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June 2002
| Sunday, 30. June 2002 |
The MAME WIP page was updated again. Thanks to Brian Troha for the news!
The Daphne Team released Daphne v0.99.5!
Congratulations to Brazil for winning the World Cup 2002. :o)
| Friday, 28. June 2002 |
Ciro released Emuloader v3.0, a new verison of my favorite MAME frontend.
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.66a with revised md5 routines.
| Wednesday, 26. June 2002 |
Sixtoe updated the Arcade Game Museum with lots of new additions!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.66 with these new features:
- - added: scanner->optional md5 check for roms
- - misc: additional md5 work on parser, export datfile routines, dir2dat, setinfo window
- - added: scanner->"save logfile automatically" option
- - misc: scanner->save miss/have-list can now be done separately.
Sad news: The Arcade Game Collector's Archive closed today due to massive leeching of the files. :(
| Tuesday, 25. June 2002 |
David Raingeard released Calice v0.6.0 which adds support for 10 games. Thanks to Haggar's Page for the news and the file.
Unbelievable!!! Germany advanced to the World Cup final by beating South Korea. Bring on Brazil :o)
| Monday, 24. June 2002 |
Appearantly there is an X-Box port of MAME now available. I hope to test it soon and let you know more about it.
The Guru got another batch of arcade boards to dump and is looking or a Hyper Neogeo 64 motherboard.
The days without MAME WIP updates are over. :)
| Sunday, 23. June 2002 |
Cottage, a java arcade emulator, was updated to v0.04 which adds a couple of new games including Galaga and Yie Ar Kung-Fu.
| Saturday, 22. June 2002 |
Please excuse the scarce updates to SYS2064 in the last days, I watch too much of the Worldcup at the moment. :) All the major news are and will of course be covered.
| Thursday, 20. June 2002 |
FandeMAME released a new version of the MAME history database which is mostly a clean-up!
| Tuesday, 18. June 2002 |
A new day, a new update on the MAME WIP page! :o)
| Monday, 17. June 2002 |
More MAME WIP news are now available!
| Saturday, 15. June 2002 |
ElSemi released Nebula v2.17 with a lot of bugfixes:
PGM:
- Improved sound emulation: Volume should be correct (or almost) now. Note pitch improved.
- Fixed missing background in a KOV stage.
- Added an option to capture the current music to a file to load it in jukebox (PZM files).
- Calendar is disabled when netplay or recording movies. This will (should :)) avoid desyncs.
- Fixed some finish specials being wrong in the bottom of Manhattan stage in mshvsf.
- Fixed missing helicopters and buildings in cawing.
- Fixed (again) sengoku3 decrypted driver.
- Fixed Irritating Maze controls. You can use the mouse to move the rod (this game cabinet has a trackball).
- Fixed missing 2 lines at the bottom of the screen of games using rasters (most noticeable in mslug2, galaxyf, mosyougi)
- Added some language translations (Italian, Korean, Chinese, Dutch)
- Fixed 50% scanlines at 640x480
- Added a "Step Frame" button to the shot factories (window mode)
- Added some Force Feedback tables by Iron Man.
- Added a small skin option to the windowed GUI.
| Thursday, 13. June 2002 |
The MAME WIP page was updated with lots of screenshots showing the development of the last week.
| Wednesday, 12. June 2002 |
Brad Oliver released MacMAME v0.60a which fixes a couple of issues.
Another update from The Guru with some WIP emulation screenshots as well!
| Tuesday, 11. June 2002 |
The Worldcup is quite interesting... ;o)
| Monday, 10. June 2002 |
MacMAME v0.60 was released and is now in sync with the other MAME ports!
| Saturday, 08. June 2002 |
ElSemi released Nebula v2.16 with these new features:
- PGM: Z80 is fully emulated, that means, correct sounds and music in games. The sound chip emulation is not 100% accurate so some notes in music are wrong.
- PGM: Fixed savestates in KOV games.
- PGM: Fixed text layer position being wrong by 1 line.
- PGM: Added shot factory (F8)
- CPS2: Fixed a palette sync problem that caused part of the charlie stage in sfa2 flash out of sync.
- CPS2: Scanlines in 640x480 are now correct (again). Use No stretch go get them correctly.
- NEOGEO: Fixed sengoku3 decrypted driver.
- GENERAL: Added language switch for the menus
The Guru updated his website again with the news of two recently dumped arcade games!
| Friday, 07. June 2002 |
Fandemame released the MAME history database v0.60b with new entries for 24 games as well as tips and tricks to many more!
| Thursday, 06. June 2002 |
Aaron Giles added a couple of new screenshots with more previews of the new MAME artwork system in action.
Mike Beaver released Mimic 2.04 which fixes and improves lots of thins in the console part of Mimic.
| Wednesday, 05. June 2002 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.65 with these new features:
- added: Set-Information window (Scan-Results->?) This window gives you a little set overview with a rom/sample list, some information about problem-roms, etc. Guess more options will be added to that new window in the future
- misc: Scanner -> "missing (but fixable) rom" display now also shows where the rom can be found.
- misc: Rebuilder -> added "separate bios roms" option
- misc: Rebuilder -> Destination (if empty & used) is set to the 1st rompath
- misc: URL updated & some source cleanup
Santeri updated the MAME WIP page again today!
| Tuesday, 04. June 2002 |
The MAME WIP page was updated again with the latest development!
| Sunday, 02. June 2002 |
Five days of MAME WIP news are now available!
| Saturday, 01. June 2002 |
MAMU_ released a new MAME icon pack and you can download it at Mameworld, thanks Guenther!
The Guru updated his Rom Dump News website!
Fandemame released the MAME History Database v0.60a with additions for more then 50 games!
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May 2002
| Friday, 31. May 2002 |
Tourniquet made some great progress on the Psikyo SH driver which now supports Alpha Blending. Take a look at the screenshots here!
Oops, I was too busy the last days and didn't realize that there was no update here in the last two days. Please excuse!
| Tuesday, 28. May 2002 |
The ClrMAME website moved to its own domain: http://www.clrmame.com/! Be sure to update your bookmarks!
Emmanuel Anne released Raine v0.35b which fixes a couple of bugs introduced by v0.35a!
| Monday, 27. May 2002 |
Aaron Giles updated his website with lots of screenshots from the new MAME artwork system!
ElSemi released a bugfixed Nebula v2.15a:
- PGM: Fixed Knights of valour missing platform and bridges in some stages.
- PGM: Some rom renamings. To match mame names
- PGM: Fixed china and taiwan regions swapped in KOV
- NEOGEO: Fixed savage reign V2 rom CRC
- NEOGEO: Added Sengoku3 and Zupapa neogeo drivers.
- GENERAL: PGM resolution is very wide, so if it's cut in the screen, play a bit with stretch options till you can get it fitting.
| Sunday, 26. May 2002 |
ElSemi released Nebula v2.15 with these changes:
- PGM: Added Knights of Valour and Knights of Valour Plus
- PGM: Added Sound emulation. Well, it's not complete emulation, but it's enough go get sounds working. Only SFX works and some sounds may be wrong.
- PGM: Added region switch to orlegend and kov
- PGM: Fixed orlegend crashes.
- GENERAL: Fixed netplay crashing with Konami and PGM games.
| Saturday, 25. May 2002 |
Emmanuel Anne released Raine v0.35a, a quality release which fixes a lot of bugs, has some new features and adds a couple of clone romsets.
| Friday, 24. May 2002 |
The MAME WIP page was updated today and yesterday!
| Thursday, 23. May 2002 |
Sixtoe updated the the WIP page for the MAME Sega-Driver rewrite!
| Wednesday, 22. May 2002 |
Do you want to see the new MAME artwork functions in action? Santeri uploaded two screenshots to this message on the MAME board!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.64a which adds three new features:
- added: fixdatfile generator (Scanresults->Save...) Will create a datfile (...rebuilder use only..) from the currently shown missing roms.
- added: invert selection button in the settings window.
- misc: some needed profiler-refreshs added.
| Tuesday, 21. May 2002 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.64 with these new features:
- misc: profiler speed up. No more automatic rescan when re-entering.
- misc: rewrote the receive-data routine. No more console window... time & bytes display & speedup
- misc: rebuilder speed up for bios roms
- misc: rebuilder create destination folder keeps original name (uppercase/lowercase)
- misc: better dir2dat progressinfo update
- misc: possible log-/fastscanfile subfolders are automatically created
- misc: re-arranged scan-results popupmenu
- added: scan-results menu entry: copy <url><setname><extension> to clipboard...nice for downloadmanagers which monitor the clipboard :)
The daily MAME WIP update is here!
| Monday, 20. May 2002 |
MetaFox released Laser v0.19 prerelease with lots of changes and newly supported romsets!
Emmanuel Anne updated the Raine WIP page!
A new daily update is available on the MAME WIP page!
| Sunday, 19. May 2002 |
Five days of MAME development are now documented on the MAME WIP page!
Haze took a look at the game "SlamDunk" from Banpresto and you can see the results here!
| Saturday, 18. May 2002 |
The MAME32 Q&A page uploaded the MAME Flyer Pack #11!
ZTNet had some problems yesterday and SYS2064 was down for most of the day. :((
| Thursday, 16. May 2002 |
The Guru updated his website with some rom dumping news!
| Wednesday, 15. May 2002 |
CottAGE v0.3 is released and the sound support is started!
| Tuesday, 14. May 2002 |
The MAME WIP page was updated today and yesterday!
| Monday, 13. May 2002 |
ElSemi released Nebula v2.14b which fixes:
- CPS1: Fixed wrong layer offsets in sf2yyc and kouryu (=blackbelt? ) that appeared due to the new timing.
- CPS1: Fixed Quiz and Dragons USA gfx problems
- CPS1: Fixed sound problems in ADPCM audio
- GENERAL: Fixed Nebula hanging in a window when exiting a game in the classic GUI.
- GENERAL: Fixed the Video menu crash if there are no transparency tables in the CONFIG folder.
| Sunday, 12. May 2002 |
ElSemi released Nebula v2.14a which has these new additions:
- CPS1: Fixed loops in some drivers (cworld2j, qad and qtono2) that were causing the rom scanning crash
- CPS1: Fixed high music speed in sf2 and captcomm
- CPS1: Added the missing CPS1 drivers
- PGM: Fixed the memory corruption bug in orlegend (aka infinite lives bug)
- PGM: Fixed zooming (it was reversed, making zoom effect backwards :) )
- PGM: Fixed screen cut with some blitters.
- CPS2: Re-adjusted timing again, now some games are smoother (especially ssf2t)
- GENERAL: Added Force feedback support, using tables.
- GENERAL: Fixed errors when changing DSP plugins while the game was running.
- GENERAL: Fixed a small bug in the winamp wrapper plugin.
- GENERAL: Added an HyperBass DSP plugin (just in case you want to break your subwoffer).
- GENERAL: Fixed Keep aspect video option.
- GENERAL: Added 3 new gfx blitters.
| Saturday, 11. May 2002 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.63b with these new features:
- fixed: rebuilder freeze (2.63b)
- misc: Scanner doesn't zip unknown sets anymore (_unknown.zip). They are now placed in <backup>\unknown\. (2.63b)
- misc: progressbar for md5/crc32 calculation (2.63b)
- misc: md5/crc32 info window shows the complemented crc32 as well (2.63b)
- fixed: buttonbar (2.63a)
- fixed: Profiler -> datfilescan cancel button doesn't always clear the list
- added: Scanner -> "delete current set" and "delete all incomplete sets" options (popup-menu)
- added: little md5/crc32/size calculator (-> About)
- added: replaceable buttonbar (-> About)
- misc: Scanner -> changed the behaviour of toggling "show missing/all 0-crc" again
- misc: Scanner -> 0-crc dummy files won't be filled with 0x00 anymore
- misc: Rebuilder -> rompaths can't match addpaths/backupfolder anymore
- misc: Rebuilder -> rewrote the rebuilder-folder-rules completely
- misc: Rebuilder -> rebuilder warning when an addpath/rebuilder-source points to a rompath
- misc: compiled with updated ziparchive class
- misc: optimized the md5 calculation routine
- misc: rebuilder and fixmissing revised
| Thursday, 09. May 2002 |
Do you wonder about the current Sega driver rewrite in MAME? Sixtoe uploaded a status page on system16.com with information on the status of all drivers and lots of screenshots as well!
The MAME WIP page had his daily update. :)
A new java arcade emulator is here: CottAGE supports 23 games!
| Wednesday, 08. May 2002 |
ElSemi released a bugfixed Nebula v2.13a with these new additions:
- NEOGEO: Fixed Spinmasters gfx errors on the bottom lines (raster bug)
- CPS1: Added SF2 KouRyu driver
- CPS2: Improved CPU timing. That makes SSF2T/SSF2X smoother.
- CPS2: Fixed SSF2X driver (no more gfx or sound problems)
- PGM: Fixed crashing after a few minutes playing.
- GENERAL: Added SuperScale blitter
- GENERAL: Added auto-transparencies.
- GENERAL: Fixed full interpolation mode.
| Monday, 06. May 2002 |
Mike Beaver released Mimic v2.03!
xMAME v0.60.1 has been released.
Loderunner, one of my favorite C64 games, is back! Take a look at the MAME WIP news!
| Sunday, 05. May 2002 |
Appearantly somebody took the FinalBurn source code and added force-feedback support to Out Run. I couldn't test it yet, so please feel free to send me your comments on this.
Some nice MAME WIP news were posted today and yesterday.
ElSemi released Nebula v2.13 with these new additions:
- NEOGEO: Improved raster effects emulation.
- CPS2: Added latest CPS2Shock releases
- CPS2: Fixed wrong layer prios on nwarr character selection screen.
- KONAMI & CPS1: Fixed music speed that was wrong in some games.
- PGM: Optimized sprite drawing (more than twice faster now in some critical parts)
- PGM: Fixed sprite shrinking
- PGM: Added sprite zooming
- PGM: Added linescroll (orlegend stage 4 and 6)
- PGM: Fixed some missing sprites (clipping problems)
- PGM: Main CPU is running at the correct speed now
- GENERAL: Added DSP plugins support
- GENERAL: Force feedback support is disabled as I'm improving it (and it's still not finished :( )
Dave released Final Burn v0.517 which fixes a bug introduced by v0.516.
And it's back to normal, thanks for your patience :)
| Saturday, 04. May 2002 |
FOOTBALL'S COMING HOME, IT'S COMING HOME, IT'S COMING HOME!!! Borussia Dortmund just won the German Soccer championship!! Regular updates will be back tomorrow.
| Friday, 03. May 2002 |
Dave released Final Burn v0.516 with these new additions:
- Doh - was missing two Cpu Y program roms. G-Loc runs a tiny bit better now (still no tilt or line sprites though of course).
- Fixed address range on maths chip (Thunderblade random collisions). Many thanks to Olivier for the info.
| Thursday, 02. May 2002 |
The MAME32 Team released MAME32 v0.60.1! Thanks to the MAME32 Q&A page for the notice and for the additional icon, screenshot and cabinet packs to go with it!
In case you didn't noice this yet but MAME v0.60 now also supports the SlikStik and the X-Arcade joystick in addition to the HotRod! Take a look at the ctrlr.txt file in the /docs subdirectory for more information!
smf released Redump v3.7 which converts mgd2 dumps to the mvs format and adds support to "alpham2"! Apologies to smf for not posting this file earlier (like 6 months ago)!
| Wednesday, 01. May 2002 |
Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team release MAME v0.60! It features lots of new features and drivers and the fixfile with fixes for way to much games is ready as well!
MHz released Kawaks v1.43 with these new features:
- New drivers: Bang Bead, Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge (US 950406), Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers Revenge (Japan 950316), Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers Revenge (Japan 950302), Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom (Hispanic 940125)
- New "KScale" blitter. This is a new edge enhancement blitter with zero blur. It's also insanely fast compared to the traditionnal 2xSai/Super2xSai/SuperEagle.
- Shiny new "Smart Interframe blending" (MMX and non MMX versions) This new blending mode replaces all flickers (Samurai Shodown 4 life bars, KOF shadows ...) by transparencies; and the rest of the picture retains all its sharpness (no blurry scrollings)
- Made it so interframeblending occurs before the video processing stage (speed boost and avoids blitter interferences)
- New keyboard shortcut : Alt+B toggles between Interblending modes
- New sound option : Low pass filter
- Fixed ShumaGorath's Chaos dimension in Marvel Super Heroes
- Rewrote Kaillera support. Now, emu will accept to run if you don't have Kailleraclient.dll, and noone should see Kaillera errors on startup anymore.
- Sound logging option now saves a WAV, not a RAW
- Ctrl Numpad + and Ctrl Numpad - now control volume
- Fixed Cheater support
- Minor changes to Batcirc & Csclub to accommodate the latest CPS2 conventions
- Changed driver for NeoPong to use NeoPong 1.1 roms instead
CPS2Shock released 4 new xor-files!
Dave released Final Burn v0.515 which has these new features:
- Added a bit of road emulation to Thunderblade, but it's unfinished and doesn't work in After Burner yet.
- Added Royal Ascot 2 driver. Note it doesn't get past the memory test, and it's not really a playable game anyway (it's a gambling game thing).
- Switched DDSOM to European (parent) set
- Fixed road palette on Out Run (e.g. stage 2B)
- Simplified After Burner hardware cpu emulation slightly.
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April 2002
| Tuesday, 30. April 2002 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.61 with these new features:
- fixed: scanner unneeded/name check
- fixed: scanner crash
- fixed: load fastscan file failed
- misc: profiler cancel button is checked more frequently
- misc: editable warningswindow entries
- misc: some gfx changes
- misc: profiler speed up
- misc: profiler shows the currently scanned files
- misc: check for "missing (but fixable) rom" is made when you gray the check-missing button
Fandemame released the MAME history database v0.59a which adds lots of new entries and tips and tricks.
Impactemu.com is gone - EmuHype is here. So if you are looking for ZiNc, Modeler and co then update your bookmarks!
Aaron Giles posted a small update on his website!
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| Monday, 29. April 2002 |
Dave released Final Burn v0.514 with these new additions:
- Improved Galaxy Force hardware cpu emulation slightly. Power Drift sprites glitches reduced.
- Added a general cpu 'sleep' algorithm which increases the frame rate of Rail Chase a little bit.
- Strike Fighter cockpit (line sprites) has disappeared (?!) no idea why.
- Changed keyboard support so it doesn't require DirectX 5 to run, only normal function calls.
- Added .DAT file export to the system menu
| Saturday, 27. April 2002 |
Leezer released an update to the MAME highscore database (v7.93) adding highscore saving to dozens of romsets!
The daily update of the MAME WIP page is here!
| Friday, 26. April 2002 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.61a which fixes a couple of bugs in the last version.
| Thursday, 25. April 2002 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.61 with these new features:
- misc: lots of minor source changes (md5, wordparser, cachefiles + set-structures....)
- misc: partially added diskimage support (check options are currently disabled)
- misc: rebuilder warning when no addpaths are available & 'use addpaths' is used
- misc: rom/samplenames with \ or / will be parsed correctly. This isn't the subfolder support yet...but a start :P
- misc: zipped-dat-selector also accepts double-clicks to add the file
- misc: updates to several "0-crcs" stuff: changeable textcolor, new message, new icon, fixed show-missing-0crc toggle
- misc: minor gui changes
- misc: disabling rebuilder->zip files disables the "recompress" button as well
- misc: settings->export datfile export uses the current datfile header information
- misc: optimized the quick fix missing option (fast crc32 match)
- misc: unneeded masks are also applied on unneeded sets
- fixed: "set" + "unneeded" check didn't list unneeded non-zipped files
Dave released Final Burn v0.510 with these new additions:
- Added sound emulation to Out Run
- Added road emulation to Out Run
- Added Altered Beast (preliminary), Golden Axe (preliminary), Shinobi (preliminary)
- Updated Zip loading code to ZLib 1.1.4
- Added Strike Fighter (preliminary)
- Added a preliminary trainer function
- Added dynamic multiply port support (Final Fight, SF2 etc)
- Added dynamic board ID support (Final Fight, SF2 etc)
- Added high background tile support (Fixes priority problems in Final Fight, Forgotten Worlds, Ghouls 'N' Ghosts, Magic Sword, Megaman, Street Fighter Zero (CPS Changer), Strider and U.N. Squadron).
- Added Knights of the Round, U.N. Squadron, Strider Hiryu (Japanese version), Forgotten Worlds, 1941, Mercs and Magic Sword
- Added Marvel Vs. Capcom, Capcom Sports Club, Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, Armored Warriors, Battle Circuit and Street Fighter Alpha 3
The MAME WIP page got updates yesterday and today!
| Tuesday, 23. April 2002 |
Fabien Autrel is still busy at work with Satourne, the Sega Saturn/ST-V emulator. They are working on emulating the sound and cd-rom support now.
Act Labs are going to release their PC USB Light Gun soon, I'm sure that many people are looking forward to it.
| Monday, 22. April 2002 |
The followup of yesterdays news are now documented on the MAME WIP page!
| Sunday, 21. April 2002 |
Haze was busy again and you can see his latest efforts here and read more about it there!
| Friday, 19. April 2002 |
The homepage of the Laser emulator moved to Sourceforge! Thanks to EmuHQ for the news!
Do I need to tell you that there is a new daily WIP update on the MAME WIP page?
| Thursday, 18. April 2002 |
xMAME v0.59.2 has been released!
The MAME WIP page was updated again with yesterdays news!
| Wednesday, 17. April 2002 |
Mike Beaver released Mimic v2.02, unfortunately most changes seem to be non-arcade related!
| Tuesday, 16. April 2002 |
A new day brings a new update on the MAME WIP page!
| Monday, 15. April 2002 |
ElSemi released Nebula v2.12 with these new features:
- PGM: Added PGM system emulation. Only Oriental Legend is supported, because PGM games have protection chips that is different in all games. Take note that this is the first version, and may be some gfx glitches (mainly zoom related). Also note that there is no sound emulation yet.
- CPS1: Fixed sprites disappearing.
- Fixed Scanlines when using 640x480.
- Fixed all drivers rom names and CRCs to match MAME (Thanks to Logiqx).
- Added plugin support for blitters (directory PLUGINS) see the included plugsrc.zip for some plugins sample src.
ElSemi posted some Nebula WIP news here!
The MAME WIP page was updated with the development from the last two days!
| Sunday, 14. April 2002 |
There is a new version of the Glide renderer for ZiNc (v1.3) available on EmuHype!
| Saturday, 13. April 2002 |
Old meets new(er) on the MAME WIP page!
| Friday, 12. April 2002 |
I completely forgot to mention that the Linux version of ZiNc v0.9 was released as well!
| Wednesday, 10. April 2002 |
Nebula PGM emulation WIP news: The backgrounds are now working as well, take a look at the latest screenshots!
The MAME WIP page was updated with the development from the last 6 days!
The Arcade Flyer Archive released the MAME flyer pack #19 which you can download at the MAME32 Q&A page!
| Tuesday, 09. April 2002 |
Update: The_Author and DynaChicken released ZiNc v0.8 and later a bugfixed ZiNc v0.9! The new additions are:
- fixed s11 eeprom
- added test switch to sonic wings limited
- added --renderer= switch to choose rendering plugin
- controller plugin support
- added --controller= switch to choose controller plugin
- fixed crashing bug for Kosodate Quiz My Angel 3
- added test switch to Psychic Force
- added 2nd player to all drivers
- on error now returns 1 and 0 on success
- tekken 2 geometry fix (BIG HUGE THANKS to calb from ePSXe for this fix!)
- removed dynachicken tuning switches, nobody could understand them and everyone managed to piss away all their performance with them so we now use hardcoded values that run all games quickly without crashing
- crc32 checking added for ROMs. incorrect/hacked ROMs will no longer be allowed to load
- psychic force sample rom renamed to match reality
- input mini-SDK included with instructions on how to write a controller plugin
- default keys remapped a bit for tekken/soul edge. to remap them further write a plugin or wait for someone else to
- new OpenGL and Direct3D renderers from Pete Bernert with Tekken/Tekken 2 texture fixes (same as in GLIDE 1.1 by Lewpy) and resolution X/Y autoswap for rotated games
Right now only the Windows version is available but the Linux port should be released soon!
ElSemi posted some Nebula WIP news here and some according screenshots there! Looks nice!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.60a which adds a minor update to the Profiler update options!
| Monday, 08. April 2002 |
There a new WIP news from two arcade emulators: Mimic and Laser!
| Sunday, 07. April 2002 |
Logiqx released Zipident v1.0, a useful tool to check directories for already emulated romsets!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.60 with these new features:
- main thing: rebuilder option "recompress". If NOT enabled it copies the files without any unzip/zip operation (...damn fast... :O))
- added: romlist warning: illegal crc (1 / -1), can be optionally changed to 0.
- added: romlist warning: not mergeable set, relationship can be optionally removed
- misc: some gui and text changes
- misc: Profiler automatically detects updated datfiles now.
- misc: changed several old romlist warnings
- misc: compiled with new zlib class release
- misc: changed windowtitle a bit (to avoid some restart problems)
- misc: rebuilder-progressdialog filenametext is cleared now when you do another rebuild.
- misc: missing roms which can be fixed are shown as "missing (but fixable) rom"
- fixed: Rebuilder skipped all files after it skipped a file-in-use one.
- fixed: some "&" characters were lost in several menus and dialogs
| Saturday, 06. April 2002 |
Logiqx released MAMEdiff v1.11, a new version of his utility to compare the gamelists of two different MAME versions.
| Thursday, 04. April 2002 |
The MAME development of the last 2 days is now documented on the MAME WIP page!
A new version of Satourne is now available (Satourne debugger v02042002)!
| Tuesday, 02. April 2002 |
There is now a 'real' update on the MAME WIP page after yesterdays April Fool!
The SlikStick got a different trackball (Happ 3") and is now USB and PS2 friendly!
| Monday, 01. April 2002 |
Aaron Giles added part 4 of his MAME Memories ("The Joy of Common Hardware") to his website. Thanks to Pi for the news!
| Sunday, 31. March 2002 |
The MAME WIP page has got the development from the last 4 days now.
Happy Easter! :o)
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