Ootake Ver1.46
Posted by Cronos on Friday, April 25 2008 - 13:17PM

And it must be fate to close this newz round with an Ootake update!

2008/04/25 1.46 released
- The volume (listening-feeling) in the small volume part of the PSG sound
was brought close to a real machine. The sound condition and harmony have
approached a real machine. I think that I was able to improve the entire
tone quality.
Especially, a small-volume game as "Soldier Blade" and "Gunhed (
Blazing Lazers)" obtained a big improvement.
- In the visual scene of "Akumajou Dracula X", the problem that the top on
the screen falls into disorder uncommonly was corrected. * The disorder is
still seen when changing to the setting that displays the over scanning
area. Therefore, the play switched to the setting that doesn't display the
over scanning area ("F11" key. The setting can be maintained by "File->
Set Resume" menu or the state saving.) is recommended.
- Additionally, a detailed part has been improved and corrected.

Ootake

Changes since 6.0:
-Arcadia: support for ROMs up to 31K.
-Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

Amigan Software Releases Page

Starting with this version, I am releasing Unix and Maemo ports of ColEm. The ColEm-Unix port has been tested on Ubuntu Linux. Both Ubuntu binaries and the source code are available from this page. If you have problems compiling ColEm on other flavors of Unix or Linux, let me know.

ColEM Homepage

Nintendo DS emulator news...

We’re finally back!

This new release fixes a number of bugs in the emulation core.

The Mac port got a lot of new features, including sound,
preferences, screenshots and japanese translation.
The Windows port has some updates as well with a new core supporting joystick.

DeSmuME

It's been a couple of months since this nice little Commodore64 emu has been updated!

20 April 2008 v1.0.5.18
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1) Fixed NMI timing during BRK instruction.

2) VIC fixes including the adjustment of the Sprite Y Expansion and the charactor display
logic. The following demos are fixed. "Destruction" by Dream, "Spice Up Your Life" by
Triad and "Parados"

-You'll need this update to play The Sopranos successfully!
-Check out the new speech clarity for all WMS games up to The Twilight Zone, too.
-Maybe you'll also find a new hidden feature... I won't give it away! :)
-Don't hesitate, get your copy today!

Get it at
PinMAME

And we're back! For the curious, my web surfin PC's power supply assed out and my paying gig is absorbing a lot of my free time... And will be continuing to do so for a while to come. So If anyone elese ever wants to jump on here and post some newz... Feel free! I still plan on doing a weekly update on the weekend, which has been par for the course around here lately.

Okay... Time to catch up on da newz! And thankfully, there's not a whole lot to catch up on!

And a few updates have been made to Ootake since we last mentioned it... Have a great weekend peeps and steer clear of those possums! They are not easily housebroken!

Ootake

One of my fave NES emulators has gotten a long awaited update... I'm hustling and buslting along here so be sure to check the homepage for the large list of changes in this one!

Nestopia

Another nice update for this classic Atari 2600 emulator...

Stella release 2.5.1 for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows is now available. Ports to other operating systems will be released as they become available.

Check out Stella for the full list of changes!

more fixes.
I release this because of some quite important fixes (mainly the broken 8bpp mode, the cave driver for raine, and the possible crashes in neoraine when changing the cd song). See the changelogs for details.

By the way, the big thing for this version was supposed to be the console, but it's not finished. For now the scripts it allows to create can't be executed, and if you call it from a game using a keyboard shortcut, you'll get some graphical glitches. So for experts only for now, type help in it to have instructions... I'll need a break before I can finish this...

Raine

Changes since 5.82:
Game selector sidebar.
Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Amigan Software: Releases Page

2008/04/01 1.42 released
- Some overall processing speeds were sped up (The optimization option of
the development compiler was changed). Especially, processing might have
lightened in some measure on the personal computer environment with a not
high spec.
- It corresponded to software that had changed the width of each line of the
screen display. In Chapter-4 of "Yami no Ketsuzoku", the message came to
be displayed correctly.
- Additionally, a detailed part has been improved and corrected.

Ootake

And back up to date with this fresh bit! Stella release 2.5 for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows is now available.

Click for what's new... Stella

This multi home console and computer emulator got an offficial update! Lots of new stuff. One of the new bits that I especially noted was the addition of VideoPac support... Which was basically the best Magnavox Odyssey system ever released! That may not be saying much granted!

Mess

Just in case you missed it... MAME had an official build released but there was a nasty bug... So leech .124a!

Take two of MAME 0.124 is now available on the Latest Release page. This update supplants the previous release. If you downloaded a binary previously, you’ll need to grab a new one. If you downloaded the sources, you can either grab a fresh copy or apply this patch to the ones you downloaded. You can identify the fixed one in that it reports version 0.124a if you run it with -help, or in the version.c file.

MameDev

Weekly update time! Haw! I'm planning on a return to frequncy with the newz updates. It'll probably still be an every other day kind of thing!

First up is an update to the PCE/TG16 emulator known as Ootake!

Ootake

Whatta ya know! I get caught back up by closing with a WinArcadia release! Haw!

Amigan Software Releases Page

Fixed a bug in the recompiler causing corrupted text on King Kong, may effect other games also with distorted textures/text.
Changed 1 op to interpreted on the MMI, it was actually slower being recompiled! videos seeing 10-30% speed increases, enjoy

Plus fixes from 329:
Should fix some of the problems introduced in 327. and a small speed boost on some games

Plus fixes from 327:
Vsync/Hsync rewritten, stops DMC video freezing, improves real time cutscene lipsync.
Memcard selection saving fixed.
SPU2 Async adjusted to be quicker and hopefully stable.
Special "speed hack" added which tightens SPU2 Async but slows the emu down, can help in the case of some videos (FFXII demo for me)

PCSX2 Beta Downloads Page

A new version of bsnes has been released. It contains a few minor emulation fixes, as well as user interface improvements. See the bsnes WIP news page for the complete changelog.

Also released today is a new version of the cross-assembler xkas. While this version only supports the SNES CPU, it has been designed from the ground up to be modular and allow for additional processors to be added with ease in the future. It can be downloaded from the programming page.

BSNES Homepage

Lots of bug fixes in this release(especially on the SCSP). The GTK port received a nice face lift. Saving and loading of cheats was added. There is also now a nice Qt port available.

Yabause

Wow, 2 releases in 2 days... !
But this one is mostly quick bugfixes : the cave driver was broken in raine and since it's one of my prefered ones I couldn't leave it this way... Notice that it was not a stupid mistake at all this time, it was because of the new version of starscream, which means that there could be some other bugs left in some other drivers...
Another bug caused some parts of the gui to remain on screen after a game was started whih looked really bad !!!
I managed to fix also some last "flashes" or glitches in the loading animations for neoraine, thanks to a video on youtube, found by Juveno41 on the forum...

The good news is that the bugs should become harder to find after all these fixes, so I'll be able to rest a little !

Raine

Been busy! Of course things pick up suddenly when I ain't got the time to follow things... So what'll follow now is a little "catchup" encompassing the bigger and better items in emulation over the last few days! Half of it is from today anyhow.

More fixes, and a few additions.
You'll be able to play with the colors and the transparency of the gui with this version, but the interface is quite primitive and you won't see all the changes immediately, anyway, you should find how it works with a few tests...

Thanks again to the crazy testers of the forum, without them there would be many more bugs in this version !!!

See the changelog for the details, this should end the 1.1 branch of neoraine normaly...

Raine

Update for this Amstrad CPC Emulator for DOS, DPMI and WIN32. Some decent stuff on this system if you decadent yankees haven't checked it out before.

The night before the retro computer event MadriSX 2008, CPCE 1.90 improves the IRQ and VSync signals synchronization, fixes bugs in the FDC that now supports Titus' disc protection, and the Z80 search function and ZIP support have been improved as well.

CPCE Homepage