2009-03-28

Raine 0.51.4

RaineRaine 0.51.4 is released.RAINE is an Emulator for Arcade games.Raine is a M68000 and M68020 arcade game emulator.Raine emulates some M68000 and M68020 arcade games and is mainly focused on Taito and Jaleco games hardware.It started as an experiment with the Rainbow Islands romset, dumped by Aracorn/Romlist. Raine can emulate many nice games now, and new games (previously unemulated) are appearing weekly.

Raine 0.51.4 Changelog:
* Reset game in "Game Options" in the gui now immediately returns to the game
* gui: The font size is checked every time the video mode changes now, which avoids a glitch where the dialogs might be unreadable after changing the video mode.
* Improvements to the gui, fixes some display bugs, and the file/dir selector gains a title.

Download: Raine 0.51.4(Windows binary)

NeoRaine v1.2.5

EmuCR:Neo Geo CD emulatorNeoRaine v1.2.5 is released. NeoRaine is a fast Neo Geo CD emulator. NeoRaine is a fast emulator for the old Neo Geo CD game console, based on neocdpsp.It does not try to emulate the raster effects. As a result, "Riding Hero" is unplayable because it simulates 3D effects using raster interrupts.All other Neo Geo CD games should work.Similar like what MESS is to MAME, NeoRaine shares code with the main project Raine and is developed alongside, so the source code is distributed together.

NeoRaine v1.2.5 changelog:
* Fix a rare cache corruption bug (which could load some bad sprites in some very specific cases).
* Better handling of commands to restart the same audio track (previously it was interpreted as unpause command)
* Better support of cue files with multiple audio files in them (previously some files could very well not be found).
* Support for starting indexes for audio tracks in cue files.

Download:NeoRaine v1.2.5

PCSX2 SVN r848

wiiPCSX2 SVN r848 is released.PCSX2 is a PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator for the Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. With the most recent versions, many PS2 games are playable (although speed limitations have made play-to-completion tests for many games impractical), and several games are claimed to have full functionality.

PCSX2 Rev.831 Changelog:
- Nneeve fixed the Tri-Ace gamefix so Gradius5 doesn't crash with it enabled anymore.
- Moved one global variable for the VU interpreters, which surprisingly speeds up Star Ocean 3 for me.
- Set Flush to Zero for FPU and VU back to on. Let's see how long it lasts this time :p
- Removed the FFX hack from pcsx2! It's still toggled in the GS plugins, the correct behaviour is having it always on."

Download: PCSX2 SVN r848
Download: PCSX2 Plugins

FB Alpha Megadrive Test

FB Alpha Megadrive Test is released.This is a test version of FB Alpha with just the Megadrive games enabled. There have been significant improvements to the current released version..

The following is a list of the major changes:
- Greatly improved timing
Changed the YM2612 to use the 68K for timing since the Z80 can be disabled
Properly Supported PAL
Updated the reset routine to support switching between PAL and NTSC timings
- Changed to MAME's Z80 core - works much better
- Basic SRAM support
- Added support for most games that require special banking, etc.
- General Tidy-up and fix of many small things
- Tested many games and the vast majority work well

Download: FB Alpha Megadrive Test

Ootake v2.09

Ootake v2.08 is released.Ootake is a PC Engine emulator for Windows. Ootake is the most frequently updated PC Engine emulator available for windows, and Ootake is also one of the more complete. Also, Ootake is FREE unlike Magic Engine.

Ootake v2.09 changelog:
- "HighQuality" button was added to the options menu (Option button after started). Please use it when you want to make it to "High setting of quality from default" easily. Processing becomes heavy a little.
- The speed and timing were elaborately brought close to a real machine. In "Star Breaker", the problem that had been freezed (generated from v1.62) was solved. In the third stage boss of "Mizubaku Daibouken", the problem that the lower side of the remainder life display had flickered (generated by a recent version) was solved. I think a lot of other software to have approached the movement of a real machine (especially, timing of picture of
the visual scene and the sound).
- Additionally, a detailed part has been improved and corrected.

Download: Ootake v2.09

SSF Ver0.10 Alpha R2

EmuCR:SS EmulatorsSSF Ver0.10 Alpha R2 is released.SSF is a Sega Saturn emulator for Windows systems using DirectX 9.0b. The current version claims near-complete implementation of the Sega Saturn hardware (not counting emulation bugs), and can emulate the Saturn based Sega Titan Video arcade hardware too. As with most emulators, CDs or disc images are not included and have to be owned separately. The BIOS is also not included; as of 0.07 Beta R3, games run without the BIOS however. The usage of BIOS files is optional but recommended for better compatibility, and needed for tasks such as management of the contents of the internal memory of the Sega Saturn, or setting the system clock.

SSF Ver0.10 Alpha R2 Changelog:
- Fixed a memory access process.
- SH2 was modified to handle the DMA.
- SMPC was modified to handle the clock change.
- VDP2 Fixed a rendering of the plane of rotation.
- BIOS emulating processing was corrected.
- State data saved version has changed.
- SH2 modification process as the DMA, DMA established a similar option to the actual behavior.

Download: SSF Ver0.10 Alpha R2