Thursday, November 30, 2000

FreezeSMS build 100

(posted by fixo - 21:10) FreezeSMS, the most promising Sega Master System emulator for Windows, has been updated with some bugfixes. This release is called Build 100 and here's what's new: Decreased Sound latency Better emulation of Noise emulation (there is a tiny bug which isstopping it from being GREAT, I'll find it Added ZIP Support, make you the ROM file has the same name as ZIP So again some more great additions to an incredible update of only a few days ago! Check link below for download.  Link: FreezeSMS

	Project #51
	(posted by fixo - 20:37) Project #51, a senior design project to create a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator, has been updated to beta #4. This release contains updated for both Windows and Dos versions.  Link: Project #51

Back to the Roots - Amiga News

(posted by Roni - 17:50) A great site supporting the Amiga computers, and supporting legal free distribution of Amiga games and more has had an update. I feel it is best to quote the mail I received directly: "More scene demos were added, and in the games section you'll find the game "Skidmarks" from Acid Software - a company who's now supporting our mission for offering classic Amiga games legally and for free. Included were also some extremely hard to find adventure games from Infocom plus other highlights of the Amiga games history. "We're also happy to present you a review of the brilliant music CD "Merregnon". The music was composed by well known musicians like Chris Hülsbeck (Turrican), Allister Brimble (Superfrog), or Markus Holler (Tales of Tamar). We've done an interview with the Amiga demo group "Reason", too. Maybe you're interested to know how they see the demo scene on the AmigaOne." Sounds like a good update to me, go check it out at the link below.  Link: Back to the Roots

	Sega Genesis Hardware Notes
	(posted by Charles - 16:21) I've made another update to my Sega Genesis Hardware Notes. If you are an emulator programmer or a developer of homebrewn games/demos, be sure to take a look. New material includes full memory maps for the Z80 and 68000, details on unused VDP addresses, and information on RAM banking as used by Phantasy Star 4.  Link: Sega Genesis Hardware Notes

Amiga Forever 4.0 released

(posted by Bernd - 13:13) Today I received the following press release from Cloanto: Cloanto is proud to announce the release of the fourth version of the award-winning all-in-one emulation and connectivity solution officially licensed by the Amiga companies. Amiga Forever 4.0 is an amazing package designed to deliver continued support and compatibility to millions of the most creative and enthusiastic computer users ever. The package is available now in standard and upgrade versions, both downloadable and on CD-ROM. New features of Amiga Forever 4.0 include: - GlowIcons look (as used in Amiga OS 3.5/3.9, but also compatible with NewIcons and MagicWB) - Option to switch entire environment from "new look" (GlowIcons) to "old look" (Classic) and vice versa - Amiga Explorer 4.0 (includes revolutionary self-install over serial cable, no more terminal software or PC filing system required on Amiga side) - Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware) - Personal Paint 7.1b - Support for ADZ and DMS disk image files - Print spooler (easily print all Amiga documents under Windows, bypassing parallel port emulation) - New emulation and Workbench configuration results in faster emulation of the Amiga CPU - New MenuBox launcher (easier to use) - Preinstalled sample settings for two additional emulation packages (Fellow and DOS version of UAE) - Dozens of other enhancements and new add-ons Additionally, the CD-ROM version contains almost three hours (about 350 MB of MPEG-1 data) of video footage, including the legendary "Deathbed Vigil" movie and a speech by Jay Miner, "father of the Amiga". Note from me: Get more info here: Official Amiga Forever Page.  Link: AMI Sector One

	Rumor Mill
	(posted by fixo - 10:09) It's this time of the week again: over at JoseQ's Emuviews the Rumor Mill has been updated again which is always a nice read.  Link: Emuviews

Wednesday, November 29, 2000

Unofficial Nester 2000/11/29 (2nd)

(posted by Roni - 20:00) Takeda, author of this great modification of Nester; a Windows Nintendo emulator; has released two updates today. Here's what's new from both all at once: support 'Family Basic Key Board'(thanx rinao) code fixed nes_apu(thanx stun),235(thanx xodnizel) tested 235 change '260-in-1' and '000-in-1' in every reset.(#235) Download the file directly from where takeda uploads it in the link below and thanks to Navarone's Emulation9 for the news.  Download: Unofficial Nester 2000/11/29 (2nd)

DreamGBC v0.4

(posted by Roni - 19:43) Kervin seems to be hard at work on this project, with two releases in two days! Here's what is new: Fixed a GB controller bug,TAKARA's fighting games work correctly Completely rewritten GB Window code,many games have perfect graphics Data write to SRAM is automatically backuped to HDD and restored when emulator start Added support to MBC2 carts And if you don't know this is a GameBoy emulator for Windows. Download it at the link below.  Link: dream stuff

X68000 Games Pile Update

(posted by Zoop - 14:38) _Bnu has e-mailed us about an update he made to his site: the X68000 Games Pile. Covering both X68000 and PC98 Japanese systems, this site is one of the few english ressources of this kind on the net. This time, three PC98 games have been added: Custom Mate 1, 2 and 3. They are best described from Bjorn '_Bnu' Astrom words: The Custom Mate series is a series of games where you choose the attributes that you like about a girl and then based on your desicions you get to try to charm a girl and get her into bed, basically. :) There are lots of combinations to try, but don't just try one game in the series, try 'em all! ;) Generally speaking, X68000, PC88 (uncovered on this site) and PC98 are very nice machines that every gamers should try. Most currently famous Japanese games company started by making games for the PC88, and thus you can find many gems on them. Did you know that the recently released Silpheed for the Playstation 2 is a sequel to the very original one.. not on MegaCD, but PC88 - Check it out by yourself!.  Link: X68000 Games Pile Update

	Sega Xtreme
	(posted by Frogacuda - 01:15) IceMan2k has informed me that he has uploaded 2 more Saturn ISOs to Sega Xtreme for you to downlad and enjoy. Today's offerings are Langrisser 4 a classic RPG, and Deep Fear, a Resident Evil clone (complete with horrendous acting), set on a submarine. Head on over to download.  Link: Sega Xtreme

Tuesday, November 28, 2000

FreezeSMS v28/11/2000

(posted by Roni - 19:44) A new version of this growing with promise SMS emulator, sort of Windows cometition for Meka :) Here's a quote from the homepage: "Its been a while in the coming but here is the latest version of FreezeSMS. It has what most people have been wanting (SOUND), also has full VOICE support, so load up Alex Kidd - The Lost Stars and be amazed. Of course if you have any problems, suggestions, bugs, thanks, send them to my email." So go to the homepage and get the latest version.  Link: FreezeSMS

DreamGBC v0.3 Released!

(posted by Roni - 19:24) Kervin author of the DreamNES emulator for Windows, has released his new beta of his new emulator. And you guessed it, it's for GameBoy (although it DOES NOT support GB Color yet). Here's what is new: Fixed a sprite transparency bug Fixed a sprite overlay bug. Sangokushi have perfect title (and the rest) Fixed a bug that will mess up some game Follow the link below to download the new version.  Link: dream stuff

RockNES DOS, Mac 1.600

(posted by Frogacuda - 09:19) RockNES, one of the more popular and often updated NES emus has gotten an upgrade. Here's the usual list of goodies: Added a ppu tile caching system, sped up the things; Added a decent savestate format -- NOT compatible with the old ones; Added a new method for noise luts, much clean; Added mapper #180 (Nichibutsu, game Crazy Climber supported); Added preliminary VS UniSystem reads handler (Atari RBI Baseball works), thanks to xodnizel; Added a cheap hack to get Paris-Dakar Rally Special working (map66); Fixed a major bug in the mapper #40 (SMB2j) reset; Fixed mapper #83 CHR bankswitch (World Heroes2 works); Fixed mapper #232 (BF9096 chip - used by Codemasters' Quattro carts); Fixed mapper #233 (the '20-in-1' half works, 'reset' to active); Fixed nametables dumping (dumping the entire $400 data in a .nam file); Fixed major problems in the sound startup routines; Fixed number of cpu cycles per sprite DMA transfer; Fixed ppu layout (frame starts at VBlank); Fixed ppu latch system and ppu reads, thanks to Ki for his findings (pass ok in the tests programs). Fixed mirroring state saving (when a mapper uses a custom mirroring); Tweaks in the FDS driver, more games are working; Cleaned up the 16k CHR RAM support code, used by mapper #13; Expanded ROM information display; Whoops, removed "dump pattern addresses" option from GUI; General cleanups to boost the performance; Added a 'secret' mapper, I will tell you later... ;-) You can download the ports from their respective homepages.  Link: RockNES - MacRockNES

PocketNES 1.0 beta 2 rev 2

(posted by Frogacuda - 09:11) PocketNES, and NES emu for various Palmtop computers. Here's what's new this time: New logo and controller artwork. Speed improvments. iPAQs average about 40 frames per second now! Even more with sound disabled. The MIPS version is faster, but it is still too slow to play most high action games. Cutomized key configuration. This should make PocketNES fully compatible with all PocketPCs now. The new controller settings are under the Option menu Rev 2 also brings some major speed improvements on top of those listed above. You can grab a copy at the new homepage.  Link: PocketNES

ZSnes 1.14

(posted by Zoop - 03:45) The popular ZSNes emulator has been given an update today, with new versions for both DOS and Windows. This version fixes up the usual bunch of small bugs, and beside mainly adds changes to the Windows port: speed in 32-bit windowed mode has been speeded-up by 18% (you mean.. some people are playing on their desktop?), and netplay was generally improved.  Link: ZSnes Homepage

Monday, November 27, 2000

AdriPSX 00.11.24 Release

(posted by Aber - 02:49) Not to be forgotten among all the other recent PSX emu news, AdriPSX, a PSX emulator for Windows was updated yesterday with a new release that has the following changes: Added two players support Implemented support for PSEmuPro's pad plugins Big improvements on Root Counters' interupts Better music and sound support Slightly speed up in GTE Correction in Boot Sequence, now SYSTEM.CNF loads first Also mentioned was a new GUI that is being worked on making it easier to choose various plugins for the emu. You can get further details & download the new version at the link below.  Link: AdriPSX

Memory Card Manager 1.0 & Other PSX Emu News & Notes

(posted by Aber - 02:33) Aldo, author of several popular PSX emulation tools for nearly every PSX emulator has released one of the handiest utilities seen in quite some time. Memory Card Manager 1.0 allows you to manage several memory card slots with a few simple clicks. And in case you missed it yesterday, he also released a VERY handy memory card converter that combines all his various tools into one simple to use prog. I've tested this extensively myself, and it works extremely well, allowing you to swap your VGS memory cards over to Bleem! or ePSXe & vice versa in just seconds. In addition to all this goodness, Aldo also released the 3rd edition of his VGS Video patch for FFIX, that allows this fantastic game to finally run under VGS. You can grab all these goodies here at his homepage. Finally, the ePSXe Compatibility List hosted over at Psxemu.com continues to grow by leaps & bounds as the list now is up to 319! entries last I checked about 20 minutes ago. You can help out by submitting your results with any games you've tested out with ePSXe. Also, you can submit any Screenshots you might have (640x480 high quality JPEG uncompressed) of games tested as well to TFC, the webmaster of the site.  Link: Aldo's Tools

Sunday, November 26, 2000

	New member
	(posted by Charles - 18:47) Hello everyone, I'm Charles, and am the newest addition to the fine folks at Emucamp. I'll bring the latest and greatest in news and events, or shamelessly plug my own emulators and projects. Either way, you can look forward to what I have to say in the future.  Link: My Home Page

Turrican 3 coming in April!

(posted by Max - 11:57) Two years ago we saw a promising preview of an up and coming C64 sequel to the amazing Turrican 2, and now after some hard coding and a different team, Turrican 3 is on its way, bigger, better and with a new team behind it... and boy, it looks good! It was two years ago when Turrican 3 became known to be worked on. But due to its preview being spread too early, its coders decided to abandon the project... A big shame, the game looked and felt good.... very good. All was lost.... until now..... Smash Designs have decided to do their own "Turrican 3" project, and bring us a game which could possibly surpass the incredible Turrican 2, without the assistance of Manfred Trenz this time. And wow, it really looks like Smash could pull it off. So far what we have, is a massive preview of the first level, along with a cool looking introduction screen. The game plays just like Turrican 2, with most of the weapons from that game... but the thing you will notice at the moment, is that the guns and weapons are a lot more jazzed up and powerful. The explosions are more convincing, and the main sprite looks a little better. Otherwise, the game is basically Turrican 2 at the moment.... little difference in map style or anything like that.... But this demo is only a very slight insight of the finished game.... Turrican 3 will be featuring better weapons, bigger bosses, new style levels, a cool sideways SEU later in the game, better enemy intelligence, and some stunning music and sound effects in the game (The first Turrican game to feature music on the platform areas). But there is a lot more which will feature in the game, along with about 5 worlds to explore. If Smash Designs can implement this game like they do with their demo's, then we are onto a winner here.... a BIG winner. With what looks like a massive release on the C64 for many a year. There maybe bugs in this demo, but there won't be in the final game... and it is gonna rock! The release date is planned to be well into 2001, estimated to be around March/April. Smash Designs said that its to make sure that plenty of effort is put into the game, and not just release a final rushed version. The actual selling/distribution of this game is unknown but will be released soon.  Link: Download the preview

YAPE0.25 is out and up for grabs!

(posted by Lando - 04:24) Yape is the cool Commodore Plus4 emulator. Ati's been busy over the last week hunting down some minor bugs and as promised Vegas Jackpot (.Tap and .PRG images) are back to normal. Also added into the debugger is a neat tape counter which is a great idea for those compilation cassettes and keeping things original to the last! With-out delay download today over at the YAPE homepage!  Link: YAPE Hompage

Friday, November 24, 2000

M&Ms MINIs Madness!

(posted by Zoop - 18:02) The official M&Ms network (!) is now letting users download a free demo of their new game for Game Boy, in the form of a ROM. This is a nice move from them, and we can only hope this form of downloadable demos will become an usual behavior from game companys - yet only small ones dared to do that. The emulators rew (for Windows) and VGB (for Mac) are also available from the site as direct download. (Thanks to E.T for the news)  Links: M&Ms Homepage - M&Ms MINIs Madness Demo

NeoPocottDC news

(posted by fixo - 09:34) NeoPocott, the best NeoGeo Pocket emulator out there, is already available for a number of platforms. Soon the Dreamcast port will be released as well. Check out the link below for some nice screenshots of handheld action on a big TV! (Note from Zoop) the link below has been fixed after the news posting. I am experiencing nested frames with that site, click on the left News button if it's happening for you.  Link: Ganksoft NeoPocottDC

Thursday, November 23, 2000

FPSE's MDEC decoder

(posted by fixo - 15:28) If you look a few posts down, you notice that the FPSE site would announce something big and development wise they sure did! To quote the official page: "FINALLY I DID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What? A perfect MDEC decoder, of course! Finally, I have resolved all bugs and now PSX movies are incredible! I have never seen a quality like that, even better than Bleem! (about VGS I don't know, since it crashes on my machine). But you can see that with your eyes, with the shots I have done. Well what can I say, check out the screenshots at the link below.  Link: FPSE

	Famicommunist's dead now confirmed?
	(posted by Chris - 13:14) After a lot of discussions, the offical Famicommunist site as linked below is gone by now. What does that mean? Is this the final end of Famicommunist? Well, judge for yourself.  Link: Famicommunist

	Rumor Mill
	(posted by fixo - 05:43) Everyone's favorite emulation related rumor section was updated again. Head over to JoseQ's Emuviews for this weeks one and only Rumor Mill!  Link: Emuviews

Wednesday, November 22, 2000

ePSXe Support Sites & ePSXe News

(posted by Aber - 22:33) Hullo all, been a while, but I'm back on a limited basis now that "real" life has cut me a bit of slack recently. I'd like to christen my return with some news regarding two excellent support sites for the hands down best PSX emulator, ePSXe. The first is ePSXe Fanatics, headed up by Wormie, and the second is a fan page hosted over at Psxemu.com that can be reached Here. Both offer helpful compatability lists, as well as screenshots, messageboards & of course downloads for the various plug-ins for ePSXe. You can help both sites out by submitting your results with any games that you've tested with the awesome emu. Also, on the Psxemu message boards, Galtor, one of the authors of ePSXe stated that a new release should be seen before X-Mas, with better support for MDECs and according to Bobbi of Psxemu.com, with FFIX no longer locking up at the first battle!.

FPSE news

(posted by fixo - 18:26) The official homepage of FPSE, the "Free Play Station Emulator" for Windows, was updated once again with some nice screenshots. This time it's NFL Extreme 2 and Revolt 2 running in the latest beta version. What's even more interesting is the following news posted by !+Mr.Fog+!: We have also some SUPER MEGA IPER EXTRA NEWS .... but they'll be online tomorrow. Guess you know what to first thing when you wake up!  Link: FPSE

	U64Emu WIP
	(posted by fixo - 18:21) U64Emu, the Killer Instinct arcade emulator formerly known as KIAME, is making good progress apparantly. According to EmuSphere, the author has gotten sound to start working. The sound is slowing the emulator down a lot but after the author finishes optimizing, he expects that sound will impact the game speed less then 5%!  Link: KIAME

	HydraHLE Project: FISHY
	(posted by fixo - 18:15) HydraHLE, one of the UltraHLE hacks out there, has a small update. The project release seems to be called Fishy this time. Nin64 emu fans might give this one a chance to just see how great to original UltraHLE actually was!  Link: HydraHLE

Tuesday, November 21, 2000

	Sega Xtreme
	(posted by Frogacuda - 19:59) Seems like it's been a while since Sega Xtreme has gotten a new game up, but sure enough they are back once again. IceMan2k has uploaded Blazing Heroes for the Sega Saturn. Head on over and leech away, kiddies.  Link: Sega Xtreme

Callus95 0.42 Patch 2.4

(posted by Frogacuda - 18:06) CPS2Shock has released an update to their patch for Sardu's legendary Capcom System 1 arcade emulator. Here's what's new: King of Dragons, The (USA) Knights of the Round (USA) Saturday Night Slam Masters (USA) Street Fighter II (USA 910522) Warriors of Fate (USA) Better Hotrod joystick support. A big thanks to Hanaho for the donation of a Hotrod SE joystick to help get more compatibility. Removed sfzch with qsound from showing in the gamelist, instead its selected in the callus95.ini file by turning 'sfzch_qsound' on. Nab a copy at the homepage. Thanks to PhrostByte for the tip.  Link: Callus 95 patch

More on Famicommunist

(posted by Frogacuda - 17:50) I thought I should fill you in on the whole Famicommunist situation, since I know a little more than what has been publicized. CyberBry is claiming that upon arriving home he fiund his harddrive completely unusable and all sources destroyed, and CyberBry has gone into hiding as a result. To most this will sound like "the dog ate my sources", and in all objectivity they would probably be right. Most evidence does indicate that FCommie was a rip. The only one who can prove otherwise now is CyberBry. I am still perplexed as to why somone who is capable of writing a real NES would write a fake one. Cyber has told me that he is considering starting over and writing his own core, and hopefully he will do so, and will be redeemed, but right now it seems that Famicommunist is no more. We have taken down the page until Cyber decides to step up once again. It was fun while it lasted.  Link: Famicommunist

	Famicommunist fraud?
	(posted by Chris - 16:03) Now I can't really answer this question, but apparently CyberBry, author of this new NES emulator, disappeared without releasing the source code to his emulator as promised. For more info on the Famicommunist case, visit the official website linked below.  Link: Famicommunist

	Happy Birthday Super Famicom / Super Nintendo
	(posted by lilac - 09:58) For all you historians out there, today marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the Super Famicom (known as Super Nintendo Entertainment System outside of Japan). For old times sake, put aside those 64 or 128 bit systems, get your SNES out of the attic, hook it up, and enjoy some 16-bit classics today instead. Thanks to Chris Covell for the newsworthy tip.

Monday, November 20, 2000

The end of Pretendo

(posted by Frogacuda - 16:35) The homepage of Pretendo, one of the better NES emus for Windows/BeOS, has receives what seems to be it's final update, at least in the forseeable future. Delta, the primary author of Pretendo has decided to retirefrom the progressively more cluttered NES emu scene. This does not mean he will be leaving the NES behind, as he says he plans to continue is NES development and reverse-engineering projects, which at thin point will probably be a greater contribution than Pretendo itself. In any event it is still sad to see him go, but frankly I don't blame him. Head to the homepage to read the full (and lengthy) goodbye message.  Link: Pretendo

	Gamers Uplink talks bleem part 3
	(posted by Frogacuda - 01:03) Gamers Uplink has put up part 3 of their 7 part feature on the past, present and future of the notorious PlayStation emulator bleem. this installment takes a look at the upcoming, and much delayed bleemcast (Bleem for Dreamcast). Check it out here.  Link: Gamers Uplink

Sunday, November 19, 2000

MAME WIP

(posted by fixo - 15:17) The Work In Progress page of MAME which was updated during the weekend with following news: 19th November 2000: Aaron Giles fixed some more ASM 68k core bugs, added two new graphics drawing functions for scanline exact video emulation and converted a huge amount of drivers to use the new functionality. 18th November 2000: Aaron Giles updated the MCR drivers' video routines to use pixel plotting functions instead of direct bitmap drawing, and he fixed some graphics priority problems in Pac 'n Pal. Yochizo sent in a driver for Taito H system, supporting Syvalion, Record Breaker and Dynamite League. Nicola Salmoria fixed a stupid bug in Mr. Do! color PROM decoding, and he fixed music tempo and colors in Wiping. 17th November 2000: Gerardo Oporto fixed dipswitches in Punchout. Aaron Giles fixed some color problems in Atari System 1 driver, combined the Toy Pop and Libble Rabble drivers and added flip screen support, fixed graphics priority problems in Shuuz and sent in a driver for an Atari prototype game called BeatHead. Take a look at the dozens of screenshots by at the link clicking below.  Link: MAME WIP

AGES 0.23a-SP

(posted by Frogacuda - 14:46) AGES, the second working Genesis emu with 32X support, and the first and only with Sega CD support has been updated. Here's what's new this version: Sped up Sega CD emulation by 44% Boosted Sega CD compatibility, but not by nearly as much as predicted from preliminary testing. :'( Eliminated need for preformatted Sega CD internal BRM. AGES will automatically format it if the file is not present. If the file is present and is somehow corrupted, you will have to delete it or use the BIOS to re-format it. Added error message suppression (for instance the UnRAR.DLL error) Made file filters dynamic (.RAR is not shown anymore if UnRAR.DLL is not found) Non-16-bit displays won't shutdown AGES now, but you still can't use non-16-bit modes. Thanks to Slasher for the news. Pick up your copy from the hoepage, linked below.  Link: AGES

Saturday, November 18, 2000

SSF WIP

(posted by Frogacuda - 21:17) SSF, the only Sega Saturn emu to play commercial games, has had a work-in-progress update. I don't read japanese, so I can't translate, but I can tell you they have put up some new screenshots which show Battle Garegga, Blood Factory (Loaded), Phantasy Star Collection, Silhouette Mirage, Darius Gaiden and more running. Good news, indeed. Check out the homepage for more info if you speak japanese.  Link: SSF

	SMS Power
	(posted by Frogacuda - 21:03) SMS Power has releas Puyo Nazo for the Game Gear, a puzzle game variant of the classic Puyo Puyo (Kirby's Avalanche/Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine to un US folks). Puyo Puyo is one of my favorite games so I may have check this one out.  Link: SMS Power

	G-NES 0.46
	(posted by Frogacuda - 21:00) GIGO's japanese Famicom (NES) emulator has been updted to version 0.46. No news on what's new as the site's in Japanese. Download at the link below.  Link: G-NES

	JAE does Mario
	(posted by Frogacuda - 20:56) Norbert Kehrer has update his Java Arcade Emulator with support for the Nintendo arcade classic Mario Bros. I always liked Nintendo's classic arcade games more than their console offerings, so I'm happy to see this addition. Check it out at the link.  Link: JAE

fMSX fan 1.42

(posted by Frogacuda - 20:50) fMSX fan, a multiplatform MSX emu based on Marat's fMSX sources which seeks to pick up where Marat left off. Here's what's new in this version: Joytype is recognized. The mousefunction is corrected. The logfm option is added. The tone data of OPLL was read from an external file ROM images can now be changed with the GUI. You can download it from the homepage.  Link: fMSX fan

Friday, November 17, 2000

FE goes Communist

(posted by Frogacuda - 18:39) This is a weird one, folks. The NES emulator FE has apparently gone communist, or at least the homepage has. I'm not really sure what the meaning of this is, but it almost certainly relates to the recently released Famicommunist which has come under fire for it's use of Nester source code. Could this be a sign of support? Judge for yourself at the link below.  Link: FE

Thursday, November 16, 2000

	C16/Plus4 Game Cartridges!
	(posted by Lando - 22:38) Over at C16/Plus4 ClassiX you can now find 4 rare game cartriges, Atomic Mission, Jack Attack, Pirate Adventure and Strange Odyssey. Also added only days ago were 20 original TAP images (real copys of the original game tapes) for lastest version of YAPE (Commodore Plus4 emu). All this and more can be found from the link below:  Link: C16/Plus4 ClassiX

	FreezeSMS news
	(posted by fixo - 13:46) The homepage of FreezeSMS, a nice Sega Master System emulator for Windows, has been updated quite frequently in the last days. The author apparantly improved the sound even more and fixed little bugs in screenshot code and cleaned up resolution changing. Sound clips and screenshots from the emu can be found at the link below.  Link: FreezeSMS

Wednesday, November 15, 2000

	Atari Jaguar turns 7 years old
	(posted by Chris - 17:50) Yup, it's today. Happy birthday, Atari Jaguar ;) Read more on this subject at the link provided below.  Link: RetroBase

	AGES screenshots
	(posted by fixo - 05:23) The official homepage of AGES, a Sega CD/Genesis/32x emulator for Windows, has been updated with some lovely screenshots of some ISO's running in the emultor.  Link: AGES

ZSNES v1.12

(posted by fixo - 03:52) Another update of the DOS/Windows emulator ZSNES has been released. We're up to v1.12 (Win v0.74) and here's what's new now: Hopefully fixed up those green display bugs in scanlines/2xSaI in 1:5:5:5 16bit modes Improved lost packet recovery time and reduced the number of lost packet stalls in UDP netplay (should produce more fluid netplay) Fixed up crashing bug in Tales of Phantasia with a 512 byte header Extended filename length of the Quick Menu Hopefully fixed up the mouse wheel support for certain mice Temp .ZIP directory is now cleared if it exists prior to another .ZIP file being loaded Improved DirectInput error handling A more detailed status updates, news and the download can be found at the official page linked below.  Link: ZSNES

Tuesday, November 14, 2000

Nester vs. Famicommunist

(posted by Frogacuda - 20:57) Nester has sent out some scathing accusations against the newly launched NES emu Famicommunist saying it is nothing more than a source rip. CyberBry, the author of FCommie has responded, sayng the accusations are completely false. Basically here is the score as best I can decipher: Famicommunist's release was rushed and it was uploaded with very preliminary docs which did not cite cores uses/docs consulted (or much of anything else for that matter). CyberBry does admit, that he used a minimal amout of blitting (screen drawing) code from NESter, but nothing else. He has apologized for this confusion, and uploaded a zip with complete documentation. Another factor contributing to the confusion is that both Famicommunist and Nester share SPU and Sound cores (but these are not the property of Nester). The emu will be open sourced tomorrow when CyberBry gets home to prove it's validity. I urge everyone not to jump to any conclusions until tomorrow.

	FCE Ultra .40 for DOS
	(posted by fixo - 15:19) If you scroll down just a few inches you see the post about FCE Ultra .40 for Windows. The final DOS version has been released as well now which is in sync with the earlier Windows release.  Link: FCE Ultra

	MAME WIP Update
	(posted by JAG - 12:59) An almost-perfect US Championship V'Ball driver has been added to MAME, only some sound problems remain. This game will remind NES fans of the four-player Super Spike V'Ball. World Cup '90 sounds have also been improved, though it still lacks drum samples.  Link: MAME WIP

Monday, November 13, 2000

FCE Ultra .40 for Windows and Linux

(posted by fixo - 17:54) FCE Ultra, an portable NES/Famicom emulator has been updated to v0.40. This release is available for both Windows and Linux SVGAlib platforms and here's what's new: Rewrote MMC1 emulation code Added support for mappers 95, 113, and 118 Adjusted PPU/CPU timing Added partial support for the Famicom Disk System Added support for 4(up from 2) joysticks Added support for sound frame IRQ's Rewrote sound envelope decay/length counter/sweep code to use sound frame emulation code Rewrote large portions of code to be more efficient and more correct Added support for mappers 42,43,44,45,46,47, and 182 Improved support for mapper 15 rewritten large parts of the Windows DirectX code to be more stable added several more video modes Seems like a nice period for NES emulation I would say! Click the link below for the official page and the download.  Link: FCE Ultra

	Help Needed: Laser Emulation
	(posted by Lopantu - 14:36) I can no longer maintain my site, Laser Emulation alone. With trying to improve Laser, and updating all the other sites I update, and trying to maintain a real life as well, It is tiring me out. Go to Laser Emulation to see the help that is needed, and to find out how to apply.  Link: Laser Emulation

Zsnes Win v0.72

(posted by fixo - 09:47) The Windows version of Zsnes has been updated v0.72. Here are the improvements in this release: ZSNESw won't crash anymore if you don't have a soundcard or if DirectSound fails to initialize Fixed a nasty performance bug with certain types of joystick/drivers installed, causing the FPS to be slower for no reason Wrote an MMX optimised blitter for 16bit non-D windowed and full screen modes dded simple wheel mouse support More info and the download is available at the ZSNES page linked below.  Link: ZSNES

Sunday, November 12, 2000

	Gamers Uplink talks bleem part 2
	(posted by Frogacuda - 22:46) Gamers Uplink has put up part 2 of their 6 part feature on bleem, the notorious PlayStation emu for the PC. This part basically amounts to an extended review, but it's still worth a look. Check it out here.  Link: Gamers Uplink

	Kinox Interviews Mindrape
	(posted by Frogacuda - 20:02) Kinox has put up a very interesting interview with Mindrape, the one responsible for leaking the NESticle sources and sealing the emu's death back in 1997. It's a very good read. Check it out here.  Link: Kinox

Famicommunist 1.0

(posted by Frogacuda - 14:26) In light of the recent election confusion it has become apparent that Democracy just doesn't work. Welcome Communism into your life. Famicommunist is a brand new NES emu for Windows from the author of the DOS NES emu RADARnes (which is defunct as of this release). I've been given the chance to play with various betas of this emu over the last week and a half, and I must say I've found myself using it quite alot. It has good sound, stable speed, quick savestates, and a nice simple gui. Here's the features breakdown: Vertical/Horizontal Scrolling Very nice Pallete Sound Fullscreen, Doublescreen, and Window mode Mapper supports for mappers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 43(partial), 114(small portion), and 199 (partial) Frameskip(auto)/Framelimiter Savestates 1-10 Configurable controls I'd like to point out that this is a very strong showing for a first release, with 2 previously unemulated mappers, and all the standard features. It is already one of the better Windows NES emus, and I don't doubt that before long it will become a major player. This is one to watch for.  Link: Famicommunist

MAME WIP

(posted by fixo - 09:46) The Work In Progress page of MAME which was updated during the weekend with following news: 19th November 2000: Aaron Giles fixed some more ASM 68k core bugs, added two new graphics drawing functions for scanline exact video emulation and converted a huge amount of drivers to use the new functionality. 18th November 2000: Aaron Giles updated the MCR drivers' video routines to use pixel plotting functions instead of direct bitmap drawing, and he fixed some graphics priority problems in Pac 'n Pal. Yochizo sent in a driver for Taito H system, supporting Syvalion, Record Breaker and Dynamite League. Nicola Salmoria fixed a stupid bug in Mr. Do! color PROM decoding, and he fixed music tempo and colors in Wiping. 17th November 2000: Gerardo Oporto fixed dipswitches in Punchout. Aaron Giles fixed some color problems in Atari System 1 driver, combined the Toy Pop and Libble Rabble drivers and added flip screen support, fixed graphics priority problems in Shuuz and sent in a driver for an Atari prototype game called BeatHead. Take a look at the dozens of screenshots by at the link clicking below.  Link: MAME WIP

Saturday, November 11, 2000

Yape 0.23 now supports TAP, SID and ROM banking!

(posted by Lando - 17:54) Yape (Commodore Plus4 emu) now has some cool new features, one being the C64 TAP format! This is a world first for the C16/Plus4 fans and some time soon C16/Plus4 ClassiX will also have a whole bunch of Tap files to try out! New features in Yape are: exact TED timings at last, including "correct" color and character buffering (this actually broke some already working games...) MTAP support, the same tape format that is used in CCS64 and VICE, is now supported! (you should even be able to save/load to/from external TAP files now! Turboloaders also work) timers are now decreased in every second TED clock cycle only... preliminary SID emulation (courtesy of Csabo) full ROM banking via dialog window reorganised menubar you can now load/save user settings and they are reloaded at startup (yape.ini) screen is now centered in all full screen DirectX modes modified the redistribution package to contain one of all supported image types various small fixes For me, being able to load Real C16/Plus4 tape images into an emulator is the dog`s! Also big thanks goto Markus Brenner author of Mtap for making this format possible. As ever head on over the the Yape homepage and pop back to check out Markus Brenner`s cool Mtap homepage!  Link: Yape Homepage Link: Mtap Homepage

Steem v1.2

(posted by fixo - 17:24) A new version of Steem, the so called Atari STE Emulating Engine for Windows, has been released. Here are the new features and bug fixes: MIDI in and out (experimental) Printer out (requires an ST compatible printer) Custom disk images, up to 2.3Mb! Easy import of WinSTon favourites. Rapid creation of multiple shortcuts Overscans improved - will always happen if needed DMA sound made safe for all sound cards ENTER and keypad / are now different (Damocles) Fixed a few IKBD bugs Fixed a minor Timer B bug Turn hard drives off without losing the path Auto update - Can download a new version when available if you want it to Speeded up the Disk Manager generally and added an option to speed up displaying folders with many ZIPs Sounds like a very impressive update to me! Thanks gwenju for the news. Over to the official page now for the download and more info on Steem.  Link: Steem Engine

Game Lad 1.01

(posted by fixo - 13:06) Game Lad, a Windows 98/2000 Game Boy emulator with integrated debugger, has been updated to v1.01. Here's what's new in this release: You can view any bank in the memory viewer You can use Go To in the memory and disassembly windows to jump to an address Right clicking in the memory and disassembly window brings up a context menu The disassembly caret's behaviour has been improved when using step commands The registers window show the memory content at the address the current operation code will access. The destination of jumps are also displayed. Game Lad doesn't crash when closing a Game Boy window that was not the latest opened, while a debug window is active Step commands allocated memory without releasing it Ampersands (&) in the ROM header were removed and the next character underlined LCD interrupt didn't occur at LY=144 If the "Register File Types" was successful, the title read "Error" The download is available at the official page, where you can also have a look at the updated online manual.  Link: Game Lad

Laser Progress

(posted by Lopantu - 02:26) The Laser homepage has been updated with news on the progress of this multiple arcade emulator: I am currently trying to find the Space King 2 ROMset that Team Japump just dumped so I can give a shot at adding it to Laser. Space King is already supported by Laser, and as far as I know, Space King 2 uses the same hardware, so it shouldn't be that hard to add. If you have this ROMset, please contact me. In other news - I have managed to get the game Lupin II to be fully playable - and I have made more progress in making the semi-supported games more playable: Boot Hill now runs without the characters on screen. I have also added preliminary support for Clowns. I will release another version of Laser as soon as I get the Space King 2 Romset - which hopefully should be soon.  Link: Laser Emulation

Friday, November 10, 2000

ZSNES 1.10

(posted by Frogacuda - 19:20) Well we're back, and so is ZSNES! We have a brand spankin new update of the legendary DOS/Windows SNES emu. Here's what's new: Fixed games that turns on the x239 resolution (eg. Chrono Trigger battles) when scanline mode is enabled (Win32) Fixed up crashing bugs on extra long filenames with underscores (Win32) Hopefully fixed the odd colored interpolation in 1:5:5:5 16bit color settings (Win32) Hopefully won't crash anymore when the temporary directory exists prior to unzipping a .zip file (Win32) Fixed loading of .zip files with more than 2 '.'s in the filename. Thanks to DCX for helping us troubleshoot this. (Win32) Fixed up short filename saveram/save states loading when the long filename has spaces in it. Added TCP/IP Support. It is recommended that for playable netplay, you'd have an average ping time of less than 300ms (type ping in dos) and that packet loss is minimal for TCP/IP (not UDP). At the moment, you cannot have more than 2 connections Thanks for all the testers for testing this, especially DooMStalK, GreenImp, and TeleKawaru! Also added back buffer support. This will sacrifice cpu power for netplay to make it much more playable. WARNING: High cpu speed recommendations (~450mhz+). Please see netplay.txt for details. Added save states to netplay (just use them like you normally do) Save Ram is now defaulted to load/save on the server's side Save Ram are not supported in SA-1/SuperFX games due to their size, but you can use save states instead in that case. Increased chat line length in the out-of-game chatbox by a lot Partly increased the chat line length in-game in-game chat text now stays longer on-screen by 2 seconds Added reset in netplay Fixed up movie recording feature (Win32) Mouse shouldn't get stuck on the left side anymore. (Win32) Video mode 3 (256x224FS) shouldn't crash anymore. Thanks to kode54 for his assistance on the above 2 bugfixes. (Win32) Fixed the instability bug where the window can sometimes start shaking for no reason and takes away windows resources. (Win32) Re-wrote keyboard character input routines Fixed up FF2(4)'s music in lower sampling rates (Win32) Coded in the UDP protocol as a replacement for TCP/IP. Some network configurations won't work with UDP. However, it is strongly recommended that you use UDP if you can because of the speed increase. In order to disable UDP and use TCP/IP, both sides must de-select UDP. (Win32) Added a small multiplayer game list (multi.txt) Added an updated Windows FAQ, courtesy of TuxedoMsk of VGNetwork who updated it. Added a more user friendly input selection routine (changed Direct Input to Keyb/Joystick and it also auto-sets keyb/Joystick when you set a key) Hopefully fixed up the sprite priority problems (eg. FF2/4's damage points) (Win32) Added rewind support for up to 8 levels (in 8 second intervals) (NOTE: Windows Port only! - Sorry DOS Port users). In order to activate this, assign a key to the Rewind Key in the Misc -> GameKeys option. You can download version 1.10 for DOS and Windows now at the ZSNES homepage.  Link: ZSNES

	gleam! author anounces DC Gameboy emulator
	(posted by fixo - 19:11) It seems that the second Gameboy from Dreamcast is on it's way. We already had the early version of Boob!boy, but now the author of DC NES emu gleam! has almost completely ported over XGB (a Gameboy emulator for Linux platforms) to Dreamcast with full speed, near 100% compatibility and even sound support!  Link: gleam!

SUPRA HLE v1.0.C and HydraHLE - Project: TURBO

(posted by fixo - 18:48) I bet everyone knows, but in case you don't: UltraHLE was the first ever Nintendo64 emulator for Windows that actually played commercial games at full speed. Due to over exposure though this great emulator was cancelled. Recently, several projects try to keep UlthraHLE alive using it's core and hacked instructions. One of them is called HydraHLE and has a new release out called Project: TURBO, featuring improvements in speed and sound. SupraHLE on the other hand had it's release v1.0.C with gamepad support and updated ini improving compatibility.  Link: 1 - HydraHLE 2 - SupraHLE

	Down but not out
	(posted by fixo - 18:43) Today it seemed hard to find any of the leading emulation sites actually online as there were yet unknown (and unreported) server problems at Climax Media, the host for all Emulation World sites. It seems we're back again now and though it's something completely out of our will or knowledge, we do apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.

Thursday, November 09, 2000

Project #51 Beta #3

(posted by fixo - 10:21) Project #51, a senior design project to create a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator, had it's third beta released. Here's the what's new excerpt: "Hopefully a very useful 6502 debugger is in place. Some of the features are disassembly of cart image, ability to set unlimited breakpoints, a ram viewer, and the display of CPU registers. We have started coding the sound engine." As always, the author requests some feedback to help out on the improvement of this project. Visit the official page for the download.  Link: Project #51

	MAME32 v0.37 beta 9
	(posted by fixo - 10:08) The Windows port of the latest MAME version has just been released. This one is dubbed the "Sega C2 / Taito systems / Cavelon" release but also features support for those unforgettable Atari classics Hard Drivin' and STUN Runner. Visit the official MAME page below for the DOS version or the MAME32 for the Windows port.  Link: 1 - MAME 2 - MAME32

Wednesday, November 08, 2000

	Rumor Mill
	(posted by Frogacuda - 23:36) JoseQ has put up his latest Rumor Mill, which includes infor about a promising new NES emu Famicommunist (BTW, the author is an established NES emu author), a report about Dave and the newly open-sourced Virtua, AGES, SystemC2, Beaten Dying Moon and much more. Make sure to check it out.  Link: EmuViews

Some words from Delta

(posted by DeadBody - 22:12) Delta, one of the creators of Pretendo, has let me know some important things. Here is a quote of what he said: "Hey all. Short update regarding Pretendo related things. I had meant to update the site with a real news update last night, but to my surprise, someone, or something decided to remove the entire contents of the /cgi-bin. As a result, the site looks quite poopy, and there's no way I can do news updates until the problem was resolved. Basically, the whole site was powered by a bunch of Perl scripts I wrote. They're now useless, so as is the site. Anyways, the post was to contain some information regarding Pretendo, nescience, and PrOxY's Fakestation. As for Pretendo, I picked out a silly slowdown. I now have the renderer decode a tile-line at once, instead of going one pixel at a time, so things are somewhat quicker now. As for PrOxY's Fakestation, it now shows the BIOS screen! So we know that he's progressing very well. I'll ask PrOxY to get a screenshot up sometime. Okay, final stretch of my rambling. I've been devoting a bunch of my free time towards working on nescience. The GUI is nearly finished. You can see a WIP screenshot at: http://www.pretendo.org/~delta/nescience_gui_wip.jpg It's only WIP though, so don't expect the works. I pulled the CPU Interface right out of the Pretendo codebase, and with a few minor modifications, it will be up and running. Basically, what this all means is that I will soon be able to focus on the new sound core! I'll upload a sourcedrop sometime next week, hopefully. Okay, I think that about covers it. Hopefully I can get the CGI problems fixed soon, and the site will be functional again. It's in the hands of xo now, so we'll have to wait it out."

	SMS Power releases
	(posted by Zoop - 19:30) I have made an update to SMS Power today, releasing two games: Where in the World is Carmen Sandegio? for the Master System and Gulkave for the SG-1000. You can read the full news on the site, as well as getting the roms - hoping mirrors will not take too long to update.  Link: SMS Power

ePSXe news

(posted by Frogacuda - 11:50) PSXEmu has reported some news on my favorite PSX emu, ePSXe. Apparenly the most work has been putinto the emu's two weakest points, the sound and the MDEC support. The MDECs not only play faster now, but look better, too. The site has put up some comparison shots taken from FF9, to show the difference. This is certainly good news for all fans of this great emu. Head over to PSXEmu and check it out.  Link: PSXEmu

Tuesday, November 07, 2000

Virtua is no more

(posted by Frogacuda - 01:12) Well it is a sad day for Sega arcade fans... The promising Model 2 emu Virtua which has been keeping our hopes up has been canned. This does not seem to be the result of any hostility or leaked betas or any such lameness, but merely the result of hitting a developmental brick wall. Kayamon has released the source and made it availible on the site so that ambitious coders can take a crack at it. It still lack DSP and Soundm though and there is much work to be done. Let's keep our fingers crossed that someone will be able to see it to frutition.  Link: Virtua

Monday, November 06, 2000

	MAME v0.37 Beta 9
	(posted by Roni - 20:38) "Sega C2 / Taito systems / Cavelon" is the dubbed name for this release. Go get your fix at the link below.  Link: http://www.mame.net/

	Genesis, Lynx, Jaguar & PCE reviews
	(posted by Chris - 14:51) RetroBase.com has put up a load of game reviews for the systems above. In addition, more cool online games have been added recently. Check it out at the link provided below :)  Link: RetroBase

HydraHLE project

(posted by fixo - 13:37) One of the most famous emulators ever, the Nintendo64 emulator for Windows called UltraHLE, seems to be a hot topic these days. A few weeks ago there was the first "hack" update called Supra HLE. Another one seems to be in the works now. HydraHLE is the name of the project and here's what the man behind it says: "HydraHLE is basically just a hacked/patched version of the famous UltraHLE emulator. It has the potential to emulate new games that before weren't possible to emulate. Of course this support hasn't been implemented yet because it is still in early beta stage. The first release is already out but it is still a beta. It has various speed, graphics, and sound hacks for some games but I wont have a list of changes until the first full version release in a few month's. The version that is being distrubuted is currently for beta purposes only and I am allowing everyone to be beta testers." Visit the homepage for more info.  Link: HydraHLE

DreamSNES 0.9.2

(posted by fixo - 13:27) DreamSNES, a Super Nintendo emulator for Dreamcast, was updated to v0.9.2. This one is also based on Gary Henderson's Snes9X sources and in this update, here's today's improvements: Added in-game stereo sound. Previous version had mono only PAL support Verical offset of non-VGA screens fixed Double buffering Up to 1024 ROMs per CD supported Music added on the menu screens Seems like SNES emulation on Dreamcast is looker better every day. Be warned though that speed wise you might be somewhat dissapointed if you expect everything to run as smoothly as the real thing or the famous Windows Snes emus. For more information on how to burn this emu on a bootable Dreamcast CD, visit the homepage for full instructions and the download.  Link: DreamSNES

Gamers Uplink talks bleem

(posted by Frogacuda - 00:57) Gamers Uplink has posted part 1 of it's 6 part feature on the past present and future of the (in)famous PSX emulator, bleem. Here's a clip "From it's inception into the gaming community, to the soon introduction of the first ever Playstation emulator for Sega Dreamcast, people have been watching the battle between Sony Computer Entertainment (Sony) and bleem! Inc. (bleem!) over its line of emulator products that play Playstation (PSX) games on your PC and soon Sega Dreamcast." Check it out here. It's worth a read.  Link: Gamers Uplink

Sunday, November 05, 2000

RockNES 1.500

(posted by fixo - 07:21) Version 1.500 of RockNES, one of the best NES emus for DOS, has just been released. Here's the updates: NES sound driver partially rewritten. Added real-time state for register $4015, which fixes sound output for all games Added mapper #76 driver (Namco 109) Added mappers #72, #92, #101 (Taito mappers) Added mappers #83 (Cony mapper), #240 Added mapper #100 (NESticle MMC3 hack mode, untested) Fixed mapper #70 (small hack for Kamen Rider Club) Fixed mapper #113 (to support HES carts, untested) Removed duplicated pattern table saving on games with no VROM Also author Fx3 updated BNSF (a Nintendo sound files player for DOS) to v.17, making it in sync with RockNES. All the download, over at the RockNES page.  Link: RockNES

Snes9x news and v1.33a release

(posted by fixo - 07:10) Just before the weekend, a new release of Snes9x was made available. This Super Nintendo emulator for multiple platforms is up to v1.33 now for both Windows and Linux and here are some changes: Fixed asm CPU_SHUTDOWN code that I accidentally broke while trying to optimise it! Thanks to all the people who noticed Snes9x's frame skipping had changed between releases. Frames rates should be improved again for more than 50% of games. Re-enabled in-lining of the C SNES memory access routines, improves frame rate by one or two on slower machines. Optimised the asm 65c816 addressing mode emulation code. ........ There's really too many updates in this release (sometimes games specific) too all sum up, head over to the official page linked below for the full list and download. Note however though that in this new release, it seems that Super FX emulation was broken while adding C4 emulation. The team is investigating this as we speak and expect a new release soon.  Link: Snes9x

Java Arcade Emulator updated

(posted by fixo - 07:01) Norbert Kehrer's JAE, the online Java Arcade Emulator, has been updated once again. Here's what's new: A new game has been added to JAE. It is "Donkey Kong 3", Nintendo's third part of the Donkey Kong trilogy from 1983 I made my second sound chip emulator in Java. It emulates the AY-8910 sound generator, a chip used in many arcade Go over to his page right now for classic arcade emulation online!  Link: Norbert's Emulator Software

Saturday, November 04, 2000

Minus4w Version 2 is out NOW!!!

(posted by Lando - 19:59) At long last and after many, many weeks of beta testing my self, Mike Dailly`s Commodore Plus4 emulators has had one hell of a stonking update! I dont have room to even start to tell you how good Minus4w is, so check out the run down of whats new: Basic emulation will now work under NT4.0 service pack 3 ( no sound or joysticks ) TED+Sample Sound added Via DirectSound ( Not NT ) ECM colour mode added ( Manic Minor ) Screen Blanking fixed to whole screen or none ( Manic Minor ) Scanline drawing fixed a little Raster IRQ delay of 8 cycles changed to 2 instructions, works a little better (Icicle works) True ROM paging now in Inverse character mode fixed Joysticks now available under DirectInput ( not NT - at least I don't think so! ) Keyboard input fixed ( Elite now works ) All 8 roms can now be replaced via prefrences dialog - This isn't to say they will all work!!! Disk emulation added. Both from a D64 file, and FAKE from the current directory. Saving to PC directory enabled Displaying of ".PRG" files only in directory now has an on/off switch in prefrences BCD mode fixed. Mercenary, and Exorcist now work okay HardSID support!!! Great PC SID card, find out more at http://www.hardsid.com Vertical Scrolling added Top and bottom borders added. ( allows for TEXT in lower border ) Simulated T.V. added, ( allows text in the top border ) Command line added -p "filename.prg" -r "commandline" (i.e. minus4w -p "finder.prg" -r "run") -s to disable sound. -t to disable timer Joystick emulation on Cursor keys added. UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT and CTRL for fire. This can be switched on/off from prefs Whooh! So you thought that was cool? Well for the first time ever Minus4 Java is now available for Downloading and free to all to use as they wish! Dont run away just yet.... For the celebration of the new releases an all new homepage made to look like the Plus/4 it`s self has been setup, this you have to see! Come and get it at its new homepage below. Big thanks Mike Dailly!  Link: Minus4 Homepage

Friday, November 03, 2000

	Commodore 64 Chat Every Weekend!
	(posted by Lando - 18:25) The chatroom last weekend was very successful, and brought a lot of people to share C64 nostalgia. Therefore kim Lemon has decided to make the chat window popup each weekend. :) What are you waiting for? Join the chat!  Link: Lemon64.com

	Sintendo Build #209
	(posted by fixo - 18:11) A new version of Sintendo, the Snes emulator for Dreamcast, has been released. The author mentions that this should be more considered as being a beta of a beta, so he rather calls it a build. There are some improvements on the speed, compatibility and control parts. Check out the official page for more information and the download!  Link: Sintendo

Keep It Retro press release!

(posted by Lando - 18:10) Keep It Retro, a new website for users, and emulators, of computer relics went live to the world after a 2 month development and a lengthy soak test. Services currently up and running include regular news updates, with the ability for visitors to add comments, classified advertising and message boards. A web directory is in the final testing stages and a banner exchange program is also being developed, and should be ready to run by December. At present they support users of many platforms including Acorn, Amstrad, Atari, Commodore, NEC, Sega, Nintendo and a whole lot more. Head on over from the link below and help bring the magic of Retro computing to this corner of the surf :-)  Link: Keep It Retro

Game Lad 1.0

(posted by fixo - 15:56) A very first release of Game Lad, a -surprise surprise- Gameboy emulator for Windows, has been made available today. This one has an integrated debugger and here are some of it's emulation features: Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulation CPU (cycle counter) Graphic with priorities Ten sprites per scanline limitation Stereo Sound V-Blank, LCDC, Timer interrupts Sprite and General purpose DMA Divider Battery RAM Very nice with Game Lad is the fact that you can open many roms at the same time plus they actually play even when the windows is not active. For a lot more information and the download, visit the official page.  Link: Game Lad

FreezeSMS WIP

(posted by fixo - 15:47) The official page of FreezeSMS, a Sega Master System emulator for Windows, was updated with some news. In a rather funny way, the author announced support for zipped roms, promising progress on sound emulation (also voices are correctly emulated) and the "so called 'Top Secret' feature is progressing extremely and will undoubtly be in the next version! Set to revolutionize the SMS scene :P". Also implemented is a screenshot feature to the emulator of which some results can be viewed on it's homepage linked below.  Link: FreezeSMS

	Project #51 beta #2
	(posted by fixo - 05:45) The second beta release of Project #51, a new NES emulator in development, has been released for Windows platforms. New in this release: A Frame Lock/Unlock has been added so you see how fast you get it going A simple 6502 debugger has been added Also the author asks to send any comments you might. Visit the official page for the download.  Link: Project #51

Thursday, November 02, 2000

System-E emulator

(posted by Zoop - 18:47) The Mimic homepage has been updated concerning a Sega System-E driver in the work. This rare system that has been around in 1985/1986 is based on the Master System and features games such as Hang On Jr, Transformer, Fantasy Zone 2, Opa Opa, the two last being apparently encrypted :( Digging up old pictures of mine (21 november 1999): If someone want to convert that piece of crap code into a MAME drivers and finish it, well.. tell me. In any case I think we can expect some kind of running emulation in Mimic in a bit of time.  Link: Mimic

Retro mobile phone images

(posted by Max - 18:14) Melanie Hoyle of The Dizzy Zone has made some cool Commodore 64 and Dizzy images which you can use on your mobile phone. To use these images you will need a Nokia Data Cable to connect from your phone to your PC, and the relevant software to transfer the bitmap into your phone - both of which can be obtained from Mobile Fun! You can download these great items from The Dizzy Zone. Whatever next? Dizzy mobile rings?  Links: Mobile Fun, The Dizzy Zone

	MAME WIP
	(posted by fixo - 14:48) The MAME Work In Progress page have been updated once again with news of the last two days and four screenshots of a rather nice fighting game named Battle K-Road.  Link: MAME WIP

Wednesday, November 01, 2000

Yape 0.22 now supports 256K RAM!

(posted by Lando - 17:46) After a long break, a new version of Yape (C16/Plus4 Emulator) is here with some goodies for you: 256K RAM mode supported (the so called Hannes expansion) volume setting largely improved you can now load and autostart games from the command line at startup implemented ALL illegal opcodes (needs testing yet...) modified the annoying frame counter to be updated on every 64th frame only fixed some graphic glitches You can grab this cool update from the homepage below.  Link: Yape Homepage

Peek 'n' Poke news

(posted by Max - 15:39) Peeknpoke has a new section released today, Kangaroo Court! It puts all those bad games before the dock and two gameplayers argue about if the game should be send down or not. Todays Game before the dock is that horrible PACMAN conversion of the Atari 2600 Lee's also creating an Xmas special in December with loads of new stuff. He would like anyone to send in stuff , be it Gamereviews, Emulator reviews, Features...Anything will be put on show just in time for the festive season He also needs emails voting for The Best Emulation Site of 2000 and The Best New Retro Release Of 2000. This includes new games created just for the emulators and can also include new dumps or retro finds. Pop on over to PnP and see....  Link: Lee's Peek'n'Poke

ParaMSX v0.20

(posted by fixo - 12:19) ParaMSX, a Windows port of fMSX, has bee updated to v0.20. Here's what's new in this release: KanJi Driver(Knjdrv.rom) will be loaded at MSX2+ mode Fixed ScreenShot bug Fixed Sprite color at SCREEN1 Fixed PSG envelope bug Added new scanline modes for 16bit color Added CPU speed option Added Time acceleration option Added NumPad-key binding(when NumLock is turned on) Download is available at the official page.  Link: paraMSX

OverClocked turns 1!

(posted by fixo - 12:11) The famous online comic strip OverClocked, dealing with two weird guys and emulation, is exactly 1 year old today. A new episode have been posted (#134 already) and though in the last months there haven't been as many release as before, here's what author David says about it's creation: "At this point in time, to many, the future of OC might seem in jeopardy - there haven't been nearly as many updates as there should have been. Enjoy this latest episode, take a review back through the older ones, and stick with me, 'cause this boat is still afloat and will remain that way for a good time to come!!" One year of great OC comics so far and let's hope it will stay here forever, just like emulation itself!  Link: OverClocked

	MAME WIP
	(posted by fixo - 12:04) Those of you who like to keep track of what's happing with the development of MAME, you might want to check it's Work In Progress page which was updated about every day during the last week with news and screenshots.  Link: MAME WIP