Saturday, September 30th 2000 - Last updated @ 17:44 EST
Traverse USA Goes JAE - Norbert Kehrer let me know that he just added Traverse USA to JAE his Java Arcade Emulator. Visit his site and you can play it right in your browser.
- Opi
New Dumps - ShinobiZ posted an update about the Model2/3 games they've dumped. Before you ask, no they're not available for download.
- atila
A Macintosh version of NeoPocott is coming soon. Some 10 screenshots have been uploaded to my web site.
- richard
120Min CD-Rs - I just read on CDRInfo.com that 120Min CD-Rs are now available and they're made by the same company that released the 99min CD-Rs. Here's a bit more info:
This is what we have learned so far about 120min CDs:
a) The media manufactured from the same company that makes 99min CDs
b) There are CDR-W drives, which can burn them! Mitsumi 4804TE works fine
c) The technology behinds them is the same as used with 99min CDs
Vintage Gaming Down - Not Dead - Don't fear - the Vintage Gaming Network isn't dead ! I just talked to Dave and he told me that the outtage seems to be affecting the entire networking (including gamefan.com, voodooextreme.com etc.), Right now he can't say why the server is causing trouble ... just be patient and everything should be fine again real soon !
- Opi
OC ReMix Flood - open da floodgates. In an effort to catch up with a wave of excellent submissions, I have added five new ReMixes to OverClocked Remix. Yeah. 2 Diablo, 1 Chrono Trigger, 1 Final Fantasy 3, and 1 Deflektor. Potpourri :)
- david
Power64 v2.9 - EmuHQ mentioned a new Power64 release. Power64 is a shareware C-64 emu for the PowerMac available in english, german, spanish and french (not completed). Power64 is restricted to 10 minutes per session until you register - you can register it here (fee $25).
- Opi
Anex v2.29 - The japanese EPSON PC-286/586 emulator Anex has been updated once again. The EPSON PC-286/586 series is compatible with NECs PC9801 machines - sadly I found new changes info at the english homepage, but there's at least an interesting FAQ to read online. Thanks to Crokk for the release hint, visit his italian PC98 Sekai site and you'll find some nice stuff to test the latest Anex release :)
- Opi
Saint's BYOAC - Saint's recent update mentions several new arcade cabinet projects and a snippet regarding the apparently dead Stick-It company. He also needs help from PERL or PHP3 programmers - take a look if interested. The world's best arcade controls site? I think so. :)
- prophet
fMSX FAN v1.41 - There was a new release of this Japanese MSX emulator, featuring SMSplus OPL emulation for PCM sound, update to Allegro 3.9.33, correct ESC emulation, SCC bugfix, sampling frequency specification and more! Check out M.E.P. for the file and more MSX goodies.
- prophet
RomCenter News - There are 5 new datfiles available at the RomCenter homepage :
+ Sega System c2 0.2b (Logiqx)
+ Laser 0.11a (Logiqx)
+ Mess 0.37b7 (Logiqx)
+ Amiga 0.0.8 - 808 games (***GIU***)
+ NeoGeo Pocket Color (2 datafiles) Darren Bradbury (Dremscape))
- Opi
Jagulator Released - A few minutes ago, Jagulator v1.3.1 development alpha was released to the public. It's mainly a debugger release, so it won't play any games (not that I know of, anyway) but it DOES show the Jaguar startup screen. Please read the notes at EmuGaming as to why this was released. Thanks to bomb` for the news.
- atila
Fake Emus are fun! - One of our messageboard regulars, Freeweed, put together this "WIP" page! Mortal Kombat and Nintendo64 emulated on 486's using Gameboy emu cores? Heck why not! With so many fakes out there, it's nice to see someone tell the truth about their lies. ;)
- prophet
MIMIC release imminent - MIMIC author TheBeaver has made great progress with sound and more, and hopes to spring a new release this weekend!
- prophet
Mortal Kombat I/II hacks - There were several hacks of these fighting games, and you can learn more here at the Mac Arcade Controls page! MAME fans can then visit Arcade Heaven & download a few of them. According to GuruChoc, they're needed soon. ;)
- prophet
Friday, September 29th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:39 EST
VGS Demo Available - It seems that the management of Connectix made a very good decision lately. They've uploaded a slightly crippled demo version of their awesome Playstation emulator VGS. VGS stands for "Virtual Game Station" and is the most advanced PSX emu for both Win9x and Macintosh OS to date. Please visit the VGS homepage for more info, prices and the downloads (PC & Mac) ! Thanks again to WWEmu for this fine news supply on a slow news day :)
- Opi
Emu Jag Is Fake - Duncan from WWEmu is or let us better say was a beta tester of Emu Jag a nothing that pretended to be an Atari Jaguar emulator. Another hope has gone, another piece of sickness has been discovered. Visit WWEmu and read the full nasty story !
- Opi
GoodGen v0.999.1 - After a little period of inactivity (??) Cowering is back with a freshly updated Genesis renaming tool - GoodGen v0.999.1 now recognizes 2,880 ROMs and is available here. New in this release : all the ZZZ files are correctly named now, some JAP/pal added. Thanks to Till and Duncan for the emails :-)
- Opi
MAMu_'s Icons for the X windows system - I have converted MAMu_'s icons for X, and I have also created a shell script to install the icons onto a KDE desktop. These icons are now hosted at the following URL: http://tkmame.retrogames.com/kmamu. Enjoy :)
- chris
Steem Is Ready - After more than 18 months of development, Steem, a new Atari ST emulator for Windows, is ready for you. Click here to download the first public release. Thanks to Little Green Desktop for the URL and to Péter G. for the info !
- Opi
Don't Ask Me Why ! - but the FPSE homepage has been closed !
Is this Playstation madness still going on ? "But we'll return..... ........(MAYBE) a day."
- Opi
Pom1v0.5a - A new Apple 1 emulator called Pom1, is now online at the Apple I Project homepage. Verhille's Pom1 v0.5a is written in Java so it needs the java runtime environment to run. JRE 1.3 is available at the Sun Microsystem homepage.
- Opi
OverClocked #132:MAME PR0N. This episode rated 'M' ;)
- david
Genesis/Saturn Emu For Dreamcast - Finally, the Saturn has been emulated ... by Sega! Sega will be releasing the Sega Games Pack which is basically a 3 GD-ROM package with 3 Saturn games on one GD (Virtua Fighter, Daytona and a smaller game), the other two GD-ROMS will contain 1 Saturn game and 50 Genesis/Megadrive games.
The Saturn games will look much better on the Dreamcast because they will get the DC-filtering treatment (kinda like the PSX games for DC on Bleemcast). More details will be posted as they arrive! (This info was taken from the 'rumor dept.', but that particular dept. has proven to be on the spot, several times before) Thanks to Dreamcast Weekly for the news (I love the newsletter, guys, keep it coming :)
- atila
YAY! for The Netherlands - I was watching a program on Dutch TV last night about the fact that as of October 1, the 'brothel ban' would be removed and prostitution would become a legal business.
This means that pimps (or 'entrepeneurs' as they call themselves) will now be called 'employers', hookers would be called 'employees' and people who frequent them will be called 'consumers'. With all their legal rights and duties. Prostitutes will have to start paying 17.5% tax and their clients will be able to deduct a 'visit' as a business expense. (This is a billion-dollar industry, so the Dutch govt. hopes to get a lot of extra taxes from this)
Only women from the European Union are allowed to work in Holland, women from non-EU countries must leave the country ASAP. They did this to 'protect' the women and their consumers (women must get monthly check-ups now), and to get the women out of the hands of organised crime. Ofcourse, not all EU members are happy with this decision ...
- atila
Thursday, September 28th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:22 EST
A Bunch Of NeoPocott News - The final results of Gollum'sNeoPocott logo contest are online, check them out and vote for your fave :)
The author also uploaded many new screenshots of games running on the Acorn RISC OS port, based on latest 0.36b3 private core. Gollum worked hard, converted his emulator to C to make his code more portable. The latest source code has been sent to several porters, expect ports of NeoPocott soon be available for : Linux, MacOS, Amiga PPC, MsDOS, BeOS and Acorn RISC OS.
Thanks to PnP for the steady flood of emails :) Visit NGPWorld, his nice french Neo Geo Pocket devoted site :)
- Opi
Retrogaming With Combat PC - Lee's Peek n Poke is now offering Combat PC, a new version of the Atari classic. Hah, this is a news posting that fits ferfectly with our site name and theme :-) This new remake includes: more levels and powerups, new FX and music and a new gameplay design. This should be considered the full, final version.
- Opi
Cafe and gamebaseZX - Remember gamebase64 ? A great combination of FrontEnd and database for C-64 emulators. Two similar projects have been started, both are claiming to be inspirated by gamebase64 :) Amiga fans should check Hi Toro the home of Cafe, and waterbombz.com is the homepage of gamebaseZX the other new "base" project for all friend's of Sinclair's ZX Spectrum. Thanks to morph72 for the Cafe hint :)
- Opi
GordonJ has updated his MESS BBC driver web page with news about Kev Thacker's work on the i8271 and 1770 disc emulation, as well as news regarding the SAA5050 teletext emulation. A couple cool screenshots were posted as well! This is something to definately look forward to in the next MESS release.
- chris
Emulation 9 Hits One Million - Congratulations from the Retrogames staff and an extra THANK YOU from me (Emu 9 is one of my most used news sources) to Navarone and his Emulation 9 for delivering news to more than ONE MILLION visitors. Welcome to the Millionaires club :-)
- Opi
Jet Grind Radio - I want to thank The Milwaukee Common Council for asking Sega to cancel the release of Jet Grind Radio, "saying the game promotes graffiti vandalism, a problem the city has been combating since the early 1990s". Now a whole lot more people will find out about this cool game =)
- atila
A Macintosh version of RockNES has just been released.
- richard
ngine-snes9x Needs A Logo - tubooboo needs help by you :)
The ngine-snes9x homepage has been updated with a logo request : "Size should be 256*224 16bit and a bigger one for banners and the like. Official emu name is "ngine-snes9x". I could also use a dedicated "ngine" logo. All logos sent in will get shown on the site. Thx for any help!" So if you are good with Photoshop, mail him your sample :)
5 days and 14 hours after he started the project to port SNES9X on Sega's Dreamcast, ngine-snes9x runs successfully in a special Dreamcast simulation environment ! As a proof he uploaded the first 4 screenshots :)
- Opi
ArcadeOS v2.40 - MAMEWORLD reported a new ArcadeOS release. Click here and you'll see the latest changes in this DOS FrontEnd for Aracde Cabinets - ArcadeOS is an intregral part of the PC2JAMMA project.
- Opi
A personal favor... - I rarely plug anything personal here, but I really want to help my talented friend Jahidah. She's a terrific young R&B singer, and needs votes at Farmclub so she can be on TV! :) Just use the digital jukebox, enter "yahoo" by "jahidah", genre is "R&B" - click "Play" and PLEASE vote for it to be on TV! Oh yeah, and listen to the song too if you enjoy R&B. :) Thanks, back to emulation now. ;P
- prophet
New Unofficial MAMEinfo.dat v210-37b7 - MASH compiled a new version of his unofficial MAMEinfo.dat - force you fingers to press the left mouse button upon this point :) and your harddrive will be flooded with MASH's latest arcade emulation discoveries :-) Unzip the included mameinfo.dat into your MAME root directory and every content mentioned here should be visible for you :) Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.
- Opi
Unofficial MameCE v0.36 b7.0 - Techmaster posted new builds of his unofficial MAME CE version for ARM & MIPS based Pocket PC's ! Investigate this link if you wanna know whats new and changed in v0.36 b7.0 :) OHA - good news for all Ghosts and Goblins fans - he added this game by popular demand :) Thanks to EmuViews for this update info.
- Opi
OC ReMix - quickie: a spooky 7th Guest and a funky Super Mario Ragga have magically appeared at OC ReMix. Take all you want, but eat all you take ^^
- david
G-NES v0.42 - G-NES v0.42 is online at Gigo's homepage. As usual, no info about the changes, but I noticed in the included english readme.txt the words "Family Trainer" ... does this mean that you can now play those old "fitness" games where you played with your feets instead of using a joypad ? - I don't know :) Anyway, click here to download the english G-NES version or click there if you prefer the japanese G-NES ! A translation of the changes would be fine :)
UPDATE - here are the changes, provided by Guyfawkes :
- o - Sprite priority correction
- o - Correction of overflow flag of adc and sbc of CPU
- o - Addressing correction of CPU
- o - The behavior at Sprite 0 hit is corrected.
- o - Sprite drawing speed-up
- o - Reproduction of delay until NMI after VBlank flag stands happens
- o - Reproduction of PPU VRAM reading buffer ring
- o - The behavior when mid-hblank is written is corrected.
- o - (*mapper*) 19(NAMCO106) name table mirroring correction
- o - (*mapper*) 19(NAMCO106) IRQ timing correction
- o - (*mapper*) 19(NAMCO106) enhancing sound source correction
- o - Sound engine 2 rewriting
- o - Written a part of (*mapper*) 5(MMC-5)
- Opi
Rumor Mill - Agent 00Q has posted his findings after a week of hard work. He even posted a lenghty 'rumor' on bleem! for Dreamcast, looks like an announcement will be made in October by Bleem, LLC. Can you say new pics and movies ? Thanks to Coolmos for the news.
- atila
YIKES! - "Sony Computer Entertainment of America announced today via teleconference that just 500,000 PlayStation 2 consoles will be available for its US launch on October 26 .... The announcement sent ripples throughout the interactive entertainment industry today as stocks fell sharply for several companies. Sony's stock dropped 9 percent while Electronic Arts' and THQ's stocks fell 11 percent and 14 percent respectively"
Developers will NOT be happy about this, then again, you have to be pretty stupid to put all your eggs in one basket, right? Click here for the full article on ZDNET.
- atila
Wednesday, September 27th 2000 - Last updated @ 19:28 EST
Does This Guy ever Sleep ? - Oops, Attila did it again - Yape v0.16 is online (now it runs at acceptable speed) :
- o - optimised screen rendering (YAPE runs almost two times faster)
- o - minor raster improvements (well, maybe not in all cases)...
- o - two bugs in the CPU found and corrected (the Monties and Arthur Noid run well now)
- o - corrected the timing of the cursor blinks
- o - synchronising to the 50 MHz timer is available
- Opi
NGE Interview - Cleric of NGE conducted an interview with James, the author of the only known Colecovision emulator for the PSX. He also made an Atari 5200 emulator for the PC. Both of his projects and his future plans were discussed in this interview. Other interesting interviews, conducted between '97 and '99 with "famous" people like Dave (Final Burn), Loopy and zsKnight (ZSNES) can be found here :)
- Opi
Welcome Back - NAZ ! - After disappearing for a few months, NAZ is finally back with his own site (that means he made his first real update - an announcement site was online since months) - WELCOME BACK :) and as a direct quote from his homepage - "STAY TUNED!".
- Opi
Such A Tragedy - Oh my god, they caught Sega's SEAMAN :)
- Opi
Virtua News - After a pause of exactly one month, the Virtua homepage has been updated again :) DaemoN reported the latest developing / ROM dumping news and posted new screenshots for Virtua Cop and Manx TT !
"We finally got ahold of those new dumps. So I've got good and bad news. Daytona seems to be a bad dump, since Kayamon can't find proper code in the program roms. Manx TT and Virtua Cop were added and they're sort of working, they lack proper input, Kayamon will be fixing these shortly".
In case you don't know what Virtua is - it's Kayamon's upcoming Sega Model 2 arcade board emulator. Model 2 games are Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally Championship, Virtua Cop 1 & 2 for example - Click here to view a list of all currently known Model 2 arcade games.
- Opi
Virtua Seaman :) - Some of you may be familiar with the "proud Japanese tradition of software that simulates having a friend." Heh, not to mention the titles that simulate having a date. :) If you haven't experienced Seaman for the Dreamcast yet (where you have to use a mic and beg little talking fish to like you :), go ahead and give Old Man Murray's Virtual Seaman a try.. you can play it right in your browser. This was made using Eliza.. a chatterbot that's been around since 1966. (Heh, I would have used MegaHAL myself.. some of you may have met my DOS IRC version of MegaHAL (dubbed "Frankenbot" :))
- dutch
Unofficial SNES9x V1.30 Windows - Satellite Hut posted a new unofficial v1.3 binary of SNES9x for Windows. This compile has ZSNES's ASM FX core !!! You can get your copy here. Thanks to WWEmu for the info and file !
- Opi
Newsposters Needed - The Emucamp newsposting team needs a little reinforcement :) If you're interested in reporting news and joining their staff - contact Frogacuda or visit them on EFNet on #retrobase.
- Opi
RockNES v1.303 - Fx3 released his third RockNES bugfix in a row ! Calm down mate - Rome wasn't built within 7 days - no need to hurry :)
* Version 1.303 (09/27/2000)
- o - Fixed (this time with sure) trainer support.
* Version 1.302 (09/26/2000)
- o - Fixed trainer support (bug from previous version);
- o - Small mistakes with 'while' loops fixed.
* Version 1.301 (09/25/2000)
- o - Fixed some problems with FDS driver, more games are playable
- o - Whoops! Fixed broken mapper #43 from previous version.
Please click here if you wanna have this fine NES emulator :) Thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- Opi
LOL ;) - Yes, time for another great comic! This one is called SINFEST (don't let the name fool you :) and it completely rocks. This episode is hilarious =)
- atila
Tuesday, September 26th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:33 EST
OverClocked Potpourri - I just love saying 'potpourri' for some reason. Potpourri. What do I got for ya? Three new ReMixes - SonicCD, Shadow of the Beast, and Earthbound - at OverClocked ReMix along with a guest episode of TOKI over at the infamous Mystery Videogame Theater 3000. Potpourri.
- david
High Voltage Sid Collection - Update 22 - The High Voltage Sid Collection has been updated with 600+ new C-64 Chip tunes (now 13,635 SIDs) - thanks to DrStu for bringing it to my attention :)
- Opi
BeOS Coding HELP Needed - Tommy (BeOS emu related mailing list mantainer) asked me to post the following help request: "Since the old BeMAME project seems to be dead, I'm looking for a new Mame and Mess porter. He could use the old source, making the job easier, and he could also take advantage of the SDL library used by Xmame port. I think that a new version of Mame and a version of Mess for BeOS will be necessary".
If you're able and willing to help - send your email to beosn@tiscalinet.it
- Opi
Yape v0.15 - Another day, another Yape release :) Version 0.15 adds the following to this fine Commodore Plus/4 emulator :
- o - D64 disk image support (courtesy of Zsolt!)
- o - extended color mode done (Manic Miner, Rig Attack works)
- o - miscellaneous bugs in the timers fixed (Dizasterblaster works)
- o - horizontal smooth scroll
- o - many new illegal opcodes are implemented
- o - minor speed optimisations
- o - double size selection now works as expected... (no, not fast :-))
MAME Highscores - Hurra Howie Cohen posted a new HISCORE.DAT file for MAME, version 5 now supports 910 games :) If you wanna contribute a new entry, then check the homepage for the submitting details. Click here and grab your copy of the v0.5 Hiscore.dat (unzip it into your MAME root directory and you're set) !
- Opi
IRC Stuff - Many of you haven't seen me on IRC lately (I'm usually in #retrogames, #arcade, and #classicemu on EFNet (Eris Free Network) when I can manage to get on). Anyway, for those of you who don't know, EFNet has been extremely unreliable lately. There has been a rumor propogating that EFNet servers will unlink and disband within a matter of days. I have heard several (reliable) people mention that this is NOT the case at all, it was "a rumor that some lamer thought up and other lamers propagated. The problem is that EFNet servers are currently being hit with DoS attacks." Hopefully this will all be cleared up soon.
- dutch
MAME WIP - I decide to check my mail and I have 20 mails by people saying that the MAME WIP page has been updated by the youngest MAMEDEV member, Santeri. That's Gridle, for you people who don't know his real name :) Thanks to everyone for mailing me, it's appreciated.
- atila
Boring - Yes, it's quite boring today, it's so boring I've been playing around with a vocoder and I've been trying to screw up my own voice :) A vocoder is what they used to get those weird (robotic) voices in Eifel's 'BLUE' and Cher's "Believe", among others.
- atila
Amiga Emulation Zone - Shane has filled numerous requests at the Amiga Emulation Zone, here goes: 3D International Tennis, Donald Duck's Playland, Jungle Strike (AGA), Legend of the Lost, Mach 3, The Manager, New York Warriors, Sensible Golf, Sky Chase, Stablemasters 3, Starglider, Tom and the Ghost, Warp (Finally)
Shane also notes that you should ... "READ THE EXTRA INFORMATION - some will not work without some tweaks to your configuration".
- atila
Monday, September 25th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:59 EST
[pec] Warning - The [pec] homepage ([pec] is a Playstation emulation cheating utility) has been updated with an important warning. If you like and use this util avoid at all costs downloading a version called [pec-e] - please check the [pec] homepage for a more detailed information.
Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the warning hint.
- Opi
YAME v0.17 - YAME, a japanese Win9x multi-console emulator (NES, Game Boy and TG-16 has been updated to version 0.17. Since the page's language is japanese and we're missing our special agent Aries, I'm unable to provide you with any changes info :( Thanks to Navarone, the japanese "news machine" from Emulation 9 for the news.
- Opi
PSEmu Plugins - EmuHQ reported 5 newly updated PSEmu plugins at Pete Bernert's homepage. So go and grab your copies of Pete's excellent plugins.
- Opi
Meka v0.55 RC1 - Zoop has sent a new Meka beta to his beta testers (like me). Here's a short description of the current changes in v0.55 RC1 since the last official release :
- o - Documentation in GUI.
- o - 3D Glasses soft and hard support.
- o - CodeMasters mapper emulation (now useless).
- o - Colecovision emulation improved
- o - Various other fixes
Stay tuned for another fine update of the most advanced Sega 8bit & Colecovision emulator - called Meka :)
- Opi
Retro Remakes - Retro Remakes reported a 'Reverse Engineered' remake of Elite by Christian Pinder - check the Elite - The New Kind homepage for more. And don't forget to visit the Retro Remakes homepage for many interesting information about remakes of classic arcade, computer and console games.
- Opi
New MSX Emu - TFH/Fony from The MEP-Crew has sent me an email with the following announcement :
"Again a new emulator for the MSX system has come available. The MSX is probably one of the most emulated systems right now. This emulator is especially for Linux for x86 machines. Svgalib should be installed, and no GUI for Unix should be installed. As for the rest, you'll have to figure it out yourself, as no docs are included, and I know almost nothing about Linux... (I should be ashamed... I know...)
This new emulator can only be downloaded at the MEP: www.file-hunter.com in the emulator section".
- Opi
DarcNES Win32 dn9a0924 - DarcNES was updated today as well, featuring fixed bugs in NES header parsing, PCE VDP and more. Get it here, and check the homepage for more info. (Thanks to Jedi newsman Opi for the last 3 links.:)
- prophet
HuGo! 1.29 Alpha - Zeograd released new alpha builds for Windows and DOS! He calls this a "little" release, since the main difference is fixed CD-ROM support in the Windows version. HuGo! homepage.
- prophet
Unofficial MameCE v0.36b6.0 - Techmaster released versions for both ARM & MIPS based Pocket PC's! Apparently this is the 1st fully functional build, and runs very well on iPaq. Please check the homepage for more info.
- prophet
Which Games Support Dolby Surround ? - Ridge has updated the Adaptoid homepage with a new ("very incomplete") Dolby Surround page, that lists which Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, Amiga and PC games do support the "Dolby Surround" sound standart. Feel free to contribute your knowledge.
- Opi
Happy B'day A.L.E. - Amiga Legal Emulation has turned 1 year old! :) And to celebrate they've uploaded 36 more games for your playtime pleasure. Congrats Malc Jennings for your site's continued dedication to keeping the Amiga alive.
- prophet
Magical 32X - new 32X emu - Retrobase emailed me regarding an upcoming 32X emulation project by RooFer. According to the progress report on the Magical 32X homepage, the compatability is extremely high already. There's also a pretty shot of 32X Doom running. Keep in mind nothing has been released yet. (And to the staff at RB, I *never* beg.;)
- prophet
Wanna "Cripple" Your RAINE Emu ? - Then download the latest "official" release raine24sept2000a of Richard Bush's great arcade emulator RAINE. Maniac Square has been disabled by request of MAMEDev - as apparently it was disabled in Mame for a VERY IMPORTANT reason - which I still DO NOT know. Some guys asked for the RAINEdat file on our message board (Haze probably linked it to the exe file incorrectly) - in case YOU need it too - click here and you'll get it :)
- Opi
RockNES v1.300 - Fx3's superb DOS NES/Famicom emulator RockNES is now at level 1.300. With the latest two releases, RockNES made a huge leap towards the "perfect NES emulation" goal and may become my favourite NES emulator - which are now JNES, NESten and Famtasia :)
- o - Fixed a mapper #1 (MMC1) bug, now more games are playable;
- o - NES periodic rewritten, much better, fixing tons of games!
- o - Adjusted Konami's VRCxx IRQs timing (now 99.9% good);
- o - Fixed a nasty NES reset problem;
- o - Fixed Famicom DiskSystem emulation, thanks Ki for the docs! Notice that your FDS image won't be saved/changed for a while;
- o - Sound driver optimized (a bit faster now);
- o - As always... more changes and bugs squashed, but I don't remember... :)
Click here to download RockNES v1.300 for DOS - thanks to EmuMania for the hint.
- Opi
ClrMAME Pro 1.8b - Roman Scherzer released the latest version of his immensely popular ROM maintenance utility! It supports many emus, not only MAME. Get it here, and be sure the check the ClrMAME homepage for more info.
- prophet
Congratulations Ashley & Chris! - This is a pitifully belated notice of congratulations to the proud new parents of Katrina! She was born on September 9th and I'm sure is a very beautiful little baby girl. :) Some of you may remember Ashley as a longtime Retrogames messageboard poster and emulation fan.
- prophet
DC Namco Museum Review - Mike Stulir has reviewed Namco Museum for the Sega Dreamcast. It's not often Mike feels ripped off ... I guess Namco's Quality Control had a day off or something.
- atila
Brighten Up Your Monday - This can only be done by laughter, so check out 'BEATERz.com: Chronicling Questionable Automotive Style'. Some of these cars are so horrible ... you'll laugh ;)
- atila
FIRE, FIRE! - It's that time of the day again, Dave has released FinalBurn 0.021, here's the skinny:
+ Adjusted the sensitivity of the joystick. You should now get better accuracy in aiming, but you have to try harder to do a barrel roll now (which should be more like the arcade).
+ Improved the way input and pausing is done
+ Fixed the keyboard input so that it slides the analog stick at the same rate, no matter what the frame rate is like.
Sunday, September 24th 2000 - Last updated @ 22:44 EST
wine 20000909 was released a couple weeks ago...Changes include:
USER and GDI are now separate dlls, with additional handling
improvements to Win32 loading. The documentation has been converted to DocBook SGML format. DBCS support has been improved, including more codepages. The usual assortment of common controls improvements were added. Shared PE sections are now supported. GDI should now be thread-safe. Several multimedia improvements have been added. The wineserver protocol is being made re-entrant. Lots of bugfixes were added.
- chris
csnes9x is a small and quick snes9x front end for the command line console. It will search a specified directory for ROMs, allow you to chose one, and then it will load it up in snes9x with any command line options you wish to pass to it. Version 1.0.2 release includes the ability to log snes9x errors to a specified logfile, reformatted help message, and a change of e-mail in documentation/messages.
- chris
MAME Supply - The Guru redumped the bad roms for Chequered Flag and uploaded some very early MAME WIP pictures for this game. He also dumped the missing proms for AlphaxZ, uploaded 2 screenshots for this game and noted a now complete dump for Mission 660 (with a littly help of Mark Lawrence). Finally he stated that he successfully "preserved" an alternative (possibly world) version of Street Smart. News taken from Till's Sys2064.
- Opi
Z26 v1.39 - Version 1.39 of John Saeger'sZ26, an Atari 2600 emulator for DOS/Windows 95 systems - can be downloaded here if you first like to view the changes in this update - click here - thanks to Cloy for the information :)
- Opi
A new look, 1500+ flyer scans with this months additions and the flyer viewer has been updated to work with the database being in MySQL. For those with fast Internet connections, make sure to check out the gallery feature of the new viewer.
WinSTon v0.5 Changes And Downloads - Finally here are Paul Bates last changes in WinSTon v0.5 - I wish you all the best Paul and thanks for your work, efforts and mails :) hope you've made a good decision and won't regret it !
- o - Fixed joystick button reporting on some games.
- o - Access to all emulator options/favourites from within full-screen.
- o - Extended GEM resolutions, such as 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768.
- o - Fixes for TOS 2.06.
New Raine Released - Here's a new "unofficial" release of Raine. Haze compiled it (katharsis is still busy with his "examinations") and added Eugenio Derenzi's submitted drivers for Sengoku Ace, Gunbird, Biomechanical Toy and Maniac Square. For more information read the included readme24sept2000.txt or click here :-) Thanks to EmuHQ for the news and the binary :)
- Opi
Here's an article on IGN about piracy. Jeremy Dunham (the author) contrasts the emulation of older consoles and arcade games with the outright piracy of brand new systems. Worth a read.
- dutch
Saturday, September 23rd 2000 - Last updated @ 23:40 EST
Noticed that GuruChoc recently added a few more needed-soon MAME goodies - just steer around all the Aussie Olympic news... ;P
- prophet
KI Image Viewer - Jabo (JNES dev) updated his Killer Instinct image viewer, fixing some color issues. Get it here.
- prophet
WinSTon v0.5, Atari ST Emulation - As I stated several times - english isn't my first language and I still need a lot of help and work to improve it. Due to this FACT - I'm somewhat limited with my statements and it's not possible for me to tell you all the time exactly what I had in mind when I translate my thoughts into english :) So feel free to send me suggestions and corrections if you noticed another mistake, "bug", non-elegant or senseless phrase :) I would appreciate it ! And now to the main reason for this posting !
I was mailed by a handful of people about the current Atari ST emulation situation - many guys told me that there are still two other ST emulators available for Win9x systems, so not everything's lost :) but - the latest released version of PaCifiST is 0.49 and more than a year old and Gemulator, is a fairly new ST emulator that I've never tested due to the fact that I was very pleased with WinSTon - but I'll test it asap !
WinSTon v0.5 "I don't wish to confuse everyone but there's a new version of WinSTon(v0.5) available on the WinSTon Development Page, together with the complete set of source code. It's probably best if you visit the site and read the latest so you understand just exactly what is going on! ...... I've had quite a lot of lot of e-mails regarding the end of WinSTon and how they don't agree with what I'm doing. Time to make things clear. The GameBoy Advanced emulator opens a whole new can of worms for the emulation scene. Nintendo is not exactly happy to hear of this emulator to say the least. ..... WinSTon is not worth risking my career over."
Someone hacked Paul's PC - and stole the whole source code ! This is really something I can't comment without using strong words .... so it's better for me to shut my mouth and finish this posting.
- Opi
Mimic WIP - The Mimic homepage has been updated twice in the last 2 days with Mike Beaver's latest coding results. Mimic is now able to run Sonic and other 256K cartridges - a lot of progress on the SMS VDP has been made - click here and read the full update (use Internet Explorer).
- Opi
FrontDboy v1.4 - FrontDboy, Oscar Cerda's DBoy front-end, has been updated to version 1.4 !
- o - Added the option to rename all the files for those internal titles of the roms.
- o - Added supports for files * .gbz and super gameboy.
- o - Added the option of "replacing existent titles" in the extraction of these. (Valid alone when generating the list).
- o - Added support for SideWinder (dboy 0.70a).
- o - Updated languages files.
- o - Fixed bug when generating the list of titles with a single game.
- o - Fixed bug in the extraction of titles in roms with protection.
- o - Fixed bug in the compression of files.
- o - Fixed bug in rename the rom for the title.
MAMED! Runs NeoGeo - The MAME for Digita homepage (MAME for Kodak DC265 Digita OS based digital camera) has been updated with a new MAMED! release - two NeoGeo games are now running on - or in :) this camera hardware : Joy Joy Kid and Puzzle De Pon. Also a lot of bugs have been "killed", for more information and the binary go here. Thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- Opi
Pocket PC Ports & More - How many people do own a Casio Pocket PC and are interested in emulation of old system like the C-64 and the Oric home computer ? However - Oric world released Euphoric an Oric emulator for the Cassiopeia E105.
The newer Casio model - Cassiopeia E-115 received an own Come Back 64 port :) As a side note - both Cassiopeia models mentioned here were SOLD OUT - so there are probably really enough interested people out there :-)
Both news were sent in by Cloy - who also offers a download for SordEmu 1.0 at his site. If you're interested in M5 emulation (a very old japanese computer comparable to the british ZX-81) then click this link.
- Opi
Keropi v0.50 - Kenjo just posted a new version of Keropi, his Win9x emulator for Sharp's X68000 PC - formerly known as WinX68K. News and changes in v0.50 :
- o - SCSI CD-ROM Support (Preliminary)
- o - Fixed 16x16 BG color bug
- o - Fixed BG-Text transparency
- o - Fixed Transparency in the 16 colors graphic mode
- o - Fixed return value from CRTC register
- o - Fixed interrupt in the DMA continuous mode
- o - Now Keropi counts bootup time/count and stores them in SRAM
Download it the Keropi download section and then visit one of Retrogames hosted "pearls", the X68000 Game Pile in case you wanna test Keropi with some funny stuff. Thanks to Navarone's Emulation 9 for the news. For all those who wonder where I got the changes info - each Keropi release contains an english changes log :)
- Opi
Yape v0.14 - Commodore Plus4 emulation is still getting better - Yape has been updated to version 0.14 ! Atilla reported that he finally succeeded in getting Revs to work properly, this is one of the real Plus4 highlights - I played it like mad on my C-64 back in the good old days :)
- o - almost 20% speed improvement (still a long way to go...)
- o - found an ugly bug in the CPU (ORA)
- o - bug in the video memory relocation corrected (Tom Thumb works now!)
- o - many new illegal opcodes are implemented
- o - relative speed counter and dumb debugger added
- o - debug reset added (hard reset with memory intact)
Thoughts About Playstation Emulation And "Fair Play" - NoComp has posted an interesting "speech" about the current mess that happened within the PSX emulation scene lately (you all know what I mean) - read it at the PCSX homepage.
- Opi
MasterGear 1.4 - Marat has released MasterGear 1.4, his multi-platform Mark3, MasterSystem, GameGear, SG1000, and SC3000 emulator, you can see the changes by clicking here. The FreeBSD version has been updated, the other versions will no doubt follow soon. The Windows port can be obtained by purchasing the emulator for US$35. Thanks to DrSteveW for the news.
- atila
OverClocked ReMix - OC ReMix was updated with three new ReMixes - Castlevania, Super Mario Bros. 2, and . . . Castlevania! Also, each ReMix is linked to the original soundtrack, available separately through the MERIDIAN homepage.
- david
Philosophizin' - I think it's worth mentioning that Zoop has posted his thoughts on Sega's anti-piracy actions at Emucamp and PeterD of EmuHQ has posted thoughts on GBA emulation here. You can discuss these and more fascinating issues in our fully functional (ahem^^) messageboard. Think deep thoughts.
- david
Sonic Team Live! - I found this link on USENET (thanks Goodcow) and it's Sonic Team's live webcam. I just saw 2 developers beat up a huge plushie Sonic =)
- atila
Portable 2600! - I received quite a few mails/messages about this (thanks, everyone :), so here is the link to Atari 2600 CVSp, a portable Atari 2600 made by Ben Heckendorn. That thing looks AWESOME!
- atila
I realize many of you don't care for these kinds of posts from me, but ever since Jello Biafra got sued when I was in 10th grade merely for putting an H.R. Giger painting in a record album (for those who don't know, they tried to get him on "distribution of harmful matter to minors." He won :), I have always been attentive to attacks on freedom of speech. This will be my last link and post on the news page regarding Sega's recent actions towards news sites.
- dutch
Friday, September 22nd 2000 - Last updated @ 20:32 EST
TZX Vault - Steve of our superb hosted site, TZX Vault, added 40 new tape images for you Speccy fans! Some Mastertronic titles and more.
- prophet
Arcade Dumps - Our japanese super busy dumping crew, Team Japump!!! reported the successful dumping of :
- . . Othello Shiyouyo (For JAPAN) (c)1998 Success ST-V system
- . . Tekken (JPN Ver.) (c)1994 Namco Ver.B Namco System11
- . . Eight Forces (c)Tecmo 1994
- . . Super Street Fighter II - The New Challengers - (JPN Ver.) c)1993 Capcom Ver.931005 & 930911 CP System II
- . . Rezon (JPN Ver.) (c)1991 Allumer
Domo Arigato - (hope that's correct :-)
- Opi
DC & SNES9X News - Emanuel has started his own SNES emulation project for Sega's Dreamcast based on the current Snes9x source, you can find his site here !
And here are some official Snes9x news, straight from the Developers Journal : Gary is trying to get a few non-working games working (Traverse fixed), he's also working on SA-1 game speed up, received the C4 chip information from zsknigh and announced the implementation into Snes9x very soon and finally (with a little help of a "back-up unit") he hopes to get the DSP-1 emulation working for games other than Mario Kart. These are only some quotes ripped from the really large journal update - read the full posting here.
Many thanks to Boun from EmuForce for the notification !
- Opi
128 Museum Moved - The 128 Museum, a site that deals with Sinclair's ZX Spectrum 128 has been moved to a new home - please update your bookmarks to http://128museum.speccy.cz ! A handful of new 128 classics has been uploaded for your enjoyment too.
- Opi
CDR Info News - CDR Info mailed me: "Today we post the news about Sanyo's coming 16x writing CDR-W drives... (The) Sanyo drive supports 16x writing, 10x re-write and 40x reading speeds. Also supports "BURN-Proof" technology which the Yamaha drive doesn't support!"
- prophet
KI Graphics Viewer - Jabo of JNES fame has developed a cool utility (just 20K) that decodes graphics data from Killer Instinct dumps and allows them to be viewed! Check his homepage for more info. There's a small JNES update too. :) (And NO, I haven't "quit da skene." :P)
- prophet
The WinSTon Story Explained - Paul Bates has updated the WinSTon homepage (probably for the last time) with a statement why he decided to pull his great Atari ST emulator :
"So it this the end of WinSTon? Yes. It is.
Why? How? When? What? It was rather abrupt, I admit, but it was my own decision and I was not pressured by others.
As many of you know I work in the games industry and last week I heard news of an emulator for the GameBoy Advance. In fact, there were two reportedly in development. I cannot begin to explain how f**ked off I was to hear this - the machine is not even released. Think how developers feel to know that as soon as they release a title for this new machine it will be on the Internet and emulated before anyone has had chance to play it on the real machine.
Over the last year or so the emulation 'scene' has seemed to have lost the plot. Nostalgia and emulation of 'dead' machines is a worthy cause - these machines should not be forgotten - but blatantly ripping off Developers/Nintendo/Sony/Sega/Microsoft is not what it is all about.
So, as I feel so strongly about this, the result is that I no longer wish to be associated with emulation in any form - it has lost its appeal - and WinSTon is now terminated".
Sorry to say that I can't understand his reasons to shutdown his own work, but WinSTon is and was a really amazing piece of software and he's free to do whatever he wants to. Many thanks to Paul for his great work, maybe someone can fill the gap using Paul's source code or an own project - and also a thank you to EmuHQ for the news report.
- Opi
Messageboards - I forgot to mention that they're working again, so feel free to post again :)
- atila
Response to Sega - A very good (IMHO) response to the letter that Sega has been sending to various news sites has been posted over at Emugaming. Click here to go directly to it.
- dutch
Yummy Asteroids - There are a bunch of emulators that emulate Asteroids, but for the first time, the game has been emulated in a 'yummy' way, click here for the pics :) Happy belated birthday, Spoonman!
- atila
G-NES v0.41 - Gigo'sG-NES has been updated to v0.41. G-NES is a NES emulator for Win9x with DirectX 5.0 - it supports more than 30 mappers, the Famicom Disk System and *VS-Unisystem. Please choose your download : G-NES Ver0.41 (English) or G-NES Ver0.41 (Japanese). Thanks to madDog for the email.
- Opi
Personal Ad - 'Jesus' is looking for a girlfriend, check jesus.com for more info ;) Thanks to SoulChip for the news.
- atila
MSX News - Here's a snippet from a mail I received from the MEP Crew:
fMSX SO now finally appeared with an English manual, making life a whole lot easier. The translation was done by Takamichi. So now I can also give you a bit of information about fMSX SO. Basicly it comes down to the fact that the writer of this emulator wasn't very pleased with the OPLL emulation of the other emulators. And he is right. There is no MSX Emulator with decent OPLL Emulation. He is now trying to achieve this through MIDI.
Planet Harriers - DC.IGN has posted the first Planet Harriers movies and they look GREAT! 'Planet Harriers' is the sequel to Sega's 'Space Harrier', a magnificent game IMHO.
- atila
Fear Not ... - Updates will appear shortly :)
- atila
Thursday, September 21st 2000 - Last updated @ 19:37 EST
Plus4 Emulation Evolution - The Commodore Plus4 emulation has received a real boost in the last two weeks ! Atilla the author of Yape is still busy like hell ! What does this all mean ? Yape v0.13 is out and online with the following changes :)
- o - 'd tried some speed improvements but it got worse, so I changed them back :-) Will try later
- o - I was wasting GDI memory (that may have crashed Win98), this is now hopefully fixed
- o - saving screenshots is now possible
- o - raster interrupt largely improved (tons of games work now because of this!)
- o - multicolor bitmap graphic is done (Treasure Island works great!)
- o - added loading PRG files from file system
- o - most importantly: the cursor is now blinking! :-)
Please download Yape v0.13 here thanks to Mr. Rumour Mill JoseQ for the news.
- Opi
Mad Marable - Till mentioned Bernhard Kirsch's great "Marble Madness fan site" today. I agree with Till's opinion - this site it's excellent and really worth a visit (I admire the design of the navigation page :)
- Opi
Sega - Another move from Sega, this time against Jandaman's news site. Again, Sega should do all they can to stop violations of their copyrights, but stepping on free speech in the process is below the belt IMO.
- dutch
WinUAE Rumor - My secret agent told me that the next WinUAE release will support printing via Windows print-manager. Imagine printing Amiga documents by using a network printer server :)
"Where do you wanna go today ?".
- Opi
Every Thing Has Two Sides - Mr X_Cuci was pleased to announce that his site, CD 32 Legal Dumping Projekt has acquired permission from Max Design (which is owned by Sunflowers) to upload Oldtimer to his site. However, there is a problem. Before he's allowed to offer it to the public, he needs to have a legally-purchased copy of Oldtimer. If anyone is able and willing to donate his own game for Amiga CD 32 to Mr X_Cuci, then please email him :)
Many thanks to NE146 for his kind help ! English isn't that easy :)
- Opi
German Seiken Densetsu 3 Patch - Here is a special announcement for our german visitors ! Eine 100% deutsche Seiken Densetsu 3 Übersetzung ist jetzt bei G-Trans erhältlich :
"Die Übersetzung, dieses auch als Secret of Mana 2 bekannten Spiels, basiert auf der englischen Übersetzung von Neill Corlett, Lina`Chan, Nuku-Nuku und SOM2Freak, und auf dem ROM-Hacking von Terminus Traduction (hauptsächlich durch Copernic). Der aktuelle Patch ist ein Release Candidat, das heisst das er ist fertig ist, aber noch nicht perfekt".
- Opi
Look ! A Lovely Lighthouse :-) - Badge's lovely Lighthouse has been updated with a bunch of new SNES reviews and a lonely PC9801 review for Lipstick Adventure 3 :) - I urge you to have a closer look ;)
- Opi
Next Generation Emulation - Remember Cleric ? First he started the NES Tech Repository then came news-u-lator and lator.com and now he launched NGE aka Next Generation Emulation, a site dedicated to emulating video game systems on video game systems, check it out !
- Opi
ElectrEM Beta 4 - Electrem, a Acorn Electron emulator for DOS,Windows (requires DirectX 6.x) and Linux has been updated to beta 4, click here to find out what's new in beta 4. Stuff for ElectroEM can be found at the Stairway to Hell site. Thanks to Hazard for the email !
- Opi
SoftVMS for Mac has been updated to v1.8.1. The new version is Carbonized for MacOS X.
- richard
French MacMAME - The French translation of MacMAME 0.37b7 is available for download at the MacMAME site.
- atila
Messageboards - There is a 'small' problem with the messageboards at the moment, you can post a message, but you can't read anything as the page turns up empty. We hope to have this fixed shortly.
- atila
D-Day For Game Boy Emus - Just noticed at EmuHQ that BouKiCHi'sDBoy was also updated to version 0.70a. DBoy is the best DOS Game Boy emulator and the 2nd best overall IMHO. I read something about Sidewinder on BouKiCHi's homepage, maybe this great pad got a native support ... (my Sidewinder works faultless with this emu).
- Opi
Visiual Boy v1.4.6 - The currently most advanced Game Boy emulator Visiual Boy has been updated again with a bunch of new improvements :
- o - digital sound support for Perfect Dark, Warlock, Chessmaster and others
- o - SGB border on supported CGB games
- o - drag drop support
- o - command line passing of ROM to start with directories configuration
- o - speed up button
- o - capture button configuration
- o - fullscreen mode changed to 640x480 (and centered)
- o - emulator type (automatic, CGB, SGB, GB)
- o - fix sound bug on Tetris DX, Zelda DX and others
- o - increased speed emulation (found a nasty thing holding up emulation speed)
Please choose your download here - available are versions for Win32 or Win9x with DirectX 7.0 support. Thanks to EmuViews for the news.
- Opi
Agent 008 In Action - JoseQ has posted a new Rumor Mill :-) ".... Virtua Fighter emulator Virtua may soon not be a Virtua Fighter emulator but rather more than that. Yes Kayamon, we caught you testing "Manx TT" and "Virtua Cop" on your emulator and saw those checks go through as well !..."
- Opi
Wednesday, September 20th 2000 - Last updated @ 21:22 EST
Jailcam? - Yep, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has had four live webcams installed in the Maricopa County Jail (in Phoenix, Arizona, USA). *shudder*
- dutch
MERIDIAN v1.0!!! - YES! Weeks of hard work have finally paid off for me and Jason Cline, the mega-talented author of the newly redesigned MERIDIAN player for NSF, GYM, and RGM files. There's so much new it's astounding - where to begin!! I'll started with the new features in v1.0:
Mixed Playlist Support
Recording to WAV(Hold Shift While Pressing Play)
A Lot of New Configuration Options
Rewrote GUI Code
Skins Are Now Compressed
All known WinNT & Win2K Compatability Issues Resolved
A Lot of Little Bug Fixes
But wait, there's MORE!! OverClocked ReMix interfaces with the NEW NSF/RGM soundtrack archive on the MERIDIAN site. So, you can hear a ReMix, then hear the original. My original dream fulfilled :) Not everything is fully linked yet, and the soundtrack archive is small, but rest assured it will grow. If you wanna try it out, open one of the Bubble Bobble ReMixes. Also, currently the NSF/RGM direct "click & play" only works in IE - we're working on a fix. Enough talk - get over there!!!
- david
News Flood Or However You Wanna Call It :)
# David Keil's TRS-80 Model 1/III/4/4P Emulator v 6.0 Final is now available for you emu grannies :) For the latest update information go here.
# If you (1.) own a Macintosh Power PC, (2.) like the X68000 computer and (3.) do not fear kanji letters, then try X68000EM 0.00b5 !
# Zdenek Adler has updated his MZ800 emu for Windows, you can download it at http://www.cloy.net !
All news above submitted by Cloy from Kinox, thanks mate ! Visit Cloy's homepage, and you'll discover another fine emulation news site :)
# "The most powerful language for the old Amiga is now ready for your PC" - try the Blitz Basic Public Demo 1.14, the Blitz is back :) thanks to Jaime Araiza for the info :-)
# NeoGeo Pocket News : Voodoo has compiled a NeoPocott v0.35b compatibility list ! PnP from NGPWorld also informed me again about the logo contest still going on for Gollum'sNeoPocott, so participate and fire up your favourite drawing application :) finally PnP mentioned that a NGP ROM that features 8 different PD games is now available at his site.
# Anthony Ball posted another update for his PSX Phoenix emulator, some people had problems with V2.08 this has been fixed with V2.09!!!!
# SMSPower released dump number 334 - Chuck Rock for the Master System, an unbelievable bad game - hehe ! Thanks Luke
The Macintosh version of MESS has been updated to v0.37b7.
- richard
Mahjong - Need to brush up on your Mahjong? Try Mahjongnews.com. (Not that I condone a lot of the imagery in some of the latest supported Mame WIP games, mind you.) ;p
- dutch
This Guy Is CRAZY :) - Welcome to FBRAA - your favourite
"Final Burn Release Announcement Agency" :-)
New in v0.020 :
* Changed the scanlines method back so only one blit is done (probably more reliable in the long run), mainly because blitting each scanline is too slow in DirectDraw. Unfortunately, some of you may have some vertical banding effects. Try disabling the bilinear filter on your video card. I'll have a think about how to sort this one out.
Download it here ! Or wait for the next release - haha.
- Opi
Laser Attack - Laser, a multi arcade emu that attempts to "preserve" all games running on "Space Invaders hardware" has been updated twice :
- o - v0.11a * Space Invaders now features complete sound. Somehow I missed the saucer sound - I don't know how I did that - but it's in there now.
- o - v0.11 * Sound is enabled with -sound now.
- o - 4 Player Bowling is now playable (with graphics errors).
- o - I couldn't figure out how to play it, so I only assume it's playable. I couldn't figure it out in MAME either :)
Click here if you wanna download Laser v0.11a.
- Opi
I ATE A BABY! - Well, not quite, but I did happen to browse at fatbabies.com, which happens to post industry news/gossip/rumors. Some very good stuff there :)
- atila
Japanese Emulator Releases - OK, here are the latest emulator releases for Japan-only computer systems. As usual, these are only release information :) We all have to wait for Aries and his translation of the changes !
# Anex86 v2.27 is online. Anex86 emulates the EPSON PC-x86 series (clone of NEC PC-9801) in Windows, a small english info page is available here.
# EX68, a X68000 emulator for Wind95/98/NT/2k has been updated to v2.14.
# T98-Next : 6th Beta is the latest release of this PC9801/PC9821 emu.
Release info taken from Emulation9, the number one in Japan :)
- Opi
RAINE Plays Guwange - The Fox posted a new unofficial version of RAINE ! Someone (I can't read japanese or chinese) added a new Cave driver to RAINE adding support for Guwange - click here to get this new version, but don't ask me which version has been used as base for this new compile. Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.
- Opi
Infinite Burn - Final Burn v0.017 is out ... Oops ... I meant Final Burn v0.018 is online ... errr, this is driving me crazy - Dave released Final Burn v0.019 :)
# v0.019 +++ Fixed the engine sound - it was to do with looping samples. I also increased the accuracy of the PCM emulation - the Vulcan gun now sounds better I think.
# v0.018 *** Blanked out the incorrect engine sound, to save our poor ears for the time being...
# v0.017 +++ Changed the scanlines method (to avoid vertical banding effects on cards which do bilinear filtering).
Download FB v0.019 here - thanks to gwenju for the email :-)
King Zophar is dead - long live the new king Swampgas ! All the best of luck to both and many thanks to Zophar for being a steady and trusty emulation source for almost 4 years !!!
- Opi
ZOPHAR LEAVES - Truly, the end of an era. One of emulation's web veterans, Brad Levicoff, also known as Zophar, has left Zophar's Domain, placing Swampgas in charge. His exit is graceful, and is not made in anger but in the hope of new possibilities. Read his statement here. He is someone who has accomplished quite a bit, and will be missed. I am personally honored to have known this individual, and if a "history of emulation" film or novel or whatever were ever to be written, his name would be preeminent amongst those who contributed massively to emulation's presence on the net. Bravo, and best of luck to both Brad and Sam (Swampgas) in their new endeavors.
- david
Tuesday, September 19th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:03 EST
NeoGeo & JAMMA show - NeoGeoFreak.com again reported some great news for all owners and lovers of SNK's NeoGeo system !
Aruze (pronounced Aruzay) is showing King of Fighters 2000, Diggerman, Ghostlop (Data East 1996), and many other third party games as well as some redemption and pachinko machines. Diggerman and all the FACE games were sold to an independent distributor who plans on remarketing the FACE games world-wide and on many other gaming platforms, including the PC.
The big surprise is the "private showing" of the long awaited "Last Blade 3" to be seen by distributors only because the games is only about 60% done. Aruze will also be showing their new "Super Giga Boards" that are capable of handling games up to 2000Megs. The current "Giga Boards" only go up to 1000Megs (1 Giga).
Oh BTW - here are 2 pictures of the official game-box of Diggerman, the infamous last NG game - someone dared to write " ..is a great puzzle game.. " GREAT ? Uuuh did I miss something ? Errm ... anyway, visit NeoGeoFreak.com, the only "official online NeoGeo news source" to read some interesting news, order and buy NG carts and much more !
- Opi
Get Ready To Burrrrn - Nero v5.0.2.4 is now available at the Nero FTP - grab it here. Thanks to Stu for the hint :)
- Opi
Yape v0.12 - Oh my god, my news posting below about Yape isn't up to date anymore :) Version 0.12 is now the actual release.
- o - yet some more speed improvements (still sluggish below P2 though)
- o - CPU bug fixed (SBC)
- o - two illegal opcodes are implemented (NOP $0000,X)
- o - palette selection in GDI mode (monochrome rulez!!)
- o - multicolor character mode done
- o - preliminary joystick emulation
- o - vertical TED register is ready
- o - wrong color handling in high resolution bitmap mode fixed
- o - stupid PRG loader bugs fixed, more decompressors work fine
- o - added yet some more games to the package
- o - some new bugs introduced :-))
Once again :) please visit the Yape download section to grab your copy of Yape 0.12. Thanks to JoseQ for the update notification :-)
- Opi
Final Burn v0.016 - Another 24 hours, another Final Burn release :-) New in v0.016 " + Added fullscreen with scanlines option. To use this mode, click on 'Scanlines'". Download it here.
- Opi
Yape v0.11 - A new version of Yape ("Yet Another Plus/4 Emulator") has been released recently. The most important changes are:
- o - speeded up a bit, now you need an Athlon 600 only to run it smoothly :-)
- o - 100% of regular opcodes are implemented
- o - several CPU bugs fixed
- o - high resolution bitmap graphics done (GRAPHIC 2 also works)
- o - raster interrupt corrected (still not 100% right)
- o - added some more games to the distribution package
- o - several new bugs introduced :-))
14 Requests Filled - Shane Monroe made some more Amiga fans happy :) Visit his Amiga Emulation Zone and check the latest filled requests !
- Opi
Classic Games revived - Mike Stulir from Back In Time has posted his final preview about the series of new "classic" games by Hasbro Interactive & Atari. Visit his site and read his impressions of Breakout - The Great Escape" for the PC & PlayStation.
- Opi
Emu Loader v1.3.2 - Ciro informed me about his latest Emu Loader update. He decided to release updates more frequently from now on - you can get v1.3.2 of his fine MAME front-end here :)
Please visit the Emu Loader homepage for more information.
- Opi
Monday, September 18th 2000 - Last updated @ 16:20 EST
ClrMamePro News - Roman Scherzer uploaded ClrMamePro v1.8a - a minor bugfix release - get it here.
- Opi
ArcadePC In The News - The Baltimore Sun has done a story on the ArcadePC, which you can read by clicking the link. The ArcadePC is a totally wicked machine, which supports various emulators, including MAME. Thanks to Mike K. for the news.
- atila
DarcNES v.dn9a0916 - nyef posted three new versions of his multi-console emulator DarcNES - these are the changes :
- o - Fixed 6280 ADC overflow calculation.
- o - Fixed 6280 SBC D mode carry flag clobber.
- o - Fixed 6280 cycle-count bug for PL[APXY].
- o - Converted 6280 to use lazy flag evaluation.
- o - Fixed 6502 SBC overflow calculation.
- o - Fixed 6502 SBC D mode carry flag clobber.
- o - Fixed 6502 lazy flag evaluation SBC bug.
- o - Cleaned up iNES ROM header parsing.
- o - Fixed minor bug with PCE CD debug output for reset command.
- o - Fixed (hopefully) compile problem with SVGAlib version.
- o - Removed unused references to errno and errno.h from video_x.c.
Available are Win32, X11 (Xt/Xaw) and a GTK version (a BeOS binary may follow soon, a first compile try failed) you can get them here. Thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- Opi
FinalBurn 0.015 - This reminds me of Dave's DGEN development: you'd blink your eyes and a new DGEN magically appear :) Same thing is going on with FinalBurn, version 0.015 is available for download, here's what's new:
+ Added fullscreen option. To exit the fullscreen mode, press Escape.
Check the FinalBurn site for more info, thanks to Sixtoe for the news.
- atila
Williams/Bally pinball sold - According this story at idsa.net, the Willams/Bally pinball division has been sold and will release pinball machines again!
- atila
WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Here's another GOOD news to please the Amiga emulation fans (as long as they use Windows as OS) ! Vintage Gaming reported a new WinFellow release (a port of Fellow for DOS). click here to view the changes in WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - there are two different versions available, one for Win9x/2k (needs DirectX 5) and another one for Windows NT (needs DirectX 3).
- Opi
GbaEmu Story Finally Ends - "The versions of GbaEmu that are available on the Internet aren't leaked, they were actually released by myself .....
I hereby quit from the GBA dev scene and discontinue the work on my GBA emulator/debugger".
Parts of the current emulation scene are in a really bad and weird condition : leaked, stolen, accusations, quits... sad and strange - read the full chaotic story at FireFly's homepage - thanks to dUmbO for the mail.
- Opi
Phoenix V2.08 - Anthony Ball informed me about his newly updated Phoenix V2.08 (arcade) emulator for Sony's Playstation. Please visit the home of the Phoenix emulator to read more about it (lazy mode off) !
- Opi
Sunday, September 17th 2000 - Last updated @ 19:26 EST
C-64 On Pocket PC - Domenico released a port of Come Back 64 to the WinCE Compaq IPAQ PocketPC - new features include:
- o Rewrote source to use Microsoft GAPI for DSA
- o Added screen rotation support
- o Optmized CPU core (now speed is 100%)
- o Fixed minor CPU bugs
Binary and docs are available at the Come Back 64 download section.
- Opi
MAMED & MESSD Releases - If you own a Kodac digital camera you may have a look at the MAMED! homepage. New MAMED & MESSD versions are now available for your camera :)
- Opi
WinSTon IS DEAD - Yeah - these are really sad and shocking news ! Paul Bates stopped working on his awesome, best and only Win9x Atari ST emulator and released the greatest part of his WinSTon source code for an unknown reason.
"This is to be the last update for the foreseeable future. The WinSTon source code is available on the WinSTon page. This is a copy of the main core from WinSTon. It does NOT include all the WinSTon source, but is run-able. Please DO NOT e-mail me about the source - it compiles and works".
Last week I reported about Paul Bates latest WIP update - and now ... it's gone :( From now on - NO MORE WIP updates by Opi ;-) In the past they've killed the people which reported bad news to the king - in year 2000 we just say - thanks to EmuHQ for the bad news.
- Opi
FrontDboy v1.3 - Oscar Cerdá has released a new version of his FrontDboy 1.3, a front-end for the Boukichi's GameBoy emulator Dboy, with the following changes :
* - * Updated the language files.
* - * Fixed a little bug during the load of the messages / pop ups.
* - * Erased the option of "use less characters" in config menu.
* - * Added "Rename file to Tittle" option at the menus, that changes the name of the file for the internal ROM Name.
Thanks to EmuM@nia for the news and translation :)
- Opi
Ninja's AGA World - Ninja's AGA World has added 90 games to their always growing online archive. Go to the Amiga 500 download page...letter J,K,L,M and N are now online...all letters are now online :) A few requests has been fulfilled too - Jupiter Masterdrive, McDonald Land ...
- Opi
MSX News - TFH/Fony informed me about a new fMSX SO release - new in version 0.81 of this MSX emulator is :
*** Name change from MSXSO fo fMSXSO. The reason is of course the fact that it's based on fMSX.
- Updated SCC Drivers - update for PSG & OPLL Drivers and a fixed bug in the audio log.
Please visit www.file-hunter.com to download and gain more information about fMSXSO and MSX in general :)
- Opi
Mimic WIP - Mike Beaver seems to ignore Sydney 2000 and continue in working on his multi-system emulator Mimic. Please read the result of his last efforts here.
- Opi
PSX Emu Add-ons - Null's SPU Plugin Support Page has been updated with a new spuREND.dll (for FPSE v0.08/build1) a software mixing audio driver for PSEmu Pro.
Pete´s Homepage, the home of many PSX plugins, has been updated with a bunch of new drivers :
*** - PSX GPU Soft driver September 17, 2000 Version 1.36
*** - PSX GPU OpenGL driver September 17, 2000 Version 1.36
*** - PSX GPU D3D driver September 17, 2000 Version 1.36
*** - PSX GPU DX6 D3D driver September 17, 2000 Version 1.36
*** - PSX SPU MIDAS Audio driver September 17, 2000 Version 1.5
Visit Pete Bernert's homepage to download these stuff and more background information, hehe - little Opi can't tell you more about it, he never used any of these drivers :-) Thanks to duncan from WWEMU for both news :)
- Opi
Legal Amiga Downloads - Bernd Gmeineder from AMI Sector One has got permission from the companies Polarware and Talking Birds to upload their Amiga games on his site (Der Trainer, Oo Topos and many more). Also AMI Sector One's music section has been updated with many new game soundtracks and 30 cover scans (front & back) were added to the site too.
- Opi
Visine 1.0 - Fx3 (author of RockNES) has released visine 1.0, a DOS-based level editor for MegaMan II. You can download it at the RockNES site.
- atila
Sega System C2 for Windows - The SEGA System C2 emulator for Windows (a port of Charles Mac Donald's DOS version) has been released for the very first time ! Version 0.2b/wa needs Win9x with at least DirectX5 to run, due to the fact that this emu shares all DirectX code with Past-O-Rama it won't run properly under Win NT ! Here's the 411:
- o - initial release
- o - In synchro with the 0.2b dos version
- o - missed options :
.... - scanlines rendering
.... - stereo sound
.... - FPS
- o - added option : - Blur
You can download it here - thanks to the maestro Neozeed himself for the news :)
- Opi
Final Burn 0.012/0.14 - Dave released 2 new versions of Final Burn today, the AfterBurner emulator, here's what's new:
v0.014
+ Fixed some kind of config saving bug
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v0.012
+ Preliminary GUI panel. Press Escape to show and hide the panel.
+ Keyboard support. While a game is loaded, press "Input" and select "Use Keyboard". The keys are Up/Down/Left/Right/S/D.
+ Settings are saved to disk.
- I haven't put the 'Use Video Memory', 'Sample Rate' and 'Bass Filter' options in the GUI yet, but they can be changed by editing cfg\finalburn.ini
basicNES v0 [debug level 1.3] Is Out - EmuHQ reported a "fresh" basicNES release :) Current emulator status :
*** 6502 CPU(100%)
*** Background Graphics(100%)
*** Palette(95% some bugs).
*** Mapper #0,2,3,4,7,9,11,16,32,33,34,40,66,91
- Opi
RCA Studio 2 News - The RCA Studio 2 emulator homepage reported some very good news, all available emulator versions ("C" based, assembly & Windows) have been updated recently. If you're interested in Dreamcasts and Playstations "grand-grand pa" check it out :) Thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- Opi
WonderSwan Color - On my last visit at Vintage Gaming I noticed an interesting ign pocket article about the upcoming new handheld by Bandai. The reason why I decided to post it here is very easy to understand - I'll give you only one clue :) - Final Fantasy I, II & III.
- Opi
A Weird Battle - The millenium battle: Pokemon vs Quake 3 has been started. And the winner is ... :) How comes ? Read the full story - thanks Boba Fett.
- Opi
Pigs In JAE - Norbert Kehrer added one of my alltime faves to JAE the Java Arcade Emulator - Pooyan (Konami/Stern 1982). Help out the pig mama, don't allow the bad wolf to hijack those sweet pig babies :)
- Opi
MESS has been updated to v0.37b7. Here is the binary and here is the source.
- richard
Does the idea of attaching a Dreamcast to an arcade cabinet sound appealing to you? You won't want to miss this (second item down), link courtesy of reader Marc Kloosterman.
- dutch
Saturday, September 16th 2000 - Last updated @ 19:16 EST
WinEMU v0.48R3 - Lando mailed me about the latest WinEMU release :) Version 0.48R3 has the following new features or changes :
- o - Fixed memory mapping in 16 and 32k modes
- o - D64 support (read only)
- o - improved PC-Dir 1551 emulation
For more information about Zsolt Prievara's C16/Plus4 emulator, visit the WinEMU homepage.
- Opi
SMS Power - New stuff at SMS Power. Zoop uploaded new dumps of Monopoly for Master System and Portrait: Akira for Game Gear - thats a grand total of now 333 SMS Power releases - congratulations and thank you for your great efforts mon ami :)
- Opi
Help Needed - Demiforce, a ROM translating group have been trying to translate the Chrono Trigger Sequel
