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| Wednesday, 22. September 2004 |
The MAME team released MAME 0.87, the "Pretty SPI / Hyperstone starts working" version. The updated MAME32 and the new version of the MAME history database are available as well.
R.Belmont was quite busy the last days. He continued work on M1, MAME and ZiNc and the latest update are nice looking screenshots from a Sega Model2 (B & C) driver for MAME.
Charles MacDonald made amazing progress analyzing the encryption of the Sega System16 games. :)
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v3.43 with tweaks and fixes.
| Wednesday, 15. September 2004 |
After a couple of months with way to little free time on my part I'm going to revive SYS2064 again. I'll aim for weekly news-updates and all the sections will be updated as well in the upcoming days. I don't know how many of you are still reading these words but thanks for sticking around :)
| Friday, 30. April 2004 |
Roman Scherzer released a new version of ClrMamePro and v3.31 combines the updates of the last three minor revisions.
| Thursday, 29. April 2004 |
Be sure to bookmark the following MAME WIP pages to update yourself every day:
Aaron Giles' homepage,
Charles MacDonald's homepage,
Haze's MAME page,
Philip Bennett's MAME WIP and
R.Belmont's website!
The diff-file to patch MAME to v081u8u9 is now available at Haze's and the busy guys at the MAME32QA page also compiled a windows binary for you.
Roman Scherzer's ClrMamePro is now up to v3.30b!
Avedis released v0.81g of the MAME history database!
The Guru is back online after changing ISPs and he got a nice bunch of pcbs to work on.
Damn, another two weeks without an update :( I'm really sorry about this, my workload is really heavy right now. Anyway, I'll try to catch up now :)
| Thursday, 15. April 2004 |
Gridle updated the MAME WIP page!
The MAME history database is now up to v0.81d!
The diff-file for MAME v0.81u5 is now released at Haze's! If you're too lazy to compile your own MAME version then take a look at the MAME32QA page which provides a precompiled MAME32 v0.81u5!
xMAME v0.81.1 has been released.
Leezer released the unofficial hiscore.dat v8.3 for MAME.
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v3.25a with these new features:
- fixed: sometimes Windows doesn't update a rompath's date/time stamp when using a disabled preserve archive date/time.
- fixed: rebuilder logfile will be overwritten by each addpath (when using log + addpaths)
- misc: minor taskswitching changes / sourcode cleanup / speedincrease
| Thursday, 08. April 2004 |
Alexis released update v0.81b of the MAME history database!
Haze released diff-files for MAME v0.81u1u2u3 and v0.81u4 and you can get them here!
| Friday, 02. April 2004 |
The MAME-Team released MAME v0.81!
| Tuesday, 30. March 2004 |
Philip Bennett opened a new MAME WIP page showcasting his work on an "F-15 Strike Eagle" (Microprose) driver for MAME!
| Sunday, 28. March 2004 |
Two new MAME versions were released today and yesterday. Get the diff-updates for v0.80u2 and u3 here!
The MAME history database is now up to v0.80d!
Tux released Raine v0.40 which adds support for 15 new games and fixes a couple of minor bugs.
The Guru got a lot of new toys recently to play with. :)
Wow, time flies... I'm sorry for not updating earlier but I try to catch up now.
| Tuesday, 09. March 2004 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v3.25 with these new features:
- fixed: zlib 1.2.1 has some rare unzip problems (fixed by Cowering)
- fixed: listing a bad 0 checksum when unzip fails
- fixed: "move not renamed sets to backup" is broken
- fixed: enabled rom-analysis-fix with disabled crc32 check causes freeze
- misc: using zlib's 1.2.1 crc32 routine which seems to be faster
- misc: linked with updated ziparchive class including zlib 1.2.1
- misc: revised several renaming operations
MAME WIP news are available from Aaron and Guru!
The Supermodel WIP page was updated, Star Wars fans should take a look!
ElSemi released Nebula v2.24 with these changes:
- NEOGEO: Fixed all the neogeo roms to match MAME romsets (Thanks to Wesker from Speksnk for the work).
- NEOGEO: Fixed kof98 protection (delete old kof98.srm files from your config folder if you are still getting the red letters)
- GENERAL: Added HQ2x plugin (includes src in plugins\hq2xsrc.zip)
The MAME team released MAME v0.80 and MAME32 v0.80 is available as well.
| Tuesday, 02. March 2004 |
Fabien Autrel posted some new WIP screenshots from his Sega Saturn/ST-V emulator Satourne!
Aaron made more progress on the Gaelco 3D driver for MAME, both Radical Bikers and Surf Planet are now working!
Sixtoe updated System16.com, the ultimate arcade game reference website!
Kawaks v1.49 has been released at CPS2Shock! The new features are:
- New drivers: The King of Fighters 2001 (alternate set), Samurai Shodown III (set 2)
- Changed some 29 Neogeo game ROMs to match ROMs needed by MAME 079u4.
- Fixed alt-m from crashing kawaks when no game was loaded.
- Changed some warning massages from 'no romset loaded' to 'no game loaded'.
The diff-file for MAME v0.79u4 is now available at Haze's and you can get a MAME32 version as well.
| Wednesday, 25. February 2004 |
Aaron Giles fixed a bug in the TMS32031 core that was causing problems with Radikal Bikers!
The Guru updated the Model3 dump status page and added a ZN1/ZN2 protection chip status page!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v3.24 with more deep analysis checks for roms!
| Wednesday, 18. February 2004 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v3.23 which introduces some deep ROM checksum analysis to fix some 'bad' checksums which are based on effects like padding, blockswaps, byteorder changes, etc...!
Lots of MAME WIP news:
- Norbert Kehrer wrote his second MAME driver. The game he emulated is "Mad Alien" (Data East, 1980) and he is looking for some help from people who know the game and can answer a couple of questions.
- R.Belmont updated his website with MAME and M1 news and a request.
- Haze added "Botanic", an old Valadon game to MAME.
- Aaron is still busy with the Gaelco 3D games and makes good progress.
- Dox posted some development news from the MAME drivers he's working on.
- And last but not least, Santeri updated the MAME WIP page as well.
Again a hude delay between updates, please excuse! Work keeps me very busy at the moment.
| Monday, 09. February 2004 |
Haze released MAME v0.79u1!
The MAME WIP page is now up to date!
| Friday, 06. February 2004 |
A new update on the Supermodel WIP page shows the results of a new texture caching method!
| Wednesday, 04. February 2004 |
Tuz released Raine v0.39.3 with these new features:
- Fixed the bug in level 3 of magical cat adventure, thanks to Paul Priest
- 2 sf2 clones had exactly the same long name. Fixed thanks to Logiqx (really too many clones in this driver)
- Haze added 2 new games : Cookie and Bibi 2 and More More Plus. More more + is probably one of the crazyest games emulated so far!
Kawaks v1.48 was released with these new features:
- New drivers: Art of Fighting 2 (set 2), Fight Fever (alternate set), Fatal Fury Special (set 2), The King of Fighters '96 (set 2), The King of Fighters '97 Plus (bootleg), The King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest (Korean M1), Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy (set 2), Robo Army (alternate set)
- Added the ability to change gamma settings (video menu).
- Updated 'Robo Army' and 'Sengoku 2' ROMs to match MAME.
- Renamed XMVSFU to XMVSFUR1.
- Renamed ARMWAR to ARMWARR1.
Sega Model 3 fans should take a look at the new update of the Supermodel WIP page!
Lots of various MAME WIP news are available from: Haze, Aaron and the MAME WIP page!
| Thursday, 29. January 2004 |
The MAME team released MAME v0.79 which includes all the recent major core changes from the "0.78u"-releases.
| Wednesday, 28. January 2004 |
Sixtoe opened a new WIP page for the upcoming Sega Model 3 emulator "Supermodel" and you can find it here!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v3.22b with a couple of minor fixes and added a new version of ZipMax as well.
MAME WIP news are available from Aaron and R.Belmont!
| Saturday, 24. January 2004 |
Tux released Raine v0.39.2 with more improvements to the Taito F2 driver!
| Thursday, 22. January 2004 |
Aaron posted an update to his website and talks about his recent MAME core changes.
| Tuesday, 20. January 2004 |
MAME v0.78u6 is here with another huge update by Aaron!
M1 and MAME fans should take a look at R.Belmont's website for his latest works on both emulators!
| Monday, 19. January 2004 |
Haze added the diff-update to MAME v0.78u5 to his site!
| Sunday, 18. January 2004 |
Tux released Raine v0.39.1 with improvements to the Taito F2 driver!
If you'd like to compile your own MAME (or Raine) versions then be sure to take a look at Logiqx' Compiling WinMAME page which has just been updated.
R.Belmont posted some MAME and M1 WIp updates!
Fandemame released v0.78c of the MAME history database!
| Thursday, 15. January 2004 |
The Guru got another bunch of arcade boards to play with.
Aaron updated his website and added some more info about the recent MAME changes he submitted.
xMAME 0.78.1 has been released.
More updates from Roman: ClrMAME Pro v3.22a is now available!
| Tuesday, 13. January 2004 |
Roman Scherzer had some free time and released ClrMAME Pro v3.22!
Aaron submitted Phase Two of the MAME rewrite and Haze released MAME 0.78u4 for you to test!
| Monday, 12. January 2004 |
Guru added new screenshots to the Sega Model 3 WIP page!
Haze released MAME 0.78u3 which fixes the first bunch of bugs introduced by the major changes in v0.78u2!
| Saturday, 10. January 2004 |
Sixtoe added another major update to System16!
How about that: Tux released Raine v0.39.0 which adds rowscroll to the Taito TC100SCN chipset!
| Friday, 09. January 2004 |
Haze released MAME 0.78u2 with the announced changes to the memory system!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v3.21 which adds a couple of new features!
| Thursday, 08. January 2004 |
R.Belmont was quite busy as well, fixing lots of things in various drivers to make some juicy screenshots! :)
Well, the world record is getting closer: Tux released Raine v0.38.5 with major changes to the cheat engine!
Reip wrote a MAME driver for Competition Golf: Final Round (Data East, 1986).
| Wednesday, 07. January 2004 |
Doh! Simpsons Bowling WIP courtesy of Mr. R.Belmont!
Tux is looking for a new release world record and released Raine v0.38.4!
| Tuesday, 06. January 2004 |
R.Belmont posted some MAME WIP news: Powerful Baseball '96 now works with MAME!
FandeMAME released the MAME history database v0.78a.
Aaron Giles updated his website about his latest major core changes to MAME!
ElSemi released a new version of the Nebula Jukebox (v2.9)!
Tux released two new versions of Raine! The latest is v0.38.3 and both releases fix some bugs and add support for some new games!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v3.20a!
| Sunday, 04. January 2004 |
If you like to compile your own MAME version then you'll be happy to know that Haze released the diff-file to compile MAME 0.78u1 with these new additions!
I nearly missed this newsbit about the ZiNc emulator. Appearantly the authors decided to stop development of ZiNc after the next and final verison is released. Read more about this on Emuhype!
Santeri updated the MAME WIP page!
| Saturday, 03. January 2004 |
R.Belmont released M1 v0.7.4b, a small bugfix release.
| Friday, 02. January 2004 |
R.Belmont was busy again and released M1 v0.7.4a and some nice ZiNc screenshots.
| Thursday, 01. January 2004 |
R.Belmont posted some nice screenshots from the game "Winning Spike"!
Happy new year! :o))
| Saturday, 27. December 2003 |
MAME32 v0.78 is now also available!
FandeMAME released the v0.78 update to the MAME history database.
I hope you all had a nice and joyful christmas :)
| Thursday, 25. December 2003 |
The MAME team released MAME v0.78 with these changes!
| Wednesday, 24. December 2003 |
Gridle updated the MAME Status Page with the development from the last 3 weeks!
Aaron made an update on his website as well, along with a little request.
The PinMAME team released PinMAME, PinMAME32 and Visual PinMAME v1.31!
Merry christmas to you all, many many thanks for your continued support! 2003 was a very busy year for me, I had lots of work deadlines and unfortunately SYS2064 had to suffer from this. I'm sure that 2004 will be kinder to me and I will have more time to dedicate to arcade emulation and SYS2064 which needs a major overhaul badly. If you like to drop a note then please feel free, lately it seems that I mostly get rom requests. ;o)
| Sunday, 21. December 2003 |
The first CD-Rom based arcade games are now emulated in MAME courtesy of R.Belmont!
| Saturday, 20. December 2003 |
Aaron fixed some bugs in the Seattle emulation and the screenshots look much nicer now. :o)
| Wednesday, 17. December 2003 |
R.Belmont and Haze added nice WIP followups to yesterdays newsitems! :)
| Tuesday, 16. December 2003 |
Aaron Giles continues to keep us up to date on his Vegas-Hardware WIP and R.Belmont show some nice progress on the emulation of "Cryptkiller".
Many many thanks to Roman for releasing ClrMAME Pro v3.10a! :o)
