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May 28, 2004
MAME 0.82u3 source update.
Haze claims that this update had serious reasons to be released. I personally believe him! ;) From the what's new file:
New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Argus (Gottlieb, Prototype)
Video Vince and the Game Factory (Mylstar, Prototype)
Wiz Warz (Mylstar, Prototype)
New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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sfex2p (asia version, was usa) [smf]
New Non-Working games / clones supported
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Pinball Champ '95
looks like its probably gambling based
doesn't work yet so I don't know if any skill is involved
Download (as always) from here.
Whacker
May 25, 2004
MAME 0.82u2 source update.
I got the news just before I logged off last night and it was far too late to make an update. Anyway, I plea for you forgiveness... ;-) BTW: As Haze never mentions it when the update is big (ie: more than 100k) it's always good to make a fresh build. I personally did so, just in case. Here's what's newly added in the latest pack:
New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Quiz Do Re Mi Fa Grand Prix [Eisuke Watanabe]
Quiz Do Re Mi Fa Grand Prix 2 [Eisuke Watanabe]
Many ZN Based games [special thanks to Tourniquet, Olivier Galibert, smf, R.Belmont
[red], Malice, Renegade, Twisty, Dox, But & many other mame.net board users]
Victorious Nine [BUT]
Golden Par Golf [Brian Troha]
San Francisco Rush [Aaron Giles]
Vapor TRX [Aaron Giles]
New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Anteater (German) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli, MASH]
Monster Maulers [R.Belmont]
New Non-Working games / clones supported
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Heaven's Gate [R.Belmont]
incomplete banking or psx bugs?
Gals Panic II - Quiz version [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Dingo (encrypted set) [MASH] -- bad rom
Download from here.
Whacker
May 22, 2004
WinUAE 0.8.26
There's a new WinUAE on the leash for the last couple of days. One of the new additions in this, is that a new GUI is implemented (I personally like it more than the previous...). Read what's new:
Bugs fixed:
- custom chipset emulation updates (Aunt Arctic Adventure
collision detection, Warhead music and sound effects etc..)
- very old FPU emulation bug
- bsdsocket emulation (AmiTradeCenter, CTRL-C signal check)
- interrupt level 7 freeze
- uaescsi.device MODE SENSE/SELECT translation
- Picasso96 WaitForVSync fix (Fake Electronic Lightshow" by
Ephidrena)
- Picasso96 8-bit mode palette problem (black Workbench
background color after returning from Windows desktop)
- MIDI-IN random freeze
New features:
- new GUI! [Preview]
- improved GUI pages
- systray icon and shortcut menu
- improved drop and drop support
- faster END+PAUSE warp-mode
- 68020+/JIT crash prevention
- debugger improvements
- floppy drive disk image history list
- disk swapper page for swapping quickly multi-disk games
- integrated Pro Wizard module ripper
- improved IPF (CAPS) and FDI support
and more..
Download it from here.
P.S.:
As you probably have noticed there were no updates in this column for the last 8 days or so. I am truly sorry about that, but until the mid-June I have too many things to do and several tasks to complete. Thanks for your patience...
Whacker
May 14, 2004
MAME 0.82u1 source update.
Haze gave us a couple of hours ago the latest source changes. Here's what's new:
New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Bloody Roar 2 [smf]
one rom is bad
FireHawk [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
actually still marked as non-working due to
standard 'afega' hardware protection issues in attract mode
Shanghai - The Great Wall [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
some glitches on the title screen
Head On (Irem M15 Hardware) [David Haywood]
no sound
New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Target Ball (no nudity set) [David Haywood]
New Non-Working games / clones supported
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Open Golf Championship (ver EAE) [R.Belmont]
not working
Pachinko Gindama Shoubu DX [Brian Troha]
Pachinko Gindama Shoubu [Brian Troha]
hardware is similar to realbreak but they don't work yet
Download from here.
Whacker
May 10, 2004
Gamecube Emulator?
Hmm 'Far from it' is the word right now, but surely it's a promising start:
gcube v0.1
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This is the first release of gcube - Nintendo Gamecube emulator. This release is aimed at running homebrewn programs - there is no gcm support so no commercial games are running.
For more info check included readme.
You can download it from here (you must register first).
(Another) PS2 Emulator?
Well not exactly what you would call a complete emulator right now either, but these guys seem to be pretty serious about their effort:
Roor, shunt, and Scar_T have decided to show off their latest progress with the first initial alpha release of their PS2 emulator, PS2emu. Keep in mind this is still in the early stages of development and still a work in progress. Keep in mind this is not for playing commercial games and is only to show everyone the latest progress. DYNAMIC RECOMPILERS are less than 10% complete, but the performance is faster than usual because the implementation of a new recompiling technique developed specifically for this project that will allow us superior performance to a normal dynamic recompiler.
The official webpage is located here. From us... Best of luck, and Happy coding!
Whacker
May 7, 2004
MAME 0.82 "Happy Birthday Haze" !
A new MAME / MAME32 has been released yesterday. I kinda missed this one, (Haze's Birthday too) once I was pretty damn busy at work. Work suxx and that's official. Anyway. You can treat yourselves the new source and binaries from the official webpage and /or the MAME32 flavor from here.
New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Star Gladiator [smf]
Street Fighter EX [smf]
Street Fighter EX 2 [smf]
may have the occasional lockup still
1945k III
sample banking needs adding
Tylz (prototype) [ENGCameraman]
some sound issues
Dynagears [David Haywood, Tomasz Slanina]
-todo: clean up video emulation a bit (uses SSV vidhrdw in a strange way)
Super World Stadium [David Haywood]
Various Megatech sets [David Haywood]
(note megatech is still marked as NON-WORKING anyway due to bios issues)
Agress [David Haywood]
some video issues
Time Crisis (Version A) [Phil Stroffolino]
some gun aiming problems? (or is it just a calibration issue?)
One + Two [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
palette problems?
New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Continental Circus (US set 2)
New Non-Working games / clones supported
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Racing Beat [David Graves]
serious video emulation issues (raster irq?)
Mission Craft
needs more work on Hyperstone core
Happy romhunting... ;-)
Whacker
May 3, 2004
E-MAME 0.98!
This version of MAME is for the N-Gage and some of the compatible S-60 based platform smartphones. The official website seems dead for the last couple of days, so I give you another way to get the latest binary (read: .sis file). Here you go. Some instructions on how to install it to your phone now:
First use the USB cable to copy it to the memory card. Then you must use the internal installer app to install it to the smartphone. When asked choose the 'external' memory card as the place to be installed. If you use an utility like filemanager etc, or you choose the internal memory phone to install it, most possible you'll end up with a 'low memory' error (the installer file is about 1.3Mb). I personally have tested this version and works like a charm to my N-Gage (faster than the 0.95 I used to play with up till now, too). Best of luck then, and if you want to know what's new in this version you better check the official website from time to time just in case it's up again sometime soon.
New ClrMAME Pro
ClrMame Pro has been updated to version 3.31. Fixes and / or additions in this releases are:
fixed: crash when using advanced checksum analysis on unzipped sets
misc: added some more ziptests to the new faster zipscanner
misc: profiler->create->create button is default button
misc: don't look for biosset problems when system isn't enabled
misc: detects wrong named chds in datfile
misc: allows chds spread over clones which don't match the parent chd
fixed: rare rebuilder issue: a valid file is skipped when it appeared in a corrupt zipfile before.
fixed: wrong 'update chd message' when a wrong named chd matches a correct other chdname. Rare issue.
misc: settings->import's default is now mame.ini, not mame.cfg
misc: added MAWS information to urls.ini
You can download it by clicking here.
Whacker
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