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.

http://haze.mame.net

Some of the 2001 games have been readded

0.84u3

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Driver Improvements:

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- Fixed graphics crashing, palette, sprites, and some networking

registers in Final Lap. [R. Belmont]

 

- Several Seibu SPI fixes. [Ville Linde]

* Removed all remaining sound hacks

* Added some missing i386 opcodes

* Added support for external read/write handlers to

the YMF271 (required for SPI flash ROM updating mode).

* Hooked up flash ROMs via the new YMF271 support.

* Fixed various crash bugs in rf2_us, rf2_2k, and

rf2_eur.

 

- Added a DMA kludge to get Derby Quiz My Dream Horse to boot. [R. Belmont]

 

- Major rewrite of the Portraits driver. [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

- fixed scrolling

- fixed screen resolution

- added NVRAM

- added fake photo when you get the best score

- fixed service switches and coins

- added missing roms and the 2nd set

 

- Fixed save states in the m62 and mnight drivers. [Andrew Gardner]

 

- Fixed the PSX SIO timer so that it only fires when there is data to

send & processes one bit per tick. [smf]

 

- Cleaned up and reorganized the DCS sound module. This required changing

the way ROMs are loaded for all of the DCS-using games. [Aaron Giles]

 

 

Changes to the main program:

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- Fixed crash in the MIPS core introduced with the u2 changes. [Aaron Giles]

 

- Changed the "driver.status" entry in -listxml to summarize all the status

entries allowing frontends to completely ignore all the other flags.

[Andrea Mazzoleni]

 

- Fixed the generic_fopen() function to ensure that a rom CRC is present

before using it. Otherwise, for NO_DUMP roms an uninitialized

string variable is used in the search. [Andrea Mazzoleni]

 

- Added the ability to tweak the refresh rate if -cheat is enabled.

Use SHIFT to modify by 0.1fps, CONTROL to modify by 0.01fps, and

ALT to modify by 0.001fps. [Aaron Giles]

 

 

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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Digger (CVS) [Mike Coates]

Trivia Genius [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Vasara 2 (2 sets)

Gunbarich

Monster Farm Jump

 

 

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

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Portraits (set 2) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Twin Falcons [brian Troha]

 

 

New Non-Working games / clones supported

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Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (Euro 950424) [Razoola]

Mortal Kombat 4 [Aaron Giles]

Invasion [Aaron Giles]

Cruisin' Exotica [Aaron Giles]

The Grid [Aaron Giles

Many people have been sending me emails and messages about the release of Chankast Utilities. It is NOT dead, were still working on it for v0.25 and it will be released either today or tomorrow. We went through a bug and were almost done fixing it. Some new features will consist of AVI recording, you will be able to change the dreamcast cpu from CPU 1-65535 to increase speed performance and there will be multi-language, skinning support, and more!

~ Keep checking back for a release soon.

The open source Sega Saturn emulator, Cassini, has been released by the same team that brought us Barnito's GiriGiri Hack and Snail's GiriGiri hack. You can check it out over here. There you will be able to download the emulator without the BIOS for legal reasons, learn the history, see screenshots, and check the compatibility list.

We can all be sure that Team Cassini will accomplish even greater things in the future.

Here are the members of Team Cassini:

Barnito - Advertising, Hosting, Distribution

Lockshaw13 - lists and compatability

Slacker - lists and compatability

Iceman50 - resource acquisitions

SigmaX6, DWBrett - Beta testing

Snail - Coding

You can post your questions and comments at the Official Cassini Forum.

Official Cassini Website