Tuesday, June 22nd 1999 - Last updated @ 22:55 CET
Game Informer News has an article about the Intellivision Lives port rumors. Activision confirms they are interested in making a PSX version of Intellivision Lives, but have yet to decide on the specifics
NeoMAME for MAC PowerPC released! Yeah, it's been out for a few days now, but it's been getting daily updates since its release. This NeoMAME has 16bit support for all games and can be overclocked, among other things. Thanks to Emuverse and Richard Bannister for the news.
According to Fastest Gaming News OnLine, Activision is considering releasing Space Invaders for the Dreamcast. If this interests you, maybe it's a good time to drop a line to Activision
GameFan released the anime intro of King of Fighters: Dream Match 1999 (Dreamcast version) as two big MPEG files. Get it now!
Mr. Boom 3.0 released! Mr. Boom is a Bomberman clone with netplay support, upto 8 people can play at once. Frantic action is the best action, check the Mr. Boom Site for more info
Gary posted a nice update on the SNES9x Developers Journal, he found an English version of Super Mario RPG and is working on SA-1 emulation. It also doesn't crash where ZSNES does (mine cart section)! After lots of trials and tribulations he also has his PC up and running again, so 3DFx and DirectX support will also be worked on again. Thanks to Emuviews for the link
SNEeSe 0.25 released! After a very long time of nothing, SNEeSe returns. This SNES emulator was stopped a while ago, but the author continued work on it secretly. Although not upto ZSNES/SNES9x level yet, it's worth a download. The author also released the source code to the emulator. Thanks to [E|YSiUM] for the news.
Manbeast interviewed Janne and Anders, the authors of NeoRAGE-X, you can read the interview here
Your prayers have been answered, The Empire Strikes Back in MAME is now playable! It sometimes hangs at the high score name entry screen, but hopefully that'll be fixed too soon :)
The webmaster of freeroms.com received a NASTY letter from Nintendo a while ago, it was so nasty that it had to be hand delivered. NCL just never stops to amaze me, thanks to Stu for the link *UPDATE* The dude asked for it, selling N64 rom cds isn't smart (I didn't get that part the first time, sorry about that :)
Einstein II has done a massive compatibility test with all N64 emus out there, including Pagan and Nin64. A bit of German is required though :)
EMI Recorded Music will start to sell their HUGE catalogue of music over the internet! They've hired Liquid Audio to encode their catalogue (which spans thousands of cds) so that we'll be able to buy and download the songs via the internet. Click here for the full story
Nintendojo posted an informative followup on the GameBoy modem story, NCL's stocks also rose almost 10% during the day, because of this GB/Inet thingie.
Techweb is reporting that Intel admits to shipping defective 810 chip-sets, tsk tsk ;)
I'm alive, it's just that it's a quiet day today :)
Woohoo!!! Guru-Choc is reporting that MAME Dev *may* have finally defeated the slapstic protection in Atari games like Gauntlet!!! If this is true, it's a very happy day for retrogamers everywhere! =) -P-
StartRAINE 0.23.3 released! This RAINE frontend now adds support for the secret games, the wibble effect(too weird!) and some other fixes. -P-
A new bleem! beta has been released for CD key owners! New features include Gran Turismo & Final Fantasy 8 support!!! Thanks Emusphere for the news. -P-
RockNES 0.91 has been released!!! This 8-bit Nintendo emu has been updated with tons of fixes and optimizations. Check the homepage for more info. Thanks again JoseQ! -P-
SMS Power has released Ms PacMan (8-bit Sega)! Thanks JoseQ for the info. -P-
CNN is reporting that "Horror author Stephen King was seriously injured when he struck by a van while walking Saturday, police said." Click here for more on this story. Thanks to several people for the link
SNES9x for Windows 1.19 build 39 has been released and it now has .zip support and fixes a few bugs here and there, get it while it's hot ;)
PaleWriter has written a FAQ on Neo CD, the neogeo cd emulator. Click here to read it.
Seems that "Pirates of Silicon Valley", that will air on TNT tonight, kinda sucks. ZDNN has more on the movie.
Something's up at the Dboy site, the link for Dboy 0.50a has been removed. I don't know much else, since it's in Japanese. *UPDATE* According to Yuu and Steven Livingston developement on Dboy has probably stopped/halted. More info will be posted as we get it.
Former Lara Croft model Nell McAndrew will be appearing nude/naked/sans clothes in the August issue of Playboy Magazine, click here for more info on this "guaranteed-to-be-sold-out" issue. Hey, stop drooling already!!
Iomega lays another financial bomb, 2 plants are being shut down (among other things)
CNET reports Microworkz begins July 13th shipments of the iToaster. A Linux based computer that retails for $199, click here for more.
Intellivision is coming to the PSX, click here to read more about it! Thanks to ngz for the link
Pete Bernert has released version 1.17 of his TNT/OpenGL plugin for use with PSEmu. It's now faster and more compatible and has a special fix for Tomb Raider 3.
The Official Raine Site has been updated with information on hidden games (Bioship Paladin, Mutant Night, others?) and how to activate them! =) -P-
Some people asked for this, so here it is: the romfix.bat for fixing Kizuna Encounter, KoF95 & World Heroes Perfect for use with NeoRAGEx. Read the NRx readme.txt for instructions on proper use. -P-
Guru-Choc at Arcade ROM Heaven is reporting that Irritating Maze *is* dumped correctly, but current drivers are not loading it correctly. And REMEMBER - Irritating Maze is NOT yet playable on ANY emu. You can only watch the demos. -P-
SMS Power has released Super Kick Off (8-bit Sega)! Thanks Adrox for the info. -P-
Small tip: overclock captaint to 16 mhz to avoid the z80 error at game over in NRx. -P-
Here's a complete neogeo.drv for KBMAME, including drivers for ALL currently released/leaked games. Thanks to Deathlok the Demolisher for the irrmaze & fixed captaint drivers. -P-
Saturday, June 19th 1999 - Last updated @ 21:28 CET
Dgen/Linux released, thanks to several people for the mail!
Fully correct MAME 0.35 RC1 romsets available now, in the usual place. 100 % Retrogames Quality.
Nintendo will offer GameBoy games through a cellular phone network service.
GameSpot News has a nice collection of DreamCast movie downloads available here and here
Everyone who uses the NeoGeoCD Emulator can buy NeoGeo CD's from SNK at http://www.snkusa.com/CD.htm. It's not a bad thing to do, you know :)
I fixed the neogeo messageboard. I'd just like to remind everyone to act in a normal way and not like 12 year old kids. I (Atila) do not like kids posting all sorts of weird stuff on the Retrogames boards, same applies for rom requests and general lameness. If you have nothing to contribute, do not post on the boards. If you're a little kid and your looking for places to "trade roms", keep on looking. You are not welcome on our boards.
One of the Irritating Maze sound ROMs has been confirmed by MAMEdev as a bad dump. That's why it sometimes sounds awful. Thanks Dutch for the info. And how about that Captain Tomaday Z80 error in NRx? Maybe just an emulation bug? -P-
AMAME & PMAME were both updated to 0.35 RC1, with support added for Fight Fever & Puzzle Bobble 2! The C versions are more stable than the slightly faster ASM versions. As with all unofficial MAME builds, DO NOT bother the MAME team with any questions about these versions. -P-
Pretendo 0.04 released! This is a Windows NES emulator. New things in this release include: joystick support, auto frame-skipping and numerous bug fixes. Thanks Emusphere for the news. -P-
Captain Tomaday and Irritating Maze were both leaked by the former NGC head. Here is the inevitable New neogeo.drv for KBMAME, with support for Captain Tomaday. No Irritating Maze driver yet. Thanks Zealot-Ria for the captaint driver. -P-
