunnel sections (each wall has about 50-100 sprites). It slows down my computer, so you probably do need a P3 this tim (for the tunnel sections anyway). A shame. Go, Dave, go! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to spend some quality time with this emu right now.  Link: Final Burn

	Rumor Mill
	(posted by Frogacuda - 11:06) JoseQ has put up his latest RumorMill. Some excellent goodies await, including some greatly improved screenshots of Galaxy Force 2 in Final Burn, some more SegaCD screens from SegaEMU, SegaCD emulation in AGES, and more! Head on over an see for yourself.  Link: EmuViews

Pretendo is back!!

(posted by Frogacuda - 10:56) Pretendo.org is back up, now. along with that is the first real news update since Delta left the scene. It is far too long to paster here, but it mentions that Pretendo is undergoing a third re-write, it should be faster and more accurate, it is now being developed under BeOS as it's primary platform, and will be ported to many other systems (Yes, there will still be a Windows port). Delta also talks about why he left the scene, why he's back, and what PrOxY has been up to. Follow the link to read more.  Link: Pretendo

	Neo Geo MP3's
	(posted by Chris - 07:49) Yup, fresh recorded music for you people to enjoy. Grab those files at the site linked below.  Link: RetroBase

Wednesday, October 11, 2000

	MAME WIP
	(posted by fixo - 19:32) The MAME Work In Progess page has been updated with news and screenshots that Phil Stroffolino sent in a Sega System16 update and added After Burner 1 & 2 support thanks to Dave of Final Burn.  Link: MAME WIP

	Lee's Peek'n'Poke joins Emucamp
	(posted by Max - 16:28) Lee Bolton is now joining us on Emucamp His classic Peek'n'Poke video games site has features about all the systems we love, from C64 to Super Nes! Be sure to check out his Top 100 games ever and his Review of the week. Why not take a peek?  Link: Lee's Peek'n'Poke

SNEeSe 0.49

(posted by fixo - 14:41) SNEeSe, a Super Nintendo emulator for DOS, has been updated to v0.49. Here's what's new in this release: Render: Implemented BG3 highest priority in mode 0 Render: Corrected wrapping from end of tilesets GUI: Now uses standard keyboard controller auto-repeat Interface: Emulation no longer pauses when pressing certain keys (ESC to go to GUI, F1-F8 to toggle sound channels, 1-8 to change render options, 0 for screenshot) Visit the official page for the download.  Link: SNEeSe

	New games in the Java Arcade Emulator
	(posted by fixo - 14:30) Norbert Kehrer's excellent JAE, the online Jave Arcade Emulator, was updated with support for two more games: Phoenix, an absolute classic made in 1980 by Amstar Pleiads, a game based on Phoenix hardware, released a year later by Tehkan. What can I say more? Wherever you are, whenever it is, you can play those classics just in your browser from now on!  Link: JAE

RockNES 1.410

(posted by fixo - 04:24) A new version of RockNES, an excellent NES emulator for DOS, has been released. Here's what's new: Added mapper #118 (IQS MMC3) driver, now YsIII Wanderers from Ys and Goal! Two are playable Fixed FDS memory allocation and system startup, major cleanup/rewrite Fixed FDS image loading. Files with no header should be ok Added FDS image identification by the NINTENDO-HVC string, removed the old one by file extension (required only by images with no fwNES' FDS header Fixed ROM load/free, squashed several mistakes Disabled MMC3 WRAM control, enabled from previous version Visit the official RockNES page linked below for the download.  Link: RockNES

Tuesday, October 10, 2000

Final Burn WIP

(posted by Frogacuda - 18:52) I just noticed on the Final Burn page that Dave put of some screenshots of (Drumroll, please...) Galaxy Force II! Yep, it's running, although the pallette i badly distorted in some places and the input isn't working yet. Even still, it looks like Galaxy Force emulation isn't too far off! Sega fans across the globe rejoice, and then follow the link below, and marvel in the distorted beauty that is Galaxy Force emulation.  Link: Final Burn

Jagulator news

(posted by fixo - 18:26) The official Jagulator page, home to the only known for real Atari Jaguar emulator for Windows, has been updated today with the following news: Jagulator has been progressing well over the last few days and it is near fully running its first demo. JDC (Jaguar Development Club) Demo v1, coded by Lars Hannig, now displays the title screen and zooms into view the JDC Logo. There are couple of minor bugs to quash and then the demo will fully run with Joypad support also. The running of demo's is new functionality that I have added into the debugger. Whereas a standard game cartridge will load itself according to the embedded program counter etc, demo rom loads need to specifically identify the address space they occupy. Author RealityMan also put up some screenshots of the above mentioned demo running in Jagulator.  Link: Jagulator

Pretendo is back

(posted by Frogacuda - 13:16) Well... almost. The black screen has been replaced by a white one, with the message "for the multitudes of thoughtless clones have reached a critical mass. It's time for a re-design." I think we can take that to mean that pretendo will be back soon, pending a site redisign. Ah, for those of you who don't know, Pretendo is a very nice NES emu for windows and BeOS which features plugin support, and some othe nice extras. Follow the link to see for yourself.  Link: Pretendo

Monday, October 09, 2000

Final Burn v0.035

(posted by fixo - 17:48) Final Burn, Dave's arcade emulator focusing on Afterburner I&II and Power Drift, has been updated to v.0035. New in this release: Reduced AB's Interrupt 2 to 1500 times a second because it was messing up the intro. Fixed sluggish controls in After Burner . Input is now read by calling Interrupt 2 3000 times a second rather than 60 times a second. Get it from the official page!  Link: Final Burn

	MSX Emulator Page news
	(posted by fixo - 16:09) MEP, the MSX Emulator Page, reported that their huge game archive has just been placed back online. Everything concerning MSX emulation and it's games can be found over at the link below.  Link: MEP

Steem 1.1

(posted by fixo - 15:39) Steem, an Atari ST emulator for Windows, was just updated to v1.1. Here's what's new: Zipped disk images supported Fixed STOP command to make Team work HBL interrupt fixed. Improved syncronization generally Fixed MFP timer counter reset bug - fixing most palette switching problems. KaosTos and Tos 2.05 bugs fixed. More forgiving for disk images, 84 tracks allowed. Fixed very rare but major tint whole screen blue crash. Frameskip fullscreen STE scroll change screen flip bug fixed! More TOS images accepted. Easier window sizing options. Drag and drop into the disk manager. Joystick/keyboard autofire. Avoid stretch-blitting for slow video cards. Speeded up drawing. Many little GUI bugs that nobody probably noticed fixed. So as the homepage says, give Steem a try today and enjoy all the fun of the ST! Cheers jj666 for the news.  Link: Steem

W.I.P. screenshots

(posted by fixo - 13:34) Two of the most interesting emulation projects, being the new PSX emulator ePSX and the arcade emulator Impact, had some new screens to post. While the ePSX page showed some EA Sports games running on the emu, the Impact emu site just has three screenshots of rather cool arcade games (one being Dynamite Deka, better known as Die Hard Arcade wiht most people). Though no sign of any more info, is Impact coming back? We'll have to wait and see. In the meantime, take a look!  Link: (1) ePSX - (2) Impact

RockNES 1.400

(posted by fixo - 13:21) RockNES, one of the most stable and fastest NES emulators for DOS, has been updated to v1.400. Straight from it's homepage, here's what's news: Small mistakes squashed on FDS driver; Fixed FDS disk writes somewhat, no more 'ERRxx' problems; FDS images with no header present are loadable (you need .FDS extension); Fixed mapper #42, pirate MarioBaby works fine; Fixed frame-IRQs, now there's sound output in DragonQuest games; Fixed a possible memory leak problem; Added WRAM (bank at $6000) dumping; Get this new release at the RockNES page linked below.  Link: RockNES

Sunday, October 08, 2000

	squeem site updated!
	(posted by DeadBody - 22:29) The squeem site has been updated with some news, and it is coming along nicely. It is being totally rewritten (not by choice...) and will not be the fastest, but hopefully one of the most accurate. I don't have much time to do stuff anymore, I wish I did, though. Well, it was fun posting once again. Emucamp-4-ever!  Link: squeem (emucamp mirror) or squeem.org

New GameGear translations

(posted by Zoop - 18:47) The guys at Gaijin Production have just released translation patches for two GameGear games: Yu Yu Hakusho 2 and SD Gundam: Winner's History. You might have stumbled accross these nice games but quickly dropped them due to the Japanese texts, now you have no reasons not to play them ^_^ Yu Yu Hakusho 2 is one of those strange undescribable animated fighting games, and SD Gundam a good tactics/strategy game with as you can guess Gundam elements.  Link: Gaijin Production

Sintendo Beta v0.02

(posted by fixo - 07:46) Sunday seems to be Sintendo day as this Dreamcast SNES emulator has been updated again! News from the homepage:: The emulation speed is noticably faster (not yet full speed). There is one negative side to this, however. Transparencies don't work. It is noticeable from time to time but shouldn't have any real bearing on gameplay (with a few exceptions). This will be fixed when I work on improving the emulation speed. Get the new beta from the Sintendo page linked below.  Link: Sintendo

	New Dreamcast language translations
	(posted by Max - 07:00) DBZ Translations has released 3 new DBZ patches at Hagemiai! Also Jbtrunks, leader of DBZ Translations is in need of some hackers that can start ASAP........so if you can hack then e-mail him.  Link: DBZ Translations

	A Snes emulator for Sega Saturn?
	(posted by Max - 06:57) Even the author is unsure of whether this will ever come to anything from what I read, but there's a new project to write a Snes emulator for the Saturn of all things. The emulator is called Star Dust. Visit the official site for more info as it comes.  Link: Star Dust

	Sintendo Beta v0.01
	(posted by fixo - 06:39) Sintendo, the SNES emulator for Dreamcast, had it's first public beta v.0.01 release. This is -as said before- a very early version. The good thing is that you can multi-session burn you Sintendo CD to add newer version later. Check official page for the full load!  Link: Sintendo

The return of Immortal 64

(posted by Max - 05:00) After a couple of months of no updates, Akumas brilliant Commodore 64 site is back at a new location. Yep, Immortal 64 is now here at Emucamp and this time it's been re-mixed. The site is designed just like the best C64 magazine ever Commodore Format. It even features his own version of there logo and catchphrase. This site includes: An archive of all the Maniacs Of Noise sid tunes Inside The C64 - A guide to all the Commodore hardware A gallery of cover scans His top 10 games with mini reviews Got a C64 emulator? Then get this!  Link: Immortal 64

Saturday, October 07, 2000

Jagulator page

(posted by fixo - 08:46) The official Jagulator page is temporary placed over at EmuGaming as there's still some problems uploading to it's own domain according to RealityMan himself. He also mentioned the following on his main page: The aim of the first 'development alpha' release of Jagulator was to show that Jaguar emulation *is* possible and that it is progressing. Since the release, things have been progressing really fast and another public release is expected soon. More news about the project and the full news post can be checked over at the Jagulator place linked below at it's new location for now.  Link: Jagulator homepage

Sintendo news concerning release later on

(posted by fixo - 07:26) Sintendo, the WIP SNES emulator for Dreamcast, will have it's first early beta preview version -which won't really work- released today. That's right, the author has been working very hard and promised a release by today and he's going to keep his word. Some things might run in it and possibly show graphics but please don't expect miracles. Here are some excerpts from the latest news straight from the Sintendo homepage: Sintendo beta v0.01 does not work. If you burn it, don't even think about complaining to me about it. Constructive critism is very welcome, but don't start a "man Sintendo sucks" rampage on the open internet just because a very early beta version doesn't work...because it doesn't and I told you that. The release will be posted some time before 12 midnight EST. It will include a menu and a reasonable frameskip will be implemented (resonable meaning all games will run at full speed, but some of the slower games will be noticably jurky). Almost every element of Sintendo is slated to be improved in later versions. Release by midnight; barring an unbelievable miracle, it won't work. Check the page for the full news and who knows, be there right at the moment of the release.  Link: Sintendo

Elite - The New Kind 2.1b

(posted by Max - 07:15) Elite - The New Kind, Christian Pinders superb Reverse Engineered Elite remake has had an update from v2.0b to v2.1b, the changes in this beta are: Added code to set legal status to clean and fuel to maximum after using an escape capsule Fixed enemy missile targeting so that other ships don't blow themselves up Fixed speed of enemy ships which were moving too slowly in previous versions Added game speed control option to newkind.cfg Go to Retro Remakes to download this great update to a classic game.  Link: Retro Remakes

Friday, October 06, 2000

Snes9X v1.32

(posted by fixo - 19:34) Snes9X, one of the two SNES emulators with the biggest fame so far, has been updated to v1.32. This new release is available for Windows 95/98/NT and Linux platforms. Also the new source is available for porters. Here's a list of what's new: Changed the Windows port to delay load the two OpenGL DLLs Added another sound buffer option to the Windows port Modified the Windows frame timer code to use semaphores rather than event Added SA-1 shutdown code Added multi-axis joystick/game controller support to the Windows port Added amend functionality to the Windows Cheat Entry dialog Optimised SNES DMA handling slightly Head over the official Snes9x right now for the download and more details on this release!  Link: Snes9x

	PIRATES PORTAL back after summer break!
	(posted by rOuGh - 19:07) After 3 months of summer break PIRATES PORTAL - the Emucamp games encylclopaedia is back with a huge update including a NEW game for the C64 called Indiana Jones and the Golden Head, a one-screen jump and run... for collectors! Submit your highscores to me to make every Emucamp surfer watch your success !!!!!!  Link: Pirates Portal

	New games at Landos
	(posted by Max - 18:54) Lando has updated his Plus 4 games archives here at Emucamp. There's 26 new ones available for download! Max recommends the following: Alien Attack Manic Miner Mr Puniverse Scramble Tetris Wall Breaker These are just some of the great games he's just added. Head over there now and download all your old favourites.  Link: Landos C16/Plus4 Classix

YAPE 0.18 is released!

(posted by Lando - 17:29) YAPE ("Yet Another Plus/4 Emulator") has just graced a major update once again. The author is a Plus4 nut and knowing what he wants from a Plus4 emu can only bring the best out of the term emulation. New features: optimisations in screen rendering (about 20% speed improvement) implemented almost all DirectX modes (16 bit, 32 bit and 8 bit fullscreen) enhanced the autostart feature to support D64 images as well the Commodore key is at the CAPS LOCK some more illegal opcodes done at last I made the BRK instruction work correctly miscellaneous bugfixes As ever grab your copy of Yape from the authors homepage now!  Link: YAPE Homepage

	MAME32 version 0.37 beta 8
	(posted by fixo - 15:40) In case you missed it or maybe because the official page seemed to have problems earlier this week, the Windows port of MAME, everyone's favorite Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, caught up with the previous DOS release being at v0.37 beta8.  Link: MAME32

	Sintendo
	(posted by fixo - 15:29) This weekend might be another one a total emu happi(S)nes as the author of the first Super Nintendo emulator for Dreamcast plans to release it's emu called Sintendo ... tomorrow! When exactly is not known, but I know I will be checking his page linked below quite often starting right now!  Link: Sintendo

Thursday, October 05, 2000

	SG-1000 and SC-3000 page news
	(posted by fixo - 14:03) One of our hosted sites, the SG-1000 and SC-3000 page, was recently updated. This site cover all aspects of two Sega systems not a lot of people are very familiar with, let alone heard of even. The webmaster updated the FAQ's and would like to have any kind of SG-1000 game reviews to post on the site, if you can help him, drop him a mail!  Link: SG-1000 and SC-3000

Mimic 1.03

(posted by fixo - 09:56) Mimic, the multilpe hardware emulator for DOS, has just been updated to v1.03. In this impressive new release, one of the key additions is Sega Master Sytem support. Here's the full list of what's new according to the emu's documentation: New:Sega Master System VDP New:Colecovision VDP - Preliminary New:Gameboy VDP - Preliminary New:HWC:BG-STYLE:BITMAP = Bitmap backgrounds New:HWC:BG-STYLE:STARS = Configurable starfield New:HWC:CARTRIDGE New:HWC:MESSAGE = Display output during interpret New:HWC:GFX-BMXS/GFX-BMYS = Shorthand bit patterns New:HWC:RAMSHARE/RAMS = RAM shared between CPUs New:HWC:Errors/warnings display on screen New:Bargraph in benchmark mode Fix:Scrolling for ARCFLY VDPs Fix:ARCFLY VDPs Fix:Z80 core:HALT Fix:Z80 core:OUTD Fix:Bankswitching New VDPs: SMS, GAMEBOY Known new romsets: Galaxian, Various SMS For more info on this release, the download and to find out how to help the author in doing some reporting, go to the official Mimic site linked below.  Link: Mimic

	Rumor Mill
	(posted by Frogacuda - 01:19) JoseQ has put up his latest Rumor Mill with tidbits about Virtua, SegaEMU (new screens!), Magical32x and more. Check it out for the latest gossip.  Link: Emuviews

Power Drift ROMs

(posted by Frogacuda - 01:15) At long last we have a Power Drift emu, but what good is it without a good ROM set? I don't notmally do this, but I thought it's be nice to upload a rom set since it is just such a great game. And despite what Dave put in his readme, a Pentium 3 is not nearly nescessary. It runs full speed with sound on my k6-2/350 (should get similar performance on a P2/266). Anyway, download it here.

Wednesday, October 04, 2000

Final Burn 0.030, 0.031

(posted by Frogacuda - 20:42) This release is a big one (at last). This sega arcade emu for Windows now emulates Power Drift! Here's the full changelog: Added support for the Triple-68000 game Power Drift! You need a very fast PC to run this game fullspeed (a Pentium 3). Sound support for Power Drift (the easiest part believe it or not!) It is very playable on a Pentium 3, but... ...there are many glitches all over the game. I've also noticed that the whole display doesn't tilt. I have noticed all the problems, so please don't report any to me (otherwise I'll be reading my e-mail forever)! Unfortunately Galaxy Force itself is not working yet at all. Since I couldn't get anywhere with Galaxy Force, I decided to go ahead with Power Drift emulation without it, to see if it might shed any light on what is wrong with Galaxy Force. Unfortunately it hasn't yet. Modified the After Burner HW so that the controls are read 'properly' using interrupts rather than just inserted into memory (cheers to Phil from the MAME team for noticing this!). For the user, you'll see no difference, but the emulation is more accurate. Fixed that occasional "vertical banding" problem that JoseQ and some others were having in the scanlines mode - it wasn't anything to do with bilinear filter after all! Quite a hefty update indeed. If ever there was a cue to upgrade this would be it. Make a mad dash for the homepage! UPDATE:Does he ever sleep? 0.031 is now out, fixing the difficulty setting in Power Drift. Download now!  Link: Final Burn

	Nesters once more!
	(posted by fixo - 16:05) NesterJ and Unofficial Nester, two NES emulators for Windows using the nester source, were updated once again. NesterJ is now at v0.20 and due to this being a Japenese release, news on what changed is not available at the moment. As always, the Unofficial Nester supports more mappers and both files can be downloaded at the nesterJ page linked below.  Link: nesterJ

Sintendo news

(posted by fixo - 10:14) It seems that emulation on Dreamcast is really kicking of now that there's visible progress in projects emulating the Gameboy, NES and SNES. The latter one goes by the name Sintendo and today the author posted 6 new screenshots of Super Mario World in action using Sintendo on an actual Dreamcast. Head over to the official page linked below to catch up with the latest and see the pics!  Link: Sintendo

	Final Burn v0.023
	(posted by fixo - 05:14) Final Burn, the Afterburn I and II arcade emulator for Windows, was updated to v0.023. Small but very important change in this release: Added Optimised After Burner I and II emulation by about 20% Fans of this Sega classic should check this and visit author Dave's page linked below for the download and more info concerning this project.  Link: Final Burn

Tuesday, October 03, 2000

YAME v.018

(posted by fixo - 17:38) YAME, which stands for Yet Another Multi-console Emulator, received Yet Another Update for Windows bringing this release to v0.18. Here's what's new, mostly for the Gameboy emulation part: Added English binary Fixed Gameboy Color cartridge recognition bug Enabled pseudo PCM sound Fixed HDMA Fixed LCDC bugs Fixed initial volume of sound This original TG-16 emu which also runs NES and Gameboy games is also available for Linux, Playstation and PC-FX GA platforms. Check out the official site linked below for more info and the download!  Link: YAME

UltraHLE page

(posted by fixo - 17:24) Last week we saw the real truth behind EmuJag, which almost brought the whole idea behind Atari Jaguar emulation in very bad daylight, right till RealityMan released a development alpha of Jagulator to prove all others wrong. Everyone knows RM is also the man behind the cancelled N64 emu UltraHLE. However, the official UltraHLE page seems to be back online now. What's strange about it, check it and compare it to the former "official" page of the fake EmuJag emu and you'll see.  Link: UltraHLE

	The Return Of Codie
	(posted by Max - 16:37) Some of you may remember the website Codie hosted here on Emucamp dedicated to classic Codemasters and there brilliant games of the 80s/Early 90s. The site hasn't been updated since July due to Adams computer being broken but he tells me his site will be back on Thursday or Friday as he's getting a new PC.  Link: Codie

Monday, October 02, 2000

	Boob!boy
	(posted by Frogacuda - 21:36) It's out, folks. The first GB emu for Dreamcast is now availible for download. It currently has no sound, and is shy of full speed due to the fact that frameskipping is not yet implimented. Still, it's a start. Head on over to the homepage for the download.  Link: Boob!

MAME 0.37b8

(posted by fixo - 18:58) A new beta of MAME, the arcade emulator for DOS, has been released. This beta's most important update is the modification to the memory surface. This could have an impact on certain games that refuse to run in this beta till they are converted. On the other hand, support for following games was added: dozens of Nichibutsu mahjong and quiz games Super Dodge Ball Macross Macross II Nouryoku Koujou Iinkai Strahl Pushman Bombe