Neon64 v1.1

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on Dec 30th, 2003

Neon64, an NES emulator for Nintendo64 written in pure assembly, was updated today! This version boasts a lot of new changes and will also be the last one for a while. Here's what is new:

Greater speed
Same codebase for both backup unit and Gameshark versions (no more slow GS version or feature differences)
Sound support is almost perfect
Graphics are now all drawn with the N64's graphics hardware (RDP) for better speed even with a more accurate sprite engine
Better CPU timing (extra cycles for page crossing in some instructions) and accuracy (RMW instructions properly emulated), fixed a flag bug in TXS
Better MMC1 support (Dragon Warrior 3 and 4, Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure, Die Hard, Big Foot)
Better compromise with MMC3 IRQ timing
More mappers (9 (Punch Out!), 11 (unlisenced Color Dreams), 34 (Deadly Towers), 71 (Solstice, Bignose the Caveman, Bignose Freaks Out)
Overall more accurate timing (VRAM address register updating, sprite DMA timing, etc.)
Fixed controller reading (Mad Max, Bomberman, Dirty Harry, etc.)
Color deemphasis and monochrome mode supported
Bigger pattern cache (for decent speed in TMNT2 and 3, Xenophobe)
Arkanoid paddle support
Menu with many features
Some basic PAL support (Elite, Asterix)
Some gfx probs (FF most notably) fixed by switching from double to triple gfx buffering.
Fixed speed problems with code run from WRAM (Zelda, Minigame Pack)

You can pick up a copy in our Emulators for Nintendo64 section!

Thanks to themind for letting us know.

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