AEP Emulation Page reports that PotatoMulti, the Java-based multi-system/console emulator, has had some work done on it. Below are the release notes about the work-in-progress news.

NES Emulation Improvements

- After a big struggle on emulating properly PPU timing and other timing-related stuff, we finally managed to get it right (well at least, less wrong that our previous attempt Wink. This has enabled a new batch of games to run properly.

- Mapper 1 mirroring support also fixes buggy scrolling on most Mapper 1 games

- Moreover, Mapper 4 irq timing (was one scanline delayed) fixed Super Mario Bros 3. The so-marketed "biggest videogame ever made" is now playable (minor graphic bugs to fix).

 

Enjoy some nice shots and stay tuned for PotatoMulti 0.0.4 release next week. This release will be supported under Windows and Linux systems.

You can visit the WIP web site of PotatoMulti here.

PDRoms reports that GP2Xengine, a PC-Engine emulator for the GP2x, has been released. Below are the release notes for version 1.0 beta.

Based on the work of Marat Fayzullin (Hu6280), Alex Krasivsky (Hu6280), BERO (fpce), hmmx (XPCE), rlyeh (GPX2 Minimal Library)

You can obtain GP2xengine here.

The Emulation64 Network reports that version 0.07 beta R1 of SSF, the Japanese Sega Saturn emulator, has been released. There aren't details on what's been updated, but the percentage of what's emulated has risen, below are the details.

SH2 emulator - 100%

68000 emulator - 100%

VDP1 block - 100%

VDP2 block - 90%

SCU block - 100%

SMPC block - 100%

SCSP block - 90%

CD block - 85%

You can visit the official homepage of SSF here (Japanese).

The Emulation64 Network reports that EasyMame has been updated to version 5.2.6. Below are the changes in this version.

New

- Added Swedisch translation. (Thkx to Daniel Nylander)

 

Fixed

- Some small cosmetic bugs.

 

Improved

- Rewrote the complete database structure. Resulting in a speed increase of about 50%. Filters and realtime searching both benefit from this.

- Adapted and optimized realtime searching to the new database structure.

- Faster zip handling (Increased unzipping speed for snap.zip, icons.zip, etc...)

You can visit the official homepage of EasyMame here.