Emulation News 097: Updates for 7-6-11

Hello once more, get ready for today's updates! Lots of new emulators showcasing their debuts here in Retro Gaming Life.


MESS SVN r12161

"r12161
Made multcart slot separate device, and prepared cartslot for rewrite and updated gromport.c to use this (no whatsnew)"

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Fceux SVN r2213

"r2213
sdl: fixed --nogui option and removed SDL.NoGUI from fceux.cfg"

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PCSX2 SVN r4796

"r4793
Lilypad: Disable a confusing control for now.
Also a small comment on GSdx's texture cache lookup.
r4794
Lilypad: Don't screw users which already had the problematic option set.
r4795
Lilypad: Really hide the option. Sigh :p
r4796
GUI: Open the main window (if required) before the console window. Results: 1. Taskbar order is now better. 2. Console window gets minimized with the main window. Thanks to ShadowLady for the code."

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Vba-ReRecording v23.5a

"- Hopefully fixed a performance bug when recording a long movie."

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WinUAE v2.3.3 Beta 2

"- experimental joystick raw input support, enable using -rawhid command line parameter.
- D3D blank screen problem should be really fixed now
- empty winuae.ini now does exact same as -portable command line parameter
- harddrive paths relative to win32.hardfile_path didn't work
- config file full paths are converted to relative if path matches win32.xxx_path entries
- ignore new displaydata vsync stuff if RTG mode is currently in use
- Display panel new vsync refresh rate GUI really works now
- uaescsi.device cd image on the fly switching was unreliable
- uaescsi.device crash when switching images (I could only duplicate it with AROS CDFS)
- AROS ROM updated"

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fMSX v3.5 beta for Android

"On July 5 2011, I have published a beta version of fMSX-Android. It is currently free for everyone to download and use, although you will have to supply your own system ROMs. Please, give it a try and report any encountered problems in the discussion group.

Currently, you can get both fMSX-Windows and fMSX-MSDOS for the total price of $19.99 (or cheaper, if you use coupons). The fMSX-Symbian and fMSX-Unix are free. The complete list of features and the list of new features and fixes can be found in the documentation. Please, look for bugs and submit bug reports and fixes to me."

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ykhwong's DOSBox 0.74 SVN Build 05.07.2011

"This build is an enhanced SVN build which incorporates unofficial features and fixes that are not officially part of DOSBox. The best Dosbox version IMHO.

Included Patches:
Direct3D with pixelshaders, OpenglHQ, Innovation, Glide, zip/7z mount, Beep, NE2000 Ethernet, Graphis user interface (menu), Save/Load states, Vertical sync, CPU flags optimization, Various DOS commands (PROMP,T VOL, LABEL, MOUSE, etc) and CONFIG.SYS commands (DEVICE, BUFFERS, FILES, etc), Continuous turbo key, Core-switch key, Show details (from menu bar), Nice DOSBox icon, Font patch (cp437), COPY CON feature, MAKEIMG command, INTRO, Ctrl-break patch, DBCS support patch, Automatic mount, Printer output, MT-32, MP3CUE, Overscan, etc.

Build environment:
Based on MinGW/MSYS under Windows 7 x64
Flags: -s -O2 -pipe -fprofile-use -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=i686 -march=i586 -mno-push-args -ffast-math -funroll-loops --param max-unrolled-insns=60
Libaries: SDL, SDL_sound, libpng, libphysfs, DirectX SDK library, Freetype, etc.
For advanced users who want to debug or compile, debugger-enabled build and source are available.


WHAT'S NEW
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1. Based on SVN r3728
2. Added DOS_IDLE (Borrowed from MB6), Removed DOSIDLE.EXE from Z drive
3. "Forced" can be used with Hardware2x/3x scalers
4. No two lines of menu bar if scaler is set to none
5. Updated MT-32 emulation (MUNT) patch (6b14d3a10084dea65f05)
6. Added some optimization patches (Tramboi, Except 001)
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=28938
7. Added 0x5C (800x600 M_LIN8) to Paradise graphics
8. Continuous turbo mode should work only when shortly pressing Alt-F12
9. Fixed some minor bugs"

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Virtual Jaguar 2.0.0 r358

"Virtual Jaguar 2.0.0 is coming! We have a few more things to polish, like the configuration dialog, but once that's done we'll have an official release. We hope you like it!"

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FireNes v2.0.1

"Now available a new version (2.0.1). Just a few small changes to make it compatible with the new version of Firefox.
Take this opportunity to thank everyone who donated to keep alive FireNes. Unfortunately there were very few people, given so far does not cover expenses that have this project, so we still could not add another console (eg SNES) as planned. So back to ask them to donate, every penny counts and will be grateful."

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