Saturday, March 04, 2006

 

Eight new arcade game drivers!

 

We added eight! new arcade game drivers for the Potato Arcade module without MAME in it...

We also optimized a lot the 1942 arcade game driver which is now x6 times faster.

This is clearly the world fastest Java version now

Source... http://potatowip.blogspot.com/

Sinclair Spectrum emulator

[-] Core emulation fixed for all undocumented instructions (including BIT n,(HL)). Now ZEXALL test and other tests are executed exact as on real Spectrum machine. A selection of Z80 chip clone added into configuration.

[-] Scorpion model multicolor fixed.

>> Get it HERE

MAME32FX has been updated in line with the latest MAME "u" interim change.

Get it HERE

Just when you thought you had all the roms...

Korean Censorship

When you think of most Korean arcade games ‘Censorship’ isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. The Koreans are unrivalled in their ability to take an arcade game, and add adult content to it.

 

For the Korean releases of NeoGeo games we see a rather different story. I’ve added support for a number of Korean sets, and the main difference you can see with them is how heavily censored they are.

 

The first thing you notice is that all of the Blood and various other bits of violent content are completely disabled, there is no longer an option in the service mode to enable it, or if there is you can’t actually change it from ‘White’.

 

Secondly the games are locked to the English language versions, running with a Japanese bios won’t give you back any of the blood, nor Japanese text, nor a Japanese title screen, only the standard ‘For Use In Japan’ message.

 

A number of characters have been renamed too, the character select screen in Last Solider (the Korean release of Last Blade) is missing the usual character name overlay, ‘Wang’ in Art of Fighting 3 is now ‘Park’ and ‘Xiangfei’ in Real Bout 2 is now ‘Hannah’.

 

There are a number of other changes, but I found the censorship especially amusing considering the lack of it present in most Korean games.

Source --> http://haze.mameworld.info/