JoyToKey v5.0 Beta

JoyToKey v5.0 Beta is released. This software is a keyboard emulator for joysticks.It converts joystick input into keyboard input (and mouse input).Use it when you want to control an application with joysticks that doesn't support joystick input. If you wish, you can control even Word, Excel, etc. with joysticks!

Dolphin SVN r6906

Dolphin SVN r6906 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.

bsnes v074.11 Beta

bsnes v074.11 Beta is released. bsnes is an emulator for the Super Famicom and SNES video game systems.The purpose of the emulator is a bit different from other emulators: it focuses on accuracy, debugging functionality, and clean code.

Half Byte Loader SVN r113 for OFW 6.37

Half Byte Loader SVN r113 for OFW 6.37 is released. Half Byte Loader is a project to build an easy to port user-mode homebrew loader for game exploits.

Shmupmame v3.0b

Shmupmame v3.0b is released. Shmupmame is an improved MAME. Shmupmame cuts down on input delay for a lot of drivers for shmups which owns. what also owns is that these drivers include the cps1, cps2, and cps3 drivers which means you can play capcom fighters with less input delay.

PCSX2 SVN r4256

PCSX2 SVN r4256 is released. PCSX2 is an open source 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.

MameUI v0.141.1

MameUI v0.141.1 is released. MameUI [formerly Mame32] is the GUI version of the M.ultiple A.rcade M.achine E.mulator, a program which seeks to document the internal hardware and code of all arcade games. Originally authored in 1997 by Chris Kirmse, it was the first port of Mame™ to the Windows platform.

MAME v0.141u1

MAME v0.141u1 is released. MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.

ScummVM DS v1.2.1

ScummVM DS v1.2.1 is released. ScummVM is an interpreter that allows you to play many point and click adventure games from the 80s and 90s on modern computers. ScummVM is written in portable C++ and has been ported to many differnet platforms,you can play all these classic games on the NDS with full sound.

Altirra 1.9 Test 11

Altirra 1.9 Test 11 is released. Altirra is an Atari 8 bit Emulator on the Windows/DOS platform. Altirra emulates several models of the 8-bit Atari computers. This includes the the 800, 800XL, and 130XE versions. It has a lot of options, and compatibility is decent especially given the emulator's early stages. It also supports some copy protected games properly in emulation.

Unofficial Hiscore.dat (2011.01.23)

Unofficial Hiscore.dat (2011.01.23) is released. Hiscore.dat is a complimentary file to help Mame in saving high scores. Most Mame games save their high scores by default, but over 2500 games do not save their high scores. The Hiscore.dat file tells Mame some additional information and how to read and store the high scores using the /hi directory instead of /nvram.

Mednafen-PS3 SVN 5ee669a24d

Thanks Speedvicio for submitting news
Mednafen-PS3 SVN 5ee669a24d is released. Mednafen-PS3 is a port of Mednafen Multi-system Emulator to PS3. Mednafen is a multi-game-system emulator, for various platforms, including emulation of the following systems:Atari Lynx,Famicom, GameBoy (Color), GameBoy Advance, Neo Geo Pocket (Color), NES(both NTSC and PAL), PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 (CD) and SuperGrafx, PC-FX, WonderSwan (Color).

MaLa v1.739d Beta

MaLa v1.739d 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.

PSXjin SVN r492

PSXjin SVN r492 is released. PSXjin is a PSX emulator with Rerecording features using pcsx core. It is intended to be an evolution of the outdated pcsx-rr with a new SPU core.

PSP MagicSave v3.5

PSP MagicSave v3.5 is released. PSP MagicSave is a PSP plug. PSP MagicSave will be able to save data encryption and decryption during the game.

VirtuaNES 097 Plus 20110124

VirtuaNES 097 Plus 20110124 is released. VirtuaNES 097 Plus is a modified version of VirtuaNES v0.97 by byemu. VirtuaNES is a relatively new NES emulator from Japanese origin. Fortunately there is an English version of it though. Being newer than other NES emulators doesn't mean it's bad, on the contrary in fact. It supports full CPU and sound emulation. As with most emulators for Windows, VirtuaNES requires a recent version of DirectX. Being a NES emulator it doesn't require a very fast PC though.

Visual Pinball v9.0.10

Visual Pinball v9.0.10 is released. Visual Pinball is a video game suite for Microsoft Windows. It is composed of an emulator, simulator and editor. The editor allows users to create and play recreations of pinball machines and self-designed tables. Visual Pinball's ability to import external sounds and images, in addition to its support of Visual PinMAME to emulate original ROMs, allows players to play renditions of real pinball machines.

Dolphin SVN r6902

Dolphin SVN r6902 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.

Jspeccy v0.88.3

Jspeccy v0.88.3 is released. Jspeccy is a new version of the ZX Spectrum emulator in Java.

RomVault v1.5.3

RomVault v1.5.3 is released. RomVault is a new rom management tool. RomVault should be seen as an alternative to clrmame pro with some nice and new features that could make it perfect for managing large numbers of dats / collections using less time (one scan vs N dats a time instead of one scan for each dat) and giving you a nice easy to use GUI.

MESS SVN r10177

MESS SVN r10177 is released. MESS(Multi Emulator Super System) is an open source emulator which emulates a large variety of different systems. MESS is a source-available project which documents the hardware for a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles, and calculators through software emulation, as MAME does for arcade games. As a nice side effect to this documentation, MESS allows software and games for these hardware platforms to be run on modern PCs.

BeebEm v4.13

BeebEm v4.13 is released. BeebEm is a BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator. It enables you to run BBC Micro software on your PC. BeebEm will run most BBC Micro software including Elite, Exile and Revs. It will also run most BBC Micro ROM software (e.g. Wordwise).

BeebEm v4.13 changelog:
* Added indication of unplugged ROMs to the configuration editor in Master
128 mode.
* Add a keyboard shortcut to exit (Alt+F4).
* Added support for loading .img files from command line.
* Fixed bug in 1770 controller emulation where second side of a single sided
disk could be accessed.
* Fixed some character mappings in text view mode.
* Added -FullScreen command line option.
* Added command line support for loading second disc image into drive 1.
* Added option to maintain a 5:4 aspect ratio output in full-screen mode.
* Made the BeebEm window resizeable.
* Fixed an issue in the sound code that was causing garbled output.

Download: BeebEm v4.13
Source: Here

VGMToolbox SVN r715

VGMToolbox SVN r715 is released. VGMToolbox is a C# based tool to assist VGM collectors and dumpers. It includes tools to extract, optimize, and build VGM formats as well as auditing and exploration utilities. [GBS, KSS, MDX, NSF(E), SID, S98, SPC, VGM, XA, XMA, xSF (PSF/PSF2/etc)].

David Haywood＇s MAME(tm) WIP - There’s a Fix for that (2011/01/24)

There’s a Fix for that

I posted the video yesterday, but didn’t have time to write the post to go with it due to having to go out while it was still uploading. Anyway, here’s the update.

Following on from Knuckle Bash, Dogyuun and V-Five, Robiza managed to decrypt the Sound CPU code for FixEight, which uses a different encryption table.