After this week's DSP emulator update, I've taken a look at that Z80 Exerciser, and fixed several flags bugs, a bug I've detected in DAA and even a bug loading the z80 file from that page. Also, as I finally received the official blessings from Hermes more than a month ago, I've decided to call this version the final 1.3.

 

What's new from 1.3b3:

- Fixed a bug when loading some .z80 files with version 1.45 .

- Fixed a bug on DAA instruction.

- Fixed flags behaviour for several instructions: BIT*, CPI, SBC & SCF.

 

* > BIT n,(HL) is still not perfect, since it doesn't use the MEMPTR hidden register, but I don't think emulating it is worth the effort.

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0okm has come out with an interesting little app for members of the homebrew community who want to play game demos without a whole lot of the problems associated with UMDs. The new app, known as GemeShareLoader for FW2.80 v0.01, lets you play those gameshare games on 2.80 that you ripped from your legally-owned UMDs without using the UMD itself. (Emphasis on the phrase, "legally-owned UMDs"... -ed.)

 

As he mentions in his readme, the "for FW 2.80" on his app name is a misnomer. This actually works on 2.5-2.71 as well, but since many of the demos out now use 2.80, you can see why he decided to put it as part of his title. Our testing also shows that it works well on 2.71 SE-B'' so you don't have to worry making much of a mess of your PSP.

 

Now, this isn't an app with any bricking qualities, so lets talk about something else that's important: lawyers. If you'd like to avoid getting bricked (being placed in jail with very buff guys), then it would be a really good idea if you use only the gameboots from the UMDs you already have. Of course, even that's a slippery slope, but to each his own. Just remember to check the readme for additional information, and enjoy using this nifty new application.

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Working under DevHook, this prx can cheat every devhook-compatible game under firmware emulation. It also works throughout raw-relative cheat codes such as action replay, codebreaker, gameshark, xploder, etc. Apart from this, it supports other functions useful for cheat finder and normal users, like battery, cpu/bus clock, devhook version, ms free/total space information.

 

Now, this is just a quick fix. Also, keep in mind that you need the database and language files, which are in the main package.

 

Anyway, here's the changelog:

 

* No more screen flickering and real time update of data in the main menu

* fixed that graphic glitch appearing when putting out and in the ms

* cleaned up the menus of useless clear screen and print calls

* added support for 8bit and 16bit multiadress write

* string optimizations

* support to select search intervals in the fixed value and diff search

* now swap buttons option is saved and loaded

 

But there's more to that. If you wanna check out the complete and comprehensive changelog, just head on to the official site.

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Here's Picodrive 0.1.6 with DSLink support (thanks to Rudolph, author of DSLink driver), compiled by me. Save/load support works fine, confirmed by me.

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