Now, I love Joystiq lot. So here are all 360 related news. Mostly to do with TGS'200707. You know, that other huge event of the year. Thank god for live blogging. Italics means I just plainly ripped it off and too lazy to type into words, otherly known as a "quote."

It is now confirmed that pics of Ninja Gaiden II put up by 360 Japan are real and will be on 360 exclusively (Tamco is NOT publishing it). And it's pretty god damn bloody. Not a bad thing. Also, a wild trailer appears! RAINING BLOOOOOOD.

Microsoft confirmed that Tetsuya Mizuguchi's melodic shooter will soon make you hear everything you see and see everything you hear on Xbox Live Arcade. Other things you'll see are waves of hypnotic bullets (Ikaruga), saviors adorned with fine hats (EXIT), pulsating geometric shapes (Every Extend Extra Extreme), flying robots (Omega Five) and... er, some sort of Japanese car (Triggerheart Exelica)? No release dates have been announced for any of the games, though we suspect none of them are likely to come soon enough.

360 Controllers in blue and pink on the way, sometime at the end of this year. (Pink will be pre-ordered for my enjoyment of all things pink).

Hironobu Sakaguchi's Lost Oddysey is due out at the end of this year in Japan, and Febuary 2008 in West and probably a month or two afterwards in PAL territories.

Project Gotham 4 is hitting up Japan on 10/11 and comes with a very enjoyable surprise!

Ace Combat 6 (exclusive to 360 for some months) set for 01/11 in Japan.

Dynasty Warriors 6 set for both 360 & PS3 sometime in Nov and is playable on the floor.

Devil May Cry 4 is set for sometime early next year for 360, unknown for PS3 at this time (Most aim for Q4 of 07).

Tri-Ace's sexy new RPG was shown (still sexy). TBA on release date, published by Square Enix. Hope for a trailer sometime soon.

The Last Remnant, also looking very sexy, showed off some real time in game stuff, but sadly isn't playable on the floor. TBA on release date, published by Squeenix.

Everything pretty much came from here.

So yeah, LOVE Joystiq and their love techniques. Still on the look out for the Nintendo and Sony ones.

- You "wizard" shock!

DS emulator

New translation for iDeaS, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Leandro.

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Rom Manager

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* fixed: empty fix case setname prompt for some non existing parents

* misc: set+case check also checks chd subfolder names now

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Multi-system emulator

0.8.4-rc2:

 

Added meaningful descriptions to the command.* settings.

 

PC-FX: Added an experimental feature to use mmap() to create a virtual 32-bit address space to speed up V810 instruction reads. Enable by setting "pcfx.use_mmap" to 1. Of course, it won't work on 32-bit CPUs! Please read the documentation, there are caveats!

 

PC-FX: Removed some redundant logic in the KING BG 8x1 drawing functions.

 

PC-FX: FX VCE and VDC port access are now emulated as 16-bit, as in the real PC-FX, instead of 8-bit.

 

PC-FX: Altered the debugger's memory peek and disassembly functions to not read the emulated memory map in the 0x80000000-0xEFFFFFFF region. (Reading those addresses can cause side effects, and this is a temporary workaround)

 

PC-FX: Changed the V810 memory read handlers to read RAM faster than BIOS ROM. This will probably increase host CPU usage while in the BIOS loading screen, but decrease it in the actual game.

 

PC-FX: Altered the V810 opcode fetch logic to do 16-bit reads instead of 32-bit, fixing potential crash issues

when Mednafen is run on CPUs that don't support unaligned memory accesses.

 

PC-FX: Factored-out a few address masks in the memory read and write handlers.

 

PC-FX: Replaced most of the V810 signed-variable bit-size converting code that uses conditional branches to code that uses 2 shifts, taking advantage of modern 2's-complement CPU's arithmetic right-shift capabilities. It reduces generated machine code size slightly, and should provide a slight speed boost as well.

 

PC-FX: Optimized V810 address mode decoding by removing an unnecessary conditional jump.

 

Added an important warning to the documentation regarding Mednafen's ripped CD image support:

 

Mednafen does *not* correct bit errors in the user data of "raw" data track rips. It is strongly recommended to use "cooked" data track rips(2048 bytes/sector for mode 1, not counting any subchannel data) with Mednafen.

 

PC-FX: Improved exception handling, and added untested emulation of the TRAP instruction.

 

Debugger: Rewrote the memory load and dump functions to be faster, and also to fix a bug in the load function that would trash memory if the user tried to load more data than the specified file contained.

 

Debugger: Using the Goto function will no longer cause memory edit mode to be exited.

 

Debugger: Fixed a bug that occurred when entering a prompt(goto, change charset, etc.) while in editing mode, that caused keyboard focus to be misdirected.

 

SexyAL: The ALSA driver will try to set smaller period sizes when lower playback rates are used.

 

GBA: Changed the heuristics used to detect SRAM/Flash usage, though they're still not perfect...if a game tries to use flash memory improperly, it could be detected as using SRAM instead, or silently corrupt parts of flash memory...

 

GB: Fixed sound register initialization on reset, fixes missing sound in A Boy and His Blob

 

GB: Slightly increased the contrast of GBC colors.

 

GB: Reworked blitting of mono GB colors for future features.

 

GB: Removed a redeclaration of a variable in the same scope in a function in gfx.cpp.

 

Debugger: Fixed PCE VRAM breakpoints to work with block memory transfer instructions.

 

Debugger: Fixed parsing of single-address breakpoints after range breakpoints.

 

Mednafen will now print out SDL version information when it starts.

 

(The Win32 build will now be distributed with SDL 1.2.12)

 

Debugger: Fixed -/+ opacity adjustment to not be done when entering text(such as in a dialog).

 

Debugger: Fixed null termination of the ASCII string buffer displayed in the memory watch section.

 

PCE, PC-FX: Fixed the frequency of the highest-frequency noise generation register setting, hopefully!

 

PCE, PC-FX: Changed the LFSR to 16-bit, and to use a maximized tap configuration, to make the noise sound a bit closer to a real PC Engine's(at least, in my opinion! It still sounds slightly more bassy than a real PC Engine, but that might be due to filters on the PC Engine's sound output...).

 

Non-power-of-2-sized-textures will not be used when a pixel shader is selected and enabled, to prevent a severe graphical corruption regression introduced in 0.8.3-beta. I'm not sure if it's a problem with Mednafen's pixel shaders or the graphics card...

 

SMS: Fixed soft reset.

 

SexyAL: Removed smallc.c, and modified the OSS driver to use snprintf() instead of the single function smallc.c provided.

 

SexyAL: "sexyal.h" is now included before all other header files.

 

SexyAL: Revamped parts of the ALSA driver to fix reported lockup issues under certain conditions.

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