RockNES Lives On Good news. The authors of RockNES have decided not to drop their emulator after all.

"RockNES is not dead. After this short stop, I would like to say I didn't change my mind about a possible illegality. We will continue the RockNES development (me and Kritz). *Any* problem, goodbye emulation, anymore. Thanks for your support."

http://www.emucamp.com/rocknes/
 

UltraHLE Discontinued Between UltraHLE, Sony/Connetix and RockNES, it's been pretty crazy in the last few days. And today, it gets even worse: UltraHLE has been officially discontinued. Only two days ago, UltraHLE shocked the world by becoming the first ever playable Nintendo 64 emulator. Now, UltraHLE is no more. Here's the complete text of their announcement:

"The UltraHLE project is discontinued.

"The UltraHLE project was a technical demo, an experiment to see if N64 emulation really is possible and an attempt to advance the state of the art in emulation. It was not designed to be a tool for piracy.

"Once it was released, things moved at an unforeseen pace. In a matter of hours, the main interest for people became acquiring illegal copies of game ROMs. This was why the pages were put down in a matter of hours.

"We do not condone this use of illegal ROMs in any form and do not allow our emulator to be used in this way. As we cannot effectively stop people from using this product in wrong and illegal ways, we have no choice but to discontinue the project.

We also kindly request all sites to remove the UltraHLE package, as has been done here."

Thanks to Shadow64 for the e-mail.

http://www.emuunlim.com/UltraHLE/main.htm

RockNES Authors Mull Cancellation In response to the recent UltraHLE and Sony / Virtual Game Station controversies, the RockNES team is considering dropping their emulator, fearing their work is having the wrong influence on people.

"I don't want to do something 'cool, interesting, just for fun' if this is illegal. I can't see good things around emulation for now (Nintendo and IDSA), so, it seems time to stop... I'm not a hacker, 'warezman' or something... There are *many* info available, hence it's impossible you don't try to write your own video game emulator, it's fun, but illegal (?), you can't (?) and it's enough (?)."

The RockNES authors have not made and final decision. We can only hope and wait...

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

DBOY 0.40a Translation Here are the translated docs from the latest release of DBOY:

"New emulation feature to allow a couple more games to work.
dboy -mbc 1 ex bmquest.gbc
(The game this commandline is intended to be used with is Bomberman
Quest)"

Thanks to Steven L. for the translation.
 

Euphoric 0.99n Released Fabrice Francès has updated his DOS version of Euphoric. Among the new features are a Windows setup program and enhanced emulation of PB7. Euphoric is an Oric emulator for DOS. Thanks to Cloy for the e-mail.

http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/emulator.html

DBOY 0.40a Released The world's most updated Game Boy emulator has undergone yet another revision. DBOY 0.40a is now out.

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

VBEmu98 to Be Ported to Mac? In the latest update to his news section, David Tucker has hinted that a Macintosh port of his Virtual Boy emulator is in the works:

"The Win port is going along great, hopefully the next release will be
Allegro Free, this should also be a big boon to the Mac port as well..."

So far, VBEmu98 is available for DOS and Linux. A Windows version has already been announced.

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

Virtual Game Station 1.1 Released! Not to be outdone by Sony's recent lawsuit, Connectix has gone ahead and released version 1.1  of  its PlayStation emulator. This is the first update to Virtual Game Station. It has higher impossibility rate and supposedly has improvements to code preventing software piracy.

http://www.virtualgamestation.com/

Sony to Sue Connectix As it was reported here over a week ago, Sony has gone ahead with its plans to sue Connectix over their new PlayStation emulator. Sony is seeking a temporary injunction against Connectix to prevent the company from selling its new Virtual Game Station emulator. In related news, Connectix has announced the shipment of Virtual Game Station version 1.1. Thanks to C. for the e-mail.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/filters/bursts/0,3422,2196045,00.html

http://www.maccentral.com/news/9901/28.sony.shtml

http://headline.gamespot.com/news/99_01/28_vg_consuit/index.html

VICE 0.16.1(a) Released The VICE Development Team have fixed a joystick bug in the DOS and Windows versions and have released a new version of VICE. VICE is a Commodore 64, Commodore VIC 20, Commodore 128 and Commodore PET emulator for DOS and Windows. Thanks to Sephirstein for the e-mail.

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fachat/vice/vice.html

MAME32 0.35 Beta 2 Released Christopher Kirmse and Michael Soderstrom have update their Windows port of MAME to correspond with the latest DOS beta. Both the executable and the source code are available for download. Thanks to John H of MAME32 Quality Assurance and Art webpage for the e-mail.

http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32/

UltraHLE Site Taken Down Yesterday UltraHLE, a new Nintendo 64 emulator was released. Unlike every other Nintendo 64 emulator that exists, UltraHLE did more than just play simple demos; it plays commercial ROMs. This was a world's first and the authors made no bones about promoting it this way. This led to quite a bit of ROM searching/begging - which shouldn't surprise anyone. However, the authors of UltraHLE apparently were taken aback by this development. They've posted this announcement on their webpage:

"The UltraHLE project was a technical demo, an experiment to see if N64 emulation really is possible. It was not designed to be a tool for piracy.

"Once it was released, things moved at an unforseen pace. A lot of people seemed more interested in acquiring illegal copies of game ROMs, than looking at the technical efforts that went into producing the emulator. We do not condone the use of illegal roms in any form and this emulator was not designed to be used for this. The reaction we saw was not the one we expected. It seems the emulation community is not ready for something like this. The UltraHLE project is now on hold, and will be discontinued if this activity continues. Our aim is to develop emulation technology further, not to hurt Nintendo. Without them none of this would be possible.

"This site is temporarily down and under modifications."

Thanks to the many people who e-mailed.
 

New N64 Emu Plays Commercial ROMs! A major new emulator has debuted. The world's first Nintendo 64 emulator that actually plays commercial games! Epsilon and RealityMan are the authors behind this masterpiece. Called UltraHLE, this one's for Windows 95.  It requires at least PII 300 and a 3dfx graphics card

"UltraHLE gives PC owners the first chance ever to run commercially available Nintendo 64 games (rom images).  The current aim of UltraHLE is not to run as many games as possible, it is to run some of the best titles as well as possible (e.g. Super Mario 64, Zelda: Ocarina of Time etc)."

http://www.emuunlim.com/UltraHLE/main.htm
  

RuMSX 0.15 Released! Rudolf Lechleitner has unvieled the latest version of his MSX computer emulator. According to the author, "There are only a few changes for normal users (minor bugfixes, minor enhancements) - but major internal changes to enable a future "Save state/Load state" command." Thanks to Cloy for the e-mail.

http://www.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/~alex/lex/software.html
 

Vector Dream Dropped In Favor of New Emu Peter Hirschberg sent me an e-mail to announce a few things. It's been a while since the last release of Vector Dream and he's been getting a lot e-mail lately asking him what's up. First, the reason why he's been so quiet lately is that he's been having some unfortunate health problems. He's decided to cancel his Vector Dream emulator and his Marble Madness Emulator. But the good news is that he's hard at work on a new emulator. Read on...

"I've just had major abdominal surgery for some ongoing health problems, so I'm pretty out of it right now. I've been getting a lot of inquiries lately about the status of some of my projects, so here's an update:
 

• Vector Dream is dead. I've dropped it completely, and the source code will NOT be given out. Sorry!
• The Marble Madness Emulator is being dropped. If anyone would like to take over the project, I will send them the source code, minus the Starscream 68000 core (due to it's distribution license). It currently only really needs sound support added and some minor glitches fixed. Let me know if you are seriously interested.
• Classic Space Wars (clone). Maybe I'll get to this and add sound, but probably not. Who knows.
• My latest project is called Vectorhead, the sequel to Vector Dream. It is another vector-game-only emulator. It currently runs Asteroids, Star Castle, and Space Wars, all with *complete* sound support. More games could be added by the time I release it, but who knows... The emulator features all my usual vector effects goodies, plus maybe some surprises. The emulator is COMPLETELY vector based, including the GUI! The emulator runs under DirectX. Performance is wonderful, even with all the vector effects. I will probably release the source code (open-source) for this emulator, but I haven't really decided. I really have no idea when I'll have this ready for release. I'm starting a new job in a few weeks, and I've been spending most of my days lately with Mr.Percocet. :-)  It might be a month, or a year.

- Peter Hirschberg
Author of Vector Dream

DarcNES Ported To DOS! Sephiroth, co-maintainer of the EmulationZone has released a DOS port of of DarcNES. In addition to all the features of the Linux original, DarcNES for DOS supports:

• Joystick Support (4 button GamePads)
• 320*240 ModeX video mode (Instead of the original 640*480 one)
• Sightly faster due to GCC compiler optimizations

Another New Danji B Yes, another new version of Danji (Neo Geo emulator) has been released.

http://www3.shinbiro.com/~compig_r/frame1.htm

MacMAME 0.35 Beta 2 Released Brad Oliver has released MacMAME 0.35 Beta 2. This brings it in sync with the DOS version, plus:

• Now using the new interrupt code (it was not in beta 1). It should be stable enough now that this won't cause any trouble.
• The PowerPC CPU cores have all been updated and a few bugs have been killed along the line.
• Blasteroids should now draw in the correct aspect ratio.
• John added the ability to cancel ROM loading on large ROM sets.

http://www.macmame.org/

GrayBox 0.27 Released Arthur Langereis and Allan Jensen have updated their NES emulator to version 0.27:

"Njinn released GrayBox 0.27 ("Classic") for MacOS. This will be the last version we'll make by ourselves. The source is now downloadable and 3rd parties can modify the source and send back any altered files. We'll then build a new version and put it on the site. This is to ensure that only 1 version of GrayBox will be made. 3rd parties may not redistribute the source or any custom binaries. Anyone who sends in changes that make it into new versions will of course get proper credit.

"Also, Arthur Langereis and Allan Jensen teamed up and formed Njinn. Njinn is found on the web at http://www.njinn.com For those who wonder, Njinn is pronounced as Engine. The new graybox home is found on our new site. The old site at spidernet.nl is discontinued."

http://www.njinn.com/

Mac Port of HU6280 Begun Richard Bannister has announced that he has begun the long-awaited Macintosh port of Jamsponge's TurboGrafx16 (PC Engine) emulator.

"The source code for HU6280, a prominent PC Engine emulator for DOS, arrived by e-mail when I checked it this morning at about 9:30am. By 9:57am, I had a Mac port up and running. After about three hours work this afternoon, I've got it to work quite nicely, although it will need quite a bit of work yet before release."

http://www.internetter.com/titan/software/index.html

Hob 0.7.2 Released Nigel Barford has released Hob version 0.7.2. Hob is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for Java. This release has a new video mode ("bigger").

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

DarcNES Updated Nyef has released a new version of DarcNES. Here's what's new:

• Fixed the SMB3 status bar
• Fixed a problem with the (previously unused) blit_4_8_czt family of blitters in blitters.c
• Fixed the right-side scrolling problem on the SMS/GG
• Changed the SMS/GG to use the newer blitters for the sprites
• Changed the documentation somewhat
• Changed the memory allocation in cal.c to use calloc() instead of malloc()

MAME 0.35 Beta 2 Released The MAME development team has released the second beta of version 0.35. This release adds support for several new games including Street Fighter II Champion Edition and Lode Runner II. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sound emulation has been completed (including speech). Also, raster effects have been added to Neo Geo games, although this is preliminary. So far, only the DOS version has been updated.

http://mame.retrogames.com/
 

• Fixed a bug in video_status emulation, 'Davis Cup Tennis' now runs perfectly
• Fixed a bug in dma emulation, this fixes explosion sprites on 'alices dream'
• Added code to detect if screen resolution was changed, fixes dirty left behind graphics on 'final blaster' , 'outrun' etc.

http://www.hu6280.com/

New BrSMS Now Out! Ricardo Bittencourt has just released BrSMS 1.16! Here are the highlights:

• Fixed SRAM emulation
• Optimized the sprite renderer
• No w the "-listrom" switch display a small compatibility list
• Support to sprite collision detection
• Improved the IRQ engine again
• Now the SG1000 emulation uses the same TMS9928 engine from BrMSX, this means the emulation is  faster (25% speed increase, 100% with MMX), and also much more accurate (all four documented video  modes and lots of undocumented ones)
• Added a new option "-lpt " to select which LPT port is connected to the SNES joypad.
• Increased the clock to 3.57MHz again. This clock was verified in two different brazilian Master  Systems.
• Fake support to I/O port 01h, now GG "Primal Rage" works

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

R80 0.07 Released Raul Gomez Sanchez has released R80 version 0.07. Here's what's new:

• ZIP support: you can PKZIP all your files and save a lot of disk space
• Fixed Save Snapshot, Save Tape, Save Screenshot and Message in video mode 0
• Removed noisy start-up and quit :) in Adlib
• Fixed speaker a little

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

BoyCott 0.45 Released Gollum has released BoyCott version 0.45. Here's what's new:

• MBC3 support (now Pokemon Blue is playable, thanks Shirley)
• MBC5 support (COLOR GAMEBOY GAMES work ! ...but without any color... :)
• Improve general MBC1/2/3/5 support

http://www.emulatorium.com/Emu5/boycot2.html
 

Danji Updated R. Compig has released another new version of Danji. This is a fairly minor release. Danji is a Neo Geo emulator for DOS. Thanks to ReGNaSTa for the e-mail.

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

EmuXL 0.3.6 Released Jaskinia Draco has released version 0.3.6 of EmuXL, his Atari 400/800 Series emulator for Atari Falcon.

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

New DarcNES Released Nyef has released a new version of DarcNES. Here's what's new:

• Startd work towards adding PC-Engine emulation
• Fixed some compile errors when disabling sound in nes_psg.c
• Undid the changes of 19990110 to mapper 4
• Added SVGALib support
• SVGALib version also has gzipped ROM support and an additional set of keys (ctrl, alt, tab, enter)
• Started cleaning up some of the NES PPU stuff

http://www.netway.com/~nyef/

Windows Port of Virtual Boy Emulator Announced David Tucker has announced that a 32-bit Windows port of his Virtual Boy emulator is being developed by a fellow programmer. VBEmu98 is the world's first and only Nintendo Virtual Boy emulator. So far, VBEmu98 is available for both DOS and Linux.

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

MAME32 0.35 Beta 1 Released Christopher Kirmse and Michael Soderstrom have released beta 1 of MAME32 0.35. This brings the Windows port in sync with the DOS version. Thanks to John H of MAME32 Quality Assurance and Art webpage for the e-mail.

http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32/
 

PCSloMo 0.24 Final Released Don Jarrett has released what has turned out to be his final version of PCSloMo. It features some bugfixes and a few speedups. The source code will be released in a few days. PCSloMo is for Windows 9x/NT.

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

TrueReality Updated Niki Waibel has released a new version of TrueReality, his Nintendo 64 emulator for Unix. You can snag a copy from the following address:

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

PSEmu Plugins Updated Two PSEmu plugins were updated today, the Seal Sound Driver and Kazzuya's Video Software Driver. Thanks to Hiryu for the news.

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

New VBEmu98 Coming Soon An even newer version of VBEmu98 is in the works and should be out within a day or two. It will feature improved BGMap scrolling code which should help games like Space Squash and Glactic Pinball. Click here for more information.

Danji 0.0485 Released Yes, another new version of Danji is now out. Click here to read the English translation of the Danji 0.0485 documentation. Thanks to ReGNaSTa for the e-mail.

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

Major New Release of HU6280 Now Out! Jamsponge has just released a new version of HU6280. This release fixes a major bug in SATB DMA transfer emulation. This fixes problems with Valkyrie and Dragons Curse. Champions Forever Boxing now runs thanks to a bugfix to the VBL emulation code. Other improvements include a bugfix to VScroll emulation and a faster sorting routine. HU6280 is a TurboGrafx16 and TurboExpress emulator for DOS.

http://www.hu6280.com/

NFSE Put To Rest Today, the NSFE webpage announced that NSFE has been canceled:

"NSFE has been put to rest. As of 1/18/99 project has been canceled.

Gordon has been working on another n64 emulator (yet to be named) that is currently in the advanced stages. So check back for updates on this one."

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

DANJI 0.484 Doc Translated Once again, ReGNaSTa has translated the DANJI documentation to English. What's new in version 0.00484:

• 20 mode auto frameskip bug not fixed, so no auto frameskip support for mode -20
• Macro key support (edit danjimac.ini)

DBOY 0.40 Docs Translation Thanks to Steven L, we know have an English translation of the new DBOY that was released the day before last.

=Start of Translation=

0.40 SuperGameboy

commandline is dboy -sgb cart.gb

There is a 2 P mode (for SGB)
dboy -2 p -sgb cart.gb

The screen has also been centered to fit and look better.

=End of Translation=

Again, thanks to Steven L. for the translation.

Snes9x 1.16a GUI Released! TeleKawaru has just released the DOS port of Snes9x 1.16 with GUI! Directly from the documentation, here's what's new:

• Fixed up the SPC dumper so that it will increment file names.
• Added Kreed's new SB code to increase the bass sound.
• Fixed up the problem of mode10 instead of mode9.
• Added the option to disable the 'dimming' of the SNES screen.
• Changed some problems in the config file. Please delete your existing config file before running this program.

DANJI 0.484 Released! R. Compig has released another new version of Danji. DANJI is a Neo Geo emulator for DOS. Thanks to Till of SYS2064 for the news.

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

New AdamEm In the Works It seems as though it's been ages since Marcel de Kogel last updated his Coleco Adam / ColecoVision emulator, but today he's updated his webpage to announce that a brand new version is on the way. Here's a partial list of features of AdamEm version 1.0:

• Vastly improved sound emulation
• Improved ADAMNet emulation
• Parallel port emulation
• Snapshot support
• 80-column TDOS support
• Cheat-code support
• Reverb, chorus and stereo support for SoundBlaster Pro and SoundBlaster 16 compatibles
• Many bug fixes

http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/adamem.html
 

DBOY 0.40 Released! BouKiChi has released DBOY version 0.40. The English translation has not yet been updated as of this writing, so what exactly is new is anyone's guess.

http://members.xoom.com/foo01/
 

VBEmu98 0.6 Released! David Tucker has just released the much-anticipated follow-up to VBEmu98's debut only a couple of months ago. Both the DOS and Linux versions have been updated, so download them now.

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

New NeoDANJI Released! R. Compig has just released a new version of Danji, his Neo Geo emulator for DOS. Here's the English translation of the documention:

=Start of Translation=

Danji Version 0.0048

• KOF97, 98 support (KOF 97 bug corrected / DOS4GW version)
• KOF97 accelerated mode not yet ready (not enough time to fix bugs)
• 2 player support
• Redefine keys (Edit danjikey.ini for now... sorry ^^)
• No pause key (key is used for something else)
• Sound support not yet re-added

• F1: Reset
• F5: Manual Frameskip
• F6: Auto Frameskip
• F7: 1P Keyboard
• F8: 1P Joystick/Pad

=End of Translation=

A big thanks goes out to Sang Hong for the news and the translation.

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

BrSMS 1.15 Released Ricardo Bittencourt has released a new version of BrSMS to registered users. Here's what's new in version 1.15:

• Almost perfect border color emulation. Now GG "Fatal Fury Special" has no flicker at all. If you don't like border emulation, then you can use the switch "-noborder" to leave always a black border.
• Fixed a bug in the "-jap" switch, now you can use it again to enable japanese mode.
• Support to palette raster effects in Sega Master System games. BrSMS will try to autodetect when the new palette raster engine should be enabled, but you can use the switch "-palraster" to force the new engine. This engine is even slower than the line-by-line engine, so if you have speed troubles, use the "-block" switch. Some games that get better with this engine are SMS "California Games" (in the score), SMS "Space Harrier" (now the sky has correct colors) and SMS "Sonic 1" (transparency effects in "Labyrinth" stage).
• Improved IRQ engine, now GG "Power Strike 2" and GG "Sonic Spinball" are playable, this also fix the stage four of SMS "Sonic 1".
• Improved block-based video engine, now some games that previously required the line-by-line engine can be played in the block engine, like GG "Ristar", GG "Sonic Drift 2" and GG "Chakan". This means these games will be A LOT faster.

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

DarcNES Source Code Updated Nyef has just released another new version of his NES/Sega Master System emulator. This is a fairly minor release. Mainly, it fixes a bug with the Game Gear Start button. Only the source code has been released. The compiled version remains at version 19990112.

http://www.netway.com/~nyef/
 

VBEmu98 News David Tucker has released a mini-compatibility list, to give us a taste of what to expect in his next release. This is just a summary (his webpage goes into more detail):

• Galactic Pinball: Playable, but has graphics glitches.
• InsMouseHouse: Not playable, loads bug hangs before game starts.
• Mario Clash: Playable, but has graphics glitches.
• Mario Tennis: Not yet playable, but does load. Graphics glitches.
• Space Squash: Almost playable, graphics glitches.
• Telero Boxer: Playable, but slow and has problems with hands scaling.
• VTetris: Fully playable.
• VFishing: Almost playable, no sprites scaling.

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

Boycott Progress Report Gollum, author of Boycott, has released some preliminary information on the next release of his Gameboy emulator:

• Working on GUI improvements
• Start reading CGB docs
• Start adding MBC3, MBC5 support
• Can't get working SGB support :)
• Sound support is discontinued as for now (too much work)

VICE 0.16.1 Released The VICE Development Team (Ettore Perazzoli, Teemu Rantanen, André Fachat, Daniel Sladic, Andreas Boose, Tibor Biczo, Dag Lem, Jouko Valta and Jarkko Sonninen) has just released VICE version 0.16.1. Here's what's new:

Drive Changes:

• The content of 1581 disk images is displayed correctly now.

• Fixed AIX audio header problem.
• The emulator does not crash with "X Error of failed request: BadColor (invalid Colormap parameter)" anymore when a bad or old `.vicerc' file is present.

• The filter of the attach dialog has been fixed to display D64, D71, D81, G64, G41 and X64 disk image names.
• Cartridge attach and snapshot write dialogs could crash emulator on certain DOS extender.  This bug has been fixed.
• The name of currently attached tape images is displayed again.

• Disk images can be attached to drives 9..11 too now.

• Some bugs in T64 handling have been fixed.  The image lister now displays all files, the first file found is the first in the T64 archive (and not the second), detaching tapes works now and "LOAD ERROR" should be gone.

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fachat/vice/vice.html

New HU6280 Released Jamsponge has just released HU6280 version 1.86 Beta. Here's what's new:

• Fixed a major bug in IRQ emulation
• Many games seem to run faster now
• Fixed a minor CPU bug, TST #xx,$ssss wasn't setting the Z flag
• Updated code to handle SET opcode 100% correctly

http://www.hu6280.com/

SNEeSe Progress Report As everyone knows, Savoury Snax dropped his Super Nintendo emulator many months ago. But co-author Esaelon continues working on it. Here's a list of improvements he's working on so far:

• Timing improved
• Scanlines per frame fixed (270 to NTSC:262/PAL:312)
• Cycles per scanline fixed (174:NTSC/205:PAL to 171:NTSC)
• First line in line x line gfx emulation is now done at CPU reset instead of after first scanline of CPU execution
• Memory mapper fixed: Implemented support for 32Mbit LoROM and corrected support for 32Mbit HiROM
• Hblank emulation added (hblank timing in CPU, hblank bit in HVBJOY)

SLHV emulation improved

New Bochs for Windows Released A new version of the Windows port of Bochs was released yesterday. Version 990110b now runs Pragma Linux again (single floppy Linux) and features various small bug fixes. Bochs is an IBM 80x86 PC emulator. Thanks to Steve J. for the e-mail.

http://www.v.nu/core/Bochs/

PSEmu FAQ Updated The official PSEemu Pro FAQ webpage has been updated today. You can check it out at:

http://user.itl.net/~starwars/PSFAQ/index.html

New EMUTools and EMULib Released Marat Fayzullin (author of ColEm, iNES and others) has released new version of his EMUTools and EMULib. Here's what's new:

• EMUTools includes two new utilities: UNDOUBLE and FDSLIST
• EMULib now includes emulation for the TMS9918/9928 vide controllers
• EMULib includes uniform sound drivers for Unix, MSDOS, and Windows
• EMULib includes a library to work with .NES files
• Library to work with .GB files has been updated again
• There are now libraries of generic routines for Unix, MSDOS, Windows

Samples Request Larry Bank (author of C.A.G.E.) is developing an Exidy multi-game emulator. He is requesting that someone who has access to working Targ and Bandido machines to collect sound samples for him. You can contact him at [email protected].
 

New DarcNES Released Nyef has released a new version of DarcNES. Here's what's new:

• Added the Start button for Game Gear support
• Fixed up some CPU cores that I had neglected to modify to suit the architectural changes I have been making
• Also fixed up some code that depended on the cores operating in the older way

http://www.netway.com/~nyef/
 

Mac VGB Updated Only yesterday, Marat Fayzullin has released the Linux, OSF/1 and SunOS ports of Virtual Gameboy 1.4. Today, John Stiles has released his Macintosh version of VGB.

http://emulation.net./gameboy/index.html
 

WinSTon 0.2 Released! Paul Bates has updated his Atari ST emulator to version 0.2. This new release adds a DirectX full-screen mode, improved sound emulation, floppy disk saving, a new 68000 emulation core and you can even choose how much memory your simulated ST has (512 kilobytes to 4 megabytes). Thanks to The Caffeine Kid for the e-mail.

http://winston.fatal-design.com/

New Arnold Released Kevin Thacker has released a new version of Arnold. Here's what's new:

• Fixed CPC+ raster split (the comparison line is generated from CRTC Line Counter and Raster Counter)
• Fixed CPC+ raster interrupt (the comparison line is generated from CRTC Line Counter and Raster Counter)
• Fixed CRTC display when CPC+ enhanced features were enabled. It could have been wrong!!!
• Other fixes to cpc+ h/w implementation
• Re-programming of screen split on the same line as the split should be triggered now works. GPA CPC+ demo works perfectly.

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

VGB Ports Updated Marat Fayzullin has released the SunOS, Linux and OSF/1 ports of Virtual Gameboy 1.4. Among other things, version 1.4 adds improved Gameboy Color support.

http://www.komkon.org/fms/VGB/

MAME 0.34 for OS/2 Released Martin Amodeo has updated his OS/2 port of MAME to version 0.34. In addition to all the changes of the version 0.34 source brought, the new OS/2 port adds:

• Added DART support to SEAL.
• Fixed the screen capture routine so that pasted bitmaps will always be rendered correctly.
• New MAME core user interface with more options.

NO$GMB 2.0c Released Martin Korth has released NO$GMB version 2.0c. Here's what's new:

• SGB: border color 0, another fix, hopefully it's really good now (pokeblue)
• controls: keypad "+" (whoosh) shouldn't mess up frameskipping anymore
• controls: disabeled ability to press up+down or left+right at the same time
• CGB: increased intensity of real CGB colors
• bugfix: division error when loading rom into two machines (prev_eintcount)
• setup: highlighted default suggested console setting
• GUS: supported both IRQs set to the same value
• GUS: enabled line-in (might be useful to connect a 'slave' sound card to GUS)
• a22i: added ".brk" directive for source code breaks (alias for "db 40h")
• a22i: reduced max errmessages to 50 (more would suck with slow 640x480 text)
• a22i: moved .sym generator to ext segment, a22i-ex now available on webpage
• a22i-ex: added example source code skeleton and example 'make' batch file
• a22i-ex: updated a22i.txt (instruction-set description about flags, timings)
• a22i-ex: added DOS errorlevel output (01=assembly failure(s), 02=disk fail)
• back2dos: restores previous DOS video mode as long as it it's VGA / 80xNN

http://www.work.de/nocash/gmb.htm

Sony To Sue Connectix? PSG.IGN.COM is reporting that Sony may sue Connectix over their new commercial PlayStation emulator over "intellectual rights infringement." If this is true and Sony wins the court case, this could be a huge blow this the growing emulation scene. Thanks to Ben and Phillip F. for the e-mails.

http://psx.ign.com/news/6361.html

New SMS Plus Now Out Charles Mac Donald has released SMS Plus version 0.6.8 public. Here's what's new:

• SMS Plus and the libraries it uses are now compiled with PGCC. This should give some speed improvements for Pentium machines.
• Added sprite y-wrap handling that was omitted from the assembly version of the line renderer.
• Fixed bug in commandline parser where paths starting with '..\' made the Game Gear / SMS cartridge detection fail.
• Cleaned up a lot of the internal code and added more complete error checking, which fixed some possible crash bugs.
• Battery backed RAM is now compressed when written to disk.
• The display border and unused screen area no longer use color zero, which stops flicker caused by games changing color zero a lot.
• Added checks for redundant VRAM access, this fixed the slowdown  when fighting bosses in Wonderboy 3.
• Fixed snapshot output size for SMS games, and now saves Game Gear screens correctly.
• Fixed bug in Ghouls & Ghosts where sprites had invalid x-positions and corrupted the display.
• Rewrote the rendering code in assembly, removing the last C parts that were left.

http://cgfm2.home.ml.org/
  

Gameboy 98 0.05c Released Adam Polanski has released a new version of Gameboy 98. Version 0.05c adds Gameboy Color emulation. Gameboy 98 is for Windows 95/98/NT.

http://gameboy98.cjb.net

DBOY Webpage Translated to English Yencu, who's been doing the official English translation of the DBOY documentation is now doing the translation of DBOY's webpage. You can find it here.

The "M" Page Returns After quite a lengthy layoff, the "M" Page is back online.

http://www.terrorp.avana.net/thempage.html

New GalEMU Betas Barry Rodewald has released a brand new beta of his multi-arcade game emulator. Best of all, there are now Windows and Linux version available! Here's what's new:

• Added messages to bottom of screen
• Added a (very) basic GUI, Reset game, Select game and Exit buttons all work.  Options and DIP switches are yet to be implemented.  DIP switches may not be implemented straight away.
• Disabled video mode switching, for the time being, at least.

http://galemu.emulationworld.com/

Vipor's Emu Page Returns Vipor's Emu webpage has returned. The new URL is:

http://vipor.computer.webjump.com/

Unix MAME Updated Hans De Goede has released version 0.35b1.1 of his Unix port of MAME. Here's what's new:

• Everything from DOS version (including autoframeskip / -noautoframeskip)
• Snapshot support (F12) for openstep.

MagiC64 1.81 Released Michael Kramer has updated Commodore 64 emulator for Amiga. The new version of MagiC64 is 1.81.

http://www.ac-copy.com/~magic64/

New z26 Is More Win98 Friendly John Saeger has released version 1.26 of z26, his Atari 2600 emulator for DOS. This release follows his recent trend towards making z26 more compatible with Windows 98. Version 1.26 fixes a bug that sometimes caused a computer to lock up if z26 was started from a shortcut on the taskbar.

http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html
 

MacMAME 0.35 Beta 1 Now Out Brad Oliver has released the Macintosh port of MAME version 0.35 Beta 1. Here's what's new:

• In sync with the DOS version. This new beta introduces lots of internal changes, so don't be alarmed if games which worked flawlessly in 0.34 final are now screwed up. If you see such things, don't forget to mention it on one of the message boards though - we can't check all 1000 games ourselves
• No new features have been added yet, but several are on deck. The 3dfx code will be incorporated shortly for all those who have asked about it. It is not present in this build.
• The hunt for games which have "static" in the sound continues. Please tell us if you hear any.

http://www.macmame.org/
 

z26 1.24 Released! A new version of z26 has just been released:

"More fiddling with frame sync. At this point it works about as well under Win98 as it did under Win95. In fact in some ways it's a little better. I can play an audio CD in the background while playing z26 with very little frame-skipping. This wasn't possible before. I don't know if this is a Win98 thing or a z26 thing though."

- John Saeger
Author of z26

z26 is an Atari 2600 emulator for DOS.

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

New VBEmu98 Coming Soon? According to the latest update on David Tucker's webpage, a new version of VBEmu98 is on the way, possibly within a week. David's been focusing on VBEmu98's speed and it's now much faster. VBEmu98 can now run Telero Boxer at an acceptable speed on a Pentium 100 Mhz with a frame skip of 6. For David's complete announcement, follow this link.

DBOY English Translation Updated Yencu's official translation of the new DBOY 0.38 documentation can be found here.

Boycott 0.44 Released! Golem has just released Boycott 0.44! Here's what's new:

• Full Game Genie support (either 6-digit or 9-digit codes)
• Faster display when both frameskip and vsync are enabled
• Speed up joystick detection (200%)
• Two parameters added for CGB/SGB future support
• Use 320x200 mode by default even without VESA 2.0
• ROM analysis improved with MBC3/MBC5/GBCamera/HuC1/HuC3 autodetect
• Autodetect Color Gameboy roms
• Fixes ROM banks count
• Bug fixes in RLCA/RRA/RLA instructions (may fix some games)
• Bug fixes while debugging CB instructions
• Fix english help messages ("or")
• English or french messages (choose by a parameter)
• Reset FPS when enter debug mode (FPS is more accurate now in debug mode)
• Presentation improved
• No video initialization until ROM not loaded (better now :)
• Works either in debug mode or emulator mode (same executable with Debug parameter)

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

Bleem Reversal? The Bleem team posted on their webpage today that the public beta released yesterday was, in fact, not a public beta at all:

"It has come to our attention that a STOLEN beta version of our software is circulating the internet -- it was NOT 'leaked' intentionally or otherwise. The STOLEN version was NOT intended for public release -- There are known issues with that month-old version and it will NOT be supported in any way. WebSite, Server, FTP and all other forms of distribution of this STOLEN software are strictly ILLEGAL. We ask that you respect our copyright and our hard work and immediately REMOVE all copies of, and links to, our software."

EMU News Service has never carried this beta. The website where we originally received the news report from (and linked to) has removed its copy.

Java MSX Emulator Updated! Arnon Gonçalves Cardoso has released version 0.61 of his Java MSX Emulator:

"After a long time I have done a little update on jmsxemu. I hope now it works well on fast machines. I've also recompiled it using jdk1.2 (although it is Java 1.1 compatible) hopping that some bugs of older compilers got fixed. And also add zip support (although the games are still in plain format, but I'll fix this soon). This new version is 0.61."

- Arnon
Author of Java MSX Emulator

http://www.classicgaming.com/jmsxemu/
 
MAME 0.35 Beta 1 Released! Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the waters, the MAME development team releases 0.35 Beta 1! Six new games have been added:

• Atari Football
• Battle Lane Vol. 5 (preliminary)
• Pocket Gal
• Rolling Thunder
• Turtle Ship Mariner

• Sector Zone (= Seicross)
• Carnival (cocktail)
• Pac Man (Hearts)
• City Connection (set 2)
• Burger Time (DECO set 1)
• Sly Spy (set 1)
• Wild Fang (= Tecmo Knight)
• Crazy Kong (Orca bootleg)
• Gate of Doom (set 2)
• Zig Zag (Dig Dug hardware)
• Black Dragon (bootleg, hacked)
• Exciting Soccer (alternate music)

New CCS64 Beta Released Hakan Sundell has released new betas of CCS64, his Commodore 64 emulator for DOS and Windows. Here's what's new:

• On-screen display for C2N counter
• Config settings in the config file for menu colors.
• Play button in the C2N Menu now gives response to the C64.
• Nr of 1541 drives is now stored in the config file.

DarcNES 19990106 Released Nyef has released a new version of his NES emulator for Linux. He's adding support for Sega Master System games to DarcNES and this release can no load some SMS games, but none are playable as of yet.

http://www.netway.com/~nyef/
 

DBOY 0.38 Released BouKiChi has released another new version of DBOY.

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

Bleem Beta Released! The much talked about PlayStation emulator, Bleem has been released. This isn't the official release. It's a "leaked beta" - apparently being distributed with the author's blessing. Thanks to Acid^Cyan for the e-mail.

http://surf.to/bleem
 

Connectix Announces PlayStation Emulator! Connectix, makers of the Virtual PC emulator and other commercial software announced today that it will be releasing a new PlayStation emulator for Macintosh (G3) computers! Called the "Virtual Game Station", it's expected to retail for $49.95.

Although the emulation scene has been booming for the last few years, few companies have tried to release commercial emulators. There are exceptions, of course, such as Activision's Atari 2600 emulator and Microsoft's arcade game emulator. But these products have met with limited success.

Today's announcement, however, has sent shock waves through out the Macintosh community. The Macintosh has never had as many games as the PC - either in quantity or quality. Many see this as a chance for the Macintosh to help bridge this gap.

One of the more interesting aspects to today's announcement is the fact that this emulator is not licensed or endorsed by Sony. How Sony intends to react to this news remains to be seen. But perhaps the best news of all is the possibility that Connectix might port their PlayStation emulator to the PC.

http://www.connectix.com/cvgs/

Thanks to the many people who sent in e-mails :)

New ShapeShifter Is Freeware! Christian Bauer has released a brand new version of Shapeshifter. Perhaps the best new feature is that it is now freeware. Also, ShapeShifter now supports MacOS 8! ShapeShifter is a Macintosh emulator for Amiga.

http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/SSMain.html

NO$GMB 2.0 Released! Martin Korth has released a new version of NO$GMB - with GameBoy Color support:

"Finally, after several months, about 20 inofficial beta sub-versions, about 150 new things, details and fixes, here it is: no$gmb 2.0.

"The possibly most important new feature is Color Gameboy emulation, which I decided to make shareware, unregistered users will get a timeout message after a while. I really have almost no-cash and would need some."

- Martin Korth
No$GMB Author

http://www.work.de/nocash/gmb.htm

BrSMS 1.14 Released! Ricardo Bittencourt has released version 1.14 of BrSMS. Here's what's new:

• Added a new line-by-line, which is slower but more accurate. Some new games working in the new engine are SMS "Global Gladiators", SMS "Cool Spot", SMS "Speedball 2", SMS "Xenon 2", SMS "Quartet", SMS "Ghost House", SMS "Gauntlet", GG "Ristar", GG "Robocop 3", GG "Sonic Drift 2" and more!
• BrSMS always try to autodetect which video engine it should use. However, you can use the new options "-line" to force the new line-by-line engine or "-block" to force the old block-based engine.
• The Z80 clock was reduced from 3.57MHz to 3.32MHz (this seems to be the correct value). This make the Z80 emulation a bit faster.
• Support to zoomed sprites, used in GG "X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy".
• Now the PC speaker is turned off when the emulator exits.
• Tweaked a bit the border color, now GG "Fatal Fury Special" has less flicker.
• Optimized the VESA 2 modes for MMX processors. Emulation in VESA 2 modes is now twice as fast when MMX is detected.
• Now BrSMS display a list of known bugs for each game in the startup.

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

New VICE Now Out! The VICE Development Team has released a new version of their multi-computer emulator for DOS and Linux. So far, VICE supports the Commodore 64, Commodore VIC 20, Commodore 128 and Commodore PET. Here are just some of the highlights:

Commodore 64:

• A couple of bugs in the emulation of 6510 CPU core, VIC-II and REU have been fixed
• Final Cartridge, Ocean Cartridge, Super Snapshot 4 and 16KB CRT image support has been added
• Display modes in Ultimax mode have been corrected

• Some memory banking bugs have been fixed (C128 GEOS works)

• RS232 interface has been added

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fachat/vice/vice.html

Virtual Gameboy 1.4 Released! Marat Fayzullin has released Virtual Gameboy version 1.4! Here's what's new:

• CGB CPU STOP opcode implemented correctly
• CGB double speed switch implemented
• CGB HFLIP tile attribute implemented
• CGB VFLIP tile attribute fixed
• CGB DMA mode fixed
• Added Pocket Printer emulation
• Added Hudson HuC1 mapper emulation
• Started adding Hudson HuC3 mapper emulation
• Minor changes in video controller emulation
• Fixed implementation for MBC3 realtime clock
• Minor changes in GameShark emulation
• Version number fixed in VGB-Unix
• Number of palette entries corrected in VGB-Unix
• Multiple fixes to VGB-Windows startup code
• "Size|Snapshot" option in VGB-Windows
• VGB-Windows now remembers window size/position
• Added miscellaneous keyboard controls to VGB-Windows

http://www.komkon.org/fms/VGB/

Hit 12345678 Just a small note that Matt L. became EMU News Service's 12,345,678th hit sometime yesterday.

Snarkofagen's Emulation Has Moved The new URL is:

http://home.swipnet.se/snarkofagen/
 

CoolNESs 0.74 Released Fredrik Olsson has released a new version of CoolNESs. Here's what's new in version 0.74:

• Fixes to the Squarewave and sawtooth chanels
• Fixed the screenheight in the prefs

http://hem2.passagen.se/flubba/coolness.html

New Arnold Released Kevin Thacker has released a brand new version of Arnold, his Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows 95/98/NT. This is a major update. There are many improvements:

• Code to allow multiple VSYNCS per frame
• Fixed problem with The-Demo not working in CPC+ mode
• Adjusted screen offset to show CPC display better
• In CPC+ mode, added code so that screen split fault is reproduced
• In CPC+ mode, added code to handle re-programming of vertical scroll at any time
• CRTC Interlace Sync and Video Mode
• Fixed Vsync output when CRTC is operating in Interlace or Interlace and Video Sync Mode
• Rendering of black in monitor vsync and hsync areas
• In CPC/CPC+ mode you can choose grey-scale monitor mode
• In CPC mode you can choose green-screen monitor mode
• Code to allow multiple HSYNCS per line
• When changing to full-screen mode, debugger windows are now closed down
• You can choose the Windows task priority
• More fixes to the CRTC emulation
• CRTC1 implementation has begun
• Fixed some more of the CRTC type 0, type 1 and type 3 emulation
• Now that CRTC1 implementation has begun
• Improved the CRTC switching code.
• CRTC code improved a bit so that some unnecessary calculations were reduced
• Code to allow HSYNCs to overlap
• Improvements to interface
• You can drag and drop files to the emu, the following are supported: Snapshots (64k or 128k), CPC+ Cartridges
• Automatically changes to CPC+ mode when a cartridge is inserted

Nemu64 0.008 Released Lemmie has released Nemu64 0.008. Here's what's new:

• Better PI Interrupt (more demos work)
• More RSP emulation

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

MAME32 0.34 Released! The Windows port of the latest official MAME release is now out! Authors Christopher Kirmse and Michael Soderstrom have released MAME32 version 0.34 early this morning. This brings the Windows version in sync with the DOS original. Thanks to John Hardy for the e-mail.

http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32/

DarcNES 19990103 Progress Report Nyef has released some preliminary information regarding the next version of DarcNES. Currently, he's adding preliminary implementation of the Master System VDP. Although Nyef has been releasing a new version of DarcNES on almost a daily basis, this will require some major restructuring. DarcNES is an NES emulator for Linux.

http://www.netway.com/~nyef/
 

http://www.kumagaya.or.jp/~yamama/emul/index.htm

Official DBOY Translation The DBOY website has been updated with the English translation of the new DBOY 0.37 documentation.

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

DarcNES 19990102 Released Nyef has just released an even newer version of DarcNES. Directly from the official webpage, here's what's new:

• Added (working) mapper 32
• Added (working) mapper 23 support
• Added mapper 15
• fixed infinite loop in mapper 7 code
• Added Marat's Z80 core for SMS emulation

• Added (working) mapper 32
• Added (working) mapper 23 support
• Added mapper 15
• fixed infinite loop in mapper 7 code
• Added Marat's Z80 core for SMS emulation

Unix Port of MAME 0.34 Released! Hans De Goede has just released the Unix port of MAME 0.34! Here's what's new in X-Mame:

• Everything from DOS 0.34 final
• The mouse is now ungrabbed when the window looses focus
• Ggi dirty support, tested with ggi 2.0 beta1

Nemu64 0.007a Released A couple new bugs were discovered in the newly released Nemu64, so Lemmy has issued a minor update. Version 0.0007a fixes a 640x480 video bug and a bug in the PI Interrupt handling. Nemu64 is a Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows. Thanks to Avarice for the e-mail.

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

Gameboy 98 Moves The webpage for Adam Polanski's Gameboy emulator has moved. The new URL is:

http://gameboy98.cjb.net

Nemu64 0.007 Released Lemmy has just released Nemu64 version 0.0007. Directly from the documentation, here's what's new:

• Implemented an opcode to see the title of vnes
• Speed increase
• Support for VI_CURRENT_LINE_REG
• CRAP #1 and #2 work better than in PUR now
• Started RSP emulation, but nothing works yet (maybe some RSP demos crash now)
• Some other things

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

New SMYGB Features Gameboy Color Emulation! Ming-yu Shih has just released a brand new version of SMYGB! Version 0.20 adds Gameboy Color emulation, joystick support and now runs faster than before. SMYGB is for Windows 9x/NT. Thanks to Billy Jr. for the e-mail.

http://billyjr.com/smygb/

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

HU6280 Adds Mouse Support! Jamsponge has just released another new version of HU6280! Here's what's new:

• Added -mouse command line option for emulating PC Engine mouse (try Jamanoid)
• Updated CPU emulation, now handles SET opcode correctly !

http://www.hu6280.com/

Jamanoid 0.63 Released Jamsponge (author of HU6280) continues his work on his all-new TurboGrafx-16 game. He's released version 0.63:

• Coded up proper bat collision routine :) ** Game is now actually fun! **
• Extended play area vertically, to give player more gameplay space :)
• Added a second bank of code, Yes! the code grew >8k ;)
• Generally sorted code out, ready for the next big routine - POWERUPS!

http://www.hu6280.com/

DBOY 0.37 Released BouKiChi just released DBOY version 0.37. As of this writing, an English translation of DBOY's documentation is not yet available. DBOY is a Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for DOS.

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

Archie 0.3 Released Chris-O has just released Archie version 0.3. This new release can now boot the operating system. Archie is an Archimedes emulator for DOS.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/5427/
 

Another New DarcNES Released Nyef has released a new version of DarcNES today. Here's what's new:

• Added (working) mapper 68
• Started working on SMS emulation
• Fixed mapper 4, Crystalis no longer dumps core on the name screen

http://www.netway.com/~nyef/

System 16 Arcade Emulator 0.82 Released! Thierry Lescot (ShinobiZ) and Li Jih Hwa (Nao) have just released a new version of System 16! Here's what's new in version 0.82:

• Sound states are kept in save-game files
• Supports for Ensoniq PCI soundcards
• Added MOVIE RECORDING/PLAYING supports. Use F9/F11 for recording/playing.
• Fixed the PCM sounds out of sync bug for OUTRUN and Space Harrier
• Fixed the command line option "-rdtsc"
• Added "-noleds" command line option for systems cannot work properly with the keyboard led control routines
• Fixed keyboard re-define routine for emulation control keys. All control keys can be correctly re-defined now
• Changed the method in switching video mode at welcome title which had caused some systems to hang or reboot even without the title appearing
• Added command line option for gamma correction "-gamma #"
• Added command line option for thick scanline mode "-scanlines2"
• Eliminated some display glitches in switching back from UI mode
• Fixed display position in Eagle horizontal mode
• Both Left and Right shift keys can be re-defined as game control keys now. This works great for Time Scanner
• Upgraded Tatsuyuki Satoh FM core to 0.34D
• The 400x300 X-Mode display mode for vertical display games is much more compatible than before
• Added a new gcs file: Atomic Point
• Fixed game description input in SAVE GAME selection screen
• Sounds output are turned off before entering menu
• Fixed random crash of QUARTET2 after loading a game state
• Supports for MS SideWinder gamepad and LPT SNESPAD. Use "-joytype 8" for MS SideWinder and "-joytype 10" for SNESPAD
• Added a new gcs file: Riot City

http://www.system16.com/

New DarcNES Released Nyef updated his NES emulator last night. DarcNES is a new NES emulator for Linux. Although it's still relatively new, it features sound emulation and source code is also available for download. Thanks to _Aprentice_ for the e-mail.

http://www.netway.com/~nyef/

Atari800 0.9.8 Released! Petr Stehlik has released both the DOS and Falcon ports of Atari800. Although Petr has been releasing his development source code to the public all the time, this is the first compile (executable/load module) he's released in quite some time, so there are a lot of changes, most noticeably save states and direct EXE loading.

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

XTender2 Beta 6 Released Carlo Delhez has unveiled a new beta of his Sinclair ZX80 and Sinclair ZX81 emulator. Beta 6 features various minor bug-fixes and code changes. XTender2 is for DOS.

http://www.delhez.demon.nl/

AMAME/PMAME Updated Rodimus Prime has updated his CPU-optimized compiles of MAME to correspond with the new MAME 0.34.

http://www.sound.net/~rodimus/

NES4PC 0.30 Released David de Regt has released a new version of NES4PC. Here's what's new in version 0.30:

• Interface: Made a playing mode which hides the debug stuff. This mode is much faster for just playing in since windows doesn't have to update the graphics for the rest of the window too. =)
• Interface: Huge optimizations! Runs 30% faster now!
• Graphics: Added a new brighter palette. The old one was the iNES one, and the new one is from Nesticle. I'll be looking for better palettes in the future.
• Graphics: A few optimizations to the scanline engine
• Sound: Fixed a lot of errors in the looping/fading code
• Sound: Fixed a lot of the scratchiness
• PPU: Added detection for more than 8 sprites on the scanline.
• CPU: Fixed stupid mistakes in PHP/PLP
• CPU: A few addressing mode fixes.
• CPU: Made a difference between a reset and a hard boot, there was no difference before
• CPU: Fixed a few IRQ bugs
• CPU: Converted 16-bit Stack Pointer (used for optimizations before) to more accurate 8-bit stack pointer
• CPU: Converted CCR from 7 booleans to the actual 8-bit register
• Mappers: Fixed mapper 1 (MMC1, Again!)
• Mappers: Fixed mapper 4 (MMC3)
• Mappers: Added mappers 9/10 (MMC2/MMC4, Same thing basically)
• Mappers: Added preliminary mapper 15 (100-in-1)
• Mappers: Added mapper 24 (VRC6)
• Mappers: Added mapper 230 (22-in-1)

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