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March 2001
| Saturday, 31. March 2001 |
This is just a quick update to say that most likely I won't be able to report news till tomorrow because I'm currently upgrading my computer! It will take a couple of hours to have it back in full strength again but I'll try to have it finished as soon as possible, thanks for your patience!
| Friday, 30. March 2001 |
xMAME was updated to v0.37b13.1 and adds these new features:
- Everything from MAME 0.37b13.
- Numerous updates to the OpenGL target. (Sven Goethel)
- Added Photon2 display support for the QNX target. (Travis Coady)
- You can now run "make clean68k" before building with a different 68k core. (Mike Coates)
- Applied a patch from StretchMAME that prevents a bunch of games from segfaulting on startup. (Shyouzou Sugitani)
- A fix for the sprites in CVS games. (Nicola Salmoria)
Many thanks to Stefan Illner for the news!
Yesterdays links are now fixed ;-) Many thanks to Ra Chen for the mail!
| Thursday, 29. March 2001 |
CPS2Shock released the xor-files for the game "X-Men vs. Street Fighter". Hopefully "D&D: Shadow over Mystara" will be the next release...
Another update on one of my favorite websites: The Arcade Flyer Archive released MAME flyer pack #19 with 32 new and 4 replaced flyeras for a total of 1380!
More and more fixes are now reported on the MAME WIP page! Does this mean a release candidate is near?
| Wednesday, 28. March 2001 |
Norbert Kehrer added Loderunner from Irem to JAE, his Java arcade emulator.
The next version of Modeler will have support for save-states, too.
| Tuesday, 27. March 2001 |
Mike Beaver updated the Mimic homepage with the latest status report!
John Hardy released Cabinet pack #11 with 82 new arcade game cabinet pictures for the use with MAME32!
| Monday, 26. March 2001 |
Another interesting looking shooter called Ryujin was added to MAME and as usual you can see screenshots of the game on the MAME WIP page!
| Sunday, 25. March 2001 |
Logiqx released MAMEdiff v1.06 which offers a new and quite useful new feature:
- Major: Added three new modes (-M, -S and -N) to show newly required ZIPs (generates a report and CMPro dat file).
- Minor: Now ignores RAINE and clrmamepro headers.
- Minor: Compiled with -Wall (fixed all warnings it uncovered).
| Saturday, 24. March 2001 |
The Modeler homepage got a couple of new screenshots of Modeler in action: 2 very preliminary pictures of Outrunners and two of the new Golden Axe 2 romdump!
The MAME WIP page was updated with the fixes the MAME team did in the last 3 days!
Eldio has taken over the Marquee Library from Phydeaux Brigands and released updated packs of marquees for the use with MAME32! Many thanks to Randy Schiller for the news!
| Friday, 23. March 2001 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v1.94 which adds lots of small changes:
- misc: save missing list even when 0 sets are missing
- misc: system filtering for wrong-merged-sets and wrong-named-sets
- misc: compiled with MS Developer Studio Service Pack 5
- misc: sorted unneeded / wrong named lists
- misc: optional manufacturer display for scanresults/log
- misc: rebuilder rebuilds biosfiles only once
- misc: changed one confusing zip/unzip rebuilder message
- misc: create-0-crc isn't enabled by default anymore
- misc: strict zipscanner and hide fixed is enabled by default
- misc: removed some merger gui stuff and major speed-update for full merging (don't recreate set when no clones exist)
- added: new engine.cfg
- fixed: missing source == destination path check when dropping files
- fixed: rebuilding complemented crcs in parent/clone issue (pacnchmp problem)
| Thursday, 22. March 2001 |
The latest rumormill on EmuViews has some small news about the Monaco Grand Prix simulation in the Sega Arcade Project!
| Wednesday, 21. March 2001 |
The MAME WIP page was updated with the MAME development of the last 4 days! Thanks to Brian Troha for the mail!
Leezer released the unofficial MAME highscore database v7.2 which adds support for highscore saving in ~20 new romsets. On his homepage you can also get replacements for a couple of nvram files for better highscore support!
CPS2Shock released the XOR tables for three japanese revisions of "Super Street Fighter"!
| Tuesday, 20. March 2001 |
Charles Doty, the programmer of many demo-programs running on arcade hardware, tries to put together a group of people to develop games for the arcade with target systems ranging from the machines of the early 80's all the way up to the late 90's! If you are interested and like to read more about this project then you can read the full announcement on this webpage!
| Monday, 19. March 2001 |
The Modeler homepage was updated with the news that an alternate US version of "Golden Axe 2" has been dumped!
| Sunday, 18. March 2001 |
Dave released Final Burn v0.112 which adds support for the latest CPS2Shock release "Cyberbots"!
Team Japump announced a couple of new arcade game romdumps: Nekketsu Mahjong Sengen (1991 Video System), Ojanko-Yakata (1986 Video System), Quiz Gakumon no Susume (1993 Konami), Momoko 120% (1986 Jaleco), Baraduke (New Ver. 1985 Namco), Cyberbots - Full Metal Madness - (1995 Capcom, Ver.950420) and Birdie King (1982 Taito). A couple of them are already emulated by MAME!
xMAME was updated to v0.37 b12.1!
Logiqx updated his great tool RomBuild to v1.6! With RomBuild you can create the romsets wanted by virtually every arcade emulator from a good MAME romset.
Metro became one of my favorite arcade game manufacturers because of all those interesting puzzle games they made in the last years and on todays update on the MAME WIP page you can see another one!
CPS2Shock released a small utility to patch the old and corrupt romdump of "Cyberbots" to the good one by Team Japump.
| Saturday, 17. March 2001 |
CPS2Shock is back with the Xor tables for the game "Cyberbots - Full Metal Madness"!
| Friday, 16. March 2001 |
I get lots of mails regarding a fixfile for xmencota but you can fix the roms yourself by downloading a small utility by katharsis and FX3 which you can find on GeoShock and please remember that any missing cps2 roms with an 'x' in their name are xor-files which you can get at CPS2Shock!
The MAME32 Team released the long awaited MAME32 v0.37 beta 13! Many thanks to everybody who send a mail about this! :-)
Mamu_ released an iconpack for the new games supported by MAME v0.37b13 and as usual they are really beautiful!
| Thursday, 15. March 2001 |
Hmmm, Rough Ranger does look a lot like one of my favorite arcade games "Rolling Thunder"! Take a look at the new screenshots on the MAME WIP page!
| Wednesday, 14. March 2001 |
Lee Tonks released a new version of my favorite MAME frontend: FeMAME v2.03 which fixes a nasty bug, adds support for 4000 games and more.
David Raingeard released Calice v0.1.5 with this huge list of new features:
- 20 more games (Japanese, Usa, and Bootleg versions of games)
- Support for clones (see PARENT in drivers)
- Scanlines support
- 3 buttons support
- eeprom support
- Installed drivers automatic detection (You can add your own driver, it will be detected by Calice so you can use it)
- Layers activation fixed. All games works now nearly perfectly
- Fixed some drivers (msword,...)
- ...and other things i forgot now
The MacMAME team updated MacMAME to v0.37 beta 13!
CPS2Shock released the XOR tables for "Alien vs. Predator" (Japan).
| Tuesday, 13. March 2001 |
"Hexion" looks like an interesting puzzle game and you can see screenshots of a preliminary MAME driver on the MAME WIP page!
Emulatronia reports some news about a new (unreleased) CPS2 emulator called Nebula. The interesting thing about Nebula is that it should be using driver files for the supported games so new games should be added easily as soon as the XOR tables are released.
| Monday, 12. March 2001 |
I try to have a new release of the MAME history database by next weekend. If you'd like to submit something then please use the messageboard!
Logiqx released new versions of MAMEdiff and RomBuild and added a new and interesting new section to his homepage called "How to compile MAME and Raine"! Be sure to take a look!
| Sunday, 11. March 2001 |
Gridle added the MAME development news from the last 3 days to the MAME WIP page!
The MAME32 Q&A page added the screenshot and icon pack for the MAME v0.37b13 release!
Charles MacDonald rewrote his technical document about the Sega System 24 hardware! Many thanks to EmuHQ for the news!
The MAME Team just released MAME v0.37 beta 13 with these new additions! A fixfile is available too and many thanks to all visitors who send a mail about the release to me. :-) ClrMAME Pro users should download the new "engine.cfg" file from the ClrMAME homepage for the DecoCass support!
| Saturday, 10. March 2001 |
If you are looking for PC conversions/remakes of classic arcade games then be sure to take a look at Div Arena!
It's 19xx, the war against destiny at CPS2Shock and Dave updated Final Burn to v0.111 to support this game! Many thanks to Brian Troha for the notice!
David Raingeard released Calice v0.1.4 with these changes:
- Added support for dozens of Street Fighter II variants
- Fixed rowscroll support
- Fixed layers ordering
- Fixed scrolling clipping bug
- Fixed some bugs specific to the win32 version
- Added some new commands to gui
| Friday, 09. March 2001 |
Your daily fix of MAME WIP news is now available! :-)
| Thursday, 08. March 2001 |
Good Bye MAME.dk, you will be missed!
Mike Beaver added some screenshots from SuperGX, a previously unemulated arcade game to the Mimic homepage!
Gridle added the MAME development news from the last 2 days to the MAME WIP page!
| Wednesday, 07. March 2001 |
Gangsoft released DreamPac, an emulator which supports: Pacman, Ms. Pacman and Crush Roller. The emulator runs on the DreamCast and features full sound support
| Tuesday, 06. March 2001 |
David Raingeard released a second Calice version today and Calice v0.1.3 adds these new features:
- Win32 version (8 bpp Windowed Mode Only)
- Row Scroll Support (Preliminary) Works with megatwins and varth. Does not work with sf2 =(
Release #19 over at CPS2Shock is the US version of "Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo"!
David Raingeard moved the Calice homepage to a nw host (http://calice.emuunlim.com/) and released Calice v0.1.2 with these new features:
- Added a driver for: Warriors Of Fate, Rockman the power battle (Japan), Megaman the power battle
- Fixed a driver for: Dynasty Wars (Japan), Quiz and Dragons (World), Pnickies (Japan), Capcom World 2 (Japan)
- Fixed YM2151 sound support. Now, it sounds lots better. Note that it is disabled by default, since it slows down the emulation a lot. However, It can be activated manually.
- Preliminary driver for Street fighter zero (cps changer) by Gabriel Cabra
Yesterday the MAME team did even more bugfixes, the complete news are as always on the MAME WIP page!
| Monday, 05. March 2001 |
Mike Beaver updated the Mimic homepage and he announced to release an "as-is" version of Mimic soon!
The MAME team fixed quite a lot of things yesterday, read all about it on the MAME WIP page!
| Sunday, 04. March 2001 |
Dave released Final Burn v0.110 which adds support for the latest CPS2Shock release of "Quiz Nanairo Dreams"!
Team Japump were busy again and dumped the romsets of: Black Heart (UPL/NMK, 1991), Splendor Blast (Alpha Denshi, 1985) and High Voltage (Alpha Denshi, 1985).
CPS2Shock's second release in a row is "Quiz Nanairo Dreams"!
| Saturday, 03. March 2001 |
Dave released Final Burn v0.109 with these new changes:
- Added Slammasters II - Ring Of Destruction
- Added region switches for: Alien Vs. Predator, Marvel Super Heroes, Vampire/Darkstalkers. Many thanks to Malice for these switches!
Thanks to Brian and Ben-J for the news!
Update: Another often requested game was just added to MAME, take a look at the MAME WIP page for a few "Asterix" screenshots and now Gridle added todays news and screenshots as well!
The Guru dumped the game "Mystic Warriors" (Konami, 1993)!
CPS2Shock released the XOR tables for the game "Slam Masters II: Ring of Destruction"! Thanks to everybody who wrote a mail about these news!
| Friday, 02. March 2001 |
The great Team Japump announced that they dumped the roms of 23 arcade games and quite a few of them are already supported by MAME as you can se on the MAME WIP page! Many thanks to Brian Troha for the news!
| Thursday, 01. March 2001 |
Logiqx released RomBuild v1.4 which adds support for NeoRAGEx! RomBuild is a great program which generates the correct romsets for dozens of arcade emulators from the MAME romsets, be sure to take a look!
The Raine WIP page was updated too, Donpachi is now supported!
Hey, Tetris 2 Plus looks quite nice, take a look for yourself on the MAME WIP page! Many thanks to Patrick Volpi for the news!
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February 2001
| Wednesday, 28. February 2001 |
Gridle added some screenshots of two new supported games (The Bounty and Dynamic Ski) and the latest MAME development to the MAME WIP page! Many thanks to Brian A. Troha for the news!
| Tuesday, 27. February 2001 |
Another strange but interesting looking puzzle game called "Puzzli" has been added to MAME and the screenshots are now on the MAME WIP page!
If you're into savestates then be sure to take a look at Emu Arcade and CPS2 Edge for some NeoGeo and Final Burn savestates!
I just woke up and saw that Dave released Final Burn v0.108 which re-adds an older version of xmencota. Many thanks to Patrick M. Volpi for the news!
Geoshock just added a nice utility by katharsis and FX3 to fix the bad roms in the xmencota US-set.
As expected, here is Final Burn v0.107 which adds a few more games:
- Added X-Men:COTA (Ver 3.00)
- Added region switch to Super Street Fighter 2
- Added region switch to Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
- Added Street Fighter 2
| Monday, 26. February 2001 |
CPS2Shock released the XOR tables for the american version of X-Men: Children of the Atom.
Gridle added two huge MAME WIP updates from the last two days with lots of fixes, new features (save state support!) and new games including GI Joe (Konami, 1992).
| Sunday, 25. February 2001 |
The daily update is here. :-) Dave released Final Burn v0.106 with these new features:
- Made an autodetect for Video/System memory. Thanks to everyone who sent in DDCaps info!
- Added support for Final Fight (CPS1), but it has many bugs.
Thanks Brian for the mail!
| Saturday, 24. February 2001 |
Dave just released Final Burn v0.105 with these new features:
- Fixed all three punches and kicks in SSF2T.
- Made options for all the scanline variations in finalburn.ini
- Fixed CPS1 SF2CE/T priority problem on Zangeif's stage.
- I'm currently researching what causes Video/System memory to have such a dramatic performance effect on certain PCs: run a game and then see finalburn.ini for more details.
Again many thanks to Brian Troha for the mail!
Leezer updated the unofficial MAME highscore database and v7.1 adds highscore saving support for 48 new games! Visit his homepage for a small zipfile for Q*Bert highscore saving too.
Another interesting looking shoot'em up game was added to MAME, read about it and see some screenshots on the MAME WIP page! Thanks to Brian Troha for the news!
Simon Sweetman released Gauntlet Screensaver v1.4! Be sure to take a look at this excellent program and these are the new features:
- Added sound effects (optional from settings dialog)
- Added destruction animation when shots hit obstacles
- Added support for and tested under Windows 2000 and Windows ME
- Potions now effect lobbers and lobber generators
- Demon shots are now more accurate
- If the screen saver was run for the first time on a particular computer nothing would happen until the settings dialog was run and the number of adventurers etc. was set. It now defaults to 5 Adventurers, SOUND, AGGRESSIVE, SEEK, and GREEDY in this case.
- Fixed problems with set video mode under Direct X 8.x
- Corrected surface lost errors when powersave puts monitor in standby mode
- When characters return from interactive mode to computer control they now head in a random direction, not just down and right
- Fleeing outnumbered characters no longer walk right thru obstacles like each other and monster generators
- Corrected collision detection between lobber shots and characters
| Friday, 23. February 2001 |
Gridle added a small update to the MAME WIP page, many thanks to Brian Troha for the news!
| Thursday, 22. February 2001 |
Dave released Final Burn v0.104 with these features:
- Added ADPCM sound to CPS1 games.
- Changed CPS2 cpu speed to 12mhz.
- Changed scanline mode to reduce flickering.
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v1.93a with two small fixes:
- fixed: Used a Win98 (and higher) only function....So Win95 users couldn't start cmpro
- added: 'send
to browser' option (-->pulldown menu)...Nice for downloading missing sets.
The latest rumormill on EmuViews presents some mp3s of the emulated sounds of the Sega model One game "Virtua Racing"! Link fixed, thanks to Patrick Volpi!
Todays update of the MAME WIP page has lots of colorful screenshots of new supported games like UnderFire and Super Chase! :-)
| Wednesday, 21. February 2001 |
Dave is hot on the heels of CPS2Shock and released Final Burn v0.103 with these new features:
- Added Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (ETC) (Haven't done Asia yet.)
- Fixed SSF2 crc.
- Fixed a bug where CPS1 games would not start if sound was disabled.
- Doh! - there was a stupid bug: the video/system memory switch in finalburn.ini actually selected the wrong one! Fixed now - instead of reversing it, I just renamed the variable to nAppUseSysMemory.
CPS2Shock was updated with the XOR tables for Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (Asia and Europe).
Lots of fixes were done to MAME on the last three days, read more on the MAME WIP page!
| Tuesday, 20. February 2001 |
Mamu_ released a MAME iconpack with the new games supported by MAME v0.37 beta 12! Thanks to Retrogames for the news!
The MAME highscore database was updated to v7 which now supports 1276 games using 740 score saving entries! Many thanks to Pete for the news!
The Arcade Flyer Archive added a new flyer pack for MAME. Pack #18 contains 37 new flyers and replaces 11 of the older ones!
| Monday, 19. February 2001 |
Thierry Lescot released a new verison of RomIdent, a nice utility to identify unknown arcade romdumps and boards! Thanks to EmuHQ for the news!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v1.93 with these new features:
- added: save missing sets option
- added: outputwindow autoscroll switch
- added: outputwindow show complemented crc switch
- fixed: wrong defpaths error message when dropping files
- fixed: romcenter datfile import
- fixed: datfile export for not-known-sized-roms
Dave released Final Burn v0.102 which adds Street Fighter Alpha 2 and a cpu speed switch to the CPS1 game Street Fighter 2 Turbo! Thanks to Patrick M. Volpi for the news!
Shanghai Kid emulation is nearly done, take a look at th enew screenshots on the MAME WIP Page!
| Sunday, 18. February 2001 |
CPS2Shock just released the XOR tables for "Street Fighter Alpha 2"!
Mike Beaver added some Mimic news to the Mimic homepage!
| Saturday, 17. February 2001 |
The MAME WIP page got some news for us as well! :-) Thanks to Brian A. Troha for the news!
Gridle added fixed MAME v0.37 beta 12 binaries to the MAME homepage! The differences are: fixed ASM 68k core, fixed the CPS-2 Qsound ROM loading, fixed the Neo Geo games and a fixed critical alpha blending bug - the source DIFF is also available! Thanks to Retrogames for the news!
Dave released Final Burn v0.101 with these new features:
- Added support for Aliens Vs. Predator.
- Changed romset structures to match MAME's. (Most noticeably, sfz.zip has changed to sfa.zip, since Alpha is regarded as the parent set.)
- Added two new options which allow you to block music or sound effect codes in most games. (Note that some games *may* need to be reset after you change these options e.g. to get rid of pieces of music which are still playing.)
Farfetch'd and R. Belmont release Modeler v0.1.1a which adds:
- Disabled debug logging. On systems with slow harddisks this could dramatically slow down the emulator, and it tends to fill up your disk pretty quickly too.
- Fixed slowdown problem (thanks to Richard Bannister over on the Mac port for the diagnosis).
- Added "Force 555 video" option. If colors are weird, give it a shot.
- Another video autodetect fix. This one is believed to work correctly in all cases, including 24 and 32-bit desktops and 555 video cards. (8-bit desktops aren't supported, so don't try ;-)
I added a couple of FAQs for the latest supported CPS2 games (Alien vs. Predator, Marvel Super Heroes, Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Super Street Fighter 2)!
| Friday, 16. February 2001 |
Surprise: Dave released three new versions of Final Burn and the latest is Final Burn v0.100 which add support for Super Street Fighter 2 and Marvel Super Heroes, put the other CPS2 games back in and corrected sprite/layer priority! Thanks to Brian A. Troha for the news!
Another day, another release at CPS2Shock! Today you'll get the XOR tables for the game "Marvel Super Heroes". So hurry up!
Paul Leaman posted some notes about the MAME CPS2 driver and you can read them in this messageboard post!
JohnIV released updated beta12 screenshot and icon packs for the use with the upcoming release of MAME32 on the MAME32 Q&A page!
Guisep released an updated version of his MAME32 screensaver which is now in sync with MAME v0.37b12! Thanks to Guisep and Gerd Langer for the news!
The latest rumormill on EmuViews has a few news on Smog (the Sega Model One emulator) and on the Sega Arcade Project!
| Thursday, 15. February 2001 |
Feel free to get the latest fixfile with patches for darius2d, fastlane, magix, nrallyx and spacedem! Thanks to Gridle and Roman for the help!
Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team release MAME v0.37 beta 12! Read about the new features and I'll take a look if a fixfile is necessary! Many thanks to Roman for the news!
CPS2Shock released the XOR tables for the game "Alien vs. Predator"!
Leo Postma of the Dutch MAMEpage interviewed Xray1 and DinkeyToy of the Arcade Flyer Archive! Here is a direct link to the english translation of the interview!
FarFetch'd and R. Belmont released Modeler v0.1.1 with these new features and fixes:
General
- Yet another attempt at the 555 fix. If it doesn't work please post the contents of the "stdout.txt" file created by the emulator.
- PCM banking improved. This fixes many missing sound effects in GA2, including the sword swinging and the character select screen noises.
- Background graphics greatly improved for Sonic. This and other fixes made Arabian Fight about as playable, so I've enabled it.
- "Disable sound" checkbox added to GUI. Note that sound is used to generate the emulator's timing so the 60 FPS limiter is disabled when sound is off. We'll fix this at some point.
- DirectSound driver bugfixed, so sound is much clearer now on Win32 for many soundcards (it was fine for me before with SB Live / LiveWare 3.0, but apparently it wasn't for many others). This may also have caused unnecessary slowdowns on some machines.
- Upgraded to the new SDL 1.1.8, which allows us to enable Sidewinder gamepad support (this was only available on Linux in 0.1.0 and 0.1.0a). The "M" button inserts coins and the "Start" button is player 1 start. You should be able to figure out the rest :-)
| Wednesday, 14. February 2001 |
The Raine WIP page was updated with the latest Raine development.
Laurence Gold released Xmame v0.37b11.2 and here is a list of the changes! Many thanks to Stillner for the news!
Barry Rodewald moved his GalEmu/Q-Player website to this address: http://galemu.emuunlim.com/!
The latest new addition to MAME is "Ultra Balloon" (SunA, 1996). Take a look at the screenshots on the MAME WIP page!
| Tuesday, 13. February 2001 |
The DECO tape driver is coming along nicely and you can read more about it on the MAME WIP page!
| Monday, 12. February 2001 |
Farfetch'd and Richter Belmont released Modeler v0.1.0a with these bug-fixes:
- Attempted fix of the 555/565 autodetect
- Made graphics init problems more verbose - non 15/16 bit desktops will now complain with a messagebox.
I forgot to mention that Team Japump (re-)dumped another batch of 17 arcade games and some of them are already emulated by Raine! Thanks to Consolemul for the news!
David Raingeard released Calice v0.1.0 with these additions:
- fixed the priorities between the scroll 2 and the sprites
- added the -gamelist option to display the list of the available drivers, and the full name of the games.
- added these games: Forgotten worlds, Lost worlds (Japan), Quiz Tonosama no Yabou 2 Zenkoku-ban (Japan)
Thanks to Retrogames for the news!
Dave released Final Burn v0.97 which fixes these bugs in the emulated Sega hardware:
- Fixed a memory map bug in the After Burner hardware driver - now Thunder Blade shows more objects (e.g. tanks)
- Fixed co-ordinate bug on GF hardware. Power Drift road when close up now looks better, and the Galaxy Force bug where targets would flicker to non-existant enemies is gone.
Farfetch'd and Richter Belmont release Modeler v0.1.0 and a few notes on this release are here!
What a great time for arcade emulation, yesterday we got a new release of Raine, today three other emulators got new releases and I bet that a new MAME beta isn't that far away either. :-)
| Sunday, 11. February 2001 |
The Raine team just released Raine v0.30a which majorly improves the sound in the Taito F3 games (just listen to Darius Gaiden!). Click here for the full list of new features! The Linux port has been released too and you can download it here!
The MAME WIP page was updated again with news and some screenshots, be sure to take a look!
Xgaming started to take reservations for their upcoming and promising X-Arcade joysticks! Thanks to BYOAC for the news!
| Saturday, 10. February 2001 |
The Kiame website posted a really small status report about the U64Emu but a new release is still a few months away.
| Friday, 09. February 2001 |
Are you as curious as me about a new release of Modeler? Then be sure to read this post on the Modeler message board by R.Belmont!
Taito added the latest development in Raine to the Raine WIP page!
MAME now emulates the first Deco Cassette system game: Super Astro Fighter, take a look at some screenshots on the MAME WIP page!
Lopantu started the Sega Arcade Project, an attempt to simulate the early non-cpu powered Sega games!
djRaw-b released a song called "Circuitry" (which uses a lot of old arcade samples including vocals from "Gorf") and an earlier one called "Robot Intruder" (which uses a lot of samples from "Berzerk"). Visit his website if you'd like to hear or download the songs!
| Thursday, 08. February 2001 |
David Raingeard released Calice v0.0.8 which adds these new features:
- Experimental sound support (this is my first attempt at sound emulation) Driver developpers: now, you must add information about the sound hardware in the driver files.
- added YM2151 emulator
- added Z80 emulator
- Vesa 2.0 support . Added a 400x300 8bpp linear rendering mode (much faster than the 400x256 8bpp modeX), and a 800x600 8bpp linear rendering mode to provide software scanlines. If you know how to add hardware scanlines to a vesa mode , please contact me! new options added in the configuration file
- Added a driver for the following games: Carrier Air Wing, Captain commando, Capcom World 2 Japan (Wrong colors) and Knights of the Round
Yesterday was quite a busy day for the MAME developers and you can see the proof on the MAME WIP page now!
You might have already read that I am going to maintain the MAME history database now so I reopened the old messageboard here on SYS2064 and I hope that you'll use it frequently to submit lots of new additions to the database! Please give me some time to "settle in" and I'll hope that Gerardo Jorrin will join me soon. Many many thanks to Brian Deuel for all his great work in the past, I hope you stick around. :-)
CPS2Shock released the XOR tables for "Super Street Fighter 2" so be sure to expect a new Final Burn release soon as well.
| Wednesday, 07. February 2001 |
Sixtoe opened the redesigned Sega Museum (previously known as system16.com) and he added tons of new stuff to the site.
Lots of WIP news today: both the Raine Wip and the MAME Wip page were updated with the recent development.
After quite a few months of waiting I finally got an A-DSL internet connection. Just to let you know that I am quite happy. :-)
| Tuesday, 06. February 2001 |
VAntAGE v1.1 has been released with lots of new supported games and features. Many thanks to MAMEWorld for the news!
| Monday, 05. February 2001 |
David Raingeard released Calice v0.0.7 which adds support for more CPS1 romsets and has these new features as well:
- Emulation speed increased (I mesured between 40 and 60 fps in 256x256 frameskip 0 on a Pentium 100 Mhz machine)
- QSound hack to allow QSound games to work without it
- brigthness support (fades now work)
- Fixed sprite bugs (Nemo, 1941, maybe others)
Dave released two new versions of Final Burn and these are the new features:
- v0.096
- Fixed a bug with Load/Save and no game loaded.
- v0.095
- Added support for the older version of X-Men (v2.00)
- Made state saving and loading a bit easier.
- Scanlines are now shown in Windowed mode as well.
Many thanks to Patrick M. Volpi for the news!
MAME turns 4 today, many congratulations! Yesterdays development ios now documented on the MAME WIP page!
The great Team Japump dumped 17 new arcade game romsets!
| Sunday, 04. February 2001 |
Atani posted a list of known bugs in his first release of the Raine32 port on his website!
| Saturday, 03. February 2001 |
Mike Beaver made some progress with the Sega ystem E emulation in Mimic. He posted a new screenshot of "Riddle of Pythagoras" on the official Mimic page!
Street Fighter: The Movie (Capcom, 1995) has added to MAME. See the screenshots on the MAME WIP page!
I added FAQs for the two latest additions to Final Burn (X-Men: CotA and D&D: ToD) to the general FAQ page here on SYS2064!
John Hardy released Cabinet Pack #10 which had got pictures of arcade game cabinets for 79 games!
Leezer released the updated highscore database for MAME and this version adds support for 32 new games!
Dave released two new versions of Final Burn which add support for "D&D: Tower of Doom" and even more features:
- X-Men 3xPunch/Kick didn't work in 0.093 - fixed.
- Added support for Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (both US releases)
- Added 4-player support for D&D. Default mapping is Keyboard, Joystick 1, Joystick 2, Joystick 3, but using the input menu you can of course map any keys or joysticks by double-clicking on inputs and setting them.
Again thanks to Brian Troha for the fast news!
| Friday, 02. February 2001 |
Lopantu released a special version of Laser which will work with a new frontend called Hiryu (also for Callice) and adds the following new features:
- Added Ozma Wars
- Added Solar Fight
- Added Space Phantoms
- Added Star Wars
- Space Chaser is now fully playable
- Lupin III is now fully playable
- Sound is now enabled by default, use -nosound to turn it off
- Joystick is also enabled by default, use -nojoy to turn it off
Dave released Final Burn v0.92 which adds "a Region switch for X-Men - this wasn't easy (think needle and think haystack!) and required some more work to find it". Again many thanks to Brian A. Troha!
The MAME WIP page was updated with the news from the last two days! Thanks to Brian A. Troha for the news!
Naz released a new version of his excellent CPS2 FAQ. There are two versions, one with 36mb and the full version with 172mb but he wasn't able to upload them anywhere yet. Thanks to Retrogames for the news!
Looks like I accidently missed Calice v0.0.5 but David Raingeard already released Calice v0.0.6 with lots of new supported CPS1 games! I'll add Calice to SYS2064 over te weekend!
| Thursday, 01. February 2001 |
Final Burn v0.091 has just been released with these new additions:
- Fixed the problem with the sprites on the Ice on the Beach stage.
- Fixed the problem with the Capcom/Ryu shadow screen
- But haven't fixed anything else yet (e.g. the X after-fight screen or the one-frame QSound glitch)
- Hey - doesn't the rowscroll effect on the Danger Room look great? :)
The long awaited Raine v0.30 is finally released! There are quite a lot of changes so please read the whatsnew.txt file yourself! A Linux version and a Windows port are also available. You will notice that lots of romsets were changed in this release, I suggest that you let ClrMAME Pro do the job of reorganizing the sets.
You can now get the XOR tables for xmencota from CPS2Shock!
Gridle added yesterdays MAME development news to the MAME WIP page!
Update: Looks like today will be an interesting day for arcade emulation. The first *three* releases for today came from Dave and Final Burn v0.090 is the latest. The new features are:
v0.090
- I accidentally left the 06 (Brazil) region out of VSav - sorry! Added again now!
v0.089
- I left a tiny bit of debugging code in 0.088, now fixed.
v0.088
- Added support for X-Men: Children of the Atom (Jpn)
- Added some sound to the CPS1 games. No ADPCM yet.
- Added some more analog input options, useful mainly for joypads. So if you have a joypad, try "J1 Normal Slider" for After Burner and Rail Chase, and "J1 Centering Slider" for Power Drift, Galaxy Force and Out Run. If you have an analog joystick, try "J1 Absolute". After extended periods of 'testing' we have concluded these are more playable ;)
- Added auto-saving for the volatile memory in the Sega games as well (if bDrvSaveAll is 1 of course)
- Added a Title switch for VSav - just affects the graphic after you insert coin (0=Vampire Savior, 1=Darkstalkers...)
- Dip switches can now be changed from the emu while the game is running. Double-click on the dip switch in the input menu, and change the value. Changes happen straight away. Very useful! (Some game options may need the game to be reset to take effect though.)
- Reading input every frame is now optional (bReadInputEveryFrame in finalburn.ini) Default is on.
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January 2001
| Wednesday, 31. January 2001 |
Another WIP page was updated: The Modeler crew added 10 new screenshots of various emulated Sega System 32 games.
| Tuesday, 30. January 2001 |
Gridle added a few more MAME WIP news including screenshots of "Shoot the BulL" (Bally Midway, 1985) and Metroid (PC10, Nintendo, 1986).
| Monday, 29. January 2001 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v1.92 with these new features:
- added: not-separated-biosroms-warning when enabling adv. unneeded
- added: warning message when scanner and rebuilder merge mode differ
- misc : disabling 'name' doesn't disable 'missing' now (but enabling 'missing' does enable 'name')..hehe..confusing..no way ?
- misc : merging between different bios systems can be allowed
- misc : rewrote the clipboard routines (much faster now)
- fixed: rebuilder/merger rebuilds/merges only activated sets
The latest MAME development is now documented on the MAME WIP page!
And here is Final Burn v0.087 from Dave with one new feature: "Input is now always read for every frame, even if the emu is frame skipping. It makes no difference here since the emu hardly ever frame-skips, so I'm uploading this mainly because I'm curious - does it help anyone else's controller problems?"
David Raingeard released Calice v0.0.4a with these new additions: "The emulation has been speed up a little bit. The compatibility is better, (block sprites are emulated now). There is 8 bpp and 15 bpp rendering modes. Willow is playable now. Strider too. It is possible to build new drivers using my "script engine". Have a look at the .DRV files with notepad and have fun =)". Thanks to Retrogames for the news!
Not even the Super Bowl can stop Dave. He already released two new versions and Final Burn v0.086 adds these things:
v0.086
- CPS2 EEPROM data (which holds the settings in the test menu) is now stored to disk.
- If bDrvSaveAll in finalburn.ini is 1, all CPS Ram (i.e. the current state) will also be saved to disk. (But save slots and mid-emu saving are not supported yet)
v0.085
- (Added a few CPS1 games to save people rom swapping)
- Added support for Megaman (Asia), (no sound)
- Added support for Rockman (Jpn), (no sound)
- Added support for Ghouls 'N Ghosts (no sound)
Thanks to Retrogames for the news!
| Sunday, 28. January 2001 |
Dave just released Final Burn v0.084 which some great new features:
- Added keys for all three Punches and Kicks in the CPS2 games. To define them, use the Input list.
- (Vampire) Fixed the problem with the EEPROM emulation. (Note EEPROM is not saved to disk yet though.)
- (VSav) Fixed the graphical glitch where Shadow was shown on the Red Curtain screen
- (Vampire) vampja.ini should have been called vampj.ini, fixed.
The Modeler crew added some new screenshots of Sonic, Rad Mobile and Arabian Fight (all unplayable right now) to the Modeler homepage!
Gridle added even more MAME WIP news and added a first screenshot of Looping!
| Saturday, 27. January 2001 |
The MacMAME team released MacMAME v0.37 beta 11 with has these new features:
- In sync with the DOS 0.37 beta 11 build. [Brad Oliver]
- Many fixes to the PowerPC 68ec020 core, although it's still not perfect. [Brad Oliver]
- Many fixes for the Carbon version. It is now usable, although it is still lacking in many areas. Please do not report bugs on the Carbon build. [Brad Oliver, Raphael Nabet]
- The debugger window now renders properly in all cases {Raphael Nabet]
- Fixed problem with some new 020 opcodes, also fixed crash when using renderer plugin. [Brad Oliver]
Gridle updated the MAME WIP page with news about improvements in the Taito sound and CPS2 emulation.
Your daily Final Burn update is here. Dave released Final Burn v0.083 with these new features:
- Made 640x480 the default res, because it works quite well for all games. For CPS2 scanlines, make sure the res is 640x480 in finalburn.ini. Now just make sure stretch is NOT ticked, and hit scanlines. Voila - fullscreen scanlines.
- Fixed "VS Screen" rowscroll problem (background effect) and alignment of the hiscore screen.
- Final Burn now checks for CRC *errors* in a Zip file (i.e. if the zip file is corrupt) as well as checking if the CRCs of the roms are correct.
Barry Rodewald released QSound Player v1.4.1 which should have much better sounding samples!
| Friday, 26. January 2001 |
I added an FAQ for Darkstalkers/Vampire to the FAQ page and remember to visit CPS2Shock as well for the XOR tables for Vampire!
Dave released Final Burn v0.080 which adds these new features:
- Added Vampire (Jpn), which is also known as DarkStalkers. We haven't found a region switch for it yet :( There may not be one. There's a problem with the eeprom - haven't figured it out yet. Otherwise it looks perfect to me!
- Input can now be configured from the emu. Press Input to bring up the Input List, double-click on an input, and press a new key, joystick/pad direction or joystick/pad button for it. Note that if you playing the Sega games, you can't use this to configure analog controls yet - you will have to edit the game's .INI file still. Also, you will have to edit the games .INI file to set dip switches and region codes.
- Added a layer switch for CPS games (Alt-L). Press to toggle background layers on or off. You can use this to show only the sprites.
- Fixed the Victor lariat 'teleport' bug, which was caused by being able to press left and right at the same time. (Of course you can't do this on the original arcade, but if you could, the bug would probably happen there as well!)
- Fixed some Triple Buffering problems.
- Refined the sprite priority patch so it only modifies sprites when absolutely necessary, and also added the other priority levels. Tiny little fixes: the blue flame and picture on Dem's stage is fixed, and the bats now *don't* fly over the red cave on Morrigan's level in VSav (which is the way it is in the arcade).
- Rowscroll also fixed (it used to created a bit of a glitch at the bottom of the Iron Horse Iron Terror stage as the train scrolled on)
David Raingeard released Calice v0.0.3a which adds support for Strider and Willow (Jpn). I'll add the emulator to SYS2064 as soon as I got enough time to test it. Thanks to Ben-J for the news!
How about a couple of MAME WIP news to start the day? :-)
| Thursday, 25. January 2001 |
David Raingeard released a new arcade emulator called Calice! Right now Calice only supports Final Fight (Capcom System 1) and is in early development stages. I wasn't able to test Calice yet so please go to the official homepage for more information. Thanks to EmuHQ for the news!
Anders Granlund added Gal's Panic (Kaneko, 1990) to Raine! Take a look at some screenshots on the Raine Wip page!
More news from the people who tried to dump the NeoGeo game Ganyru. Take a look at their project page for the a huge 2/13 which might be the release date. Thanks to Retrogames for the news.
I am looking for english and german SNES cartridges (no roms!)! My main interest are RPG/Adventure type games like Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Zelda, etc. If you'd like to sell some of your old cartridges or just want to get rid of them then please contact me, many thanks!
| Wednesday, 24. January 2001 |
Team Japump was busy once again:
Deroon DeroDero (Tecmo, 1996), Touki Denshou -Angel Eyes- (Tecmo, 1996), Mahjong Bakuhatsu Junjouden (Nihon Bussan, 1991), Imekura Mahjong (Sphinx / AV Japan, 1994), Mahjong MEDAL Janjan Baribari (Nihon Bussan, 1992), Mahjong MEDAL Circuit no Mehyou (Kawakusu / Nihon Bussan, 1992), Taiwan Mahjong (BET type, Miki Syoji, 1989), Quiz Koko-logy (Tecmo, 1992), S.T.G -Strike Gunner- (Athena/Tecmo, 1991), Street Fighter Zero (Old 2 Ver., Capcom ,1995), Darius II (Dual Screen New JPN Ver., Taito, 1989), VS. Base Ball (Main & Sub JPN Ver., Nintendo, 1984), VS. Base Ball (Main & Sub Alt JPN Ver., Nintendo, 1984), Excitebike (Sub JPN Ver., Nintendo, 1984), Ice Climber (Main JPN Ver., Nintendo, 1984), Star Luster (Main JPN Ver., Namco, 1985) and Spelunker (Jpn, Irem, 1985).
| Tuesday, 23. January 2001 |
Ivilded updated Impactemu.com with screenshots of "Spiderman" in action with the help of Modeler.
Gridle added MAME development news from the last three days to the MAME WIP page! Thanks to Brian Troha for the news!
Mamu_ released the iconpack for MAME v0.37 beta 11!
Guru dumped the arcade game Mechanized Attack (SNK, 1989) which is considered quite rare!
Do you remember the project to dump the NeoGeo game Ganryu? They were quite active the last days and added lots of screenshots and be sure to read the translation by foomfoom of the latest update on their website!
Dave fixed some triple buffering issues in DirectX with the release of Final Burn v0.079! Thanks to Gerd Langer for the news!
How about some great Raine news? Today Emmanuel announced the release date (February, 1st) and a list of what to expect from this version (in addition to lots of fixes and romset clean-ups):
- A very accelerated cave drivers with new games supported with full sound.
- A new mixer allowing you to play with channels volumes during the game
- An experimental automatic resolution changer (with color depth changing when needed...)
- The psikyo games announced in the wip page, all of them with sound
- A better sound interface, with better music, and better synchronisation
- An improved linux port with more graphics driver
- The very first release of the windows port from Atani (still some problems in it, but he is still working on it right now).
- Sound in F3 games : so far we have sound in most of them already, and we are FAAAST !!! 60 fps on a P2-400 for arabian magic with sound !!! Note however that some games use more cpu power than others for sound (light bringer seems to be the slower one for now). But we are still working on it, and we expect to improve things before february ! (who said it was impossible to have sound in f3 games at 60 fps on a P2-400 ???)
Dave released Final Burn v0.078 which "fixes a very large bug in the way QSound sample data was read! All the drum problems are now fixed (e.g. Lei-Lei's music, Morrigan's winning theme), and voice samples are a lot clearer (e.g. Lilith's "Shining Blade")."
| Monday, 22. January 2001 |
Leezer released an update for the unofficial MAME highscore database v6.5 which adds support for 49 games and variants! Be sure to visit Leezer's homepage as well!
Pi interviewed Logiqx - the mastermind behind Caesar and lots of useful utilities! Thanks to EmuHQ!
| Sunday, 21. January 2001 |
At first glance it looks like Vampire Savior might be one of the few fighting games I like. :-) If you want to master the game then be sure to take a look at the Vampire Savior FAQ first!
Dave released Final Burn v0.077 with only one new addition: support for "Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire"! :-) As usual it might be a good idea to visit CPS2Shock as well! Thanks to Ben-J for the fast news!
Laurence Gold updated xMAME to v0.37 beta 11 and added quite a few fixes and new additions!
| Saturday, 20. January 2001 |
The MAME32 team released MAME32 v0.37 beta 11! Thanks to Pete for the news!
Roller Aces (WIlliams, 1983) has been added to MAME and you can see screenshots on the MAME WIP page as usual!
[-Big_W-] noticed that there are important arcade features that are completely missing from *every* arcade emulator to recapture the correct arcade feeling at home. Be sure to read his message and I bet you'll agree, too. :-)
I really doubt that this campaign will work to raise the grotesque amount of money needed to buy two rare arcade games but it would be nice to finally see Marble Man in emulation.
Oops, I fixed the download link for Final Burn v0.076! Many thanks Pete!
Modeler WIP news: Take a look at Impactemu.com for a recent screenshot of Golden Axe 2 with correct colors and you can read more interesting Modeler news in this messageboard thread, too. Thanks to Prophet for the messageboard link!
LinuxEmu interviewed Laurence Gold, the current maintainer of xMAME. Thanks to EmuHQ for the news!
| Friday, 19. January 2001 |
Dave released Final Burn v0.076 which adds these new features:
- Added support for Street Fighter Alpha
- Added support for HotRod joysticks in the Input dialog.
Gridle added MAME WIP news from the last 3 days to the MAME WIP page!
Barry Rodewald released QPlayer v1.3.8 which fixes the tempo of the emulated QSound system!
| Thursday, 18. January 2001 |
Team Japump dumped some new arcade romsets and a few of them are already emulated by MAME: Mahjong Koi no Magic Potion (Nihon Bussan, 1992), Mahjong Pachinko Monogatari (Nihon Bussan, 1992), Slap Shot (Taito, 1994), Shanghai 2 (Sunsoft, 1989), Toride II Adauchi Gaiden (Metro, 1994), Poitto! (Metro, 1993), Pururun (Metro/Banpresto, 1995), D&D - Tower of Doom - (Jpn, Capcom, 1994), Powered Gear (Jpn, Capcom, 1994), MVP (Jpn, Sega, 1989), Galaxian (Jpn, Namco, 1979) and Space Fever Color (Jpn, Nintendo, 1979)!
JoseQ compiled another Rumor Mill and this time it contains mostly arcade emulation news including an interesting rumor about save-states in MAME!
Laurence Gold released xmame-0.37b10.1!
The Arcade Flyer Archive released MAME Flyerpack #17 with 37 new and 6 replaced flyers for a total of 1313 flyers!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v1.91 with a small bugfix: "Fixed one little bug: It could happen that cmpro used the wrong systemdefaultpath when rebuilding bad dumps (yes..only BAD DUMPS) to a systemdefaultpath."
| Wednesday, 17. January 2001 |
Many many thanks again to Arttu "Pza" Ylärakkola for his great help and patience! :-)
M.A.S.H. released a new version of the MAMEInfo database which lists all known issues in the emulation of the games supported by MAME! Thanks to MAMEWorld for the news!
Warlock added a huge update about PlayChoice10, Impact and some driving games to his Emulation Status website! Thanks to Randy Hoffman for the news!
Guisep released a new version of his MAME32 screensaver which is now based on MAME v0.37b11! Thanks to Gerd Langer and Guisep for the news!
Dave released todays Final Burn v0.075. Thanks to Patrick M. Volpi for the quick news and this update adds:
- Fixed a bug where one of the back buffers was not correctly cleared on some machines.
- Added an option to disable triple buffering, just in case. Set bDtoTripleBuffer to 0 in finalburn.ini to disable it.
Get the fixfile for this MAME beta with fixes for: galap1, ghostmun, sbasketb, sfeverbw, spacefev and superg. Many thanks to Gridle again for his help!
Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team release the long awaited MAME v0.37 beta 11 with lots of new features. Source and binary are now online (thanks to Gridle) and I am looking if fixes are needed.
| Tuesday, 16. January 2001 |
Update: Dave released a couple of new Final Burn versions. The latest is v0.074 and these are the new features of all versions:
v0.074
- Triple buffering in fullscreen mode!
v0.073
- Oops! DirectDraw Init was slightly wrong.
v0.072
- Fixed QSound tempo (it was too slow)
- Interpolated QSound
- Row Scroll (used for 3D floor on some stages)
The MAME WIP page got another update - this time a couple of fixes were done.
| Monday, 15. January 2001 |
John Hardy released another cabinet pack for MAME on his MAME32 Q&A website. Pack #9 contains 102 images!
Gridle had to work overtime to add lots of Taito F3 game screenshots to the MAME WIP page - take a look!
| Sunday, 14. January 2001 |
Retrogames report more MAME WIP news: "Bryan McPhail has managed to get sound working for the upcoming Taito F3 driver in MAME". Impressive! :-)
Gridle added the MAME development news from the last 5 days to the MAME WIP page including screenshots from "Street Fighter Zero" and lots more. Many thanks to Romans for the news!
Mike Beaver made some progress on the System-E emulation in Mimic as well.
| Saturday, 13. January 2001 |
Somebody from the Impact team dug out an old beta version of Impact v432756 and newer versions of the graphic renderes as well. This version has these improments over the last official release:
- Some minor fixes and speedups.
- New games supported: Star Gladiator 2, Street Fighter EX 2, Street Fighter EX 2 +, Tetris the Grand Master
Unfortunately this version still doesn't work under Win2000/NT. Thanks EmuHQ for the news!
| Friday, 12. January 2001 |
Another interview is up on Total Emulation. This time they interviewed *cough* me and if you like you can read it here.
Hmmm, somebody is trying to dump the NeoGeo game "Musashi Ganryuki"? Prophet of Retrogames found this website which has some text and lots of screenshots from the game and he got an english translation of the website as well!
A more recent interview with Razoola was done by EmulationX yesterday and you can read it on his homepage! Thanks EmuHQ!
| Thursday, 11. January 2001 |
Total Emulation interviewed Razoola (CPS2Shock) and you can read it here. Thanks to Retrogames!
Leezer just released a new version of the unofficial MAME highscore database. The latest version (v6.4) adds support for 34 new games and their derivates.
| Wednesday, 10. January 2001 |
Dave released Final Burn v0.069 with these new features:
- Added a SFZ Region switch to the .ini file (Read the docs for the full information)
- The new SFZ decode files are now used. These are more accurate since they decrypt the whole rom area - emulation is now more accurate (fetches are decrypted, reads are not). With these new tables, the memory check also passes. (No hacks I promise you!)
- No row scroll yet.
John of the MAME32 Q&A page release MAME cabinet pack #8 with 102 new images!
Team Japump updated their WIP section with screenshots of City Bomber (Konami, 1987, us and jap versions)!
| Tuesday, 09. January 2001 |
Team Japump started to write the MAME drivers for their dumps themselves: today they added a WIP section and you can see screenshots of Nyan Nyan Panic (Kitten Kaboodle Jpn, Konami, 1988) on todays update!
CPS2Shock released updated XOR tables (the files Final Burn needs to decrypt the roms) for Street Fighter Zero which will be needed for a future update of Final Burn. They also added some more information about their release schedule so be sure to visit their website.
If you'd like to test the latest release of Modeler you might want to take a look at EmuMania or Emu Zone to find the necessary goodies.
| Monday, 08. January 2001 |
The latest update on the MAME WIP Page will make Time Killer fans quite happy. :-)
Looks like Hanaho is back in full swing from the christmas holiday and they added lots of news about their products including the Capcom Hits #1 CD and they now accept international creditcard orders! Be sure to visit their website for the full newsupdate!
| Sunday, 07. January 2001 |
CPS2Shock just added long update to their website which is important to read. I know that we all would love to see the CPS2 encryption broken but I think they made a good decision for now.
Modeler v0.0.5 was released with very preliminary support for three Sega Model One games: Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter and Star Wars. Unfortunately the games are not playable due to lack of 3d graphics and the System 32 emulation was disabled in this release so be sure to keep v0.0.4 as well.
In related news: ImpactEmu.Com is back online and now hosts Impact (PSX based arcade game emulator), Modeler (Sega System 32 and Model 1 emulator) and Zinc (upcoming Linux version of Impact).
Thanks to Retrogames for the news!
The daily MAME WIP Page update is here! :-) Thanks Brian for the news!
Mike Beaver updated the Mimic homepage with some interesting news and I just hope that he is right with the possible release date. :-)
| Saturday, 06. January 2001 |
The Guru updated the Shanghai Kid WIP Page as well - a working board has been discovered and lots of improvements were done.
Gridle added a short update to the MAME WIP Page!
Amazing, Dave released another new version of Final Burn v0.067 and the new features are:
- Added screen fade.
- Fixed the problem with the sprites not being in line with the background.
- Fixed a crash if sound is disabled in SFZ.
Team Japump dumped another arcade game: Black Panther (Konami, 1987) and judging from the screenshots it is already emulated!
Dave released two new versions of Final Burn (latest version: v0.065) and the new features are:
v0.065
- Fixed those strange QSound bugs.
- Fixed the problem with sprites disappearing/flickering near the top and left of the screen.
- Fixed the pitch of the QSound.
v0.064
- Made it so that the top panel not only isn't shown but isn't even created in fullscreen mode. Does this fix the bug where people hear "windows beep noises" in fullscreen? Please let me know!
- Changed Fast Forward key to F4
| Friday, 05. January 2001 |
[JJ] told me about another interview with a classic arcade game programmer. This time GoodDealGames interviewed Jeff Lee, the creator of Q*Bert.
Dave is back to his old release schedule and released two new versions of Final Burn. The latest version is Final Burn v0.063 and in addition to added QSound emulation we get:
v0.063
- There was a bug affecting mainly Hot Rod joystick users where the System Menu could pop up even in fullscreen - this is now fixed.
v0.062
- Added QSound emulation. Street Fighter Zero (CPS2 version) now has sound. Isn't perfect - some strange sounds are played sometimes.
- Sounds fairly good though - give it a try!
| Thursday, 04. January 2001 |
The MAME WIP Page was updated with lots of new screenshots of new supported games! :-) Thanks Brian A. Troha for the news!
Dave updated Final Burn to v0.061 and these are the new additions:
- Changed the fast forward key from 'Shift' to 'End'. (To avoid Hot Rod joystick conflicts.)
- Added some helper options which allow you to select general input devices from the Input Dialog.
- Fixed some incorrect checksum references in the sf2t driver
- Added support for Street Fighter 2 CE
- Changed the way sf2t is loaded (it's done like Mame now, by using the shared data in sf2ce.zip and sf2t.zip)
- No sound yet :(
John IV and Guru release arcade cabinet pack #7 and you can get it from the MAME32 Q&A page!
I just added an FAQ for Street Fighter Alpha / Zero to the General FAQ page here on SYS2064.
| Wednesday, 03. January 2001 |
Leezer released the unofficial MAME highscore database v6.3 which adds support for highscore save in 30 new games! Included are three q*bert.nv files for full q*bert highscore support (be sure to read the qbert.txt file).
Sixtoe is going to maintain the System16.com website which maybe will be renamed to SegaMuseum - Nice idea.
Dave has just released the first CPS2 emulator: Final Burn v0.060 with these new features:
- Added support for Street Fighter Zero (CPS2) (sfz.zip), Jap r1 (sfzjr1) and Jap (sfzj).
- Added support for Street Fighter Zero (CPS Changer) (sfzch.zip)
- Added support for Street Fighter 2 Turbo (CPS1) (sf2t.zip)
- Added Dip switch support (in the cfg files)
Be sure to visit CPS2Shock as well and many thanks to everybody involved!
John Morgan talks about the history of his arcade game classic Zookeeper - thanks to [JJ] for the news!
Gridle added the first WIP update to the MAME WIP Page - thanks Brian for the news!
| Tuesday, 02. January 2001 |
Nintendo fans, be sure to visit Arcade Rom Heaven for a little surprise!
Barry Rodewald released QSound Player v1.3.7 which adds mostly user-interface improvements.
| Monday, 01. January 2001 |
Happy New Year 2001!!!
Dave also posted some screenshots from the emulation of the CPS2 game: Street Fighter Zero on his Final Burn homepage!
UPDATE: The CPS2Shock Team updated their WIP page as well. They managed to dump a non-encrypted program rom from Street Fighter Zero and if all goes well in tests they forward it to various emulator authors. They also added a few screenshots of the game working in the patched Callus version!! Be sure to read the complete update and see the screenshots on CPS2Shock.
Team Japump dumped another batch of arcade games: Gun Dealer (NMK/Tecmo, 1990), Sotsugyo Shousho (Yanyaka/Mitchell/Atlus, 1995), Mahjong Block Jongbou (SNK, 1987), Rod Land (Alt Jpn, Jaleco, 1988), Sky Adventure (Alpha, 1989) and Super World Stadium '92 - Tokubetsuban (Namco, 1992). Again thanks to Brian Troha for the mail!
The MAME WIP page was updated with the news from the last days of december! Thanks Brian for the news!
The Guru updated the Arcade Art Museum with 347 new cabinet pictures amd he also promised to update the page more often in the future. :-)
Logiqx released a new version of MAMEDiff (v1.04) and a new utility called RomInfo v1.01 as well which can be used to identify arcade roms.
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