We just felt Europe's pain. Sony has announced that they will not be cutting the price of the European PlayStation 3 and they will not be offering the 80GB PS3 at this time either. To compensate, Sony will offer a "starter pack" at the respective countries current price. For example, in England, the £425 PS3 will allegedly have an extra £115 of content included as well. No word yet on what that will be.

So, um, yeah. There's speculation of a second price cut in the States before the end of the year and Europe just can't get any love. Hey, at least for this they've got universal healthcare, good cheese, cheap wine ... we're just trying to find the silver lining in this. Sorry.

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Multi-system emulator

The latest version is 0.117. Note that this fully-packaged version is deprecated due to the fast-moving nature of MESS development, but I’ll update it on integer MESS releases. New in this version: all the goodies from SDLMAME 0.117 and a few extra fixes.

>> Get it HERE.

SMS emulator for PSP

SMS Plus PSP 1.2.1 is a port of Charles MacDonald’s SMS Plus emulator.

New Features

 

v1.2.1

Initial release

Source and Downloads: http://psp.akop.org/smsplus/

Multi-system emulator

0.117

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Data General/One (not working) (Joe)

 

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [A2600] Add auto-banking detection for all known carts [Cowering]

 

- [A2600] Add auto-controller detection for INDY500, KIDVID, COMPUMATE, BOOSTERGRIP and other special controllers [Cowering]

 

- [A2600] Improved sound poly generation. Improved handling of sound mode POLY5_DIV3. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Fixed reset behavior. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Added partial DPC support. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [APPLE2GS] Line-by-line video engine. Some border effects almost work, and the CPU requirements are now lower. [R. Belmont]

 

- [AIM65, SYM1] Updated drivers to use the MAME 6532 RIOT implementation. Also cleaned the AIM65 machine driver and ran srcclean.exe on the files. [Dirk Best]

 

- [DGNBETA] Fixed up for new 6821PIA behavior, machine will now boot again. (bug #1309) [Phill Harvey-Smith]

 

- [JAGUAR] Added the .j64 file extension. [Justin Kerk]

 

- [NASCOM] Unified drivers using selectable BIOSes. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [NC100] Unified drivers using selectable BIOSes. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [NC100] Fixed assertion. (bug #1305) [Nate Woods]

 

- [sVI328] Unified drivers using selectable BIOSes. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [X68000] Fix to mark tilemaps as dirty when written to. [barry Rodewald]

 

- [ZX81] Unified drivers using selectable BIOSes. [Fabio Priuli]

 

 

 

User Interface Changes:

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- Fixed changing of drives within the file manager. (bug #1264) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

- Removed usage of OS working directories within the file manager. [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.117*. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

 

- Changed BBC, Coleco, MTX, Sord, and Tutor drivers to use the SN76489 or SN76489A sound chips as appropriate instead of the SN76496. [Justin Kerk]

 

- Various 64-bit fixes. [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

- Converted some timer_*() calls to mame_timer_*(). [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

- Changed devices_allocate() to not use auto_malloc(); a consequence is that a devices_free() call is now necessary. (bug #1293) [Nate Woods]

 

- Removed MESS implementation of the 6532 RIOT because we are now using the implementation by MAME. [Dirk Best]

>> Get it HERE.

* As advised by MESSDEV (there is an error in the messnew.txt).