Tuesday, October 31st 2000 - Last updated @ 20:35 EST
VGS Retail Patched & Pom1 v0.6 - Damn it, I couldn't resist checking my emails for a very last time and ... bingo, I received two new update info :-)
The first was from Aldo Vargas who successfully patched the retail version of VGS 1.41 with his new "higher resolution allowing" code ! If you like using this great Playstation emulator with 800x600 or 1024x768 - go for it !
The second was sent in by VERHILLE Arnaud, which announced the release of v0.6 of his online Java Apple I emulator Pom1. You have to catch the Java JRE before you're able to enjoy the following online gaming features :
Changes in version 0.6 :
- o - Fully Working General User Interface
- o - New Keyboard Handler
- o - Fully Tested under Linux
- o - Source Code released under GPL2
- o - Misc Bugs fixed
CURRENT EMULATOR FEATURES :
- NMOS 6502 cycle exact CPU emulation
- 100% of regular opcodes
- 100% Genuine Character Set
- Genuine Terminal speed (60 char/s)
- Hard/Soft Reset Behaviour
- Load/Save Memory in Raw Data and Sim6502 format
- Apple I software : The Little Tower
Check the Pom1 homepage for more information and the emulator itself - finally Arnauld is searching for useable information on the Apple I Basic and tape interface. So, if anyone can help him out with any info email him.
- Opi
G'night folks... Don't eat too much candy.
- prophet
ALE says BOO!!! - Amiga Legal Emulation did a nice Halloween update with some horror themed games! Did I mention they're free, legal & fun? Not many things in life fit that description. ;)
- prophet
Megabase release - Megabase is a new multi-console emulator frontend by Alessio Viti! If you're looking for a way to access your console games from a centralized menu, this could be your answer. I have not tried it personally though. Get it here.
- prophet
Sintendo WIP - The Sintendo homepage was updated with some developing news about this SNES emulator for Dreamcast - a first screenshot of the new emulator GUI can be viewed here - thanks to WWEmu for this news and the Atari 8-bit link :) Please check the homepage for the latest developing info - Opi out, good night and happy Halloween !!!
- Opi
gleam! v10/30/00 - A new gleam! version is online, this release "should" fix the PAL-Dreamcast problems. If you own a PAL Dreamcast and encountered these problems (I don't know what we're talking about), then it would be a good idea to visit the gleam! homepage and download this version :) thanks to EmuHQ for the news. If have the bad feeling that I made some serious grammar mistakes in this posting .... please correct me !
- Opi
MAME WIP - Another day, another MAME WIP update :)
- atila
Final Burn v0.052 - Shortly after the DirectX 3 release, Dave put a new Final Burn binary online : "Added a rom path variable 'szAppRomPath' to the cfg\finalburn.ini config file. Final Burn will search in this directory for rom zip files.By default it will search in the folder 'roms'". You can get it here.
- Opi
Game Collecting Board - I've renamed the Classic PC Games board to Game Collecting Board and it's moderated by postamessage. I have a feeling I should add another board, but I can't think of the right one, right now. Where's my coffee ?!?!
- atila
Monday, October 30th 2000 - Last updated @ 19:32 EST
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! - Be careful folks, don't get caught egging and TP-ing, and don't get sick on the candy. Have a safe and happy holiday, from the Retrogames staff! Mind the bats. :))
- dutch
RAINE For Linux v20001030 - Linux fans rejoyce RAINE for Linux, the Linux port of the fastest DOS multi-arcade emulator has been updated for the 2nd time. Grab it here - new : Added sound to gunbird - Fixed the sync problems with the new allegro sound - Removed the useless drive letters box !
- Opi
Virtual GameBoy v2.0 - Marat Fayzullin informed me about his latest Virtual GameBoy release. "The new version contains many new things, including rewritten sound emulation, much improved support for GBC palettes, more precise CPU and LCD timings, 16bit color in VGB-Windows, and countless small fixes". This is a commercial Game Boy/GBC emulator (the Windows version costs $35US) with many available ports - to support the Unix community, the Unix ports (incl. Linux) are free. For further information check the VGB Documentation.
- Opi
Hu-Go! v1.29 DOS And Linux - Hu-Go!, Zeograd's fine PC-Engine/TG-16 emulator was upgraded once again. Version 1.29 is currently available for DOS and Linux systems - the Win32 port is still at v1.29 alpha. New in this release : joypad support under Linux and a cleaned up source code. Please check the Hu-Go! download section for the version of your choice. Thanks to Navarone's Emulation 9 for the news.
- Opi
Burrrn-Time Again - Final Burn v0.051 is OUT !
- Changed to DirectDraw 3+
.. - To run the emu you need:
.. - DirectDraw 3 or higher.
.. - DirectInput 5 or higher.
.. - DirectSound 3 or higher.
VGS Hacked - Big PIXELS Turned Into tiny ones :) - Aldo Vargas "infected" the latest VGS demo with his own code and the result was a new abilitly :) What does this strange Opi sentence mean ? He patched the CVGS 1.41 demo with the result, that you can now play this PSX emulator in higher resolutions. 800x600 and 1024x768 patched binaries are online. Note : "The graphics area is still displayed at 640x480, but the pixels are much smaller". Thanks to EmuHQ for the cool news.
- Opi
WinAmp = MP3 Playback At It's Best - For all those who care - WinAmp v2.666 has been released. For a list of the latest "inventions" look here, the new version can be downloaded here.
- Opi
ClrMamePro v1.8d - A new version of Roman Scherzer's great ROM-manager ClrMamePro is online. New in version 1.8d : rebuilder fix: "use sysdef paths" + "use rebuilder paths" always complains about bad sysdef paths.
You can get it here ... no here ... errr - or was it here ? - hehehe ! Btw. updated datfiles for WPCMAME, U64Emu and Laser are available too.
- Opi
Advance Menu 1.4 - A great MAME/MESS frontend for DOS or Windows DOS box, written by my friend Andrea Mazzoleni! In fact, it's my personal favorite. This release has tons of new features, including more tile options plus new sound & music support (mp3's etc.)! The tile modes are very cool, allowing you to see up to 192 game previews on screen at once! :) I highly recommend trying this frontend out - it's not only for Advance MAME. Here is Advance Menu 1.4 Binary, you can find the source code and also tons of ready made sounds and previews at the Advance MAME homepage.
- prophet
Redump 3.2 - SMF released Redump 3.2, a utility that takes your existing MGD2 NeoGeo dumps and turns them into MVS format dumps. This version supports |Tyris|'s latest releases, so you won't need to download them. Get it at Sys2064.
- prophet
New WPCMAME & WPCMAME32 release - This one's for you Williams Pinball fans: "The WPCmame pinball similar allows you to 'emulate' arcade pinball roms on your computer. WPCmame is built as a driver added to the MAME 0.37 beta 8 source." Note that the games are NOT playable, but you can watch the LED backbox displays. This new release is said to be faster. See the WPCMAME homepage for more info. (Thanks Carny_Priest)
- prophet
TrueReality64 WIP 3 - A new version was released earlier, tentatively (I just wanted to use that word for once ;) called WIP 3. The main new addition is "Flash Ram support, so Zelda Mask of Mujara should be playeble and you can now save in several others". As always, check the TR64 site for more info, thanks to SlasherX for the news.
- atila
Fast Forward Button - How come there's no fast-forward button for days of the week ?
- atila
Sunday, October 29th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:19 EST
New gleam! Release - Visit the gleam! homepage if you wanna play Super Mario Brothers 1 on your Dreamcast :)
- Opi
More NeoPocott v0.37b releases - Shortly after the MacOS release of Gollum's NeoGeo Pocket emulator , 4 other new version have been released. Online are binaries for :
Click here for a list of the lastest changes. More NeoPocott related stuff (faqs, translated docs, comp. lists and tech info) can be found at the NeoPocott homepage. Thanks to PeterD for the email service !
- Opi
RockNES WIP - Here are the latest RockNES news (sort of) - the homepage is currently down, so I have to trust my news source WWEmu - which I do of course :):)
"I'm working on visine (my MegaMan2 editor) right now. Currently, I added color cycles (palette switching during gameplay) and sprite support (no gfx yet), which you can insert and delete sprites (256 per level!). Fixed tons of problems and bugs. If you can help me with MegaMan2, contact me.
On RockNES side, I did a small optimization to sound core, and BNSF was finally updated, within minor bugs squashed. Releases are scheduled to November, so stay tuned. :-)".
- Opi
Z26 v1.40 - Good Old Atari 2600 Stuff ! - Here's v1.40 of John Saeger's AtariVCS 2600 emulator for DOS Z26 ! Changes are :
- o - z26 is now Windows 9x long filename friendly! I didn't really believe it could be done in a DOS program, but Michael Walden Jr. came up with a very cool way to show a game's long filename in the title bar of the GUI.
- o - We have expanded the ROM capacity of the GUI from 693 to 2772 ROMs.
- o - We have tried to automatically recognize all of the various versions of ROMS that are commonly available. So now, the paddle controllers are automatically turned on for all 5 versions of Breakout. And so on...
- o - If you run into any ROMs that aren't automatically recognized correctly, please let me know. Thanks.
- o - Thanks to Michael Walden Jr. for help with this version.
Yame v0.20 - A new version of Yame, a japanese multi-system emulator (PC Engine, NES and Gameboy) for Windows 95/98/2000 has been released. Below are the translated changes :
- o - [It] corresponds to the clock with built-in the cartridge of Gameboy.
- o - Improvement of CPU emulation accuracy of Gameboy
- o - Bug correction of sound of Gameboy
- o - Concealment function addition of about 180KB's worth(Hardly operate.)
You can get it here - thanks Emuholic for the translation and to WWEmu for the news report !
- Opi
SNES Emulator Section Online - I didn't posted much today because I was busy creating and uploading our new own SNES Emulator Section ! Now there's no need to link to other sites as we did it in the past - please report any broken links or mistakes I've surely made or created :)
I need your help for the next section I would like to add to Retrogames. A NES/Famicom section - but which of the currently 18654 NES emulators should I add ? And why ? Please mail me your suggestions and include the Operation System, homepages and why you think this emu is worth to be mentioned here :) Thanks in advance.
- Opi
Sintendo Interview - EmulationX (Happy 27th Birthday!!!) did an interview with the author of Sintendo, a port of SNES9x for Dreamcast! (Thanks to EmulationX for letting us post this interview :)
- prophet
MEP Update - The MEP has added 7 Japanese RPG/Adventure games to their already HUGE list of MSX games!
- prophet
News at BYOAC - Saint's Build Your Own Arcade Controls site has a new news updater! Seems familiar... ;) Anyway, I can't recommend this site highly enough if you've any interest in arcade controls, cabinets and games.
- prophet
ZX Update - Malc updated the ZX site with a bunch of new cover scans!
- prophet
Lemon On The Road Again - A bunch of new original C-64 tape dumps are now available at Lemon - go and get them :)
- Opi
TZX Vault - Gilby has once again updated the TZX Vault, several new utilities, emulators, images and best of all 39 new spectrum games were added.
- atila
Programmable IPac - What's that you ask? :) The IPac is a superb keyboard->arcade controls interface, and it now has been updated to be programmable! If you're interesed in building a control panel, or simply interfacing one with your PC, this is a great product. And the price is only $39. IPac is designed by Andy Warne, and the software is written by Robert Palmqvist (aka Emumannen of SortInfo). Here's the IPac homepage.
- prophet
Sega/Sony announce huge losses - On Thursday and Friday, both Sony and Sega announced huge losses. Sega's losses are mainly because of the price cuts (DC went from $199 to $149) and the Sega.NET offer, which gives people the purchase price of their DC back, if they sign up. The Sony losses (couldn't find a direct link to the Bloomberg article, sorry) are because of the manufacturing costs of the PS2 (Sony loses about $180 per console sold) and the lagging software sales.
- atila
SupraHLE v1.0.b - The Company has released SupraHLE v1.0.b, a hack of UltraHLE designed to give "more speed to a bunch of games". Apparently, games it works well with are Super Mario Kart 64, Nba in the Zone 98, and Wave Race. Haven't tried it myself yet, so I really can't say. Give it a whirl here. Thanks to Emulation9 for the news.
- david
Gaming Today Messageboard - I've changed to Sega Dreamcast board to a "Gaming Today Board", so feel free to post about the (next-gen) consoles you are playing today, or the PC games you are playing today, or whatever :) I think you get my drift. How about some PS2 impressions on that board? Some of you must have been able to get a PS2, so start posting :)
- atila
NeoPocott for Mac has been updated to v0.37. The full list of changes is available at that link. The other ports should also be updated today.
- richard
Saturday, October 28th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:49 EST
Serious Hunger, ARH and Mimic - Just found this link to The Hunger Site on my latest visit at Arcade ROM Heaven ! Please click it and donate a cup of staple food for free to those who are inneed of help !
Now to the emulation related stuff - Guru-Choc has uploaded some new MAME "needed soon" ROMs and the Mimic homepage has been updated several times with WIP news about this multi-system emulator, check it out !
- Opi
And The Better Console Is .... - I just saw over at PSXEmu a link to this great DC.IGN article :) Title: Dreamcast Deathmatch: Bring it on, PS2 ! If you need some new ammunition for the ongoing Dreamcast vs PS2 war on our General Emulation Message Board - read it ! Note - the site needed nearly 2 minutes to load with my 8 kb/sec connection.
- Opi
For The Next Time I Demand A Longer Game Name - LOL - [JJ] from Retro Remakes informed me that John Dow and John Blythe of the Retrospec team have produced yet another cool remake, this time they "covered" the strangely titled C64 game "Metagalactic Llama's Battle at the Edge of Time" (sounds like a Jeff Minter game). He ([JJ]) rated it 4 out of 5 !
- Opi
Three Emulator Ports For Linux - Vintage Gaming mentioned http://www.emulinks.de/emus as a good source of Linux ports of well known emulators. Currently are available : RAINE V20000819, c2emu 0.2b and SMS Plus 0.9.3 - all ported by Uli !
- Opi
BeGen v0.0.5 - EmuHQ reported a newly updated BeGen version. If you're using BeOS as operation system and wanna have a comfortable front-end for the BeOS port of DGen, grab this front-end and play your favourite Genesis game without configuration trouble ! WOW what a lot of used links :)
- Opi
Weird Emu World :) - Here's an emulation news for all die hard Amiga users - I mean those 5 who are still using their old Amiga machines :)
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator ASp for Commodore Amiga has been updated to v0.76 - now with accurate speed, excellent sound and full multitasking ! Maybe you can do something really crazy, fire up your favourite Amiga emu and then use ASp to play your beloved Speccy games (dunno if it would work - tell me) !Thanks to World of Spectrum for the nice news :-)
- Opi
£3,575 For A Dream - Where ? Check this picture from the UK newspaper The Daily Record on Saturday 28th Oct 2000 ! Thanks to Candlejack for the pic :)
- Opi
Myzar's Nemu Ini v1.7.1 - Myzar posted a new unofficial Nemu ini. V1.7.1 added some new comments to the games and some cheats for Mario 64. Download it here - thanks to Geoshock for the news !
- Opi
Old Stuff Renewed - _MADrigal_ has updated his first two simulators he made : Motor Cross to v2.01 (new audio features, shaped form and more) and Grab Man (Inno-Hit) to v2.01 (Artificial Intelligence, shaped form and more). Go and get them here !
- Opi
JAE Emulates Namco Sound Chip - Norbert Kehrer has sent me the following email : " I made the first really emulated sound for the Java Arcade Emulator. The Namco sound chip used in :
- o - Pacman,
- o - Ms. Pacman, and
- o - Pengo
has been emulated in Java. This time this was not done by only playing pre-recorded samples of the game, but by constructing the sound for the Namco 3-voice sound generator in real-time. The result is not very nice, when compared to MAME (due to the limitations of standard Java). But maybe I can improve the concept in the future. Try out these three classics with their amazing tunes at http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/" Sounds really cool :)
- Opi
King of the Monsters MVS redump - The |Tyris| redumps keep coming! SMF will most likely release another version of his redump conversion utility soon, so you can wait for that or read this message from |Tyris| if you want the dump now.
- prophet
Neo-Geo.com - I bumped into this AWESOME NeoGeo fan/collecting site the other day - www.neo-geo.com! Tons of info and some terrific message boards. This is NOT, I repeat, NOT an emulation site so respect that fact if you visit. But for NeoGeo fans of all kinds, it's a fun site to visit. There are some hardcore Neo experts there, so it's also an ideal place to get advice or help about all things Neo.
- prophet
Eightman MVS - Visit Sys2064 and grab the latest copy of smf's Redump v3.1. You can convert your MAME/NeoRageX Eightman MGD2 ROM set to the arcade MVS version (redumped by Tyris), which is the desired version for MAME. There's no need to download the whole Eightman ROM set again :)
- Opi
Laser v0.13 - Lopantu's multi Space Invader emulator Laser is now available as version 0.13 - these are the latest changes :
- o - Added support for Space Invaders Part II (Taito)
- o - Added support for Moon Base (Space Invaders Part II Bootleg)
- o - Fixed credit counter color to match with MAME
SNEeSe v0.53 - SNEeSe, a fine SNES emulator for DOS, has been updated to v0.53. Changes : 65c816: Fixed a bug in the MVP/MVN opcodes that could seriously disrupt timing (fixes Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest). You can get it here.
- Opi
The Game Room - Sci pointed me towards The Game Room, a really cool game review site. All their reviews are in video format and the reviewers are a whacky bunch, so this site is a guaranteed hit :) They review games from a lot of systems, both old and new, and they seem to be thoroughly enjoying it! Another great site to add to your bookmarks!
- atila
Friday, October 27th 2000 - Last updated @ 19:20 EST
Goodxxx Collection Online - I've uploaded all currently available ROM renamer tools made by Cowering and created a link on the left navbar look below Misc. things :) More to come !
- Opi
Gens Multilingual - Here's is the new Gens language.dat file with support for English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italiano, Hebrew, Dutch, German, Russian, Swedish, Chinese and Japanese ! Remove the unneeded languages or otherwise Gens will become very slow :) Thanks again to WWEmu for this news report.
- Opi
GetRight v4.3 - The famous download manager GetRight was updated to version 4.3. THIS is new or updated, you can download it here ! Thanks to WWEmu for the hint !
- Opi
OverClocked ReMix - OC ReMix keeps on truckin' with four new ReMixes today, including our first 'co-op' mix, done by the equally amazing McVaffe and Quasikaotic, of TETRIS. There's also a really classic Zelda 3 ReMix as well. Also, if you or someone you know have a strong grasp of PHP4 and MySQL, please see this post - I could use some help :) Grab da ReMixes here.
- david
MZ700Win v0.52 Final - Marukun's MZ700 emulator for the Win32 platform has been updated to version 0.52. It's a maintenance release, mostly bugfixes, and the author notes he will be suspending work on the emu until March of next year. Grab it here. Thanks to Emulation9 for the news.
- david
u64Emu 1.07! - u64Emu version 1.07 was released earlier and here's what's new:
- A new input config screen has been made which should work with the keyboard and most joysticks. It will work with any DirectInput devices.
- Fixed a problem "TestMode" that was preventing people from changing difficulty.
- Bug that crashed emulator when performing a fatality should be fixed.
You can download the binary from KIAME/U64Emu site. Thanks to Dawid K. for the news.
- atila
Windows Source Code Stolen? - For the past three months, a PC on the internal Microsoft network had been running a trojan, which allowed people from St. Petersburg, Russia to have a look-see and download whatever they wanted. Which they apparently did.
- atila
VIOLENT VIDEO GAME ORDINANCE PASSED
There has been an ordinance passed in St. Louis which will ban the use of violent or sexually explicit arcade games to minors.
This was reported on the local news here at Fox 2 KTVI in St. Louis. It is the first such law of its kind in the US. If you do not use IE you can read the report here.
Please feel free to contact Jeff Wagener and let him know what you think about this ordinance.
- chris
YANKEES - yeah ^^ (first post in a long time and not emu-related, I know, but I just couldn't resist)
- david
Thursday, October 26th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:46 EST
First Project #51 Release - The Windows version of Project #51, a senior design project to create a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator, has been released. It isn't perfect but playable. Note: it only works in 16-bit color - thanks to Emulation 9 for the news.
- Opi
Eightman MVS redump - |Tyris| has delivered yet another NeoGeo redump: Eightman! Soon we'll be free of those MGD2 dumps. Plus |Tyris| hopes to have a look at some possibly bad dumps of certain games. Check our NeoGeo board to learn more, as |Tyris| is a regular visitor.
- prophet
Crimson Skies - What A Great PC Game ! - Normally I don't post about commercial games, but yesterday I discovered a Crimson Skies demo on a german computer magazine cd. I've read before about the story and found it very interesting and installed it ..... wow what a great game, after a few seconds playing errr flying around I was amazed and totally hooked. I've never liked all these hardcore flight sims, but this game has an arcade style gameplay - I mastered level 1 with my 3rd attempt :) Crimson Skies has awesome graphics (runs smooth on my P2-400), great digital voices and is a must buy !!! - even it's from the "evil empire" called Microsoft :)
The demo, some movies, goodies and the first patch can be found here. Crimson Skies previews, reviews, links, and resources can be found at about.com and PC Arena ! IT's AWESOME - belive me :-) Update If you've already bought this game and encountered some serious problems (I was told that gamers with 64 mb RAM will need a lot of patience - due to a very long loading time between the levels) then check the boards at www.crimsonskies.org for more info and help - thanks Robert :)
- Opi
PS2 Launch - Here's an article contrasting today's US Playstation 2 launch with other console launches throughout the 70's and 80's, starting with the Atari 2600. (Can you believe the launch price for the 2600 was $200 US, which is equivalent to $567.66 US today?) Thanks to Solvalou for the tip!
- dutch
Skyscraper Tempest anyone? - The good folks at Laser MAME are planning an incredible test of their MAME variant this Saturday night! Expect to see Tempest playing off the side of a building in downtown Pittsburg, most likely 100 feet in size or more. =P They'll be using a 15W White Light Laser projecting 1/4 mile away from the building. Kinda makes those 50" arcade screens seem tiny.
- prophet
ArcadeOS v2.42 - New stuff for all owner of a aracde cabinets, ArcadeOS v2.42 is online :)
- o - Added user definable Filters for game lists(MAME only)
- o - AOS now uses the SEAL library for sound support
- o - Added 'Custom Lists contain copies of all Games' option
- o - Long File Name update - AOS displays long fine name, but passed 8.3 short DOS file name to emulator, as not all emualtors can handle LFNs
- o - Added 'Display' sub-menu to ArcadeOS config menus
Legal Amiga CD 32 ISO - CD 32 Legal Dumping Projekt offers you Last Ninja 3 from System 3 as a legal download - a review of this game can be found here.
- Opi
Fort Knox For TRS-80 Fans - Ira Goldklang has updated his TRS-80 Revived Site to clean out duplicate and bad files and to put the TOSEC-style names in the zip comments. He has also, for the first time, made the Model 1, Model 3, and Model 4 archives available in large (10MB) chunks for easy downloading. Those chunks can be found on the news page (the top button on the left navbar). And while your there, if you could click on the sponsor on the news page, it would really help to keep this site alive I guess :) - Danke Dir Till, sowas ist fein :)
- Opi
Ben Chi - If you are an English speaking Anime fan and haven't heard this prank call yet, you're missing out. :) I understand those responsible are the same people behind Jackass (new show on MTV, for Americans at least). Thanks to Space for the file.
- dutch
Laser v0.12 - Lopantu'sLaser emulator has been updated to v0.12 ! The only change in this version is a adjusted Space Invaders Deluxe color, now it matches those in MAME. Thanks to Till from Sys2064 for the news.
- Opi
Moron of the Day Award - I'd like to welcome you to a new section here at Retrogames, the Moron Of The Day Award. Today's award goes to montana131, who bid $14,999 for a PS2. I have a feeling that he/she is probably fake, but it's nice to award him/her the MOTD Award anyway :) Thanks to Albert S. for the link.
- atila
New Rumor Mill - Agent 00Q has posted a new Rumor Mill, filled with lots of juicy info. JoseQ also mentioned that he lost another sponsor, because of the low click-through rate. Help support your favorite (emu)site by clicking on their banners every now and then.
- atila
Raine For Linux - The Raine port for Linux I mentioned a few days ago is now available for download at this location, here's what the porter had to say:
To sum up : It is totally equivalent to the 20000924. Everything is working, even darius gaiden and for this one I don't even understand why it's working !!! I guess it has something to do whith a wild pointer which by pure chance pointed where it was supposed to !!! Since the new sound support is not perfect yet, I also propose the old mame sound support. I will put a binary with allegro statically linked soon (for now it is dynamic and it can give some problems on some configs !!!) Have fun !
Sigh ... - As I was walking upto my car last night, I saw some policemen gathered around it. Apparently, earlier yesterday, someone had smashed into the side of my PARKED car. Both my doors (driverside) were hit. They left a note with a name/address, which I'm about to verify. Then at night (23:30) some drunken dude had smashed into the BMW parked behind my car, then hit my car, went across the street and hit a Hyundai. Then he left his car in the middle of the street, hurried into the snackbar and had 3 cups of black coffee (the owner of the snackbar told me this) and then the police came. Obviously, the dude was drunk. The police told me they'd contact me next week, since the dude was German, so they had a to check a few things. Sigh ...
- atila
PS2 Launch - It's Thursday and the PS2 has launched. There will be a mad frenzy today :) I've have yet to check out the various sites about this, so I have no clue what's going on right now.
- atila
Wednesday, October 25th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:29 EST
R.A.Z.E. v1.04 ! - Wanna make your own emulator ? Need a good one for the Zilog Z80 processor ? Try Richard Mitton'sR.A.Z.E. emu, it's extremely accurate and has a almost perfect emulation of the undocumented processor functions. Version 1.04 has been released today with a fixed MSVC, BIT instr now passes all ZEX tests, fixed support for Quazatron !
- Opi
Almost 30 :) - Ridge, another busy member of the emulation comunity turned 29 today ! May I help you to cross the street now ? Errr ... congratulations and best wishes for the next (very hard) anniversary :))) Visit his Ridge World Source Network and be amazed :)
- Opi
KI HD Image Converter - Till from Sys2064 posted a new tool developed by smf: Nekkid v1.0 "... which can convert the two different Killer Instinct HDD images. The U64Emu can only use one of the two sets and if you got the wrong one you can convert it to the other one and don't have to download the other one too". If you encountered this problem - visit Sys2064 and grab Nekkid.
- Opi
Twin Galaxies - This post is a month late, it got lost in my mailbox, I apologize for the delay.
The high-score database containing the official world records for video game and pinball playing is now available on the Internet as a free reference source.
This body of information is essentially the statistical history of video game and pinball playing from 1977 to present and has already been used as a reference source by many news agencies and Hollywood producers, including the Guinness Book of World Records, ABC-TV?s That?s Incredible and Jeopardy, the TV game show. In the next month, this data will be supplemented with 15,000 further high scores which represent the new world records on today's current game titles.
MAME WIP - There's a wee update at the MAME WIP page. Get a-clickin' :)
- atila
ClrMAME Pro 1.8c - Roman Scherzer released a new version of his great ROM-manager ClrMAME Pro, here are the changes in release 1.8c :
- o - added: system-default-paths. The rebuilder can now rebuild the files to a specified system-dependent path. E.g. all neogeo files will go to c:\neogeo while other stuff go to 'd:\roms'. The scanner fixmissing option will use these paths, too. A new set will be added to the defaultpath (if specified) not to rompath 0. To edit the system-default-paths you have to double-click on the system names (rebuilder or scanner).
- o - added: support for manufacturer tags (manufacturer will be displayed, too).
- o - misc: fix missing will now also tries to replace bad sized roms which weren't fixed by the fix size routine.
- o - misc: added a kind of statusline to the scan results window (well..only additional information are the manufacturers).
- o - misc: fix missing will now do a quick search in your rompaths for missing (but already existing) roms.
- o - fixed: rare wrong rebuilder progress bar display.
- o - fixed: very little issue about forced ~crc rebuilding.
Click here to download it ! Check the homepage for new U64Emu, WPCmame and Mimic datfiles !
- Opi
Arcade WIP - Soon after the major work for his C2 Driver was done, Haze decided to try emulating the UPL/Taito (c)1984 game Ninja Kid aka Ninjakun Majou no Bouken :) Check it out.
- Opi
Acer Will Bring PlayStation Games To DVD Players - Knology mailed me about this The Register story : "Taiwan's Acer Labs is working on processor, chipset and software combo that will allow DVD players to run PC and Sony PlayStation games." ! Sounds cool - read the full story here.
- Opi
Killer Instinct ROMs Where ? - If you're still trying to locate the Killer Instinct ROM-set and the HD image for U64Emu - check Tim Eckel'sArcade@Home and enjoy (after a monumental download of course) !
- Opi
Fly-er Fly-er Away! - The Arcade Flyers site has been updated once again, there are now 1535 different flyers on the site. not only are these nice to look at, you can also use them in Raine/MAME frontends :)
- atila
Ruh roh - Seems there's already rumors flying around about rivalry amongst the U64emu team. I've heard nothing (nor have I seen the rant on the homepage that was posted for a short while) but my impression is everything's cool now. Check this thread.
- dutch
U64Emu 1.04 - U64Emu, the Killer Instinct emulator, has already had an update to version 1.04. If you had problems with the last release, try this one. Bwb also mentions that if the game just says "draw" for you and you can't start a game, delete your ki.dat file and restart the emulator.
- dutch
10 Reasons NOT to buy a PS2 - HAHA! Indrema has posted 10 reasons not to buy a PS2 (or xbox). Thanks to Linux Games for the news.
- chris
Tuesday, October 24th 2000 - Last updated @ 21:11 EST
Disasteroids 3D v1.2 - Disasteroids 3D - Thom Wetzel's great Asteroids remake (using Visual Studio and OpenGL!) has been updated to version 1.2. Look at this screenshot and then rush to the Disasteroids 3D homepage and grab this games:) Thanks to Retro Remakes for the hint.
- Opi
Yape v0.21 - EmuViews reported another update of Yape - the most advanced and most frequent updated Commdore C-16/Plus emulator. These are Attila's latest additions :
- o - flashing mode implemented (long awaited feature :-) )
- o - white noise on the second sound channel done (try with Mercenary again!)
- o - merged the ROMs into the executable file, so you won't need
..... them anymore
- o - ROM banking implemented (plus/4 built-in programs work)
- o - sound bugs corrected (well, some of many :-) )
- o - another disk loader bug corrected
"From now on, given the ability to use the plus/4 built-in software, Yape is able to emulate all types of Commodore micros known as the 264 family (excluding the 364 prototype unit...)" Download it here.
- Opi
Killer Instinct Emulator Is Out!!! - Time to emulate the Killer Instinct arcade game on your Windows computer! Kiame, renamed U64, has finally been released. You can click here to download IF a) you promise to read the readme.txt file and b) you keep in mind that sound isn't working. What about the hard drive image/roms? Well, they are 100 megs. JoseQ is looking into a way to post these, in the meantime a good resource will most likely be Usenet. Please don't mail me asking how to get the ROMs for this, I can't help you.
- dutch
SMOG News - The SMOG homepage has been updated with a bad news for all those who prayed and hoped for a working Sega Model 1 Game emulator :"People have been asking me what's going on and if SMOG is dead. Not yet, but things aren't going anywhere so I'm thinking of canning the project. For those who are interested, here is the V60 information I have - maybe somebody else can get a little further than I did. Credit goes to Raul Bloodworth for getting this to me". Links: Partial V60 Manual - Other V60 Info - hardware info.
- Opi
Laser MAME - Wanna play some vector arcade games on a real vector diplay? How about on a 72" laser projector? Then check out Laser MAME! More proof that open source is the right way to go. (Thanks |Badger|)
- prophet
LIFE_STAGES.TXT = Virus - A really bad minded idiot sent me a file called LIFE_STAGES.TXT which is an IRC worm similar to a virus. If you receive an email with this file attached or someone dcc it to you - don't open it ... as I did :( In case of emergency follow this link and download Symantec's fixlife.exe - it solved my problem - thanks Duglis :)
- Opi
Some People Definitely Need To Get Out More Often - CherryROMs (oldschool SNES ROMs site, only a few ROMs there at the moment) has been getting quite a bit of truly classic lamer mail lately. If you're feeling bored and are in need of a good laugh (and don't mind course language :), have a look at it. The most recently posted mail at the top had me rolling on the floor (almost literally), truly an all time classic.
- dutch
MSX Front-end UPDATED - The MEP-Crew informed me, that the recently released new Windows front-end for fMSX had a serious bug in it, rendering it unable to boot files. This bug has been solved and the updated version is now available at file-hunter.com.
- Opi
u64 Emu released! - The Killer Instict emulator is finally here, so you better download it fast! Oh yeah, the 'roms' for this emulator are about 94MBs in size, total. Good luck finding/downloading them ? Thanks to Dave, over at VGN, for the news.
- atila
Complete Translation For Sanrio Cup Ponpon Volley - Gaijin Productions and Spinner 8 released a 100% patch for Sanrio Cup Ponpon Volley, a super-sweet NES game starring Hello Kitty, Taboo, Pacchaco, and Kerropi. Thanks to Whirlpool for the release info, visit this site for all your translation needs - including this patch :)
- Opi
WPCMame Goes Mac - Carbon did a Macintosh port of WPCMame - the so called "Pinball" emulator. This port based on the v0.37 beta 8 WPCmame source (and the MAME source of course). Thanks to Paul D for the email. Check shivaSite for news about WPCmame, manuals, strategy tips and tons of other stuff.
- Opi
SNEeSe v0.52 - SNEeSe, a fine SNES emulator for DOS was updated today.
- o - Stability: Fixed a serious bug in the tile decoder that has caused
..... crashes since the decoder was rewritten in 0.40
- o -Timing: Corrected an error in the CPU timing
- o - Interface: Added a fast-forward key (tilde)
You can download SNEeSe v0.52 here - thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- Opi
CBEBoy v0.014 ßeta - David Perez released a new Game Boy emulator for DOS called CBEBoy. Here is a list of the currently included features:
- o - Cartdridge header read.
- o - CPU-z80 emulation.
- o - Integrated dissassembler and debugger.
- o - Support of ROM ONLY, MBC1/2/3, GB CAMERA and
..... Hudson Hu-C1 rom types emulation.
- o - LCD emulation.
- o - Interrupts of VBlank, LCD and Timer.
- o - Virtual joypad (not using GB joypad int.)
- o - Pallette effects.
- o - Save Battery support.
Whoops - There's an oopsie in some Toy Story 2 DVDs. :)
- dutch
Fanboy accusations - I was accused of being a Sega fanboy yesterday, the person in question said I posted 2 anti-Sony posts a day. I checked the news archives and I couldn't even find a single anti-Sony post for a few weeks, at least :) Anyway, I'd like to give the man some ammo, so that his claim gets a bit of validity, since he's making a fool of himself right now. Sony doesn't really need my help in destroying the PLAYSTATION brandname, they're doing an excellent job of that themselves.
Time Magazine has done an article on the PS2, which has this quote by John Carmack:
The PlayStation2 doesn't live up to Sony's hype," says Carmack. "It's just a next-generation machine, and they were acting like they'd invented the steam engine."
I guess John Carmack is a Sega fanboy too, for calling it as he sees it :) And GameDay (football game developed by Sony) isn't helping the PS2 either. Like I said, Sony doesn't need my help :) Feel free to vent your anger/thoughts at this thread.
- atila
TGB Dual Ver. Vol.0 (Build:0478:3249) Pre-Release Beta - That's a mouthfull, innit ? This is quite a special release though, this GBx emulator allows you to start 2 sessions and connect them via a 'virtual linkcable' - both playing different roms! Yes, you can now play, say, Pokemon Red and Blue at the same time and use the virtual link cable. Click here to download it, thanks to Jek Chan for the description.
- atila
Amiga Demos - Amiga Legal Emulation has posted a few demos for the Amiga, to view screen shots and requirements, you can go to ALE, linked above. If you've never seen a demo, you're missing out -- seriously! For PC demos, you may wanna check out the 'Latest News' section on scene.org.
- atila
MAMERun beta 7 - Jason Stefanovich has released beta 7 of his OS/2 PM frontend MAMERun for the DOS version of MAME. This is the ONLY frontend for MAME under OS/2.
- chris
Monday, October 23rd 2000 - Last updated @ 19:08 EST
MSX Front-end - The Boss released version 2.0a of his Windows front-end for Marat Fayzullin'sfMSX. Now with background music and images which belong to the games that can be used. For more info, the file and more than 1,800 games - visit the MEP-Crew.
- Opi
500 Snack Ideas - My coworker gave me this link, it's from cookbooks from the 1950's. Sounded kind of lame, but when I checked this out I couldn't stop laughing. :)
- dutch
Hurra - Gens v0.88 ist da :) - Great news - Gens v0.88 is online here :) thanks to Stéphane DALLONGEVILLE for releasing another masterpiece :) Read the results of his latest efforts below or hurry and search the grand price aka file link and grab your copy of this great Genesis emulator for Win9x !
- o - Country select feature added.
- o - Menu language support improved :
..... - Menu is dynamically rebuild from language.dat file so it's very easy to add or change a menu language.
- o - English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Hebrew menu language are actually supported.
- o - Screen-Shot feature added.
- o - Direct Draw code modified :
..... - 'Normal' and 'Double' render mode uses hardware blit in Fullscreen.
..... - Screen Size x1, x2 removed in windowed mode because not usefull.
..... - Screen refresh improved when emulation is paused.
- o - My 68000 core and MZ80 core are removed (RAZE and custom Starscream are accurate).
- o - Debugger rewritten for Starscream.
- o - Message drawing code rewritten.
- o - GENS becomes cardware.
- o - figured that Gens played Genesis voices (especially in SSFII) better than the real genesis, the bug is now fixed so voices are now more crap with almost game :(
- o - Others little fix or add ...
Games broken : Double Dragon 2 (this game is very sensitive to CPU timing :( ) Games fixed : Frogger
G-NES v0.44b - Shortly after the initial v0.44 release, Gigo posted two new bugfixed versions of his NES emulator G-NES. Click here to download G-NES v0.44b in english or here for the japanese version. Thanks to Navarone's Emulation 9 for the release info.
- Opi
Mimic WIP News - Mike Beaver'sMimic homepage has been updated several times recently with interesting progress news about this multic-console emulator. He added SMS line interrupts (increasing the compatability) and started coverting Mimic into 32bit code using DJGPP. And here's a cool Mike Beaver quote "BTW: I noticed that Mimic 1.04 was given an audio rating of 5.5/10 at a certain emu news site. Not bad for an emu without any sound at all. :)" LOL hahaha.
- Opi
Redump v3.0 - Till received a new version of Redump, a tool made by smf that ables you to convert the NeoGeo MGD2 home ROM versions to the MAME friendly MVS format. Redump 3.0 adds support for Riding Hero and is available at Sys2064. Note - you'll need a place to find the "p1" ROM, because the one created by Redump will be still the home version. Watch Arcade@Home, Arcade ROM Heaven and EmuViews for it ... maybe ... who knows :)
- Opi
Play Online - Mike Dailly has added joystick support to Minus4 Java - his Java C16/Plus4 emulator and Lando C16/PLUS4 CLASSIX celebrates this breakthrough with 20 new C-16 games for your online gaming experience !
- Opi
MAMECE3 Messageboard - We're now hosting the MAMECE3 messageboard, so click the link and get a-writing :) If you are in need of a good messageboard, feel free to mail me and I'll set one up for your needs. And please, no requests for 'pr0n' and warez boards. I won't set those up.
- atila
New WinUAE Beta - A new WinUAE version has been sent to the beta testers ! This new beta should fix a couple of stupid bugs, and finally it adds native zlib.dll support to WinUAE (no more DOS console popping up for .adz files!!!) Lets cross our fingers for new public release shortly !
- Opi
MameCE3 - Techmaster released a new version of his MAME CE port - now renamed to MameCE3. He released 3 new builds (all based upon MAME v0.36 beta 8) - with support for ARM, MIPS and SH3 (new) processors. Click here for a list of the latest changes - thanks to Marconelly LABS! for the email :) ooh, a nice site design and layout btw :)
- Opi
PalmBoy 3.0 released! - PalmBoy 3.0 was released earlier, it's a GameBoy emulator Palm PDA's and it now runs commercial roms. The source code is available at the site linked above. Thanks to Carlos G. for the news.
- atila
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NES! - The NES turned 15 today! I love the NES, I don't love the controller (too small for my hands :), but I sure love the games on that little machine. Where would have we been without the 'revolution' caused by the NES (Famicom in Japan)? Why not post your thoughts at this thread :) Thanks to smcn for the link.
- atila
Raine Linux Port - I believe this is the second port of Raine for Linux, so click here to read the annoucement and more specific info.
- atila
Feel My Pain - The things I have to go through here at work! A customer walks in and asks for a calling card:
Me: Which card would you like ?
Customer: I wanna call Guinea
Me: Here ya go!
Cu: How many minutes do I get for 25DGL (about $10)
Me: 36 mins to Guinea.
You'd think that's the end of that, well, it ain't! After 3 minutes he comes barging in, yelling and screaming.
Me: What seems to be the problem?
Cu: I get only 20 mins when making a call!
Me: That's odd, please give me the card so I can check.
I take the card, dial the 1-800 acces number and dial +224-46xxxx and I hear the voice say: "You have 36 mins for this call". I hand him the card and say it's OK. He goes to the booth outside and comes back in, yelling and screaming again!
Me (slighlty annoyed): What wrong with it NOW ?!
Cu: It says I only get 20 mins!
Me: That's not possible, I just checked. Please let me see the number you are dialing.
Cu: +223-xxxxxx
Me: Sir, that's not Guinea, that Mali. The card gives you 36 mins to Guinea and 20 to Mali. Different country, different rates.
Cu: NO! I want 36 mins to MALI! This card is a rip-off, gimme my money back, you thief!
I try to explain the situation to him, but he's very reluctant to comprehend what I'm saying. He continues to yell at me, demanding his money back. He's saying he's gonna go to the cops and have me arrested! At this point I get very annoyed and ask the man to leave my store. Since he's not willing, I help him to the door - he almost gets acquinted with the window.
Needless to say, I'm still waiting for the cops :)
- atila
OverClocked ReMix - alright, I've moved into my new home, my PCs are all up, my DC and PSX are werkin', so no excuses any more :( I'll try to be postin' some non-me news quite soon, but in the meantime, uhhh - OverClocked ReMix has passed 150K hits, and now hosts a new site, Bart Klepka's PC ReMixes. He just released a new Doom II ReMix, accessible via either site, and at OC ReMix there are also FF9, Zelda64,and Street Fighter II ReMixes. Also, OC ReMix got #16 in SHIFT magazine's 'Top 20 Sites'. At least it wasn't dead last, eh?? Thanks to Geoff Yuen for that news.
- david
Sunday, October 22nd 2000 - Last updated @ 19:41 EST
Team Japump! - News from Team Japump!, they dumped another bunch of japanese arcade boards for future MAME (or whatever) needs :)
- Super Football Champ (JPN Ver.) (c)1995 Taito
- Puzzle De Bowling (JPN Ver.) (c)1999 Nihon System / Moss
- Manhattan 24 Bunsyo (Jail Break JPN Ver.) (c)1986 Konami
- Lovely Poker (JPN Ver.) (c)1985 Tehkan
- Mahjong Hyouban Musume (JPN Ver.) (c)1989 T.R.Tec / Nihon Bussan
- Gals Panic 3 (JPN Ver.) (c)1995 Kaneko
- Idol-Mahjong Final Romance (JPN Ver.) (c)1991 Video System
- E-Jan High School (JPN Ver.) (c)1996 Seibu SPI System
- Dancing Eyes (JPN Ver.) (c)1996 Namco, System 11
Thanks to Emulation 9 for the dumping info ! AS a side note :) I just came back from the first german STYX concert since 1981 !!! Anyone remember Mr. Roboto, Babe, Carrie Anne or Boat on the River to name a few ? If you have the chance to see Styx during their "Brave The Paradise" tour - do it !!! Melodic Rock at its best !
- Opi
Zzap!64 ONLINE - The Def Guide to Zzap!64 has started to scan and upload all back issues of Zzap!64, the great old british C-64 magazine, which I bought too, in the good ol' C-64 days. Visit it and welcome some nice flashbacks :) Thanks to Emucamp for the hint.
- Opi
GNES v0.44 - GIGO released a new version of his NES/Famicom enulators for Win9x GNES. Click here to download the english G-NES version 0.44 or use this link if you prefer the japanese binary :) You'll need at least Win9x with an installed DirectX5 to run this emulator - don't ask me what's new, an english list of the current emulator features is included in the archive offered above. Thanks to Navarone's Emulation 9 for the news.
- Opi
MAME WIP - Gridle has updated ye olde WIP pages again, so you better 'enjoy it now!!1' (inside joke ;)
- atila
WPCmame Pinball emulator - WPCmame - the "Pinball" emulator has been updated again. I've never heard about this emu before and I'm not sure if I fully understand the whole thing. So I decided to cut and paste the latest update :-) (ie I'm too lazy)
"The WPCmame pinball similar allows you to "emulate" arcade pinball roms on your computer. WPCmame is built as a driver added to the MAME 0.37 beta 8 source.
This WPC pinball emulator/simulator is not playable. It only emulates the electronic circuit boards and the display in the pinball machine backbox. There are no playfield and no balls. All WPC games from Dr. Dude to Cactus Canyon are supported. Supported means that the game loads and the display starts up with lamps etc. All games also enters the attract mode and you can use the Coin Door switches to enter the menus".
Here are some press releases about WPCmame :) For more informationa and the emulator itself check the WPCmame homepage. Curious retrogamers can check WMS Pinball for some useful goodies :) Thanks to Paul from shivaSite for the email ! BTW it's a nice site with a great new layout :-)
- Opi
RealSpectrum beta #8 (v0.70.19) - RealSpectrum, one of the most advanced Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulators for DOS, developed by RAMSOFT, has been updated again. Click here for a list of the latest changes in beta 8. Choose your download below :
I've also mirrored the RealSpectrum FAQ (87 k) as a service for you :) to avoid frustrating tries at the really mega slowRealSpectrum homepage !
Visit World Of Spectrum for any further Spectrum needs !
- Opi
Sega and Graffiti - In an interesting turn of events, Jet Set Radio's US release (retitled Jet Grind Radio) is being promoted with a graffiti contest in San Francisco, something that the San Francisco Mayor wants to ban. Some see graffiti as an art form, others see it as vandalism. To judge for yourself, visit Art Crimes for thousands of examples. :) (You'll notice that San Francisco has the most graffiti listed on the site.)
- dutch
ROM Hunt Tip - Just wanted to point out, if you scanned your Final Burn ROMsets with Roman's latest DAT file and found missing ROMs in Thunder Blade (Japan), I was able to find a complete set on Usenet - a.b.e.m. If you are looking for it on the web, the correct set's size is 1.20 megs.
- dutch
Saturday, October 21st 2000 - Last updated @ 22:47 EST
Nolan Bushnell Interview - After yesterday's post about uWink.com, Mike Stulir informed me of an interview he had with Nolan which is hosted on his web page backntime.net. If you havn't already heard this, I recommend you fire up your real player and give it a listen, it is an excellent interview. As well there are other insteresting radio programs involving classic gaming and emulation.
- chris
Amiga's "Come Back" - Amiga announced "zico" aka AmigaOne - the first new Amiga hardware in over 6 years. "The AmigaOne, our first consumer product, will be targeted at the desktop and workstation market. Further products to follow will cover the markets from Personal Digital Assistants and upwards. All these products will run a single piece of software, the revolutionary Amiga Digital Environment (DE).
We completed the AmigaOne specification three months ago, and dubbed it the zico. It is a specification and not a product because Amiga is a software company, not a hardware manufacturer. The ability of the Amiga DE to host itself on multiple hardware and operating system platforms frees us from hardware dependency and gives our partners and our customers the freedom to chose the hardware that best suits their needs and tastes.
The zico specification is as follows" :
- One AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
- 64MB+ memory
- Next Generation Matrox graphics card
- Creative EMU10K1 based audio card
- 10 GB+ HD
- CD/DVD
- USB 1.0
- Firewire
- 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 56k modem
- Spare PCI slots for expandibility
FairyLand Story Goes MAME - Visit Arcade ROM Heaven if you wanna download a special MAME version, compiled by Guru-Choc. This new binary is a FairyLand Story only MAME derive - the ROM set can also be found at ARH !!! NICE :-) thanks to Sys2064 for the news.
- Opi
Spectrum Stuff - The .TZX Vault has seen another update with 34 new Spectrum tape images this time, plus some new rare scans - like a poster of the Lords Of Midnight from the Aug '84 issue of Personal Computer Games and the Jun '84 cover of C+VG covering the game Andre's Night Off by Mathew Smith. A .tzx file of Andre's Night Off will be made available within the next week or two.
- Opi
Emulators Unlimited - Mass Move ! - EmuHQ reported 4 new site moves - please update your bookmarks for the following changed URL's :
New ReMixes - David Lloyd has uploaded three new ReMixes for our listening and collecting pleasure :) Hey, this is the first Street Fighter 2 remix ! Visit OverClocked ReMix and download :
- Street Fighter II 'Hey, Mr. HONDA'
- Goldeneye 007 'Facility (Hacker)'
- Deadly Towers 'S&M Dungeon Tour'
- Opi
NES On Dreamcast - Here is your download of gleam! v10202000 - now with a working save option !
- Opi
GoodNES v0.999.4 - Cowering released a new NES version of his ROM renamer tool - GoodNES is now able to recognize and rename 5893 different NES ROM dumps !
- o - I'm doing the best I can with so many ROMS to classify
- o - Thanks for the help Digitoxin.. I'll take it from here :-)
- o - I KNOW I don't have sardius' dumps.. one thing at the time!
Click here to download it ! Thanks to WWEmu for the news and file :)
- Opi
Hahaha!! - (*UPDATE* It's selling for $3,000 now!!)Someone took the class Hype101 for Suckaz and made a bundle of money. Check this link at eBay and see how someone actually bid $2,000 for a PS2! HAHAHAHAHA :P
- atila
Japanese Emulators - Ok - here are the latest japanese emulator releases for some "exotic" systems ! Due to the fact that Aries is still missing (will he ever have a come back ?) I can't provide you with any changes info :(
*** The PC-9801 series emulator Neko ProjectII is now available as version 0.27a, check the english homepage for additional info.
*** Anex86 the EPSON PC-x86 seriese emulator is now at version 2.31. Same problem here, a little english language page is up (as linked above) but no changes info was posted.
*** MZ700WIN v0.52 snap001020 is available - no further info, a legend would be nice :)
*** nesterJ v0.31 SP1 (NES emu) is online - no further info, a legend would be nice :)
All release info taken from Navarone's Emulation 9 !
More news from me ASAP ! My mother turned 60 ! I've made lots of preparations for this big celebration in the past two days (I've missed a complete day of emulation - I am her only son) and now I'm forced to eat tons of great looking and tasting cake ! Later all :)
- Opi
Great Christmas Gift ! - Look at this great selfmade Neo Geo LT if you need an inspiration for your christmas wishlist - thanks |Ray| :-)
- Opi
Yape v0.20 - A new Yape version has been released, these are the latest changes :
- o - some screen rendering optimisations (never enough...)
- o - a new bug was introduced at the last version with disk loading, this has been fixed (I hope)
- o - SOUND! - it is a bit clumsy at the moment, but I will try to improve it
- o - saving and loading snapshots (not 100% yet); hence the dump menupoint is gone
- o - started an event logger for future bug reports
Click here to download this Commodore Plus/4 emulator ! Thanks to Emuviews for the news.
- Opi
The Mac version of RockNES has been updated to v1.421.
- richard
Rail Chase HotRod ini - First of all, GET RAIL CHASE NOW!!! The game is a total blast, fun beyond words! Thanks Dave for making it possible. :) And here's a HotRod ini for it. It's easy to reconfigure the ini but there, I've done it for you - just unzip to the Final Burn cfg directory. You might like to try changing the centering setting, I've got it set to autocenter at the moment. "Look out! Behind us!" =)
- prophet
Don't you hate it when a new emu comes out and you can't find the new rom anywhere? :)
- dutch
Friday, October 20th 2000 - Last updated @ 17:52 EST
uWink - Pong creater Nolan Bushnell's new company uWink has just launched its first set of machines, ranging from countertop-sized to full stand-up consoles that will extend the gaming experience beyond the mall and into bars and coffee houses. These machines will be running Linux and be connected to the internet for tournament play across the country. The machines will also accept credit cards (hmm, I wonder how much they will cost to play?) Check the Wired Article for more information. Thanks to /. for the news.
- chris
FREE COMMERCIAL GBC ROM! - You can now play a 'demo' of the GBC game GIFT, by simply downloading it from the developer's website. I use 'demo', because according to their site it is a demo, but Adrenaline Vault says it's the full game. It comes with an emulator, btw :) Thanks to TmB and Saulo B. for the news.
- atila
Rail Chase hunting - Seems GuruChoc is the first big game hunter on the prowl for Rail Chase; he's a crack shot and has bagged many a big one before. Won't be long now I'd bet...
- prophet
ArcadePC Cocktail Table & PacMan Upright - If you haven't read JoseQ's last Rumor Mill, you may have missed the awesome photos of 2 new HanaHo ArcadePC's! Personally I think the cocktail table looks fantastic - BTW, they do plan to improve the control layout with more buttons so no worries. There's also a bright yellow PacMan themed upright. :) Keep in mind these are prototype designs and they'll both improve by release time. (Anyone want to buy me that cocktail table?) You can read my review of the ArcadePC Mini if you're curious about this great product line.
- prophet
Thursday, October 19th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:38 EST
Hear that? - No, Dany hasn't been given news privs (inside joke for Current Affairs regulars;), but here's something cool to listen to: a Java Yamaha 2149 soundchip (Atari) emulator from Equinox! Gotta love that Bubble Bobble song, some other cool tunes to hear as well.
- prophet
Final Burn 0.050 - Rail Chase! - Dave conquered yet another Sega game, this time it's Rail Chase, an interesting looking Indiana Jones themed action arcade game. Get Final Burn 0.050 here & check the homepage for more info. Awesome, awesome, awesome! =) And no, I have no idea where the Rail Chase ROMs can be found, I don't have them either. My best guess would be to keep an eye on Emuviews & Arcade Heaven.
- prophet
Delayed Impact release - R. Belmont once again snuck some Impact information under our noses at this weeks's rumor mill over at JoseQ's Emuviews. You all of course noticed that there wasn't a release on Friday, October 13th. "...there were some unexpected problems. Most notably, the surprise game that was going to be added (Sonic Wings Limited) has encrypted graphics ROMs :( :( :( However, music is now working for Psychic Force as promised, and some other goodies are being crammed in (2 player HotRod, oh yeah! :)." Let's keep our fingers crossed. :)
- dutch
RockNES X v1.42 - Shortly after the initial DOS release - Alexandre da Veiga's Windows port RockNES X was updated too - here are the changes in version 1.42 :
- o - Windows 2000 bug solved!
- o - Small GUI problems fixed (now you know when the ROM is incorrect)
- o - Better noise emulation (by Fx3)
Idinalog ?! - Yes, Japanese PC shooter madness continues in Prophetville. :) This one uses dreaded polygons, but redeems itself by being a classic scroller and not another 3D wannabe. Best of all, Idinalog is FREE - get it here! It was created by Namikaze of Japan. (Thanks Tuxedo Mask for the tip)
- prophet
Capcom goes emu!! - Check this:
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun is reporting that Capcom has found a way to avoid the system wars. Apparently Capcom is working on emulation software that will allow their games to work on any of the next generation systems. Yes, you read that right.
Starting next fall Capcom will allow users of personal computers, PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, Xbox and GameCube to enjoy online matches with other players regardless of the machines they use. The goal is to eliminate the risk involved in developing products for one specific machine. The new games will help Capcom stabilize its revenue by making it less susceptible to the fluctuations in popularity of particular game consoles. The company intends to keep adding new titles to existing series of video games for individual machines, while releasing new games capable of overcoming operating system differences simultaneously for all major consoles.
"We expect to cut development costs about 25 percent thanks to the emulator software," said Capcom spokesman Miho Hashimoto.
I'd like to see how they pull that one off :) Thanks to Gaming-Age and sonicfan for the news.
- atila
Siter Skain ?! - Do you love hardcore Japanese shooters? Of course you do! What self-respecting retrogamer doesn't. And that's why you should visit Siter Skain, a really cool little Japanese company that makes shooters for PC's! Yep, no emulator needed. Best of all there are some trial versions online to download - I highly recommend Kamui and RefleX. Both remind me of Ray Force (aka Gunlock, playable in Raine), and sport some beautiful lighting and tranparency effects. Sadly I have no idea how to buy the full versions, and most likely they'll NEVER be sold in the west. :( (Discovered via SHMUPS)
- prophet
ALE Update - Amiga Legal Emulation has been updated with a bunch of new stuff! They've got a new hosted site called Top Secret Amiga 51 which hopes to become a complete database of ALL known Amiga games, complete with cover scans and descriptions. You'll also find 7 new games online to leech. :) On a somber note, sorry to hear about your beloved cat Malc. :(
- prophet
Freedom.gov Napster Poll - Express your Napster views in this poll being held by the US House Majority Leader's website! (Thanks Richard - seems we have emu fans in THE House:)
- prophet
Wednesday, October 18th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:37 EST
Lemon - Kim Lemon uploaded 14 new submitted C-64 reviews to show that he's back from the grave !
- Opi
RetroGaming Radio - Just received a mail from Shane R. Monroe. He started converting his famous RetroGaming Radio! shows into mp3 format. Currently he finished 13 out of 29 released episodes. He also wrote, that his show won't have a "come back" but he's thinking about a special episode - stay tuned :)
- Opi
Master Gear v1.4 - Marat Fayzullin'sMaster Gear version 1.4 is now available for download : "Now with YM2413 FM sound chip and 93C46 serial EEPROM chip emulation. Complete list of features and the list of new features and fixes can be found in the documentation". Online are versions for : Win9x, FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris. Expect a bunch of other ports in a few minutes :) (hours). Note : Master Gear isn't free, you have to license it for a $35US fee. Thanks to JoseQ for the info :)
- Opi
The End Is Near - 11 new Neo-Geo endings are now online at the Video Games Museum - including : Last Blade 1 & 2, Samurai Showdown 2 & 3 and Garou Mark of the Wolves !
- Opi
Ninja's aga World - Ninja's aga World was updated with 26 new Amiga 500 games that some of you have requested ! Update : Delayed for 24 hours due to some server problems :(
- Opi
Team Japump! - Till from Sys2064 reported that Team Japump! dumped another 14 new japanese arcade boards !!!! MAME we're comin' ..... :) - Wakakusamonogatari Mahjong Yonshimai (Maboroshi Ware, 1996), Psychic Force 2012 (Taito, 1997), Sonic Blast Man (Taito, 1991), Star Sweep (Axela, 1997), D-DAY (Jaleco, 1984), VS. Hot Smash (Kaneko/Taito, 1987), Tokoro San no MahMahjan (Sega, 1992), Naname de Magic! (Atlus, 1994), Gyakuten!! Puzzle Bancho (Fuuki, 1996), Quiz DNA no Hanran (Fave, 1992), Raiga /Strato Fighter (Tecmo, 1991), Super Pinball Action (Tecmo, 1991), Saboten Bombers (NMK, 1992) and Super Othello (Fujiwara / Success, 1986).
- Opi
ePSXe Configuration Hints - The ePSXe homepage has been updated with a new trouble shooting guide to solve almost all configuration problems. If you're in need of some advices for this new Playstation emulator, check it out ! Thanks to Carlos for the info.
- Opi
SNEeSe v0.51 - Here's another fine download for you, SNEeSe v0.51 ! TRAC fixed a bug in the graphics core that caused some sprites to be corrupted.
- Opi
RockNES v1.421 - RockNES has been updated twice in the last 24 hours, Fx3 seems to like working like a dog :)
*** Version 1.421
- o - - Fixed a bug on sound reset, the noise channel is now working properly.
*** Version 1.420
- o - Better noise emulation;
- o - Added an option in the GUI to save sprite ram within all informations for each sprite, like a text file;
- o - Added stretched mode, due the request (delete the old config file to setup this option);
- o - Minor optimization in the scanline blitter;
- o - Fixed some GUI options that were working when no game was loaded.
xmame icons update - I have updated the MAME Icons for X web site with the MAME Icons beta 8 update pack. As well, I have updated the KDE install script to handle a KDE2 desktop and funcionality to install clone icons!
- chris
I've decided to go ahead and put the Marquees back online (following danmanya's lead). Marquees.zip has had some files renamed and has been 100% verified with the latest beta of Mame32. The file is 8.89 megs. This is only online until the Closet2mame site returns. Phydeaux, if you want me to take these offline for any reason, please let me know.
- dutch
Life as Video Game Art - saw this on slashdot and figured that while it ain't 'pure' emulation news it's neat and cool and what not and you *might* be interested. It's called "Screenshots" and it depicts different scenes from world history and movie scenes in an isometric view ala 'The Sims' or 'Equinox' if you remember that one. Check it out here.
- david
HTTP Zip Downloader 1.2 - Just get this! What is it? It's a Win32 ASM proggie that let's you open zips *remotely* and download just the files you want! No more downloading entire archives when you just need some little 128K file. :) Tell me that's not cool. Both the executable & source code are in there too! It was written by Iczelion, more goodies there as well, especially for budding ASM coders. (Thanks GuruChoc for the tip)
- prophet
Dutch screws up and apologizes - Tonight I did 2 news posts on the marquee files for Mame32. Since the Closet2mame site is not currently accessible, [PRoToCoL] uploaded the Marquees to Usenet, then I corrected some file names and uploaded the archives here. I only now just noticed that the archives contain a readme file. As you can see, the collector of these marquees asks, "This file may only be linked from the Closet2Mame websight..." I apologize for any confusion that I caused, and I also apologize to Phydeaux Brigands. If Phydeaux gives his OK, I will repost the files here. Again, I apologize.
- dutch
Tuesday, October 17th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:01 EST
BLIP & BLOP III, a freeware game similar to Metal Slug made by THE LOADED TEAM has been progressing well in the last weeks :"The first playable levels of Blip'n Blop are now fully functional and our beta-test team have begun to work on them". Gerard Kelly a talented musician has joined forces - expect some cool tunes in the final release !
- Opi
Happy Birthday Till ! - Sys2064 got a great new layout and Till celebrates (it's already wednesday in Germany) his 29th birthday - Congratulations from the Retrogames crew :) Keep it retro !
- Opi
Game Adverts Flood - The Video Game Museum crew welcomes a new member - AnakinVdr - which uploaded 263 new game adverts to our archives, also online are a handful of new game reviews ! If you like such a kind of stuff - check it out.
- Opi
Simmulator And CreatiVEmu News - Just received an email from _MADrigal_, he uploaded his 15th handheld simmulator : Snoopy (Nintendo, Panorama Screen series, 1983) v1.00 100% complete.
He also mentioned a new update at the CreatiVEmu homepage. Lots of new stuff has been added and WIP info about the emu has been posted, both the emulator and GUI are still uncomplete but the emulator has now full sound support and partial cassette interface emulation. Most games (16 out of 18) are fully playable with sound on a P90 (or lesser CPU?). For more information about this old system and the emulator - visit the homepage.
- Opi
Emulation Status - Warlock finally (almost) finished his Taito Project page. Now he has 300 Taito game descriptions online, 282 of them featuring screenshots.
- Opi
MAME Wizard V2.0 beta 6 - MAME Wizard is a new (very promising) MAME front-end for Win9x systems - check the readme for more information and check the homepage for a list of included features - here are some examples :
- o - PNG, JPG, BMP and WMF image files support
- o - ZIP, RAR and ACE compressed rom/sample set support
- o - Profile support with profile creation wizard feature
- o - MAME CD support
- o - Romset protection system: important files are granted to be only read
And much much more - get it here - thanks to Roc from Mame World for the release info - don't forget to visit KiLLerCloWn's new site ArcadeXtreme :)
- Opi
TR64 WIP Release 2 - TR64 (N64 emu for Win9x) has been updated today - icepir stated the following about this release : "release 2 is here! It is much faster and more compatible than the last release. F|RES has also rewritten the UI. I like the new interface much better. Also The TR64 now uses the "standard" plugin system, so you should see more video and controller plugins that work with TR64. Stil have to add sound support. :/ But I think that everyone will enjoy this WIP". You can have it if you click here, thanks to Duncan from WWEmu for the email :)
- Opi
RockNESX X 1.41 In French - Top50 informed me about his latest french emulator translation, this time he translated the latest RockNESX release. Visit his homepage to get the translated binary and don't forget to delete your old ROCKCONFIG.DAT, or you won't be able to save your new configuration !
- Opi
Liberty v1.1.1 Available - EmuHQ mentioned a new Liberty release. Liberty is a shareware (fee $16.95) Game Boy emulator for Palm OS (thanks Nonoche). The demo version is available below :
- o - Control-pad emulation in the graffiti area
- o - ROM2PDB fixes, other minor fixes.
- o - Visor users may now install games into their flash modules
- o - Demo will now play *all* playable GameBoy games for 30 trys!
