Archive for the ‘Emulators’ Category

Retrode 2 USB device lets you play real SNES and Genesis games in emulators

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Combining game consoles and emulators, the Retrode 2 is a device that lets you play SNES and Genesis games on your computer. It’s a USB device that you plug SNES and Genesis cartridges and controllers in, and use them with any emulator program. When not in use, it folds up into a little clamshell box

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Retrode 2 USB device lets you play real SNES and Genesis games in emulators

Free MAME client appears on iOS

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

An unofficial port of the MAME arcade emulator is up on the App Store right now, for free. iMame comes with a selection of legal demo ROMs, but if you can find a way to get your own MAME ROMs onto your iPhone ( Gadget Lab suggests an app called PhoneView), you can play genuine arcade games on your phone

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Free MAME client appears on iOS

MAME 0.142u4

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Download the last version of the Official MAME Emulator..

What’s new:

Source Changes
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Removed deprecat.h usage for the following drivers: [Angelo Salese]
- galpanic.c, gradius3.c, halleys.c, hexion.c

Inputs from the scratch for Champion Poker (v100) [Roberto Fresca]

Cleaned-up protection simulation in Yam Yam!? [Angelo Salese]

Implemented an almost complete Konami k053252 device emulation, adds
accurate refresh rate timings and irq acks to many mid-90-era Konami
games [Angelo Salese, O.Galibert]

Various changes for PSX HW [smf]
- Modernised internal memory map;
- MDEC is now an internal device of the PlayStation CPU;
- Root counter & Serial I/O converted to internal CPU devices;
- Moved PlayStation IRQ code to sub device of the CPU;

Switch input ports to use function-based constructors instead of
tokens. Remove the old tokenizing helpers. Add basic classes for
ports, fields, settings, and dip locations as a first step. These will
be fully cleaned up later. Added machine() method to field to hide all
the necessary indirection. Changed custom/changed handlers into
generic read/write handlers, and added wrappers to convert them to
device read/write lines. [Aaron Giles]

cmpro 3.138a

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

New version of this Good Rom Manager for Windows..

What’s new:

  • added: missing but fixable chds can get fixed automatically by fix-missing
  • added: append option for rebuilder log
  • misc: redisplay dir2dat window after dat completion to avoid minimizing issues
  • misc: dat export will only export active sets
  • misc: added trimming for subfolder rom/etc defintions

RetroCopy v0.960 Released

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

New version of this Excellent Multi System Emulator for Windows.. RetroCopy emulates home consoles and arcade systems so that you can play the games made for those different machines on your PC. RetroCopy simulates hardware extremely accurately which ensures that these classic games are represented exactly like they were on the real systems.

What’s new:

SG1000/SC3000] Added SG1000 and SC3000 emulation.
[SMS VDP] Added TMS9918 gfx mode 1. Fixes Super Boy 2
[SMS VDP] Changed TMS9918 palette to be a bit more accurate
[SMS VDP] Fixed how the graphics modes were selected
[SMS VDP] Fixed issue with vcounts in non 192 line modes (fixes GG Turrican)
[SMS VDP] Fixed no vscroll in last 8 column bug (fixes Fray Shugyou)
[SMS VDP] Fixed small bug that wouldn’t reset CRAM to 0 in all cases

[GAME GEAR] Fixed a few issues with gear-to-gear cable link emulation. All games should work now
[GAME GEAR] Implemented SMS Mode for the few titles which use it on Game Gear. With an emulated LCD scale effect similar to real system
[GAME GEAR] Moved cartridge system over to SMS one, fixes a few games
[GAME GEAR] Fixed an issue in the mapper dealing with SRAM over 16KB and less than 32KB. (Fixes Shining Force 2 and Moldorian)
[Z80] Improved handling of NMI

[CORE] Added SK-1100 keyboard emulation
[CORE] Implemented 16bit memory map system that can be used by any core. Has some tight low level code for speed. Makes Z80 about ~5% faster
[CORE] Many bug fixes to small emulation related things

[GUI] Removed default RetroCopy 3D game boxes and replaced it with garage door type animation
[GUI] Completely new configuration area, graphical based with right click menus.
[GUI] Can now see visually and configure input for games before you run them
[GUI] Added ability for cartridge/card scans to be used in the interface for all systems
[GUI] Fixed a few issues with stretched blits
[GUI] Fixed small mouse scroll issue with scrollbars
[GUI] Added bg click functionality to scrollbars
[GUI] Added better image scaling, box sampling, bilinear and bicubic used when appropriate
[GUI] Now remove textures when windows are hidden, not just deleted, to save VRAM
[GUI] Fixed issue with non client area mouseenter/mouseleave
[GUI] Changed mouse behaviour when in Windowed mode. Can now leave the window during when no game is played.

MameUI64 0.142.3 & MameUI32 0.142.3

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

New version of the BEST MAME Emulator for Windows..

 For Windows 64-bits version.

 For Windows 32-bits version.

MAME 0.142u3

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

New version of the Official MAME Emulator for Windows..

What’s new:

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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- 04320: [Crash/Freeze] Many sets in mpu4drvr.c: Crash: Integer Divide
         by Zero (J. Wallace)
- 01893: [Crash/Freeze] mk4: MK4 hangs in demo mode after about 5
         mins/matches. (Phil Bennett)
- 04334: [Graphics] wiz: Missing sprites makes game unplayable
         (Angelo Salese)
- 04326: [Graphics] Many games in cave.c: Graphics corruption
         (Alex Jackson)
- 03103: [Color/Palette] all sets in mrdo.c: The color of “SCENE4″ is
         inaccurate. (kunikuni)
- 04325: [Documentation] madrace: Wrong production year.
- 04304: [Graphics] captaven: Color glitch on scrolling ocean on
         Stage 2 (David Haywood)

Raine 0.51.11

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

New version of this Excellent Arcade Emulator for Windows..

What’s new:

- A quick new binary to fix a stupid bug in the version of yesterday with the colors of esprade and guwange.

MameUI32 0.142.2

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Another version of the BEST MAME Emulator for Windows 32-bits version..

MameUI64 0.142.2

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

New version of the BEST MAME Emulator for Windows..