The Sony PSP is looking outstanding in some new pictures you can find at the link below. So which one do you think will prevail, the Sony PSP or the Nintendo DS? I am going to have to say for now, the Sony PSP may infact steel the show. It's slick and it's what were use too, can you take 2 screens? Imagine an emulator with 2 screens if we think that far down the road which probabaly wouldn't be that long from now. Above you can see the size of the Sony PSP compared to the current handheld consoles out.

The battle has only begun between the two systems.

»» View the NEW Sony PSP Pictures!

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»» NEW Nintendo DS Game Screens!

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0.87

 

General Improvements:

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Small update to the Kaneko drivers [sebastien Volpe]

- correct dipswitches for bonkadv

- galpanib protection moved to machine\kaneko16.c, and sandscrp uses it

- merged read/write memory maps for the 3 galpanic sets

 

Support 16 Joystick buttons [Norix]

 

8-way input fix for some mappy.c games (grobda, motos, phozon)

These games were set to 4-way input in the previous update. [anonymous]

 

Various Improvements [Angelo Salese]

vamphalf.c

improvements to vamphalf making it almost playable* it actually

is now playable thanks to further improvements from others (see

below)

 

yumefuda.c

temporarly patched eeprom check,fixed the graphics bankswitching

& added sound in Yumefuda.I don't have added controls yet so it

isn't playable.

 

acommand.c

Preliminary driver for Alien Command.Doesn't work yet...

 

gstriker.c

Very preliminary MCU emulation for World Cup '94.Hangs in

various places since I don't have worked on them yet...

 

Implements the LEDs in "copsnrob" [stefan Jokisch]

 

Fixed res_net.h related crash in Strike Bowling [Jarek Burczynski]

 

Improvements to Paint and Puzzle, game is almost playable [Nicola Salmoria]

 

Taito F3 Improvements [bryan McPhail]

Recalhorn now up to a playable standard.  This game exposed some bugs in the

way the sprite renderer handled the special command bits (ie, the sprite

list jump command occurs _after_ the current sprite has been processed, not

before, plus bankswitch & global positioning flags can be set on the same

sprite - they aren't exclusive, all makes perfect sense from a hardware

point of view).  These fixes really should be put into taito_f2 and hybrid

f3 games as well, though I doubt it will make any visual difference.

 

Command War is playable too, except for the fact a layer doesn't seem to

disappear when in the fighting sequence, and it's offset by 8 pixels in the

movement sequence.

 

Rohga driver Improvements [bryan McPhail]

Rohga - Despite massive amounts of time spent on writing trojan's to probe

the protection this still isn't complete.  The game hangs at the end of

level 5.  A quick look at decoprot.c should reveal just how nasty this game

is...  Graphics emulation is complete but the priority register never seems

to be written properly (protection?) so some things look wrong.

 

Schmeiser Robo - Not working 100%.  The game puts graphics info through the

protection chip so in this case the game looks wrong even though the

gameplay is actually running correctly.  Uses a strange double buffer

feature of the protection chip that the Deco games don't (seem to) use.

 

Truco Clemente driver [Ernesto Corvi]

This is as good I could get it working...

Problems:

- Wrong Colors

- Audio is not 100% yet, I think.

 

The board is definitely a conversion of some other board. My guess is a

Pacman-style board, since

some of the addresses match (watchdog, etc). Maybe somebody more

familiar with those type

of boards can figure out if they used the same color proms (I tried the

MsPacman ones, and didn't

match).

 

SPI background Decryption improvements [Ville Linde]

 

Fixed mrtnt colours (verified to use pacman proms) [vernimark]

 

Hyperstone core fixes [Tomasz Slanina, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Tomasz Slanina

- Added "undefined" C flag to shift left instructions

 

Pierpaolo Prazzoli

- Added interrupts-block for delay instructions

- Fixed get_emu_code_addr

- Added LDW.S and STW.S instructions

- Fixed floating point opcodes

 

 

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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Super Pang (Japan) [Nicola Salmoria]

set was decrypted, game now working

 

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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Wizz Quiz [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Miss Bingo [brian Troha]

 

Recalhorn [brian McPhail]

may crash on hi-score screen

 

Command War [brian McPhail]

still some clipping / layer problems

 

Vamp 1/2 [Angelo Salese, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

first working hyperstone based game

 

Truco Clemente [Ernesto Corvi]

some graphical problems (see notes above)

 

New Non-Working games / clones supported

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Alien Command [Angelo Salese]

parts of the hardware still unemulated

 

Schmeiser Robo [bryan McPhail]

protection issues

I was checking out to see if there were any updates on some emulators that I have my eye on and over at the PCSX2, the most promising PS2 emulator, they have screenshots of Akira Psycho Ball and Way of the Samurai 2 running. It's still at an unplayable stage but it still looks good. Props to the PCSX2 team for their continued effort.

You can check out the screenshots at their home page:

http://www.pcsx2.net/index.php

Also, one of the PCSX2 team members, asadr, was on "The First Ever Emulation Talk Show" and you can listen to the interview here: http://www.speakemulation.tk/

>>Official Site: http://www.pcsx2.net/index.php

Better late than never.

http://haze.mame.net

0.86u5

 

General Improvements:

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Cleaned up some MESS related code [Nathan Woods]

 

Improved inputs in rabbit [deadscreem]

 

Fixed drakton dipswitches [David Widel]

 

Improvements to Exciting Soccer II protection handling [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

rongrong dipswitch fixes [sonikos]

 

Adjusted sound frequency in crospang [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

fixed dips in subs & fixed chelnov inputs [iñigo Luja]

 

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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(New) Multi 5 [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

New Non-Working games / clones supported

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Recalhorn (prototype)

Command Wars (prototype)

these have been added to the taito_f3 driver but both have serious issues