Pinball machine emulator

Version 1.55 (March 30, 2007) - "Let there be Light"

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Happy 6th Birthday to PinMAME & Visual PinMAME!

 

After all these years, we're finally seeing the light on two of our longest standing missing features! In honor of the 6th year since our first release we bring you our latest efforts.

 

Thanks to Aaron Giles for once again blowing us away with his BSMT2K emulation improvements. Full support for the 'mysterious' compressed samples is now a reality. Despite the numerous rewrites Steve had to do to convert the code from the latest MAME core into our older core, it's working great!

 

There's also a small enhancement to the Votrax SC01 speech chip output, enabling the chip to alter its sample rate at runtime which improves sound on many if not all games that used it! To all Gottlieb System80 and Taito lovers, this is for you!

 

A special last-minute treat by PinMAME's founder and "not so retired" developer Steve Ellenoff: GI circuit brightness support for WPC games is finally here!

 

Special thanks to Steve for this tremendous addition, which would have been the number one event for him this month - if it wasn't the impending birth of his third child expected to arrive any day!

 

Changes:

 

*** SOUND ***

Improved BSMT2000 support (Steve Ellenoff - thanks Aaron)

Improved Votrax SC01 support (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Correct sound support for Elvis (Steve Ellenoff)

 

*** CORE/CPU ***

Improved (and faster) AT91 emulation (Steve Ellenoff)

 

*** ROM SUPPORT ***

Updated Alien Poker multiball (Oliver Kaegi)

Updated Eight Ball Deluxe clone (Oliver Kaegi)

Added Bell Cosmic Flash (Oliver Kaegi)

Added Nineball clone (Oliver Kaegi)

Added Demolition Man home roms (Brian Smith/Gerrit Volkenborn)

Added Theatre Of Magic home roms (Gerrit Volkenborn - needs to have cheats enabled to work)

...and some other updates we just don't remember right now.

What's new in Visual PinMAME:

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Version 1.55 (March 30th, 2007)

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- ChgGI(x, 1) now returns different values for WPC GI string dimming (Steve Ellenoff)

- Added support for "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"

- Happy 6th anniversary VPinMAME!

Changelog / Download

Rom Manager

Version 3.00 alpha 4 released for testing.

 

This is a test only version and should not be used on real files, nor be widely distributed.

Backup your files before using it.

 

This release fixes a lot of bugs, new (or old) features will be added as soon as some stability will be reached.

The database structure changed and you can't use the previously created database files.

You must create new database from this version.

 

Bugs fixed:

- Bug renaming corrupted files

- Import a rom after a corrupted file error

- Fix filter skipped in some case

- ListView not always sorted

- Incremental search : hidden node are used !

- rename files doesn't put file extension to lowercase

- GPF sometimes with filters

- Empty folder not shown

- Clean up treeview refresh module (faster). This fix refresh bugs.

 

Added:

- Hooked parameters window

- TreeView and ListView popup menu are back

- new 'CloneOf' column

- Database node list re-done with new nodes

- Move 'description' column in first position

- Move 'abort' button in toolbar

- Use sort column for incremental search

- Empty filename column for missing files

- Fix sample option

- Move samples to sample path and move roms to roms paths

- Create ghost games option

- Corrupted file option: move to a folder, delete or skip

- Set and fix roms cases

- Set and fix files cases

- Play game

- Add new emul param (folder) to run mame game.

- Add pause option to debug games launch

- Add default working parameter line for mame

- Add sample path configuration

- Rom folder drag & drop to add several at a time

- Thread test on 'create database from mame' and 'add rom path'

- Sorted paths list

>> Get it HERE.

TG16/PCE emulator

2007/03/31 0.99 released

- Interrupt processing was modeled on a real machine more. In "Anesan", the problem that was advanced though the button of the joypad was not pushed occasionally (generated from v0.77) was solved.

- In "Adventure Island (Dragon's Curse)", the problem with a not correct processing of the piling putting together of the screen was corrected.

- In "Hani In The Sky", The problem with a rough scroll was corrected.

- Additionally, a detailed part has been improved and corrected.

- The next version is "1.00". However, there is no special meaning. It is a street point. Thank you for reading my English language not good always.

Changelog / Download

Here's a little sneak peak at our first product review which is the R4DS! The R4DS is a next generation slot-1 flashcard for the Nintendo DS Lite. It uses a microSD for memory so you can play your backup games, videos, music, homebrew, and more.

We apologize for the video quality. We're using 2 different cameras and the next couple videos will have much more superb video.

Thanks to ModMyDS.com for the product.

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