• Full video and DVD support in Vista • Volume control working in Vista • Windowed mode in Vista Aero is enhanced and no longer shuts down Aero • Cosmetic enhancments to the user interface when showing game info header, it fades. • Title toolbar auto scrolls out and hides with V1 themes when mouse not active, when set to always show • Fixes list issues after selecting play random videos • Fixes issue with not able to disable screensaver in some cases • Create snap on thread feature has been removed • New theme included "Media Center" and is the default • When playing a video or DVD windows screensaver is disabled • Full support for HTML apps in Vista • More responsive when playing videos or dvd's • The MAME list update is much more system friendly, and will allow you to do other things on your PC while its running, and no black screen when in full screen and alt tabbing out • Fixes volume control with SlikStik and DirectInput • Thanks to Headkaze - Theme Editor 1.76. It supports custom layouts for the different modules, but I still need to implement this in GameEx. • Should fix text being truncated in V2 themes when game list is shown on the left of the screen • Window Maximize button enabled when GameEx is displaying in a window < • New settings to change resoluton and refresh rate based on frame rate of DVDs and Videos • When GameEx is windowed it will now only draw to the screen when it has focus. • New setting to make the menu text same size as the game text. To turn on in theme.ini use MenuTextSameSize=False. This is a very welcome feature for low resolutions on cabs. • New theme.ini setting GradientTitleFont=True. And LowerCaseTitleFont. Look at the new Media Center theme for example • New functionality to be able to stop and start Jukebox with gamepad, keyboard and arcade controls • 3D transitions are slightly faster and improved • Updated MCE Glossy theme for widescreen usage • The GameEx display main loop may run a little faster
• another new emulation level (VHA, very high accuracy) • started implementing exact video shift register emulation in VHA mode • improved PAL-NTSC switch artifacts • oversampling now also for the SID card • selectable sound replay frequency • more fullscreen mode options • added support for test mode • bug in the FIR filter fixed • TED border flipflop check was 1 cycle off
The new emulation level implements support for the emulation of the video shift register and also better support for demos that mess with the horizontal counter (about 3 of them exist at the moment). Since about 99.9% of the available programs don't require these to be emulated, it has never been a priority, as they do have a rather high performance hit (about 20 percent but your mileage may vary). The new mode is still experimental and therefore it may not work perfectly in all cases, so please report if you encounter problems. Most users won't have true benefits from this new mode, as it is mostly meant for demo coders or as means for watching the few available demos that require these to be emulated.
• Fixed ROM paging, this should improve stability of large ROMs (especillay DKC2) • Some CPU instructions were bugged because of the way SNEmulDS write in I/O ports, this should also improve stability (ie Crash before first boss in Zelda) • Fixed a bug that made Chrono Trigger freeze during battles • Changed the way emulator detect blank screen (Street Fighter Turbo, RTYPE3, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest now works) • Fixed some bugs with SRAM memory, which unlock most ROM protections (Uniracer, Bust-a-move, … now boot) • Now sound core doesn’t randomly crash when using line by line engine • Better reset of sound core, some games now run correctly when they are launched after another game (ie Super Bomberman >2) • Save states also save options • Added background layer selector. You can again enable/disable backgrounds. • Added hinge support. If you close you DS, emulation is stopped and SRAM is saved. • SRAM is now automatically saved before loading another ROM
- Disk image (in .sap format) are now supported ! - Add option to choose the Basic rom version - New feature to toggle automatically between Basic rom version (depending if a tape or a disk image is loaded) - Add new commands to run tape/disk games - Add a file (run.txt) to specify association between the disk/tape name and the name of the command to run (for example file yyy.sap -> LOADM"xxx",,R) - New icons from Gelon - New background image
The drawing processing of VDP1 was improved. The drawing processing of VDP2 was improved. The DSP processing of SCU was improved. Most software which use DSP become fast, but Perhaps any which have modified the program frequently it becomes conversely slow. Hook processing of backup library was corrected.
The latest correction acceleration is the center. DSP the game which use now comes considerably becomes fast. Becoming high speed, it increases the movie of especially [gurandeia].
PET changes: - Added SID cartridge support. - Extended the PET REU emulation to include 512/1024/2048KB.
PLUS4 changes: - Added SID cartridge support. - Fixed some minor TED graphics bug.
VIC20 changes: - Added SID cartridge support.
Drive changes: - Added support for Dolphin DOS 2 & 3 and Professional DOS 1571. The GUI is partially missing, command line switches have to be used.
Unix changes: - New Hungarian translations. - Fixed some bug in the XAW file selector. - New fullscreen mode based on XRandR - although restriced to XVideo HW scaling. See also BUGS. - Raster synchronization based on openGL extension `GLX_SGI_video_sync'. See openGL-sync.txt for details. - Fixed colormap handling on certain Gnome systems (sporadic black menus, e.g. reported by some FC users). - New fullscreen mode based on XRandR - although restriced to XVideo HW scaling. See also BUGS. - Raster synchronization based on openGL extension `GLX_SGI_video_sync'. See openGL-sync.txt for details. - Fixed colormap handling on certain Gnome systems (sporadic black menus, e.g. reported by some FC users). - ffmpeg support should work again.
OS/2 changes: - Fixed a video resource bug that prevented VICE from running.
Mac OSX X11 changes: - Added Gtk+ Port - Introduced single "smart" Application Bundle VICE.app - Added command line launcher for Terminal.app and xterm - Added build scripts for all external libraries and universal builds of VICE
AmigaOS changes: - Fixed some UI dialog bugs. - Added Hungarian translations. - Added more (previously missing) UI elements. - Added native MorphOS icons. - Fixed for native AmigaOS4 compile. - Added VBCC build scripts. - New experimental ppc-warpos port. - New experimental ppc-powerup port.
BeOS changes: - Fixed to also run on ZETA. - New ppc-beos port. - Added (previously missing) UI elements.
Miscellaneous changes: - Fixed the setting of illegal filenames.
• Added LZ77UnComp function. • Fixed a bug in EEPROM management. • Fixed a bug in CpuSet function. • Fixed a bug in Texture management. • Fixed a bug in Extend Palette. • Fixed a bug in BGxCNT register. • Fixed a bug in 3D stacks. • Fixed a bug in MMU functions. • Fixed a bug in load roms. • Fixed a bug in IRQ routines.
StreaK e-mailed and informed that he has released a new front-end for Playstation emulators called ProSX, here's how he described it:
A little handy frontend for epsxe / pSX emu or other psx emulator optimized for speed and functionality. The main goal for me as developer was 'to speed up running any image based game on psx emu' and i must tu say it was succeded on 100%. If you using a ProSX, you'll only need to click any IMAGE *.BIN or *.IMG / CDZ / MDF file in windows explorer to start a game. Nothing more needed except, small config for first time. BTW. This ver is only for TEST purposes, so if you fing bugs or somethin, please infom me about it by email
• fixed: unneeded chds won't be displayed twice (by CHD and ROM check) • fixed: gray/green/red profiles isn't updated in all cases • fixed: wwwprofiler version old/new detector failed on 0.111u6 0.112 change • fixed: set check for chd-only sets failed when chd rompath-root storing method was used • fixed: loading of forcezipping dat header information doesn't work • fixed: nodump chds can get falsely marked as wrong named • misc: setinfo lists nodumps with "-" now instead of 0 • misc: several internal changes....resulting in some smaller memory usage • added: 'logical not' checkbox for set selection to invert selection permanently
If you haven’t been following the news until recently, be aware that this release contains a number of updates to both the input and sound code. The sound code in particular bears mentioning because its new behavior has tripped up a few people. Sound output is now exclusively controlled by the emulation, not by the OS layer. This means that it is very important to have accurate timing and throttling. Because of this, the throttling code has been rewritten to be more forgiving of “hiccups” and other anomalies.
One non-obvious side effect is that if you are running your games with -triplebuffer or -waitvsync on a system with a 60Hz video mode (like most LCDs have), and you are running a game with a framerate greater than 60fps (any of the common older Namco titles will do fine), then you will experience sound hiccups unless you enable a little bit of frameskipping, either automatic or a frameskip of 1. This is because you are hard-limiting the game to run at 60Hz due to your monitor’s refresh, but it needs to produce more than 60 frames per second, so you are always running behind the emulation.
On the input front, Derrick Renaud has done a lot of work to try and normalize the behavior of analog inputs across the project. He has fixed and tweaked quite a number of analog controls in the system. Because of this, you may find that you need to throw away your existing calibrations and re-calibrate with the new settings. The advantage of the new system is that it fixes a number of inaccuracies in the behavior of the controls and allows games to have more flexible options when it comes to mapping controls on your PC to the controls the game used.
In addition to these changes there are quite a lot of new unplayable Bemani games that have come out of the woodwork over the past week or so, as well as an implementation of the long-desired (by pinball guys anyway) BSMT2000 ADPCM code. For this release I’ve also enclosed some regression testing tools I’ve been using for the past few months to help catch problems introduced between versions of MAME. You can see an example of the progress between 0.112 and 0.112u4 by looking here. Note that there are still a few glitches in the system, but I felt it was worth providing the code.
0.113 fix: - Updated to MAME 0.113 - MAME32 0.112u4 - Fixed Official MAME audit core bug that caused program to crash.
0.113: - Added "View Informations At MAWS" menu voice to the GUI. (As requested) - Added some extra .png effects to the GUI. - Fixed MAME Testers bug Airattck0112u1Yel.
- CX4 coordinate conversion command is implemented. - SRAM data is automatically saved at some fixed interval. - Shortcut key is disabled in background mode. - Fixed a bug of pseud hires mode.
Note: The language files for Ver 0.215 are totally compatible with Ver 0.216.
- A new graphical engine with new smoother render modes. It uses now the PSP GU for rendering, it does not run faster, but it's a lot smoother. - Save state dates are displayed in the emulator window (it's now easier to identify and to load the right save state slot) - Bug fix (load default keyboard mapping on startup)
New features: - CDTV emulation, including CD controller, internal SRAM and 64KB SRAM expansion memory card support. - More compatible SPTI CD32/CDTV CD support. - Advanced Chipset configuration. Miscellaneous model specific hardware configuration entries like real time clock chip type, CIA-A TOD clock source, RAMSEY, FAT GARY register emulation.. - Rewritten harddisk configuration system. No more lost hardfile or virtual directory configuration entries if path was missing.. - A3000/A4000 motherboard RAM bank support. - Added Arcadia bios rom type selection. - New Windows Vista -style application icon added :) - Small CIA and custom chip emulation updates.
Bugs fixed: - FPU emulation floating point to integer conversion fixed (proper clamping instead of truncating) - uaeserial.device compatibility improved - New serial port detection didn't detect all types of serial ports - Random sound errors after adjusting sound GUI setting on the fly - Directory filesystem memory leaks fixed and compatibility improved - It was not possible to disable keyboard layout C after enabling it. - Sound panel settings were not always enabled correctly. - -datapath command line parameter didn't work. - Disk image drag and drop didn't work. - Quickstart panel disk swapping is properly delayed again. - Some Picasso96 display modes were not available. - bsdsocket freeze fix (Aminetradio) - Windows driver Catweasel support works again. - "Faster RTG"-mode lockups fixed. - External drive sound selection GUI didn't work if fdrawcmd.sys was not installed.
- In start demo of "Dragon Slayer Eiyuu Densetsu", the part where the scroll was rough (generated from v0.96) was corrected. - When "Martial Champion" is started, not six-button pad but three-button pad is connected by the automatic operation. - When the window of Ootake is minimized, the window was not automatically activated. When the "hes file (PCE Music File)" is playing BGM and your other work is being done, it became easy to select music with the joypad. - Additionally, a detailed part has been improved and corrected.
- New graphical functions with new smoother render modes. It uses the PSP GPU for rendering, it does not run faster, but it's a lot smoother. - Bug fix in Rom file requester - Bug fix in keyboard handler
- Add option to enable the sound and musix chips (FM-AM and Music modules) required by several games. It's slow down the emulator, so use it with care. - Add a new render mode (max) to fit the entire MSX screen - Add missing MSX keys (thanks to Creepy) - Fix 3.10-OE black screen bug in smooth mode (thanks to Creepy for his feedback)
