COCO v1.10 - Version 1.10 of COCO, David Keil's TRS-80 Color emulator is available now. Additional info can be found here. Thanks to Cloy from Kinox for the email !
- Opi
Ultima 3 v0.990 For Gameboy Color - Woah ! Looks coool :) Sven Carlberg made his own Ultima 3 port for Nintendo's Gameboy Color, look at these screenshots !
- Opi
gnuboy v0.9.7 - A new DOS binary and the source code of gnuboy, an open source (GNU General Public License) Game Boy Color emulator is now available. Thanks to Lrd[EFN] for the news !
- Opi
SNES9x v1.37c Linux & Source Code - Gary released a new Linux version of SNES9x as well as the latest v1.37c source code. Please look here for the latest changes, thanks to Navarone's Emulation 9 for the news.
- Opi
BeOS Emulator Ports - Tommy from BeEmulated reported some new BeOS emulator ports today !
- o - run68 (an X68000 emulator)
- o - Dgen (Genesis)
- o - a compiled version of the latest Gnuboy
- o - BeYame (PC Engine / TG-16)
Tommy is also looking for some feedback for his site and work. So if you're a BeOS user AND emulation lover, visit his site and send him a little email - it will cost you nothing :)
- Opi
MAME Meeting In The UK - RocLobsta from MAMEWorld is planing a UK MAME meeting for every interested MAME freak, a big "come together" somewhere in the south of the UK (northern part later) ! Please visit MAMEWorld and/or the MAMEWorld General Board for the full lowdown.
- Opi
All Your Detention Are Belong To Us - I know that AYBABTU has had its 15 mins of fame, but this pic was just too good to pass up. It's a highschool conduct referral form for a certain student who was removed from class because he was "constantly yelling 'ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US' and would not stop when asked." That's funny :) Someone should make a nice CG movie of that, should work nicely =) Thanks to Saulo B. for the link.
- atila
RockNES v1.810 - Fx3 released a new, hopefully more stable RockNES binary today. Version 1.810 offers the following improvements :
- o - Rebuilt most of startup sequence, tons of problems were fixed;
- o - Fixed memory corruption, FDS driver and NES reset;
- o - Fixed a memory problem in the PPU reset (fixing gfx garbage);
- o - Fixed HBlank timing for mappers (broken from previous version);
- o - Fixed mappers #40, #42, #43, #69, #90 (broken from previous version);
- o - Fixed mapper #67;
- o - Fixed ROM mapping on $6000-$7FFF memory space;
- o - Fixed a problem in the config
..... (default inputs settings were not done on startup);
- o - Removed garbage from GUI, fixed mapper information box;
- o - Tons of cosmetic changes, plus minor fixes.
Click here to download RockNES v1.810, thanks to katharsis from Geoshock for the news.
Sengoku Legends - A new NeoGeo game?! Cool. :) Check out a poster & movie for this upcoming 3rd game in the Sengoku series at Kazuya_UK's NeoGeo For Life!
- prophet
Zsnes (1.17 r0.85 Win32) French Translation - French speaking ZSNES fans will no doubt be interested in Top50's French translation of this great SNES emulator - get it now at Power3D.com!
- prophet
Street Fighter or Sesame Street Fighter? - Breakpack dug up some interesting information regarding Super Street Fighter 2! Take a look! =P
- prophet
Gamer's Uplink contest - Wanna win a free copy of Metal Gear Solid Gold Edition PC? Go here! You'll have to sign up for their email newsletter to qualify.
- prophet
KoF91 Returns! - Moah released a brand new updated version of his homebrew fighting game, KoF91! This time ALL the characters are originals, so check it out, it's free!
- prophet
MAME WIP - Gridle updated again! Some text, some pics, it's all good. :)
- prophet
New Simulator! - _MADrigal_ has released a new simulator: Dungeons & Dragons (Mattel, Arcade action series, 1981). I'm sure a lot of you will remember this little game :)
- atila
Tuesday, February 27th 2001 - Last updated @ 18:47 EST
Super Jukebox v3.1 - Marius Fodor made a nice looking update for his SPC player for Windows - Super Jukebox. If you want a SPC "all in one" solution with ZIP, RAR and ACE support, visualizations effects, three different sound cores and tons of other stuff, check it out.
- Opi
Battlestar Galactica Returns! - That lovely show from the 70's (not That 70's Show, which rocks, btw :) will be making a come-back! Thanks to oxygen for the link.
- atila
tgemu Win/BeOS - Pascal Bosquet (Past-O-Rama, c2emu Win) ported Charles MacDonald'stgemu to Windows. tgemu is a new open source PC-Engine / TG-16 emulator for DOS.
In case we missed it : Caz released a BeOS port of tgemu. Go here for further info and the downloads - thanks to Emulation 9 for the news.
- Opi
Mameinfo.dat v2.82 & FixMAME v0.37 b12 R2 - M.A.S.H. released a new version of Mameinfo.dat (merged with driverinfo.dat) and a new FixMAME with correct driver info display, scanlinesbrightness, Pong, Gambling Games, MameMerge-Fix ...
- Opi
MAME WIP - Just a tiny update: "Nicola Salmoria added Puzzli to the Metro driver. Zsolt Vasvari fixed a missing sound in Carnival", pics are available on the MAME WIP page. Btw, that guy in the second Puzzli pic kinda looks like that Pokemon kid. I could be wrong though ;)
- atila
SNES9x 1.36 French Translation - French speaking SNES9x fans will no doubt be interested in Top50's French translation of this great SNES emulator - get it now at Power3D.com!
- prophet
EmuARC's NeoRAGEx Savestates - Interested in a nice collection of interesting NeoGeo savestates for NeoRAGEx? Then check out Emu Arcade! I see some other types of savestates there as well... Hmm, savesates are awfully popular lately. :)
- prophet
RuMSX v0.23 - RuMSX is an MSX emulator for Windows by Rudolf Lechleitner! Looks like many bugs were killed in this update. You can also download it, and many other MSX related goods, at the superb M.E.P.! (Thanks TFH/Fony)
- prophet
EMU+ 0.37 Beta 12 (fixed source version) - Yet another amazing unofficial MAME variant gets an update! EMU+ has more features than I can name, including tons of experimental things like savestates & full screen stretching! If you want it all, and then some, give it a try. (Thanks Danmanya)
- prophet
Arcade Flyers Update - XRay1 emailed me about the awesome Arcade Flyers database surpassing 1600 flyers! Wow! There are 30+ new additions/replacements, including some very nice CPS2 flyers.
- prophet
Getright v4.50 Beta - CDMan informed that Getright has been updated to v4.50 Beta 5! Getright is an excellent download manager, but I'd also recommend Download Mage, which lets you remotely open and choose files in zips. :)
- prophet
Arcade Heaven Goodies - GuruChoc posted some lovely vintage DECO cassette images! Needed soon for MAME don'tcha know. More coming too, be sure to check the beta posted list to see the schedule. :)
- prophet
Monday, February 26th 2001 - Last updated @ 23:37 EST
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! - Well sortof...Im in the Reno area now, but I still have a lot of moving and catching up to do...will probably be another week or so before I'm all caught up with what's been going on in the emulation world, and I can start posting again...In particular, Ive got a massive MESS WIP update I need to do, and not much free time (at least until I'm more settled in.) Anyway, just wanted everyone to know that I havn't completely disappeared, and I will be back to my regular updates in a week or so...ok now to start reading the 1,000-2,000 emails in my queue...
- chris
Napster Clones Under Siege - Looks like Napster clones aren't safe anymore."By early Friday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had sent out 75 letters of legal complaint to about 50 U.S. Internet service providers asking them to block access to a shadow Napster system, known as OpenNap, allegedly being run from their networks....The RIAA's [Jonathan] Whitehead said the record industry plans to take on the other Napster-like services such as Gnutella. He would not disclose what legal course the RIAA plans to take against them. 'It's different activity,' Whitehead said about Gnutella. 'We have ideas, and we're looking into it, but we will not discuss what actions we will take.'" Heh, the more the RIAA keeps this up, the more bands will want nothing to do with them. I wish them luck. Thanks much to Class316 for the news tip.
- dutch
TZX Vault update - Our great hosted site TZX Vault has been updated with 22 new tape images!
- prophet
Final Burn 0.108 - Yep, another one! This is the "Dave is crap at XMen version." =P
- prophet
RC-ROMS hits 1 Million! - Congratulations to Rico's RC-ROMS! :) If you've not yet visited this great site, go now and bookmark it.
- prophet
ArcadeOS 2.45 & VAntAgE 1.1 *FINAL* :( - Brian Lewis has updated 2 of his most famous projects, apparently for the last time. Here are ArcadeOS 2.45 (awesome DOS frontend) & VAntAgE 1.1 (fast classic game emulator). Visit the PC2Jamma site for the full story. His interest in emulation has waned it seems. Thanks Brian for your wonderful contributions to this hobby, you and your work will be missed. (Thanks Rdayen)
- prophet
Final Burn 0.107 - Yes! Dayvee does it again! Here's what's new. (Thanks P.Philleo & Studly Do-Right)
- prophet
StretchMAME32 ASM 0.37 Beta 12 "D" - If you're a MAME32 fan, download this now! Here's what's new. It's a great new enhanced unofficial version of MAME32 with special full screen stretching features. StretchMAME32 homepage. (Thanks Kurama)
- prophet
XMEN: COTA Xor Files! - Razoola has posted the xor files needed to play XMEN: Children of the Atom. There are 4 mirrors available to ensure that everyone has a fast download.
- atila
MAME WIP - Real American Hero! =) Yes indeed, go read it now!!1 LOL! Lotsa good stuff IMO, including save state progress. Lastly, congrats to my friend Filipe Estima - very cool seeing your name in the MAME WIP! :)
- prophet
Final Burn Savestate File Format - Dave posted this message explaining the format for Final Burn's savestate files! Or click here to view the details in a text file. Should be useful for collectors and utility developers.
- prophet
FABLOW! - The site for Final Burn savestates, Fablow!, finally has a REAL host. Right here. So far he has savestates for SSF2, SSF2T, D : Tower of Doom, AvsP, Vamipre, X-Men : COTA, SF Zero/Alpha, and Vampire Savior. Go check him out, he's hosted here, so it has to be good. ;) Thanks to Cyphatic for so desperately trying to get ahold of me to post this. ;)
- dhalamar
Video Games Forum - There's a new forum just starting out called Computer Game Forums where you can talk about computer games, console, emulation, all that good stuff. Head on over there and help out. :) Thanks to nintenda for the news. :)
- dhalamar
Yep - ...it does appear to be a countdown of some sort.. and I swear on my life that I have no inside knowledge or any clue whatsoever as to what it means. :)
- dutch
Sunday, February 25th 2001 - Last updated @ 21:40 EST
Memory Bank debut! - Kuno has just opened the Memory Bank, a brand new site devoted to emulator savestates! There's a section for Final Burn savestates available right now, and Kuno eagerly awaits new savestate submissions. Cool design too. :)
- prophet
Sonic the Hedgehog Review - Over at Gamers Uplink, there sits a review of Sonic the Hedgehog. I'm sure you remember that game. Who doesn't. ;) And also, there is a review of that X-Men movie on DVD. I don't have a DVD player personally, and my damn VCR ate the tape. I miss that movie. :( Ahem. Anyway, if you like Sonic, go and check out that review, it's more of a "look on the past" type deal, but regardless. And I have 2 reviews in there, see if you can spot them. ;) Hint : They're not the 2 I just mentioned.
- dhalamar
Gameboy Advance - Man, Iki's GBA Emulator just keeps getting better and better. :) It's been updated to version Beta 5, and runs the new version of the M-Type demo, which is available for download either at his site or the Gameboy Advance Deveopement page.
- dhalamar
KABOOM Remake - Shane R. Monroe made (with the help of Blitz Basic) a remake of the old Atari 2600 classic KABOOM called Kablooey!. "A remake of the old classic Atari game KABOOM! - completely overhauled graphics, sounds, and cool soundtrack. New features, harder play, and lots of other goodies. Even saving highscores". Link : Kablooey! homepage.
- Opi
StretchMame32 v.37 Beta 12c - StretchMame32, the new Japanese "Fullscreen" MAME32 version (unofficial) was updated today. I tried to download it but the homepage is very slow, so I can't tell you whats new in this release. Hint : wait some hours before you try to download it - right now it's really senseless. News taken from my number one news source - Emulation 9 :)
Update : changes taken from EmuHQ :)
o Auto disable stretch mode when you select scanline mode.
o Save NVRAM at inp directory when record input.
o Load NVRAM from inp directory when playback. (Loading .nv file supports zip format)
- Opi
Yape v0.30 - Attila Grósz released a new version of Yape (Yet Another Plus/4 Emulator) - his Commodore C-16/116/Plus/4 emulators for Win9x. New in version 0.30 :
- o - more accurate IRQ handling
- o - some DMA fetch corrections
- o - record wholewave/halfwave TAPs optionally
- o - enhanced external MONITOR functions
Possible HIV Vaccin - Yahoo is reporting that "a potential HIV vaccine has proved effective in monkeys and could enter human trials later this year, drug giant GlaxoSmithKline announced on Thursday". Hopefully, it'll be just as effective on humans. Thanks to whoever it was that gave me the link on IRC.
- atila
YAME Author Interviewed - Navarone, head and webmaster of Emulation 9, conducted an interview with Kappa, the author of YAME - a Japanese PC-Engine emulator. Click here to read it.
- Opi
Archon 2001 - Evolution ? - All you old Archon fans - spread the word that your favourite oldie is almost reborn again :) Even Jon Freeman, one of the original game designers, has given his input and advice ! Go to the Archon Remake site, check their info/pictures/new icons, raise your voice on their messageboard and praise the two British guys who started this fantastic project :) Oh, BTW - they are still looking for beta testers ! Thanks to Lemon for reminding me this game !!!
- Opi
Saturday, February 24th 2001 - Last updated @ 19:27 EST
Final Burn v0.106 - Oh man - Dave is still at it ! Final Burn is newsposters dream or nightmare, it depends on your point of view :)
+ Made an autodetect for Video/System memory. Thanks to everyone who sent in DDCaps info!
+ Added support for Final Fight (CPS1), but it has many bugs.
- Opi
Bliss v1.44 - The Intellivison emulator Bliss has been updated to version 1.44. Click here to get a complete list of what's new, and head on over to the Bliss homepage to download. :)
- dhalamar
CD-i Emulator - Peter from EmuHQ mentioned an upcoming CD-i Emulator today. The author is an old Philips & Mirage CD-i programmer. The developing is going well (check the site and the screenshots), but now he's facing the problem of lack of game CD's (he owns only 2 of them) and he's looking for a dump of the original CDi BIOS for testing purposes. Please email him if you wanna contribute something !
- Opi
fMSX v2.3 - Marat has updated fMSX to version 2.3. "Now with FMPAC and GameMaster2 emulation, among other things.." Anyway, you can click here to get a complete list of what's new, or just head on over to the site for more information on how to get this emulator.
- dhalamar
Sega Museum update - The Sega Museum has been updated with all kinds of goodies. Stuff in the future games section regarding AOU2001, screenshots and cab pics from Club Kart, Crazy Taxi 2, Dynamic Golf, InoNoOsanpo, Monkey Ball, Super Major Leauge, Vampire Night and Virtual Striker 3. A part abuot Monkey Ball, which is said to be a modern day Marble Madness. A game called Vampire Night, Sega's first venture with Namco. And added some screenshots of the SystemE games Hang-On Jr, Riddle Of Pythagoris and Transformer. Go and check this site out, it's worth the click. :) Especially is you're a Sega fan. :)
- dhalamar
MAME WIP - There's a new MAME WIP for ya. Go check it out. Won't take but maybe 30 seconds out of your life. :)
- dhalamar
Final Burn - Dave has released Final Burn v0.105. Check out what's new:
+ Fixed all three punches and kicks in SSF2T.
+ Made options for all the scanline variations in finalburn.ini
+ Fixed CPS1 SF2CE/T priority problem on Zangeif's stage.
* I'm currently researching what causes Video/System memory to have such a dramatic performance effect on certain PCs: run a game and then see finalburn.ini for more details.
Go and download it if you know what's good for ya. :)
- dhalamar
DreamEMU news - The Dreamcast emulator DreamEMU has been updated with a screenshot from Dan Potter's Stars Demo, which runs very slowly at the moment, but still, it runs. :) Go and check it out.
- dhalamar
StretchMame32 News - There was a minor update for the "ASM 68k core'less" version of StretchMame32 version. Beta 12a adds a 'Stretch Mode' option to the configuration menu, so you're able to switch stretch mode on/off while playing games. The "ASM 68k core activated" version was updated too, latest available build is now beta 12b, but we have no info whats new ! Thanks to Joshua for the email.
- Opi
Unofficial Highscore.dat v7.1 - Leezer posted a new version of his unofficial Highscore.dat ! Version 7.1 adds "some entries already released in unofficial dats, but didn`t make it into the official dat v7". He also uploaded 3 Q-Bert .nv files for full highscore support. If your fave game still misses highscore support make an request via email, Leezer tries to fill thoses wishes. Thanks to Mame World for the news.
- Opi
EasyEmu update - This JUST came in! :) mrv2K updated EasyEmu, a great help and resource site hosted by MAMEWorld! 2 new tutorials, various updates and new snapshots for MAME 0.37 Beta 12. (And THAT'S my last update for now, I feel awful.)
- prophet
Unofficial CPS2MAME for Linux - Hoonis compiled this Linux CPS2MAME! He says it "works like a charm." :)
- prophet
Micro$oft says RTFM - Now THIS is funny! =P (Thanks C. Hemingway)
- prophet
Snatcher Review - GameCritics.com did a retrospective review of one of the most highly acclaimed SegaCD games, Snatcher!
- prophet
Megabase 4.1 - Check out Megabase, a multi-console frontend by Aletsg! It's now up to version 4.1., with new merge and update functions.
- prophet
Arcade ROM Heaven News! - Well, when I saw this good news in my mail I had to post it - Arcade Heaven is once again posting needed-soon goodies for MAME! Yay!
- prophet
Proph Poisoned :( - I've been very sick for the past 2 days, I think I ate some rancid Chinese food. My apologies to anyone who emailed me about news etc. I will try to get caught up ASAP, but right now I'm still feeling pretty bad.
- prophet
Friday, February 23rd 2001 - Last updated @ 16:27 EST
Stardust - The as of yet unreleased SNES emulator for the Sega Saturn, Stardust, has been delayed a little bit more. Man, schools a pain sometimes. :)
- dhalamar
Project Titan - The other Sega Saturn emualtor Project Titan has been updated with a new build. Here's a small snippet for you regarding the emulator's future. :)
Well, I finally managed my time well enough this week to push out a new build of Titan. I think now that I'm starting to get used to this semester, I might be able to work on Titan more regularly, even if it's only a few lines here or there... hopefully that will be enough to keep the project's momentum going. I'm looking into moving the source to Sourceforge to facilitate growing code contributions and keeping this site as a sort of status update page.
You can go read the latest build information and download the emulator and the source from the Project Titan homepage.
- dhalamar
Pete's Plugins - Pete Bernert has released version 1.46 of Pete's MesaGL Linux PSX GPU and Pete's Soft X11 PSX GPU. Here's a quote of what's new:
Pete's MesaGL Linux PSX GPU all V1.46 features added... there is no V1.46 windows version yet? strange :)
Pete's Soft X11 PSX GPU try it, if your gfx card doesn't like the MesaGL one :)
Could there be a new Windows plugin coming soon? :)
- dhalamar
GiriGiri Project - I thought this emulator was discontinued?? Anyway, I don't know Japanese, so I don't really know what's going on, BUT there IS a GREAT looking screenshot of the player select screen of Virtua Fighter. :) Head on over to the GiriGiri Project homepage to check it out. :)
- dhalamar
MAME WIP - Gridle made another "pictureless" MAME WIP update. Thanks to EmuManiac for the info :)
- Opi
ROAR Redesigned - ROAR, The VideoGame Museum, has had a complete overhaul. The new logo is pretty neat (did I actually write NEAT?!), it looks like the Jaguar logo. Nice touch, guys!
- atila
Sega Museum updated - The Sega Museum has been updated with all kinds of little goodies. Like, oh I don't know, Virtua Fighter 4 screenshots, F355-2, Cosmic Smash and Club Kart flyers, and a few other changes. If you're a Sega fan, definately visit this site. :) Thanks sixtoe.
- dhalamar
HuGo! 2.0 Linux - Zeograd released HuGo! 2.0 for Linux. Now with eagle and scanline mode as well as a new joypad support plus everything that was new in the other 2.00 releases : load/save feature restored and hard bios hooking. DC owner and PC Engine lover should be "prepared" for a HuGo! Dreamcast port in the near future.
- Opi
ArcadeTones Update - ArcadeTones, a site with classic gaming ringtones announced that their console section has officially opened with the Commodore 64. And all in all a pretty good update of them to. :) Go check it out if you've got a Nokia phone. :)
- dhalamar
Kazzuya's Software Renderer v1.5 Alpha 2 - Kazzuya has updated my personal favorite PSEmu Pro/ePSXe/whatever graphics plugin to version 1.5 Alpha 2. If you're one of the people who messes around with ePSXe and PSEmu Pro like I do, than this is a must download. :) Head on over to Kazzuya's site for more information.
- dhalamar
RockNES v1.800 (DOS) - Here's a new gift from Fx3 - RockNES version 1.800 for DOS (other ports will follow soon) - new in this release :
- o - Accurate emulation of sprite #0 hits, improving the compatibility;
- o - Removed frameskipping (sorry, no more possible, accuracy over speed);
- o - Tweaked the NES timing, fixing a couple of games;
- o - Fixed savestate (rsx) code;
- o - Fixed a problem setting monochrome mode;
- o - Fixed the directories setup (it was not being refreshed on rom loading);
- o - Fixed a stupid sprite clipping bug;
- o - Added an option in the GUI to display current inputs devices,
...... and to restore default settings;
- o - Updated 2A03 CPU core (november/2000);
- o - Compiled with Allegro WIP 3.9.34, newest DJGPP package;
- o - A lot of others fixes and cosmetic changes.
Click here to download it, thanks to Emulation 9 for the news. Note : "delete your old config file (rnsetup.cfg) before anything, or you will have problems! :)"
- Opi
ArcadePC Fansite - Guy Moore has set up a site dedicated to Hanaho's ArcadePC. That cabinet is a gamer's wet dream and every gamer should have one (if you can afford it, that is). Anyway, be sure to check out the site!
- atila
Thursday, February 22nd 2001 - Last updated @ 22:06 EST
1001 Recorders - Well this is kinda retro, albeit non-emulation related. :) One of my favorite bands, Sydney's Severed Heads, has released 1001 Recorders Alpha 2. Severed Heads have been around since the late 70s experimenting with tape loops, video processing, and dissecting all that is (and isn't) musical. So what's 1001 Recorders? "It's a 3D world with lots of SH music. And drumming bunnies." The latest alpha adds exploding bouncing heads. :) I spent awhile playing with it and it's extremely cool. Can't wait to see a final release! Just be sure you read the readme if you're going to play with this! :)
- dutch
TOSEC Datfiles Overkill - Visit the TOSEC homepage to find out which new or updated RomCenter datfile grendel and his team are offering for you ... zillions or more :)
- Opi
nvidia GeForce 3, DOOM 3 - You've *probably* already seen this, but Steve Jobs and nvidia recently announced and demoed the GeForce 3 (available first on the mac, as Jobs of course points out) running DOOM 3. The lighting and shadows are dramatically improved, looks pretty great. Check out the video here or read the slashdot piece here. Jobs is a bit embarassing, but it's worth watching and impressive.
- david
Crazy Kids ;) - According to this page, you can now play GB and NES games on your Wonderswan Color. But I somehow miss the point as in how you would be able to play those games on a WSC. My Japanese hasn't been what it used to be ;) At this late hour (almost 1AM local time) I must be missing something. Thanks to Exposure2k for the link. UPDATE According to Daemon, there are WSC devkits being sold in stores in Japan and that's how you can play those emus on the WSC.
- atila
Final Burn v0.104 - HEY ! Here's a new Final Burn for you !!!
+ Added ADPCM sound to CPS1 games.
+ Changed CPS2 cpu speed to 12mhz.
+ Changed scanline mode to reduce flickering
Thanks to JNS, Studly Do-Right and EmuFan for the emails :-)
- Opi
CPS2mame Updated - New binaries of CPS2mame are now available, Razoola fixed some Qsound & game speed issues.
- Opi
Translation Related Interviews - The Whirlpool crew posted two interesting interviews with well known guys from the translation/hacking scene !
- o - Interview number ONE with "star hacker" Neill Corlett (Seiken Densetsu 3 anyone ?) conducted by Arina.
- o - Number two with Dark Force, member of DeJap, the team which brought us Tales of Phantasia in English - interviewed by Spinner 8
- o - Finally the Whirpool mentioned an interview with Neil_ conducted by Sheex of RPGd pride, go here to read it.
- Opi
StretchMAME32 - There has been a 68000 asm core version of StretchMAME32 released, same thing new here as with the recent MAME release.
- dhalamar
Bliss v1.43 - A new version of the Intellivision emulator Bliss has been released. You ca adjust the accuracy of the sound emulation now, capture screen screen shots, and whole bunch of other stuff that's listed here. So if you're into Intellivision emulation, head on over to the Bliss homepage. :)
- dhalamar
Playboy Advance is released - A new Gameboy Advance emulator has been released called Playboy Advance. Head on over to the site for more information on this new emulator. :) Thanks to Simon B at the Gameboy Advance Developement homepage for the news. :)
- dhalamar
gnuboy 0.9.5 - The new version of gnuboy, a Gameboy emulator for Linux and Windoze has been released. Head on over to the official page for more info. :)
- dhalamar
PSinex Update - The homepage for the Playstation emulator PSinex has been updated. Someone made a configurator for thes plugins and settings for the emulator. CD ROM implemnetation has started, GTE opcodes are fixed, which results in the Manta demo running. And there has been a speed increase as well. :)
- dhalamar
NLMSX v0.34 - Frits Hilderink's MSX emulator for Windows, NLMSX, was updated to version 0.34. New in this release :
- Added performance enhanced version of the EMU2413 made by Mitsutaka Okazaki.
- Some enhancements regarding the VDP interrupt system.
- Solved a crash that occurred when the sound had been disabled.
Thanks to TFH/Fony from the MEP-Crew for the email :) Visit the MEP for all your MSX needs !
- Opi
The Rumor Mill - JoseQ did it right in time this week - a new issue of his famous Rumor Mill! is online. Read his realizations about Ages, GENS, Bliss, RockNES (Linux port), FreezeSMS, Genital and SMOG. Now back to my grave ... errr bed :)
- Opi
He is... cool. - K, everyone needs to drop what they're doing and check out Eskimo Bob. (You'll need Flash.) Don't miss Episode 12. :) Thanks to Guyfawkes for letting me know of Bob's existence.
- dutch
Wednesday, February 21st 2001 - Last updated @ 23:20 EST
Cinder update - Check out Cinder! There's been an update after quite some time, including a brand new wallpaper for download. :)
- prophet
NesterDC Released - If you have a DC and you'd like to play some NES games on it, you should download NesterDC, which is an NES emu for the DreamCast and a port of NESTER. Thanks to hlgang for the news.
- atila
Controller Layouts - We have Flyers, Screenshots, Cabinets, and Marquee support in Mame32 and other frontends.. what's next? How about Controller Layouts? That would be a PNG diagram of how the game's original controller buttons and joysticks were layed out on its panel. Currently, there's 39 of them available from Emuadvice. Click "Enter," then click "Controller Layouts" on the left frame. You'll also find some resources there for making them so you can help out. :) Thanks to Roc of Mameworld for the news.
- dutch
CPS2 SHOCKED! - CPS2 Shock released XOR tables for 2 versions of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo! But how will you play it?! Don't worry - Razoola also compiled some nifty new CPS2MAME builds as well. :) We luv u Raz!
- prophet
Rain Shower - Nokrum has released a new Game&Watch sim of his own, called Rain Shower, made by Nintendo in 1983. Head on over to his site to grab it. :)
- dhalamar
MAME WIP - Gridle has posted another MAME WIP update and it should make those modem users real happy, because there are NO screenshots this time :)
- atila
Donkey Kong II Simulator! - _MADrigal_ has released his 20th simulator today and it just happens to be Donkey Kong II (Nintendo, Multi-Screen series, 1982)! As of this release, he's using a new sound library and will update all his previous releases, so that they all use the new sound library.
- atila
Some people are just too desperate - I was over at the ArcadeTones homepage, and unfortunately there are no new Nokia game tones. The webmaster HAS gotten several requests to add a section for PC and consoles ringtones. And those sections, if they aren't already there, will be there soon. :) But he did have this rather funny story. :) I'm not going to go into detail about it, but here's a hint : these phones DO have a vibrate function.....
- dhalamar
Unofficial Nester - I was beginning to wonder what happened to this awesome emulator being that there's no site for it. :) I was over at EmuHQ, browsing through, and sure enough, 3 updates and finally a release of my favorite NES emulator. :) Here's what's new:
2001/02/21
code added 119(thanx NESten),181
code fixed 43(thanx NESten)
tested 43,119,181
# fixed APU core (thanx YANO)
# support PAL mode (partial)
201/02/13 (test)
# use new 6502 Core.
# add DoPendingIRQ(), nes6502_pending_irq().
# disenable irq pending in DoIRQ(), nes6502_irq().
2001/02/12
# rewrite FDS Sound Core.(souce code is not availabled)
# nester may not be freezed in fullscreen mode if you use Voodoo GAs.
# (may be freezed yet...especially in 240 line mode)
# split all mapper source codes.
I highly suggest you download this release right here. Thanks to PeterD for the news. :)
- dhalamar
Tuesday, February 20th 2001 - Last updated @ 21:32 EST
StretchMAME32 0.37 beta12a - Minor update of this great new MAME build. Grab it here as I don't have FTP access. This update disables stretching on multi-screen games and has a 'fat' mode that lets you pretend you're Rosie O'Donnel. Actually, it makes "vertical games look like StretchMame32 0.37 beta11" Again, link is here. Thanks to emulation9 for the news.
- david
Napster Offers $1B to Industry - Napster is offering a cool billion, to be paid out over 5 years, to the recording industry to settle the whole lawsuit biz. Read all about it at CNN or slashdot. Pretty cool thing to do on the heels of the Grammies, as it puts some pressure on for an answer (and a good one).
- david
OverClocked: AYOABTU! - David Lloyd went back to the Zero Wing roots with this new episode of OverClocked: All Your Oscar Are Belong To Us! There's also an ART OF FIGHTING 2 remix @ OC Remix.
- david
I lied - Only because there's so much history behind this and I got some of it wrong. TVSlan I believe has the correct sequence of events posted. Someone make note of it, or something. :)
- dutch
Zero Wing -- Again! - This time, the San Francisco Chronicle says: "All Your Base Are Belong To Us!". Thanks to Michael B. for the link.
- atila
Modeler Pics - ivilded has added 4 screenshots of Modeler 'doing' tranparencies in Golden Axe 2. You can view them by going to the Impact Emu site.
- atila
Message to Opi =P - Get well soon, and don't cough on me. ;-)
- dhalamar
Official Highscore.dat v7 - Version 7 of the official Highscore.dat for MAME is now available, it has support for 1276 games which is quit amazing ! Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.
BTW: you can't expect many updates by me, I gave some influenza virus *gasp* a new home *cough* :(
- Opi
EmuSaves - The site for VGS, Bleem, ePSXe, and Dexdrive saves, EmuSaves is needing someone with a fast internet connection and a big E-Mail box, if you think you have what it takes send them an E-Mail (I have a big mail box, just not the fast internet connection. =P).
- dhalamar
ROMident & DAT file - ROMident is a ROM identifying utility by ShinobiZ, the developer of the great System16 emulator. It can now recognize 3,947 ROMs! You can get the latest ROMident 2.1 & DAT file now at System16.com! (Thanks Sixtoe)
- prophet
StretchMAME32 = AWESOME! - OK MAME32 fans, scroll down right now to Dhalamar's StretchMAME32 post and download it! Set your defaults to full-screen and 800x600 or above. Then watch in amazement as EVERY single game is scaled to full screen and generally correct aspect ratios! Yes, vertical games too! People with very fast systems (not me) and a fear of DOS are gonna LOVE this! (If any Official MAME32 devs read this - PLEASE look at the included source code and consider adding it to the official builds.:) *UPDATE* - Here's a local mirror for StretchMAME32 0.37 Beta 12! And remember - it's *UNOFFICIAL*, so don't bother anyone about it if you have problems.
- prophet
GBA Will Arrive June 11 in USA! - Nintendo's GBAdvance will arrive a month earlier than expected :)
- atila
Arcade Flyers MAME Pack 18 - You just gotta have these flyer packs! :) Get the latest MAME flyer pack now, and yes, CPS2 is in da hizzouse!
- prophet
MAMu's Icons - Yes, that awesome icon pack has been updated to MAME 0.37 Beta 12! MAMu's homepage.
- prophet
BoycottAdvance Site - The site for the as of yet unreleased Gameboy Advance emulator BoycottAdvance is finally up with specs on the emulator and screenshots of what it runs 100%. Head on over there and check it out. :)
- dhalamar
StretchMAME32 .37b12 The unofficial version of MAME32 called StretchMAME32 has been updated in accordance with the recent MAME release. Head on over to the official page to download it. :)
- dhalamar
FCE Ultra .52 - The NES emulator FCE Ultra for Linux SVGALib and Windows has been updated to version .52, bringing with it the following changes:
* Fixed a PCM emulation bug(digitized voices in "Ikari Warriors 2" and "The Immortal", among others, work now).
* Fixed noise channel's LFSR update frequencies(hopefully).
* Various minor bug fixes.
Z80Stealth v0.410 - The Spectrum emulator Z80Stealth has been updated to version 0.410, bringing with it the following changes:
- New : KAY1024 emulation improved
- New : Support for real HDD from KAY1024 added!
Read more about this in z80s_faq
- Bugfix: Hopefully fixed all problems if 16 megs of ram is present
You can march your happy butt right on over to the Z80Stealth homepage and download ya a copy, ya here? :)
- dhalamar
GeoMAME 0.37b10c - GeoMAME, a Power Macintosh version of MacMAME with added features (some of which being autofire, CPU Clocking, combos, and save states)has been updated to version 0.37b10c. Click here to see a list of games it supports. And for all you who are all worked up about CPS2, this one only runs Neo Geo games. ;)
- dhalamar
Monday, February 19th 2001 - Last updated @ 18:18 EST
All Your Base...(updated several times) :P - OK, this is the last post I'll make regarding All Your Base... (that's a new link with downloadable asf/exe/mp3 versions btw :), however I know a lot of people are curious about it so here's yer info (relax Richard :). The game is Toaplan's Zero Wing on the Sega Genesis. The movie concept originated from a message board thread on Tribal War last December. Check that link to the thread for all of the pics that didn't make it into the movie. :) (Note: I had originally posted a link to Something Awful but that wasn't it. :) Rumor has it that this all has its roots in David Lloyd's Overclocked episode from last June, The Zero Wing Dub Project.
I updated this post about 500 times.. this was a lot of info to uncover! :P
- dutch
Aargh! - Enough of the "all your base" stuff already! The humour wears off after a bit...
- richard
Logo - It's odd, I swear our logo (above) is different somehow. :)
- dutch
+++ added: save missing sets option
+++ added: outputwindow autoscroll switch
+++ added: outputwindow show complemented crc switch
+++ fixed: wrong defpaths error message when dropping files
+++ fixed: romcenter datfile import
+++ fixed: datfile export for not-known-sized-roms
- dutch
*Ugly guy with a white goatee pointing at you* Azimer wants YOU. - Azimer, author of the N64 emulator Apollo needs YOUR help. He wants suggestions on a new name for the emulator. So head on over to the Apollo site, get ahold of him with what you can think of.
- dhalamar
PocketGB v1.02 Final - The emulator for pocket computers PocketGB was updated to version 1.20 Final, with bugfixes over Beta 3. Head on over to the official page for more information about the emulator and how to buy it.
- dhalamar
ArcadeTones Updated - The ArcadeTones homepages has been updated with more ringtones for your Nokia phone. :) This time with Street Fighter 2 ringtones, and Ninja Warrior ringtones. :)
- dhalamar
gnuboy v0.9.4 - The freeware Gameboy emulator gnuboy was updated to version 0.9.4. I don't really know what's new, but you can download it from the page if you wanna go ahead and try it out. :)
- dhalamar
Mame32 News - Don't forget about the Mame32 Quality Assurance Page, John IV has his screenshots and icons for beta 12 online. He's also given the page a bit of a facelift, and posted the following news regarding Mame32:
+++ 01.02.16 First cut of b12 from Michael, he's integrated the new DOS resample feature, and will continue work on the 32bpp color changes this weekend.
+++ 01.02.17 Testing the first cut of b12 indicates that the former crashes we were seeing in Taito F3 games are now gone thankfully. Updated the issues page.
- dutch
Sunday, February 18th 2001 - Last updated @ 23:53 EST
MAME WIP - Gridle updated MAME WIP again! Shanghai Kid is coming along, and some nice updates to the ASM cores. Also, take a careful look at the MAME logo in the upper right corner. Hehe. :P
- prophet
Sylvan Tale - Shih Tzu kindly let me know about Sylvan Tale being released by Zoop at SMS Power! It's a rare Japanese Game Gear action adventure.
- prophet
Final Burn 0.102 - Dayvee released a new Final Burn! This build supports Street Fighter Alpha 2, and also has a new CPU speed selector for CPS1 games, especially SF2T. (Thanks to the many ppl who emailed me, but I honestly found it myself first!:) *NOTE TO DAYVEE* - You accidentally used the wrong filenames for the graphics ROMs, the CRC's are correct though. :) To FB users, you can rename sza 13-16 to sz2 13-16 and they'll work.
- prophet
Street Fighter Alpha 2 ROMfix Utility - katharsis has written a little utility to fix the Street Fighter Alpha 2 ROMset. Visit Geoshock and download it, it might save you some download time.
- Opi
WinFellow Updated - WinFellow snapshot 2000-02-18 is online now, some fixes and Carfesh added 'save' support for ADZ images. Thanks to Emulation 9 for the info.
- Opi
Atari 2600 ! z26 v1.43 - z26 v1.43 is online, click here to download John Saeger's Atari 2600 emulator for DOS/Win9x ! Thanks to Cloy from Kinox for the update info !
- Opi
Intellivision Emu Updated - Bliss v1.42 is available for both supported platforms : Win32 and Java ! Look here for the latest changes. Thanks to Navarone's Emulation 9 for the news.
- Opi
MameLang 32+ Beta 12 - The multi language support version of MAME, MameLang 32+ Beta 12 is now online for you, thanks to MAMu_ for the email :)
- Opi
CPS-2 the 13th Shock - CPS-2 Shock released their 13th XOR-tables set - this time for Street Fighter Alpha 2 !
- Opi
Pete's PSX MIDAS SPU v1.7 - Pete has updated his SPU plugin for PSEmu Pro/ePSXe/whatever else can use it to version 1.7. If you use ePSXe, this is a must download, head on over to Pete's page to download it. :)
- dhalamar
Iki's Gameboy Advance Emulator - Iki has added 2 new demos (one is a really cool R-Type clone, and the other is a Mode 7 demo!!), and updated his kick-ass Gameboy Advance emulator to Beta 4. Head on over to Iki's page to try it out. :)
- dhalamar
GeoMAME Site Updated - The site for the Mac port of MAME, GeoMAME, has been updated with some totally unrelated news. :) He has compiled a CPS1 and CPS2 only version of MAME with GeoMAME's autofire support, though I don't know if this is a Mac or Win9x release or what, but regardless, you can download CPSMAME 0.37b12 from the GeoMAME homepage.
- dhalamar
CreativeEmu Homepage updated - The up and coming emulator CreativeEmu, which emulates, well, CreatiVision, has been updated with the news that there is a new little tennis game dumped which runs perfectly. :) Head on over to the site for more information.
- dhalamar
Amiga Legal Emulation Updated - ALE has been updated! They added these games to their massive legal and fun archive:
So, if you're into Amiga emulation, or want an excuse to get into it, by god get your happy butt over to Amiga Legal Emulation!
- dhalamar
Saturday, February 17th 2001 - Last updated @ 20:45 EST
Final Burn State Collection - Pkken kindly put together this excellent save state collection for CPS2 games in the latest Final Burn! There are 25 states in all, including boss/secret character states for MSH!
- prophet
CPS2MAME Updated - A new CPS2MAME with the latest MAME source fixes included is now available here.
GoodPCE v1.02 & GoodGBx v0.999.7 - New ROM renamer releases by Cowering : GoodPCE v1.02 - stats: 1045 entries - latest additions :
- Magical Chase FOUND. If you are in the USA and can dump it.. contact me
- 2 more redumps.. keep em coming!
- Lots of PD added
- 'force63' tweaked to work with Adaptec EZCD name limits
GoodGBx v0.999.7 - stats 5292 entries - latest additions :
- UGH.. A big THANKS to the .pl site distroing
- all the 'redumps'. Your GBX is broken dude.. FIX IT
- (Insert random Polish joke here)
- redumps needs list updated
- Opi
MAMEinfo.dat v2.81 & Driverinfo.dat v1.0 - M.A.S.H. uploaded a new MAMEinfo.dat version and introduced a new dat file called Driverinfo.dat !
- Opi
Mimic And Emulation Ethic - Mike Beaver updated the homepage of his multi system emulators Mimic with the results of his latest developing efforts and his opinion about the sad situation at Arcade ROM Heaven. His thoughts are worth to read !
- Opi
The Video Game Museum - New Endings - Rey made another one of his famous Video Games endings update over at Mek'sThe Video Game Museum site. Newly online (besides the usual new scans 'n stuff) are :
o 11 Nes Endings (including Dr.Mario, Section Z, Ikari Warriors)
o 10 Game Boy Color Endings (Donald Duck, Pokemon Puzzle & Card)
o 7 Super Nes Endings (Donkey Kong Country 3, Super Street Fighter 2)
o 5 Playstation Endings (Mega Man 8, Tekken 2, Tekken 3)
- Opi
MAME WIP - Gridle uploaded developing news for the last three days to the MAME WIP page ! Looks like we are in "fixing times", the MAME v0.37 cycle is near the end !
- Opi
New PC Engine Emulator - TGEmu is a brand new PC Engine emulator developed by Charles MacDonald. The DOS version and source code are available from Charles' page, and the Macintosh port (developed by me) is available at my site.
- richard
I Told You PS2 Fans Were Crazy ;-) - Good God, check this:
"Carl Lindlay is so hooked on computer games that he has changed his name to The Rev PlayStation 2.
Now he is building a 15ft-high TEMPLE in his garden to worship the top-selling Sony games console.
Carl, 23 — who plays for up to ten hours a day — altered his name by deed poll after furious girlfriend Anna dumped him over his hi-tech games obsession."
So PSOne would then be the "son of God", right? You can check the entire article at this link.
- atila
Fixed MAME Binaries - Gridle has uploaded 'fixed' MAME binaries to the MAME site, the fixes include the ASM 68k core, fixed CPS-2 Qsound ROM loading, fixed Neo Geo games and a fixed critical alpha blending bug.
- atila
Unhappy News :( - Our friend GuruChoc has closed up his ROMs sections due to the recent crackdowns. His site, Arcade Heaven, is still alive and well, along with their stable of reporters and hosted sites, so don't remove any bookmarks. Our best regards to everyone there, and thanks to GuruChoc for his long service to emu-fans the world over.
- prophet
Dreamemu updated - The Dreamemu homepage has been updated today after a very long time again with a screenshot of rgb888 from Dan Potter.
- Martin
Modeler v0.1.1a - Modeler v0.1.1a was released. Check out what's new:
* General
* Disabled debug logging. On systems with slow harddisks this could dramatically slow down the emulator, and it tends to fill up your disk pretty quickly too.
* Fixed slowdown problem (thanks to Richard Bannister over on the Mac port for the diagnosis).
* Added "Force 555 video" option. If colors are weird, give it a shot.
* Another video autodetect fix. This one is believed to work correctly in all cases, including 24 and 32-bit desktops and 555 video cards. (8-bit desktops aren't supported, so don't try ;-)
* Linux-specific
* Minor changes to sound buffering that should slightly improve quality. Thanks to EmuManiac for the E-Mail.
- dhalamar
Friday, February 16th 2001 - Last updated @ 21:13 EST
Final Burn v0.101 - Ack ! Uaaah, my heart's aching :) Final Burn v0.101 is now the most recent version :)
+ Added support for Aliens Vs. Predator.
+ Changed romset structures to match MAME's. (Most noticeably, sfz.zip has changed to sfa.zip, since Alpha is regarded as the parent set.)
+ Added two new options which allow you to block music or sound effect codes in most games. (Note that some games *may* need to be reset after you change these options e.g. to get rid of pieces of music which are still playing. Thanks to Tim and EmuManiac for the emails :)
- Opi
PhillyClassic - PhillyClassic is a gaming expo in the East Coast (of the USA for those of you who aren't here =P), it may not be quite as big as the Classic Gaming Expo, but it still looks pretty cool nonetheless. MAME is even there, along with some other emulators. =P Check it out for more information. It's happening April 20th and the 21st. A site I write reviews for called Gamers Uplink is one of the sponsors for this event too. :)
- dhalamar
Play Bonk On Your Compaq iPAQ - Domenico Dato released version 1.0b1 of PocketEngine, his new PC Engine / TG-16 emulator for Compaq's iPAQ PocketPC (WinCE device).
- Opi
Paul Leaman Talks About MAMEs CPS2 Driver - Read the following thread from our messageboard if you're curious about MAMEs current CPS2 driver situation (ie problems) ! Paul Leaman, MAMEs CPS1 (2) guru has some interesting things to say. Thanks to Till for the hint !
- Opi
CPS2MAME - Razoola uploaded three different CPS2MAME binaries which will only play Capcom's CPS2 games (I know you guessed it) and include some fixes to solve a couple of small emulation problems in the current "normal" MAME release.
- Opi
Attack - Apparently, the US has attacked Iraq. President Bush calls it a "routine airstrike to enforce a no fly zone." Read more about it at CNN.
- dutch
FinalBurn 0.100 - Let's cut the small-talk, here's the skinny:
+ Corrected the Marvel Super Heroes filenames and crcs.
Download it here. "All your base are belong to us" ;-)
- atila
Final Burn 0.099 - FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! Final Burn 0.099 has been released, he has added support for Marvel Super Heroes!
- atila
NeoPocott And BoycottAdvance News - Gollum updated the NeoPocott homepage with the latest developing news about NeoPocott and its various ports as well as 2 BoycottAdvance screenshots showing this upcoming GameBoy Advance emulator running the official ConsoleDev demos. Thanks to Gollum and Joshua Kaldor for the news !
- atila
Alternate StarTrek Samples - Here's a custom startrek.zip sample set for Mame. Duglis has substituted sounds and voices from the original classic tv series for you to enjoy while you play Sega Star Trek in Mame.
- atila
FinalBurn 0.098 Released! - Welp, whaddaya know ? Dave has released a Final Burn, here's what's new:
+ Added support for Super Street Fighter 2
And remember: "You don't know what you got 'til it's gone".
- atila
Marvel Super Heroes XOR Files Released - You can download the XOR files for MSH @ CPS2Shock! Thanks to EmuManiac for the news.
- atila
Oi! - Well, looks like half the population of Scotland decided to mail me regarding that comment below ;) Now, apparently it's the other way 'round, as Scotsmen like to make fun of the English. I distinctly remember jokes where English people were laughing about how 'cheap' the Scottish were. Please, no more :) Oh well, such is life.
- atila
Belgian Napster Users Beware! - We Dutch people always make fun of Belgians, kinda like how the English make fun of the Scottish :) The following is not laughing matter though, as Belgian police have announced that they will be targetting BELGIAN NAPSTER USERS and will bring them to court, if necessary. Thanks to Dan2 for the link. *UPDATE* - The Belgian Secretary of Justice has declared that they will not prosecute Napster users -- for the time being. Thanks to ElvisP for the update.
- atila
Rumor Mill - Qmeister aka JoseQ posted a new issue of the famous Rumor Mill ! Read rumors and facts about Sega Arcade Project (Monaco GP), GENS, FPSE, SMOG and Bliss.
- Opi
fixMAME v0.37 b12 & MAMEinfo.dat v2.80 - M.A.S.H. informed us about his latest two uploads : 1) fixMAME, a fixed version of MAME v0.37 b12 with Scanlinesbrightness, Pong, Gambling Games, MameMerge-, History / Mameinfo Menupoint... support. 2) Arrrgh - Dutch already reported the MAMEinfo.dat (while I wrote my posting) so I deleted this news part :)
- Opi
Mameinfo.dat v2.80 - M.A.S.H. has Mameinfo.dat v2.80 online for the newly released Mame v37b12. You can download the new file in full from his site.
- dutch
MAME Screensaver Updated - PeterD over at EmuHQ just told me that version 37 .12 of the MAME screensaver binary was released. And the renaming of mame32.scr to .exe is an unofficial MAME32 for those of you who are all worked up about CPS2 in MAME32. So head on over there if you wanna download it. I think I'll start right now....
- dhalamar
Thursday, February 15th 2001 - Last updated @ 23:51 EST
OverClocked? What's that? - right, right. What ever happened to, uh . . me? Well, a full-time job and buying a new house tends to eat one's time up! Okay, that being said OC Episode #138: THE PLAN is online, covering SEGA's *apparent* fall from grace, and OverClocked ReMix has been updated with Final Fantasy, Arkanoid, UN Squadron, Megaman 3, and Final Fantasy Adventure ReMixes. Pic of my new, unoccupied house is here. Cute, no?
- david
GiriGiri Debugger Deveoplers Version - I noticed this update earlier today, and due to the fact it was all in Japanese, I couldn't tell. Guyfawkes got some of it translated and said it's a developers version that's mostly video related.
- dhalamar
Bliss v1.41 - The Intellivision emulator Bliss has been updated to version 1.41 bringing with it support for 3DFX cards, POV hats, bilinear filtering, and a bunch of bugfixes. The author suggests you upgrade to this if nothing else for the performance increase. Read the What's New list for a complete list of what's new, and, obviously, download it from the Bliss homepage.
- dhalamar
PCSX Linux Screenshots - The PCSX homepage has updated with a whole bunch of screenshots from the recent Linux release. :)
- dhalamar
Spectrum Music - Jan Werner informed us about his latest www.speccy.cz update ! "Today I added 62 new .mp3 files. 56 of them are REMAKES of famous musics from games (one is from my workshop... wow... :))) ) and 6 are recorded songs from digital music compo of Enlight'96 party (they are also filtered for better sound...)." So visit www.speccy.cz if you wanna download some cool (?, C-64 rules) Spectrum music :)
- Opi
ZeroSoft Homepage updated - ZeroSoft, hosted over at Zophar's Domain, has been updated regarding his intentions of re-writing IPSWin, and a message to those who thought the site was dead.
- dhalamar
ArcadeTones Website updated - I know this isn't really emulation related, but it's just cool to me. :) The site called ArcadeTones has been updated. And if you don't know what it is, ArcadeTones has ringtones for various classic arcade games for use with your Nokia phone. Here's what was added:
Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom
Super Mario Brothers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tetris
I actually wish I had one of those now. ;)
- dhalamar
AGES Website updated - The homepage for the Genesis/Sega CD/32x(well, I'm pretty sure 32x is supported, my computer's too slow to run it. =P) emulator Ages has been updated regarding the use of it's savestate files. Funniest update I've seen in a while(if this gives you any hint, the extension for the savestates is .ASS). :)
- dhalamar
Hmm.... - People, please don't E-Mail saying what commercial ROMs you added where, if you didn't notice, I never post about commercial ROMs. :) On the other hand, if you wrote a demo yourself and want me to post about it, you can go ahead and tell me about that, but nothing commercial. Those E-Mails just get deleted. I'm not trying to be mean, I just get tired of seeing 5 or 6 E-Mails a day saying "I added so and so ROM to my site!!!", which is growing steadily. Emulators, demos, plugins, screenshots, just no commercial ROMs. Thanks. :)
- dhalamar
Another MAME Mirror - The boys from www.mame.dk have set up another MAME mirror for your downloading pleasure, click here to get the latest MAME binaries. Their database upgrade is still in progress, but - you know these guys are speedy. I guess it's only a matter of a hour or two until www.mame.dk is offering again a complete MAME set !
- Opi
TRS-80 Emulator v6.10 - David Keil'sTRS-80 Emulator was updated to v6.10, go here for the "changes info" (lots of fixes and new keyboard models supported) and the emulator download. Thanks again to Cloy from Kinox for the email !
- Opi
AppleCe 0.1a - Good old news hound Cloy emailed me about AppleCe, Erik Chong's new Apple II+ emulator for PocketPC's (developed for EM500, tested and working too on Cassiopeia PocketPC). Erik started this emulation project to learn Visual C++ and revive some old memories :) Right now he has no plans to add support for other PocketPC platforms.
- Opi
MAME Mirror - Rico2000 from RC-Roms has set up a mirror for the three available MAME binaries (standart, K6 and i686) ! If your connect to the MAME homepage is too slow, try Rico2000's site :)
- Opi
Fixfile - As usual, Till has a ROM fixfile online over at SYS2064.
- dutch
Compile Tools for Mame v37b12 - Where to get the new Allegro WIP and Binutils that you'll need to compile beta 12? Gridle has the information you seek. :)
Mame v37 Beta 12 Binaries - The binaries for Mame version 37 beta 12 have been posted! Click here to go to the Mame download page to leech them. (Note: It may be very slow for you, at least right now. :) So you might want to use GetRight and be patient.) Oh, I almost forgot, click here to read what's new. :D
- dutch
Alien Vs. Predator!! - CPS2Shock has released the decryption tables for Alien Vs. Predator!
- dutch
Mame v37 Beta 12!! - It's out!! Click here to download the source! And guess what? It does CPS2!!
- dutch
TeleJogo - No, this is not the name of some shabby lottery, it's the name of a console (actually, more a pong clone) that was released in Brazil by Ford (yes, the same one who make cars), sometime during the 70's. ROAR VGM has put up a few nice pics of the 'TeleJogo console'.
- atila
ePSXe.com Down - It looks like ePSXe is having some trouble with their ISP. Thanks to Faluzure for the news.
- atila
TZX Vault - Gilby's TZX Vault is now one year old! Congratulations to Gilby and all of his contributors :)
- atila
Windows XP Kills 'Music Piracy' - Reading this made me chuckle a bit, but I guess a 'workaround' will be found sooner or later:
"The Secure Audio Path (SAP) adds "static" interference to media files that require video and audio cards to authenticate themselves with Windows software before they can be played. The company would be able to verify that a media player isn't playing an "unsecured" file, which according to Microsoft would eliminate much of the threat of piracy."
I think Microsoft expects to sell about 25 copies of WXP, which will all be returned once people learn they can't share they're audio/video files like they're used to :) Check this link for the full article.
- atila
Lawsuit update - Here's some more information on the websites being sued. It turns out most of them are on the "warezy" side so I'll try to be discreet about not directly posting URLs or naming names, however this still hits close to home. Thanks very much to Jeff "CJayC" Veasey for the following info. I would not consider this 100% definitive at this point.
One defendant is the host of the Romseeker website. Another defendant runs several sites (cdwarez*, anarachyrules*, ftpz*, noleech*). As for the last two defendants, one of them lists "Gmania" as a company but no further information can be found.
- dutch
Wednesday, February 14th 2001 - Last updated @ 21:49 EST
Here we go again... - Apparently four websites are being sued by video game manufacturers for posting ROMs. "A lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court by 12 video game companies accusing four men of offering unauthorized copies of everything from Pac-Man to Donkey Kong over the Internet. 'While some believe there are no victims from piracy, they're wrong,' said Doug Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, a trade group representing the entertainment software industry. 'A video game is increasingly expensive to develop and each title involves the hard work of numerous individuals.'"
At this point I don't know which sites are being sued. If you read that article on Excite.com, you'll see that it mentions one website as calling itself "The Ultimate Sanity in Anarchy."
Plaintiffs in the case seeking damages include Activision Inc., LucasArts, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Midway Amusement Games and Capcom Entertainment.
If anyone has any further information about this please e-mail me. Thanks to Caffeine for the information so far.
UPDATE - The site mentioned above is definitely a warez site that offers a lot more than ROMs. Still no information on the other three.
- dutch
Background Info About An Emulator Author - Yesterday I reported the release of a Timex 1000 / Sinclair ZX81 emulators written by Jeff Vavasour !
Stiletto did some research about this guy and hinted me some interesting links about this great programmer :) Click here to read how his emulation programming addiction begun and what else he has coded ! Or look here to get some background information about the commercial emulators he worked on ! And finally a link to Digital Eclipse Software Inc., the company which discovered his coding talent and gave him a job ! Thanks to Stiletto for the great idea !
- Opi
Digitized Old Atari Commercials - Frogacuda informed me about some rare Atari commercials which you can now download/watch at Retrobase ! All 11 videos are available in wmv format, you'll need at least MS Media Player v6.4 to watch them !
- Opi
RAINE WIP - Taito posted the latest RAINE development news at the RAINE WIP site ! Donpachi was added :)
- Opi
EHAlice v0.04 - EHAlice v0.04, Henrique Andreassy's new CALICE frontend is available here.
- Opi
The Arcade Flyer Archive Crew Interviewed - Leo Postma from the Dutch MAME Page conducted an interview with Xray1 and DinkeyToy from the Arcade Flyer Archive ! You can read it in Dutch or in an English translated version - click on Overzicht at the left navbar to find it :)
- Opi
Xmame v0.37 b11.2 - Xmame and Xmess. After Chris moving to a "better place" I have the "honor" to announce a new Xmame release :) Release v0.37 b11.2 contains both - Xmame & Xmess. For a list of the latest changes, check out the changes.unix.
- Opi
Kojote's Freeware ROMs - I hacked Kojote's Freeware ROMs a few minutes ago. Uploaded a new Gameboy Advance demo.
Nah, Kojote's having FTP troubles and asked me to make the update. :) Sorry, couldn't resist scaring him a little bit though. ;)
- dhalamar
BeebEm v1.3 - Version 1.3 of BeebEm for Windows is online. This is Mike Wyatt and Richard Gellman's Windows port of Dave Gilbert's old Beebem BBC Micro emulator. Click here to download it (314 kbyte - source included). Thanks to Cloy for the email :)
- Opi
Modeler v0.1.1 - A new Modeler version was just released (as promised) !!! Go here to find out whats new or changed :)
- Opi
Im Moving - Hi guys, I've been away the past couple of days packing and getting ready to move. I will be gone for the next week or two moving to a better home. :) So just wanted to let everyone know where I was. See ya all in a few weeks!
- chris
MAME WIP - Gridle posted the latest MAME WIP news. Read everything about the latest bug fixes and driver improvements ! Only an open source project is able to develop like MAME did !
- Opi
Modeler will soon run under MacOS. Check out a screenshot of Spiderman running in 2xSaI mode.
- richard
ASUS.COM Hacked - ASUS.COM has been defaced. Thanks to Mason for the link. *UPDATE* The site has been restored to its former state.
- atila
BWAHAHAHAHAHA - Ok. That was too good not to post. :)
Sorry, couldn't resist - Happy Valentines day from the Retrogames staff! Floating hand drawn hearts by Exodus3D, script modified from Javascript Source. Hope you don't mind me using this Mel. :)
- dutch
EmuChrist Undead - Long ago there was a pretty cool, but very strange emulation site called EmuChrist. While the site is mostly all gone now, some interesting boards remain - take a look if you're curious. Lastly, I'd like to publically apologize to Shin Geki, Cronos, ToxicCreep and anyone else there whom I may have offended in the past. May cooler heads prevail in the future.
- prophet
UnMAMEd Is Back! - Btribble's excellent UnMAMEd site is back! It's all about unemulated games and WHY they're unemulated. Good stuff! He hopes to add a DECO cassette section soon too.
- prophet
CPS2 Board Is Back! - Our CPS2 Emulation Board is open again! PLEASE respect the rules of the board. New CPS2 emus are coming in the future, so stay cool, talk about the games and be considerate of each other, including our friendly neighborhood emu authors. Let's see how it goes...
- prophet
Tuesday, February 13th 2001 - Last updated @ 23:16 EST
Playstation Emulation - There's been a number of cool PSX emulation related updates today.
First, Kazzuya's Software Renderer plugin for PSEmu Pro/ePSXe/whatever else can use it has been updated to version 1.4 Final.
Then, a newly discovered Japanese software rendering plugin Knack has been updated to version 0.82.
First 2001 Yape Release - Attila uploaded Yape v0.29, his Commodore C-16/Plus4 emulator. Here are his latest changes :
- o - emulated disk SAVE to the file system (no D64 files just yet)
- o - the 'SAVE as PRG' dialog window is now in hexadecimal
- o - more polishment on the cursor emulation
- o - started implementing a monitor/debugger
- o - save settings on exit
- o - some minor UI changes
Timex/Sinclair 1000 - ZX81 Emu - Wanna test the emulation of an old "lowtech" home computer system ? Then check Jeff Vavasour'sTimex/Sinclair 1000 Emulator in a Browser Window (aka X81) !
Some technical specs : Z-80 processor, 1 - 16 kbyte RAM, resolution 64 x 48 pixels ... hehe
I see you're already amazed and excited - now go for it :-) Thanks to Cloy for the email !
- Opi
CPS2 Extender - This is sort of a short wrap up.. one of our regulars, Numbski, wrote a little utility called CPS2 Extender. It's a front end for Final Burn 0.96 that supports renaming and loading SSF2. Some people hated it, others liked it. Dayvee asked Numbski to please stop working on this utility, and Numbski complied right away. AFAIK, CPS2 support for Mame is being worked on and will definitely happen. So everyone settle down. :)
- dutch
New Cowering Tool - GoodGBA - GoodGBA v0.999.1 is a new Game Boy Advance (demo) ROM renamer tool !
GoodGBA stats: 42 entries - recent additions :
- A new "child" comes into the world!
- Thanks to [Link] for most of the names this time around
- Opi
CPS2 Board - I haven't been able to check my retrogames mail due to being smashed with work the last several days, I also have no idea who closed the CPS2 Board, why it was closed, or when it's coming back up.
- dutch
Mameinfo.dat v2.76 - Speaking of M.A.S.H., he just released a new version of the Mameinfo.dat file. For those of you too lazy :) to use the DIFF update, here's the full Mameinfo.dat v2.76. ;)
- dutch
Arcade@TheMovies - Here's a nice site M.A.S.H. put together that contains still frames from many films which feature arcade games: Arcade At The Movies! Very interesting! Heh, he missed the Star Castle machine from Maximum Overdrive. =) Thanks to Mameworld for the news.
- dutch
RetroGames T-Shirts pricing - The shirts are going to be *gasp* US$14,95. I'm trying to set up an online payment system, which will hopefully be up in a day or 2.
- atila
Mystery Hubert Theater 3000 - TV's Ian has added a new section to HUBERT and he wrote the following in his mail:
"Just wanted to let you know about a new feature I just started. Mystery Hubert Theater 3000 (not to be confused with OC's MVT3K - we just have the same taste in TV). It's all about making fun of lamer e-mails and the like. The first "episode" is up - it was done with the help of Final Burn's Dave!"
Retrogames T-Shirt - HERE's the back of our beautiful Retrogames t-shirt. This is the front of it. Here's a picture of my office and here's yours truly ... is it Superman ? noooo ! Is it Godzilla ? nooooo ! It's Opi, your favourite news reporter !
BTW : I know I'm ugly, there's no need to send me thousands of emails telling me :-)
- Opi
Ironclad again... - Daemon (from ROAR) tells me that Japanese site is NOT releasing an MVS version of Ironclad, just thinking about putting up a CLONECD image of the CD version. So nothing new really. *UPDATE* - Now I'm not so sure, Xeur emailed and said "he's got NeorageX screenies of Brikinger (Ironclad) and Musashi Ganryuki on that page too... and from what I know.. NRX doesn't run CD images :P" and "the CLONECD image information on that webpage is regarding a CD backup he's trying to make for the game "Alice In Nightmare" (hence the title of the link "Alice in Nightmare Report")." So, I think from now on I'll wait until they actually RELEASE something before reporting again. ;)
- prophet
Hiryu v0.1.0 - Ti-B0ne released version 0.1.0 of his Calice frontend Hiryu. Additional information can be found here.
- Opi
Dreamer capable of running commercial games!!!! - EMULATRONIA has just released some screenshots showing the Dreamcast emulator Dreamer in action. On 5 screenshots you can admire NAMCO MUSEUM being emulated. I know that some people won`t be happy about this news. Honestly, I don`t understand why ;) Thanks to Ben-J for the news!!!
- Martin
Napster Again - Here are 2 mails I received about the Napster issue, they clarify it a bit more:
Just a quickie clarification note...Napster isn't exactly back to square one. They clearly lost big time. While the appeals court didn't directly uphold the trial court's injunction, they did hold that the RIAA had, as a
matter of law, established that Napster knew or had reason to know that users of its systems were trading copyrighted materials. In layman's terms, this means that the RIAA is entitled to an injunction. Sending it back to the trial court is simply a procedural matter because the appeals court felt the original injunction was too broad in its terms. Expect the injunction to be rewritten and issued by the trial court within a couple of days. - Jeff W.
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