The HP48 Emulator Emu48 was originally created by Sébastien Carlier and is published under the GPL. The latest version of Emu48 can emulate a HP38G, HP39G, HP40G, HP48SX, HP48GX and a HP49G. The emulator is running on all Win32 platforms and the Mobile version should run on all ARM CPU based Pocket PC 2002 and Windows Mobile 2003 (SE) versions. Emu48 need ROM images to work.

This news comes from retroguru.com. You can find out more information here, at the official homepage.

Not exactly Bemani

Guru dumped Paca Paca Passion Special and Paca Paca Passion 2, both running on System 12 hardware. Both have some serious in-game graphics problems in MAME. (I have ZiNc in too many pieces to play System 12 games reliably at the moment).

http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/

As RB has posted there are a few problems with the two new dumps in MAME, however there are similar problems in ZiNc too. As I had an old source tree ready to go, here are a couple of pictures where it’s ok.

http://smf.mameworld.info/

AEP Emulation Page reports that a new test version (0.2.95.27) of FinalBurn Alpha, an arcade emulator for MC68000 and Z80 based hardware, is available. Below are the changes in this release.

- Added support for MVS emulation using multiple catridges

- Removed dependeny on kailleraclient.dll, it is no longer part of the FB Alpha distribution packages. A working version of the dll can be obtained from http://www.anti3d.com/. If this dll is placed in the same directory as FB Alpha or elsewhere in the library search path, the netplay options will become available again

- Added an interface for audio DSP effects

- Added a VST hosting module (plugins are found if located in a subdirectory named vstplugins or in a customisable alternate location)

- Changed the Neo Geo screen size to 320x224 pixels

- Added controls to specify the visible area of any game

- Fixed Neo Geo sprite drawing

- The emulation and GUI now run in seperate threads, making the complete GUI usable during online games

- Added Neo Geo multi-slot MVS emulation

- Added better scaling for preview images

- Fixed miscellaneous minor issues

You can find out more here, at the official homepage.