Nestopia is a NES emulator for the Mac operating system.

Martin Freij e-mailed me to say he was finalising a new release of Nestopia less than an hour after yesterday's update. What are the chances? At any rate, here we go again; Nestopia v1.4.0

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Thanks to step1978 for the heads up on these two plugins. Here are the descriptions of both plugins according to him.

GSdx v0.1.8 Released!

Gabest has released a new version of GSdx. GSdx is a great GPU plugin for PCSX2. It supports DirectX 9 and DirectX 10.

Many core functions were rewritten since the last release, and the sw renderer is multiple times faster. I did not compare the speed of the d3d renderer, maybe that also gained a few fps. Game specific fixes are tedious to make, I don´t really have time to check all uploaded .gs, but I will eventually.

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xpad v0.1.0 Released!

xpad is a new Input Plugin for the Playstation 2 emulator PCSX2.

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And thanks again to our affiliate, AEP-Emulation, for the news!

Black Touch 96

 

Black Touch '96 is a Korean Beat 'em Up game. It dosen't seem to be related to the older 'Black Touch' (which is a hack of Dragon Punch.

 

My initial impression is that this is actually an original Korean game, rather than a hack. It uses a pretty wacky sprite system where all the sprites are made of strips a tilemap. I haven't quite figured out how it works yet. The text layer tile banking is also wrong.

 

Sound isn't emulated because the sound chips are driven by a PIC, which is probably read protected.

 

It of course has obligatory 'Girl between Levels' as found on many Korean games.

 

 

In other news, I took a look back at the Kaneko Supernova driver and fixed up the priorities for Cyvern. The Speed took a bit of a nosedive in the process, but it's a stunning game, and looks even better with proper rendering order.

 

 

These fixes also bring some missing graphics in Sen Know, Saru-Kani-Hamu-Zou, and Gals Panic S into view. Furthermore I've identified (but not yet fixed) the problem with bad zooming / flicking sprites in Sengeki Striker.

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Fuse is a free Unix Spectrum Emulator that has been ported to the Wii.

I'm releasing a preview of FUSE for the Wii. It still has a couple bugs and lacks a couple features, but it's very useable. FUSE is the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator by Philip Kendall, an emulator for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a home computer that was very popular in the 80s. For more information (and thousands of games!), see World of Spectrum.

 

You can download it here. Just unpack the archive under /apps on your SD card and run it.

 

Most Spectrum software assumes you have a keyboard attached (since the original Spectrum is an all-in-one home computer). FUSE for the Wii supports USB keyboards. You will probably need one.

 

When you run FUSE, you get the Spectrum 48K boot screen. You can now attach a USB keyboard and write BASIC programs!

 

You can also push the HOME button on your Wiimote. This brings up a menu that you can use to load Spectrum games from SD card. The A button selects a menu entry, the B button brings you up one menu. You should also tell FUSE to use your Wiimote as a Sinclair Joystick: Options->Joysticks->Joystick 1->Sinclair Joystick

 

Now, when you start a game, tell the game to use the Sinclair interface. Hold the Wiimote sideways so the 1&2 buttons are on the

right. The directional pad is your joystick, 2 is Fire button 1, 1 is Fire button 2.

 

To quit FUSE, bring up the menu and select File->Exit, press A on the question whether you really want to quit.

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Thanks to EmuBoards for the news!