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March 11, 2010
New Version Of The Arcade Emulator Mame
Category: MAMEBy Hawq
The Mame floodgates are opening once more as the biggest arcade emulator around hits version .137, let’s see what this version brings us:
IMPORTANT NOTE: As of this release of MAME, several important things about the system have changed. Please read the following items before attempting to compile this new version.
1. A new tool chain for Windows, based off of gcc 4.4.3 prerelease, is now REQUIRED. Go to http://mamedev.org/tools to get the new tools. The code included with 0.137 WILL NOT BUILD with the old tools. The new tool chain has support for building 64-bit MAME builds with gcc, as well as built-in DirectX headers, and C++ support, which was missing from the old tools.
2. Non-Unicode builds of Windows MAME are no longer supported. The options to turn this off in the makefile have been removed, and future changes are likely to solidify this requirement. If you are still (God forbid) running on Win9x, you will need the unicows.dll library to run MAME. Download unicows from Microsoft.
3. All code in MAME is now compiled as C++, plus there have been a few small changes that take advantage of the C++ language. For the most part, there is no effect on how drivers are written, except for some nicer accessors to devices and address spaces. Future improvements to take advantage of the C++ syntax will evolve slowly, and will be done internally. We are not interested in outside attempts to do this work for now.
4. The SDL OSD for MAME is now shipped as part of the main source package. SDL builds for Windows are now regularly built as part of the validation sequence for a new release. Thanks to R. Belmont, couriersud, and Olivier Galibert for their work on the SDL port over the years.
MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
- 03533: [Debugger] All 68020 cpu based drivers: 68020 disassembler bug: a 32-bit address displacement’s upper 16-bit is desappear (R. Belmont)
Source Changes
- snes.c: simplified drawing routines, added support for offset-per-tile, cleaned up the code [Fabio Priuli]
- H8/3334: add analog input ports [R. Belmont]
- snes.c: fixed remaining issues in hires modes [Fabio Priuli]
- snes.c: fixed serial joystick reads [Fabio Priuli]
- snes.c: slightly simplified palette handling [Fabio Priuli]
- Re-dumped oceanhun CROMs 5-16 as 64Mb [ANY]
- namcos23: Cleanups [O. Galibert]
- namcos23: Add dips [O. Galibert]
- snes.c: Added very preliminary driver_data class for snes based drivers (it only contains input-related items for the moment, because these are needed to add support for additional controller types in MESS) [Fabio Priuli]
- snes.c: Fixed Offset-per-tile graphics [jbo_85]
- snes.c: Fixed scrolling problems [Fabio Priuli]
- namcos23: More cleanups [O. Galibert]
Implemented default EEPROMs to the following drivers [David Haywood]
- * deco_mlc.c
- * esd16.c
- * gijoe.c
- * konamigx.c
- * moo.c
- * mystwarr.c
- * rabbit.c
- * rungun.c
- * tmnt.c
- * vendetta.c
- * xexex.c
- Added support for the ’simple’ rowscroll mode used by sams64_2 [David Haywood]
- Fixed Z80 DMA ready signal handling. [Curt Coder]
namcos23 update: [R. Belmont, Guru]
- * Updated Guru Readme
- * More IRQ tests pass
- * Gunmen Wars I/O board runs and syncs
- * SH-2 shared RAM added for Gunmen Wars
- Implemented default EEPROMs to Bubble Memories, Lethal Enforcers and Puzzle Time [David Haywood]
- Implemented default EEPROMs for GTIClub, Hang Pilot, Asterix, X-Men and Polygonet Commanders [David Haywood]
- Fixed the texture ROM loading/order in Wave Shark. Textures look better now, and the ROM check passes [David Haywood]
- namcos23: pass C422 IRQ test [R. Belmont]
- Added ARDY/BRDY signal read handlers to Z80 PIO. [Curt Coder]
- Implemented ‘key matrix’ inputs in King Derby (1986 version) [Angelo Salese]
namcos23 updates: [R. Belmont]
- * Preliminary SH-2 hookup for GMEN games. SH-2 boots and copies the loader to private RAM then jumps to it. Transfer protocol for main program not yet understood.
- * Final Furlong 2 has a GMEN board and camera; update it to use that subdriver.
- Implemented sound to King Derby (1986 version) [Angelo Salese]
- Implemented coins to King Derby (1986 version), game can be considered as working right now [Angelo Salese]
namcos23 updates: [R. Belmont]
- * Hooked up start/coin/buttons for Gorgon
- * Fixed Panic Park crash
- * Enabled I/O board for timecrs2c so it can coin up
- * Cleanup
- SDL: fix Fortify-reported stack smash [Belegdol]
New driver for Five Clown, from IGS. This is a dual 6502 system with CRT controller, AY8910 and OKI M6295. Main program, graphics and sound samples are encrypted. [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo]
- * Hooked both 6502 CPU’s.
- * Hooked the M6845 CRT.
- * Decrypted main program and bulk GFX.
- * Decoded GFX and color PROM.
- * Hooked both PIA’s 6821.
- * Worked inputs from the scratch.
- * Hooked DIP Switches banks 2 & 4.
- * Hooked proper interrupts for audio CPU.
- * Hooked the AY8910 latches…
- * Hooked the OKI6295.
- * Hooked DIP switches ports $C400 & $CC00.
- * Found the sound samples decryption algorithm.
- * Added NVRAM support.
- * Added a complete PCB layout.
- * Added game notes.
- * Added technical notes.
- z80sio: Added register access functions to prevent trampoline functions [Dirk Best]
- Fixed debugger memdump command [Robbbert]
- Improvements to the unkch1/4 sets [David Haywood]
- Decrypted the color prom in King Derby (1986 version) [Angelo Salese]
- Made device->tag and devconfig->tag into private member variables (m_tag). Added inline tag() function to return a const char * version. Updated callers to use this instead of directly accessing tag.cstr() which was awkward. [Aaron Giles]
- snes.c: Fixed OAM overflow [jbo_85, Fabio Priuli]
Improvements to funworld.c driver. [Roberto Fresca]
- * Added external default NVRAM support to the following games: bottle10, bottl10b, elephfam, elephfmb, jollycrd, jolyc3×3, jolyccra, jolyccrb, jolycdev, jolycdib, jolycdit, jolyjokr, jolyjokra, jolyjokrb, lluck3×3, lluck4×1, magicrd2, pool10, pool10b, pool10c, pool10d, potgame, royalcrd, royalcdb, sjcd2kx3, tortufam, vegasfst, vegasfte and vegasslw.
- * Changed default settings for some games, now that NVRAM is loaded externally.
- Confirmed and hooked up i/o ports in Magical Tonic / Odds, doesn’t work due of nested NMI [Angelo Salese]
- snes.c: refactored joypad inputs to be consistent with other input devices (used in MESS) [Fabio Priuli]
- Implemented NMI enable flag in Lucky 8 Lines and Magical Odds, fixes logic quirks in the latter [Angelo Salese]
- Improvements to Magical Odds graphics [David Haywood]
- Written a per-pixel function for the irq system in the ST-V driver, disabled by default [Angelo Salese]
vimana, vimanan, vimana1 (toaplan1.c driver) [stephh] :
- * Fixed Dip Switches and Inputs (after verification of the M68000 code)
- * Improved MCU emulation to correctly handle coinage based on Dip Switches settings and Territory Jumper
- Implemented sound NMI enable flag to the Munch Mobile driver [Angelo Salese]
- m680×0: show FPU registers in the debugger for 030+ [R. Belmont]
- 680×0: Improve disassembly for various FMOVE forms [R. Belmont]
- Slightly fixed interrupt handling and added SBIC and MUL opcodes to the Atmel AVR8 core. [Harmony]
- Added FJMP/JMPF opcode to the SunPlus u’nSP core. [Segher, Harmony]
- Performed an initial code cleanup pass on the N64 rendering code to make use of booleans and inline variable instantiation, and removed a number of unused variables that were exposed as a result of the latter. [Harmony]
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
- Five Clown (english, set 1) [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo]
- Five Clown (english, set 2) [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo]
- Five Clown (spanish hack) [Roberto Fresca, Grull Osgo]
- Magical Odds [David Haywood, Angelo Salese]
New clones added
- Dinosaur Hunter (Chinese bootleg of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs) [Anonymous] (not working)
- Biaofeng Zhanjing (Chinese bootleg of The Punisher) [Anonymous]
- Cherry Master I (E-Z Spin bootleg / hack) [William Ostronic]
- Lethal Enforcers II: The Western (ver JAA) [David Haywood]
- Fantastic Journey (ver AAA) [David Haywood, Tirino73]
- Smash T.V. (rev 3.01) [Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
- Joker Master / Poker Master [William Ostronic] (incomplete + encrypted)
- Gunmen Wars [Guru]
Download from Mamedev or below, as it’s a full release there’s only my Core 2 Duo one to compile today, cuts down on the time a little.
Mame For Windows (8.2 MiB, 5 Downloads) - Version .137
Mame For Windows i686 Optimized (8.4 MiB, 1 Downloads) - Version .137
Mame For Windows Core 2 Duo Optimized (12.3 MiB, 3 Downloads) - Version .137
Mame For Windows 64bit (8.7 MiB, 3 Downloads) - Version .137
Mame For Windows Debug (8.4 MiB, 0 Downloads) - Version .137
Mame Source Code (15.6 MiB, 0 Downloads) - Version .137
New Version Of The Open Source Implementation Of The Windows API Wine
Category: WINEBy Hawq
If you use Linux and want to use Windows programs without dual booting then why not give this a whirl? personally I use Windows so can’t say too much about it other than it’s a popular choice so it’s got to be doing something right and now I’ll shut up and let the news do the talking:
Support for Wow64 registry redirection. Increased coverage of MSI standard actions. Various Wordpad improvements. Many shell fixes for better IE support. Improved support for typelibs. Better GL card detection. Various bug fixes.
- 1517 Advanced Archive Password Recovery — endless loop
- 4561 winecfg crash with ATI fglrx kernel driver on firegl based graphics cards
- 8938 Regression in SCIM input
- 9664 Missing icon during MS Office 2000 installation
- 11466 Bookworm Deluxe crashes on startup
- 11676 Urban Assault fails to load due to msvcrt.dll._ftol2
- 13505 iTunes 7.6 crashes when previewing video
- 14174 Warhammer 40K - upper line blank (text rendered incorrectly)
- 14916 Dameware NTutilities crashes
- 16090 Fritz 11 Crashes on exit with builtin shdocvw
- 16543 PopCap: FATAL ERROR: Invalid command line parameter
- 17707 wine crashes when trying to run Medieval II
- 17919 Oblivion: The game scene is not visible
- 17926 Wrong Return key handling in file dialog
- 18069 Oblivion frequently crashes
- 18073 VarFormat formats decimals wrongly
- 18097 Missing extrac32.exe tool causes some prerequisite installers to fail (msjavx86.exe)
- 18098 urlmon.AsyncInstallDistributionUnit not implemented (needed MS Java VM)
- 18551 Xenocode: NtMapViewOfSection() callers must take non-negative NTSTATUS into account (STATUS_IMAGE_NOT_AT_BASE)
- 19110 Top of font is cut off in Medieval 2
- 19155 Ankh2: main character, NPC and other things black without UseGLSL=disabled
- 19253 broken parameterization of error messages using %1
- 19360 Medieval 2: Total War loading screens turn black when progress bar moves
- 19438 Formula Broomstick crashes on startup in d3dxof
- 19784 cmd doesn’t handle “else” properly; breaks firefox build
- 19807 Nokia ovi suite fails to install
- 19913 2weistein: UseGLSL=disabled dark character with Shader Model 2.0
- 20109 httprecon 7.3 gets wrong data in case of a invalid http response
- 20138 Tropico 3 doesn’t start
- 20198 Help icon crashes Internet Explorer 7
- 20248 iTunes 9 crashes on load
- 20339 IE6. Proxy settings do not work
- 20457 Elevated demo crashes in system.drv16 on startup
- 21129 cmd /? should give a help message, not ‘/?’
- 21276 python’s test_uuid test fails
- 21324 Streets of SimCity demo installer takes slightly longer to initialize
- 21480 dash is not recognized as a valid column name
- 21515 VENDOR_WINE vs VENDOR_ATI with xf86-video-ati
- 21549 Windows PowerShell 1.x installer dies on unimplemented function USERENV.dll.138
- 21567 Slingbox 2.0.4 crashes
- 21614 Part of spotify window missing when opened
- 21615 Steam: Windows are confined to a certain area when using virtual desktop
- 21631 Lego Star Wars I crashes at start after displaying the nvidia logo
- 21638 Motocross Madness 2 (mcm2): crashes after aborting a race
- 21673 Office 2007 Enterprise installation fails
- 21756 StarCraft 2 Beta Installer crashes with a page fault
- 21762 Company Of Heroes crashes after a few minutes of Play
- 21764 Sun JRE (jre-6u16-windows-i586-s) installation failure
- 21777 CreateMutexExA(): use heap for A to W conversion to work around transbase db engine app bug (affects multiple apps, TecDoc CATALOG …)
- 21780 Some icons are shifted down and to the right in Nero CD-DVD Speed
- 21820 3d architecte from microapplication assert on startup
- 21825 winetricks dcom98 installation fails
- 21846 TREPCAD 4.4.1 Demo: install aborts
- 21853 Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Standard freezes when opening training window
- 21854 Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Standard does not paste text from DictationBox
- 21857 RealBasic’s TextArea.text returns exactly half of the inputed text
- 21882 make depend actually required on OpenBSD’s make
- 21887 Tomb raider 3 demo crashes when run
- 21893 ie7 setup fails to install with Cryptographic Service error
- 21898 uTorrent 2.0 redraws the listview torrent progress indicator incorrectly
- 21906 setupapi copyfiles action target must default to LDID_WIN (win9x) or LDID_SYS (NT) when neither DestinationDirs nor DefaultDestDir is given
- 21911 Provide “C:\\windows\\Help” folder (MS Java runtime installer)
Download the source from the homepage or below.
Wine Source Code (15.6 MiB, 3 Downloads) - Version 1.1.40
New Version Of The Scumm Engine Interpretor ScummVM DS
Category: ScummVMBy Hawq
Are you looking for some point and click adventure fun on the move? do you have a Nintendo DS? if the answer to both of these questions is yes then this is what you seek, let’s take a look at what’s in the news:
New Features
* New games are supported as part of the stable build:- Return to Zork
- Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2
- Cruise for a Corpse
Download from the release thread or below.
ScummVM DS For Nintendo DS (10.3 MiB, 2 Downloads) - Version 1.1.0 Beta1
New Version Of The Commodore Emulator C64-network.org
Category: C64-network.orgBy Hawq
A Commodore 64 emulator based on Frodo for the Nintendo Wii and Linux, let’s see what it has for us:
Features
- All features of the regular Frodo
- Network play!
- A network “broker” where you can connect with other people, as well as sending messages to them
- A Nintendo Wii port
- Source code cleanup
And the changes listed for the Wii version:
Sound support for the network play
- New GUI
- Screenshot saving and game info
- All compile-time warnings have been fixed
- Much improved Linux support
- A million small changes here and there, basically all of the code is touched!
- (For the RC): Only wiimote is supported, not the classic controller or the nunchuk
- (For the RC): Please submit new GUI themes!
- Note: The directory for games has been moved to /frodo on the SD card root, so move all your d64 and t64’s there.
Download from the homepage or below.
C64-network.org For Nintendo Wii (1 MiB, 2 Downloads) - Version 1-RC1
C64-network.org For Linux (697.5 KiB, 1 Downloads) - Version 1-RC1
C64-network.org Source Code (668.2 KiB, 1 Downloads) - Version 1-RC1
March 10, 2010
New Version Of The Amiga Emulator WinUAE
Category: UAEBy Hawq
More beta updates for the best Commodore Amiga emulator around now so let’s get straight down to it before my mind becomes clouded with memories of screaming peds on fire (don’t call the cops I’m talking Syndicate):
implemented feature that makes selecting image from multi disk programs faster and easier. When multidisk image is in disk drive, right clicking on “Select disk image” will open menu that lists all detected disk images (+including all normal “favorite” menu options) Also added previous and next disk input events. Currently supports following disk number naming conventions: “*(disk x*”, “* x.*”, “*_a.*”, “*-a*”, “* A.*” (x = number 1 to 9, a = a-z/A-Z, A = A-Z, ? any character, * = anything) D3D vsync in interlaced modes was erratic (bug since the beginning) added “GamePorts” to “Copy From” option in Input panel that merges Game Ports panel mouse and joystick configuration with current non-compatibility input configuration, also possible old keyboard layout Game Ports panel mappings will be replaced with default keyboard mapping. Nothing is remembered, slot 1 mappings are simply overwritten with new or default mappings.
Download from the release thread at the English Amiga Board or below.
WinUAE For Windows (2.6 MiB, 15 Downloads) - Version 2.1.0 Beta 16
New Version Of The ZX Spectrum And Arcade Emulator DSP
Category: DSPBy Hawq
A WIP bugfix release for this ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Arcade emulator, let’s see what got fixed:
General
+BUG:- Fixed the huge virtual memory reservation! It was the TAPE module, now uses pointers and uses memory as it’s needed.
Wardner
+ENHANCE:- Fixed sprites
Download from the homepage or below.
DSP For Windows (612.2 KiB, 13 Downloads) - Version 0.9ß5 WIP 09/03
New Version Of The ZX Spectrum Emulator Sinclairean
Category: SinclaireanBy Hawq
Updates are coming thick and fast for this ZX spectrum emulator, it’s not that long since we last looked at it and 3 updates have happened, let’s take a look:
A16:
- PAL RF color bleeding (no on/off toggle key yet, wait for next release!)
A15
- More instructions adjusted to proper T-state counting for better contended memory/floating bus emulation (progress: 33%)
- First steps towards R register emulation (Cobra now runs at correct speed, but still flickers due to incomplete contended memory/floating bus emulation)
- Proprietary icon
A14
- More accurate display fitting
- New FILL display fitting mode
- Trinitron-like blue background below superimposed text for better legibility
Download from the authors twitter feed or below.
Sinclairean For Windows (347 KiB, 10 Downloads) - Version A16
New Version Of The PSP Emulator Jpcsp
Category: JpcspBy Hawq
An update for this Java based PSP emulator for Windows now and it’s hit version 0.5 and the compatibility has increased as well, sounds nice, let’s see what’s been done since the last time we looked:
- Rev1379: updated jpcsp to v0.5
- added J_BYYX and maximu translate packages
- Rev1378: [No log message]
- Rev1377: [No log message]
- Rev1376:
- Add - multi-language pack (English-French)
- Rev1375: Fixed dummy async thread functioning.
- Improved “Ignore invalid memory access” option to ignore the compilation of invalid addresses (Compiler).
- Rev1374: Fixed VTimerInterruptAction.
- Restored Vertex Cache option in settings.
- Rev1373: Added compatibility option to ignore unmapped imports.
- Fixed “Cancel” button’s bug in settings.
- Rev1372: sceKernelTerminateThread: cancel any waiting action to avoid any further reactivation of the terminated thread.
- Rev1371: Small fixes:
- Better message for encrypted EBOOT.BIN
- sceGeListEnQueue,sceGeListUpdateStallAddr: mask input address
- sceKernelLibcClock: use SystemTime
- sceKernelGetGPI: moved messages to DEBUG level
- sceUtilityMsgDialogInitStart: better detection of YES/NO options
- VTimer: fix spotted by Defade
- Video TSIZEx: handle incorrect values (Homebrew Wagic)
- Video CLOAD: handle incorrect value
- VideoEngine: do not WARN about unsupported Viewport when Viewport option enabled
- Rev1370: Fix in glDeleteBuffers spotted by i30817
- Fix in glDeleteBuffers spotted by i30817
Download from the homepage or below.
jpcsp For Windows 32bit (6.2 MiB, 12 Downloads) - Version 0.5 Rev1379
jpcsp For Windows 64bit (6.2 MiB, 14 Downloads) - Version 0.5 Rev1379
New Version Of The PEC Codelist
Category: PECBy Hawq
If you use the cheat plugin PEC for your Playstation emulation then this may be of interest to you, the code list for it has had an update, let’s see what’s been added:
New codes added to PEC:
- Kartia#SLUS-00631
- Legend of Kartia#SLES-01710
- Lunar 2 Eternal Blue#SLPS-00000
- Lunar - The Silver Star Story Complete#SLPS-00000
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes: EX Edition#SLPS-02368
- In Cold Blood (UK)#SCES-02149
- In Cold Blood#SLUS-01294
- Cold Blood (German)#SCES-02151
- Iron Soldier 3#SLES-03250
New codes created and added to PEC:
- Ling Rise#SLPS-01769
- Dune 2000 (Spanish)#SLES-02250
- Love Game’s: Wai Wai Tennis#SLPM-86541
- Love Game’s - Wai Wai Tennis 2 (Value 1500)#SLPS-02983
- Simple 1500 Series vol.019 - The Sugoroku#SLPS-02435
- Hyper Final Match Tennis#SLES-00309
- Final Fantasy 7 (Spanish)#SCES-00900
- Elfin Paradise#SLPS-00778
- Michinoku Hisen Koimonogatari#SLPS-00941
- A Sangre Fria (Spanish)#SCES-02153
- Mary King’s Riding Star#SLES-02379
- Masters: Shin Harukanaru Augusta#SLPS-00703
- Magic Carpet#SLES-00211
- Yoshimoto Mahjong Club Deluxe [Superlite 1500 series]#SLPM-86633
- Paris-Marseille Racing 2#SLES-003918
- Sky Sports Football Quiz Season 02#SLES-03856
- Madden NFL 2005#SLUS-01584
- Megaman Legends#SLUS-00603
- Eternal Melody#SLPS-00584
- Sentimental Graffiti#SLPS-03184
- Magical Date - Doki Doki Kokuhaku Daisakusen#SLPS-01091
- Space Battleship Yamato 2#SLPS-02761
Download from the homepage or below.
PEC Codelist (597.6 KiB, 7 Downloads) - Version 06/03/10
March 9, 2010
New Version Of The NES Emulator FCE Ultra MM
Category: FCE UltraBy Hawq
Another update now for this Russian NES emulator, as usual the release is said to be a bit buggy and mainly for testing purposes, let’s see what this version has for us:
mapper 163/164 - “Lei Dian Huang Bi Ka Qiu Chuan Shuo (NJ046)” fixed, other may be broken 
mapper 80 - “Mirai Shinwa Jarvas (J) [!]” save function enabled UNIF NROM - SRAM added for “Family BASIC (J) (V3.0)”, battery backed flag too UNIF UNROM - busconflict hacky emulation, fixed graphic glitch in “Cyberball (U) [!]”
Download from the homepage or below.
FCEUltra MM For Windows (341 KiB, 16 Downloads) - Version 09-03-2010
New Version Of The SNES Emulator Bsnes
Category: bsnesBy Hawq
A rapid update from byuu for his SNES emulator now, let’s see what he had to say about it:
Found the cause of the issue breaking SuperFX games after loading SA-1 games. Seems the XML mapping tree wasn’t being cleared. It’s also not a good idea to use bsnes/ as the folder name when the Makefile generates a binary by the same name in the same directory, so back to src/ for the main emulator it is.
With those fixes, this release should be fully stable; but again my intentions are to keep v060 as the stable release for a while.
Nonetheless, you can grab the new beta at Google Code. It should be the last update for at least a few weeks.
Download from the homepage or below.
bsnes For windows (5.8 MiB, 24 Downloads) - Version 061.01 Beta
New Version Of The Arcade Emulator SDLMame
Category: MAMEBy Hawq
The Ubuntu versions of SDLMame are also updated now, good news for penguin lovers out there, as usual now the news is pretty much as the regular Mame since the source’s got merged into one.
Download from the homepage or below.
SDLMame For Ubuntu 8.04 64bit (12.1 MiB, 4 Downloads) - Version .136u4
SDLMame For Ubuntu 8.04 (12 MiB, 3 Downloads) - Version .136u4
SDLMame For Ubuntu 9.10 64bit (12.5 MiB, 4 Downloads) - Version .136u4
SDLMame For Ubuntu 9.10 (12.5 MiB, 4 Downloads) - Version .136u4
New Version Of The Arcade Emulator Mame Plus! XT
Category: MAMEBy Hawq
Some more Mame news now with an updated Mame Plus! XT, there’s no news included with this one.
Download from the homepage or below.
Mame Plus! XT For Windows (22.5 MiB, 12 Downloads) - Version .136u4
Mame Plus! XT64 For Windows (23.1 MiB, 11 Downloads) - Version .136u4
March 8, 2010
New Version Of The Arcade Emulator Mame Plus!
Category: MAMEBy Hawq
Another update for Mame Plus now, let’s see what’s in the news:
REL 0.136u4 fixed a bug in hiscore code that crashes some drivers [MAMEUIFX] *updated jp command.dat updated jp command.dat [MRT]
Download from the homepage or below.
Mame Plus! For Windows 32bit (19.7 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version .136u4 r4613
Mame Plus! For Windows 64bit (20.9 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version .136u4 r4613
Mame Plus! Source Code (2.2 MiB, 4 Downloads) - Version .136u4 r4613
New Version Of The ZX Spectrum And Arcade Emulator DSP
Category: DSPBy Hawq
Did you grow up in the 80’s? if so then you’ll be pretty familiar with most of the systems this emulator covers being a ZX Spectrum and arcade emulator that also does ColecoVision and Amstrad CPC stuff, kind of fitting that it should emulate both the Spectrum and the CPC really considering the fates of those machines, let’s see what this release brings us:
• General
+NEW:- TMS-32010 - Added CPU, 95% completed
- M6800 - Added CPU series. Missing some opcodes and without SCI.
+ENHANCE:
- New function to scroll a screen, but moved within another screen.
M6809
- + Added opcodes $10EE, $10EF y $102C
- + Cleaned code of opcodes $10XX.
- Added functions for not standard sizes sprites and transparent chars based on color table
NAMCO Sound
- + Simplified, now only uses one audio channel and voice are mixed internally
- + Added 8 voices sound
M68000
- + Started a rewrite of the core, more speed
- + Enhanced the use of stacks (user and supervisor)
- + Added exception 1111
- Integrated ‘Frogger’ driver into ‘Galaxian’ hardware
- Integrated ‘Kung-Fu Master’ driver into ‘Irem M62′hardware
+BUG:
- Fixed small & silly bug in thelenguaje directory variable in Windows
- Now shows the selected lenguaje
- At last! Fixed sprites cuts (Ghost’n'Goblins, Black Tiger, Pacman, etc). A lot of corrections in the sprites functions and data structures
- In windows, if they were not language files DSP exit without any error
- In linux the first run does not load the driver, temporarily patched (Lazarus Bug?)
- If you open a tape on Amstrad or Spectrum and change to arcade, change the screen size correctly
- If you open a tape on Amstrad or Spectrum, DSP can not find any ROMs file
• Spectrum
+ENHANCE:- Now remembers the last tape or disc selected and previewed in the tape or disk loader
+BUG:
- Spectrum+3 - It does not change the page of video memory when paging is disabled, fixes the Atic-Atac (and others)
- Spectrum 128k - Fixes ROM load
• Rygar
+ENHANCE:- Sprites uses the new sprites functions, not duplicating the graphics
• Rally X Hardware
- New Rally X:- Added driver
• Psychic 5
+ENHANCE:- Fixed initial screen effect
• Irem M62 Hardware
+NEW:- Added sound and ADPCM
- Implemented sprites priority
- *Kung-FU Master: Added sound
- *Spelunker: Added driver with sound
- *Spelunker II: Added driver with sound
- *Lode Runner: Added driver with sound
- *Lode Runner II: Added driver with sound
• Mappy Hardware
+NEW:- Added 8-voice polyphonic sound
+ENHANCE:
- Fixed scroll
- Added graphical priorities
- Fixed sprites.
Mappy
+ENHANCE:- Fixed the last graphical bugs
Dig Dug 2
+NEW:- Added driver
Super Pacman
+NEW:- Added driver
• Toki
+ENHANCE:- Fixed background
- Fixed sprites
• Snow Bros
+ENHANCE:- Added sound and controls
• Galaga Hardware
- -Galaga
+NEW:
- Added driver, don’t work because the custom IO are not working
• Xain’d Sleena
+NEW:- Added driver with sound.
• Suna
+NEW:- Added driver with sound and DAC. Video only have sprites!
*Hard Head:
+NEW:
- Added driver.
*Hard Head 2:
+NEW:- Starting the driver, do not work nothing at all!
• NMK 16
+NEW:- Added base driver without sound
- -Saboten Bombers: Added driver
- -BobJack Twin: Added driver
• Knuckle Joe
+NEW:- Added driver with sound
• Wardner
+NEW:- Added driver with sound, small sprite problems
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DSL.dll For DSP (120.4 KiB, 126 Downloads) - Version 1.2.13
DSP For Windows (675.9 KiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 0.9ß4
DSP Source Code (725.9 KiB, 2 Downloads) - Version 0.9ß4
New Version Of The Arcade Emulator FBA Shuffle
Category: FBA ShuffleBy Hawq
Some non Mame arcade emulation now with FBA Shuffle, it may not emulate as many games as Mame but it does what it does very well, here’s the news:
merged burn lib to FB Alpha v0.2.97.08 codebase. added knightsjb. added orlegendca, kov2102, kov2103, kov2106, kov2107, martmast102c. fixed sound problem for some PGM games. (thanks to alix for reporting bug) fixed cheat for “Oriental Legend Special”. fixed screen rotation for “Dorodon” and “Space Raider”. fixed pause button save for wofch and sfzch. fixed speed for darkseal. (thanks to PlayerX for reporting bug) fixed a blank screen bug in many Cave games when loading state for the first time. (thanks to doraemoo for reporting bug) fixed chinese simplified language translation. fixed sound when load game with fullscreen from commandline for DSound output. fixed some warning info. improved game icon display, reduced GDI objects usage. added type “-romlist” in filter to export rom name list. (type “-mylist” to export filtered list and “-nwlist” for non-working list) added set icons dir to the path dialog. extended configurable ROM paths to 14. changed to case-insensitive filename for rom audit. (thanks to PlayerX) changed show mouse in fake fullscreen mode. removed arcade/1x/2x/3x/4x fullscreen size (also removed “-a” cmd line parameter). updated libpng library to 1.4.1. (http://libpng.sourceforge.net) updated romsets to match MAME 0.136u4.
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FBA Shuffle For Windows (2.7 MiB, 12 Downloads) - Version 100306
FBA Shuffle For Windows 64bit (2.2 MiB, 8 Downloads) - Version 100306
New Version Of The GameCube Emulator Dolphin
Category: DolphinBy Hawq
This excellent Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulator gets a release now and things are moving along rather nicely with it, let’s see what’s been said:
As Dolphin nears the first release since becoming open source software, we are hard at work to make it more stable. Now, we offer up “v2.0 RC1″ for our faithful testers to try out and report back!
If you’re on windows or OS X, head over to the downloads section to download the Release Candidate. If you’re on linux, you will need to svn checkout and build http://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/branches/stable.
Please test the Release Candidate and let us know via the forums or the googlecode issue tracker if you’ve found a stability bug. Note that feature requests and bugs not pertaining to stability for the v2.0 release will be frowned upon, and could bring down developer wraith.
Happy testing!
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Dolphin For Windows 32bit (4.7 MiB, 47 Downloads) - Version 2.0 RC 1
Dolphin For Windows 64bit (5.9 MiB, 34 Downloads) - Version 2.0 RC 1
Dolphin For Mac OSX (12.4 MiB, 33 Downloads) - Version 2.0 RC 1
New Version Of The Apple II Emulator Agat Emulator
Category: AgatemulatorBy Hawq
An Apple II and Agat 7/9, soviet Apple clones, emulator for Windows, I don’t use this one myself so move swiftly on and let’s see what’s new with it this time:
Improved writing support for AIM disks Fixed detection of paddles/joystick.
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Agat Emulator For Windows (3.6 MiB, 11 Downloads) - Version 1.12.1
Agat Emulator Source Code (472.1 KiB, 3 Downloads) - Version 1.12.1
March 7, 2010
New Version Of The SNES Emulator Bsnes
Category: bsnesBy Hawq
A WIP release from byuu of his SNES emulator for Windows now, let’s see what he’s done to it:
added mightymo’s cheat code database, access via “Find Cheat Codes” button on cheat editor window added an option to temporarily disable all cheat codes quickly debugger now properly uses S-SMP IPLROM when needed for disassembling and tracing indexed indirect read opcodes in the S-CPU were testing for IRQs one cycle too early [someone42] fix an off-by-one array iteration in S-PPU OAM rendering [PiCiJi] added some implicit linked libraries to linker flags for Fedora [belegdol] moved from C++98 to C++0x, resulting in substantial code cleanups and simplifications C++0x: implemented foreach() concept for linear container iteration C++0x: implemented concept system using SFINAE and type traits C++0x: utilized auto keyword to increase source readability C++0x: moved to strongly-typed enumerators C++0x: rewrote va_list-based code to use type-safe variadic templates C++0x: replaced noncopyable class with deleted default copy functions C++0x: replaced custom static_assert template class with built-in version C++0x: utilized rvalue references to implement move semantics into string, array, vector and serialization classes C++0x: utilized std::initializer_list for { … } initialization support to lstring, array and vector classes.
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bsnes For Windows (5.8 MiB, 36 Downloads) - Version 0.061 Beta
New Version Of The Genesis Emulator Kega Fusion
Category: Kega FusionBy Hawq
The Windows version of this Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, Master System and Game Gear emulator has had an update, let’s see what’s been done shall we? purely a rhetorical question of course as why would you be reading this if you didn’t want to know? I’ll shut up now and let the news do the talking:
Swapped SMS buttons Added an option (that I couldn’t think of a suitable name for) to show the full SMS area when running GG games Fixed a couple of non-working SMS games (auto disable of some features, e.g. YM2413, which would cause them to crash if present) Fixed some other minor SMS issues GG games that are really SMS games in a GG cart should now auto boot in SMS mode A couple of 32X tweaks that will only matter to homebrew coders currently Fixed a couple of SegaCD games that didn’t boot/run - if you find any more, please do let me know - as far as I know, there are none Command line with -scd or -mcd and no filename will now cause Fusion to start up in ‘Boot SegaCD’ mode Added support for the (pretty useless) SF7000 floppy disk interface for the SC3000 - you need the SF7000 IPL ROM for this to work SC3000 keyboard can now be enabled from the options menu A few sound tweaks.
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Kega Fusion For Windows (383.5 KiB, 68 Downloads) - Version 3.64
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