bios: emulates RCNT=800Xh when booted from ROM (required for Sonic Advance)
gui: forces "OK" and "Cancel" setup buttons (instead local language mixup)
bugfix: even cartchipsizes were incorrectly rounded-up to double-of-even-size
bugfix: rlu-compressed length (nocashio driver crash, and no$gba startup logo)
Check this page for the download and the changes in the shareware version.
- Hanman
MAME v. 0.86u2 Haze released a new MAME build. Check his page and the changelog in the ZIP for more informations.
- Hanman
EMU7800 v0.60 - This a Atari 2600 and 7800 emulator.
Added support for the Stelladaptor controller.
Recognizes the now correct 7800 NTSC BIOS. Old 7800 BIOS is still recognized for now, but a warning message appears on the Green Screen log. Thanks to Mitchell Orman (Mitch@atari7800.org) for the information.
Monday, August 30th 2004 - Last updated @ 13:46 EST
Gens Plus! v0.3.34 - This is a Genesis/GameGear/32x (and many other Sega systhems) emulator. There are no detailed informations about this release avaible at the webpage or the history.txt. Get it from here.
Columbo v.0.06 - This a Coleco Vision emulator for Palm OS. The program is still in a pretty early stage, but a lot of functions are already included!
- Hanman
SymbNES - SymbNES is a emulator for the Nokia mobiles supporting Symbian OS (e.g. N-Gage)
- Hanman
Thursday, August 26th 2004 - Last updated @ 07:57 EST
PocketNES v. 9.96 - FluBBa did it again, yesterday he released a new version of his NES emulator for the GameBoy Advance. He added player one/two input and added gamma adjustment.
- Hanman
Ultrastyle v. 2.1 - The MAME frontend Ultrstyle has been updated. The author changes and added a lot. See the homepage for more informations!
- Hanman
Wednesday, August 25th 2004 - Last updated @ 10:01 EST
Back In Time Webcast - Mike Stulir wrote me the following message :
Well, it is August, the middle of summer. Summer can be a slow time for
classic gamers, so I am pleased to bring three (long overdue) episodes of
the Back In Time webcast.
First off is the "Father of Computer Games" Sid Meier from PhillyClassic 4.
Sid appeared briefly on the E3 webcast in 2001, and I am pleased to say I
was able to have a more in-depth conversation with him this time around.
The second episode is from the 5th Annual Funspot tournament.
The third episode is from PhillyClassic 5 featuring Howard Scott Warshaw.
Howard was a blast, and he speaks at length about the development of games
like Yars Revenge, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Saboteur. Howard also
explains his theory on why Steven Spielberg is an alien.
Sid Meier and Howard Scott Warshaw were recorded in front of a live
audience.
Be sure to check them out!!! These .MP3 files are kind of large, so a
broadband connection is recommended.
Rom Manager dats updated - 12 MAME Rom Mananger dats were updated to MAME .86. Get them here.
- Hanman
Gens Plus! v.0.3.18 - Gens Plus! is a optimized version of the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis emulator Gens. This version also includes loads of new feautures like new sound effects and grafic filters.
- Hanman
MAME Classic - The six input controls to Keyboard where changed and Imperfect added as a status to the list view in the MAME frontend MAME Classic
- Hanman
Tuesday, August 24th 2004 - Last updated @ 19:52 EST
MESS 0.86 - MESS 0.86 is out. Mainly a bugfix release and all MAME 0.86 core updates. Changelog can be viewed here.
- chris
80five - The NES emulator 80five (former MarioNES) is updated.
Complete re-write of everything but the core of the emulator
Full implementation of DirectX, now handling video, audio, and controls.
Configurable controls for both the keyboard and gamepad
PCEAdvance v.6.9 - Flubba, the programmer of the PC Engine emulator for the Gameboy Advance added support for iso files from Pogoshell and removed the sprite settings menu. - Homepage
- Hanman
KiGB v.1.68 - The Windows based Gamesboy emulator KiGB is updated. The emulator now supports 5-speed auto-fire and the real time clock for HuC3. Besides that a bug in the CPU emulation is fixed
- Hanman
Hello!!! - So, I am the new newsposter here at Retrogames. My name is Hanman, I'm 16 years old and my home is located somewhere in Germany.
Ages ago I posted news at sites like Emuunlim, Kinox, WWEmu (RIP) and some others. At the moment I post above all at Gamikaze.
If you want to contact me for some reasons, you can reach me via mail (hn at d0m41n.de) and IRC in #retrogamers, EfNet.
- Hanman
New Updater - As of today Hanman will be part of the team, trying to reanimate this here lovely site of ours. I really don't want to see RG going downhill even further, so hopefully, updates will be more frequent now (I also have more time now). If you feel like being part of RG, feel free to mail me and show me your skills.
Mail me some examples of your writing skills and maybe you'll be part of RG aswell. Six years and (nearly) five months, let's try to double that :)
- atila
AdvanceMENU v2.3.8 - AdvanceMENU is a frontend for AdvanceMAME, MAME, MESS, RAINE and any other emulator. Changes:
Fixed the renaming of the AdvanceMESS snapshots, clips and sounds. It was broken on version 2.3.6.
Added support for specific emulator configuration.
New menu organization.
Added the new `ui_menukey' option to enable and disable the keyboard shortcuts in the menus.
AdvanceMAME/MESS 0.85 - AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMESS are unofficial MAME and MESS versions with an advanced video support for helping the use with TVs, Arcade Monitors, Fixed Frequencies Monitors and also for PC Monitors. Changes:
The modeline generation now always use horizontal values which are multipler of 16 to solve memory corruption problems on some video cards.
Fixed a crash bug on vector games with artwork.
Added the `ui_color[*]' options to customize the user interface colors.
Added the `sound_adjust' option with an internal database with the volume correction for all the games.
Added a sound equalizer with the new `sound_equalizer' options.
Fixed a problem in makefile.unix that prevented the xgl target from building.
Those who have the commercial NVIDIA driver installed can now build the xgl target without having to install the Mesa headers. (Jonas Laurio and Lawrence Gold).
Adjusted the LinuxPPC compile and link flags to prevent relocation errors resulting from the application being too large for 24-bit offsets in branch instructions. (Christian Groessler)
Improved the NetBSD USB joystick driver: Added support for up to 8 axes and 1 hat and made manual calibration optional via the command line option -joyusb-calibrate. (Dieter Baron)
Building xmess.xgl no longer results in link errors from messtest.
Added a 2x sinc-based 6-tap filter effect with scanlines, enabled via -effect 8 or -ef 8. (Richard Goedeken)
Added EFFECT_MMX_ASM to the makefile, which enables MMX versions of the "light scanlines" and "6-tap filter" effects. (Richard Goedeken)
You can now successfully build with LIGHTGUN_ABS_EVENT enabled on systems with Linux 2.6 headers.
Fixed a problem that prevented xml2info from building. (Shyouzou Sugitani)
Reworked the input code so that it more closely resembles its Windows counterpart. This adds support for -steadykey, -a2d_deadzone and -digital.
Increased the maximum number of joysticks from 6 to 8 and the maximum number of buttons per joystick from 16 to 32.
Mouse buttons may not have been working in recent releases for games such as Missile Command; they should work now.
Network support is broken for the time being because of the core input changes, so please disable XMAME_NET in your makefile. If you're interested in fixing this, have a look at src/unix/network.c and the XMAME_NET sections of an older src/inptport.c.
Fixed a 1000-fold inaccuracy in the BeOS implementation of usleep(). (Jack Burton)
PearPC 0.3 - PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. Changes: The most important change of this release are the accurate timing facilities which made PearPC faster and allowed us to implement idle-sleep.
- chris
Wednesday, August 11th 2004 - Last updated @ 12:19 EST
MESS 0.85 - Has been released. MESS now sports a FunVision driver written by Curt Coder based of the FunnyMu emulator. A full changelog can be viewed here.
- chris
Retrogaming Radio - Its time again for the Classic Gaming Expo preshow! We cover what's coming in San Jose this year - find out who is going to be there, what's going on, and why you should go. Hear Mr. Pac Man himself, Billy Mitchell talk about his world record Pac Man game (and Hot Sauce??), we review a half a dozen shareware games and finish our RGR Insider look at the Atari 2600! Our regular Bits & Bytes segment (great stuff here) and a fun new editorial commentary about the shattering of illusion in video games, and more!
- chris
Tuesday, August 10th 2004 - Last updated @ 14:56 EST
LIVE-ACTION TRANSFORMERS MOVIE!! - I just found out that there's gonna be a live-action Transformers movie in 2006, directed by Steven Spielberg. Why didn't anyone tell me, dagnabbit?!?! On a semi-related note, check out http://www.themichaelsmith.com and click on VW TRANSFORMER, that is one cool piece of animation and rendering :)
- atila
Sunday, August 8th 2004 - Last updated @ 23:58 EST
Raine 0.40.5 - Raine, the multiple arcade emulator, has had another bugfix release.
- MetaFox
More ELVIS - Korn and Yancy tracked down one of the test games in Chicago and they were nice enough to provide SEVENTY-SIX photos of this new machine! Be one of the first to see it here! Looks to have an interesting upper playfield, fed by both ramps, along with an animated Elvis and other goodies. This game shoild begin shipping within a week or three... check your local pinball locations towards the end of August for it.
- metallik
New MAME - MAME version 0.85 has been released. Get it from the homepage.
- metallik
Friday, August 6th 2004 - Last updated @ 18:22 EST
Elvis has entered the building - Stern Pinball is set to begin shipping its newest title: ELVIS. This pinball was designed by Steve Ritchie, creator of classics such as High Speed, Black Knight and Star Trek: Next Generation. Pinball News has just released pictures of the machine's playfield in this article. The layout looks interesting.. we'll soon see how well the king of fast pinball games does the "king" of music.. :)
- metallik
Monday, August 2nd 2004 - Last updated @ 12:23 EST
DCNincest64 0.01 - GPF has released a port of the DOS Nintendo 64 emulator, Nincest 64, to the Sega Dreamcast and an SDL port of Nincest 64 to Windows. Here are the features:
Windows version now uses SDL, Dreamcast Version can use SDL or PVR for screen rendering
