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As mentioned a couple days ago, Devhook 0.50 is now out! Check out this PSPUPDATES post. It supports all the 2.8x firmwares, but apparently requires FW 1.50 to run. (Glad i have’t flashed ;-). Booster r0x j00.

shash also posted some news regarding his Nintendo DS emulator for Windows development:
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I’ve spent the past few days working on 2D related stuff and minor fixes. Quite a few hours have been invested “only” logging and debugging some demos still not working properly, because, for example, some basic stuff seems to be still […]

For the first time since February, there is some WIP news on Meka (Sega Master System/GameGear/SG-1000/SC-3000/Colecovision emulator for Windows):
2006.11.30Don’t worry I haven’t disappeared, and MEKA is still in development. :)We have installed an official SMS Power Subversion (SVN) server and development moved there. Improvement in the Win32 project made it easier to compile MEKA […]

Today seems to be the WIP news day, as even Magic Engine news has been posted (Commercial Turbo Graphx 16/PC Engine emulator for Windows):
2006-11-28
Some news from MagicEngine-FX beta testing…
Things are going very well, a lot of tiny bugs have been fixed as well as some big ones. As a result emulation quality has improved and […]

Heres someone i’ve not heard of much developing for MAME, but nevertheless has updated his WIP site with the following:
11.27.06Well that took me long enough…
Wow. How long has it been? A couple of years I think. I’ve switched jobs and moved apartments twice since I started on this stinking driver, and now, finally, it’s starting […]

For those of you who like to use homebrew and emulators on your PSP, this post from Maxconsole should be of interest:

It’s been a sad day for the PSP scene, with Dark_Alex pondering his retirement and many hundreds of fans expressing their love for the man. Here’s something which should brighten up spirits a little […]

Ville Linde posted info on his MAME developments:
November 24, 2006Try to map this to your controller…
That’s right, I finally managed to emulate the keyboard controller in Keyboardmania 3rd Mix. Unfortunately MAME doesn’t support MIDI keyboards, so playing it would be a bit difficult.

MAME OS X is a native OS X port of the popular MAME emulator. It is designed to take advantage of all the latest OS X technologies, like Core Video and Core Image.

This Maxconsole article mentions a new Genesis emulator for the Nintendo DS:

A new release of PicoDrive DS - a Sega Genesis emulator for the DS is now available.
PicoDriveDS 0.1.6 Changelog
- Added Max Media Dock FAT support (thanks chishm/Bonic)- Added EZ4 FAT support (thanks cory1492/Rudolph)- Reduced memory usage, 3MB ROMs should work again- Added EXPERIMENTAL support […]

MAME32 has been updated to .110.3 You can get it from our Download page

Aaron Giles releases another U update to MAME with these changes:

We now have our second Dreamcast emulator for Windows that actually plays commercial games. This new one is DEmul. The emulator was started to development early in 2004 year by Wind, but just canceled after Chankast released. About half a year it has been in hibernating, but Chanka was still imperfect and emu was […]

Wow, this is a total shock, but MAYBE a step in the right direction, regarding preserving old classic video games (as well as other games). According to this Yahoo article, basically, the US Copyright Office is now bending a little and FINALLY allowing for exemptions for archivists, cell phone recyclers and computer security experts. One […]

Ootake is a Turbo Graphx 16/PC Engine emulator for Windows with these changes:
- “Fast Seek” was added to “Speed” menu. When a fast CD drive is used, the time of the CD seek is shortened. - When CD drive not fast is used, the noise might mix with a built-in sound source at the CD […]

The MAME history.dat file saw another big update adding info on the following games:

shash posted some news on his development on the Nintendo DS emulator for Windows:
Today I’ve been working on the capture unit, which, from the examples (and games) I’ve been able to get my hands on is used mainly for using 3D output on both screens of the DS, motion blur or screenshots. Of course there’re […]

Dave Widel(This update is in reference to his 11/18 update of a 7-11 version of Q-Bert for those who are wondering what he is talking about):2006/11/20: Here’s what it would look like in an emulator. I don’t expect to see this in MAME anytime soon though.
Roberto Fresca
Funworld Rewrite…
Since last update, I decided to […]

Rich Whitehouse released an update to his Nintendo DS port of Nester (NES Emulator). Current version is 0.3, released 2006-11-23. New version features improved compatibility and speed. Source code is included.

You can get it from oiur download page HERE

I didn’t? ;_;

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