Thursday, August 31st 2000 - Last updated @ 20:23 EST
It's REAL, it works and it's HERE - Download the new After Burner 2 emulator !!!! YES it works - WITH SOUND and JOYPAD support :-) Oh man, I'm really excited - awesome, trust me and hurry to Arcade ROM Heaven, Guru-Choc has uploaded the correct ROM-set :) HEY - thanks to the "millions" of guys who emailed me the emulator release - but I was too fast for you all guys :-) Oh man I like this new amazing emu !!!! UPDATE - you can also try EmuViews and Arcade@Home to get the ROMs :)
- Opi
More Good Arcade News - wtc@emux.net hinted me the newly opened Robo Cop 2 W.I.P. Page ! A MAME driver is currently under development by Bryan McPhail and should be done very soon !
- Opi
After Burner Anyone ? - An unknown guy posted at EmuViews message-board this link. It will lead you to a geoshitties webpage with some After Burner screenshots on it. These shots seems like fake but if you click on the screenshot a new one apperears :) Nice ... but you still may think - "hah, that's FAKE" ... and yes it seems like that - BUT if you check the third page, a little pleased smile should be visible in your face .... :) Stay tuned for an upcoming After Burner emulator, hope so :) Lets cross our fingers that these pictures weren't taken with a 32x emu and accessed test-screen as blazemore told me "At the Sega screen, press A + C + Start on Controller Two. A voice will confirm this part of the code. At the title screen, press A + B + C + Start on Controller One. If all went well, you'll enter a test screen straight out of the arcade version" ! UPDATE - if you click one of the pictures on the third page, there's an MP3 download as well. Thanks meestamee :)
- Opi
Interview With KIAME Member - The folks over at RareNet conducted an interview with Jago member of KIAME, the upcoming Killer Instinct emulator. You can read it here - thanks to guisep for the email :)
- Opi
Alex has informed me of the first Russian language emulation dedicated site on the net. It can be found at http://www.romov.net.
- chris
Hehe... - I have to say from experience that this is totally true. :)
- dutch
MAME WIP - 31st August 2000 :Jürgen Buchmüller simplified the makefile handling. Nicola Salmoria sent in a driver for World Beach Volley, again without sound due to an undumped PIC chip. Nicola also sped up the graphics decoding a bit and did some cosmetic changes to Xexex, but most of the graphics is still missing. Brad Oliver fixed Winter Bobble to work on Macs !
- Opi
How Did You Discover Emulation? - Jumpman Jr. started a nice topic on one of our messageboards with the topic: "How did you discover emulation?"; time to write 'my story' too, I guess :)
- atila
OC Remix - OverClocked ReMix has surpassed 100,000 hits. David has put up a 'thank you' message, an AWESOME piece of fan-art and a work-in-progress REQUEST board.
- atila
hehe - As usual Papa Schlumpf :) Slooow day ! Time to play some Bank Panic !
- Opi
Hmm - I was going to do an update, but I noticed Opi had already beat me to it :)
- atila
A-SATURN bugfixed - A new A-SATURN version has been released, this new version is a minor bugfix release, the emulator version 0.16 is still valid !
Thanks to Navarone, the japanese news-machine, from Emulation9, the source of my last three news postings.
- Opi
Virtual Aquarius - Virtual Aquarius v0.6 is available for download, check the homepage for more info about this emulator and for useful links to other interesting Mattel Aquarius Homecomputer sites.
- Opi
NESten WIP - The NESten homepage has been updated with some developing news, it's the first WIP info since more than 4 months. MMC5 is now working better than ever, VS games now work too and accept your inserted coins + much more.
- Opi
Neko Project II v0.23a - PC-9801 series emulator Neko Project II has been updated to v0.23a! This is a minor fix release, and fix the problem of ADPCM under Speakboard emulation :)
- aries
Sherlock Holmes lives ! - My spy in JoseQ'sHeadquarter reported me a newly uploaded Rumor Mill :)
- Opi
Wednesday, August 30th 2000 - Last updated @ 19:17 EST
Gimme Gimme :) - Enix finally released Dragon Quest VII ! All 1.9 million of the initial copies sold out in the first weekend, and this week will see another 850,000 shipped to retailers .... read the full story and prepare yourself for an late autum US release - thanks S. Chu :)
- Opi
Sega System C2 WIP - Haze's progress is amazing :) Check the Sega System C2 WIP homepage and view some nice PotoPoto pictures, a few Puyo Puyo 2 shots (still with a wrong color palette) and read his technical "blah" :) Seems Charles MacDonald'sC2emu will be able to run some more games after a new update :)
- Opi
Classic Remakes - Allan Bentham has made a remake of Missile Command. The game is DirectX 7 based and I was told the playability is superb :) "Only one problem, the graphics need a more "professional" look which the author freely admits. He needs a graphics artist to work on the game with him to give the game that completed feel". If you're interested and "talented" in making graphics - email the author. Missile Command (version 2000) can be downloaded from Classic Game Remakes !
- Opi
Sega Downloads - Genesis Power Genesis dump #237: Joe And Mac - Caveman Ninja is ready for you !
Rise of the Dragon for Sega CD has been added to SegaXtreme's large Sega CD library.
- Opi
System 24 info - Charles MacDonald has updated his System 24 section with detailed information on the System 24 hardware, based on some Hot Rod schematics he recently found. Also online is a dump of Quiz Ghost Hunter. Thanks to the "maestro" himself for the email :)
- Opi
CPS-2 datafile V2 - Mila76 has updated his CPS-2 and killed some remaining bugs :) So if you use CLRMamePro and downloaded the last NAZ releases, you may download it again :-)
- Opi
A-SATURN v0.16 - The japanese Sega Saturn emulator A-SATURN, written by Azuco, has been updated to version 0.16. The english homepage was updated with a small "whatsnew" note : "more support ST-V" :) Let's hope for an updated screenshot section really soon, the pictures from release 0.15d are looking ... hmm ... "sweet" :) Thanks to Ben-J for the notification :)
- Opi
Planet Harriers - One of the coolest Sega games ever, Space Harrier, is getting a sequel called PLANET HARRIERS. Today, the first pics arrived - get ready to drool ... and for a Dreamcast port, ofcourse :)
- atila
I Can See A Big Thing Coming - Heya ! It seems that Zoop is back into the ROM dumping business. Yesterday he added a dump of the USA version of Captain Silver for Sega Master System to SMS Power and after that he made the following announcement :
"And now, the time has come. :) We are gonna release in a few days an heavily SEGA related game, however not made for a SEGA system. This is maybe of the rarest videogame ever made (didn't say released, hehe!), and my guess is that fans will love it. But, we do need several mirrors to handle the release. The game is about 150 megabyte zipped. Ahem. Please e-mail me quickly if you can handle a serious mirror for the it, and be prepared for an amazing mix....." Hmmm, what could it be ? I have no clue - sorry !
- Opi
NGCP Freeware - Ivan Mackintosh'sNeo Geo Pocket Color Freeware site has been updated with 2 new freeware roms: Freecell and Mines (a Minesweep clone) - thanks Ivan :)
- Opi
MAME, ROMs and More - Guru-Choc has posted a "mini" MAME WIP report (maybe call it "micro") yesterday : "Nicola added a game called "Big Twin", those of you expecting a racing type game will be very disappointed :( " soon after this posting he uploaded the ROM-sets for Big Twin & Xexex. Both should appear in MAME v0.37 beta 7 :) Anothing thing worth mentioning here is a article about The History of Konami, hah and finally the Mimic WIP page has been updated with some progress news about this multi-platform emulator :)
- Opi
Visual Boy v1.4.5 - Forgotten's newly updated Game Boy Color emulator Visual Boy is truly the best Game Boy emu I ever tested ! It's able to run all the recently released highcolor titles, like Tomb Raider and Heroes Of Might & Magic for example, without any glitches. Even my beloved DBoy failed on these two titles. Visual Boy needs Win9x and at least DirectX 5.0 to run (there are two versions online - one for DirectX 5.0 and one for DirectX 7.0). The sound is really excellent, you can grab screenshots via F12 and change practically every useful thing you can imagine ! Here are the changes in this wonderful release :
- o - fixed bug with Turok 3
- o - improved digitalized sounds
- o - added color mode selection: washed colors (like real GBC) or dark colors
- o - added pause option
- o - you can enter up to 100 GameGenie and 100 GameShark codes (it will slow down emulator though)
- o - cheat codes will be saved with save game now
- o - multiple language support for English, French, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch and German!
This emulator is a must download ! I highly recommend it :)
- Opi
Emu Loader v1.3 - Roc from MAME WORLD mentioned the release of Emu Loader v1.3 today. Ciro'sEmu Loader is a nice front-end for MAME with lots of neat features. Ciro changed the pictures preview limit to 300 for each game !!! He noted more than 20 changes for this release, please check the complete list at the Emu Loader homepage ... and oooh - don't forget to delete the "EmuLoader.ini" before using this new version, the format has changed ! Click here to download it - please send some feedback if you like Emu Loader !
- Opi
UAE 0.08.15 - A new source version of UAE, the mother of all Amiga emulators is now available for download ! Sorry :) we're speaking only about the (still called experimental) Linux Version, I have no news about the other ports. especially WinUAE :( Version 0.08.15 adds support for sprites (New sprite code, this code existed for many months but the author now found the final bugs and included it). A changes.log can be viewed here - thanks to Tom Bies for the tip :)
- Opi
Tuesday, August 29th 2000 - Last updated @ 17:29 EST
Mac Atari 800 - Here's another EmuHQ news report : Derek Ledbetter'sMac Atari 800, a Macintosh port of David Firth's multi-platform Atari 800 emulator has been updated once again to v1.0.4. Sorry, that's all I can tell ya - Derek posted no word about the changes and I can't check that Macintosh archive by myself :)
- Opi
NES for BeOS - EmuHQ mentioned the release of BeNES v0.5.0b ! This is (you already guessed it) a NES emulator for BeOS :)
- Opi
Emuverse 'Downtime' - EmuVerse and its hosted sites are going through some Internic-trouble, so the sites are only available by clicking the following links:
Dave can be contacted using this email address until the domain is back up. Things should be back to normal in a day or so.
- atila
Translation News - The Whirlpool reported the release of two new interesting translation patches : The famous patch for Seiken Densetsu 3 (made by Neill Corlett, Lina`chan, Nuku-nuku, SoM2Freak) has been updated to v1.01 (fixes several typographical errors in the script. It will work with the original ROM image, or an image previously patched with version 1.00) - you can get it here. Suicidal Translations released a 100% complete translation patch for Hello Kitty No Ohanabatake aka Hello Kitty's Flower Shop from Sanrio - download patch 1.00 here !
- Opi
MAME FAQ - Gridle "forced" me to make the following posting - "look at all these nice colorful flags on the MAME FAQs page" ...... errrrrr.
The official MAME FAQ has been translated into the following languages : Norwegian, Serbian, Danish and brandnew into Chinese !
- Opi
CLRMamePro - Mila76 has made a new datfile for Roman Scherzer'sCLRMamePro and sent it to me ! Oooh you wanna know WHICH datfile :) ? for the CPS-2 games based on Naz v2.01M FAQ, download it here !
- Opi
Help Needed - Mike "BigRedPimp" Parks from GBDev News asked me to post the following: He is working on a port of the classic arcade game Berzerk, entitled Berzerk Legends for the GBC and needs a helping hand. If you're interested in helping out on this project - read his full announcement !
- Opi
RockNES WIP - Visit the RockNES homepage to have a peek into the future (Fx3 added some new mappers for Taiwan pirate games). Ever heard of Street Fighter 97 - Zero 2, King of Fighters 96 for NES ???
- Opi
X68k Emu - Kenjo updated his Sharp X68000 emulator for Win9x Keropi to version 0.49 - new in this release :
- o - Support to change the screen contrast
- o - Fixed stack at 'dividing by 0' trap
- o - Fixed the Text/BG color a little bit
- o - Faster CGROM generate routine by Punyu-san
Download it here - thanks to Emulation9 for the news.
- Opi
DreamCast For $62!! - Yes, it's true! You can now buy a Sega Dreamcast bundle (includes NFL2k and Sonic Adventure) at JC Penny for $159.99+S/H and if you enter promotional code CR8, you will get a 30% discount making the JC Penny price $111.99! Then you call Sega, register for a one-month free trial of Sega.NET and they give you a $50 rebate (valid for 2 more days!!). $111.99 - $50 rebate = $61.99. Many thanks to techdeals.net for the news, check out their site for more good deals!
- atila
A Simple Guide to Newsgroups - Kevin Butler was kind enough to remind me about his newsgroup guide. Guess Dutch isn't the only newsgroup expert. :P
- prophet
EMU+ 0.37 Beta 6 DOS - Enhanced Unofficial MAME - that's what it's all about! If you love special features like NeoGeo savestates, autofire, PacMAME & Jerky hacks support, and LOTS more, this might be your emu. Here's the source code, the normal Pentium BINARY & the P2/P3 Optimized BINARY. You can also find numerous other builds at the EMU+ homepage, including some with the ASM 68000 core. (Thanks Danmanya - u sent the b5 whatsnew btw! ;)
- prophet
Monday, August 28th 2000 - Last updated @ 22:56 EST
Genesis Power released the best of the Batman Genesis games, Batman Returns!
- prophet
Gleam! - Well, it's not a Dreamcast emu, but an NES emu for the Dreamcast. :) Get it here, and be sure to visit the Gleam! homepage for more info. Keep in mind this is the 1st release, so don't be surprised if some games don't work etc. And BTW - it's 100% FREE! ;) (Thanks Kagaden)
- prophet
Dreamcast Emu?! - Emulatronia reports that a Sega Dreamcast emulator *may* indeed be in development. In fact, they've got some screenshots online to prove it. Just Demos and boot screens, but if it's real, it's amazing. Just don't expect to be playing Crazy Taxi on your PC any time too soon. Now where's my Saturn emu?! ;)
- prophet
RAINE WIP - katharsis has updated the RAINE WIP page with a small note :) "Boukichi submitted another fix of the Battle Garrega driver which makes the sound close to perfect, good work =) "
- Opi
System C2 - OK, here's another WIP report. This time from Haze and his Sega System C2 MAME Driver project !
"Found an additional Patch for Puyo Puyo which prevents it from Locking Up (due to protection) when going into attract mode. Patched Ichident-R (Puzzle & Action 2) to run in the C2Emulator ...." he uploaded some new pictures from Puzzle & Action and wrote more technical stuff which I didn't understood :) so visit his WIP page if you like to read more about it :)
- Opi
Virtua News - DaemoN informed me about his latest update at the Virtua homepage - good news for all friends of Sega's Model 2 board :
"I've got a new alpha today, it's more or less 2x faster than the old one. Also, TheGuru has dumped a couple of new model 2 games. Don't waste your time mailing me asking which games were dumped or if/when they will be added, I won't respond you because I don't know that myself :) Stay tuned, some good news coming shortly ;)".
My thirty-fifth birthday is in October, it would be really nice to be able to play Virtua Fighter 2 then.
- Opi
PSX Invaders Emu - Anthony Ball from Double Dutch Designs Limited has updated his invaders emulator for the Sony Playstation. Version 1.05 offers you more games, 100% sound and better graphics. Also online is now a new Sega Dreamcast section.
- Opi
OverClocked STUFF: Okay, okay, let's get things rolling - THREE new ReMixes: Lemmings, Secret of Mana, and Bomberman 3, have been uploaded to OverClocked ReMix to help start your week with a smile. In addition, the often-overlooked Mystery Videogame Theater 3000 has gotten an hilarious submission of a review of MAZINGER Z, a horrid old SNES game. To those for whom summer vacation has brutally terminated: hope this makes monday a little brighter :)
- david
Downloads - Genesis Power offers Genesis dump #234: Batman - Revenge Of The Joker and #235: ATP Tour Championship Tennis.
Shining Force CD for Sega CD has been added to SegaXtreme.
- Opi
Music / Remix - You think CeCe Peniston would be mad if she found out what I was doing to her hitsong, 'Finally' ? Click here for a 15 second sample :)
- atila
Amiga Stuff - Shane R. Monroe'sAmiga Emulation Zone has emptied its request queue by delivering 20 new requests ! Submit a short review of the title you'd liked, if you can :)
- Opi
Frogger 2 Preview - Mike Stulir has posted a preview for Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge (upcoming PC & PlayStation game) at his website Back In Time. "FROGGER 2 DOES NOT SUCK!!!" - "Other than that, I think that the developers have done a superb job. I can't wait to see the final product".
Note - these are two different quotes :)
- Opi
Sunday, August 27th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:51 EST
NAZ goes nuts - NAZ has upped even more of his ROM dumps to alt.binaries.emulators.misc... this time, it's more CPS2: Pocket Fighter, Powered Gear, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Rockman II, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and Street Fighter Alpha. There's also Mortal Kombat 4 and something about JDR bending over. :) And finally, there's version 2.01 of his CPS2 FAQ that you can download right over at CPS2 Shock.
"Dutch, do you know of any free Usenet servers?" Not offhand, I prefer to use a pay service for better retention and speed. But, you still might want to try here, here, or here if you really want to try for free servers.
Agent is a nice client for reading and browsing, but for leeching you'd want to use Newsbin Pro. Install the final version, then the beta over that. It can automatically resume, and download more than one file at the same time. It will also let you enter several servers, then it will automatically combine missing pieces from different servers. If you feel you must stick with Agent at all costs, at least look into the add ons that are available for it. ;)
- dutch
Sega System C2 WIP - Haze has updated his Sega System C2 M.A.M.E. Driver, Work In Progress Page (hahaha) with some new nice Puyo Puyo screenshots. He used a little trick to get this game to run, read the full update at the long link above :-) thanks to EmuHQ for the news :)
- Opi
MAME bugs & releases - all news taken from MAME WORLD :)
*** French MAME addicts should visit MacMAME.org and grab the latest french translated version of MacMAME v0.37 beta 6.
*** Rodimus Prime recovered from his HD crash and released AMame/PMame (CPU optimized binaries) v0.37 beta 6 for those MAME speed freaks and MKII player, gain a few more fps for free if you choose the correct version :)
*** The MAME Testing Project has been updated with newly found bugs in the latest MAME release - feel free to help finding more of these nasty glitches and help improving MAME.
- Opi
The Mac version of MESS has been updated to v0.37b6. Here is the binary and here is the source.
- richard
TaitoZ for MAME - MAME WORLD mentioned a new TaitoZ driver already in development for MAME - expect the addition of Chase HQ, Chase HQ 2, Continental Circus, Night Striker, Battle Shark, Aqua Jack and Space Gun to MAME anytime soon :)
- Opi
Super Jukebox - Marius Fodor's awesome SNES game music (SPC) player Super Jukebox has been updated to version 2.8. He fixed a nasty little memory leak in the visualization routine and tweaked a lot more visualization related things - if you want a non Winamp based SPC-player - grab this one (Win9x only) you'll be pleased.
- Opi
Advance MAME 0.37 Beta 6 released! Advance MAME is an unofficial version of MAME by Andrea Mazzoleni, with special features, allowing the user to define and use their own graphics modes. This allows games to work on nearly any sort of monitor, at full screen and with proper aspect ratios etc. Cool stuff, but not for newbies. Here are local mirrors for the various files: P2/P3 Optimized BINARY, Regular Pentium BINARY, Source code. Andrea also released Advance Menu 1.1 (Source) and Advance VBE 0.2 (Source)! It's all good. :) Please read the documentation carefully before using Advance MAME - you MUST configure it before playing! Here's the Advance MAME homepage.
- prophet
Michael Beaver InterViewed - JoseQ conducted an InterView with Michael Beaver, author of Mimic, you can read it here - reading this long and interesting interview may take some time, both guys seems to be very chatty :)
- Opi
SegaXtreme - Three new Sega CD games are ready for you at SegaXtreme - Dark Wizard, Heart of the Alien and Wonderdog !
- Opi
Catver.ini - User of Arcade@Home, a very good MAME frontend, should grab the latest Catver.ini release here !
- Opi
Japanese Dumps - Team Japump recently "preserved" a lot of new japanese arcade games for the emulation community - note these list is only an information - you won't find them until they become emulated :)
o (Mahjong) House Mannequin (JPN Ver.) (c)1987 Nihon Bussan
o Night Gal Summer (JPN Ver.) (c)1985 Nihon Bussan
o Ninja Jajamarukun (JPN Ver.) (c)1986 Jaleco VS system
o Knuckle Heads (JPN Ver.) (c)1992 Namco Namco NA-2 system
o Apparel Night (c)1986 Central Denshi (Nichibutsu)
o Mahjong Uranai Densetsu (c)1992 Nichibutsu
o Marvel VS. Capcom - Clash of Super Heroes - (JPN Ver.) (c)1998 Capcom CP System II
o Street Fighter Zero 3 (JPN Ver.) (c)1998 Capcom CP System II
- Opi
Pasofami99 - Pasofami99 v1.4b has been released! This release fixed some minor problems, but the sound in trial version was limited again due to some reasons. Thanks to Navarone of Emulation number 9 for news :)
- aries
Sega CD emu - Stay tuned for SegaEMU 1.00 - now in development by Atani - Including the "BIG THING" !!! If you're really hot about this new release, then try to be the 100,000 visitor. "100,000 visitor will be added to the distribution list for SegaEMU 1.00 one week before it is released to the general public".
- Opi
FrontDboy 1.21 - You already expected it I guess, Oscar Cerdá released FrontDboy V1.21 :) New this time :
o Updated language files.
o Fixed some bugs in keyboard configuration.
o Fixed a but that makes that .SND files were auto-created without any need.
Hope he'll stop now for a day or two :-) Thanks to Kaervek for the news.
- Opi
Retrogames Message Board - Dutch has started an interesting thread about the latest MAME WIP update on our General emulation Message Board - feel free to add your opinion :)
- Opi
MZ8emu beta 0.029 - Cloy informed me about a new Windows release of Zdenek Adler's, MZ800 emulator MZ8emu. You can download beta 0.029 from Cloy's homepage !
- Opi
Saturday, August 26th 2000 - Last updated @ 21:45 EST
A Wonder - Guru-Choc must be a Fortune-Teller :) shortly after the MAME WIP update he uploaded the now needed new Playchoice 10 ROMs at Arcade Rom Heaven - go and grab the 30 new titles :) Thanks Gareth !
- Opi
MAME WIP - "Mr. MAME News" Gridle has once again updated my favourite news site - the MAME WIP page. Ernesto Corvi has added 20 more games to the PlayChoice 10 driver :) and a lot of new "sexy" pictures are online. Ohhh I can see some new messageboard topics coming :-)
Thanks to Brian A. Troha for the email - I appreciate it :)
- Opi
RADARnes - CyberBry's NES emulator for DOS, RADARnes has been updated to v0.3, here are the changes :
- o - Mappers 6 and 16
- o - Configurable Resolution (via cfg.ini file)
- o - 1 and 2 player support (toggle through GUI)
- o - Joystick Support (toggle through GUI)
- o - Toggle Sound on/off (via cfg.ini file)
Thanks to TsengRei for the update info :)
- Opi
WinEMU 0.48R2 - Two days after the last release, Zsolt Prievara's C16/Plus4 emulator WinEMU has been updated again. Version 0.48 R2 adds C1551 drive support ! Thanks to Lando for the email :) Visit his site to download some C16/Plus4 games and test it with WinEMU 0.48R2 :-)
- Opi
Mameinfo.dat - Here is MASH's latest unofficial Mameinfo.dat for MAME v0.37 beta 6. Thanks to RocLobsta from MAMEWORLD for the news and the file :)
- Opi
MAME Frontend - Lanzador Uni 2000 Beta 3 is available. In this version you can see the screen shots on-line, the problem with the special configuration for a individual rom has been solved .... and more :)
News thankfully taken from EmuHQ !
- Opi
New Spinal INI's - Spinal has uploaded 2 new unofficial N64 emulator ini's : Nemu 64 ini 3.7: 203 Playable Games, 64 Almost Playable Games, 24 Games Runs The Intro, 36 Games Doesn´t Work Corn ini 1.9 46 Playable Games, 42 Almost Playable Games, 76 Games Runs The Intro, 163 Games Doesn´t Work.
- Opi
New Games For JAE - Norbert Kehrer has added two more arcade classic for his Java Arcade Emulator - now you can play online :
- Nintendo's Donkey Kong Junior (1982)
- Super Bagman von Valadon Automation (1984)
- Opi
paraMSX v1.8 - A new paraMSX is out. This is Yeongman Seo's Windows port of Marat Fayzullin's fMSX v2.1 - you'll need Win9x/2000 with DirectX 7.0 or above to run it. New in this release :
- o - Korean MSX's memory layout support.
- o - Interlaced & Even/Odd display support. (e.g. SCREEN9 of Korean MSX2)
- o - NTSC/PAL support.
- o - Changed Interrupt handling.
- o - Improved FM sound & balance.
- o - Screen shot support for 16bit color mode. (24Bit BMP)
- o - Fixed Sprite of SCREEN6
- o - Added no Sprite mode.
You can download it here - thanks to Navarone's Emulation 9 for the update news.
- Opi
MEKA WIP - Here is an official WIP report for MEKA, the best Sega 8bit/Colecovision emulator made by Zoop :
"Apart from the fact that I lost a bunch of important files, things are going well. I've been working on MEKA a bit those days. Colecovision emulation has been improved, fixing Carnival, Jumpman Junior, Pitfall 2 and Venture. Except for games using special controllers, I think that all Colecovision games are working properly now. Thanks to the various people e-mailing me about it. I'm still looking for someone who could update the compatibility list, else I'll start one myself next week :) The eagle blitter has also been fixed for those who experienced garbage and missing right side. I'm working on other things so registered users can expect a new version during the september month".
You may also check Maxim'sMeka Configurator utility ! Thanks to WWEMU for this WIP info.
- Opi
FrontDboy 1.2 - No new day without an updated FrontDboy . Oscar Cerdá released v1.2 - new in this update : snd files are now saved in C:\SNDFILES folder, support for english language and a view bug fixes. Thanks to Kaervek from Emumania for the news and the english translation.
- Opi
Genesis Power - Snorter uploaded the Genesis Power dumps #232: Batman and #233: Atomic RoboKid (U). Will he ever stop ?
- Opi
TOSEC - Grendel informed me about the activities of the TOSEC group : "TOSEC is a group of people who are working on a renaming standard for emulated files. To accomplish this, we made the TNC, the TOSEC Naming Convention. This new naming standard is used by most of the popular renaming tools available (Cowering's goodtools, Cspray and Romdoctor). We have been distributing our databases as RomDoctor RDB files and from now on we will also distribute RomCenter DAT files".
So if you're looking for DAT files for popular systems like Atari 800, C-64 and Sinclair Spectrum or DAT files for really rare old homecomputers like Colour Genie, Nascom, Robotron KC Compact, Sharp MZ 700/800, TI-99/4a+ and many many more visit TOSEC. The official TOSEC DATs can only be gotten here, and nowhere else on the web!
- Opi
Anex86 v2.23 - Epson x86 emulator Anex86 has been updated to v2.23! No changes available since lack of information though :)
- aries
Friday, August 25th 2000 - Last updated @ 19:29 EST
Mattel Aquarius Emulator - Kenny Millar released his updated (now with color mode) Mattel Aquarius Emulator AqEmu v0.2 to the public. AqEmu runs on Win95/98/NT and 2000, check out the homepage for more ...
Oh - and here is another release - Animal Tamer uploaded Virtual Aquarius v0.5 on his emulation site. Thanks to Cloy from Kinox for the email !
- Opi
Game Cube Movies - Yeah... I know you're probably sick of hearing about Game Cube... but did you see those Rogue Squadron movies out on the newly created cube.ign.com? DAMN... that looks like live video. This may end up being quite an amazing console. (And I can get away with this post 'cause Star Wars is retro. ;)
- dutch
Java Chat - I'll be in the Java Chatroom for AT LEAST the next 2 hours (up until 5PM EST), so feel free to drop by :)
- atila
NAZ just doesn't stop... new dumps of Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, and Marvel vs. Capcom have been upped to alt.binaries.emulators.misc. PLEASE keep in mind that due to complicated encryption, there is no CPS2 emulator as of yet. (That should be a no brainer, but I've noticed follow up posts on Usenet asking, "What emulator is this for?")
- dutch
'Bleem' Explained? - I received a mail today from Marcus T. which contained a possible explanation for Bleem!'s (commercial PSX emu) name, here's a snippet from his mail:
I was watching an episode of the old sitcom "Happy Days" today, an episode with a guest apperarance of Mork (Robin Williams). He plays a visitor from another planet and uses the word BLEEM as a measurment of time. One bleem=2000 years. Just thought you should know.
Anyway, you can read a synopsis of that episode (#110 !!) of Happy Days, by clicking here.
- atila
MAME32 Screensaver - Guisep mailed me that he has updated his MAME32 screensaver, to fix a "joypad not working" bug. You know how it's going :"Remember, to create a mame32.exe just rename the scr file".
So if you downloaded his first release two or three days ago (as I did) - download it again :)
- Opi
Neko Project II - The PC-9801 series emulator Neko Project II was updated to v0.23! Here are changes in this release:
- Fixed single step interrupt
- Fixed YM-3438 [MUAP98/iv]
- Auto generate font data file when not exist.
- Fixed other minor bugs
CPS-2 Shock - The CPS-2 Shock W.I.P page has been updated with some new values from the CPS-2 hardware using the EEPROM emu. CPS-2 Shock also reported this : "The release of CPS-2 ROM's by NAZ to the newsgroups (alt.binaries.emulators.misc) an error has been noticed in his FAQ which affect Cyberbots. The Dump released is correct. NAZ will soon release an updated FAQ v2.01M". LogiqX released an updated dat file with this error already fixed. Thanks to Danilo for the email :)
- Opi
WinSTon v0.4 - Are you an Atari fan ? Had once a ST and you loved it ? Here is a great new toy for you :) After many many weeks, Paul Bates once again updated his Atari ST emulator WinSTon to version 0.4 ! He listed 18 points of changes/fixes/additions on his homepage for this release - 5 too much to post them here ... :) You're still here ? Hurry up and download your copy of the best available Atari ST resurrector (strange english, I know that - correct me plz). Thanks to katharsis from Geoshock for this great news !
- Opi
FrontDboy 1.1 - Oscar Cerdá updated his frontend for BouKiCHi'sDboy, FrontDboy to version 1.1. You can now delete, rename or change any menu name, the unzipping code was improved and much more - thanks to Kaervek from Emumania for the news.
- Opi
Cube Mania - Game Cube here, Game Cube there - Game Cube is now everywhere :-)
Here are some more interesting links for Nintendo's amazing new console : Wave Race, Mario, Zelda, Metroid and some Game Cube system pictures :) Gimme that thing ! Visit cube.ign for tons of information about this new "milestone" - a new star was born I guess - Nintendo rules !
- Opi
T98-Next new beta - PC-9801 series emulator T98-Next 4th beta has been released! Changes in this release are some minor bugfixes, and speed optimization. Developer Kit is also available, too :)
- aries
MacMAME 0.37b6 - MacMAME 0.37b6 has been released, it's now in synch with the DOS version, here's what's new for this release:
- In sync with the DOS 0.37 beta 6 build. [Brad Oliver]
- The front-end dialog is now larger than 640x480 in size. This means that you should run MacMAME in a minimum resolution of 800x600 if you want to see everything; lower resolutions won't be officially supported any longer. [Brad Oliver]
MAME Goodies - Dith has updated four of his MAME sample sets - Congo Bongo, Solar Quest, Space Invaders and Zektor. MAMu_ released a new set of his cute icons which you can use with MAME32 ! Thanks to MAME World for the icons hint :)
- Opi
Okay, I always seem to mess up something when it comes to these MSX posts. But I'll try. From the MSX Denyuland 2000 convention comes the news that ASCII and Sega are working together to create a NEW MSX. It's supposedly a 3-phase project, with a free emulator to come first, buying games from a server second, and actual hardware third. The new MSX would be a Z80 processor running at 100 or 120Mhz with 4MB Ram and 4MB VRAM. Not sure if it's 100% true, or if it will come true, but it's so interesting it was worth posting. Thanks to Zophar's Domain for the tip.
- david
Bad News Department:EmuForce.com is temporarily closed due to lack of willing news posters, and Zoop at SMSPower has suffered some major hard drive problems due to corruption via power outage. That happened to me once right after eight hours modeling in 3d studio MAX :( Let's wish both guys the best of luck.
- david
Thursday, August 24th 2000 - Last updated @ 21:15 EST
Wow! Marble Madness 2 photos!!! Yep, that's the ultra-rare unreleased sequel to one of the most unique games ever created. California Extreme, a classic arcade game show, had it on display for all to play and drool over. All I have to say is... DUMP IT!!! =) (Thanks Till & this MAME board message from Btribble)
- prophet
Looks like NAZ has more CPS2 up on Usenet (on alt.binaries.emulators.misc).
- dutch
Seems I'm too late :) Changes in this release of Neko Project II v0.22c seems are some minor fixes. (Because there's no information on the site or in the archive :)
- aries
SSF In-Game Pics - You better believe it, here are some cool pics of SSF (Sega Saturn emu) in action. Looks like we'll have a nice Saturn Emu to play with soon =) Thanks to The Fox for the link.
- atila
Cheap Console Games! - Simply Games are having another sale, a huge number of DC/PSX/N64/GB games have been discounted to UK£9.99 (US$14)! They also have free worldwide shipping, please keep in mind that most (if not all) of these games are made for PAL machines. So it's best to mail them first if you're not sure. If you're looking for cheap NTSC games, you better head on over to www.videogamesavings.com and 'spend some mad loot' there :)
- atila
Site Move - The NeoGeo Review Center has changed its name and is now known as The Review Center. It's not fully functional yet, but it should be real soon.
- atila
Back To The Roots - This posting is a real pleasure for me :) My favourite Amiga website Back To The Roots has been updated again ! Let's see what escaped out of Bobic's and Hippie2000's little bag !
They got permission to upload more games from various companies : from MegArts Brainman & MegArts Hockey) - nearly all games from Scorpius Software Arazmax, Challenge of the Matrix, One on One, Roton, Spectrum and the very rare game called "Jump Em", which was never seen before elsewhere on the net.
"Uploaded were also the requested games "Iridon" from Kingsoft and "Turbo Raketti", but the highlight of this update are probably two great adventure games from Sierra: The outstanding Adventure-RPG Quest for Glory 2 - Trial by Fire and the cult classic Goldrush".
This all - plus a bunch of new AGA/ECS/PC demos, music from famous scene musicians and some fine pictures from various scene artists ! Checking this new update should keep you busy for a long rainy day :)
- Opi
Play A Movie - Here's your daily Genesis Power gift : Alien 3.
- Opi
GoodINTV v0.999 - Cowering released GoodINTV v0.999 ! New in this Intellivision ROM renamer release (now 173 known entries) :
- o - newest dumps added
- o - .cfg and .key files are renamed along with the ROM (in case any emu needs them)
- o - Companies other than Mattel are listed in filenames now
Thanks to Ben-J from C o n s o l l e c t i o n for the email and the file :)
- Opi
UAE for Linux - The Linux version of UAE ("should also compile and run on any half-recent Unix-like OS") has been updated to v0.8.14 - this release is still called "experimental" (as the one before) and some of the important features "may" be broken - check out the ChangeLog to find out more. If you need some information about the Amiga emulation in general - read Gary Harris's informative Amiga FAQ. Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.
- Opi
Spectrum News - RealSpectrum beta 7 released. This is one of the most advanced Spectrum emulators - it supports the Spectrum 128 with "100% exact multicolor effects in full-screen, high-fidelity sound reproduction with surround effect .... and many other cool sounding technical stuff :)
My MERCI goes to EmuHQ !
- Opi
Neko Project II - The japanese PC-9801 series emulator Neko Project II was updated to v0.22c - wait for Aries and his changes report (shouldn't be that much). And if you like this japanese system, don't forget to check out The X68000 Game Pile. Thanks to Navarone's Emulation9 for the news.
- Opi
Gals Pinball - The bad rom in Gals Pinball (was added in the latest MAME release) has been redumped and is waiting for you at Guru-Choc'sArcade Rom Heaven.
- Opi
Nintendo - Now the WAIT is over ! Nintendo revealed it's new GameCube at the Spaceworld 2000 show. View the first official console, joypad and demo pictures - read the system specifactions or just have some fun and explore their site :)
"After months of rumor and speculation, Nintendo Company Ltd. broke the veil of secrecy surrounding its next wave of gaming machines at the appropriately titled "Upcoming Generation Event" in the Makuhari Messe convention center just outside of Tokyo. In a series of exciting presentations, Project Dolphin finally received a real name, Game Boy's new brother was introduced to the public, and a mobile gaming system was announced for Japan".
Read the full report here - it's really worth to read (trust me) and stay tuned for a new Wave Race and a new ...... tatataraaaaa METROID !!!! Plus many information and pictures about the Game Boy Advance :)
- Opi
JoseQ has posted yet another Rumor Mill! Let's hear it for the Q! Laser, Mimic, and Virtua are mentioned, but the biggest news is a multi-console (SMS, SG-1000, Coleco, NES, AND Genesis) Emulator in development by an experienced coder. Juicy. Check it all out HERE
- david
Wednesday, August 23rd 2000 - Last updated @ 20:29 EST
Haze has mentioned that NAZ released a few of his CPS2 dumps to Usenet (on alt.binaries.emulators.misc). *Please* don't use Agent to download those, use this. And only if you be legally entitled, of course. :)
- dutch
MAMEWorld - A great place for every MAME fan - MAMEWorld - has turned ONE today. Congratulations from the Retrogames staff :)
- Opi
2600 Frontend - FEZ26, a nice Windows frontend for the Atari 2600 emulator Z26, has been updated to version 1.1 - thanks to Steve for the notification.
- Opi
Shinco DVD Review - The Fox has reviewed the Shinco DVD 868, that nice VCD/MP3/DVD player with a built-in Genesis emulator :) However, according to a mail I received from Thom today, apparently they no longer supply the Genesis CDs with the player. I've not been able to verify this yet.
- atila
New MESS - The multi-console multi-"old computer" emulator MESS is now in sync with the latest MAME v.37 b6 release. The following drivers are new in this release :
*** Amstrad NC100 [Kev Thacker]
*** CoCo 3 (with a preliminary 6309 CPU core) [Tim Linder, Nate Woods]
*** SNES (preliminary) [Lee Hammerton]
*** ChannelF [Frank Palazzolo, Juergen Buchmueller]
The official homepage wasn't updated yet (as usual) - but the new binary was already posted at JoseQ's EmuViews ! Thanks to WWEMU for the tip :)
- Opi
Z26 v1.38 - Vintage Gaming reported the release of Z26 v1.38. A list of the changes in this release can be found here. Ohh - in case you didn't know it - Z26 is DOS Atari 2600 emulator made by John Saeger - Later all :-)
- Opi
sixtyforce 0.5.6 - Gerrit recently released a new beta version of sixtyforce, his N64 emulator for Apple's Macintosh - now with a new dynamic recompiling core. Some nice looking screenshots can be found here (old) or here (older). Wanna know if your favourite N64 game runs with sixtyforce ? Check the compatibility list or go straight to the download section :) Thanks to Bully for the email :)
- Opi
WinEMU v0.48R1 - Zsolt Prievara'sWinEMU, a really good Commodore C16/Plus4 emulator, has been updated to version 0.48R1. This release contains a lot of new features and changes and runs better under Windows NT/2000, check the included File_id.diz for more.
Thanks to the C16-Plus/4 retro page for the news !
- Opi
Snes9x Win - A new version of Snes9x for Windows has been released ! CHANGES in v1.31 : Lots of DirectSound code modifications, addition of diagonal keyboard controls and a few other tweaks and fixes.
Napsterbation - Hmm, do you Napsterbate ? You don't know what it is ? Well, then check here for the full lowdown on Napsterbation :) Thanks to Trojan for the link.
- atila
OverClocked ReMix - David Lloyd (our now famous Retrogames team member) has uploaded two new ReMixes for your hearing pleasure (mine too) : Check out Zelda : Link's Awakening 'Tail Cave Beatdown' and Karnov 'Russian Jam'.
- Opi
Adaptoid URL - The N64 USB adapter Adaptoid (use your N64 controller to play games on your computer) has now its own domain - http://www.adaptoid.net/. Here you'll find several compatibility lists for using Adaptoid with emulators like UltraHLE and PC Games including Force Feedback/Rumble Pack info and other stuff.
- Opi
Brazilian MAME ROMs - Videogames Classics, a brazilian arcade/console emulation site has now all MAME ROMS (v0.37 beta 6, all verifyed with ClrMAME Pro 1.7a) online. This site is in portuguese only, but the link to the download page is right at the top, so no-one should have a problem to find what he's looking for :) Thanks Alexandre :-)
- Opi
MAME for the Compaq Ipaq - A new unofficial MAME project for WinCE handhelds - MAME for the Compaq Pocket PC has been started. Right now it supports only Compaq's Ipaq and runs only Galaga and Ms Pac-Man ! You can view a picture of Galaga running on Darren "eyen0de" own little "power-toy".
"Unfortunately there is a *serious* button problem with Ipaqs that prevents two or more button presses to register at once" read more about this issue at Jimmy's Windows CE Software homepage or check Jimmy Software's comment about iPaq's button programming issue ! Thanks to Darren "eyen0de" from NonMAME for the information :)
- Opi
Aladdin - After three longer postings - here's a short one :)
Two new Genesis Power dumps are now online and ready to leech:
#229: Aladdin (US) and #230: Aladdin (J).
- Opi
MAME Merge fix - News from the "resurrected" MAME Merge homepage, Shifty wrote : "Since the introduction of the "PlayChoice 10" games in MAME 0.37 beta 6 which require a BIOS file, running MAME Merge produces an error. The good news is, a fix is now available :-) Just download this (save as mmresfix.bat) small (2K) batch file and put it in the same folder as your MAME Merge executable. Create the resource file in the normal way then double-click "mmresfix.bat" which fill "fix" it. Then, continue in the normal way, that's all there is to it! Note, you'll need to do this every time you re-create the resource file". Thanks to David R. Elton for the notification !
- Opi
FrontDboy 1.0 - Oscar Cerdá has released a new version of FrontDboy, a frontend for BouKiCHi's Game Boy emulator Dboy. Version 1.0 enables you now to start a game via doubleclick and adds the usual bunch of changes and fixes and the option to unzip games.
Thanks to Kaervek from Emumania for the news and the translation :)
BTW - DBoy is the best GB emulator IMHO, all it really lacks is a nice gui - et voila - here is one !
- Opi
EPSXE NEWS translation - Remember my news posting about EPSXE the new Playstation emulator, it was reported by Emulatronia yesterday and I wasn't able to translate it ? Three nice guys sent me their own translation, I choosed the one made by Jon Torre :
"A new PlayStation emulator runing under Windows 9x will see the light soon. It's been programmed by Charlie, Zulu and Tango (Codenames of three emulation gurus). We put some pictures of the emulator running to show that show that this is for real:Crash Bandicoot 3(1) CB3(2), Soul Blade(1), SB(2), Driver, Kula World, Spyro The Dragon, Time Crisis, 40 Winks, Although we can assure that many more are working (Collin Mc Rae 1 & 2, Need For Speed 4, Tekken 3, Rival Schools, ....). At least 200 games. Technically the emulator is very evolved, it does support sound, MDEC, memory cards, and even it can use the PSEmu plug-ins, expect the pad ones. By the way, IT'S FREE!!!, not like others... ;-D".
Thanks to Santiago Holgado, Greg Hackmann and Jon Torre for their kind and fast help and to Andrew Royal for his nice tool :-)
- Opi
Here are changes of this version of YAME:
- Improve compatibility of TG16 and NES(Mapper 4, 6, 16) games.
- Improve sound of TG16 and GB games.
- Improve sound response.
- Now can use Enter key for input.
Note there are two version for download, and full-screen version require DirectX to run properly :)
- aries
Tuesday, August 22nd 2000 - Last updated @ 22:21 EST
YAME v0.13 has been released, but the page uses those funny Japanese characters that befuddle the dickens outta me, so I'm not quite sure what's new. YAME is "Yet Another Multi-Console Emulator", and supports TG16, NES, and GB. Grab it here.
- david
New PSX emu - Emulatronia mentioned a new Sony Playstation emulator called EPSXE. Due to the fact that I'm not able to understand spanish - I ripped JoseQ's posting at EmuViews :
"There are a couple of screenshots available (check out where it lists some game names like: "Driver", "Soul Blade" among others). Features listed include: Sound, MDEC, Memory Cards, PSEmu Pro Plug-in support. There is no website for the emulator ...". - gracias JoseQ :)
- Opi
Liberty - Gambit Studios's Game Boy emulator for Palm OS devices called Liberty was updated to version 1.1.
"This *major* update includes smaller ROM sizes, multiple game save states, improved compatibility, and much more!"
- Opi
Spectrum Games - Malc Jenning's Sinclair ZX Spectrum site ZX has been updated with 50 new Spectrum classics.
- Opi
Nintendo Dolphin FAQ - ign Cube has updated their informative FAQ about Nintendo's upcoming next-generation console NCube (former "Project Dolphin"). You can read it here - thanks to Raven for the hint :)
- Opi
Retro Spectrum - Nigel Critten has started a new remake of the ZX Spectrum game "3 Weeks In Paradise" - view some screenshots here and stay tuned for more classic game remakes like Gribbly's Day Out and Monty on the Run. Oooh BTW Nigel is looking out for a talented graphics artist .... :) Anyone here ? Thanks to Classic Game Remakes for the news tidbits :)
- Opi
Dutch MAME - The Dutch MAME Page, which also features a Dutch translation of EmuAdvice has been updated with some of said translations to get in synch with the latest additions to EmuAdvice, including the Dual Booting Support Section. Thanks to Leo for the news !
- Opi
Lanzador Uni - Need a frontend for MAME ? Check the newly updated Lanzador Uni. Maybe v2000 beta 2 pleases you :) it's available in 6 different languages (Español, English, Français, German, Italiano and Portugês).
Thanks to MAME WORLD for this news on a slow news day - btw. that spinning cube is NICE !
- Opi
Sintendo build #34 was released yesterday. It's basically a 'very WIP' version of SNES9x for the Sega Dreamcast, it'll be nice to play those SNES classics on my Dreamcast, when it's done :) Thanks to whoever it was that pointed out the site to me!
- atila
DCGLEAM! has been released! This is the first publically available NES emulator for the Sega Dreamcast, it comes with one rom which is NOT commercial. If you have a spare CD-R disc and you feel like trying this out, then go ahead :) This is self-booting btw, it does not require a boot disc. Thanks to Pete A. and EU for the news.
- atila
OC ReMix is EDGE Magazine's'Site of the Month', in the current issue. Paul101 was kind enough to send me a scan, which you can see here (500kb)
- atila
Genesis Power - Snorter made his #228 Sega Genesis dump publically available - Mickey's Ultimate Challenge (U).
- Opi
MAME Screensaver - Guisep informed me about his latest MAME Screensaver update. It's in sync with MAME v0.37 b6 and runs now under Windows 2000 ! Remember, just rename the scr file to *.exe and you have a new MAME32 version (unofficial of course).
- Opi
MESS WIP - Frank Palazzolo's Fairlight CHANNEL F driver for MESS is progressing well, check out the MESS WIP page for some new shots of this "ancient" system :) Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news. Brian <---- LOL :-)
- Opi
Monday, August 21st 2000 - Last updated @ 20:08 EST
FPSE - Built 3 of FPSE for Amiga has been released. New in this built is the addition of "Dynamic Recompilation" (still buggy).
- Opi
MAME ROMs - To lower the pressure upon www.mame.dk you can also visit Tim Eckel's Arcade@Home, which has (of course) all new and changed MAME v0.37 beta 6 ROMs online !
- Opi
ClrMamePro - Roman Scherzer released version 1.7a of ClrMamePro with the following changes :
- o - fixed: A weird rebuilder problem. (1.7a)
- o - fixed: rebuilding to not zipped files (1.7a)
- o - fixed: import mame.cfg (a little relative paths issue) (1.7a)
- o - misc: cmpro's temporary folder is now "clrmamepro_path"_temp. A lot users had problems when it pointed to some default Windows-Temporary-Folders. I decided to remove the tempfolder selector. Don't place important files in \temp because cmpro will empty this folder ! (1.7a)
- o - misc: crc0 creation (dummy file creation) speed increase (1.7a).
- Opi
Gridle has posted the CPU optimised binaries for last night's MAME release, click here to download them.
- atila
Some news has been posted on ViBE, a dynamic recompiling Virtual Boy emulator which is coming soon. ViBE now runs most available games, and sound emulation has been added. For the full story (and for an amusing poll) follow the above link.
- richard
MAME.DK is now in synch with the latest MAME release. And here's a bit of quite shocking trivia concerning mame.dk: The beta5 release was a real bandwidth killer: 2+ million zip files served in 4+ Tb (Terra bytes). Average zip file was 2.1 Mb. AMAZING!
- atila
8-bit Nostalgia - After a long and exciting sunday night, the monday seems to be "newsless" ! So it's time to recommend you a new nice site for Sega 8-bit fans - The Sega SG-1000 and SC-3000 Page. It's totally devoted to the Sega Master System predecessor SG-1000/SC-3000 and really worth a look :)
- Opi
Fixfile 2 - Till from Sys2064 has uploaded his second fixfile for MAME v0.37 beta 6 - it includes fixes for: 1942, avengers, cbuster, gunsmoke, higemaru, lwings, mermaid, myheroj, sectionz, sidearms, trojan and vulgus! nprincsb is still missing !
- Opi
More requests have been filled at the Amiga Emulation Zone, here's what's been added: Assassin, Big Nose, Booly, Builderland, Diggers (AGA), Fusion, Intact, Rise of the Dragon (HDF Version!), Rise of the Robots (AGA), Safari Guns, Simon the Sorcerer (AGA). Feel free to write a review for any of these games, you can submit them at the AEZ!
- atila
Genesis Power dumped Mortal Kombat III, should make JDR happy :)
- atila
LogiqX has his sample patch online for Mame v37b6. This comes in handy if you'd like to audit your samples (that will eventually be replaced by true emulation of the respective sound systems).
- dutch
Getting this when compiling the latest beta of Mame?
From the whatsnew.txt file, you have to have RM.EXE in your DJGPP/BIN directory. RM.EXE can be found in this archive (linked in whatsnew.txt).
- dutch
I compiled this MAME 0.37B6 P2/P3 Optimized Binary after I saw someone asking for it. If you must have it now, there ya go. Or wait till tomorrow for Gridle's official PPRO binary to be placed online at MAME.net. Good night. :)
- prophet
Sunday, August 20th 2000 - Last updated @ 21:56 EST
Till (Sys2064) has posted Fixfile 1 for MAME 0.37 Beta 6! This file contains many of the needed PROMs etc. that are needed by many games now. Another fixfile will likely follow in the near future. As for this beta - man, Gaelco is one rockin' company! Metal Slug fans must try Biomechanical Toy!
- prophet
ONE MILLION - Today, Consolemul surpassed the 1 million hits limit ! Congratulations :-)
- Opi
Sega Xtreme - Sega CD / Saturn fans should visit Sega Xtreme for some (errr MAMY) interesting downloads !
- Opi
MAME 0.37b6 "Dooyong / Deniam / PC10" - You can download the MAME 0.37 beta 6 binary by clicking here ! Remember to get the Video Pinball artwork from the artwork download page ... and oooh BTW - Gridle has updated the MAME WIP page with information about the last 10 days in MAME developing (awesome shoot'em ups and sexy girls) :) hahaha - better LATE than NEVER, enjoy ! Hey great - here's another btw :) the Nintendo PC10 games ARE included !!!
- Opi
AMI Sector One - Bernd Gmeineder's "Legal Amiga Emulation" site AMI Sector One is back into business. After 3 months of work (a totally redesign and lots of other improvements) he opened his renewed site. Main attraction is a new section called "A-Compendiums". This is a searchable database of so far about 1500 games with complete credits for publisher/developer, programmers, gfx artists and further information. He also gained some new permissions to offer you new Amiga titles like - Obsession Pinball, Doom AGA, Blue Max and more - check it out and give hime some feedback !
- Opi
New NES Stuff - FC Power has some new food for the die hard NES fans. They've dumped Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Samurai Showdown !
- Opi
You can find out what's new in this release by clicking here :)
- atila
Ever wonder what happened to Dave Spicer, or Sparcade? Well, click this link and find out, thanks to TmB for the news :)
- atila
CPS-2 FAQ - NAZ has updated his CPS-2 FAQ with new information - movies - pictures about Capcom's arcade system. For some reasons the official site hasn't been updated. Please visit Geoshock to download it (10 MB explosive infomation).
- Opi
Ahorn Archimedes - Red Squirrel a fairly new Ahorn Archimedes emulator has been updated to version 0.2.2. This small update adds support for more floppy image formats. Download it here.
- Opi
C2 ROMs - OK, here is another source for the C2 ROMs - Kaervek'sEmumania.
- Opi
Saturday, August 19th 2000 - Last updated @ 22:32 EST
Oops! Seems JoseQ may have placed the wrong Sega System C2 games online. Haze (who contributed & betatested the emu) wrote this message listing the playable games.
- prophet
Raine 20000819 released! As promised, Katharsis compiled this latest version of Richard Bush's rockin' arcade emulator for DOS. New stuff includes Play Girls 1 & 2, plus lotsa fixes, including Kiki Kai Kai now working correctly thanks to Kayamon. :) (Thanks GeoShock)
- prophet
System C2 ROMs - JoseQ has uploaded all working ROMs for Charles MacDonald's System C2 emulator : "Columns", "Columns 2", "Poto Poto", "Zunzunkyou No Yabou", and "Tant-R".
- Opi
Virtua News - DaemoN mailed me some new info regarding Virtua, the Sega Model 2 emulator. At first - Virtua has been moved to a new URL, so please update your bookmarks to http://virtua.roarvgm.com/. Ok next - the author is looking for some information about a DSP called "TGP" or "TGP-II" by Fujitsu - if you can help him out with some hints, email DaemoN - and finally the Q/A section of the site has been updated :)
- Opi
C16/Plus4 - Lando's C16/Plus4 Classix has now a complete C16/Plus4 Mastertroinc games collection online (over 40 games) and the largest C16/Plus4 cover scans collection in the whole web.
- Opi
OverClocked ReMix is proud to present a ReMix that fills several requests, BIONIC COMMANDO, as well as an excellent submitted mix of Guardian Legend. Get 'em HERE. I'm juggling a lot of different projects right now, but set aside some time to do a ReMix last night ^^
- david
MAME Targets - Randy "Mr. Goodwraith" Hoffman has opened his new arcade gaming dedicated website MAME Targets. He has a REALLY comprehensive list about arcade games not yet been emulated by MAME online. Why not give it a try ?
- Opi
New RAINE soon - Stay tuned for a new RAINE releases later this day :) katharsis just announced it at Geoshock !
- Opi
And TGB, the GB emulator by Hii has updated to beta v0.245p! Here are changes in this release:
- Support Rumble cartridge and GB-PAR vibration using force-feedback device.
- Fixed bugs of HDMA transfer.
- Added option for enable/disable ROM info display.
- Fixed bugs of cheat code loading.
- Added new sound engine. (sound engine 2)
- Design of icon changed.
- Added config for auto-detection game type.
- Changed default setting of frameskip to -1.
- Accuracy of LCD emulation slightly increased.
Mac users - did you know that there is an announcement only mailing list telling you about the latest emulator releases for the Mac platform? The MacEmu list is available here!
- richard
Yeah, I'm here :) Here are changes in this version of Pasofami99:
- Now sound was partly enabled in Trial version. (You can play game Mapper #0 with sound, or play NSF files)
- Now can transfer NSF files to dump tool and play NSF files on real NES.
NonMAME - Bored ? Don't know what to do ? You're a MAME fan and you wanna know what the future will bring to MAME ? Take the chance and visit NonMAME, a site that deals with any games not emulated by MAME but that ARE emulated by other emus ... ! Hi Darren "eyen0de" :-)
- Opi
RCA Studio 2 - Ever wanted to play a virtual Power-Machine with a 64 x 32 pixel monochrome display, a single channel beeper, a reset key, a LED and many more "cool" features ? No problem - help is on its way :) Visit the RCA Studio 2 emulator homepage and grab a copy of the latest gift to the retrogaming community - the The RCA Studio 2 Emulator - before you become too excited, view these screenshots :) RCA Studio 2 was never a real competitor to the Atari 2600 (its older than the 2600) :-) but nice to have it emulated. Thanks to Dave from Vintage Gaming for the news.
- Opi
Pasofami/99 - The japanese NES/Famicom emulator Pasofami/99 has been updated to v1.4a. Aries your turn :)
- Opi
Friday, August 18th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:41 EST
Interested in using real arcade controls and cabinets with emulators & consoles? The you need to start visiting Saint's BYOAC! Just a plug for a great site that people should know about. :)
- prophet
Amiga Legal Emulation will soon be hosting Amiga Cover Disks! Other legal Amiga emulation sites interested in free hosting at ALE should contact them. Also, more Amiga demos were posted! God I loved my good ol' Amiga 1000... Mine even has the designer's signatures actually molded on the inside of the case! What a surprise when I found it. :)
- prophet
ZX posted more exclusive pics of the Dizzy remake in progress!
- prophet
MSX fans - check out MEP for the new first non-beta version of fMSXdos Loader, a frontend for the famous fMSXDOS!
- prophet
Genesis Power released Mortal Kombat 2 (JUE)! Plus all 32X games are now back online!
- prophet
And here's a new freeware game for you Gameboy Color fans - PuzzleX 2! Manfred Linzner did the music, and the GHX playercode is by Martin Wodok. (Thanks Pär Johannesson)
- prophet
How about some new homebrew games for your poor abandoned NGPC? Jim Bagley kindly coded a version of Space Invaders & Asteroids for the little NeoGeo - get it here! (Thanks Bud Fern)
- prophet
Congratulations Guru-Choc!!! :) Our friend from Arcade Heaven has a new baby boy - Jacob Taylor Hall! (I still think "Url" would've been cool in a weird "Moon Unit Zappa" kinda way.;)
- prophet
Aaron Giles posted a message regarding STUN Runner & Hard Drivin'. Essentially he wants fans to know the driver is still far from finished, and may not appear for a few betas. He also suggests keeping an eye on MAME WIP as the driver develops.
- prophet
ZD - 10 millions - Another emulation Battleship - Zophar's Domain - has arrived and crossed the "#10,000,000 hit border" ! Congratulations !
- Opi
WinBee - Paul Bates has updated his WinSTon Development Page (he's the author of Winston - you guessed right) with a very interesting news. He started the development of a new BBC Micro emulator called WinBee, a few nice looking screenshots can be viewed here, BeOS and Linux versions will follow after a first WinBee release, the Winston v0.4 version is still in development and progressing well - thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- Opi
Buzz is Back - Hurry up to Genesis Power and grab their Genesis dump #223: Toy Story (). Hey Space Command, Buzz Lightyear's calling.
- Opi
FPSE 0.08 R2 AMIGA - Prepare your Amiga to lauch the Sony Playstation emulator FPSE ! It became reality - the FPSE team fulfilled their yesterday's promise and released FPSE 0.08 R2 AMIGA Version. You'll need an A1200/3000/4000 with PowerPC board (32 MB RAM, WarpUP v4, CGFX v3) and the PSX BIOS to run this emulator ....
Stay tuned for FPSE 4 LINUX (next monday... or maybe tomorrow) !
- Opi
Sad News - Rusty's Game Boy emulator Virtual Game Boy Color is no more. It died due to some ongoing troubles with Marat Fayzullin and his wish to change the name of Rusty's emulator :
"Marat Fayzullin wanted the name of my Gameboy Color emulator changed since it is too similar to the name of his emulator. Thus, it no longer has a name. The full source code is released along with a compiled binary, download here. This program is no longer being supported or developed at all, and you can do whatever you please with the source".
Thanks to the nice guys of EmuHQ for the news.
- Opi
Arrgh, that smiley again - MAME WORLD reported a new release of PacMAME :) Ohoo - new food for all you Pac-Man addicts - Little Opi was never a good player nor a great fan of this yellow munchman :)
- Opi
ClrMAME Pro - Here is an official hint for using ClrMAME Pro in combination with Charles MacDonald's Sega System C2 emulator : "CMPro advice: When the rebuilder should create unzipped sets (like using the datfile for the C2 emu...), you have to disable the 'rebuild always' option !!! Otherwise you may get nerving (but harmless) rebuild-failed-messages when rebuilding the same file more than once. This will be changed in the next version".
A new Sega System C2 datfile and an updated Atari 2600 datfile is online.
Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the hint (h1 Dave).
- Opi
Atari Coin-Op - Andy Welburn has collected and scanned many
interesting old Confidential Atari Coin-Op related documents. If you're interested in things like GAUNTLET Hardware & Operation System description manual , System 1 description manual or how they developed Crystal Castles - then check out the link above - thanks to Ren Hoek for the information :)
- Opi
They're BACK - Back In Time has posted an extensive preview of Galaga: Destination Earth, which will be released in September for the PC & PlayStation.
- Opi
Just thought I'd throw a little tidbit in tonight... if Mame v37b5 seems a bit slow in 68000 games, it's because it is using the 68000 C core, not the ASM one. This is because the Psykio games crash with the ASM core currently. Thanks much to Tormod Tjaberg for the information.
- dutch
Thursday, August 17th 2000 - Last updated @ 21:16 EST
System 2 emu - Here's the *OFFICIAL* homepage for Virtua the Sega Model 2 emulator (remember JoseQ's last Rumor Mill) !
- Question : "Which games are supported right now?"
* Virtua : "Currently only Virtua Fighter 2 "works". There are 3 known Model 2 dumps: Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally and Dead or Alive. Virtua Fighter 2 seems to be the only good dump".
- Question : "Is the emulator fake?"
* Virtua : "No"
Thanks to Frogacuda from Emucamp for this nice news :)
- Opi
Amiga & Sony PSX - The Sony Playstation emulator FPSE will soon be ported to the Amiga OS - that's a weird combination, isn't it ? Amiga & PSX :) Anyway, thanks to SlasherX for the info.
- Opi
The EmuJag site was updated with the news that Windows, on the author's machine, crashed causing him to reinstall everything. Luckily, he had the EmuJag sources on another drive so they weren't lost .. phew :) Thanks to SlasherX for the news.
- atila
Genesis Power dumped Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Tournament Fighters, a not too shabby SFII clone. Turtle Power!! .... I'll go change my Donatello sheets now :)
- atila
CPS-2 board is not DEAD - Razoola informed me about an upcoming new CPS-2 game called : 1944: The Loop Master "it has been developed by Capcom, Psikyo and Raizing. If you haven't already guessed its a shooter and continues the 19xx series", visit CPS-2 Shock to see some nice screenshots :)
- Opi
NLMSX v0.28 - Frits Hilderink has updated his MSX emulator NLMSX to version 0.28. NLMSX is an msx/msx2/msx2+ emulator that is based upon fMSX 2.0b made by Marat Fayzullin and needs Win32 to run.
- o - Solved a bug with SCC channel 1.
- o - Made some enhancements to the SCC emulation.
- o - Reworked the sound synchronisation. Framerates should be 50 or 60 on both windows 98/2000. Just Send me an e-mail if that is not the case. Emulation is not as smooth as it was before, but the sound should be fine. I will correct this in future versions.
- o - Added a working arabic painter rom (thanks to Husni Lutfi). Click here to download NLMSX v0.28.Thanks to Emulation9 for the news.
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