EmuCR: Jan 4, 2011

2011-01-04

Dolphin SVN r6737

Dolphin SVN r6737 is released. Dolphin is the first Gamecube emulator able to run commercial games! Dolphin is a great Gamecube(NGC) and Wii emulator. It has a partial Wii support and plays most Gamecube games. SSSE3 and SSE4 optimized are enabled in this build.

EmuCenter2 v1.5.4 Beta

EmuCenter2 v1.5.4 Beta is released. EmuCenter2 is a simplistic interface that combines the best emulators of console video games for greater simplicity.

DOSBox SVN r3664

DOSBox SVN r3664 is released. DOSBox emulates an Intel x86 PC, complete with sound, graphics, mouse, joystick, modem, etc., necessary for running many old MS-DOS games that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and FreeBSD. However, it is not restricted to running only games. In theory, any MS-DOS or PC-DOS (referred to commonly as "DOS") application should run in DOSBox, but the emphasis has been on getting DOS games to run smoothly, which means that communication, networking and printer support are still in early development.

Homebrew Enabler for PSP 6.31 and 6.35

Homebrew Enabler for PSP 6.31 and 6.35 are released. Homebrew Enabler is an alternative homebrew launching method.

Fceux SVN r2087

Fceux SVN r2087 is released. FCEUX is a cross platform, NTSC and PAL Famicom/NES emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. Over time FCE Ultra had separated into many separate branches.The concept behind FCEUX is to merge elements from FCE Ultra, FCEU rerecording, FCEUXD, FCEUXDSP, and FCEU-mm into a single branch of FCEU. As the X implies, it is an all-encompassing FCEU emulator that gives the best of all worlds for the general player, the ROM-hacking community, and the Tool-Assisted Speedrun Community.

HalfNES v0.023

HalfNES v0.023 is released. HalfNES is an open-source emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System, written in Java. Currently, it only runs as a standalone Java SE application.

Savegame Deemer v1.11 for 6.20 TN

Savegame Deemer v1.11 for 6.20 TN is released. Savegame Deemer is a plugin that lets PSP users save their games' savedata in unencrypted form, making it easier for users to edit their savedata.

TI59 Emulator v1.0.1099.1

TI59 Emulator v1.0.1099.1 is released. TI59 Emulator is a Texas Instruments TI 59 emulator for Windows, Pocket PC, Smartphone and iPhone.

PUPView Beta

PUPView Beta is released. PUPView is a GUI application used to view and extract the contents of the PUP update files for the Playstation 3.

Classic99 v343

Classic99 v343 is released. Classic99 is a freeware TI-99/4A emulator for Windows 9x.

Nintendulator 0.975 beta (2011/01/03)

Nintendulator 0.975 beta (2011/01/03) is released. Nintendulator is an open source Win32 NES emulator written in C (plus some assembly optimization). The original goal was to emulate the NES down to its hardware quirks; though it's fallen behind over the years, recent builds have caught up once again and can emulate certain behaviors most other emulators neglect to handle. However, this emulation precision comes at a price - a 1500MHz (estimated) or faster CPU is required to emulate at full speed.

Pcejin SVN r175

Pcejin SVN r175 is released. Pcejin is a PC Engine / PCE CD-ROM / SuperGrafx Emulator. pcejin takes the accurate PCE emulation core in Mednafen and gives it a native Win32 interface and additional features.Mednafen-rr .mcm files can be loaded and converted with the Convert MCM menu item in the Tools menu, or the "Play Movie" hotkey. A mc2 file will be placed in the same directory as the mcm.

Dolphin SVN r6736

Dolphin SVN r6736 is released. Dolphin is the first Gamecube emulator able to run commercial games! Dolphin is a great Gamecube(NGC) and Wii emulator. It has a partial Wii support and plays most Gamecube games. SSSE3 and SSE4 optimized are enabled in this build.

Developing for PS3 Part 1

I got an email requesting a tutorial on how to develop for PS3. Its something that other people have previously asked me for assistance with which leads me to believe that there are probably more people lurking around here that want to get into homebrew development but need a little help doing it. So I figured I would write up a series of short tutorial and post them here for public consumption.

Jpcsp SVN r1948

Jpcsp SVN r1948 is released. JPCSP is a PlayStation Portable(PSP) emulator which is written in JAVA. JPCSP is the first PSP emulator that is written in JAVA. Most people think java is too slow. But Shadow and his team has proven us wrong. The newest Java versions are almost as fast as C which makes it very interesting for emu dev's. Shadow and his team are working day and night with pleasure on the emu, many coders have dedicated to the project. Because it's written in java many young devs find it interesting to learn how the emulator works.

DU Update: Games & Donations (2011/01/04)

We got a rare Eolith game from 1999 called Penfan Girls. When I found the pcb it was the first time I'd ever heard of it. It's a puzzle game where you choose pieces to fit into spaces on the screen and you can rotate them around. It's sort of a bar top style game, and not bad at all for this style.

PCSX Reloaded SVN r61728

PCSX Reloaded SVN r61728 is released. PCSX-Reloaded is a fork of the PCSX-df Project, a PlayStation Emulator, with support for both Windows and GNU/Linux operating systems as well as several bugfixes/improvements.

MaLa v1.735 Beta

MaLa v1.735 Beta is released. MaLa is a multi emulator front-end designed for all 32bit Windows operating systems (I have had reports it work fine on 64 bit) . It supports the Windows command line version of MAME with XML ROM info (> 0.84), PC Games and all command line based emulators. You can easily make it run on earlier versions of mame (as I do) by using a XML file generated by a later version.