New PSEmu Pro Now Out! Duddie, Tratax and Davide "Kazzuya" Pasca have just released PSEmu Pro 1.0 Build 20! Thanks to the The Clueless Gamer for the e-mail.

http://www.psemu.com/index.html

You can also download a copy from EMU News Service:

PSEmu 1.0.20 Full Version (1.0 Megabytes)

PSEmu 1.0.20 Without MFC DLLs (503 Kilobytes)

PSEmu Pro is a PlayStation emulator for Windows.

MAME 0.34 Released! The MAME Development Team has released the official MAME 0.34. All the previous 0.34 releases were beta's (or release candidates). Download it now! Thanks to JPMorgan for the e-mail.

http://mame.retrogames.com/

You can also download a copy directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.

Jamanoid 0.62 Beta Released! Jamsponge has released Jamanoid version 0.62 Beta. Here's what's new:

• Now compiling with magickit2
• Added shadow routine, check it out, it rocks.
• Added 4 different level backdrops + palettes etc.
• Added multiball on the other button ;)
• Added automatic ball speedup if player hasn't hit it for a while... :)
• Added 12 levels for you to enjoy
• Added 'Golden' indestructible bricks
• Added start of level message
• Sorted out banking in internal code
• Optimized ball routines
• Re-arranged videoram to fit in new gfx
• Found some bugs in magickit2 :)
• Added a bunch more levels (17 to be exact)
• Cranked the code some more
• Added levelskip on button II

http://www.hu6280.com/

New A/NES Released! Morgan Johansson and Fredrik Schultz have just released a new version of A/NES. Here's what's new:

• Optimized CPU-emulation
• Sound is somewhat improved
• Primitive frequency-sweep support
• Timings can now be altered by the user (Lines,VBL-time,hblank etc.)
• Improved VS.Unisystem support
• Tons of small fixes/changes

http://www.funpoint.com/ANES/
 

RockNES 0.60b Released! Fabiano Lopes (Fx3), Nyef and Kritz have released RockNES version 0.60b! Here's what's new:

• Added option "-revmirr" for a reverse mirroring (Mapper 4 only). This will fix some games (like TopGun2), but too bad with others
• Fixed a bug in the IRQ code. Now, SMB3 works :)
• Partial NES sound emulation output (4 channels)
• Better memory mapping system
• Better mapper support
• Better graphics engine, many bugs out (sprite/background)
• All scanlines are rendered to prevent errors (displaying 8-231)
• New latch control system (for some mappers)
• Full support for Mappers #9 and #10 (working perfectly)
• Added partial Mapper #64 support (Tengen - Shinobi and others)
• Added Mappers #65 (untested) and #66 (not working)
• Mapper #4 fix (you can see the SMB3 intro)
• Fixed some bugs in the Mapper #18 (not good however)
• Some Mapper #68 fix, but very buggy
• Very preliminary Mapper #25 support (Gradius 2)
• New frame rate control
• Fixed problems with NES VBlank
• Some bugs fixed across 6502 functions (Read/Write/Loop)
• Fixed problems parsing command line arguments
• Added a nice font

http://www.emucamp.com/rocknes/

You can also download a copy directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.
 

A/PMAME RC2 Released Rodimus Prime has just released AMAME/PMAME Release Candidate 2. This bring them in sync with the DOS original and also fixes the KOF97 checksums.

http://www.sound.net/~rodimus/
 
DBOY English Translation yencu has translated the DBOY version 0.36 documentation to English translation. Click here to read it.

Raine Progress Report Here's the latest from the Raine webpage: two new games (screenshots available) have been added to Raine, Astyanax and Puzzle Bobble 2X. Astyanax already has sound support. No release date is known as of yet.

http://www.rainemu.com/

WinTRS-80 1.52 Released Wade Fincher has released another new version of WinTRS-80. This is fairly minor update; it fixes a bug in the SLA instruction. Thanks to Cloy for the e-mail.

http://www.asub.arknet.edu/wade/wintrs80.htm
 

New z26 Released! John Saeger has released z26 version 1.23. This adds a new frame synchronizer that should work better with Windows 98. z26 is an Atari 2600 emulator for DOS.

http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html

BrSMS 1.13 Released! Ricardo Bittencourt has released a new version of his Sega Master System emulator to registered users. Here's what's new in version 1.13:

• Improved video cache for Master System games running in "-res 0". The speed gain can be over 200%.
• Support to mirror port 0BDh. This fixes GG "Sailor Moon S".
• Support to bit 3 of VDP[0]. This fixes the graphics of SMS "Ghouls'n'Ghosts".
• Improved speech support (GG "Sonic and Tails 2", GG "Sailor Moon S").
• Rewrote IRQ engine from scratch. MANY new games are now working, including SMS "California Games", SMS "Choplifter", SMS "Castle of Illusion", SMS "Golden Axe Warrior", SMS "Sagaia", SMS "The Terminator", SMS "The New Zealand Story", SMS "Spiderman vs. Kingpin", SMS "Vigilante", GG "Power Rangers, the Movie" and more !!!
• As a side effect of the above, the PAUSE button is now working in all games, including SMS "Alex Kidd in Miracle World".
• SRAM emulation, now you can save through the menus in SMS "Golden Axe Warrior" and SMS "Miracle Warriors".
• More games have custom optimizations. You can get a list of optimized games by typing brsms -listrom.
• Added an option "-snespad" to enable one SNES joypad connected to LPT1.
• Added an option "-truevsync" to enable the smoothest scrolling you ever saw on a SMS emulator!! This option requires a monitor with 60Hz vertical refresh.
• Added an option "-speaker" to enable sound through the PC Speaker.
• Added a Fast Forward key on the NumLock. The options "-normal", "-fast" and "-turbo" were removed.

http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brsms.htm

Atari800 Source Updated Petr Stehlik has released version 0.9.8g of his development source code to the Atari800 emulator, written in C.

http://cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz/~stehlik/a800.htm
 

uNESsential 0.15 Now Out Johannes Holmberg has just released uNESsential version 0.15. Direct from the official homepage, here's what's new:

• File requester implemented
• GUI is more informative
• Debugger somewhat wrecked. (No opcode displaying)
• Amount of stupidity in CPU core reduced. Faster and smaller.
• Opcodes LSR and STA(?) fixed unintentionally.
• Opcodes ROL and ROR fixed. Stupid error.
• Opcodes ADC and SBC fixed.
• Better timing.
• Something wrecked in the process of reducing stupidity. (Dunno what)

http://www.emucamp.com/unessential/

Warajevo 2.51 Released Zeljko Juric and Samir Ribic have released version 2.51 of Warajevo, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for DOS. This release has twenty different bugfixes. Thanks to Jesús of Camelot Web for the e-mail.

http://www.void.demon.nl/warajevo/index.html

X-Mame 0.34rc2.1Released Hans De Goede has updated his Unix port of MAME. Here's what's new:

• Everything from DOS Release Candiate 2
• Added mouse grabbing, press left-alt + page-down to grab the mouse under X, press it again to release it. Use -grabmouse to start with the mouse grabbed.
• Added invisible mousecursor for people using focus follows mouse, use -nocursor to make the cursor invisible, grabbing the mouse as  above also makes it invisible.
• Removed ROMPATH, SPOOLDIR etc defines from makefile.unix and replaced them with XMAMEROOT
• Fully intergrated openstep support, it now no longer needs the files in contrib, see README.unix
• Added sound synchronisation for streamed sound, this should  fix the lag in pacman. This only works when throttle is enabled.
• Netbsd-i386 audiobuffer querying support

DBOY 0.36 Released Yep, BouKiChi has released yet another version of DBOY. 

http://members.xoom.com/foo01/

WinTRS-80 1.51 Released Wade Fincher has released WinTRS-80 version 1.51. Here's what's new:

• Fixed bug in inverted characters in Model 4 mode
• Elimination of .INI files - all data is now retained in the System registry
• Tried to make sound work a little better - Still flaky
• COLOR!! - Allow setting of foreground and background colors
• Save screen position/size for each model

http://www.asub.arknet.edu/wade/wintrs80.htm

New Calculator Emulator Released Rene Doss and Joerg Sander have released TI-85 Graph, a brand new TI-85 calculator emulator for Windows 9x.

http://www.et.htwk-leipzig.de/student/rene/homepage.html

New VBEmu98 Coming Soon? According to the VBEmu98 webpage, author David Tucker is hoping to release a new version of VBEmu98 by the end of the year:

"I have updated the 3D page a bit more, coding time is scarce this week, so I have not had any chance to fix up the graphics engine's, I should have more free time after the holidays, hopefully by the new year I'll release the 3D enabled version.  Also work has begun on the assembler CPU core, so soon we will have a faster build (I'll be supporting both cores, for the sake of portability, unless the assembler core is worlds ahead of my C core)."

VBEmu98 is a Virtual Boy emulator for DOS and Linux.

http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~dbt/VBMain.html

RockNES 0.60 Coming Soon! Direct from the RockNES webpage, the next version of RockNES will be released with the next few days - before the new year. Stay tuned...

PSEmu Direct3D Driver Updated A couple news items from the PSEmu Pro camp: First, Nik has released version 1.25 of his Direct3D driver for PSEmu Pro. Second, here's a little progress report on the new release of PSEmu Pro:

"Tratax is working on a new CPU core which will need a lot of time to be useable, Kazzuya is doing GTE, MDEC and GPU improvements and Duddie, Moonshadow and Rasky are far too busy with other things."

There is no release date as of yet, and most likely it will be sometime before the next official version is released so please be patient.

http://www.psemu.com/index.html

DBOY 0.35a Released BouKiChi has released version 0.35a of DBOY. DBOY is a Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for DOS.

http://members.xoom.com/foo01/

ZSNES 0.800a Released! Even though the ZSNES team just released a new version of ZSNES a day or two ago, they are back with an all assembler version! According to the authors, this version should fix some problems people have been having with version 0.800c and also has lower memory requirements. BUT - there is no DSP1 or IPX support. 

http://www.csoft.net/~zsnes/

New Windows Snes9X Released! Though it's been 3 months since the last time the Windows port of Snes9X was last updated, Jerremy Koot has now released version Snes9x 1.16a for Windows:

"Merry Christmas everybody. I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas this year. If not, just hope that you'll get it next year. If the Windows port of Snes9X was on your wish list then at least one of your wishes has come true. Finally after 3 months, a new Windows port has arrived. I'm sorry that it took so long, but I just didn't have the time to maintain it. Currently it doesn't have so many new features. But that will change in the coming weeks."

- Jerremy Koot

http://www.snes9x.com/
 

TrueReality Updated Gil Pedersen has released a new version of his TrueReality port for Macintosh. This release has "speed and compatibility improvements". TrueReality is a Nintendo 64 emulator for MacOS.

http://indigo.ie/~titan/tr/
 

ZSNES 0.800 Released! _Demo_, zsKnight and Pharos have given us all a great Christmas present: a brand new version of ZSNES! Here's what's new in 0.800c:

• Fixed up sound speeds.  Timers were computed incorrectly.
• Fixed a sprite priority bug
• Fixed up a bug that prevented the gui to be disabled
• Fixed up SPC capture
• Fixed a bug when VIRQ is set on the same scanline as NMI
• Implemented an automatic .IPS patcher.  Just rename your .IPS file to the rom filename with the .IPS extension and ZSNES will patch the ROM realtime without modifying the rom file's contents.
• Snapshot capture/skip 2 frames option now returns back to the proper menu item
• Fixed a calibration bug with 6/8button joysticks
• Fixed up display in 640x480x8 new gfx engine
• Fixed up hi resolution displays in all 640x480x8b modes
• Fixed up a bug where Mode 7 becomes corrupt after selecting Save CFG from the GUI
• Fixed a memory map bug in lorom DSP1 games
• Fixed a potential DSP1 crashing bug where a negative value is being square rooted
• Hopefully fixed the modem bug when using an IRQ that is bigger than 7
• Fixed up an ADSR bug for games that changes ADSR mid-sample
• Fixed up echo emulation (possibly slowed down emulation)
• Fixed up a sprite caching bug
• Fixed up a DSP1 byte check stall bug
• Implemented a commandline to disable spc700 speed hacks (-7) Might help with some compatibility
• Implemented SA-1 support (most functions emulated)!  Unfortunately, it's still buggy.
• Fixed a bug when selecting drive A/B while a disk is not in the drive caused a long check sequence
• Implemented Keyboard support to most of Option, Sound, and GUI Option configurations in the GUI
• Changed sound init code a bit.  Hopefully improves sound card compatibility, but might also ruin it.
• Implemented off by 1 line fix (-9).  This may help compatibility and fix some minor graphic glitches, but may also ruin some too.

http://www.csoft.net/~zsnes/

You can also download a copy directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.

DBOY 0.35 Released Yes, another new version of DBOY has just been released.

Megasis 0.02 Released! J.T./BORI has just released a new version of his Sega Genesis emulator! Here's what's new:

• Fixed a 68000 CPU bug
• Implemented Raster Scroll effects
• Implemented H-interrupt process
• Added load/save SRAM data
• Implemented Z80 CPU
• Implemented PCM
• Implemented FM timer

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Spade/3163/

New CCS64 Beta Released Hakan Sundell has released a new beta of CCS64. Here's what's new:

• Monitor breakpoints now works better (removed BRK bug...)
• New default color scheme, digitized from my old C64 from  1983.
• Menu now has separate memory of last selected files and  indexes

http://www.computerbrains.com/index.html

New NeoDANJI Released! R. Compig has just released a new version of NeoDANJI, his  Neo Geo emulator for DOS. Note: the webpage is not in Engish so I'm not sure what exactly is new as of yet.

http://www3.shinbiro.com/~compig_r/index.htm
 

NLKE 0.03b Released! Lord Esnes and Nerlaska have released a new version of their Super Nintendo emulator for DOS. There's a lot that's new so please be sure to read the readme.txt (NLKE.ENG/NLKE.SPA) file for a complete list of what's new.

http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~calb/nlke/index.html

New TG16 Game Released Jamsponge has unveiled a brand new (AKA homegrown) game for TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine.  This is a public beta. Called Jamanoid, this new game is available as a ROM image so you call download it and play it on your favorite TurboGrafx-16 emulator. The source code will also be released once the game has been finished.

http://www.hu6280.com/

Magic Kit Updated Magic Kit, the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine development kit has been updated to version 2.01. Magic Kit comes with an assembler, technical documents, programming tutorials and example source code. If you ever wanted to write your own TurboGrafx-16 game, this download is a must.

http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/turbo/emu/

Horizon 1.1 Now Out Chris Lam has just released an update to the Windows version of Horizon. Here's what's new in version 1.1:

• Speed capping (runs at real BBC speed)
• Improved sound emulation
• 8% speed improvement
• Misc. bug fixes

http://www.shenleyfields.demon.co.uk/horizon.html
 

NoSTalgia 0.6 Released! Gérin Philippe has released a new version of NoSTalgia. Here's what's new in version 0.6:

• Mode VDI 640*400*16 colors
• Added CPU cycles counting
• Correction bug TimerD
• Navigation Service Support (Système 8.5)
• Appearance Manager Support (Système 8.0)
• More precise mouse
• New Hard disk driver
• Configurable Joystick
• Bugs corrections

http://users.skynet.be/sky39147/

DOS Snes9X 1.16a Released! Cyber Warrior X and TeleKawaru have released the DOS version of Snes9x 1.16a! Here's what's new:

• Fixed a case where the -forcelorom option didn't work - the case was required for Formation Soccer which claims in its ROM header to use the same memory map as Super FX ROM, it doesn't.
• Pulled apart a real SNES using a crowbar (great fun), just to look at what speed the SPC700 is actually clocked at for more acturate relative emulation speed.
• Implemented SPC700 cycle counting in the hope the improved timing would fix Tales'; no such luck but at least the -ratio option is obsolete now.
• Implemented executing SPC700 instructions during DMA, fixes BS Zelda,  Goal and Smurfs 2 lock up at start and music pausing briefly when ROMs do  lots of DMA, usually between game screens.
• Scrapped the i386 asm SPC700 code - it was the cause of the music not restarting after a battle in Chrono Trigger and FF3
• Fixed RGB subtraction bug on displays with only 5 bits for green, e.g. RGB555 displays. The GREEN_HI_BIT variable was always set to a value for 6 bit green displays.
• Added the SA-1 memory map, still a long way to go before any SA-1 game will run.

Minor optimization to sound code

http://www.snes9x.com/

Snes9X 1.16 for Mac Now Out John Stiles has just released the Macintosh port of Snes9x for Macintosh. Like the Linux port released yesterday, this version improves the SPC700 cycle counting (SPC700 Timing option has been removed) and several ROMs that didn't work before now run fine.

http://www.emulation.net/snes/index.html

Mac MAME RC2 Released Brad Oliver has just released MAME 0.34 Release Candidate 2 for MacOS. Here's what's new:

• In sync with the DOS version, which is mostly minor bug fixes to the core. This could be the last release before the final  so get your bug reports in now -- after consulting the documentation to see if they are already known :)
• The mouse button can again be used as a fire button.
• The InputSprocket code is pretty complete now - joysticks coexist much better with the mouse. See the "Joysticks and MacMAME" document for more information.
• The front-end will now tell you if a given game has analog controls,
• and if so, what type.
• InputSprocket is no longer required, but it is recommended.
• Some sound oddities have been fixed.
• The average frame-per-second display works again.

IDSA Closes Down Lazarus The IDSA's Anti-Piracy Department has forced the closure of Lazarus, one of the most popular Amiga emulation sites in the world. The IDSA has alleged that Lazarus is in violation of international copyright law. The IDSA is quoted as saying, "...We request the removal of these pages as quickly as possible since they are infringing upon the rights held by our member companies."  This is the latest move in a series of actions of what the IDSA views as a campaign against software piracy. How long Lazarus will be down or in what form it will return if it does remains to be seen. Thanks to Rich Lawrence for the e-mail.

http://www.aqcom.com/lazarus/

New CAGE Coming Soon Even though it's been a while since the last release of C.A.G.E., author Larry Banks is hard at work on the next release, which should be released sometime soon. It will have many more games supported, sample sound support in several games and some fixes. In the meantime, Larry has released a mini-techical paper entitled "Port mapped vs. memory mapped I/O". C.A.G.E. is a multi-arcade game emulator for Windows.

R80 0.06 Released Raul Gomez Sanchez has updated R80 to version 0.06. Here's what's new:

• Spectrum +2A emulation
• Screen routine optimization (1% faster?)
• Betadisk available for Spectrum 48k, 128k, +2 and +2A. Added 'enabled'  to r80.ini. If it is set to on, betadisk is available when in Spectrum 48k, 128k, +2 or +2A mode. If it is set to off, betadisk is not available. For Pentagon, betadisk is always available.
• Fixed Multiface 128 for Spectrum +2.
• Fixed save TAP for Pentagon 128.

http://personal.redestb.es/raulgomez/r80.htm

RuMSX Has Moved The webpage for Rudolf Lechleitner's MSX emulator has moved. The new URL is:

http://members.EUnet.at/lexlechz/RuMSX.html

DBOY 0.34 Released BouKiChi has released DBOY version 0.34. Since the webpage is in Japanese, I'm not sure what's new...

http://members.xoom.com/foo01/

Snes9X 1.16 for Linux Released Gary Henderson has updated his Linux port of Snes9x just in time for Christmas. Here's what's new in version 1.16:

• Pulled apart a real SNES using a crowbar (great fun), just to look at what speed the SPC700 is actually clocked at for more actuate relative emulation speed.
• Implemented SPC700 cycle counting in the hope the improved timing would fix Tales'; no such luck but at least the -ratio option is obsolete now.
• Implemented executing SPC700 instructions during DMA, fixes BSZelda and Goal lock up at start and music pausing briefly when ROMs do lots of DMA, usually between game screens.
• Scrapped the i386 asm SPC700 code - it was the cause of the music not restarting after a battle in Chrono Trigger and FF3 and I didn't realize because the bug had already occurred in the test freeze-file I had.
• Fixed RGB subtraction bug on displays with only 5 bits for green, e.g. RGB555 displays. The GREEN_HI_BIT variable was always set to a value for 6 bit green displays.

http://www.snes9x.com/

New MAME Now Out The MAME development team has just released 0.34 Release Candidate 2 for DOS. This will probably be the last release candidate before the official 0.34 version is made available.

http://mame.retrogames.com/

GameBoy 98 0.05a Released Adam Polanski has just released version 0.05a of his Gameboy emulator for Windows:

"Lots has changed and I added, rewrote loads of things since the last update. I did say my next set of fixes may take a while, well I didn't lie. Saving screenshots is in, so is a much improved cpu engine (my last one), funkier MBC emulation (but still not perfect), and I've started adding a debugger which doesn't do anything yet!! Fixed several instructions, push, pop, call, ret were actually broken. Also fixed (E8) ADD SP,*. That gets some gbdk examples to nearly work correctly."
 

Thanks to KEL for the e-mail.

http://www.emulnews.com/gbemuheaven/gb98/
 

http://www.codepoet.com/UAE/

New PCSloMo Beta Released Don Jarrett has unveiled a new beta of his multi-arcade game emulator. Here's what's new in 0.24 Beta Release 5:

• Perfect Eyes decoding! Now works good
• Mr. TNT support. Uses Eyes decoding and works well
• Improved Centipede(Revision 1) support. Playable now.
• Improved Ponpoko decoding but made the game worse
• Removed all unused drivers

http://members.tripod.com/~Frodo4/slomo.html
 

• Package art, credits, development history, hidden features and trivia
• Biographies of the original programmers
• Dozens of video clips, including programmer interviews, original TV commercials and never-before-seen footage shot at Intellivision in the early 1980s

http://www.makingit.com/intellivision/cd.shtml

Nemu64 0.006 Now Out Lemmy has just released version 0.006 (Fifth Release) of Nemu64. Here's what's new:

• You don't have to restart Nemu64 in order to load another ROM
• You can close a ROM now
• Minor speed increase
• Editor for ROM headers - check it out
• Added a few opcodes of the FPU (now about 42% complete)
• Fixed a major bug in the SI Interrupt. Now SP_CRAP runs partially

http://www.emuunlim.com/nemu64/

DBOY 0.33j Released BouKiChi has released DBOY version 0.33j. Thanks to Ulthwe for the e-mail.

http://members.xoom.com/foo01/

Atari800Win 2.5c Released Richard Lawrence has released another new version of Atari800Win to fix a few bugs found in the version released yesterday:

• Corrected small but very hard to find bug with some saved registry values blowing keyboard joysticks (again)
• Small bug fix to prevent garbled screens when changing hardware mode in a stretched windowed mode with scanlines
• Fixed a potentially confusing drive-path remember problem when a temporary disk was mounted (ie a loaded executable disk)
• Fixed a small problem in saving/restoring the load exe path
• DDraw windowed scanline mode was darker than GDI, fixed

http://www.concentric.net/~Twist/atari800win/
  

• Note: Older saved states will need to be re-saved for this version
• Re-synced with the general Atari800 code base. Fixed a couple of Antic problems
• Fixed screen getting offset when switching hardware types
• Fixed the damn keyboard joystick not being detected
• Joystick selections are saved permanently
• The scanline modes are now driven by highly tweaked assembly, mostly because I changed the way they worked: they now show half-lumen lines interleaved instead of black ones. In a couple of the available graphics modes (GDI) even though a lot more work is being done it's slightly faster than the older scanline mode.
• Last path used to load Atari executables is remembered
• Some small code re-orgs (same functionality, but less code)
• Fixed screen corruption in stretched-window modes when paused
• Smarter about registry updates - doesn't have to reset ROM paths when these occur now. Also, for first time users tries to find the ROMS in either the working directory or "ROMS" subdirectory
• Added different machine types in hardware selector for 320XE Compy and 320XE Rambo

R80 Spectrum Emulator Updated Raul Gomez Sanchez has just released R80 Spectrum Emulator version 0.05. There are many improvements in this release. The user interface has been completely revamped. Two new video modes have been added (VESA 2.0). R80 is also about 10% faster than previous incarnations thanks to some code optimizations. R80 Spectrum Emulator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for DOS. Thanks to Hendrik B. for the e-mail.

http://personal.redestb.es/raulgomez/r80.htm

NeoMAME RC1a Released Apollo69 has just released a new version of NeoMAME. This brings NeoMAME in sync with the official MAME releases.

http://home.columbus.rr.com/apollo69/
 

Power64 2.2.1 Released Roland Lieger has just released a new version of Power64, his second release of the day. Power64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Macintosh computers.

http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~rlieger/Power64/Power64.html

WinNES Tech Request Cosimo De Michele, author of WinNES, one of the newer NES emulators is looking for 6502 CPU emulator written in assembler:

"I'm rewriting my emulator using an object oriented architecture which explains best how to emulate the NES. Now I'm using Marat [Fayzullin]'s m6502 emulator written in C that I have compiled with Borland C++ and linked in my project written in Delphi. I need a new 6502 emulator written in assembly that I can link in Delphi, I ask someone to help me to resolve this problem!"

If you can help, please e-mail Cosimo at [email protected]. Thanks.

Power20 1.1.1 Released Roland Lieger has just released a minor update to his Commodore VIC 20 emulator for MacOS, Power20.

http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~rlieger/Power20/Power20.html

Xformer 3.8 Released Emulators Inc. has updated their long-standing Atari 400/800 computer emulator to version 3.8:

"The long awaited upgrade of Xformer Classic for MS-DOS has now been released. If you use PC Xformer 3.0 or higher, you will want to download this latest release to get bug fixes for Centipede, M.U.L.E., River Raid, Boulderdash, and other programs. Go to our Download page. Note: these bug fixes were ported over from the latest Xformer 98, so Xformer 98 users need not download a new version of Xformer 98."

Thanks to Jim G. for the e-mail.

http://www.emulators.com/download.htm

EmuXL 0.34 Released Version 0.34 of EmuXL has been released. EmuXL is an Atari 400/800 Series emulator for the Atari Falcon.

http://capybara.sk-pttsc.lj.edus.si/yescrew/eng/products.htm

DBOY 0.33 Released BouKiChi has just released another update of his new Gameboy / Gameboy Color emulator for DOS. Again, the webpage is in Japanese. Thanks to Ulthwe for the e-mail.

http://members.xoom.com/foo01/

DBOY 0.32 Docs Translated Lemon has supplied us with an English translation of the DBOY 0.32 documentation. Click here to read it.

X-MAME Updated Hans De Goede has updated his Unix port of MAME to be in sync with the DOS and Mac versions:

• Everything from DOS RC 1
• Merged in glmame-0.6 and fxmame-0.5
• Fixes for ggi to compile with the latest ggi-snapshot
• Some fixes to -verifyroms to now use -stdout-file
• Added preliminary openstep support

Nestra 0.51 Released Quor has released version 0.51 of Nestra. Here's what's new:

• Corrected one-screen VRAM mirroring
• VRAM mirroring can now be set via command line options

http://nestra.linuxgames.com/

Raine Adding Even More Games It seems almost every week a new game or two is being added to Raine. Just a few days ago, support for P-47 and Avenging Spirit/Phantasm was announced. Today, support for two more new games have been announced: Bubble Symphony and Plotting. Again, no release data has been announced so please don't bug the author about it. Thanks.

http://www.rainemu.com/

MacMAME 0.34rc1 Is Out! Brad Oliver has updated his Macintosh port of MAME to version 0.34 Release Candidate 1. Here's what's new:
 

• In sync with the DOS version, mainly bug fixes
• The sound code has been tidied up a bit. You shouldn't hear any clipping and the volume levels should be sensible.
• John Butler has added a feature to the front-end - "Analyze Romsets"
• InputSprocket support has been enabled. I've tested it successfully with a Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick hooked up to a USB card in my PowerBase 200.

or

ftp://ftp.boffomac.com/Emulation/MacMAME/MacMAME_PPC-0.34rc1.sit

NES4PC 0.251 Released A major 8x16 sprite bug was discovered in the new NES4PC that was released yesterday. David de Regt has released a new version of NES4PC that fixes this bug. This is the only change in the new version.

http://www.emuclassics.com/nes4pc/indexns.html
 

Amiga Forever Online Edition Cloanto has announced the Amiga Forever Online Edition. The Online Edition of Amiga Forever contains the WinUAE emulator plus the Amiga 1.3 and 3.0 ROM images and operating system. Cloanto is selling this package for $19.99 which isn't bad considering this is one of the few legal ways to actually obtain the Amiga ROMs and software. The latest version of Amiga Explorer (networking program) is also included as part of the deal. For more information, just follow the link:

http://www.cloanto.com/amiga/forever/online.html

NES4PC 0.25 Released David de Regt has just released a new version of NES4PC. Here's what's new:

• New Scanline-based rendering engine (faster and more accurate graphics)
• Interrupts are fixed
• Various 6502 bugs fixed
• More mappers implemented
• DirectSound support
• SRAM is working and fully compatible with Nesticle SRAMs
• Optimizations so it should run faster than last version

http://www.emuclassics.com/nes4pc/indexns.html

KGB Moves The website for Matt Currie's Gameboy emulator has moved. The new URL is:

http://kgb.emulationworld.com/

fMSX 2.0 Beta Released! Marat Fayzullin has just released fMSX 2.0 Beta:

"After long delay, I have finally released a beta of the new version of fMSX, the ubiquitous MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ emulator! ... This is a quite raw beta version which means many things may have gone broken since the old version. I expect those among you who are proficient MSX hackers to look for bugs and submit bug reports and bug fixes to me, as I simply have no time to do thorough bug hunting myself."

Here's what's new:

• Major code rewrite!
• Line-by-line screen updates implemented
• Standard modular Z80 emulation
• Support for 16bit and 32bit X11 screens (possibly 24bit)
• Support for KANJI.ROM
• Mouse support
• Joystick support
• Multiple bug fixes
• Multiple new bugs (look for them!)

http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX/
 

Nemu64 0.005 Released Lemmy has just released another new version of Nemu64. This release plays a bunch more demos. Nemu64 is for Windows 9x/NT.

http://www.emuunlim.com/nemu64/
 
DBOY 0.32 Released A new version of DBOY, the new Gameboy emulator was just released. Since the page is in Japanese, I have no idea what's new :( 

http://members.xoom.com/foo01/

Stylophone Emulator Mark Campbell has been writing a Stylophone emulator for the past year or so and is looking to hand the project off to someone else in order to finish it. The Stylophone for those who don't know is an electronic organ which has achieved cult status since it's release in Britain in the 1970's:

"I've been writing a Stylophone emulator for Windows for about a year or so and have finally reached the stage where my plans for the program have been restricted by my lack of programming skills. Therefore I am officially offering up the source for my program so that someone else can finish it off if they wish.

Full technical details of the entirely analogue circuitry is available to any mad person who wishes to take over the project. I'd like to see the project be given the DirectX treatment, as I've used very (VERY) simple code to play the sounds (after all this is my first windows program)."

The Stylophone Emulator is written in C and compiled on Visual C 5.0. If you wish to help Mark, he can be contacted at [email protected].

XZX 2.7.0 Released Erik Kunze has released version 2.7.0 of XZX. There are lots of new features and bugfixes in this release. Click here to read the Change Log. XZX is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for Unix.

http://www.philosys.de/~kunze/xzx/

CYMPLAY 0.1 Released NEON has released CYMPLAY version 0.1. This utility lets you play CALLUS .CYM files, but you need at least a Pentium 233 MMX to play the sound smoothly. Written in C, source code is also available. CYMPLAY is for DOS. 

http://members.tripod.com/~t_maniak/

Echo 0.3beta Released Nick Madsen has released Echo version 0.3beta. Aside from some unnamed bugfixes, I'm not sure what's new. Echo is an Atari ST emulator for DOS.

http://www.narcissus.freeserve.co.uk/atari.html

Nemu64 0.004 Released Lemmy has released a new version of his new Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows 95/98/NT. Version 0.004 (Third Release) can play several demos including N64stars and Firedemo. Wave Race 64 partially loadins, but just the Nintendo logo - it's not playable.

http://www.emuunlim.com/nemu64/
 

New Gameboy Emulator Debuts A brand new Gameboy emulator is now out. Although the webpage is in Japanese, it features Gameboy Color support. Called DBOY, this emulator is for DOS. Thanks to Geoffrey T. for the e-mail.

http://members.xoom.com/foo01/

BoyCott Ports Updated The Linux and Unix ports of BoyCott have been updated. Here's what's new in version 0.43e:

• Support for 8bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp (untested...)
• Autodetection for video mode (8/16/24bpp)
• Great speed improve compared to 0.43d releases (I forgot -O6 to
• optimize)

http://www-eleves.iie.cnam.fr/themes/Emu5ever/index2.html

Tratax Interviewed An interview with Tratax can be found here:

http://www.thetechs.net/emu/view/itratax.shtml

New CCS64 Beta Released Hakan Sundell has released a new beta of his Commodore 64 emulator for both Windows 9x and DOS:

New Features:

• Monitor has ability to manipulate virtual breakpoints
• Monitor can save and load memory to files
• Monitor supports various commands for hunting sequences, manipulating memory and registers
• Monitor can evaluate expressions
• Status screens for 1541 and C2N
• Autofire support with adjustable speed for joysticks
• On-screen display for 1541 status
• GCR file-formats in .G41 or .G64 supported
• C2N can change the play button status, for pausing tape playback
• C2N can forward and reverse the tape file
• Added new cartridge type for Ocean games

• VIC-II now accesses the cartridge rom data better when in Ultimax mode
• C2N now accelerates and deaccelerates the virtaual tape motor

http://www.computerbrains.com/

iNES for Mac 0.7.2 Plus Released John Stiles has released iNES version 0.7.2 Plus (MacOS port). This new version now features NetPlay and better sound sound in some games. 

http://www.emulation.net/nintendo/index.html

Raine To Add New More Games Richard Bush is hard at work on the next release of Raine. Just today he has announced that the next version will have a major sound upgrade and two more games (in addition to all the previously announced games):

"We know everyone is waiting for a new release for a while now, but believe me when I say it will be worth the wait. There has been major sound code and core changes so we decided to wait until everything is more stable and tested before releasing a new version. We won't make any release dates public...it will be here when it's ready.

"Also all those Jaleco games are so nice that we decided to look for more, here are pictures of one of my favorites Jaleco shoot-em-ups called P-47.

"Since one isn't enough here are some more Jaleco games Avenging Spirit & Phantasm, same game, but different language versions.

All these games are playable in Raine with sound, keep an eye on this page because we have more news coming in the next days."

- Richard Bush
Author of Raine

http://www.rainemu.com/

Power64 2.2 Released In addition to Power20 (see previous news story), Roland Lieger has released Power64 version 2.2. Power64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for MacOS.

http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~rlieger/Power64/Power64.html

Commodore VIC 20 Updated Roland Lieger has released Power20 version 1.1, his Commodore VIC 20 emulator for Macintosh.

http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~rlieger/Power20/Power20.html

A/PMAME RC1 Now Out Rodimus Prime has updated MAME compiles to correspond with the new version of MAME that was released yesterday.

http://www.sound.net/~rodimus/
 

MAME 0.34 RC1 Released The MAME team has released Release Candidate 1 of MAME version 0.34. This means that the beta program for this version is nearly over and that the official 0.34 will be released shortly. One new ROM set has been added (Space Panic). Exidy has VERY preliminary sound support - but no music, at least not yet. Thanks to Till for the e-mail. The official MAME webpage hasn't been updated yet, but you can download a copy from here.

HU6280 1.84 Beta Released Jamsponge has released HU6280 version 1.84! Here's what's new:

• Investigated CDROM emulation further, now we have some games working (.ISO files only)
• Fixed a major bug in CPU emulation
• Tweaked GFX emulation (now faster and more accurate)
• Populous now works! (96% of all Hucards games work)
• Added 'L' key to skip hu6280 screen

http://www.hu6280.com/

MESS To Add PC Emulation Directly from the MESS webpage, the next release of MESS will include basic PC support. Although no release date has been announced, it should be released "hopefully ... in the not too distant future." Other new features will include Atari 7800 and Spectrum support.

http://indigo.ie/~titan/mess/

A/PMAME Fixes Neo Geo Checksums Rodimus Prime has released Beta 8a of his MAME compiles. Beta 8a fixes all known Neo Geo checksums.

http://www.sound.net/~rodimus/
 

http://ultra64.hypermart.net/

Thomas Djafari Interviewed Thomas Djafari has been interviewed by Cleric of news-u-lator. Thomas (aka Frogger) is the author of VCS2600 (Atari 2600) and Cult (ColecoVision) emulators.

http://www.thetechs.net/emu/view/itom.shtml

New PSEmu Utility Debuts Matthew Bushell has released an Action Replay to PSEmu cheats converter. This will let you convert Action Replay codes into a format that PSEmu understands.

http://www.psemu.com/index.html

XPCE 0.11a Released hmmx has released another new version of XPCE. Version 0.11a fixes a sprite bug. XPCE is a TurboGrafx-16 emulator for Windows.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/7052/
 

SMYGB To Add Gameboy Color Support! Ming-yu Shih is hard at work on the next version of SMYGB, his Gameboy emulator. The big news here is that Ming-yu will be adding Gameboy Color support! Just take a look at the screenshot:

Ming-yu Shih hasn't announced a release date as of yet, so please be patient. SMYGB is for Windows.

http://ip.csie.ncu.edu.tw/~smy/

New Arnold Released Kevin Thacker has released a new version of Arnold (Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows). Thanks to Cloy for the e-mail.

http://www2.krisalis.co.uk/wwwkthk/arnold/index.html

YAGE 0.91 Released Antoine Pitrou has released version 0.91 of YAGE, his Amstrad CPC emulator for DOS. Thanks to Cloy for the e-mail.

http://www.stud.enst.fr/~pitrou/

_DrMario_ Announces Jaguar Emulator A few weeks ago,  _DrMario_ (author of two arcade emulators) posted a tech request here on the Atari Jaguar. I'm pleased to announce that he received over 1,000 e-mails with lots of great information and that he has decided to go ahead with development of an Atari Jaguar emulator. He's been working on it for about a month and already has people testing a very early alpha. Currently there are no Atari Jaguar emulators in existence, so this could be the first. _DrMario_ is the author of Penix (Phoenix emulator) and Les (Pleiads emulator).

Generator Progress Report Work on the next version of Generator (Sega Genesis emulator for Unix) has begun. The author reports that Sonic the Hedgehog III now runs thanks to several bug fixes to the CPU emulation core.  No word on a release date.

http://www.squish.net/generator/

TG-16 Emulator Updated! hmmx has just released a new version of XPCE, his TurboGrafx-16 emulator for Windows. Here's what's new in version 0.11:

• Fixed a bug concerning raster scroll
• Speeded up CPU core emulation
• Made it possible to specify display resolution
• Made it possible to load a zipped image

JOYCE 1.30 Released John Elliott has released JOYCE version 1.30. Here's what's new:

• DOS directories can be used as extra drives under CP/M.
• Support for printing even if CP/M doesn't detect a "Centronics add-on".
• Timing problems with some CP/M and LocoScript 1 versions have been fixed.

http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/pcw.html

WinNES Author Interviewed cleric of news-u-lator has posted an interview with Cosimo De Michele, author of WinNES.

http://www.thetechs.net/emu/view/icosimo.shtml

PSEmu Message Board The official PSEmu Pro website has added a new message board

http://www.psemu.com/index.html
   

Two New Atari 2600 Games Discovered Even though it's been over twenty years since the grand old daddy of video gaming was first launched, new games/prototypes are still being discovered for the Atari 2600 to this very day. Atari Gaming Headquarters has just posted  reviews of two never released games: Combat II (yes, the sequel to the original pack-in) and RealSports Basketball. Both reviews include never-before-scene screenshots.

http://www.atarihq.com/2678/index.html

New z26 Now Out z26 version 1.22 has just been released:

"z26 now comes up with a list of ROMs to choose from if you type z26 with no parameters. In addition to being able to navigate the list in the usual way, with arrow keys and Home/End, you can type the first few characters of the ROM that you want to run and the cursor will  position itself on the first ROM that matches the characters that you've typed. The currently matched character is highlighted. To run a random ROM, hit the backslash key."

- John Saeger
z26 Author

http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html

Hob 0.7.1 Released Nigel Barford has updated his Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator. The biggest new feature is that there are now two screen sizes. Version 0.7.1 also features several bug fixes to the Z80 CPU core. Hob is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for Java.

http://www.engis.co.uk/stuff/hob/

Three Stella Ports Updated The Acorn, IRIX, and Solaris ports of Stella 1.0 are available now available for downloading. Stella is an Atari 2600 emulator.

http://www.classicgaming.com/stella/index.html

X-Mame 0.34b8.1 Released Hans De Goede has just released X-Mame version 0.34b8.1. Here's what's new:

• Everything from DOS beta 8
• DGA now is a compile option for x11
• Rearranged and rewrote most of the joysticks support, up to 4 joysticks are now supported. And you can compile in more then one joytype, and select which one will be used runtime with -joytype.
• Support for new Linux joystick driver interface, use I386JOYSTICK
• Removed -display commandline option as it intervened with DGA
• Added support for MAME's internal debugger (see makefile.unix)
• Which obj files are build in the unix dir is now display-method dependent
• Unixware7 support by: Richard Cohen

Snes9x 1.15 for Linux Released Gary Henderson has updated his Linux port of Snes9x version 1.15. You can snag a copy from:

http://www.snes9x.com/

NeoMAME 0.34b8b Released Apollo69 has released NeoMAME version 0.34b8b. This release adds support for King of Fighters 96 (including sound) and features corrected checksums for Over Top. NeoMAME is a Neo Geo emulator based on the MAME source. For DOS.

http://home.columbus.rr.com/apollo69/
 

GodleNES Has Moved The new URL is:

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/pinkpage/godlenes.htm

Apple PSX Movie Player A few days ago, the PSEmu team released a new Playstation movie player for the Macintosh. As it turns out, the file on that site was currupt and anyone who downloaded it couldn't get it to work. Today, a new version of the file was uploaded so everything should be okay now.

http://www.psemu.com/index.html

VBEmu98 News David Tucker has updated his webpage with some good news. Mario Clash is playable. Just take a look at the screen shot:

Here are the instructions:

"To get the game going right, wait till the game starts, then hit 'Start'(B) folowd by 'Select'(V) and tehn hit start twice to get back, thiss will refresh the screen so you can see the whole thing, I'm not flipping a bit properly and the screen never refreshes..."

http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~dbt/VBMain.html

Two New Jupiter ACE Emulators Edward Patel has released not one, but two new Jupiter ACE 32 emulators - one for Windows, the other for Unix. The Unix version has been tested on FreeBSD, Linux, SGI and SunOS. The Windows 95 version has joystick support. Neither have sound emulation (yet).

http://hem.passagen.se/tiletech/ace.htm

Unemulatable Systems? Dawli2010 is posting the following tech request:

"I am starting a new emulation page about the unemulatable systems to this date and I need some information on some systems, so maybe it would encourage new emulator authors to try and write one.  The systems that I am most interested in gaining information for are : Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Game.com, Virtual Boy, and if you can, Dreamcast."

You can contact Dawli2010 at [email protected].

AAGT Moves The ROM translation group called AAGT has changed their name and moved to a new website a few days ago. The new URL is:

http://www.emulationzone.org/ynt/
 

Atari800 Source Updated Petr Stehlik has updated his Atari800 development source code to version 0.9.8g. You can download a copy from:

http://cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz/~stehlik/a800.htm

New DTmnt Beta Released Dave has just released a new beta of DTmnt. Version 0.55 adds scanlines support (-scan, -scan16, -noscan), better 8-bit colors, but is about 150% slower than previous releases. The author also warns that this should be considered a beta release so expect some new bugs. DTmnt is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles emulator for DOS.

http://www.dtmnt.com/

BrSMS 1.12 Released to Public Ricardo Bittencourt has just released BrSMS version 1.12 to the general public. Up until now, it was only available to registered users. This release added support for the Game Gear, SG1000 and 3-D glasses. BrSMS is a Sega Master System and Game Gear emulator for DOS.

http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brsms.htm

TI-81 Emulators Here's a TI-81 calculator emulator I've not reported on previously. It's freeware, requires no ROMs and is made by Texas Instruments themselves. Available for both DOS and Macintosh. Thanks to Rick for the e-mail.

http://www.ti.com/calc/docs/81emu.htm

New VAX Emulator Makes Debut Tom Cole has written a VAX computer emulator called eVAX for Macintosh. If I'm not mistaken, this might be the first ever VAX emulator.

http://users.vnet.net/cole/evax.html

Boycott 0.44 Coming Soon Gollum has announced that a new version of Boycott (Gameboy emulator) is in the works. The biggest new feature in the next release will be Game Genie support. There will also be a nice speed improvement. He's also going to merge all the versions (English/French and debugger/emulator into one.) No release date has been announced as of yet. Stay tuned...

New PCott on the Way A new version of the new PCott emulator is in the works. New features include:

• speed improvement
• 386 emulation started
• Compatibility rate increased
• New interrupts, new ports added

BoyCott for Linux Updated Gollum has released a minor update to BoyCott. This release fixes a bug that cause the 256 colors mode to not work. BoyCott is a Gameboy emulator.

http://www-eleves.iie.cnam.fr/themes/Emu5ever/boycot2.html

Mac Snes9x 1.1.5 Released! John Stiles has updated his Macintosh port of Snes9x:

"This version has improved sound, better SuperFX/DSP support, and several bug fixes; many games that have been glitchy since version 0.9.5 (such as Donkey Kong Country and Metroid 3) have finally been fixed. The updated source code has been released as well."

- John Stiles
Snes9x Author (Macintosh Port)

http://www.emulation.net/snes/index.html

SPCAMP 0.401 Released The ZSNES team has released a new version of SPCAMP, their Super Nintendo utility. SPCAMP is an WinAMP plugin that lets you play SPC files.

http://www.csoft.net/~zsnes/

PCSloMo 0.24b4 Released Don Jarrett has just released PCSloMo version 0.24 Beta Release 4. This release features Centipede High score save and Eyes support, plus a character set viewer. PCSloMo is a multi-arcade game emulator written in Visual Basic.

http://members.tripod.com/~Frodo4/slomo.html
 

New iNES in the Works Marat Fayzullin has announced he's currently working on the next version of iNES and has given us a little sneakpeek at what we can expect:

• Famicom Disk System emulation
• VS System emulation
• Majorly bugfixed PPU emulation
• Completely rewritten mapper code
• Direct saving of soundtrack to MIDI files
• Speed control in iNES-Windows
• Many other small fixes and improvements

RockNES Progress Report Here's the latest on RockNES. Version 0.60 is in the works and here's what we can expect:

• New IRQ code
• Very preliminary Mapper #25 support
• Sound emulation, thanks to Nyef

http://www.emucamp.com/rocknes/

VBEmu98 Progress Report David Tucker has updated his webpage to say that his Virtual Boy emulator can play Galactic Pinball:

"Galactic Pinball is playable, when you get to the table selection screen, press left on the left control pad (S) once to select the space station, I think this is the only table that is working (Why???).  The colors are still screwy, so don't expect it to look like the screen shots below...  Has anyone successfully gotten the Linux build to work?  Let me know..."

http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~dbt/VBMain.html
 

Mac PSEmu Port Announced! Duddie and Tratax have announced that a Macintosh port of PSEmu Pro is in the works. Although it won't be released until sometime next year, a PlayStation movie player for Macintosh is now out. Also, a new cheat utility has been released by Hartec/Dextrose called Cheat0r. This cheat manager has cheats for nearly 700 different games. You can download both the Playstation movie player (Mac) and cheat utility (PC) at:

http://www.psemu.com/index.html

Snes9x 1.15 Released! So far, this is turning out to be a pretty big day for emulator releases. First, Retrocade version 1.1 was released early this morning. Now the DOS port of Snes9x has been updated. A lot has changed. Here's what's new:

1.15 (Just Released!)

• TeleKawaru has joined myself in Maintaining the Dos Port
• Fixed a bug in config file support where the keyboard wouldn't work sometimes
• Fixed other bugs in config file support
• FPS Counter added to DOS Port. (not the same as Gary's) Use alt-F1 to activate.
• Config file automatically re-creates itself if it's not there now
• Message Display added. (Looks really neat) Works only in 16-bit modes
• Freeze-file re-added again. (now it uses 3 keys instead of 20) Use F2 to save, F3 to change save-slot, and F4 to load.
• Config file support almost complete
• Added Surround sound effect. Thanks go out to Kreed who wrote the code.
• Did some modifying of the save screen-shot code. It now works on American keyboards, and saves in the same directory as snes9x.exe (use the Print Scrn Key to activate)
• Fast-forward/Normal keys redone. Now it uses only one key.
• Fixed a bug in config file load/saving. Now it doesn't crash in certain situations.

• Implemented the Tales of Phantasia memory map using the information supplied by zsKnight. Had to also implement a de-interleave routine to work around a ROM feature and Snes9x CPU instruction fetching implementation detail.
• Added a frames-per-second on-screen display option.
• Fixed the final glitch bug with the Mario Kart track display - the byte code for the termination of the DSP1 raster command wasn't been recognized.
• Disabled a NMI/DMA hack for Rise of the Robots, was causing problems for Mario Kart and 'Robots wasn't working correctly anyway.
• Optimized the mode 7 rendering a little.
• Changed tile rendering code to use offsets into screen buffer rather than direct pointers ready for z-buffer implementation.

• Changed V-blank NMI to occur immediately after a WAI instruction, Toy Story required this.
• Fixed reading of H-DMA line counter register, Top Gear 3000 needed this.
• Ripped off large parts of ZSNES's DSP1 code (with _Demo_'s and zsKnight's approval). Now Mario Kart works almost 100%.
• Added a check to see if a vertical scanline IRQ register change will cause a H-IRQ later on the current scanline. Pilot Wings needed this.
• Fixed possible crash bug in clip window code when both windows had two spans. Could actually cause Chrono Trigger to crash the emulator.
• Fixed a lock-up problem with the C Super FX code, Star Fox and executing a few FX instructions per scan-line (required for Winter Gold).

http://www.snes9x.com/

IDSA Issues Statement The IDSA has issued a statement regarding it's long standing battle against ROM sites. In particular, the IDSA responds to the recent flood of e-mails resulting from its closing of Dave's Video Game Classics ROM section.

http://www.idsa.com/antipiracy/dc.htm

Atari800Win 2.5 Released! Richard Lawrence has released a new version of Atari800Win! Here's what's new:

• Consider this a beta release. It has not been tested extensively.
• Any "sticky key" problems should be fixed on slow machines
•  Warmstart reappears on F5 as if by magic :-)
• Arrgh! ATR images formatted while loaded into the emulator were getting corrupted headers (they were reformatted as XFD). Modified SIO code so that any valid ATR image (even megadisks) can be reformatted by Atari800win.
• Added option to load Atari executable files individually instead of requiring a disk image. This will NOT work for files that require Atari DOS.
• John Frias contributed some icons
• Fixed a problem with the R-TIME cartridge returning the incorrect month
• Fixed a small timing problem on keyboard input.
• Blank scan line option added for some video modes.
• Built a new ZLIB DLL which appears much less touchy about alignment.
• Drive status can be set directly from the disk drive dialog.
• Corrected small joystick bug that prevented the keypad from working as joystick on port 1 while a real joystick was used on port 2.
• Inserted a completely bogus wait after DDraw SetDisplayMode that corrects garbage sometimes left on the screen.
• 640x480 is now a "no visible menu" mode. Use F10 to get a menu (or the   keyboard accelerators - e.g. Alt-A + L is Atari/Load Exe).

http://www.concentric.net/~Twist/atari800win/

Retrocade 1.1 Released! The Retrocade Team has just released Retrocade version 1.1. This is the first ever update to the original release so much has changed. First, the RIVA 128 1/4 screen bug has been fixed. Six new games have been added:

• Bosconian
• Dig Dug
• Galaga
• Max RPM
• Missile Command
• Powerdrive

http://www.retrocade.com/
  

New NeoDANJI - What's New Here's what's new in NeoDANJI 0.04:

• Support for ARJ compression
• Standard VGA support (very slow as it hasn't been optimized yet ^^;)
• Joystick bug has been corrected but no way to check that it works (on mine it works fine).
• Converters merged into one program
• Sound still needs some work ^^; (I only have ten fingers -_-;;)

GalEMU 0.26 Released Barry Rodewald has released GalEMU version 0.26. This release fixes the Zig Zag bug so it's now fully playable. Also, 2 new video modes have been added, 320x240 and 400x300. Both require VESA 2.0. GalEMU is a multi-arcade game emulator for DOS.

http://galemu.emulationworld.com/

New NeoDANJI Released! R. Compig has released a new version of NeoDANJI, his Neo Geo emulator for DOS. The webpage is not in English so I can't say what's new (yet). Thanks to Lino for the e-mail.

http://www3.shinbiro.com/~compig_r/index.htm

Retrocade 1.1 Due Out Shortly SYS2064 is reporting that Retrocade version 1.1 is due out very shortly, possibly even today or tommorrow.
 

NES4PC Progress Report David de Regt has given EMU News Service a little sneakpeek at the next release of NES4PC. Here's a sampling of what we can expect:

• New 100% Scanline-based graphics engine (fast and accurate)
• Tons of bugs fixed
• Fully Implemented mappers 8, 11, 34, 64, 66, 71, 99
• Mapper 4 support is now 100% Completed
• Fixed Sprite #0 hit detect, which fixed a ton of games
• And the big news... full zapper support (you can now play Duck Hunt)

New z26 Now Out John Saeger has just released a new version of his Atari 2600 emulator for DOS. Here's what's new in version 1.21:

• You no longer need to type in the .bin extension for ROM filenames.
• z26 is now a little bit configurable. If you type z26 followed by some command line switches, but you don't include a filename, z26 will remember the command line switches as defaults. These defaults can still be overridden with a command line that includes a filename.
• The help screen that you get by typing z26 alone on a command line now has multiple pages. It comes up in graphics mode too.
• A rare bug that occasionally caused graphics to be messed up at startup may have been fixed.

NeoMAME Apollo69 has released NeoMAME. This is a version of MAME with only Neo Geo support (all other drivers have been removed).  Why would anyone be interested in NeoMAME? Because without all the extra non-Neo Geo drivers, the download is only a half a megabyte. Of course this is useful for those who only use MAME for the Neo Geo support. Please note that NeoMAME is not made by the MAME team. Please do not bother them with support questions since they have nothing to do with it.

http://home.columbus.rr.com/apollo69/

Echo and Oids Move Both of Nick Madsen's Atari ST emulators have moved to a new server. The new URL is:

http://www.narcissus.freeserve.co.uk/atari.html

Ultra 64 0.2c Released Timmy Schwartz has released version 0.2c of Ultra 64. This release adds an integrated debugger and support for byteswapped ROMs but no video or sound emulation as of yet. Source code is also available. Ultra 64 is a Nintendo 64 emulator in development for Windows 95/98/NT.

http://ultra64.hypermart.net/
 

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MacMAME 0.34 Beta 8 Released! Brad Oliver has released Beta 8 of MacMAME 0.34. Here's what's new:

• In sync with PC beta 8. The most notable improvement is stereo sound in a select number of games.
• Aaron has revised his sound library to support stereo.
• John Butler has retooled the front-end a bit to make it a bit more streamlined. Additionally, you can now have subfolders which are aliases inside the ROMs folder.
• MacMAME will now recognize and use PNG files for screenshots in addition to jpg, gif and pic.
• The "MAME Game List" button will now dump out information on the number of clones supported.

http://www.macmame.org/

Raine To Add 2 More Games The official Raine webpage has just been updated with the latest news on the next release of Raine. Two new games have been added, Combatribes (by Technos) and Puchi Carat (by Taito). Follow the link for screenshots.

http://www.rainemu.com/

ROM Translation Page Updated I just wanted to make a small announcement that the game translation links page has been updated. Also, all complete translations have been highlighted for easy access.

ROM Translation Page
 

Catakig Moves I'm not exactly sure when this happened, but Colin Klipsch's Apple II emulator has moved. The new URL is:

http://purl.org/net/Catakig/

Thanks to Kevin of ClassicGaming.com for noticing and John of emulation.net for keeping his excellent page up to date.

Atari800 Source Code Petr Stehlik has released version 0.9.8f of his Atari800 source code (written in C).

http://cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz/~stehlik/a800.htm

TrueReality Updated It looks like Niki Waibel released a new version of his Nintendo 64 emulator for Unix a couple days ago. I'm not sure how I missed it but thanks Larry for the e-mail.

http://www.snes9x.com/n64emulators/

PSEemu Plugins Two new PSEmu Pro Plugins are now available. The first is a new Direct3D Driver by Nik.  The second is a new beta of Lewpy's Glide driver.

http://www.psemu.com/index.html