Multiple System Emulator - jgenesis v0.8.3 - Released

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Category: Multiple Platform

Published: 08 December 2024

What's New:

New Features

• (Genesis / Sega CD / 32X) Added an audio setting to select 1 of 4 different audio low-pass filters, with cutoff frequencies ranging from about 15000 Hz (comparable to the existing filter) to about 5000 Hz (produces a very soft sound)
  • Some hardware models had hardware low-pass filters with fairly low cutoff frequencies, and some game audio seems to be designed around this (e.g. anything that regularly plays the PSG's noise channel at ultrasonic frequencies, like Gunstar Heroes)
  • The difference is also quite noticeable in Sega CD games that use the PCM sound chip, where a strong low-pass filter can clean up some (not all) of the audio aliasing
• (Genesis / Sega CD / 32X) Added a video setting to enable/disable individual graphics layers
• (Sega CD) Added an audio enhancement setting to apply cubic Hermite interpolation to PCM sound chip channels
  • This significantly reduces audio noise and audio aliasing in games that play music or voice acting through the PCM chip (e.g. Lunar: Eternal Blue all the time, Sonic CD in past stages, basically every FMV game for cutscene audio)
• (GB) Added an option to use a custom 4-color palette, with a color picker UI for configuring the custom palette colors
• Added a new hotkey that completely exits the application (#140)
  • The previous "quit" hotkey (which only closed the currently running game) has been renamed to "power off"

Improvements

• (32X) PWM chip audio output resampling now uses cubic interpolation rather than a filter that assumed a source frequency of 22 KHz; this should improve audio quality in games that use PWM sample rates other than 22 KHz (e.g. After Burner Complete and Space Harrier)
• Input mappings that use modifier keys (Shift / Ctrl / Alt) no longer distinguish between Left and Right versions of the modifier, e.g. Left Shift and Right Shift are now both treated as simply "Shift" for input mapping purposes (#139)
• Redesigned most of the audio low-pass filters to explicitly target a cutoff frequency of about 15000 Hz with a stopband edge frequency of about 20000 Hz, which should further reduce resampling-related audio aliasing
  • For performance reasons, NES and GB/GBC instead target a cutoff frequency of roughly 10000 Hz with a less steep attenuation slope past the cutoff frequency
• Implemented a performance optimization in how audio low-pass filters are applied when running on CPUs that support x86_64 AVX and FMA instructions (which is almost every x86_64 CPU made in the last 10 years; AVX2 is not needed)
  • To be clear, AVX/FMA instructions are used when supported but are not a hard requirement
• (SMS / Game Gear / Genesis) Improved video memory viewer UI so that it's now possible to view CRAM and VRAM simultaneously, as well as current VDP settings (captured once per frame at the beginning of VBlank)
• Display scale factor / DPI is now taken into account when determining initial emulator window size in windowed mode
• GUI: The GUI window is now repainted immediately when a directory scan finishes, rather than requiring mouse movement or a keyboard input to trigger the repaint

Fixes

• (32X) Fixed the 68000 incorrectly being allowed to change the PWM timer interrupt interval via PWM control register writes ($A15130); this fixes Primal Rage having horribly broken sound effects
• Fixed an input configuration bug that made it effectively impossible to correctly configure any gamepad where SDL reads digital buttons as analog axes, such as the 8BitDo M30 with its C and R buttons (#135)
  • The v0.8.2 input changes broke this more, but this also did not work correctly in earlier versions - the configuration UI would set the axis direction to opposite what it was supposed to be (e.g. negative instead of positive)
• Fixed some minor bugs in the common audio resampling code related to how low-pass filters are applied
• CLI: For options that only accept a fixed set of possible values, the list of possible values in the help text is now auto-generated at compile time; this fixes at least one case where the list of possible values was incorrect

Hitachi Basic Master Level3 Mark5 Emulator v2.0.1 - Released

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Category: Multiple Platform

Published: 08 December 2024

What's New:

Google Translate:
・[VC version] Fixed the sound part.
・It is now possible to use a joystick with the A port of PIA. You can set it in the joystick setting dialog.
・The key assignment dialog and the joystick setting dialog have been changed.

DOSBox Frontend - Dapplegrey v9.5.6 - Released

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Category: Mac

Published: 08 December 2024

What's New:

DOSBox Staging throwed out machine=vga, and so does Dapplegrey now when a recent version of DOSBox Staging is used as DOSBox source.

COWSHED.EXE has been updated to 1.4 and will be copied unfailingly now.

Nintendo Wii U Emulator - Cemu v2.5 (Pre-release)

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Category: Multiple Platform

Published: 08 December 2024

What's New:

• Upscaling and downscaling options in the graphics settings now work correctly on Vulkan. Previously, the hermite and bicubic scaling options would only work on OpenGL and silently fall back to bilinear filtering on Vulkan
• Graphic pack support for custom scaling shaders has been reworked and is now functional on Vulkan, with fixes carrying over to OpenGL. If you are a graphic pack developer see #1392 for details
• Cemu will now show an error if the MLC directory is not writeable
• Added a workaround for graphic driver crashes seen in the eShop versions of Fatal Frame. These are caused by the game shipping with shaders that contain infinite loops. The actual hardware has an escape mechanism for this that we don't yet emulate
• Added support for connecting Wiimotes via L2CAP on Linux (Details in #1353)
• Set correct version for MacOS bundle
• Updated Arabic, German, Russian and Swedish translations

Emulator Bundle - WinDS Pro v2024.12.06 - Released

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Category: Windows

Published: 07 December 2024

What's New:

New WinDS PRO Version 24.12.06, includes WinDS PRO FX in the main installer with updates for ares, snes9x, dolphin, duckstation, pcsx2, rpcs3, melonDS, bizhawk, desmume, pcsx-redux, lime3ds, shadPS4.

Dosbox Frontend - DBGL v0.99 - Released

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Category: Multiple Platform

Published: 07 December 2024

What's New:

• Implemented support for special DOSBox 'families' such as DOSBox-X, Staging, ECE and SVN. Please note that you'll have to select the correct family and version when configuring a 'DOSBox Version' in DBGL. For DOSBox-X, make sure to use the dosbox-x.reference.full.conf configuration file, or some options might remain disabled in DBGL.
• It's recommend to disable any existing DOSBox version-specific options (as shown here), to make full use of the new features for the newly supported DOSBox families/versions, see this.
• Rewrote the template/profile editor, now having the settings categories on the left side in a tree structure, allowing for many more configuration options. When hovering over a configuration item, a small tooltip will show the DOSBox configuration [section] & item associated with it.
• Added support for importing/converting eXoDOS V6r4, the new Media Pack and eXoDemoScene.
• Fixed a possible crash when trying to export the profile list, plus an issue that could lead to duplicate templates and DOSBox versions (Neville).
• Fixed an issue where, when editing a profile and changing the associated DOSBox Version, the association would 'stick' after cancelling (in memory, not on disk).
• Spanish and German translation update by Neville and Marcel, respectively.
• implemented a small tool to renumber all database object IDs, see this (ElTipejoLoco and others).
• Updated multiple Java libraries, most importantly SWT (dropping support for Windows versions older than Win7 for the moment)

Dosbox-X v2024.12.04 - Released

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Category: Multiple Platform

Published: 05 December 2024

What's New:

• Arrange memory device allocation so that it is possible to allocate up to about 3900MB of memory instead of 3500MB. (joncampbell123).
• Fix S3 LFB PCI base alignment error if system memory pushes it to a higher address (joncampbell123).
• Fix EGA 640x350 4-color mode (when EGA memory size is 64KB) to display correctly. Prior to this fix, 640x350 4-color only worked properly if the INT 10h Video Parameter Table was enabled. (joncampbell123).
• Fix S3 VGA memory size reported through register CR36 to cap at 4MB and set the value correctly. This fixes a known issue where setting vmemsize to 8MB caused Windows 98 to report memory size as 2.5MB. (joncampbell123).
• Fixed a problem when VZ Editor is resident in PC-98 mode. (nanshiki).
• INT 10: SVGA mode 0x6A does not exist on plain VGA hardware. (joncampbell123).
• INT 10: Fix mode 0x6A (800x600 4-color SVGA) to use a correct dot clock so that the refresh rate is >= 60Hz instead of 37Hz, and make sure mode 0x6A is a 100% clone of VESA BIOS MODE 0x102. (joncampbell123).
• Fix MMX/SSE instruction decoding, correct some mistakes in MMX emulation. (joncampbell123).
• IMGMAKE: Add -partofs option to allow control of where the partition begins in the image (joncampbell123).
• IMGMAKE: Add -align option so that the FAT filesystem can be arranged for more optimal I/O on devices with larger sectors, such as modern 4096-byte/sector drives. (joncampbell123).
• IMGMAKE: Add -label option so that the generated FAT filesystem has the specified volume label. (joncampbell123).
• MDA emulation: Fix non-blink attributes 0xF0 and 0xF8 to correctly render bright green background. (joncampbell123).
• Fixed crash when a CD image was loaded to an "empty" drive (maron2000)
• Log loaded .conf file (maron2000)
• Supress redundant screen reports in log (maron2000)
• Fixed mouse capture locking by middle button (maron2000)
• Fixed toggling the menu option "Autolock mouse" did nothing (maron2000)
• Fixed build failure with libc++ 19 (DimitryAndric)
• Fixed fullscreen mode not responding when launched in TTF mode in Windows (maron2000)
• Fixed crashes when changing floppies mounted by drive numbers on a booted guest OS (maron2000)
• Fixed launching host programs with white spaces in path (Windows) (maron2000)
• Convert paths from relative to absolute when launching host programs in a mounted drive (Windows) (maron2000)
• Added an option not to pause after host program execution is completed (maron2000)
• Fixed corrupted display when loading language files at launch (maron2000)
• Fixed Z Drive path expansion to be case insensitive (maron2000)

Multiple System Emulator - Retro Virtual Machine v2.1.18 - Released

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Category: Multiple Platform

Published: 04 December 2024

What's New:

• Fixed a recently introduced timing issue in the Pentagon that caused incorrect border rendering
• Fixed memory contention on +2A/+3 models
• Fixed an AY bug that prevented Match Day II 128k and Tai-Pan 128k from loading properly
• AY registers 14 and 15 are now correctly saved in snapshots

PlayStation 2 Emulator - Play! v0.68 - Released

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Category: Multiple Platform

Published: 04 December 2024

What's New

clrmame (scanner 0.08.1/rebuilder 0.15.1) - Released

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Category: Windows

Published: 03 December 2024

What's New:

UI
misc: restore default window positions when positions get out of range
misc: increase display time of tooltips
misc: slightly regrouped ui elements
added: scanner, context menu option to restore old scan results on startup and selection

Core
misc: updated spdlog to 1.15.0
misc: updated to 7zip 24.09
misc: don't reload xml and build up structures when they are already in memory and need no refresh
misc: align and share rebuilder/scanner common routines
added: scanner, samples, supporting flac
fixed: scanner, typo in wine script
fixed: scanner, internal sha1 check for files with identical crc32 but different sha1 values isn't run
fixed: scanner, samples, wrong named files (case check only) aren't fixed
fixed: scanner, samples, wrong named files (case check only) also appear as unneeded
fixed: scanner, samples, decompressed files are marked as unneeded
fixed: scanner, samples, machines which reference themselves via sampleOf are marked as unneeded in full mode
fixed: scanner, confusing 'can't remove/backup' messages in case of circular renames between different sets
fixed: scanner, confusing 'can't remove/backup' messages in case a wrong file with a right name is replaced with a fill in
Logged

Cemu Graphic Packs v922 - Released

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Category: Windows

Published: 03 December 2024

What's New:

[MK8/Splatoon/Minecraft] Add packs to force network port for multiplayer

Ad Blocker - AdGuard v4.7 - Released

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Category: Android

Published: 03 December 2024

What's New:

Improvements

• Incorrect translation of Fanboy's Annoyance List description

Fixes

• “Allow app usage access” popup does not disappear after enabling the corresponding switch in the system settings on Android 9 
• Almost all apps are no longer logged as filtered 
• Cursor barely visible at search bars in the Dark theme 
• Enabling/disabling the switch “Trusted filter” doesn’t make protection restart 
• Incorrect error message when trying to send a report with an invalid email on the Report a bug screen 
• Magenta color of AdGuard notification if protection is paused 
• Routing for problem apps in groups is enabled when you turn on this option for problem-free apps 
• TCP keepalive for outgoing sockets screen doesn't scroll 
• The user rules are positioned in the middle of the editor 
• Translations are missing for Annoyances blocking notice 
• The app crashes when Android WebView is unloaded 

Weekly Updates 12-03-24

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Category: Multiple Platform

Published: 03 December 2024

These are emulators that are updated several times a day to a couple times a week.
Many of these emulators can be updated to the lastest "nightly builds" from within the emulator itself.
I'm posting the latest versions every Monday or Tuesday for those who may be interested.

Multiple System Emulator - FinalBurn Neo Nightly 12-03-24

Multiple System Emulator - Mesen Nightly 12-03-24

Nintendo 3DS Emulator - Panda3DS 12-03-24

PlayStation 2 Emulator - PCSX2 Nightly v2.3.42

PlayStation Emulator - PCSX-Redux Nightly 12-02-24

PlayStation Vita Emulator - Vita3K Nightly 12-03-24

Xbox 360 Emulator - Xenia (Canary) 12-03-24

MAME Frontend - ExtraMAME v24.12 - Released

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Category: Windows

Published: 02 December 2024

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DOSBox Frontend - Dapplegrey v9.5.5 - Released

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Category: Mac

Published: 02 December 2024

What's New:

The version of DOSBox Staging will be recognized again.

Archive or leave be?

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Category: News

Published: 02 December 2024

The Emulation Realm has existed for almost 21 years. I've been debating about archiving older software, but it seems unnecessary for Windows, confusing for Linux, and possible for Mac.
The site was launched in 2003 and every peice of Windows XP software I have tested on my Windows 11 system still works.
Honestly, most downloads are for Windows software and Linux users have never really used this site due to the nature of repositories and Linux being Linux.
Mac users, on the other hand, have been a consistent growth.
I was never able to test Mac versions of software until this past year when I purchased a Mac Mini M2. I will continue to list Silicon and Intel packages as long as Apple supports it.
The latest news is that Apple will support Rosetta 2 until at least 2026. I think I will hold off on archiving the Intel software until at least then.
I actually have some software for Mac PPC on this site. I guess those should have been archived a long time ago.

MAME4droid 2024 v(0.272) 1.19 - Released

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Category: Android

Published: 02 December 2024

What's New:

Up to MAME 0.272

GameCube / Wii Emulator - Dolphin v2412 - Released

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Category: Multiple Platform

Published: 02 December 2024

What's New

Multiple System Emulator - WinArcadia v33.7 - Released

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Category: Windows

Published: 01 December 2024

What's New:

Improved AOF support.
Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Wolfmame v0.272 - Released

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Category: Multiple Platform

Published: 01 December 2024

What's New:

Updated to latest MAME source.