Fortune City Down As of this writing, all of Fortune City's webpages are down. They've posted a short message to say that the problem lies in a power failure:

"Due a complete power outage at the Chantilly Data Center, FortuneCity is currently offline. Engineers are currently working on this problem and as soon as we have an ETA on service being restored we will post details."

This affects several emulation sites such as VBEmu, SNEeSe, Nestra, VPCE and the Korean translation of EMU News Service.

SloMo 0.23b7 Released Don Jarrett has added support for 3 new games to SloMo. The new games are Space Chasers, Cosmic Monsters and Space Phantoms. SloMo is a multi-arcade game emulator for Window 9x/NT.

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

Frodo/MacOS Updated Richard Bannister has also released a new version of his Commodore 64 emulator. Here's what's new in version 4.1.6:

• Calmed down the Regulate Speed option - Frodo is now more careful about increasing the frame rate. This, I hope, should solve a lot of the problems of choppy sound experienced by users of v4.1.5.
• Rewrote a lot of the mac specific code for speed and stability. This
• version is about 10% faster than v4.1.5.
• Frodo now requires the Appearance Manager. This was not an easy decision to take - but I think the end result is worth it. Frodo's interface has changed quite a bit from previous versions - I hope people like the improvements.
• Frodo can now quit the finder on loading. This option is off by default, but you can turn it on in the settings dialog.
• Frodo can now switch the monitor to the optimum resolution automatically in Full Screen mode. This can be turned off in the settings dialog.
• Finally Frodo can emulate both Joysticks at the same time. You can also configure them now using the Joysticks... option in the Options menu.
• Removed the ability to Copy/Save/Print video at different sizes. It was completely pointless - and it occupied more than 20K of disk space across the different versions of Frodo. These functions always output a single size image now.
• Your sound preference is now saved in the preferences - if you prefer sound off, you will no longer have to do it each time you run Frodo.
• Frodo now cleans up after itself properly when you quit.
• Fixed an error in the RAM Image handling that set the file's type/creator to a RAM image whether it was in fact a RAM image or not.
• Tape and Disk files which have been accidentally configured as RAM Images can now still be used. This is for people affected by the above.
• Recompiled with CodeWarrior Pro 4.

Lynx ROM Utility Released Richard Bannister has released a new Atari Lynx ROM utility today. It can help you organize your Lynx ROM collection by identifying 90 different games automatically. Lynx ROM Info 

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

DarkMazda's Domain Has Moved The new URL is:

http://sycraft.ml.org/darkmazda/

New Come Back 64 Released! JHF Software has released a Come Back 64 version 0.95. This release adds support for an emulated 1541 diskdrive, cartridge and fixes to the sound code. Come Back 64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for DOS.

http://members.xoom.com/jfitie/

DTMNT 0.52 Released! Dave has released a minor update to DTMNT. This release focuses on its sound support. The  drum chip emulation is more accurate and the orchestra hits are now played. Dave's webpage seems to be down for the moment, but you can snag a copy from here.

New CPC Emulator Debuts! Ulrich Doewich has released the first public beta of his new Amstrad CPC emulator, CPC32. This is Ulrich's second CPC emulator.

http://www.classicgaming.com/cpe/

BeebInC Has Moved The new URL is:

http://www.cabbage0.demon.co.uk/bbc.html
 

Snes9x 1.1 Released! The Snes9x development team has just released Snes9x version 1.1! So far only the Linux and Solaris ports are available, but this gives everyone a glimpse at what's two come. First, the biggest new feature is netplay. Now up to 5 people can play! Super Mario Cart and Winter Gold are now playable. Plus, you can expect the usual round of bugfixes. As I said, only the Linux and Solaris ports are out, but the DOS, Windows and Macintosh ports are on their way.

http://www.snes9x.com/

GalEMU 0.11 Released! Barry Rodewald has released GalEMU version 1.11. This release adds support for three new games:

• Defend the Terra Attack on the Red UFO
• Moon Cresta (a bootleg running on Galaxian HW),
• War of the Bugs (with an amazing invisible player - but it is playable otherwise)

http://members.xoom.com/mahlemiut/galemu.html
 
More Raine Richard Bush has revealed that sound will be working in Ninja Warriors, Liquid Kids, Mega Blast, Taito Tetris, Space Invaders DX, Ninja Kids, Growl, Crime City, Superman Drift Out and more. No release date has been announced as of yet.
 

NINCEST 64 0.05 Beta Released Marius Dumitrean has released a new version of his new Nintendo 64 emulator for DOS:

"A lot of debugging things added to the emulator. I've got two bugs I cannot figure out, one with a lot of ROMs (my DMA transfer is broken?) And the other with DEMO.V64 going into an infinite loop (probably a register not being emulated, etc). "

Thanks to Mark for the e-mail.

http://www.tsoft.com/~faraway/nincest/nincest.html
 
Richard Bush Interviewed Steve Jones of Backyard Emulation Links has conducted an interview with Richard Bush, the author of Raine. 

http://www.backyard.u-net.com/

Sneak Peak at the Next GrayBox Arthur Langereis has released some new details on the next release of GrayBox. First, a new programmer has joined the fold, Allan Jensen. Together, they have developed a new plug-in architecture for their emulator. There will be plug-ins for audio, video audio, input and mapper parts. A first beta is due out by the end of October.

SloMo 0.23b6 Released Yes, Don Jarrett has released another new SloMo beta. Today's release adds support for four new games: Boot Hill, Clowns, Destination: Earth, and Sea Wolf. SloMo is a multi-arcade game emulator for Windows.

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

BBC Micro Has Moved The webpage for Tom Seddon's Model-B (BBC computer emulator) has moved. The new URL is:

http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/t.w.seddon/bbc-emu.htm

Virtual Boy Dissassembler David Tucker released a new version of his Virtual Boy dissassembler for DOS last week. Version 1.03 is primarily a bugfix release. Thanks to noname for the e-mail.

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

http://www.therealamiga.com/

New Fellow Released! Petter Schau has just released Fellow 0.3.3! Here's what's new:

• 68010, 68020, 68030 instruction set emulation now capable of running some programs
• MOD Ripper (contributed by Rainer Sinsch)
• Virtual Filesystem driver (included by kind permission from UAE)
• Added some new user manual translations
• Lots of smaller changes

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/5244/

SloMo 0.23b5 Released Don Jarrett has just released another new SloMo beta, his second of the day! This release adds support for three new games and fixes Lunar Rescue. SloMo is for Windows 9x/NT.

http://members.tripod.com/~Frodo4/slomo.html
 
WACKE 1.5.0 Demo Now Available Joe Fenton has released a new demo of WACKE (Weightless Atari Computer Keepsake Emulator) for Macintosh.

http://www.ctaz.com/~jlfenton/Mac/WACKE/main.htm

Mirko Buffoni Interviewed Jose Q's EmuViews has done an interview with MAME's Mirko Buffoni:

http://208.153.32.200/cgi-local/show.cgi?SERIAL=257&LANG=en_US

O2EM 0.701 Released Dan Boris has just released a minor update to O2EM:

"Turns out the bug fix 'Fixed the shape of the '$' character and added the missing 64th character' I listed in the O2EM 0.70 docs didn't actually make it into the final release. I have just put up V0.701 which fixes that problem."

- Dan Boris
O2EM Author

O2EM is an Odyssey² emulator for DOS.

http://atarihq.com/danb/o2tech.htm

SloMo 0.23b4 Released Don Jarrett has released a new beta of his multi-arcade game emulator for Windows. Version 0.23 Beta 4. This new version adds support for  Invaders Deluxe and partial support for Lunar Rescue.

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

Snes Emulation Centre Back Up After being down for the past few days, the Snes Emulation Centre is back up.

http://www.snes9x.com/sec

O2EM Adds Voice Emulation! Dan Boris has just released O2EM version 0.70! O2EM is the world's first and only Odyssey² emulator. The biggest new feature in this version is voice support. Directly from the author's webpage, here's the complete list of what's new

• Added support for The Voice
• CPU core now jumps to the correct location on external interrupts (Killer Bees now runs)
• Fixed the shape of the '$' character and added the missing 64th character
• Fixed a bug in the drawing of the bottom line of the grid
• Fixed a bug in the CPU core relating to branch instructions near page boundaries

http://atarihq.com/danb/o2tech.htm

R80 Spectrum Emulator 0.03 Released! Raul Gomez Sanchez has released a new version of his Sinclair ZX Spectrum for DOS. Here's what's new:

• Pentagon 128 emulation, useless as there is not TRD support yet
• ROMs are not modified any more when loading/saving a TAP file
• Save GRP snapshots (code by Ricardo Bittencourt)
• Added breakpoints to the debugger
• Added traps to the debugger. Traps are like breakpoints but for internal use of the emulator
• Added (again) display screen to the debugger
• Changed configuration options for sound and joystick in r80.ini
• More options in Setup (F12)
• A bit more accurate contended memory emulation, far from perfect yet
• Fixed a silly bug in Z80 v1.35 loader introduced in release 0.02.1
• Faster display screen routines, about 15%-20%

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

If you have any trouble downloading it from the official webpage, you can also snag a copy by clicking here.

Jaguar Dissassembler Released Thomas Scott has released an Atari Jaguar dissassembler for Windows 9x. You can get it from:

http://www.emuunlim.com/oc/jaguar-files.html

DOS Acorn Atom Emulator Has Moved The new URL is:

http://www.casema.net/~avio/atom.htm

Thanks to Cloy for the e-mail.

HU6280 1.81 Released! Jamsponge has released a new version of his TurboGrafx 16 emulator. Here's what's new:

• Added CRC ROM detection
• Greater compatibility (Sonic Spike Volleyball, Final Match Tennis, GAIA, City Hunter, Toyshop Boys, Homedata Chess Game and FinalSoldier now all work.
• Added HU6280 logo

Removed logging

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3135/

PSyKe's Future In Jeopardy Rasky has updated his webpage with some possibly bad news. He's going to take a small break (about a month) from his PlayStation emulator and then he will decide whether he will continue working on PSyKe:

"But, I'm sorry, I've a very bad news for you all. PSyKe is officially suspended for a month. mOoNsHaDo and me had some discussions in last days, and he decided to leave the team. I have some very talented friends that want to help me continuing PSyKe, but I'm not so sure that *I* want to continue PSyKe. This is why I'm suspending it for a month: I need to think. I hope that mOoNsHaDo will change his mind and go back working on it, I'm waiting for him. Otherwise, I'll let you all know what I'll do at the end of October. The site should not been updated until that date. And, please, please, don't mail me: I've decided to suspend it, and your mails are simply useless."

- Rasky
Remaining Author of PSyKe

There is some good news to report. PSyKe now has its own domain, www.psyke.com and MDEC (PSX Video) emulation is partially working now.

http://www.nayma.com/psyke/

Gekko to Return as Commercial Emulator Johan Köhler, author of Gekko, the world's first Neo Geo emulator, has revealed that he's is still working on his emulator. Only now it will be released commercially with SNK's blessing. Read all about it at:

http://www.elitegamer.com/interviews/dra-92498.htm

RockNES Website Moves The new URL is

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

System 16 Author Releases New Emulator! Li Jih Hwa (Nao) of System 16 fame has released a brand new multi-arcade game emulator called The M72 Arcade Emulator. It supports 6 games: R-Type Jp, Image Fight, Legend of Hero Tonma, Battle Chopper and Ninja Spirit - and features full sound.

http://users.skynet.be/system16/m72.html

New NEO GEO Emulator Debuts! Programmers Luis Miguel Dominguez and Cristobal Aguilera have released a brand new Neo Geo emulator. There are two versions available: NEO·Gem Emulator which can play games but no sound and NEO·Gem CD which currently only loads the Neo Geo BIOS. Thanks to Stuart A. for the e-mail.

http://www.emuspain.com/neogem/english.htm

BrMSX 1.151 Released Ricardo Bittencourt has just released a minor update to BrMSX. Version 1.151 add support for an undocumented VDP feature.

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

Come Back 64 0.94 Released! JHF Software has released Come Back 64 version 0.94. Here's what's new:

• Online documentation
• SoundBlaster card not required anymore
• Math coproccessor no long required (now works on 386SX computers)
• Fixed frameskip bug
• Fixed sound on SoundBlaster Pro cards (no more clicking sound)
• Fixed loading errors (no more system crashes when less than 6 programs)
• Fixed keyboard/joystick 1 conflict (all keys work now when port 1)
• Improved compatibility

http://members.xoom.com/jfitie/

MAME32 0.34 Beta 3 Released! Christopher Kirmse and Michael Soderstrom have released MAME32 version 0.34 Beta 3. The official webpage is down at the moment, but you can download a copy from here or directly from EMU News Service. Thanks to John H. for the e-mail.

GalEMU 0.10 Released! Barry Rodewald has just released his first update to GalEMU, his new Galaxian emulator for DOS. This release adds support for several Galaxian clones and also adds a PCX screenshot feature.

http://members.xoom.com/mahlemiut/galemu.html
 

• Sidewinder fix options are now swapped since the majority seems to work better with the other sidewinder routine.
• Implemented EXTBG mode7 in 256 color old graphics engine.
• Fixed a DSP Sound bug where some sound effects weren't played in certain games
• Tweaked joystick routines again
• Fixed up a bug where sometimes loading a game after playing another game screws up emulation
• Optimised 640x480x8, 512x384x8, and 512x384x16 video modes
• Implemented EXTBG mode7 in 65536 color old graphics engine.
• Fixed an offset per tile mode range clipping bug
• Fixed up offset per tile mode in new gfx 8bit engine
• Fixed a bug which caused a crash when a state is loaded while playing/recording a movie file
• Optimised new gfx 16bit non-transparency mode
• Implemented SPC700 stall detection/recovery attempt
• Fixed up a new header detection bug in v0.625
• Modified memory allocation routines.  Hope this fixes those random crash problems that some people seem to have
• Fixed a sound bug where the song leaks after it ends, sometimes producing an unwanted beep
• Optimised new gfx 16bit transparency modes
• Multiple DSP sound bug fixes
• Implemented transparencies in high res 16x8 tiles
• Implemented a command line to disable the sound DSP (-dd).
• Fixed a bug where joystick support makes the emulation slow
• Had to remove some memory allocated variables and convert them to arrays since they were causing random crashes on specific computers.
• Fixed up pressing save state/load state in game so that it doesn't clear any key presses

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

Just in case the ZSNES website gets swamped, you can also download a copy directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.

NSFE To Use TrueReality Code In a surprising announcement, Gordon Hollingworth has
decided to merge parts of Niki Waibel's Nintendo 64 emulator (TrueRealty) into his own Nintendo 64 emulator (NSFE). Gordon and Niki have been discussing this for some time now (they both share the same webpage). By combining the best of TrueReality's emulation core and NSFE's GUI/OpenGL code, they hope to create "a fully functional N64 emulator for Windows, UNIX, DOS, MAC etc." When released, NSFE will be available as both a binary and source code. 

DTmnt 0.51 Released! Dave has released DTmnt version 0.51. Here's what's new:

• SBSND SoundBlaster code fixed for low end soundblasters.
• Drum emulation improved (volume, more drums, pitch) Sounds very good!
• If you use SBSND, press O for an visual waveform, and again to see the 'drum' chip's registers (debug info for me)
• Waveform sounds are now clipped (no static when loud sounds are played)

http://www.cybermillenia.com/dayvee/

New Gameboy Emulator Debuts! Ming-yu Shih has released a brand new Gameboy emulator for Windows 9x! Here's a sampling of SMYGB's features:

• Support window and full screen modes of DirectX
• Can play the sound like the real Game Boy
• Support some SGB features
• Can realtime save and load the game state

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

Virtual Gameboy 1.2 Released! Marat Fayzullin has released Virtual Gameboy 1.2! Here's what's new:

• Complete Super GameBoy support! Some games may still not work properly, but only a small part.
• Partial Color GameBoy support! Unfortunately, this hasn't been properly tested yet.
• Separate Pocket GameBoy support! Correct colors and ID code.
• Speedup due to somewhat improved memory access code.
• Automatic detection of SGB/CGB capabilities in cartridges.
• New GBCarts library properly recognizes new switch types and ROM sizes.
• Soundtrack saved directly into MIDI files. No conversion needed.
• Separate screen refresh routines for the normal GameBoy, SGB, and CGB.
• Fixed SGB multiplayer function, thanks to Pascal Felber.
• Improved VRAM->SGB data transfer code.
• Fixed MBC3 bank switching. (Wario World 2, etc.)
• Fixed window rendering in video controller, thanks to Pascal Felber. (Star Trek, Donkey Kong, PGA Golf, etc.)
• Fixed serial I/O support and timings, thanks to Paul Robson. (Stargate, Alleyway, Nintendo Baseball, Winning Goal, etc.)
• Fixed joystick port handling.(Beetle Juice, Battle Bull, etc.)
• VGB-Unix supports 8bpp, 16bpp, and 32bpp X-Windows modes.

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

BrMSX 1.150 Released! Ricardo Bittencourt has released a new version of BrMSX. Here's what's new in version 1.150:

• Support to sprite collision detection ("Magical Kid Wiz", "Abu Simbel's Profanation", "Pitfall2 ", "ON SPRITE GOSUB"). You can disable this feature with the option "-nosprcol".
• Support to 8kb roms ("Frogger", "Video Hustler"). Thanks to Omar Mosqueda for the roms.
• Support to MegaROM Mapper #8: original Panasonic FM-PAC with 8kb SRAM.
• VERY PRELIMINARY YM2413 (MSX-Music) emulation. Use the switch "-fmpac" to enable it.
• New and improved video engine, this make "-win" and "-dos" obsolete since this new engine is faster than both, and works in any OS. MMX users should still use "-mmx".
• Fixed the support to 48kb roms ("Donkey Kong"). Thanks to Omar Mosqueda for the report.
• Fixed a bug in video cache ("Red Moon"). Thanks to Jaime Galle for the report.
• Fixed a bug in PSG registers 1,3,5 ("Crazy Train").
• Fixed a bug in vertical position of zoomed sprites.
• Fixed the sound sync bug, now the sound emulation should be a lot more stable.
• Fixed a minor bug in LOAD ROM for MegaROM games. Thanks to Dal Poz for the report.
• Fixed a bug that made BrMSX crash when executing code on a non-existent page.
• Fixed emulation of R register in JR opcodes ("Magical Tree").
• Fixed a problem of psggraph in SCREEN 0. Thanks to Cyberknight for the report.
• Now BrMSX only saves the SRAM in disk when a cartridge actually has a SRAM ("Gall Force").
• Now BrMSX adjust the system clock at exit. Thanks to Cyberknight for the report.
• New debugger screens "3" and "4" (information on FM-PAC registers, SCC memory dump and VRAM dump).
• Now the MegaRAM is cleared in a hard reset with TURN OFF. Thanks to Dal Poz for the report.

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

More Raine Games Here's the latest from the Raine camp, 2 more games are now playable on Raine: Rodland (with sound!) and Taito/Sega Tetris. Of course, we'll have to wait until the next release of Raine, but hopefully that won't be too far off.

RockNES 0.55 Released! Fx3, Kritz and Nyef have released RockNES 0.55. Here's what's new:

• Fixed Mapper #1, now more games works fine (like Metroid, Mega Man 2, CastleVania 2 etc)
• Fixed Mapper #4, now more games works (Mega Man 6, Sword Master)
• Implemented a new way of swapping ROM banks. This doesn't speed up the emulator or make it run any more games, however, it does make it a lot easier to work with and understand
• Added Mappers #10 and #23 (no games seems to run for now)
• Added autoframeskip system
• Added the old frame rate system
• Compatibility increased
• Minor changes across mappers/6502 functions
• Fixed a bug in the graphic engine (current PPU name table)
• Fixed a bug in the 6502 from Marat (now, with correct timing, the emulator has the correct speed)
• Fixed a bug in the sprite code that can fix some games
• Fixed the NES ROM header read function (partially for extended mappers)
• Fixed stupid bugs in the startup messages
• Removed video mode options by command line (just use rocknes.cfg)
• Config file generator adapted with the new changes

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2622/xnes.html
 

Emulation Zone Has Moved The new URL is:

http://www.emulationzone.org/

z26 1.13 Released! The day after z26 1.12 was released, John Saeger releases version 1.13. This is a rather minor update. It fixes 2 bugs. The first deals with column blanking. The second fixes a bug in Ice Hockey. z26 is an Atari 2600 emulator for DOS.

http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html
  
NeoRAGE Beta Released! Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela have released NeoRAGE 0.2d Beta 1:

"This is a NeoRage beta version, it supports a lot more games an NeoRAGE0.2d and it have no crc check so you can try all games. We have also support for Kiwi's genie database you must put your Genie.gdb in same directory as NeoRAGE."

Thanks to Till for the e-mail. You can grab a copy from:

http://www.classicgaming.com/sys2064/

PSEmu Pro Plugins Updated Two new PSEmu Pro plugins were released today. The first is spuNull version 1.0.3. This new version should allow the configuration dialog to open on certain systems. The second is the Seal sound driver. A new configuration screen has been added and some major memory bugs were squashed.

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

New Galaxian Emulator Debuts Barry Rodewald has released a brand new arcade game emulator. So far it emulates only one game, Galaxian (Namco version), but he hopes to add support for other games in the future. GalEMU is for DOS.

http://members.xoom.com/mahlemiut/galemu.html

SloMo 0.23br3 Released Don Jarrett has updated his SloMo emulator to include Space Invaders/Z80 CPU support. Several bugs in the graphics routines were also fixed. SloMo is a multi-arcade game emulator for Windows.

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

MAME for OS/2 0.34 Beta 3 Released Martin Amodeo has released a major new update to his OS/2 port of MAME. For the first time, the MAME for OS/2 is now in sync with the rest of the MAME versions.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=mame&pushbutton=Search
 

• No more jitter! As far as I know, there are no games that jitter inappropriately. This is due to further improvements to RIOT timer emulation, as well as improvements to VSYNC and VBLANK emulation.
• Added ability to scroll the vertical position of most games with <PgUp> and <PgDn> keys. <Home> returns to default position.
• Got some missing graphics to show up. Like espial's scoreboard as well as the scoreboard and logo in some of the Mystique games.  This is due to improved VBLANK emulation.

More PSEmu The official PSEmu Pro Compatability page received an updated today. Over 45 new screen shots have been added. In total, over 210 games have been tested with PSEMU. Not bad considering site maintainer Steve Owen just suffered a hard drive crash. If you're a PlayStation fan and you haven't checked this site out yet, you should do so now.

http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/fate/91/index.html

mOoNsHaDo Leaves Psyke? Emulators Unlimited is reporting that mOoNsHaDo has left Psyke (PlayStation emulator). The reports cites "a lack of enthusiasm in the emulation scene" as the reason for his decision. No further information is available at this time.

New PSEmu Plugin Released Kazzuya has released a new keyboard driver for PSEmu Pro. I haven't tried it yet but it should be more stable than the keyboard driver that comes with PSEmu Pro. Kazzuya's driver also features a bit of an online help system. Press F5 during gameplay to get a screen of the keyboard layout.

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

MAME 0.34.3a for Amiga Released Mats Eirik Hansen has just released a minor update to his Amiga port of MAME. This is his second release in as many days.

http://www.triumph.no/mame/

Retrogames Back Online After being down for the last few days, Retrogames is now back online.
 

http://www.emuunlim.com/

New CCS64 Beta Released Hakan Sundell has released a new beta of CCS64, his second this week. Here's what's new:

• Monitor now can assemble mnemonics, new command A.
• Monitor now supports illegal opcodes.
• New version of the .TAP format, now handles long delays (24-bit) using 00 xx xx xx sequence.
• The DirectX routines now has a delay of one second before initializing.

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

Amiga Port of MAME Updated Mats Eirik Hansen has just released version 0.34.3 of his Amiga port of MAME. This brings the Amiga port in sync with the DOS original.

http://www.triumph.no/mame/

Oric/MacOS 1.4 Released! Richard Bannister has released version 1.4 of his Macintosh port of Oric. Here's what's new:

• Oric/MacOS now uses the Appearance Manager (v1.0.1 or later is now required). The interface has been redesigned to make the most of this.
• Added the ability to quit the finder for that tiny extra speed boost.
• Added the ability to adjust the emulator speed. Your Oric can now run at anything between 20% and 500% of the original Oric speed.
• Added the ability to turn off sound emulation.
• Added a few other Mac-specific features that I honestly can't remember right now...

Nestra 0.4 Released! Quor has just released version 0.4 of Nestra, his NES emulator for Linux.

http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/altavista/601/

Virtual GameBoy 1.2 Coming Soon Marat Fayzullin has announced that a new version of Virtual Gameboy will be released shortly:

"Among features are faster emulation (due to some optimizations in memory access), multiple bugfixes to serial I/O and display controller, bugfixed MBC3 mapper emulation, separate GameBoy and Pocket GameBoy modes, almost-perfect Super GameBoy emulation (no more color glitches, no more scrambled SGB frames, etc.), and also preliminary emulation of GameBoy Color."

There is no exact release date as of yet. Stay tuned...

Jamsponge Releases TG16 Utility Jamsponge has released a new utility for identifying TurboGrafx 16 / PC Engine ROM images. Called PCEID, simply pass it the filename of the ROM image. Currently, it recognizes 251 ROMs. PCEID is for DOS.
 
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3135/

Retrogames Down Until Monday The website at www.retrogames.com is experiencing a server problem and has been down all day. The good news is that this is only temporary. Everything should be back to normal on Monday.

HU6280 1.80 Released! Jamsponge has just released a brand new version of his TurboGrafx 16 emulator. Version 1.80 fixes a couple sprite bugs. Also, the author has removed the gtmode because it wasn't performing up to his expectations.

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3135/

X-Mame 0.34b3.1 Released! Hans De Goede has released X-MAME version 0.34 Beta 3.1! Here's what's new:

• Everything from DOS-0.34b3
• Fixed the compilation problem on some platforms in config.c (missing includes for sys/stat.h and unistd.h)
• Speeded up palette cycling under xf86_dga with 8bpp
• Rewrote X mouse handling now mouse works under xf86_dga
• Added support for 15bpp truecolor visuals
• Fixed irix_nosound and aix_nosound targets
• Fixed a bug in osd_fseek which caused sample loading to fail, now samples work as advertised.
• Fixed a bug in svgalib & ggi palette handling which caused some strange effects with translucent vectors.

http://drake.dit.upm.es/~mame/index.html

SNEeSe Final Release! Savoury Snax has just released the latest and last release of SNEeSe. Savoury has decided to cancel the project. Consider this last release a farewell gift.

"I have placed the final version of SNEeSe online, the project is now closed (it has been for around 3 months!), the version available is a lot more compatible than previous versions, but time constraints and overall lack of motivation force me to bring the project to a close. The homepage will remain on line for as long as possible for historical reasons"

- Savoury Snax

Here's what's new in version 0.16f:

• Compatibility is vastly improved
• More ROMs play music
• New screen modes available
• Various bug fixes

http://www.fortunecity.com/olympia/baberuth/24/sneese.html

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

TrueReality Updated! Niki Waibel has released a new version of his Nintendo 64 emulator for Unix.

http://www.snes9x.com/n64emulators/
 

DTmnt 0.50 Released! Dave has just released DTmnt version 0.50! Here's what's new:

• Drums - but they are not truly emulated, kick/snare/hihat  are just hacked in.
• New SoundBlaster code (SBSND) rewritten by yours truly
• SAVE and LOAD functions (F5/F7):
• Virtual arcade machine never loses power (RAM is saved and loaded before/after play)
• MOVIE recording (Shift-F5/F7)
• SPEECH and THEME MUSIC are now back in
• MAME's new ym2151 code

http://www.cybermillenia.com/dayvee/

PSyKe Progress Report Giovanni Bajo and Stefano Crosara have posted new screenshots of the PSyKe playing Tenken 3! To check them out, head on over to here.

PSEmu Pro Webpage Part II Duddie tells me that they changed servers and it has not spreaded over all the DNS servers yet, so everything should be back to normal shortly.

PSEmu Pro Webpage Down The PSEmu Pro webpage has seemingly dissappeared. I'm looking into it and I'll report more as soon as I can...

GBMac 1.0.2b16 Released! Hideki Naito has just released GBMac version 1.0.2b16. GBMac is now faster with better sound and has a high compatibility rate. GBMac is a Gameboy emulator for MacOS.

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA009321/index2.html

PSEmu Pro News! The PSEmu Pro development team has updated several of their drivers:

• Graphics Driver: Kaz Soft (Brand New!)
• CD-ROM Drivers: DudAspi and DAO/CDRWIN

"BIG NEWS! Great Coder: Davide 'Kazzuya' Pasca joined PSEmu team. His goal is to make PSEmu faster (optimizations) and more stable. Welcome on board. To check his great job, download new GPU plugin for PSEmu. Kazuuya's Software Driver! It rox."

Finally, PSEmu Pro 1.06 should be right around the corner. Stay tuned...

http://www.psemu.com

ZSNES 0.625 Released! _Demo_, zsKnight and Pharos have released a major new version of ZSNES! Here's what's new:

• Fixed up a major speed drop bug by just adding some empty space.
• Used an older version of wdosx because the new version sometimes crashes during compiling
• Executable is now uncompressed.  It's 3 megs, but it provides a much faster start up time.
• Seems like EPACK can only support a maximum of 6 commandlines. Fixed after executable is decompressed
• Fixed a bug where buttons 7 and 8 of 8 button joystick support sticks once pressed
• Swapped button 5/6 and 7/8 in the default joystick configuration for 8 button joysticks
• It seems like 16bit HDMA < 5 was causing problems with some sound cards.  It now reroutes back to 8bit DMA like how v0.400 did it.
• Implemented a new offset per tile mode engine into the old graphics engine (mostly transferred from 8bit newgfx engine)
• Implemented Horizontal offset per tile mode in both 8bit and 16 bit old graphics engine (Mode2/8x8 only)
• Implemented Horizontal offset per tile mode in 8bit new graphics engine (Mode2/8x8 only)
• Tweaked sidewinder routines.  Hopefully, this will help those who have troubles using sidewinder support
• For those with sidewinder pads who has troubles with the tweaked routines, a 'Sidewinder Fix' option in the GUI is added in the Config/Options menu
• Commandline -i now uninterleaves an incorrectly interleaved rom
• Tweaked GamePad Pro routines.  Not exactly sure if this will help those with 2 GPP joysticks though
• Fixed up sticky buttons in the GUI cheat menu when no cheat codes are present
• Fixed a bug where using -1 and -2 in the commandlines didn't activate the joystick movement/buttons
• Fixed an offset per tile mode wrapping bug
• ZSNES will now not crash when zsnes.cfg and zguicfg.dat are write protected files
• Fixed up the GUI when 239 y resolution is used in the game
• Optimised some minor mode 7 routines
• SNES Header display in the GUI now displays the filename for blank headers.  This will fail for headers with garbled header names
• Inserted an extra reminder in the cheat menu
• Implemented 239 y-resolution support for .PCX snapshots
• Implemented 239 y-resolution support for .BMP snapshots
• Added multiple .SPC saves (Up to 10 saves only)
• Save State Selection Menu (default F3) now highlights used state boxes in red
• Tweaked 2player/6button/8button joystick routines a bit
• Fixed a cheat code bug where pressing TAB adds an extra character at the end of the address
• Removed the blank line from the .PCX and .BMP snapshots
• Implemented Joystick Calibration for non digital joysticks
• Fixed a bug where parallel port LPT2 player 2 wasn't selectable in v0.605
• Stabilized the joystick code a bit
• Fixed up a cheat code bug where using a PAR code that accesses
• RAM doesn't freeze when the .cht file is loaded
• Added a small delay to play a note when a key on is issued from the sound DSP.  Not sure if this fixes anything though
• Fixed some sound compatibility problems when RESET is used
• Implemented Movie Record/Playback support.  Read GUINotes.txt for details.
• Added a small detection for long filenames and prevented users from selecting it when it isn't detected
• Fixed a bug where max frame skip didn't save
• Fix a timing bug where running a game off the gui ran 1 less line in the 65816 than running off the commandline
• Implemented FPS at start option in the Config/Options menu
• Fixed a bug in the newgfx16bit engine where 8bpp tiles displayed incorrectly
• Reduced the filesize by 1200k through many changes in the code (filesize is now 2.0 megs)
• Fixed some VIRQ bugs that caused certain games to crash
• Added DMA area execution for IRET
• Added a 'Bugs Section' in the readme.txt
• Show all extensions is now disabled when snes header view is selected in the GUI
• Implemented partial Direct Color mode in Mode 7 (no transparencies yet, only works in 16bit old gfx engine)
• Improved header detection a bit
• Fixed up a sprite bug in games which changes the address in the middle of the screen

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

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

PMame/AMame Updated Yes, the inevitable update to Rodimus Prime's CPU-optimized versions of MAME is upon us. AMame and PMame are now in sycn with the latest beta of MAME. Thanks to Stu for the e-mail.

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

Official MAME Webpage Moves The new URL is:

http://mame.retrogames.com/

MacMAME Updated! MacMAME version 0.34 Beta 3 is now out. Here's what's new:

• In sync with PC 0.34 beta 3.
• CRC-32 checksums are now valid for the most part but there are a few bad entries. To effectively audit your set, use the old-style method for most accurate results.
• MacMAME will now properly save replay files if you save more than one in a session.
• MacMAME will no longer silence any audio CDs you may be listening to if you pause it or go into the configuration screens.
• Bumped up the memory allocation a bit so that even the largest of screenshots will work with the front end.
• The audit code will now create aliases to the parent ROM sets instead of folder placeholders.
• Wonky/slow sound in YM2151 games has been fixed, however Legendary Wings/Section Z is still flaky. This will be fixed in a future release.

madNES Progress Report Robert Rosario continues working hard on the next release of madNES. New features include support for multiple state save files (up to 25 per game), 9 new mappers and a modest speed increase. No release date is known as of yet.

http://members.tripod.com/~r_rosario/madnes.htm

CoolNESs 0.70 Released! Fredrik Schultz has released version 0.70 of CoolNESs. Here's what's new:

• Support for palette files (raw and IFF)
• Added PAL/NTSC switch
• Added mapper#78 (Holy Diver)
• Fixed some sprite problems with MMC5
• Changed CPU-core for all games with <=32kb PROM
• Updated writes to the PPU (faster)
• Set IRQ default to off. Use HELP to turn on

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

MAME 0.34 Beta 3 Released! Nicola Salmoria and the MAME development team have just released a new beta of MAME. 30 new games (actually ROM sets) have been added:

• Terra Cresta
• Regulus
• SWAT
• Heavy Metal
• Brain
• Toki no Senshi
• Gardia (not decrypted YET)
• DakkoChan Jansoh
• Ufo Senshi Yohko Chan
• Wonder Boy
• Pitfall II
• Water Ski
• Last Duel (bootleg)
• Lady Bug (bootleg)
• Lode Runner (set 1)
• Lode Runner (2 Players)
• Penguin-Kun Wars (two sets merged)
• Stinger
• Zig Zag (2 sets merged)
• River Patrol / Silver Land
• Jumping (merged with Rainbow Islands)
• 600 (merged with Turtles)
• Area 88 (merged with UN Squadron)
• 720 Degrees (set 2) (merged)
• Crystal Castles (set 2) (merged)
• Kangaroo (bootleg) (merged)
• Klax (set 3) (merged)
• Missile Command (set 2) (merged)
• Pooyan (Konami) (merged) (the Stern set is now called "pooyans")
• Neo Mr. Do

http://www.classicgaming.com/sys2064/

New WinUAE Beta Out Mathias Ortmann released a new experimental beta of WinUAE a few days ago. New features include bsdsocket.library support, proper timing/sound output and general bug fixes. Thanks to Sebastien C for the e-mail.

http://www.uae.de/
 

• Speed-o-meter option in the specials menu. This shows the speed compared to real C64 and how many frames per second that are actually drawn to the screen.
• The DOS version now has VESA screen modes like 512x384, 640x480 and 800x600.
• Increased speed
• For the DOS version the syncrate option "Screen" now syncronizes to the vertical blank.

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

MSKISS 0.09 Released Isaac Santaolalla has updated MSKISS, an MSX emulator for DOS. New in version 0.09:

• Original FM-Pac (64 KB) mapper added
• PSG registers 1,3 and 5 properly masked
• GUS Sound bug corrected
• VESA 2.0 Routines now correctly coded
• SB-Digital detector added
• Minor corrections to SCC pitch
• Slightly corrected the GUS noise-freq table (still more work needed, but now it's near perfect)
• Converted to inline code for faster performance

http://www.salleURL.edu/~is05562/msx_ing.html

New Spectrum Emulator Raul Gomez Sanchez has released a new Spectrum computer emulator for DOS. Called, "R80 Spectrum Emulator", Raul first began development late last year. The latest release, version 0.02.1 supports sound, joysticks and has an integrated debugger. Thanks to Cloy for the e-mail.

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

Brand New VIC 20 Emulator Debuts! Programmer Roland Lieger has released a brand new Vic 20 emulator for Macintosh, called Power20. Among Power20's feature set is sound and joystick emulation, plus a built-in debugger. Roland has chosen to release this as shareware; the demo on his website limits run-time to 10 minutes per session.

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

Raine Adds New Game Richard Bush has added support for a new game, Crime City. Also, Rastan Saga and Master Of Weapons are now playable.

http://raine.retrogames.com/index.html

Translation Updated Disklexic Japancheese has officially released version 0.35 of the English translation spoof of Final Fantasy 3 Japanese. The new patch covers up to the Village of Tokur.

http://come.to/disklexic.japancheese

PMame and AMame Updated Rodimus Prime has updated both his MAME compiles, AMame and PMame:

"Due to the fact that I am a HUGE Mr Do fan, and Neo Mr Do has been finally released... I updated PMame and AMame to play this fantastic game. :)

"I provided the driver changes to Nicola, so they'll be in the next official release... (Maybe even the next beta) wasn't much to it .. about additional lines of code.  :)

Anyway, let the world enjoy Mr Do!!! :)"

- Rodimus Prime

http://www.sound.net/~rodimus/
 

• Improved sprites
• Improved sound and volume control
• Some optimizations
• Improved compatibility
• Plus other minor improvements

http://members.xoom.com/jfitie/

New CD-ROM Plugin Released Tratax has just released a new ASPI CD-ROM driver with E-IDE support for PSEmu Pro. It should also be faster than MSCDEX driver. Also, the official PSEmu FAQ was updated today.

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

Retrocade Released! After months and months of anticipation, Retrocade for DOS is finally here! It's been a long time since Neil Bradley first announced Retrocade way back in February, so I'm glad to say that it's been well-worth the wait. Retrocade is an amazing work, especially considering this is only a 'debut' release. Just take a look at a small sampling of its features:

• Support for 100 games!
• Sound Support
• Joystick Support (including Wingman Warrior)
• GUI - and - Command line interfaces
• Save States
• Screenshots
• High Score Saving

• Official Retrocade Website
• Retrocade Online Manual
• SYS2064 Retrocade Page
• Official Retrocade FAQ
• EMU News Service Chat Room
• Emulators Unlimited's Interview with Neil Bradley

• Retrocade 1.00 for DOS
• Retrocade 1.00 for DOS (Mirror)
• Retrocade GUI Files (Yes, the GUI is a separate download)
• Retrocade GUI Annimations Add-On
• Retrocade Additional Art Files

Retrocade is very much a group effort. Looking at the Retrocade's development staff is a lot like looking at a who's who list of emulation greats:

• Richard Bannister
• Paul Biondich
• Neil Bradley
• Valerie Bradley
• Neill Corlett
• Mike Cuddy
• Ron Fries
• Aaron Giles
• Peter Hirschberg
• Pat Lawrence
• Brian Levine
• Ed Massey
• Jeff Mercer
• Jeff Mitchell
• Zonn Moore
• Brian Peek
• Brian Stern

• Joystick support by DirectInput
• Key assignment is now customizable
• Sound support (buggy)
• Timer cycle repaired

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

The Big Ten Mil Congratulations go out to Erik Moeller for becoming EMU News Service's 10,000,000 hit:

"Happy to be 10 millionth visitor of your site (attached is a screenshot
as proof) - read it regularly and have tried to do my part to make emus
more popular (articles for computer magazines)."

I also want to say thanks to everyone who sent e-mails in to congratulate me. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect this little web page to become as big and popular as it is. I want to thank everyone for their continued support and help.

Marble Madness Emulator Updated! Peter Hirschberg has released his first update to his brand new Marble Madness Emulator. Here's what's new:

• Added support for DirectDraw full-screen mode (big performance increase - now runs full speed or better on my P133)
• Replaced Windows menus and dialogs with an 'on-screen-display' type interface.  Invoke it with the [TAB] key.
• Fixed the inter-cpu communications (unfortunately the game still won't coin-up.  Keep using FREEPLAY mode for now. Also, for some reason, the coin switches only work with romset 1, so currently the emulator will only work with that set.)

http://www.rmaonline.net/hippies/theplasticfactory/mme/index.htm

NESemu 0.40a Released! Kent Hansen has just released NESemu version 0.40a! This release adds ROM hacking fun:

"Hey Jim. I've just released a new version of NESemu. This is a pretty major release: I've added a built-in tile editor and a hex editor, with which ROM hackers can edit the graphics and/or text in the ROM while playing it on the emulator!"

- Kent Hansen
NESemu Author

NESemu is an NES emulator for DOS.

http://home.sol.no/~kenhanse/nes/index.htm

Snes9X News Good news for Snes9x. Gary has gotten a new laptop so work on the Snes9x core has been resumed. Also, Jerremy's request for help on the Windows port has been answered:

"Gary has a new laptop so he can resume work on Snes9X, although his time is going to be limited for a few months (busy with family life and work). Just a few of the things of being a working man. And I've been contacted by three people who offered their help on the Windows port, so if all goes well then a updated Windows version is being worked on."

http://www.snes9x.com/

Mac Snes9X 1.09a Released John Stiles has just released Snes9X 1.09a. This is a fairly minor update. Several bugs in the RAVE mode were fixed and InputSprocket support has been added.

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

XPCE 0.07 Released Bero has released version 0.07 of XPCE, his TurboGrafx 16 emulator for Windows. Since the page is in Japanese, I cannot say what's new (anyone want to translate the docs for me?). Thanks to Chippy for the e-mail.

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

Retrocade To Be Released In Less Than 24 Hours! Perhaps one of the most widely anticipated emulators ever is about to be released, Retrocade. The official release date is Monday, September 14, 1998 at 12:00am Pacific Standard Time (US). When released, it will support 100 games and it will be available for DOS. Windows 95, Unix, Macintosh and ARM ports will follow. An official FAQ is already available and you can even begin downloading the support files now. Stay tuned...this one's going to be huge.
 

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

RockNES 0.54 Released! Fx3 and Kritz have just released version 0.54 of RockNES. Here's what's new:

• Fixed an error in ClearScreen() - now there is no 'Error in ClearScreen()'
• Fixed sprite priority - sprites can go behind things now (For example, in Zelda when you walk up/down stairs)
• Fixed mapper #2 bug - Only a few more ROMS work, some still don't
• Fixed mapper #3 bug - All mapper #3 ROMS should work now
• Fixed mapper #9 bug - Now, PunchOut looks much better, but no playable yet
• Fixed a slight problem when you reset some ROMs
• Changed the palette to the one Nesticle uses because it works/looks better
• Changed the pallete around so that a border isn't shown around the screen
• Added support for extended mappers #16+, no mappers implemented yet
• Added a configuration file
• Added a little text displayer (it pops up, when you reset, raise/lower the frame rate, etc..)
• Some small optimizations, barely noticeable
• Some bugs fixed in the Rd6502/Wr6502 functions
• Player 2 support w/ redefinable settings for buttons
• Don't show left 8 pixels of the screen [PPU flag] (Paperboy needed this flag working as well as others)
• Don't show sprites in left 8 pixels of the screen [PPU flag]
• An option to specify a ROM directory location in the configuration file

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2622/xnes.html

MySNES 0.17b Released! Martin Johansson has just released MySNES 0.17b: "I think most of the bugs from 0.16b are gone. Some more ROMs should start up now: Metroid3 (cool intro, hang up later though), Soulblazer, Monsters". MySNES is a Super Nintendo emulator for Amiga.

http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~f94majo/mysnes/mysnes.htm

Apple ][ Reunion Apple ][ aficionados should check out this excellent article posted on GameSpot:

http://www.gamespot.com/features/apple2/

Thanks to Michael M. for the e-mail.

NSFE/True Reality Webpage Down Xoom has shut down the NSFE/True Reality webpage for allegedly violating it's Terms of Service. Brian Faber (webmaster for both pages) has created a temporary home for NSFE/True Reality until a more permanent place can be found.

"Xoom shut down the site. So what is going on right now is I am getting a hold on Jerremy (Snes9x webmaster and Windows port of it) and to see if I can get the site moved over asap. Originally I was waiting for him to get a new site for emu's. The temporary site is going to be up for a while until we can get moved."

NSFE is a Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows; True Reality is for Unix.

z26 1.11 Released! John Saeger has released z26 version 1.11. Here's what's new:

• Better emulation of RIOT timer and WSYNC register.
• Some games are more stable like brickick.bin, dishastr.bin, gopher.bin, and rocnrope.bin.
• Some games jitter like they're supposed to like crosfrce.bin and tetris26.bin.

http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html
 

HU6280 1.79 Beta Released! JamSponge and Mr Kipling have released a new version of HU6280:

"Recoded CPU timing, now much more accurate! Now emulator runs ALOT faster!
modded some internal sound emulation stuff, should sound better now too."

HU6280 is a TurboGrafx 16 emulator for DOS.

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3135/
 

"New No$Gmb 1.8 fixes various digital sound bugs, plays digital speech, fixes a number of gameboy & SGB emulation bugs, works under win NT, and does some other cool things. All together it's probably a very nice & stable update"

- Martin Korth
Author of No$GMB

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

New CD-ROM Pluggin for PSEmu Pro Tanishige Ryu has released a new MSCDEX (IDE) CD-ROM Driver for PSEmu Pro. You can snag a copy from:

http://www.psemu.com/index.htm
 

"The source code has also been updated to the latest version. This update includes stereo sound support, improved video, and several fixes to SuperFX and DSP emulation!"

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

WinNES 0.0.5 beta Released! Cosimo De Michele has released a new version of WinNES. Here's what's new in version 0.0.5 beta:

• Now supports NES palette changing
• Mpper supported MMC #0, #1, #2, #3, #4, #7, #8, #9, #10, 11, #15, #16, but with some bugs
• Fixed many bugs

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

Snes9x Development Troubles The latest news from the Snes9x webpage is that development of Snes9x core has been halted. This is just temporary due to computer hardware problems:

"Gary, he maintains the source, currently can't work on Snes9X because his portable computer broke down, this means that he can't work on Snes9X. He normally worked on Snes9X when traveling from between his work and his home. But  he can't work on Snes9X at home or at work, so until his portable is fixed or until he gets a new one, Snes9X development is on a halt. I myself am in a phase of switching jobs and am VERY busy these last few weeks so I haven't been able to work on the Windows port that much. If there are any programmers out there with Borland C++ Builder 3 experience AND Visual C++ experience AND want to help on the Windows version then please mail me... (you need both Visual C++ and Borland C++ Builder 3 to compile the Windows source)"

Fortunately, there is some good news to report. The BeOS port of Snes9x was updated to version 1.05c. This is a minor update that fixes a few bugs.

http://www.snes9x.com

Yes, Another New ZSNES! _Demo_, Pharos and zsKnight have just released yet another new version of ZSNES. Here's what's new in version 0.605:

• Fixed up a FPS display bug when switching between auto frame rate and manual frame rate in the GUI
• Cheat Codes can now be toggled ON/OFF by double clicking on them
• Tab key now switches from the Cheat Code enter box to the  Description box
• Fixed a Save State/Load State bug in the menu where it saved  in the load directory instead of the save directory
• Implemented 8button joystick support (Not tested)
• Implemented an option in the .cfg file to enable reversed  stereo sound (ReverseStereo)
• Implemented an option in the .cfg file to share Player 1 and  Player 2 controls with Player 3 and Player 4's controls.
• Added Reverse Stereo to the GUI under config/sound
• Added Player 3, Player 4 to use as Player 1, Player 2 in the GUI under config/options
• Compiled under a new version of wdosx. Hope this doesn't cause any problems

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

You can also download a copy of ZSNES 0.605 directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.

Official MAME Message Board Opens Brad Oliver on the behalf of the MAME development team has announced a brand new MAME message board:

"The MAME team has opened up a new message board to handle support issues and general talk about MAME. It will frequently be populated by some of the developers who will be using it to answer any questions you might have."

http://www.macmame.org/wwwboard/mame/

Raine to Support Space Invaders DX Richard Bush has announced that the next release of Raine will have support for Space Invaders DX. 

http://raine.retrogames.com/spacedx.html

ZSNES 0.601 Released _Demo_ and zsKnight have released a minor update to ZSNES. Version 0.601 fixes a couple bugs in the sound routines:

• Fixed up a sound card deinit bug that sometimes caused ZSNES to crash in certain sound cards
• Disabled Autoinit mode when a low sampling rate is used in 8bit sound.  Probably was also causing problems in some cards

You can also download a copy of ZSNES 0.601 directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.
 

ZSNES 0.600 Released! _Demo_ and zsKnight have just released a brand new version of ZSNES just a few minutes ago. As you can guess from the version number, this is a major update. First of all, ZSNES has a brand new 16-bit graphics engine. The GUI has been completely revised and there are numerous bugfixes, so ZSNES' compatibility rate should be higher than ever before. Other new features include MultiTap (4 player) support and GamePad Pro support. For a complete list of what's new of click here. Also, a new programmer has joined the ZSNES team, Pharos. Finally, one of the more tantalizing things about the new ZSNES is that there is a now a drop down menu titled "Netplay". Although it's reserved for future use, I think network play is a great idea and I foresee it becoming a big trend in emulation.

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

Just in case the ZSNES webpage is a little busy, you can also download a copy of ZSNES 0.600 directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.

Atari800Win 2.4a Released Soon after Atari800Win 2.4 was released, a bug was discovered in the keyboard joysticks routines. Version 2.4a fixes this problem. This bug only affects NT machines, so if you have Win95 or Win98 the version you already have should work just fine.

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

As before, you are encouraged to download a copy of Atari800Win from EMU News Service by clicking here.

madNES 0.95 Beta 4 Released! Robert Rosario has released a new beta of his NES emulator for DOS. Here's what's new in version 0.95 Beta 4:

• The gfx now supports two modes of operation. This fixes Astyanax again.
• Bug fix to Mapper 2 & 3. Metal gear works again.
• Support for ZIP files
• Increased snapshot limit to 999
• Snapshot name can be the name of the game
• Some internal changes

MAME32 0.34 Beta 2 Released! Christopher Kirmse and Michael Soderstrom have released beta 2 of MAME version 0.34. This brings the Windows port in sycn with the DOS original. Thanks to John H for the e-mail.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/7110/mame32.htm

PSEmu IDE CD-ROM Driver Released! Several things to report here: First, Duddie has just announced that a new version of PSEmu Pro will be released later this week. Among the new features, PSEmu Pro will be able to play G-Darius (one of Duddie's personal favorites):

Not only that, a new IDE CD-ROM driver (written by Tanishige Ryu) has been completed! Duddie was still in the process of updating his webpage as of this writing, but it should be available for downloads shortly. Until then you can download it directly from EMU News Service by clicking here. Finally, the PSEmu Pro FAQ has been updated as well.

New Marble Madness Emulator Debuts! Peter Hirschberg, author of Vector Dream, has released a brand new Marble Madness emulator for Windows! Although there is no sound or joystick support, it is very fast. Here's the feature set:

• Uses Neil Corlett's Starscream 68000 CPU core (100% assembly)
• Uses Neil Bradley's m6502 6502 CPU core (100% assembly)
• Translucent marbles
• Translucent alphanumerics layer
• Native Windows+ 95/NT

http://www.rmaonline.net/hippies/theplasticfactory/mme/index.htm

Atari800Win 2.4 Released! Richard Lawrence has just released a major new version of Atari800Win. New features include save state support, a new video mode (512x384) and improved XE support! There are lots of new features/bugfixes, here are the highlights:

• Support for save states
• Assembler routines here and there; small speed difference
• Atari crashes don't require exiting the emulator
• Added 512x384 mode. Should help those on slow machines without 320 modes. Shows full overscan and on most cards has that "scanline" feel
• Completely rewrote the keyboard handler
• Many hours spent testing with a real Atari XE to verify new code, it should be highly accurate now!
• Keyboard templates option added that allows you to completely remap almost the entire keyboard.
• Keyboard joystick reworked
• Video option for "use AGP memory", which may be faster (or slower!) depending on your particular video card
• Fixed a problem with small graphics selector dialog used in 320 modes
• All full screen modes clear their backgrounds
• Bolder, more ambitious icons, less filling but taste great
• Machine type and speed shown in window title
• Finally remembered to add keyboard click (not just click, but speaker)
• Fixed a display bug that had crept in when in windowed mode with the display partially off the desktop
• If you exit while running full speed, the next time you launch sound will be (correctly) disabled until you switch back to normal speed
• Pause shows paused text on Atari screen (for full screen modes)
• Fixed crash bug that sometimes occurred changing artifacting modes

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

Due to Rich's bandwidth restrictions, you are encouraged to download a copy of Atari800Win from EMU News Service by clicking here.
 

Korean Translation of EMU News Service A new Korean translation of EMU News Service us now out. EMU News Service is currently available in 13 different languages.

http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/memorial/165/

New TrueReality Released Niki Waibel has just released a new version of TrueReality, his Nintendo 64 emulator for Unix. Today's released features initial controller implementation and now runs several demos including Pong. You can check it out at:

http://members.xoom.com/n64emulators/index.htm
 

"I have started development on a utility that will convert Genecyst's .GYM files (YM2612 log files) to standard MIDI format files.  So far, the utility can read from a .GYM file, and read from/write to a .MID file.  All that's left is to convert the YM2612 registers and values to MIDI commands and values. I am looking for as much information as I can find on the Yamaha YM2612 used in the MegaDrive/Genesis."

You can contact him at [email protected].

Japanese Translation of EMU News Service A new Japanese translation of EMU News Service is now online at:

http://www.hucard.com/emunewsj/

RockNES Programmers Depart Just announced on the RockNES (formerly xNES) webpage, programmers Pachelbel and \FireBug\ are leaving the RockNES development team. 

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2622/xnes.html

PSEmu Pro FAQ Updated To coincide with the latest release of PSEmu Pro, DoOm has released version 0.2 of his PSEmu Pro FAQ. You can grab it at:

http://come.to/PSFAQ

PSEmu Pro 1.04 Released! Duddie and Tratax have just released PSEmu Pro version 1.04! Here's what's new:

• Separated pad driver from PSEmu and now works as Plugin
• A bit speeded up
• Some fixes to DMA channels
• New GTE instructions to make Colin McRae Rally (E) work
• Fixed MDEC skipping for GranTurismo (J) - but this game still can't work
• New PAD DirectInput Keys Driver pluggin
• Almost all plugins (many, significant changes) and those plugins will work only with new version of PSEmu
• Seal now plays stereo sound!

http://www.psemu.com

Just in case the PSEmu webpage gets a little too much traffic, you can also download a copy from EMU News Service by clicking here.
 

Sega CD Tech Request Eek is starting to write a Sega CD emulator and he's looking for all the technical information he can find. Specifically, he's looking for more information on the Sega CD binary format and boot procedure. If you can help, contact him at: [email protected].

NeoRAGE Save State Page A new save state page for NeoRAGE has popped up here:

http://www.cyberenet.net/%7Ealfa1/

So far 28 save states are available for download. Thanks to Mr. G for the e-mail.
 

HU6280 1.78 Released! Jamsponge has just updated his TurboGrafx 16 emulator. It features support for zipped ROMs, and also has some graphic glitches fixed.

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3135/

X-Mame 0.34b2.2 Released! Hans De Goede has just released version 0.34 Beta 2.2 of his Unix port of MAME. Here's what's new:

• Fixed a bug: .cfg files where still saved in ${HOME}/xmame instead of ${HOME}/.xmame.
• On startup existence of ${HOME}/.xmame is verified and created if nescesarry
• On startup a check is done to see if compiled- and runtime-endianess match
• Some minor updates to README.unix

No$CPC 1.6 Released! Martin Korth has just released No$CPC version 1.6. Here's what's new:

• printer emulation: fixed script file bug (protected mode version)
• setup: win98 CPU resources (must be disabled if not supported!!!)
• no$gmb.exe: compressed 386/486 exefiles to a size less than 60KBytes
• setup: saved to external .cfg file, allows no$cpc.exe to be renamed
• hercules: /h on VGA uses B800 instead B000 (compatible to QEMM)
• no$gmb.zip: eee.bat auto-installs directory-structure if sb forgot -d
• speedup: optionally reduced display refresh rates 50% and 20% (if any)
• combifix: 2x25 lines/diskextract combination fixed (display bug)
• speedup: slow 8253 mem refresh option (dangerous, dirt versions only)
• extended disk format: discovered & fixed more differences to mv-format
• versions: removed non-pmode dirty versions, use pmode for fast code
• CPU: identifies CPU and gives errmess if it's not supported :-)
• performance: optionally shows speed relative to real CPC (no$gmb like)
• filemenu: quicksearch (entering first letters of filename) (no$gmb)
• filemenu: recognizes additional harddisks, CD-ROMS, etc (no$gmb/rusty)
• keyboard: PC keyboard compatibility (code taken from no$gmb)

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

NSFE Development Team Expands The NSFE team has added a fourth member, Ben Marsh who will be concentrating on emulating the the Nintendo 64's Reality Coprocessor. NSFE is the successor to Reality 64 (N64 emulator for Windows).

http://members.xoom.com/n64emulators/index.htm

XTender2 Beta 5 Released Carlo Delhez has released Beta 5 of XTender2. Here are the highlights:

• Added patch handlers to SAVE/LOAD ZX80 programs to/from disk.
• Incorporated SAVE & LOAD patches for disk access in ZX80.XT2
• Space Invaders is included, with kind permission of Grant Searle.
• Added NMIGENERATOR command for XT2-files to control presence or  absence of an NMI generator
• Added control to scroll TV-screen vertically over PC monitor

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

New PSyKe Due Out By End of Month With all the hoopla surrounding the release of PSEmu Pro last week, you might think that PSEmu Pro is the only PlayStation emulator around. Not true. PSyKe burst on the scene earlier this year and continues to get better. Just today, the PSyKe webpage was updated with the latest news on PSyKe's progress:

"I have worked during last month basically on CPU, and I've obtained about a 30% speed increase, that can be see mostly with 2D games: for example, Metal Slug now is full frame rate on my P166 with 3DFX. Memory cards emulation is almost complete, I have to fix only some bugs and add support for memcard files in the GUI. I have fixed also some bugs in CDROM emulation (eg. Wipeout 2097 demo - and probably also the full game - works ok), and in the pad emulation (some games didn't found the controllers). In these days I'm working on MDEC skipping, so that PSyKe will skip all the movies, instead of simply freezing. All this stuff will be in PSyKe 0.20, that will be probably released at the end of September."

- RaskY
Co-Author of PSyKe

Please note that the next release *should* be out by the end of the month - but this is no guarentee that it will. Please do not bother the authors about the exact release date. Whenever it comes out, you'll find out here.

For Unix users, Sadruddin Rejeb has been working on a PlayStation emulator called Sope. Although not as advanced as PSyKe or PSEmu, the T-Rex demo is working almost perfectly now.

X-Mame 0.34b2.1 Released! Hans De Goede has just released version 0.34 Beta 2.1 of MAME for Unix!

"Well after hunting an obscure repeating hard hang with my home machine, which has luckily been solved. I've finally found the time todo 34b2.

"There are lots of little changes but the one which should make you all happy is the new fileio code, please read README.unix for the possibility's. README.unix has been greatly improved thanks to: Joseph E. Miele.

"Besides that 0.34b2's new way of building has broken the autogeneration of makefile.objs if some of you Perl guru's could take a look at makefile.dos, makefile.objs and conbtrib/porting.txt. And write a script to this automatically again It would be great. Then again doing it manually only takes about 5 minutes so if it's hard to write never mind."

- Hans De Goede
Author of XMame

Here's what's new in 0.34b2.1:

• Everything from DOS 0.34b2.
• Everything Unix from XMess 0.2b4.1
• Fileio no supports gzipped files and a search path
• Changed ${HOME}/xmame to ${HOME}/.xmame on popular request so move that dir ;)
• Makefile.objs no is no longer autogenerated due to some changes in the dos makefile.
• Updated contrib/porting.txt to include the manual creation of makefile.objs. Added contrib/lowercase which is used for this.
• Changed fix.c to fix-comments.c which is a more accurate name.
• Removed autogeneration of makefile.objs from make-makefiles.pl renamed it to fix-includes
• Updated fix-mame to match the name changes of fix and make-makefiles.pl
• The x86-asm m6808 core now also works on other i386 unices

http://drake.dit.upm.es/~mame/index.html
 

DTmnt 0.49 Released! Dave has just released a brand new version of his TMNT emulator! Directly from the documentation, here's what's new:

• A bit more user-friendly (e.g. autodetects which rom set you have)
• Fire flicker effect is now an option
• Fixed a bug in hicolor PCX saving

http://www.cybermillenia.com/dayvee/

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

PowerPCEngine Updated Jingai has released version 0.3.7b1 of his TurboGrafx 16 emulator:

"Since I am still having one problem with the VPCE core, I am going to release the current beta now.. while it won't really be of any use for the casual user, it does include *many* fixes and some enhancements. PLEASE NOTE THOUGH: YOU MUST READ THE README!! It includes some IMPORTANT notes if you want to use this beta successfully."

PowerPCEngine is the MacOS port of VPCE.

http://home.earthlink.net/~jingai/

PSEmu Webpage Is Back Up Duddie and Tratax's webpage for PSEmu Pro is now back up at:

http://www.psemu.com
 

NeoRAGE Controversy I'm not sure exactly how many people actually read "readme.txt" files, but if you downloaded the latest version of NeoRAGE, you probably noticed this...

"We are VERY disappointed in many people out there, we are doing a lot of work on our spare time and for free. And we couldn't imagine that so MANY people was so totally out of respect that they use a hacked version of NeoRAGE. There will always be some scum that doesn't hesitate to hack our work. Even to use a hacked version is respectless against us. When people that we trust and respect are doing it we are loosing our motivation.

"So don't expect any sound update soon, if ever to the public."

- Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela
Authors of NeoRAGE

tniNES 2.6 Released Patriek Lesparre has released a new version of his NES ROM utility, triNES. Version 2.6 adds support for the VS Unisystem and more fwNES mappers. Also, triNES adds support for path and filename with wildcards.

http://huizen.dds.nl/~patriekl/tniNES.html

Built-In PlayStation Emulator for Dreamcast? Normally, we don't post rumors here, but this one's just too silly to pass up...

http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/4652.html

Thanks to Mike Bridge for the e-mail.

First New Game for Odyssey² In 15 Years! John Dondzila has just released a brand new game for the Odyssey² gaming system. Based on a classic maze/shooter game of the early 80s', AMOK! is believed to be the first new Odyssey² game in well over 15 years. AMOK! is being sold for only $20 for an actual cartridge (includes color insert and instructions). The downloadable ROM image is free.

http://www.monmouth.com/~pcjohn/

MAME for OS/2 Adds Sound Support! Martin Amodeo has released a new version of his OS/2 port of MAME. Here's what's new in version 0.31.4:

• Sound emulation
• Frame skipping options have been added, including an option to automatically regulate frame skipping to maintain full emulation speed.
• Cheat have been allowed and can be enabled or disabled on the fly.
• Enabling or disabling FPS counter caused a crash when no game was running.
• Addition of sound support fixed Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2, Marble Madness, and possibly others, but introduced a few problems as well
• The following games spontaneously started working (possibly due to sound support):  Arkanoid, Arkanoid (Tayto version-- faster than Arkanoid), Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2, Karnov, Marble Madness (sorta), and Willow
• Made a major hack to fix a possible bug in the OS/2 Profile functions causing the Quick List not to update immediately with a game added using the "Add one game" option.
• Fixed a bug in the "scan for games" routine that caused zipped games not to be seen in the ROMs directory unless there was a zipped game in the MAME directory
• Added a small hack that turned off the frame rate counter when MAME's settings is accessed

Mortal Kombat Screenshots The MAME WIP page has posted some preliminary screenshots of MAME playing Mortal Kombat.

http://www.davesclassics.com/mamewip.html

NeoRAGE 0.2d Released! Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela have released a new version of their Neo Geo emulator. Here's what's new in version 0.2d:

• Some games was frezing the first time you started it with 0.2c but that should be eliminated now.
• Savestate bugfix again ;), unfortunally it can made your old state files useless with this version.
• Sidewinder player two bug-fix.
• Character bug-fix in some games.
• Super Sidekicks protection fix (thanks to whom discovered it).
• Fatal Fury 2 protection fix (thanks to whom discovered it).
• We have start to use PMODEW instead of DOS4GW
• Support for Samurai Shodown 4.
• Support for Art Of Fighting 3.
• Support for Blazing Star.
• Support for xxxxxxxxx ;).(Future Romlist releases)
• Support for xxxxxxxxx ;).(Future Romlist releases)
• And MS2(hate to do this:(. Because of the hacking lamers)

http://www.classicgaming.com/sys2064/

PSEmu Pro Preliminary Compatibility List Duddie and Tratax have published a preliminary compatibility list on their website. Only about 12 games are listed but I'm sure that'll increase as time goes on. From my own personal tests, I can say that Ridge Racer runs fine (although version 1.02 seemed to have less graphic distortions than 1.03), but Colony Wars, Twisted Metal, and Battle Arena Toshinden never get past the dreaded "black" screen.

http://www.szczecin.top.pl/~duddie/psemu_compatibilty.html

Gameboy ROM Info 1.0b3 Released Richard Bannister has released a new version of his Gameboy ROM utility.

"This is an interim release which fixes an extremely serious blunder in the
g-zip compression code that caused files with names longer than 26 characters to be deleted rather than compressed. All users should upgrade to this version immediately."

- Richard Bannister

Gameboy ROM Info is for Macintosh.

http://internetter.com/titan/software/

Links Pages Updated The arcade, calculator and console links pages have been updated. Click here to check them out.
 

Come Back 64 version 0.92 Released! JHF Software (Brad Martin & Johan Fitié) have just released a new version of their Commodore 64 emulator for DOS. Here's what's new in version 0.92:

• Line-by-line VIC (cycle exact)
• SID music and sound effects through Soundblaster
• Improved compatibility
• General optimizations
• A cool intro

http://members.xoom.com/jfitie/

MESS for Solaris Updated The MESS development team has released version 0.2 Beta 4 of MESS. Version 0.2 adds support for Apple ][, Atari 800, Atari 5200, Bally Astrocade, Kaypro 2x, PDP-1, Sega Master System/Game Gear and Vectrex.

http://internetter.com/titan/mess/index.html

NSFE Progress Report Here's the latest on NSFE:

"Denis Kropp has nearly completed the GUI Front End for NSFE (see screenshot).  It has most of the functionality you would expect from a GUI including listboxes, panels, buttons etc.  The amazing thing is that Denis has managed to keep the compiled overhead to only 72Kb."

- Gordon Hollingworth
NSFE

http://members.xoom.com/n64emulators/index.htm

MAME for RISC OS Updated Gareth Long has just released beta 2.1 of MAME 0.34 for RiscOS (ARM). This update adds over 30 new ROM sets.

http://www.elecslns.demon.co.uk/MAME/

VICE Adds C128 Support! The VICE development team has just released a major update to VICE, their multi-computer system emulator. The biggest news is that it now supports the Commodore 128! Other highlights include support for two joysticks and speed optimizations. Here's the complete list of what's new in version 0.15:

• C128 emulator
• Brand new monitor, featuring breakpoints and watchpoints (under construction)
• More PET models, with complete on-the-fly configurability
• Support for cartridge files in the VIC20 and C64 emulators
• Support for 40-track disk images
• User-definable colors
• User-definable keyboard layouts (Unix only)
• Support for a new GCR-encoded disk image format (G64)
• More accurate 1541 emulation
• Triple buffering for smoother animations (MS-DOS only)
• 1351 mouse emulation (MS-DOS only)
• Completely programmable joystick keysets and support for up to two PC joysticks
• Complete support for P00 files
• RS232 and printer emulation (Unix only)
• Speed optimizations
• Sound oversampling
• Source-level support for Dag Lem's reSID engine
• Bug fixes

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

MacV9T9 0.0a5 Released Raphael Nabet has released a new version of his new TI computer emulator. Today's release features improved interrupt handling which should greatly increase it's compatibility. Thanks to Richard Bannister for the e-mail and emulation.net for the info.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/pytheas/english/TI99.html

New Update to PSEmu Pro Released Duddie and Tratax have just released a new version of PSEmu Pro this morning. This is a minor update, significant only to developers.

Download PSEmu Pro version 1.03

New madNES! Robert Rosario has just released a new beta of madNES, his NES emulator for DOS. Version 0.95 Beta 3 features:

• The new gfx engine is almost complete
• Perfect scrolling & splitscreens
• Mapper 15 appears to be 100% complete.
• Bug fixes to PPU
• Friday the 13th's paralax scrolling & Crystalis' playfield no longer get out of sync.
• Sprite priorities are now emulated a 100%. Theres still one bug left.
• PPU improvements.
• Final Fantasy 1 now fades in & out correctly.
• Added 32k bank switch support to the mapper 1.

MasterGear 1.1 for Mac Released! John Stiles has released a new version of his Macintosh port of MasterGear. Version 1.1 adds support for "several new games, including the classic 'Rainbow Islands!' Also, GZ-compressed ROMs are supported, and TV mode." MasterGear is a Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator.

http://emulation.net/sega/
 

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