Non DC Emulation and Homebrew News

[nakamichi]

I went back and edited some of the text and fixed a few links in the previous news posts,so everything should be correct now.

[nakamichi]

Emulator Stella 2.4
System PC (DOS,Windows,Unix/Linux,MacOS,BSD),GP2X,Amiga,etc.

A portable Atari 2600 (VCS) emulator available for many systems

Changelog:
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* Added new video sub-system where fullscreen and windowed modes are treated
differently. Windowed modes now use '-zoom_tia' and '-zoom_ui' arguments,
while fullscreen modes can be specified by resolution using the new
'-fullres' argument.
* Widescreen video modes are now supported; Stella will simply center the
image with surrounding black borders.
* Many UI-related changes, including resizable ROM launcher and debugger
windows, and a new UI palette (the previous 'classic' palette is still
available). This is still a work in progress.
* The locations of all major config files (statedir, palette file,
cheat file, properties file, etc) are now configurable from the
commandline and within the UI.
* Updates to TIA palette support. Added SECAM support, and removed the
built-in 'original' palette. Standard, z26, and user are still
available.
* Various bugfixes to some debugger commands. The 'run' command no
longer causes a crash, and several others have better error-checking.
* Added more complete cartridge auto-detection for Commavid (CV), 3E,
3F and Activision (FE) formats.
* Removed XStart and Width ROM properties, since the forthcoming TIA
rework won't be using them.
* Reworked internal storage of ROM properties to be faster and take up
less space.
* Added several different ways of stretching the OpenGL image to the
'-gl_fsmax' argument, for more flexibility.
* Removed OpenGL aspect ratio setting favour of the previously mentioned
video changes. We'll see how this goes.
* Removed dirty-rect support from software rendering, since it was actually
sub-optimal in Windows and OSX and defaulted to off in previous versions.
* Added support for gzipped ROMs.
* Re-added pause support.
* Re-added support for Windows 98.
* Removed support for 'STELLA_BASEDIR' environment variable, since each
config file can be now configured separately.
* Removed '-fastscbios' argument, since it must always be turned on.
* Removed PSP support, since it hasn't been updated in over a year, and
someone else is maintaining another port elsewhere.
* For the Unix/Linux port; fixed 'make install' issues, and changed icon to
PNG format.

Get it from the Stella Homepage

[nakamichi]

Utility ClrMAME Pro v3.104a

A new bugfix release of the ROM auditing tool for multiple systems

- fixed: systems->auto detect sys default paths crashes
- fixed: full merged fake clones which only differ in a chd (code1db) are falsely shown as missing
- fixed: download name doesn't change when downloading multiple files

Get it from the homepage


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Emulator Dolphin v1.03.3 Beta x64
System PC (Windows XP64/Vista x64)

A small update to the public beta release of the GameCube emulator for DualCore CPUs
Note: The emu does not work on a 32-bit OS or with 32-bit CPUs.

Get it from HERE


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Emulator pSX 1.13
System PC (Win32,Linux)

The most accurate PSOne emulator gets another update,mostly bugfixes this time

Changes in this release:
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Added Korean, Bosnian, Serbian and Icelandic translations
Added some missing translations to Linux build
Debugger DMA capture buffer now autoresizes
Fixed streaming music in Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius
Fixed bug when setting sound frequency in Windows
Implemented volume and mute in Linux
Fixed "missing body parts" bug in Deception 3
Fixed bug that caused XA audio in Deception 3 to not stop correctly
Fixed random crash in Road Rash: Jailbreak
Fixed debugger crash when emulator is reading from CD
Fixed hang opening CD images in Linux
Per-user settings for Linux (.ini file is now stored in ~/.pSX)
Removed SSE instructions used during init (should fix crash on AMD CPUs)
Fixed GTK warnings when clicking window close button in Linux
Please note that the Linux version now stores its settings in ~/.pSX although it will read psx.ini from the same directory as the .exe if it exists.

Get it from HERE


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Emulator NeonDS 0.11
System PC (Win32)

A very fast and promising NDS emulator for Windows

Taken straight from the horses mouth:
"In the next two weeks I'll be busy moving my home to another city,so I won't have any time to work on this emulator. So, here I release a version with incomplete 3D support. Although the 3D support is not complete yet, there are already some games playable.
I have updated the wiki with some of my testing results."


Here is the list of updates in this version：

3D display engine (incomplete yet)
Replace D3D with OpenGL for display rendering
Supports 2x display zooming
Fixed some DMA bugs

Get it from HERE