Emulation News 083: Updates for 6-22-11

Here are the updates for the 22nd.

UKNCBTL Beta 20

"[*] UKNCBTL: minor fixes."

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MESS SVN r12019

"r12019
[MPZ80] Added DJ2/DB memory map. (nw)"

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WinArcadia & AmiArcadia v16.11

"- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes."

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PCSX2 SVN r4753

"r4752
SPU2-X: Improved (hopefully to perfection) the reporting of NAX by moving code around in the decoder. Fixes Magic Pengel, hopefully no regressions (but it does intentionally change when some IRQs fire a bit so there might be some, but if so this is a step towards fixing other finicky games).
r4753
SPU2-X: Fix minor register logging bug (probably not the only bug in this code)"

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Fceux SVN r2207

"r2207
server - fixed compilation issues on OSX"

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PCSX Reloaded SVN r68034

"r68034
Patch 9753 (MaddTheSane)."

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XRoar v0.25.1

"- New GTK+2 user-interface.
- New GtkGLExt video module.
- New audio options: -ao-rate, -ao-buffer-ms, -ao-buffer-samples, -volume.
- New options: -kbd-translate, -disk-write-back.
- New PulseAudio sound module.
- New Linux joystick module.
- CPU emulation accuracy improved [from doc by Darren Atkinson]
- Tape audio feedback while loading CAS files (AUDIO ON).
- Fixed some CPU timings.
- Added ability to print to file or pipe.
- Ability to define new machines or cartridges."

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Demul v0.5.7 Test Build

"It's an early leak from February. The SH-3 CAVE Games are unoptimzed and don't have sound!"

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EMU v1.01 (2011/06/21)

"- Added copy / paste / search in the debugger"

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UberNES 2011 (2011/06/19)

"- Added new cycle-accurate emulation core, allowing more timing-sensitive games like Battletoads to be played without any issues;
- Added support for 15 more iNES mappers;
- Added support for N106 and Sunsoft FME7 sound chips;
- Improved support for 8 mappers including MMC3 and Konami VRCx;
- Added light gun support;
- Added Direct2D-based renderer which may perform better on Windows 7 machines then GDI and DirectDraw-based renderers;
- Added bilinear interpolating graphics upcaler;
- Improved quality of sound emulation."

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Glitch64 SVN r245

"r243
Remove 'PPL' ini option. Detect Pokemon puzzle league internally.
r244
Add garbage removal hack for Pokemon puzzle league, suggested by pokefan0.999 in issue #152.
r245
Traditional Chinese language file update by marchbiggg"

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SSNES v0.6

"New features:
Live video recording with FFmpeg. This feature isn´t exactly new, but it´s been greatly reworked to something usable. SSNES can now dump live game footage losslessly straight to FFV1 encoded video (RGB32), and FLAC encoded audio. I recommend using .mkv container for this. .mp4 seems to fail, and .avi IS fail. It runs in a thread, so the overhead should be quite low/nonexistant if you have multiple CPU cores and a decent harddrive. The video will probably require some processing after, as most video players expect YV12, and directly converting RGB to YV12 won´t give you good results.
Add option to disable joypad input for slots, which seems to be needed for some games to operate properly.
BSD support. BSD systems are now supported. I only tested on OpenBSD/i386 4.9, but it should hopefully work on other BSD variants.


Fixes:
Fix OSS audio driver for BSD, which use slightly different conventions.
Fix some quickbuild parsing with command-line options to not rely on sed where it´s not needed.
Replace final uses of strcpy()/strcat() with strlcpy()/strlcat() (see OpenBSD ;D).
Fix case where input_slot = 2 was selected with shaders.
Force rewind granularity to 1 when we´re playing back or recording a .bsv movie.


GUI:
As GTK2 issues were resolved, default toolkit in Linux/BSD is now GTK2. The Qt version can still be built with make -f Makefile.qt.
Greatly improve layout consistency in general (you´ll notice ... )
Input configuration gives more visual feedback when configuring buttons (similiar to bsnes-phoenix).
Add "None" input option.
Add possibility to start FFmpeg recording."

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C64-network.org v2.3

"- Added usb fat support
- Added wiimote rumble support"

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