Sunday, December 31st 2000 - Last updated @ 19:42 EST
It's a ReMixin' New Year, Charlie Brown! - Okay, this officially makes me a liar, as I said I'd only ever post seven, but there are NINE new ReMixes up at OverClocked ReMix! (deep breath) Arkanoid, Seiken Densetsu 3, Goldeneye 007, Chrono Trigger, Shadowgate, Castlevania II, Doom, Blaster Master, and the last ReMix of 2000 - my own Yoshi's Island 2001 ElasticNewYear ReMix. HAPPY NEW YEAR! . . oh yeah, I have quite a few resolutions this year, as you might imagine, and some of them relate to certain sites I 'run' that I haven't updated in 'awhile', and my responsibilities as a 'news poster' here at RG. Gotta do better in 2001 . . . :) get the music here.
- david
Happy New Year from CPS2 Shock! - Check out the the awesome new piece of WIP info over at CPS2 Shock. Looks like 2001 is gonna be a good year ;)
- atila
In about nine more hours it will be a new millenium here, I hope everyone had a great year, decade, century, millenium, or if not, I hope the next year, decade, century, millenium will be better for ya! Time to go party now..see ya'll tomorrow...
- chris
GoodLynx v0.999.1 - HERE's the announced new GoodLynx v0.999.1 - now with 152 known entries. Recent Additions:
- o - Release dates added to support MESS Lynx driver
- Opi
If MAME WIP is not enough for you, check out some more updates over at the Official MESS WIP page. Also mentioned on the WIP report, Cowering has made some updates to the Atari 5200 CRC database, so expect a new Good5200 0.999.1 from him soon over at the Good Tools web site.
- chris
MAME WIP - Go look! And Happy New Year from Ye Olde Proph too! :)
- prophet
Z80Stealth v0.402 - Kirill Kolpakov released another bugfixed version of Z80Stealth, his Spectrum emulator for DOS. Thanks to Dhalamar for the news :)
Here are two special Spectrum fan sites I've found recently both "worth" to be mentioned here :) Spectrum Screens - the museum of 8-bit computer artwork and The Congraturations Archive - which offers you snapshots of games right before the end scene.
- Opi
Wahey! - In some parts of this world, it's already 01/01/01 so this is good a time as any to wish everyone a Happy New Year and the best wishes for 2001! Go easy on the fireworks and be sure to have lots of fun tonight :) I also believe that the Y2K bug was bugged and will show its ugy head tonight ;)
- atila
BouKiCHi Interviewed - Navarone from Emulation 9 conducted an interview with BouKiCHi the author of D-Boy, you can read it here.
- Opi
DreamGBC2000 Rev1 - Kervin uploaded the last release of his Game Boy Color emulators DreamGBC2000 Rev1. Thanks to Panther for the news.
- Opi
Team Japump! Arcade Dumps - Team Japump! announced a bunch of newly dumped japanese arcade boards :
o Gun Dealer (c)1990 NMK (Tecmo license)
o Sotsugyo Shousho (c)1995 Yanyaka / Mitchell (licensed to Atlus)
o Mahjong Block Jongbou (JPN Ver.) (c)1987 SNK
o Rod Land (Alt JPN Ver.) (c)1988 Jaleco Mega System
o Sky Adventure (JPN Ver.) (c)1989 Alpha
o Super World Stadium '92 - Tokubetsuban (c)1992 Namco System II
- Opi
SSF WIP - HERE are new SSF WIP pictures (Silhouette Mirage (3), Civil Wars Braid (4), Suu Kyi Pie Remix (4), Radiant Silvergun (4)). 2001 Seems starting promising for Saturn emulation. Thanks Ben-J.
- Opi
Sega To Leave Console Hardware Business ? - The Dreamcast is probably the last Sega developed console - according to a The Register report ! Thanks DJ Emu :) (Note: This is an unfounded rumor and has already been proven wrong - Atila) (Original post by Opi, edited by Atila)
- atila
Saturday, December 30th 2000 - Last updated @ 20:47 EST
ngine-SNES9x v0.30 Out - Yesterdays announced ngine release is now reality. tubooboo uploaded a new version of his SNES9x port for Dreamcast, check the homepage for the large list of changes. Thanks to RC-Roms for the news.
- Opi
IntvDOS v1.0b - A small update for IntvDOS, a new Intellivion emulator, has been uploaded. New in this release :
- o - Fixed collision bug in Space Armada and possibly other games
- o - Added menu option to enable or disable sound
Famtasia Ver.6 Tester (2000.12.30) - Famtasia, one of my personal top three NES emulators for Win9x, was updated with a new beta version. As far as I understand most of the changes are Direct Sound related. You can get it HERE, thanks to Emulation 9 for the hint.
- Opi
z26 v1.41 - John Saeger uploaded a new version of z26, his open source Atari 2600 emulator for DOS/Win95. News in this release : Video Pinball now plays properly and support for the mindlink controller has been added (makes Telepathy ROM and the old Mindlink game playable. Finally z26 supports the Compumate ROM, an early Basic version. Click here to download it, thanks to Kinox for the news.
- Opi
Not for Impact - Pete & Lewpy (PSemu plugin coders) have stated that their GPU plugins are NOT designed to be used with Impact, ONLY for PSemu. Read this and this for details. As for the "registry trojan" reported yesterday, that remains unconfirmed either way - basically if you use the leaked beta of Impact, you do so at your own risk. It's also worth noting that no individuals have reported deleted registries.
- prophet
Arcade Heaven - If you haven't visited our friends at ARH lately, you might want to check out GuruChoc's latest needed-soon MAME goodies!
- prophet
Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternative implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting legacy Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-Free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. Changes for 20001222: This release includes several DIB bitblt optimizations, a new configuration file format and location, faster initial registry loading, unicode edit control, and lots of bugfixes.
Also, SlashDot is reporting that Wine will soon get improved DirectX support!
- chris
Get Super Huey Legally For Free - Another company decided to support the retrogaming community, for a good reason of course - advertising. Cosmi is offering their C-64 classics Super Huey & Super Huey 2 together with a version of Vice as a freeware pack to boost the sales of their upcoming third installmant in the Super Huey series - Super Huey 3 ! Thanks to MarreZ from EmuGaming for the email :)
- Opi
DreamGBC v1.7 - A new version of DreamGBC, a chinese Game Boy Color emulator, was uploaded. Kervin added "Support for 32K Internal RAM switching" which fixes some GBC games like Bomberman MAX, Super Mario Bros Deluxe and GB Collection 3. Click here to download it - thanks to Emulation 9 for the news. Best wishes to Panther, my chinese news supplier, he's currently sick.
- Opi
paraMSX v0.30 Bugfixed - Yesterday's paraMSX release was plagued by a bug in the joystick detection routine, Yeongman Seo released an updated binary here. Thanks to the TFH/Fony for the notification - visit the MEP site for all your MSX needs :)
- Opi
GoodLynx v0.999.1 - HERE's a newly updated GoodLynx for you few friends of this Atari handheld. Cowering updated it mainly to have a better Lynx support in MESS - the version recognizes 152 different ROMs. Read the Consolemul interview with Cowering, it's pretty interesting :)
- Opi
Friday, December 29th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:37 EST
More Impact Info - Here's some more specifics on the Impact issue posted by Mr. R. Belmont. Take this as information as *he* understands it as relayed to him by the dev team:
"Specifically, my info is that it must be the leaked beta and it must be some specific versions of Pete GPU plugins. Additionally, the trap will only go off after at least 40 runs. If it's all bogus, I'm thrilled (I hate stupid traps like that, having had my C:\WINDOWS destroyed by a failed early crack of a SNES emulator!).
Again, to make it clear, please don't test this unless you have Ghost or something to easily recover. Be safe so you can enjoy the new year!"
Since there are likely many people out there using the "leaked" version of Impact (in light of the recent availability of the Star Gladiator 2 ROMset), please be aware of this. Thanks to R. Belmont for the helpful info! :)
- dutch
FCE Ultra v04.2r2 - HERE is a new Windows version of FCE Ultra - v04.2r2 fixes some problems with the DirectSound code.
- Opi
Impact warning - Just poking my head in here for a quick warning to Impact users: check this post from R. Belmont. He mentions that Impact "...may erase your registry if you use unauthorized plugins, so don't." I apologize if putting this on the front page offends the developers but I don't think it's fair to our visitors to both support the emulator and not make them aware of this.
- dutch
Japanese Emulator Releases - Here are the latest japanese emulator releases - all info were taken from Navarone's Emulation 9 :)
- Anex86 v2.34 is out. Anex86 is a EPSON PC-286/386/486/586 emulator for Windows, with a small but informative english homepage and an english FAQ.
- Keropi aka WinX68k v0.52 is available here. It's a X68000 emulator for Windows developed by Kenjo.
- SSF v0.05 alpha is online. SSF is the currenty most advanced Sega Saturn emulator and able to run some commercial games. Preview pages with many nice screenshots are available here and here.
As usual, I have no further information about status and changes of these emulators, but I can give you a good hint :) Check out the provided information over at the Japanese Computer Emulation Centre to get more details and some help - in english of course.
- Opi
"the Scribe" Is the Sega Info Master ! - Sam Pettus aka "the Scribe" posted a new issue of Dreamcast Week In Review, his Sega Dreamcast devoted online journal.
Don't miss his other project - SegaBase, an online database completely devoted to the videogame systems and products of Sega and their consoles. It contains an incredible amount of information. Here is (as an example) a link to the history of the Sega CD, Sega's first CD based console. I "wasted" almost a hour of my "newsposting spare time" to look through his info base, trust me you'll enjoy it too :)
- Opi
New Unofficial nester Release - After 9 days of silent work, a new version of Unofficial nester has been uploaded - use this link if you wanna get and test it.
- Opi
Liberty v1.2.5 - The Gambit Studios released a new version of their Game Boy emulator Liberty - now with "Rumble Pak" support and a cleaned up source code. Thanks to Kinox for the news.
- Opi
NeoPocott WIP News - A tremendous amount of WIP news has flooded the NeoPocott homepage - far too much to report them here - please have a look for yourself :)
- Opi
ngine WIP News - tubooboo has updated the ngine homepage with the following announcement : "An all new version of ngine is to be released very soon (0.30), presumably right in time for the new year". To find out more about the upcoming new features and the ngine project itself - check the homepage. Thanks to SoniC for the hint :)
- Opi
U64Emu v1.18 - PeterD has updated the U64Emu homepage with the result of rcp's latest efforts - version 1.18 of his arcade Killer Instinct emulators includes the following changes :
- o - Frame Skip should now enable and disable correctly.
- o - All around speed up.
- o - Scanlines now use a different technique. I like this approach more and it is only twice as fast as the previous method. There is little to no speed decrease with this method.
- o - There may be yet another timing issue in this release, the AI just seems really, really good... dunno... try it. :)
- o - Credit problem is _not_ fixed. If i don't find it soon, I do have a work around. The 'SERV' or service button does actually work... I think this will work ok for most everyone.
"Remember, big things comming up in 2001 with U64Emu... so don't do anything stupid New Year's Eve and get yourself killed... ya don't want to miss what is comming!"
I've just uploaded the latest unofficial x-mame 0.37b10.1, which now includes x-mess 0.37b10! You can grab it from ftp://ftp.aros.net/pub/users/gold
I'll be posting a more manageable diff soon.
Changes include:
- Integrated the MESS 0.37b10 sources.
- Added Stefan Becker's latest mame_perl ROM manager.
- Applied Ricardo Quesada's patch which adds video_update for 16bpp_to_16bpp to the SDL video driver and adds SDL_HWPALETTE to the SDL_SetVideoMode flags.
ParaMSX V0.30 has been released and is available at the MEP: http://www.file-hunter.com. ParaMSX is an MSX1, 2 and 2+ emulator for Windows 98x and 2000 by Yeongman Seo. The new features are:
*Improved FM emulation
*Improved VDP timing
*Improved Empty disk handling.
*Fixed Scanline Interrupt reset bug
*Added Disk image file exchange menu.
*Added JoyStick support*Added Writing sound option
*Added Adjust register reset switch.
*Added Pause key.and fixed many minor bugs ;)
Spectrum Emu For Dreamcast - Yesterday saw the release of the first Spectrum emulator for use on the Dreamcast. It's called Spectrum BB and it supports Manic Miner, according to DC Emulation.
- atila
Thursday, December 28th 2000 - Last updated @ 23:55 EST
Mortal Kourtbat - Midway Games is being sued by a woman from Connecticut, because her son's murderer "was still feeling the effects of and was controlled by the Mortal Kombat video(game)." I'm sorry her son died, but how in heaven did the MILLIONS of other kids who played the game manage to *not* become psycho killers!? Hopefully someday people will stop blaming art, music and games for everything that goes wrong.
- prophet
First Japanese PC-9821 CD Game Online - _Bnu from the famous (at least a little bit) X68000 Games Pile sent me the following info :
"rairai has released the first PC-9821 CD game ever publically released! It's Branmarker, and it's an excellent RPG :) With the introduction of emulators that can run the games comes the games. At least that's the way it should be. :) Branmarker is an 18-meg zip file with a cue and bin inside! If you want instructions on how to use the CD drives in the emulators, just check out the pile and rairai's page!"
- Opi
GoodJag v0.999.1 - Fine - it's Cowering news-time again. This time he updated his Atari Jaguar ROM renamer tool to version 0.999.1, you can get it here. This new release recognizes 51 different ROMs, here are the changes :
- o - GoodJag will now scan roms made using the PD JAG DEV KIT
- o - Correct release dates added to all ROMS
- Opi
TRS-80 Emulator Updated - David Keil has updated his TRS-80 Emulator to v6.02. This new version tries to fix all the newly added bugs since v6.0. Thanks to Cloy from Kinox for the info.
- Opi
Jack Attack Remake - A new version of the classic C64 game Jack Attack has just been released for the PC - Jack Attack 2. JA2 includes all of the nostalgic C64 levels plus 70 great new levels. It features better graphics and sound, two player simultaneous gameplay and is "kids friendly" due to its non-violence gameplay. Thanks to Lemon for the hint :) True C-64 fans should also visit Stadium 64 and Gamebase64 - both sites were updated recently !
- Opi
Leezer's unofficial Highscore.dat v1.1 - Mame World is now the new home of Leezer'sunofficial Highscore.dat for MAME. His new v1.1 release adds support for legend of kage, tmnt 2, gauntlet 1&2, double dragon (us), alien syndrome, alex kid, colums 1&2 to name a few and includes everything from the official v6 release. Click here to download it - if you noticed that your favourite game is still unsupported try your luck and mail Leezer, he's accepting requests and awaits your comments :)
- Opi
NeoPocott v0.38b for PocketPC Ipaq build - NeoPocott v0.38b for PocketPC Ipaq build released. To download this new port and read many many new WIP/port info about this NeoGeo Pocket emulator - visit the NeoPocott homepage :)
- Opi
Wrong Rumours And Fake Screenshots - Yesterday some news sites reported a possible merger of Nintendo and Sega (or better say Nintendo to buy Sega), these reports are wrong. Hiroshi Yamauchi head of Nintendo denied these report and said "there is absolutely no chance that Nintendo will buy Sega" ! Check this CNN report for more info.
Same is true for the new Dreamcast emulator with support for commercial games - all pictures are fake, they were taken from an old Daily Radar preview ! Well, I'm glad to be able to report this - but it's still another milestone in the trick and treat section. Shame on these idiots. Thanks to EmuHQ for the preview link.
UPDATE : Today is "Dia de los Inocentes" in Spain which is basically the same as April Fool's day on april 1st for us english/american and german people (among many other countries I guess) :) FINE - thats ok !!! So come on - keep goofing me, where is my working CPS2 emu with support for the PS2 ... :) Thanks to Jon, Juan and Jose for the info !
- Opi
ASp V0.77 - Ian Greenway recently released a new version of ASp, his Sinclair Spectrum emulators for Amiga computers. Now it supports Retargettable (RTG) displays and rainbow graphics. News taken from World of Spectrum, my favourite Speccy news source !
- Opi
GoodOric v0.999.1 - Cowering finished a new update of GoodOric, now it knows 701 entries - click here to download it. GoodOric renames Oric, Atmos & Telestrat tapes / disks and ROMs.
Recent Additions:
- o - Tons of new additions to database
- o - Oric/Atmos/Telestrat compatibility listed where known
- o - Many corrected names & dates vs. the outdated TOSEC database
...... Don't forget.. some emus want 8.3 names use 'changesnew' to log old names just in case!
- Opi
Wednesday, December 27th 2000 - Last updated @ 22:07 EST
squeem v0.50 - squeem, a NES emu for Windows has been updated to version 0.50 - new in this release : ""added tv fuzz and and ui, it is leet, go download it and play!" ... and I always thought MY english is bad :) What the heck is "tv fuzz and ui" ??
- Opi
fMSX-DOS Loader v1.4 - NightFox informed me about a new release of his MSX front-end fMSX-DOS Loader. Version 1.4 fixes a bug in the update engine - ooh and don't miss his great Castlevania pages :)
- Opi
TGB Dual Ver. Vol.4 beta (Fixed ver.) - GIGO released a new version of TGB Dual, his special japanese Game Boy emulators. What makes it special ? Well it allows you to simulate two Game Boys within one PC at the same time - nice to swap some Pokemon :) Whats new in this version ? Sorry no clue - even if we host GIGO'shomepage :P Thanks Emulation 9 !
- Opi
Jahidah Update - Well, since Opi has covered all the latest emu news... My friend Jahidah emailed me about an upcoming performance this Friday here in NYC! Check out her homepage for details. If that URL won't resolve (won't for me right now), try this one. I've seen her show before and she's really, really good. :)
- prophet
MEKA v0.56 - Zoop released a new version of his awesome Sega 8-bit / Colecovision / Othello Multivision emulators MEKA to the public = made it available for everyone. Here is the full changes log for this release, because I like MEKA so much I'll waste a little extra space :)
- Added Sega Super Control Station emulation, codename SF-7000. The SF-7000 is a rare addon for the Sega Computer 3000, providing it with a 3" Floppy Disk Drive, 64 kbytes of RAM, a parallel printer port and a RS-232C port. The later two are only partially emulated as anyway there is no way to use the emulated connection (ex: for printing) yet.
Many thanks goes to Marc Le Douarain for his help and dumps of his old disks, and Ulrich Cordes for the FDC-765 emulation (see documentation).
I added in the documentation a paragraph about how to use SC-3000 and SF-7000 Basic software, as it is needed to load programs for the later. Also, I am still looking for a real SF-7000 and any softwares!
- o - Added sprite flickering emulation in video mode 5 (SMS/GG), and interfaced so you can now enable it if you feel like playing shooters with invisible bullets. It is available in the VIDEO->FLICKERING menu.
- o - MEKA is now ignoring those rarely present 64 bytes footers.
- o - Fixed Ninja Gaiden (GG version) hand on intermission animation.
- o - Fixed PAUSE button which was broken in version 0.55b.
- o - Fixed blinking sides when a program was using text mode (Sega Basic, ..) with a border color different than black.
- o - Fixed Sega Keyboard letters color.
- o - Fixed /LOG command line option which was ignoring the given filename.
- o - Added and fixed entrys in the compatibility and checksum lists.
- o - Various minor changes - changed messages, fixed typos..
Download it ...... and praise Zoop's name for this awesome emulator. Hmmm, you can send some money or donate your Sega 8-bit stuff instead of praising his name if you prefer to be helpful :) Zoop still needs donators to aquire and dump rare Ebay Sega stuff for his 2nd project - SMS Power.
- Opi
ElectrEm Beta 6 - Beta 6 of ElectrEm has been released recently, here is a log with the latest changes :) ElectrEm is an advanced Acorn Electron emulator with many available ports. Thanks to DuDu! for the notification.
- Opi
A New Hosted Site - A warm welcome to CrashTest and his emulation page located at http://crashtest.retrogames.com :) Here, you'll find : an arcade emulation related screenshot archive, some savegames archives and a collection of weird screenshots.
BTW - CrashTest is also member of the CPS2Shock-team :) If you wanna get hosted here at Retrogames - mail me or Atila :-)
- Opi
FCE Ultra v0.42 - New Linux and Windows versions of FCE Ultra were released today - new in this update :
- o - Added a sound configuration dialog box.
- o - Several bug fixes and code enhancements.
Choose your FCE Ultra v0.42 download : Windows - Linux.
Just in case you don't know what FCE Ultra is - it's a fine portable NES/Famicom emulator based on Bero's original FCE source code, thanks EmuHQ.
- Opi
Zelda64 - Now In Italian - Zelda64 fans in Italy rejoice - Clomax Dominion released a patch to translate "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" into the Italian language !!! Viva Italia and thanks to Guido84 for the email :)
- Opi
NeoPocottDC Released - Finally Dreamcast owners got their own NeoPocott port - NeoPocottDC. Thanks SoniC :)
- Opi
ZSNES DOS v1.17b - HERE's a freshly uploaded bugfixed DOS version of ZSNES - it fixes a bug in the 8-bit video modes. If you use the netplay feature of the ZSNES Windows port jump to the emulator homepage and read their latest news regarding a forgotten netplay option :)
- Opi
CPS2Shock Update - No, not what you think. ;) Not yet. But Raz has updated CPS2Shock with newly aquired pictures of 19XX, Cyberbots & Rockman 2!
- prophet
A/P MAME 37 Beta 10! - Rodimus Prime has uploaded beta 10 of his CPU-optimized MAME builds for Pentium and AMD computers. Get the extra FPS you need for all those pr0n MahJong games HERE. Hey look, I posted non-me news! ;P - thanks to bluejaywpg for the tip.
- david
Tuesday, December 26th 2000 - Last updated @ 14:21 EST
End of Ramadan - Today saw the end of Ramadan, which means that 3 days of festivities will commence tomorrow. I'd like to wish our muslim visitors EID MUBARAK, all our Jewish visitors a happy Hannukah/Chanukah and all our Christian visitors a Merry X-MAS. If I left out any group of people, feel free to mail me :)
- atila
Basilisk II Build 141 - Emulation 9 mentiond the release of Basilisk II Build 141. It's a Windows 2000/NT 4.0 port of of Christian Bauer'sBasilisk II Macintosh II emulator - here is a list of the latest changes !
- Opi
Z80Stealth v0.401 - Shortly after the initial v0.400 release, a new bugfixed version 0.401 of Z80Stealth has been uploaded. Thanks to DuDu! for the email :)
- Opi
MAME for the PocketPC v8.1 - MAME for the PocketPC v8.1 has been released yesterday, Techmaster uploaded new binaries for ARM, MIPS and SH3 based systems. Look here for the latest changes :) Thanks Russell Trapp :)
- Opi
New BrMSX Front-End - TFH/Fony mailed me about a new front-end for the (now dead) MSX emulator BrMSX :
"As you know the development of BrMSX is officially dead, but it's still a great emulator and this frontend makes it a lot easier to use! The FrontEnd is meant to be used under Windows, and is made by Slotman.
You can download the file at the MEP: http://www.file-hunter.com".
- Opi
One, Two, Three .... ONE v1.1 Is Here - Norbert Kehrer reported the following news for ONE, his Java NES emulator : "The new version 1.1 of ONE, the Online NES Emulator, has been released. It has the following new features:
- A bugfix for pallette mirroring was made. Now the background colors are correct (blue sky in Super Mario Bros., a.s.o).
- A GUI has been added. Now you can select the ROM from a list without having to reload the emulator.
- Increase in playable games. Now more than 40 games can be played online with your browser".
- Opi
NeoPocott Release Flood - Happy Birthday Gollum ! - There are TONs of other newly released versions of NeoPocott besides the already reported Macintosh version ! Visit the homepage and get your version of interest, NeoPocott 0.38b is available for : Win32, DOS, Acorn Risc OS and BeOS. Look here for the very large list of changes and no - there is still no sound yet - but thats only a matter of time :) Finally ... Happy Birthday Gollum and all the best for you [give us sound :)].
- Opi
MAME WIP - Here's your MAME WIP christmas update - NBA Hangtime has been added !
- Opi
Neopocott has been updated to v0.38! Sonic and Metal Slug 2nd Mission are now fully playable.
- richard
Monday, December 25th 2000 - Last updated @ 21:06 EST
ZSNES v1.17 - Why is christmas only once in a year ? Here's our next GIFT - ZSNES v1.17 : "Main features here are compatibility fixes, an addition of a slow motion key, and also more fixes to the out of sync problems in netplay" ! Download your prefered version : ZSNES v1.17 (Windows port v0.85) and/or ZSNES v1.17 DOS. Thanks to the one who changed the topic in #retrogamers :)
- Opi
MagicEngine v0.98 And Much More :) - Hurraaaa, it's a good feeling to be a registered user of the awesome MagicEngine - which is still the best PC Engine/TG-16 emulator for Windows. David & Cedric Michel released their announced christmas gift/surprises today (say a few minutes ago). First of all they uploaded ME v0.98 in english, french and japanese with ZIP support, a few bug fixes and small improvements. "ALL HuCard games that were broken in beta 3 work correctly again too, as well as Davis Cup Tennis is working perfectly now. :)" and good news for Mac users - the PowerMac version will follow next week-end. Secondly they mentioned their newly added support for the Arcade Card expansion kit ! Check out their Kabuki Itouryodan screenshots, an Arcade Card fighting game. This game is the 1st prize for their THIRD news : beginning in january 2001 they'll start a monthly contest for all registered users - a free CD for the lucky winner :) Here are some more screenshots of another arcade card based game - Sapphire. If you still haven't licensed this awesome emulator for your personal use - all these reported news are a good reason to correct this "mistake" - download your demo or grab $16 and register it instantly :)
- Opi
IntvDOS and IntvWin v1.0 - John Dullea released a new Mattel Intellivision emulator duo for DOS and Windows, based on his own freshly updated PCAE source code. Visit the IntvDOS and IntvWin homepage to find out more details about this new emu !
- Opi
NesterJ v0.48x2 - Shortly after an (unreported) christmas release of NesterJ, a japanese NES/Famicom emulator for Win9x based on public beta3 of Darren Ranalli'sNester - a new bugfixed version has been put online. New in v0.48 & v0.48x2 :
- o - Serious bug of S-RAM is fixed
- o - Screen Shot
- o - added mappers and fixed codes
..... - added mappers 49(not work),50
..... - fixd mappers 1,5,19,20,25,26,32,42,73,235
..... - fixd mappers(SNSS) 16,17,18,19,21,22,23,24,25,26,32
...... and 33,46,48,64,65,67,68,69,73,75,76,82,85,88,95
- o - fixed APU code
- o - support DPCM IRQ (e.g.Romancia)
- o - support PPU BankSwitch of 'Mother'(#4)
I've played a little around with this emulator - it's a good one and worth a download (japanese & english version included) :)
Thanks to Emulation 9 for the news.
- Opi
Emu64 1.11 - A first Windows version of Emu64, Thorsten Kattanek's german C-64 emulator is available here.
- Opi
Laser Christmas Release - A Laser "Christmas Eve Special Release" is available here - now with working Lupin III support.
- Opi
Translation Related Interview - Spinner 8 from The Whirlpool-team conducted an interview with Prez, a hacker and programmer with several ongoing translation projects. You can read it here, it's very long but worth to read.
- Opi
Z80Stealth v.400 - Oha, this is a real busy day for friends of the good old rubber keyboard called Spectrum ! Z80Stealth v.400 was released today, Kolpakov Kirill added support for !!114Khz 16 bit stereo sound!! hahaha and a bunch of other more useful stuff :) Get it here - thanks again to the wonderful World of Spectrum for this news.
- Opi
SEM v0.33sr1 - Alexander Patrakov released a PATCH for SEM to solve some problems with sound emulation on old soundcards. SEM is a Sinclair Spectrum emulator for Win9x/NT - the latest full release - v0.33 - is available here.
- Opi
New PC98 Games For YOU - _Bnu'sThe X68000 Games Pile offers you some nice christmas gifts : "The X-Mas update at the pile has been done! :) This update's a pretty big one, 5 games, all weighing at least 4MB in size. This time it's Horny Sweeper, Horny Sweeper 2, Kankin, Possessioner and Rusty! Horny Sweeper 1 & 2 are very noteworthy, since they're really great games, but the others are good, too. ;)".
- Opi
RealSpectrum v0.75.20 - Beta 9 of RealSpectrum the so called "high-fidelity Spectrum emulator" is out. The latest changes include "MB-02+ emulation, cool AVI videorecorder, serial port emulation, Multiface I/III, zipped files support: automatic extraction of compressed files (ZIP, RAR, ARJ and ACE archives) and a lot more!", thanks to World of Spectrum for the release info.
- Opi
Speccyal Moved - The Speccyal homepage has been moved to a new URL - please update your bookmarks for this Sinclair Spectrum emulator for Windows to http://speccyal.rcroms.com - version 0.72 is still vaild (means latest release). Thanks to Kinox for the news, a warm welcome to JoeBucci, the latest addition to the newsposter community :)
- Opi
Leona has bugs - NeoGeo fans might enjoy kof.cyberfanatics.org! There's some pretty cool info there - scroll down to see it all. I never knew KoF's were so buggy!
- prophet
OverClocked ReMix - First of all, Merry Christmas! Secondly: Batman, Panzer Dragoon, FF9, Megaman 2, Shenmue, Metroid, Zelda64, and Super Mario ReMixes have been added, as well as a special "NES Christmas 2000" rap. There's also a cool christmas mix with a bunch of samples over at Bart Klepka's site. This is as much a gift to me as it is to everyone else, as all of these ReMixes come from a very talented group of contributors. Enjoy the food + gifts, and after everything settles down, get your bandwidth freed up for some BIGTIME downloadin' at OverClocked ReMix.
- david
PCAE 2.5 DOS & Windows - John Dullea uploaded new DOS and Windows versions of PCAE, his excellent Atari 2600 emulators - changes in version 2.5 :
*** New in PCAEWin 2.5 :
- o - Support added for side and rear box scans
- o - Support added for game manuals (can be either plain text or rich text)
- o - Video can be saved to compressed .AVI movie files
- o - All NEW unified interface configuration screen
- o - replaces the old DOS-like menus
- o - Timing fix results in smoother emulation
- o - Improved keyboard support using DirectX
*** New in PCAE 2.5 (MS-DOS) :
- o - Video can be saved to compressed .AVI movie files
- o - All NEW pop-up windows and dialog boxes support mouse operation and mimic Windows 95-like functionality
Choose your desired version : PCAE DOS or PCAE Windows. Please visit the PCAE homepage if you wanna download the DOS or Windows source code :) Thanks to Emulation 9 for the news - merry christmas to Japan !!!
- Opi
NeoGeo Decryption - While we've been following CPS2 decryption efforts closely, another similar project has been underway by Manson, Tyris & Wind - and has succeeded! Technically impressive - I'll leave the ethical implications to each to decide for themselves. The details (and *ahem*, a bit more) can be found at Project-0. Note the encryption is NOT yet solved, but decrypted dumps are now possible - similar to the CPS2 Shock project.
- prophet
White-Trash Name Generator - Well, Daily Radar put this up and I think it's kinda funny, so here's YOUR chance to get yourself a white-trash name! Atila translates into Big-John Junior Pitts, Yu Suzuki becomes Darryl Bob Dubard :)
- atila
The IDSA is at it again - Yep, they just filed a lawsuit against St. Louis county on Friday. No, the county didn't put up a web page with ROMs on it... they passed a law that "took effect November 10 and requires parental approval before children under 17 can buy games containing violent or sexually explicit material." The IDSA's Federal lawsuit argues that "the law violates the First Amendment by limiting the expression of game creators as well as the rights of younger users." Not what you expected, eh? :)
- dutch
Sunday, December 24th 2000 - Last updated @ 18:51 EST
New PSX Endings - Visit the The Video Game Museum if you wanna see Rey's latest game ending uploads for the Sony Playstation : Mega Man X4, Vandal Hearts, Tekken, Grandia, Ace Combat 2 and Metal Gear Solid.
- Opi
easyEmu = Newbies Best Place To Start - A new "lovely" Snes9x tutorial was uploaded at easyEmu. Now its time to watch my new Saving Private Ryan DVD :) Santa - I'm comin' !
- Opi
DreamGBC V1.6 - Christmas time is Game Boy time :) Yeah I got my Pokemon Trading Card game for my sweet little GB Color :) Heh, shortly after D-Boy, another GB emulator was updated - Kervin'sDreamGBC - new in version 1.6 :
- o - Added emulation to X/YFlip property of GBC Background Tilemap. DanceDance Revolution 2 and many GBC only game have correct graphics
- o - Fixed a Sprite pattern bug.Bomberman MAX have correct title now
- o - MBC1 ROM switching bug 100% fixed
- o - Support Battery-backup RAM size increased from 256Kb to 1Mb
PacMAME is served - Yep, another holiday release! PacMAME is a very cool special version of MAME that supports tons of PacMan variants, hacks & multimedia. This release is based upon MAME 0.37 beta 10 code - get it at the PacMAME homepage.
- prophet
Merry Meka 0.55b - Zoop released the latest version of his awesome SMS/GG/SG1000 emulator! Get it now at the Meka homepage. (Thanks Duncan of wwemu)
- prophet
MESSWIP (ok now to do some last minute xmas shopping...)
- chris
Wow, I've done more posts than Opi today. :) Hehe, now that's a sure sign it's the holiday season!
- prophet
Forbidden Forest remake - Warpath told me about a remake of the classic Commodore 64 game, Forbidden Forest! What's extra cool is the original company, Cosmi, did this remake too - get it here.
- prophet
Amiga Xmas - Amiga Legal Emulation has 22 new gifts uploaded for you good girls & boys, including Giganoid, Extreme Violence & more!
- prophet
D-Boy v0.74 - BouKiCHi uploaded a nice christmas gift for us - D-Boy v0.74. Click here to download it (don't ask me whats new or changed) ! BouKiCHi please report your changes ! :)
- Opi
New Simulator! - MADrigal has released his 18th simulator called: Donkey Angler (Gakken, LCD Card Game series) Simulator! This simulator lacks the scanned manual, because he was unable to find one. If you can help out by contributing, I guess you'd make lots of people happy :) MADrigal also mentions that he's working on:
- Donkey Kong II (Nintendo - Multi-Screen)
- Dungeons & Dragons (Mattel Electronics)
- Jom & Jerry Popper (Gakken - LCD Card Game)
One of these will be released in January, so keep an eye out for it!
- atila
More Cabpacs! - John IV has uploaded 2 more cabinet pacs (200+ pics!) for use with MAME32, click here to download them.
- atila
MIMIC WIP - TheBeaver did some work on SMS based hardware sprite priorities - MIMIC homepage!
- prophet
Cheap HotRods - No, not crappy cars, really great arcade control panels from HanaHo! ComputersWorth.com is selling HotRod SE's for only $99! That's HALF the original price. It's worth noting that HanaHo includes a Capcom Classics CD with each Hotrod, so you also get 14 great CPS1 games in the bargain! So you'll have 100% legal rights to play SF2 on your PC. :) To HanaHo - PLEASE make HotRods with an arcade trakball next!!! =)(Thanks erik)
- prophet
Super Final Burn Alpha 2 Turbo? - Dave, the talented creator of Final Burn, has already begun adding CPSx support to his awesome emu! Here's a message from Dave complete with a WIP screenshot of SFZCH running in Final Burn! :) Note that SFZCH is a CPS1 version of a CPS2 game, so don't start spreading rumors - CPS2 is NOT emulated, not yet. However, the goal is nothing less than *gasp* CPS2 emulation when the games are decrypted.
- prophet
It's a Singin' DJ Pretzel Christmas! - Yes, my friends, my holiday gift to you is my own rendition, complete with VOCALS, of the opening theme to LUNAR, the classic Sega CD rpg. Please read the long list of excuses for my singing before downloading - after three pints of spiked egg-nog, I *might* actually begin to sound good! Check out the seasonal mirth at OverClocked ReMix.
- david
Saturday, December 23rd 2000 - Last updated @ 20:06 EST
WHAT ? Please Repeat THAT ! - The Register reports about a Stealth plan that puts copy protection into every hard drive, arrrgh :( I'm pretty sure that every company who is using SUCH a system will FAIL on the market - at least I hope it :) Thanks to nemesis1 for the link.
- Opi
Gens Author Interviewed - Rico from RC-Roms conducted an interview with Stéphane Dallongeville the author of Gens. Please choose your desired interview language here (french or english). Thanks to Cloy from Kinox for the email !
- Opi
Translated Christmas Gift - Shortly after his last job (Joy Mech Fight) Alan Midas released another fully translated patch for a NES/Famicom game - this time he decided to bring us Namcot's (aka Namco) Wagyan Land - click here to download his new v1.0 patch - news thankfully taken from - yeah I know you've already guessed it - The Whirlpool.
- Opi
128 Museum DEAD - Welcome WWW.SPECCY.CZ - The 128 Museum is now an integral part of www.speccy.cz their new Spectrum dedicated server. 120 games have been uploaded to the new "48 Museum" section. Thanks to Jan for the info :)
- Opi
RomCenter v2.0 As A Chrístmas Gift ! - Eric Bole-Feysot finally made it - RomCenter v2.0 is online ! It took a year to develop this new version, if you use and like it - donate Eric a few seconds of your life and praise his name :) OK, here are the changes for RomCenter version 2.0 :
- o - Full rewrite
- o - New explorer-like interface
- o - New scan engine
- o - New fix engine
- o - New standalone scan window
- o - Directory handling
- o - Unzipped games handling
- o - 5 individual fix functions
- o - On screen files status
- o - Automatic fast scan of all files
- o - Individual rom/files/path fixing
- o - Automatic files backup
- o - Larger datafile selector
- o - Skip datafile loading ability
- o - Standard Install / uninstall procedure
- o - Linked help
- o - Nes / Snes header skipping fixed
- o - Playchoice 10 and cvs shared files merged
Click here to get this new version and then visit the RomCenter homepage and grab some of the "zillion" available datfiles :)
- Opi
Boob!boy v1.5 Is Out - Boob!boy, a Game Boy emulator for Sega's Dreamcast has been updated to version 1.5. Look here for a list of the latest changes (still no sound), or here for an "overcrowded" screenshot page - thanks to WWEmu for the news :)
- Opi
NemuINI v2.0.6 - HERE'sEmuManiac's lastest official Nemu 64INI - new in v2.0.6 :
- Batman Beyond Return Of The Joker (PAL) = Playable
- Donald Duck Goin´ Quackers (USA) = Partially working, heavy GFX errors
- Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (USA) = Doesnt Work
- Star Wars Episode I Battle For Naboo (USA) = Doesnt Work
- some Game entries fixed, changed some GBI settings
Thanks to EmuManiac's for the notification/file - if you wanna know more about Nemu 64 (besides the provided info on its homepage) then check EmuManiac'sNemu 64 Screenshot Page !
- Opi
Yape v0.28 - Oh my god, looks like I've missed a Yape release while I was busy with my real life activities ... shame on me. Attila'sYape is one of my favourite emulators (means : I like posting about it !). New in version 0.28 :
- o - frame and background color is not line-based anymore
- o - a couple of bugs in the TAP load/save routine fixed
- o - some speed optimisations
- o - SID "sound" has become a bit bugged in recent releases...
- o - others I can't seem to remember, but I'm sure they exist ;-)
The latest release of this C-16/Plus 4 emulators for DOS is available here.
- Opi
Drool :)~~~ - My brother was nice enough to give me a new pc, a sweet AMD Athlon 900Mhz, with 128MB of RAM, Geforce2 card with TV-out, SB Live with 4 speakers + subwoofer and a DVD drive.
My sister gave me a new digital camera which I'll be using today to shoot some nice pics of my neighbourhood. And no, we don't celebrate Xmas at home. I guess they love me :)
- atila
CPS-2 - The CPS-2 Shock web site has been updated with another WIP report, looks like (unencrpyted) CPS-2 games will dumped even sooner now! (post by Chris, edited by Atila)
- atila
French Thomson Emulator Releases - DCMO5, a Thomson MO5 emulator (french home computer) was updated to version 6.4 - here's a list of the latest changes.
Nostalgies Thomsonistes, a french Thoson dedicated emulation site, posted version 1.4 of Thom, a Thomson TO7-70 emulator for DOS and Linux.
Highscore.dat v6.0 - Dave from Vintage Gaming reported the release of a new MAME Hiscore.dat file. Version 6.0 adds support for 79 new games for a grand total of 989 supported games using 539 score saving entries. Click here and then unzip your received zip file into your MAME root directory ... ENJOY :)
BTW - the official homepage is still offering v5.0 as latest release !
- Opi
Translation Surprise - BASTARD - The DeJap Translations page is back and a new - completly translated - patch was uploaded. Uhh well - it wasn't the long awaited TOP patch nor a updated one for Dragon Quest VI, no - they released a fine 100% complete patch for their third project - Bastard.
Thanks to my usual translation news source - The Whirlpool - for this nice surprise
- Opi
U64Emu v1.17 - EmuHQ mentioned the release of a new U64Emu version !!! New in version 1.17 :
- o - Frame Skip is now disabled by default. Enable it if you have a slow computer. If your computer is medium, you are best _without_ frame skip, as the overhead for skipping consumes cycles. Thus if you get anything north of 45Hz without frame skip then leave it off.
- o - The Up and Left (or whichever) problems should be fixed with whatever input devices were causing the problems. I've yet to verify the bug, so i can't be sure it is fixed, but i did discover a likely problem area.
- o - The command line parameter -auto (all lower case) will launch the game without further ado.
- o - There are random crashes and some fatals still don't work.
- o - Some new keys are mapped. F7,F8,F9 and F10 are Coin1,Coin2,Coin3 and Coin4. Someone wanted the coin triggers mapped for some reason... so that is it.
- o - The Test Mode button (key '2') has been moved to F11. Hopefully F11 is not hardwired to something on the HotRod as well. ;)
- o - An attempt is made to have DirectDraw create surfaces in 'driver optimal memory'. Hopefully, this will result in a speed up on older cards that lack the ability to transfer quickly to and from video memory. In addition, this could, possibly, fix the full screen problems that some video cards (ATI) have.
HERE is your new toy - hope you'll experience some happy "triple combos" and "awesome combos" with it :)
- Opi
Friday, December 22nd 2000 - Last updated @ 19:59 EST
ngine-SNES9x 0.24 Public Release - tubooboo's SNES emulator/port - for Sega's Dreamcast - ngine-snes9x is finally out ! "You will need a keyboard to operate this first beta, and it will not have sound or saving yet" Thanks to Rico from RC-Roms for the notification.
- Opi
The High Voltage SID Collection News - HVSC Update #24 is online. The collection will now have 14,809 files when the update is run. There are lots of credit and SID tune fixes in this update, along with all but one of the competition tunes from the recent X2000 party, over 600 new SIDs in total, plus a couple of very nice surprises for you.
Thanks to Zorch for the email, the C-64 will rule FOREVER :)
- Opi
Fuse v0.2.1 - Fuse, a free Unix Spectrum emulator has been updated to version 0.2.1 ... and thats all I know about it :) Thanks to World of Spectrum for the info.
- Opi
New Amiga Stuff At BttR - Back to the Roots has been updated once again. After the end of AEZ I'm pretty sure - this IS the best Amiga site currently online. Bobic and Hippie2000 are doing an excellent job with their site. Ohhh. tonight I'm not in the right mood to redo their email with my own words :) So here's my little cut'n paste posting :
Christmas is near and again another year has passed. Therefore Back to the Roots brings you some nice presents in form of some wonderful classic Amiga games - as always for free and with permission!
The companies Dynamix and Digital Integration are supporting our project now, too so the flight simulations Red Baron, F-16 Combat Pilot and Tornado are now online. Also the great adventure games Space Quest 1 (the remake!), Colonel's Bequest, Codename: Iceman and others like Thunderhawk, Wonder Dog, Vroom and Warhead!
There are interviews with the legendary Scene-musicians "Jester/Sanity" and "Clawz/Bomb" online, too! Both are telling some interesting news, not only for music lovers. As usual there were also tons of Scene-demos, pictures and modules from Amiga games and the demoscene added.
- Opi
Napster 2.0 beta 8 - Napster 2.0 beta 8 for Windows has arrived. Beta 8 makes file transfers more reliable, and it includes new features and fixes. Thanks to David "Roslof" Gray for the email :)
- Opi
CPCE v0.8.2 - The CPCE homepage was updated with a 2nd bugfix release for this fine Amstard CPC emulator from Spain. Cesar Nicolas Gonzalez wrote : "CPCE 0.8.2 fixes another keyboard bug (!) and enhances tape handling. Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! - click here to download this new release - thanks to the maestro himself for the info :)
- Opi
Gens v0.92b - If you downloaded the latest Gens release yesterday, then you shoulddownload this bugfixed new version too.
* I've added a stupid bug in DMA with Gens v0.92, it's now fixed.
* DMA timing modified a bit...
* Korean language added in LANGUAGE.DAT
* That's all ...
BTW - this emulator is cardware - if you use and like it, then send Stéphane Dallongeville his deserved postcard :) His adress is inside Gens.txt.
Thanks to all the guys who mailed me about the "not-working" Genesis titles (MrE, Big Ernie, Belgarion and Andreas Langer). Main problem with these games are custom chips with non standard SRAM size - if you need some help too - check Eidolon's Inn, he has some nice patches online.
- Opi
WOW - GoodVBoy v0.999.1 Is Here - Cowering is on a roll ! Shortly after his Sega 8-bit releases he sent me his next updated GOOD utility, this time it's GoodVBoy as version 0.999.1 !
GoodVBoy Stats: 37 entries
Recent Additions:
- scanner recognizes more VB headers now
- database update
- Opi
No DVD-playback For XBOX - Microsoft's XBOX will ship with a DVD drive, but it will NOT play DVDs right out of the box. If you want to watch DVDs on your XBOX, you will need to buy an expansion pack containing a remote and CineMaster software. European gamers will not be getting the XBOX until early 2002, btw. For the full story, you can click here. Thanks to Kincaid for the news.
- atila
Shanghai Kid - The Guru wrote in to say that there is more WIP Info on Shanghai kid, and he has successfully dumped Alien 3 the Gun, a SEGA System 32 game.
- chris
MAME WIP - Gridle wipped again! BTW, I'm still alive, been ill, busy and grouchy... :) Happy Holidays to all Retrogamers!
- prophet
TZX Vault Updated! - Gilby's been a busy boy, his pages have had a slight overhaul and he's uploaded 74 new tape images. Get your Spectrum emus ready and enjoy the games :) Gilby also had the following to say:
"I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to the .tzx vault and wish everyone who reads retrogames all the best for Xmas and the New Year."
I Have A DreamSNES - A special XMAS DreamSNES (SNES emu for Dreamcast) has been released, here's what's new:
- Converted the menus to a cosy Christmas theme.
- Added mouse support
- Added possibility to to interpolate mode7.
- Speeded things up a bit. Note that it is still slow.
- Fixed menu interlace problem.
- Removed one of the soundtracks to reduce download size.
This is still not 1.0. Do not expect great speed.
Known bugs: Does not save to Joytech or Nexus 4M bankswitched VMUs.
GoodGG v0.999.1 & GoodSMS v0.999.1 - Cowering has updated two of his GoodTOOLS at the same time - both for Sega 8-bit systems.
1. - 364 entries and an updated database (now completely updated with SMSPower redump info) are the facts for GoodGG v0.999.1.
2. - 567 entries entries and an updated database (now completely updated with SMSPower redump info) are the facts for GoodSMS v0.999.1 which renames Sega Master System/SG/SC games. Thanks buddy !
- Opi
Thursday, December 21st 2000 - Last updated @ 18:30 EST
Not harsh at all, it's a bloody nuisance - I get these steadily too...
- richard
Snow White" virus *AGAIN* - I posted this last month, but people seem to be really stupid: I RECEIVED 50 (!!) INFECTED MAILS TODAY! HEY MORONS, WAKE UP! Please read the following:
I'm getting a little mad, because of the recent flood of mails with the subject: "Snowhite and the seven dwarfs - The Real Story!", or "Branca de Neve pornt" or "Enanito si, pero con que pedazo". The sender is always "HAHAHA" and there's an attachment which you have to execute to learn what happened to Snowhite. This attachment contains a virus, which sends itself to everyone in your address book. Do yourself and everyone else a favor and delete that mail if you get it.
I'm sorry if my post seemed a bit harsh :)
- atila
Acorn Electron - Dave M. wrote in to say:
Beta 6 of ElectrEm, the Acorn Electron emulator, has been released by its author Thomas Harte. Link: http://electrem.emuunlim.com
The most interesting feature of the new release is the support for 'bit multiplexing' - a process that allows pre-modified games to run in 256 colours instead of the usual 8 or under.
The first game to get the 256 colour treatment is 'Dare Devil Denis' and the new and improved version can be downloaded from http://www.stairwaytohell.com.
MESS WIP - The Official MESS WIP page has been updated again today (with some more screenshots posted as well).
- chris
AgentQ Reports From The Battlefield - In other words - it's Rumor Mill Time :-) JoseQ uploaded the probably last Rumor Mill issue for this year. A NICE one without doubt :) Ages got "CUE/ISO/MP3 and .CUE/BIN support, adding RAR'd CD Image support, add Music Track Playing (with real CDs of course), multi-lingual support, and improved compatibility".
Hope you can enjoy your holidays JoseQ :)
- Opi
Wednesday, December 20th 2000 - Last updated @ 18:13 EST
Vice v1.6 - A new version of Vice - the Versatile Commodore Emulator- is online. The current version emulates the C64, the C128 (80 column screen is included now), the VIC20, all the PET models (except the SuperPET 9000, which is out of line anyway) and the CBM-II (aka C610). Look here for a list of the latest changes - Vice is available for Unix, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, OS/2, RiscOS and BeOS - check the Vive download section for your desired version - thanks to PeterD for the email.
- Opi
Gens v0.92 - One of the best Sega Genesis emulators for Windows, Gens, has been updated once again. New in this release :
- o - new rendering mode : 25% scanlines.
- o - Scanlines, 25% scanlines, 50% scanlines, Interpolated scanlines
..... and fast-blur has been rewritten for MMX CPU.
- o - 25% scanlines and 50% scanlines are availables only for MMX CPU.
- o - Z80 timing modified once again... voices are better
..... (same as gens 0.78b) and compatiblity is ok.
- o - Game genie improved and .PAT files supported.
- o - DMA timing are now emulated.
- o - Roms history (9 last roms).
- o - New options for message displaying, FPS and others...
- o - Some languages added or fixed in LANGUAGE.DAT
- o - Can choose triple buffer separatly of V-Sync (not really usefull)
- o - Minors bugs fixed.
- o - A cool new icon ;)
- o - others minors things...
Click here to get your copy of Gens v0.92. Gens is a great emulator with an excellent compatabillity, but it still can't run Gargoyles or Buck Rogers. In fact - no Genesis emu is currently able to run these two games - I wonder why ? What makes these titles so hard to emulate, anyone an explanation for me :) ? Note : Gens has been moved to Emushpere, please update your Gens bookmark to http://gens.emusphere.com.
- Opi
MAME for Pocket PCs - Here's what's new in MAMEBoy 1.2:
Ghost 'n Goblins and Green Beret are clocked to slightly higher value so they don't freeze occasionally. Before, Green Beret would always freeze after the level 1, and GnG would freeze on level 2 when last life is lost. Hyper Sports and Mr Do! are now added and Mario is removed because of the weird slowdown issue that occurs when certain games are enabled together with some other games. Hyper Sports have 90 degree rotated screen, just like Track and Field (Thanks for the tip Darren :-)
- chris
MESS WIP - The MESS WIP page has been updated with good news, Peter Trauner has started work on a new driver!
- chris
Super Jukebox - A new version of this cool SPC player (SNES music fileS) was released today, here's what's new:
- Rewrote the entire program from scratch, the end.
- Here then, I withdraw my hands from the keyboard.
This is the final version, there will not be anymore releases of this player. The source code of this player is available at the Super Jukebox site, where you can also download the player itself. Thanks to Christoffer R. for the news.
- atila
Pitfall Perfect Game!! - Check this mail I received:
"TwinGalaxies.com is reporting that 35 year old Alan Hewston has finally done what no other man has ever done, score the perfect game in the classic Atari 2600 version of Pitfall. To do so, Hewston had to on his first man collect all 32 treasures and rack up the maximum 114,000 points. TwinGalaxies.com Atari Editor Ron Corcoran told reporters "it is believed that even game designer David Crane himself, had never accomplished this feat."
ARGH! - There should be a law against waking up at 7:30AM and then having to spend 2.5 hours in your car, driving 200miles.
- atila
Tuesday, December 19th 2000 - Last updated @ 19:24 EST
News Flash - Due to some serious real life problems (birthday of my son, sickness of my wife, death of our last grandma and preparation of her burial and need of sleep) I'll only do this little news flash !
- FCE Ultra v0.41 r2 is online, this update fixes a really nasty fds bug. (Thanks Michael)
- New WinFellow snapshots were uploaded - now with 2 player support and slightly improved sound.
- DreamGBC version 1.4 available - now with realtime save function (F5:save / F7:load . Use 0 to 9 to select save slots). Thanks Panther
- Psyman released v0.78 of his nice multi-system front-end Offend. This update adds support for SNEeSe, MadNES, NES9X and Squeem, M.A.M.E. and M.E.S.S. support was improved.
- Looks like Atani's RAINE32 port isn't far away ... "the forecast is Raine!"
- The RAINE WIP page was updated - Emmanuel Anne seems becoming the new main RAINE developer !
- BeepEm for Windows v1.02 is ready for all BBC Micro Model 'B' fans (thanks Emulation 9).
- The B.O.S.S. informed me about a new release of his Front-end - version 2.0d is online.
- All Game Guide, a new game info site for arcade / console and PC games impressed Darren very much .... hi Darren :)
- Finally - a warm welcome to NeoGouki and his MUGEN Creations site, hope you'll enjoy your stay :)
- Opi
Wh00t! - We hit 19,000,000 yesterday. We're so proud =)
- atila
MESS WIP - The MESS WIP page just had its daily update.
- chris
MAME Flyers - Xray1 wrote in to say:
Hi everybody,
MAME flyerpack #16 is released.
This release contains 40 new flyers and 12 flyers have been replaced. Bringing the total of the archive to 1276 flyers.
There's also a new .dat-file (flyersdat.zip) to check (with ClrMamePro) if you have all the right images =)
Just wanted to let you know that my Retrogames "sister" site http://ngmc.retrogames.com has opened up its gates. A big thanx to Atila for letting me put my crap over there ( ;) ) and a big thanx to Retrogames in general for hosting my site. Oh, and since Atila's probably the only one who knows, it stands for NeoGouki's MUGEN Creations.
For those who do not know, MUGEN is a 2D fighting game contruction set.
- chris
Cab Pac #3 - John IV has released Cabpac #3, containing 74 new pics, at his site. You can use these with MAME32 :)
- atila
Dear Santa... - I've been a good boy all year (no really, I have!) and I'd like this for Xmas: [male chauvinist pig mode on]PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE[/male chauvinist pig mode off] :)
- atila
Monday, December 18th 2000 - Last updated @ 17:34 EST
MAME Icons - MAMu_ wrote in to let me know that the message boards over at the MAME Icons web site is now back on-line.
- chris
CPS-2 Protection - Razoola has discovered and SOLVED a new CPS-2 protection scheme. Check out the CPS2Shock web site for more information!
- chris
MESS WIP - The Official MESS WIP page has been updated with Sunday's MESSDEV source code check-ins.
- chris
Ngine-Snes9x - Looks like we'll be receiving a nice xmas present in the form of a public release of NGINE-SNES9x (SNES emu for Dreamcast)! Click here for more info, thanks to MrFaust for the news.
- atila
Virtual X68000 - Virtual X68000 is a virtual machine that emulates a Sharp X68000 and optionally its DOS API. Changes in version 1.1.4 include documentation updates, bugfixes, and minor enhancements.
- chris
Keep an eye out... - OK all you whiners and beggers (that includes me btw :), check this message and keep an eye out on Arcade ROM Heaven and other sites for the heavily sought after and much bickered about Star Gladiator II ROMs. It should be pointed out, this is a game many feel is mediocre at best, so don't exptect to be amazed. ;))
- dutch
Sunday, December 17th 2000 - Last updated @ 18:24 EST
Unemulated Database - The Guru has updated the MAME Unemulated ROMS database with MAME 0.37b10. He also tells me that he may soon have a dump of "Alien 3: The Gun", a SEGA System 32 game!
- chris
Thanks Mel :) - Thank you Exodus3D for adding some Christmas snow to our logo. It's the Australian summer for her, but as I look out of my window at the steady Michigan snowfall, her modifiation seems very appropriate. :)
- dutch
MESS WIP - The MESSDEV activities for Saturday have been posted at the Official MESS WIP page.
- chris
FCE Ultra v0.41 Win - A new Windows version of FCE Ultra, one of the top ten NES emulators has been released today. Version 0.41 "is quite different from previous versions for Windows. Source code and other ports will be released in a few weeks when I have the time to rewrite the driver code for other platforms". Click here for a list of the latest changes and click this link to download FCE Ultra v0.41 for Windows.
- Opi
Sega Hardware/Software Info - ShinobiZ's Home was updated with a bunch of new Sega related information / screenshots and flyers. Most interesting for myself - were these two (one - two) Naomi/Naomi 2 GD Systems scans.
- Opi
New PC Engine Emulator Announced - Charles MacDonald announced a first release of his own new (unnamed) PC Engine / TG-16 emulator for the near future and uploaded some PC-Engine / SuperGrafx hardware information to his site - go here for more details.
- Opi
Bliss Author Interviewed - JoseQ conducted an interview with Kyle Davis the author of Bliss - click here to read it.
- Opi
ETOYS.COM - It's true (and this ain't a commercial ;), etoys is having a massive sale (upto 75% off!), so head on over to their videogame section and start spending money! Cheap GBx/PSX/N64/DC/PS2 games galore :)
- atila
MAME WIP - Well, have a nice day with a newly updated MAME WIP page. Gridle added news for the past three days.
- Opi
Triple Combo :) U64Emu v1.16 - RCP released a new version of his Killer Instinct emulators U64Emu aka Kiame to the public :
- o - FMV is much faster, but also synced down to 30fps...
...... this seems to be about right
- o - Overall speed increase, this may or may not help sound pops
- o - 3D levels are a good bit faster.
- o - Some frame skipping is allowed, although it is not that much help
- o - Shadows have been fixed.
Click here to download this new release, thanks to EmuHQ for the news.
- Opi
Saturday, December 16th 2000 - Last updated @ 19:44 EST
AdriPSX News - NESboy2K1 from the PSX Fanatics team informed me about the freshly revealed AdriPSX secret feature - netplay :
"This new feature is basically full-netplay. It is a way that allows to play any PSX game through the net, for two players gameplaying. This new method is so effective, that it even allows to play games like TEKKEN 3 or STREET FIGHTER ZERO 3 only having ONE PSX CD, as one AdriPSX runs as SERVER and another runs as CLIENT".
- Opi
Past-O-Rama WIP - NeoZeed the author of PAST- O - RAMA , a free Sega SG1000 emulator for Windows informed me about his latest site update. He mentioned his latest developing results (started a complete recoding and got "Safari Hunt" working) and stated that he would be glad about a Past-O-Rama logo and icon. If you feel some talent deep inside your retro-soul help him out :)
- Opi
Daily Releases ... - We all wished it, we all demanded it - some may even prayed for it ... now here is your long awaited new DreamGBC v1.3 release :) /end irony. Kervin added software bilinear filtering and fixed some bugs !
Oh nice, here's another goodie for you - unofficial nester, the 2nd release for today. I decided to skip posting every release. One out of three should be fine I hope. No-one, really no-one needs official emulator releases on a daily base in my opinion ! Authors think about it, emulation isn't everything - enjoy your life, you have only ONE !
- Opi
Unofficial Nemu64 INI v.2.0.5 - HERE's a new Nemu64 INI file, compiled by EmuManiac, latest changes :
- o - Batman Beyond Return Of The Joker (USA)= Playable
- o - WWF No Mercy (PAL) = Playable, but very slow
- o - Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (PAL) = Doesn't work
- o - Robotech-Crystal Dreams (BETA) = Playable, but very slow
- o - WCW Backstage Assault (USA-NTSC) = Partially working, (only Sound)
- o - Tom and Jerry in Fists of Furry (PAL) = Playable
One, Two, Three .... One ! - Norbert Kehrer sent word about his new online NES emulator One coded in Java. Right now it supports the mappers 0, 1, 2, and 3 and features SOUND ! Norbert is offering a couple of NES games for you to test his latest achievement. I played some rounds of Tennis and it worked fairly well (a bit slow but playable - tip: use + and - on your keypad to set the frame skipping rate). The sound isn't the best ... well thats a well know Java problem I was told. Expect more mappers and games in the near future, we all know - Norbert is a busy man :)
- Opi
Translation News - The Whirlpool mentioned a new complete translation of a japanese NES game called Joy Mech Fight. Alan Midas made it possible, he translated this nice little Nintendo "beat'em up" (filled with blood'n gore - hahaha, I meant love and peace) completely alone. Visit his homepage or have a look at the Whirlpool's Joy Mech Fight page to get the patch :)
- Opi
Hello Friends Of Retrogames - Here I am :) Back from a trip of madness and confusion, we bought our christmas gifts for our children in a totally overcrowded city - arrrgh. WE, were my Dad and I, he wanted my advice because my parents decided to give my kids what they "have been demanding for months", hehe. Hold your breath - my daughter will get a Game Boy Color with Pokemon Pinball and my son his much wanted N64 (model Pikachu) and Pokemon Snap ! Muaahahaha, my father was really annoyed when he noticed the bill :) Funny thing ... but for his grandchilds is nothing too expensive !
Well, I've updated the Cowering tools and the SNES pages with the latest releases and I hereby announce a new links update and a new NES section at Retrogames for tomorrow. If you know a link that isn't already up mail me.
BTW - you're a fool (yes you !) if you haven't already downloaded the new Final Fantasy 3 remixes at OC ReMix. "FF3 Terra in Black OC ReMix" and "FF3 DeathontheSnowfiled OC ReMix" are A W E S O M E.
- Opi
Genesis Sound Tracks - Iceman2k introduced me to some cool techno Genesis sound tracks over at SegaXtreme and mentions that Sub Terrania has been added.
- chris
MESS WIP - MESSDEV has been working hard recently, go check the Official MESS WIP page to see the latest update!
- chris
OverClocked ReMix FF3 Day - If you have never been to OC ReMix, or never liked anything there, or never thought you cared about ReMixes in the first place, prepare to change your mind. Today, two of the BEST ReMixes have been added. They are both from Final Fantasy III - they're both ReMixes of the same track, actually. And they both feature real guitars, one electric, one acoustic. Two different ReMixers have come up with two GENIUS ReMixes of the same song. I can't begin to tell you how much you'll be missing if you don't check this out - I'm really amazed myself. Honestly. Go hear for yourself.
- david
EmuUnlim - Fox over at EmuUnlim.com let me know that his web site has just hit six million visitors! If you are not famaliar with this web site, it is one of those sites you need to bookmark and start visiting on a daily basis. :)
- chris
unMAMEed - B.Tribble has now officially moved, the new address is: http://unmamed.unemulated.com. Be sure to update your bookmarks!
- chris
Florida Bumper Stickers! - These are real funny (unless ofcourse, you live in Florida :)
- atila
3dfx now owned by NVIDIA - NVIDIA bought 3dfx for a total of $112mil! 3dfx is no more. Thanks to CD-man and Stephane L. for the news.
- atila
Friday, December 15th 2000 - Last updated @ 15:47 EST
MAMEINFO - M.A.S.H. has uploaded a new mameinfo.dat file at http://www.mameworld.net/mameinfo/ with lots of new updates, also check out the Arcades at the Movies page which has a bunch of screenshots of arcade games featured in movies.
- chris
CPS2 News - The CPS2 Shock team has managed to write software that can decode the program ROMs for SFZ and other CPS-2 games are likely to follow. Good news indeed! Thanks to Lance_mc for the news.
- chris
DreamGBC v1.2 - HERE's the usual daily DreamGBC release :) Kervin added the following stuff this time :
- o - [FrontEnd]Fixed a 'path not find' bug when trying to run ROM from root directory
- o - [FrontEnd]Fixed a ROM/RAM size identification bug
- o - [GameBoyColor]Fixed DoubleSpeed switch function in GBC mode.Balloon Fight works!
- o - [GameBoyColor]Fixed a GDMA bug.DDR2 can display music name now.
- o - [CPU]Fixed a stack pointer initialization bug,Looney
