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December 2001
| Monday, 31. December 2001 |
As 2001 comes to an end I'd like to thank all of you for your continued support of SYS2064. This little website came a long way since 1997 and be assured that it'll continue for a long time. :o) In the next weeks I'll open a couple of new sections (which are in various stages of development right now) and if you got any ideas or comments then feel free to write a mail. Again thanks for your support and here's to a great 2002!
| Sunday, 30. December 2001 |
Emu Loader, my favorite MAME frontend, was updated to v2.7a!
| Friday, 28. December 2001 |
El Semi released Nebula v1.96 with these new features:
- NEOGEO:
- AT LAST!!! Fixed the nasty bug that caused nebula hang with a plain color screen (red/blue/black), hanging the computer. As result of this fix, the drawing operations are slightly faster.
- CPS1:
- Added starfield planes emulation in strider and forgotten worlds backgrounds
- Fixed forgotten worlds shop bug.
- Fixed sprite flickering/disappearing in many games (dino, strider, kod,...)
- Fixed bad tiles scattered in some games (3wonders, unsquad, area88)
- Fixed sprite palette desyncs (3wonders golem tree).
- Fixed Daimakaimura black screen.
- Fixed dinoj and punishj crash.
- Fixed sound hanging in most games.
- Improved ADPCM decoding, now there is no sound distortion.
- New GFX drawing engine, slightly faster than before.
- With all those fixes, CPS1 emulation is almost 100% complete. Please, report the bugs you find.
- CPS2:
- New GFX drawing engine, slightly faster than before.
- Added Rockman region and cheats (sorry, I forgot to include it in the previous release).
- GENERAL:
- Added movie recording for all systems. Use the in-game menus or keys: SHIFT-F10 Rec Movie, SHIFT-F11 Play Movie. Press any of the above keys while recording or playing to Stop
- Fixed sound configuration lost when going to the game GUI.
| Thursday, 27. December 2001 |
The Guru updated his website Rom Dumping News with lots of news, including very interesting information and screenshots from an arcade version of the game "Lemmings". Again thanks to Brian for the news!
Santeri updated the MAME WIP page with the latest development news! Thanks to Brian Troha for the news!
| Wednesday, 26. December 2001 |
The Arcade Flyer Archive released a new arcade flyer pack with 59 new and 21 replaced flyers (2 to rename!).
| Tuesday, 25. December 2001 |
MHz released Kawaks v1.40b which fixes the movie support.
| Monday, 24. December 2001 |
I wish you all a Merry Christmas, enjoy the next days! :o)
MHz released Kawaks v1.40 with a huge list of new additions:
- New CPS2 games supported: Rockman 2: The Power Fighters (Japan 960708), Street Fighter Zero 2 (Asia 960227), Marvel Super Heroes (Asia 951024), Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Asia 940705), Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (Euro 970519)
- New NeoGeo games supported: Metal Slug 3 (encrypted), Garou: Mark of the Wolves (alternate set), The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle (decrypted), The King of Fighters 2000 (nonecrypted P)
- Triple buffering. Makes things as smooth as a baby's butt :) Even if you don't use it things should be smoother than before.
- CPS2 rasters emulation. Fast and accurate :D
- Improved sound sync in CPS2 games. Its now 100% perfect.
- Record input aka Movie recording/replaying support. Now you can show everyone your 123Hits combo :)
- Optimisations to gfx rendering in NeoGeo & Capcom games.
- Kawaks now remembers window zoom level.
- New macro token "~" meaning "hold this for 20 frames".
- Added a Freeplay setting for NeoGeo games.
- Made it so if no cheat file is available for the current game, the cheat file for the parent is loaded instead.
- Added a menu item to save cheat search matches to a file. (Handy when you can't get under 20 matches).
- New features for you gfx rippers
- Fixed NeoGeo settings & hiscores being lost when reseting.
- Fixed some sound issues with Metal Slug 1/2/X.
- Fixed cheats not applying when using Step Frame.
- Fixed savestate bug for CPS1 & NeoGeo when using states saved at a different sound frequency.
- Fixed Kawaks crashing when display was beeing destroyed (starting a fullscreen DOS prompt...).
- Fixed button 3 not working in some CPS1 games.
- Fixed crash on 1941's Test menu.
- Fixed occasionnal crash on Pang 3 and Quiz Tonosama no Yabou 2 Zenkoku-ba (CPS1 games).
- Fixed 68000 debugger register modifications.
- Savestate format has changed to accommodate CPS2 rasters. The old savestates are still 100% compatible though.
- Updated languages packs to reflect changes.
El Semi released Nebula v1.95d with these new features:
- NEOGEO:
- Fixed main Garou set to use new dumped SMA data.
- Added MSlug3 (Encrypted set) (needs 256-sma.bin).
- Fixed kof99p P1 rom CRC.
- Fixed sound samples loading for games with gaps in the sound roms (kof95 missing tracks).
- GENERAL:
- Changed some rom names in sync with kawaks and mame, still some differences mainly in CPS1 sets.
- Fixed romcenter dat generation to include merge info.
- Fixed cheat engine parser to allow longer lines to fix problems with the great cheat collection released by Mike Haggar (haggar.emuunlim.com).
- Added more language packs.
CPS2SHock released 5 new xor-files for: Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Asia 940705), Marvel Super Heroes (Asia 951024), Rockman 2: The Power Fighters (Japan 960708), Street Fighter Zero 2 (Asia 960227) and Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (Euro 970519).
Steve Ellenoff released both PinMAME and Visual PinMAME Version 1.10! The new version features the inclusion of BSMT 2000 emulation and Gottlieb System 3 working emulation, sound support for System 80b games as well as numerous bug fixes.
| Sunday, 23. December 2001 |
MAME database updates: Fandemame released the MAME History Database v0.56g and Pugsy added a new version of the MAME Cheat Database!
| Saturday, 22. December 2001 |
A little bit of MAME development news was posted at the MAME WIP page!
| Friday, 21. December 2001 |
TheD released S11 Emulator v0.2-alpha which adds these fixes and new features:
- Fixed bug in closing renderer.
- Fixed bug caused by buggy Visual C, now Xevious 3D/G should be ok.
- Added --roms-directory=dirname switch that allows to specify dir for roms.
- Added new game: Kosodate Quiz My Angel 3 (JP) Ver. A (is there anybody out there willing to play it? ;-) )
Many thanks to Roman Scherzer for the news!
I'm sorry that I wasn't able to update the last two days, I was busy at work. Luckily we didn't miss any important arcade emulation news!
| Tuesday, 18. December 2001 |
A new arcade emulator has just been released. Sys11Emu emulates the Namco System 11 without sound for now. As usual, a.b.e.m. can help you a lot!
| Sunday, 16. December 2001 |
El Semi released Nebula v1.95c with these changes:
NEOGEO
- Added Garou (set 1), note that romset names have changed to match current mame names
- Fixed sound problems with very short samples. Mostly noticeable in kof2k K' team ending.
- More languages added.
- External font added, with some special chars now available (á,é,ñ,ç, etc...)
| Friday, 14. December 2001 |
Nice starting the day with an update on the MAME WIP page!
| Thursday, 13. December 2001 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.41a with these fixes:
- fixed: save-missing-list bug when using merged sets
- misc: changed some memory management stuff here and there...may increase the speed here and there
- misc: fastscan doesn't clear the warnings window anymore
- misc zip: major ziproutines source clean up
- misc zip: added support for digital-signatures in zipfiles
- misc zip: cmpro detects wrong localfileheader-offset in zip-central-dir-entries
| Wednesday, 12. December 2001 |
Rock along with the latest update on the MAME WIP page!
Good news for Neogeo fans like me: The Madman's Cafe reports that a japanese company (who bought all intellectual properties of SNK) won't let the NeoGeo die. According to various sources there will be a new company called "SNK Neogeo" and new games as well!
| Monday, 10. December 2001 |
The MAME WIP page was updated with lots of screenshots of new supported games including a couple of Mahjongg and Sega System 24 games!
MacMAME is now up to v0.56a as well!
| Sunday, 09. December 2001 |
El Semi released a bugfixed Nebula v1.95b with these changes:
NEOGEO
- Fixed kof2000 (Not encrypted) that was being decrypted, sorry for the problems.
- Fixed alpha mission 2 romset to match the latest redump
- Added Chinsese (Simplified, GUI only) ,Italian, Russian (gui only) and French languages. Please, if you make a language file, send it to me to add it to the official release. (You can put your name in the file, as comments starting with ';').
| Saturday, 08. December 2001 |
The Modeler Team released Modeler v1.9.3a with these new features:
- Relinked with static multithreaded MSVCRT for better compatibility
- Includes CVS SDL with support for 4 joypads
- Now includes the faster V60 core like 0.9.3 Linux and MacOS (damn misnamed files)
- Kaillera support for Outrunners
- Rewritten memory handling system gives a speedup in all games
- 2 player support in Outrunners
- As a result of all the speedups, I've dropped the minimum requirement from 450 to 350 MHz for x86 PCs. Outrunners and other demanding games are now very playable (45+ FPS) without sound on my P2-400 test machine.
- V60 CPU core fixes from Luca Elia of MAMEdev. We're unaware of any obvious things corrected by these, but hey :)
El Semi released Nebula v1.95 and these are the changes from the last version:
NEOGEO
- Fixed at last (I hope) kof99.
- Added MSlug3 (Not encrypted).
- Added Garou: Mark of the wolves (Encrypted)
- Added Kof2000 (Original set) version, thanks to Nicola Salmoria for the new tables.
- Fixed GFX decrypting tables
- Added the new S rom banking needed for Garou and Mslug 3
- Fixed rasters in some games (Parallax scroll in Zedblade)
- Fixed sound state restoring when loading an state.
- If you are having frameskip problems in the BIOS intro, just insert a CD in your currently selected CD drive.
- If the in-game GUI hangs when going to the cd options menu, configure the cd manually in the GENERAL.DAT file in the CONFIG folder (NeoCDMode= 0-CD 1-ISO)
- Fixed sound state restoring when loading an state.
- Fixed crashing when changing the sound options while playing.
- Added 48000 Hz sampling rate.
- Added Language support. You will be able to translate almost all Nebula text strings using .lng files in the SKINS directory. Use the original (English.lng) file as a template. Remember that the graphics font for in-game menus has only standard 7-bit ASCII chars, so chinese, japanese or special language letters will not be possible in that menus.
| Friday, 07. December 2001 |
Leezer released the MAME highscore database v7.9 which adds highscore saving to 16 new romsets!
Fandemame now maintains the MAME history database and released history.dat v0.56e!
| Thursday, 06. December 2001 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.41 which adds a highly requested feature: "automatic zip fix - Fixes bad date/time flags and bad central directory entries (if possible)" and even more:
- added: some more functions to the easter egg :o)
- added: the "looking for unneeded & wrong named sets..." progress dialog shows now the currently checked file, too
- added: "MB" behind the zipcache value :o)
- misc: zips with DataDescriptionTags (rarely used) aren't skipped in a possible fixname operation anymore
- misc: little update to the DataDescriptionTags support when reading a zip
- misc: sets don't have to exist anymore when using the set mask/wildcard selector
- misc: filebrowser initially opens in the correct (last used) folder
- misc: increased the cache which is used in the fixname procedure
- misc: speed update for the paths selector in the settings dialog
| Wednesday, 05. December 2001 |
The source of the Sega ST-V emulator Satourne should be released in the next few days!
The MAME WIP Page was updated again with the news from the last 2 days!
| Tuesday, 04. December 2001 |
Sixtoe made another huge update on the Arcade Museum (system16.com)! News post fixed, I apperantly screwed up earlier ;-)
| Sunday, 02. December 2001 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.40 which has these new features:
- misc: major source cleanup
- misc: own unzip/unzip2memory routines replaced with the zlib class ones
- misc: super fast "case fix" (no decompress/compress needed)
- misc: much faster "name fix" (no decompress/compress needed)
- misc: all scanner fix operations will even work on zipsubfolders now (so a fixed file won't be moved to the root anymore)
- misc: scanresults are shown after a fastscan (with enabled add/show stats only)
- misc: easter egg
- fixed: files with non-ansi chars weren't removed by the rebuilder
The MAME WIP Page (nice redesign!) was updated with the development from the last 4 days (including lots of colorful screenshots) and more MAME WIP news come from the The Guru's Rom Dump News, be sure to take a look. Many thanks to Brian Troha for the news!
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November 2001
| Friday, 30. November 2001 |
Fabien Autrel released Satourne v26112001 which emulates the Sega Saturn/ST-V hardware. The emulation is in early stages but you can see some screenshots of emulated games here! Thanks to Ben-J for the news!
| Wednesday, 28. November 2001 |
Battletoads anyone? Visit the MAME WIP Page more more news and screenshots!
Tom Walker released Yaame v0.2 which adds these new games: Amidar (Amidar and Turtles), Anteater (Anteater and Super Cobra), Bombjack, Mr Do's Castle (Mr Do's Castle and Do! Run Run), Mr. Do! and Nibbler!
| Tuesday, 27. November 2001 |
Mr.K released Kawaks v1.38 to add support for "Metal Slug 3"! The newsgroups (alt.binaries.emulators.misc) might be interesting too.
| Sunday, 25. November 2001 |
Mark Hazelwood released Wingorf v1.3.1 which makes the emulator Win2000 compatible! Thanks to Chris for the mail!
The MAME WIP Page was updated again with the development from the last three days!
Mr.K released Kawaks v1.37c which fixes a couple of minor bugs!
| Saturday, 24. November 2001 |
Mr.K released Kawaks v1.37b! Please take a look at the Kawaks homepage for the new features and the file, I'll update SYS2064 tomorrow.
| Friday, 23. November 2001 |
The Arcade Flyer Archive released the MAME flyer pack no. 14 with 19 new, 14 replaced and 11 images to be renamed.
Fans of Shoot'em-Up games should take a look at the latest update of the MAME WIP Page!
| Thursday, 22. November 2001 |
xmame-0.56.1 has been released!
| Wednesday, 21. November 2001 |
MAMu_ released an iconpack with icons for games supported by MAME v0.56!
| Tuesday, 20. November 2001 |
EmuGenerations interviewed ElSemi and part one of the interview is now online.
| Monday, 19. November 2001 |
Richard Bannister released the Mac port of Modeler v0.9.3!
| Sunday, 18. November 2001 |
The MAME WIP Page was updated with news and screenshots from the last 5 days.
El Semi released Nebula v1.94b which has these new features:
- Changed kof2000 romset names to kof2000.zip and kof2000n.zip.
- Fixed console mode for nitd and kof2000
- Added support for romsets with decrypted C roms
- Fixed kof99 and kof99d graphics
- Fixed a Directsound 3D bug that was causing strange problems (I forgot to add an EMMS opcode at the end of the MMX code)
- Slowdowns while connected to internet or using other audio programs in background *should* be mostly fixed now.
- Added an option in Nebula.ini to show the sound codes stack, useful to find codes for Force Feedback.
| Saturday, 17. November 2001 |
The Modeler Team released Modeler v0.9.3 with a nice list of fixes:
- Fixed long-time bug that was causing crackling and hiss in all System 32 games.
- V60 core fix for the Super Visual Football attract mode (it no longer hangs on a black screen!)
- V60 core substantially sped up. This helps the framerate a lot on some of the more intense games like Outrunners, Radmobile, and F1 Exhaust Note..
- Fixed Z80 protection for Burning Rival so sound plays again.
- Updated YM3834 emulation to latest version with substantial accuracy fixes by Jarek Burczynski.
- RF5C68 indirect banking mode added, makes the engine sounds work in F1 Exhaust Note and F1 Super Lap. Also fixes some music glitches in various games.
- Engine and tire screeching sounds fixed in OutRunners.
- Z80 core upgraded to RAZE 1.0.6.
- Some savestate bugs fixed. States saved in previous versions of Modeler are no longer compatible and will not load properly.
- Sound fixed to work again in Virtua Racing.
- Controls mapped better for the Model 1 games. It's now possible to enter test mode in Virtua Fighter, and the usual steering controls apply in Virtua Racing.
- Voice samples fixed in Virtua Racing
- Preliminary sound added to Virtua Fighter. Now you can hear the invisible people beating each other up during the attract mode.
- Log to .WAV file added. The log will go into a folder called "wave" in a file with the same name as the ROM zip, except with .wav instead of .zip. Eg for OutRunners the log is orunners.zip.
| Friday, 16. November 2001 |
MAME developer Aaron Giles updated his homepage with some interesting MAME WIP news. :o)
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME v2.32a with these changes:
- fixed: weird and rare rebuilder-skips-source-files issue (2.32a)
- misc: zipcache controls are back :) It can increase the zipping speed ...depends on the values. Check out what's the best value for you.
- misc: updated zlib core
- misc: modified zips get a set archive bit
- misc: results will only be shown when 'add/show statistics' is enabled.
- misc: several changes to the scanresults window (editable entries, scanresults statusbar will be cleaned when no set is active, no close on
, etc.. - misc: only really missing bios files are listed (not the complete list of biosfiles)
- misc: missing bios roms are now listed as 'missing bios rom' ;)
- misc: progesswindow while running binaries is a "topmost" windows now
- misc: some minor gui changes
- misc: funny...ClrMamePro works fine with MAME32 :o)
| Thursday, 15. November 2001 |
Eldio released the MAME marquee pack #15 with 5 new and 19 updated images.
Mr.K released Kawaks v1.36 with these changes:
- New games supported : Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (Euro 940412), Street Fighter Zero 3 (Asia 980701), Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (Asia 970519), X-Men: Children of the Atom (Euro 950105), X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (Euro 960910) and The King of Fighters 2000 (encrypted C) (Thanks to Nicola Salmoria)
- Added trackball emulation for The Irritating Maze
- Fixed 257-m1.bin merge info for kof2000/kof2000n
- Fixed a last bug in the Romcenter DAT generation.
- Found a bug in the sound sync code. May fix some jerkiness for some people.
- Included some code to try to make Kawaks less CPU intensive and more multitask friendly (meaning CPU shouldn't be 100% usage when you use Kawaks)
- Changed Step frame from Space to Shift+Space (caused problems if you were using Space as in your game keys)
- Added some keyboard shortcuts to modify cheats. (allows to activate/desactivate quickly some cheats without even leaving fullscreen)
- Fixed the puzzle game in Three Wonders (CPS1)
- Fixed macros for NeoGeo games
- Changed Redefine keys dialog box so it shows macro text next to the macro key
- New Shot factory (Tools menu). Works very nicely with NeoGeo games :)
CPS2Shock released 5 new CPS2 Xor-files.
| Wednesday, 14. November 2001 |
Emmanuel Anne released Raine v0.34a with the following new features:
- New games added : Black Heart (nmk driver) - no sound, Air Gallet (playable, but partial emulation only)
- Mustang is now playable without sound
- Fixed black screen in f3 games when changing the rom version code and reseting.
- Fixed bug in hiscores saving for win32 and dos.
- Fixed auto-fire... Now working again !
- Enlarged pcm buffer in pbobble3 to try to fix a weird bug in some win95 versions...
- Added dynamic mode lists in vbe/af (dos).
- The triple buffer hacks are back !
| Tuesday, 13. November 2001 |
John of the MAME32 Q&A page released a new cabinet pack (#14) with 99 new cabinet images. Many thanks to John and Brian for the mails.
| Monday, 12. November 2001 |
The MAME WIP page had another small update today!
| Sunday, 11. November 2001 |
The MAME WIP page was updated with the development from the last 6 days!
| Saturday, 10. November 2001 |
The Guru updated his website with a list of the latest arcade boards dumped by him.
Please excuse the slow newsfeed on SYS2064 this week, I was very busy at work and didn't have time to update.
| Thursday, 08. November 2001 |
MAMEWorld posted some screenshots from a WIP MAME driver for a couple of classic games like "Subroc 3D", "Buck Rogers" and "Starship I".
Interesting times for NeoGeo emulation fans - be sure to take a close look at the newsgroups (alt.binaries.emulators.misc) these days.
| Tuesday, 06. November 2001 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.31a with these changes:
- fixed: some import issues with weird pathnames
- fixed: sysdefaultpaths window crash
- misc: last sysdefpaths will be remembered now
- misc: warnings window can't be closed with ESC anymore
- misc: some more profiler index checks
| Monday, 05. November 2001 |
A new day and a new Kawaks version released by Mr. K! Kawaks v1.35 adds:
- New games supported : The King of Fighters 2000, Ganryu (decrypted C), Nightmare in the Dark (decrypted C), Strikers 1945+ (decrypted C) and Prehistoric Isle 2 (decrypted C)
- Added feature to save decrypted Cs from encrypted games.
- Support for the new WinJammer S1 rom
- Rewrote audit. It's now a lot more accurate
- Rewrote Romcenter dat generator. Should be 100% perfect now :)
- New ClrMAMEPro dat generator.
- Changed it so the Load dialog box filters don't act on Audit or DAT generation anymore
- Changed 'Use HotRod configuration' map things more cleverly for NeoGeo games
- Tidied the menus a bit :)
The MAME WIP page was updated again with colorful screenshots and the news from the last days. *Link fixed* - many thanks Tormod!
| Sunday, 04. November 2001 |
El Semi released Nebula v1.93 with these new additions:
- Neogeo CD games supported. Check the Readme for specific information.
- Added VLiner, Strikers 1945 Plus, Nightmare in the Dark, Ganryu, Prehistoric isle 2.
- KOF99 uses encrypted gfx.
- Fixed rasters in some games.
- Added VSAV2 dat files
- New QSound engine 3 times faster and more accurate. It includes a new interpolation mode that uses 4 samples instead of 2.
- Fixed mvsf top line reversed in the VS screen.
- Fixed mvsf cheat file.
- Fixed cheat engine dependencies, regions aren't taken from parent set.
- Specific audio configuration for each system.
- Fixed gfx memory allocation, now nebula requires less Video Ram to work.
Mr. K released Kawaks v1.34 which has these new features:
- New games supported : Ganryu, Nightmare in the Dark, Strikers 1945+, Prehistoric Isle 2
- Alpha Mission 2 romset has changed to match the latest MAME
- Changed The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle so it uses the real encrypted gfx roms.
- Fixed a bug where tick marks in the menus where cleared by changing the video memory settings from the menu or on the first launch
| Friday, 02. November 2001 |
The MAME32 Q&A page was updated with MAME32 v0.56 and a couple of additional packs like screenshots and icons for this release.
I've updated the latest fixfile with the needed fixes for flicky and sscandal. If you got the fixfile earlier, you might want this temporary fixfile for only these two sets.
A.C.E. v1.7a followed soon after v1.7 with these fixes:
- Fixed a bug in tile32 rendering (bad tiles in vsav2).
- You can now choose arcade/console mode for NeoGeo (neogeoarcade parameter). Some games do not work in arcade mode (e.g. Metal slug 2/X).
- Corrected Super Sidekicks - now it works (but only if sound is on).
A first fixfile is up with fixes for 8 sets (alpham2, dorunrun, nprinces, sonicwi2, spyhunt, strhoop, knckhead and megazone). Two other sets (flicky, sscandal) need new roms but are not available yet.
| Thursday, 01. November 2001 |
Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team release MAME v0.56 with this list of new features!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.31 with these changes:
- added: optional move of not renamed (still wrongly named) sets to backupfolder
- added: profiler last used date/time stamp
- misc: some documentation updates...esp. the 'advanced' page
- misc: new/not used datfiles are listed with a possible subpathname
- misc: improved set name check again
- misc: removed possible .dat extension for default "save missing" filename
- misc: no double messages in the warnings window
- misc: minor gui changes
- fixed: listing set when it's already listed as wrong named (not standard sets)
- fixed: cmpro freezes when you access a file which is currently being downloaded
- fixed: closing settings with [x] applies changed settings
Mr. K released Kawaks v1.33 with these new features:
- Driver for Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire (Japan 970913)
- Added region switches and automatic macro reverse in MSHVSFJ and MSHVSFJ1
- Added Paths configuration dialog box (in File menu)
- Changed The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle to support MrLee/BillyJr's new dumps. No need for kf99_s1d.rom anymore.
- Added All/Only available/Only missing filters for Load game dialog box.
- Changed the save state format for the better: Kawaks can still read all the old saves, but new savestates are about 7 times smaller !
- Command line support. You can start a game from command line, now.
- Added some new tracklists, courtesy of DarkCloud
- Added video memory allocation control in the Video menu
- Added autodetection of the best video memory allocation on first time run
- Added PNG screenshot functions.
A.C.E. v1.7 was released and adds support for Super Dodgeball, Goal Goal Goal, Neo Turf Masters, Shock Troopers (music stops after intro), Super Sidekicks (game stops working at 1:38 - god knows why), Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter and Vampire Savior 2.
Metafox
released a bugfixed Laser v0.18a which adds a speed throttler for systems faster than a Pentium I and adds sound back in for the 8080 games!
The MAME WIP page was updated for the last two days of October!
CPS2Shock
released a new xor file for "Vampire Savior 2"!
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October 2001
| Wednesday, 31. October 2001 |
Metafox
released Laser v0.18 with these new features:
- Rewrite of Laser to use a driver system (ss_teven)
- Added a Scramble driver (ss_teven)
- The End (Stern) is now playable (ss_teven)
- Preliminary The End - The Ship does not move (ss_teven)
- Preliminary Frogger - bootleg on Scramble hardware. Coin Inputs are not working properly (MetaFox)
- Preliminary Atlantis. Coin Inputs are not working properly (MetaFox)
- Polaris is now playable (ss_teven)
- Added most of the 8080 games back in to work in Laser 0.18 (ss_teven, MetaFox)
Norbert Kehrer
added Tetris (Atari, 1988) to his Java Arcade Emulator JAE.
| Tuesday, 30. October 2001 |
Roman Scherzer released the daily ClrMAME Pro v2.30a which fixes a couple of minor bugs.
| Monday, 29. October 2001 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.30 with these changes:
- misc: major changes to the profiles: You can now have datfile subfolders to sort your datfiles in groups.
- misc: profiler doesn't show exebased dats for in the "update" list anymore
- added: registry key to allow multiple instances of ClrMamePro (absolutely NOT recommended)
The MAME development from the last 3 days in now documented on the MAME WIP page!
| Sunday, 28. October 2001 |
Well, unfortunately it's been a slow weekend so far, why don't you use the time to browse alt.binaries.emulators.misc? ;-)
| Friday, 26. October 2001 |
Lopantu released Laser v0.17 with these new features:
- Yosaku To Donbee is now playable
- 2 Player Support
- Preliminary Save State Support thanks to ss_teven.
| Thursday, 25. October 2001 |
Eldio released three new marquee packs with 147 images (146 updates, 1 new)!
Santeri added the MAME development newas from the last 2 days to the MAME WIP page! Many thanks to Brian Troha for the news!
Somehow the index file of SYS2064 got corrupt and the page was blank for a couple of hours, sorry!
| Wednesday, 24. October 2001 |
Emmanuel Anne released Raine v0.34a which fixes the following bugs:
- Up direction too slow in cave games
- joystick settings not properly restored in win32 and dos.
- Bad CRC for sailor moon original version (Logiqx)
- bad romcheck for hotdogst, sailormn, sailormo, mazinger.
- Made music a little faster for cps1 games like ghosts and ghouls
- Added "fast_set_pal = 2" setting in raine.cfg for those with bad colors in 8bpp fullscreen modes (win9x and linux fbcon).
| Tuesday, 23. October 2001 |
Another great website for arcade game enthusiasts just opened: The World of Owen R. Rubin! Owen created a lot of classic arcade games, including one of my all-time faves: Major Havoc!
| Monday, 22. October 2001 |
The MAME WIP page now documents the MAME development from the last three days!
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.29a which fixes these things:
- misc: improved 'set' + 'name' check. Much more reliable now.
- misc: better import for some weird ROMCenter datfiles
- fixed: folder browser didn't use the last used folder (XP/2k only)
| Sunday, 21. October 2001 |
CPS2Shock got a new address: http://www.cps2shock.com/!
| Friday, 19. October 2001 |
The MAME WIP Page was updated with the development news from the last 7 days! Link fixed thanks to Bryan Kruzynski!
Emmanuel Anne released Raine v0.34 and these are the new additions:
- Added new game : Sailor Moon.
- Added new clones : Gunbird korean version, Donpachi korean version, Sailor Moon original version, and battle garrega chinese version. All these clones are not just international versions : the software is really different.
- Added dynamic graphics list modes for most graphics drivers : vga, modex, vesa (1 to 3), svgalib, fbcon, dga2, directx (all fullscreen drivers). This give you every available mode in the Screen Setup dialog when you change the depth or the scanlines. This also select for you the best video mode available keeping your options (scanlines, pixel double...) for every game you load.
- Fixed music tempo and sound effects in psykio games (gunbird, sengoku ace, and battle k road).
- Made the music acceleration in toaplan2 games optional (Set fast_tp2_sound to 0 in raine.cfg if you don't like it)
- Added a cache for solid sprite to get a 20-30% increase in speed for mazinger and most toaplan2 games (batrider...).
- Added speed hacks to every cave games : a little faster on slow machines, and animations smoother on fast machines !
- New palette update function for 8bpp modes for Windows 9x fullscreen modes, and linux fbcon. This function reduces the cpu time for palette update to 0% !
- Fixed a last bug in hiscores (hopefully !) : when loading a 2nd game in the gui, the hiscores of the 2nd game were erased !!!
- Added region codes to drtopel.
| Thursday, 18. October 2001 |
The Daphne developers released Daphne v0.99.4 with a huge list of changes:
- Preliminary Badlands support added (woohoo!)
- Preliminary Goal to Go support added (woohoo!)
- Fixed VLDP hardware acceleration problem. ATI cards should now work as long as the mpeg video is not 720x480.
- Super Don Quix-ote should now be totally playable (woohoo!)
- Changed sound code so samples are only loaded if they are needed by the current game
- Fixed small memory leak in VLDP when parsing new video
- Caused VLDP to clear 'parsing status' line so you no longer see it when changing video files
- Input can now be remapped (2 keys can be assigned to each input)
- Default keys correspond more fully to MAME
- Hotrod joystick support added
- Samples added for Astron Belt, Galaxy Ranger, and Cobra Command
- Added better Super Don samples
- Improved PR-8210 interpreter so it translates commands based on elapsed CPU cycles
- In Windows, Space Ace will use the keyboard LED lights to indicate the current skill level. Settings will be restored once DAPHNE exits.
- DAPHNE can now run at any requested resolution from 640x480 and up
- Flickering video overlay fixed for Astron Belt, Galaxy Ranger, and Cobra Command
- Initial support for Firefox begun (not playable)
- LD-V1000 strobe timing implemented for Dragon's Lair and Space Ace (more accurate scene lengths)
- Almost all timers in DAPHNE (including IRQ, NMI, and current frame) now are based on elapsed CPU cycles rather than elapsed time. This fixes a ton of problems, mostly with Super Don Quixote.
- Mpeg parsing speed has been significantly improved
- Added a "-cheat" option to the command line. So far, it is only useful with Cliff Hanger (which does not include a dip switch setting for unlimited lives).
- LD-V1000 "get current frame" and skipping functions improved to be more accurate
- Added PR-8210 audio channel commands
- Improved VLDP so you can now mix video files that are of different framerates and encoding types
- Added support for mpeg2s that use fields instead of frames
- Improved .DAT file format (all video will have to be reparsed, sorry! hehe)
Updates will be slower today, I just turned 30. :o)
| Wednesday, 17. October 2001 |
Roman Scherzer released ClrMAME Pro v2.29 which has these new features:
- misc: // is now an official comment statement in datfiles everything behind it in that line is skipped
- misc: total removal of zip32.dll (guess the internal zlib support is now ok for everybody)
- misc: some minor gui changes
- misc: improved crc32 calculation for large files
- misc: allow only 1 drag&drop operation at the same time
- misc: new zlib code (including smart compression)
- fixed: removal of non-ansi filenames
- fixed: zip32.dll support (well...after fixing it, I removed it :o) )
- fixed: "no drop'n drap message" flag affects only Scanner (not Rebuilder, either)
- fixed: rebuilder warnings window is cleaned after each addpath but should only cleaned once.
Friol released A.C.E. v1.6 with these new features.
- Added sound in NeoGeo games.
- Added sprite scaling in NeoGeo games (thanks to David Raingeard!)
- Added Metal Slug 002.
- Added Metal Slug X (coolest game in the world).
- Added KOF94.
- Implemented autoframeskip and onscreen fps counter.
- Corrected a bug in NeoGeo game saving.
- Corrected a bug in NeoGeo character positioning (black line on the right).
- Source: removed all the warnings and errors with vc5 and 6.
| Tuesday, 16. October 2001 |
John IV released the MAME flyer pack #13 which contains 30 new and 8 replaced flyers.
| Monday, 15. October 2001 |
Fabio released MAME F.E. v1.3, a new version of his excellent MAME frontend.
| Sunday, 14. October 2001 |
KoF'99 fans should really visit Mr. Lee's website.
| Saturday, 13. October 2001 |
Logiqx updated his "how to compile..." pages which now include the latest versions of DJGPP, MinGW and Allegro (to compile MAME v0.55 and RAINE v0.33).
| Friday, 12. October 2001 |
The MAME WIP page was updated with the development news from the last 5 days!
Lopantu released Laser v0.16 with these new features:
- Space Invaders (TV Version) is now playable using a sloppy hack with invaders roms
- Test menu can be accessed by running with Laser -test
- Changed spaceatt romset to match MAME's
- Added Space Attack II
- Added Super Invaders (once again a sloppy hack using Invaders roms)
- Added Super Invaders (Zenitone-Microsec)
- Added Super Invaders (EMAG)
- Added Alien Invasion Part II
- Added Ozma Wars (Set 2)
| Thursday, 11. October 2001 |
Richard Bannister released the Mac version of Modeler v0.9.2!
| Wednesday, 10. October 2001 |
El Semi released Nebula v1.92 with these new features:
- Neogeo Raster effects added. Note rasters are disabled by default in NEBULA.INI.
- Adjusted (again) the Z80 sound timing.
- Added fatfury2 protection (thanks Mr K).
- Fixed BlackHeart's stage of MSH missing rowscroll in the background.
- Better sprite timing/buffering that solves some desync (ssf2 portraits, ecofght, sfa3).
- Fixed CPS2 eeprom problems that caused problems in some games (csclub, ssf2t).
- Fixed Super Hyper turbo mode in SSF2T, I left the CPS2 CPU clock running at 20Mhz.
- Fixed Mercs graphics.
- Improved the cheat engine with conditional cheats, indirect addressing (for neogeo), etc. Check the CHEATS.TXT file for info.
- Added force feedback support. Some fighting games allow detecting the hits, so nebula will use force feedback to make you "FEEL" the hits. In the CONFIG dir are 2 .ffe files with the data that can be edited with Microsoft FEdit to make your own force macros.
Mr.K released Kawaks v1.32 with these new features:
- Drivers added: Armored Warriors (Euro 941011), MSH Vs. Street Fighter (US 970625), MSH Vs. Street Fighter (Japan 970707), MSH Vs. Street Fighter (Japan 970702) and Vampire Savior (US 970519)
- Fixed driver of Street Fighter Alpha (US 950627).
- KOF99 now uses correct 'P' ROM's.
- CPS2 romset changes to accommodate new dumps.
- Louder QSound and YM2151/OKI.
- Added option to control QSound amplification.
- NeoGeo sound interpolation (Thanks ElSemi).
- Fix in NeoGeo savestates (compatible with old).
- Corrected NeoGeo Y zoom emulation to use the real hardware method (needs NG-LO.ROM).
- Finally added an "Auto start game" option :)
- Added individual saving for 68000 overclocking.
- Fixed protection for RealBout Fatal Fury 2.
- Added protection for Fatal Fury 2.
- New, much improved Redefine Keys dialog box.
- Changed the Joypad code. This should solve the problems some people have had with their pads.
- Added support for screenshots in the Load game dialog box. Shots should be in BMP format and stored in your screenshot directory.
- Somewhat Skin support :) Just put a SKIN.BMP in your Kawaks dir to change background image.
CPS2Shock released 5 new xor files!
Still catching up: xMAME was updated to v0.55.2!
rcp released U64Emu2 which support the game "Killer Instinct 2"!
More and more discoveries were done on the NeoGeo encryption. Take a look at the Billy Jr's, Billy Jr's messageboard post and CPS2Shock WIP page for more details!
| Tuesday, 09. October 2001 |
My system hdd breakdown yesterday and I am still busy re-installing all programs on a new harddrive. I'll try to catch up on the latest arcade emulation news as soon as possible, sorry!
| Monday, 08. October 2001 |
You can now read about the MAME development from the last 4 days (as usual including some screenshots) on the MAME WIP page!
| Sunday, 07. October 2001 |
The Modeler Team released another arcade music emulator. GXP v0.1 which emulates the music of the Konami GX-System!
I upgraded my computer this weekend and was unable to update SYS2064 yesterday, please excuse.
| Friday, 05. October 2001 |
It looks like Billy Jr. made some progress dumping the encrypted parts of the newer NeoGeo games. Read his messageboard post and thanks to Prophet for the news!
| Thursday, 04. October 2001 |
Eldio released the MAME marquee pack #11 with 2 new and 29 updates since the last pack!
| Wednesday, 03. October 2001 |
R.Belmont released M1, a sound emulator for the Sega Model 1 and 2a for Windows and Linux!
The MAME WIP page was updated with the news from the last 9 days! Many thanks to Brian Troha for the news.
| Tuesday, 02. October 2001 |
Tux updated the Raine WIP page today with screenshots and a list of recent improvements!
Thanks to your continued support SYS2064 went over the 2 million visitors mark! :o))
| Monday, 01. October 2001 |
Could somebody please translate the latest newsupdate about KoF2001 on Billy Jr.'s? Many thanks!
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