Low Lines brings some news about his Flash/XML Based Compatibility List for Nintendo DS:
In case you don't know there has been a lot of work happening in the DS Emulation Forum on emulator compatibility with two emulators in particular (iDeaS & DeSmuME).
Well I have gone and made the effort off creating a Flash/XML based database that has many useful options such as searching and ordering of list data. Though it is still a WIP, it has very much progressed and is really easy to use.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This site and compatibility database REQUIRES the Flash 8 Web Browser Plugin. And at the moment I don't think it works on Linux Operating Systems. But I do not have Linux so somebody may need to verify this with me. Also your browsers may come up with security warnings (as I quickly found out) or may in deed block it completely (particularily with embeded URLs) but there is no bugs or spyware or anything, it's just Microsoft & Macromedia being paranoid!! LOL
It was a pretty busy weekend for most of us here and we didn't get a chance to post a few news items from this past weekend. Here is a few news items to get us caught up.
NESCafe 0.702 Released - Official Site • Added Support for NESCafe Encrypted ROM Files
MAME diff 0.106u8 Released - MAMEDev Check out the changes here.
Frodo2x 0.9.8 Released - Official Site New update for the Commodore 64 emulator for the GP2X handheld.
• Fix for PAL tv out
jEnesis WIP Report - jEnesis Blog Check out the development blog for the full work in progress report regarding 32X emulation.
That covers a few of the news items for the weekend. If you want to post a few that we missed then feel free to reply to this news post. :)
New Games:
- Added kyra engine (for the Kyrandia series). Currently only the first part of the series is supported.
- Added support for The Feeble Files
General:
- Switched from CVS to Subversion.
- Restructured our source tree partially.
- Fixed a bug that prevented you from overriding the scaler from the command line for 640x480 games.
- Added subtitle configuration controls to the Launcher options dialogs.
- GUI was completely redesigned and is now themeable.
SCUMM:
- Rewrote the detection code, for improved accuracy and better support of fan translations. It should now work much better on games with unknown MD5.
- Added subtitle configuration controls to the options dialog.
- Fixed graphical glitches in several HE games.
- Fixed palette glitches in Big Thinkers 1st Grade.
- Fixed songs in the kitchen of Pajama Sam 1.
SAGA
- Fixed sound distortion in the Inherit the Earth demo.
Simon
- Improved Hebrew support
- Lots of long-overdue cleanups and re-structuring were made to accomodate for The Feeble Files.
- Fixed a rare MIDI bug that would cause a channel to change volume without adjusting it to the master volume.
- Fixed delay after introduction of Simon the Sorcerer 1 demo (With speech)
- Fixed music tempo in DOS versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1.
Broken Sword 1:
- Added support for the --save-slot option.
Broken Sword 2:
- Major rewrite of how game resources are accessed in memory. This should fix alignment issues reported on some platforms.
- Missing data files are handled more gracefully.
WinCE Port:
- Added: PocketPC: Vertical oversampling scaler 320x200=>320x240 when panel not shown (n0p)
- Added: PocketPC: Right click by double-tapping (n0p)
- Fixed: All: Clipping issues in some cases
- Added: PocketPC: Mouse emulation using keys
- Added: Smartphones: Virtual keyboard popup
- Fixed: Smartphones: Incorrect screen blit in SDL port
- Added: All: Mouse cursor visible on panel if using emulated mouse
- Added: All: Inverse landscape mode
- Fixed: PocketPC: Dialogs cut-off/not redrawn
VisualBoyAdvance is an emulator for GameBoy Advance console.
See http://vba.ngemu.com/ for further informations.
PSPVBA is a port on PSP of the Linux version 1.7.2 of VisualBoyAdvance with SDL support.
How to use it ? Everything is in the README.txt file.
It's a first beta release, and as we could expect, it doesn't run full speed !
I've done many optimizations to reach the full speed, in particular i've translated all the original source code from c++ to pure C langage for performance purposes, but that's not enough ...
Nevertheless, all required features for an emulator are already presents such as sound, "save states", customizable keys mapping, screenshots etc ...
The sound suport is based on the work of psp298, but it is not really good (mainly due to speed).
Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public license, read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.
StrmnNrmn has updated his blog with a new work in progress report for his Nintendo 64 emulator for the PSP handheld. Here is what he had to say about the upcoming release.
I'm back from Spain now. I had a great time in Barcelona, it's a bit of a shame to be back :)
I'm planning to have quite a quick turnaround on for the next release, i.e. hopefully I'll have something ready by the end of next week, or early July. I want to concentrate on fixing a bunch of graphical issues (adding new combine modes to fix various pink+black textures etc). I'm also going to look at reducing memory requirements - I think the stability problems associated with running the emulator with dynarec for an extended period of time are a result of running out of memory. This should also help to improve the Expansion Pak support. If I get enough time I'll look at adding support for configuring the controls on a rom by rom basis. Finally, I also want to look at improving savegame support.
-StrmnNrmn
Head on over to StrmnNrmn's blog for more information regarding Daedalus PSP.
A new version of the Genesis emulator for the Nintendo DS handheld has been released. Here is a list of changes for version 0.1.4.
• Fixed bug where R could scroll past end of file list
• Switched to unified builds, now one build should work for all SD/CF carts (thanks WinterMute)
• Added NeoFlash MK2/MK3 support (thanks WinterMute)
• Changed it so that pressing Select again without choosing a file will resume emulation
Head on over to the official site for PicoDriveDS for more information and the downloads.
A new version of the Genesis emulator Gens32 has been released. Here is the latest changes for version 1.69.
• Fixed the bug which caused crash when load 7z archives.
• Update Rom Exploer explorer.
• Update Water Effect.
• Replace Keep Colors Antialiasing with Gens32 2X.
• Update Search Cheat System,worked more faster.
Head on over to the official site for more information.
a new version of the SNES emulator for the GameBoy Advance has been released. This is mainly geared toward people interested in development. This release just adds the snezzidebugger.exe to the package. No other changes since the 0.22 release have been added.
Zx-81 has released a new version of his Amstrad CPC emulator for the PSP handheld. Here is the recent changes for PSPCAP32 version 1.1.0.
• New keyboard files from Loic Daneels (more than 380 games !)
• Add keyboard change skin option : You can design and add your own virtual keyboard images in the graphics directory (as it has been done by DrNicket for PSPInt, the Intellivision emulator).
• Modify the file requester to memorize separately the last locations/directory of disk image, snapshot, and keyboard (much more convenient !)
• Add a red LED to show CPC floppy disk access
• Bug fix, SHIFT and CONTROL keys are now working.
• Bug fix in analog pad handler
Head on over to Zx-81's site for more information regarding PSPCAP32 and other PSP projects.
The Neo Geo emulator for the PSP handheld has gone from the alpha stages to the beta stages of development. As usual I will save you the pain of a bad google translation of the changes, but if someone wants to provide a proper translation that would be great. Head on over to the official site to grab this new Beta release and for more information.
A new version of the Gaming/Multimedia frontend known as GameEx has been released. Here is a list of the changes for version 6.36.
• Much faster avi video creation for create snaps.
• Should resolve any choppiness or frame skipping on modern systems.
• You may see choppiness when the game is running, but this is after the capture has been copmpleted.
Head on over to the official site for more information and support.
Another day another new release from Vobbo of his PCEngine/TurboGrafx-16 emulator for the GP2X handheld. Here is the latest information for HU6280 1.06 Beta.
• Fixed BUTTON REMAPPING! Tested, confirmed working... just try swapping button A and B !!
• Removed LCD TWEAK CODE If you select 200mhz mode. Enjoy.
• Fixed a little bug in cdrom boot function
Head on over to the Vobbo's site for more information.
A new alpha build for the Neo Geo emulator for the PSP handheld has been released. I am not sure on the changes and will save you guys the torture of an ugly google translation. If someone wants to provide a translation of the changes that would be great.
Head on over to the official site for the Neo Geo for PSP Alpha 3.
Spacy has released a newl build of the Gameboy Advance emulator VisualBoy Advance. Here is the recent changes from him and PokemonHacker.
Spacy:
• I extremely reworked Direct3D to be faster than DirectDraw, but with the disadvantage of not being able tos cale the iamge with an aspect ratio, and the iamge is always bilinear scaled, like in DIrectDraw.
• Removed Skin support (from the Visual Studio 2005 build [#define NOSKINS]) to make compilation easier.
• Fixed joypad configuration dialog, it now responds faster to key presses.
• Merged the "open file" code for GB and GBA games.
• Merged the simple copy Image routine between DirectDraw and Direct3D, added a fast C alternative
• Worked over the whole DirectSound interface and found+fixed a minor bug.
• Enabled SSE(1) optimization in compiler
Pokemonhacker: [the one and only :)]
Cheats.cpp
• corrected a compatibility problem with other versions.
• fixed a bug for ARV3/4 rom patching codes.
• corrected a bug when you entered a 'unknown' code, and then removed/disabled it.
GBA.cpp / gbainline.h:
• tweaked the bus prefetch a bit.
• changed the save handling a bit.
• added a 'master code' support (so the cheats are executed only when the master code address is reached ; if no master code are entered, cheats will be executed after each frame).
• corrected the mirroring of Vram.
• changed slightly the emulation of gbasavetype.
RTC.cpp:
• vba now ignores rtc command 0x64.
FLash.cpp:
• added a 64k->128k 'auto upgrade' (could correct some of the pokemon games's corrupted/deleted save problem).
Cheats.h:
• corrected a compatibility problem with other versions.
• fixed a bug for ARV3/4 rom patching codes.
bios.cpp:
• added support for swi $d (GetBiosChecksum).
• corrected a bug in registerRamReset.
arm-new.h:
• optimised/simplified a bit the bus prefetch handling.
You can get some more information and the release from their forum post over at NGEmu's forums. Also if you do give this build a try please report all problems to Spacy and other feedback you would like to give. :)
A new version of the Genesis emulator Gens32 has been released. Here is the latest changes for version 1.68.
• Fixed a classic bug,the nForce mainboard user can use Gens32 Surreal without worried about freezen now.Thanks to wphoto2003(acgwolf) who helped with the test stuff.
• Emulate controller stuff more actually.Both 1P and 2P can disconnect now.
• Added water effect which was imported form ZSens.
• Added TV Nosie effect.
• New start logo, which painted by akm1989(Emu-Land).
Head on over to the official site for more information.
A new source version for the multiple system emulator Mednafen has been released. Here is the changes for for version 0.6.2.
• PCE: Physical CDROM device names will no longer be printed on Mac OS/X on startup, due to the code crashing badly(rather than goodly!).
• OpenGL texture heights are now rounded up to the nearest power of 2(texture widths already had this rounding in previous versions), which should fix special scalers on video output devices that don't support non-power-of-2 textures(IE most video cards and Mac boxen).
• PCE: The libcdio sector reading functions are now checked for return values < 0 as errors, rather than != 0, to fix problems under Linux and possibly many other OSes where the return value is something like 2048(the number of bytes read, presumably).
• PCE: Fixed a bug with disassembling block memory transfer instructions on < 64-bit systems(I had forgot to type-cast a variable to uint64 before left-shifting it past 32-bits).
• PCE: Added the implied form of INC to the disassembler.
• NES: Removed the PRG mask constraint for UNROM/mapper 2, introduced in version 0.2.0, to fix the Japanese "Maniac Mansion" and possibly other games.
• PCE: Fixed debugger write breakpoints. The code had a logical error in it, with the end effect of preventing stack writes in the IRQ sequence, causing games to crash.
Look forward to the Win32 binary build coming soon.
A new intermediate development release for MAME has been released. You can check out the long list of changes here. I will be updating this news item with other MAME related releases that go along with this new version. So keep an eye on this post.
With my return to Emulation64 also comes the return of the Emulation64 Developer Spotlight Interviews. Today we focus our spotlight on the talented developer Refraction who is part of the great PCSX2 development team. Here is a small tidbit from the interview.
Q : Could you give us some information regarding the current state of your projects? A : well PCSX2 is going well, we have started to focus a bit more on speed as quite a few games are now working in comparison to older versions, but we are still bug finding, slowly trying to get in the bits we have missed and rewriting parts that are completely bugged :P
Head on over to the Spotlight On Refraction for the full interview.
A new version of the Gaming/Multimedia frontend known as GameEx has been released. Here is a list of the changes for version 6.33.
• For registered users it's now possible to create avi video previews for emulator games. Just select create snaps.
• Create snaps now supports shortcuts.
• More stable launching of emulator games - No more not returning to GameEx.
• More Stable Create snaps.
• Create Snaps menu item now shows when emulator is using a database.
• Create Snaps always resumes now. Ie there's not two sets of commands.
Head on over to the official site for more information and support.
A new bug fix release for the Arcade utitility tool clrmamepro has been released. Here is the changes for version 3.89a.
• fixed: searching for illegal crc32 values in setinfo (up/down arrows) crashes
• fixed: unneeded file shows zips as folders and didn't show the full path in the zip
• fixed: zip path info with drive letter caused aren't handled correctly
• added: profiler html report for currently selected folder
Head on over to the official site for more information and support.
Vobbo has released a new version of his PCEngine/TurboGrafx-16 emulator for the GP2X handheld system. Here's the information for version 1.05 Beta.
You may now boot .ISO files...
Vobbo also mentioned that if you find any ISO files that do not work to contact him and leave a report. For more information and to pick up the windows version head on over to Vobbo's site.
Christophe has replaced version 0.4 for his Commodore 64 emulator for the PSP handheld with a new version on his site. Here is the newest changes added to this build to go along with the changes already there from version 0.4.
What's New
• True drive emulation. List of supported games is now same as Vice (hugeeee).
• .G64 file supported
• Keymapping for simultaneous 2 players (turn in on in menu)
• User can change keymapping and save/load it. Any shortcut can be assigned on any key.
• Long name support and display in file browser
• Doc on website
Bugs Fixed
• Sound
• Very long file name were crashing emu
• Save to disk (from C64) is now working. You need to detach disk image or attach another image to save the disk image to memory stick (or it will stay into memory and will be lost).
Still Not Working
• P00 files fail
There is also some new games added to the release as well as a lot of more information presented on the official site for better support.
Zx-81 and DrNicket have released a new version of their Intellivision emulator for the PSP handheld known as PSPInt. Here is a list of changes for version 1.0.6.
Hey guys it's nice to be back after a nice long break (about 8 months) and I'll be helping out with the site once again. During my time away I have been working hard on EFx2Blogs which has really taken off .. yeah yeah shameless plug. :D
As you may have noticed the site has had a bit of a face lift with a newer design. A lot of elements are the same so it shouldn't be too much of a change. The new design is much faster when it comes to load times and cleaner looking for easier use. I want to thank all those that gave input in the designing process and helping come up with something nice for all our visitors.
I also wanted to give WhiteX a public welcome to the team and a big thanks for all his contributions with news posting and reviews. Also big thanks to [vEX] and wrags for keeping the site updated all this time. I know it's not an easy job going solo. :)
Anyways if you guys are bored or just looking for a nice community to join then head on over to our forums here at EmuTalk and join up (if you haven't already). Pop into Talk of the Town I am sure there is something there that will peak your interest, but if not we are always looking for new discussions. :)
Zx-81 has released a new version of PSPAtari an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator for the PSP handheld. Here is a list of changes for this version.
• Sound support
• Add various render modes (normal/fit/x1.25 ...)
• Code cleaning and bug fix
• New virtual keys
For more information head on over to the Zx-81's site.
Normmatt has released a new build of his unofficial version of the Nintendo DS emulator DeSmuME. Here is what Normmatt posted for this release.
Heres a new release of DeSmuME featuring a key config dialog, proper X/Y key implimentations and finally FAT emulation thanks to mic.
Normmatt also released an unnofficial build of dualSwan that uses a newer FAT lib which has support for all flashcarts that use SD/CF including eg SC and M3.
Head on over to Normmatt's blog for all his projects and to pick up the latest build of DeSmuME and dualSwan for SD/CF.
I just read over at our network site PSP-News that a new Alpha release for the Neo Geo emulator by NJ has been released. Here is the changes for Alpha 2.
• BIOS it tried to start selection from the file browser. During file browser executing when the button is pushed, the menu opens.
• Only at the time of the first starting it tried to indicate the help of the file browser. (For the above-mentioned modification)
• In initial condition it tried automatic frame skip to become effective.
• Case it fails in starting, it tried not to retain SRAM and the memory card.
• In order to be able to start several games which it cannot start, the intention of correcting. The game where memory is not enough does not operate as usual. Referring to details list.txt.
• If user interface is simplified, because memory is less crowded somewhat, perhaps, the game which can be started more or less it increases, but only this game it operates basically.
Thanks Kaiser for the news. You can grab the release and leave some feedback over at the DCEmu Forums.
@ruantec best known for his EMU-SELECTOR frontend has posted a progress report for his latest project which will replace EMU-SELECTOR. Here is the information about @ruantec A.E.S (Advance entertainment software) that was posted over at NGEmu's forums yesterday.
hi everyone! a while ago ive showed my new program which will replace the old emu-selector(btw this project is dead now) the new program is called "@ruantec A.E.S" or Advance entertainment software.. this new program will provide you a lot of nice things.... to mention some of them.. video and music! almost all kind of media is supported... mp3,wav,ogg,wma,acc,m4a,avi,divx in fact every format as long as you have the codec installed on your pc. but thats not all.. lets get to the interesting part.. a.e.s support n64,snes and many other emulators that use roms by just drag and drop the game to the a.e.s screen or just select them from the a.e.s menu! in some cases you will not even see the emu window at all as all the games are started in fullscreen! and the most exciting feature...a.e.s can be fully controlled using a ps2 remote control!
and last but not least a.e.s will have autorun support for psx,ps2 dreamcast and many other emulators that use cds!.
at the moment a.e.s is under hard tests to get best results. and its looking good so very soon you will see a release of it!
as ive sayd before this project was originally made for my wife but i decide to share it with all of you.
more projects are coming in the near future(if i get enough time) so stay tune.
to prevent confusions.. a.e.s is not a EMULATOR(for now at least)! a.e.s is a new style of frontend. in other words a full entertainment software.
Greetz
@ruantec-Man
Head on over to the thread for some additional screenshots.
Some preview screenshots and a progress report for the upcoming version of jEnesis has been posted a few days ago. jEnesis is a Genesis emulator written in java created by Stephan Dittrich. Here is some info about the upcoming release.
I bumped the version number up a bit, due to recent progress.
As you can see, i worked on a SH2 core and now the 32X is basically emulated - for the first time in Java as far as i know.
It's actually a bit faster than the screenshots show, but still not really fast enough. 25-35fps on my 1.8GHz Athlon XP.
So i'll be working on speeding it up and fixing some bugs that are still in the SH2 core until i release it.
Head on over to the official site for the screenshots and for older versions of jEnesis. Thanks to Hawq for the news on IRC.
A major update for the WonderSwan emulator for the DS made by Liranuna.
There you go, dualSwan 1.2 released.
Still no sound, and some games are below 20FPS, but the re-write was worth it!
Why? Because now some games are running in full speed and even passes it (200FPS baby!).
dualSwan will work only with CF/SD based flashcarts, and will load any WonderSwan ROM that is smaller then 4MB (Need to write dynamic bank loading).
The SPU isnt yet emulated - this means there is no sound.
Sources are released too. You are free to modify and re-release your own version (Something like unofficial Goomba) but please dont claim it yours.
I was working hard on this emulator to make it what it is now, even if its not perfect yet.
Id appreciate any positive comments, as well as Donations and clicks on the sites ads.
- Added Profiler to NESCafe, press F6 to profile memory
- Added OverRideActiveAtStartup flag to settings file
- Added ability to enable and disable the Overrides from the Extra?s menu
- Improved Menu handling and further GUI updates
Over at PCSX2.net we hit our 100,000th unique visitor in just 13 days after the new site design was launched, which seemed the perfect time to spring alittle video and some 'tantalising' news about current 'experimental' progress!
With 100,000 unique visitors having visited this site in it's short time online (13 days), both myself and Falcon4ever are happy it's gone so smoothly.
So a video of Makai Kingdom in action has been recorded for you lot to download and enjoy, including audio (speech, music, sound effects).
So you are thinking woopiee a video, wow, thats shocking... :rolleyes: , well hold that thought, what if I told you that the video only had to be sped up by about 10 FPS to get to 60 FPS, eg; what you see is practically what it's emulated at!
What?!! near full speed emulation?!! impossible I hear you cry, well I did tell you that zerofrog was re-writing the eeREC and vuREC ;) There's alot to do, as in all honesty many games got broken with bugs during the transition from the old rec, to the new, but he's still not blinking, and he is avoiding sleep, so hopefully more news eventually!
Enough of that for now, enjoy the video, which you can grab on this page (click the 'DOWNLOAD' image to the right of the details ;) ).
PCSX2 - Official Site
Torrent - Direct link to Makai Kingdom Video
One more update of this fabulous Genesis Emulator for the NDS by Ryan FB.
PicoDriveDS 0.1.3 is up! Changes:
* Added long filename support
* Added support for going up a directory by pressing B
* Added support for skipping ahead/back 5 files at a time with R/L
* Added automatic save/load SRAM support
Files are the same place as before or you can use the handy new release directories to be sure.
The SRAM feature is not the same thing as savestates. Basically it emulates a Genesis cart's internal Save RAM, and whenever the SRAM is written to it writes out (romname).srm. When you load a game, it looks to see if that SRAM file is there and loads it if so.
v0.21a is out. Fixed a few major bugs, so DKC is working now, didn't test anything else, but hopefully compatibility matches the GBA version at least.
As to when a non-flashcart version will be supported. Well, I'm not sure. I only have a flashcart, so someone else will have to add/test support for them.
• Add an option to under/overclock the z80: --z80clock=-20 will underclock it by 20%
• Rename the overclock option to 68kclock
• Add GP2X optimisation for zoomed sprites.
• GP2X: Optimised ClearScreen.
• Update dumpgfx for crypted roms support [Anonymous]
• Correctly draw char in crypted roms [Anonymous]
• Fix crashing when the romset isn't supported.
• GP2X: Hotkeys support bound to L and R (default configuration L=A+B R=C+D)
• Command line now override any configuration made in gngeorc/.cf
• Add a --bench option. It will run gngeo for 5000 frames, the quit and show the average fps. Thanks to Artemio for the idea.
