Archive for September, 2006

ZsnexBox 2.96

Nes6502 released a new version of ZsnexBox, a port of the Zsnes Super Nintendo emulator to Xbox.
What’s new/fixed:* Added a “Tips and Tricks” database. This includes information on hundreds of games on topics such as boss fight strategies, level select button sequences, and level passwords.* Changed the rumble type description and added several more rumble […]

CPS2PSP v1.0 (Kernel Mode Version)

The only known Capcom System 2 arcade hardware emulator from the PSP has now been updated from “test” release to official. As the page is in Japanese, a rough translation of what’s new is as follows:
- romcnv.exe was renewed to ver.5. Referring to details converter/readme.txt.- The mask processing of sfa2 and progear re-correction.- Correcting the […]

Speccy V1.1

Marat Fayzullin has released V1.1 of his Sinclair Spectrum ZX emulator for Windows and DOS. Speccy emulates 16kB, 48kB, and 128kB versions of Sinclair ZX Spectrum, as well as Spectrum +2, +2A, and +3, as well as Timex Sinclair models. It supports all types of ZX Spectrum joysticks and the Kempston mouse. The AMX mouse […]

MAME Updates

R. Belmont has updated his SDLMAME port to V0.108U5. For those who haven’t been following the “between versions” patches, this includes a fairly large speedup in OpenGL mode, so if that was problematic for you before give it another try. There’s also improvements to the Mac native debugger and the FreeBSD compile support.
Other MAME Releated […]

GoodNDS v0.0.2

The original author of DeSmuME has changed the name of his Nintendo DS emulator to GoodNDS, changed the icon, and translated some of the words to english. And now he is working on it to add better 2d and 3d graphics and also trying to get sound working. The author has added a new […]

Sony Cuts Price of PlayStation 3

According to this Washington Post article, Sony Corp. said Friday it will lower the price of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console, heating up the competition in the next-generation gaming war against rivals Microsoft and Nintendo. The announcement comes just days after Microsoft Corp. announced that it would roll out an external high […]

MAME 0.108u5

Aaron Giles has released another U version, now upto U5. Lots of big changes in this one, including an Atari vector rewrite, ST-V improvements, N64-based games improvements, and some nice improvements to some of the older trivia and poker games. A complete list of changes is as follows:

PCSXBox v18

According to this post at Xbox-Scene, Xport released a new version of PCSXBox a PSX emulator for the Xbox. A list of changes is as follows:

MAME Plus! 0.108u5 GCC

Shortly after Aaron Giles released the U5 version of MAME, the authors of MAME Plus! Have released their BINARY version of the updated emulator. Get it at our MAME page.

GeMP (Homer's RIN) version: 3.3 Final

According to this thread posted by Wraggster, A new release of the Gameboy emulator for the PSP, heres the release info:
Version Changes: Homer has been so busy of late, I wasn’t given any version changes, so I messed around with the software and manually found version changes. (I […]

SNEmulDS! - New Alpha Version - Snes Emulator for the Nintendo DS

An according to another thread from Wraggster, here is info on a SNES emulator for the Nintendo DS:
.THis emulator has buggy support for ROMs with size > 2Mo. I know it’s buggy so i just wanted to see how many roms where working. I succeeded to play some part of terranigma, ff3, dkc (but not […]

GoodN64 V3.11

GoodN64 is a Nintendo 64 ROM renamer by Cowering.
GoodNES Stats: 2989 roms supported.
Recent Additions:
— Made program a little faster for the last FAT32 users on the planet :) — Re-redumped some old Jap carts and found a few differences

MAME WIP news

Dox20.09.2006: Preliminary emulation of Killer Instinct bootleg - (slightly) modified SNES version. [UPDATE] Game is playable.
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Charles MacDonald News (9/19)
I was recently sent a Gaelco “Master Boy” PCB from ClawGrip to examine. It’s entirely implemented in TTL logic and a few PALs which I’ve desoldered, socketed, and dumped. All of the hardware functions […]

R. Belmont's WIP Emporium

R. Belmont’s updated his WIP site:
9/17/2006 - Whoops
The post you thought was here was an illusion (ok, Haze reminded me that it was actually violating the MAME license rather grossly, and MAMEdev is a real legal entity nowadays so we do have to care).
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Haze WIP news

Haze continues work on the Sega Genesis hard emulation. Heres his posts as of Sep 18th:

This one seems to have some fairly good protection compared to the others, values read are stored for use later etc. instead of being compared directly. As you can see, it’s broken once you get ingame. In all […]

Haze WIP news

Haze continues work on the Sega Genesis hard emulation. Heres his posts as of Sep 18th:

This one seems to have some fairly good protection compared to the others, values read are stored for use later etc. instead of being compared directly. As you can see, it’s broken once you get ingame. In all […]

M.E.S.S. emulator - computer & console pictures compilation

Jacek Bogucki released the latest version of his “MESS SNAPS” which is as the topic says, a pack of pictures of the various consoles and computers supported by the multi system emulator MESS (based on MAME). This is now up to date with the latest MESS release of V0.108.

M.E.S.S. emulator - computer & console pictures compilation

Jacek Bogucki released the latest version of his “MESS SNAPS” which is as the topic says, a pack of pictures of the various consoles and computers supported by the multi system emulator MESS (based on MAME). This is now up to date with the latest MESS release of V0.108.

PSP Emulator updates

Several emulators for the PSP handheld were updated:
PSPMaster 0.09 beta 4 (Sega Master System/Game Gear emulator)What’s new in BETA 4?
- New high definition renders. Great but slow, change CPU clock to 300MHz.- Some minor changes.
PSPBEEB 1.0.6 (BBC Computer emulator)
What’s new in version 1.0.6 :
- Icons and background images designed by Mr Nick666- Emulator menus reorganisation […]

PSP Emulator updates

Several emulators for the PSP handheld were updated:
PSPMaster 0.09 beta 4 (Sega Master System/Game Gear emulator)What’s new in BETA 4?
- New high definition renders. Great but slow, change CPU clock to 300MHz.- Some minor changes.
PSPBEEB 1.0.6 (BBC Computer emulator)
What’s new in version 1.0.6 :
- Icons and background images designed by Mr Nick666- Emulator menus reorganisation […]