02/10/2001 - FinalBurn delay :( [Posted by DarkMazda]

It looks like Dave from FinalBurn is going to delay Final Burn.. Whats the reason?? well I don't wanna say it, look at this post he made over at the retrogames's forum

"i understand, but i haven't released support for SSF2 because A) the graphics are messed up badly in places, B) i'm really NOT AT ALL happy about the lamer situation, and C) it's getting to the point where it really is NOT fun to develop anymore, which is not a good sign. but then again i want people to see SSF2 emulated, so i'm trying to get them to wait for other emus e.g. MAME Calice Raine, and the hacks are really NOT helping because they narrow peoples views on which emus are capable of what - CPS2 != FB.
i don't particularly want lamers stealing it out of my emu and then complaining it isnt perfect, when they continue to bitch at me about little things wrong with the interface. I do NOT want FB to be lamer friendly - I want it to be a device for pioneering emulation (and that's been done), which is why I'm going back to do AB... out of protest mainly. And if the lamers are going to get confrontational like releasing batch file hacks, then i'm going to get confrontational back by not working on CPS2 for a LONG time.

i think we've proved by now that CPS2 games can be preserved for emulation. the only reason to hack FB is because you want more gamez now. have some patience.

02/10/2001 - PCSX Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

PCSX's website has been updated with their latest post and a screenshot!!

"Here is a screenshot of Pcsx running the bios on a linux system!

The port is made by a new member of the team, Linuzappz, and is going to get released soon. It uses Pete's Mesa OpenGL plugin, which he released a while back in October!

The main emu has got much work too,like working pad plugins,and other fixes here and there along with the GTE rewrite Nik3D did a while back,another new member on the team. Welcome him too!

Hopefully that proves to all of you we aren't gone!
See ya around in our forum.

AkumaX"

02/11/2001 - NESten version 0.61b1!! [Posted by DarkMazda]

NESten version 0.61 Beta 1 has been released WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO *Bows down to TNSe*. NESten must be one of the best NES Emulators out there for Win9x! Its just like NEStcile for Windows with much more compatibility etc..!! Here is what is new

• First of all, I would like to thank Quietust for his work on the mappers. He has basically rewritten, organized, debugged and verified a lot of the mappers. So a lot of games will have much better support. Visit the NESten homepage to look for updated mappers. At the same time, I must mention kevtris, who has reverse engineered a lot of new mappers, and has supplied Quietust with a lot of accurate info making the games work perfectly. Without Quietust & kevtris pushing me, this new release would probably not be made.
• Mapper interface has been changed totally to be more true to how the NES actually works. An updated SDK will follow.
• Added UNIF format support. Many new roms will be dumped only in this format since the iNES format only allows a 8 bit mapper number assignment (max 256 different cart types). UNIF does not share this limit. A big thanks to Repulse for creating the format.
• Added FDS support. This basically means, you can play FDS games. For those of us that don't understand japanese, a game is most likely waiting for you to eject a disk, and insert another one, if it just pauses with some weird charachters. That means, you have to enter the menu, and press eject, then enter menu again, and insert the disk side you think it's requesting :)
• Added external rendering plugins. What this basically means, is that you can make your own plugin with your own special effects. My default Vid_DirectX.DLL is included with this version, hopefully new plugins will be available via the NESten main page at a later time.
• Made timing more accurate, but I have not updated both cores to use the new timing, so only the interpretive core is in use.
• A lot of weird things have been fixed too, hope noone noticed these weird things ;)
• A problem with DirectSound not being released (IE, Sound in old DOS programs got lost) should be fixed. - Well, fire it up and see if anything else has changed :)