Release notes for 1.84 - November 19th, 2007

 

* The latest news items in your Clans and Guilds (part of the *beta* Clans & Guild system) are now displayed in the infoview when you login or select a clan.

* Added the ability to create custom, public or private forums associated with your clan or guild (select Edit Forums on your clan or guild page).

* Added server info in the infoview for Call of Duty 4, including colorized names.

* Added the ability to create chat rooms and invite people to chat rooms from Xfire In-Game 2.0.

* Added Xfire In-Game support for Direct3D 10 games (Hellgate: London, Fury, and Crysis).

* Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse to the following games: 2 Moons Axis and Allies Codename: Panzers, Phase 1 Codename: Panzers, Phase 2

Dark Messiah Multiplayer Dark Messiah Single Player EverQuest II Beta Far Cry

Gunz the Duel Hitman: Blood Money HL Deathmatch Source HL2 CTF

HL2 Lost Coast Medal of Honor: Airborne - Demo Micro Machines V4 MotoGP URT 3

Mythos Neocron NHL07 Panzer Command

Prince of Persia: Two Thrones Project Snowblind MP Project Snowblind SP Rogue Trooper

Rush for Berlin Scarface Scions of Fate Shadow Grounds

Silent Hunter III Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific Sin Episodes: Emergence Spiderman 3

Star Wars Battlefront Supreme Commander Swords of the Stars Swords of the Stars Demo

The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II Beta The Saga of Ryzom The Settlers II - 10th Anniversary Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 Titan Quest Demo TMNT TMNT Demo

Toca Race Driver 3 Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Tortuga - Two Treasures Trackmania Sunrise

Tribes Vengeance Tribes Vengeance Multiplayer Demo Tycoon City - New York Vampire - Masquerade Bloodlines

Vanguard - Saga of Heroes World in Conflict - BETA X3 - The Reunion Xpand Rally

 

* New games supported: City Life Deluxe, Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar, CSPromod Beta, 8BallClub, Worldwide Soccer Manager 2008, Football Manager 2008, Clive Barker's Jericho, Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties, Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper, Crysis SP Demo, Painkiller: Overdose, SunAge, Luminary: Rise of Goonzu, The Witcher, TimeShift, Happy Feet, NBA Live 08, Taito Legends, Perfect World, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, Empire Earth III, FEAR Perseus Mandate, Gears of War, Dawn of War Soulstorm, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition, and Crysis. This brings us to over 1000 games supported!

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EMULATORS

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Official Source and Binaries: Here, Here, or Here

WolfMAME

MameUI

MAME32XT

MAMEUIFX32

SDLMAME

SDLMAME for the G4 mac

MAME plus! / Mirror

NEO-ARC MAME32 Plus!

Neht-builds

DATS

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Story.dat / mamescore.ini / default.el

MAMEinfo.dat, Category-, Version and Alltime inifiles

History.dat 1.21

NPlayers.ini

Rankings.ini

AGEMAME

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Official Release

NOTES

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MAME Plus (whatever) 0.121 released with console support

 

Enlightened from this thread, we integrated MESS core into MAME Plus in the hope that MESS would get wider attention that it deserves.

 

"console games tend to push things harder than arcade ones, and often abuse chips in ways the arcade games don't", so that console emulation may potentially improve the level of accuracy in MAME. currently we have 3 drivers (ie. NES, SNES, Genesis) enabled, to evaluate console emulation in the MAME framework. we prefer not to have a fixed game list, as the MESS window UI already gives a console-ish emulator look and feel.

 

whether MAME 'Plus' still bears the name of MAME is merely a philosophical opinion.

 

* updated Japanese mameinfo (0.120u4 11/19) [mame e2j]

* update Simplified Chinese text [emuman]

* updated Traditional Chinese text [YuiFAN]

* updated mame statistics [bUT]

* fixed to compile with NO_DLL version [bUT]

* fixed to compile with TINY target [bUT]

* removed HazeMD support [emuman]

* completely removed osd_so.h [bUT]

* updated Japanese list (jplist0120u4_1118.zip) [mamelist jp]

* integrated MESS core into MAMEPlus [emuman, BUT]

* updated catver [s_bastian]

New translations added :

* Airwolf (France) par Arkatrad.

* Bad Dudes Vs Dragonninja (France) par Arkatrad.

* Mortal Kombat II (France) par Arkatrad.

 

This makes a total of 56 translations.

Added

 

* The King of Fighters 2002 (Remix Ultra SDM, ver.2.5, Jason [FGCH] Hack)

* Ninja Master's (Boss, Ydmis/ Creamymami Hack)

 

Updated

 

* The King of Fighters '97 (Boss, Yukimura Hack)

* Metal Slug X (Style Remix, KrysoFun/KVS Hack)

* Metal Slug 2 (Style Remix, Ydmis Hack)

 

Removed

 

* Mess drivers from latest Mameplus source

* but mess toolbar options is enable in game

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Gameboy emulator

2.04 (2007-11-19)

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- Bugs Fixed:

* Fixed a hanging bug when loading saved data from a real cartridge of Gameboy Camera to KiGB. Thanks Chloe for the notification and the valuable information.

* Fixed a crash bug when meeting the last boss of Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land. Thank Chris Taylor for the notification.

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SNES emulator

2007-11-18 - bsnes v0.026 released

Since the last public release, I've completely rewritten the memory mapping and cartridge loading systems. With this, I've added preliminary support for the Broadcast Satellaview (BS-X), however very few BS-X games will run at this time. I've also switched compilers from Visual C++/8 to MinGW/GCC4, which grants a ~5-10% speedup over the previous release.

 

Changelog:

 

* Major source code cleanup

* Completely rewrote memory mapper to support runtime MMCs

* Updated S-DD1 MMC to use new memory mapping interface

* Improved S-DD1 emulation, thanks to information from orwannon

* Added support for SameGame -- load via "Load Special -> Load BS-X Slotted Cart" menu option

* Completely rewrote cartridge loader to support BS-X, BS-X slotted carts and ST carts

* Created custom dialog windows for multicart loading

* Improved generic memory mapper, which eliminates the need for cart.db [Nach]

* Added BS-X slotted cart detection to generic memory mapper [Nach]

* Linux port will now ignore keypresses when window is inactive

* Linux port will use much less CPU power when idle

* Added detailed compilation instructions to Makefile for Linux port

* Added "make install" target and PNG program icon for Linux port

* Switched Windows compiler to MinGW/GCC4

* Windows executable is now packed with UPX to decrease filesize

* Removed .ufo, .gd7 and .078 ROM extensions; added .bs extension

* Added preliminary support for the BS-X base unit, BS-X base cartridge + MMC, and BS-X flash I/O

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