Wednesday, January 31st 2001 - Last updated @ 20:07 EST
MAME WIP - Gridle posted the last january 2001 MAME WIP update ! Great news guys - "insideoutboy added target crosshairs to Operation Wolf and Oper
ation Thunderbolt" which will make both games much more playable.
- Opi
X-Men Tables Tomorrow - The decryption tables for X-Men: COTA will not be available until tomorrow. So please stay cool, & please DO NOT email Raz or Dayvee about them. It's only one more day.
- prophet
Final Burn v0.090 - Oh my god - this is a new world record in releasing emulators within 30 minutes :-) Final Burn v0.090 is now here ! + I accidentally left the 06 (Brazil) region out of VSav - sorry! Added again now!
He also uploaded three X-Men: Children of the Atom screenshots.
- Opi
Final Burn v0.089 Does X-Men: Children of the Atom (Jpn) - Final Burn v0.088 is here ! Look here for the latest change
s ! X-Men: Children of the Atom (Jpn) anyone ? Dave & Razoola we all love you :)
Welp, Dave is faster than the light - now we are facing Final Burn v0.089 :)
He forgot to remove some debugging code. Please grab the new 0.089 release here - thanks to DaemoN for the 0.088 news and another "thank you" goes to Mr-Fuji for the bugfix re
lease info :-)
- Opi
The Video Game Museum Is Alive - Here are the recent Video Game Museum updates :
- o - 4 PSX Endings
- o - 2 New Game Scans sections :PS2 (8) and Sega Game Gear (32).
- o - 11 SMS and 15 N64 scans.
- o - 29 Atari ST, 15 SNES, & 21 Arcade games to Gamepics.
I contributed the SNES and Atari ST stuff, which makes these update really worth a posting here :)
- Opi
nesterJ v0.50 - My news source No ONE - Emulation 9 reported a new nesterJ release today. Below are th
e changes in version 0.50 of this great NES emulators for Windows - more info at our NES section :)
- o - fixd mappers 4,18,20,33
- o - fixed APU and NSF code as well as the 'Space Shadow Gun'
- o - support for Rec/Play Movie and network play (LAN / Internet)
- o - support state save for FDS games
- o - support Doremikko Keybord; Data Recorder; Datach Barcode Battler
Play Sonic The Hedgehog On Your Palm V or Palm VII - "Sega announces a deal to bring video game content to Palm wireless handheld computers". According to this ZDnet articles we'll see some Sega developed game later this year, a first result of the changed Sega product strategy ! Lets cross our fingers that Sega will survive these drastic changes. Thanks to cike for th
e link. Hint : next time write your email in German (cike is from Austria) :)
- Opi
Jum52 - a Macintosh port of Jum52 will shortly be available. Check out the details here. (Atila - please answer your e-mail!)
- richard
Small news - Here are two small bits of news:
The FPSE home page has just been updated with a screenshot of the current beta.
The Iki's GBA Emulator home page has been updated with the following small piece of news: Today i included the Mode 0. There aren't still no OAM. I hope to be able to provide a version beta on this site in one week or two (around february the 10th).<
BR>
- Martin
Hu-Go! 2.00 released! - The best free available PC Engine emulator Hu-Go! has just been updated to version 2.00. Here's what's new according to Zeograd:
It features all what was previously said, plus eagle and scanline mode under linux thanks to Lester Barrows.
Oh, and I saw today that Bwb was quitting the emu scene :(
I'd like to dedicace this version to him, for all the good things he did ... We'll miss you, Bwb.
Else, right now, only dos and win binaries are online, sources could be set quickly (maybe tomorrow) and linux version won't be long (let me setup anew my linux box :).
About the win file selector, don't worry if it doesn't work very well, as said in the previous news, it's just a quick hack. The file selector/gui will be totally rewritten and I just wanted to fix this lack before the real replacement.
Now, it's time to beat high scores :)
PocketSNES Site updated - The site for the new PocketSNES PocketPC SNES emulator has been updated with a request for your help. He's wanting you to download the new GAPI Propterties ZIP file, run the a
ppropriate EXE, and send him the results. Head on over to the PocketSNES page for more information.
- dhalamar
MESS WIP - Tuesday's MESS WIP report has been posted.
- chris
VsyncMAME 37 beta 11 - There is a new hosted site over at MAMEWorld, and a new version of VsyncMAME. Head on over there for more information on this. :)
- dhalamar
Thoughts Of The Day - Here we go again:
1. I suport public edurcation
2. And on the eighth day, God said: "OK, Murphy, now it's your turn."
3. He who laughs last, thinks the slowest.
And here are some user submissions:
4. "Life is a sexually transmitted mortal disease." Mike S.
5. "There are only 2 moments to drink vodka: when you're eating and when you're not..." - Mike S.
6. I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good, either. - Mr. Do
7. Ever notice how some Americans think foreigners (who don't understand English) will understand what the hell they're saying by YELLING English at them? - Tempora (ouch? - Atila)
There will be a few more today. And ofcourse the usual batch tomorrow :)
- atila
SSF 0.05 Alpha r4 - There's a new version of the SSF Sega Saturn Emulator, kinda hidden from people like me who don't bother checking message boards though. :) Click here for the post, I don't know what's new because I don't know Japanese. Thanks to PeterD, the new owner of EmuHQ,
for messaging me about this. :)
*UPDATE* Here's a translation of what I could find that's new. :)
The version which the window function enters is temporarily improved.
Fade under game of cherry great war 2
Respect selection screen of Sanda force 5
[It] came to be displayed straight.
- dhalamar
MAMECat v0.42.b3 released - The frontend MAMECat for XMAME has been updated today with a new version. To learn about the changes and to grap a copy visit MAMECat'sofficial home page.
Thanks to PeterD for the news!
- Martin
Sega Goes Multi-Platform - IGNDC has the full story.
- atila
FPSE Playstation emulator - The homepage for FPSE(you know, that cool Playstation emulator?), has been updated with 2 screenshots of games running, although I've no clue what games they are.
:) And the page will be updated again sometime today.
- dhalamar
SSF Tribute I saw over at Zophar's Domain that a SSF Tribute site for us people who don't know Japanese is here. :) Take a look. :)
- dhalamar
Little news bunched up - OK, here's a list. It's easier this way. :)
Screenshots of ePSXe and PSEmu Pro(yes, there are still people who use this emulator, I'm one of them) running all kinds of different games at http://romov.delfi.lv/pics.php. The site isn't in English, but it's
real easy to figure out. Game Gallery has screenshots of various games running in ePSXe, as well as many other emulators for various systems(including Final Burn), and last, but not least, the DCM05 Homepage has 30 screenshots using their M-05 emulator. :) Thanks to all the people who E-Mailed me. :)
- dhalamar
fMSX-SO V0.82 - The MEPS crew E-Mailed me about this one.
fMSX-SO is a port of the famous fMSX-Emulator by Marat. This port by HQ is meant to run under Windows and has as a major aim to get good OPLL emulation, something that is lacking in most other MSX Emulators at the moment. This OPLL (FM-PAC) emulation r
uns through MIDI in this emulator.
The new features mainly include better SCREEN5 emulation and some improved in the OPLL emulation (Decay was updated
I think that about sums it up. And bwb, you'll be missed.
- dhalamar
CALICE v0.0.5 - David Raingeard is still busy updating his new CPS 1 emulator CALICE. New or changed in release 0.0.5 :
- o - Ini file to avoid to use the switches
- o - Roms, log and drivers directory configuration (calice.ini)
- o - Checksum rom test
- o - Support for zipped romsets
- o - small utility to calculate the checksum of a file (CHECKSUM.EXE)
Right now CALICE is capable to run three different CPS 1 games : Final Fight (world), Strider (world) and Willow (Japan). Here's your download link. Thanks to Navarone's Emulatio
n9 for this and the DreamGBC news !
- Opi
DreamGBC 2001 Final BETA 4 - Update Ooops, I reported about the old version, now it's the right one - thanks to Uncool for the correction :)
After two weeks of silent work, Kervin thought it's about time to release a new DreamGBC version. DreamGBC 2001 Final Beta 4 has the following new to offer :
- o - [Mapper] Perfect MBC3 Clock emulation! Time in game (pokemon,etc)
...... will change as it will do on a real GBC
- o - [GameBoy] Selectable interrupt engine. If some games don't work,
...... try another interrupt engine.
Click here to download DreamGBC 2001 Final Beta 4.
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Sad to see bwb leaving - hope that PeterD will be able to continue without him. EmuHQ is without doubt one of the best Emulation sites. Loosing it would be really awful ! Best wishes to you Ben :)
- Opi
bwb is quitting EmuHQ - bwb, one on the most famous emu news posters, is quitting the scene. You can read his farewell letter at EmuHQ. Good luck from everyone at retrogames :)
- Martin
Iki's GBA Emulator soon to be released - Well, it seems that yesterday's release of Virtual Gameboy Advance was just the beginning of a new wave of GBA emulators. On this site you can admire 17 screen
shots of this new GBA emulator in action which is set to be released some time in February :) Thanks to Ben-J for the info!
- Martin
Tuesday, January 30th 2001 - Last updated @ 19:29 EST
modeler WIP Update - The modeler WIP page was updated with 10 new screenshots - check them out (can't wait to play Sonic Arcade at home) ! Thanks to Sixtoe for the hint :)
- Opi
fMSX-DOS Loader 2.0 & MSX ROM Manager 2.0a - Nightfox uploaded new versions of his MSX tools. The database was completely rewritten to fix some ROM identifying related proble
ms.
Update : If you already downloaded MSX ROM Manager 2.0, then please redownload it as v2.0a ! The old 2.0 release had a nasty bug if you used the "-EDIT command".
- Opi
Offend v0.83 - Psyman informed me about his latest Offend update. Offend is a multi-emulator front end with a large number of already supported emulators. This up
date adds support for Neopocott, Reality Boy, VMS, WPC Mame and MESS v0.37 b11.
- Opi
MAMEBoy v1.3 - A new MAMEBoy binary is online. Now with perfectly centered screen and normal button support for E115 and E125. Kangaroo, Shao Lin's Road and Xeviou
s were added to the list of supported games in MAMEBoy.
................................................................ Hi Martin - nice to have you aboard :)
- Opi
MESS WIP - The MESS WIP page has been updated with Monday's news. Summary: Ben releases DOS MESS, Raphael merges in code from MacMAME into MacMESS. Click the link above for more details.
- chris
GameBoy for Linux - cingb is an attempt to write a Gameboy emulator for Linux. It can currently play many Gameboy and Gameboy Color ROMs. It includes a debugger for step-by-s
tep analysis of gameboy programs. (Source: Freshmeat.)
- chris
It seems that we will have a second Sega Saturn emulator after SSF capable of running commercial games. On the official Giri homepage you can read a fat title stating "'Daytona USA' is running" and
some screenshots showing Daytona USA in action on Giri Giri!
- Martin
Linux - Linux kernel 2.4.1 has been released, this is the latest stable version of the linux kernel. Update: This kernel includes support for reiserfs (source: Kernel Traffic.)
- chris
LaserEMU has turned one year old today :) To celebrate this its author Bender will release a new version soon with many more games playable!
- Martin
Martin - Just wanted to welcome ya to the group Martin. :) Hopefully you won't be like Atila and steal my posts. ;) Nah, great to have ya on.
- dhalamar
ROM hacks - Zakk wrote in to let me know of a new ROM Hacking site which hacks ROMs with translations etc., they are currently working on a translation for Quiz KOF.
(I noticed that with quizkof I can set US in the dipswitch menu, but all the text is still japanese, as far as I could tell the only difference was I got a "Winners don't do drugs" screen).
- chris
Linux Emulation - The LinuxEmu web site has put up an article about the current state of linux emulation. Thanks to Tima
for the news.
- chris
Gameboy Advance emulation!! - If you know me you know I'm a BIG fan of Gameboy Advance emulation. Simon B told me to go to his page a few minutes ago, and when I went, what did I see? Well, for one, a new demo is out which looks pretty cool.
:) And another, Marat Fayzullin has made an alpha version of his own Gameboy Advance emulator which is currently know as, well, I'm sure you can guess : Virtual Gameboy Advance.
So head on over to the Gameboy Advance Developemt homepage to grab all the currently released GBA demos and all the tools you could ever want, along with Marat's new V-GBA. :) Thanks Simon B. :)
- dhalamar
Thought Of The Day - Are you ready to get those grey cells into action?
1. I still miss my ex, but my aim is getting better.
2. Your village called. They want their idiot back.
And these were supplied by our readers (errors corrected by me):
3. "You live only once - thank god !" - Ben N.
4. "ever notice when the batteries on a remote are dying, people always press harder on the remote buttons." - Paul M.
5. "You can never make anything completely fool-proof because fools are so ingenious" - zadock
6. Never argue with an idiot, they bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
I am about to post my first bit of news on Retrogames :), but before doing that I would like to introduce myself to all readers: My name is Martin, I'm 19 years old and I live in Southern Germany. And together, we'll try our best to bring you the m
ost complete emulation coverage.
SegaXtreme has released another fantastic OST from Sega: Revenge of Shinobi. Thanks to Iceman2k for the news!
- Martin
Game Boy Advance News - pocket.ign has some interesting Game Boy Advance news and articles online. For example : Big N President Yamauchi confirmed new GBA titles devel
oped by Sega and denied Square as a GBA developer. 2.7 million GBA's are currently preordered, a new list of confirmed GBA games is online, GBA games WIP pictures and a Mario Tennis review (this game is a blast, must buy). You see - pocket.ign is a great place to "waste" some minutes :)
- Opi
PocketSNES 1.00 beta 1 - Here's another new emulator reported by Emulation9 - PocketSNES, a SNES emulator for Pocket PC. You'll n
eed Gapi 1.2 from Microsoft to run this emulator. Current drawback : no sound support.
- Opi
SainT V0.9b - SainT, a new Atari ST emulator for Win9x,NT (SP5) and 2000 was released to the public. It has support for raster and split raster effects (plasma, spectrum 512
pics ...), STFM "hardware" / sync scrolling and STE DAC support (sounds good, whatever it means). For additional info/download go here - thanks to Emulation9 for the heads up.
- Opi
MAME WIP - More work-in-progress! This caught my eye: "John Bennett added a fixed Strider sound ROM to the CPS-1 driver, which gets rid of repeating music in some stages." But, but, but... Sardu s
aid... Oh, nevermind. :)
- prophet
NeoPocott site updated The NeoPocott homepage was updated a few minutes ago with an update regarding Playstation 1 and 2 ports of the emulator. :) Head on over to the site and check it out.
- dhalamar
MAMECE-10X update - The site for the Casio E-100 & E-105 port of MAME has been updated with progress on the ePod build of MAME. And Test Build #2 is released with Galaga working, the screen centered, and front end options visible, although t
here's no working sound or working inputs. He's wanting an ePod owner to take over the project too. Click here to go to the site.
- dhalamar
Charles MacDonald's Homepage updated - He has updated his page with an update to his Sega Genesis Hardware Notes recently and some information about his unnamed NEC PC Engine emulator. This is the guy responsible for SMS Plus and that Sega S
ystem 16 emulator that runs Shinobi. :) Click here to go to his page.
- dhalamar
DreamMSX v0.2f - Version 0.2f of this Dreamcast MSX emulator has been released over at DC Emulation. Man now I wish I had a Dreamcast and a CD Burner, I wanna try these emulators.
- dhalamar
Xenimus Rip-Off - There's an online game called Xenimus that one of my friends, Stick Figure plays, and recently got ripped off in the game. Here's his quote about the whole incident
:
My player was in that safety zone. A PKer found a loophole to force the player out. The player had a certain shield that a PKer wanted, and so they exploited a glitch within the game. If that's not bad enough, the author of the game, who should be held
accountable of anything that happens to players involving glitches, WAS NOT willing to give back items lost because of the glitch. The sad part is, I paid for this game out of my own pocket and this guy has the nerve to treat players like THAT when I'm k
eeping him from working in a pizza place or wherever. That's why I suggest that not only you avoid playing this game, but tell the author that you WILL NOT be playing this game because of the way he treats his users.
And here's from the main page of the site about the Safety Zone : There is a safety zone that you will start in that you cannot be killed in. If people attack you then the attack is reversed back on them. If they kill themselves by attacking someone th
en the person they were attacking gets experience for the kill.
REALLY wants me to download and try this game. This kind of thing ticks me off about some games.
- dhalamar
iGBA Progress update - The author updated the iGBA homepage with news that he suffered a speed loss that he's trying to work around. Head on over to the page to check out screenshots of wha
t demos he's gotten working so far. :) Thanks to bwb for the news.
- dhalamar
LaserEmu Site update - The homepage for the multiarcade emulator, LaserEmu has gone through a big change. It's the authors birthday today (Happy Birthday!!) and he talks about the emulators history among
other things in his newest post, and we should be seeing a new version of this emulator soon.
- dhalamar
Monday, January 29th 2001 - Last updated @ 23:30 EST
[pec] the plugin v1.3 - The best ePSXe cheating utility out there, [pec] has been updated. Head on over to the [pec] homepage for more information. Excellent cho
ice if you're into cheating. ;)
- dhalamar
Dreamcast Successor 'Games Gateway' - Slashdot just posted this article that talks about Sega's plans for their next console. It's a bi
t dodgy, but apparently it won't play DC gd-rom discs, but instead download them to a hard drive via a digital cable connection. It's called (hopefully this is a tentative title) the 'Games Gateway', has been a year in development, and should be able to
store 60 or so games at any one time. Atila posted this press release a while ago, but a little extra info can't hurt:) Read more here.
- david
Bliss Site updated - The homepage for the Intellivision emulator Bliss has been updated. Go check it out. Thanks to PeterD for the news. :)
- dhalamar
Meka Configurator v0.56 & New SMS Power Dumps - Maxim recently released a new version of Meka Configurator, his Meka configuration tool. This tool ables you to edit the meka.cfg within a nice GUI and shows you all possible options (it works quite well). Version 0.56 got some new options
to setup Meka and preliminary translation support. If you wanna translate Meka Configurator into your own language, then contact the author. Thanks to Destemido for the n
otification.
During my "Meka Configurator research" I noticed that Zoop finally found some time to release two new SMS Power dumps : Predator 2 for SMS and Poker Face Paul's Gin for GG ! Check the SMS Power forum for a nice little surprise.
- Opi
Eskimo Bob ! - Some guys do have a really strange kind of humor :-)
- Opi
DreamMSX v0.2b - The MSX emulator for Dreamcast called DreamMSX has been updated to version 0.2b, and it WORKS! :) Anyway, you can go pick this up from DC Emulation. Thanks to Octalus666
for the news.
- dhalamar
NES Section At Retrogames - I used my spare time (thanks to Dhalamar I found nothing left to post, hehe) and finished our NES section. Now you can choose between 11 different NES emula
tors (I added loopynes, nester and nesterJ) and check out their feature list or whatever you want. Contact me if you think we still miss something "important" - there are still more than 20 other emularors
evailable !
Next new section will be one for the Game Boy - please tell me which emulators you prefer, besides DBoy, No$gmb and Visual Boy. Also welcome are hints and descriptions for the different available MAME builds - I wanna redo our MAME section too - thanks in
advance.
- Opi
WinEMU 0.49 released! - WinEMU is a Windows based Commodore C16/Plus4 emulator. Version 0.49 includes new windowed screen modes, tons of fixes including Manic Miner working nicely now, DirectSound works under Windows NT4, stack debugger and
more. WinEMU homepage. (Thanks Lando of C16/Plus4 Classix)
- prophet
Atari Fans and Developers! - The Classic Gaming Expo homepage has released Atari Jaguar and Atari Lynx Encryption Software. All you people wanting to develop for either of those systems rejoice. :) Click <
a href="http://cgexpo.com/encrypt.html">here to get more information. Oh yeah, the one for Atari Lynx is for Amiga only by the way. Regardless, head on over there. :) Thanks to WWEMU for the news. :)
- dhalamar
ClrMAME Pro 1.92! - Roman Scherzer posted a new version of his awesome ROM utility! Some fixes and functional changes made. ClrMAME Pro homepage.
- prophet
Final Burn Guide updated - James has updated Guyfawkes' Final Burn Guide with the following things:
- Updated game.ini pack, redone all the games which now have three punches/kicks support (use the shoulder buttons)
- Added some new Q&A
- Added new game screenshots for Ghouls n' Ghosts, Rockman/Megaman - to save bandwidth and page loading times they are now on a seperate page.
- Other minor changes
XGaming's Cyberstik Reviewed - As retrogamers await XGaming's official X-Arcade debut, they might be interested in the Adrenaline
Vault's review of the Cyberstick Air Joystick. Apparently XGaming is one hot new controller company, 'cuz it got 5 stars outta 5! Bring on that X-Arcade!
- prophet
Atari 800 Tribute updated - LeatherFace said he updated The Atari 800 Tribute site with a guide for level 2 of The Goonies and added some games. Head on over there and check it out.
- dhalamar
MESS WIP - The MESS WIP page has been updated with Sunday's news. There has also been an official DOS MESS 0.37b11 released this morning, expect to see it on the official site as soon as Richard gets a chance to upload it.
- chris
MAME WIP - Gridle updated the MAME WIP with screenshots of the working Looping / Sky Bumper driver.
- chris
More ePSXe screenshots - Ridge was kind enough to E-Mail me about his udpate to his collection of ePSXe v1.0.1 screenshots. Here's the games he added:
007 - Tomorrow Never Dies - 20 snapshots
Ridge Racer Turbo Edition - 8 snapshots
Ridge Racer Revolution - 15 snapshots
Tony Hawk's Pro skater - 15 snapshots
Wipeout 3 - 7 snapshots
Calice v0.0.4 - This multi-arcade CPS1 emulator has been slightly updated. Here's what's new:
The emulation has been speed up a little bit. The compatibility is better, (block sprites are emulated now). There is 8 bpp and 15 bpp rendering modes. Willow is playable now. Strider too. It is possible to build new drivers using my "script engine". H
ave a look at the .DRV files with notepad and have fun =)
I am *trying* to design it both for speed and portability. Most of the low level functions are written in assembly using nasm, to be easily ported to other operating systems(x86 only). Note that CALICE is not optimized yet...
Head on over to the Calice homepage to download it.
- dhalamar
Hmm.... - I personally think Atila has been sitting by the computer since the last Final Burn release just to he could beat me to the post. I was LOGGING IN to post about it, then he comes
out and says "Final Burn released".
Burning Desire - Dave has once again updated Final Burn, here's what's new:
* Input is now always read for every frame, even if the emu is frame skipping. It makes no difference here since the emu hardly ever frame-skips, so I'm uploading this mainly because I'm curious - does it help anyone else's controller problems?
Hu-Go! - The PC Engine/TG-16 emulator Hu-Go! has been updated. Click here for more info on what's new. Thanks to Martin for the ne
ws. :)
- dhalamar
Sega's Deal With Pace - Sega should have issued this press-release last week, when the 'bad news' hit the scene. PACE will add a "DC-on-a-Chip" to every re
ceiver they make and you will be able to download DC games via satellite/broadband, which will then be stored on a 40GB HD, inside the receiver.
- atila
Final Fantasy IX screenshot madness - This IS madness. I've never seen so many damned screenshots for one game. Over at the awesome ePSXe support/fan site ePSXe Fanatics HamX submitted !
!54!! screenshots of Final Fantasy IX, and Sonikku submitted 4 screenshots at 4xFSAA with a GeForce Ultra2 of the same game, all using ePSXe. Sheesh! I would submit some, but screenshots I make wouldn't be worth looking at. ;) Thanks to Wormie for putting this great site together, and he's still working on getting that great compatibility list up, submit something to him and help him out. :)
*UPDATE* Wormie just got done adding 32 screenshots of Gran Turismo 2 submitted by ArchangelX. There's a Mustang in that game, I must get that game now. Go check out the screenshots while I get my game and my dream car.... '65 Mustang GT..... Mmmmm.......
- dhalamar
Project Titan 1/28/01 - The Sega Saturn emulator Project Titan has been updated to 1/28/01. Here's a summary of what's new courtesy of EmuSphere:
Added byteswapping patch for better x86 performance
Began transition from "ReBECa" model to "PATRICk"
Rewrote Prolog/Epilog Code
Began SH2->x86 translation code (compiles with NASM)
Nearly completed caching system for generated blocks
Streamlined opcode identification -- will use this for the Patrick core
Upgraded to Genital68k 0.21 -- Full code optimization now works
Moved VDP and CDROM Win32 code to plugin dlls, and slightly modified API
Head on over to the Project Titan homepage to download this and try it out.
- dhalamar
Apollo Source released - The source code for the now discontinued Nintendo 64 emulator Apollo has been released with a very long post about the reasons for quitting work on the emulator. Head on ov
er to the Apollo site for more information and the source code. Thanks to EmuSphere for the news.
- dhalamar
pecEdit v1.5 - Aldo has released version 1.5 of his editor the the cheat utility [pec]. Here's what's new:
Merge games of 2 [pec] databases (replace cheats for existing games, add new games)
Text editor for game cheats (view/copy/paste/replace all cheats without validation)
Get id of current CD from the import window.
Head on over to Aldo's page to download that all all the Pplaystation utilities you can shake a stick at. Thanks to Bobbi for the news. :)
- dhalamar
Phantasy v0.20b - Phantasy v0.20b was released. It's a SMS front-end for Windows. Here's what's new:
it fixes some error what slip into the previous version
it also adds a few things
i also took time to do a re-write of the documentation and i added a HTML documentation, also the Self-Executable instalator is done.
Head on over to the Phantasy homepage if you wanna try it out. :) Thanks EmuHolic.
And my sincerest condolences go out to Guyfawkes and his family. His grandfather passed away recently. :(
- dhalamar
G-NES v.475 - Justin was kind enough to send me an E-Mail speciftying at least one thing that's new in the recent G-NES release.
Hey, I fiddled around with the menus for the latest G-NES release, and it seems that a new soundcore: MIDI, was added.
More Gameboy Advance emulator delight! - I was over at EmuHQ, and I saw a post about a new Gameboy Advance emulator! Now, if you know me, I am big into Gameboy Advance emulation. :) It's called iGBA, which already runs 7 demos perfectly, and 2 more are close to working, and has screenshots of what it runs too. :) If you want to learn more about Gameboy Advance emulation and developement, I suggest you go to the Gameboy Advance Developement homepage, they have all the publically released demos, the one GBA emulator that has been released, all sorts of tools, and other little tidbits.
- dhalamar
Sunday, January 28th 2001 - Last updated @ 22:04 EST
Final Burn 0.086! - Another few hours, another update from Dave. :) The main thing now is EEPROM saving to your hard drive! If you don't know what that means, then trust me, it's a very nice, very useful feature and you want it. So go get it!
- prophet
FE for DOS v0.13a - For those few people who care - the japanese Famicom/NES emulator FE for DOS was updated to version 0.13a. For more info a
bout this emu go here :) Thanks to Grégory from www.All4Emu.com for the email.
- Opi
New RomCenter Datfiles - The RomCenter homepage was updated with a couple of new datfiles. Some "Cowering Goodxxx tools" conversion from Rob van der Drift and updated Logi
qx datfiles : Calice 0.0.3a (new), CPS-2, Final burn 0.080 and wpcmame. Thanks to Rico2000 for the news.
- Opi
Final Burn v0.085 - Busy, busy Dave ! Two Final Burn releases within 24 hours ! New in this release :
+ (Added a few CPS1 games to save people rom swapping)
+ Added support for Megaman (Asia), (no sound)
+ Added support for Rockman (Jpn), (no sound)
+ Added support for Ghouls 'N Ghosts (no sound)
Thoughts Of The Day - It's time to get all philosophical:
1. "Light is faster than sound. That's why people look intelligent, up until the point you hear them speak."
2. "Kids on the backseat cause accidents. Accidents on the backseat cause kids."
MESS WIP - Another MESS WIP report has been submitted with Saturday's WIP news.
- chris
Nester Public Beta 4 - Darren Ranalli published a new beta of Nester, his fine NES emulator for Win9x ! Great to see a new release by Darren himself, after "hundr
eds" of new "unofficial nester" patches and nesterJ release - which both use the Nester source as base for their own emulator. I'm sure we will soon see many new releases or ports with the Nester public beta 4 so
urce as initial code base. Here are the available downloads :
Final Burn v0.084 - Final Burn v0.084 is out - here are the latest changes / improvements :
+ Added keys for all three Punches and Kicks in the CPS2 games. To define them, use the Input list.
+ (Vampire) Fixed the problem with the EEPROM emulation.
* (Note EEPROM is not saved to disk yet though.)
+ (VSav) Fixed the graphical glitch where Shadow was shown on the Red Curtain screen
+ (Vampire) vampja.ini should have been called vampj.ini, fixed.
Britney Spears - I like Britney Spears now. :) An MP3 of her swearing like a sailor in a recent show was on Zophar's Domain recently, and now The Register has a
little peice about it, filling in the gaps that at least *I* was wondering about. You can hear the clip of Britney complaining to her managers at BritneySpears.Org, or you can look through ZD's old news, or I'm
sure you could find it in Crapster.... er..... Napster. I have to say I like her now, I think I'm gonna buy her CD tommorow, and browse the net for some interesting pics.....
- dhalamar
Sleepy? Nah - Wildifire0 is trying to go to sleep. I'm not letting him. He also wrote this. It's 3:30 in the morning for me right now. I really should sleep.<
BR>
Bah, who needs sleep.
- dhalamar
G-NES v0.475 - The NES emulator G-NES has been updated, although I haven't the slightest clue as to what's new. :) Go to the G-NES homepage to download it th
ough. Thanks Guyfawkes.
- dhalamar
DC Emulation - DC Emulation has put up the interview with TwinD, the programmer of DreamGEN. AND they added a section for DreamSNES screenshots wish some cover shots, AND posted link to some articles that have been going around about the Dreamcast lately. :) This is one of the very few times I wish I had a Dreamcast.
- dhalamar
What the.... - One of my friends, WaaX showed me this. Are these guys serious, or is it some kind of bizarre joke?
- dhalamar
Apollo Discontinued - The Nintendo 64 emulator Apollo has been discontinued. :( Head on over to the page to read the post.
- dhalamar
Saturday, January 27th 2001 - Last updated @ 23:20 EST
Silly me - I should've posted about this earlier, but I had to bolt offline for a little while. Anyway, more Gameboy Advance emulator news. There's a new one in the works coded by Eloist. He has a screenshots WIP page up right now with shots
of the emulator running some the current demos at 20+ FPS. Click here to check that out. He said these shots were taken from an older version and that the newer version runs faster than that. Thanks t
o Eloist for the telling me about this, and let's hope there's a release soon. :)
- dhalamar
Modeler WIP News - Weee R. Belmont called us "damn lazy news posters - what an insult, now I'm going to 'quit da skene' after I pleased this 'impudent greedy' Linux
guy :)
However, he updated the Modeler WIP page and uploaded "a few screenshots from a couple of wip drivers: Sonic, Rad Mobile and Arabian Fight. These games aren't playable yet but their attract modes work with incor
rect colors and plenty of missing graphics and glitches." Visit the Modeler homepage for additional info and the pictures !
- Opi
Get Some Games - My favourite C-64 site Lemon was updated with 25 new tape images - The X68000 Games Pile offers you a handful of new
X68000 games and Rico'sRC Roms has now (again) all public domain ROMs from the Cowering Good-tools series online !
- Opi
Lewpy's GPU Plugin v1.28 - Lewpy has released v1.28 of his GPU plugin for all you Playstation emulation fans. AND he now has his own page over at http://lewpy.psxemu.com/. So head on over there and down
load his plugin if you use ePSXe or PSEmu Pro or anything else that can use this plugin and get it. :) Thanks to Bobbi for the news.
*UPDATE* I got one E-Mail from someone who wanted me to point out that this is a GLIDE plugin just in case you're living under a rock and don't know about Lewpy's GPU.
- dhalamar
Speaking of the GBA - The Gameboy Advance Developement page has updated both with a new design AND a new 3-D demo using the Mode 5 3-D engine. Head on over there and check it out. :)
- dhalamar
Boycott Advance - OK, if you didn't know, I'm REAL big into Gameboy Advance emulation. I don't know why, I just am. I went over to the NeoPocott page a few minutes ago just to see if they had updated so I'
d have an excuse to post and they have.
First the bad news, the author's pet dog Elsa died Thruday night. :( As a result he started working on BoyCott Advance to keep his mind off things, and now has a screenshot of the ConsoleDev Promo running. Head over to the
NeoPocott homepage to see the screenshot and information about their other emulators, and go over to either the Gameboy Advance Developement page for all the GBA stuff you can shake a stick at, or Kojote's Freeware ROMs, currently the biggest freeware ROMs page I've ever seen.
- dhalamar
Article on Emulation - I know it's old, but I don't care. It's too cool. :) I was over at MAMEWorld, and they mentioned an 6 page article on emulation from a UK magazine called PC Utilities about a month ago. So, MAMEWORLD got permission to scan and put up the article. All 6 pages are up there. I'm still reading through it. :)
- dhalamar
SNESAmp v2.0 - Akilla from Zophar's Domain mentioned the release of SNESAmp v2.0 ! SNESAmp is an awesome (the best imho) SPC plugin for Winamp made by Anti Resonance. Here's (374 kb) the new plugin exe (get the changes info from the SNESAmp homepage), double click it and direct it to your winamp directory and you're set. After the download you should check out the sound tracks section at the SNESAmp homepage or visit Zophar Domain's famous SPC archive which was updated twice recently !
- Opi
LOOPING!! - Phil Stroffolino made a big step forward with the Looping driver! Check MAME WIP for a screen shot.
- chris
easyEmu - Paul wrote in to let me know of some updates over at the easyEmu web page. In the Hints & Tips section, he has ad
ded information on controller calibration for Operation Thunderbolt / Space Gun, how to flip the screen in the Altus/Cave games (like guwange), and how to disable the censorship in Pipi & Bibi / Whoopee. He has also updated the MAME Game lists for beta 9 and 10.
- chris
RockNES v1.703 - NES release news part 3 :) Kinox mentioned the third bugfix release for the current RockNES v1.7 cycle - ie Roc
kNES v1.703 is out !
- o - Fixed savestate code to suit big-endian byte order (the MacOS)
- o - Fixed EAGLE blitting (removed debug junk)
- o - Fixed sprite ram data overflow (oh boy)
- o - More fixes to MMC5 (IRQ is working again, sorry).
Unofficial nester 2001/01/27 - Emulation 9 was updated with a new version of unofficial nester which is available for you here. After using it several times now, unofficial nester convinced me now. This is without a doubt the best and most compatible NES emulator currently available.
- code fixed NSF(thanx rinao)
# support 'Doremikko Keybord'
# fix 'Space Shadow Gun'
# fix NSF Player (enable all APU channel)
- Opi
Jnes v0.40 Beta 2 - Jabo released a new beta of Jnes, his great NES emulators for Win9x. You can check out our interview section for more info about Jabo and
the NES section for more details about Jnes ! New or changed in v0.40 Beta 2 :
- o - Put a cap on direct input error handling during game play
- o - Rewrote some window handling routines for full screen
- o - Fixed a bug in the window size menu-check handling
- o - Initialized the task variable to zero correctly, hopefully this fixes
..... problems people experienced with save states doing odd stuff!
Click here to download it. Thanks to Jabo for the "hey" (next time sent me an more informative email, please) hint :)
- Opi
MESS WIP - Another MESS WIP update today and yet another driver added to MESS! This time Kev unleashes the Exidy Sorcerer (remember this one?) Click the link above for more info.
- chris
MacMAME 0.37b11 - The MacMAME team has released MacMAME 0.37b11, this version is in sync with the DOS version, here's what's new:
- In sync with the DOS 0.37 beta 11 build. [Brad Oliver]
- Many fixes to the PowerPC 68ec020 core, although it's still not perfect. [Brad Oliver]
- Many fixes for the Carbon version. It is now usable, although it is still lacking in many areas. Please do not report bugs on the Carbon build. [Brad Oliver, Raphael Nabet]
- The debugger window now renders properly in all cases {Raphael Nabet]
- Fixed problem with some new 020 opcodes, also fixed crash when using renderer plugin. [Brad Oliver]
The MacMAME source code can be obtained from the MacMAME site.
- atila
All Your Base Are Belong to US!!! - That's right, sports fans, it's time to drag your soul in the evil world and take off every 'zig, because a winner is EVERYONE now that Zany Video Game Quotes is back in action! Read the lengthy and SNK-glish laden intro here then check out this ultimate archive of goofy, silly, stupid, and downright zany videogame quotes from the likes of SNK and many others. <
b>VICTOLY!!
- david
MAME WIP - Gridle has posted a tiny MAME WIP update, regarding CPS2 and Taito F3 sound emulation.
- atila
Final Burn 0.083! - Dave has released 2 new revisions of Final Burn in the past few hours, here's what was added:
v0.083
+ Made 640x480 the default res, because it works quite well for all games.
For CPS2 scanlines, make sure the res is 640x480 in finalburn.ini. Now just make sure stretch is NOT ticked, and hit scanlines. Voila - fullscreen scanlines.
v0.081
+ Fixed "VS Screen" rowscroll problem (background effect) and alignment of the hiscore screen.
+ Final Burn now checks for CRC *errors* in a Zip file (i.e. if the zip file is corrupt) as well as checking if the CRCs of the roms are correct.
Friday, January 26th 2001 - Last updated @ 20:55 EST
Game & Watch News - Visit _MADrigal_'s handhelds simulators page and grab Madrigal's latest updates. He uploaded upgraded versions of Donkey Kong (Nintendo, Mu
lti-Screen Series) Simulator now v1.03) and Snoopy Tennis (Nintendo, Wide-Screen Series v1.00a) simulator. "both feature massive graphics retouch and *much* more accuracy to the Donkey Kong game".
- Opi
Exotic Translation News - I was informed about the release of the first ever completed console game translation into Greek ! GTI aka "Greek Translations Inc" released a complete patch for ... drumroll ... (Opi hides, weia - Big N is watching me) ... POKeMON Yellow !!! This translation effort makes sense, in my humble opinion (imho). Nintendo would surely never translated it on their own ! So now - all you
5 Greek guys are still here eh ? Hurry and grab your patch and expect some more good news in the new future !
- Opi
Useful Tips And Tricks - Wanna flip the screen and controls in Gridseeker ? Activate the blood in Metal Slug, remove the censorship (buuuuh) in Pipi & Bibis / Whoopee, or have a correct looking screen in the Atlu
s/Cave games ? Null problemo :) Check mrv2k's latest easyEmu update !
- Opi
C-64 Still 'Rulez' - Peepo was so kind and sent me an email about his latest uploads at Redump 64. Raid Over Moscow, Rick Dangerous 2, Skatin' USA, Turbo Kart Ra
cer, Rainbow Islands, Rastan, Operation Wolf, Renegade, Run The Gauntlet & Platoon are ready for you (some are filled requests) !
- Opi
QPlayer v1.4.1 - Barry Rodewald released QPlayer v1.4.1, you can get it at the usual place - http://galemu.emulationworld.com/. He wrote : "you sh
ould now get better sounding samples", well, try your luck.
- Opi
MESS WIP - The MESS WIP page has been updated with Thursday's news.
- chris
Awwww...... how cute - Cute, in a bizarre sort of way.
- dhalamar
Yape site update - The C-16-Plus/4 emulator Yape site has been updated with some news about the progress of the emulator and some nice little gems up for download. Head on over to the Yape site for the downloads and news. Thanks again Guyfawkes.
- dhalamar
EmuManiac's Nemu64 INI v2.1.1 - EmuManiac has released a new version of his Nemu64 INI. Here's what's up:
- Dracula Mokushiroku (JAP) = Playable, but random freezes
- Blast Dozer (JAP) = Partially Working
- J. League Tactics Soccer (JAP) = Playable
- J. World Cup France 98 (JAP) = Playable
- UltraSMS v1.0 PD = Doesnt work
- Virtual Pro Wrestling (JAP) = Partially working, only Sound
- World Cup 98 (USA) = Playable, GFX errors
- Yuke Yuke!! Trouble Makers (JAP) = Playable
fixed: - Holy Magic Century (PAL) = now playable (GBI 2)
Playing Games At McDonald's - I guess it happen sooner or later, but "Mcdonalds has announced to release stand-alone Video Game Kiosks "McMagination" in a number of their restaurants, allowing children to "play the latest video games via
an in-store computer system". McD's will be working together with Comapq and Nintendo on this project. The real corker is ofcourse the ridiculous design of the machine. Go to MadMan's Cafe, click 'Soup Du Jour' and
start laughing :)
- atila
Kazzuya's Software Renderer 1.4b - The fastest software renderer plugin for PSEmu Pro and ePSXe and whatever other emulator uses it has been updated to version 1.4b, for the first time in about a year I think. :) You can head on over to Kazzuya's site to grab this one. :) Thanks to Bobbi for the news.
- dhalamar
Final Burn v0.080 - Final Burn was updated. BIG update. Check it out:
+ Added Vampire (Jpn), which is also known as DarkStalkers.
- We haven't found a region switch for it yet :( There may not be one.
- There's a problem with the eeprom - haven't figured it out yet.
+ Otherwise it looks perfect to me!
* Note for the rom manager programs about Vampire - I'm considering the files:
vam.* in dstlk.zip to be the US parent set, and
vamj.* and vamjx.* in vampj.zip to be the Japanese overrides.
(Final Burn will actually accept the files from either zip though.)
Hopefully that helps you guys and agrees with what Mame will do.
+ Input can now be configured from the emu.
Press Input to bring up the Input List, double-click on an input, and press a new key, joystick/pad direction or joystick/pad button for it.
Note that if you playing the Sega games, you can't use this to configure analog controls yet - you will have to edit the game's .INI file still.
Also, you will have to edit the games .INI file to set dip switches and region codes.
+ Added a layer switch for CPS games (Alt-L). Press to toggle background layers on or off.
You can use this to show only the sprites.
+ Fixed the Victor lariat 'teleport' bug, which was caused by being able to press left and right at the same time. (Of course you can't do this on the original arcade, but if you could, the bug would probably happen there as well!)
+ Fixed some Triple Buffering problems.
+ Refined the sprite priority patch so it only modifies sprites when absolutely necessary, and also added the other priority levels.
Tiny little fixes: the blue flame and picture on Dem's stage is fixed, and the bats now *don't* fly over the red cave on Morrigan's level in VSav (which is the way it is in the arcade).
+ Rowscroll also fixed (it used to created a bit of a glitch at the bottom of the Iron Horse Iron Terror stage as the train scrolled on)
New CPS2 release! - CPS2Shock have released the tables needed to play Vampire: The Night Warriors, you can expect a new Final Burn soon ;)
- atila
NiNja NES Emulator - A new site is hosted over at EmuHQ called Snow Goons. They have an early version of a NES emulator project called NiNja. Here's the specs for the v0.1a release:
v.01a - Initial Public Release. (Alpha Code)
- Plugin only steps through 6502 code (NES roms.) press F10 to step.
- Many features not implemented, some buttons do nothing.
- 2nd generation GUI, 3rd under development. With many improvements.
- NES plugin uses Marat Fayzullin’s M6502 core. (My core in ASM has been discontinued, although it does run demos.)
- NES plugin does not yet handle PPU or sound functions only CPU.
- Please Report any bugs/errors to RanXacT@yahoo.com
Head on over to the Snow Goons page if you wanna try it out. :)
- dhalamar
CALICE Release 0.0.3a - Calice, the new Capcom Ssytem 1 emulator, has been updated with support for Strider(world), and Willow(Japan). Go to the Calice homepage if you're gonna download it. And no there's no sound yet. ;) Thanks DaemoN ;)
- dhalamar
F355 Challenge on PS2!? - This better not be for real :(
- atila
MAME WIP - Gridle updated MAME WIP - this time there's another huge batch of Mahjong games and some CPS2 progress!
- prophet
SNES9X - Linux (PowerPC) updated to v1.34a - It has been released to match the recent source release. They said it should have working sound. :) So if you're running Linux, so get it from the SNES9X homepage. Thanks Skates. :)
- dhalamar
Raine 32 Info - Atani Software has put up a tiny little tidbit about the upcoming Raine32 release. Head on over there and check it out.
- dhalamar
NLMSX v0.33 - A new version of the MSX 1,2+ emulator for Windows, NLMSX has just hit bringing the following what's new list stapled to its back:
- Added support for the YM2413 (FM-PAC) Thank
s go to Mitsutaka Okazaka for the excellent YM2413 emulation (http://www.angel.ne.jp/~okazaki/ym2413/)
- Changed MSX2 and MSX2PLUS configurations. Both configurations now support the FM-PAC in slot 3-
Thursday, January 25th 2001 - Last updated @ 20:58 EST
Virtual Gameboy v2.0 - Marat Fayzullin released VGB v2.0. There is no demo. Go to the VGB Hompage to buy it if for some reason you want to. :) Thanks to
EmuSphere for the news.
- dhalamar
NeoPocott Homepage updated - The homepage for the Neo Geo Pocket emulator NeoPocott has been updated with a status report and a nice screenshot Dark Arms - Beast Busters in NeoPocott 0.39b1.
- dhalamar
GBA & WinME - The Gameboy Advance Developement homepage has put up a 65 second DivX movie regarding that Gameboy Advance and Windows ME. I don't know the contents of the video as I'm about 4% into the down
load right now. :) Head on over there and download it, check it out.
- dhalamar
Lunar 2 on eBay - One of the truly great games on Sega CD is being auctioned on eBay: Lunar 2: Eternal Blue by Game Arts. The game was localized by Working Desig
ns (hey Victor, wassup? ;) -- this is gaming heaven :) Too bad I never owned a Sega CD, it was too expensive for me, back in the day :x If you have a nice eBay auction, be sure to lemme know!
- atila
Callice v0.0.2 - David Raingeard uploaded the first version of Callice his new WIP Capcom system 1 emulator. Right now it's only able to run
Final Fight (World) and the author stated "There are tons of rendering bugs, there is no gui, no joystick support, no sound, etc...". But it surely will advance as time goes by :) Additional info are available here.
Thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- Opi
"The C64 Emulation Project" Needs Contributors - Mason asked me to put up the following reequest :
"The C64 Emulation Project' looking for people who got large collections of C64 disks. Either you need to transfer or already got transferred to D64 format. Contact us if you can do any help to finding old titles. Alot of people think theres only need
of a single version of each game, but we are interested to see everything. Please contact us on igota@email.com."
- Opi
Rumor Mill Time ! - Already thursday again ? Busy JoseQ posted a new Rumor Mill today (wow
- something dhalamar missed or ignored) !
- Opi
MESS WIP - Not much in the way of source code added to the MESS tree for Wednesday, but the code changes sure are interesting. Check the MESS WIP page for more info.
- chris
Audio Overload is a brand new SPC/GYM/NSF player - for MacOS!
- richard
MM2/MBZ Owner Speaks - Scott, the owner of those 2 rare prototypes that the CAPURAM campaign wanted to purchase, emailed me this response. It's pretty interesting and provides an insight into his POV as an arcade collector. As reported before, Scott states he has no intentions to sell his machines at any price. Another source informed me otherwise - I
will take Scott at his word and apologize for accusing him of "greed" earlier. (That was *my* unfortunate interepretation & choice of words BTW.) Moose's campaign has now turned toward the goal of purchasing legal rights to the games instead, if that's ev
en possible. The beat goes on...
- prophet
Gameboy Advance & WinME - Yeah, I know, you all think that post earlier is merely fake. I never really did think the GBA was running WinME, but Simon B hasn't ever crapped out on me and lied to me about an
ything. :)
Lord Snoopie sent me this E-Mail, maybe it'll eliminate a possibility until we know for sure.
Heya. I recently saw your post about WinME being displayed on a GBA. While I'm pretty sure the images were not doctored in any way, I think it's safe to say that WinME is not actually running on the GBA's CPU. I personally think that the GBA screen
was attached to a computer running ME, so the video is displayed on the GBA. Just a thought.
Sounds good to me. :) Keep an eye out on the Gameboy Advance Developement homepage sometime today to see what's up with this.
And thanks for all your welcoming E-Mails and atila for letting me be a part of Retrogames. Makes me feel special. All warm and gooey inside. *sniff*
Sinistar, MAME & keyboards - I recently had an exchange with someone regarding Sinistar (and many other analog joystick games) not controlling properly in MAME. He didn't know that Advance
MAME has a fix for this, so I thought it'd be worth noting in the news here as well. All you need to do is turn X & Y Center ON in the analog controls menu. Once done, Sinistar, Food Fight, EPROM & others can work just great with keyboards, Ho
tRods or any other keyboard based device. :) Run coward!!! Raaaaaarrrrrr!!!
- prophet
Emulaxian frontend update - Peter Vogel has updated his graphically beautiful frontend to version 0.3! He's also developing some NEW frontends based upon Tempest and Robotron themes! Check it out at Emulaxian, a retrogaming website experience in itself. =)
- prophet
CPS2 Donations - Wanna help get more CPS2 games emulated? Then visit the CPS2 Shock Donations page and help out! You can see what's coming and what's needed. (Thanks John IV)
- prophet
Ganryu dump release date?! - Looks like *maybe* that working Ganryu (NeoGeo action game) dump has a release date! "2/13" Or is it just someone's birthday? I dunno.(Thanks foo
mfoom)
- prophet
CAPURAM update - Moose'scampaign to preserve and emulate rare prototype games like Marble Madness 2 & Military Battlezone continues
, but has changed focus a bit. First of all, Scott (the guy who has both machines) has now (*I was told*) admitted greed is his real reason for backing out - some other arcade game collectors apparently have offered
MORE than $45,000 for them both. Pledges still stand at over $10,000 - so your pledges are STILL needed and can't hurt you since no money is needed until things are finalized. So make a pledge
! Now the goal has turned to actually buying the rights to at least Marble Madness 2... The story continues..
- prophet
Pacman - Good, Bad, or Round? - Mike Stulir reviewed Pac-Man: Adventures In Time, another retro remake sorta deal. And guess what? He liked it! Or did he? Go Back In Time and find out.
- prophet
Advance MAME bugfix - Just a notice FOR any fellow Advance MAME fans - a bugfix version was uploaded the other day. Basically, IF your per game/resolution settings were giving a script error,
go download again, ELSE nevermind. NEXT posting...
- prophet
ClrMAMEPro DatFiles - ClrMAMEPro has been updated with DatFiles for Colecovision and Gameboy.
And EasyEmu has updated with their new hints and tips section, first thing they've got up for it is showing you how to flip the screen and controls in GridSeeker. Thanks to bwb<
/a> for the news.
- dhalamar
DreamGen GUI screenshot - Over at DC Emulation they're hosted site for the as of yet unreleased Genesis emulator for Dreamcast DreamGen has updated with
a screenshot of the emulator's GUI. I wonder when the release is going to be?
- dhalamar
Wednesday, January 24th 2001 - Last updated @ 23:42 EST
SpeedUp Processes 1.0 - Aldo has released a little tool to help people with low end PC's run emulators a little better. It kills stuff that isn't shown in the Task Manager, among other things to free u
p memory. Here's the features for version 1.0:
Use it from the command line or batch files this way:
SpeedUp.exe C:\MyEmus\Connectix VGS.exe
Use the interactive GUI to set processes priority: NORMAL, HIGH, REAL TIME (higher) or IDLE.
Kill hidden process not listed in the Task Manager to free up additional memory and processor time.
Filter list of processes by priority. A custom filter list running processes of popular emulators.
Head on over to Aldo's site to check this out, download it, and try it out. Thanks Wormie. :)
- dhalamar
RockNES Moved - For some unknow reasons the RockNES homepage has been moved to Kinox (enlighten me) - please update your bookmarks
to http://www.kinox.org/rocknes ! Thanks to WWEmu for the news.
- Opi
News for GBADev.org - Simon B(the webmaster to the brilliant GBADev homepage, sent me 4 screenshots from a real Gameboy Advance. Check them out here, here, here, and here. If you're wondering what they are, it's a picture of a Gameboy Advance seemingly running Windows ME!!! When I asked Simon B whether or not they were fake, he sa
id this: "depends on what you mean by fake.....but its not like I have cut and pasted...and it isnt homemade....heh...youll see tomorrow..."
So check the Gameboy Advance Developement page tommorow. I couldn't p
ry anything out of him about it, so I know about as much as you do. :)
- dhalamar
Team Japump!!! News - After a long and desperade search for news (j/k) - I successfully found a little news about Team Japump!!!. These awesome ROM dumpers just deliv
ered a big bunch of new food for the MAME dev ftp for later use. Look yourself if you wanna know what they saved from vanishing :) Thanks Emulation 9 !
- Opi
Interesting Spectrum Site - CRASH, the Online Editon was updated with html'ized reviews and scans of the Crash magazine, issue 23. I've menti
oned this site once before and found it really amazing. If you're interested in old Spectrum stuff, then you'll find this site very entertaining and informative !
I'm sure you'll have a good laugh - when you read some of the hyped "90% overall rating" reviews :) I found it still funny to read about awesome graphics and complex gameplay when they talk about old 8-bit Speccy games.
Thanks to Emucamp for the reminder !
Welcome dhalamar - fine to have you a board :-) You will lower my "inner pressure" that's for sure ! Heh, but next time let me post something too :P
- Opi
WonderSwan Emulation - The homepage for the WonderSwan emulation project White Swan has been updated with some spiffy news about this unreleased emulator. Go there now. Because I said. C'mon! PLEASE! :) Thanks Guyfawkes.
- dhalamar
Sega to announce 26 of the 100 titles. - Madman was kind enough to us this nice E-Mail regarding Sega's activities:
Sega has announced 26 of their 100 scheduled titles for release after this fiscal y
ear, a good number which are sequels to popular games such as Space Channel 5 and Crazy Taxi.
Sega of Japan also released a public announcement following the DC fiasco- interestingly, some parts collide with the previous notice from Sega of America. Hmm... I don't think Sega is dead. :)
- dhalamar
Sega's Not Dead, DC Is Not Dead! - Not really, read this article at MSNBC for the full lowdown. Like I said yesterday, DC is not dead, it's just undergoing a change of shape :)
- atila
Freedrive Cancels - I got an E-Mail from Freedrive saying that they're cancelling their services due to software piracy. Stupid warez kiddies strike again. :\
- dhalamar
Mortal Kombat 5 Preview - I know this isn't emulation related, but I've been a Mortal Kombat fan for a long time, even though the MK3 games suck. Anyway, over at Gamers Uplink, they had a post about
stuff from Game Addicts, and one of them was a preview of Mortal Kombat FIVE. And regarding Gamers Uplink, kilik123 wrote an editorial called "A Word About Sega". And while I'm at it, I have 2 reviews I've written for them of Graal and Subspace. :) Head on over to Gamers Uplink for those and more. :)
- dhalamar
Stardust Site updated - The site for the Super Nintendo for the Sega Saturn, Stardust has been updated. There is no release yet, but you can see how he's doing with the emulator by going to the site. An SNES emulator for Sega Saturn, man, that would be enough of a reason for me to BUY another Saturn. :) Thanks to bwb for the news. :)
- dhalamar
Guyfawkes' Final Burn Guide - Guyfawkes over at EmuHolic has updated his Final Burn guide. He made some little revisions and added a few sections that users suggest
ed. You can read it right here. Mmmmmm...... I can't wait for the next release of Final Burn. Final Burn Final Burn! Me want Final Burn!! beefcake.
- dhalamar
Evil eBay Auction - When you bid on an auction, you should always be careful, and you should DEFINITELY read the item description -- TWICE. Want to know why ? Because of this. What this person offered, was a PS2 BOX, not the actual console, merely the BOX and the receipt. Be sure to view the comments in the seller's Feedback Profile. Thanks to Michael R. for the link.
- atila
NeoPocott Homepage updated - You know that Neo Geo Pocket Color emulator that seems to have been ported to everything but the Apple ][/E? Well, the NeoPocott homepage has been updated with a bunch
of spiffy news. I'm not even going to list it here. Go to the site and read it for yourself. :) Thanks to Julien for the news.
- dhalamar
PocketGB v1.12 b10 - PocketGB updated to v1.12 b10. Here's a what's new list courtesy of Vivek:
Intermittent pause corrected
Auto video sync enabling/disabling
External keyboard feature
Default *.gbc files
Input mapping fix for iPAQ
Good God... - Dhalamar uses more ;) than I do ;) "Girlfriend, he crazy!" =)
- atila
Kojote's Freeware ROMs Homepage - I was just talking to Kojote and he told me his freeware ROMs homepage is back up! He shut it down a while back because of all the idiots E-Mailing him cussing him ou
t and asking him for commercial ROMs. Well, he has gotten a lot of positive feedback to bring the site back up, so he brought it back up. :) He has a huge collection of freeware ROMs. 584 as of this posting to be exact. :) Go there. Now. Because I said. beefcake.
- dhalamar
ePSXe Fanatics beefcake - I was talking to Wormie, the webmaster of ePSXe Fanatics(a really cool ePSXe support site), and he told me about an update to his page rega
rding his compatibility list. He's working on the list again and should have the submissions up pretty soon. Here is a submision by cKm of Ridge Racer Type 4 running on ePSXe. This isn't
no dinky compatibility list, this goes WAY in depth. :) Go there. Send in your submissions, and wait for them to go up, it's worth it. :) Thanks Wormie for telling me about this and for helping me with my HTML pro
blem. ;)
- dhalamar
More beefcake - Virtual Game Station - $50 Bleem - $30
Downloading ePSXe v1.0.1 for nothing getting better results. Priceless.
Freeware emulators. They're everywhere you want them to be.
- dhalamar
Yame v0.28a - The multi-console emulator Yame has been updated to version 0.28a according to Vivek. A replay action function was added. He
ad on over to the Yame site to leech it.
- dhalamar
Aldo Updates Galore! - Aldo, you know, that guy who makes all those really cool Playstation tools? Well, he's talking about an update to the VGS Video Patch Release 8 *AND* version 2.47a of
Daemon's Tools!!! :) Head on over to Aldo's site for more downloads than you can shake a beefcake at. Thanks to Bobbi for the
news.
- dhalamar
VGS and You - I was over at PSXEmu, and noticed a post about Virtual Game Station. Well, needless to say, I read it because it's one of my favorite Playstation emulat
ors. A legal dude from Connectix who has been battling Sony regarding VGS made a post in PSXEmu's message board. Here is the thread. Think you can help ou
t? Read the thread, decide what you might be able to do no matter how big or small. :) Send a note to this guy. Thanks to Bobbi for being a cool dude. :)
- dhalamar
HeboWin v00.01d - Guyfawkes mentioned a new version of a certain Gameboy emulator called HeboWin. Here's what he got translated of what's new:
- Corrections to the screen not normally displayed with a part of video card.
- Fixed 24bit display
- Fixed bug when ini and sav files are created from a 'drag and drop' start.
- Correction of something wrong to which RTC file is output by game in which timer function of MBC3 is not provided.
- Correction of something wrong which becomes BUTTON1 even if BUTTON10 is chosen with JOYPAD CONFIG.
- Fixed bug when a mono game is run when color is selected
- Correction to which POW gauge is not displayed by KOF95, 96, and 97.
- Correction of Bonn Birman GB3.
- Other changes not mentioned
Hmm... You can go over to the official HeboWin homepage to grab this up. What kind of name IS HeboWin anyway? Oh, and this just MIGHT help you translate the page. ;)
- dhalamar
beefcake - I watched South Park for the 3rd time in my entire life yesterday. I'm in a strange mood right now. I've had a lot of coffee this morning. I'm about ready to start bouncing off the walls. Look forward to me and Opi flooding this p
lace. Unless people decide to steal my posts. Then I'll be forced to sacrifice them to my cat god. Oh, and take a look at this if you wanna play Nintendo on your Playstation.
- dhalamar
Tuesday, January 23rd 2001 - Last updated @ 20:23 EST
MAMu_ Icons for X - Your's Truely has updated the xmame icons page with MAMu_'s latest iconpack for MAME 0.37b11. If you want to install these icons, you will need to upgrade the kmam
u shell script, also on that page, so that the install scripts will work properly with the latest xmame.
- chris
Langrisser 2 (Genesis) Now In English - Great news for Strategy RPG-lovers ! The Whirlpool posted once again something about an (almost) complete translation patch. This
time Hiryuu Honyaku released one for the Genesis game "Langrisser 2" which (sadly) never made it to the States. Everything has been translated except for the ending, which needs the help of an good AS
M coder. The English version of the first Langrisser game is better known as "Warsong" - a very rare and expensive game over here in Germany. Fortunatelly I got mine when it wasn't that expensive :)
- Opi
GoodGBx v0.999.5 & GoodN64 v0.999.3 - My oh my - Cowering is still at it, he released GoodGBx v0.999.5 and GoodN64 v0.999.3 today.
MAME DOS Tutorial At easyEmu - easyEmu was updated with an helpful and interesting to read (yes I read it) MAME DOS tutorial. All I need to know now is : how can I
get my Sidewinder to work with DOS MAME in Win98 ? Thanks to mrv2k for the info.
- Opi
Ganryu - It would appear that the Ganryu ROM dumping project has succeeded. However, it also appears that we won't be "seeing" this ROM anytime soon. Read Foomfoom's translation and take it as you will. Update - Hmmmmm...
- dutch
WinFellow - WinFellow is a port of Fellow for DOS to the Win32-platform (Win9x/NT/2000). Fellow is an Amiga emulator. This way you can play your old time Amiga games on your PC and run any program
that ran on your Amiga. Changes in the lastest snapshot release include: graphics should be faster and sound should be more available, also two PC joystick support is added. Thanks to mrv2k for the
news.
- chris
FCE Ultra - FCE Ultra is an NTSC and PAL Famicom/NES emulator for various platforms. It is based upon Bero's original FCE source code. Features include good PPU, CPU, pAPU, expansion chip, and jo
ystick, and authentic Game Genie emulation. Save states and snapshot features also have been implemented, and the VS Unisystem is emulated as well. FCE Ultra supports iNES format ROM images, iNES- and FWNES-style FDS disk images, and NSF files. Change
s for 0.50r2: Many bugfixes, vastly improved sound support, support for much more in-cart expansion hardware, and support for the Zapper (light gun). (I know this was posted by Opi below, but I am providing a bit more info on the new release.)
- chris
PCEmu - PCEmu is a software-only PC emulator that emulates an XT- class machine with text-only VGA. It supports hard and floppy drive images, and allows mounting of Unix directory trees as drives.
An EMS interface allows access to arbitrary amounts of memory. It also has a DEBUG-style hardware debugger. Changes for version 1.2 include: i186 support to allow FreeDOS to boot, clean compilation under glibc 2.2.1, and an ncurses output mode.
- chris
MESS WIP - The MESS WIP page has been updated with Monday's news. The highlight of today's udpate is the new Sinclair PC200 driver submitted by PeT. Lots of other updates as well,
click the link above for more information.
- chris
Time For An Interview! - We've taken the time and interviewed Jabo, author of Jnes. It's very informative and not too long, so you can return to your work quickly aft
er reading :)
- atila
Jum52 Win v0.51a+pi - Emulation 9 reported a new release of Jum52, James Higgs' Atari 5200 emulat
or. This new release adds support for some newly available prototype ROMs and fixes some minor bugs.
- Opi
SegaXtreme Is Alive - IceMan2k the head of SegaXtreme has sent me the following (good) news :
"ALL of the Genesis OST's are back up on SegaXtreme ! You can now listen to all of your favorite genesis tunes like Phantasy Star 4 or Sonic the Hedgehog ! All ripped from a REAL genesis not some gy
m crap !
BTW, SegaXtreme is FAR from dead".
- Opi
RAINE WIP - Fantastic RAINE WIP news, three hurra's for the open source decision :) Warlock announced a new RAI
NE release for next week, additional and more detailed info can be found here - thanks to Bully for th
e email !
- Opi
NES Emulators Release Madness - Here are the latest NES emulator releases : First a new FCE Ultra v0.50 r2 bugfix. Then
the latest FamtasiaTester release - no clue whats new, but anyway download it. Famtasia rocks ! (Thanks Panther). And finally the latest unofficial nester patch.
- Opi
Modeler update - Check the Impact Emu site and see some pics of Spiderman in action :)
- atila
DreamMSX 0.1b! - Yep yep, an MSX emulator for the Dreamcast, here's the skinny:
"It's an MSX2 Emulator for the Dreamcast. It is based on fMSX v1.5 by Marat. The AY8910 and SCC emulation are replaced for better sound emulation (ripped of the MESS project)."
Sheesh... - Another story has surfaced, stating that Sega will develop for the PS2. DC.IGN contacted Sega and then wrote this about it:
"SEGA of America dismissed this news story as another attempt to damage its business, one similar to the New York Times report that Nintendo was buying SEGA. After this New York Times report, SEGA stock was suspended from trading for a day, and then dr
opped 7 percent in price the following day."
Sega is going multi-platform, but not in the sense that these people are thinking :) They've already started making games for cellphones and Sega is ready with their "DC-On-A-Chip", which will most likely be incorporated into DVD players and computers (DC
card for PC, internal/external). Sega will have a major press conference in a week or so.
- atila
Final Burn 0.079 - Dayvee, the energizer bunny of emu coders, did another one! ;P Mostly some altered triple buffering code - go get it. (Thanks CD-man)
- prophet
CAPURAM - Game NOT Over? - Moose has emailed me that the CAPURAM campaign to purchase/emulate/preserve prototypes like Marble Madness 2 is NOT yet over! First he's try
ing to verify that Scott actually wrote what was reported earlier. Second, he believes he may have an alternate source for the machine, or even better, may seek to purchase the actual legal rights to that game! Lastly, and most significantly IMO - over
$10,000 in pledges were raised in just a few days! Wow! This proves the emu community is not simply a bunch of romZ kiDz looking to get the newest games for free. (Want to support more legal ROMs? Consider HanaHo's
Capcom Classics CD - for $10 you'll have full legal rights to 14 Capcom CPS1 ROMs on your PC! That one's for you Techrat.;)
- prophet
Monday, January 22nd 2001 - Last updated @ 21:27 EST
Back In Time reviews Breakout - Retro Flashback!!! :) Mike Stulir reviewed Atari/Hasbro Interactive's updated version of Breakout! Read it and more at Back In Time.
- prophet
Advance MAME 0.37 Beta 11 - Andrea Mazzoleni released a new version of my absolute favorite unofficial MAME! Advance MAME is not for newbies, requires lots of setup time, but yields incredible results on nearly any type of display. He
re's what's new. I haven't time right now to locally post all the files here, so please visit the Advance MAME homepage for the goods.
- prophet
MM2/MBZ Campaign (CAPURAM) Appears Over :( - Brian Deuel posted this message from the owner (Sc
ott) of those 2 machines. Apparently he has ZERO interest in selling his Marble Madness 2 or Bradley Military Battlezone or in seeing the games emulated. My congratulations still go to Moose for a valiant effort, and my disdain goes to Scott
- not because he won't sell or dislikes emulation, but because he led Moose on a wild goose chase for many months. (And before anyone emails anybody, yeah, we know - you told us so.;) (Thanks Till)
- prophet
Bliss 1.3 - Kyle Davis released a new version of his Mattel Intellivision emu for Windows! Get it from the Bliss homepage. According to the whatsnew
, this version is faster (has DirectX 8 support), has more accurate sound, fixes various screen blanking bugs, fixes sprite collisions, adds more memory mappers & more! (Thanks Kyle Davis:)
- prophet
Captain LowReZ! - He's back (check the archives for this character :), and he's starring in his own game! Thanks to Neo-Link for the link.
- atila
Logiqx Interviewed - bwb from EmuHQ sent word about an interesting interview with Logiqx conducted by Pi. Click here to read it.
- Opi
Good7800 v0.999.1 - HERE's the next release directly from the man that never rests - Cowering !
Good7800 v0.999.1 recognizes 44 Atari 7800 entries, news : newest dump added (Mean 18) and I guess some more work for the MESS database.
- Opi
MAME Icons - MAMu_ has done it again, releasing a new set of icons for MAME-0.37b11!! The upgrade pack contains no less than 87 new icons, for you to use in your favorite frontend. Unix and mac
conversions of the icons are sure to follow. :)
- chris
Mameinfo.dat 2.72 - M.A.S.H. has updated the Mameinfo.dat file to version 2.72, the second update since Mam
