Electron emulator

Beta 0.6c - 18/01/06

* sound: fixed an overflow problem that sometimes meant for quite inaccurate sound, Arcadians being a prime example

* boring interrupt stuff: on a tip from Tom Walker, I effected changes in the generation of interrupts while the counter is in tape output mode. Result? Evening Star and Southern Bell now work -- sound and everything!

* moving towards a ROM paging fix per the observations of John Kortink on the Stairway to Hell forums

there is now the option of running the emulator with a persistent state (i.e. when you start ElectrEm, it puts itself into the same state it was in when you last closed it), though presently it forgets what media you were using

* added a Tape entry on the menubar, analogous to the existing disc entry

* some fast tape loading fixes -- better than before, still imperfect

* fixed bug where if the emulator encountered an opcode that would halt a real Electron forever or one it doesn't understand (which shouldn't really happen anyway), it displays endless warnings to the user

* fixed bug where screen colours were inverted when copied to the clipboard under Intel Mac OS X

* [Mac OS X] downgraded all code to be compatible with the 10.2.8 SDK, hopefully ElectrEm will now work on OS X v10.2 and v10.3

* [Mac OS X] shortcuts added for things in the Disc pull-down menu

* [Windows] hopefully fixed problem with the menu not accepting the first click in the Disc pull-down menu

* [Windows] the emulator configuration is now stored in your user's application data folder rather than with the executable -- means that the emulator configuration is now per user rather than per machine, and hopefully means ElectrEm will work with Windows Vista

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Release notes for 1.68 January 18th, 2006

 

* Integrated the login process into the main Xfire window.

* Added kill/death tracking for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

* Pending clan and guild invitations in the *beta* Clans and Guilds system are now displayed when you login to the Xfire application.

* Fixed a bug that could cause a chat window to not stay scrolled to the bottom.

* Reduced the start up and exit time of Xfire.

* Fixed detection of R.O.S.E. Online Evolution and WarRock.

* Added the ability to edit your birthday on the Edit Profile page (certain old accounts never had a birthday and display age 15; you can now fix this).

* Fixed an alignment issue with docking the Xfire window to the edge of the monitor (it used to be 3 pixels beyond the screen).

* Worked around problem with some routers that caused user to user file transfers to hang.

* New games supported: ijji GunZ (North America), Vanguard - Saga of Heroes Beta, CABAL Online (Europe), Trickster Online, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dark Age of Camelot - Labyrinth of the Minotaur, Battlefield 1942 Multiplayer Demo, Battlefield 1942 Singleplayer Demo, and Battlefield 1942 Secret Weapons of WWII Demo.

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I just finished building SNEmulDS v0.3 with DLDI support. This system made by chishm should make SNEmulDS compatible with much more devices:

 

* DSLink (microSD Card)

* Ewin2 (SD Card)

* EZ Flash 4 (SD Card)

* EZ Flash 5 (SD Card)

* G6 Flash (version 0.15)

* M3 Adapter (Compact Flash)

* M3 Adapter (SD card)

* Max Media Dock (Compact Flash)

* GBA Movie Player (Compact Flash)

* GBA Movie Player (SD Card)

* NEO Flash MK2 & MK3 (SD Card)

* NEO2 (SD Card)

* Ninja DS (SD Card)

* R4(DS)- Revolution for DS, M3 Simply compatible

* SuperCard (Compact Flash)

* SuperCard DS (Slot-1)

* SuperCard (SD Card)

 

More information here :

 

http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/index.html

 

You can patch SNEmulDS.nds to support others devices as long as those device have been made compatible with the DLDI system. So you should visit this site regularly for update, if your device is not supported by SNEmulDS yet!

 

Please try it with your device and tell me on the pocketheaven forum if you have any problems…

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I've made a new version of FBA available for download.

This is a fairly big update; changes are summarized below;

 

Neo-Geo

 

* Added driver for Diggerman (diggerma)

* Added driver for Jockey Grand Prix (jockeygp)

* Added driver for Metal Slug 5 (mslug5, ms5plus, ms5pcb)

* Added driver for Pochi and Nyaa (pnyaa)

* Added driver for Samurai Shodown V (samsho5, samsho5h, samsho5b, samsh5sp, samsh5sh, samsh5sn)

* Added driver for SvC Chaos - SNK vs Capcom (svc, svcboot, svcplus, svcplusa, svcsplus, svcpcb, svcpcba)

* Added driver for The King of Fighters 2003 (kof2003, kf2k3bl, kf2k3bla, kf2k3pl, kf2k3upl, kf2k3pcb)

* Added driver for V-Liner (vliner, vlinero)

* Added driver for Zintrick (zintrckb)

* Added aof3k to the Art of Fighting 3 driver

* Added ct2k3sp to the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2003 driver

* Added kog to the King of Fighters '97 driver

* Added lastsold to the Last Blade driver

* Added mslug3b6 to the Metal Slug 3 driver

* Added ms4plus to the Metal Slug 4 driver

* Added fswords to the Samurai Shodown III driver

* Added lans2004 to the Shock Troopers 2 driver

* Added kof10th, kf10thep, kf2k5uni, kf2k2mp, kf2k2mp2, kf2k2pls, kf2k2pla, kof2k4se to the King of Fighters 2002 driver

* ROM set changes to match MAME affecting the kizuna, kof2000, kof2001, kof2002, lastblda, matrim, mslug4, and rbff1 drivers

* Added emulation for PVC Protection

* Added extra emulation for various bootlegs and gambling games

* Enabled a protection patch for Metal Slug X making the game playable

* Updated Universe BIOS to latest version (2.2)

* Added missing bioses from MAME

* Added a compile-time define in the Neo-Geo driver to strictly match the MAME bios set for romset validation purposes

* Removed driver for bangbedp

 

CPS-2

 

* Added the decryption algorithm routines to allow games to be decrytped without XORs

* Removed the XORs from drivers where the decryption key is known

* Added driver for Hyper Street Fighter 2 (hsf2a)

* Added driver for Puzz Loop 2 (pzloop2, pzloop2j)

* Added 19xxa to the 19XX driver

* Added avspa to the Alien vs Predator driver

* Added armwar to the Armored Warriors driver

* Added ddsomr1, ddsomr3 to the Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow of Mystara driver

* Added ddtodr1 to the Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom driver

* Added mshj to the Marvel Super Heroes driver

* Added mshvsfj2 to the Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter driver

* Added spf2ta to the Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo driver

* Added ssf2tbr1 to the Super Street Fighter 2 driver

* Added ssf2u to the Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo driver

* Added xmvsfu to the X-Men vs Street Fighter driver

* Emulated the paddles in Puzz Loop 2 (pzloop2, pzloop2j)

* ROMset changes to match MAME affecting the armwar, avsp, ddsom, ddtod, dstlk, msh, mshvsf, msvc, progear, sfa, sfa3, sgemf, spf2t, vhunt2, and xmvsf drivers

* Corrected the descriptions in the Cyberbots driver

* Disabled drivers for games without XORs or decryption keys

 

CPS-1

 

* Added cawingr1 to the Carrier Air Wing driver

* Added ffightua to the Final Fight driver

* Fixed the Saturday Night Slam Masters driver so the games now boot

* ROMset changes to match MAME affecting the forgottn, sf2, and varth drivers

* Removed driver for knightsh

 

Toaplan

 

* Added driver for Hell Fire (hellfire, hellfir1, hellfir2)

* Added driver for Truxton (truxton)

* Added driver for Zero wing (zerowing)

* Added batsugna to the Batsugun driver

* Added outzoneb, outzonec to the Out Zone driver

* Fixed the dip switches in the Out Zone driver

* ROMset changes to match MAME affecting the bbakraid, dogyuun, outzone and shippumd drivers

 

Cave

 

* Added donpachk to the Donpachi driver

* Added theroes to the Gaia driver

* Added uopoko to the Puzzle Uo Poko driver

* ROMset changes to match MAME affecting the btlkroad, ddonpach, dfeveron, donpach, gaia and uopoko drivers

 

Misc

 

* Added driver for Cooki and Bibi 2

* Added driver for Cooki and Bibi 3

* Added driver for More More

* Added driver for More More Plus

* Added driver for Puzzle King

* Added driver for Toppy & Rappy

* Added driver for Twinkle

* Added driver for XESS - The New Revolution (SemiCom 3-in-1)

* Added gtstarba to the Guardian driver

* Added newsa to the News driver

* Added slapftuk, slapfgtr to the Slap Fight driver

* Added snowbroc to the Snow Bros. driver

* Added solomon to the Solomons Key driver

* Added s1945a, s1945k to the Strikers 1945 driver

* Added supermanj to the Superman driver

* Added tigerhb2 to the Tiger Heli driver

* Added daisenpu to the Twin Hawk driver

* Fixed the sound generated by the YM2151 in the Final Star Force driver

* Fixed the hang bug in the Rastan driver when starting the game

* ROMset changes to match MAME affecting the gunbird, opwolf, rastan, s1945, solomon, tengai and tigerh drivers

 

Application

 

* Added a NODUMP flag for rom definitions and updated DAT file generation and rom scan routines to support it

* Increased the max length of a rom name to 32 characters

* Added support for the extra V-Liner inputs to the input dialog

* Made game selection dialog wider to accomodate longer game titles

* Fixed the player descriptions in the input dialog (Player 0 becomes Player 1, etc.)

 

So, what does this mean for FBA? No new releases are promised in the future. The FBA Team seems to have disbanded a while back and we all seem to be doing different things now. I caught the emulation bug again at the back end of last year and since FBA was rather out of date I have decided to release this update. New releases may follow depending how long the bug lasts....

http://www.barryharris.me.uk/

Thanks to kof2112 for the news!