KiGB v1.63

posted in Emulator News by narvick on Jun 19th, 2004

KiGB is an excellent standalone GameBoy/GBC emulator by Ricky Liu. It's now been updated and according to the author is "very very close to the real thing". What's new:

Highlights of This Release

Supported the Demotronic Trick- the world's first and only emulator that did it! See the Demotronic Final Demo (PD) [C] to see what it is.
A new and nice (I hope) GUI is implemented. Currently, there are 2 themes available. See the readme.txt for details.
Great improvement on speed. A P-II can run in full speed even with mix frame on.

New Features

A new GUI with 2 themes is implemented.
Alternate hotkeys can be configured for reset, pause and exit.
Lots of hotkeys are added: screen size, frame skip, emulation speed, border on/off, sound on/off, load ROM and load recent ROMs.
Added the support of MBC Rocket. Support the game Full Time Soccer and Hang Time.

Changes

The minimum CPU requirement is Pentium and the recommended one is P-II or above. A P-II can run in full speed even with mix frame on.
The mouse pointer will not be displayed during game play. This helps to improve the emulator speed very significantly.
When customizing keys, simply press the keys on the keyboard, or move the sticks or press the buttons on the joypad/joystick.
The following hotkeys are changed: Ctrl-X is used instead of Esc for exit; Keypad-asterisk will no longer reset the emulator.
To bring up the menu, either press the Tab key or click the left or right mouse button.
Lots of updates and corrections in showing the licensee names. Thanks to Scott Nash.

Bugs Fixed

Supported the Demotronic Trick. Demotronic Final Demo (PD) [C] worked perfectly. [#]
Fixed the color display bug in Color Panel Demo (PD) [C]. [#]
Fixed the hanging bug in Bo Jackson Hit and Run (U) [!] when the baseball was hit.
Fixed a blank screen bug when shadow is selected in SGB mode. (Thanks to Richard Bannister).
Fixed the missing of Galaxian's bug in Namco Gallery Volume 2 (J) [S].
Fixed a graphics glitch after selecting the last game in Namco Gallery Volume 3 (J) [S].
The screen was covered by garbage in Kanjiro (J) [S]. Fixed.
The colors were missing in Dokapon! - Millenium Quest (J) [C] [!] under the preference GBC with SGB border. Fixed.
Some garbage quickly showed up when the player was dead in Burai Fighter Color [C]. Fixed.
Some garbage quickly showed up after selecting a player in Dejiko no Mahjong Party [C]. Fixed.
Fixed the screen flickering bug in Mario Brothers Demo (PD) [C] with mix frame on.
Fixed the border color in Nettou Samurai (J) [S] (bug in v1.60).
Fixed a crash bug in Work Master v1.00 - Multitask OS for Gameboy (PD) [C].
A flashing and moving line just under the square showing the fruit at the top right is now correctly shown in Artic Zone (Unl) [!].
A corrupted line just under the status window in Duck Tales (U) [!] is now correctly shown.
A very short flashing line at the left in the lower half of the screen is now correctly shown in Jeopardy! (U) [!].
A white line (cloud?) just above the wall at the right after selecting a new game in Urusei Yatsura (J) [!] is now correctly shown.

[#] KiGB is the first and only emulator that can support this game/demo.

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