04/06/2000 - Metal Slug 3 Update [Posted by neohaze]

SNK have updated their Japanese Site's English Metal Slug 3 Page with more news about their New Arcade title. This Includes Information on the story, casting and a whole load of juicy Screenshots.

04/06/2000 - Gens 0.4 [Posted by neohaze]

Gens, one of the Newcomers into the Genesis Emulation Scene has been updated to version 0.4

The following things are New to this version (taken from the Homepage)

* Gens configuration saved in file ! (finally)
(You can specify your own file name for special configuration)
* SRAM fixed and entierely implemented (saved in file)
* Mouse cursor now hidden in Full-Screen then you must use the right mouse button to access at popup menu !
* Perfect recovering of sound after 'load state' (only with MZ80 core)
Saves files are now bigger, but there are compatible with old format.
* DAC (few) noises fixed
* Some little bugs with VDP DMA fixed
Others bugs fixed ...

If you're into Genesis Emulation I suggestion you take a Look at It, Maybe It will run some of those obscure Roms that Other Emulators Struggle with.

04/07/2000 - Unofficial Mame 32 With Autofire [Posted by neohaze]

Following the Release of the First beta in the 0.37 Cycle of Mame Yesterday is this Unofficial Mame 32 Release based upon that Beta, while such Unofficial Releases may not be as reliable as Official ones (you decide ;) it should please Users of Windows 2000/NT as the Official DOS Versions aren't compatible and It usually takes a While Longer for 'Official' Mame32 Builds. Source Code and Binary are on the HomePage Linked Below

Link: Unofficial Mame32 With Autofire Homepage
Related Links: Official Mame HomePage
Official Mame32 Quality Assurance Page

04/07/2000 - Hmmm.. [Posted by neohaze]

I haven't a clue how fast the counter goes up here, but looking down the page its getting pretty near that big 1 Million.. just 5000 or so hits. Hey, its late.. umm make that early.. 7am, I'm going to bed, I'm only on loan from Geoshock anyways... :P

Lycia, Your turn :)

(Well I Have To Plug My Site Once)

04/07/2000 - EmuDX [Posted by neohaze]

VegaX has taken an Updating Role over at the EmuDX Site (He's the Main Graphic Artist on the Project) There is a paragraph on the EmuDX Teams Plans for Kung-Fu Master which sound Like it could be something rather Special, and A couple of example Graphics.

EmuDX is a quality Emulator that uses Roms from Classic Arcade Games but uses Emulation to Enhance the Graphics and Sound Beyond Belief bringing them up to Scratch with Modern Games without Cutting any playability.

Its good to see EmuDX is making Progress after that little Hard Disk accident a while back.

Link: EmuDX - Yesterdays games with today's technology

04/07/2000 - Genesis Power [Posted by neohaze]

Genesis Power have released the Rom for 'Taz In Escape from Mars' The Sequel I Hated to A Game I Loved but thought was far too easy. Their Previous Release was Tazmania by the way, thats the one I like :P

Link: Genesis Power

04/07/2000 - EmuDX Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

EmuDX site has been updated with some news

"Here's one more I just finished. This will be one of the backgrounds for Galaxian. While experimenting on the starfield theme, I also drew a fine Windows wallpaper, which you can get by hitting the thumbnail below. I recommend switching to this desktop when smoking a bowl, nothing beats it. :-{"

Please visit the EmuDX website for more info :)

04/07/2000 - Cinder Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Cinder's Wallpapers has been updated with a new cover from "Discs of Tron". Please visit Cinder's Wallpapers website. :)

04/07/2000 - Mame 32 [Posted by neohaze]

Theres Been a Status Update on the Mame32 Quality Assurance Page of How the Current Official Mame32 (37b1) Build is Coming Along

00.04.06 First build of .37b1 from Michael, this build includes the above mentioned support for icons.zip in the \icons directory [this saved me about 34megs of slack on the 40gig 32k cluster system], and also adds a new feature from RenH, the ability to ctrl-r and select and play a random game. Nice for those of us old timers who want to be shocked and surprised w/ what gets chosen.

00.04.07 Added screenshots and icons for b1, pri. 1 test case completed, readme.htm, support.htm updated for icons.zip.

Certainly Sounds Promising, I don't know how close to a release we are but there weren't any problems Mentioned in that update so It could only be a few days.

Links: Mame32QA Page

04/07/2000 - Genesis Screenshots [Posted by neohaze]

Dave (Programmer of DGen) posted a link to this site on the Dgen homepage. It Contains amongst other things Information and Screenshots on almost 1000(!) Genesis / MegaDrive games, and If you can Find the Roms Around DGen is A Pretty Good Choice of Emulator to Play these Great Titles on.

04/07/2000 - Runtime Files! [Posted by che]

I finally updated my page, heh. Sorry for not doing it much, I haven't had much time. I reuploaded the runtime files today because they stopped working after I canceled AOL.

Go here!

Che

04/07/2000 - Bluebomber Updates! [Posted by ssj_cody]

Well, I thought I had to plug my site every now and then, like when I do something big. Page Bass and Page Megaman have been completely re-done, so go take a look!

Bluebomber

04/08/2000 - Mame Frontends [Posted by neohaze]

Hate typing in at the command prompt? Maybe you need a frontend, why not take a look at the following:

Mameload (Recently Updated to v2.95)
Lanzador Uni (0.23 Final Recently Released)

or Maybe just go with the Ever Popular
Arcade@Home (Not Much Released in a While ;)

Look Around, there are many more out there, Maybe One of them is the One YOU will want to use. I still kinda just prefer the command prompt tho :)

04/08/2000 - Mame32 WIP [Posted by neohaze]

Tiny Update Over at Mame32 Quality Assurance.

00.04.07 Added screenshots and icons for b1, pri. 1 test case completed, readme.htm, support.htm updated for icons.zip.

Over and Out for Now.

04/08/2000 - RockNES version 1.052 is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

RockNES version 1.052 is released! Here is what is new

• - Rebuilt startup/shutdown sequence and GUI handling;
• - Crappy mirroring fix for mapper #70 (Arkanoid2 and Kamen Rider Club ok);
• - Added image size checking (it compares the real size with the header spec);
• - Added mapper #230 (22-in-1/Contra, working);
• - Fixed mapper #227 (1200in1 cart works, still partial);
• - Fixed trainer support (battery loading related);
• - Fixed a couple of non-emulation bugs to avoid memory problems/crashing;
• - Fixed screenshot (disabled when no game loaded);
• - Final (and better) save state format;
• - GUI color changed to a soft green;
• - More changes and general bug fixes.

Please Pick it up at the NES Emu Section. My DSL Isn't fixed yet :~~~~( and Im updating from work :) Thanks for helping us update neohaze :D

04/08/2000 - squeem updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

squeem website has been updated with some news! Here is the post

"04-07-2000: Well, squeem is coming along nicely. I have added mapper plugins (same kind used in Pretendo and NESten) and improved little things here and there. Fixed my email address and the video plugin development thing link, and added a screenshots page."

Please visit the Squeem website :D

04/08/2000 - CCS64 2.0 Beta is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

new version of CCS64 version 2.0 Beta has been released! Here is what is new

• Some of the parameters for the filter emulation can now be adjusted in the menu.

Please get CCS64 from our C64 Emu Section.

04/08/2000 - Genesis Power release! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Genesis Power has released "Taz in Escape from Mars". Please get it from Genesis Power. Thanks goes to Snorter for the information :D

04/08/2000 - Atani-Software Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

^ATani^ from Atani-Software has updated his site with some news about the SegaEMU. Here is what he posted

"Updated the SegaEMU pages with more news and some more screen shots of the SG-1000 module in action :) The next release of SegaEMU is coming soon :) "

He also posted a screenshot of CHOPLIFTER (SG1000) on his SegaEMU. Here is the screenshot

Please visit ATani-Software for more info. GOOD JOB ATANI!! :)

04/08/2000 - ALMOST 1,000,000!!! [Posted by DarkMazda]

DMD is getting 1,000,000th hit VERY shortly!! probably with in a day or so.. This is a really exciting moment for me and the DMD staff members :D

4/15/2000 is going to be an exciting day to DMD Staff and I as well!! Cuz everyone knows what 4/15/2000 is right? :)

04/09/2000 - The Curse of Darkmazda?? [Posted by neohaze]

Dear Readers, My apoligies... I'm pretty much stuck mouseless until tomorrow, browsing using the internals of an old serial mouse kinda makes thinks a bit tricky, I've no adapter and theres something playing up with the PS2 port..

Ok, so maybe its not really DMD's fault :P Just terrible luck.

04/09/2000 - MAMEClassic v0.37.0 [Posted by Lycia]

A new version of MAMEClassic, a frontend for MAME, has been released. Here's a list of what's new:

• Fixed a bug involving the saving of custom .cfg files.
• Modified the reports so the summary line is the first line instead of the last line. This makes it easy to see if any bad sets exist in your collection.
• Added a button to search the reports to easily find bad sets.

You can pick it up by downloading the following file:

• MAMEClassic v0.37.0

04/09/2000 - SegaEMU v0.10a [Posted by Lycia]
SegaEMU, a Win9x multi-system emulator that emulates Sega systems, has been released. Here's a list of what's new and what systems it emulates:

• New Interface, not complete yet but it is started.
• SG-1000 Emulation is near 100% complete and accurate.

This emulator emulates the following systems:

• SG-1000
• Sega Master System
• Game Gear
• Genesis / MegaDrive
• SegaCD / MegaCD

You can pick it up by visiting the link provided in this post.

04/09/2000 - DarkMazda's Domain hits 1,000,000!! [Posted by Lycia]

Congratulations goes out to DarkMazda of this site for hitting 1 million hits. This site has seen a lot and has been through a lot but I am proud to be part of this event.

Thanks goes out to everyone that makes this site possible!

We wouldn't be here without you!

Stay tuned!

04/09/2000 - RockNES X v1.050 [Posted by Lycia]

A new Win9x version of RockNES, an NES emulator, has been released. Here's a list of what's new:

• All the emulation related changes in the rocknes 1.05 (dos) release
• Minor speed improvements in the rendering engine
• High color and True Color modes support (16, 24, 32 bits)
  • if supported by hardware, the stretched mode uses pixel interpolation... on a Viper 770 it looks just great!
  • in newer video cards (like Viper770), the 16-bit mode is faster than the 8-bit mode
• 2 players support (thanks!)
• The keys are now configurable now the configurations are saved when are editing them, not only when you close the RockNES X
• the savestate format changed (because of the new CPU core)
• Better sound output
• New keyboard controls
• Now the GUI supports files with any extension
• GUI bug fixes
• General code optimization
• Minor bug fixes

You can pick it up at our NES Emulators page.

04/09/2000 - xMAME v0.37 B1 [Posted by Lycia]

XMAME, a MAME emulator for Unix has been updated with the current DOS version. Here's what was added:

• Air Duel [Nicola Salmoria]
• Pound for Pound [Nicola Salmoria]
• Rabio Lepus / Rabbit Punch [Aaron Giles]
• Super Volleyball [Aaron Giles]
• Funky Fish [Zsolt Vasvari]
• Mr. Jong / Crazy Blocks [Takahiro Nogi]
• Karate Blazers [Nicola Salmoria]
• Spinal Breakers [Nicola Salmoria]
• Thundercade [Luca Elia]
• Twin Eagle [Luca Elia]
• DownTown [Luca Elia]
• U.S. Classic [Luca Elia]
• Arbalester [Luca Elia]
• Meta Fox [Luca Elia]
• Zing Zing Zip [Luca Elia]
• War of Aero [Luca Elia]

You can pick up the new version at the link provided in this post.

04/09/2000 - Genital v0.1 [Posted by Lycia]

Haw. A new Genesis emulator has hit the scene. This one is called Genital. You can check screenshots of this emulator by visiting the site.

Expect a Win9x port soon.

You can pick it up by visiting our Genesis Emulators page.

04/09/2000 - Zelda 2 Editor v4.10b [Posted by Lycia]

A new version of Zelda 2 editor has been released. Here's a list of what's new:

• Update to overworld editor!
• Now you can move "Rock Locations!" (this is the mass that becomes a rock when beating the palace, BTW)From v4.09b - (Version numbers now based on date)
• Full support for editing palaces!
• Most support for editing towns!
• Partial support for great palace.
• Shows layout, use numpad to move around.
• J Key to enter a map number (use &H to begin hex)

You can pick it up by downloading the following file:

• Zelda 2 Editor v4.10b

04/09/2000 - Anex86 v2.15.2.409 [Posted by Lycia]
A new version of Anex68, an x68000 emulator for Win9x, has been released. I can't report to you what's new because the documentation is in Japanese.

You can download it at the following link:

• Anex86 v2.15.2.409

04/10/2000 - DreamNES version 2.0.0 is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]
Yes Im not dead.. yet :D First Post by me after the 1,000,000th hit! DreamNES version 2.0.0 is released! Here is what is new

• Fixed a big bug of Noise channel.Sound much better!
• Better Mapper #17 Support.Some mirror bugs remain.
• Mapper #16 IRQ Timing Fixed.Dragon Ball Z Series works perfectly.
• Mapper #21 IRQ Timing Fixed.Wai Wai World 2 works perfectly
• Mapper #23 IRQ Timing Fixed.Boku Dracula Kun works,some graphic bugs ramin.
• Added Mapper #10 Support for Fire Emblem Gaiden(VERY SLOW!)
• Added Mapper #225 Support.72 in 1 cart works perfectly!
• Added Mapper #160(private) Support.Aladdin runs
• Added Mapper #69 Support.Batman:Return of the Joker works perfectly
• Added Black/White Screen Mode!
• Added Realtime IRQ adjust function(NumPad+/-).Fix graphic bug by yourself!

Please pick up DreamNES 2.0.0 from the NES Emu Section.

04/10/2000 - Corn v0.2 [Posted by Lycia]

After days of anticipation, Corn, an N64 emulator, has been released upon the public. Lots of personal opinions regarding this emulator have been floating around, some say its awesome, while others say there are better emulators out there. Only one can tell. At any rate, here's a list of what's new:

• GUI
• Gfx engine improvement
• Speed improvement
• Better compatibility and ini file support

You can pick it up at the link provided in this post.

04/10/2000 - MameCat v0.40 [Posted by Lycia]

MameCat, a frontend for MAME, has been updated to v0.40. Here's a list of what's new:

• Usual bug fixes
• Code cleanup
• Specification of gamelist colors by ROM-status

You can pick up this new version over at the link provided in this post.

04/10/2000 - Vegas v0.92 [Posted by Lycia]

A new version of Vegas, the raved about and ONLY working 32x emulator, has been updated to v0.92. Here's a list of what's new in this version:

• Fixed a stupid typo in interrupt clearing. A whole bunch of 32X games now work.
• Small change to FM sound. Not sure, but possible improvement to some games.
• Improved SH2 speed (5 to 10fps increase on my system)
• Fixed SH2 Word writes. Fixes a lot of graphic glitches and some 32X games run better.
• Fixed some bank switching. More 32X games work!
• Simplified FM timers. Strider 2 and Grind Stormer (among others) now play music.
• I accidentally deleted a line before the 0.9 release. It's been replaced. Red Zone and Subterrania now work again.
• Fixed window split. Dragonball Z looks better now.
• Optimized BGA rendering.
• Fixed a typo when reading 32X interrupt flags. Didn't affect any games.
• Found another stupid typo in the PWM flags. Toughman
• 32X runs further.

You can pick up the new version by downloading the following file:

• Vegas v0.92

04/10/2000 - EmuHappenings Moves [Posted by Lycia]
Emu Happenings, a site dedicated to emulation news and other tidbits, has moved to a domain!

Please bookmark this if you visit WiLD's site.

04/10/2000 - And the number 1 emulator of all time is . . . [Posted by Lycia]

ZSNES! With an astonishing 21543 votes, ZSNES takes the prize! ZSNES is an excellent SNES emulator and deserved to win. Congratulations to zsKnight, _Demo_, and Pharos for their great accomplishment.

You can view the top ten by visiting the following link:

• And the top 10 emulators of all time are . . .

Thanks to Emulation Camp for the news.

04/10/2000 - Speccyal News [Posted by Lycia]

The Speccyal site has been updated with some news on the Sinclair Spectrum emulator. Here's what they had to say:

Not only am I working on the sound, but right now I'm adding support for Neil Bradley's excellent z80 cpu core (MZ80). Keyboard/joystick is already working as are 30-40 % of the games I have tested until now. There is something wrong with interrupts I think but it shouldn't take too long before I discover where it comes from. My new sound code is better in some cases (it plays at the right pitch) and worst in some others (some musics aren't playing anymore)."

Looks like the next version could be great.

Stay tuned.

04/11/2000 - Yage Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Yage has been updated with some news! Here is the post

"Time for an update I think. The debugger is almost finished. The GUI is all done and is working amazingly. All I need to do now is to include the debug-core and make it work properly.I don't think it'll take a too long time so expect a release very soon. I posted a screenshot of the GUI in the ScreenShots section. Enjoy :)"

Yage website for more info :)

04/11/2000 - Corn website has been updated! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Corn website has been updated with some new info! Here is what they have posted on their website

Thanks a lot to people who reported the EAccess Violation problem. Now, here are three workarounds:
1. Instead of clicking on Corn02.exe, drag CornL.exe and drop it to Corn02.exe. This solution is found by Diego D.
2. Install Corn on C:\Windows\Temp. This solution is found by DeadLust and Olivier M.
3. Start Corn from a Floppy disk. This solution is found by WagnerKL.

Also, I got many new language translations. Great thanks to DesktopMan for the Norwegian trans, to [D]J for the Italian trans, to RaZoR14 for another Dutch trans, to MiGa, Stefan P, Peter H, Kanne, AiRWOLF, MarcDK and Kojote for German trans. Since I don't understand these languages, it's beyond me to choose from or combine them and I believe they are all good translations. So I put all of them into the new updated Corn.lan file.

Please get the lan file and visit their website at http://www.emuhq.com/corn.

04/11/2000 - EmuDX Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

EmuDX website has been updated also! Here is what they have posted

"Vega again: Over the last few days my Poser skills have increased dramatically, so the screenshot I posted last time looks like pure crap compared to what's possible now. Another idea in process is to add animated cut-scenes to Kung-Fu-Master. This would be an optional file that would give you a few seconds of video between stages and maybe an ending as well.

In related news, I can even add real faces into my 3D models now. The first celebrity guest appearance will be Michael Clarke Smith, star of The Green Mile, playing the part of the level 3 boss. If you have any suggestions for the other characters, send me an e-mail, or find me or MikeDX on Efnet; we're usually hanging around #emudx. "

Please visit the EmuDX website :D

04/11/2000 - AGES Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

AGES has been updated also with some news!

"Yesterday was the one year birthday of AGES, the first real 32X emulator in existence, and I had hoped to have the full version of AGES ready for release, but studying for the huge test I had this morning took precedence. Coincidentally, over the weekend, I finally got Knuckles Chaotix to run again, which was originally the holdup in releasing AGES. I hope to have a delayed birthday present ready sometime soon... "

Happy birthday AGES! Please visit them Here.

04/11/2000 - Mame WIP [Posted by neohaze]

The Mame WIP Page has been updated recently with Details of 2 New additions to Mame, 'Great Championship Tail to Nose' and one I sure remember 'Pipe Dream' Both of these look from the screenshots to be in a Pretty Good Working state, and I guess they'll be in the Next Beta, which I'd take a shot in the dark and say Will Be Out Around 2 Weeks from Now

Link: Mame WIP Page

04/11/2000 - Geoshock Gets Its Own Domain [Posted by neohaze]

Geoshock now has its own Domain at www.geoshock.com, far easier to remember :)

As You may know I'm no longer part of the Geoshock team, I'm looking at my options at the moment. Doing something for Burnknuckle, maybe a bit for EmuHappenings and Some News Here too.. NeoGeo Related is sounding quite good to me.. I'll make up my mind in a few days. Please Note, I don't have anything against katharsis or Opi, nor the hosts Arcade@Home, so no flaming them.. They've got better things to do with their time than read flame mail.

Links:
Geoshock - NeoGeo Emulation Epicenter
EmuHappenings - The Source for News
Arcade@Home
The Burning Knuckle

04/11/2000 - Arcade Heaven [Posted by neohaze]

GuruChoc Recently took on some new staff to help out at ArcadeRomHeaven, so.. Well Just Check It Out :)

Link:
Arcade Rom Heaven - Where all the good roms are laid to rest

04/12/2000 - Destiny of an Emperor 2 NES full translation released [Posted by Slime]

The translation of the sequel many have been waiting for has finally been released go here to get it. And thanks again to RPGd for the news

04/12/2000 - Look for NES translation section up later today [Posted by Slime]

Sorry for the delays been kinda busy lately, any way it should be up and ready sometime today or tommorrow at the very latest

04/14/2000 - Complete nes translations page is done [Posted by Slime]

The first page for nes translations is done coming soon is nes translations in progress and dead projects. Go here for the page. There will be some work done to the present page soon. On a side note I do not create translations so please do not email me about starting a project unless you are starting it and want me to put it up. Last thing, please visit the sites of the translation groups and thank them they have put a lot of hard work into translating these games for all of us to play the least you can do is let them know they are appreciated.

04/14/2000 - ArcadeFlyer Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

ArcadeFlyer site has been updated with some of these new stuff

"13 new flyers are added to the database and 6 are replaced. Now there are 935 flyers on line!

Besides, we released a new Mame flyerpack (#18) containing 10 new and 8 replaced flyers.
This brings us to the total of 983 images! "

Please get them from ArcadeFlyer. Thanks goes to the AF team for the E-mail :D

04/14/2000 - Kinox Interviews Harry Tuttle [Posted by DarkMazda]

Kinox did an interview with Harry Tuttle, the owner of THE DUMP. Please read the interview Here. Thanks goes to MGandhi for the E-mail :)

04/14/2000 - EmuDX Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

EmuDX site has been updated with a new layout! and here is a little message by Vega

"I re-did the page. Also added a few new screenshots showing the latest work on the main character, now textured and bumped. To those sending in their votes (see below), the main man will not be anyone famous, but the 5 bosses and Sylvia are planned to be. "

Please look at the screenshots at EmuDX website.

04/14/2000 - Genesis Power releases! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Genesis Power has released Release #89: Bulls Vs Lakers and Genesis and #90: Bulls Vs Blazers. Please get them from Genesis Power. Thanks goes to Snorter for the info. :D

04/14/2000 - 1964 Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

schibo has updated the 1964 site with some news

"Hi. I haven't updated this page in some time. Here are some new screenshots for you. These are rdp tile demos that now work in 1964. These use an old ported version of Gerrit's OpenGL. Vector demos do not work yet, but with any luck they will soon!

They posted some screenshots so take a look at the 1964 website.

04/14/2000 - New OC! [Posted by DarkMazda]

OverClocked 106 has been released! Its about DOA2 :D~~

OC Episode #106 - for the gameplay . . . yeah

04/14/2000 - Windows Key Disabler [Posted by neohaze]

This might be common knowledge to many, but after reading it on the MAME Message Board, and having a nightmare with the problem myself I feel its worth Posting. If you've got anything like a recent system you're likely to have a Windows Keyboard, with the Windows Keys.. Hit them during your session of DOSMame under windows, what happens? Up Pops Windows and in many cases bye bye goes your emulation. Well. A Quick Drop by on ArcadeControls in their Downloads > Utilities Section gives you 2 little applications (5.9k and 2k) that you can use to disable these keys. No More accidentally hitting them and regreting it :) The Site also contains numerous other freeware/sharware tools and obviously some good instructions on building your own Arcade Controls :)

04/14/2000 - RockNES Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

RockNES site has been updated with some cool info

• Added signed wave for noise channel (sounds very good).

Please visit RockNES website :)

04/15/2000 - DMD TURNS 2!!! [Posted by DarkMazda]

DMD Turns 2 YEARS OLD TODAY!! Woohooo :D After the 1,000,000th hit, DMD turns 2 years old! Thank you everyone for your support.. NorthPoint didn't fix my damn DSL yet and Im really pissed at them.. Thank God I'm at Work. I can do some updating. Anyways, thanks fro your support for making DMD last for 2 years :D

04/15/2000 - Emu+ version 0.36 Final is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

E.M.U+ version 0.36 Final has been released! Here is what is new

• Moved the hiscore.dat file to hiscores.dat as mame now uses a hiscore.dat for of all things hiscores in games.
• Please note! If you have ANY problems at all send email to emuplus@hotmail.com and not the mame team. Thanks
• Also I want to give kudos to Optimame by Andy and Mamejoy by Robert. I use a lot of there code and just want to give props.

Please download EMU+ from our MAME Emu Section.

04/15/2000 - MacMAME(French) version 0.37b1 is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

French Version of MacMAME version 0.37b1 Final has been released! Please download it from our MAME Emu Section. Thanks goes to the author, Marc for the news.

04/15/2000 - MESS version 0.37b1 is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MESS version 0.37B1 is released! Here is what is new

Note: .inp record/playback does still not work currently.


New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
------------------------------------------------------
ZX Spectrum 128 [David Roberson]
ZX Spectrum 128 +2 [David Roberson]


System Driver Changes:
----------------------
- PC Mouse now very usable. [Peter Trauner]

- COCO/DRAGON now supports two distinct joysticks. [Nate Woods]

- SPECTRUM: Fixed .TAP loading for Spectrum +3, added Dipswitch for action
on end of tape, and snapshot files are now classifed as snapshots not
cartridges [David Robertson]

- MSX: added a detection routine which can detect most types of megaROMs.
[Sean Young]

- VTECH: driver update to use V1.2 BASIC ROMs with the Laser 110, 200 and
Texet 8000. [Juergen Buchmueller]



Other Changes:
--------------

- The core is based on MAME 0.37b1. This incorporates all
features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

- Alias bug fix [Norberto Alfredo Bensa]

- Systems with no ROMS but a ROM_REGION defined (eg Genesis, NES) are now
correctly identified. Clones with no differing roms from the main set
are correctly identified (eg. the Laser 210 clones etc.)
[David Robertson]

- Extensive CRC updates.
[Sean Young, Chris Henry, Gerardo Jorrin, Peter Trauner, Cowering]
SysInfo.dat documentation update
[Thierry Schimbi, Chris Henry, Kev Thacker, Raphael Nabet]
Please send all CRC/sysinfo file contributions to Chris Henry.
(battlepriest@hotmail.com).

Please download MESS from our Multi Console Emu Section.

04/15/2000 - Genesis Power release! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Genesis Power has released Lakers vs. Celtics and NBA Showdown 94. Please download those 2 games from Genesis Power. Thanks goes to Snorter for the info. :D

04/15/2000 - Yage Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Yage site has been updated with some news

"The arrival is near !!!
I just send the first release to my beta testers. Just a matter of time before I release Yage and iYage.
Estimated release date : Sunday 16th April if everything comes out well.

Woohoo Please visit Yage website today :D

04/15/2000 - MCHE version 0.06 is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MCHE(Multi Console and Handheld Emulator) version 0.06 is released! Here is the post from the official site

"It took a lot of time to come but here it is, the first release of my Multiple Console and Handheld Emulator (MCHE)! It is not the final version, so don't be surprised if you encounter a bug or something (I'm sure you will). The Game Boy and the Sega 8-BITs drivers really sucks. The only GB game you can play is Super Mario Land, and Sega games don't work well either. The only thing good to see is the NES driver. The GFX engine sucks, but many games are playable but most aren't because of the GFX engine. Anyway, this is just a BETA release, so don't complain about anything please."

Please download MCHE from our Multi Console Emu Section

04/15/2000 - Hyperion Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Hyperion site has been updated with ssome news

"My work with the CD block continues. It is doing some new things now, like reading the first block off of the CD. For some reason, though, it hasn't gone looking for any of the data I've written back. :/ It probably has something to do with it deciding I have a 1 track CD with a length of -999:57. Ah well, if it just worked it would be unusual, right? :)"

Please visit the Hyperion website. Thanks goes to EmuHQ for the info :D

04/15/2000 - bleem news! [Posted by DarkMazda]

PSXemu made an update where it tells some facts about the new bleem! release

• the 1st bleem! version (1.0) was released at May, 15th 1999 - Exactly in ONE month, it'll see it's first birthday ...
• Three games being mentioned by Randy in an interivew were Gran Turismo 2, Tony Hawk Pro Skater and Tomb Raider 3
• A screenshot of GT2 has been published, view it here
• Question from the Bleem.com messageboard : You've worked on the SEQ/Midi sound for the next release Rand ? Simple answer : Yes

Please visit PSXEmu for more info.

04/15/2000 - AGES RELEASED! [Posted by DarkMazda]

The First 32x Emulator is finally out! AGES version 0.18a Mars has been released! Here is what is does now

"Right now, AGES has no full screen mode. To run AGES in windowed mode,
you must set your desktop's color depth to 16 bit. AGES will close itself
immediately if, when it is loaded, a DirectDraw or DirectInput call fails.
To avoid this, load AGES in the foreground and do not switch tasks until it
is completely loaded."

Here is the System Requirements

You will need Windows, DirectX 5.0, 16-bit color, and a fast CPU with MMX.

Please download the first release of AGES from the 32x Emu Section.

04/15/2000 - Genesis Power release! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Genesis Power has released "Mega Bomberman" Please download Mega Bomberman from Genesis Power. Thanks goes to Snorter for the info :)

04/15/2000 - Vortendo version 1.0 Psycho Circus is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Vortendo version 1.0 Psycho Circus is released! Here is what is new

• -- Special KISS Edition
• -- Fixed some bugs with Mapper 65
• -- Fixed a typo that now makes the Vertical Mirroring works better
• -- Added Support for Multiple CPU Cores. Right Now, Alfredo Gil's and Don Jarret's
• -- Start working on my own cpu core. yay!
• -- Fixed a bug with the status bar.
• -- Fixed a few bugs in the Vortendo Personal Pallete.

Please download the new Vortendo from our NES Emu Section.

04/15/2000 - Genesis Power Release #93 [Posted by neohaze]

They just don't stop do they, todays release from Genesis Power is none other than Battletech... A Big Robot Shooty Thing Kinda Game. Note, I don't see this on the site yet, but that could just be my ISP..

04/16/2000 - Resignation. . . [Posted by Lycia]

I regret to announce that I am leaving DarkMazda's Domain. My reasons are many so I won't list them here. I have enjoyed working at this site, but my time is done here. I currently have too much on the go and I don't have time to update as many sites as I do. One is too much, let alone 4, and it gets draining after a while. The site that PACHUKA and I own, EmuCult, is expanding and we're getting bigger and I need to spend time with it. Me and a few of my friends are also brainstorming a site that might make it big. Time will only tell.

I'd like to thank Jason (DarkMazda) for giving me the opportunity to work at a great site.

As always, . . .

Stay tuned!

04/17/2000 - Dream64 Updates [Posted by DarkMazda]

Dream64 website has been updated with some news

"Nuke here. Just want to say that Sunman has fixed the two major bugs that have been bothering us for a really long time. So now we can begin the process of debugging the VI and the DMA. Exciting, isn't it?"

Please visit the Dream64 website.

04/17/2000 - ViBE Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

ViBE website has been updated with some news

"A movie of ViBE running Mario's Tennis is now available. ViBE is the only Virtual Boy emulator at this time to support the Affin graphics mode. The support is still a little buggy (as you can see from the movie) but the game is fully playable."

Please visit ViBE website.

04/17/2000 - Genesis Project UPdates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Genesis Project site has been updated with some news

"The Second half of the S's are now ready (Everything from Sonic 3D Blast onwards.), except Sonic Crackers & Sonic 2 Beta which I didn't quite manage to finish (See above!). Hopefully I'll get these done next week before I make a start on the T's which I'm aiming to get ready in about 2 weeks time. "

Pretty nifty stuff. Please visit the Genesis Project website.

04/17/2000 - x68000 Games Pile UPdates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

x68k Games Pile has been updated with some news

"The X68k Games Pile has now changed it system for uploading games. I will have the viewers mail in requests for the games they want me to upload, a list of their top 5 favourite games. That's why I need this on some other pages than the main X68k GP page :)"

PLease visit the X68K Games Pile website for more info :

04/17/2000 - Winamp version 2.62 is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

WinAMP version 2.62 is released! Here is what is new

• Generic dialog processing message loop so now TAB/etc... works in plugins dialog windows
• Fix to Mjuice (memory leak that caused the full install to puke after many hours)
• Winamp Visualization Studio updates
• Installer bitmap updates
• Installer terminology changes

We all know you guys like to use Winamp, please download Winamp from our MP3 Players Section.

04/17/2000 - AEZ Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Amiga Emulation Zone has been updated with some new games! Here is the list

• Bloody Afternoon
• Charon 5
• DreamZone
• Fire Blaster
• Gremlins 2
• Wonder Dog
• Vampire's Empire
• Titan
• Snakebite
• Road Raider
• Legend of the Sword
• The Jungle Book
• Incredible Shrinking Sphere
• Human Killing Machine
• Huey

Please visit AEZ to get those games :)

04/17/2000 - Team Japump releases! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Team Japump has been updated with some new dumps! Here are some of the games that they have released

• Gun Bird (JPN Ver.)
• Sengoku Blade (JPN Ver.)
• Puzzle Bobble (JPN,Prototype? Ver.)

Please visit Team Japump to get those :)

04/17/2000 - Arnimedes version 0.8a is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Arnimedes(CPC Emu) version 0.8a is released! Here is what is new in this new version

• Version 0.8a - fixed ROM banking

Please download the new version of Arnimedes from the CPC Emu Section.

04/17/2000 - Genital Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Genital website has been updated with some news

"The Z80 emulation and Z80 faking are finally working. Now the compatibility is much, much greater. The Z80 emulation is very innacurrate, and both the emulation and faking have problems with word accesses to 0xa11100, but it's a good start. The screenshot section has been updated."

Please visit the Genital website for more info and to look at the screenshot. Thanx goes to VGN For the news.

04/17/2000 - Arcade Flyer Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Arcade Flyer site has been updated with some new Flyers!

"Site has been updated with another 16 new flyers
and some replacements.

We now have 951 flyers in our database."

Pretty cool!! Please visit the Arcade Flyer website for more info and to get those Flyers. Thanks goes to the Arcade Flyer team for the E-mail.

04/17/2000 - Scribe not dead!! [Posted by DarkMazda]

The Scribe (famous emu scene guy who did EmuFAQ, G3O etc) sent an e-mail to MGandhi saying that he's not dead! Please read the e-mail here. Thanks goes to MGandhi for the E-mail.

04/17/2000 - XMAME version 0.37B1.2 is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

XMAME version 0.37b1.2 has been released! Here is what is new

• (Re)added mess 0.37b1, including everything that's new.
• The solaris sound drivers now uses AUDIODEV if set thanks to: Keith Hargrove.
• Made sound update synchronious with video update, this should improve sound quality.
• Fixed a crash when running with -nosound -fakesound.
• Added detection of buggy FreeBSD newpcm driver, and fallback to timerbased audio when detected.
• Slightly changed the fragsize calculation in the oss dsp plugin, again, it now uses slightly smaller frags, which should increase sound quality a bit.
• Changed the default soundbufsize to 3.0, this is still smaller as before the default bufsize before the sound rewrite, and it seems that the 2.0 was a bit to optimistic.

Please download the source and the upgrade from our MAME Emu Section.

04/17/2000 - Hyperion Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Hyperion site has been updated with a big post :) Here is the post

"I seem to have hit another lovely snag, this time in the form of what I believe is the command to check the copy protection of a Saturn CD. This command is, of course, undocumented. That the system is bothering to do this is probably a good sign, but I have yet to figure out what kind of response it is seeking, so the system hangs waiting for a response it will never get. I did manage to get a minor speedup by altering the way memory is accessed. I'll be gone for a few days (starting today), so no updates until later this week. If TyRaNiD can get his Saturn development kit up and running on the Datel Action Replay I have I think things will move much more smoothly, as I would be able to code up samples of questionable things and view the results on the real box. Or if anyone has the EMS PAR 4-in-1 and the PC Comms card to go with it and is willing to sell/loan it to me let me know."

Please visit the Hyperion website for more information

04/17/2000 - New OverClocked remixes! [Posted by DarkMazda]

New OverClocked remixes has been released! Here are the latest releases

• Outrun
• Tetris
• Ultima IV

Please visit the OverClocked Remixes to view them

04/17/2000 - Genesis Power release! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Genesis Power has released "Light Crusader" for the Genesis. Please pick them up at Genesis Power. Thanks goes to Snorter for the info.

04/17/2000 - Yage and iYage version 0.05 is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Yage(GB Emu) and iYage(GB Debugger for Win) version 0.05 is released! Here is what both of them support

• Yage doesn't run many roms (the older the rom the luckier you are to get it run)
• iYage can only debug Type 0 Cartridge (Rom Only) because it's not yet ready for bank switching.

Please download Yage and iYage from our GB Emu Section.

04/17/2000 - Gem 0.4 is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Gem(GB emu for MSX) version 0.4 is released! Here is what is new

• GEM now runs in R800 ROM-mode on turboR's. The DRAM-mode was causing hangs when loading 256kB ROMs on 512kB machines and GEM probably didn't work on 256kB turboR's at all. This has no negative effect on speed, since GEM doesn't use any ROM routines during emulation anyway.
• Preliminary sprite support! Missing in sprite support is: 8x16 sprites, X/Y flipping, alternate sprite palette. Sprite colors can be configured in the config file. In the future multiple sprite renderers will be selectable, for now it's listed in the config as renderer 4.
• The no-raster-effect-supporting renderers now take their display info from the center of the screen. This makes more games playable without the need for raster effect support. [Megaman, Castlevania 2]
• All renderers take their smooth scroll values and background palette from the center of the screen. This fixes small scroll glitches some games were having, and minimizes color flicker. [R-Type]
• Emulated Serial I/O registers and interrupt generation, makes more games work. [F1 Spirit, Bubble Bobble]
• Different video renderers selectable in config file.
• Lowered memory requirements, now 64kB ROMs can be run with 256kB RAM.
• Debounced keypresses in configuration mode, GEM sometimes mistakingly detected a single keypress twice
• Sped up VRAM pattern writes.
• New video renderer with the following features:
  
  • Raster effects: scrolling, display map change, pattern base change
  • Only refreshes parts of the screen that are actually changed
  • Integrated pattern conversion routines that only refresh patterns that are actually on-screen
  • Page flipping for smooth scrolling
  • Horizontal and vertical scrolling
  • Displays actual Gameboy screen only
  
  
• Fixed black screen on exit. [Laurens Holst]

Please pick up GEM 0.4 from our GB Emu Section.

04/17/2000 - ComeBack64 gets domain! [Posted by DarkMazda]

ComeBack64 got its own domain name! Please visit them at http://www.cb64.com/.

04/17/2000 - NeoSMS Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

NeoSMS site has been updated with some news

"Well, I went almost exactly four months without updating this page. The main reason was that we got very busy at work finishing up our latest game. Now that it is shipped I've had some time to work on the emulator and will be releasing a very Alpha version by the end of the week."

Please visit NeoSMS at their new home Here.

04/17/2000 - SHu Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

SHu website has been updated with awesome news!

the RISC2 core is near completion!
• -the compiler compiles most of the INF file
• -the INF file is almost done.(just fixing bugs)
• -I will post a debugger based on this core in a week of time!
• -this core will be slow as it isn't optimized & uses string-not numbers(string processing is slow)
• -If all goes well(the debugger works), I will modify the compiler to work better to generate a faster core!
• -The next project after this will be to make a C compiler and ASM compiler called: SHUCC & SHUASM!

Please visit SHu Website.

04/18/2000 - bleem site retruns to domain name :D [Posted by DarkMazda]

It looks like bleem.com takes u to bleem.com, not the IP address :D yay! Please visit bleem!.

04/18/2000 - VisualBoy version 1.4.1 is released! [Posted by DarkMazda]

VisualBoy version 1.4.1 is released! Here is what is new

• - Window mode is supported now as well as full screen (window mode is only supported in 16-bit mode)
• - Frame skip settings to improve speed on slower machines
• - Speed synchronization is now improved and sound should be cleaner now

Download this cool Gameboy Emulator from our GB Emu Section.

04/19/2000 - MAME WIP Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

MAME WIP Has been updated!

• 18th April 2000: Martin Buchholz sent in a Poly-Play driver (the only arcade machine ever produced in GDR, the former East Germany) with thanks to Jürgen Oppermann, Volker Hann and the Videogame Museum in Berlin (especially to Jan-Ole Christian) - without them, the driver would not have been reality. Phil Stroffolino fixed some tilemap bugs and he fixed Kyros' graphics decoding. Jürgen Buchmüller added some extra information to -listinfo output.
• 17th April 2000: Zsolt Vasvari did some cleanups to the Cinematronics driver, fixed a 16-bit bug in the artwork functions and he also fixed a Donkey Kong graphics bug. Bryan McPhail added the world romset to Super Burger Time.
• 16th April 2000: Ernesto Corvi updated the K053260 ADPCM decoding to use a better algorithm, and the sound is much better. Aaron Giles fixed some cpunum_get_* functions' bugs.

Please visit the MAME WIP page.

04/19/2000 - New OverClocked! [Posted by DarkMazda]

New OverClocked has been released! Here they are

• Episode - PS2 SCUD
• Fanstrip - The Return
• Remix - Secret of Monkey Island OC ReMix

Thanks goes to David Lloyd for the info :D

04/19/2000 - SSF Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

SSF(Saturn Emu) site has been updated with some news! Here is the translated version from VGN

"It's been about three weeks since last update. However it's not progressed at all. After rebuilding graphics engines, some software won't boot. It means I have to renew graphics routines from day one.

All about graphics about SEGA SATURN are terribly complex that some functions are not emulated yet. Though most of them are left unused, it's no use illustrating each of them, so don't ask me why,and please accept as it is.

I'll upload a new version after fixing sprite relatings. But even I don't know when it comes to public..."

Good job! Thanks goes to VGN for the info :D

04/19/2000 - Genesis Power releases! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Genesis Power has released the following today

• College Football's National Championship
• College Football's National Championship 2

Cool :D Please download them from GenesisPower.

04/19/2000 - 1964 Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

1964 website has been updated with some new screenshots

"I have updated the screenshots page with a dozen new hle screenshots of the next version of 1964. "

Please visit 1964 website to get those screenshots :D

04/19/2000 - YnT Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

YnT(me and truplaya's group) has updated the website with some news

"Got the last bug out of my compressor, and Celes sended me another piece of the script :) That damn Bug really drived me &$&/$ crazy. Wheh, now it's gone :P.So I can FINALLY try an insertion. Hooray!! ^_^
Well, in any case: sorry for the lack of updates again, but the university really got me stressed out. But now I'm at home for the next two weeks so I can pull myself 1000% in the project. Ah, still another thing: We're still looking for some translators here that could help Celes.She's stressed out in RL too, so every help would be appreciated. As for me, I'll see if I can get someone on our ship."

This is great news :D I might actually go back in to some translating again. Please visit our YnT at Here.

04/20/2000 - ZSNES Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

ZSNES website has been updated with some news! After 2 months of no updating :)

"Want to know what's up with ZSNES at the moment?

Well... We've all been really busy lately - so there hasn't been much progress, however keep an eye on this page since we will be posting several news updates in the next few days."

I can't WAIT til the new ZSNES is out! Please visit ZSNES website

04/21/2000 - JagBag Updates! [Posted by DarkMazda]

Jagbag site has been updated with some news

"Hey folks, all you people were so great, well, as you can see, i´ve done a little work these days on re-designing the page, hope you all like it this way.....now for the important things... I talked to several people on EFNet lately and I found some nice things you guys wanna know... First of all, I got permission to bring to you, the first ever JAGUAR GFX VIEWER (download it here). It was written by _dox_ and personaly helps us a lot on getting gfx working in JagBag. Thanks for this one dude....Then, after all, I decided to put all info you need on this one page, so its a bit more compressed now. You surely also want to know the current status of JagBag, do you ?? So here we go : we began gfx implementation some days ago and "at this moment" we are going to support OpenGL as well as D3D. Glid