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MESS 0.114 released

By Robert, April 13, 2007

0.114

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
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- Sega Master System Store Display (not working) [Wilbert Pol]
- Apple IIgs (ROM00) [R. Belmont]
- Toshiba HX-10 [incog nito]

System Driver Changes:
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- [APPLE2GS] Major fixes to the quality and accuracy of the ES5503 sound emulation. [R. Belmont]

- [APPLE2GS] First pass at proper raster timing. FTA XMAS DEMO now runs, no border f/x yet though. [R. Belmont]

- [APPLE2GS] Fixed scanline interrupts to work properly. Fixed Cavern Cobra, FTA Modulae demo, probably more. (bug #673) [R. Belmont]

- [APPLE2GS, SNES] Fixed some 65816 core bugs. (bug #661) [R. Belmont]

- [COCO] Fixed PIA misconfiguration. (bug #1115) [tim lindner]

- [COCO] Fixed Lightgun emulation. [tim lindner]

- [COCO] Implemented MUX switching delay. (bug #655) [tim lindner]

- [FAMICOM/FAMITWIN] Fixed Disk System, marked working now. (bug #1101) [R. Belmont]

- [GAMEGEAR] Added SMS compatibility mode. [Wilbert Pol]

- [GENESIS/MEGADRIVE] New emulation engine from HazeMD, improves compatibility and accuracy plus supports the 6-button pad and the Super Street Fighter 2 mapper. [R. Belmont, David Haywood]

- [GENEVE] Fixed assertion failure on exit. (bug #1136) [Nate Woods]

- [MSX] Fixed MSX visible area. [MJSTY]

- [ODYSSEY2] Major update: banked carts, drawing, and hardware collision detection now all work much better. [telengard]

- [sMS] Drivers have been split up to support specific hardware versions: sms and smspal still exist; smsj21 has been renamed to smsj; sms1, sms1pal, and sg1000m3 have been added. Support for the prototype bios has also been added [Wilbert Pol]

- [THOMSON] Switch 6850 ACIA implementations to use the MAME version, and added natural keyboard support. [Antoine Mine]

- [TI99_4X] Fixed assertion failure. (bug #1129) [Nate Woods]

- [TI99_8] Fixed assertion failure on exit. (bug #1137) [Nate Woods]

User Interface Changes:
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- [Windows GUI] Fixed hash entry loading. (bug #1128) [Nate Woods]

- [Windows GUI] Added missing screen and controller tabs. (bug #1134) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

Imgtool Changes:
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- Added the ability for modules to "warn" the core of inconsistencies. These warnings will cause failues in Imgtool test cases. [Nate Woods]

- [OS9] Fixed some bugs that could cause corruption on OS-9 disk images. (bug #1122 [tim lindner, Nate Woods]

- [OS9] Put will now use free entries in the directory file before expanding it. (bug #1125) [tim lindner]

Source Changes:
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- The core is based on MAME 0.114. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

- Moved per-image working directory handling into the MESS core. [Nate Woods]

- Fixed NVRAM folder creation for battery backup. (bug #1120) [Nate Woods]

- Fixed a bug that could cause multiple file extensions to be dropped for devices on certain drivers in both MESS and Imgtool. (bug #1095) [Nate Woods]

- [Windows] Fixed deadlock. (bug #1140) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

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Xfire 1.74 released

By Robert, April 13, 2007

Release notes for 1.74 - April 12th, 2007

* Added the ability to show off your World of Warcraft characters in Xfire infoviews.
* Go to your profile page and add your WoW character name/realm/region to your account
* You must have WoW hours on your profile to see the input area.
* Your friends will now see your character data in the infoview.
* To view your own data, add yourself to your friends list and view yourself.
* All data is provided by The Armory.
* More details are available in the FAQ.
* Added kill/death statistics to Call of Duty. If you play CoD online, check out your profile see see your statistics soon after you finish a game session.
* When many game installers finish, we can now automatically detect that the new game is installed immediately without requiring an Xfire restart. If you find installers where this does not work, please post this information in our forums.
* Chat rooms with auto-selected voice servers now continue even when the voice host leaves.
* Changed the add friend dialog to be embedded in the main window.
* Improved the post-game dialog when you've taken a screenshot with Scroll Lock + S; it should now work properly even when switching a game between windowed mode and full screen mode.
* Added the "last seen" day to profile pages when the user is offline.
* Added the beginnings of an event calendar system to the *beta* Clans & Guilds system.
* Fixed a bug that caused a bad login loop with auto-login enabled when you enter an incorrect password.
* Fixed a bug with uploading Xfire crashes to help us fix bugs.
* Fixed the game names of numerous Steam titles which were incorrectly listed either without colons or as version 1.6.
* Added support for Steam versions of Civilization IV, Battlestations Midway, and Silverfall and the EA Link version of The Sims 2 Seasons.
* New games supported: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl, TMNT, Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific, Silverfall, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, Test Drive Unlimited, 18 Wheels of Steel Haulin, rFactor, and Half-Life Deathmatch: Source.
* Technical Notes are available.

Release 1.73 was for internal use only and not activated (ok ok, to be honest, it had a bad bug).

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EmuLoader 4.9.8.1 released

By Robert, April 13, 2007

Front End

Hello again. Version 4.9.8.1 is up. If you want version 4.9.8 you can grab the update to save bandwidth. I suggest you read the change log before using this build though.
This build has a few changes, nice fixes and a new message box, Vista style... )
I also added two more systems into the games filter: "Konami Viper System" [viper.c] and "Sega Naomi" [naomi.c]. Naomi will probably be expanded in the future though.
Have fun!

version 4.9.8.1 change log [April 12, 2007]
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.fixed: Deleting games from favorites lists does not reset selection to the first game anymore
... might not work when multiple games are selected and in some weird cases

.fixed: Screenshots, auto game docs, MAWS info not updated when "Multiple Selection" is enabled
... main menu "Games List"

.fixed: Error when running games with custom command line, using mouse double-click

.fixed: Error when trying to run a game with default settings, when emulator filename is not set

.fixed: Using empty prefix / suffix on custom command line was generating a madexcept error

.changed: Removed "Hide Bar" button from all tool bar editors and added new menu items called
"Enable Tool Bar": main menu "View", for main tool bar and status bar, main menu
"Images" for the images tool bar

.changed: Menu items renamed:
- all "Toolbar Editor" renamed to "Customize"
- "Columns Editor" renamed to "Customize Columns"
- "Parental Lock" renamed to "Enable Parental Lock"
- "Parental Lock Editor" renamed to "Customize"

.changed: Moved menu items:
- "Customize Columns" from "Advanced User" main menu to "Games List" main menu
- "Restore Default Screen Size/Position" from "Advanced User" main menu to "View" main menu

.changed: Moved files from "\resources\images\logo\" folder to "\resources\images\" folder and changed
images formats to PNG:
- "logo.png"
- "about.png"

.changed: Moved section "[GameDocuments]" from "EmuLoader.ini" file to "\ini_files\el_extras.ini" file
... and moved all settings from "[GameInfo]" section to the new "[GameDocuments]" section

.removed: Setting: "Splash Screen Logo (Frontend)" from preferences. Only one splash logo filename is supported from now on

.added: Multiple folders support for "Font Files", directory selection (MAME settings screen)

.added: New message box and input box screens, now with icons and a title
Also, a new folder with .png files: "resources\msgbox_icons\"

.added: New game filters (updates to "\ini_files\mame_filters.ini" file):
"Konami Viper System" (driver: viper.c)
"Sega Naomi" (driver: naomi.c)

Also, two new icons for these filters in "\resources\main_icons\arcade_filters\" folder:
"viper.ico", "naomi.ico"