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Friday, November 29th, 2002
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MAME / MAME32 Plus V0.62.2 Released
The UnOfficial MAME emulation has been updated and released with these
following changes:
- Fixed the crash bug in hard disk games (color map handling in palette.c updated) [BUT]
- Fixed the crash bug in auditing hard disk games [BUT]
- Optimized speed for transparent UI [BUT]
- Fixed access violation in xexex (xexex062red)
- Fixed color when switching between windows / fullscreen mode in game
- Fixed metalhawk sprite [Norix]
- Some driver fixes [SUZ]
- Updated toaplan2 and cave drivers [Shiriru]
- Fixed input port of dsprit [from 2ch.net]
- Long path name support in mame32
- New Extra Folders
- New icons
Download it from the link above
nSX2 V0.04 Released
Another PS2 emulator has yet updated..Here's the following changes the author mentioned:
GUI:
- Stupid Bug in GUI AddText
- Speed Up the GUI drawing
- New GUI Feature : Style ( change by F4 ): swtich Default - Debug - FullScreen ( In the Window... for the moment )
- New GUI Feature : Execute ONE opcode - key F5
CPU:
- Rewrite all COP1 ( FPU ) code
- Some Fix in CPU Core
- Speed Up the Interpreter Core.
- Now all opcode are prefetched before executionIt can make time to open the file but the execution is faster.
Other:
- Remove the Bios File.
I don't use it for the emulation. Maybe in the future...
Download it from the link above
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2002
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ClrMamePro V2.84 Released
The rom management utility has been yet updated once again..Here's the
following changes:
- added: full integrity check for chd files. ClrMamePro tests and decompresses each single chd block and calculates the md5s of the (decompressed) hdimage. This can take some time. You see a 2nd progressbar while scanning and you can skip the test by clicking the progress window's cancel button.
Download it from the link above
ClrMamePro 2.83.1 Released
Just some small bug fixes in this version, 2.83.1 (11/25/2002)
- fixed: "\n" combinations in pathnames were were translated to a newline character in the profile...causing trouble with any kind of used paths (including rebuilder, merger, rom/sample/backuppaths)
- fixed: rare profiler crash after deleting an old & loading a new profile
- fixed: double-counted statistic values
- fixed: about->link positions
Click on the title link for more info and download
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Sunday, November 24th, 2002
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MAME WIP Page Updated
The MAME page has been update with the following progresses
- 2002-11-23: David Haywood added preliminary sprite support to the Sega System 32 driver, making Holosseum fully playable. Bryan McPhail fixed a bug when switching between 68020 and 68000 in the debugger. Stefan Jokisch added support for the artwork LEDs in the Turbo / Subroc-3D / Buck Rogers driver. smf fixed the path handling also in the DOS version. Paul Priest added per-row/column blending support to the Psikyo SH-2 drivers.
- 2002-11-22: Aaron Giles added Sharpshooter to the Police Trainer driver, fixed the security failure in Revolution X, added Cruis'n World version 2.0 to the Williams V-unit driver, cleaned up the Windows file I/O and path handling and fixed a palette management bug that affected Area 51.
- 2002-11-21: Zsolt Vasvari added Mighty Monkey to the Scramble driver. Chris Kirmse fixed the ROM loading message displays for ports that include a GUI. Aaron Giles changed the file I/O to happen mostly in the core instead of the OS dependant part, and he modified the routines to automatically generate the snap, cfg, nvram etc. paths if they are missing.
- 2002-11-20: Aaron Giles improved the MD5 verification fix. Uki wrote a driver for Dr. Micro. Paul Priest separated Psikyo PS4 hardware emulation to its own driver since it didn't have much in common with the PS3, PS5 and PS5v2 hardware configurations. Paul Priest also merged the graphics emulation for Nostradamus and Magical Cat Adventure.
- 2002-11-19: Yasuhiro Ogawa forwarded Norix's fixes for Metal Hawk sprites. smf updated his GCC 3.2 install instructions. Shiriru's updates containing fixed sprite masking in the CPS-2 driver and fixed sprite delay in Battle Bakraid were also forwarded. Stephane Humbert fixed inputs in Mechanized Attack and added a clone called Caterpillar to the Centipede driver.
- 2002-11-18: Aaron Giles sent in an alternate fix for the false-positive MD5 checksums and improved the hdcomp tool. Guru added the Korean version of Nostradamus. Olivier Galibert ported tilemap naming and pause brightness updates to 0.62. Nathan Woods added state save support for the TMS34010 CPU core. Jarek Burczynski sent in a massively improved YM2413 sound chip emulation. Rene Single fixed the bug in datafile routines that caused some missing information. Quench sent in a TMS32025 CPU core and a preliminary Taito AIR system driver, but graphics emulation is not complete so it does not work very well. MooglyGuy submitted a preliminary driver for Tugboat, it works somewhat but colors are wrong, scrolling doesn't work and the inputs aren't hooked up.
- 2002-11-17: Stefan Jokisch added support for sound samples in Subroc-3D. Olivier Galibert fixed the palette regeneration when reloading a saved state. Zsolt Vasvari and Nicola Salmoria added the correct color PROMs to Formation Z / Aeroboto. Zsolt Vasvari also added yet another Mr. Kougar ROM set to the Scramble driver.
- 2002-11-16: Stephane Humbert and David Haywood re-submitted some drivers and fixes that were omitted from 0.62. smf did a GCC 3.2 compiler package for DOS. Andrea Mazzoleni fixed -listinfo with MD5 checksums. Nicola Salmoria added preliminary sound CPU communication to the Macross Plus driver, but sound doesn't work yet due to an unemulated IRQ feature in the ES5506 sound core. S. Suzuki fixed priority problems in Darwin 4078. MooglyGuy wrote a driver for Super Triv II and merged it with the Status Trivia II driver.
- 2002-11-15: Nicola Salmoria fixed the colors in Speed Spin. David Haywood sent in a newer Pirates driver, adding the tilemap layer but it is still not perfect since sprites and samples are encrypted. Aaron Giles put together a compiler package with MinGW 2.0 (GCC 3.2) to be used with MAME. Nicola Salmoria also did some related cleanups.
- 2002-11-14: HIGHWAYMAN added another version of Mr. Kougar to the Scramble driver. R. Belmont added inputs and sound emulation to the Sega System 32 driver, but it's still missing graphics emulation. smf fixed some compile problems that happened with GCC 3.2. Stephane Humbert re-added a small fix to the cheat engine. Tomasz Slanina added graphics zooming to the Flower driver.
- 2002-11-13: Aaron Giles prevented hard disk images being stored in ZIP files, and cleaned up various things in the source. An anonymous contributor partially decrypted Moon Shuttle, but only the attract mode works and the graphics emulation is not complete. Stephane Humbert fixed the inputs and DIP switches in Fancy World and in the Neo Geo driver. Nathan Woods re-submitted some old fixes and improved a few MESS-specific things.
UltraHLE Alpha V1.1.3 Released
One of the great n64 emulator has been released and updated with the following changes:
Option added to view Output debug window
- Access Configuration/Debug output window
Added new language packs
- Catala (Ender)
- Deutch (Reimi)
- Portuguese (Dario Matos)
- Russian (Seregak)
- Suomi (tinippa)
And the rest
- Fixed memory leaks in rombrowser
- Added z64 extension to load rom dialog
- Added small file with all shortcut keys in Uhle + ultra.keys
Download it from the link above
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Saturday, November 23rd, 2002
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ClrMAME Pro 2.83 !
The Rom management utility has been updated with the following updates:
- added: scanner popup menu quick rebuilder recompress/remove source option access
- added: statistics will be kept in profile (for logfile saving without scanning)
- added: timeout message when checking for an update
- fixed: saving a changed backupfolder in default.cmp
- fixed: wrong rom messages when working on circular renames
- misc: speed optimization when checking md5 AND crc32 for unzipped files
- misc: export md5 tags only when at least one set uses md5s
- misc: changed the fix size function (no more timeouts)
- misc: 'add description to miss/have', 'hide scanner', 'auto savelog' were made global
- misc: bad dump handling's default value is now: hide missing
- misc: window will be put to the front after updatecheck
- misc: autoupdate doesn't use globalatoms anymore
Download it from the link above
Posted by aKa :D
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Thursday, November 21st, 2002
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AdvanceMAME v0.62.0 Released
The port MAME (also MESS & PacMAME) has been updated once again..Here's the following changes:
- The Windows SVGAWIN driver now use the framebuffer reported by Windows if the Windows SVGALIB isn't able to get it.
This fixes the crash problem with the Cirrus Laguna boards and probably others.
- Updated the Windows SVGAWIN.SYS driver to the 1.1 version.
- Added the `display_aspectx' and `display_aspecty' to arbitary selects the aspect ratio of the monitor used.
- Fixed a slowdown bug on the SVGALIB video board detection.
- Fixed a bug on the DOS/Windows SVGALIB Radeon driver. It should help with the video modes at lower frequency generally used in Arcade Monitors and TVs.
- Fixed a bug on the SDL sound management. It should help the interaction of AdvanceMENU and AdvanceMAME.
- Better error reporting on the DOS/Windows SVGALIB drivers.
- The Windows binary is now packaged with the SDL dll 1.2.5
- The `display_adjust' option is now ignored if the video driver is not programmable.
Download it from the link above
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2002
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Off-Site Gaming News
As you can probably see if you look at the top of the main Arcade@Home page, I've added links to off-site gaming news stories. These news links update automatically every 5 minutes so they should be very up to date. Now go make Arcade@Home your home page =)
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Tuesday, November 19th, 2002
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SNEeSe V0.74 Updated
Yet.Another SNES Emulator has been updated once again..Here's the following changes:
- Render: Altered clip window setup code
- Sound: Corrected behavior of invalid range values in BRR header byte, thanks to Brad Martin for the correction
- Sound: Corrected bug in ADSR/GAIN switching; when switching from GAIN to ADSR, envelope update time was not set based on current ADSR state
- Sound: Restructed BRR decoding
- Render: Changed the back area color addition hack to actually add to color 0 instead of replacing it, helps many games
- Render: Added support for dual window clipping with OR or AND logic modes of 8x8-tile backgrounds with no offset change or mosaic
Sound: Corrected sample loop behavior, erroneously changed it in 0.73, fixes Sidmania
- Sound: Added emulation of 4-point pitch-regulated gaussian interpolation of sample data
- Sound: Added emulation of SNES echo effect and its corresponding FIR filter
Download it from the link above
VirtuaNES v0.71b Released
Another well know NES Emulator(WIN) has been updated once again..Here's the following changes:
- REVISION:Correct Sweep of Rectangle wave.
- REVISION:Correct a reset parameter of Sweep of Rectangle wave.
Download it from the link above
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Monday, November 18th, 2002
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AGES v0.30a (Wormhole) Released
WinAGES was updated, heres whats new:
- Some Genesis, 32X, Sega CD, and SMS compatiblity fixes
- Added Game Gear emulation
- M68000, Z80, and SH2 core revisions (lots faster)
- Faster interlace mode line renderer
- PSG noise channel
- 32X, Sega CD, SMS, and GG saved states
- Network play via Kaillera
- Added new fast-forward method: "sticky" (complements "press-and-hold")
- V-Sync option
- FPS display
- Brighter colors
- Close ROM option
- Multiple joystick support
- Improved some parts of the GUI (not compatible with WinXP!)
- Fixed the very annoying clicks/pops in DirectSound output
- Corrected inaccuracy in Sega CD sector playback timing
- Implicit track naming (like Gens) for ISO+MP3 CD images
- Software CD-DA playback (no more CD-to-soundcard cable required)
- CD-DA playback for BIN/CUE
- Automatic game patching feature
Download it at the Link above
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Sunday, November 17th, 2002
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Nebula V2.21 Released
The CPS1/2, NeoGeo, Konami emulator has been updated with the following changes
CPS1:
- Fixed crashing in Punisher in the 2nd stage boss.
CPS2:
- Improved VBlank timing. Fixes some problems with SFA3.
NEOGEO:
- Added support for the Universe BIOS. Go to Game->Neogeo Options
and enable "Use Universe BIOS" to load it. The bios must be in
a zip named uni-bios.zip (in the ROMS folder) and the rom
MUST be named uni-bios.rom. When using universe bios, all neogeo
options and cheats in nebula will be disabled, use the bios built-in
region, machine type and cheats options. When using universe
bios you'll see garbage during initial tests, don't worry, that's
normal and doesn't cause any other problem.
- Fixed slowdowns in s1945p.
GENERAL:
- Fixed crashings if you have more than 4 joysticks connected.
Download it from the link above
Atari 800Win Plus V3.1 Released
The Atari-8bit emulator has updated with lots of new features and not to mention online support via Kailera, Here's the following changes
Added:
- Play your favourite Atari game across network! Select Input/Network game to join or create a game. The first player (game creator) has an exclusive control over the keyboard. A network game may be started from a saved-state file, cartridge image, executable file, disk image or tape image. Read How to use Kaillera first.
- Sector counter (View/Show/Sector counter to activate this feature). Thanks to Paul Irvine for the idea.
- There is a new Do not allow activating attract mode option in the Advanced Atari Settings dialog box. The "attract" mode is often called the "screen-saver" mode. Thanks go to Larry White for the idea and detailed explanations and to Piotr Fusik for a smart attract-disabling routine (transparent for non-system games and demos).
- There is the possibility to set a different screen refresh frequency for full speed mode (see the Performance Options dialog box).
- Scroll Lock key may be used for turning the "keysticks" off and on.
- The name of attached disk image is displayed on the status bar after using File/Turn disk (Alt+N) (thanks to Piotr Fusik for the idea).
- Trainer settings ("unlimited lives") may be saved to and restored from a file (see the Cheat Options window). Thanks to Michal Garbaciak for the idea.
Changed:
- When the emulator is about to turn off the video or sound recording, the user is requested to confirm the action.
- Some GUI changes for new Atari800 kernel features.
Fixed:
- A nasty bug causing emulation slowdown when using "keysticks" has been fixed. Thanks to Michal Kowalski for the bug report.
- Fixed problems with some keys being improperly detected by the emulator when using "keysticks".
- There were some problems when trying to exit from the monitor under certain circumstances (thanks to Piotr Fusik for the bug report).
- State indicators should be properly positioned regardless of currently used desktop screen resolution.
- Fixed some problems with keys assigning when preparing keyboard templates (thanks to Ron Fucci for the bug report).
- Ctrl+Help and Shift+Help keystrokes are properly recognized by the emulator (freeze option in Q-Meg finally works, thanks to Daniel Kozminski for the bug report).
- A few other errors.
Download it from the link above
CANAME V0.62.2 Released
The port of MAME32(run CPS-1, CPS-2, NeoGeo) has been updated once again..Here's the following changes:
[ CANAME Ver.0.62.1 -> CANAME Ver.0.62.2 ]:
- Added a background changer.
- Greatly revised the UI menu programming.
[ CANAME Ver.0.61.10 -> CANAME Ver.0.62.1 ]:
- The base MAME have been updated to version 0.62.
- Added specialised set to jukebox (rotd).
Download it from the link above
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Saturday, November 16th, 2002
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XMAME V0.61.1 Released
The Unix/X11 port for MAME(Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator) has been updated with the followings:
- Almost everything from MAME 0.61 and MESS 0.61.2.
- The mouse cursor is now hidden in OpenGL fullscreen mode. (Craig Servin)
- Applied a patch for FreeBSD to unix/video-drivers/svgainput.c. (Stijn Hoop)
- Applied the NetMAME 0.5 patch, which adds a new option, -parallelsync, which should allow games to work without lag at network latencies of up to 16 milliseconds. (Steve Freeland)
- Added support for Linux on the Playstation 2. (Joan Sarah Touzet)
- Fixed a problem in the ALSA 0.9 driver with setting the sample rate on SB128 soundcards. (Stephen Anthony)
- Fixed a bug in unix/devices.h that prevented compilation on non-X11 platforms.
- Fixed the register constraints in cpu/i8085/i8085cpu.h so that cpu/i8085/i8085.c can build for x86 using gcc-3.1 with -O3. This change was missed in the MAME 0.61 release.
- Fixed multiple definition warnings in the psikyosh driver.
- Increased the size of the buffer used to display history. (Steve Fewell)
- 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)
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 "-audiodevice" switch and defaults to "xmameout.wav". (Donald King)
- Added support for showing average frames per second when quitting.
Also added support for the -frames_to_run/-ftr switch.
- Added Xv hardware scaling support! To enable, uncomment the line reading "X11_XV = 1" in the makefile and use the -xvext/-xv switches (and possibly the -yuv switch). (Alastair Robinson)
- An X11 build can now grab the keyboard to bypass window managers. Use -grabkeyboard/-gkb to activate and/or the ALT + PGUP keypress to toggle it on/off. (Gerd Sussner)
- The code for finding the best X11 visual now checks in descending order of bit depth. This is to work around a bug/feature in the latest NVidia drivers. (Gerd Sussner)
- Fixed a problem in the DGA2 driver that could lead to scrambled colors with an i830MG video card in 24bpp mode. (Eric Brunet, Shyouzou Sugitani)
- The SDL target's -listmodes switch now operates before attempting to load a game. (Shadow Walker)
- If xmame is iconified in IRIX, it will automatically pause ("boss hanging around mode"). (Andrea Suatoni)
- Added a switch to force yv12 mode in the Xv driver; made improvements to the yv12 code. (Eric Brunet)
- Xmame should now build "out of the box" for FreeBSD. Note that for the SDL target, you may have to set the SDL_CONFIG flag in the makefile. (Stijn Hoop)
Download it from the link above
ClrMamePro Ver. 2.82 (11/13/2002) Released
ClrMamePro Ver. 2.82 (11/13/2002) Released:
- fixed: rare diskimage detection bug
- misc: speedup for several progress displays
- misc: some more cancelchecks for "cleaning up data"
- misc: update shows "up2date" message only when using "Check now"
- misc: readded the history.dat/mameinfo.dat rename before running mame
- misc: "export datfile" exports diskimages information as well
- removed: the scanner/rebuilder/merger ok buttons.
Download it from the link above
Posted by Tigerj :D
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2002
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MAME32 v0.62 Released!
The version of MAME with a GUI has also been released! Download it from the M.A.M.E. section.
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Tuesday, November 12th, 2002
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MAME v0.62 Released!
The long-awaited new version (v0.62) of MAME has finally been released. Here's the list of changes from Haze:
New games supported:
- Fantasia II [Nicola Salmoria]
- Golden Fire II [Nicola Salmoria]
- Bouncing Balls [ElSemi]
- Dragon World II [David Haywood, ElSemi]
- Tengai / Sengoku Blade [Paul Priest]
- Magical Cat Adventure [Paul Priest, David Haywood]
- Nostradamus [Paul Priest, David Haywood]
- Strikers 1945 [Olivier Galibert, R.Belmont]
- IPM Invader
- Green Beret
- Escape Kids [Ohsaki Masayuki]
- Solvalou [Phil Stroffolino]
- Star Blade [Phil Stroffolino]
- Prop Cycle [Phil Stroffolino]
- Lucky & Wild [Phil Stroffolino]
- Super World Stadium '95 [Phil Stroffolino]
- Metal Hawk [Phil Stroffolino]
- Steel Gunner 2 [Phil Stroffolino
- Amazon [Phil Stroffolino]
- Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen [Phil Stroffolino, Stephane Humbert]
- Legion [David Haywood, Phil Stroffolino]
- Dragonball Z 2 Super Battle [David Haywood]
- Daioh [David Haywood]
- Cyvern [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Sen-Know [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Gals Panic 4 [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Gals Panic S - Extra Edition [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Gals Panic S2 [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Panic Street [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- PuzzLoop [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Jan Jan Paradise [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Jan Jan Paradise 2 [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Otome Ryouran [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Tel Jan [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Sengeki Striker [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]
- Speed Ball [Aaron Giles]
- Race Drivin' [Aaron Giles]
- Steel Talons [Aaron Giles]
- Asylum [Aaron Giles]
- Cruis'n USA [Aaron Giles]
- Cruis'n World [Aaron Giles]
- Area 51 [Aaron Giles]
- Maximum Force [Aaron Giles]
- Vicious Circle [Aaron Giles]
- Sky Raider [Stefan Jokish]
- Starship 1 [Frank Palazzolo, Stefan Jokish]
- Desert War [David Haywood, Paul Priest, Stephane Humbert]
- Gratia - Second Earth [David Haywood, Paul Priest, Stephane Humbert]
- The Game Paradise - Master of Shooting! [David Haywood, Paul Priest, Stephane Humbert]
- One Shot One Kill [David Haywood, Paul Priest, Stephane Humbert]
- Tetris Plus [David Haywood, Paul Priest, Stephane Humbert]
- Best Bout Boxing [David Haywood, Paul Priest, Stephane Humbert]
- Super Slam [David Haywood]
- Aquarium [David Haywood]
- S.S. Mission [David Haywood]
- Fit of Fighting [David Haywood]
- The History of Martial Arts [David Haywood]
- Indoor Soccer [David Haywood]
- Diver Boy [David Haywood]
- Speed Spin [David Haywood]
- Masked Riders Club Battle Race [David Haywood, Stephane Humbert]
- Hanaroku [David Haywood, Stephane Humbert]
- Fancy World - Earth of Crisis [David Haywood, Stephane Humbert]
- Flower [InsideOutBoy, David Haywood, Stephane Humbert]
- Ace [Jarek Burczynski]
- N.Y. Captor [Tomasz Slanina]
- Beam Invader [Zsolt Vasvari]
- Zarya Vostoka [Zsolt Vasvari]
- Megadon [Mike Haaland]
- Catapult [Mike Haaland]
- 4 En Raya [Tomasz Slanina]
- Sky Skipper
- Gomoku Narabe Renju [Takahiro Nogi]
New clones supported:
- Sanrin San Chan (= Spatter)
- New Rally X (vertical bootleg)
- Lode Runner - The Dig Fight (ver. A)
- Samurai Aces (= Sengoku Ace)
- Big Striker (bootleg)
- X-Men (US 2 Players)
- MatchIt (= Sichuan 2)
- Super Basketball (version G)
- Thunder Cross II (Asia)
- Alpha Fighter / Head On
- Donkey Kong (US set 2)
- Triple Fun (= Oishii Puzzle)
- Blandia
- Centipede (1 player, timed)
- Raiden [Taiwan]
- Goindol (World and Japan)
- Super Volleyball (US)
- Strikers 1945 (Japan, unprotected)
Download it from the M.A.M.E. section.
Posted by weaponX3
Snes9X V1.39a Released
Another SNES emulator has yet updated with big changes..Here's the following:
- Added Kode54's BRR decoder fix and SPC dumping protocols. (Kode54) (I may edit the GUI Dialog to have the Sample Decoding Cashe selection Grayed out since it is broken and non-working till it gets fixed or changed to something else.)
- Added FMOD 3.50 support to fix FMOD audio modes from last Official release.
- Cleaned up Borland GUI Graphical mode selection menu. OpenGL Bumpmapping
is finally gone since was defunct and virtually removed.
- Rearranged VC GUI to reduce redundant settings and simply menu items
to avoid having people who are new confused by multiple settings. All settings
still are fully operational and work.
- Debugging menu removed since it really wasn't helpful nor useful to the average user.
- Changed the old Mouse from a .(dot pointer) to an X(Linux X-Mouse) style pointer to make
it easier to see.
Many thanks to all who worked on the betas and contributed much of their time and efforts.
Much still has to be done so thank those responsible for the updates and hard work.
- Fixed the RTC detection. FINALLY done correctly (lantus, MKendora)
- neatened up the company table. (MKendora)
- fixed a mistake in the ROM Info box (MKendora)
- Added a Calulcated Size field to ROM INfo. (MKendora)
- Added 3 more companies to the ROM Info table (MKendora)
- Fixed BS detection (The Dumper)
- Added a Legend-specific hack to get sound. I remembered
it being mentioned in the changelog. (Gary Henderson)
- Unbroke the Star Ocean special cases (Trigger of Time, MKendora)
- Company 255 is not Hudson-ZFE detects all Hudson games
without it, except a corrupt dump (StatMat, MKendora)
- fixed a bug in the redone detection for the SPC7110 (CaitSith2)
- 44Khz sound should be 44.1Kz. Changed, though you'll
need to re-set 44.1Khz to make it take effect. Not sure
if this affects non-Windows ports. (MKendora)
- Added 32Khz playback (MKendora)
- Inproved BS ROM mapping (_Demo_, The Dumper, MKendora)
- Honkaku Syogi Fuunji Ryuou (J) fixed (force no multitap) (Frank Yang)
Also Fixed Super Castles (j).
Also fixed a bunch more. This dude e-mailed like 100 bugs
to my hosts, some already fixed in Snes9x1.39mk2, but
about 7 were clearly multi-tap5.
- also fixed Dekitate High School. Error was in Japanese (Frank Yang, Tomato)
- fixed 2 memory leaks (Aaron)
- Dai Kaiju Monogotari 2 works as a 40 Mbit ROM. (MKendora, The Dumper)
- Fixed the Flashback bug. Lots of info led to this. (neviksti, MKendora)
Thanks neviksti, The Dumper, TRAC, and FatlXception
for clarifying the behavior.
- Fixed Sailor Moon Fuwa Fuwa Panic 2 to work with (neviksti, MKendora)
previous fix. It's a total hack, but it should sound
just like the old Snes9x did. neviksti strikes again!
- Dirty hack to make 3 games deinterleave properly: (MKendora)
Wizardry 4, Mark Davis, and Honkakuha Igo Gosei(FX)
all work as well as the deinterleaved counterparts.
(The last is a hacked game, and you should get the
non-FX version)
- Fixed Seima Jyuden Beasts and Blades. Another Multitap, (Frank Yang)
but for some reason, the hack requires the C cpu core.
Thanks to Tomato for taking a stab at the error message,
as well. It was too vague to be of use, he said. I
just tried it because it worked on other games.
- Res Arcana fixed. Another Frank Yang report, another J (Frank Yang, MKendora)
error, but I can read kana well enough with a table!
- Removed a Terranigma specific hack. Not sure, but the (anomie)
new behavior might have fixed Tin-Tin in Tibet's colors.
- Dirty hack to work around a dirty hack. Both Yoshi's (MKendora)
Island (E) dumps should work now
- Added the JumboLoROM memory map, Extends LoROM support (The Dumper, neviksti, MKendora)
to 48+ Megabits.
- added an EXTBG fix, since iirc, TRAC is using it as well (anomie)
Does it actually fix anything?
- Fixed crash in DSP Op06 (The Dumper)
- Fixed a GUI error on my part (Trigger of Time)
- Cleaned up some of the SPC7110 detection/size code. (MKendora)
- Merged in XBox port changes to SPC7110 code (lantus)
- Added a call to Memory.Deinit when exiting. (lantus, MKendora)
- Many memory leaks fixed while chatting with lantus (lantus, MKendora)
- Fixed that stubborn open/close leak (lantus)
- hacked in Shien's Revenge (anomie)
- fixed Orge Battle's green lines. (CPU souce for DMA) (anomie)
- Looks interesting, and might apply to other DMA cases?
- maybe "fixed" DKC's barrels? by treating $2001
as unmapped. The game worked before with a hack. (MKendora)
- optimized SPC7110 slightly by removing extra setup work (MKendora)
- Fixed DBZ 3 (Korean). S. Korea is, in fact, NTSC. (MKendora)
- Fixed a hard-coded value in the SPC7110 (MKendora)
- Added a Win port ROM Info dialog (MKendora)
- some companies aren't in the table I used.
If you encounter an Unimplemented company,
report it the the Snes9x development forum, with
the correct company and the number.
- SPC7110 support based on Dark Force's docs. (Dark Force, zsKnight,The Dumper, MKendora)
- Trust me when I say those guys deserve the credit more
than me. From what I'm told, Dark Force is the man behind most of the reverse engineering, but they all did a much harder bunch of work than I did following their specs. It's plain and simple that these three are the masterminds behind all SPC7110 support.
Download it from the link above
Posted by Wildman55 :D
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Sunday, November 10th, 2002
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PC-FX emulator from Magic Engine Authors coming
The authors of the excellent Magicengine emulator are working on a NEC PC-FX emulator, and there are quite a lot of games already working on it, as the screenshots show.Lets hope its anywhere near as good as magicengine.
Posted By Baseley09 :D
VisualBoyAdvance V1.2 Released
The Popular GBA emulator has been updated finally!! Here's the following changes :D
Core changes
- added MidiKey2Freq bios call (thanks Chris Moeller)
- added AdvanceMAME Scale2x and Simple 2x filters
- added support for higher frameskip (up to 9)
- added C core for portability
- added big endian support
- added support for movement sensor (thanks Parasyte)
- added support for selecting save type available
- fixed another value for the bios protection
- fixed sound envelope reload bug (thanks jaymzj)
- fixed timer counter (not changing the value of the counter unless the timer overflows or is restarted)
- fixed problem on big endian when setting IO memory reable positions
- fixed reset LCD after disabling forced blank
- speed up now uses frameskip 9 (6 FPS)
- improved message when BIOS function cannot be emulated
Windows changes:
- added freeze recent list option
- added 800x600 support
- support to export GamesharkAdvance save games
- fixed bug when changing directories in the Directories... dialog
SDL version:
- added emulation for motion sensor
- fixed crash when printing void * variables
- fixed crash when -b specified incorrectly
- fixed warning when reading configuration file about disableMMX if compiled without MMX support
- fixed crash when trying open file that does not exist
Download it from the link above ^^
Raine V0.36.2 Released
The multi-arcade emulator has been updated once again..Here's the following changes:
- This is just a bug fix release, but since it comes 2 months after 0.36.1, there are quite a few fixes !
Before all, special thanks go to nlx_doom (from the forum) for his help for this version.
- The bigest change is the new line scroll functions which fixes the crash in the late stages of strikers 1945, and finally add the missing line scroll effects to the cps1 driver (at least all the street fighter games, punisher and varth use these line scrolls. Maybe some others...). Also nlx_doom added street fighter zero, cps1 changer version to the cps1 driver.
- LOTS of sound fixes, including a new "enhanced stereo" effect (see the sound options dialog) which works by delaying right and left channels for sound chips having one left channel and one right channel. The explosions in darius 2 are finally fixed, and it also probably fixes a few other sound effects in some other games. And finally some volume and frequency adjustements in a few games.
- Raine should now support pads/joysticks with more than 12 buttons (untested, because I don't have such a controller, but it should work).
- Kick off is now playable (megasys1 driver), thanks to some dip switches fixes by nlx_doom.
- And there are a few misc little changes here and there too, but these are the main changes. The big changes will be for the next release. As usual, you can get this version from our Archive page.
(There should be a debian package available next week for linux users).
Download it from the link above
VirtuaNES V0.71a Released
The NES Emulator has been updated once again..Here's the following changes:
V0.71a:
- The revision that included a bug for Joypad measures.
V0.71:
- The addition that measures to the thing which a specific axis entered with Joypad, and have grown (mainly, PlayStation Pad converter) are optional.
- Add "JoyAxisDisable= option value " to a [General] section of an INI file.
A meaning of an optional value is as follows.
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0 All axes are effective(default)
1 All axes are null and void
2 X axis is effective
3 X/Y axis is effective
4 X/Y/Z axis is effective
5 X/Y/Z/RX axis is effective
6 X/Y/Z/RX/RY axis is effective
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Note)Become the same setting entirely when connected more than one Joypad.
- Add a restraint option of a volume change effect by the output value of DMC to Triangle Wave.
Note)Change Plugin, and can set the option mentioned above only with an INI file because there isn't.
- Correct sweep of a Square Wave channel and behavior of a frequency limit.
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Thursday, November 7th, 2002
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AdvanceMAME V0.61.4 Released
The GNU/Linux and DOS port of the MAME, MESS and PacMAME has been updated once again..Here' the following changes:
- Merged the sdl and native system of the Linux target. You can now mix the SDL input/output drivers with the native drivers.
Better ./configure script. It detects and automatically enables all the available libraries.
- The configuration file now recognizes the SIZEXxSIZEYxFREQ section.
- Fixed a precision error checking the clock in the DOS vgaline driver.
- Removed the limitation of 8 bit crtc multiplier in the DOS vgaline driver.
- Revised the SVGALIB DOS compatibility layer. Some bugs fixed.
- Added the support for the SVGALIB video drivers in Windows NT/2000/XP.
Download it from the link above
VirtuaNES V0.71a Released
Another NES Emulator has been updated once again....Here's the following changes:
V0.71a:
- The revision that included a bug for Joypad measures.
V0.71 additions:
- The addition that measures to the thing which a specific axis entered with Joypad, and have grown (mainly, PlayStation Pad converter) are optional.
- Add "JoyAxisDisable= option value " to a [General] section of an INI file.
A meaning of an optional value is as follows.
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0 All axes are effective(default)
1 All axes are null and void
2 X axis is effective
3 X/Y axis is effective
4 X/Y/Z axis is effective
5 X/Y/Z/RX axis is effective
6 X/Y/Z/RX/RY axis is effective
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Note)Become the same setting entirely when connected more than one Joypad.
- Add a restraint option of a volume change effect by the output value of DMC to Triangle Wave.
Note)Change Plugin, and can set the option mentioned above only with an INI file because there isn't.
- Correct sweep of a Square Wave channel and behavior of a frequency limit.
Download it from the link above
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Wednesday, November 6th, 2002
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ClrMamePro V2.80.1 Released
The rom management utility has been updated once again..Here's the following changes:
- Improved DiskImage's Set + Name check
Download it from the link above
MAME Wip Page Updated
The MAME wip page has yet updated once again with the following progresses:
- 2002-11-02: Paul Priest fixed the colors in the Taisen Hot Gimmick games and Quiz de Idol! Hot Debut. Strikers 1945 III was also added to the Psikyo SH-2 driver, although one graphics ROM seems to be bad.
- 2002-11-01: Phil Stroffolino improved the Gorf colors. Nathan Woods did some minor tweaks to allow compiling with the MinGW 2.0 distribution
Download it from the link above
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Saturday, November 2nd, 2002
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ClrMamePro V2.80 Released
The Rom Management Utility for MAME has been updated once again..Here's the following changes:
- Finished DiskImage support (Thanks to Aaron Giles, David Haywood)
- DiskImages have to be stored in \\ (like: D:\mame\roms\area51\area51.chd)
- DiskImage check works with "missing", "case/fixcase", "name/fixname", "checksum->MD5 in CHD"
- Merger, Rebuilder and the rest of the Scanner options aren't used
- DiskImages shouldn't be put in addpaths (they won't be added anyway...and it'll slow down the process)
- Separated various checksum checkboxes from the main scanner window
- Fixed a memory leak bug in the md5 package (never trust 3rd party code :o))
- Fixed "Cancel" button (datfileparser/double-descriptions) (thanks to Cowering)
- Fixed "fix missing" issue
Download it from the link above
Genesis Plus V1.0 Released
A new Sega Megadrive/Genesis emulator (MacOS port) " Genesis Plus "(Authors: written by Charles MacDonald and ported to Macintosh by Richard F. Bannister)..Here's the info on this released emu:
- "Genesis Plus"... is a brand new Sega Megadrive/Genesis emulator, written by Charles MacDonald and ported to Macintosh by me. Genesis Plus has been under development for several years under the name Mekadrive, but this is the first version to be released to the public for any platform. Genesis Plus is somewhat faster than Generator in Accurate Mode, and runs many titles that Generator does not. (Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X supported).
Download it from the link above !!!
MAME WIP Page Updated
The mame wip page has been updated with its work progresses..Here's the following updates:
- 2002-10-30: Aaron Giles sent in the long-delayed Cojag driver, supporting Area 51, Maximum Force and Vicious Circle complete with perfect sound emulation. David Haywood and Paul Priest wrote a driver for One Shot One Kill but it's lacking sound emulation and has some graphics glitches.
- 2002-10-29: Stephane Humbert fixed one unknown DIP switch in the Flower driver. smf fixed some compile errors in the Williams V-unit driver.
Download it from the link above
DreamSNES V0.9.8 Released
The SNES emulator for dreamcast has been updated with a release version..Here's the following changes:
- SA-1 emulation fixed (Super Mario RPG now works (again))
- C4 emulation implemented (MegaMan X2/X3 now works)
- Putting a file called "NO_ROMS.HERE" in a directory prevents it from being scanned for roms.
- Added in game menu that lets you choose among other things to reset the game or jump to the next or previous game on the CD.
- Fixed sprites in hires mode with transparencies on. Fixes Tokimeki Memorial.
- Fixed memory map for Super Dante RPG maker.
- Improved buffer handling in mpeg player.
- New locales: Charnego and Romanian.
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