March 2001

03/01/2001 - Raine WIP! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Raine WIP has been updated with some news


03/01/2001 - RockNES 1.810! [Posted by DarkMazda]

RockNES version 1.810 has been released! here is what is new

Please download RockNES from our NES Emu Section


03/01/2001 - MAME WIP (3/1) [Posted by DtK]

Well the latest WIP for MAME is out today. Also today is the beginning of a new month and most often new MAME releases come within the first 10 days of a month! That's just what I usually see at least!

Ooh Tetris 2! And Gunnail is an overhead shooter, one of my favorite type of games!


03/02/2001 - Team Japump Dumps! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Team Japump dumps are here!

  • Hana no Mai
  • Hana Yayoi
  • Idol-Mahjong Housoukyoku
  • Mahjong Natsu Monogatari
  • Ojanko-Yakata 2bankan
  • Salamander
  • Soccer Superstars
  • Tetris Plus 2
  • Super World Stadium '97
  • Seisenshi Amatelass
  • Space Fighter X
  • Cybattler
  • Double Wings
  • Free Kick
  • Gunnail
  • Mouja
  • Son Son
  • Super Cross II
  • Space Stranger
  • Zaviga
  • The Bounty
  • Panic Road
  • Youjyuden
those are the games they have dumped :)


03/02/2001 - MESS WIP! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MESS's WIP has been updated with some February updates! :)

  • Tuesday 13th February, 2001 - Lawrence Gold fixed xmame so that the DGA 2.0 mode-switching should finally work (the problem was that two pointers were referring to the same palette but only one of them was being reset when the palette was recreated for the new screen depth.) Lawrence also released xmame/xmess 0.37b11.2. Sean Young made some fixes to the WD2793 emulation for the MSX driver (MSX-DOS and many disk games work now.)
  • Monday 12th February, 2001 - Jurgen Buchmueller fixed a problem in the ANTIC video controller (used in the Atari 400/800) which was introduced with the new memory system: using the data argument to hold more than 8 bits in a write handler doesn't work anymore! Sean Young added mappers for Super Load Runner and the Korean many-in-1 cartridges for the MSX driver.
  • Sunday 11th February, 2001 - Raphael Nabet fixed instruction timing further, edited comments, changed apexc.flags to more descriptive apexc.running, fixed a macro ambiguity, clarified a few comments, and fixed an unsafe sprintf() call, and added APEXC_ML_FULL register type to support the control panel in the APEXC CPU core. Raphael also inserted support for RAM (a.k.a. cylinder) image loading, added a control panel and reordered most items to the APEXC system driver which is now in a workable state and has been promoted to a full driver. As well, Raphael added IO_CYLINDER as a device type to MESS, and added a short descriptive comment for each device type. Kev Thacker started to add "scorpion 256" emulation (it boots, but it doesn't go into the menu like it should, instead it goes into 48k mode.) Kev also updated the NC card image handling code; if an executable card was read, it would generate a bad directory listing (now fixed); and if an executable card is directoried, then no directory listing is shown. Stefano Priore added IO_PUNCHCARD and IO_PUNCHTAPE descriptors to MESS, aligned LEDs with the text under them in the APEXC system driver by changing the font to 6x8 instead of 8x8, and fixed the makefile to allow compilation of CPU cores in the mess/ directory. Juergen Buchmueller made a couple small fixes to the APEXC system driver. For the CoCo 3 driver, Nathan Woods altered the way video RAM is scanned so that John Kowalski's Boink demo now runs (albiet with many glitches.) Nathan also updated MESS32 to properly recognize the new device types (cylinders, punch cards and punch tapes) introduced with the APEXC driver. Lawrence Gold added a forgotten #ifdef that was preventing xmame from building without DGA.


03/02/2001 - Rumor Mill! [Posted by DarkMazda]
JoseQ has released the new Rumor Mill for March!! This issue talks about "Bliss, Smog, Ages, BDM/KGB, and Gens". Please read it here


03/02/2001 - MagicEngine Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MagicEngine's website has been updated with some news about the mac release

    "By the way, we will release a new Mac test version soon. We have fixed the gamepad direction problem, but still no luck with the DVD support. We have tried different ways to play audio tracks, but without success so far. :( "


03/02/2001 - RockNES 1.810 Mac! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Mac RockNES version 1.810 has been released by Bannister! Here is what is new

  • Rebuilt most of startup sequence, tons of problems were fixed;
  • Fixed memory corruption, FDS driver and NES reset;
  • Fixed a memory problem in the PPU reset (fixing gfx garbage);
  • Fixed HBlank timing for mappers (broken from previous version);
  • Fixed mappers #40, #42, #43, #69, #90 (broken from previous version);
  • Fixed mapper #67 (Fantasy Zone 2 works fine);
  • Fixed ROM mapping on $6000-$7FFF memory space;
  • Accurate emulation of sprite #0 hits, improving the compatibility. (Note that frameskipping gains far less speed now than in previous releases).
  • Tweaked the NES timing, fixing a couple of games;
  • Fixed savestate (rsx) code;
  • Fixed a problem setting monochrome mode;
  • Fixed a stupid sprite clipping bug;
  • Updated 2A03 CPU core (november/2000);
  • A lot of others fixes and cosmetic changes.
Please download RockNES from our NES Emu Section


03/02/2001 - DreamMSX Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

DreamMSX's website has been updated with some news

    "Great news from Jos! Keyboard characters will be selectable via joypad (to enter passwords in games like King's Valley 2), and tape device support (files would be saved in the VMU) is being worked on! That would allow saving in Metal Gear and probably other titles. A new, improved version of DreamMSX could come out within 2 or 3 weeks (I hope so ^_^)!

    I'm adding a Tech section. It's a work-in-progress page, I'll add stuff in the future. (As soon as I get a working Cygwin environment ^_^).

    Oh, and thanks to the guy who sent me the big Dreamcast logo, so I've made a logo for the news page. Ok, it may look a bit different from the small one, but, hey, I'm no graphic designer! ;)

    Sad story : NeoRageX ported to Dreamcast ? Nah, really not. A dumb guy called "zerotolorence" had some fun lying to Dreamcast fans and pretending being a developer. I hope he's finished now, and he found some peace."


03/02/2001 - iGBA movies! [Posted by DarkMazda]

iGBA's website has been updated with 4 movies of iGBA running!! Looks pretty damn cool :D


03/03/2001 - MAME WIP! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MAME WIP Page has been updated with some news

    "3rd March 2001: David Haywood added Thunder Dragon to the Bombjack Twin driver. Marco Cassili partly fixed dip switch settings in Thunder Dragon. Olivier Galibert sped up Asterix graphics emulation. Nicola Salmoria added Blazing Tornado to the Metro driver, and fixed 8bpp tile support so that Bal Cube now works properly as well. Blazing Tornado however lacks background graphics. David Graves added the correct PROMs to the Darius driver. Jürgen Buchmüller fixed a few bugs in the NEC uPD7810 CPU core."


03/03/2001 - MESS WIP! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MESS WIP page has been updated with some more february 2001 updates

  • Saturday 17th February, 2001 - Ben Bruscella applied the MAME 0.37b12 source code changes to the MESS development tree. Nathan Woods merged in changes from MAME32 0.37b12 pre-release to the MESS32 development tree. Juergen Buchmueller added support for the 8X41, LH5801, SATURN and APEXC CPU cores to the MAME core, and applied some fixes to MESS to get it to build correctly with the new MAME source. Juergen also updated the SATURN CPU core for the "new" memory system.
  • Friday 16th February, 2001 - Nathan Woods fixed two minor timing bugs in the CoCo 3 and made a minor fix to device-related command line parsing in MESS32.
  • Thursday 15h February, 2001 - Ben Bruscella moved the CPU cores that were under the MESS directory into the MAME CPU directory and fixed a compile problem with dragon.c. Stefano Priore fixed the Unix makefile to conform with Ben's changes to MESS' CPU locations.
  • Wednesday 14th February, 2001 - Stefano Priore added IO_PARALLEL to the MESS core; some machines (e.g. Commodores) connect their printer to a special port, leaving the parallel port free for other uses. Raphael Nabet fixed a bug with disassembling the B instruction in the APEXC disassembler. For the APEXC CPU core, Raphael edited comments and added his own font and string display functions (the font is cleaner; it fixes a screenshot bug, and enables the driver to support special mathematical characters.) For the APEXC system driver, Raphael added a few comments and fixed I/O port support.


03/03/2001 - CPS2Shock release! [Posted by DarkMazda]
CPS2Shock has released the new xor table rom yesterday. It was for the game "Ring of Destruction (EURO 940902)". They have updated their websit with some news as well

    "FinalBurn and the CPS-2 DAT files have been updated to include yesterdays Ring of Destruction release. Head on over to our downloads page to get them.

    We will soon be receiving a large number of boards for dumping which need to be returned to the donator after (KevinDO). In order for this to happen we need money. Can you help? if so visit our donations page below. "


03/03/2001 - Bliss Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Bliss's website has been updated with some news on the next release of the emulator

    "Whoops! I think I just figured out the reason so many people with really fast computers, but older video cards, are having troubles running Bliss at full speed using DirectX. Basically, due to a bug I just found, the DirectX code in Bliss was forcing some video cards to transfer up to 30 megabytes per second of texture data to the video card! Can you say, "My bad!"? This will obviously be fixed for the next release. Blame it on my new-ness to DirectX programming.

    Also coming in the next release: Intellivoice emulation! Woohoo! This has been the single most-requested feature since Bliss was originally released, and it's finally almost here! You can thank Joe Zbiciak for doing all of the reverse engineering of the Intellivoice and providing me with all the technical info necessary to emulate it.

    In addition to the Intellivoice, the sound emulation has been improved to include modeling of cross-channel modulation from amplitude clipping. What this means in plain English is that some sounds that were previously very "flat" in Bliss will now correctly "wow", "wobble", and "waver" like they should. Some specific examples of this include sounds like the tune that plays as Dracula rises from his tomb, the ending sound when you win a game of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and the vibrating organ sound at the start of a game of NFL Football.

    There will also be several new language translations, thanks to those sending in language packs and updates, and some bug fixes. Stay tuned! "


03/03/2001 - RockNES 1.820! [Posted by DarkMazda]

RockNES version 1.820 has been released with these new things

  • Most of mapper #5 (MMC5) code has been rewritten, fixing some games;
  • Added MMC5 RAM saving/loading (size is always 65536 bytes);
  • Fixed NESticle state loading (STA files -- mappers 0,1,2,3 and 4 only);
  • Removed that FDS warning at startup (now displayed on FDS loading);
  • Some changes for ANSI compatibility, plus cosmetic changes and minor fixes.
And they have also updated their website with some things about this release!
    "More... You run the emulator, the screen keeps black, you hit Ctrl+Alt+End to force a quit-to-OS. This is a strange problem with Allegro here:

    while(!sound_buffer)
    sound_buffer = get_audio_stream_buffer(sound_stream);

    If someone knows how to fix it (infinite loop), e-mail me... "
Please download RockNES from our NES Emu Section


03/03/2001 - Gens 0.95! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Gens(Genesis Emu) version 0.95 has been released! Here is what is new in this release of the emulator

  • 4 players partially supported (actually just Yuyu Hakusho Battle and Street Racer are supported).
  • * 3/6 buttons genesis pad selectable.
  • * Rom format (SMD/BIN) detection modified.
  • * Fixed the accidently broken PAL bit in VDP status flag.
  • * Now SPACE caractere is a separator between code and description in .PAT file (stupid bug, sorry).
  • * Z80 V-INT timing modified.
  • * V-Counter modified.
  • * PSG sound fixed in some games like After Burner 2 (thanks Dave ;)
  • * DMA timings again modified.
  • * 68000 cycles timing modified (68000 is now overclocked of 1,3 Khz instead of underclocked of 14,3 Khz in NTSC mode).
  • * Once again, i've modified Z80 cycles timing, now voices are like the original genesis (crappy) but sound in some game are fixed (voices in Zombies)
  • * Fixed a bug in VDP control decoding (added accidently).
  • * Country detection fixed for (F) region (these games are NTSC and not PAL).
  • * Added a sub-menu for rom history.
Please download Gens from our Genesis Emu section


03/03/2001 - Final Burn 1.09! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Final Burn(Multi CPS Emu) version 1.09 has been released! Here is what is new

    "v0.109+ Added Slammasters II - Ring Of Destruction

    + Added region switches for...
    Alien Vs. Predator
    Marvel Super Heroes
    Vampire/Darkstalkers

    Many thanks to Malice for these switches!"
Please download it from our Multi Arcade Emu section


03/03/2001 - Genital Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Genital(Genesis Emu)'s website has been updated with some news

    "March 2, 2001: As was mentioned on JoseQ's Rumor Mill a few weeks back, I have been working on fixing up timing so that Bubble & Squeak, Desert Strike, Ranger-X, etc. will run. My initial attempts broke Streets of Rage 2, and I promised myself I would not release Genital until it was fixed again. Well, today I fixed it! I still have to do some more testing, but the few troublesome games I've been examining all seem to be happy.

    I've also been working on my PSG engine, it sounds much better now thanks to help from Neil Bradley! There are still some nasty bugs, but hopefully these can be squashed soon. I'm going to have to write myself a Sound Blaster driver sometime in the near future. If all goes well, the next version of Genital will have PSG sound support, and maybe DAC sound. This probably won't happen for at least another month or 2. "


03/04/2001 - JoseQ Takes down roms:( [Posted by DarkMazda]

JoseQ has some bad news for you folks, it looks like his roms are gone... for now :(

    "If you're wondering why I came to this decision, then I guess I should post a brief explanation as the reason is fairly simple. I just don't want to have any legal troubles, at all. Having the ROMs online risks everything that I've worked all my life to achieve, and I just don't think it's worth it. The ROMs area is probably the main reason why the sponsors for the site dropped support, and was also the part of the site with the lowest click-through rate (about 1 out of every 40,000 people would click on any one banner).
    The ROMs section remains opened for informational/fun purposes. You can still see screenshots from the games, rate them, see their flyer, among other things. I will probably slowly but surely start posting public-domain ROMs, as they become available. "


03/04/2001 - Final Burn 0.110 has been released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

FinalBurn version 0.110 has been released! Here is what is new

    + Added Quiz Nanairo Dreams
    I would tell you whether it's working completely or not... but the amount of Japanese
    text is so great, I doubt I'll ever be able to play it!

    From what I can tell, it's fairly cute, it has a definite 'quiz' element,
    it seems to runs fine, and if you speak Japanese I'm sure it will be perfectly playable!
Please download Final Burn from our Multi Arcade Emu Section


03/04/2001 - CPS2 shock release! [Posted by DarkMazda]

CPS2Shock Has released "Quiz Nanairo Dreams (Japan 960826)" today!! These are just parts of the full rom to get the game working ^_^:


03/04/2001 - CPS2MAME 030301! [Posted by DarkMazda]

A new version of CPS2MAME has been released yesterday for the new game, Quiz Nanairo Dreams. Please download it from our MAME Emu section


03/04/2001 - CPSMAME Mac! [Posted by DarkMazda]

CPSMAME for MAC has been released as well!! Here is what they had about this emu

    "It really plays all the CPS1, CPS Changer and CPS2 games (plus it lets you toggle the CPU speed 16/12 Mhz). It's based on MacMAME so you get all the rendering plugins for full screen streteched and smoothed gameplay on ATI or 3dfx cards. Based on Razoola's source code, this new version not only includes support for Quiz Nanairo Dreams but also has CPS1 improvements including support for the new "world" dump of "Three Wonders", better QSound and fixed ROM loading for Pnickies". LAZY MODE OFF :)"
Please download it from our MAME Emu Section


03/04/2001 - Team Japump Dumps! [Posted by DarkMazda]

New dumps over at the Team Japumps website

  • Black Heart (JPN Ver.)
  • Splendor Blast (JPN Ver.)
  • High Voltage (JPN Ver.)


03/04/2001 - Gens 0.95a! [Posted by DarkMazda]
After yesterday's Gens 0.95 release! The 0.95a has been released! Here is what is new

    * The infamous VDP control decoding bug is really fixed this time, so Fido Dido is ok.
Please download it from our Genesis Emu Section


03/04/2001 - MESS 0.37b12! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MESS version 0.37b12 has been released! Here is what is new

    New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
    ------------------------------------------------------
    N/A

    System Driver Changes:
    ----------------------
    - [KC85/4 & KC85/3] Colours fixed. Added colour flash support. Improved accuracy of video redraw; mid frame changes are now supported (only flash changes are supported at this time); flashing lines in Boulderdash are reproduced now. Thankyou to Torsten Paul for his information about the colour flash. Swapped CLR and DEL keys (previously you had to press "delete" near Scroll Lock to delete back a char. Now you can press backspace). [Kev Thacker]
    - [ORIC1/ORICA/TELSTRAT] Fixed .tap loading. (Conversion from .tap to internal .wav form was completely broken). [Kev Thacker]
    - [COCO 3] More work on improving video timing for mid frame video register modification. Now supports mid frame palette modification, and altered the way video RAM is scanned so that John Kowalski's Boink demo now runs (albeit with many glitches). Also fixed a bug that would cause the "Speed Up Poke" to still be in effect after a reset.[Nate Woods]

    Other Changes:
    --------------
    - The core is based on MAME 0.37b12. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]
    - [IMGTOOL] Added support for NC100/NC200 PCMCIA Ram Card images. Card can be formatted and files can be transfered to and from card filesystem. [Kev Thacker]
    - [machine/z80fmly] The Zero count/Timeout output pulse was very short. Now the pulse is active for longer. Required for KC85/4 colour flash to work! [Kev Thacker]
Please download MESS from our Multi Console Emu Section


03/05/2001 - Bliss v1.5! [Posted by DtK]

Well the best (IMHO) Intellivision emulator gets some even better fixes and features! When will this madness end?! Hopefully never. Well now that I've up and introduced a new version of Bliss you probably wanna know what's new...

  • Intellivoice support. (See whatsnew.txt for details)
  • Added modeling of cross-channel modulation. This should cause many of the loud, modulating, or vibrating sounds to be much more accurate. Thanks to Joe Zbiciak for the info necessary to do this.
  • Added a complete Spanish translation as well as full French and German translations. Thanks go to Juan Fernando Rivera Pernía, Florent Basset, and Kevin Werdelmann respectively for contributing these translations. Bliss now automatically detects and supports five different languages.
  • All of the Intellivision ROMs published by Joseph Zbiciak are now included in this release. These ROMs full under the GNU Public License (GPL) and have been included with the express permission of Joseph Zbiciak.
  • Fixed a bug in the DirectX support that caused Bliss to send far too much texture data over the graphics bus (by several orders of magnitude). This may finally fix the DirectX speed problems that plagued many users.
As the author stated the Intellivoice support was a bit tricky, so I hope everyone enjoys it :) You can get Bliss on our Intellivision Emu Page.


03/06/2001 - MESS WIP! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MESS WIP Page has been updated with some news

  • Monday 5th March, 2001 - Ben Bruscella updated the MESS development tree with the MAME 0.37b13-private source code.
  • Sunday 4th March, 2001 - Lawrence Gold synchronized the MESS development tree with the latest source code from xmame-0.37b12.1pre2.
  • Saturday 3rd March, 2001 - Ben Bruscella did some more work to the CPS Changer driver to enable it to compile under DOS, and released MESS 0.37b12. After release, Ben cleaned up the MESS tools/ directory such that each tool now has its own sub-directory in the source tree. Nathan Woods added special support in imgtool to separate floppy image formats from the file system. Nathan also added a test command (only built in DEBUG mode) that runs a set of test cases on an imgtool driver.
  • Friday 2nd March, 2001 - Nathan Woods fixed a bug that would cause the "Speed Up Poke" to still be in effect after a reset for the CoCo 3 driver.
I'm soo sorry about the updates.. my cable modem has been down for the last 2 days :(


03/06/2001 - RockNES 1.820 Mac! [Posted by DarkMazda]

RockNES Mac version 1.820 has been released by Bannister! Here is what is new

  • Fixed the bug (introduced in v1.810) that caused the key configuration to be reset to the default keys every time you ran the emulator.
  • Most of mapper #5 (MMC5) code has been rewritten, fixing some games.
  • Added MMC5 RAM saving/loading (size is always 65536 bytes);
  • Some changes for ANSI compatibility, plus cosmetic changes and minor fixes.
Please download RockNES from our NES Emu Section


03/06/2001 - RockNES 1.830! [Posted by DarkMazda]

RockNES version 1.830 has been released! Here is what is new in this release of RockNES

  • Fixed name garbage when saving files;
  • Fixed RAM, WRAM, VROM and CPU registers dumping;
  • Added PRG data dumping when no VROM is present (due the request);
  • vsync on/off switch was disabled, oops;
  • Documentation revised.
Please download this release from our NES Emu Section


03/06/2001 - RockNES Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

RockNES's website has been updated with some updates as well ^_^

  • The RSx format (RockNES saved states) is available, so read this document.
  • Currently, you cannot "insert coins" in the VS Unisystem games due a reading bug because of debug stuff left... Please, redownload RockNES and my apologeez!


03/06/2001 - MAME WIP [Posted by DarkMazda]
MAME WIP Page has been updated!

    '5th March 2001: David Haywood added state saving to the Sega C2 driver, fixed some small bugs in it and also added state saving to Ninja Kid. Olivier Galibert fixed a bug in the 6502 core which was introduced by the saved states support, and some Taito games that were broken because of some bugs in the state saving code. Jürgen Buchmüller sent in another NEC uPD7810 CPU core update with some bugfixes. Nicola Salmoria added K053936 graphics chip emulation to Blazing Tornado, and improved the K054157 emulation a bit. '


03/06/2001 - MAME32 Q/A Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MAME32QA's website has been updated with some bad news, it looks like there won't be any new MAME32 for awhile

    "With the numerous 'fix' changes that have taken place on the DOS side w/ on the fly source updates and broken drivers, the devs are deciding to wait for a stable b13 from Nicola to work from."


03/06/2001 - Mimic Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Mimic's website has been updated with some news

    "Yes, I am still here AND I actually have some progress to report !!! :)
    I fixed a bug in the Z80 core and now SMS looks a lot better. The bug was in an "enhancement" I made several months ago as a speed-up. Hah! More like a f***-up :)
    Anyways, I updated the compatipility page...
    I have made up my mind that I will do an "as-is" release considering its been over 3 months since a release. Its amazing when you think of it that a certain emulator has done over 100 releases in those 3 months and I havent done jack :)
    When is the big question....just stay tuned OK.... "


03/06/2001 - Calice 0.1.3! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Calice version 0.1.3 has been released! Here are some new driver updates

  • Win32 version (8 bpp Windowed Mode Only)
  • Row Scroll Support (Preliminary) Works with megatwins and varth. Does not work with sf2 =(
Please download Calice 0.1.3 from our Multi-Arcade Emu Section


03/06/2001 - VisualBoy version 1.4.9! [Posted by DarkMazda]

VisualBoy(Gameboy Emu) version 1.4.9 has been released! here is what is new

  • Fixed LEGO Racers and Harley Davidson
  • Fixed Super Fighters
  • Window can be sized
  • Battery save game is not compressed anymore
  • Sound quality settings for slower machines: 11Khz, 22Khz and 44Khz (default)
  • 24-bit and 32-bit support (some problems still happen switching between modes or between fullscreen and window mode)
  • Catalan translation (thanks Raimon Areste)
  • Vietnamese translation (thanks Le Thanh Hung)
  • Danish translation (thanks Laust Palbo Nielsen)
  • Arabic translation (thanks Ali)
  • Total of 16 languages!
Please download VisualBoy from our Gameboy Emu Section. Thanks goes Forgotten for the E-mail


03/07/2001 - ePSXe v1.2.0 News! [Posted by DtK]

Well I am happy to bring you some news on the next version of Playstation emulator, ePSXe. All news is from PSXEmu so a big thanks to them for this.

Some new features coming for ePSXe include a very familiar and popular feature in emulators: save states! Also they are pre-compressed to be a cool 1 MB of space as opposed to some large one.

Another cool feature is the addition of the dual shock function. Basically if you have a USB controller that supports dual shock you can now use it for ePSXe thus further enhancing your playing experience!

As far as compatability it is only slightly increased and details are still sketchy. Though Bobbi (PSXEmu) is reporting some minor speed increases of about 10-30% depending on game which is always good news! This is based on mainly some code rewriting and optimizing. And the bug for hitting F4 while saving/loading on memcards has been fixed!

There is no definite date on the release that I know of so I won't guess. Please head to PSXEmu for Bobbi's full report on this.


03/09/2001 - MAME WIP ! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MAME WIP page has been updated with some news and screenshots of Gladiator :)

    "8th March 2001: David Graves adjusted the Darius 2 and Ninja Warriors drivers to include support for the low pass filter. Ernesto Corvi and Nicola Salmoria added support for dual K053260 sound chips, fixing sound in Over Drive. Nicola Salmoria also fixed bad sound in Asterix. Phil Stroffolino sent in a driver for Gladiator. Marco Cassili fixed some dip switch settings in Rolling Thunder and Konami Twin16 games."


03/09/2001 - PSinex Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

PSinex's website has been updated with some news with a new member in their team!

    "I would like to take this opportunity, and welcome a new member to the PSinex team. Neo Maximus is now working on the Dynamic Recompiler of PSinex. From what I've already seen on the source, he's doing a good job, and no doubt, he likes working on it. So welcome to the Team, NeoMax!

    I personally am doing some speed optimizes to the Interpreter, and I can already say, that its speed is no more - no less, 40% faster than the old PSinex. Another breakthrough, is that i've managed to code the emulator in a specific way, so that it doesnt need an external BIOS image to run... No more BIOS file distributions for us... hehe. But of course for full compatibility it will support the good old way as well.

    And as for the "Secret" member, which has a good knowledge of PSX hardware, is working to the last details of the Configurator, before he starts the CD-ROM routines."


03/09/2001 - Apollo Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Apollo(N64 Emu)'s Dev log has been updated with some news

    "I feel so lonely... no Company. :) Bad pun... oh well. Anyway... I restarted beta testing for Apollo. A select 4 people have gotten the chance to be part of the team. You will recognize them as webmasters for a couples sites who were in the right place at the right time. I am sure you will see screenshots and reports next week from then in regards the beta I plan on giving them Friday. Just to let you know I am still kicking... I just don't care to be so public... It was never really my intent to publicize this emulator in the first place. Now I feel obligated to provide more support with the increased visitors. ciao."


03/09/2001 - MESS WIP! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MESS's WIP page has been updated

  • Tuesday 6th March, 2001 - Stefano Priore moved top-level unix directories in the MESS development tree to subdirectories under the src/unix/ directory.
  • Monday 5th March, 2001 - Ben Bruscella updated the MESS development tree with the MAME 0.37b13-private source code.


03/09/2001 - Calice Needs your help! [Posted by DarkMazda]
Calice's website has been updated with some requests

    "I am looking for a dumped ROM set of Asterix & Obelix arcade (Konami) and any information about its hardware. Use the E-Mail at the bottom of this page. "


03/09/2001 - Mimic Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Mimic's website has been updated with some news

    "Got Super GX running :)

    This is yet another previously unemulated game. Unfortunately, it still has a slight problem which is stopping it from being playable. "


03/09/2001 - FPSE Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

FPSE's website has been updated with some CrashBash2 Screenshots! check them out :)


03/09/2001 - GnuBoy version 0.9.8! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Gnuboy(Gameboy Emu) version 0.9.8 has been released (Source, DOS, Win32 ports). Here is what is new

  • enabled support for dmg sprite sorting; not sure it works yet
  • added "sprsort" rcvar to toggle this since it's usually not needed
  • fixed a potential crash that could happen if sound init failed on dos
  • added native SDL sound support
  • fixed lots of bugs in the SDL port
  • removed stupid sys_realtime() function in favor of the simple ANSI C time()
  • roms can now be loaded from stdin by specifying - as the rom name
  • removed lots of useless bloat from system interface modules
  • take advantage of ANSI atexit() to simplify termination logic
  • hide mouse cursor with SDL
  • SDL fullscreen mode
  • optional alt+enter fullscreen toggle for SDL
  • SDL rcvars sdl_fullscreen and sdl_altenter to control these features
  • changed bswapl to bswap in asm to make it work on mingw32
  • added ram size code 05 for 4 banks, this seems to make Pokemon Crystal work
  • backed out hack for Altered Space and W&W because it broke other games
  • new code to make them work, hopefully this time it's right
  • now we give an error on unknown rom/ram size to prevent crashing
  • integrated Windows port by mewse
Please Download GnuBoy from our Gameboy Emu Section. Thanks goes to Gilgamesh for the E-mail.


03/09/2001 - RockNES 1.830 Linux! [Posted by DarkMazda]

RockNES version 1.830 for LINUX has been released! Please download RockNES from our NES Emu Section


03/09/2001 - CPS2Shock release! [Posted by DarkMazda]

CPS2Shock has released the "19XX: War Against Destiny (USA 951207)" ^_^; ifyou have the original rom and want to play it, please download this :)


03/09/2001 - mame.dk gone :( [Posted by DarkMazda]

From all these source i've seen, it looks like www.mame.dk is now officially dead. MAME.DK was a really nice mame rom site where people could find roms for MAME. But I Guess the cost of the server was just too much for them to keep up :(


03/09/2001 - Final Burn v0.111 [Posted by DtK]

Oh yeah! A new version of Dave's amazing emulator, Final Burn has been released! This time adding support for the recent release from CPS-2 Shock, "19XX: War Against Destiny (USA)!" Both this and the release are great great news, the 1900 series is one of my favorites.

On a few side notes about this release Dave says that FB was not really made for vertical games yet. He is thinking 512x384 or 1024x768 for resolution with scanlines of course. Here is his first shot :)

You can get FB here.


03/09/2001 - Calice 0.1.4 - Now Supports 52 Games! [Posted by DtK]

Well this emulator has certainly come a long way in an uphill battle. That battle being vs all other arcade emulators, well Calice is a nice edition to that set. I'm gonna go ahead and dub this the 'Street Fighter Release' and when you read the what's new you'll see why :)

  • Fixed rowscroll support
  • Fixed layers ordering
  • Fixed scrolling clipping bug
  • Fixed some bugs specific to the win32 version
  • Added some new commands to gui
    Added drivers for:
    • Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (US 910206)
    • Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (US 910214)
    • Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (US 910228)
    • Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (US 910522)
    • Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (Japan 911210)
    • Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (Japan 910214)
    • Street Fighter II - Hyper Fighting (US)
    • Street Fighter II - Hyper Fighting (JAPAN)
    • Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Red Wave)
    • Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Rainbow)
    • Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (World)
    • Street Fighter II - Champion Edition US (Rev A)
    • Street Fighter II - Champion Edition US (Rev B)
    • Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Japan)
    • Street Fighter II - Champion Edition (Accelerator Pt.II)
Now you see what I mean? Well enough junk from me..get Calice here.


03/10/2001 - ZSNES at SourceForge! [Posted by DarkMazda]

It looks like ZSNES has a page up at SourceForge. Since they are now Open Source, they will be making a Development page etc.. check them out here


03/10/2001 - ZSNES Update [Posted by DtK]

Well it appears the ZSNES crew have been busy lately. Just the other day on the ZSNES Message Board zsKnight gave us an update on his emulator and it goes a little something like this:

    "Hey everyone!

    Anyways, a lot of (bad) things have happened lately. I was sick for a couple weeks, then a couple weeks of exams, quizzes, and homework followed right after. Now I'm pretty much free of those stuff, but I'm also quite exhausted at the same time. Plus I also started to help out in a different (non-emulation -- sorry) project. But anyways, the source code is pretty much ready to be released now (all the GPL headers are in, a very simple documentation written, etc). There are, however, a couple things small things I want to do before releasing a new version of ZSNES. There are also about a month and a halfs worth of e-mails that I haven't gone through yet, so I should go through that soon for those who are waiting for replies. And also, teuf helped us set up a sourceforge page (Thanks teuf!). It is located here:

    zsnes.sourceforge.net

    I will upload the source files there once I feel that it's fully ready.

    Also, for those who want to know what's going on with ZSNES, here's the list of what will be in the next version so far:
    • Fixed Empire Strikes Back crashing bug in the millenium falcon sequence (hopefully this will fix some other games too)
    • Removed all self-modifying code in ZSNES. This will make ZSNES crash a lot less on certain systems, especially during mode 7 sequences. Thanks Ivar!
    • Implemented S-RTC chip, using the system clock as the actual time (The game will make you set the time though, but it will just be replaced with the system time in-game). Thanks to John Weidman and Dark Force for the info on this chip!
    • Fixed crashing bug in certain mosaic scenes (eg. FF3 Phantom Forest) in the new graphics engine
    • Fixed a nasty crashing/corruption bug in the new graphics engine (both 8bit and 16bit)
    • SPC7110 emulation! This is based on the information reverse engineered by the hard working folks at dejap translations, Dark Force and John Weidman.
    • Altered HiROM/LoROM detection a bit - Fievel goes West works now
    • kode54 got the in-game clock working for the windows port. Thanks kode54!
Well that's it for now, I know it's a few days late but better late than never :)


03/14/2001 - OverClocked ep140! [Posted by DarkMazda]

OverClocked has released Episode #140, which is titled Eckel's eAffront


03/14/2001 - EmuLoader release! [Posted by DarkMazda]

EmuLoader's website has been updated with a new release and something new

    "1. Frontend customization finally implemented (change colors, fonts, etc)

    2. ROMs recognition by CRC number. This means that if Emu Loader don't find the ROM name, it will search other files in the zip for one that has the correct CRC number... Valid for merged clone games only when building the games database.

    The audit process is also updated. In this case, all kind of sets that has non-standard MAME ROMs names, have the CRC searching enabled. There are three possible cases for a valid CRC search in case the ROM name is not found:
    "Master games", "Clone games" and "Clone merged games".

    The only type of CRC that is not included in this feature is those that are all zeroes, "00000000", like the ones on CPS-2 games.

    3. Custom Games Manager 100% fixed and running smoothly (if you follow the tutorial, of course)... ;-)
    There was a couple of errors in the source code that was generating a lot of "access violation" errors..."
Then there was an update
    I've made a small update to the audit process. Nothing changed, except that now this feature is a bit faster (deleted unnecessary code from the audit procedure that was being executed twice or even more for each ROM audited...)

    Get the fixed files on downloads page (binary and source code)!


03/14/2001 - Logiqx Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Logiqx's website has been updated with some new dat files

    "Released dats for Calice v0.1.5 (added 20 new games and enabled split sets)."


03/14/2001 - MAME WIP! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MAME WIP updates

  • 12th March 2001: Olivier Galibert fixed a small save state bug which occurred with drivers using multiple identical CPUs. Brad Oliver fixed the state save routines to be proper ANSI C code. Nicola Salmoria sent in a preliminary driver for Hexion, but it lacks correct colors and sound at the moment.
  • 11th March 2001: Olivier Galibert re-submitted a lost GI Joe update. Jürgen Buchmüller fixed some compilation problems in the NEC uPD7810 CPU core. Marco Cassili fixed some dip switches in the Seta games. Nicola Salmoria fixed a drawgfx bug that caused missing sprites in Asterix.
  • 10th March 2001: Uki submitted a Momoko 120% driver.
  • 9th March 2001: Nicola Salmoria added 4bpp packed graphics support to the core. Mike Coates improved the ASM 68k core's save state support.


03/14/2001 - GameBoyEmu Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]
GameBoyEmu(Java Applet Based GB Emu) has been updated. Here is what is new

  • Big speed increase
  • Many more roms to play
  • Far less crashes
  • no corruption when switching between color and black and white roms
  • Zip file support - roms load faster
  • Can change roms during play
  • The ability to colorize black and white games by selecting palette editor from the options menu. Choose super mario land to see this effect in action
  • Removed debug modes as I only use that to get roms working
  • Can change the keys used by selecting key configurator from the options menu
  • Compatability increase


03/14/2001 - FreezeSMS Needs your help! [Posted by DarkMazda]
FreezeSMS's website has been updated saying that they need a webdesigner

    "In accordance to the MASSIVE EVENT of the aligning of the planets in JUNE I am seeking any body who visits this page who is a web designer. I am after a new look website for my emulator so if you have the skillz I will pay your billz, haha, just kidding about that paying thing. SO email me if you want to design a new webpage for the dedicated people who work on FreezeSMS. Any good webmasters(read: everyone but zophar.net) out there that run news site if you could ask on your webpages for me that would be nice. Thanks guys <- A girl said that.Mwah"


03/14/2001 - ngine snes9x progress! [Posted by DarkMazda]

ngine's website has been updated with some news on the ngine-snes9x 0.40. Here is what is new so far

  • File set completely reorganized. All things now in tidy, logical places :) .(done)
  • Master Event handler. Much more command line flexibility.(done)
  • Rockin joypad operation mode. You can now operate most keyboard commands with the joypad using GUIs for command selection, file selection etc. (done)
  • this means possibility to use whatever directory structure on the ROM CD, regardless if you have a keyboard or not. (done)
  • Auto switch to joypad mode if there is no keyboard found. (done)
  • configurable joypad for snes9x.(done)
  • preferences saving for video modes, joypad configurations etc. (done)
  • if prefs are saved once, they are auto-loaded on startup of ngine. (done)
  • improved command line for keyboard users. (done)
  • snes9x game saving/autoloading from VMU (work in progress)
  • display correctly centered (done)
  • help system improvements (work in progress)
  • graphics engine for console display reworked, much more flexible (done)
  • file access functions centralized, smaller code, better support (done)
  • loading of splitted ROM images now working (SMC/SWC splitROM formats) (done)
  • several crash-prone functions securified (done)
  • SNES9x "after few minutes" crash bug fixed (done)


03/14/2001 - MAMELang32 Moves! [Posted by DarkMazda]
MAMELang32 has moved to http://www.emuhq.com/ml32/. Please update your bookmarks :)


03/14/2001 - Emulation64 Contest! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Emulation64 is carrying a contest. Someone could win a NEW Dreamcast with a game (Chuchu Rocket!) Answer some riddles and you'll see.


03/14/2001 - CPS2Shock release! [Posted by DarkMazda]

CPS2Shock has released their 21st Xor Table release! which is "Alien Vs. Predator (Japan 940520)"


03/14/2001 - Unofficial ePSXe FAQ 1.4.0! [Posted by DarkMazda]

CDBuRNoUT has released Unofficial ePSXe FAQ 1.4.0!! Here is what is new

  • Re-worked FAQ version numbering scheme.
  • Created new section, 'Table of Contents'.
  • Added ePSXe 1.2.0 release info to 'What's New'.
  • Updated 'Getting Started' to cover new options in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Updated most Q&As with info concerning ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added General Q&A: Save States in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added General Q&A: Force Feedback in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added General Q&A: Command-line switches in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added General Q&A: DirectInput problems with upgrading ePSXe.
  • Added General Q&A: DirectInput problems with ePSXe.
  • Added General Q&A: Problems with ePSXe being too 'fast'.
  • Added General Q&A: Troubles using Memory Cards and Save States in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added General Q&A: Confusion concerning ePSXe's 'Cheat' option.
  • Added General Q&A: [pec] compatibility with ePSXe 1.2.0
  • Added General Q&A: Save States with Multi-Disc games in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added General Q&A: Troubling saving with a few games in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added Plugin Q&A: Null2's SPU not showing up in ePSXe.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: FF9 PAL in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Legend of Legaia in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Saga Frontier 2 PAL in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: FF7 in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Soul Reaver in ePSXe 1.2.0.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Cool Boarders 2001 in ePSXe.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Front Mission 3 in ePSXe.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Breath of Fire 3 PAL in ePSXe.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Gran Turismo 2 in ePSXe.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Dino Crisis in ePSXe.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Dino Crisis 2 in ePSXe.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Chrono Cross hangs when a character joins in ePSXe.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Breath of Fire 4 'Town of Kyria' crash.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Megaman X4/Rockman X4 BGM Troubles in ePSXe.
  • Added Game Specific Q&A: Megaman X5/Rockman X5 BGM Troubles in ePSXe.
  • Removed Game Specific Q&A: Slowdowns in THPS1/2 and Spiderman.
  • Created new section, 'Legacy Support'.
  • Moved questions/info related to revision 1.0.1/1.0.0 only to 'Legacy Support'.
  • Created new section, 'Credits'.
  • Created new section, 'Thanks'.
  • Misc. fixes here and there.


03/14/2001 - CD-i updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]
CD-i's website has been update couple of times with some updates

    "* UPDATE 04:59 14/03/01 *
    Well, seems my screen handling wasn't as bad as i thought :-), it was a missing system function that was screwing
    everything up (wasn't clearing out the CD-i screen control tables so there were lots of extra instructions in there).
    I've done a few grabs of the intro (realtime stream) and the menu screen. The game palette is really screwed at the
    moment, I think its possible that my copy of rise (wasn't a final version) may have bugs in it (i kinda remember the screen
    going like it is now. See below for screengrabs anyway

    * UPDATE 02:36 14/03/01 *

    Well, the weekend was for shit coding wise, basically went round in a big circle after rewriting a couple of
    rountines twice trying to squash a bug. It ended up being something really simple and stupid, I won't tell u what
    cuz you'll laugh :-)

    Anyway, the latest news is, I just played Rise of the Robots on the emulator :-)
    Screen is screwed up but i sort of expected that because there are a lot of splits and other weird things going on.
    Also the emulated CD-i has stopped recognising the joypad !?!? it doesn't mean it won't work, it just thinks its a file
    on the disk!! (sounds weird eh? bloody device crazy donkeymonkeys!!)
    oh, well, another stupid mistake I suppose.
    Anyway, I'm gonna try and fix the screen handling now, and if I get it sorted by about 08:00 I'll do some screengrabs
    and upload them..
    Might be a realease in the next couple of days, eh Martin :)"


03/17/2001 - Chaiman and President of Sega Passes Away [Posted by DtK]

That's right a man many of us know because he has brought us great memories has passed away. Yesterday in Tokyo Isao Okawa died of heart failure. His memories will certainly live on through his company. During his time at Sega he gave us systems like the Master System, Genesis, and Dreamcast! Not to mention a few fell short. Please read the article on sega.com about him here.




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