Wednesday, May 31st 2000 - Last updated @ 21:51 EST
I just finished repairing my Dreamcast, and she's happily humming once again! Big thanks to Jinxter (and |Ray| for the same basic idea) for the instructions on fixing it. All that was involved was soldering a new 1 amp fuse to the controller daughterboard. Total cost: about $1. If anyone out there needs more info for their own unsuccessful DC hacks, just ask. Off to play Street Fighter Alpha 3 now... =)
- prophet
DBOY 0.59z released! Judging from the "what's new", it looks like Super Gameboy support was added (-sgb), more work was done on PCM sound via the PSG engine, a realtime save option was added (-rtssave, -rs) and Boukichi also added a background fix that repaired an error in Metal Gear GBC. Thanks to Kosh for the news and to myself (*goshk*) and the lads VGN for the translation.
- atila
MESS has been updated to v0.37b3. Here is the DOS version and here is the source code.
- richard
Those of you feeling sorry for Gridle's "F" yesterday can breath easy... he gets his revenge in No Idea #4, the emulation comic by Exodus3D.
- dutch
The 4th MARP tournament is under way, here's a snippet from a mail I received:
The tournament will last two months, and players will challenge in 8 games: Arkanoid II, Bubble Bobble, Gaplus, Green Beret, Pnickies, Rally X, Solar Fox and Street Fighter II. No registration is needed, but be sure to check out rules, games settings and MAME version to be used before submitting .inp files.
All you have to do is create a recording (using MAME's -record feature) of you playing the game, zip the recording (.inp file) and submit it to the MARP tournament. For the full rules, please check the MARP site.
- atila
Retrogames WAP is finally working! If you have a WAP-enabled phone then check out this URL: http://www.retrogames.com/wap/rg-wap.wml. I will shorten the URL to wap.retrogames.com in a day or so.
- atila
Want to know how much your domain name is worth ? The Register posted an article about shoutloud.com, where you can get a free valuation service for your domain and (if you want), put the domain up for auction. Thanks to }oZoNe{ for the link.
- atila
Electronic Arts, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Rage Games, Infogrames UK and Eidos are being sued by football teams Feyenoord, Slavia Praag and Vicenza (Italy) and Romanian international players like Hagi and Ilie, and Portuguese players Xavier and Dimas. They're accusing the companies for unauthorised use of their likeness, images and their clublogos and are demanding US$2,500,000 in damages and they demand that they're images be removed from the games. You can read the full article here (it's in Dutch :)
- atila
TWENTY-TWO titles posted on Amiga Emulation Zone today - Arazoks Tomb, Axel's Magic Hammer, Bloodwych, Captive, Carrier Command, Conquerer, Crystal Quest, Days of Thunder, Dr. Fruit, F-16 Combat Simulator, First Contact, 7-Up Magic Spot, Mouse Trap (a great Amiga classic), Plotting, Purple Saturn Day, Red Storm Rising, Rocket Attack, Starflight, Sword of Aragon, Technocop, Total Eclipse, and Treasure Trap (whew!).
While this seems like a lot, there are TONS more to go, many requiring exhaustive testing/configuring or conversion of the only available version (HD install only, etc.) into something emulation friendly.
Not only that, he's also looking for help for a new simulator he's about to start work on. Shane is 'looking for any and ALL information' about a game called TRAPSHOOT, if you can help him out, please mail webmaster@monroeworld.com. A temporary WIP page is available here.
- atila
Holy cow, how the hell much news did I post today anyway? *pant pant*
- dutch
Despite being cruelly made fun of in No Idea 3 :), Gridle has updated the Mame WIP page! Nicola has the grahics smoothing circuitry in Return of the Jedi emulated! :) I think Gridle must be on summer vacation.. well most schools around here are anyway. Apologies to Gridle. ;)
- dutch
XRay1 updated the Mame flyer archive again over at the The Arcade Flyer Archive! Pack number 20 contains 11 replaced images and 19 new ones, for a grand total of 1096 flyers! The complete flyers.zip pack now weighs in at almost 40 megs! You use flyers.zip with Mame32 and also frontends like arcade@home.
- dutch
More speculation on the cryptic "((nop>>4)*3)++" equation posted on the Rage / NeoRage homepage (underneath the NeoRAGEx v0.6b heading): Kevin suggests "32 is a space in any character set i know of, and a space doesn't do anything like a NOP. Also, that gives '7' as the answer." Could this indicate version 7 is coming? However, Nicolas Warren mentioned that the equation did appear on the 28th of May... so maybe the answer was supposed to be 28. Or are we just making a big deal about nothing? Or am only I doing it? :P Hmmmmm....
- dutch
Pete Bernert has released version 1.33 of his OpenGL driver for PSEmu Pro. This release has "sprite mirroring and new detection for uploading screens." Thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- dutch
- TheGuru's site was not redesigned by TheGuru, but by Finnish site designer Pza. If I would have read the news a little bit closer I might have noticed this. :P
- The link from Opi that I posted to the MD site actually contains rare Chinese Genesis / Megadrive dumps, not Japanese ones. Thanks for letting me know Opi! :)
- dutch
A friend of mine pointed out that the "b0rg" message on Rainemu.com may refer to Mame. I guess it makes sense, since Mame emulates so many games. But, it has a lot more people working on it. I like Raine for its speed, among other things. It also emulates Taito F3 games which aren't in Mame yet. I for one still hope the authors reconsider not stopping their awesome work on it. :) (Was that a run on sentance?)
- dutch
M.A.S.H. sent in version 37 beta 3 of his unofficial Mameinfo.dat file. He's really worked hard on this; the archive contains information from Mimic, as well as 300 text files with PCB information from the ROMsets, for use with front ends. He's also included a handy web page with plenty of links, and a diff.bat file to make using LogiqX's Mamediff utility a little easier to run. Just put the old mame executable in the same directory as the current mame.exe, except rename it to mame.old. Then just go to that directory at a command prompt and type diff! :)
- dutch
Need a DAT file to use with that Callus95 Patch 2 release? LogiqX delievers. He also delivers Sparcade v2.25 and Sparcade v2.33 beta DATs. :)
- dutch
Remember how I said I can't wait to see X-Box video demos? Well, it goes to show what I know.. there were already some available! And holy cow... they don't even look 3D, they look like film. Check out the Windows Media and Realplayer files posted out on xbox365.com. Thanks much to Utah Saint for the information!
- dutch
Finally, a Windows port of Charles MacDonald's SMS Plus! SMS Plus for Windows version 0.9.0.0 was released by Richard Teather earlier today at EmuHQ. You will need DirectX 7 installed, also please be aware that sound currently does not work in Windows NT 4.
- dutch
Windows NT4 and 2000 users will however be able to take advantage of today's release of Basilisk II for WinNT build 125. Basilisk II is a Macintosh II emulator. Thanks to Opi of Geoshock for the news.
- dutch
Mike Stulir of Back in Time has posted a review of the defender-like Protector from Songbird Productions, a recent Jaguar game. And you thought the Jaguar was dead! :)
- dutch
Another site to make a comeback is Emumac, a news site for emulators for the MacOS. News stolen from EmuHQ. :)
- dutch
Speaking of Macs, Andrew Blum released GeoMame version 37 beta 3, now in synch with the DOS version. GeoMame is a NeoGeo version of Mame for the Macintosh, and you Mac users will enjoy the keyboard combo support in all of those fighters.
- dutch
Genesis Power dumped the shooter Wings of Wor, which is the US version of Gynoug.
- dutch
This one might get me in trouble, but I think it's in good fun. Episode #3 of the No Idea! emulation comic by Exodus3D features a celebrity from the emulation scene. :) And he shouldn't feel bad, because that really happened to me.. I just didn't have Mame at the time. And if I did, I never would have made it to college. :) (What, you think I'm kidding? ;)
- dutch
Uhmm, I had to 'double-check I wasn't seeing double' when I saw this video =) - atila
Update: After a couple posts on the General Board, I thought I might warn you not to click that link if you are at work, have small children around you, or if you have a weak stomach. Now you want to click it even more don't you? :)
- dutch
Paradox (warez group, warez are bad, mmmkay?) first enabled you to play CD-R backups of Playstation 2 games on your PS2 with a swap patch. Sony was furious. Now Sony is about to get even more furious, check what's written on CDR Info:
Dead or Alive 2 has been released recently on DVD and Paradox has succeeded to convert this DVD game into a 74CD min format!!! This has been possible by ripping some of the music from the game and replacing the pointers.
They ripped the DVD game apart and released it in regular CD format. You should be able to play this on your PS2 with the swap patch. Sega must be very happy they're using the GD-ROM format right now :) Why am I posting this on Retrogames? Because it's interesting news.
- atila
Zoop has updated SMS Power, Haja no Fuuin, the Japanese version of Miracle Warriors, is available for download. Thanks to Luke for the news.
- atila
Jonathan Rothrock submitted a valid screendump for number 14,000,000, so he gets a US Dreamcast + Crazy Taxi + Sega Bass Fishing (special 'fishing rod' controller included), courtesy of Sega. I'd like to thank all our visitors for sticking with us for so long :) Oh, and if happen to work at a company and you'd like to donate some goodies for us to give away, please contact me or anyone else on the staff.
- atila
Good news for us Dutch people, we will be getting flatrate internet via analog lines, without having to resort to ADSL, which is not available in 90% of the country yet. The OPTA (the telecoms watchdog) has ordered KPN to offer MCI Worldcom 2 new methods of acces to its network, one of which will enable flatrate internet!
- atila
Check out the Raine site, the logo has changed a bit. I know it's not much, but it's a sign of life isn't it? :) Remember there is a discussion board out on Emustatus where you can let the authors know how much you miss updates to their awesome emulator. ;) Update: If you select the text on the Raine page, you will see that it contains the following text: "don't be the b0rg... the b0rg is evil... d3str0y the b0rg!!! speaking of which, we are not affiliated with the b0rg collective hosted on emulation world". You will also notice greetings to several friends. Personally, I don't fully understand or care about site politics, all I do is post news. And in my opinion, I still feel that Raine is one of my favorite emulators and can only hope it might be continued one day. I'll try not to let this depress me. :\
- dutch
Want more Intellivision box art, scans, overlays, screenshots, and animated GIFs than you can shake an Atari 2600 joystick at? :) Try Intellivision Graffiti, hosted over at Vintage Gaming. This really did bring back some memories. I had a 2600; I would have to bribe some of my friends in order to play an Intellivision (Astrosmash ruled :). And I'd REALLY have to bribe the kid a few houses down from me with the Ms. Pacman cocktail. ;)
- dutch
The release date for Bleemcast on EBWorld seems to be getting later... you can still preorder it but the release date now reads 7/16/00. :\ Thanks to PSXEmu for the news.
- dutch
A new site has opened over at EMU Unlimited called Console Imports! "We can help you find the cheapest console and other hardware goods ANYWHERE on the net, no matter where you are!" Sounds like it's worth a look. ;)
- dutch
X-box screen grabs at IGN! OMG, these are impressive. I can't wait to see some video captures. Like Robert Hays said in Airplane II, "This isn't the past, or the present. This is the future." Sorry. :) Thanks to BMan2 of Arcade ROM Heaven for the surfing tip.
- dutch
The ROM dumper TheGuru did a nice job redesigning his site. His unemulated Mame games count is currently at 1,936. He's also still dumping stuff, one of his latest is Raiden DX.
- dutch
Are those Genesis games too hard for your crummy reflexes? Genesis Power dumped a nice easy one this time, Bubble And Squeek.
- dutch
Ren Hoek offers this information about the cryptic "((nop>>4)*3)++" which appears under the NeoRageX 0.6b title on the Rage / NeoRage homepage: "In case you want to know the answer, it's 28. I refer to the ((nop>>4)*3)++ bit. As you might know on the x86 processor a nop instruction is 90h. You might argue about what 'nop' might else be but it is the most logical,
also 144/16 (0x90>>4) is a clean 9. So 9*3=27, add the 1, and end up with 28 :)" Heh, we still don't know what it means though do we? :-\
- dutch
Check out the progress of Lee Hammerton's SNES driver for MESS on the WIP page. :) Thanks to Gerado for the e-mail.
- dutch
Here's a nice surfing tip from Opi: Looking for NSFs (Music "ripped" from NES games to play in a NSF player)? Try Kevin Horton's NSF Collection, he's got over 450 titles in one 4 meg archive, plus some other handy resources. :) How about another surfing tip? :) Try this one for rare Japanese Genesis / Megadrive dumps. Not sure if GoodGen 0.998 recognizes any of 'em. ;)
- dutch
Techmaster has released version 0.3b2 of his previously released unofficial version of MameCE. Here's what's new in this release:
- Fixed default directory Creation for Roms and Samples folders. - Fixed default path searching for ROMs and samples. They are now detected if they are in any of the common locations. Please see the WhatsnewsCE.txt file for additional information.
Techmaster's unofficial MameCE was originally announced on a post on the MameCE board: "Here is an unofficial release. It is compiled using Ben's source. It also includes Fabrice Frances's update to the graphics and my rebuild of the resource file that was missing from Ben's Source Posting. I also included a link for the missing resource file that I rebuilt, for those folks like Fabrice who want to compile the source themselves. :)." Those original source changes are here. Questions about this unofficial version of Mame for the Cassiopeia E-10X palmtop should be directed to Techmaster.
- dutch
Looks like another person is working on a Mame driver, this time it's Technos's 1987 Super Dodge Ball. The linked page has several resources posted, including some WIP drivers, ROM images, and other information. Like EmuHQ's Peterd, I missed this one as well. :)
- dutch
Version 0.71 of MSX SO, a Japanese MSX emulator for Windows, was released recently. You need to have DirectX 7 or later installed to run it. The docs are all in Japanese, but The MEP Crew has provided some information on how to run a ROM with this emulator. First, you have to create a text file in the same directory as msxso.exe called "cart.drc." In this file, you then type the mapper number followed by the full path to the ROM. Example: "4E:\Emu\MSX\ROM\T&E\HYDLID31.ROM". If you are unsure of the mapper number, check the msxso.htm file included in the archive. There is some English in it but it would help if you knew Japanese. :\
- dutch
The X68000 Games Pile hosted here at Retrogames has just added Final Fight! And no, it won't work in a MSX emulator, sorry about that. :P Thanks Samor. :)
- dutch
Reiginsei has moved his RIP Translations site out to riptrans.emucamp.com. His latest effort is a translation patch for a Japanese Playstation game called Cotton Fantastic Night Dreams. Thanks to Opi of Geoshock for the news!
- dutch
ShinobiZ added another ten flyers like he promised :) and also posted info on three Sega C2 games.
- dutch
Cowering has released GoodSNES 0.998, his excellent ROM scanning and renaming utility! Total number of entries is 3583. This release is "updated to latest DPS name database (thanks DPS and Snowy)" and also "handles Interleave2 and ALL BS roms correctly". You can download Cowering's 15 other utilities from ROM Collector's Anonymous. Digitoxin has some other utilites to go along with these posted out there, the latest is his own GbxSplit 1.1 which will split the have and miss reports into seperate files for Gameboy and Gameboy Color (and works with the new naming convention :).
- dutch
DarcNES source has been updated to version dn9a0529. This is a multi-platform emulator that you need to compile yourself. Check the homepage for a list of links to several official port sites, currently, the BeOS port is in synch with this release. Highlights of new features include support for expansion and language cards for Apple II, along with some cleanups to NES sprites. Check the homepage for the full list, and thanks to Lycia of Emucamp for the news.
- dutch
In N64 INI news, Spinal released version 1.6 of his unofficial Corn INI. Total playable game count is 35.
- dutch
CPS2 Shock released Callus95 Patch 2!! Newly supported games include Forgotten Worlds & Pang 3, plus other games and fixes. Highly recommended - and proof that great emus don't die, they just get patched. ;) (Thanks to my friend Opi of Geoshock)
- prophet
LASER 0.5 released! Laser is a new arcade emulator by Lopantu, at the moment it only runs Space Invaders and some clones, but (hopefully :) soon more games will be added. Thanks to Lrd[EFN] for the news.
- atila
A new poll (even of interest to PC users!) has been started at bannister.org.
- richard
The Mac version of SMS Plus has been updated to v0.9.1. This version fixes a stupid (Mac-only) error that prevented SRAM from working properly.
- richard
WE HIT 14,000,000 VISITORS, but noone sent me a VALID screencapture, so the prizes will be given away in a day or so, when I figure out a new way to give it away, confusing isn't it :) (FYI, we got 10,000 hits in 8 mins time)
- atila
If you've downloaded MAMElang32 0.37b3, you better get rid of it real quick. It contains the CIH (Chernobyl) virus, please use a virus scanner to clean your system. Thanks to Zadock and Lrd[EFN] for the news.
- atila
The NeoGeo Review Center will soon reopen as The Review Center, Gazoo will regularly post status updates.
- atila
It's reloading time again, we will hit 14,000,000 in a few hours!
- atila
Need help making your own MAME cabinet ? Click here for more, thanks to Lrd[EFN] for the link.
- atila
Visual MAME was updated yesterday. It's a DOS frontend for MAME with a lot of features. Thanks to wwemu for these last 2 bits.
- atila
The Squeem site (NES emu) has had a 'redesign', if you will.
- atila
The X68000 Game Pile hosted here on retrogames has been updated with 3 new games: Phantasie IV, Populous, and Tower of Druaga. There's also a couple of demos online.
- dutch
Zoop has been busy out on SMS Power, in addition to a new Streets of Rage 2 dump, he's also modified the site a bit to make news posting easier, and notice the new smspower.org domain name? :) Game devs, don't miss the updates in the S8-Dev section they have out there. Thank you Luke for pointing out the updates. ;)
- dutch
Are you noticing a problem with Virtual Game Station where the bottom of the screen is "cut off?" It's been officially dubbed the "video cropping bug," so it isn't just you. :) It should be fixed next release. Thanks much to Vintage Gaming for the news.
- dutch
Today's dump at Genesis Power is Kid Chameleon, a nice little platformer.
- dutch
Well, here I go saying yesterday that Boukichi has stopped work on his DOS Gameboy emulator DBoy, and today he goes and updates it with a new version, how do you like that? :) In fact, it's had two releases in the past couple days. Thanks to Aries, here's what's new:
D-Boy v0.59higher (2000/05/28) - Now use SEAL as sound output system. - As using SEAL, added option (-sound 2) for PSG emulation with PCM. (Still need some improvement on sound quality)
D-Boy v0.59invisible (2000/05/29) - Improved PCMPSG emulation, now it will sound better. (Still need some improvement though) - Change the name of Config definition file from "DBOY.CFG" to "DBOY.DEF". You can rename the old "DBOY.CFG" or use it as a sample.
Thanks for the news Aries! Feel better soon please! ;)
- dutch
Martin Nathell of Emulation64 let me know about a project that Zilmar just completed called EMUBook. This is an excellent emulation referance IMHO, and covers information about CPUs, memory, and more. I took a quick look at it, and the wealth of information posted and its organization is impressive. Strangely enough, I still don't know how to code an emulator. :)
- dutch
Anyone remember the SNES game Tales of Phantasia? This Namco role-playing title is the largest SNES ROM out there, weighing in at 6 megabytes uncompressed. It's Japanese only, so the only hope non Japanese speakers have in playing it is a translation. The Tales of Phantasia translation group DeJap is still around... in fact, Boba Fett let me know they have moved to a new site: dejap.zsnes.com! :)
- dutch
Wanna emulate a Macintosh II in Windows? Have a look at Basilisk II, a new Windows version was just released today. Visit the homepage to download build 124 and read the changes. Thanks to Lrd[EFN] for the news.
- dutch
Sergio Parracho has quite a task he's undertaking on his SP-X Video Game Warehouse site out on Darkmazda's Domain: "Our goal is to review every game for every system, ever made! We can only do this with your help, so we have designed a database for it. We allow you to add/modify/delete records from the database, and pictures as well. We allow a maximum of 2 pictures uploaded per game (title screen/in game shot)." Heh, this might take a while. :)
- dutch
EmuHQ pointed me to this post out on amiga.nvg.org from Brian King, author of the Windows port of UAE. He is planning to work on and release version 0.8.12, but after that he will "only be working on Picasso96 and MIDI-input specific features of WinUAE, and will no longer maintain the port." This does not mean someone else might not pick up further development of the port however.
- dutch
Amiga Mania has 10 new games online. The site is in French, but you won't have a problem if you don't speak it. Want more Amiga? Andy's Amiga Rarities is pretty much back. Most all of the old games are once again available, plus he's been adding new stuff as well, the most recent being Master Axe. Thanks again to Vintage Gaming for the leads. :)
- dutch
romalizer has been updated to version 0.61. romalizer is a rom analyzer program similar to ClrMAME or MAME Merge, only it operates on xmame.
- chris
Wine 20000526 released. This version includes support for OpenGL (among other things!)
- chris
Ultimate Game Manager 5 has been released! UGM is an excellent multi-emu frontend which supports 60 emus, here's what's new:
- MS Access Interface - You must Import the old UGM 4.x data and use the new UGM.MDB File instead of the old one -- now you have all possibilities of MS Access :)
- Better Menuhandling for Option / Emu Defined and Empty and Scan only
- 60 Emulators are supported
Wanna play The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, emulated, in Java form ? Then click here! Playing this game made me remember that Star Trek game, where you had to do some 'stuff' to Deanna Troi =) Thanks to DrSteveW for the link.
- atila
ShinobiZ has updated his Sega site with more screenshots for S32 games, updated various other screenshots and added 10 flyers for Sega games.
- atila
Speccyal is being continued by Richard Nash!
- atila
Aries mailed me the following translation for Prototype-D 0.007 mentioned below: Some changes in the netplay feature
- atila
It looks like C (or for that matter Java) but it's not valid code. If you disregard the semantics of the language, though, you could evaluate it (approximately) to ((nop/16)*3)+1. Still not terribly useful though :)
- richard
Haze pointed out something rather odd/interesting at the NeoRAGEx (RAGE, NeoRAGE as well) homepage. It seems the html was recently updated with a singular change: "((nop>>4)*3)++" appears below the NeoRAGEx 0.6b title. It's C code - bit shifting stuff..?! Is this some cryptic sign of emu life or merely some meaningless anomaly? I dunno. :o)
- prophet
SMYNES 1.00 released! This shareware NES emulator for Windows is coded in 100% ASM and supports an impressive 86 mappers and the Nintendo Disk system. It additionally supports three and four player games, Bandi Datch games, multiple joysticks, cheats, real time load/save, screenshots, and includes a ROMs database and NSF player. There is a demo that you can download in both English and Chinese. It will display the word "Demo" in the middle of the screen and limits playing any given ROM to 5 minutes. Instructions for how to register are included; it costs $10 US. Thanks to Geoshock for the news.
- dutch
Just wanted to point out the homepage for Friday's release of PowerMSX 0.06, the open source DOS based MSX1 emulator.
- dutch
Mike Beaver has released Mimic 1.00! You must thoroughly read the ReadMe.txt file in order to install this correctly. This DOS emulator currently only emulates Bombjack and Ladybug (Ladybug doesn't accept coins yet); you will need to visit the homepage and download the driver files for each game. The unique thing about Mimic is that the driver files for the games are not part of the executable binary (the "mimic.exe" file). You don't have to change the executable, use a compiler, or know C to add a ROM set. Visit the homepage for more information.
- dutch
BouKichi has released Prototype-D 0.007. Since BouKichi stopped his work on the excellent DBoy Nintendo Gameboy emulator for DOS, he has picked up with Prototype-D for Windows. :) I need Aries however to translate those docs. ;) (I really am impressed with someone who can speak two languages that have practically nothing in common. :)
- dutch
The Italian site 16bit has posted an interview with Atani! Atani is the author of several Sega console emulators, here's a snippet from the English version of the interview: "I'm working on Segaemu, Genital32, Generator32, MCHE32 (sometimes) and on a brand new project :)"
- dutch
RockNES DOS has been updated to version 1.061! In addition to several bugfixes (saved state loads are fixed, Castlevania 3 works with no graphic corruption), it can now do RAM dumping and mapper 3 has been modified. Check the homepage for all the details (and a copy of BNSF, the author's NSF player for DOS :), and thanks to JoseQ of EmuViews for the news.
- dutch
Mr. Shane Monroe has been busy filling requests out on Amiga Emulation Zone, five to be exact, and with more to come.
- dutch
Mame v37b3 went pretty smooth for me so far. If you'd like to audit the samples that Mame currently uses but will eventually be replaced with true emulation (such as Votrax in Gorf and Wizard of Wor), you can compile in LogiqX's source changes. It's a DIF file, you put it in the same directory as the makefile along with the GNU Patch executible ("patch.exe"), then type patch -p1 <sfix37b3.dif. As an alternative, you could also use a DAT file for CLRMame Pro or RomCenter with the correct sample information; LogiqX has posted these for your convenience as well. ;)
- dutch
Hugo 1.24 released! The Core-GraphX / PC Engine / Turbo GraphX open source emulator for DOS and Linux includes a new unzip library so you can scan for zips! :) There's also a new GUI, ISO support has been modified so that you can play Half Dragon or Doraemon in BIOS mode, source code has been cleaned up, the screenshots work correctly now (white no longer appears as grey), language specific messages are now corrected, and the file selector now recognizes BIN files. MUG U.K. contributed a cheat file that will allow you to modify the number of lives, scores, weapons, etc. in some games. Check the homepage for more details. Thanks to Elmer for the news.
- dutch
Emulation64 is currently holding a screenshot contest! First prize is a Diddy Kong Racing cartridge for Nintendo 64, second prize is an Adaptoid game adapter. Visit the homepage for all the details.
- dutch
Thirteen more dumps have been completed by Team Japump, including some STV, SSV, and C2 stuff. They are currently unemulated and public backups are not available. But remember Haze is at work on a C2 driver for Mame. :)
- dutch
The DOS based open source Sega Genesis emulator Genital has been updated to version 0.3! RAM dumping has been added, along with country detection, window priority, support for Strider 2, file size checking, as well as a lot of other improvements and fixes which you can read by clicking here.
- dutch
- Myzar has released his first Corn INI file, version 1.0, which is based on Spinal's 1.5. It has a total of 43 playable games.
- dutch
Cinder has a couple new wallpapers online, one that has Mame with Ms. Pac-Man, and a cool looking anime one called "Trancelike." :)
- dutch
Saturday, May 27th 2000 - Last updated @ 12:36 EST
PacMan as a time traveller, who'd have thought, eh? FWIW, 'Pac In Time' (ElvisP told me that this name is being used already?) would be a better name for this game ;-) Thanks to TED^ca for the link.
- atila
MADrigal has updated his site with the following news:
While working on my next simulator, that's Snoopy Tennis (Nintendo's Wide Screen Series), I found that all my previously released Nintendo's simulators had a few nasty common bugs :-((
So I decided to update both three of them, and I also inserted a couple of new features. As requested from MJF I inserted a feature which allow you to shut the game by pressing the esc key, to keep simulators compatible with mame-based frontends and GUIs. Also I've finally been able in finding a picture of the beautiful Donkey Kong circus box, so it's now featured on that simulator's splash-screen :-)
The updated games are:
--> Donkey Kong Circus (Panorama Screen Series) V1.02 bug fixed and more
--> Lifeboat (Wide Screen Series) V1.02 bug fixed
--> Donkey Kong (Wide Screen Series) V1.02 bug fixed
Gridle has posted CPU optimised binaries for this MAME release, check the MAME site for the files.
- atila
mame.dk has been updated with all roms for MAME 0.37b3. You can also register now at mame.dk and soon you'll be able to use cool new features, for registered users only :)
- atila
MacMAME 0.37b3 released! The Mac version is now in sync with the DOS version, here's what's new:
- In sync with the DOS 0.37 beta 3 build. [Aaron Giles]
- Minor bugfix in the Z80 core for the Leland games. [Aaron Giles]
*The VDP was entirely rewritten.
*Graphics engine is line based, providing a very precise emulation.
*Sprites 8x8, and Magnified sprites are also emulated.
*The fifth sprite in a row is disappearing, as it is supposed to happen.
*Sprite colision bit is also emulated. So, this VDP should run perfectly 99% of MSX-1 software!
Slashdot has posted an interview they did with Lars Ulrich of Metallica about the Napster/Metallica situation. Thanks to TmB for the link.
- atila
Here is a report of all the ROM changes in Mame version 37 beta 3. It was made with LogiqX's awesome Mamediff utility. I have had a busy week and am doing a million things right now, so I haven't had time to be on IRC much or even "hunt." So, the best I can tell you for now is to keep your sites set on the usual places, Mame.dk, Arcade ROM Heaven, SYS2064 [link fixed, thanks Filipe ;], and Emulition. Don't hammer these sites, if you want them to survive, go easy and download one file at a time, bandwidth does cost money. And of course, you should not be downloading anything for which you are not legally entitled.
- dutch
Aries has very kindly sent me his translation of the readme docs in today's releases of Hii's Windows / DirectX emulators TGP Alpha 0.183 and TNes 8.011:
(GB)TGB Alpha v0.183 (2000/05/26) by Hii: - Added Network Feature (include Chat) - Added Drag-and-Drop feature. (in test stage) - Improve accuracy of emulation.
(NES)TNes v8.011 (2000/05/26) by Hii: - Fixed bugs about loading from VRAM.
- dutch
Snorter of Genesis Power says "I'm sure some of you are sick of Thunder games, so here is something different - really different - a decent Street Fighter 2 clone with many of your favorite comic heroes." The new dump is Justice League Task Force (F). :)
- dutch
Friday, May 26th 2000 - Last updated @ 21:53 EST
Looks like Till is still awake over in Germany... he's got his Mame version 37 beta 3 fixfile online over at SYS2064 already! :)
- dutch
Mame version .37 beta 3 is out, scroll down to get to Prophet's posts and download Mame. Hehe, I flooded them down there a bit, sorry about that Prophet. :) I'll be leaving work shortly and getting to messing around with it after Farscape. ;)
- dutch
Haze has been pretty busy hacking away at that Sega C2 Mame driver of his, and his Sega C2 Driver page is taking shape! Go Haze go!! ;)
- dutch
Cowering went nuts and has released GoodSMS 0.998 Beta, GoodGG 0.998 Beta, and GoodGen 0.998 Beta! The Sega Master System, Game Gear, and Genesis/32X scanning - renaming - identifying utilities are now compatible with the 64 character CDR file naming system, and also include the other updates of his recent releases (directories, audits, etc.). If you'd like to help Cowering out, you can mail him the names which match SMSPower releases.
- dutch
Owen Rubin set up his own web page! Who is he and why do we care? Oh, he only worked for Atari as one of the first arcade programmers and helped bring us Space Duel and Major Havoc to name a couple. :) Hehe, he links to Mame! :D Thanks to Brian Deuel for the news!
- dutch
Gens has been updated to version 0.6! This version of the win32 / DirectX emulator now has zip support and lets you define directories! The following games are also now playable: Top Gear 2, Lotus 2, Bubsy, American Gladiators, Forgotten Worlds, and Road Rash 3. You should also find that it now works in full screen mode on your Voodoo3 or Savage4 card.
- dutch
Need some DAT files to go along with VAntAGE? LogiqX has them online, one for CLRMame Pro and one for ROMCenter. :) Speaking of ROMCenter, there's been 9 or so DAT files released at the homepage today by various authors.
- dutch
TR64 and 1964 screenshots of upcoming playable Nintendo64 games, anyone? :)
- dutch
Hii has released version vA8.011 of his TNES emulator for win32 / DirectX, and also a new Gameboy and Gameboy color emulator called TGB 0.183. Aries, care to help with the translations? :) Thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- dutch
Richard Bannister reported on a new and fast Gameboy emulator for the Mac called Playboy, now at version d0.02. "PlayBoy will emulate roughly 85% of the commercial non-colored GameBoy titles and about 99% of the demos."
- dutch
MAME 0.37 Beta 3 has been released!!! At the moment the source is available, binaries will follow soon I hope! Can you say Leland? Thought you could. =) Click here to see what's new in this beta. Official MAME site. (Thanks Gridle)
- prophet
First it was Metallica, now it's Dr. Dre! Dr. Dre has ordered Napster to ban 230,142 users; which they have. Nice of Dre, isn't it ? I think a lot of 'fans' will now say 'F*CK DRE' instead of 'F*CK THE POLICE' ;-) Thanks to SpeedyP for the news.
- atila
The MIMIC site has been updated again with the release of the drivers for Lady Bug and BombJack. What good are drivers without an emulator? He said the emu will be out in a day or two! Thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- atila
MAME WORLD is reporting that Brian Lewis has released ArcadeOS 2.36 (MAME frontend) and a new arcade emulator for DOS called VAntAGE 1.0 (Vertical ANTiquated Arcade Game Emulator). Click here to go to the PC2Jamma site where both of these files are hosted.
- atila
Wonder what it would be like for an Scottish dude to review a Japanese game with no knowledge of Kanji ? Click here to find out :)
- atila
This link made me chuckle a few times, it's damn funny :)
- atila
Thursday, May 25th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:50 EST
The thunder claps turn to lightning as Genesis Power dumps Lightening Force [sic]. (That [sic] isn't for Genesis Power, Lightning is actually spelled that way in the game. :)
- dutch
I should have listened to matriDX: "j00 know? my "box" (see www.l33t.com) runs on a hotcake, and i made it work with a tomatoe ones...try it! it works!" Yep, the potato server was a prank... but I don't feel so bad, considering that even USA Today ran this story. :) The reason I think everyone fell for it was how believable the original story seemed. Oh well, I can only blame totl.net for being creative with their mythical server that runs on potatoes. :P (Thanks to BMan2 for the enlightenment :)
- dutch
PacMame, PacMame, get 'cher PacMame v37b2 right here! :)
- dutch
Opi reports that Andy's Amiga Rarities is back... not all the games are online yet but he hopes to have that little problem fixed soon. ;)
- dutch
Mac users (*cough* Richard *cough* ;) will be happy to learn of the Nintendo64 emulator for the Macintosh called Sixtyforce, now at version 0.5.5. To run it, you need Mac OS 8.1 or later with OpenGL 1.1.2 or later installed. It runs several commericial ROMs (some better than others), check the docs for the compatibility list.
- dutch
Now I am getting worried... Evil, founded by Satan around the beginning of time (and growing steadily since) has recently been purchased by Microsoft for 2.7 billion in the wake of Evil's current boom with the growth of the Internet. Thanks to GM for the news! ;)
- dutch
The guys over at The The MEP-Crew have added over 600 games for the MSX in the past few days, with a total of over 1800 MSX games online. They hope to have 2500 by the end of June! They also have quite an archive of MSX emulators for various systems (including Windows and DOS) posted.
- dutch
The Macintosh port of Handy, an Atari Lynx emulator, has finally been updated - to v0.7.2. The new release adds greatly improved compatibility. - richard, microscopic edit by
- dutch
SMS+/MacOS is a brand new Macintosh port of Charles MacDonald's excellent Sega Master System/Sega Game Gear emulator.
- richard
As you may or may not know, Zoop (founder of EmuCamp) and author of Meka has quit EmuCamp. I have no idea what the exact implications are of this decision, but I for one will miss Zoop :~(
- atila
I'm trying to WAP Retrogames. I downloaded a WAP editor and I put the first draft at http://www.retrogames.com/wap/index.wml. Now, it looks correct in my editor, I hope it does on a WAP phone too. Feel free to try it and let me know :) (Hmm, looks like I forgot to set the MIME types, should be done in 2 hours or so)
- atila
Wednesday, May 24th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:07 EST
ZSKnight released ZSNES v0.990! Does this awesome Super Nintendo emulator need an introduction? Just download it! =P There's lotsa new stuff, especially sound code improvements (with help from Neill Corlett :). Homepage. (Thanks DigiWrath)
- prophet
Is this what the information age will come to? It seems silly... but it gets you thinking doesn't it? Especially in light of the fact that a lot the fictional "laws" described have already been proposed in the US. Thanks to Jim for the link.
- dutch
Zoop has posted that he is quitting Emucamp, the site that he originally started nearly 3½ years ago. Zoop also (I believe) was the first person to ever enter #retrogamers on EFnet. I have only talked to him briefly a while back, and I remember what a nice person he was. Best of luck to you Zoop, I hope everything is well with you!
- dutch
Congratulations to Mek whose Video Game Museum site has recently surpassed 6,000 games with over 12,000 screenshots. An excellent resource if you're not sure what you want to load up in an emulator. Mek has a lot more than screenshots online though, there's sprite rips, scans, reviews, game endings, and more.
- dutch
Cowering has updated his GoodGBx ROM scanning / renaming / identification utility for Gameboy ROMs to version 0.998.2:
- Database update (100+ entries!) [Total entries: 3903] - Names > 64 chars edited to make CD-R burning possible - Changes in the naming setup, most people will figure it out! - 'Audit' now prints any lines that don't pass rather than a line # - DON'T forget to read 'gbredumpsneeded'
Want to use a joystick with a program or emulator that doesn't have joystick support? Have a look at Aldo Vargas's VGS Joy, recently updated to version 1.4. It's optimized for use with the Connetix Virtual Game Station, and this version now works with DirectX 7.0a instead of reading directly from the game port. He's also integrated the features of VGS Capture and VGS Auto Fire!
- dutch
- Add support to many mappers. Now DreamNES support mapper: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34, 41, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 79, 80, 87, 91, 112, 118, 160, 184, 225, 232, 241, 246, 248 - VRC6 extended sound channel emulated! (Mapper 24, cv3j) - Choose display devices (Require DX7 or higher) - Scanline mode - Multi display resolution selectable - Great boost on Rom encyclopedia's database. Add 800+ ROM info - Any info on those fantastic mapper (not supported) is greatly appreciated
I must say that's a lot of mappers! :) And of course the ROM encyclopedia utility is a cool built in feature. If you don't already have DreamNES 2000 beta 1 installed, you will need to install it before applying the beta 2 upgrade. Thanks again to Opi for the news.
- dutch
Tomorrow's Heroes has released Retrogaming Times #33! This issue of the online newsletter includes Mame reviews, video game myths, letters to the editor, and more. To access back issues click here.
- dutch
(cue music from "Tavares - Heaven must be missing an angel") Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemon ... must be missing an image! C64 imaaage! And they found the image at www.Lemon64.com, please update your bookmarks :)
- atila
The Amiga version of MESS has been updated to v0.37b2.
- richard
A Macintosh version of Charles MacDonald's excellent emulator "SMS Plus" is coming soon. For full information and a screenshot, go to my page.
- richard
The Gamers Advocate Group (hosted here at Retrogames) seems to have run into some trouble:
NOTE: My entire subscriber database has been corrupted due to a goober made by my ISP. Please resubscribe by following the instructions at the bottom of the page if you were a subscriber, and let people that you referred to the newsletter know what happened.
Virtual Game Station 1.4 for PC released! Connectix have updated the Windows version of their excellent commercial PSX emu, here's what's new:
- Virtual Game Station Home Page Menu Option
- Autolauncher update for users with more than one drive (CD/DVD/CD-RW)
- Fixed some, but not all, problems with Acer CD-ROM drives
- Gamma button incorrectly appearing even when you can't adjust the gamma slider has been fixed
- Fixed incorrect registry entry
- Some PAL performance and video issues fixed: timing and "squished" video
- Game-specific fixes: please refer to the WIN 1.4 Recommended Games List
MESS WIP has been updated! Lee Hammerton has managed to get Super Mario World for the SNES running in MESS! The SNES driver is very preliminary at this stage, but it is exciting to see something running none the less!
- chris
Tuesday, May 23rd 2000 - Last updated @ 22:03 EST
Charles MacDonald released SMS Plus 0.9, his Sega Master System emulator for DOS. This isn't just an update, it's a complete rewrite, bringing much more accuracy and compatibility. Also new is 16-bit color, display blurring, digital sound emulation, and scanlines. (Gotta have scanlines ;) The archive also includes a new port for the Playstation, but it is highly experimental at this point and as such, has issues. The source is also available in the archive. Thanks to Geoshock for the news.
- dutch
Shiesta and Nobi-Chan pointed me towards yet another freeware zip utility that handles tons of formats with only one executable (and doesn't need external programs to work ;). It's called Power Archiver.. looks pretty sweet!
- dutch
We've been having quiet a bit of noise over at Genesis Power, and it hasn't let up with their latest dump of Thunder Force 3. I've only heard that it plays a bit better than Thunder Spirits (the SNES version, which is what I had.)
- dutch
TJ Grant submitted some more info on Syzygy.. did you know there was a game for Chip8 called Syzygy? It's basically a Nibbler clone. :) To play it (and other games) you can use the Vision-8 emulator for Windows (or a multitude of other platforms, including Colecovision ;) or the MacVision-8. You'll also need the ROMs. [Link fixed] Yep, they're freeware.
- dutch
The retrogames.com staff would like to wish TsengRei of twistedgaming.com a Happy Birthday today. :)
- dutch
Heh, Tim S. let me know that the Temple Ov Thee Lemur (a little Psychic TV connotation? ;) has set up a webserver completely and totally powered by pototoes!! :) Heh, I just found it and it really works. It's a bit slow and only hosts a couple of small pages, but hey, it's running on pototoes! If I linked it, it would die. So you'll have to find it yourself... I found it within about a minute. ;) Please don't kill the potato server. :O
- dutch
LogiqX updated his kick butt (ok, kickass :) MAMEDiff utility to version 1.02! It can do MESS and Raine now. This is a quick and easy way to see what's different ROM wise between two different versions. He also updated his Mame sample fix, as well as some DAT files for ROM Center and CLRMame Pro.
- dutch
Christian Hackbart released YaSE 0.79, his Spectrum Emulator for DOS. It currently emulates Spectrum 48k, 128k and Pentagon 128 machines. The archive also includes the source. Thanks to Opi for the news.
- dutch
Andrea Mazzoleni released Advance MAME 0.37 Beta 2.1! That's the P2/P3 build, check the homepage for other builds and source. You must also download this utility pack. This release contains some great new features and fixes - read them here. I cannot stress how terrific Advance MAME is, especially for arcade monitor/TV users - take the time to configure it and you won't regret it. :) Remember, Advance MAME is an *UNOFFICIAL* version of MAME - DO NOT bother the Official MAME team about it!
- prophet
AGES 0.19a released!! Here's what's new in this Sega Genesis/Sega 32X emulator: Drc (dynamic recompilation? - atila) is not included for compatibility reasons. Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, and Pitfall are now working. All games with layering problems are fixed. (Kolibri, T-Mek, Space Harrier, etc). As always read the manual.
Very good news indeed, you can check out the official AGES site here. Thanks to TmB for the news.
- atila
Here's the reason why the "I LOVE YOU"-virus made its way around the world so quickly =)
- atila
Zwaxy of The MAME Action Replay Page and myself have been working on a patch for MAME that allows users to reset MAME recordings simply by pressing F3. If you have ever tried to beat a high score at MARP, you know how frustrating it is to restart the emulator every time you want to restart a new recording. Well, we have come up with a patch that allows you to now restart recordings (and playbacks) simply by pressing the F3 key (or whatever you have defined as the reset key in your version of MAME). MARP users should really enjoy this patch, and we are asking MARP users to test out the new DOS binary compiled by TonyD before we submit the patch to MAMEDEV. If you would like to compile your own MAME, you can get the source file that includes the patch here, and the DOS binary can be downloaded here.
- chris
SolidSnake of Emuitalia, an Italian emulation site, has an exclusive interview with Bleem!. The interview covers topics about Bleem, BleemCast and Sony. You can read the english version here.
- chris
Guru-Choc has posted even more ROMs for the upcoming beta-3 release! This time he has added Play Girls and Play Girls 2 (sounds like fun!). MAME 0.37b3 is going to be a huge release with lots and lots of new games, head on over to Guru-Choc's and leech now before the rush! Oh, and click on a few of his banners too while you are at it. =)
- chris
Exodus3D turned me on to the Indrema home entertainment system built from high powered linux boxes which plug into your TV set! They allow you to browse the internet or play 3D games such as UT or Quake from your TV set, and all you do is plug it into your TV and turn it on, no knowledge of Linux system administration is necessary. A more detailed description of the specifications can be found here. Hopefully these will catch on and the gaming industry will make more games for the Linux platform!
- chris
Tim Mann has updated xtrs to version 4.1. xtrs is a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Unix and the X Window System. Changes in version 4.1 include emulation of the Radio Shack hard disk controller hardware, and several bugfixes and minor improvements in other areas. xtrs is open source.
- chris
Rob F. sent me a link to a site with more reviews of Spectrum emulators. This site is quite comprehensive, however, I still could not find a review of MESS's emulation of the Spectrum. I guess MESS is still widely unknown as an emulator.
- chris
EmuHQ mentioned a new release of the Atari800 emulator, although I don't see a mention of the new 1.0.0 version on the homepage. The release has been announced and the files have been posted on the Atari800XL site in Czechoslovakia, but for me the site was very slow. Here's a mirror of the source, and builds for DOS, TOS, and Linux. The list of changes is extensive, click here to view it.
- dutch
According to this report on excite.com.. it sounds like (and let me stress sounds) the Dreamcast is dead! According to reports in the Nihon Keizai newspaper, since Sega has posted its third consecutive net loss, Shoichiro Irimajiri will step down as president and serve as vice chairman, and focus on the Dreamcast's successor. Sega Chairman Isao Ohkawa will fill his place (and remain chairman) and restructure the company. Something tells me developers are going to concentrate on the PS2 now... :\ Thanks to Solvalou and Hazard for the posts on the General Board.
(NB. The Dreamcast is NOT dead, it has just sold less than expected in Japan. It is selling VERY well in the USA and in other parts of the world. It's kinda like the Genesis/Megadrive situation in back in Japan, during the beginning of the 90s. It didn't get off the ground in Japan, but it sold VERY well everywhere else - edited by Atila, post by Dutch)
- atila
Here's the link I was looking for last week, the article on emulation in the New York Times. Thanks much to TheCrank for finding this for me, and also to ClassicG for the "help" with the link. ;)
- dutch
Thanks to GM for the reminder on where the name "Syzygy" (for the new magazine that's coming out) comes from... it's what Nolan Bushnell wanted to call Atari, but couldn't since the name was already taken. Here's an encyclopedia.com definition. :)
- dutch
Monday, May 22nd 2000 - Last updated @ 22:29 EST
What a busy weekend, I did about two months worth of laundry and also got my car serviced. How's that for an excuse? I did watch Being John Malcovich, damn the end freaked me out. :P Heh, let's see what I missed... :)
- dutch
Did you have problems with joystick setup and no sound in RockNES 1.2 for Windows? Try version 1.201, released earlier at the homepage! Thanks to JoseQ for the news. :)
- dutch
A cool looking magazine is about to make a July 2000 debut, it's called Syzygy Magazine: "Syzygy Magazine is a video game journal focusing on coin-operated, computer, and console systems as they relate to the history and progression of this art form and leisure activity enjoyed by the world at large!" Thanks much to Brian's Coin-Op History Archive for the news!
- dutch
Genesis Power has dumped Super Thunder Blade (can you guess they are concentrating on Thunder games right now? ;), a first person helicoptor shooter.
- dutch
In case you haven't noticed, Emuforce is back. :) And with quite a healthy number of site changes as well.
- dutch
Win68K, a Sharp X680x0 emulator for Windows, has had an update to version .35 beta 7. There are several bug fixes and changes in this beta, click here for the English readme file.
- dutch
TRWin 2.31 WIP has been released! This version of the nicely developing Nintendo 64 emulator has better soundcard detection and workarounds, new country code detection, and the window mode in Win2K should be fixed as well. Check the homepage for more news and contact info.
- dutch
Give Myzar's site a peek to see what games are compatible with the new version of TRWin. :)
- dutch
- GeoMame version .37 beta 2 was released, this is a Mac port of Mame that supports only Neo Geo games. It also adds autofire, CPU clocking, and save states. The built in front end is a bit wider now for those longer game names, and the ability to force 8 bit color on games for which 16 bit is used in Official Mame has been removed.
- The Mamemenu frontend for Windows has had an update to version 1.1. You can configure the colors and background pics now, and it also comes with a configuration program called newroms.exe that grabs the correct games from Mame.
Cowering has released GoodGBx 0.9981 and GoodN64 0.998. If you haven't tried Cowering's Good Utilities, you should. Just copy the good utility into the same directory as your ROMs, open a DOS box, type "goodgbx rename" (for GBx obviously ;), and it goes to work identifying, sorting, and renaming what you have. Public domain ROMs have been added to GoodN64, the total ROM count is 1228. It also logs dupes with different extensions now. GoodGBX now identifies 3799 Gameboy dumps.
- dutch
HCC has released a Casio Soldier Fighter handheld simulator over at his Random64 site. Current version is 0.3 beta.
- dutch
N'intendo, the homepage for GB Final, GB Dasm, and SNES Final has moved... the new URL is nintendo.emumania.com.
- dutch
Atila gave Prophet and I a little tip I thought I'd pass along to you as well... want a Zip proggy that can handle lzh, zip, arj, gz, etc. and not need external executables and extensive configuration? Take a look at Zip'N'All. ;)
- dutch
Sir John Gielgud died. :( I remember him from so many films and plays, most Americans will probably remember him as the butler Hobson from the movie "Arthur." He was 96 years old. Credits to BMan2 for the link.
- dutch
Wanna delete Windows and install MacOS on your PC this instant? Click here! Hehe, since I'm mentioning this on the front page I might as well not be mean and tell you that this is indeed only a joke, but it kinda gives you the impression of what MacOS is like if you've never seen it. ;) Thanks for the link, Bas. :)
- dutch
The Flash's site hosted on emuware.com is gone, all that's left is a terse message: "Emuware.com / An empty void. / Nothing here. / Not even in the source." In fact, all of Emuware.com is like this. I've no idea what happened. One of the people who mailed about this, F.Moose, also wondered whatever happened to Coy's Dumps (an arcade ROM dumping resource). Again, I'm at a loss. :\
- dutch
Cinder added a Lei Wulong wallpaper to his archive, out of a little depression. Maybe she'll talk again tomorrow Cinder. ;)
- dutch
Having problems downloading with GNUtella? Go here, and look for what your reported IP is. In GNUtella, click the "force local IP to" checkbox and enter that IP. Also, Guru-Choc recommends Gnotella, a Win32 clone. You might give that a try.
- dutch
- Myzar's latest Nemu64 ini is version 1.6.6. Playable games include ITF2000, Excitebike 64 Final, Pawapuro 2000, Kiratto Kikki, Flying dragons, and Deadly Arts. Check Myzar's site for more information if you're having problems getting these to run.
- Spinal has released version 2.9 of his Nemu64 INI, adding the following playable games: Blades of Steel '99, Bottom of the 9th, Fox Sports Hoops '99, ISS 64, Jeopardy!, Nagano Olympics, NFL Quarterback Club 2000, and NHL Pro '99.
- dutch
Comeback64 users can pick up this quick download which updates the current version of the DOS Commodore 64 emulator with the site's new URL, and also a quicker loading routine. Just replace the current executable with this one. Thanks to Opi for the news.
- dutch
From the same author as G-NES (mentioned below) comes TGB, a GB emu for Windows. The latest version is TGB 0.17D and here's what's new in this version:
- About twice as fast as the previous version.
- Fixed bug of Serial Connection.
- Added Noise emulation (not complete yet).
- Fixed bug of Auto-detection.
(Auto-detection will not function when loading a GB game's save state in GBC mode and vice versa.)
- Fixed loading process from save state.
- Improved Sound emulation.
- Added the ability to change the background color.
Thanks to Aries yet again for the news and translation. (UPDATE: I had uploaded a 0byte file, it's fixed now)
- atila
G-NES 0.31 released! G-NES is a NES emu for WIN9x and requires DirectX 5 or better. Here's what's new:
- Support for 8,16,24 and 32 bits color.
- Fixed Sound emulation (almost fully rewritten).
- Added Drag-and-Drop feature.
- Slightly faster.
- Support VRC6 extension sound emulation.
(Please use this feature with "Konami.dll" since it is not completed, this feature will be add to "Konami.dll" shortly.)
You can check the G-NES site here. Thanks again to Aries for the file and translation.
- atila
Mostly all compatability problems are solved, and it now also features ColecoVision Support!
This file is not yet available for download from the official site, so get on over to the MSX Emulation Page and download it there!
- atila
WinFellow Alpha v0.4 991205 was released 2 days ago, it's a build from last December, according to the mail I received it was coded by Petter Schau. This version ist now nearly a half year old (mid December last year). They are now coordinating the future development of WinFellow which seems to be continued by a group of six unknow coders. You can go to the WinFellow site by clicking here. Thanks to Jan of AMI Sector One for the news.
- atila
Prototype-D 0.006 released! Here's what's new in today's update of this excellent GB emu for windows:
- Some improvement in net feature.
- Now you can use joystick for input (at least).
Written in the docs that come with the archive, BouKichi mentions that he may give up on Prototype-D, as he is unable to get netplay working the way it should. Maybe someone should help him out ? He has also updated NSFListener to version 0.03. Thanks to Aries for the translation.
- atila
Genesis Power have made available a totally wicked game called Thunder Force 4 (E), which was dumped by NeoZeed.
- atila
XPCE 0.12 beta 2 has been released! XPCE is a WIN32/DirectX PC-Engine emulator, here's what's new:
- Support joystick for input.
- Fixed some bugs.
Both the binary and source code are available from the link above. Thanks to Aries for the news and translation.
- atila
Seems I got first post of the day again, updates are coming for XPCE, G-NES, TGB, WinFELLOW and more! Gimme a few moments to update.
- atila
Sunday, May 21st 2000 - Last updated @ 18:05 EST
More games have been added to the Amiga Emulation Zone, here goes: The Great Giana Sisters, Airport, Apprentice, Evolution Cryser, Gary Linker's Hot Spot Soccer, Masterblazer, Rat Trap, Power Drive, Valhalla 2: Before the War, Pinkie, and Ultimate Soccer Manager AGA. You can also check out the new AEZ messageboards at http://forums.monroeworld.com/
- atila
Malc has updated ZX again, he's added reviews for every Speccy emu out there (except for MESS) as well as another 100 (!!) games for download! He also mentions that the promised interviews will be online soon. Update: (original post by atila) I checked it out, and no review for the ZX emulation in MESS. Seems, one emulator was left out...
- chris
If you're looking for cheap Dreamcasts or PSX's (all new games are £19.99) or N64's, then visit http://www.simplygames.com! I particularly like their Dreamcast bundles, you can get a DC with Resident Evil: Code Veronica or Crazy Taxi and a VMU for £120 (UK pounds). That's about US$170, they also have FREE worldwide shipping! Thanks to David Gilmoure (usenet) for the link.
- atila
A-one's NeoWorm moved, so take note! NeoWorm is a superb NeoGeo fan/emu site.
- prophet
In dumping news, Team Japump dumped tons of games, mostly newer stuff that IMO won't be emulated for some time though. None are downloadable.
- prophet
Smog is a new emu project (still very early) based upon the Sega Model 1 hardware! Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter - woohoo! The author needs as much info as possible about the hardware, so pay him a visit and share your knowledge. (Thanks Till of Sys2064)
- prophet
Meka 0.53c has been released to the public, click here to see what's new in this excellent SMS/GG/SG-XXXX emulator. Thanks to clem and EmuSphere for the news.
- atila
Digital Relics have moved to Retrogames! Welcome aboard, guys! Oh, and before I forget, you can send them your own reviews for various games and they'll post it.
- atila
Saturday, May 20th 2000 - Last updated @ 16:00 EST
Wanna laugh/cry? I kinda fried my Dreamcast while trying to hack a pad to arcade controls. Damn analog buttons are majorly dangerous so if anyone else out there tries this, just remember my misfortune and be careful! Perhaps those Dreamcast Arcade sticks would be easier and safer to hack. Hopefully someone at Sega can help me get the thing sent off for repair soon, at my expense of course. :(
- prophet
Not much news right now... At least Arcade ROM Heaven posted more needed soon stuff, including "Ataxx"!
- prophet
If anyone out there bought a HanaHo Full Size (27") ArcadePC, please email me. I'm just curious about a few things... Thanks!
- prophet
Yamfe 0.104 (MAME frontend) was released earlier today, here's what's new:
- YaMfe V0.104 has new improved database structures over V0.101
- The Dbuilder Now has more entries so more of your roms show :), next release should see all of these done
- Yamfe has been optimized further and more small but annoying bugs eradicated
- Yamfe now also supports (drumroll) Skins :)) - Couple of skins included to get you going
- Fixed a really detrimental bug, Utter Bugger of bug. hmmm it only popped up once in a lifetime and crashed the entire system
Thanks to [ PRoToCoL ] for these last two bits.
- atila
The Mimic site has been updated again, Mike has posted a few screenshots!
- atila
Genesis Power dumped Thunder Force 2 (JU). I never played this one, but I did own the SNES version of Thunder Force 3 (Thunder Spirits), which was good but not great.
- dutch
Are you upset with Metallica over how they handled the Napster situation? Zeropaid.com has set up a site called Another Lost Fan that you will find very interesting. Thanks to Exodus3D, who thanked Dave Ewing, who thanked Shane Monroe. Whew! :)
- dutch
Friday, May 19th 2000 - Last updated @ 21:40 EST
The Genesis/Megadrive emulator Gens has been updated to version 0.54. More bugs are fixed, more games work, and PAL games work at at least 50 frames/second now. :) If it doesn't run for you, remember: 1) Download and install the latest version of DirectX, and 2) Set your pixel depth to high color (16 bit). Thanks to JoseQ for the news.
- dutch
I hardly watch anything on TV lately because most shows are pretty lame (to me anyway ;), however I do watch Farscape on the US Sci-Fi Channel every week, mostly due to the well written stories and characters (it's actually become quite a high rated program). The interesting thing about the show is that it's shot entirely on location in Australia (heh, ever wonder why translator microbes are particular to Aussie accents? ;), yet it has never aired there.. until tonight. You Aussies can see what you've been missing on Saturday 5/19 (tonight for Australia) at 8:30 PM, on Nine Network. You'll also probably recognize more faces in the show than we Yanks do (if you can see through blue body paint that is ;). Back to emulation...
- dutch
So, who wants to preorder Bleemcast from Electronics Boutique for its June 16 release date? :) Thanks to Tuxedo Mask of Vintage Gaming for the tip. ;)
- dutch
Kreed has released a GUI-less OpenGL Demo of SNES9x for Windows! You need a sound card supported by Windows, at least 32 megs of RAM, and a video card with OpenGL accelleration. Kreed has tested the Diamond Stealth3 with the Savage4 chip on Windows 98 and 2000 (full screen does not work right in 98 but it does in 2000), and a Diamond FireGL 1000 in Windows NT4. He reports that the ASUS V3000 runs it too slowly. Please bear in mind that this is an unofficial release, do not direct any questions regarding Kreed's demo to the SNES9x team. Thanks to EmuHQ for the news and file.
- dutch
Boba Fett has placed manual page scans, box scans, and screenshots for the Far East of Eden Zero / Tengai Makyo Zero SNES game. This is the game that qtfemme (of the currently defunct SNES Redump 2000 site) donated to CherryRO
