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Monday, September 30th, 2002
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Nostalgia v3.1 Released
The Intellivision emulator Nostalgia was updated to version 3.1:
- Fixed a bug in the Networking that was preventing Network play.
- Fixed type ahead to work with numeric game names (4-Tris, etc)
- Added "Home" and "End" capability to Load Cartridge screen.
- Changed the way video memory is used to fix a problem that was causing Nostalgia to stop working unexpectedly on some video cards.
- Generally reworked code for more efficiency, especially the core chip code.
Download it from the link above
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Saturday, September 28th, 2002
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GoodN64 v0.999.9 Released
The Rom utility for Nintendo64 emulator has been updated today...Here's the following changes:
- GoodN64 Stats: 2477 entries
Recent Additions:
- 'list' and 'listd' commands work with 'changes' and 'changesnew' again
- fixed a few typos that would make some unzipped roms not rename correctly
from .999.8:
- lots of new ROMs and updated names
- lots of fixes and speedups in the renamer/scanner for oddball sized files
- cartname hacks now treated as bad roms (who needs gigs of bad dumps)
- big thanks for some help on this release.. you know who you are!
Download it from the link above
ClrMamePro V2.75 Released
The Rom Managing Utility for MAME has been updated once again..Here's the following changes
redesign:
- changed: Scanner, Merger, Rebuilder
- added: Rebuilder Advanced Options
- added: resizeable Systempicker/SysDefPaths window
- added: auto-detect-sysdefpaths option
- added: scanner advanced option: show inverted crc32s as bad crc32
- added: circular rename handling
- misc: set default can restore internal or default.cmp's defaults
- misc: changed link to documentation
- misc: several cancel checks optimized
- misc: some wip zipremove ansi/oem tests
Download it from the link above
padwinKeyb v0.31 Released
The update version of the pad plugin for the PS2 emulators released today..Here's the following changes:
- fixed silly bug after exit
Download it from the link above
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Thursday, September 26th, 2002
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AdvanceMENU V2.1.2 Released
The GNU/Linux (WIN/DOS) frontend for the AdvanceMAME, AdvanceMESS, AdvancePAC, MAME, MESS and Raine emulators has been updated today..Here's the following changes:
- Added the support of the VSyncMAME audio drivers. This add support for the AC97 chipset [Shigeaki Sakamaki].
- Removed the compression of all the executables, and added a little debug info on the precompiled binaries. This should help the problem reporting.
- Fixed a bug when setting emulator attributes without games listed.
Download it from the link above
Meka V0.64 Released
The multi-machine emulator(capable of emulating the Master System, Game Gear, SC-1000, SC-3000, Sega Mark III(+ FM Unit), Colecovision , Othello Multivision systems) has been updated once again... Here's the following changes:
- Important changes were applied to the sound engine. As always, please contact me if notice something unusual, if you have any comment or doubt.
- PSG fixes that were applied in version 0.63 are apparently causing a bug to Out Run (SMS) running in FM mode. I searched but was unable to fix it as of yet. :(
- Cleaned and modified various part of the sound engine. Please report if you notice anything unusual.
- [Windows] Disabled access to hardware YM-2413 emulation using OPL under Windows 2000 and XP, avoiding crashes in certain cases... Well, this time it should works :-)
- [Windows] FM Sound through OPL is now muted when switching to other applications. PSG can not muted yet due to a technical constraint.
- Fixed muting of OPL on pause and quit (previously you were sometimes able to hear very low hanging notes with a very high volume).
- Implemented software YM-2413 emulator by Mitsutaka Okazaki. Although hardware YM-2413 emulation using OPL sounds cooler, this emulator seems more faithful to the original chipset. It also works on all systems, including Windows 2000 and XP. The downside is that doing software synthesis takes a lot of time, and thus a fast computer is recommended (at least 600 Mhz) to play MEKA with software YM-2413 emulation.
- Implemented a new software PSG emulator by Maxim (with modifications). PSG emulation is pretty straightforward, but this emulator takes account of several Maxim finds, such as the real sequence of pseudo random numbers, as generated by the noise channel.
- Added refresh rate settings to GUI and Blitters. An advanced user can now setup a video mode at 60 Hz with vsync enabled and auto frame skipping disabled, for a smooth video refresh.
- Fixed PSG output that was previously too low and unsigned.
- [Windows] Attempted to fix some crashes subsequent to freeing a ROM.
- Added entries to the checksum and compatibility lists.
- Updated documentation.
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AdvanceMAME V0.61.3 Released
The Linux/GNU and DOS port of the MAME, MESS and PacMAME emulators for Arcade Monitors and TVs but also for normal PC Monitors Has been updated today once again..Here's the following changes:
- Fixed the window title and the icon in the sdl system.
- In Windows the default sdl samples buffer is now 2048. This solve the distorced sound.
- Added the new option `display_interlaceeffect' to help with some broken monitors which need to swap the video rows in interlaced modes.
- Uppercase names of games in the command line are accepted.
- Improved the advcfg error management.
- Added the `cost' doc.
- Revised the video section of the `faq' doc.
- The `display_vsync' option is now enabled as default.
- Added the support of the VSyncMAME audio drivers. This add support for the AC97 chipset [Shigeaki Sakamaki].
- Fixed a bug in the 68k emulator in the Windows port.
- Removed the compression of all the executables, and added a little debug info on the precompiled binaries. This should help the problem reporting.
Download it from the link above
ClrMamePro V2.74 Released
The Rom Managing utility for MAMEhas been updated today once again..Here's The following changes:
- added: save current settings as default (-> default.cmp file)
- added: progressdialog when restoring old scanresults
- fixed: profiler exefilenamebox is updated only via refresh
- fixed: wrong "rebuilder/scanner merge mode doesn't match" message
- fixed: iterative foldercreation issue when using UNC paths
- fixed: "Show CRC with leading 0x" status isn't saved correctly
- misc: new bios sets will be automatically activated
- misc: more detailed message for not correctly setup sysdefault paths
- misc: dir2dat creates datfile crc entries with leading 0x (heya Logiqx :O))
- misc: optimized the "restoring old scanresults" a bit
- misc: don't touch mameinfo.dat, sysinfo.dat etc. anymore
Download it from the link above
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Wednesday, September 25th, 2002
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Greece lifts ban on video games
Its about damn time. Of course, theres still the "no, financial gain" and "home, and residential areas only" fineprint involved.
Read about it at the above link
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Tuesday, September 24th, 2002
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AvanceMAME Version 0.61.3
Thanks to Simlor for the news !! =)
The emu for those of you who use TVs and Arcade monitors has been updated today..Here's the following changes:
- Fixed the window title and the icon in the sdl system.
- In Windows the default sdl samples buffer is now 2048. This solve the distorced sound.
- Added the new option `display_interlaceeffect' to help with some broken monitors which need to swap the video rows in interlaced modes.
- Uppercase names of games in the command line are accepted.
- Improved the advcfg error management.
- Added the `cost' doc.
- Revised the video section of the `faq' doc.
- The `display_vsync' option is now enabled as default.
- Added the support of the VSyncMAME audio drivers. This add support for the AC97 chipset [Shigeaki Sakamaki].
- Fixed a bug in the 68k emulator in the Windows port.
- Removed the compression of all the executables, and added a little debug info on the precompiled binaries. This should help the problem reporting.
Download it from the link above
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Sunday, September 22nd, 2002
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1964 v0.8.4 Released
The N64 emulator 1964 was updated. Heres Whats new:
- What's new:
- A lot of work on stability. Many GUI bugs fixed.
- Several core bugs fixed.
- Tons of ini work by Duncan and cheats by emu64 cheats staff.
- Fixed inevitible game freezes from 0.8.3 due to dyna buffer overruns and audio thread desync
- SRAM now works properly. This is for saves in numerous games. (ex: Zelda Ocarina of Time)
- "Use TLB" did not write to the ini properly.
- Banjo Tooie support (requires pj64's rsp.dll)
- Now compiled under Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
- A new toolbar
- Many other enhancements and fixes
- Additional release notes:
- For stability reasons, Jabo's DirectSound will NOT work in 1964. It is not a bug with the plugin or the emulator. It is an issue of incompatibility.
- Other Completed Tasks:
- zlib updated to 1.1.4
- Kaillera updated to 0.9
- Disable all accelerators in full screen except, cheat apply, reset, pause, stop, and changewindow.
- When rom is running, disable menus/buttons that will open a web browser.
Download it from the link above
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Saturday, September 21st, 2002
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Atari 800DC 0.72 cvs Released
The Atari 800 emulator for the Dreamcast has been updated today, heres what's new in this release:
- use Atari800 cvs code base as of sep-17-2002
- changing CDs should now work more reliably
- load and save (VMU) state now display "please wait" messages
and report if the save failed
Download it from the link above
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Friday, September 20th, 2002
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Kega Lazarus Released
As Most of you now know SteveSnake suffered a hard drive crash a good while ago, taking the Kega source with it. And His Most Recent Backup Was of v0.02... Now all though this is a new version it may still contain bugs that have been since fixed in later versions that he forgot about. So If you do download this version keep both this version and v0.04b. And just so this is clear, Lazarus is NOT considered a major release! But a "test bed" to take Sega CD emulation to the next level. Heres What Snake said on the Kega messageboard:
- SMS/GG
- emulation should be much improved, and backup RAM now should work. Wohoo! Phantasy Star :) As far as I know there is nothing missing/wrong with SMS/GG emulation now. If you know otherwise, give me a shout.
- Genesis
- emulation should be pretty solid, and you shouldn't get any more of those 'orrible blue bars on some games.
- SegaCD
- emulation contains a LOT of experimental code this time around... There are still things with SegaCD that none of us has done as of yet, or not done correctly. I spent a lot of time trying to reverse-engineer real hardware (both a PAL MCD2 and an NTSC SCD1) before the big crash, and when I rewrote it I tried to get it closer to real hardware. SO there may be stuff that doesn't work anymore, but on the plus side, there is stuff that finally works, or should work ;) Testing will prove if this is in fact stable enough. The PCM chip and the CD-ROM controller are the two biggest rewrites.
As with his release of Klive, he only gave a link to the file not a page.
Download the file from the link above
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Thursday, September 19th, 2002
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BGB v0.83 Released
BGB, the GameBoy/GBC emulator for Windows was updated to v0.82. Here's what's new in this version:
- Fixed some sound bugs introduced in 0.82
- CH4 anti-aliasing, especially CH4 high pitch tones sound better
- Fixed a resize problem in WINE
Download it from the link above
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Wednesday, September 18th, 2002
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Raine V0.36.1 Released
The arcade emulator(Win/Linux/DOS) has updated once again...Here's the following changes:
- Fixed the zoom in the gunbird driver, especially for tengai. It's still not 100% perfect, but it's much better.
- Added the first complete line scroll support in raine for the gunbird driver. Now tengai has a very precise and very fast line scroll. It's also used in Battle K-Road but it's much harder to notice there !
- Fixed : the music was too fast in Rainbow Island and maybe some other games, the pause didn't work well anymore (the game timer was not stopped), the demos were unreadable (again !).
- Added hotkeys for the "ghost" buttons on the raine bar (Dips, Region and Cheats).
- The adpcm sound is mono, not stereo, so it's back to center position now (it was on the left side only before)
- Fixed the long name for "Samurai Aces"
- Switched to a gnu-like version number for raine (0.36.1 instead of 0.36a to avoid confusion).
Download it from the link above
CANAME V0.61.9 Released
The port of MAME32 that runs NeoGeo, CPS-1 and CPS-2 games has been updated once again...Here's the following changes:
- Changed so that a message is displayed when no Dip Switches exist.
- Translated save and load function messages into Japanese (Japanese version only).
- Fixed so that the background and font settings actually work in the history section. (Refer to MAME32 Plus!)
- Updated the URL in the about window.
- Changed the GUI around a bit.
Download it from the link above
TR64 OGL V0.7.1 beta Released
The OpenGL plugin for the N64 emulator has been updated today..Here's the following changes the arthur mentioned:
- Here is the version 0.7.1beta of my plugin. This release has improved texture loading. Most noticeable in game that use paletted textures like Star Fox and NBA Hangtime. Also I have improved the support for Perfect Dark. There are still some issues with Perfect Dark. If someone would be so kind as to send me a screen shot of the spy cam, I would like to see it. I don't have the time to play the game to that point. Also I have switched over to Sick Deal's web page design.
Download it from the link above
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Tuesday, September 17th, 2002
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XMAME V0.61.1-pr4 (Preview Release 4) Released
The Unix/X11 port for MAME has been updated today...Here's the following changes
- Integrated MESS 0.61.
- Switching to/from DGA fullscreen mode works again.
- The xgl target builds for me again but I get a segfault that I haven't been able to track down yet. I'll gladly accept help with this one.
- Modified unix/fronthlp.c so that it flushes its output more often to aid frontends. (Shadow Walker)
- Changed unix/video-drivers/xfx.c to be more frontend-friendly. (Benoit Dumont)
- Added support for the SDL joystick driver. (Yang Hyun)
- The SDL target now allows you to choose from all available video modes using -listmodes and -modenumber. (Yang Hyun)
- You can now specify a config subdirectory name using -cfgname/-cn. This is useful for creating an alternate configuration. (Benoit Dumont)
- Added a "waveout" DSP plugin which redirects sound to a file using Microsoft's PCM WAVE format. The file name can be specified with the "-waveout" switch and defaults to "xmameout.wav". (Donald King
Download it from the link above
Pete's (Win) PSX ASPI / IOCTL CDR V1.11 Released
Pete has updated the CDR plugin of PSX ASPI / IOCTL CDR (Win)PSX Emulators that support the PSEmu Pro Plugin system..Here's the following changes Pete mentioned:
- I've added support for PPF3 patch files (in older versions only PPF1 and PPF2 were supported). Big thanx to Doug Hoskisson for giving me all the needed informations.
- A new drive has beed installed into one of my PCs... it's a Liteon LTD163D DVD drive, and it worked not too bad in W9X using the BE_2 mode with my own and the internal epsxe cdr plugins. But... no subchannel handling was supported (neither in my nor in the epsxe plugin, the screen always stayed black when subchannels were enabled). So I had to start up my compiler and go to work :) Well, after a long fight with that drive I have figured out how to do it (interesting encoded subdata), and it's now fully supported in my plugin. Ah, but as always my advice is NOT to use the "read subchannels" option, better create a SBI or M3S file for copy-protected games, and use that file instead.
- By digging through my plugin sources I've noticed, that the "Async read" caching mode was not correctly implemented with the "W2K/XP - IOCTL scsi commands" interface (it was more like a "double synchronous read mode", tsts). I've fixed that, now real async reads will be performed in W2K/XP, even without the ASPI interface, but honestly I've not noticed a big speed difference :)
- What else? mmm, maybe a small report about the Liteon drive:
while the raw psx cd reading performance in W9X is ok, the speed in WinXP is not perfect, especially with some mdecs: in W9X the drive played a test-mdec with 100 fps, while the same mdec dropped below 60 fps in WinXP! Just to compare the values: my old TEAC scsi drive can play the same mdec in both W9X and WinXP with 130 fps... mmm, and mdecs which don't use XA music were played fine on both drives and windows systems (around 250-300 fps)... maybe something I have to investigate further... somewhen!
Download it from the link above
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Monday, September 16th, 2002
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SNEeSe v0.725 Released
The SNES emulator SNeSe has been updated today, here's the following changes:
- Render: Added support for single window clipping of 8x8-tile backgrounds with no offset change or mosaic.
- Timing: Fixed the Final Fantasy 6 timing hack.
- Render: Fixed a minor bug in offset change screen map address calculation.
- Render: Corrected address wrapping for wide and tall screen maps at the end of VRAM.
Download it from the link above
SNem v0.011 Released
The new SNES emulator SNem has been updated today, here's the following changes:
- SPC700 emulation now compiled in, please let me know what games it doesn't crash/bomb out on.
- Included SPC700 disassembler as well
- Couple of 65816 fixes + more opcodes
- The sprite size bug fixed
Download it from the link above
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Saturday, September 14th, 2002
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SNem 0.01 Released
The brand new SNES emulator SNem has been updated today, here's the following changes:
- 65816: About 70% of opcodes. Many bugs.
- SPC700: About 40% of opcodes. Emulation isn't compiled in the default binary.
- PPU: Modes 0, 1, 2, 3 and 7 incomplete. Also (mostly) complete sprite emulation (just missing vertical flip).
- DMA: All channels. Might be some bugs though.
- Joypad: Only joypad 1 is emulated.
- Early HDMA emulation.
- Early vline interrupt emulation.
- Some 65816 bugs fixed.
- Initial attempt at mode 7 rotozoom.
Download it from the link above
MAME WIP News
News again from the MAME WIP Site
- 2002-09-14: R. Belmont implemented the SH7604 internal timers which gets music and sound running in the rest of the Super Kaneko Nova System games, but the music still suddenly stops working after a while in the games. It also adds sound to Sol Divide and gets the Taisen Hot Gimmick games working. Uki added the controls to both Taisen Hot Gimmick and Taisen Hot Gimmick Kairakuten, but the controls stop working after a while, like the music in the Super Kaneko Nova System games. Nicola Salmoria optimized the Super Kaneko Nova System tilemap graphics drawing even more, and Paul Priest added support for separate RGB brightness controls, fixing the color fades in the games.
- 2002-09-13: Nicola Salmoria reduced the memory requirements of the Super Kaneko Nova System driver and hooked up the rotation and zoom control registers. David Haywood and Paul Priest optimized the graphics drawing in it a little. spice fixed a SH-2 CPU core bug which caused the freezing boss in Strikers 1945 II. Barry Rodewald submitted a fix for the CPS-2 driver to reset the Z80 properly after exiting service mode.
- 2002-09-12: David Haywood sent in an update to the Super Kaneko Nova System driver, fixing the sprite positioning in Gals Panic 4 and Gals Panic S.
CANAME V0.61.8 Released
The port of MAME32 that runs CPS-1, CPS-2 and Neo Geo games has been updated once again...Here's the following changes:
CANAME Ver.0.61.7 -> CANAME Ver.0.61.8
- Added the three new releases from CPS2Shock ("gigawing", "gwingj", "cybots").
- Translated dip-switch section to Japanese. (Japanese version only)
CANAME Ver.0.61.6 -> CANAME Ver.0.61.7
- Fixed a bug in the joystick ID settings.
- Translated dip-switch section to Japanese. (Japanese version only)
- Applied a revision patch. (Thanks JUN)
- Changed the GUI's default background. (Thanks Simon
Download it from the link above
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Friday, September 13th, 2002
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Aldos Plugin Pack Updated
Anyway...Aldostool has yet released another plugin pack (containing over 80 plugins for the PSX emulators that use the PSEmu Pro Plugin System..Here's the following changes:
Recently added plugins:
- Pete's GPU 1.66 D3D & OGL plugins
Download it from the link above
CPS2Mame V2.613 Released
The author has released a fix version of the CPS2 emulator/CPS2Mame..
Here's whats the author said:
- I have recompiled CPS2mame which includes a fix for the missing zeroes in Giga Wing.
Download it from the link above
ClrMamePro V2.73 Released
The Rom Managing Utility for MAME has been updated today once again!!..Here's the following changes:
- fixed: ClrMamePro doesn't run on MS Windows 95
- fixed: a little rename unzipped roms issue
- misc: dynamic altering the rompaths to increase speedscan is now optional
- misc: more cancel checks while looking for unneeded roms
- misc: "keep scanner output"'s default setting is 'disabled'
- misc: "ToClipboard->Headers" moved to "Save->SetInfo CSV File" + some changes
- misc: some gui changes in the profiler window
- fixed: setting up systemdefaultpaths failed
- fixed: rebuilding notcompressed files from a datfile which uses no-given-size tags failed
- misc: more cancel button checks while rebuilding
- fixed: possible crash when using unneeded masks
Download it from the link above
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Thursday, September 12th, 2002
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Nebula v2.19d Released
Elsemi has updated Nebula fixing a few bugs. Heres the release notes:
- KONAMI:
- Cowboys of Moo Mesa sound and music is back.
- CPS2:
- Fixed black screen or game not rebooting after exiting the Test Mode in GigaWing and Eco Fighters.
Download it from the link above
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Wednesday, September 11th, 2002
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MAME Status Updated
2002-09-11: Nicola Salmoria added sound emulation to some of the games in the Super Kaneko Nova System driver, Paul Priest fixed the inputs, added Puzz Loop European version and cleaned up a few things in it and David Haywood added Panic Street, Gal's Panic S2 and Jan Jan Paradise 2 which are playable, and Gal's Panic S and Gal's Panic 4 which have some misplaced sprites. Jan Jan Paradise 2 has a bad graphics ROM which causes some graphics to be corrupt.
CPS-2 Shock #098 - #100 XOR's Released
Razoola has released 3 new XOR's today, here's whats new :
- Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness(USA 950424)
- Giga Wing(Japan 990223)
- Giga Wing(USA 990222)
Download them from the link above
Raine V0.36 Released
One of the coolest arcade emulators, RAINE was updated with these changes:
New games:
- Strikers 1945, Tengai (alias Sengoku Blade). Both are nice shooters from Psikyo.
New clones:
- Gunbird (replaces the old broken world set), Esprade (newer international and japenese versions), Samurai Aces (international version of Sengoku Ace)
Other changes:
- Added the ability to save sound to a wav file (in sound options)
- Added adpcm sound in toki and silkworm
- Fixed sprites priorities in the cps1 driver, and in double dragon 3.
- Made the psikyo driver a little faster
- Fixed the sound mixer
- Stephane HUMBERT fixed the dipswitches for Grand Cross Pinball
- Added the ability to edit registers and to manually generate irqs or nmis to the z80 debuger included in the debug version of raine.
- Added eeprom support and sound for Battle Bakraid. The ymz280b emulator was also improved, and the sound in uopoko is much better now.
- Stephane Humbert updated our cheats database.
Download it from the link above
Nebula V2.19c released
The great CPS2/NeoGeo emulator Nebula has been updated today, here's the following changes:
CPS1
- Fixed CPS1+QSound games always crashing after loading
CPS2
- added Giga Wing (US 990222)
- added Giga Wing (Jap 990223)
- added Cyberbots (US 950424)
Download it from the link above
Mimic V2.08 Released
The multi-arcade emulator(DOS) has been updated today once again..Here's the following changes
- New:Keyboard can now be mapped via .KEY files
- New:X-ARCADE support (via XARCADE.KEY)
- New:YM2612 DAC
- New:Voice prompts in GUI
- New:Added Memmap lookups
- Fix:SystemX:Sprite fixes
- Fix:68000:Caching readded
- Fix:Z80:Logging removed (stops random crashing)
Download it from the link above
PCSX2 V0.04 Released
Another ps2 emulator(WIN & Linux) has been updated once again..Here's the following changes:
GUI:
- ADD CDVD plugin (partially)
- change a bit the controller plugin protocol
- change a bit the GS plugin protocol (for the VUmicromode transfers)
CPUS:
- FIXES to R5900
- FIXES to FPU
- More work in recompiler
- ADDS+fixes opcodes for MMI
- Rewritten/updated iop code
- More work to micromode (vu0-vu1)
DMA:
- More to VIFS DMA
- More to SIFS DMA
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AdvanceMENU V2.1.1 Released
The GNU/Linux frontend for the AdvanceMAME, AdvanceMESS, AdvancePAC, MAME, MESS and Raine emulators with a lot of unique features(WIN & DOS) has been udpated today once again..Here's the following changes:
- Fixed the window title and the icon in the sdl system.
- In Windows the default sdl samples buffer is now 2048. This solve the distorced sound.
- In DOS the executables are now searched also in the current directory.
- Fixed the missing software bug when both DMESS and AdvanceMESS are present.
- Some minor fixes for the AdvanceMESS use.
- Added the `cost' doc.
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LissNES V1.08 Released
Another swell NES Emulator(Win)has been updated today once again..Here's the following changes:
- Mouse is hidden in fullscreen
- Fixed a bug that caused $4016 and $4017 to not return correct values, fixes Deadly Towers
- More optimizations and speedups
- Made it impossible to press two opposite arrows at the same time
- Fixed $3000 nametable mirroring
- Changed some things when reading from palette memory, it should now agree to some tests I've made on a real NES
- Fixed the B flag logic in the 6502's status reg
- Added that square quirk as happends when writing the high part of the frequency
- Envelope volume is not resetted when writing envelope speed on square and noise
- NES soundchannles must now be enabled before setting the lengthcounters
- Added option to double sound volume
- Changed the DMC's PCM replay code, the SMB extra noise has dissappeared
- Added feature to import/export save states
- Added brightness control to the palette editor
- Fixed scanline IRQ counter timings, Jurassic Park titlescreen looks ok
- Increased timing accuarcy on the sprite 0 hit detection, Battle Toads seems to work now
- Mirroring writes to MMC3 is ignored if four different nametables is used, fixes Rad Racer 2
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ClrMamePro V2.72b Released
The Rom Managing utility for MAME has been updated today once again..Here's the following changes:
- fixed: setting up systemdefaultpaths failed (2.72b)
- fixed: rebuilding notcompressed files from a datfile which uses no-given-size tags failed (2.72b)
- misc: more cancel button checks while rebuilding (2.72b)
- fixed: possible crash when using unneeded masks (2.72a)
- misc: dynamic rompath order change
- misc: unnneeded rom/sample optimized
- misc: remembering scanresults is now optional
- misc: transparent icons
- misc: all systems are enabled by default
- fixed: wrong dir2dat extension import
- fixed: warningswindow won't be hidden when auto-hide scanner is enabled
Download it from the link above
NeoPOP v0.71 / v1.069(Final Released)
The popular NeoGeo Pocket Color Emulator has been updated once again for the final time, the author announced this will be the final version..anyway, Here's the following changes:
Core v0.71:
- TLCS-900h counts extra cycles for addressing modes.
- Tweaked and optimised the timers, now they're more accurate.
- Fixes music in "Cool Cool Jam" and improves "Card Fighters".
- Emulates more instructions per 'emulate' call, makes things faster.
- Put frameskipping back in.
- Made flash writes even more secure.
Win32 v1.06:
- Fixed the window size, it was 1 pixel too tall and was causing subtle stretching artefacts.
- Mostly translated the link-up dialog.
- "Misc. Options" dialog. for various options.
- Windowed/Full-screen mode is restored from registry on startup.
- More translated strings/dialogs/menus.
- Added adaptoid N64 D-Pad support.
- Put frameskipping back in.
- Compressed with the latest version of UPX.
- Improved sound consistancy, especially the noise channel - tones and noises are now maintained during mute, etc. And will be restored correctly from a saved state. This was a long-time problem.
- Added full screen width stretching.
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Tuesday, September 10th, 2002
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WinUAE V0.8.22 Released
The best Amiga emulator for Windows was updated today, here's whats new:
- UAE 0.8.22 merge, bumped version number (but most changes were already included in R4)
- real 68000 prefetch emulation ("100 most remembered C64 games" and more)
- A1000 emulation fixes
- fast RAM state save fix
- Action Replay 1 support (but breakpoints don't work)
- on the fly switching between OpenGL and DirectDraw mode
- wkeykill.dll support (disables Windows-keys)
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Monday, September 9th, 2002
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SNEM V0.01 Released
Another fine SNES Emulator(DOS)has been updated..Here's the following changes:
- Fixed the BCD. Made ADC+SBC modular, for less inconsistencies.
- Added a couple more SPC opcodes. Some debugging reveals that the KSFH SPC lockup is a 65816 bug, not an SPC700 bug.
- Added toggles for BGs.
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nSX2 - A PS2 Emulator
nSX2, the Open Source PS2 emulator was updated today, here's whats new:
No major changes, the purpose of this release is to propose a safe base to work. (see README-NSX2.txt for more details)
Added a new file : HOW_IT_WORKS.txt which explain how works this emu
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Spectaculator 2.5 released
Thanks to Siobhan for the news !!
Spectaculator the ZX spectrum emualtor was updated today, here's whats new:
Floating bus emulation as per Ramsoft technical docs (Sidewize and Richochet now run).
Multiface 1 support (includes licensed ROM).
High resolution border emulation (e.g. the number countdown in Starion, the scrolling message at the beginning of the Sentinel).
Multicolour rendering is now a tad more accurate (e.g. Shock Megademo and Overscan demos).
Bug fixes to the sound generation that could cause a crash on NT 4.
Lots of optimisations to the core and display rendering. CPU usage should be similar to v2.0.
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NEStron V0.6.4b Released
Another NES Emulator(Win) has been udpated today. Here's the following changes:
Fixed sound a sound latency bug.
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New King of Fighters 2002 Videos
Thanks to Max For the news !
For the vidoes, click the link above
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Sunday, September 8th, 2002
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Visual Boy Advance 1.1 released
The windows version of Visual Boy Advance was updated today, here's the followings changes:
Core changes:
added DMA logging
added GBA intro remover
fixed an ARM bug for opcodes like OP Rd,Rb,Rm ROR Rs where Rs > 0
and Rs % 32 == 0
fixed some minor inconsistencies on the THUMB core (no actual bug reported)
fixed bug with windows and alpha-bleding the wrong layer
fixed sound channel 3 volume
fixed the EEPROM battery save bug
Windows changes:
added reset buttons to the directories dialog
added Logging console (for internal GBA logging and console output)
enhanced Map Viewer with more information about map and clicked spot
added speed up toggle
fixed a bug where the joypad configuration dialog had strange colors
fixed a crash when opening the Disassemble window when emulating a GB program
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NeoPop V0.70 / V1.05 Released
The popular NeoGeo Pocket Color emulator(Win) has been updated today..Here's the following changes:
v0.70 Core:
- Fixed "Gals Fighters" problems
- Communication emulation is perhaps a little better.
Win32 v1.05:
- Fixed translated file selector filters not working if the string was longer than the English version (which happens quite often).
- Debugger memory "Watcher" can now save and load it's list, it's not very robust code - but it does the job!
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Saturday, September 7th, 2002
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SNES emu for XBOX(Beta 5 Released)
Thanks to IxI SoNiK IxI For the news!!
- Implemented Point Filtering Rendering. Result is a more sharper display but more pixelated. If you prefer the old style rendering set UsePointFiltering=0 in the ini file.
- Implemented eject/remount/rescan cd media code. You can swap in and out a cdrw or dvd-r full of roms, pressing the Y button will rescan the files and update the xSnes9x menu as many times as you like. Press 'Start' to rescan back to your default roms specified in your .ini file. Thanks to everlame, RUNTimE, w00d00 for their assistance.
- Added IPS Patch support. Read the IPS Section below on usage.
- Added Save state support. To save your current state hold back and press white. To load an existing state hold back and press black.
- Analog Stick Screen Stretching is now toggled on and off by holding Back and pressing Y.
- Fixed 50/60hz switching "black screen" bug.
- Fixed lo res -> high res switching bug (Seiken Densetsu 3)
- Fixed menu for HDTV users.
- All filenames saved to the Xbox HDD now conform to Xbox filename standards. This should take care of any SRAM saving issues some users are having.
- Fixed (stupid) bug which caused gamepad config to be broken in Beta 4.
- Authors Note: Hey, its been a fairly long time between drinks but here is b5 for everyone out there. b4 was generally considered a step back for some people, hopefully everyone will be happy with this release. Enjoy =)
For more info, click the link above
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Friday, September 6th, 2002
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NEStron V0.6.3b Released
Another NES Emulator(Win) has been udpated today once again..Here's the following changes:
- Added automatic frameskip.
- Added software stretch mode - choose from Hardware Stretch, Pixel Resize, Full Scanlines, 75% Scanlines, 50% Scanlines, 25% Scanlines, Interpolation, LED Display, and SmartScale.
- Hopefully fixed some crashing bugs associated with game controllers.
- Fixed joypad axis sensitivity problems.
- Added Game Genie support.
- Fixed a few games (Super Contra).
- Fixed another sound bug in the savestate/loadstate features.
- The GUI Window is now red :)
- SaveRAM is now saved if a game writes to it, regardless of whether or not the ROM defines SaveRAM existent.
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NeoPop V0.69 / V1.04 Released
The popular NeoGeo Pocket Color emulator(Win) has been updated today..Here's the following changes:
v0.69 Core:
- Fixed all of the GCC problems this time!
Win32 v1.04:
- Fixed translation of the connect dialog caption.
- Simplified the debugger layout.
- Added some icons to the debugger go/stop buttons.
- Added a breakpoint dialog with support for multiple points.
- Added 'run to' and 'jump to' debugger buttons.
- Added memory 'watcher'.
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ClrMamePro v2.72a Released
The Rom Utility for MAME has been updated today
Here's the following changes:
- Quick update fixing a possible crash when using unneeded masks
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The King of Fighters 2002 Videos
Thanx to Max for the news !
Chinese KOF oriented site "KOF Union" has released 23 footages of "The King OF Fighters 2002". while the Windows media file format videos are all average 400KB in size, they feature highlight scenes in the game. Download them from the link above
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Wednesday, September 4th, 2002
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SNEeSe V0.721 Released
The SNES Emulator(DOS)has been updated today..
Here's the following changes:
- Render: Removed some unused masking code for performance
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ClrMamePro V2.72 Released
The Rom Managing Utility for MAME..has been updated today...Here's the following changes:
- misc: dynamic rompath order change
- misc: unnneeded rom/sample optimized
- misc: remembering scanresults is now optional
- misc: transparent icons
- misc: all systems are enabled by default
- fixed: wrong dir2dat extension import
- fixed: warningswindow won't be hidden when auto-hide scanner is enabled
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Tuesday, September 3rd, 2002
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SNEeSe V0.72 Released
Another good SNES Emulator(DOS) has been updated today..Here's the following changes:
- Memory map: Added a hack for Batman: Revenge of the Joker, an odd ROM with LoROM memory map and ROM info block in the 2nd 32k bank
- Memory map: Fixed behavior of command-line options -fi (Force interleaved) and -fn (Force non-interleaved) on non-split ROMs when -fl or -fh also used
- Memory map: Fixed behavior of command-line options -fl (Force LoROM) and -fh (Force HiROM)
- Timing: Added a hack to eliminate the world map flicker on Final Fantasy 6 until timing is improved
- Source: Cleaned up some parts of the source and altered makefile to help portability
- Sound: Reevaluated and adjusted sample ranges to increase output volume
- GUI: Added options for independently stretching the emulation display output in the horizontal and vertical directions
- Other: Added blitter support for the stretch options in 16-bit screen modes
- Render: Added full mosaic effect to modes 2 and 4, 16x16-tile backgrounds with offset change
- Sound: Re-enabled pitch-modulation
- Sound: Changed the BRR sample decoding to a new method based on information from Brad Martin, helps sounds in several games (Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, Mega Man 7, Mega Man X, others)
- Render: Improved performance of background rendering in modes 5 and 6
- Configuration: Reordered screen modes due to new stretch options
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AdvanceMENU V2.1.0 Released
The GNU(Linux) DOS and Windows frontend for the AdvanceMAME, AdvanceMESS, AdvancePAC, MAME, MESS and Raine emulators has been updated today...Here's whats new:
Revised the output format of all the documentation. Now it's available as formatted text, html and man pages.
- Fixed a bug on the emulator names. Now they can be uppercase.
- Fixed the "Division by Zero" crash bug with the Rage128 board in the DOS svgaline driver.
- Upgraded at the SVGALIB 1.9.16 library.
- Added a `./configure' script in all the distributions.
- Removed the output of the `display_*' option when running advcfg for AdvanceMENU.
- Fixed the detection of the screen resize keys in the advcfg and advv utility in the Linux platform. The keys are now changed to 'i' and 'k'.
- Added the %o option in the emulator command line to force the emulators to use the same orientation of the menu. Check the example in the advmenu.txt file.
- The keyboard key codes are changed another times. Now they are always the same for all the platform and for all the keyboard drivers. If you are using the linux version probably you need to reconfigure the event option with the new codes.
- Renamed the `msg_run' option in `run_msg'.
- Added the option `run_preview' to select which preview display before to run a game.
- Removed all the `select_*' option. They are now specified with the new `emulator_attrib' option. It allow to specify different display attribute for different emulator. For example you can show clones for AdvancePAC and only parents for AdvanceMAME.
- Fixed the slowdown bug with a lot of MESS roms.
- Generally improved the speed of the select/sort implementation of the list of games.
- Added the `loop' option to continuosly play the MNG files.
- In a single column mode the left and right events are now like page up and page down events.
- Now the idle event never interrupt a long game clip or sound.
- If the generic emulator path is empty the idle start event is automatically disabled.
- When returning from a idle start event the game clip and sound aren't played.
- Added a new `info_import' option to display arbitrary information for every game.
- You can now specify more than one `desc_import', `type_import' and `group_import' options.
- Added in the contrib/ dir the hiscore.ini file to display the top hiscore of the MAME games.
- Various fix at the `advcfg' utility.
- Fixed some problems of the fullscreen use of the sdl system.
- Various bug fixed.
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AdvanceMAME V0.61.2 Released
The GNU(Linux) and DOS port of the MAME, PacMAME and MESS emulators for Arcade Monitors and T.Vs but also works for normal PC Monitors, has been updated today...Here's the following changes:
- Added the `sdl' system which uses the libSDL graphics library. This system enable the use of the program in a Window Manager. But it isn't a good choice for a fullscreen use of the program because it can't generate `perfect' video
mode.
- Added the HOST_SYSTEM section in the makefile.
- Added the `windows' target in the Makefile. It use the `sdl' system.
- Added the `device_sdl_fullscreen' option to force the use of a fullscreen mode with the SDL library.
- Readded the basic `vbe' driver.
- Added the MMX detection in the linux and windows targets. Previously the MMX presence was assumed.
- Splitted the `input_map[,trak]' option in the input_map[,trakx] and `input_map[,traky]' options. Now you can assign different axes from different mouses.
- The `input_map[]' option now supports multiple input sources and eventually allow to negate them.
- Renamed the option `misc_language' to `misc_languagefile'.
- Fixed the saving of the cheats.
- Documented the various `misc_*file' options.
- Removed the `zmng' utility from the contrib dir. It's now included in the AdvanceSCAN package.
- Renamed the `input_safeexit' option to `misc_safequit' and added the options `misc_safequitdebug' and `misc_safequitfile'. The SafeQuit is now enabled by default.
- Revised the output format of all the documentation. Now it's available as formatted text, html and man pages.
- Fixed an overflow bug on the aspect computation. It prevented "Elevator Action" to run.
- Fixed the "Division by Zero" crash bug with the Rage128 board in the DOS svgaline driver.
- Upgraded at the SVGALIB 1.9.16 library.
- Readded the `-playback' and `-record' command line options.
- Added a `./configure' script in all the Linux distributions.
- Fixed the detection of the screen resize keys in the advcfg and advv utility in the Linux platform. The keys are now changed to 'i' and 'k'.
- Added the options `device_video_8bit', `device_video_15bit', `device_video_16bit', `device_video_32bit' to selectively disable some bit depths on the video drivers.
- Fixed the colors on the snapshots of games with a 32 color depth.
- Various fix at the `advcfg' utility.
- Various bug fixed.
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CDRMooby V2.01 Released
The utility- CDR plugin for the PSX emulators that use the PSEmu Pro plugin system, has been updated today..Here's whats new:
- re-linked it with the latest FLTK which fixes some bugs with the file selection. this also includes a bug fix with linux and bz and z compressed images.
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ClrMamePro V2.71 Released
Thanks To l606s For the news!!The rom managing utility has been updated today..Here's whats new:
- misc: ultra-fast "Looking for unknown sets"
- added: Scanner keeps the last scan results (even if you quit ClrMamePro)
- added "ignore size" option to Dir2Dat
- added: warning for "Set-Zipfile AND Set-Folder Exist In The Same ROM-path"
- added: optional "AutoHide ScanWindow while scanning"
- fixed: some FileSeek operations
- fixed: issue in an recursive-folder-creation routine causing several problems
- fixed: save have/miss list scans even when the filedialog was closed
- misc: show romlist bugs is now a global feature
- misc: only one warningwindow setting for merger/scanner/rebuilder
- misc: started some bigger source cleanup
- misc: ignore systemfiles while scanning/etc.
- misc: linked manifestfile, you can remove the separated one
- misc: minor gui changes
- misc: switched to Microsoft Developer Studio .NET
- misc: compiled with updated ZipArchive Library
- misc: about & dir2dat windowpositions are saved
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FinalBurn Alpha V0.2.9.3 Released
Thanks to Xeon-G For the news!!The CPS1/2 emulator(win) has been updated today..Here's whats new:
v0.2.93:v0.2.92
- Small bug-fix release, relating to inputs (Z-Axis), NetPlay Chat font-size and
- a small speed increase.
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NeoPop V0.68/V1.03 Released
Thanks to Xeon-G For the news!!The popular NeoGeo Pocket Color emulator(WIN has been updated today once again...Here's whats new :
v0.68 Core:
- Fixed "Gals Fighters", thanks to Judge for helping with that one!
- The code is now fully GCC compatible without changes (I hope!).
- Fixed the default colour mode of "Neo-Neo! V1.0 (PD)".
- Added support for link-up bios calls.
- Removed frameskipping, makes NeoPop FASTER for most people.
- Fixed a crashing bug that occurs at the end of "Card Fighters", thanks to "Mark Ostasiuk Jr" for the saved states.
- Fixed some inconsequential CPU bugs.
Win32 v1.03:
- Added link-up support using TCP/IP. Many games seem to work a little.
Unfortunately many games aren't very tolerant of bad connections.
Note: the TCP/IP connection itself is persistant and will only break when you exit or use the disconnect option in the link-up dialog. So you can change games at will, without breaking the connection.
- Also added full-screen mode, use 'Esc'/ Alt-Enter to toggle.
- Right click the window to get the recent files as a popup.
- Changing or adding a new joystick is now detected while running.
Open the "Controls" dialog to detect the new configuration.
- Deactivated 'auto-pause' to make link-up testing easier.
- Fixed language patching for dialogs.
- Changed the format of the language files and added extra tags.
There is currently no translation support for the link-up menu as it is still subject to change.
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Monday, September 2nd, 2002
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Meka V0.63b Released
Thanks to [XP]Icarus for the news !!The multi-machine emulator (DOS/Win)(capablilties of emulating : Master System, Game Gear, SC-1000, SC-3000, Sega Mark III(+ FM Unit), Colecovision , Othello Multivision systems.) has been updated today..Here's the changes:
Meka 0.63b
- [Windows] Disabled access to hardware YM-2413 emulation using OPL under Windows 2000 and XP, avoiding crashes in certain cases.
- Removed rare PSG debugging messages that were accidentally left.
- Fixed timing of the {LD,CP,IN,OT}[ID]R transfer/comparaison Z80 opcodes, which were made too slow by 8 cycles in version 0.63. "The Castle" (SG-1000) was affected.
- Fixed Sega Keyboard mapping for the "Yen" key on Japanese keyboard (untested). Note that the mapping for certain specials keys seems not to be right yet using the Windows version.
- Performed some minor calling optimizations.
- Updated Dutch, Deutsch, Italian, Spanish and Swedish translations with missing messages. (Thanks to their respective mainteners!)
Meka 0.63:
- Implemented a cyclic color allocation algorythm, reducing palette changes even more in some games. Users with videocard/drivers having problems changing palette can expect less slowdown in Game Gear games.
- Tested every single Master System games, and wrote a multiplayer games list out of them. It is included in the emulator (MULTI.TXT).
- Added 21 missing undocumented Z80 opcodes in the ED instruction set, including the wonderful OUT (A), 0.
- Fixed PSG emulation. The holding note after text boxes shows in "Alex Kidd in Miracle World" is no more, and noise channel writes were fixed (as used by CodeMasters games: Micro Machines drums now sounds correctly, etc...). Thanks to the great Maxim for his informations!
- Fixed Light Phaser shooting position for when left column blanking is enabled (a bug leaked in since a few version).
- Fixed 64-bytes ROM footer detection.
- Fixed a bug affecting Hardware Reset and ROM reloading on SG-1000/SC-3000 and Colecovision emulation. As far as I know, only "Pac-Man" (Coleco) was affected after an Hardware Reset, but other ROMs could as well.
Thanks to James Carter for the bug report.
- Fixed a two-years-old bug that may lead MEKA to crash when loading a savestate that was previously used under the debugger.
- Fixed Sega Keyboard mapping for the unusual "Pi" / "Ro" key, so
Japanese users can use it at its standard mapping location. Thanks to Yujiro for the bug report.
- FPS Counter is now enabled/disabled by pressing Alt+F, instead of keeping F pressed.
- [Windows] Fixed time display.
- Updated to newer GCC version, hopefully little improving performances.
- Added and modified entries to the checksum and compatibility lists.
Some interesting ones the author could rename after redumping:
- Alex Kidd in Miracle World [A] --> Alex Kidd in Miracle World [Export]
- Alex Kidd in Miracle World [B] --> Alex Kidd in Miracle World [USA]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2002
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Final Burn Alpha v0.2.9.1 released.
Thanks to Xeon-G for the news!!
The great CPS1/2 Emulator(WIN)..has been updated today!
Here's Whats New:
- Toaplan2 emulation.
- Massively improved CPS-2 emulation with support for all currently XORed games.
- Improved CPS-1 emulation with support for the recent (Chinese?) hacks.
- Many, many UI enhancements.
- New blitters - including RGB effects, etc.
- Demo recording and playback
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