Jeff Kurtz has released his dev kit for Neo Geo programming. With this tool out to the public, who knows what sorts of goodies it may bring to the Neo Geo Emulation scene. Only time will tell.

Download the NeoDev Library now!

http://haze.mame.net/

0.86u4

 

CPU / Sound Core Improvements

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M37710 update [R.Belmont]

* Added support for externally-pulsed timers (Prop

Cycle uses this to read the pedals

 

General Improvements:

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Reorganised and cleaned up the kaneko16.c and related drivers splitting protection

related code into a separate file [sebastien Volpe]

 

Tile Flipping in NCV2 [Mark McDougall]

 

Preliminary background zoom in HNG64 [David Haywood]

 

Misc name changes [Darren Hatton]

 

Fixed broken controls in Hydra [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

 

Misc changes [Curt Coder]

* Lovely Cards

drivers/lvcards.c

vidhrdw/lvcards.c

- Converted to use tilemaps

- Fixed tile rendering, the tile ROM is not a bad dump, the gfx routine was bad!

 

* Outrunners

drivers/multi32.c

- Changed name to "OutRunners" as per title screen and flyers

 

* Sonic the Hedgehog

drivers/system32.c

drivers/segac2.c

- Changed "Sonic the Hedgehog" to "Sonic The Hedgehog". "The" is Sonic's

middle name according to "The Ultimate History of Video Games", p. 428:

''The "T" in Sonic The Hedgehog is capitalized. Sega Marketing wizard Al

Nilsen had the "The" registered as Sonic's middle name.''

- Changed "The Revenge Of Shinobi" to "The Revenge of Shinobi"

- Changed "MegaPlay" to "Mega Play" as per system16.com

 

Hooked up eeprom in rabbit driver [R.Belmont]

 

Some improvements to tmmjprds in rabbit driver [David Haywood]

 

Added sound to SWA [R.Belmont]

 

Improvements to SPI decryption [Ville Linde]

 

Beast Busters DSW fix [iñigo Luja]

 

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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Hot Blocks - Tetrix II [David Haywood]

eeprom not hooked up

 

Fighting Basketball [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

some problems with sprites flickering, incomplete sound emulation

 

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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Tetris (B-System, YM2203 sound) [Charles MacDonald]

Street Fighter II' - Hyper Fighting (World 921209) [smf]

 

New Non-Working games / clones supported

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Paint & Puzzle [David Haywood]

work on this is being continued by another dev

The long awaited Samurai Shodown 5 Special was released today and of course were here to cover it! We already have confirmed that it works, however there is some minor bugs that will be fixed under the course of this month most likely.

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A new version of the XBOX emulator, CxBx, has been released and you can download it from it's homepage. At its current stage it can play Turok: Evolution at very nice speeds. Here is a quote from one of Caustik's (the author) latest updates:

These screenshots are taken on my GeForce FX 5600 (2.8 ghz P4). Turok is completely playable and suffers from only mild glitches like missing polygons and water effects. The gameplay is very smooth, frames per second are real-time. It is even possible to overclock Cxbx and play at 4x+ speed without choking the system.

You can also see a video of Turok running on CxBx on it's homepage. Thanks to Caustik for this great work and his continued effort on this next generation emulator. Here is a picture of it:

You can find more pictures of it in action at the homepage.

Also, this is an open source project so if any of you are interested you can get the source code from here.

>> Official Homepage: CxBx: The Xbox Emulator