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Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator - puNES v0.111 - Released

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

What's New:

- Rewritten mappers : All.
- Rewritten WRAM, VRAM, PRGROM, CHROM and Nametebles management.
- Rewritten FDS support.
* Furthermore, an option has been added to select the mode for write operations. Until now, all writes were stored on an external file (diff file) to preserve the integrity of the disk image, now it's possible to choose to write them directly to the FDS/QD file (making it portable to other emulators as well).
* Changed the format of the diff file, now I use the IPS format (which can always be applied to the original image).
- Rewritten the format and management of save states.
- WARNING save states of version 0.110 or earlier are no longer compatible.
- Rewritten the audio of the VRC7.
- Implemented the project "A YM2413 emulator written in C" of okaxaki :
* https://github.com/digital-sound-antiques/emu2413
- Rewritten NSF player.
- Added support to NSF2 format.
- Added the ability to configure shortcuts and the NES pad from the command line.
- Added support to Quick Disk format.
- Added an option for RAM initialization (#276). It's possible to choose between three values:
* 0x00
* 0xFF (default)
* Randomize
- Added a screen icon that shows when fast forward is active.
- Added the possibility to set default values for PPU overclocking to be applied for all roms in addition to the per-game ones already used.
- Added Arabic translation (thx to Chipsum).
- Added Polish translation (thx to elektronicznypank).
- Added full support for the NES 2.0 header format.
- Added video filter : "NTSC CRT LMP88959" and "NTSC NES LMP88959" (https://github.com/LMP88959/NTSC-CRT, Thx to LMP88959 for is great work).
- Added video filter : "PAL CRT LMP88959" and "PAL NES LMP88959" (https://github.com/LMP88959/PAL-CRT, Thx to LMP88959 for is great work).
- Added support to mapper : 100, 122, 157, 170, 272, 291, 311, 334, 354, 362, 366, 384, 421, 446, 471, 517, 551, 552, 555, 561.
- Added support to UNIF mapper : Transformer, UNROM, AMROM, AOROM, LH09, A60AS, T4A54A, FC-28-5027, 150in1A, 212-HONG-KONG, GKCXIN, 113in1JY110, 820561C, M2C52A, S-2009.
- Added full support for the Detach Barcode Reader of mapper 157.
- Added support for FFmpeg 6.x libraries.
- Added support for nes20db.xml and dip.cfg (many thx to NewRisingSun for his immense work). Both files will be distributed together with the emulator and will be located in the following directories:
* Linux/BSD - {default system datadir}/puNES
* Windows - directory where the executable is placed. if you want to use a more updated version than the one distributed with the emulator, just copy it either in the executable directory or in the working directory of the emulator, which can also be opened from the "File -> Open working directory" menu.
- Added full support for Vs System (UniSystem and DualSystem).
- Added a screen icon that shows when Fast Forwarding is active.
- In Fullscreen the menu bar can be accessed by moving the mouse over the top of the screen.
- Updated Italian, Chinese, French, Hungarian, Portuguese and Russian translation (thx to Alex Timonin, FlameMan, stgapr29, tch_oscomp, Matheus Scattolin Anselmo, owomomo, shinyoyo, githubsilver and Benjamin Siskoo).
- Changed the "Toggle menu bar" shortcut to ESC.
- Windows x86_64: Update to Qt5 5.15.8 (#279).
- Fixed the management of keyboard input (#317).
- Fixed map of one keyboard button to multiple controllers (#277).
- Fixed FDS wavetable pitch (#295).
- Fixed patching of IPS files.
- Fixed crackling sound when audio is enabled/disabled.
- Fixed Meta button recognition on some keyboard layouts.
- Fixed many many many other bugs.

Multiple Emulator Frontend - GameEx Arcade Edition v18.60 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 25 February 2024

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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.