January 2003

Hugo, the PC Engine emulator for Windows & Linux, had a minor wip update.
You can read about it here.

Roman had updated his page with these new dats:

• M1, Nebula, FinalBurn, FBA
  
• Kawaks, CPS1, CPS2, NeoGeo

Aaron had updated his page with another Mame WIP yesterday.
You can read what's new here.

This Atari ST emulator for the Mac OSX fans had the following wip:

27/1/2003:

• Added (fixed) better CPU timing.
  
• Added Screen borders.
  
• Added Overscan Top (see screenshot).
  
• Fixed bug in MSA code.

This Sharp 68K emulator has had the following updates (translated):

2003.01.27

• The v0.75 release vertical retrace line interruption timing modification (the New Zealand story) the half angle at the time of key allotment / the full size Caps LOCK (the alphanumeric setting trouble of the) conversion key to be able to designate the correction text
  
• Graphic * sprite /BG picture as the respective indicatory OFF try it tries the NMI Reset of the menu which it tries to generate the ALARM interruption of the RTC even at the time of the No-Wait Mode to calculate the number of clocks of name modification mulu order accurately in the Interrupt (the super running fire 68k) when resetting which is made load failure of the x68 file of the v0.70
  
• The text VRAM * graphic VRAM is not cleared, the clock of the MPU which the sea urchin is done treatment of transparent color of the BG picture which it tries to be able to set freely with the 1mHz mark correction (the cover, Granada)
  
• The Read ID of the FDC correction (the ???????) it corresponds to the trace function of the MPU a little correction (the emerald dragon) around the DMAC a little in address error when address ahead jumping is odd number address around the corresponding ADPCM internal constitution of the pallet of modification 65536 color mode during modification contrast changing trouble when contrast value is read correction (the vision animal ogre)
  
• Operational timing of the raster copy correction (the thunder blade) the most significant bit of GPIP of MFP (H-SYNC) change timing the correction drawing part trouble of the complete movement translucency
  
• Special priority time all corrections () drawing method of the sprite
  
• BG picture such as fair Lee land story and Phalanx a little in new drawing routine modification The half angle / full size * hiragana * Caps LOCK (the alphanumeric) immediately after pushing the key, the key was separated, the high resolution interlace mode which is made whether or not the information that you send, selection possible () in special command to the corresponding video controller register such as 1024x848 correspondence (you exclude) picture mode to the side 1536 dots * vertical 1024 lines " the translucency * special priority due to pallet appointment " at the time of the state load which is made indication possible at the time of state saving not to be, try to use present volume setting
  
  2003.01.29
  
• The v0.76 trouble at the time of release bus error at the time of correction bus error
  
• address error precision of the data which is stacked in the stacked frame is increased

Logiqx had updated his site with the following dats:

• MAME v0.64, MAME Changes v0.64, MAME Test Drivers v0.64
  
• M1, Nebula, Final Burn, FBA, RAINE, WinKawaks
  
• CPS-1, CPS-2, Neo-Geo, & MAMu's Icons

The Mameinfo.dat has been updated once more,here are the changes:

4.41:

Razoola has decided to release a couple more Xors for you CPS2 fans out there, namely 2 versions of Mars Matrix.

Mars Matrix: Hyper Solid Shooting (USA 000412)
Mars Matrix: Hyper Solid Shooting (Japan 000412)

Of course you'll have to hunt around for the files now as he doesn't host them anymore. Newsgroups are the obvious first choice. CPS2Mame has been updated to support them too.

CPS2 Shock Homepage

You can get the updated Mame 0.64 History.DAT here.Here are the additions:

Tengai, Space Bomber, Trog (rev PA6), Rampage - World Tour, Revolution X, Street Fighter, Robby Roto, Pac-Man Plus, Lost Tomb, Boomer Rang'r, Liberation, Kamikaze Cabbie, Space Duel, Raiders5, Penguin-Kun Wars, Ark Area, Atomic Robo-Kid, Mutant Night, Ninjakun Majou no Bouken, Nova 2001, Omega Fighter, Super Real Mahjong Part 2, Mario Bros., Strikers 1945 Plus, Two Tigers, Super Missile Attack, Total Carnage, Smash T.V., Cloak and Dagger, Blaster, West Story, Crazy Kong - Part II, Alligator Hunt, Blood Storm (yes again), 19xx, and more...

Mash's Mameinfo.dat has been updated to version 4.40.

You can get it here.

Logiqx has updated his Mame and Raine compile guides.
You can it out here.

Following up on the new MAME release, Roman has a few updates to.

Here's what's new:

• ClrMamePro 2.88.1: Nothing new...just a little profiler-fix.

Mame 32 for release 0.64 is out.You can download it here.

They just keep coming!Raine has been updated to 0.37.2

Check the list of changes here.

It's nice for all these emulator authors to celebrate Australia Day like this ;) Yet another emu release today with arguably the best Commodore Amiga emulator available. New in his release:

Bugs fixed:

• CD32-mode media change detection
  
• SlowRAM detection fixes (Commando and more)
  
• more compatible CIA keyboard emulation (Back to the Future 2 and more)
  
• another bsdsocket.library emulation update
  
• another state restore fix
  
• fixed mouse problems in Space Crusade, Billy the Kid etc..
  
• writing to custom floppy images was unstable
  
• primary sound buffer-checkbox removed and disabled. It is useless and usually only caused huge slowdown problems. NOTE: Users of R3 or R4: Make sure primary sound buffer-checkbox is disabled.

RockNes is a Dos based NES emulator. Lots of updates for this great emulator of lates. New in this version:

• Changed WRAM dummy data to $FFs instead of $00s (Low G Man works, thanks to FluBBa for the information);
  
• Sound changed to 16-bit output, plus volume decay;
  
• Small fix in the pulse channels frequency;
  
• Small fix in the triangle/noise channels volume;
  
• Small improvement to Konami's VRC6 sound driver emulation;
  
• Fixed a bug on RIFF wave header saving, now 16-bit signed;
  
• Fixed filename for dumping $8000-$FFFF data;
  
• Fixed emulator shutdown (whoooops!);
  
• NMI/RESET/IRQ vectors (values) are now dumped correctly;
  
• More cleanups.

Well this one has surprised the hell out of me in a very fast new Mame release. Not sure why though a lot of Devs/Testers having been pushing for faster updates. Maybe Nicola has finally conceded? New in this release:

MAME Testers bugs fixed

• spaceint061red [Stefan Jokish]
  
• robocop2056gre [Bryan McPhail]
  
• stoneage060gre [Bryan McPhail]

This program that allows you to hear music in game roms emulated by Nebula has been updated.You can get it here.

The awesome Commodore 64/128 emulator for Windows, Dos, Linux and Beos has been updated. The homepage hasn't been updated yet but the downloads page has. Not sure whats new yet as I'm still leeching the file. Grab it from the official homepage. You broadband users should get it well before me ;P

According to Gamers.com it has been revealed that Retro is in the developing stages for the sequel to the Nintendo hit, Metroid Prime. Executive at Retro have apparently made an announcement to the employees that the project was given the green light by Nintendo. So far there are no details about the sequel, however, there have been talks about the sequel having a multiplayer mode. Obviously it is too early to report on a release date, speculation points to sometime in 2004.

A new version of this Sharp 68000 emulator has been released.
I couldn't tell what's new.

Check it out here.

Get it ;) Mame WIP

Kigb is a gameboy/gameboy colour emulator for Windows, Dos and Linux. This is rapidly becoming and excellent emulator with many many features. New in this version:

• Emulated the Game Link Cable. Two players could play via a TCP-supported network.
  
• Removed the experimental apply-once for GameShark cheats.
  
• Added the support of apply-once GameShark digits - D0. (Thanks Chip B)
  
• Redrew the mouse to remove the "mouse dropping".
  
• KiGB kept active when switched to the background.
  
• Fixed the crash bug when sound could not be initialised.
  
• Sound was disabled when file selection dialog displayed.
  
• KiGB would not quit incorrectly when Esc key was pressed to cancel dialogs.
  
• Cancel would be interpreted instead of OK when Esc key was pressed during a dialog was shown.
  
• Fixed the joypad interrupt bug. Supported Double Dragon 3.
  
• Correctly apply 6-digits and 9-digits GameGenie codes to all banks of memory. (Thanks bas)

A new version of Mame 32 has been released,here is what's new:

Issue #65 of the Retrogaming Times newsletter is out.

Read it here.

The webzine Uk.Games.Video.Misc(UGVM)has released issue #4.

This issue has articles on:

Mysticales has posted the following on the Gens website:

Saturday, 4pm EST, a open chat for the emulator community, come talk with us. Authors will join us too if all goes well, Either way, the chat will be going on and a netplay session too! We will be using AGES for netplay to give it a full shake down. The IRC channel is #tavern on EFNet. You can logon via this page, however if the page or server gets overloaded, Ill move the server and channel to a more stable online version. We hope to see you there!

Visit the site here.

From the homepage...

• Fixed branch objects (Object processor)
  
• Fixed i2s interrupt frequency

Easy Emu has a small update on how to use those .chd files in Mame.

Check it out here

2003-01-22: Stephane Humbert added another US version of Carrier Air Wing to the CPS-1 driver. smf fixed a crash in Combat. Nicola Salmoria added another version of Shadow Warriors to the Ninja Gaiden driver and fixed the sprites in Raiga - Strato Fighter, but it's still not playable. Shiriru updated the CPS-2 driver again, fixing raster effects in Marvel Super Heroes and Giga Wing. Acho A. Tang submitted another few fixes to the Sega System 16 driver. Aaron Giles wrote a driver for Lethal Justice and Egg Venture.

2003-01-21: Stephane Humbert added another version of Real Mahjong Haihai. Derrick Renaud submitted an update, adding sample sounds (that are not yet recorded) to the Circus, Clowns and Seawolf drivers, adding blue background artwork and coin counter to Seawolf, adding preliminary discrete sounds and fixing controls in Polaris, and modifying the Donkey Kong sounds a little. David Haywood added the RGB brightness control to the Sega System 32 driver, fixing colored light effects in Alien³ and lightning effects in Jurassic Park. Chris Kirmse sped up the data file handling. Acho A. Tang submitted fixes and improvements to a number of drivers, including correct colors to the B-wings and Zaviga driver, preliminary star field simulation in the Aeroboto / Formation Z driver, tuned music in Equites, fixed DIP switches in the Namco System 1 driver, improved sprite clipping and fixed hangs in the Namco System 86 driver, fixed graphics glitches in Super Dodge Ball, fixed sound banking bug in the Wec Le Mans 24, fixed reversed stereo in some games that use the K054539 sound chip, fixed the misaligned graphics in Burning Force, fixed a variety of issues in the SNK driver and some bugs in the Sega System 16 driver. Nicola Salmoria added Raiga - Strato Fighter to the Ninja Gaiden driver but it suffers from unemulated protection and is not playable. Bryan McPhail fixed an infinite loop in the Atari vector generators. David Haywood also fixed the crash in Jan Jan Shimasyo in the SSV driver.

2003-01-20: Stephane Humbert fixed the inputs in Mini Golf and DIP switches in Pinbo. smf forwarded a small fix that allows using hidden UNC paths in the directory list. Aaron Giles fixed the protection in Cheese Chase and fixed the priorities in Skull & Crossbones. Jarek Burczynski sent in a work-in-progress driver for Mazer Blazer and Great Guns, they have a variety of problems with graphics and sound.

2003-01-19: David Haywood further improved the Sega System 32 driver background graphics emulation, adding support for changing resolution on demand. Shiriru's updates to the CPS-2 driver fixing raster effects and Cave driver fixing Air Gallet were also forwarded. Aaron Giles fixed the frame rate in the Art & Magic driver.
2003-01-18: David Haywood improved the Sega System 32 driver background graphics emulation, though it's still far from perfect. Aaron Giles did some general cleanup on the Art & Magic driver and corrected the CPU and sound clock frequencies.

2003-01-17: Nicola Salmoria and Aaron Giles fixed the remaining graphics glitches in the Art & Magic driver. Stefan Jokisch fixed the crash in Space Intruder, added sample support and cocktail mode support to it, and fixed the red screen effect in Astro Invader. David Haywood added gun inputs to Jurassic Park. Aaron Giles also added refresh register emulation to the TMS34010 CPU core, abstracted the TLC34076 palette chip emulation used by Art & Magic, Battletoads and a few other drivers.

Mame WIP for screenshots.

Last years hit "Gamecube Exclusive" title Godzilla: Destroy all Monsters Melee is now getting primed for an Xbox enhanced version coming Spring 2003.

New features for Xbox include:

New monster: Mechagodzilla(TM) 3 (from the latest Godzilla® film release in Japan) joins the cast.

New arenas: Vortaak Home World. The alien's home world, features new challenges like volcanoes, spaceship launchers, installation-protection missiles, and plenty of alien buildings to throw. Boxing Ring, the largest boxing ring in the world constructed for monster battles complete with ropes, bells and blimps.

New Computer AI: One gamer can now play a four-player melee or team game against the Xbox Artificial Intelligence.

Single-player Destruction Mode: Players can rip up a city -- all by themselves.

Soundtrack support: Rip tunes to the Xbox hard drive and play your own tracks while you're fighting as your favorite giant monsters.

Xbox Advantage Controls: The extra buttons on the Xbox make it easier to grab monsters and buildings. In addition, the Xbox features improved responsiveness, combos and collision detection.

Better visuals: The unmatched graphical prowess of the Xbox hardware allows for better visuals treats, like reflection maps on buildings, true bump mapping, improved animations, smokestacks that emit smoke, better impact effects, specular highlights, bright high-resolution skies, improved lighting model, improved terrain, high resolution city selection movies and high resolution textures.

Improved Speed: Solid frame-rate and faster loading times.

Multiple Saved Games: Up to four players can save their progress on the Xbox hard drive.

The press release can be read
here.

Sixtoe has updated his website with waaaay too much to post here.So hop on over and check it for yourselves,and wish him a happy 2nd anniversary!

You can get there from here.

Pocketman has added new pages and screenshots to the new web site dedicated to pocket emulation.Here is what he has to say:

Tonight i have been busy and completed many GP32 pages with screenshots and downloads and all pages have the newest versions of that particular emulator.

The pages added tonight are

GP32 Emus

Mash's Mameinfo.dat has been updated today.

Get it here.

Roman is playing the update game again with another installment of his great rom management tool. New in this release:

• added: profiler->create subfolder, profiler->move datfile which also moves/creates the belonging datfile/fastscan/scans files (both options are available via popup menu)
  
• added: warningswindow message for obsolete CRC32 integrity checks
  
• added: (readded by request) 'mark useless zipfolderstructs as unneeded' option
  
• added: several new messages for corrupt/shared/skipped diskimages (instead of showing just a 'missing diskimage')
  
• fixed: "hide / show bad dump" options
  
• fixed: miss-list includes fake clones (natodefa) & counts the files correctly
  
• misc: profiler->delete can also remove folders
  
• misc: profiler->create can put an exe-based datfile in a selectable subfolder
  
• misc: recompress option moved back to rebuilder main window
  
• misc: revised cancel checks for "fix missing scans all sets"
  
• misc: revised scanner->drag&drop rules & destinationfolder initilization
  
• misc: scanresults are also kept when using ESC key
  
• misc: source cleanup (decreasing cachefilesize a bit as well)
  
• misc: 'delete incomplete sets' includes sets with bad crc32s, too
  
• misc: don't show "romfolder xyz matches setname" warning for 1-set-datfiles (like marquees, snaps, flyers, etc.)

Advance Menu is a frontend for Dos, Linux and Windows emulators. New in the latest release:

• Added a new attrib for the AdvanceMESS emulator to exclude the systems without a BIOS rom.
  
• Added the Alsa sound driver for Linux. It's now the preferred choice.
  
• The emulator rom info file is not updated if the existing file is readonly.
  
• Renamed the "Attrib" menu to "Selection".
  
• Added a new `difficulty' option and menu to globaly control the difficulty level of the games. It works only for the `advmame' emulator type and only for games with a difficulty dip switch.
  
• The `generic' emulator type is now able to import games information from a MAME like information file written manually.
  
• The default key configuration now uses the numeric-pad keys as arrows. It helps with HotRod.
  
• For the `advmame' and `advmess' emulator types the sound volume is automatically set at the same level of the menu.

Advance Mame is a specialist build designed for cabinets and TV etc. This release brings it inline with the latest official mame build. New in this version:

• Added the ALSA sound driver for Linux. It's now the preferred choice over OSS.
  
• Fixed another bug in the ./configure script if the SDL library is missing.
  
• The sound latency is now automatically increased if the game requires a big frame skip.
  
• The auto frameskip is now optimized to minimize the idle waiting time instead of getting a 100% speed.
  
• Added the `display_artwork_backdrop/overlay/bezel' option to control any artwork types.
  
• Added the `misc_difficulty' option to select the game difficulty from the command line.
  
• The `misc_quiet' option now also disable the NO GOOD DUMP messages.
  
• The SVGALIB `banshee' driver in Linux now doesn't tries to use 16 bit video modes. They are not working.
  
• The `misc_quiet' options, if activated, skips also the graphics information screens.
  
• If the doublescan modes are disabled, a mode with a double vertical size is automatically used instead.

The author of SNEeSe, the SNES emulator for Dos has released a quick update. New in this release:

• Render: Disabled some debugging code that caused mosaic to be forced on in background rendering

Microsoft issued a press release yesterday in the wake of the rumours that their Xbox console had indeed wrested the 2nd place spot in Worldwide sales from industry veteren's Nintendo Gamecube due to overwhelming Holiday sales.

To read the press release you can go here.

As if the market wasn't crowded enough already it seems that a new company called Infinium Labs Corp. has decided to test their chances at an all in one game console.

You can go here for more info on this.

Only days after his resignement at Sega of America Peter Moore has just signed up with Microsoft as their corporate vice president of retail sales and marketing.

More info can be found here or here.

Logiqx has yet again updated his site with more dat goodies.
Here's what's new:

• M1, Calice, FBA
  
• Older Emus
  
• MAME Cabinets, Flyers, Icons Panels
  
• MAMu's Icons, Marquees,
  
• Samples, Snaps, and Titles

Hugo, a PC Engine emulator for Windows and Linux, has been updated with the following wip:

Sorry to be a bit late, but in France at least, we got the whole month of January to say it :)
A new version of Hu-Go! is coming soon. It should, at last, feature a real gui for Linux and windows. The netplay feature on lan may also do it in this version, if not, in the one after.
Anyway, for the most impatient of you, you can now find an (almost) daily upload of the current sources on cvs. Without much efforts you should be able to benefit the latest advances in Hu-Go!, such as the advanced debugging support (to control the virtual pc engine during the emulation, for pausing, playing, reading and writing almost any internal variables) or the upcoming freebsd port.

Aaron updated his site with the following wip:

Big new update over at the Atari Gallery. Seven new games have been added to the list. The selection is kind of arbitrary at the moment, but if you have any specific requests, send me a note.

Atari++ a *nix based emulator for the 8-bit Atari home computers and 5200 console has been updated with the following changes:

• Added emulation of Axlon like RAM-Disks.
  
• Moved 130XE Ram disk into a separate module, reworked MMU ramkdisk handling.
  
• Reworked file requester.
  
• Fixed H: handler directory handling.
  
• Fixed ATR image handling.
  
• Added "install" and "uninstall" make targets.
  
• Moved archive into a separate subdirectory.

Sorry about the delay here on this and the others below, been out since Friday at the stables and stuff. Anyways, big news for Castlevania fans, a new installment of the series in the similar design concept of favorite Castlevania SOTN is coming to the GBA, and very shortly -- this May. Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow will be the largest departure yet from the series as for once the hero will not even be blood related at all to the Belmont line, but even furthermore the game is set slightly in the future in the year 2035. You play a student, Soma Cruz, and you are about to see the first full solar eclipse of the new century from Transylvania, and you end up blacking out and awaking inside of Dracula's castle. Your mission, escape alive, and with the use of over 100 enemy souls that can be adapted to be used as weapons and tools to survive the age old hell house. Hopefully the game will turn out quite good, and to see how it looks my advice is to try a site like perhaps IGN Pocket, Magic Box, etc to see a few images that were made public.

Peter Moore a few days ago tendered his resignation from Sega of America. Peter Moore had been there since 1999 as the President and COO of Sega. He helped to launch the Sega Dreamcast, pulled the plug on it a few years later, and helped to assist the company expand and recover from the hardship of the death of the Dreamcast and Sega from the hardware market.

Let's hope Konami does one right for once because here comes later this year the fifth installment of the Gradius series, again just on the PlayStation 2. Gamers.com reports the game will be designed around the PS2 hardware, use 3D graphics, and Konami has hired Treasure (it's staff were the former team who made all of Konami's best titles including Gradius) to do this game right. The game is also claimed to use a new control scheme to make for more control than ever, so we'll have to wait and see. Check Gamers.com for some screen shots.

Out of Gameinfowire it seems Nintendo has gone back into the business of packing freebie games with a console and with no extra charge (unlike the Mario Sunshine bundle.) Between February 9th and May you can get a Gamecube for the usual $150, but with *YOUR* choice of Metroid Prime, Resident Evil 0, Mario Party 4, or Starfox Adventures. Seems like a smart idea not pitched by them I believe since the SuperNES era, and I imagine it should help out sales with choices like that.

The following updated .DAT files are:

The Java based PC Engine Emulator WIP page has been updated with screenshots and the following:

Looks left....looks right....no mojo in site. Yay I can post some news ;P The SNES emulator for Dos has been updated with a few changes. NEw in this release:

• 65c816: Corrected address wrapping in direct and stack addressing modes, thanks to MKendora for pointing out these problems
  
• 65c816: Altered register allocation
  
• SPC700: Altered register allocation
  
• SPC700: Fixed a bug in the timers which caused them to be reset to random values when turned on, thanks to Brad Martin for pointing this out
  
• Source: Removed some obsolete code and dependencies
  
• Source: Started cleaning up many of the C label references in the asm code
  
• Render: Added support for dual window clipping with XOR or XNOR logic modes of 8x8-tile backgrounds with no offset change or mosaic
  
• Render: Fixed a bug where window clipping was not updated correctly when changing layering order
  
• Render: Added support for dual window clipping with all logic modes of 16x16-tile backgrounds with no offset change or mosaic in modes 0-4
  
• Render: Added support for dual window clipping with all logic modes of 8x8-tile backgrounds with mosaic and no offset change
  
• Render: Added support for dual window clipping with all logic modes of 16x16-tile backgrounds with mosaic and no offset change in modes 0-4

Here is what's new in this release:

Version 3.4.1 has a small change. A new file is added to the package, called chd md5.ini.
You probably already know what this file does... but I'll explain anyway: it contains MD5 checksums for all .chd files supported by M.A.M.E. 0.63!

Be aware that this file has checksums based on the entire .chd file, not just based on the file header. Since Emu Loader can't get the MD5 value like MAME does, it needs to check the entire file. Well, that's the reason why I created this file, so you can be sure that your gamename.chd file is the right one ;-)

Read more and download it at Emuloader

Quote:

Today we have opened up our new site that will just focus on Emulation and Development for all Handheld Consoles. In time we will have reviews of as much Hardware that comes out for the Systems as well as interviews and much much more.

As you have noticed theres not a lot up at the moment but daily we will be adding pages and hopefully our fan base will grow.


The site can be found here.

Jose Q has posted his first rumor mill in quite a while.It was always one of my favorite emu news pieces.Glad to see it is back.

Go get the gossip here.

An Atari ST of the Mac has a new release today.
Here's what's new:

• Fixed a bug preventing disks with special boot sector to load.
  
• Fixed documents types.

Logiqx has went on a dat & tool releasing frenzy.

Here's what's new:
Tools:

• DatUtil v1.21
  
• MAMEDiff v1.15
  
• ROMBuild v1.13

The first Windows Front-End for M.A.M.E. to feature independent default settings
for raster and vector games! Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.

New in the version for 0.63:

FluBBa released a new version of his unofficial version of Loopy's PocketNES three days ago. PocketNES is a NES/Famicom emulator for Nintendo's Gameboy Advance. This version has the following additions/fixes:

- Fixed sprites to background priority.
- Fixed sprites animation with CHR switching (SMB3).
- Also fixed PAL timing IRQ for mapper 69 (Mr. Gimmick).
- Added mapper 93 (Fantazy Zone (J))
- Added mapper 105 (Nintendo World Championship (U)) remember to disable CPU hack (for "Rad Racer").
- Added mapper 180 (Crazy Climber (J), no controller yet though).

You can download it from FluBBa's Unofficial PocketNES
homepage

Got this from Phuck-IGN:

At their press event yesterday, Konami finally revealed their plans for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a license they acquired earlier last year. The new game, which is set to hit Sony's PlayStation 2, and the Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance, will be a 3D action game that hopes to capture the magic of the 1992 SNES classic, Turtles in Time. Not much else is known about the game, except that players can play as either Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, or Donatello as they battle the evil Shredder. Konami will be releasing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in North America in October 2003

Astala Pizza!

This is from Atari.org

We're Buying Atari Equipment!
Paradise Web Design is buying used Atari equipment. Stop by our website and see if we're buying what you're selling. We are buying mainly 32bit machines but are also buying some accessories. ...

Go see if you have anything they are looking for here

This tidbit is from the AtariAge website:

For anyone who's had to deal with a poor-quality RF signal when trying to use their Atari 2600 system, Chris Wilkson is developing an A/V mod that provides composite, S-Video, and stereo outputs.Go to the website and check out the screenshots,and follow the discussion on their message boards.

PotatoPCE, a new Java based PC Engine Emulator, has more screenshots posted of this wip emu.

Check them out here.

Flyer Pack #17 is now available for Mame.

This pack contains 55 new, 2 renamed and 18 replaced items. Total count: 2022 flyers

Get it here or here

A report was posted on the pcsx2 site:

Time to break the silence and still a bit about the pcsx2 progress..

1) Recompiler now supports 3D NOW fpu instructions for the fpu. Soon probably SSE too
2) Many parts of HLE have been rewritten and improved
3) Many cpu cores bugs fixed and improved.
4) IPU is in progress
5) Well no more. Don't wanna spoil all the fun eh?

So when 0.2 release? Guess sometime soon
wait and see :)

The site is here

The .DAT files for the Mame Flyers (pack 1-17)has been updated.

Go here for the download

2 translations have been added to VisualBoy Advance.

The Mame WIP page has been updated.

Check it out Mame WIP

In a scary twist of 'I told you so' fate our favorite PC wanting to be a console Xbox will be having it's first upgrade patch to one of its popular games. The creators of Unreal Championship shipped their product with a few bugs and have now corrected them per the complaints of owners on their forums. The patch will address the issues with: frame rate, real time voice control, stats, team balancing, TAG Rifle exploits, and bugs that let you fall outside of the maps. It's not certain yet if this will be a downloadable fix or seperate. I hope this isn't a sign of trends to come, console games ending up with massive buggy releases with bugfixes one after another as PC titles have been getting for years. If you wish to see more this one came directly from the forums over at Infogrames homepage.

According to Games and Fun the problem between the merging of Enix and Square has been settled. Originally the majority share holder in Square (Masufumi Miyamoto) didn't approve of the .81 to 1 value he'd get from the merger and put it in jeopardy. A deal has been made though where the value will now be at .85 to 1 for Square shareholders into Enix. Barring any other strange issues the merger should be made complete as planned by February 12th.

Long enough name for the package there in the title, try saying it in one breath or five times really fast. Anyways, debuting on Feb. 14th is the FFA GBA SP package. This will include the game and a pearl white GBA SP unit. Price comes in at around $150USD (18300 yen)...and like any GBA speciality pack in, this one won't come to the US as usual.

This article IS emu related kind of...

Because it has an Atari joystick mod,and it has the looping stuff that our supreme potentate Lord Ashram would have fun with =P

This is a nine pin jack that allows an atari controller to be plugged into the unit and used to control different functions like activating the ON function, activating the short loop mod and activating a variety of glitches.

One can only imagine what Madrigal has going on at home?!

Get jiggy wid it
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