Sunday, January 31st 1999 - Last updated @ 22:15 CET
MAMEWIP: Can you say 16-bit color support ?! You heard it right, 16 bit color has been added to the NEOGEO driver, but only 3 games are supported at the moment, being GowCaizer, KOF97 and KOF98 !
News from Slashdot.org: Panix has written in with an open letter to the Emulation community where he addresses the recent rise and fall of the UltraHLE- the N64 emulator, ROM piracy, and the real reason for console emulators. Click HERE to read what he has to say.
Raine adds 2 more games! They've added Rodland (English version) and the original version of Pipi's & Bibi's called Whoopee! Check the Raine Site for pics :)
The Official #Retrogamers homepage has been updated! Lance McKay has added more pics of people that are in #retrogamers (EFnet IRC, feel free to join), we have 60 pics online now :) The page is also mirrored on this server, click here (and be scared =).
Victoria's Secret will be broadcasting their new fashion show LIVE on the net on Feb. 3rd, 1999 =) They have bought a 30 second slot for a commercial at half-time during the SUPER BOWL where they will point (bad pun intended ;) viewers to their website ! Personally, I have this feeling their website will be overcrowded =)
Kazuya has scanned an article from CTW (the best computer trade paper, read by ALL the big game companies) which defends emulation! It's pretty nice to read an article that supports the emulation community for once, click here to see the scan (500+ kb)
Computer Trade Weekly has interviewed Doug Lowenstein, president of our beloved IDSA, where they focus on emulation and the IDSA's (succesful attempts) of shutting sites down. One of the more remarkable answer's of Mr. Lowenstein is this: "WE'VE BEEN STEADILY WORKING TO SHUT DOWN THE EMULATION SCENE FOR OVER A YEAR". How nice, Mr. Lowenstein. Mr. Bongo has put up a text transcript of the interview at his C.L.E.A.R. Site. (Atila)
Monster has sent me THIS new version of Neo Geo MAME 0.35 beta 2. It has drivers for ONLY Neo Geo games including Maruko's Deluxe Quiz & Robo Army MVS. You can also read Monster's comments (in Chinese only) Here. Good luck with your exams Monster! (Prophet)
It appears that UltraHLE is *officially* over. Thanks Adrox of Emusphere for the news. (Prophet)
Straight from Foxy's page at Emuunlim: The UltraHLE emulator has now officially discontinued. I am glad to hear that both authors are going to stay on at Emulators Unlimited in another capacity yet to be decided. They're just having a long break after the last few difficult days.
RockNES has not quit! :) Thanks again Adrox. (Prophet) RockNES is not dead. After this short stop, I would like to say I didn't change my mind about a possible illegality. We will continue the RockNES development (me and Kritz). *Any* problem, goodbye emulation, anymore. Thanks for your support.
Can Raine be far off? Let keep our fingers crossed! (Prophet)
JoseQ's Emuviews gets a BIG scoop on the upcoming release of Shark, a Windows based arcade emu by Dead Serious Clan. Apparently the next release will arrive within a few days, supporting around 15 games including Outzone, Hellfire & Zero Wing! (Prophet)
Emuunlim has opened 2 new message boards, including a Next Generation Emulation board. Go post your thoughts! (Prophet)
CyberJedi has put up an interesting page detailing how to convert a Microsoft Sidewinder into an arcade joystick unit. I'm currently making a similar project so I found it interesting. You might too. :) (Prophet)
Saturday, January 30th 1999 - Last updated @ 23:10 CET
250MHz microprocessor consists of a CPU core with 128b multimedia extensions, 10 floating-point multiplier accumulators, four floating-point dividers, an MPEG2 decoder, a 10-channel DMA controller, and other peripherals with 128b internal buses on one die. It contains 10.5M transistors in 17x14.1mm2 and dissipates 15W at 1.8V. This could be the new heart of the PSX2 :) Click here to read more about it and it has a nice story on BLEEM too. Thanks to _Mark_ for the link.
I have just found out that Alex will no longer be working on MK2 and NBAJAM in MAME. He has halted developement on that part of the TMS34010 driver until further notice.
If you're wondering what happened to yesterday's news, click the news archive link on the left ;)
Demi has posted an UltraHLE compatibility list, click here to check it out.
Matt Conte (author of NoFrendo) has posted a reply to Nintendo's and IDSA's statement yesterday. I can tell you he's pissed ..... Thank you Adrox :)
|LeStat| has posted a very nice editorial about the current affairs. It's worth a read, he mentions that maybe we should split emulation up into 2 sides. One that's in it for the new(er) games and one that's in it for the old(er). And the IDSA should go after the new camp, leaving us "oldies" alone =)
My sister has just given birth to a lovely little boy ! I'm an uncle now =)
I'd still like to point out that we still have the MAME 0.35 b2 roms online.
I have removed Prophet's editorial after he asked me to do so. He said it was his "overactive imagination playing tricks on him" :-) I have to say though that Prophet made a few good points. Editorials on Retrogames will now be posted on the general emulation messageboard, Prophet is an active messageboard poster :)
MAMEWIP news: Namco System 2 driver (VERY, VERY Preliminary!!) has been added! It currently gets the supported games (Rolling thunder II, Cosmo Gang and Phelios) running upto the Start Screen. Let's hope MAMEDEV can get it working properly :)
I received a mail from Dr _Mario_ today, in which he wrote that a beta of his JAGUAR emu should be out within the next 2 months, maybe sooner. How's that for good news :)
NINCEST64 discontinued! This N64 emu that ran a few demos has been discontinued. Thanks to Zophar for the news. (Atila)
New NES emulator debuts: NESEM! This emu has been programmed in QuickBasic v7.1 Extended, so it pretty cool to see it run like it does. It's not really compatible yet, gamewise, but Balloon Force is fully supported but Mario 1 doesn't run yet. Click here to go to the homepage. You can get the source code here. Oh yeah, it's made by the author of NES4PC :) Thanks to News-U-Lator for the news.
We have removed UltraHLE upon the authors' request, they ask all sites to no longer carry it. (Atila)
The fallout continues... The authors of Rocknes (NES Emu) seem to have quit: "Why? I donīt want to do something "cool, interesting, just for fun" if this is illegal. I canīt see good things around emulation for now (Nintendo and IDSA), so, it seems time to stop... Iīm not a hacker, "warezman" or something... There are *many* info avaliable, hence itīs impossible you donīt try to write your own videogame emulator, itīs fun, but illegal (?), you canīt (?) and itīs enough (?)." Thanks to Adrox of Emusphere for the info. (Prophet)
Nintendo's stance regarding UltraHLE: "We are currently reviewing all of our possible options, but we do not tolerate counterfeiting, piracy, or infringement of our intellectual property rights in any form."
Read the complete story at www.ign.com. Thanks avtr for the news. (Prophet)
The weird thing with UltraHLE is that is runs commercial games, but it can't really load the demos and homebrewn stuff =) Completely the opposite of PUR and NEMU64 :)
The INTEL Boycott continues! "After meeting with Intel officials for two hours on January 28, the organizers of the boycott determined that the software patch announced by Intel Monday was not sufficient to eliminate the privacy problems of the PSN", click here for the full story. Thanks to |pogo| for the news.
I have just gotten confirmation that the UltraHLE N64 emu is *NOT* dead!
I have just played Mario64 on my machine without a 3DFX card!! I used a glide wrapper (sort of 3DFX emu), it wasn't really fluent (about 15 fps on my PII-266/ATI Xpert@Work AGP 2x card), but then again, who cares :) Use THIS proggy to play (or attempt to) run it. Set your resolution in the emu to 800x600 or better. I'm not saying it'll work for you, but it's worth a shot!
If you have an urge to talk about UltraHLE, feel free to join #Retrogamers on EFnet IRC, or use the general emulation messageboard. Unfortunately, N64 Rom requests are *NOT* allowed in the channel or on the messageboards.
Here are some pics I made with UltraHLE a few days ago, using a P166MMX and a Monster 2 card, Mario and GoldenEye :)
I was talking to the authors of UltraHLE last night (before this whole thing about quitting came up) and the question I asked them first was: When's D3D support coming ? Epsilon replied by saying he didn't know if and when it'd be added. But chances were they'd add OpenGL support first, before D3D. He doesn't really like D3D =) Now, let's hope they didn't quit the project, I' sure a LOT of people would like OpenGL/D3D support =) (Atila)
UltraHLE made the news, IGN has put up a nice review of the emulator. Thanks to Bigphoot14 and Adrox for the links. (Atila)
Hmm... Seems the UltraHLE project *may* not be dead afterall... Click HERE to read what Emuunlim's Foxy had to say on our Gen Em board... (Prophet)
Emuviews gets the scoop on Street Fighter 1 in MAME!!! JoseQ has even posted some screenshots of the current driver! Go see! (Prophet)
NeoCharity has released the sound fix for RBFF2 compliments of Apollo69! (Prophet)
Seems the UltraHLE team have quit!!! Nightbird reports that their homepage is down, and Triple 6 posted this comment from the authors on our GenEm board: Statement released by authors, Epsilon and RealityMan, on IGN64.com: The UltraHLE Project was a technical demo, an experiment to see if Nintendo 64 emulation is really possible. It was not designed to be a tool for piracy. Once it was released, things moved at an unforeseen pace and not in the direction we wanted. It seems the emulation community is not ready for something like this so the unfortunate news is that the UltraHLE Project ends just as soon as it began. (Prophet)
A Brief Editorial from Prophet:Now that UltraHLE has been revealed to the world, I would like to publically state my point of view regarding this emulator, as an independant member of the Retrogames staff. While I'm impressed and fascinated by the technology and skill that made it possible - I DO NOT SUPPORT the use of copyrighted Nintendo 64 games with the emulator. I have never used UltraHLE, I have no interest in ROMs for use with it, nor will Retrogames EVER offer copyrighted N64 ROMs to download. To the visitors of Retrogames - please don't ask me for ROMs, information about the authors or anything else regarding UltraHLE - I DO NOT KNOW the answer to any of your questions. (Prophet)
Thursday, January 28th 1999 - Last updated @ 23:07 CET
Well, what a nice release eh ? A fully working N64 emu at the cost of a download :) The authors will remain ANONYMOUS, so don't even THINK if mailing me. I'd also like to thank Emuunlim.com for letting me hype it up =) You guys rock!!
HERE IT IS, the emu we've been hyping all along! UltraHLE -- The *ULTIMATE* N64 emulator!! This baby can go FULL SPEED on a PII-350 or better, it can run almost ALL N64 roms, some better than the other, but MARIO64, ZELDA and a load more work FLAWLESSLY, with FULL SOUND!! Only drawback at this time is that ir *REQUIRES* a Voodooo card (Glide2x.dll) to run, later versions will be Direct3D!! This emulator uses Dynamic Recompilation, for faster execution, and boy does it show. Click here to go to the UltraHLE Site! "Emulation will NEVER be the same!"
I have to say I'm enjoying the speculation going on on IRC right now. People are saying Saturn, N64, Jaguar (where's my beta Dr. Mario ;), PSX and even CPS2 and CPS3. I guess we'll find out within the next 4 days!!
The Fox has just posted an *official statement* about the new emu, which several sites (including this one) have been hinting at. "Emulation will NEVER be the same!"
Phew, more editorials :) Father Death has also put up a new editorial, which you can read here. It also concerns the "aftermath" of last night's editorial by SAV2880
SAV2880 has written a followup to last night's editorial, which you can read here.
MAME32 0.35 b2 released!!! Upto par with the DOS version, everything's included. If (for some strange reason) you're having trouble downloading, here's a mirror, courtesy of MASON.
A brief apology to UNAE. Apparently the MAME compiled by Monster (NeoGeo-only with a Maruko's Deluxe Quiz driver) was their exclusive! I was unaware at the time, so now I'm setting the record straight. Sorry guys - I didn't realize it at the time of my update. Thanks to UNAE & Monster for this build of MAME35b2. (Prophet)
EmuUnlim Radio (use WINAMP!!) will be interviewing Zophar of Zophar's Domain live Thursday at 7pm EDT (that's 1:00 AM CET), be sure to have your Winamp's running and your ears turned on. If you have any questions you want to ask Zophar, join #emuunlim on EFnet (IRC) tonight, the channel will be monitored!
I've finished uploading the remaining MAME 0.35b2 sets, MK2 is *not* there :) Check the left sidebar for the link to the roms.
I kinda forgot about Robo Army MVS, because I was busy playing that thing we've (me and JoseQ_ been hyping =) It will be "Da Bomb!" (Atila)
For the record, Chemical set up the messageboards and I wanna thank him too :) The boards are clean, noone has been banned ... yet ;-) (Atila)
Metal Slug R *might* be coming soon for the NeoGeo 16-bit!!! =D Thanks BBH for the message on our NeoGeo board. (Prophet)
Hmm... Someone put an extra text file in one of the MAME 35 beta 2 builds that I posted recently. Since adding files violates the MAME distribution policy, I've removed this file and re-uploaded the zip. HERE it is: includes the joystick fix and ALL drivers including NeoGeo. (Prophet)
New version of Danji released. I believe it now has better Sidewinder support but no sound yet. Go HERE for more info. (Prophet)
Tim Eckel of Arcade@Home fame reported some very interesting news regarding Retrocade recently - Joust 2 and Mystic Marathon *might* be coming soon! Yes!!! =) (Prophet)
Adrox at Emusphere recently posted some cool news about VB_98 - the Virtual Boy Emulator - apparently the Windows and Mac ports are coming along nicely! Take a look. :) (Prophet)
Wednesday, January 27th 1999 - Last updated @ 23:45 CET
And don't forget to post your thoughts, questions and opinions on our new message boards! Good work Atila! Thanks. (Prophet)
Emuviews has an interesting Rumor Mill, in which JoseQ discusses Raine, System 16, Retrocade and that secret next-gen emu you've been hearing about... See what you think! (Prophet)
Read this to see WHY the INTEL/PIII/ID# thingie was bound to fail. Thanks to |pogo| for the link.
SAV2880 has written a VERY nice editorial about the MAME License and someone that breaks it. Click here and find out who he means, it's worth the read!
HERE is a new version of MAME 0.35b2 DOS which contains the joystick fix, ONLY NeoGeo drivers & a driver for Maruko's Deluxe Quiz (recently released at J-ROM) compiled by Monster. (Prophet)
The Atari 800 was my first computer, and I loved it. Holmes Atari Pages will help bring back the memories. :) (Prophet)
Emuviews has an excellent interview with Ernesto Corvi (mamedev) in which he discusses, amongst other things, the state of Namco System 1 emulation (Pacmania, Galaga 88 etc.) and Pole Position! (Prophet)
EmuAdvice is up and running! RocLobsta and KiLLerCloWn are serious about offering help for newbies so check it out. (Prophet)
Tuesday, January 26th 1999 - Last updated @ 23:27 CET
Gerard Maathuis has just released Flyer & Poster Pack 1.5 for use with MAME! He's added a few flyers, replaced a few with better looking ones, get this file and use it with the various mame frontends! You can get the other packs to complete your set at the homepage. (NB. Sorry for the typos :)
My ISP will be introducing the world's first printed emulation magazine very soon! It will feature ALL aspects of emulation, with reviews of games and emulators, a tech section, "compile MAME" section, a Q&A page, editorials, the list goes on :) It's alsmot done, the only thing that's needed now is a good catchy name. This is where you can help. Think of a good name, but the words EMU or RETRO are not allowed in the name. The name must also have a subtitle like this, "EMUMAG: Bringing back the oldies". If your entry is the chosen one, you will get a FREE SUBSCRIPTION AND A GAME OF YOUR CHOICE ($100 max)!! Send your entry to contest@emulationworld.com
Bleem site updated! To go get the latest scoop on what's going on at the moment, click here! They had some help from Microsoft with DX6.1 and they're adding MMX and 3DNow! instructions too! Thanks to Adrox for the news.
It's gonna be huge ........
"Yeah, we went to the zoo and this monkey put his finger up his behind, took a wiff and fainted dude! He fell right off of the tree! I swear, it's the truth!!"
Prophet had a good idea today, he told me to add a few messageboards. I will be adding 2 more boards, so we will have a General emulation board, a MAME board and a NeoGeo board this week.
MAME Merge 2.11 released! The author states it's a "Win95/98/NT program to clean, merge and split your MAME 0.34 and later ROM sets." Couldn't have said it better myself :P
Yesterday must have been one of the busiest days ever for us, we had almost 24,000 hits =) Today I will be posting Lothar's latest dump, which is Robo Army MVS (neogeo). Lothar, Apollo69 and I had a nice chat last night, I think it was very productive =)
It's coming ........
There will be a new Email Wars on Thursday @ www.emuunlim.com It will be with Gordon Hollingsworth (who left the NSFE project recently), because he will now be working with a game company whose name we cannot mention. It will be a "fairwell to the emulation scene" type of thing.
Arcade ROMs from Japan released Gradius 2 and Super Contra!!! They're not YET emulated, but hopefully they will be soon. :) Thanks to Emulation Never Dies (a great site from Brazil!) for the heads-up. (Prophet)
Check this out! Color NeoGeo Pocket coming soon! Thanks to my pal Steve for the link! (Prophet)
A short note about KoF98: some may not realize this, but you can play it in MAME35b2 simply by using -soundcard 0. You'll have no sound at all, but it'll be playable...
Also, for those Shock Troopers fans (like me), it's FINALLY working again in the latest MAME beta! Yes!!! Thanks to my friend archive46 for the ST info. (Prophet)
HERE is a complete version of MAME 0.35 beta 2 DOS with joystick support fixed AND the NeoGeo drivers included! The previously available fixed executable did not contain NeoGeo drivers. (Prophet)
Emuviews reports that Phil Stroffolino has submitted a MAME driver for Legend of Kage! MAME justs keeps getting better and better! (Prophet)
Monday, January 25th 1999 - Last updated @ 23:28 CET
Intel is planning to introduce a serial number with the new Pentium III, which will be transmitted over the Internet, with whatever you do. You buy someting over the net, they get your CPU ID number. You try to hack a pc, they get your CPU ID number, etc, etc. You can disable it, but only when your PC boots (edit the BIOS *everytime*). Now a privacy group is planning a boycot of Intel, click here to read! Thanks to |pogo| for the link
Here's a mirror donated by Oldie for the new MK2 set, it's a cable modem, don't hammer the site! ftp://xxxxxxxxx/mk2.zip. If your browser can't connect, use a REAL ftp program like CuteFTP. More mirrors should be appearing today :)
Just a note: I'm busy today studying for final exams tomorrow, so don't expect many updates from me until Tuesday! If something really big happens, I'll be doing one more news pass later tonight, so hopefully Retrogames won't miss too much. Of course, Atila will back in the morning, so no worries. :) (Prophet)
Killerclown's Arcade has just opened for business! The cool thing about this site is the newbie support section. Hopefully Killerclown and RocLobsta's faq's can help people learn how to use emulators better. Good luck guys! (Prophet)
Sunday, January 24th 1999 - Last updated @ 23:01 CET
Ridge Racer Type 4 (Playstation) works on Bleem!! Harry Tuttle has posted pics of it running on Bleem, go check it out.
Romlist releases 2 more games! They've just released Hacha Mecha Fighter and Virmana, they are NOT supported by ANY emu yet!!
I completely overlooked this, RetroRadio released!!
Furbies must die! Furbies must die! No more, I can't take it no more!!
OH BOY! Manbeast has landed an interview, and a good one too!! He's interviewing Jeff Minter (coder from way back, Revenge of the Mutant Camels, Tempest 2000, etc, etc, etc :) and it's a good read. Jeff explains his current project (NUON, new console/home system) which should be out soon. He also talks about emulation and its effects (all positive btw ;).
PasoFami 1.0a released! PasoFami is a WIN32/DirectX Nes emu, looks like it's shareware and it has Netplay (?). Thanks to UNAE for the news.
HU6280 being ported to MAC!! Richard Bannister received the source of HU6280 in the mail today and he already had a working port in 30 minutes. Now, it's time to clean it up, and get some speed out of it, check Richard's site for more news.
Be sure to rename the file inside the maglord.zip to maglh_p1.rom
Almost done with uploading the new MAME roms at mirror, I will finish it tomorrow. On the mirror is also aerofgt.zip, Aero Fighters :) I still have to find a good mirror for the new MK2 set (13 MB), if you can help, mail me!!
All MAME 0.35 roms will be added today, MK2 looks good, can't play it, but it looks good =)
The new NeoGeo roms were found by Lasse Reinikainen, who made sure the MAMEDEV team got them. I will post them later today on a mirror (<5 MB total), so stay put :)
Gordon has updated his MAME ROM INFO PAGE. It's now updated for MAME 0.35b2, remember, it's a big file to load as an html file, so I'm mirroring the zip here (170 kb). This zip contains all romsizes/crcs/filenames/etc to all roms supported by the latest mame release..
Try running KOF98 in MAME 0.35 b2, you'll see it won't work because it's asking for the sound roms. Now, for once I don't have the roms. So don't think about bugging me for the roms :)
MAME Joystick bug fixed! Here's a new binary, courtesy of ArcadeHeaven, it fixes the joystick bug. Download ONLY if you are having joystick troubles. This version DOES NOT INCLUDE THE NEOGEO DRIVER!! (Atila)
Arcade@Home 35b bugfix update released! (MAME frontend) I'm off for the evening - until next time, have fun!!! (Prophet)
Joystick bug in MAME.35 beta 2. You should disable joystick control until a fix comes along. Before you complain - remember - this IS a beta release. :p (Prophet)
MAME.35 beta 2 for DOS!!! Get it HERE. Haven't tried this yet, because I'm too busy getting it online! But it supports a bunch of new games including Gal's Panic, Lot Lot, Pig Newton, Aerofighters and lots more! It also contains PRELIMINARY line scrolling emulation in the NeoGeo driver, which can be toggled with F1. Click HERE to read the complete whatsnew.txt while your downloading. ;-) (Prophet)
Saturday, January 23rd 1999 - Last updated @ 23:45 CET
Bit of Retrocade news: All Z80 games (Gyruss, Pacman, Galaga, etc) will have a speed boost, ranging from 7%-29% in the next RetroCade release!! Talk about fast, eh ?
BrSMS 1.16r released! There's a ton of new stuff this release, be sure to check it out!! Thanks to UNAE for the news
The Fox updates his Comments! He delivers a nice list of things that happened recently, BUT he also mentions a "GREAT NEW NEXT GENERATION EMULATOR!", that will be released at emuunlim.com soon! And no, IT ISN'T BLEEM!!
For the people that didn't know, that's my face pasted onto Eric Cartman's body ! Beef-Cake! Beef-Caaaaaaaaaaake!!
Well, I just thought of something :) Would anyone be interested in a doing a mirror of Retrogames.com in another language ? I'll do the Dutch mirror myself (gek he =), but if you can do a French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, etc mirror, MAIL ME!!
Lothar mailed me today with some good news!! He's already working on his next dumps, which include: Dino Blades, Robo Army, RBFF2 (sound fix), KOF98 ("soundfix"), Magical Drop 1 *AND* a strange new game from Japan which he received a couple of days ago. Be sure to have about 40 MB free for this one!! These games will be released, in no specific order.
JoseQ has posted some eXlusive news about the upcoming C.A.G.E release, go check it now, this might be the next commercially available emulator!! (Atila)
Both Joy Joy Kid (MVS) and Maruko Deluxe Quiz have been moved to the NeoGeo page. Remember, both these games are NOT supported by MAME yet, but they will be soon.
Shadowdan made me a new (temp) logo, I thought I'd put it up today =)
Hu6280 1.89 released! Here's what's new: Fixed a bug in video_status emulation, 'Davis Cup Tennis' now runs perfectly, fixed a bug in dma emulation, this fixes explosion sprites on 'alices dream'. Next release will have these lovely (;-) features: 16 bit screen option (for the full pc-engine 512 colour effect), 'hu6280.cnf' file that will contain your options, keys etc. Fixed timer interrupts (I`m working on it dudes...), improved audio (I`ve discovered a bug in the audio shit, i`m working on it). added code to detect if screen resolution was changed, fixes dirty left behind graphics on 'final blaster' , 'outrun' etc. Be sure to check out the HU6280 Site!! Thanks to rob` for the news (Atila)
I've also cleaned up the messageboard, it's about 5kb big now, should load faster ;) (Atila)
Amiga in a Box moves! They have switched from Classicgaming.com to our friends at Emuunlim.com. The author states he wanted a "change of scenery" so he moved to his friend's (The Fox) site. Enjoy your stay and welcome aboard! (Atila)
Boycott version 45b for DOS released by Gollum! Includes improved Gameboy/Gameboy Color emulation, including MBC3 and MBC5 support. (Prophet)
Arcade ROMs from Japan releases Maruko Deluxe Quiz (4.2mb) - a VERY Japanese quiz game for NeoGeo. View a screenshot here. You can also download it locally here. Thanks to jay_on_emu for the info. ;-) (Prophet)
To my fellow Arcade@Home fans: Dutch noticed that "auto-frameskip" is missing from the settings options. Tim Eckel has e-mailed me regarding this minor problem, and an updated version will appear sometime soon. Keep in mind that auto-frameskip works fine as long as it's set in your mame.cfg. I suspect none of the beta-testers (myself included) noticed since we all had auto set in the cfg, and never bothered to even set any manual settings! Oops... (Prophet)
The NEW Arcade@Home version 35a released! This is without a doubt my (Prophet) favorite frontend for MAME. The feature list is awesome. Check it out! (Prophet)
A few new drivers added to MAME recently: Aerofighters (SNK, NOT a NeoGeo game) added by Nicola Salmoria, Lot Lot (Irem) and Jail Break (Konami - Japanese ROMs) added by(?) Guru-Choc of Arcade Rom Heaven. (Prophet)
Friday, January 22nd 1999 - Last updated @ 21:25 CET
Here it is, JOY JOY KID (arcade version). This rom has been dumped by Lothar, keep an eye out for this dumper ;) You can get it to work in the current mame, by renaming them to the viewpoint roms.
More VBemu98 news, straight from the homepage: Nothing new, but I spent some time debugging last night, I fixed a bug in the Timer Interrupt and now the rest of the games no longer crash, no new games are working though... Golf and Virtual Baseball are getting a lot farther however... Also WarioLand is spending a lot of time listening to the Link Cable, Im wondering if it supports the link cable in some way? I need to hook the Display Status back up to the screen refresh, this will make Telero Boxer behave better (the screens wont just disappear like they do now), but it will also slow it down even more! This also might be why Mario Clash is so screwy (a lot of games use the display refresh bit to time fast sequences, Galactic pinball and Telero Boxer are the worst at this....) Thanks to MercuryZ for the news.
Danish (no, not the buns ;) software pirates busted !! Thanks to |pogo| for the link
Updated the Links Page with the MAME32QA site. If you want your page there, just mail me your link :)
Danji updated again! The author forgot ONE line of code in the last Danji, so he wants you to try F9 and F10 again! Thanks to ReGNaSTa and J. Y. Park for the translations
I've also received an MVS dump of Joy Joy Kid, which I'll be testing later today. If it's good, I'll post it (< 1 MB)
Pentium II slated for the arcades (old article though - I don't think I've seen any in ANY arcade =), thanks to Jesse Durgin for the mail.
Thursday, January 21st 1999 - Last updated @ 22:40 CET
Virtual Boy news: Major bugfixing going on, Wario Land almost boots now, Telero boxer is getting better and best of all, we should expect a win32 version of VBemu98 SOON!!
CycleJmpr (#Retrogamers) has graciously donated a mirror for Gal's Panic. This game will be supported in the next MAME beta. Gal's Panic is an "adult" version of QIX
Here's the what's new for Danji, thanks to ReGNaSTa
This is what you get when you start experimenting with genetics ;) Thanks to Mr. Rizzo for the pic ;)
Danji 0.48x (??) released! Don't know what's new, no translation available yet. Although something was added to the F9 and F10 keys ? Thanks to UNAE for the news
Raine news: Raine has added support for 2 more games, they are Cadash (Italian version) and P47 (US version), both are fully playable with sound. Mario Silva has also added 2 more pages of Raine logos, they look good :) Be sure to check the Raine Site out.
NeoMAME 0.35 b1b released! Apollo69 has released this updated version, with support for the NeoBomber sound fix and Puzzle de Pon R, which was released yesterday. Naz dumped Puzzle de Pon R with long filenames, but it will work in the current Neo MAME. Chances are though that MAMEDEV will rename the files to the 8.3 convention.
Wednesday, January 20th 1999 - Last updated @ 22:59 CET
Zingers updated! Zing has updated his site with 2 more retro reviews (Phoenix and Galaga) and part one of a feature about Shigeru Miyamoto (if you don't know who he is, you have no business reading this site :)
Sheeesh, talk about a slow day ... Not much going on, probably the silence before the storm. JoseQ has updated his rumour mill again, I suggest you read it :) The Fox (EmuUnlim) had a good idea btw, Email Wars number xx: Atila vs Conjurer (Dave of Davesclassics). If Dave wants to, I'll gladly take it up ;) MAME 0,35 b2 should be out soon (??), but there are a lot core changes/fixes, so the longer it takes, the better it is for you =) I like what MAMEDEV is doing nowadays, fixing broken stuff and updating what is already there. Plus ofcourse, adding new games :) When you hang out in #retrogamers (IRC), you'll here a LOT of rumours/gossip and ofcourse all the latest news, before you see it on a website! Definately worth a check !!
Emuunlim.com in 3D! Emulators Unlimited is now available in a nice 3D world, click here to "experience it" :)
Naz has released Puzzle de Pon R, I don't know anything about this game :)
eXlusive SYSTEM16 news: SYSTEM16 has added support for Body Slam (screenshots will be on the SYSTEM16 Site later today)!! Next up, the original Wonderboy romset is now supported, all bugs have been taken care off! And now for the biggest news, the NEC 7759C has been emulated which means FULL sound support for the following games: Shinobi, Altered Beast, Aurail, Passing Shot, Wrestle War, E-Swat, Riot City, Heavy Weight Champ and hopefully Golden Axe and Alien Syndrome. This is one release to look forward too!!
Tuesday, January 19th 1999 - Last updated @ 21:28 CET
Visitor # 1,000,000 was bomb, who had this to say on IRC (#retrogamers): I am overjoyed at being the 1,000,000 visitor at Retrogames. I am pleased to have won the grand prize, However, I wish to donate the prize to Neocharity and try to give something back to the Emulation scene (I dont click on the banners as much as I should do - which is something we are all probably guilty of). . . Retrogames gave a lot of people comfort and support when a lot of other sites were being dismantled . . . Atila offers a fresh perspective to the scene and heres to the next 1,000,000. . . bomb. So there you have it, I'll be donating a game to Neocharity, I'll let you know which one it is when we've decided :)
Dboy Front 1.4.0 released! mrg updated his DBoy frontend with the -sgb switch, it now also uses VB6 runtimes, which you can get here
Here's the GAMEBOY Page for now, it will be updated as soon as I have time to. The other pages will follow over the next few days.
JoseQ interviews Phil Stroffolino (MAMEDEV)! Pretty funny, one mamedev interviewing another, but the interview is very good and VERY informative. Phil is the one that gave us Rolling Thunder to name but one awesome game :-) He's also contributed to the SYSTEM16 driver in MAME and a LOT more. Be sure to read the interview!!
A man murdered his entire family and then shot himself, because he thought his wife was having an affair over the Internet, this is a sad day indeed, click here to read the article. Thanks to Gar Wells for the link.
I've also started to write the HTML pages for the various console systems, the gameboy page will be the first to go up in a short while.
Danji 0.485 released! ReGNaSTa has once again translated the docs, here's what's new
HU6280 1.87 released! This is a very nice release, pretty big bugfix release, 99.999 % of the games seem to work now :) For more info check the HU6280 SITE
RAINE adds 2 more games! These games are: Hachoo, an action game and a shoot-em-up called Earth Defense Force, both games are playable with full sound. Unlike another big site, we actually provide a link to these games, click here to go to the RAINE SITE
We passed 1,000,000 visitors yesterday and I received 4 screendumps with the "correct" counter :) It's been a nice 9 months now (insert funny joke here ;) and we've passed the big 1,000,000! I want to thank everyone for their continued support, without you my site would be nothing! This doesn't get said enough, but if it weren't for all those people that visit this site, I might as well pack up and leave :) On to the next million, which hopefully won't take 9 months :)
Lotta news, I'll be updating in a few moments
I'm back
Retrogames passes 1,000,000 visitors!!! Woohoo!!! I wonder what lucky person gets that lovely new game??? Congratulations Atila and thanks to all the great people who visit this site. Retrogames will just keep getting bigger and better with your support....
Enter the Prophet...
Welcome to my first update! My server access was finally resolved yesterday! =) Before I begin, I just want to thank Atila for asking me to join Retrogames, and thank everyone for visiting - and don't forget to drop by the messageboard while you're here! It's a great place to voice opinions, share news and ask questions.
Speaking of the messageboard, read THIS message from Nightbird - especially if you're interested in picking up a NeoGeo CD unit. SNK lives!
And while we're talking NeoGeo news, check THIS out if you're a Samurai Shodown fan (I am!). (Thanks to my good friend Steve for the link)
A new frontend debuts for Dboy - the great Gameboy Color emu. You can take a look and download the initial release from Brian Galm's page.
If you were around before the infamous videogame crash of '84, you might recall the Colecovision and it's big brother - ADAM. It was a pretty cool game system/computer that failed miserably for all sorts of reasons. But it DID have kickass versions of Donkey Kong, Ladybug, Zaxxon and many other cool games. You'll soon be able to try Version 1.0 of AdamEm, a Colecovision/Adam emulator. Take a look at the AdamEm homepage for details. Thanks to _Bnu at Zophar's Domain for the news.
If you haven't visited #retrogamers you should! You can even take a look at the #retrogamers regulars page to see what some of the people look like! It was updated over the weekened. You might even find me lurking about, but I strongly suggest you check out Ashley - one of the coolest and cutest young ladies in Emulation. ;) (Sorry Ash, I had to do that!)
Expect a new version of my favorite MAME frontend soon: Tim Eckel's Arcade@Home. The latest beta is full of great features, and I'd expect a public release later this week if all goes well!
A few tidbits: I hear that Pole Position emulation is coming along very well in MAME. Also, RUMOR has it that ALL the bad NeoGeo dumps are fixed - just a matter of time before they're released... In other tidbit news, it APPEARS that trogp has officially been slated for public consumption?! I know of at least one site, whose webmaster is a mamedev, who recently posted it for download... Until I know for sure whether MAME team has sanctioned the release, I won't say anymore.
Well that's it for now... :-)
Tuesday, January 19th 1999 - Last updated @ 21:28 CET
Visitor # 1,000,000 was bomb, who had this to say on IRC (#retrogamers): I am overjoyed at being the 1,000,000 visitor at Retrogames. I am pleased to have won the grand prize, However, I wish to donate the prize to Neocharity and try to give something back to the Emulation scene (I dont click on the banners as much as I should do - which is something we are all probably guilty of). . . Retrogames gave a lot of people comfort and support when a lot of other sites were being dismantled . . . Atila offers a fresh perspective to the scene and heres to the next 1,000,000. . . bomb. So there you have it, I'll be donating a game to Neocharity, I'll let you know which one it is when we've decided :)
Dboy Front 1.4.0 released! mrg updated his DBoy frontend with the -sgb switch, it now also uses VB6 runtimes, which you can get here
Here's the GAMEBOY Page for now, it will be updated as soon as I have time to. The other pages will follow over the next few days.
JoseQ interviews Phil Stroffolino (MAMEDEV)! Pretty funny, one mamedev interviewing another, but the interview is very good and VERY informative. Phil is the one that gave us Rolling Thunder to name but one awesome game :-) He's also contributed to the SYSTEM16 driver in MAME and a LOT more. Be sure to read the interview!!
A man murdered his entire family and then shot himself, because he thought his wife was having an affair over the Internet, this is a sad day indeed, click here to read the article. Thanks to Gar Wells for the link.
I've also started to write the HTML pages for the various console systems, the gameboy page will be the first to go up in a short while.
Danji 0.485 released! ReGNaSTa has once again translated the docs, here's what's new
HU6280 1.87 released! This is a very nice release, pretty big bugfix release, 99.999 % of the games seem to work now :) For more info check the HU6280 SITE
RAINE adds 2 more games! These games are: Hachoo, an action game and a shoot-em-up called Earth Defense Force, both games are playable with full sound. Unlike another big site, we actually provide a link to these games, click here to go to the RAINE SITE
We passed 1,000,000 visitors yesterday and I received 4 screendumps with the "correct" counter :) It's been a nice 9 months now (insert funny joke here ;) and we've passed the big 1,000,000! I want to thank everyone for their continued support, without you my site would be nothing! This doesn't get said enough, but if it weren't for all those people that visit this site, I might as well pack up and leave :) On to the next million, which hopefully won't take 9 months :)
Lotta news, I'll be updating in a few moments
I'm back
Retrogames passes 1,000,000 visitors!!! Woohoo!!! I wonder what lucky person gets that lovely new game??? Congratulations Atila and thanks to all the great people who visit this site. Retrogames will just keep getting bigger and better with your support....
Enter the Prophet...
Welcome to my first update! My server access was finally resolved yesterday! =) Before I begin, I just want to thank Atila for asking me to join Retrogames, and thank everyone for visiting - and don't forget to drop by the messageboard while you're here! It's a great place to voice opinions, share news and ask questions.
Speaking of the messageboard, read THIS message from Nightbird - especially if you're interested in picking up a NeoGeo CD unit. SNK lives!
And while we're talking NeoGeo news, check THIS out if you're a Samurai Shodown fan (I am!). (Thanks to my good friend Steve for the link)
A new frontend debuts for Dboy - the great Gameboy Color emu. You can take a look and download the initial release from Brian Galm's page.
If you were around before the infamous videogame crash of '84, you might recall the Colecovision and it's big brother - ADAM. It was a pretty cool game system/computer that failed miserably for all sorts of reasons. But it DID have kickass versions of Donkey Kong, Ladybug, Zaxxon and many other cool games. You'll soon be able to try Version 1.0 of AdamEm, a Colecovision/Adam emulator. Take a look at the AdamEm homepage for details. Thanks to _Bnu at Zophar's Domain for the news.
If you haven't visited #retrogamers you should! You can even take a look at the #retrogamers regulars page to see what some of the people look like! It was updated over the weekened. You might even find me lurking about, but I strongly suggest you check out Ashley - one of the coolest and cutest young ladies in Emulation. ;) (Sorry Ash, I had to do that!)
Expect a new version of my favorite MAME frontend soon: Tim Eckel's Arcade@Home. The latest beta is full of great features, and I'd expect a public release later this week if all goes well!
A few tidbits: I hear that Pole Position emulation is coming along very well in MAME. Also, RUMOR has it that ALL the bad NeoGeo dumps are fixed - just a matter of time before they're released... In other tidbit news, it APPEARS that trogp has officially been slated for public consumption?! I know of at least one site, whose webmaster is a mamedev, who recently posted it for download... Until I know for sure whether MAME team has sanctioned the release, I won't say anymore.
Well that's it for now... :-)
Monday, January 18th 1999 - Last updated @ 23:00 CET
VBemu98 for Linux released! Here's the correct zip, enjoy your Virtual Boy emulator :)
Be sure to send me a screencapture if you are visitor # 1,000,000 !
ReGNaSTa has sent me what's new in Danji 0.484 and a translation of the danjimac.ini, here's what's new: -20 mode auto frameskip bug not fixed, so no auto frameskip support for mode -20. Added macro key support, edit the danjimac.ini
Snes9X 1.16a (GUI) for DOS released! This version is completely up-to-date with the other versions and it has that lovely GUI too :) Gracias a JoseQ de Emuviews
OH NO!! The aliens have landed and they want our doodie!!
Just wanted to remind everyone that visitor # 1,000,000 will still get his/her desired game :) This applies to the black and white counter, since that one is moving fastest =) If I'm I'm in a good mood, I'll throw in a game for Fastcounter and Nedstat too =)
Romlist releases the Neo Bomberman sound fix and it's mirrored right here :) They have also released new arcade art packs, which you can download on their site.
Sunday, January 17th 1999 - Last updated @ 23:38 CET
Dboy 0.40 released! New things in this release are (I think): Super Gameboy emulation (dboy -sgb cart.gb) and 2 player support (dboy -2p -sgb cart.gb). Thanks to Zophar for the news.
VBemu98 0.6 released! There's a load of new stuff in this release, be sure to check it out. VBemu98 version 0.6 was released for both DOS and LINUX platforms. The linux version seems to be corrupted, a new version should be released tomorrow by the author.
TKmame 0.35pre-1 released! This version adds a lot of new things, be sure to check this MAME frontend out. This release is for LINUX only, the windows version will be out in a few days.
AtmostHeights Issue 0 out :) Delite has released Issue 0, which you can read from the link. You can also sign up for the newsletter now, which I just did =)
Danji 0.482 released ! It's a small bugfix release, here's what's new: Player 2 key setting bug fixed and frameskip bug fixed. Thanks to R0ddy and someone from Korea, who's name I couldn't read. Please mail me again.
DirectX 6.1 released ! Micro$oft has released the DX6.1 core upgrade, click here or here for downloads. Thanks to Dennis "DIA" Lindblom for the mail.
Saturday, January 16th 1999 - Last updated @ 23:09 CET
Here's a site that specializes in getting KOF98 to work with the various emulators out there, it's called: Unofficial KOF98 Support and Q&A. Thanks to MercuryZ for the news
Major update @ the Fixo Files!! Fixo has updated his site with interviews, lots of interviews! He's talking to the MAME32 Team, the Author of VBEmu98 and Delite, who restarted his site ATmospherical Heights again. Click here to read them!!
You bet, the server got overloaded, so the KOF98 roms are offline for now. They'll be back in a few days, until then: Happy Hunting ;)
Get yourself a nice legal MP3 with lots of acrade samples mixed into it HERE :) "Seriously Addictive"
I've been getting a LOT of requests to put KOF98 online, it will be up today in split form.
zsKNIGHT interviewed! TheFlux (news-u-lator) has interviewed zsKNIGHT, one of the authors of ZSNES, fastest SNES emu in existance.
I kinda forgot this yesterday, here's BrSMS 1.14r :)
Atmospherical Heights is making a comeback! Our friends at Emuunlim.com have talked with Delite and he has agreed to site again (I knew I should have asked him =), on a slightly smaller basis. Delite is looking for writers, he wants to start a emulation newsletter, check his site for more info!
Bleem FAQ updated, go to the Bleem homepage and read it :) Thanks to JJam for the news
Danji 0.48 released! There's a bunch of new stuff, which ReGNaSTa was kind enough to translate. Click here to see what's new
Sheesh, talk about mail overload this morning :)
Friday, January 15th 1999 - Last updated @ 23:10 CET
BrSMS 1.15r released! BrSMS 1.15 (Sega Master system emu) was released to registered users today, click here to see what's new. Thanks to DJ Jeremy and Warpath for the news.
67 million pixel WFI camera, it's a bit technical, but it' still awesome.
RAINE adds 2 more games! First up is Maze of Flott (looks like MicroMachines =) , secondly it's Asuka & Asuka, a vertical scrolling shoot-'em-up! Go to the RAINE SITE for the pics!!
Lance has also set up an early draft of the rules in #retrogamers, click here to read it
If people are not cheating with the pics for visitor # 1,000,000 I will make it a recurring thing. So every million visitors, someone will get a game of their choice :)
#Retrogamers has REALLY taken off, we are now one of the biggest emulation based channels on EFNET :-) We also had a special guest last night, DELITE_AH! For those that are new to emulation, it will probably mean nothing, but to us "oldtimers", that means a lot. Delite_AH was the site-op of Atmostpherical Heights (R.I.P.), the best MAME page in existance :) The funny thing was, he found out about #Retrogamers through my page, I found out about #mamegames (*THE* Mame channel at that time) through his site =)
MrDobee has informed me that you can play KOF98 if you have 64 MB, it requires NeoGem to load it (takes about 2 minutes) and it's about as fast as NeoRAGE.
Vertigo releases GameGear pack #24! It contains a bunch of wanted games again, go get busy =) Also, P-r0t has setup a nice page of unemulated games/partly emulated games, called ARCADE HELPER, containing videos and pics/sound of those games. It has mainly been setup to help emu authors to perfect their emulation of the games listed. Thanks to mxs for the mail.
Thursday, January 14th 1999 - Last updated @ 00:59 CET
HU6280 1.86 released !! A lof of bugs are fixed in this release and a lot more games work GLITCH FREE now, also Jamanoid ( Arkanoid clone ) is included in the zip.
JoseQ is interviewing again!! JoseQ of Emuviews has interviewed GOLLUM, author of Boycott (gameboy emu), click to read :)
Seems my announcement earlier mysteriously disappeared. Here it is again. Because visitor # 1,000,000 is such a landmark for me, I will give visitor # 1,000,000 a game of their choice for the system of their choice, even NEOGEO ($200 MAX ;-)
Radio Emuunlim is in the air!! The lads at Emuunlim.com have started a shoutcast server with videogame sounds and music being broadcasted all day long!! To recieve the broadcast you need WinAMP (via open location) and set the address as http://192.122.237.80:8000/
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!! Game & Watch simulators! Download them and play on your computer, thanks to coolmos for the link
Btw, I've finished Super Mario64 last night :) I have to say that it is an awesome game, I can hardly wait for the sequel!
Here it is, the OFFICIAL #RETROGAMERS HOMEPAGE, hosted by Lance McKay of EmuXpress. It contains pics of the regulars in #retrogamers, more pics will be added later today. Every affiliated website (quite a few ;) will also get the page, matching their own site colors/layout. Oh yeah, don't be scared of me ;)
NeoCharity is back! And what a return it is, they release The King Of Fighters '98 ! They also have an official mirror over at Elitegamer, if you're having trouble reaching the official site, please use the mirror.
Wednesday, January 13th 1999 - Last updated @ 22:58 CET
Hmm .... (let it load, it's big) Thanks to Shareef for the link.
Gerard Maathuis updated his Flyer and Poster Archive for MAME today to version 1.3. You can use them with MAME32 or with several frontends.
Virtual Boy news: The author states he finally got some display bugs fixed and has a few more games running (Mario Tennis, Pinball)! Click here to read it the full story. Thank to UNAE for the news.
We need this girl for the CPS2 Crack Project!! Thanks to |pogo| for the news
DarcNES 19990112 released! Here's what's new: Added the Start button for GG support (it's ']', same as on the NES), Fixed up some CPU cores that I had neglected to modify to suit the architectural changes I have been making. Also fixed up some code that depended on the cores operating in the older way.
Just wanted to let everyone know that, #retrogamers received a very nice welcome from all of you, even the ATILA FANCLUB was up in arms ;)
Furbys could pose the latest threat to national security interests!! Thanks to TKMame for the news.
Bubble has made a small batch file to get Super Sidekicks 4 running in MAME :-) You unzip you ss4 set into a folder called kof95, run the batchfile and play it in mame :)
Put a Gameboy in your toilet :) Thanks to Daemon for the link
Design a new logo for the RAINE site, click here for more info
From today on, there's a new channel on EFnet IRC, #retrogamers! #retrogamers has been set up mainly for emulator users, but feel free to hop in if you're not one, we don't talk about emulators all day long in there ;) #retrogamers is also a channel where emu developers will hang out (we have a few already ;), so feel free to ask them and us (the ops) anything you like. #retrogamers will be a channel unlike most other emulation based channels, it will actually be a friendly place =) There are NO power hungry ops in #retrogamers so don't think you will get kicked if you ask a "dumb" question :) Last point, I had NOTHING to do with the name of the channel, a few site-ops thought of the name, I suggested #mamers, but since we love emulation as a whole and not just mame, we decided otherwise. So, get your mIRC out and join one of the EFnet IRC servers and join #retrogamers. Be sure to choose a server closest to your geographical location!!
Zan has updated his MAME compile page, be sure to check it out, it now supports MAME 0.35 b1. So if you want to compile MAME yourself, be sure to check it out.
New NEOGEO rom of the day, today it's Fatal Fury 2 !!
WinSToN 0.2 released! WinSToN is an ATARI ST emulator for the windows platform, this release has a huge amount of fixes/new stuff, be sure to check the homepage out!!
With a bit of luck, we will pass 900,000 visitors tomorrow. Oh, and just letting you know, Retrogames was born on APRIL 1st 1998, so I expect some presents come April, like visitor 3,000,000 or something =)
Apparently there's BLEEM SOUND CRACK out there, after running it, you are supposed to get sound in BLEEM. This is a virus, DO NOT run the crack!
The N64 devkit out there is real, or so I'm told. I don't have it myself, since I could get suex0r3d by Nintendo or something :)
I kinda overlooked this one, Misterred of the 411 has done an interview with The Fox, webmaster of Emuunlim.com
MAME ICONS updated! sT|nKf|5t has given me his next release of the MAME ICONS, 75 icons in this one :) You can use this for shortcuts to your fav MAME game
From today/tomorrow on Retrogames will be updated around the clock. This means that (hopefuly) we will be updating all day long. To make this possible, Prophet will be joining the Retrogames staff, hopefully followed by someone else ;) Prophet will be updating after I've gone home, in hopefully the same style.
Linuxberg opens! It's not emu related (then again, what is at Retrogames ;), but I thought I'd mention it. LinuxBerg is like Tucows, lotsa software, except it's all for 'nix systems :-) Thanks to TKMame for the news
Bleem site updated! Yes, it's starting to look like a nice site now ;) It states that version 0.00 will be available for download soon, be sure to check the site out!! Thanks to DeReth and Jonathan Roberts for the news.
Microsoft overcharges Windows, read all about it!! Thanks to shaolin for the news.
ROMLIST updated!! Romlist is back, after a month of inactivity, with some nice arcade sideart of KOF97 and Last Blade.
Sunday, January 10th 1999 - Last updated @ 22:00 CET
On a related note, the lads from EDGE have started an online magazine called FUTUREGAMER, it's worth a check :)
Here's an article about the IDSA and its war against emulation. It's scanned from this months EDGE magazine, by Daddysnow. I've also mirrored it locally, will load faster.
BASS64 released! Bass64 is nice synth/sequencer for the C64 :-) You can use it with CCS64. Thanks to MAZ for the news
For those that have been going to www.microsoft.com to get to M$'s site, you've been going to the wrong site! The correct URL is http://www.retards.com !! Thanks to TKMame for the link.
A lot of people having been trouble in the sound department of MAME32, myself included. Today I got it fixed, thanks to a post on USENET. I'm running NT4, so I changed my options to: MIDAS, DIRECTSOUND, 22 Khz @ 8 bit (works best in NT). In Win9x you have to select: SEAL, DIRECTSOUND, 22Khz @ 8 bit. Should work okay :)
XMAME 0.35 b1.1 released! Hans de Goede has updated the 'nix port of MAME, click here to see the changes.
Sonic the Hedgehog for Gameboy released !! Click here to download it, it works great in Dboy. Thanks to the dudes at the end!!
Gameboy 98 0.05c released! Not much new, 'cept Color Gameboy support ;) Thanks to UNAE for the news.
Sorry about the late update, I was playing Mario64 =)
Neo Driftout fix! Apollo69 was kind enough to fix this lovely game :)
Saturday, January 9th 1999 - Last updated @ 21:49 CET
Saddam got h4x0r3d!! Thanks to [RICO] for the link
I'm watching The Karate Kid :-)
XMAME 0.34.2 released! It is a bugfix release, be sure to check the homepage to see what's new!! Thanks to _DM for the news.
Hmm, you want to know HOW to emulate games ? But you don't know how to get started (like me :) ? Well, here's an EXCELLENT document written by Kevin Brisley (author of Replay +): Emulating Games - Getting Started (v0.01a) Thanks to UNAE for the news
Now you didn't think I'd let you go without a good laugh, now did you ?? Half Life ROCKS!!!
Vertigo releases Game Gear Pack #23 :-) Thanks to UNAE for the news
SNES9X updated, straight from the homepage: A few updated ports have been released, the SunOS(Sparc), Solaris(Sparc) and OpenBSD(i386) ports have been updated to v1.16a. Click here to go to the Snes9x Site
One of the authors of Virtual Game Station (our very own Aaron Giles ;) interviewed! Thanks to Charlie for the news
If you want to use Getright on my site, I suggest using the latest version, Getright 3.3. It will allow you to use it on my site, without any trouble.
Pentium III is upon us (this is starting to look like Capcom's way of doing biznez ;) Thanks to Shadowdan for the link.
Boycott 0.44 released! Gollum updated his Gameboy emulator, it now also has Color Gameboy support :-) There are a load of new things, be sure to check it out. Thanks to JoseQ for the news.
BrSMS Launcher 1.0.0 released! It's not a real frontend yet, just a simple launcher, for use in Win95/98, mrg hopes it'll turn into a frontend soon :)
Naz releases Crowns Golf! Get it at his site, a massive 46,7 kb =)
I got a mail from Matt Moore this morning, with a good idea :-) If you take the PunchOut samples for MAME and rename it to spnchout.zip, the will work with Super PunchOut! The names of the boxers are all wrong, but you still get the "left, left, bodyblow!" samples, played correctly :) Get the samples from the MAME site.
Neo Gem update: According to EMUSPAIN, NEO GEM is still being worked on, with sound being the main interest. Click here to see the mail Emuspain received, thanks to Bubble for the translation.
AMame 0.35 b1 released! I was going to post this yesterday, but the link on Rodimus' homepage was incorrect, so I couldn't download it. AMame is meant for Pentium II/AMD/486 users. If you have a Pentium, use PMame (posted yesterday)
Thursday, January 7th 1999 - Last updated @ 22:16 CET
Remember that site I posted about a few days ago, with all the info on the sizes/checksums/etc of the MAME roms ? It has now been updated, all info can now be downloaded in a .zip, which you can get HERE. For more info (and an update for the mame 0.35b1 romsizes/etc later today) go to Gordon's MAME Rom Info Page!
Dboyfront 1.3.1 released! mrg has released this update to his nice Dboy frontend, here's what's new: "Changed internal name, now DBOYfront instead of D-BOYfront... :) will import your old config to the new format... Added BMP backgrounds support. Enlarged a bit the window for aestethics... Don't look the Mbits indicator, it just don't work."
Whaddaya know ? Virtual Game Station coming to Windows too, click here to read all about it! Seems Bleem will be geting some competition :) Thanks to Tin To for the mail.
MAME 0.35 Beta 1 released! This release adds a few games, which will be available for download in a few hours. Click here for the source :)
Wednesday, January 6th 1999 - Last updated @ 21:33 CET
I rezipped Dboy 0.38, since not everyone can unzip .lzh files. Click here to download. One of the new things in this release is the ability to use .bmp files for the background.
No$gmb 0.20 released! Massive update, most noticeably Color Gameboy support and digital sound synthesis. Thanks to UNAE and qWe for the news
BrSMS 1.13 released! This is the registered version that was released some time ago. It is now public, go here for the homepage. Thanks to qWe for the news
Virtual Game Station *OFFICIALY* announced! Thanks to Dave for the news.
Just want to inform everyone that the Universal Frontend for use with Dboy (containing the WIN95.CIH virus) is NOT the one posted on my site. I posted mrg's frontend, that one is virus free.
I'm currently downloading the new RAINE beta and the 4 games that were announced a few days ago :) Can't wait to play these games!
Get yer BLEEM DEMO HERE!! It is a long story, but this is a leaked beta of BLEEM, it's about a month old and doesn't have as much features as the current beta. Thanks to the Fox of EmuUnlim for the news *NOTE* Link removed for now!!
Tuesday, January 5th 1999 - Last updated @ 21:28 CET
Virtual boy should be running FULL SPEED on a P200 next release! Click here for the full story!
"In a related story, Microsoft representatives announced today that due to the leitigations and court battles Microsoft is currently involved with, Windows 2000's release date has been pushed back to the 1Q of 1901." Thanks to |Badger| ;-)
WinVICE 0.16 released! VICE is a multi commodore computer emulator, it emulates C64, C128 and Vic20. NOW we got a win32 version, click here to see what's new
TRATAX (PSEmu) IS LEAVING!! He got a job in the USA, read the full statement here
Remember that "pie in face" with Bil Gates ? The people that did it were sentenced to pay 3000 BEF ($75 US), for administrative costs. Bill Gates received NOTHING! Mwhaahhaha!! For that kinda money, I will PERSONALLY pay all those little thingies for the next "attacks" on Bill Gates (only pies, nothing else!!) Thanks to The_Scarf for the news.
And yes, Last Blade will be going up today. The reason I didn't put it up earlier was that I received various email/icqs from people, asking to leave the KOF97 roms there, becuase they weren't done downlaoding yet.
Okay, we've just passed 800,000 visitors :-)
Here's a story that puts MAME in a VERY bad light and has rather incomplete info on it. Thanks to shiesta for the link
So, you own a Mac and you're kinda pissed that there's no PSX emu for it ? AppleInsider doesn't consider this to be a rumor anymore, Steve Jobs will announce one by Connectix. The emulator will go by the name of "Connectix Virtual Game Station". Click here for the full story, thanks to chemical for the news.
Nemu64 0.008 released! Man, Lemmy is coding like a madman, here's what's new: Better PI Interrupt --> many more demos work and more rsp emulation, some roms use rsp :-) but crash :-(
Monday, January 4th 1999 - Last updated @ 21:24 CET
Wanna see which roms should be in a specific zipfile for MAME and with what filesizes/checksums ?? Click here to get to a site made for that very reason :) Thanks to MercuryZ for the link.
XMAME 0.34.1 released! The 'nix version is now upto par with Dos MAME 0.34 *final*, click here to see the changes!!
FCE Ultra Beta 3 released! This release adds loads of new stuff, FCE Ultra is an NTSC Famicom/NTSC NES emulator for DOS. Thanks to UNAE for pointing this emu out to me.
RAINE adds 2 more games! Man, they work fast, here goes, first up is Cybattler, a nice vertical scrolling shoot-'em-up, secondly it's CaMeltry, a maze/puzzler. Both these games are playable with full sound :)
Dboyfront 1.3.0 released! mrg has released version 1.3.0 of his DBoy frontend. This release adds sound and video options.
Saturday, January 2nd 1999 - Last updated @ 22:19 CET
Happy NewYear!!
Nemu64 0.007a released!! Loads of new stuff, be sure to check it out!! Thanks to mrg for the news.
SmyGB 0.20 released! YES!! YES!! YES!! It now has Color Gameboy support, here's what's new: Reimplement the kernel portion, added CGB features, fixed some sound problems, fixed some SGB problems, fixed some CPU bugs, fixed ROM support problems, add joystick support, can adjust program priority and support for 24 bits and 32 bits screen modes. Thanks to EmuMania for the news.
HU6280 1.85 beta released!! Here's what's new: added -mouse commandline option for emulating pc-engine mouse! (try jamanoid!) and updated cpu emulation, now handles SET opcode correctly !
Dboy 0.37 released! Here's what's new (for now): "-gb is for normal gb mode, -bg filename.gif changes the backgroud image for dboy". Thanks to qWe for the translation.
This has got to be one of the funniest pieces of IRC logs I have ever read. This is how NOT to act after you've been banned from an IRC channel :) Click here to read, thanks to Gurtygurt.
MAME Merge 0.34 *final* released! I kinda overlooked this, sorry Insane :) MAME Merge is an "Win95/98/(NT?) program to merge and split your MAME 0.34 ROM sets." Sounds pretty obvious to me, click here to go to the homepage
Jamanoid 0.63 beta released! More bugfixes and according to the author the game is now actually fun due to fixed collision routines ;)
New N64 emu in the works! The Moonlit Coalition is working on an N64 emu called SunSet64, which at this moment runs a few demos. The current version cannot be downloaded, you will have to wait a bit longer for the download.
MacMAME 0.34 *final* released! Here it is, right upto par with the dos version, enjoy.
SYSTEM16 0.82a released! It's a bugfix release, for people with allegro errors, BUT it also adds support for a bootleg Out Run set and Super Hang On Bootleg ! Click here for Out Run Bootleg, you need to merge it with your current Out Run set. Thanks to Bubble for the news.
Friday, January 1st 1999 - Last updated @ 21:56 CET
Happy NewYear!!
Remember the Fake Emu compo over at Emuunlim, where the winner would win a copy of bleem ? Well, the winner has been announced and guess what? Both the winner and the runners-up win a copy of Bleem! Some of the entries are truly stunning, click here to go to Foxy's page and see the winners and the other entries!
PSEmu Pro 1.0.20 released ! This is the full package with .dll's and plugins. Go to the homepage for more info :)
Here's the MVS version of SOCCER BRAWL! This is the correct MAME set, big thanks to ElvisP for the file :) There will be ANOTHER neogeo rom available today, can you guess which one ??
Here it is, one of the most wanted games ever! Street Fighter 1, no emu is available yet!
SYSTEM16 0.82 released! What a nice present for the new year from the SYSTEM16 team, it now supports Riot City (kinda like Streets of Rage). There's also a bunch of fixes/new stuff, click here to read :)
