XGaming, creators of the X-Arcade, are having an Independence Day Sale for the X-Arcade Solo Joystick! Been having a lot of fun on CPS3 emulation, but only on your keyboard? This is your chance to get the arcade feel with a very low price to pay. Usually XGaming doesn't drop their prices this low, so grab it while it lasts!

The X-Arcade Solo is now available for $69.95 after a $30.00 mail in rebate. Purchase the X-Arcade Solo Joystick here.

In other news, XGaming has released their new PS3 Adapter. You can now use your X-Arcade with the Playstation 3! You can purchase the PS3 adapter here. They also have adapters for other consoles including Nintendo Wii/GameCube, Sega Dreamcast, XBOX, and PSX/PS2. You can find the others here.

Check out these 2 very funny and very amazing videos of babies and their ways of interacting with the Nintendo Wii!

Wee Wii Mii - 22-month old video gamer

Thanks to Olaf!

Baby laughing at the Wii

Another baby laughing

Seems an appropriate enough location for this, the latest public beta form this cycle is out, news:

- rom scanner detects overdumped roms again

- added "(SK)" to A3000 KS 1.3 ROM name (SuperKickstart disk rip, this version has never been in ROM chip format, only included because it comes with AF)

- removed A4091 boot rom from scan result dialog (NCR SCSI won't be implemented in next version)

- removed add host scsi from advanced chipset (not working)

- added more rom choices to "highend" configuration

- rom scanner didn't write full path to registry (zipped roms)

- command line configuration parameters accept compressed configuration files ("-f myconfigurations.zip\myconfig.uae")

- some dms compressed files failed to decompress and also took very long time to finish

- disk history is updating correctly again

- new rtg.library version number bump. added warning if older library is installed. NOTE: new rtg.library is fully compatible with older (Win)UAE versions.

- disabled CDTV debug logging

- hrtmon works again

- gzip decompression works again

»» Grab it here

CPS3 Tile Compression Part 3

Sean’s Stage in SFIII New Generation uses a different compression scheme to the other games. For some reason, Capcom decided that one stage, in one game would use a different system. The Compression used on this level supports 8bpp tiles instead of 6, thus allowing for more colours, but a less efficient compression scheme. I’ve spent some time looking at this, and mostly figured out how it works. There are still a few problems, but I now have reocgnizable background tiles at least.

http://haze.mameworld.info/2007/06/27/cps3...ression-part-3/

Thanks to James and Hawq for the news!