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> EmuControlCenter 0.9.9 R2 released
Posted by Hard Core Rikki - 06-28-09 23:24 - 0 comments
The latest update to EmuControlCenter includes recent eccLive updates along with fixes, additonal platforms and various changes.

Download here: http://www.camya.com/eccblog/download/emucontrolcenter/

QUOTE
Version 0.9.9.R2 (2009.06.28)

- Added platforms:
- Acorn Atom (resources by: te_lanus)
- Bondwell Model 2 (resources by: te_lanus)
- Casio Loopy (resources by: te_lanus)
- DEC PDP-1 (resources by: te_lanus)
- DEC PDP-7 (resources by: te_lanus)
- Sega Pico (resources by: te_lanus)
- Signetics Pipbug (resources by: te_lanus)

- Small updates:
- Fixed the banner (top left) website bug (hyperlink is removed)
- Fixed some EN language strings/typos
- Changed Homelab4 emulator and settings INI's (by Gruby)
- Placed "Magnavox Odyssey 2" in the console catagory.
- Renamed "Tomy Pyuta" to "Tomy Pyuta/Tutor" (incl. new teaser)
- Improved 'option' images, by adding transparancy & removing ugly pixels
- Improved the small ECC teaser image by removing the border at the bottom.
- Moved the small ECC teaser image to the 'internal' image folder.
- Fixed broken links of the 'ecc_icon_small.ico' file in certain files.
- Added spanish translation instructions for the thirpartytools.

- Script updates:
- Added Microkey Primo script (by Gruby)
- Added script for the 'pdp7' emulator (by te_lanus)
- Updated the "Ultimo" script for "Microkey Primo", v1.0.1.0 to 1.0.1.2, changes:
- New Function - EmulatorControl($EmulatorWindowTitle, $CommandLine) (Thanks to Phoenix)
- Some Primo C (Colour Primo) files is working now.
- Needed Reset handle
- Some fixes...

- ECC Startup
v2.3.2.9
- Added a PNG border to the splashscreen, for some shade (so it doens't look flat)
- When reloading ECC the (reloading)splashscreen now also fades.
- Fixed a bug where the 'reloading' string wasn't shown properly when ecc was reloading.

- ECC Live!
v3.2.0.3
- Fixed issues where filenames to add/replace strings could not be found.
v3.2.0.2 -fix2
- Fixed the word 'Avaialable' to 'Available'

- 3rd party updates
- Updated, Notepad++ v5.4

- DAT file updates:
- CPS-1: v2009.03.10 to v2009.04.26
- CPS-2: v2009.01.06 to v2009.06.08
- SVM: v0.99.0.8 to v0.99.1.3
- MAME: v0.130 to v0.132
- NEOGEO: v2009.03.10 to v2009.04.26
- PRIMO: *NEW* v0.99.1.1 (by Gruby)
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> PDroms coding competion 4.01: results
Posted by Hard Core Rikki - 06-27-09 16:35 - 0 comments
The results from the PDroms coding competiton 4.01 are out. This year's theme was homebrew logic/puzzle games, and the GBA platform seems it got the preference of most entrants this year.

Results:
#1 Skipp and Friends (SNES), 1325 points
#2 Factory Bots (GBA), 1225 points
#3 Poomania (GBA), 1110 points
#4 Clem the retarded Elf 2 (GBA), 1065 points
#5 Shunting Puzzle (ColecoVision), 1030 points
#6 GemVenture (Beta) (NES), 1000 points
#7 Gears Of Fate (NGPC), 990 points
#8 Droplets (GBA), 535 points

Quick screenie of the winning entry.


Head to PDroms for the full announcement, screenshots and downloads for the individual entries.
- http://www.pdroms.de/news/18448/
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> Battlefield Heroes, a free Team-Fortress 2 type game released
Posted by BigIg - 06-27-09 13:08 - 0 comments
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* Battlefield Heroes™ is a free cartoon-style shooter for the PC
* Combining classic gameplay with brand new innovations, it’s a totally new experience
* Cartoon-style graphics bring the fun back to shooters
* Third person camera so your Hero is centre-stage!
* Create your own unique war Hero with extensive character customisation system
* MMO-like special abilities add strategic depth to comba


Download: http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/
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> Wine 1.1.24 released
Posted by BigIg - 06-27-09 13:06 - 0 comments
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The Wine development release 1.1.24 is now available.

What's new in this release:

* Support for freedesktop file associations.
* Support for exception handling on 64-bit.
* Improved ARB shaders.
* Fixes for the FBO mode.
* Many listview improvements.
* Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.


Official website: http://www.winehq.org/
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> GameEX 10.16
Posted by BigIg - 06-27-09 13:02 - 0 comments
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Thanks to Ben Baker with this release there is now support for switching subtitle and audio streams when using FFDSHOW. It should work automatically where appropriate, and is operated with the paging keys/combos. Page Up and Down for switching subtitles and Alpha Paging for changing audio streams. Ie button 1 and left and right. Also in this release is iTunes support. The iTunes library and playlists can now be used in GameEx if your using iTunes by setting the Jukebox mode to 'iTunes Library' as opposed to windows media player or file tags. Protected files are not supported, and it does take a little while to load up.


GamEX is a Windows frontend for MAME, Zinc, Daphne, PC Games, and all command line based game emulators.

GamEX website: http://www.gameex.net/
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> Emu Control Center 1.0.0 WIP 0.6.2
Posted by Xtreme2damax - 06-24-09 14:13 - 0 comments
Emu Control Center 1.0.0 WIP 0.6.0 was released for members registered on the eCC forum. The changes in 1.0.0 WIP 0.6.0 include the following:

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Added platforms:
- Acorn Atom
- Bondwell Model 2
- DEC PDP-1
- Sega Pico
- Signetics Pipbug

Additional languages in the v1.0.0 WIP version of eCC:
- Greek (by Alkis30)
- Hungarian (by Gruby & Delirious)
- Portuguese (by Namnam)
- Spanish (by Jarlaxe)

Coming soon:
- Dec PDP-7
- Casio Loopy


Source: http://www.camya.com/eccblog

Download: eCC 1.0 WIP 0.6.0
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> Dolphin Revision 3538
Posted by Xtreme2damax - 06-22-09 18:12 - 0 comments
I have just compiled and uploaded revision 3538 (All Builds) to our downloads system, as of lately there has been some groundbreaking work on DSP emulation that allows some noises to be outputted in Zelda: Windwaker, Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Mario Kart: Double Dash.

The sound itself is broken, garbled, static, and incomplete. Still it's tremendous progress nevertheless, and a step towards full DSP emulation and sound in Zelda/Mario games that have lacked sound for a while due to lack of documentation on the DSP hardware.

Other changes since the last builds includes a fix to improve speed on scenes that previously ran slow such as Zelda: Windwaker's Deku Tree scene, and the main lobby of the mansion with the candles. Despite it fixing much of the slowdown with some scenes, there is still some scenes that run slow or slower than they should run.

Commit Log for Revision 3538:

http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/detail?r=3538

Download:

| Revision 3538 (x86) | Revision 3538 (x64) | Revision 3538 (JITIL x86) | Revision 3538 (JITIL x64) |
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> Dolphin Revision 3499
Posted by Xtreme2damax - 06-20-09 02:01 - 0 comments
An effort has been made by the Dolphin team to reverse engineer the DSP hardware of the Wii/Gamecube which to this point has had very little documentation. Due to the lack of documentation available for the DSP hardware sound did not work on most first party Nintendo titles not limited to the Zelda and Mario games since they used a specilized format. The lack of documentation has made trying to get sound working in Zelda and Mario games a tricky task.

Just today some small but significant progress was made in getting sound to work in these games. Now you are able to hear some sound in these games albeit crackled and distorted sound. The Dolphin team is now one step closer to getting sound working properly for these games.

I have included revision 3499 x86, x64, and JITIL x86, which contains these improvements in the DSP_HLE plugin for everyone to test out for themselves:

http://cid-b8ece3275d590dda.skydrive.live.....Public/Dolphin

Here is the svn commit log for this revision:

http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/source/detail?r=3499
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> IPB3 RC2 Test Forum
Posted by Xtreme2damax - 06-17-09 01:52 - 0 comments
I have set up a test forum for IPB3 RC2 located here: http://www.xtemu.com/ipbrc/

It's using a current version of this forums database, blogs and gallery have been updated as well for testing purposes. I thought I would use this as an opportunity to help our current members and visitors become used to the changes in IPB3, as well as find any bugs in these test versions before the final version of IPB3 is released.

Any bug reports can be posted in the feedback section of the test forum, and will be passed along to IPB/IPS as soon as possible. There are many new features for IPB3 that will make it a welcome upgrade once it goes final.
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> gpuBladeSoft v0.1
Posted by Hard Core Rikki - 06-10-09 06:52 - 0 comments
BladeSoft is a new GPU plugin for plugin-using PS1 emulators.

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Main features:
Unique:
- interlace mode emulation;
- screen settings emulation;
- Final Fantasy 8 pre battle effect emulation;
- pixel perfect geometry;

Other features:
- 24-bit renderer;
- increased internal resolution (as separate plugin gpuBladeSoft2x1.dll). It´s still experimental. Bugs possible.
- fullscreen filters;
- high precision GPU commands emulation;
- correct polygon cutting;
- precise dithering;

Known issues:
- some DMA errors;
- possible aspect ratio errors.

Source: Emu-Russia via AEP-emu
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> PCSX2 beta: rev1329
Posted by Hard Core Rikki - 06-7-09 16:46 - 1 comments
Krakatos uploaded a more recent beta build for PCSX2.

Get it here: http://www.pcsx2.net/downloads.php?p=publicbeta

QUOTE
Ok, here comes a new beta. Since last one, work has been done mainly on the branches.
Now with this beta you can choose to use microvu by selecting the 2 additional options under the cpu panel. This is a beta! Expect breakage. And it IS slower, for now at least.

If you have microvu bugs to report, use this thread
http://forums.pcsx2.net/thread-7484.html

Pcsx2 beta 1329 Changelog:
- Microvu added as an additional cpu option. To use it, enable both the new options in the cpu tab. Expect problems.
- Quite some work on vif, gif and path 3. Quite a few of the games that had problems with 1190 due to this should now work.
- Increased the EErec's stack memory from 64k to 128k, since there's no reason to be frugal there anymore
- Improved the CPU speed/ghz detection. It should be a bit more accurate, and is faster (pcsx2 startup times are near instantaneous now)
- Some emitter changes
- Some general cleanups to vtlb's memory protection and recompiled block
integrity checking systems.
- Usual code cleanups and optimizations

Known issues:
Front mission 4 hangs
Ar tonelico 1 hangs
Many Gust games show black screen (ar tonelico 2, atelier iris 3...). To solve, press F1 when that happens (yeah, random... but hey it kinda works)
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> Wine 1.1.23 released
Posted by Hard Core Rikki - 06-6-09 23:26 - 0 comments
Wine gets an update to 1.1.23. Updated packages for distros can be grabbed from the project home.

-> http://www.winehq.org/download/

What's new in this release (see below for details):
QUOTE
- Support for registering MIME types with the Linux desktop.
- FBO mode is now the default for Direct3D.
- Support for COM proxy delegation.
- Improved support for the Mingw cross-compile.
- Proper fullscreen mode for the virtual desktop.
- Various bug fixes.
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> VBA-M site back online
Posted by Hard Core Rikki - 06-5-09 22:10 - 1 comments
After a period of downtime, the VBA-M site and forum return online. The adress is unchanged, so for those with the old bookmarks, point your browsers to the new location.

Official site:
http://vba-m.com/

Official forum:
http://vba-m.com/forum/
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> MAME 0.131u4
Posted by raziel1000 - 06-5-09 07:26 - 0 comments
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0.131u4
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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
----------------------
- 02730: [Crash/Freeze] fiveside: Doesn't past rom check
(Angelo Salese)
- 03226: [Crash/Freeze] dadandrn, mmaulers: Game sits at black screen.
(Tafoid)
- 03222: [Sound] ctribe + clones: Music is missing (ShimaPong)
- 03221: [Crash/Freeze] demonwld + clones: Game fails to start
(Tafoid)
- 03217: [Misc.] All sets in twinkle.c: Beatmania IIDX chds were
added in chdformat < 4 (smf)
- 03218: [Crash/Freeze] anteatgb: Game sits at POST screen (Tafoid)



Source Changes
--------------
Fixed megadrive PAL refresh rate (for MESS). [Enik Land]

Simplified megadriv.c input reading. [Fabio Priuli]

Fixed NMI firing in Goal 92 (same sound hook-up as Euro League).
[Angelo Salese]

Replaced almost all remaining cpu[num] occurrences in src/mame/ with
tags. [Fabio Priuli]

Converted Dallas DS1302 RTC to a device. [Fabio Priuli]

Fix coin issue sqixr1. [ShimaPong]

Updated Intruder & Moon Base roms with PCB locations. [Brian Troha]

Corrected some rom names & added some PCB locations to pipedrm. Added
dipswitch locations. [Brian Troha]

Corrected dipswitches in Konami's Wizz Quiz and added dipswitch
locations. [Brian Troha]

Significant improvements to the Super Crowns Golf video. Also hooked
up inputs and DIP switches. [Angelo Salese, Yasuhiro Ogawa]

Decrypted Mirax main program roms. [Olivier Galibert]

Cleaned up Namco 5xxx docs, listing both MB88xx pin IDs and Namco
custom IDs where appropriate. [Aaron Giles]

Added clocks to the Namco 06xx in anticipation of improved device
interconnection. [Aaron Giles]

Added new file devtempl.h which can be used to generate the
DEVICE_GET_INFO function. Updated all the Namco I/O devices to use
this, along with the 6821pia and voodoo. [Aaron Giles]

Updated galaga driver to use computed video timing. [Aaron Giles]

Added configuration settings and analog adjusters to xml output (see
e.g. mario or crbaloon). Also, added port categories for MESS.
[Fabio Priuli]

Correct BPROM names, added PCB location and do***ented the BPROM type
for Moon Base. [Smitdogg, Dumping Union]

Corrected rom names for Wing Shooting Championship and added
do***entation of the new game features of v2.00.
[Brian Troha, Dumping Union]

Converted DS1302 to use devtemplate. [Fabio Priuli]

Converted ADC083x converters to be MAME devices. [Fabio Priuli]

Converted Fujitsu MB3773 to be a MAME device. [Fabio Priuli]

Converted NEC uPD4701 to be a MAME device. [Fabio Priuli]

Tekken Tag Tournament Japanese versions: Mark the in-practice undumped
roms as NO_DUMP. The versions used in the source were from where from
the export version and they're incompatible with the japanese program
roms. [Olivier Galibert]

Converted ADC1213x converters to be MAME devices. [Fabio Priuli]

Converted RP5H01 to be a MAME device. [Fabio Priuli]

Added DIP Locations and verified defaults for Speed Rumbler/Rush and
Crash (using Speed Rumbler manual). [Tafoid]

Fixed digitalker mode 2. [Olivier Galibert]

Partially converted NEC uPD4990A RTC to be a MAME device. Moved clock
init to device_start. [Fabio Priuli]

Added CPU core for the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine
(SSEM) from 1948. [MooglyGuy]

Updated the dipswitches and listed the dipswitches in the hvyunit
driver. [Brian Troha]

Added do***entation about the Galaxian bootleg hardware known as
Artic Multi-System. [Brian Troha]

Added alternate read/write handlers to the Z80 PIO implementation.
[Curt Coder]

Converted Motorola 6840PTM to be a MAME device. [Fabio Priuli]

Fixed VIA address map in 86 Lions. [Palindrome]

Fixed ROM filenames of CVS Hunchback and Logger. [Andrew Welburn]

Verified clocks and corrected 6502 cpu speed on "the deep".
[Corrado Tomaselli]



New clones added
----------------
Off Road Challenge v1.63 [Tormod, Smitdogg, Dumping Union]
Touchmaster 5000 (v7.10 California) [Tormod, Smitdogg, Dumping Union]
Touchmaster 7000 (v8.1X Evaluation) [Incog, Smitdogg, Dumping Untion]
Bucky O'Hare (ver AA) [Irongiant]
Street Fighter II - The World Warrior (World 910214, TAB Austria
bootleg) [TeamEurope]


source: Mame updates
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> Glide64: Napalm ported to Linux
Posted by Hard Core Rikki - 06-5-09 05:40 - 2 comments
Gonetz posted an update on the status of Glide64 on the project homepage, with news on a Linux port of this GPU plugin.

QUOTE (Mudlord)
we still have a few things to fix up, but core emulation so far is great.
Another extra not in the announcement Gonetz made: it will work on Mac.

Thanks go to Mudlord for sharing this update.


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