The DOS version of RockNES is updated, pitty the Windows ports weren't upto the same level yet. Here is the lowdown: - Fixed GUI colors for 16-bit video modes, plus surface clearing. - Fixed a potential bug setting color emphasis and monochrome modes. - Fixed broken EAGLE support from previous version. - Fixed ZIP support, plus added support for GZipped files. - Small optimization in the PPU code. - More fixes and changes for portability. PlayStation emulation at its best? Well this is a very good free emulator, from my last testing - it requires a bit of messing around with plugins to get it all configured correctly. But works well when this is done. - Included a new wizard guided config, what should do easier configure the emulator. - Fixed a bug in the internal sound plugin which caused crash on systems using directx8+geforce and some soundcards. - Fixed a division by zero bug in the gte routines that started in version 1.2.0. It solves the problems with Xenogears, Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy 7. - Added the extension .img (clonecd) to the load iso function. - Fixed a bug detecting the name of some games, it is used to detect the format (pal/ntsc). (Metal Gear Solid Pal) - Fixed a bug in the function CDROpen. Fix the psemupro iso plugin. - Added support to the cdplayer included in the playstation bios, you can listen to your cdda with epsxe now :) - Fixed some problems with the bootstrap of the playstation. -nogui should not be needed anymore. (Destruction Derby Raw pal, Breath of fire 3) - Fixed some gte problems. (Vandal hearts 2 pal, Wipeout series) - Fixed a mdec decoder bug. (Xfiles) - Added preliminary support for netplay plugins. (Cyberpad) - Now it is possible to change the memcards file in any moment of the game. (Of course you shouldn't change the memcard while the game is writing it, like in a psx ;-) - Fixed some problems with the change disc function. (Metal Gear Solid) - Included support for a new feature included in the video plugins, it now shows a mini-picture from the savestates when you use the F2 key to increase the selected save slot. (It works only with savestates done with the version 1.4.0 or superior) - Fixed some problems with the XA sound effects and background XA sound which fix Silent Bomber, Megaman X5, Castlevania SOTN, Bloody Roar 1, Dinocrisis 2, and more. - Fixes to the CD-Rom decoder and the core, which make some more games playable like for example Incredible Crisis, Simpsons Wresting, Threads of fate, Tomb Raider I and II (pal), Fighting Force 2 and so on ;) The Raine project, a multi arcade emulator - similar to MAME, but used to be a faster version (hard to measure thesedays). This is now the Windows based version which is nice. - Added more than 85 cps1 games and clones. Qsound games have no sound for now (wof, dino, punisher, slam masters, and mbomber). - Full mame compatibility for the hiscore.dat file. You can now grab a hiscore.dat from mame, and put it directly in the raine directory ! - Made the gui "16bpp friendly" : it is now much faster in 16bpp. And added a new file selector... - The windows version of raine is now much more stable !!! The best Snes emulator around continues to grow, lots of fixes here and there - amazing what these people can do. - Fixed Mode 4 offset bug (Fixes Bust-A-Move, Puzzle Bobble possibly others) - Emerald Dragon is now working - Fixed Last Bible 3 DMA problem (Thanks to SNES9x for the info) - Fixed Super Robot Was Ex (Thanks again to SNES9x for the help on this) - Moved disable SPC emulation option to sound menu where it should be - Fixed Wizardry 4 and Honkakuha Igo Gosei, interleaved funny - SD Gundam GNext no longer crashes ZSNES, and actually is playable now. - Spindizzy worlds should work again - Dezaemon sprites working now, had to clear OAM address when first address byte is written - Power Rangers the Movie working, was reading from register 2144 - King of Rally now working - Emerald Dragon working, added a hack to disable ENVx for that game - Full Throttle Racing working, fixed a bug with the wai 65816 instruction - Renamed black and white mode to grayscale mode - Got Traverse Starlight and Prairie to go further, but it still freezes after several scenes - Mario RPG minecart Mode 2 scene working better now Win v1.03 - Added disable screensaver feature to disable screen saver while ZSNES is active - Fixed yet another DirectInput slowdown - Added joystick POV hat support (Thanks to kode54 for testing and fixing my code) - Added error messages and directions if DirectX 8.0 is not installed - Fixed another Windows 2000 freeze on exit bug - Fixed BSOD when loading roms on some systems - Hopefully fixed a crash when multiple roms where in a single zip file - Fixed a possible crash when loading/continuing a game (Thanks to Metus) Zoops Great Sega Master System/Gamegear emulator gets a bugfix. Now where is that Windows port? - Various minor fixes and improvements. - Fixed startup delay (and sometimes crash) when autodetecting Sidewinders. - Fixed and improved the new dynamic palette handler - Made various clean and corrections to the main sound engine structure. - MEKA refuse to start if sound initialization has failed. - Sound is now muted while certain long operations are being processed. - Sound card type is not lost if you only disable sound. - An incorrect BLASTER environnement variable is now reported. - Added an algorithm to automatically detect certain mappers and select them when the ROM is unknown. - Fixed vertical scrolling emulation in certain special cases. - Fixed zoomed sprites in SMS/GG video mode. - Fixed a bug with checksum handling. In some cases, ROMs with only a few different bytes were previously not recognized as different. - Fixed usage of the ';' key in the input system (now usable), previously the character was considered as beginning a comment in MEKA.INP. - Fullscreen messages are now correctly displayed when the current emulated system uses a resolution higher than your fullscreen resolution. - Fixed debugger breakpoint when loading a save state. - Added some new entrys to the checksum and compatibility lists, and fixed few existing ones. Added a french flag, currently used for games translated in french.
Thanks to everyone who sent/told me about the GBA emulation. I have the emulators and all 45 roms here on my drive. But I currently have no plans on adding these to my page. I will be buying a GBA, maybe this Friday... A small fix version of Gens - the best Megadrive emulator for Windows. - Fixed a stupid bug with Netplay The emulator formally known as GensX - and Vegas before that. This is a 32X (and therefore Megad/Genesis) emulator for Windows. The 32X emulation seems decent, but rather slow from my testing (not really my area though). Good to see its still alive though. - Tweaked PSG balancing and fixed a bug in it. - Major architectural changes to the 68000 emulation. - Fixed a big problem with the Genesis sound emulation. Nearly all sound problems have been fixed! - Fixed a bug with the Genesis sprites. - Fixed 32X memory timing. - Fixed bug in window title. - Numerous optimizations to the memory architecture. - Rewrote portions of the memory system into x86 assembly. - Many speed-ups in the SH2 and 68000 code. - Battery Ram now auto-loads and auto-saves. - Numerous bug fixes. My current emulator of choice, ZsnesWin. I have been playing alot of Mario World and Puzzle Bobble netplay on my laptop with this lovely emulator, Really good work Zsnes team. It seems this time they have conquered another game... Star Ocean. - Support for Star Ocean S-DD1 decompressed pack is now enabled. - Fixed bug in H-DMA code, fixes Hook and Bugs Bunny and maybe others - Updated documentation - Fixed new gfx mode checkbox in options menu - Added 800x600 DR FULL mode (scroll down to the bottom of the mode list to see it) - Fixed timing problem in games when 58 seconds was 1 minute in ZSNES - Fixed voices in ToP opening and Star Ocean - Fixed another DirectInput slowdown - Fixed joystick 5, it should be working now - Optimised code some more, giving 3-5 FPS boost on most systems Its been a while, but Zoops emulator returns with another large update. The best news is that he is working on a Windows port - which will be great. For now here is the lowdown of this DOS release. - Rewrote dynamic palette handler, minimizing actual hardware palette changes, reducing snow and generally reducing flickering when games were abusing of palette changes - Rewrote hardware sprites collision emulation a more accurate way fixing Cheese Catastrophe (SMS) bonus catching. - Added data dumping facilities for developers and hackers. - Added Sega Keyboard (SK-1100) hardware detection emulation. - Added a 'none' value for joypad driver, to disable any kind of detection - Battery backed RAM optional pages are now not saved when their content is null. - Optimized the technical information viewer that was previously too slow. - Fixed error message that said MEKA was unable to write SaveRAM to write, while it did correctly. - Fixed savestate loading bug in some very specific cases when using a custom mapper. - Fixed sprite drawing in overscan video mode. - The selected tile in the tile viewer is now refreshed if modified. - Fixed PSG volume bug, where volumes 14 and 15 were actually the same. - Changed the 'palette_bright' option to a 'palette' option that can be either 'muted' or 'bright' - VSync is now automatically avoided if a speed faster than 70 hz is being used. - Partially rewrote popup menu code. - Added the usual amount of new themes and new database entries. - Added some new comments to the configuration file. - Converted all ASM code to NASM format, for better portability. - Ported MEKA to Windows. Cool.
I have had quite a few emails with people pointing me to the updates (ZSnes, MAME, WinUAE...) - thanks to everyone. A combination of lack of time/effort meant I haven't touched the page in two months. My main reason behind this is the DOS based emulators which I have, cannot run fully under Windows 2000 (which I now use). I'm now going to slowly move as many of the sections over to the Windows ports as available, please bear with me... The WinUAE machine continues, lots of changes in this series of beta (JIT, better AGA support), time to dig out those old ADF's and start playing I think. - FIXED: 50Hz/60Hz switching (B.C. Kid) works again. - FIXED: Various Picasso96 issues. - FIXED: F11 should be '\' again. - ADDED: .GZ support in floppy dialog. - CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-code yet again, hopefully will be less choppy. - CHANGED: Tweaked the exception-handling code for JIT. - REMOVED: icon1.ico from the source-code archive. The ultimate in emulation - this is one of my favorite emulators - I have this and MAMEW on my laptop, great for lunch hour gaming. Now that Pilotwings works, they must be looking at reaching perfection. - Implemented triple buffering in full screen mode - Fixed top 8 lines being invisible of FFMQ - Optimised DirectDraw code some more giving a 10-15% speed increase - Fixed black screen when switching windows - Improved loading and shutdown time - Rock 'N Roll Racing is working again - Fixed Lennus 2's sprites - Almost figured out Wizardry 4's rom format. It seems like this game was incorrectly dumped so everything in it is out of order. - Final Fight 2 is working again - Vsync option now works in triple buffering mode - Now shows minimize window animation when minimizing - Fixed mouse pointer under full screen mode - New ZSNES icon in Windows port Gens almost reaches v1.0 - can this emulator reach perfection like Meka almost has? - Kaillera client version updated to 0.83 - Kaillera implementation is different, Gens can now start even if the kailleraclient DLL is not present. - Window split fixed. - Z80 cycles timing modified. - Load/save state improved. - Vietnamese menu translation added. - minors bugs fixed. A new release of z26 for DOS, this version has a new and improved SECAM color palette. BouKiCHi's nice Gameboy emulator for DOS - has a small update. As per normal - it has Japanese documents and therefore I have no clue what has been changed. The standard MAME build is now compiled for Windows. This version acts the same as the standard DOS build (you run it from the command line, and therefore lacks a GUI). But apart from that, its totally Windows based - and very nice indeed. - Power Play - Neck & Neck - Shuffleshot - Elevator Action Returns - Darius Gaiden - Puzzle Bobble 4 - Land Maker - Twin Qix - Gekiridan - Magic Bubble - J. J. Squawkers - Go Go! Mile Smile - Bang Bang Ball - Jitsuryoku!! Pro Yakyuu - Clash Road [Luca Elia] - Dommy - Ixion - Vandyke - Tunnel Hunt
Is this the final release of RockNES? The author claimed there would be one final release, and this could be it (though I really hope not). A great emulator with a Windows port available. - Fixed a memory read bug (VS Unisystem ok) - Fixed mappers #7 (duh), #65, #79, #113, #234 (Maxi-15 works fine), #243 - Fixed a bug in the noise sound channel (whoo... much better) - Added mapper #57 support (GK-L01A) - Added CRC32 display (for PRG/CHR data) in the game info GUI dialog - Added directory setup in the config file for dumped data - Added a nice tweak to retrieve status (bits) from a number, soft speed up - Added patches to fix some map#79 games with wrong mirroring set - Added iNES header information save + CRCs in a file (.nfo) - Changed iNES header fix to work with CRC32 numbers (PRG) - Changed screenshot format from PCX to BMP - Changed some GUI labels - Reenabled my MMC3 (mapper #4) IRQ timing code - PRG ROM dumping disabled when there are no CHR ROM pages - Cosmetic changes, small optimizations and some errors squashed.
Work continues on this Megadrive / 32X / SegaCD emulator, it still lacks sound but the Megadrive emulation is supposed to be good (I prefer Gens though). Its popular for the 32X/CD emulation though. - Fixed some CD bugs that screwed up most Sega CD games - Fixed the rotate/scale graphics - Added Sega CD "font" graphics support - ZIP support - PNG screenshot saving, even though I know you all were hoping for BMP or PCX instead ;) - Added lots more dialog box items and menu items to multilingual engine - Auto frameskipper (and delayer) - Added autodetect of 565/555 graphics modes (fixes 32X color on the 555 systems) - Added AGES demo file saving and loading - Added powerful new autonaming engine for saved states, patches, screenshots and demos - Overhauled Genesis render - 11 % speed up (to ~70 fps) on my PII 350 - crappy CPUs like AMD and Celeron should have even more than 11 % speed up - Added *FULL* shadow and highlight support - Added sprite masking support - Added sprite limiting support - Fixed many graphics glitches for 32-cell Genesis games - Added statusbar This wonderful Megaddrive emulator for Windows gets an update. The big news is support for Netplay via Kaillera. A few game fixes must put this close to complete... - Netplay support (Kaillera). - GYM loggin added. - VDP debug informations added. - VDP RAM write fixed (broken in Gens 0.8). - Bug with hilight/shadow effect over sprite fixed (broken in Gens 0.8). - Because of some incompatibilities with Visual C++ 5.0 and Kaillera, Gens is now compiled with Visual C++ 6.0 - Polish, Catalan and Hungarian menu translation added. German, Dutch, Greek and some others updated. - Add a FAQ section to the gens.txt file. - A special italian version of Gens.txt in this release but not updated for Gens v0.98. Game Fixed: - Street Racer (hilight effect during intro, broken in v0.8) - Dino dini's soccer (graphics bugs in font fixed) - Some games broken in Gens v0.95 The open source Raine project continues to grow, below are some of the changes, check the Whats New for a full rundown. - Added donpachi, hot dog storm (cave) - Added 3wonders (preliminary work) - Added 16bpp support and rotation to 90% of the games. - Added bpp selection to the gui (you can now change the bpp without quiting raine...) - Added continuous playing (see below) - Changed the game selection dialog : options can be chosen with the new button "Selection", and added selection by company. - Fixed Battle Shark : it works again - Fixed music rate in toaplan2 games (batrider...), thanks to a patch on the net. - Fixed sample rate not being saved in 0.30a. - Fixed bad samples in wrestlefest - Some assembler optimisations on the basic drawing functions (from Karma) - Fixed light bringer (broken in 0.30a).
Beta 14 arrives, lots of unknown games here. Are we about to move to the Release Canidates or will there be a beta 15? - Hexion - Mouja - Rough Ranger - Hard Head - Gyakuten!! Puzzle Bancho - Shanghai Kid - Dynamic Ski - Bakuretsu Quiz Ma-Q Dai Bouken - Exbania - Knuckle Heads - Nettou! Gekitou! Quiztou!! - Super World Court - Quiz Gakumon no Susume - XX Mission - Wonder Planet - Ryu Jin - Thunder Dragon 2 - Cyby Bop - Bigfoot Bonkers - IGMO Another release of DBoy - the good Gameboy Colour emulator for DOS. Unknown what has changed, but it doesnt really matter that much. The final release of FinalBurn, the author has finally had enough with the CPS2 chance and gave up. We now have MAME to emulate all these games (he has also given his source to the MAME team), so we should see all this in a future MAME. Thanks Dayvee. - Added X-Men Vs. Street Fighter - Added region switch for Cyberbots and X-Men Vs. Street Fighter
Its hard to keep up with the updates for this good BBC emulator for Windows as various authors have their own releases. Thanks to Jack Johnson for the notification. - *All* undocumented 6502 codes implemented. - Almost full 1770 FDC Support (read/write track (format) and force interrupt still not supported yet) - ADFS Discs (Single or Double sided (auto detected)) now supported. - Fixed cursor positioning problem in Modes 3 and 6 - Fixed mode 7 7-bit control code handling - Fixed cmos.ram file open bug - Fixed sound menu corruption on model change/reset - Fixed rom menu - Added more flexible rom control via use of roms.cfg and optionally the supplied ROM Manager - Fixed that ini file bug... I put my settings into the registry now - Supplied all required DLLs and ROMs in with the download - Fixed the sideways RAM bug I accidentally put in the previous version. Digital audio in Exile has returned!
The best Commodore 64 emulator around, this is the DOS port (a Windows port is available from the homepage) and its rather fantastic. - Fixed: Bug with some cartridges like Buck Rogers etc. - Added: Support for Zaxxon Cartridge. - Added: PAL TV filter emulation by John 'Graham' Selck and Philip 'Pepto' Timmermann. - Added: Screen repeat mode in order to support native 100, 150 Hz video modes to emulate the C64 50 Hz refresh rate. - Added: Screenshots can now be saved in different sizes and screen positions. - Added: Machine code monitor now also handle loading / saving of .prg files. Nice emulator, but its shareware which is a bit of a shame. If you do like MSX emulation, you might want to look into registration. So, no$msx version 1.4 is a killer update, spent about three months into almost 150 new details, including cartridge support (currently windows version only sorry), MSX1 and MSX2 fixes, various new setup options, separate MSX1 and MSX2 emulation modes, a digital sound engine, reverse engineering & exact emulation of undocumented Z80 dirt effects, snapshots, updated "Portar" docs built-in, kanji ROM support, GUI improvements taken from the old no$gmb source, details & fixes for the assembler, disassembler and debugger, and various other things. Altogether it should be the fastest MSX emulator, and/or include the most accurate CPU & interrupt timing emulation (there are separate fast/accurate versions). On the other hand, there are still a couple of missing features like SCC sound, sprite collision detect, MSX2-Plus emulation, and cartridge support under DOS. Final Burn, another Capcom System 2 release from Cps2Shock added in. - Added driver for Cyberbots This wonderful best Gameboy Colour emulator for Windows gets another update, compatability is still very high. My only problem is with the scratchy sound. - Fixed problem loading save games - Window title changes when changing languages - Simplified Chinese translation (thanks Eric) - Finnish translation (thanks Hannu Pulli) - translations halted for the moment This is the same release of ePSX as on 11th March, but with all the plugins ready in an easy to use installer.
ePSXe, an advanced PlayStation emulator for Windows. This release looks rather impressive supporting Final Fantasy IX already, great work. - Added better analogic pad emulation and force feedback. - Now ePSXe includes savestates support. F1 = save state, F3 = load state. - Partially re-writen the internal spu, it should be faster, have less sound glitches and better sound quality. - Optimizations added in gte, mdec and core which makes some games work some fps faster than before. - Fixes to the CD-Rom decoder and the core, which make some more games playable like for example Gran Turismo, Resident Evil, Ape Escape, Kingley Adventure, Legend of Legaia (use the "-legaia" command line), Final Fantasy IX PAL and so on ;-) Finally we get the last version of Massage released to the public. Before Meka showed up, this was the best Master System / Gamegear emulator for DOS. James did a wondeful job, but it was discontinued a few years back, finally this last version shows up. - Emulates undocumented screen mode! This allows SG1000/SC3000 cartridges to work! - GG games can now be viewed with full Master System screen. - Improved x-value of lightgun (from Zoop). - Slightly improved lightgun target sight. - Bugfix: Mouse is now detected properly. - Bugfix: Hopefully SB will now start up everytime. Beta 13, unlucky for some? This release adds support for the strange DECO Cassette System, I have never heard of Arcade games loading from tape, very weird. 19xx is also included. - DECO Cassette System - Sadari - Hot Dog Storm - Othello Derby - Moeyo Gonta!! (Lady Killer) - Puzzli - Blazing Tornado - Over Drive - Chequered Flag - Gun Buster - Super Chase - Bioship Paladin - Pairs - G.I. Joe - Asterix - The Bounty - Tetris Plus 2 - Sonic Blast Man - GunNail - Thunder Dragon - Gladiator 1984 - Momoko 120% A small release of FinalBurn to add Cps2Shock's 19xx release, its not exactly perfect, as FinalBurn hasn't supported a vertical game yet. - Added driver for 19XX
The best Gameboy emulator available. Great compatability with the newer Gameboy Colour roms. - Fixed LEGO Racers and Harley Davidson - Fixed Super Fighters - Window can be sized - Battery save game is not compressed anymore - Sound quality settings for slower machines: 11Khz, 22Khz and 44Khz (default) - 24-bit and 32-bit support - Catalan translation (thanks Raimon Areste) - Vietnamese translation (thanks Le Thanh Hung) - Danish translation (thanks Laust Palbo Nielsen) - Arabic translation (thanks Ali) - Total of 16 languages!
Well as you may, or may not be aware. Nintendo have made alot of sites think twice about their lineup. They appear to have taken legal action on a site for hosting some Snes/Nes/Gameboy roms, now I don't know if this was a few like myself. or a large collection. But its a risk I'm not about to take - therefore I have removed all my Nintendo related roms. I'm now no longer happy with the state of my page, I do not have the same amount of time to update it. And the sections lack the complete-ness that I used to host (emulator, any bios's and a few games to test), therefore I'm thinking this page will not see 5 years old. On a lighter note, I noticed that I have made 200,000 vistors since joining Emulationworld, this is a nice sight and it has been a good two years. Daves very good Arcade emulator continues to storm though the Capcom System 2 games as soon as GeoShock release them. Its a pitty 90% of them are boring beat em ups, I look forward to the release of 19xx. This great Nintendo emulator gets another update, a few fixes here and there make it a good release and a great emulator. - Fixed name garbage when saving files - Fixed RAM, WRAM, VROM and CPU registers dumping - Added PRG data dumping when no VROM is present (due the request) - vsync on/off switch was disabled, oops - Documentation revised. Gens, the best Windows based Megadrive/Genesis emulator available, a big update here with alot of changes that make it an essential download for all Megadrive emulation fans. - The infamous VDP control decoding bug is really fixed this time, so Fido Dido is ok. - Partial 4 player support (only Yuyu Hakusho Battle and Street Racer are supported) - You now have a choice of 3 or 6 Button Genesis pad emulation. - Rom format (SMD/BIN) detection modified. - Fixed the (accidently) broken PAL bit in VDP status flag. - SPACE is now accepted as a Code/Comment seperator in .PAT files (stupid bug, sorry). - Z80 V-INT timing modified. - V-Counter modified. - PSG sound fixed in some games like After Burner 2 (thanks Dave ;) - DMA timings modified again. - 68000 cycles timing modified (68000 is now overclocked of 1,3 Khz instead of underclocked of 14,3 Khz in NTSC mode). - Once again, i've modified Z80 cycles timing, now voices are like the original genesis (crappy) but sound in some game are fixed (voices in Zombies). - Fixed a bug in VDP control decoding (added accidently in version 0.8). - Country detection fixed for (F) region (these games are NTSC and not PAL). - Added a sub-menu for rom history. Game Fixed: - All roms which the PAL error message (broken accidentatly in Gens v0.88) - Puggsy (intro bugs, broken in Gens v0.92b) - Donald Duck in Maui Mallard (graphics bugs at top of screen) - Fido Dido (black color, broken in Gens 0.8) - Eliminate Down (randomize lock fixed) - Double Dragon 2 (lock fixed). - Sound of Kid Cameleon, Chaos Engine ... - DAC sound (voices, sfx) in Zombie. Game Broken: - Sound of Puyo Puyo 2 is now crappy :( - Pause screen is glitched in European Soccer. Speedy Amiga emulation? Well Fellow has always been the fastest Amiga emulator available, the Windows port has continued this trend. I just wish they would use normal version numbers instead of these "snapshots". ffilesys.c - fixed faulty memory allocation which caused strange resets when autoconfig was active sound.c/h, sounddrv.c - new functions for sound notifications and variable bufferlength config.c/h, wgui.c, gui_general.rc/h - added necessary code to handle the notification and buffer length on the sound tab page sysinfo.c - small fixes to the registry hardware parsing on NT; now also lists devices of type "unknown" as sometimes the soundcard is listed there for NT drawa.s - Disabled line-skipping in deinterlace mode. This should fix the bug reported some time ago about missing lines using this drawing mode. floppy.c, zlibwrap.c/h - gzip'ed images (.adz, .adf.gz) are now recompressed upon removal of the disk if the original file was not write protected floppy.c/h - Changes to the extended adf handling; it still doesn't work correctly, but the Turrican Image from the Factor5 homepage gets to the intro screen now. The synchronization code for the encoded parts of the images is still missing.
A new and very popular Windows based AtariST emulator, alot of people have recommended this to me, and from what I have seen - its rather good. I only tried a few games but they ran perfectly and the speed is nice. This is a good replacement to the discontinued WinSTon. The last few releases of Final Burn have been a mess, the author Dave had a big problem with kiddies emailing him regrading certain CPS2 games and lack of support. Dave removed support for all CPS2 from the new releases, when MAME appeared with support for them - he added it back in. v0.101 - Added support for Aliens Vs. Predator. - Changed romset structures to match MAME's. - Added two new options which allow you to block music or sound effect codes in most games. v0.100 - Corrected the Marvel Super Heroes filenames and crcs. v0.099 - Added support for Marvel Super Heroes v0.098 - Added support for Super Street Fighter 2 - Corrected sprite/layer priority A great big beta for MAME, this release adds the much wanted support for Capcom System 2 games (which takes the heat away from Final Burn). I'm looking forward to MAME32 though (for Laptop->Win2k). New Games - The Karate Tournament - Poitto! - Toride II Adauchi Gaiden - Pururun - Cannon Ball - Shocking - Strike Gunner S.T.G - Mobile Suit Gundam - Quiz Kokology - Ultra Balloon - Blomby Car - Grand Champion - Cosmo Gang the Puzzle - Emeraldia - Tinkle Pit - Chinese Hero - VS Gong Fight - Looping - Sky Bumper - Fire Truck - Championship V'Ball - lots of Nichibutsu mahjong games - Shoot the Bull - Fighting Roller - Street Fighter: The Movie - Battle Cruiser M12 - Star Luster - Ice Climber Dual - Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom - Vampire: The Night Warriors - Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams - Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire - X-Men: Children of the Atom - Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers - Aliens vs. Predator - Street Fighter Alpha 2 - Marvel Super Heroes - Robocop 2 A Raine bugfix, with quite a few additions /changes. Worth the download. New Games - Added Cuby Bop (Taito, 1990) - Added Tube It (Taito, 1990, variant of Cachat) - Added Bubble Symphony (US) Sound improvements - Fixed music speed in Bubble Memories and Bubble Symphony. - Big improvements on F3 sound. - Added the ability to save sound chip status in savegames to F3 games. - Fixed sound problems in Cave games (Dodonpachi especially) - Saving games now also saves sound status. - Fixed sound bankswitch in Battle Garegga. - Fixed Hachoo music tempo. - Fixed sound on the Technos games (eg. Wrestlefest). Overall improvements - Added analog control support to Chase HQ. - Added many dipswitches to the Toaplan1 driver. - Added many dipswitches to the Toaplan2 driver. - Various fixes to some old drivers. - Asm optimizations in the spr8x8_8.s gfx routines. - Fixed a a segfault in ClearPalette of Omega Fighter. - Fixed Thunder Dragon Bootleg.
Whats Happening this Week Wayhay, Raine returns in an offical form. The Raine project has moved to the MAME way of thinking, having lots of people working on an open source to make it alot better. Now the ROM sets are MAME compatable and it has taken the sound driver from MAME to give much needed sound support to the F3 games. Wonderful. Games - Battle K-Road - Biomechanical Toy - Dodonpachi - Gals Panic - Gun Bird - Guwange - Saboten Bombers - Sengoku Ace - Silkworm - ES5506 and YMZ280B sound drivers. - Open Source - Mapped the mouse buttons in Plump Pop - Fixed the controls in Special Criminal Investigation - Emulated the controls in Top Speed. - Lots of Dip Switches mapped. - Fixed the coin bug in Dangun Feveron. - Major improvements to the GUI. - Support for the MAME highscore format - Correct emulation speed in Light Bringer - Correct emulation speed in Zero Zone - Lots of improvements to the source code - Lots of fixes and overall improvements, that include romset fixes, clean-ups and renaming, game title corrections, updating the RAINE documentation. Finally it seems there is a break in the FinalBurn releases, gives us 56kers a chance to catchup on the ROMS. Expect a new version supporting Super Street Figher 2 soon. v0.096 - Fixed a bug with Load/Save and no game loaded. v0.095 - Added support for the older version of X-Men (v2.00)v - Made state saving and loading a bit easier. - Scanlines are now shown in Windowed mode as well. v0.094 - X-Men 3xPunch/Kick didn't work in 0.093 - fixed. v0.093 - Added support for Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (both US releases) - Added 4-player support for D&D. A new release of this multi Megadrive/32x/MegaCD emulator for Windows. This release should now have more MegaCD functionality, but as I haven't touched a MegaCD in years - I can't test it. - Sega CD music track playing - Sega CD rotate-scale graphics - Sega CD font conversion graphics - Emulated load times are shorter - Added CUE support - Added RAR'd CUE + CD image support - Multiple file-per-RAR support - Genecyst state loading - Multilingual engine - BRM directory browser - Genesis system ROM support - Fixed the infamous Phantasy Star 4 glitch - Numerous Sega CD bugfixes for improved Sega CD compatiblity
There have been two smaller RockNES releases this week, just bugfixes but worth downloading to avoid any problems. - Fixed savestate code to suit big-endian byte order (the MacOS) - Fixed EAGLE blitting (removed debug junk) - Fixed sprite ram data overflow (oh boy) - More fixes to MMC5 (IRQ is working again, sorry). v1.702 - Fixed trainer support. There has been quite a few large releases of Daves great Arcade emulator since I last updated, so here is the lowdown: - Added keys for all three Punches and Kicks in the CPS2 games. To define them, use the Input list. - (Vampire) Fixed the problem with the EEPROM emulation. - (VSav) Fixed the graphical glitch where Shadow was shown on the Red Curtain screen - (Vampire) vampja.ini should have been called vampj.ini, fixed. v0.083 - Made 640x480 the default res, because it works quite well for all games. v0.081 - Fixed "VS Screen" rowscroll problem (background effect) and alignment of the hiscore screen. - Final Burn now checks for CRC *errors* in a Zip file (i.e. if the zip file is corrupt) as well as checking if the CRCs of the roms are correct. v0.080 - Added Vampire (Jpn), which is also known as DarkStalkers. - We haven't found a region switch for it yet :( There may not be one. - There's a problem with the eeprom - haven't figured it out yet. - Input can now be configured from the emu. - Added a layer switch for CPS games (Alt-L). Press to toggle background layers on or off. - Fixed the Victor lariat 'teleport' bug, which was caused by being able to press left and right at the same time. - Fixed some Triple Buffering problems. - Refined the sprite priority patch so it only modifies sprites when absolutely necessary, - Rowscroll also fixed This good Mac emulator should now comes in an assembly optimized version, which is good for speed reasons, great news! - BasiliskII.exe is now the assembly optimized version and should work on all Windows. - Fix: the assembler version of MOVE (Ax)++,(Ay)++ [code 20d8] was faulty. - Fix: NUMLOCK keyboard code didn't have the extended flag set - Fix: the NAT/Router did not always send other (non-TCP/IP) ARP requests to the NIC. - Fix: some other minor NAT issues. - Fix: Basilisk II may have crashed when a video mode was selected that was larger than the current Windows mode. - Fix: a video tilt problem when switching from GDI mode to full screen mode - An option to disable Windows screen saver while B2 is running. GUI "Misc" page. - An option to change the keyboard layout code. GUI "Keyboard" page. - Updated "NAT-Router FAQ.html" and "Tech.win32.txt". A very technical looking whats new for this nice Windows port of Fellow. floppy.c - fixed a pretty serious bug in floppy.c - gzip, xdms and the according del enclose filenames in quotes now kbdparser.c - added autofire support in the mapping.key file cia.c, kbd.c, kbd.h, gameport.c, gameport.h, kbddrv.c - added autofire support joydrv.c - removed unused calls to CoInitialize and CoUninitialize in joyDrvStartup with Dx3 ffilesys.c - fixed a bug in ffilesys_install() which caused weird behaviour when using trailing backslashes in filesystem root paths fsdb.c, filesys.c - added missing initializations to all places where a_inodes are created
The Best Nintendo emulator around gets a large update, the best news is that it now has ZipROM support. Which is essential for any good emulator. Also alot of fixes to mappers which will help compatability, great! - Added ZIP support [katharsis] - Small changes in the rom loading - Movie support slightly improved - Added support for mapper #67 (no games are playable) - Mapper #5 improved somewhat (only CastleVania3 and MetalSladerGlory work) - Mapper #33 improved somewhat (support FlintStones) - Mapper #43 (1xx-in-1) changed to number #235 - Mapper #48 (SMB2j (LF36)) changed to number #43 - Fixed mapper #4 IRQ timing - Fixed mapper #21 (Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2 has correct gfx) - Fixed mapper #68, more games are playable - Fixed mapper #160 (Aladdin -- preliminary IRQ timing control) - Fixed mapper #235, thanks to Takeda/nester - Fixed VS Atari RBI Baseball patch on reads - Fixed pAPU timing (was completly wrong, damn it!), output is better - Fixed a PCM decoding bug, plus removed IRQ and cycle eating on queue - Fixed sprite DMA transfer - Fixed state loading (of RSx files) - Fixed PPU state at 'power on' (starts at scanline zero), thanks to Ki - Fixed pattern table dumping, thanks snowbro for the bug report! - Small PPU optimizations/tweaks - ROM images larger than the header spec may be loaded again - Game screen is no more cleared when video resolution dialog is closed - Added horizontal screen centering using LFB blitter - Added directories setup for everything - Added FPS (frames-per-second) display. Just press F1 to display/hide - Added current video resolution display in the Help->System specs dialog - Mapped F11 key to 'quit to OS' directly - A couple of non-emulation related problems were squashed, plus cleanups - Documentation updated, plus big english errors fixed One of the oldest emulators on my page, this emulator is still tiny in filesize (60k), but has great compatability and frequent updated. Superb. - A slightly modified version of the Mindlink code. - Fixed problem with playing Telepathy with a joystick. - Fixed a problem with Pigs in Space which was introduced in version 1.36. - Some minor adjustments to vertical positioning of some games. My Gameboy emulator for Choice at the moment, its Windows based and has good compatability, rather nice indeed. - some more fixes for SGB games (default color to avoid blank screen) - MBC3 clock reworked and now updates correctly even after not playing - Pokemon Crystal support - Road Rash fixed - accelerator support (see readme for keys - same for all languages) - check for the availble fullscreen modes - new icon selected (thanks Valien) - Koren translation - Swedish Translation Keith Wilkinson's superb Lynx emulator for Windows continued to be worked on, there has been two releases since I last update that page, so here is the lowdown: v0.82 - Fixed Scrapyard dog can throwing bug. - Awsome gold buttons now working again. - Added new screen backgrounds from Gareth Stewart v0.81 - Fixed bug where activation of eagle mode would cause crash. - Fixed typo in the file open dialog (Finally eh Harry) - Implemented 24BPP/32BPP modes for Eagle (Whoops) - Fixed problem with passed in file names being surrounded by quotes - Drag and drop file support added - Implemented some changes to networking code - Implemented priority for loopback characters - Luciens Championship Rally now works in multiplayer, wow!!! This is just a newer beta of the Impact before it was discontinued. There are no new supported games, just a few bug fixes. The Renderers were all updated and are online. Daves wonderful Arcade / CPS2 emulator gets yet another update, I'm sure there will be another update before I get this online, but I can only try and keep upto date. - Added support for Street Fighter Alpha - Added support for HotRod joysticks in the Input dialog. A big new MAME release, lots of Raine and Nintendo Arcade VS games in this release. Also the new NeoGeo games have been enabled (Metal Slug X, Kof 99)... great stuff. - Space Gun - Operation Wolf - Operation Thunderbolt - Darius - Slap Shot - Butasan - Jump Shot - Strata Bowling - Arlington Horse Racing - Time Killers - Hard Yardage - Blood Storm - Last Fortress - Toride - Pang Poms - Sky Alert - Dharma - Daitoride - Bal Cube - Block Carnival - Ninja Kid - Black Panther - Nyan Nyan Panic - City Bomber - Shanghai II - Battle City - Vs Castlevania - Clu Clu Land - Dr Mario - Duck Hunt - Excitebike - VS The Goonies - Hogan's Alley - Ice Climber - Lady Golf - Mach Rider - Atari RBI Baseball - VS Super Mario Bros - Super SkyKid - VS TKO Boxing - VS Golf - Pinball - VS Slalom - Unisystem Soccer - VS Gradius - VS Tetris - Platoon - VS Tennis - VS Wrecking Crew - VS Balloon Fight - VS Mahjong - VS Baseball - Ring Rage - Arabian Magic - Riding Fight - Grid Seeker: Project Stormhammer - Gunlock - Super Cup Finals - Top Ranking Stars - Lightbringer - Kaiser Knuckle - Bubble Bobble 2 - Space Invaders DX - Power Goal - Quiz Theater - 3tsu no Monogatari - Akkanvader - Moriguchi Hiroko no Quiz de Hyuuhyuu - Puzzle Bobble 2 - Kyukyoku Tiger 2 - Bubble Memories - The Story Of Bubble Bobble 3 - Cleopatra Fortune - Puzzle Bobble 3 - Arkanoid Returns - Kirameki Star Road - Puchi Carat - Pop 'N Pop
This amazing Arcade emulator from Dave now have Capcom System 2 support (Street Fighter Zero). A stunning feat and well worth the download. - Added screen fade. - Fixed the problem with the sprites not being in line with the background. - Fixed a crash if sound is disabled in SFZ. - Three bug fixes to Street Fighter Zero: - Fixed those strange QSound bugs. - Fixed the problem with sprites disappearing/flickering near the top and left of the screen. - Fixed the pitch of the QSound. This great Atari 2600 emulator - its been around for years and grows from strength to strength. - We now support the Compumate ROM. - Video Pinball now plays properly!!!! - The mindlink controller is now supported so the new Telepathy ROM - Removed the automatic positioning code. |
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