The MAME32qa team have released an amended MAME32.

>> Get it HERE.

3 MAME goodies in one post!

History.dat 1.06c released! -> Get it HERE.

Latest version of Thundermame can be obtained HERE.

The Mamedev "DOX" reports that the game Parallel Turn is playable. Protection is partially broken. Take a look HERE.

No notes for 5.81, but here's the ones for 5.80

13th March  2006 - GameEx 5.80

 

* A ton of emulator databases are included with special thanks to Dave R. (AKA Incubus)

* I've also improved and fixed the parsing of the databases to fix where there's no date, and provided some built in formatting and cleaning of the description and category.

See here for more information on database support, and how you can help: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=1228

* I have fixed the play random videos option, and also improved it so it now does a shuffle, instead of just randomly select files, meaning videos wont be played again until the list has been parsed. Been wanting to do that for a while, making this feature pretty good now in my opinion.

* GameEx now attempts to download and show box art for Videos when enabled.

* Something very cool, for folks running on good hardware. The 3D Transition (selected under display settings), have been greatly enhanced to give a very slick alpha blended 3d effect when going between menus. Not many front ends do such things. Only one I know is Windows Media Centre. It makes GameEx look even more flash and very cool in my opinion, but don't even bother with it if you have less than P4 1.8GHZ and a Radeon 8000 (or equivalent).

* Fixes please wait animation still showing after GameEx start-up on unregistered versions.

* I've also upped the minimum requirements to a P3 700Mhz instead of 500Mhz. GameEx may run on less though, but I want people to know GameEx is really for newer systems.

* Improved loading speed of some menus including start page a lot.

>> Get it HERE.

What's new for version 5.00 BETA 1 (13/Mar/2006)

---------------------------------------------------------

- Major CPU core rebuilding, now using cycle precision timing.

- Opcode 3Ch emulated (NOP6) for our playing needs.

- Major APU timing, output and core fixes, much more accurate and clean.

- Major PPU timing fix, pass OK through test ROMs.

- Optional sound quirk emulation.

- Sprites 0 and 1 behaviour fixed (Tatakai no Banka works).

- Better 2004h sprite reading emulation (no flickering in Micro Machines).

- Fixed screen rendering when disabled (Micro Machines).

- Fixed DMC clocking, making FireHawk game to work properly.

- Fixed VRC6 sound output, now using fully signed waves (much better).

- Several fixes in order to improve emulation performance.

- Disabled save or loading states during movie playback.

- Disabled joypad keypresses like up+down or left+right (Zelda 2).

- Fixed a bug reading the config file, no more blanks at end of strings.

- Changed joypad buttons assignment in the config file, fixing stupid errors.

- Fixed many GUI problems, including dumping and file saving.

- New savestate block added: PTB0 (PPU timing block).

- Fixed a bug in the savestate [MPR block], plus added an extra block for APU.

- Updated RSx revision id, now only revision 2 are loadable/supported.

- Illegal opcodes are simply skipped, instead of quitting to OS.

- Added mouse gameplay support!

- Added command line support.

- Added 'stretched to 640x480 non-scanlined' blitter.

- Added new 'Options' GUI item, so you can configure inputs, sound, blitter and directories!

- Config file reworked, fixing a few minor bugs.

- Frames per second (FPS) display added.

- A couple of hidden annoyances has been fixed.

- Mapper 4 (MMC3) disabled due to bad IRQ counter working (to be fixed).

- Broken trainer support (to be fixed).

- Other minor fixes and improvements that I don't remember...

>> Get it HERE.