Wednesday, March 31st 2004 - Last updated @ 14:20 EST
NeoCD/SDL DC version 2 - Ian Micheal has updated his Dreamcast port of Foster's port of Fabrice Martinez's Neo Geo CD emulator, using Sam Lantinga and the SDL team's SDL library. Here's what's new:
fixed bios loading
fixed the controller bug (thanks to fosters for the code for the fix)
total full screen display
graphics zoom is now centered on Puzzle Bobble
League Bowling now works
This is a project that has been combined from different sources. Other than the above mentioned people, the following people were also involved in this project (in some form): Troy Davis (timer bugfixes, CD-ROM loading), BlackAura (ASM to C translation), BlueCrab (z80 makefile help), Speud (-fsopen routine), Wack0 (splash screen art), Caz (BeOS NeoCD/SDL build), Karl Stenerud (Musashi M680x0 emulator), Neil Bradley (Multi-Z80 CPU emulator), Tatsuyuki Satoh (YM2610 Mame core), Derek Liauw Kie Fa. (2xSaI engine), Dan Potter (KallistiOS), GCC team (GNU C Compiler), Marcus Comstedt, Dan Potter, Bitmaster, and everyone else who reverse engineered the Dreamcast to enable homebrew to be played today.
- MetaFox
Tuesday, March 30th 2004 - Last updated @ 08:04 EST
Spam AOL and lose your car! - AOL won a courtcase against a spammer last year and has subsequently seized the spammer's car (rather sexy Porsche) and AOL is giving it away to one of its customers via an online raffle. That is so cool =)
- atila
Sunday, March 28th 2004 - Last updated @ 14:58 EST
MAME 0.80u3 - Haze released another update for MAME 0.80! It's called "R.Belmont's update." :)
- prophet
Save Replacement Docs - ReplacementDocs.com is a growing repository of game documentation in electronic format. It's a great resource, but is in desperate need of hosting! From their news page:
It is time again... replacementdocs needs a new home. Downloads are disabled until further notice. If anyone is aware of a (preferably) free host capable of providing several GB of space and gobs and gobs of bandwidth, please let us know!
Selling My Arcade PC - Before I go to eBay, I wanted to give people here first shot. I'm selling my Arcade PC Ultra mini cabinet, which also includes a WG u3100 19" monitor. You can see photos and a description of this cabinet in my review. It still looks the same and is in perfect condition. Located in Brooklyn, NYC. Drop me an email and make an offer, but please use prophetAT(replace AT with @)zodiacgamer.com, NOT my retrogames account - spam killed it.
- prophet
Thursday, March 25th 2004 - Last updated @ 17:50 EST
KEGS v0.86 - KEGS is an Apple //gs emulator for Mac OS X, Win32, Linux, and Unix/X11. Changes: Mouse improvements, Solaris sound fixes.
- chris
Tuesday, March 23rd 2004 - Last updated @ 20:53 EST
MESS WIP - The MESS WIP Page is now running on an automated system and is updated on a daily basis. Thanks to Dorando for his hard work in providing the update script.
- chris
Laser-SDL v1.0 Revision 1 - The Laser Emulator is now SDL based for portability. Thanks to retroK for the news.
- chris
PCX2 0.6 - PCX2 celebrates their 3 year aniversary with a new release. Change log can be viewed on the main page.
- chris
Monday, March 22nd 2004 - Last updated @ 19:36 EST
Sorry... - No posts from me for a while longer, personal reasons, normal service will resume from me soon-ish
- Sixtoe
Friday, March 19th 2004 - Last updated @ 17:10 EST
Cygwin 1.5.8-1 - Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for Windows. Changes: This release fixes some reported "hangs", implements timer functions, adds improved Linux-like tape handling capabilities, fixes a problem with localtime in Perl, and includes minor tweaks and enhancements.
- chris
Thursday, March 18th 2004 - Last updated @ 22:54 EST
Biggest Bang of your Life - Capcom's famous pinball machine Big Bang Bar has finally been re-created in Visual Pinmame, and what a job PacDude has done on it! This is easily one of the best Pinmame tables to date, with high resolution textures and plenty of playfield details, including the Tube Dancer. Only 13 BBB machines exist, and a standing offer to buy one for $20,000 remains unanswered, so this is likely the only way many people will evey be able to play it (outside of pinball shows). More pictures of the machine can be found here. Files can be obtained from AJ's Table Downloads and PacDude's original post can be found here.
- metallik
New(ish) Retrogaming Radio - Late news to go with a late show! Thanks(?) to Brian for browbeating me into posting this after I forgot before ;)
- Sixtoe
Wednesday, March 17th 2004 - Last updated @ 17:40 EST
GOATSE 'in-game' ;) - Those familiar with the rather nasty 'goatse' image, will be surprised to find a VERY similar rendition in the new Unreal Tournament game. Funny though ;) (The picture was saved from its original URL to save bandwith)
- atila
Z-Net v1.22 Released - Z-Net is a mIRC script for ZSNES players that want to find and play other people using the ZSNES network function. v1.20 fixed loads of bugs and v1.21 fixed a bug introduced in v1.20 and v1.22 fixed the "ERROR: Could not connect to other side" error
- Sixtoe
ChipEm v 0.7 Released - ChipEm is an open source Chip 8 and Super Chip-8 emulator for Windows and Commodore Amiga(!)
- Sixtoe
CP/M 2.2 Player for Win32 - From what I can make out this is a CP/M emulator. CP/M was basically an OS that came before DOS, and was mainly used by Amstrad computers and I'm assuming some Japanese computers as well as this emulator is from Japan. Seems to get fairly regular updates this.
- Sixtoe
YAPE 0.56 Released - This Commodore Plus/4 emulator has had another update and this time its a minor bugfix release, worth grabbing if you're using 0.55 at the moment
- Sixtoe
PocketMSX v0.1b Released - This is a MSX emulator for both ARM and MIPS PocketPC's
- Sixtoe
SNEeSe 0.81 Released - SNEeSe is an open source emulator for the Nintendo SNES console for x86 PCs. Loads new in this update including numerous bugfixs and enhancements
- Sixtoe
Tuesday, March 16th 2004 - Last updated @ 06:15 EST
MAME News - Some MAME news here from Stroff, the new non-HLE'd DSP emulation for the Namco System 2x drivers is coming soon (probably). It will be a bit slower than the current HLE version butprobably not as much as people might think, BUT, the good news it will fix some outstanding bugs, so just to name a few:
- missing backgrounds in Starblade (YAY!)
- collision detection for player/enemies in Time Crisis
- proper support for depth bias
- fixes various geometry glitches
- allows all "self tests" to work
Sounds good, I know looking forward to it :)
- Sixtoe
Charles MacDonald's Home Page Updated - Seems like just for fun Charles has been dipping his toes into the shark infested water of the Sega System 16 code in MAME
- Sixtoe
G-NSF v0.136 Released - G-NSF, an NSF music player for windows, has gotten an update
- Sixtoe
Guru's Update - Guru has updated his page with news of Raiden Fighters 2 - 2000 Operation Hell Dive being dumped, this particular one is interesting in that its not on the normal Seibu SPI hardware but on a single board (hence the later year I suppose, maybe a re-release?)
- Sixtoe
The Arcade Flyer Archive Update - Dan has updated TAFA with some more great and rare additions to the archive. If you haven't been to this site before, or if you haven't been there for a while, I cannot recommend a visit enough
- Sixtoe
P.E.Op.S. PSX Soft GPU Updated - Pete has updated his plugin for Windows and Linux, fixing Dark Forces + SkullMonkeys and is also ZiNc compatible
- Sixtoe
StepMania 3.9 Alpha 14 Released - Stepmania, the excellent dancing game simulator has been updated to the latest alpha version, fixing a few more bugs
- Sixtoe
The Gamebase ST Project Released - This is a new frontend/database for Atari ST emulators based on GamebaseZX and is compatible with Steem, Stew, and WinSton. It attempts to have all sorts of information and pictures of the box/manuals/adverts about the games for, in this release, 50 of the best known games. The downloadable version has screenshots only but the author is offering a cd-rom version with all of the artwork. Anyway, check out the website for more details
- Sixtoe
No Name 0.80u1.07 Released - This un-official build of MAME has has another update, bringing it in line with the latest MAME and merging some of MAMEFX's features, they also have a new website
- Sixtoe
TGB Dual Ver. Vol.8''' Released - This gameboy emulator has had an update
- Sixtoe
Tickle Pre-Release - This is a pre-release version of Tickle, programmed by the author of PIE and SIDE the instructional emulators. The author is having a crack at emulating the discrete sound in space invaders using software
- Sixtoe
EmuZWin v2.3 Release 1.99 - A new update of this ZX-Spectrum 128 and 48 emulator for Windows has been released
- Sixtoe
MAGE 0.10u2 Released - Shortly after the u1 release of this gambling derivitive of MAME appears, another update pokes its head out
- Sixtoe
ZSNES WIP March 13 Released - Just a minor WIP update to this SNES emulator
- Sixtoe
Steem v3.1 Released - Steem is a Freeware Atari STE emulator for Windows and Linux, this update fixes some more bugs and fixes a bug that stopped starglider working properly, hurrah!
- Sixtoe
Meka 0.67 Released - Meka, the multi system console emulator, has gotten another update, the big news in this release is a Z80 debugger, useful for all you developers, hackers and cheaters out there...
- Sixtoe
ScummVM 0.60 Released - ScummVM, the open source adventure game interpreter for most systems has finally got a new official update.
This update has some great new additions, including a now working iNSANE system meaning the Full Throttle arcade sections are now properly working. New games supported are the original Version 1 SCUMM games Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken and also Revolutions Broken Sword 1 and 2 and the "surprise" freeware released of Flight of the Amazon Queen.
- Sixtoe
Monday, March 15th 2004 - Last updated @ 03:48 EST
SCUMMVM - SCUMMVM 0.60 is ready for release (probably sometime today). It will also be featured on TechTV's Call for Help on Friday, be sure to watch it.
- chris
Saturday, March 13th 2004 - Last updated @ 15:54 EST
Emulatronia Temporarily Down - In case any of our Spanish viewers are reading and are wondering why they cannot get to Emulatronia, the site is temporarily down due to the news sites being hammered because of the trajedy in Madrid. Our hearts go out to anyone who has been effected by this terrible event
- Sixtoe
Morphgear Version 2.1.0.0 Released - Morphgear, the multi console emulator for windows and pocket pc's has gotten another update, looks like the development on this is pretty fluid as its getting quite a lot of updates recently
- Sixtoe
MesaDX Version 0.03 - This Sega Mark III, Master System and Game Gear emulator has been updated with various fixs and additions
- Sixtoe
MAGE 0.10u1 Released - This multisystem MAME based emulator that does gambling machines as well has been updated, you seem to have to download the new version from moe's mirror (which has quite possibly the worst links in the world, blinking on and off, ugh...)
- Sixtoe
Friday, March 12th 2004 - Last updated @ 21:20 EST
Emulation Showdown With NOA - Just a followup to yesterday's news regarding Nintendo's new emulation patent... If you've been following my news updates on ZodiacGamer then you already know that Crimson Fire, the company NOA has threatened, has decided to take on the big N and plans to release their Zodiac based GBA emulator (called Firestorm gbaZ) as GPL open source sometime next week. This could become the first major test case for a new era of emulation legalities.
- prophet
'Nipple-Gate' Dolls for sale! - You can buy yourself a pair of Justin & Janet dolls at this auction at eBay, including a 'nipple' and all. The current bid is at $356. Mind you, there's a lot more fun things to do with $356 ;)
- atila
Thursday, March 11th 2004 - Last updated @ 19:59 EST
Nintendo Wields New Emulation Patent - NOA has recently been granted a patent on emulators for its systems, and has already shut down (or possibly just delayed) at least one commercial emulation project, Firestorm gbaZ for the Tapwave Zodiac, before it could even be launched!
Free Baths For Employees @ Wendy's! - Well, not quite, but 2 of them decided to take a bath the (rather large) kitchen sink and were photographed doing so. Sure, you gotta be clean when you work, while preparing food, but I'm pretty sure that they don't mean this :) Thanks to Cereal Killer for the link.
- atila
R Belmonts WIP Emporium Moved - After some bandwidth issues Arbee has moved his WIP page over to mameworld, so check out some new progress here, OMG!!1 NO ARMS!!!1 etc...
- Sixtoe
AaronGiles.com Updated - Aaron has thrown his hands up in dispair with the Gaelco sound, so has now moved onto something else :)
- Sixtoe
Gurus Update - Guru has updated his website with some new pictures from the MAME ZN driver **edit** - actually put a link in this time
- Sixtoe
Charles MacDonalds WIP Updated - A couple of new updates on his homepage from the uber hardware researcher
- Sixtoe
Hazes WIP Update - Haze has updated his website with a picture of Air Rescue, which could prove triky to emulate...
- Sixtoe
DoxDev Updated - Dox has updated his wip with his progress on the Seta ST-0016 stuff
- Sixtoe
ClrMamePro 3.25 Released - Roman has updated his rom updating tool fixing a few tiny things
- Sixtoe
Easy MAME Updated - This MAME frontend has had an update
- Sixtoe
GEST v0.85 beta Released - This Gameboy emulator has had an update
- Sixtoe
EmuZWin v2.3 Released - This Spectrum emulator has had an update
- Sixtoe
FakeNES WIP March 03 Released - This NES emulator has had an update
- Sixtoe
DreamGBA TNG 1.3 Released - This Gameboy Advance emulator for the Dreamcast has had an update
- Sixtoe
BlueMSX 1.2.0 Released - This superb MSX emulator has had an update
- Sixtoe
WinX68k HighSpeed v0.95 Relased - This Sharp X68000 emulator has had an update
- Sixtoe
YAPE 0.55 Released - This Commodore Plus/4 emulator has had an update
- Sixtoe
ElectrEm Future (7/3/2004) Released - This Acorn Electon emulator has had an update
- Sixtoe
TGB Dual Ver. Vol.8d Released - This gameboy emulator has had an update
- Sixtoe
PCEAdvance Updated - This open source PC-Engine emulator for the GBA has been updated
- Sixtoe
Catch-Up...Arrgghh - Been rather busy for a couple of weeks what with one thing and another, but it doesnt look like I've missed much, anyway, time to play catchup again :)
- Sixtoe
Wednesday, March 10th 2004 - Last updated @ 19:15 EST
MESS 0.80 - A new MESS has been released. Several new MSX and MSX2 variants have been added. The full changelog can be read here. Enjoy!
- chris
IRC QUOTES! - If you have some time to burn, you may want to check out bash.org, where you will find thousands of the funniest (and sometimes lamest ;) quotes to ever grace the wondrous world of IRC. Like this quote or this one or even this one. Chances are, you'll spend quite some time there :)
- atila
Dumbass Of The Day - A woman went to the local supermarket, did her shopping and tried to pay with a $1,000,000 dollar bill! She was arrested and they found 3 more of the same bills at her house, she claimed she got them from her husband.
- atila
The Penguin Strikes Back! - Ever since SCO announced their lawsuits against big companies using UNIX, their shares have dropped in price. Check the graph and see for yourself. It's dropping so fast that, if this were the Winter Olympics, they'd win the gold medal at downhill skiing ;)
- atila
Tuesday, March 9th 2004 - Last updated @ 13:34 EST
Warner Music Benelux lays off workers, blames piracy - Warner Music Benelux (Netherlands, Belgium & Luxemburg) is laying off 7 of its 38 employees. Also a few Dutch 'stars' are getting the boot. Ofcourse, they blame music piracy for the measure. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the new investors demanded cuts worth $200 million when they bought Warner or that those Dutch 'stars' are pretty bad and don't sell much anyway :) Still, it's bad to see 7 more people being fired.
- atila
Anandtech Benchmarks Using Emus - Anandtech has benchmarked videocards using their performance in ePSXe, ATi cards seem to be the fastest. Thanks to Mark for this tidbit.
- atila
Ooh, my login still works! - And now that we've covered that, there's the matter of the rom cd ads that appear here every now and then. We do know about them, but google.com supplies them and I think we have no control over them. Hopefully, this will somehow be fixed. In the mean time, no need to mail any of us about it, eventhough it is appreciated :)
- atila
Sunday, March 7th 2004 - Last updated @ 21:25 EST
Nebula 2.24 - ElSemi posted a new version of Nebulajust to keep romset data in sync with mame. :) Also fixes KoF98 protection and adds an HQ2x plugin. (Thanks Terry Bogard)
- prophet
MAME/MAME32 Plus 0.80 - The superb unofficial MAME/MAME32 Plus has been updated to the latest official MAME sources!
- prophet
Saturday, March 6th 2004 - Last updated @ 19:22 EST
0.80 - There is like a new MAME or something.
- chris
Friday, March 5th 2004 - Last updated @ 05:52 EST
FAKE Nebula CPS3 - ElSemi has asked me to post/pass around that the news on emulatronia regarding emulation of CPS3 is not true, its protected so there wont be any progress for some time, so please stop emailing him **EDIT** - Since posting this its turned out that someone had hacked emulatronia (the No.1 spanish emulator news site) and posted not only this fake news but also about an xbox emulator which doesnt exist, the offending articles have now been removed
- Sixtoe
Thursday, March 4th 2004 - Last updated @ 23:34 EST
Portable Emulation Update - Pocket PC users get a new MorphGear beta (Build 2.0.9.4 Beta) today, mostly fixing a few display issues. Have you been having problems downloading MAMECE3? Tehkmaster stopped by the MAMECE3 forum today to say that the downloads are fixed now. As an aside, did you know MAMECE3 runs full speed, 60fps on today's Pocket PC's, like my Asus A620? It does. :) He also mentioned improved sound emulation being on his "agenda to work on." Sounds good to me (silly pun intended).
Last but not least, Tapwave Zodiac users learned of a Gameboy Advance emulator in the works for their platform called FireStorm gbaZ! Thanks ZodiacGamer for the news. Heh. :P
- prophet
Wednesday, March 3rd 2004 - Last updated @ 16:46 EST
"Modeler 1.0.0" Hoax - From Arbee "In case you see this anywhere (Modeler 1.0.0), it seems to be just Modeler 0.94 (Windows version) with a virus added (based on a quick look), so (duh) don't download it if you see it"
So there, you have been warned
- Sixtoe
Tuesday, March 2nd 2004 - Last updated @ 16:45 EST
Eugene Jarvis Interview - Salon.com has a long interview with Eugene Jarvis. In the article, Eugeue has this to say about MAME: they've [MAMEdevs] done a tremendous public service in preserving the old games to be played and enjoyed today.
- chris
AaronGiles.com Updated - Aaron has made some great progress on the Gaelco 3D games due to finding some compatible 3D docs, a nice picture of Surf Planet can be found here
- Sixtoe
SNES Advance Released - Formally known as PocketSNES, this Super Nintendo emulator for the GBA has gotten a name change and another update, thanks to VmprHntrD for the headsup
- Sixtoe
MameAnalog+ v0.79.1 Released - This excellent multiple analog device version of MAME has been updated again
- Sixtoe
NoNameMame 0.79u4.03 Released - This unofficial build of MAME has added all the games/hacks from Misfit MAME amoung other things, grab the update from over at sourceforge if that sorta thing rocks your boat, thanks to Hawq for the headsup
- Sixtoe
Monday, March 1st 2004 - Last updated @ 13:04 EST
Classic Gaming Expo UK - From the expo's website... The UK's first annual Classic Gaming Expo is taking place on the weekend of 24th and 25th July 2004 at Fairfield Halls just south of London (UK).
Come and re-live those classic gaming days. Play Space Invaders in our arcade, play Manic Miner on one of the Spectrums and many more. There will be computers, consoles and arcade machines from the 1970's through to the early 1990's
Sounds good to me and I'll definitly be there (although whether you regard that as a good thing is a matter of opinion :)
- Sixtoe
PCEAdvance Updated - This open source PC-Engine emulator for the GBA has been updated
- Sixtoe
Morphgear Updated - This multiconsole emulator has had the handheld beta version updated
- Sixtoe
AaronGiles.com Updated - Aaron has updated his page with the now properly emulated Radikal Bikers, missed addition to u4 by around 15 minutes, oops :)
- Sixtoe
MAME 0.79u4 Source Diff Released - In case you missed it, the MAME 0.79u4 source diff has made an appearence over at Haze's site, u2 and u3 are included in the u4 file in case you're wondering...
- Sixtoe
Satourne WIP Updated - The Satourne website has been updated with some nice new screenshots, thanks to Stiletto for the headsup
- Sixtoe
Z80 Decryption Update - Dave has updated his page with details of his latest decrytption efforts, thanks to Stiletto for the headsup
- Sixtoe
Steem Version 3 - This Atari ST emulator has been updated *edit* website seems to have run out of bandwidth, bummer...
- Sixtoe
EmuZWin v2.3 release 1.5 - This Spectrum emulator has been updated
- Sixtoe
PocketWS ver. 0.01 Released This Wonder Swan emulator for WinCE has been updated
- Sixtoe
Pasofami v1.4p Released - This NES/SNES/GB emulator has had another update, as always the homepage is in Japanese
- Sixtoe
Kawaks Updated - Kawaks has been updated to bring it in line with MAME, thanks to Stiletto for the headsup
- Sixtoe
MAGE Released - MAGE is basically MAME with all the video gambling games added back in, and new ones are being added. The MAGE user forums are located here, thanks to Stiletto for the headsup
- Sixtoe
Arcade Ambience update - Bizarre, thanks to Stiletto for the headsup
- Sixtoe
ZincGUI Updated - DaFreak has updated his Zinc frontend, thanks to Stiletto for the headsup
- Sixtoe
Bugfix for Executor - This MAC on Windows emu has had a bugfix, thanks to Stiletto for the headsup
- Sixtoe
MiniVMac Update - This miniature Macintosh emulator has been updated, thanks to Stiletto for the headsup
- Sixtoe
