Release notes for 1.90April 7th, 2008

* *beta* Added remote videos to the videos tab.

* *beta* Added recent videos in infoviews when you select a friend.

* *beta* Video uploads now work with videos that can be rendered with DirectShow filters on your computer. In particular, if you edit a video with Windows Movie Maker, Xfire will be able to convert it and upload it to your profile page.

* *beta* Video capture can now create .avi files larger than 2 gigabytes.

* *beta* Upload progress is displayed properly during video uploads.

* *beta* Fixed sound device screwup after capturing audio with a video.

* Standard skin is no longer being maintained or distributed; old versions of this skin do still work, however.

* Xfire full installer no longer works on Windows 98 or Windows ME; previously installed copies of Xfire will continue to auto-upgrade and function.

* New games supported:

Pirates, Vikings and Knights II 	Worms 2 	Savage 2: A Tortured Soul 	Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst
Pirateville 	Upshift StrikeRacer 	Glest 	WorldShift Beta
Seven Kingdoms: Conquest 	Powerboat GT 	Chessmaster 10th Edition 	Red Baron Arcade
The Shield 	Mind Quiz 	Ricochet Infinity 	Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
Lost Empire: Immortals 	Hard Truck 2 	Lights Out 	SWAT 3
The Sims Carnival: BumperBlast 	The Sims Carnival: SnapCity 	Toribash 	Osu!
Pet Luv Spa and Resort Tycoon 	Perfect Dark: Source 	Trials 2 Second Edition Demo 	Synergy

Xfire

A tool - NPDecryptor - has been released by CipherUpdate that can crack the DRM protection on PlayStation Network-bought titles like flOw and Beats, and allow them to run on any PSP unit. So far piracy of these titles has been impossible. The catch? The title can only be cracked on a unit it is licensed for and then re-distributed to others without the restriction.

Basically re-releases of these titles will start becoming available that can boot using the NP9660 UMD driver in Custom Firmware 3.90 M33. That said, the tool itself is something you probably don't need to use yourself, especially if you respect the value and ingenuity of PlayStation Network products. Consider this post for personal edification only. But if you really, really want to... the link is below.

[Download]

Source: PSP Generation.

Arcade emulator

more fixes.

I release this because of some quite important fixes (mainly the broken 8bpp mode, the cave driver for raine, and the possible crashes in neoraine when changing the cd song). See the changelogs for details.

 

By the way, the big thing for this version was supposed to be the console, but it's not finished. For now the scripts it allows to create can't be executed, and if you call it from a game using a keyboard shortcut, you'll get some graphical glitches. So for experts only for now, type help in it to have instructions... I'll need a break before I can finish this...

 

raine (0.50.12)

 

* A better fix for the problem in the cave driver, and this time I found and fixed a bug with disappearing sounds. It was most noticeable with guwange, after a while you didn't hear your own shots anymore !

* fix 8bpp mode (when launching raine on an 8bpp desktop), broken in many places (crashes, palette, etc...).

* There was a possibility of crash when reseting a game with f1 and sound was playing.

 

 

neoraine (1.1.4)

 

* Fixed a few problems when switching between yuv layers and normal blits

* Disabled double buffer for the gui in windows, this makes a lot of things much easier and already improves the look of some parts of the gui

* Fixed the message "loading error" on some games.

* neoraine could crash on a cd song change sometimes (thread bug - it's a one which happens only if you are unlucky !). It's fixed now.

* The colors selection dialog gains some sliders controls, and you can now change the fg color to any color (if you chose a dark color in previous versions, you got something very ugly !). Notice that alpha is ignored for fg color, but it's better this way, transparent text becomes unreadable !

* fix 8bpp mode (when launching neoraine on an 8bpp desktop), broken in many places (crashes, palette, etc...).

* Prevent a possible crash when reseting a game, and prevent graphics corruption when reseting during the 1st animation while the fix area is being loaded

>> Get them HERE.

Atari ST emulator

Release Name: Hatari v1.0.1

 

Notes:

- This is just a bug-fix release, without new features.

- Fixed some compile problems on non-unix-like systems (like MingW).

- Fixed crashes in Spec512 emulation code ("Dan Dare 3" and little endian ARM).

- Blitter source address is not incremented anymore in operation mode 0 and 15.

- STE small overscan video effect is now displayed on the left side instead of the right side (fixes "Just Musix 2" menu for example).

- Hatari now works on 256 color displays right again.

- Fixed PSG mirror register emulation (fixes e.g. sample sound in "Ooh Crikey Wot A Scorcher" demo).

>> Get it HERE.