Oooo! More MameWIP! Sengoku Ace and Gun Bird!!!
- dutch
I was minding my own business on IRC and when all of a messagewindow turned red. I decided to click on the window and lo and behold: Skates of EmuSphere told me that AGES v0.20a (Nebula) had been released. If you're interested in Sega 32X emulation (and most of you are ;), then you will be glad to know that a lot of small bugs have been fixed AND there's also a speed boost because Quintesson has underclocked the SH2 CPUs.
- atila
I got several mails from people warning about how NewsShark uses the Aureate spyware. (That nasty stuff that sends data from your web browswer back to the company for marketing data.) Actually, their latest betadoes not have the browser parasite, so relax guy! ;)
- dutch
Neo Demiforce has successfully translated Monster World IV for Genesis! Originally in Japanese only, now you can play this wonderful action adventure in English! Seems our friend Antiriad was also a partial culprit in this translation. You'll need to convert an smd dump to bin format to apply the patch: try ucon - just type ucon z (filename).smd from a DOS prompt, thanks dus from #neogeo. :) (Thanks to my fave translation news source - Whirlpool)
- prophet
I'd like to congratulate my sister Sevinç (means 'happiness' in Turkish) with her 23rd birthday. Nog vele jaren ... en die taart niet vergeten vanavond, he =)
- atila
Meka 0.54 was released to registered users earlier today, click here to see what's new. Zoop has also updated the documentation for Meka and 2 new Meka Themes are available. And Nathan Sanders has made a MEKA.BLT editor to make new video mode creation easier. Thanks to Brian and Troutman for the news.
- atila
TOSBOX 1.10 (Atari ST emu for DOS) released! A final (?) version of TOSBOX was released today and here's what's new according to EmuViews: Changes from the previous version include new mouse code for linux-friendliness, a bug fix for the GFA Basic 3.x linker, and improved compatibility with certain sound cards. This emulator is no longer shareware as you can get a key by just contacting the author, although fees are still accepted if you wish to contribute.
Thanks to JoseQ for the reminder.
- atila
The MAME History Team has released an updated MAME History Database. This is release .34b4 (180k), to coincide with MAME 0.37 beta 4. Just download and unzip into your the directory where you keep your mame.exe.
- atila
Check out 3dfiles.com for a Dragon's Lair 3D movie as well as an Arkanoid 3D Demo, among the other cool files out there. (That Rebirth Supernova screensaver looks pretty sweet.) Thanks to Eric Gorka for pointing me out there.
- dutch
For you Usenet users and abusers: Don't you wish Agent could automatically restart downloads ala GetRight instead of throwing an error message up on the screen for every little error? Kind of annoying when you leave a queue going overnight. And don't you hate how if you are downloading a "joined" message with 60 parts, if it gets cut off at part 59, it has to restart from part 1? Say hello to NewsShark, the answer to the Usenet leech's prayers. The best thing about it? It's FREE.
- dutch
Anthony Ball made a full speed Phoenix emulator for the Playstation! It's available on his site.
- dutch
GuruChoc (or as I like to call him, "Mr.Happy News" ;) recently added more needed-soon MAME stuff again!
- prophet
Mimic W.I.P. (arcade game emulator & more?) was updated again! Seems TheBeaver is LOL these days. :)
- prophet
Sony dimisses patent case against Connectix! Incidentally, Aaron Giles (one of my favorite MAME devs) lead the PC Connectix VGS port. :) Talented guy to say the least! Connectix VGS, in case you didn't know, is an awesome Playstation emulator for Macs & PC's. (Thanks John Makos)
- prophet
Thursday, June 29th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:06 EST
Gridle updated the MAME WIP again, this time with more news regarding Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam. And, um there is this new tagline field on the news update screen, maybe Atila will tell me what it's for...
- chris
I'm just wrapping up my busy workday... they got the net working here at work again, hope it lasts. :P Atila looks pretty lonely out here, if you would be interested in posting news for retrogames.com please let one of us know... it would help if you have been a regular in the scene (did I just say "skene?" :) for a good while, have good writing skills, and know basic HTML (nothin' fancy ;).
- dutch
Come Back 64/DOS v0.9H (C64 emu) released! New features include a file loading menu (F10, for PRG, P00, T64, D64, CRT), different colorpalettes, source cleanup, T64/D64 support (by extracting a PRG from T64/D64), for a full listing click here. Thanks to DrSteveW for the news.
- atila
GameFan reports some news that should make all fighting fans happy: over eighty former SNK employees have found a new place to work at Capcom. They will all work for a "2-D game development subsidiary (or, depending on whose report you believe, all 3-D...we don't know for certain) and acquire the rights to all of SNK's top gaming properties". If it's true, it's good news indeed!
- atila
Ever wanted to play Pac-Man without that 'annoying maze' ? Well, now you can, thanks to Nick B. for the link.
- atila
Sorry about the slow news posts, but I'm kinda swamped at work here. Been working 'til 1:30 AM for a few nights now.
- atila
The Dialectizer has added a new dialect: 3l337 hax0r (or HACKER in plain English :) You should check out this site in 3l337 h4x0r language, it's funny. It really is. Thanks to Devilman for the link.
- atila
The Arcade Flyers database has been updated with 69 new entries and 11 updated entries. They're now serving 1209 arcade flyers which you can use with MAME/RAINE. Check it out @ http://arcadeflyers.retrogames.com.
- atila
Wednesday, June 28th 2000 - Last updated @ 18:20 EST
Vegas Records must be really big Atari fans, seeing they use the Atari logo as their own ... Thanks to Mark Shander for the link.
- atila
Eric has once again released various new data files for use with RomCenter, the list is quite extensive, so if you use RomCenter, I would advice you to have a look, as it may contain something to your liking.
- atila
hWnd has left the Nemu64 team, so they are in need of a new coder for the video.dll, which contains the interface to the 3D API. If you're an experienced coder and you have some time to spare, why not help them (and us!) out :) Thanks to Lukas2k for the news.
- atila
Since Super StreetFighter 2: The New Challengers is now playable in GENS, it will be made available some time this week by Genesis Power.
- atila
Tim Meekins has released Vegas 0.94b Rendering Test, a "test version for everyone to try. I've completely re-written the rendering code and the Direct-X code. I'm very interested if this version of Vegas runs better for everyone. The new scanline rendering effects are also available" ... "Moving the offscreen framebuffer to system memory boosted the speed signficantly. In fact, with frame-skip on, the edge-enhancement mode runs 60fps on my P3-600. And it's all written in C with brain-dead for-loops. :) Speaking of which, there is a slight bug in the edge-enhancement mode, which I may fix in a future version."
Thanks to Exodus3D for the news.
- atila
Gens 0.76 was released yesterday, but I was unable to update because of the site move. Gens is a win32 Genesis emulator, thanks to DrSteveW for the news.
- atila
Here's a cool site featuring old videogame commercials, some of them are really good :) Thanks to Fulg/[SATiRe] for the link.
- atila
I must say that I'm impressed with Level3.net, it's a LOT faster than Verio (for us, anyway) and it's only 12 hops to reach my site. It used to be 23 hops with Verio!
- atila
Genesis Power have dumped a previously undumped game called Starflight.
- atila
Gridle has once again updated the MAME WIP page: MKII and NBA JAM are now playable, although there is no sound yet.
- atila
Tuesday, June 27th 2000 - Last updated @ 14:48 EST
Team Japump has been busy and have dumped 4 more games which will no doubt be emulated sooner or later. Thanks to Opi for the news.
- atila
There will be a new C64 site opening soon and the site-ops are looking for a few more files to offer for download: Battle of Napoleon, F14 Tomcat,Flintstones, Rainbow Islands, Ramparts, Sporting Triangles, Typhoon, Typhoon of Steel, Wec Le Mans - released by the group Triangle 3532 and also a few games which were released by 711 or Alcoholics. If you can help them out, please mail them at c64guys@hotmail.com.
- atila
Oli-Emu.de has added various BIOS files for use with the new MESS, check the SAMSTAG ( Saturday in German) news update. Danke schoen, Opi Wan Cannoli ;)
- atila
Stella 1.1 for BeOS was released 2 days ago, here's what's new:
- Sound support
- Emulation of all controllers: Joystick, Booster-Grip, Paddles, Keyboard and even the LightGun!
- DirectWindow support in case you have slow video card
- Any size of window and Full Screen mode
- Game informations
- A lot of other stuffs...
For those who think the 'golden age of emulation' is over; you will be proven wrong this year. The best is yet to come. I though I might add this little tidbit, it won't be here tomorrow, or next week. It will take some time, maybe more than several months. With IT, I mean several emus for several systems, not a single system. I don't have betas of these emulators, but from what I've seen, I'm impressed. And no, I don't mean CPS2 emulation.
- atila
RuMSX V0.21 is Released and is available for download at the MSX Emulation Page. Because of the enormous amount of changes it's strongly recommended to remove previous RuMSX-installations and to install V0.21 in a clean directory.
- atila
MameMix 0.43 for DOS released! MameMix is a DOS frontend for use with MAME, Maurizio mentions that the WIN32 version will be done in about 2 weeks, as he's cleaing up the user interface.
- atila
Club Shaft turned 2 yesterday! I helped set it up 2 years ago, and it's already become one of Belgium's best trancentrals :) If you happen to be in the neighbourhood (Lutlommel in Lommel, Belgium) check it out this weekend as we're having a star line-up, DJs Philip, Tom, Jorn, Wout and Marcel Woods will be keeping the beats going on July 1st and 2nd.
- atila
Genesis Power have dumped a Japanese puzzle/adventure called Jantei Monagatari.
- atila
Here is a damn cool PacMan skin for WinAMP, it won't replace my BMI skin, but it looks cool nonetheless :) Thanks to Pi for the link.
- atila
Monday, June 26th 2000 - Last updated @ 18:02 EST
High Voltage SIDs Collection Update #21 has been released, you can download it at http://www.hvsc.c64.org/, HVSC is a C64 music collection.
- atila
The Arcade Flyer Archive has been updated: Raine Flyer Pack (#08) is available for download, it contains 20 new images for use with Raine (doh! ;)
- atila
I just read on EmuHQ that VGBC (GBC emulator) is now 'freeware' and open source, so I suggest you try it out now :)
- atila
'How Not To Plug Your New WAP Phone' For Dummies: Lesson 1.
- atila
A useful FAQ - although those who need it could probably never find it on their own...
- richard
Marty has been a busy little bee, he has released updated ports of SNES9x and RetroCade for OS/2. OS2: the little OS that could ... almost ;)
- atila
Oh, looks like Pikachu is done ... that is well-done =) Thanks to ]mAckdEmOn[ for the pic.
- atila
MAME Classic 0.37.3 released! MAME Classic is "the first Windows Front-End for M.A.M.E. to feature independent default settings for raster and vector games", as the author puts it, here's what's new:
- Changed the Game History button to Game Information. It now reports the information from the history.dat file, the mameinfo.dat file, and the cheat.dat file provided you have them in your M.A.M.E. directory.
- Fixed a bug introduced in version 0.37.2 where switching from the classic game list or the all game list to the Neo-Geo list would not show only Neo-Geo games.
There you have it, thanks to [ PRoToCoL ] for the news.
- atila
Amiga fans should check out ALE! They've been busy adding guides to using Amiga emulators, as well as some utilities.
- prophet
Callus95 Patch 2.2 has been updated to fix a crashing bug, especially under Windows 2000! So all you Win2K users should definitely download the new build. DAT files online there as well. :)
- prophet
As promised, the new Hu-Go! binaries are online.
- atila
WinX68k 0.40 released, here's what's new in this EXCELLENT X68000 emulator:
- 8th beta release.
- Support "D88"-type disk images (tentative).
- Support "Mercury Unit V3 (PCM sound card)" (tentative).
- Support XVI(16MHz) / RED ZONE(24MHz) MPU clocks.
- Now WinX68k uses mixing and volume in the DirectSound functions.
- Changed ADPCM clocks a little bit.
- Changed DMA for ADPCM a little bit.
- Changed a timing of Event Count mode in MFP TimerA.
- Fixed a priority bug in transparency mode.
Please check x68k.retrogames.com for games for this emulator. Thanks to Aries for the news.
- atila
Neko Project II v0.16 released! Neko Project II is a PC-9801 series emulator, it doesn't deal with PC-8801 series, here's what's new:
Fixed processing $83 with VRAM [Kindan no ketsuzoku]
Fixed processing $17 pop ss [YU-NO]
Fixed disk BIOS (Read-ID, 2DD)
Fixed keyboard
- Fixed noise frequencies table;
- Fixed pAPU 'active time left' table;
- Small PSG optimizations and more fixes;
- Fixed CHR bankswitching macros (added a few more too);
- Fixed mapper #23 CHR banks.
BNSF (NES sound format player) is in sync with this release. Thanks to whoever it was that told me, I closed the IRC window by accident.
- atila
The NeoRAGEx homepage is down right now, most likely because so many people want to read what Atila reported about earlier. So, here's what Janne & Anders had to say:
"Unfortunately our planned release 21/6 has been delayed due to a personal tragedy. But do not despair. We will release a new version shortly.
Explanations to riddles:
1: ((nop>>4)*3)++ = nop is opcode 0x90/144 in x86, that gives us this formula
((144/16)*3)+1 = 28 days left to a release
2: sub bh,7 = (b equals the second and h the eight letter of the alfabet)
This gives us 28-7 = 21 days left to a release
3: (ffff%4) * smtwtfs = ffff stands for 6666 (f equals the sixth letter of the alfabet) and smtwtfs is the days of a week. 6666 % 4 equals 2. This gives us 2 * 7 which is 14 days left to a release"
Marat has added the Linux binary of Virtual Gameboy 1.7 to the download list; unlike the Win32 version, this is free :) Thanks to DrSteve'dubbaya' for the news.
- atila
The Amiga Emulation Zone has added 22 Amiga CD covers. This brings AEZ up to nearly 80 titles spanning over 160 cd covers, splines, and backs. Shane also mentions that the CD32 Zone is back!
- atila
The NeoRAGEx site has finally been updated! They were planning a release on the 21st of June but they had to postpone it due to 'a personal tragedy'. Janne and Anders have also posted the explanation of the riddles they posted a few times. Thanks to Saga for the news.
- atila
Saturday, June 24th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:28 EST
As you can probably tell, it is becoming very difficult for me to update regularly. I work full time as a tech support monkey :) from 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm every day, and update as time permits from work. (Lately, Internet access for me at work has been restricted to using a Netcache Proxy but they tell me that's just temporary and they are fixing it.) I also have a life (believe it or not) and I have been taking too much time away from it in order to catch up with posting news. Believe it or not, those news posts take a lot of time to prepare! :)
I am therefore taking the same step Prophet did: I am stepping down as a "mainstream" news poster. If Atila will still have me, I of course can do occasional updates (like update the site when a new Mame comes out and no one else is around to do it ;). However, I am no longer able to continue doing daily updates as it is burning me out. Prophet, I lasted about 5 months. I don't know how you did it for well over a year but I'm impressed! The same goes to all you other great daily news updaters at Geoshock, Arcade ROM Heaven, EmuHQ, Vintage Gaming, Emuviews, Arcade@home, Emucamp, SYS2064, and all the other great sites that I hope don't get mad at me for not mentioning here (mainly because I can't think of more, my brain is weak. ;)
I'll leave it up to Atila on how he wants to handle finding a replacement.. I'm sure it won't be too hard. :)
Mimic Work-In-Progress was updated! The Beaver has been playing around with stars it seems. And why do I feel like I'm discussing vintage '50s sitcoms?
- prophet
I'd like to congratulate Sonic The Hedgehog with his 9th birthday (June 23rd, 1991) =)
- atila
Remember "Kallus2"? It was a well-known hoax pulled off by a dishonest, relentless individual who managed to fool a few people into believing him. He also *stole* someone's Vampire Savior board in the process. Well, if you visit our General board, you'll find he has *finally* apologized for being a liar. Personally he's not worth the time or attention, BUT I'm glad to see this hoax ended once and for all. To the poor folks who I tried to convince long ago that it was a hoax, sorry, but I told you so. Now back to REAL emulation...
- prophet
WinSMS Plus 0.9.2.2 released! This is a small update to yesterday's release, here's what was fixed:
Small fix for gamma correction for when internal pixel format is 16 bit (GeForce cards in particular)
Amiga Legal Emulation was updated moments ago, 47 games were added to the archive courtesy of the mighty Assassin compilations, games include Galga 92, Space Intruder, Kastle Kumquat, Psycho Santa and Crazy Sue 1 & 2. Get a-clickin' !!
- atila
Emu Jag (WIP JAG emulator) has been put on hold until further notice, because of medical reasons. Thanks to [ PRoToCoL ] for the last 2 bits of news.
- atila
- Added *Dupes.txt to the files that GoodWindows can show.
- Changed to code of the animation so it won't be always on top. (Still Work to do)
- Added an About box with link to the website & my email.
- Addes Support for the SEP_ option (New in the latest GoodCPC) & the dirs option now work on GoodCPC (wasn't available in GoodCPC before).
Good Windows is a 'frontend' for Cowering's GOODxxx series of utilities.
- atila
Someone mailed me a while ago with several logos for the WAP page: I lost the mail! Could you please resend logos? You work at a software company ;)
- atila
Malek sent me this link to 405: The Movie and I must say that I was impressed! It's a short 3 minute movie but those 3 minutes look damn good, that plane is amazing! Go download now, you won't regret it!
- atila
The Flash has finally released RomDoctor, a ROM renaming program, with a WIN32 GUI, for 17 different systems. Please keep in mind that this is still BETA software.
- atila
Genesis Power have dumped that lovely platformer know as Socket.
- atila
SMY mentions that the next SMYNES release will have a massive speed improvement and he may add support for a special sound chip (like the VRC7), the MMC5 extension and 'disk system extra sound', whatever that may be :) He will not release it until the features are near-perfect, let's hope that it's pretty soon. You can read the full post at Billy JR's site, in Chinese. Thanks to Aries for the news.
- atila
Here's a mail I received from Mike Stulir, I should have posted this earlier, I forgot:
The latest episode of the "Back In Time" webcast is now available, and it was recorded at the Twin Galaxies' "Classic Pinball & Video Game Championship." The tournament focuses on classic coin-op video games from the late 70's through the 80's. The event took place June 1st through June 4th, 2000 at FunSpot in Weirs Beach, NH.
My co-host for this episode is Walter Day, founder of the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard.
There's a lot more, including 50 pics of the tournament so head on over to the Back In Time site!
- atila
How many times have you wanted revenge on games that totally sucked? Now, MVT3k's video presentation gives you sweet & dirty vengeance, complete with FIRE!! David, would you please explain why your playing with dolls ;)
- atila
MADrigal has released his 13th simulator: Snoopy Tennis (Nintendo, Wide-Screen series, 1982) Simulator, it's is available for download at http://madrigal.retrogames.com. He has also updated his TURTLE BRIDGE simulator which now features much more accurate timing,
difficulty levels and sound samples.
- atila
There's a rather large update on the MAME CE website, basically it says that you can expect some DRASTIC speed-ups :) Thanks to Roslof for the news.
- atila
There's another new poll at bannister.org. The results for the last one were quite worrying...
- richard
The ROM Info Bundle, a comprehensive suite of ROM renaming utilities for Macintosh, has been updated to v1.5b2.
- richard
Some lucky NeoGeo MVS fan would be fortunate to win this auction! I never even heard of that game before - ever!
- prophet
* Added load / save state support.
* Added sound support for windows NT.
* Changed default frame skip 'No' to 'Auto' and implimented auto skip.
* Emulator now runs on DX3 or higher, though Joystick support and full
screen modes are only available if you have DX7 or higher installed.
* Added zipped ROM support.
* Added a gamma correction option.
* Added a sound recording option.
* Now displays the name of the game running.
* Added full screen support (requires DX7).
* Added screen smoothing (requires DX7).
* Added a scanlines option (requires DX7).
Michael Russell (gag.retrogames.com) is look looking for a couple of titles he wrote for the Atari 8-bit back in the early 80's: Monster Combat II
and Monster Combat III. Please let Michael know if you have any idea where they would be.
- atila
Genesis Power have dumped Shining In The Darkness. You can now also cast your vote on the type of games you want to see dumped.
- atila
Shane has filled a few more requests at the Amiga Emulation Zone, these games were added: Blazing Thunder, Gridrunner, Frenetic and Starflight 2.
- atila
A C64 browser is in the works! It's called The Wave, it uses Wheels, an extension to Geos. You must also have a SuperCPU upgrade or you will not be able to use it. I wonder if it will work on C64 emus :) Thanks to Tweakers.net for the news.
- atila
Figured I'd report this before I turn in.. this is warezy type news, and warez is evil. Nyo-k? But, it is interesting. Eggman reports that "the group Utopia released Dreamcast CD Loader v1.1, which is basically a modchip on a CD. It will allow you to run imports and backup copies on your Dreamcast with a very simple disk swap trick through their boot CD menu!" Yes, there have been at least four games that have been "ripped" and are working rounds around the net. No, I don't know where to find them. No, I don't know who or where Utopia is. No, I don't know where to get Dreamcast CD Loader 1.1. No, I don't know how the swap trick works. And finally, no, I don't condone stealing copyrighted material. I just reported the news. K? :)
- richard
What a week. I can only access about 30% of the net from work (guess I'm supposed to be "working"), and I'm in a busy week since my user base is pretty computer illiterate ("How do I install this CD?"). :P Hence my scarcity in updates lately. Once again I'm very tired and will be catching up soon (I hope).
- dutch
Well, my CPU didn't work. I can now confidently report that Coppermine CPUs will not work in the Abit BX-6 rev 1. I used a flip chip CPU (PIII 800) and an Iwill Slocket 2 that supported Coppermines. It didn't make a difference, the BX-6 rev 1 just can't handle the low voltage and high speed specs that the Coppermines need. (The system froze within one minute.) Now to decide if I want to swap out my motherboard with a BE6-II (which means I have to buy new RAM).
- dutch
Thursday, June 22nd 2000 - Last updated @ 17:40 EST
Slashdot has posted a follow-up to their console article from a little while ago. They list a few sites that have information on reverse engineering various systems. Thanks to Juzam (ciao paisan ;) for the link.
- atila
Kinox will soon be turning ONE year old and they're looking for a few people to help redesign the site a bit. They're looking for CGI coders and graphic artists, if you're willing to help, you should check out Kinox.
- atila
Most of you will have heard of the 'WHASSUP' commercial by now, it sparked a whole slew of spin-offs featuring various characters. One I hadn't seen yet was the one starring videogame characters, I have now :) Thanks to Nintendorks for the file.
- atila
Cybercade posted some new arcade game flyers, including some cool Centuri, Namco and Williams games! Lotsa cool arcade game stuff there including a message board, manuals, schematics, marquees and instruction cards etc. And more stuff to come! (Thanks Strider)
- prophet
More .dat files for use with RomCenter were released today, check the list:
- Mimic 1.01 (Logiqx)
- GoodGEN - 0998 (2497 / 2678) : Rob van der Drift
- GoodGBX - 998.2 (3892 / 3903) : Rob van der Drift
- Acorn Archimedes (52 games) : Sir Arthur Pendragon
- Adventure Vision (4 games) : Jan AxHell
- Jupiter Ace (39 games) : Grendel
MacMAME 0.37 beta 4 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 4 build. [Aaron Giles]
- Screenshots now generate PNG files instead of PICTs. [Aaron Giles]
- Added better control over the screen depth. [Aaron Giles]
You can also download the source code for this release by clicking here.
- atila
Past-O-Rama (version 0.01) was released! It's a brand new Sega SG1000 emulator for Windows/DirectX, with very good compatability. It's great to see new projects springing up all over! (Thanks ShinobiZ, author of the great System16 Sega arcade emulator - ever try it? It's very fast & has savestates!)
- prophet
Meridian 0.32 released! Meridian is an NSF (NES sound files) player for WIN9x, here's what's new:
"Very preliminary support for VRC7 has been added as well as preliminary support for FDS. Until I get better information on these they will probably not improve a whole lot. VRC7 will almost definately receive very little attention since it is only used in 1 game that I know of. I also threw in some support for recording the output to a WAV file which does not work very well(inaccurate timing). Use it, abuse it, let me know what you think..."
C Spray 0.9 released! C Spray is a utility similar to Cowering's GOODxxx series of utilities, expect this is for C64 images.
- atila
The Smog homepage was updated! Apparently some progress is being made on this Sega Model 1 (Virtua Racing, Fighter etc.) arcade emulation project. :) (Thanks Doug)
- prophet
Callus95 Patch 2.2 has been released! Several additions, but the most impressive is "A version of Street Fighter Zero has been added using Qsound. The game has been reversed engineered to add back many sounds Capcom removed from the CPS Changer version. We also added in the missing Qsound logo screen..." Awesome! =) Note: Read the text files or you will NOT get things working correctly! (Thanks Raz)
- prophet
I've been getting a few mails lately asking me to explain what USENET is. Just got o http://www.whatis.com/usenet.htm and check it out. I would recommend USENET to everyone, and not just because of the binaries groups on it ;) You need a newsreader, my suggestion would be Free Agent or *gasp* Outlook Express. When asked for the news server, just enter news.YOUR-ISP.com (where YOUR-ISP is the ISP you use to connect to the internet).
- atila
- Can now set sound volume for each channel.
- Can now select PCM/MIDI, simultaneous sound output for each channel.
- Sound is more accurate.
Thanks to Aries for the news and translation.
- atila
MESS has been updated to v0.37b4. Note that the official site has not been updated yet (and won't be until I get home from work!). Here is the binary and here is the source.
- richard
Just added to the bill at Britmeet this Saturday 24th June:
- Argonaut showing off the unreleased Snes Elite and Starfox 2.
- Bizzare Creations showing off for the first time outside off a trade show, Metropolis Street Racer.
Britmeet is the UK's only Video game collectors, Retro Gamers and Hardcore players convention, where gameplay counts and not advocacy.
The Italian site 16 Bit was given a WIP copy of SegaEmu, so they decided to give it a good beating. You can check out the results here.
- atila
A new section has opened at Overclocked called Mystery Videogame Theater 3000. All former reviews have been moved there and new ones will be added accordingly, I love the text in the main pic :)
- atila
Genesis Power have dumped those awesome RPGs, Phantasy Star 3 and Phantasy Star 4.
- atila
Wednesday, June 21st 2000 - Last updated @ 17:59 EST
What are you trying to do Ridge, sneak news by us on the Console board? :) Ridge has reported the following findings on the recent release of TRWin 2.32 Alpha WIP:
There is a major speed increase on many of the roms and with GFX improvements too.
* Xena - Warrior Princess
* Ridge Racer 64
* San Fransisco Rush 2 (The frame rate is very good now with all cars on screen at once and the smoke looks very good too)
* Hot Wheels Turbo Racing (The bug that made it slow is gone,so this is superfast now with ~30.fps on a P2 400 w/Voodoo 2)
*Top Gear Rally 2 (Cars is showing too now.)
Ridge also found that "All roms that works is 100% flickerfree on 3DFX Voodoo 2 cards." Thanks for the testing Ridge, wish I had more time play games but my phone won't stop ringing in tech support land. :P
- dutch
- Z80 fixed. Now it passes all the ZEXALL tests.
- VDP now is emulating some strange features. Now it runs Thing Bounces Back perfectly!
- Added a frame counter.
- Corrected some sprite bugs.
- Fixed a disk offline bug.
- Implemented -ifreq , so our european fellows can run the emulator at their perfect speed, while we, here in 60Hz, can run those classic european games as they were programmed to behave.
PowerMSX is an MSX1 Emulator for DOS, thanks to the M.E.P. crew for the news.
- atila
Zophar's Domain have changed their logo again ... and it's a change for the better! For those 'not in the know', ZD changes logos more often than hookers on 42nd Street change their prices (Dave Letterman told me, that's how I know that bit of info =). /me waves to Zophar and Virt!
- atila
NeoMAME 0.37 beta 4 released! I was surprised to see this pop up, because I thought that there wasn't a real need for this anymore. Guess I was wrong :) This is an unofficial version of MAME that suppports only NEOGEO games, all other drivers have been removed, making the executable a lot smaller.
- atila
This is a cool site: Shell Extension City! It has lots of utilities to help you tweak/enhance your system.
- atila
Chello finally got their mailserver up and running again, after a FULL DAY!! All mails after 2PM GMT (8AM EST), June 20th are gone, thanks for nothing, you bunch of morons!
- atila
Vegas 0.94 was released! This awesome Win9x Genesis and 32X emu has been improved quite a bit. I can't stay online long so to other staff - please feel free to delete this post and write a better one, just wanted to get the word out...
- prophet
A ton of DAT files have been put online at the ROM Center Homepage, including a Sega Model 1 DAT file and 10 "Cowering Good" DAT files. =)
- dutch
Visual Mame, a very nice DOS frontend for Mame, got an update to version .31. This fixes the list by year problem in clone games and also gives you some new hotkeys in moving and sorting the gamelist. PNG files are now displayed using Oliver Fromme's freeware proggie Quick Picture Viewer. Please read the VIMREAD.TXT file for instructions on configuring it to work. There are also some other miscellaneous changes, visit the Visual Mame site on Mameworld to download the full version, update version, and also for a mirror of Quick Picture Viewer.
- dutch
Promise fulfilled at the ZX site: Malc Jennings added 89 games including James Bond Collection, Armageddon Man (128/48K Versions), Biggles 1 and 2, Bravestar, Apple Jam, and 4x4 Off Road Racing. The emulator he's linked is a Java based emu called JK Speccy. Yep, it's ready to go right in your browser! :)
- dutch
More music news: Since the best music shop in my area (Vinyl Solution) closed its doors permanently last year, I've been buying music online. Since one of the things you could do at the shop was play the discs, it's so nice to see that Soleilmoon put a ton of MP3s online so you can listen to the bands before you order the discs. These are the full length tracks, not lame 10 second tinny sounding streams. You can even leech them if you want. Heh, I will be ordering the discs for the ones I like. That's how this MP3 thing is supposed to work, see? =) Here's even more of them... Sorry if the music isn't your taste. ;) Kthxleech.
- dutch
Retrogaming Times #34 released! Included are Mame reviews, letters to the editor, and some information about new Intellivision titles!! Thanks to Arcade@home for the news.
- dutch
We missed the version 2.32 Alpha WIP release of True Reality for Windows. Remember this is a WIP version of the Nintendo 64 emulator, so expect inconsistancies (there are no docs included in the archive): "This WIP does not run DKR, but it should be interesting for those of you that like to follow the progress of reversing a ucode."
- dutch
Apollo, another Nintendo 64 emulator, had an update to version 0.01b. It still does not run any commericial games, but it's gotten some good progress (check the readme file), and this does include a VI hack to make SP_CRAP and Kid Star's Intro work. Goldcrap also works due to the addition of silent Audio Emulation.
- dutch
Vegas (the 32x emu) has finally gotten a homepage out on Tripod. Tim Meekins plans on adding a lot more stuff as well. :) Thanks to JoseQ for the news.
- dutch
Master of Puppets released GoodWindows 1.3. In addition to a lot of fixes (check the homepage), here's what's been added:
- Save The Directory to scan when the program close & others settings (in gw.dat)
- Added an option to show a Legend for the Code used in file renaming (ex. (A) - Australian) But it is incomplete. Help me on this...
- Added an animation when GoodXXXX.exe is working in the background.
- Added support for the deep option
- Added support for the Reverse Option
- Added an option to show the Dos Windows when GoodXXXX.exe is running (this help to show you that GoodWindows doesn't crash but that GoodXXXX.exe is still running)
- Now GoodWindows let you change from the program the path to the GoodXXXX.exe you wanna use (No more deleting settings.ini to do that)
- Now the uneeded strings are removed from the List of Knowns Roms
- Added a label with the number or known roms
Apple II Oasis had an update to version 2.4. This will emulate an Apple II computer in Windows with DirectX installed. It emulates "128K+ //e, all video modes, 65c02 and Z80 microprocessors, Apple II speaker, Disk II and Hard disk images, realtime clock, serial interface, peripheral card swapping, etc." This latest version will run in full screen mode and lets you use the keyboard to emulate the joystick.
- dutch
Tuesday, June 20th 2000 - Last updated @ 18:08 EST
Please use atila@retrogames.com when mailing me, it looks like the Chello mailserver is still as dead as it has been for the past 10 hours.
- atila
We'd like to congratulate Cheat Mania with their first anniversary! To celebrate, they've added various Namco flyers/posters to their site.
- atila
Chello's mailserver is dead ... again! I've not received any mail for about 8 hours right now. Chello, I hope you choke on your IPO! Here's an ISP that wants to go public, but they can't even run a damn mailserver!!
- atila
Ultimo is hosting a live webcast in cooperation with emulationzone.org, he'll be talking about emulation, classic rpg's and prizes. Yes, he will be giving away prizes :) You can reach the webcast at http://216.32.166.91:17296 at 5PM EST/4PM CST. That's 10PM GMT.
- atila
Sorry for missing the news yesterday. They tell me here at work that they "changed carriers for our Internet access, thus making it work more fast and reliably." Well the carrier may be better, but someone doesn't know how to configure the firewalls because any time I try to access anything on the net it gets stuck between two in-house routers. It works a bit better if I use our NetCache 4.0R4 proxy, but this is the suckiest way imaginable to surf the net, and I can't FTP. >:( HTTPort isn't any good because our proxy doesn't support the CONNECT command. I swear that the BOFH is behind this. :P I will be updating when I can...
- dutch
It's TOP 10 LISTS DAY at Overclocked, so let's get busy:
We have added a further 50 Public Domain titles courtesty of the awesome Assassin compilations. Once again thanks to Stuart Morton (an ex-Assassin) for providing the originals.
Malc also mentions that ZX will soon be updated with a new emu and loads more games!
- atila
I got the first post of the day, I got the first post of the day!
- atila
Monday, June 19th 2000 - Last updated @ 18:39 EST
Andy Geez has released an extraordinary TSR for DOS MAME, and nearly any other VGA based emu, game or app, that basically converts the VGA signal to arcade monitor frequencies (15khz)! It's called Mon-ARC and looks very cool. Heck, according to Andy it even allows one to "Dance around a swivel chair until you feel dizzy"! =) Nice site design IMO as well.
- prophet
Marat Fayzullin has released Virtual Gameboy 1.7! FreeBSD and Solaris binaries (these are free) are now available from the VGB page. The Windows binaries are being sent to registered users, here's what's new:
* Changed CGB DMA to decrement counter on each scanline.
* Changed CGB DMA to update source/destination registers during transfer.
* Fixed sprite/background priorities.
* Added option for "washed out" CGB palette.
* Added option for static color palette.
* VGB-Unix now has a proper application icon in WMaker.
* Now saving realtime clock time base in the state file.
The Windows version can be obtained by registering, the registration fee is $35, thanks to DrSteveW for the news.
- atila
The classis Amiga game Psycho Squares is being remade by Shane Monroe. A preview version, (as well as the original AMIGA game!), for the PC can be downloaded by clicking here.
- atila
I almost forgot this (sheesh!), we're quoted in an article in The Baltimore Sun! It's an article about "intellectual property rights and how the fight is shaping up between large companies and the tens of thousands of people who download copyrighted material".
- atila
FPSE (PSX emu) is making good progress, a bunch of new screenshots were just posted and they look pretty good! Thanks to PadrePio for the news.
- atila
Domenico is porting ComeBack64, that lovely multi-platform C64 emulator to BeOS! It won't be out for another week or so, because there are still a few issues left, so for the time being you can view 2 screenshots of CB64 running in BeOS: one and two.
- atila
Hmm, looks like there MIGHT be an animated Dragon's Lair movie! The Dragon's Lair info is near the bottom of the page, thanks to Pook for the news.
- atila
British Telecom claims to have a patent on hyperlink technology! They plan to sue US ISPs and tax the US every time you click on a hyperlink! You can read more about this including peoples comments at this slashdot article. If you want to post a comment about this, please use the Current Affairs message board.
- chris
- .ZIP Support: In this version you can execute ROM/DSK into a ZIP archive. If the ZIP archive not contain a ROM/DSK file, it will use the "- mount" to run the emulator.
- Use "-debug" to get more details when you run the emulator.
- Added "- trtimer" option, put "- vsync" and "- truevsync" in the same option.
RockNES 1.080 for DOS released! This is a major bugfix release that is way too big to list here, so check the homepage for the complete list. Mapper #75 has been newly added, so Konami VRC1 and Jaleco SS8805 games will work in RockNES now. The author has also released BNSF 1.2 which will play Nintendo sound files.
- dutch
What happens when you take Strawberry Shortcake and cross them with some bad ass gangstas? Miss Muffy and the Muff Mob!! Watch out, she'll kick yo ass... :) (Warning: contains coarse language. And you need Flash too. Kthx.)
- dutch
Looks like there were some problems with the Pactray frontend's zip file support (or support for all the ROMs in one zip). You can now download an updated Pactray at the Pacmame site that disables this feature for now. Here's a direct link to the fix. Thanks to PRoToCoL for the news.
- dutch
Genesis Power dumped Head-On Soccer. That's football to anyone who isn't a Yank. :)
- dutch
You Linux users (no I ain't one yet :) can download and compile a new version of DarcNES. Version dn9a0617 has some fixes and cleanups, but the 68000 core still is not working yet.
- dutch
The SSF (Sega Saturn Emulator) page got some WIP updates, BenJ was kind enough to send in a translation. The author's work is progressing, he's writing the majority of the emulator in C and is having problems getting the sprites working, but he says that sound is almost perfect.
- dutch
Lando sent in the following news: "A good cover can sell a book and with many game this is no exception. Lando has added an all new C16/Plus4 game cover archive consisting of 70 game covers, full size screen shots and info on each game. All these images have never been seen on the net before!" Like those covers? The fresh smelling Lemon site has also added 120 of 'em for C64. :)
- dutch
Fans of the 1989 The Wizard movie can download the "Power Glove" scene in mpeg format over at Jag's Video Game Zone.
- dutch
Don't want to shell out several thousand dollars for 3D Studio Max? Ever hear of Blender? It's freeware. This is another one I never heard of, but thanks to Cykotick, now I have. :) Not only is it free, it's available for several platforms.
- dutch
Anyone remember the Mattel Aquarius? It came out in 1983 and was so poor in comparison to what was available at the time that it died fast. Experience its badness with the world's first Aquarius emulator by Kenny Millar.
- dutch
Trying to get pNESx to work on your Playstation with no luck? Racoon got it to work... and he explains how, take a look! Thanks much to EmuHQ for the news.
- dutch
- Trying to switch to full-screen on some computers never worked and the emulator would never work again without changing a value in the registry. This has been fixed.
- MBC3 cartridges (Pokemon Yellow) now have the timer saved.
- Option to turn off the sound completely
- Slightly faster version of the code
- DirectX 7.0 version for the people who get sound but no screen. Version 1.5 will only support DX7.
Visual Boy is a Gameboy/Color emulator, thanks to EmuSphere for the news.
- atila
Consollection has posted 4 new screenshots of Sega EMU v0.50 RC3 (not released yet) running FIFA97. Ben-J mentions that the choice of FIFA97 was Euro2000 inspired :)
- atila
Don't you just love it when Dutch 'spams' us with these huge updates =) Btw, did I mention it we're having a gorgeous day here today ?
- atila
The DeJap homepage is now up and running! You can read a progress report of the Tales of Phantasia translation patch (Japanese -> English), headed up by DarkForce! Some kewl screenshots too. Looks like it's close now... =) (Thanks Cherryroms)
- prophet
Overclocked has remixes online for Final Fantasy, Metroid, and MegaMan 2, as well as a review of Bebe's Kids, another wacko-crazo SNES title. :)
- dutch
I usually don't give credance to things like this, but in this case it p**sed me off because it somehow made it out to actioncd.com and msbcd.com. (!!!???!!!) And also take a look at the StellaX homepage... who do these people selling this stuff think they are? :P Thanks to Geeze for making me aware of this.
- dutch
I decided on a FCPGA PIII 800 and the Iwill Slocket II for my Abit BX-6 rev 1. Some have told me to set voltages to 1.65 and others said 1.8, hopefully I won't fry my whole system.. :P My next upgrade will be when processors go beyond 1 ghz, then I'll probably be getting a new board and new RAM and new video card and..... you get the idea. >:)
- dutch
IGN gave the Dreamcast version of Nightmare Creatures 2 a 5.0 saying, "What we have here is a game that may end up looking better through Bleem." I agree with Saisatron (one of our visitors) in that they seem to be getting a little ahead of themselves... :P
- dutch
- Rodimus Prime now has v37b4 of his speed tweaked versions of Mame online. Visit his site to download PMame (Pentium and Pentium MMX processors) and AMame (AMD processors (K6/K7/Athlon), Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Celerons).
- As usual, if you compile Mame yourself, you can audit your samples using the source changes from LoqiqX, or, if you prefer, he has DAT files online that you can use with ROM Center and CLRMame Pro.
- Need some screenshotage for use with your Mame frontend? The Mame32 QA/Test and Art Dept. (yes they are still working on a public release, patience Daniel-san :) and Arcade@home have them available up to the latest release. You might find some other goodies recently added to Arcade@home as well... :) Oh and don't forget Geoshock, they've had some "additions" as well lately...
- dutch
I got a mail from cLaM729 regarding the latest release of PacMame. It includes a LOT of updates to the frontend portion of it (called PacTray) that I didn't mention (in addition to Pacman After Dark 2000). It's old news, but you may have missed it...
- Support for PAC.BAT removed
- Added more options added to 'Configuration' tab (ie triplebuffer, scanlines, vsync, tweakmodes, etc.)
- Added support for PACMAME.ZIP. This zip file contains all the roms in one file. The individual games are stored in folders inside PACMAME.ZIP. PacMAME and PacTray can read and play games from either individual .ZIP files, or from the all-inclusive PACMAME.ZIP.
- Added Tool Tips to PacMAME options
- "Times Played" counter added
- Optimization switches added to the Allegro and PacMAME .MAK files
- dutch
If you live in the US and like tea (like me :) and haven't ever heard of The Republic Of Tea, you have to try it. My parents brought me a lot of teas back from the UK once and this beats all of them hands down. Sorry to our British visitors but I can't help it... :) (Yes this is an emulation site, not a culinary arts site. :)
- dutch
As compensation to my insulting our British visitors' tea, check out this site for hard to find console imports.
- dutch
Prophet mentioned a new TGB 0.1AE Gameboy emulator for Windows/DirectX by Gigo and Hii, the cool thing about this is that it has been translated to English for us dummies who can only speak English. :) Their NES emulator G-NES 0.32 also got translated to English! Woo-hoo!!
- dutch
Some cool X68000 and PC98 games got added to The X68000 Games Pile here on Retrogames:
- Macross II - Skull Leader (PC-98)
- Macross III - Love Stories (PC-98)
- F-15 Strike Eagle 2 (X68000)
- Horror of Cridewell (X68000)
- Nobunaga's Ambition (X68000)
- Star Cruiser (X68000)
- The Return of Ishtar (X68000)
- Wings - (X68000)
- dutch
Dakid (a #retrogamers regular) put up a nice site of all of his console and computer stuff. "Items are up for trade if any good offers drop in." Check it out, he's got quite a bit of treasure. ;)
- dutch
Hmmm, so that's the real story behind SNK's pulling of the NGPC out of US/Asian markets. If you don't know who that is, be glad. Thanks for the pic DaemoN. =)
- dutch
Too bad Digital Cameras can't use CDRs for film... oops. :) I'll have to get me one of those.
- dutch
It's also too bad those damn buffer underrun errors can't be eliminated completely... oops again. Hello BURN-Proof Technology. Thanks much to John Makos of CDR Info for the last two newsbits.
- dutch
Cowering released GoodN64 0.9982 BETA a few days ago, recognizing a total of 1277 entries and including a lot more public domain titles as well as Japan and Europe redump info. Did you know that you can have the recent Good utilities sort everything into subdirectories? Just type "goodn64 dirs rename" at the command prompt (minus the quotes).
- dutch
Looks like the release of True Reality for Windows on June 19 will not happen... but you have to apply boolean logic to that. It's not too hard. :) Thanks to bwb for the status update.
- dutch
Ever hear of Minibosses.com? They take NES soundtracks and play real instrumental versions of them! And they have MP3s online!! Thanks to Oshura for the cool surfing tip.
- dutch
Nintendo64 INI news:
- The Company released UltraINI v1.E for use with UltraHLE. Mahjong 3 is fully playable, Diddy Kong v1.1 is "almost" playable, Goldeneye got some speedups, and other various additions have been made. There are two inis in the archive, one only contains playable/almost playable games.
- Myzar has gotten Fighter's Destiny 2, Rally Challenge, and Iggy's Reckin' Balls to work in Nemu64 with version 1.6.9 of his unofficial ini file.
- dutch
Like the idea of a bunch of Gauntlet sprites moving about on your screen for a screensaver? Simon Sweetman released version 1.3 of his Gauntlet screensaver for windows. Just put the SCR file in your windows directory. You'll find that the password function is fixed, monsters generate more often, collision detection is improved (as well as exiting the screensaver :), and LOBBERS have been added! Thanks to Arcade ROM Heaven for the news and the file.
- dutch
Want to add a Java based NES emulator to your website? Try JavaNESe 0.2005 by Brice Fines. There is very thorough documentation included in the archive. Thanks to EmuHQ for the news and file.
- dutch
Here's Little John NG 0.2 beta for Linux, the Win32 version is being worked on and should be available soon. In the meantime you Win32 users can check some screenshots of the NES/SNES emulator running in OpenGL "Funny" mode. :)
- dutch
Aldo Vargas has set up a new site at psxemu.com with all of his emulation related tools. Check the site for the latest versions of VGS Autorun 1.0c (automatically launches PSX emulator when a PSX disc is inserted), VGS Joy 1.6b debug version (lets you map keys to your joystick, the debug version lets you test if your joystick itself is working properly), and VGS AutoMem 1.0b (selects the appropriate memory card when you insert a PSX disc).
- dutch
GoodWindows is being busily worked on, version 1.3 should be available soon! This is a front end for Cowering's Good utilities. Version 1.2 was released earlier fixing a lot of bugs.
- dutch
If you use the open source 1964 Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows, don't miss the Plugins Pack 0.0.1 that will let you use Direct3D and customizable keyboard controls! Just extract the archive to your 1964 directory and say "yes to all" for overwriting files. To use Direct3D, delete or rename 1964ogl.dll and then rename NooTe_D3D.dll to 1964ogl.dll.
- dutch
The Windows/DirectX NES emulator CMNES got an update to version 0.8. This open source emulator has had several minor changes and fixes, check the homepage for the full list of updates.
- dutch
You leechers can go and grab the new GetRight 4.2b, it's gotten a lot of fixes... what?!? I don't leech! * Nose starts growing...
- dutch
Neko Project II has gotten some updates (as well as a homepage in English :) over the past while, it's now at version 0.15. This open source PC98 emulator for Windows NT and Windows 2000 has gotten a ton of fixes, as well several additions like window rotation, 40 column text screen, and more. Hentai (ahem) fans who use Windows NT or Windows 2000 will appreciate this. :) Thanks to Opi for the last three tidbits.
- dutch
Here's an interview (English version) with DOX, the author of Hash, over at the Italian M3 site... he talks about how he isn't working on Hash right now but he is working on a graphic viewer for Jaguar ROMs.
- dutch
Saturday, June 17th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:34 EST
I apologize for my lack of updates, I have been both very busy and very tired lately. Give me a while to catch up with all I've missed these past several days... Heh, the angry furniture designers just wanted to know why they couldn't get Mame to work on their old machines. :) I'm also having some trouble with my connection to the net today, looks like a router acting up. (Namely sl-gw11-chi-8-2-t1.sprintlink.net, why am I not suprised?)
- dutch
Yesterday (June 16th 1978) was the 22nd anniversary of the day Taito unveiled Space Invaders to an unsuspecting Japanese public! Needless to say it was a huge hit, and is thankfully forever preserved by emulation. I LOVED that game as a kid - cost my parents lotsa quarters. :) (Thanks BMan2 of Arcade Heaven)
- prophet
Some sad Retrogames news... our good friend Dutch was attacked by a mob of angry furniture designers on his recent business trip. Despite a valiant self-defense, you just can't compete with 25 angry men holding staple guns and circular saws. As soon as all the couch stuffing and office chair parts are removed from his body, I'm sure he'll be back. :) Umm... this report may be slightly innacurate and stuff BTW.
- prophet
ALE updated! New cheats, news games, new stuff - for Amiga fans only. :)
- prophet
Kazuya posted "a couple of article scans about the NGPC taken from todays UK trade mags, CTW and MCV"! Interesting reads, especially considering the NGPC was selling quite well in some places, yet cancelled anyway.
- prophet
Clues at the NeoGeo Team 2000 news page? And they released "Ninja Masters" ISO/MP3, have a new framed design, and are looking for someone for a site html remake!
- prophet
Here's a cool site, it's called Retro Remakes. It has remakes (duh! :) of a lot of classic games, for various platforms! Seeing Manic Miner again, brought a tear to my eye.
- atila
Game Launcher v.09.2 has been released. Game Launcher is a universal DOS front end for game emulators, such as MAME. Here's what's new in this release:
* Support for rotated (vertical) monitors.
* Added an optional icon next to games with a screen shot available.
* Added options to control menu colors.
* Added options to control animation.
* Added more control over key repeat delays.
* Fixed a bug where the "use_extension" option was being ignored.
* Fixed a bug where "rom_extension" only worked with 1 extension.
SNESamp has been translated to German, Spanish and Portuguese translations are being worked. If YOU would like to translate it into another language, feel free to contact the guys at SNESamp.
- atila
I've often seen people asking about updates of the Arcade@Home frontend for MAME. Well, I recently asked if/when an update would ever occur, and Tim responded "Not until the speed is to my liking (which it's not)." So there you have it - at least it *is* being worked on. :) Nevertheless, MAME World (for example) hosts several great frontends to consider, both in DOS and Windows flavors. So no worries.
- prophet
DBoy 0.62 by BouKichi was released! What's new: Improvement of PSG emulation. (wave sound now emulated), added option -map for IF-SEGA/PCI button mapping, fixed some routines on DMA transfer.
TGB v0.1AD & v0.1AE (2000/06/16) by Hii released! Another Gameboy emu - TONS of new stuff this release, including: Improvement on Noise sound channel. (almost perfect), fixed some routines on STAT loading, imrovement and many changes on INI file structure, added and fixed Auto-fire feature & lots more.
M.E.P. never stops! Yep, they've added even MORE stuff to their incredible collection of over 2300 MSX games and apps.
- prophet
Videogames.com reports that an unofficial "Chrono Trigger" remake from Resurrection Games, Inc. is being coded for use on N64 emulators and/or via backup devices! Now that's DAMN cool! I think maybe I'm interested in N64 emus for the 1st time now. =P (Thanks DCX & Ooga)
- prophet
My favorite translation news site, Whirlpool, has been busily updating and adding new patches to their collection! No point in "webcopynewsing" everything - if you're into translations then you should go visit!
- prophet
Life is funny... Here I am talking politics with The Beaver and I totally forget to mention Mimic W.I.P. was updated! :)
- prophet
Magic Box (great gaming news site BTW) reports *more* bad SNK news. No more Asian markets now (Hong Kong for example), outside of Japan of course. Plus no more games for PSX or DC. :( Sony may have some good news regarding NGPC though, maybe... And seems SNK will support PS2... Sadly, plans for SNK Naomi based arcade games are also cancelled. (Thanks Eric)
- prophet
Reginsei from EmuCamp posted this very interesting log with our friend Sebastian Hernandez of NeoGeo Team 2000 (lotsa CD releases there BTW)! If you're at all curious about that recent screenshot over at the Callus95 Patch page, then you should read it. CPSX fans especially?! And what would be the "most controversial cpsX game ever"? Hmm... (Thanks Barry "GalEmu" Rodewald)
- prophet
Friday, June 16th 2000 - Last updated @ 16:30 EST
Windows 2000 has been running for 3wks 9hrs 10mins 43secs -- I need to reboot now, IE5 is acting up =)
- atila
WWEMU has posted an exclusive pic of JAG EMU (Jaguar emu) running a Pac-Man clone!! A beta will be released to beta-testers in 2 weeks ... and with a bit of luck, you should get it in the not too distant future. Now, where did I leave my Tempest 2000 cart ??
- atila
Downloads Italian Center has added an 'abandonware' section to their site, they even got MS-DOS 1.1 (152k) on there, not to mention some cool games =)
- atila
Ira mailed me saying that TRS-80.COM is not down or gone, there seem to be some DNS issues. It resolved fine for me, but you may have trouble accessing it. Should be fixed in a day or so.
- atila
Thursday, June 15th 2000 - Last updated @ 19:53 EST
There's an interesting screenshot on CPS2 Shock'sCallus95 Patch page! This *will* twist your mind so be careful. ;) And why does shernand need to dance on one foot? (Point at the shot) Is it real, what does it mean exactly? I dunno. (Thanks Raz)
- prophet
Dammit Atila, you beat me by about one minute. Or was I looking at a cached paged? =)
- dutch
Gridle is a busy dude, he just finished compiling CPU optimised versions of this MAME release. You can click here to download the PII binary or here to download the K6 binary.
- atila
The MAME binary compiled by Gridle has already spread like wildfire among emulation sites. Who needs the ILOVEYOU virus, eh? This spreads even faster and we love every byte of it ;) Thanks for compiling that for us, Gridle. You can write you're compiling it yourself, but we all know where the goods come from ;) And an even bigger THANK YOU to the MAMEDEV team, you guys ROCK!
- atila
Click here to find out what's new for MAME 0.37 beta 4! If you want to compile MAME for yourself, you will need a patched Seal which can be downloaded from the MAME site.
- atila
While your waiting for the source and binary of MAME 0.37 beta 4, why not check out the official Finnish translation of the MAME FAQ *cough*? Gridle has translated it to Finnish and right now he's almost done compiling the new MAME, 'for your gaming pleasure'.
- atila
Transferred: m37b4s.zip 4.152.185 bytes in 02:30 (27,03 KB/sec) (blame Chello for the low speed :)
- atila
Be sure to check back in 10 minutes (22:30 GMT/17:30 EST) or so, we'll have something up that you'll dig ;)
- atila
Digital Relics (hosted here on Retrogames) has added an Atari Jaguar section to their site. It features 79 unique Jaguar games with screenshots as well as Jaguar MP3's, reviews and links. Aaaaaah, Tempest 2000 :)
- atila
Gens 0.73 released! There was an annoying bug in the last version that would prevent the emulator from booting, that has been fixed, among other things:
- Menu selection fixed (2xSAI & Scanline)
- Write/Read Z80 Ram fixed. (Grand Slam music is ok)
- You can now pause emulation with ESC key. (automatically paused when the Gens window is desactivated)
- High-resolution fullscreen finally complety fixed for all videos cards.
- MMX detection code rewritten (no crashes anymore).
wGENS is a Genesis/Megadrive emulator for Windows, thanks to Skates for the news.
- atila
The SNES9x Dev Journal has been updated, Gary writes about the troubles he's encountered trying to add the netplay feature. He mentions that he will be using 5 beta-testers to get it working properly.
- atila
Here's part 3 in our ongoing Chello Saga: the Chello mailserver has once again died. May it rest in pieces.
- atila
Big brother is watching... or is that Mattel?
- richard
I can't believe so many people believed that Playstation 2 cancellation story! =P Anyway, PSM Online has "revealed" it was a joke now, so no worries. And didn't anyone notice the winking ;) I placed after the jaggies quote? So go buy a Dreamcast and stop worrying about Sony - they're doing just fine!
- prophet
Wouldn't it be great to read game FAQ's and move lists during gameplay? No exiting, no printouts - just pause, read, then back to the game... Well, Danmanya posted on the MAME board that he likes the idea and hopes to implement it in EmuPlus, an unofficial luxury build of MAME! Props to Jeff B. for the original and very cool idea. :)
- prophet
3 new remixes are available at remix.overclocked, the remixes are (in no particular order): King of Fighters 98 'Ghetto Recursive', Tetris and Zelda 3.
- atila
Chello's mailserver started working again and I was able to receive my mail, but there seems to be a 4 hour gap in there. 4 hours worth of emails are missing, please resend any mails you sent in the last 6 hours.
- atila
14 more games have been added to the download list at The Amiga Emulation Zone, they are: 3D International Tennis, F40 Pursuit Simulator, Gemini Wings, Magic Johnson's Fast Break Basketball, Ninja Spirits, Nippon Safe, Inc., Rotox, Scramble Spirits, Star Command, Stryx, Swords of Twilight,
Vortex, Warhead and Waterloo.
If you're an Amiga fan, you will most likely appreciate this.
- atila
If you've sent mail to atila@chello.nl in the last 12 hours, please resend it to atila@retrogames.com as Chello's mailserver seems to have died ... I called customer service and they told me that 'their main mail server for The Netherlands is down and they have no idea when it's going to be fixed'. Mind you, this is the same company that was going to get an IPO, but postponed it twice this month.
- atila
Wednesday, June 14th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:24 EST
Genesis Power can't resist a pretty girl... And thus a good working dump of Blaster Master 2 was born.
- prophet
Nathan Strum opened Game Artwork development! This page hosts some very cool artwork and overlays that hopefully will be incorporated into MAME in the future. Check out the Gorf artwork! =) (Thanks Sys2064)
- prophet
Kazuya from EmuHQ reviewed Metal Slug 3! For those like myself, who have never seen the game and have no arcades with new NeoGeo games in their area, it's great to see some pics and hear about the game. The BEST NeoGeo game so far? It looks it to me. I WANT A DREAMCAST PORT!!! PLEASE!!! (Thanks GeoShock)
- prophet
The doctors knew many many years ago that Michael Schumacher was destined to become a great Formula 1 driver, this is how they found out =)
- atila
Goodwindows, that frontend for Cowering 'GOODxxx' series of programs, is now being hosted by EmuHQ. Thanks to [ PRoToCoL ] for the news.
- atila
That wonderful site called Lemon64 (C64 site) has added 29 more games 'for your downloading pleasure'. Thanks to Cobracure for the news.
- atila
About 2 weeks ago, the official MAME FAQ was updated to version 4.0. It took some work, but Leo Postma has translated it to Dutch and it can be found on the Dutch MAME Page, which is hosted by MAME WORLD.
- atila
The guys at the MSX Emulation Page (MEP) mailed me the following:
MSX SO V0.71 now also has English documents available. The complete archive can be downloaded at the MEP in the emulator section. MSX Mania Brasil has released a FrontEnd for BrMSX, making this emulator a lot easier to configure. This frontend runs onder DOS and works for BrMSX V2.02 and higher. It's is available from the DATABASE on the MEP.
