From Kryso (Programmer of Chankast Utilities)....

Sorry for the long delay, it has been very hard to fix a lot of recent bugs.

Currently I am running a Windows XP Chinese Version which is generating different

offsets than the original Windows XP English Version. Therefore, I am still working

on getting Windows XP English Version. There are some noticeable bugs in this release with some English XP( but not all, some of my friends do not have the bug, actully, I don't see the bug myself)

- Configure Region does not work correctly and will generate an error message after

you change the region and close out of Chankast and run the bios.

If there are other bugs, please tell us. I am trying to gather a list of all of them so we

can fix them for the official release. If the official Chankast v0.3 is released then we will

port all our work to it.

New functions:

1 When you are in a game, you should press - to decrease CPU to 1 (orignal is 50).

2 Multi Language support, you should add your own language.

3 You should design your skin.bmp to change the screen.

4 You should reocord your game to an AVI file.

» Download it Here! ** Link Fixed 8/19/2005 **

You have to extract it to the original 0.25's folder.

SNES9x also has a WIP version now...

Here's what new:

Win32: added.avi output feature (blip)

Win32: fixed frame timings >100ms, added frame advance (blip)

Rewrote Unfreeze, renamed it S9xUnfreezeFromStream, failing to load a freeze file no longer resets emulation (blip)

Fixed Unfreeze to restore IPPU.HDMA properly (blip)

Rewrote OBC1 code to match the real chip (Overload)

More updates the to DSP-1 code, fixes to projection (Overload, Andreas Naive)

Unix/X11: Rewrote keyboard setup code (Bisqwit)

Added movie recording+rerecording support (blip, Bisqwit)

Added -hidemenu CLI switch (funkyass)

fixed broken Win32 filters (lantus)

Added internal support for emulating the new-style SNES (MKendora)

Cleaned up many quirks of the cheat search engine (MKendora, Don Vincenzo)

Fix mosaic in hires SNES modes (Tokimeki Memorial) (MKendora, zones)

Rewrote Legend's hack, added another game to it (MKendora)

Optimized the Open ROM dialog (MKendora)

Rewrote the Seta DSP map (The Dumper, MKendora)

Began string isolation for the UI, eases translation (funkyass)

added -nopatch -nocheat, and -cheat CLI items (MKendora)

fixed a UI typo (funkyass)

fixed several C core stack ops in emulation mode (MKendora)

split emulation mode ops from native mode ops (MKendora)

Seta special chip emulation enhancements (Feather, The Dumper, Overload, MKendora)

code tweaks to the ST010 (Nach, pagefault)

fix some C/asm quirks and HDMA quirks (all my fault) (MKendora)

several timing hacks to fix games (lantus)

improved checksumming for odd mirrorings (MKendora)

Snes9x uses a standard zlib instead of a packaged one (PBortas)

Exhaust Heat 2 and regional ports are playable (Feather, The Dumper, Overload, MKendora)

Game Doctor dumps that are 24 Mbit are now supported by a force option (MKendora)

SuperFx interleave format is now considered deprecated. Support will be removed in future versions (Team decision)

made SuperFx interleave detection a compile option (MKendora)

added memory maps for slotted games (MKendora)

fixed a typo in the usage messages (MKendora)

fixed the bug that had nuked optimizations (The Dumper)

restored full speed optimizations in release builds (funkyass)

Added non-speed-hack version of color subtraction. (zones)

Fixed mouse offset in resized X11 window. (PhaethonH)

Fixed a (presumably) long-standing bug: Mode 6's BG is depth 4, not depth 8! (anomie)

Unix: unmap all joystick buttons before applying -joymapX (anomie)

Win32: added a define to disable pausing when focus is lost, NOPAUSE (funkyass)

Win32: Changed the default for Auto-save SRAM to 15 sec (funkyass)

Get it here.

Well, better late than never...

ZSNES WIP July 17 Released

* Seta 10 Support [Nach, Overload, The Dumper, MKendora, Feather, pagefault]

* Video menu input overhaul. [MaxSt]

Get it here.

All these delays are making everyone crazy, but there is not much we can do. Currently were experiencing a major problem fixing bugs with Chankast Utilities while beta testing since the offsets are different when Kryso check's the bug since he is using a Chinese version of Windows XP and we are using the original english version of Windows XP. Were waiting at the moment for Kryso to buy the original Windows XP so we can finish the chankast utilities for v0.25. If a new version of Chanka is released earlier than we release Chankast Utilities, then we will work on the latest version instead. First things first is to fix the current bugs.

We will have more information soon on this matter and we hope to get a new version of Chankast Utilities released. Sorry for the delay once again.