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Multiple Emulator Frontend - GameEx v18.60 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 25 February 2024

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MacOS Emulator - SheepShaver v25-02-2024 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 25 February 2024

What's New:

Fixes
- Should fix the "cannot map RAM:No Error" error.
- Screen garbage when running "Dark Forces" in Windows full screen.
- Scaling when switching to full screen
- Selecting an OpenVPN tap device in the GUI and running tap based networking.
- cdrom entry reset at reboot.
- A possible issue with the startup.wav not playing at the correct speed.
- Fixes full screen issue
- Uninitialized value causing Quicktime image rendering to sometimes fail after mode changes.
- Gamma ramp patch to allow running certain Ambrosia (and possibly other) games.

Enhancements
- Drag and drop of one disk image onto the SheepShaver window. CD, HD, and floppy images show up on the desktop as read- only CDs. Dragging the CD icon to the trash or choosing "Special/Eject" (Mac OS 8 and above) unmounts the image (when selected). Image formats that were already not supported can show up as Audio CDs. You cannot a have a real CD mounted and use this option at the same time. You cannot mount more than one disk image this way.
- Now also plays startup sound upon reboot
- Can now read a preferences file from the command line with - - config filename
- Prevents Windows key press to open Windows start menu, see option Reserve Windows Key in the Keyboard/Mouse tab in the GUI.
- Selectable Render driver on the Graphics/Sound tab of the GUI: Software, OpenGL, Direct3D, giving access to hardware acceleration. If selection doesn't work SDL falls back to software renderer.
- Changed old GUI behavior of refresh rate/frameskip setting being forced to 60hz when video mode fullscreen is selected. Refresh rate setting now stays accessible and also doesn't save to settings as 60hz.
- An additional pref item "sound_buffer" is introduced that sets the size of the sound buffer. Size 0 uses the original size, higher numbers shorten the buffer but increase CPU load.
Manual editing of the prefs file is needed to enable this function.
- An additional pref item "title" is introduced that lets the main window have a specific title. Manual editing of the prefs file is needed to enable this function.
- It is now possible to redirect a tcp/ip port from the guest to the host. Manual editing of the prefs file is needed for this.
- Will now play a sound file named "startup.wav" in the SheepShaver folder at boot.
- Build with msys2, contains a working GUI with the required libraries. Both booting and reading CDs in 64bit Windows are supported.
- Contains a readme explaining how the included keycodes file will map keys on a Windows keyboard to Mac modifier keys in the emulator.
- You can now again boot from and access real CD's in 64 bit Windows hosts, and the cdenable.sys driver is no longer needed in 32 bit hosts (but can still be used).
- Changing CD's is supported (use the polling option in the GUI)
- You can now switch between windowed and full screen modes by using the Ctrl+Enter key combination. All thanks go to our member vasi.

GB/GBC Emulator - John GBC Lite v4.11 - Released

Details: Category: Android; Published: 25 February 2024

What's New:

- optimized for Android14 (Notification icon does not appear on Android14)
- enabled multi- window mode
- changed and optimized UI
- changed default layout
- fixed many layout bugs
- fixed many ANR and crash bugs

GB/GBC Emulator - John GBC v4.11 - Released

Details: Category: Android; Published: 25 February 2024

What's New:

- optimized for Android14 (Notification icon does not appear on Android14)
- enabled multi- window mode
- changed and optimized UI
- changed default layout
- fixed many layout bugs
- fixed many ANR and crash bugs

Multiple Emulator Frontend - GameEx Arcade Edition Multiplatform v1.14 Alpha - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 25 February 2024

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Multiple Emulator Frontend - GameEx Multiplatform v1.14 Alpha - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 25 February 2024

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BK Emulator v3.13.2402.10648 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 25 February 2024

What's New:

Google Translate:

- Improved control over the command step with bypass, stopping correctly if the return address has changed.

For example:

JSR R1,TEXT
.ASCIZ "Message"
.EVEN
NOP

The stop will occur on the NOP command after the .EVEN pseudo-command
- Clarification of documentation
- Minstrel emulation clarification
- Fixing XOR command emulation bug

Multiple Frontend - RetroHub v1.0.1 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 24 February 2024

What's New:

RetroHub

New features
- Added support for RetroAchievements.

Changes
- Created integrations API for easier integration of third-party services.
- Windowed/fullscreen mode and V-Sync settings are now respected during app initialization.
- Increased ScreenScraper request timeout from 10 to 30 seconds.
- Internal engine upgrade from 4.2-dev to 4.2.1-stable.

Bugfixes
- Fix app constantly saving settings despite no changes being done.
- Credit side panel icons.
- Prevent any controller input in the app when an emulator is launched directly from the settings panel.
- Fix virtual keyboard not properly resizing when the app is launched in fullscreen.
- Fix macOS build which had missing library dependencies which were not being bundled on exporting.

Default Theme

New features
- Support for displaying RetroAchievements.
- Bugfixes
- Fix crash on systems where video playback is not working natively.

Game Boy Advance Emulator - Pizza Boy GBA Basic v1.11.4 - Released

Details: Category: Android; Published: 24 February 2024

What's New:

- Fixed audio again

Game Boy Advance Emulator - Pizza Boy GBA Pro v2.8.10 - Released

Details: Category: Android; Published: 24 February 2024

What's New:

- Further fix for Oboe library (yes, again)

Sega Genesis Emulator - clownmdemu v0.6 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 24 February 2024

What's New:

- Fixed many inaccuracies, benefiting numerous games:
* Contra: Hard Corps
* Castlevania Bloodlines
* Thunder Force IV
* Mega Man: The Wily Wars
* The Adventures of Batman & Robin
* Battletoads
* Road Rash, Road Rash II, Road Rash III
* Skitchin'
* The Immortal
* Jungle Strike
* Marble Madness
- Added two sprite debuggers.
- Configuration files are now saved to a standard per-user directory ('AppData' on Windows and '.local/share' on Linux).
- Text output of the disassembler and the debug log can be selected and copied elsewhere.

Multiple System Emulator - ares v136 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 23 February 2024

What's New:

Border/Overscan overhaul
- When ares was initially designed, it was geared primarily towards SNES emulation, and as such the "Overscan" option in video settings behaved like the overscan feature of the SNES: showing or hiding the lower 16 lines of display. This behavior is not how most end users expect overscan to function.
- For ares v136, we have overhauled how borders and overscan is handled across all cores in ares.
- The overscan option has been reworked to show or hide all non-desirable edges of the screen (in most cases this is blank borders, but it can include areas that commonly just contain garbage pixels).
- Additionally, we have updated most of the emulator cores in ares to have hardware accurate border and aspect ratio when overscan is visible: this also includes PAL, so PAL games are finally rendered at the correct aspect ratio to real hardware when 'aspect ratio correction' is enabled.
NOTE: The border regions for All TMS9918 VDP based consoles are thought to be be correct, as are Master System, Mega Drive, and NES, while SNES and PC-Engine are (educated) estimates. Hiding the overscan area is not yet implemented for Atari 2600, PC-Engine, Nintendo 64 or PlayStation as more hardware verification is required.

Cheat Support
- A popular request: ares finally has support for cheat codes, as well as a cheat editor. You can access the cheat editor by going to Tools -> Cheats while a game is loaded.
- Cheats are currently implemented for all cores, except for Nintendo 64 and PlayStation: support for these requires larger changes to ares that did not make the cut for this release.
- The cheat code format is a simple patch code format XXXXXXXX:YY where X is an address, and Y is the data to write; most emulators support this format so it shouldn't be difficult to port cheats between them.
- It is possible to chain multiple codes into a single cheat entry by separating the codes with a + symbol; this is useful if a single cheat requires multiple code to work.
- Cheats are saved in a cheat database file alongside the rom: for example, Game.sfc will create a cheat file titled Game.cheats.bml.

Nintendo - Game Boy Advance
- Implement prefetch buffer reset on ROM accesses from the CPU.
- Implement that timer 0 count-up bit cannot be set.

Nintendo - Super Famicom / SNES
- Fix an issue where the Super Gameboy 2 was running at the incorrect clock frequency.

Nintendo - Nintendo 64
- Implement newly discovered PI DMA behavior when crossing RDRAM row boundaries.
- Fix a corner face in FPU exception handling

Sega - Mega Drive/Genesis, Mega CD, 32x
- Add the Mega CD's PC RAM to the debugger memory viewer.
- Implement subchannel processing for Mega CD (Allows the playback of CD+G/karaoke discs provided a valid .sub file is provided)

Sony - PlayStation
- Improvements to the handling of the GPUSTAT register.

Other
- Switched back to wglSwapInterval for VSync on OpenGL for Windows; the DwmFlush approach caused worse tearing for most users.
- Fixed an issue where the SDL input driver considered all controllers to be the same device.
- Fixed an issue where rumble events could be missed causing rumble issues in many games.
- Improved VSync stability with the DirectX video driver.