2006.11.30
Don’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 with a precompiled Allegro package, so you developers have one less excuse not to try compiling MEKA by yourself and tweak it.

SVN server: https://svn.smspower.org/svn/meka/trunk/meka
Web viewer: http://svn.smspower.org/
Web viewer, Log: http://svn.smspower.org/log.php?repname=MEKA&path=%2Ftrunk%2F&rev=0&sc=0&isdir=1

As for MEKA development, not much but here it is:

– Updated k.
– Emulation:
– Fixed data corruption/overflow in VDP emulation when seeking and
writing to an invalid palette address. Thanks Maxim. [Omar]
– VDP palette write do not mask out current VDP address, so performing
the (unprobable) set address/access palette/access VRAM sequence will
keep address in the full 16KB range. [Omar]
– Fixed VDP line interrupts not properly running in overscan area in
224 lines mode. Fixes bottom of the screen in Charles Mac Donald’s
BB2K6 demo. [Omar]
– Video:
– Changed default fullscreen blitter configuration in the hope of getting
something more compatible (640×480 by default), as so many people have
problems with fullscreen modes.
– Got rid of “parallel” blitter that displayed both odd and even frame
next to each other. Seems useless now. Could be brought back if some
four-eyed person request it. [Omar]
– Debugger:
– Added “CLOCK” command, to display/reset a Z80 cycle counter.
Very simple but can be helpful to time Z80 routines. [Omar]
– (Win32) Forward debugging log to Windows debugging stream via
OutputDebugString(), so running MEKA from Microsoft Visual studio
will display log in the ‘Output’ window. [Omar]
– Project:
– (Win32) Added new targets supporting shared standard libraries. [Omar]
– Updated SOURCES.TXT documentation. [Omar]
– GUI:
– Fixed background picture not loading on startup. [Omar]
– Removed closing fadeout since the current implementation is way
inefficient and cannot garantee proper speed. [Omar]
– Fixed bug with window closing button widget. [Omar]
– Fixed bug when quitting using the menu, configuration files were
not saved. Thanks Jacko. (Omar)
– (Un*x) Fixed bug where menus would not clear themselves. [Omar]
(This was due to Allegro.h defining TRUE as -1 and a 1 value being
hardcoded in some part of the code).
– Added and modified entries in the checksum and compatibility lists. [Omar]

Database update available for download below.

Snapshot: meka.nam (Last updated 2006/11/18, 126.817 bytes)
2006.02.26
Did not get around to release 0.72 as of yet, so I’m making a MEKA database (meka.nam) update available. As usual, this is mostly aimed at maniacs. Some particular renaming includes:

SMS – e5ff50d8 – Back to the Future II –> Back to the Future Part II
SMS – 2d48c1d3 – Back to the Future III –> Back to the Future Part III
SMS – 953f42e1 – Castle of Illusion –> Castle of Illusion – Starring Mickey Mouse
SMS – b9db4282 – Castle of Illusion (US) –> Castle of Illusion – Starring Mickey Mouse (US)
SMS – 59840fd6 – Castle of Illusion [SMS-GG] –> Castle of Illusion – Starring Mickey Mouse [SMS-GG]
SMS – 9942b69b – Castle of Illusion [SMS-GG] (JP) –> Castle of Illusion – Starring Mickey Mouse [SMS-GG] (JP)
SMS – 695a9a15 – Jungle Book, The –> Jungle Book, The (Walt Disney’s Classic)
SMS – 24e97200 – Land of Illusion –> Land of Illusion – Starring Mickey Mouse
SMS – 6350e649 – Legend of Illusion (BR) –> Legend of Illusion – Starring Mickey Mouse (BR)
SMS – c352c7eb – Lion King, The –> Lion King, The (Disney’s)
SMS – 1de2c2d0 – Strategic Defense Initiative (JP) –> SDI (JP)
GG – 423803a7 – Gambler Jikochuushin Ha (JP) –> Gyuwanburaa Jikochuushin Ha (JP)
GG – 90100884 – Jungle Book, The –> Jungle Book, The (Walt Disney’s Classic)
GG – 30c09f31 – Jungle Book, The (US) –> Jungle Book, The (Walt Disney’s Classic) (US)
GG – 52dbf3e1 – Land of Illusion –> Land of Illusion – Starring Mickey Mouse
GG – 0117c3df – Land of Illusion (JP) –> Mickey Mouse no Mahou no Crystal (JP)
SG1 – 545fc9bb – Ashizawa’s Hatchidan Tsumeshogi (JP) –> Ashizawa Hachidan no Tsumeshogi (JP)
SC3 – ae4f92cf – Uranai Angel Cuty (JP) –> Uranai Angel Cutie (JP)

Otherwise, the update mainly consists in entries being converted to the new database format and verifications/fixes going along with each conversion.