PlayStation 4 Emulator - shadPS4 v0.4.0 - Added
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shadPS4 is an early PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++.
Currently, the emulator can successfully run games like Bloodborne, Dark Souls Remastered, Red Dead Redemption and many other games.
Arcade Emulator - K80DS v0.3.9 - Added
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- Category: Nintendo DS
This is a Konami 80's Arcade emulator for the NDS. It has bugs in the sprite rendering, no tile priority support & can't rotate vertical games. It supports the following games:
Double Dribble
Finalizer
Green Beret / Rush'n Attack
Iron Horse
Jackal
Jail Break
Mr. Goemon
Scooter Shooter
Yie Ar Kung-Fu
Nintendo 64 Emulator - simple64 v2024.11.1 - Released
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- Category: Multiple Platform
What's New:
Update 7z and Parallel-RDP to latest versions
Raine v0.97.1 - Released
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- Category: Multiple Platform
What's New:
It mainly fixes the untested games in 0.97.0, but I took the opportunity to totally overhaul the disassemblers in the console, they are not external anymore, they use the functions provided by mame to disassemble. With that you can disassemble z80 encrypted roms which is convenient, but I did it mainly because my offsets arrays was becoming way too big with the sh2 emulation, it had been done for the 68000 for 32k regions, here it was really far over the limit ! But those who don't use the console shouldn't notice anything.
Except that added the "psikyo SH2" driver to the drivers list in the game selection dialog options to be able to select these games more easily. That's all, the overhaul of the disassemblers is a very big change in git, it gets rid of most of the directories settings too.
Multiple System Emulator - jgenesis v0.8.2 - Released
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- Category: Multiple Platform
What's New:
New Features
- Video/audio sync improvements which should enable significantly improved frame pacing without needing to rely on 60Hz VSync (which can cause very noticeable input latency on some platforms)
- Added a new "frame time sync" option that uses the host system clock to match the emulated system's framerate and frame timing as closely as possible without relying on host GPU synchronization (i.e. VSync)
- Added a new option for dynamic audio resampling ratio, which periodically adjusts the audio resampling ratio to try and avoid audio buffer underflows and overflows (which both cause audio popping)
- This is implemented in a very conservative way in order to avoid audible differences in audio pitch, so it is not completely guaranteed to prevent audio buffer underflow/overflow
- Audio sync now checks the audio buffer size every 16 samples enqueued rather than only checking once per frame, which should significantly reduce stuttering when audio sync is enabled without VSync or frame time sync
- Adjusted default sync/audio settings values to hopefully make stuttering and audio popping less likely when running with default settings
- In the GUI, video/audio sync settings have been moved to a new window under Settings > Synchronization
- Input mapping overhaul to make input mapping/configuration more flexible (#134 / #137)
- Keyboard and gamepad settings are no longer separate configurations; each system now supports up to 2 mappings for each emulated button where each mapping can be a keyboard key, a gamepad input, or a mouse button
- Key/input/button combinations (2 or 3 simultaneous inputs) are now supported for mappings in addition to individual keys/inputs
- Hotkeys can now be mapped to gamepad inputs, mouse buttons, and combinations in addition to individual keyboard keys
- Each input settings window now has a button to apply one of two keyboard presets for P1 inputs, one with arrow keys mapped to the d-pad and one with WASD mapped to the d-pad
- Added a new set of hotkeys for saving/loading specific save state slots (#134)
- (Genesis / Sega CD / 32X) Added an option to overclock the main Genesis CPU (the 68000) by decreasing the master clock divider, which can reduce or eliminate slowdown in games (#133)
- Note that this is a fairly naive form of overclocking that works very well in many games but very poorly in some games; use with caution
- As far as SCD/32X, from my testing overclocking the 68000 almost always causes problems in 32X games (which are normally bottlenecked on SH-2 speed anyway), but it does fix slowdown in some Sega CD games
- (SMS / Game Gear) Replaced the "double Z80 CPU speed" setting with an option to overclock at finer granularity by decreasing the Z80 master clock divider
- Same caveat as above regarding this form of overclocking working very poorly in some games, and this is more of an issue for SMS/Game Gear than it is for Genesis/Sega CD
- Added an option to only hide the mouse cursor when in fullscreen, in addition to the previous settings of "always hide" and "never hide"
- Added an option to change the fullscreen mode from borderless to exclusive
- Added an option to change the audio output frequency from 48000 Hz to 44100 Hz
Improvements
- (Genesis / Sega CD) Slightly improved performance by advancing the emulated clock in larger intervals while a long VDP DMA is in progress
- (32X) Slightly improved performance by optimizing SH-2 instruction decoding
- (GB) Improved video frame delivery behavior when the PPU is powered off to make it play a little nicer with VSync and frame time sync
- The emulator window is now explicitly focused/raised when a game is loaded; previously this wouldn't always happen automatically, particularly on Windows
Fixes
- (Sega CD) Slightly extended the delay between a game sending a CDD Play/Read command and the CD drive reading the first sector; this fixes Time Gal having excruciatingly long "load times"
- "Load times" in quotes because the game was actually getting confused and repeatedly re-reading the same CD-ROM sectors until various interrupts happened to trigger at exactly the right times relative to each other
- (Sega CD) Fixed a bug where some backend settings would not correctly persist after loading a save state (they would temporarily revert to what they were when the save state was created)
Nintendo 64 Emulator - Gopher64 v0.1.10 - Released
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- Category: Multiple Platform
What's New:
Bump to 0.1.10
Update parallel-rdp
Add unsafe keyword for extern C
Update rfd requirement from 0.14 to 0.15
update eframe to 0.29
Update governor requirement from 0.6 to 0.7
Update parallel-rdp
Emulator Bundle - WinDS Pro v2024.11.08 - Released
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- Category: Windows
What's New:
New WinDS PRO Version 24.11.08, includes WinDS PRO FX in the main installer with updates for ares, snes9x, dolphin, duckstation, pcsx2, rpcs3, melonDS, bizhawk, desmume, pcsx-redux, lime3ds, shadPS4.
Apple II Emulator - Virtual ][ v12.1 - Released
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- Category: Mac
What's New:
- Improved rendering of the Apple II high resolution graphics. The colors as well as the color transitions now better resemble the original machine's output on an NTSC TV.
Note that the previous high resolution rendering can still be selected in the application settings. - Restored support for the iBuffalo Classic USB Gamepad.
- Added the property screen sharpening to the Applescript vocabulary, so a script can now also switch this feature on or off.
- In macOS 15 (Seqoia) connecting an emulated Super Serial card caused the devices area to be drawn incorrectly. This has been solved.
- Fixed an issue, first appearing in version 12.0, where the button for selecting a custom ROM failed to work.
Multiple System Frontend - SimpleLauncher v3.5 - Released
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- Category: Windows
What's New:
Added a tool to generate BAT files for Sega Model 3.
Added a local ROM history database using the history.xml, available at arcade-history.com. This functionality is most useful for MAME-based ROMs.
Added a new way to view the games in the main UI. Users can now choose between Grid View and List View.
Added a Star button to the Main Window top menu, which selects all the favorites for the selected system.
Improved error and exception notifications in several methods for both users and developers.
Added 'Sony PlayStation 3' image pack.
Increased the font size for the game filenames in the GameButtonFactory.
Added Sega Model 3 to Easy Mode with an ImagePack available for this system.
Update emulator download links to the latest version.
Raine v0.97 - Released
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- Category: Multiple Platform
What's New:
And what took me so long ? Finding something to use for the sh2 emulation in 64 bits, and it was not easy !
Finally I took the sh2 emulation from an old mame version (153), and modified it to be compatible with what gens did, so that it's compatible with the psikyosh driver. The result is slightly slower than the asm version, but not by a lot, so it will do for now. I lost a lot of time with yabause which I looked at before that.
Except that the windows status bugs seem fixed for good for those who missed the latest update of this painful story in the forum, there was a binary specific for that.
Nintendo 3DS Emulator - Lime3DS v2119.1 - Released
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- Category: Multiple Platform
What's New
This release corrects an issue introduced in the 2119 update which caused desktop shortcuts to not function correctly.
After installing this update, all existing desktop shortcuts must be removed and re-created in order to function properly.
Sega Model 3 Arcade Emulator - Supermodel (Sinden) v0.3a - Updated
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- Category: Multiple Platform
What's New:
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Getting Back on Track
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Real life has been quite busy the past few months and I’ve had no spare time to update the site. I’m currently updating existing files to their latest versions. This will probably take a couple of weeks and, if time permits, I’ll start updating the News section every few days or maybe weekly.
Real Life has been a bit busy
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As I stated earlier, I bought a new house. I've had to rebuild the HVAC system, the deck, repaired some plumbing and did some rewiring. I still have a few more projects and then I will be back to posting updates. I had not expected this much work when I moved in. Still love the new home and I'll be back soon.
The freaking ads everywhere, I apologize
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I "allowed" Google Adsense to control my site for a few months and was unaware of how they placed an ad after every news article, popups and just way more ads than anyone should ever see on any site.
I was showing a co-worker my website, on my work laptop, when I realized how much of a cluster**** Google had made of my site.
I Use an ad blocker and don't have a problem with visitors who do the same.
I apologize, and am not sure, how long my site has been flooded with these ads.
I simply want one ad banner that can easily be reduced or closed.
If you choose to support this site, great! If you hate ads, then block them.
This is a hobby and personal passion website. I like offsetting some of the cost to run it, but I don't expect visitors to deal with dozens of ads per page.
Updates on Hold for a Week or Two
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Wife and I just purchased a new home and are in the process of moving. I will be back shortly.
CPCEC (Amstrad CPC emulator), ZXSEC (Sinclair Spectrum emulator) and CSFEC (Commodore 64 emulator) v20240414 - Released
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- Category: Windows
What's New:
-- minor patch fixing unexpected bugs in systems where "unsigned char" is the default setting (reported by CPCbegin on his Raspberry Pi 400), some of them big (for example, 48K cartridge mapping was completely wrong in MSXEC), some of them small (for example, pressing LEFT in the debug screen when the cursor was on the left edge of the register panel would wrap it to the right, instead of staying still as it does when pressing RIGHT on the right edge). The extended AY chip and Z80 interfaces got reworked to allow finer control of audio clocks and memory-mapped I/O, respectively. MSXEC fixes bugs in the MSX cartridge mappers (for example Konami 8K cartridges react to the whole $6000-$BFFF area rather than just to $6000, $8000 and $A000) and the V9938 (the "flash" bit is ignored when the active VRAM page is below the 32K boundary, as in the water scenes of "Maze of Galious" for MSX2), emulates the DAC in "Konami's Synthesizer" and allows patching the current virtual cartridge through IPS files.
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