DEmul was the second Dreamcast emulator for Windows ever to be released that actually played commercial games. DEmul started to development early in 2004 year by Wind, but just Chankcast got canceled. Now DEmul is able to run most commercial releases by various groups all along with homebrew demos and free software. DEmul is still imperfect and incomplete. Demul is now available for both 32bit and 64bit Windows operating systems. This WIP update of DEmul has the following changes:
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WinUAE 1.6.0 beta 19 is easily the best Amiga emulator available for Windows.. WinUAE 1.6.0 beta 19 is the 19th beta of the WinUAE 1.6.0 beta cycle. This update has these changes since the last Win UAE 1.5.4 public beta:

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MAMEUI .130.2 (previously named MAME32) is a build of MAME with an integrated frontend. MAMEUI seems to be the popular choice for users of the MAME emulator, as its easier to deal with than a command link based version of MAME. This version of MAMEUI is available in both 32bit and 64bit versions. Download MAMEUI .130.2 at our MAME page.

MAME Plus .130u2 is an unofficial build of MAME .130u1. MAME Plus contains all the changes and updates found in the regular release of MAME, but with added features such as high score save support. Additionally, the author of MAME Plus has added support for the MESS core as well. Download at MAME Plus .130u2 at our MAME page.

MAMEUIFX32 .130u1 is a derivative unofficial build based on the original MAME/MAMEUI source code. MAMEUIFX32 .130u1 has these these improvements over regular MAME:

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MAMEXT .130u2, is a cool unofficial version of MAMEUI with highscore save included. (You will need the hiscore.dat file in order to use this feature). MAMEXT also has some extra features that plain vanilla MAME doesn’t and is available in both 32bit and 64bit. Download MAMEXT32 .130u2 at our MAME page.

MAME .130u1 is second “U” version of the MAME .131 cycle. A list of changes in MAME .130u2 over the previous release is as follows:

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PCSX2 Snapshot 848 is a public beta and is an attempt to improve PCSX2, a PlayStation 2 emulator for the PC. This is the version that is now released by the combined or “united” PCSX2 team and PCSX2 Playground team. Changes:

Changes:
- disabled FtZ on EE and enabled DaZ on VUs as default choices;
- small hackfixes for katamary damacy and FFX;
- small Vif fixes;
- Pcsx2 now correctly sends CRC info to the GS plugin when using Run->Execute to boot games through the BIOS;
- usual game dependent speedups;
- usual codes cleanups;
- disabled all the broken memcard dialogue options;
- updated the Copyright;
- updated plugins.

Download at our Playstation 2 emulator page.

FB Alpha Megadrive Test Release is an arcade emulator supporting the following hardware platforms;

- Capcom CPS-1
- Capcom CPS-2
- Capcom CPS-3
- Cave
- Neo Geo
- Sega System 16 (and similar), System 18, X-Board, Y-Board
- Toaplan
- Taito
- Psikyo 68EC020 based hardware
- misc stuff

A test version of FB Alpha with just the Megadrive games enabled. There have been significant improvements to the current released version.
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SSF .10 alpha R2 is the best Sega Saturn emulator available for Windows, although SSF is still far from being considered “complete” or near complete. SSF .10 alpha R2 has the following changes (rough Japanese to English translation: Read the rest of this entry »

Ootake 2.09 is a PC Engine emulator for Windows. Ootake is the most frequently updated PC Engine emulator available for windows, and Ootake is also one of the more complete. Also, Ootake is FREE unlike Magic Engine. Ootake 2.09 has the following changes:

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Stella is an Atari 2600 emulator for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Wine 1.1.18 is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris. Wine 1.1.18 has the following changes:
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Dolphin SVN r2754 is a Wii and Gamecube emulator for Windows. It also basic Triforce emulation (this is pending a commit, and does not run games yet). Gamecube compatibility is about the same Wii emulator support games show their intro movies. There is preliminary Wiimote emulation. This package also contains both 32bit and 64bit versions. Download at our WII emulator page.

Luca Elia:

This version of Mahjong Vegas runs on royalmah.c hardware. But, unlike the previously dumped version, it does not use the internal ROM hidden in the TLCS-90 CPU, so it actually works in MAME..

.. after fixing the very, very broken routine that processes the interrupts in the CPU core, that is (my bad).

Haze posted MAMEWIP

With all the recent GD-ROMs appearing I decided to take a look at Naomi.

It’s a complete system, and probably ranks as more powerful than anything currently emulated in MAME, so I’m not really expecting much.

The existing driver in MAME is mostly developed by Samuele Zannoli.

While most of the progress on it has gone very much under the radar for various reasons (probably overshadowed by the more advanced work in other emulators, and not really valued due to the knowledge that the framerates won’t be very good) it does actually do a few good things.

I recently fixed a few bugs, and now Capcom vs SNK actually gets past the character select screens, and ingame. It runs at about 20% speed on my 3Ghz C2D, and that’s without any real 3d emulation, but it’s pretty cool to see all the same (and you can actually ‘play’ if you don’t mind most of the graphics being blocks of nothing). Both this and Guilty Gear look like they could be potential ‘first base’ emulation targets for MAME’s Naomi emulation. I’ll see if I can get them there.

WinUAE 1.6.0 beta 18 is easily the best Amiga emulator available for Windows.. WinUAE 1.6.0 beta 18 is the 18th beta of the WinUAE 1.6.0 beta cycle. This update has these changes since the last Win UAE 1.5.4 public beta:

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Ootake 2.08 is a PC Engine emulator for Windows. Ootake is the most frequently updated PC Engine emulator available for windows, and Ootake is also one of the more complete. Also, Ootake is FREE unlike Magic Engine. Ootake 2.08 has the following changes:

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Raine 0.51.3 is an emulator, it emulates some M68000 and M68020 arcade games and is mainly focused on Taito and Jaleco games hardware. It started as an experiment with the Rainbow Islands romset, dumped by Aracorn/Romlist. Raine can emulate many nice games now, including new additions from Cave and other companies. Sound was improved thanks to the work of Hiromitsu Shioya. More recently, several new programmers have joined Raine Team, adding drivers & making improvements. Emulating cpu’s and sound chips takes quite a lot of coding time, so, like most of the current emulators, Raine uses emulation engines already available when possible. Download Raine at our Arcade game emulation page.

Dolphin SVN r2696 is a Wii and Gamecube emulator for Windows. It also basic Triforce emulation (this is pending a commit, and does not run games yet). Gamecube compatibility is about the same Wii emulator support games show their intro movies. There is preliminary Wiimote emulation. This package also contains both 32bit and 64bit versions. Download at our WII emulator page.