Misc. News: Nogginknockers X - Final Version
11:38:  The final version of Nogginknockers X was released earlier today. New features include:

• Now 8 paddles total, including the classic "Sh*tman" from NESticle
• Cameos by Overclocked's Pretzel and Green
• "Hidden Heads" Featuring some known people in the emu scene
• Lots of really stupid toilet humor - ie NOT FOR KIDS OR THOSE OFFENDED BY DISGUSTING BRAINLESS HUMOR

Translation News: Correction
03:11:  Yesterday I posted about the Blob Muncher Rom Hack. Accidently, I wrote that it was a hack for Pac-Man, but it's actually a hack for Ms. Pac Man.

This has been corrected. Sorry for the inconvience.

2/28/2000
Emulator Release: System 16 FR Final
23:42:  The French language port of System 16 0.79 has been released. Everything important has been translated, and the emulation is the exact same as in the English version of 0.79.

You can download it from the Multi-Arcade emulators page.

Thanks to Top50 for the news.

Emulator News: Nemu64 problems
14:18:  If you are having problems with the new version of Nemu64, here are some tips to get you going again:

Emulator Release: AMAME & PMAME 0.36 RC1
07:47:  AMAME and PMAME, the AMD and Pentium optimized versions of MAME, have been updated to 0.36 RC1. You can get them at the MAME page.

Emulator Release: EMU+ 0.36 RC1
07:41:  A new version of EMU+, an enhanced version of MAME, has been released, and here's what's new:

Translation News: Super Kunio Kun
06:06:  Laxidman/SKKTC has been updated his Super Kunio Kun patch to 98%!

Super Kunio Kun is River City Ransom type game. Correction: This game is NOT RCR2.

Get it from the Translations page.

Translation News: Hacks Updated
06:00:  Rusted Romhacks has released their much anticipated Blob Muncher for NES. This is a hack of the NAMCO version. It will only work for the Namco version. A Tengen patch is in progress.

Acmlm has updated his Strange Mario Bros 3 patch adding World 4 to the hacked status.

Get them from the Hacks page

Emulator Release: Multipac for Digita Updated to v0.2
03:06:  Multipac, a Pacman arcade emulator, for DigitaOS has been updated to v0.2. This includes support for not only the Kodak DC220, DC260, DC265, and DC290: 823 processor, but also the HP C500 Photosmart and Minolta Dimage 1500 EX: DCAM processor. This emulator only runs the regular Pacman at the moment, but the author sees this port running other kinds of Pacman in the future.

You may find this emulator on our Multipac for Digita page.

Emulator Release: MAMED 36b15 for Minolta 1500 EX Released.
02:59:  One of the most widely ported and beloved emulators of all time, MAME, has been on the DigitaOS for some time. A recent release brings support for the MInolta 1500 EX camera, as well. This is the same version as the MAMED port for the Kodak cameras.

You may find MAMED on our MAME for Digita page.

Emulator Release: MESSD 36b15 Released
02:57:  MESS, the Mutliple Emulator Super System has been brought to Digita, your favourite digital camera OS. It has support for the Kodak DC220, DC260, DC265 and DC290. As there is no external keyboard and mouse support yet, running some of the computer emulators may prove a little difficult. I am certain that the game emulators, however, run rather well.

You may find MESSD on our brand new MESS for Digita page.

Links Update: MameD -Mame for Digita- has a new home.
01:07:  Our links have been updated for the new home of MameD, the MAME port for Digita. Digita is an OS which some digital cameras run on. The new homepage may be found at digita.mame.net. It appears to be the main homepage of all of the known Digita emulators. Mame, Mess, and Multipac can all be found there.

2/27/2000
Emulator Release: Nemu64 0.7
23:46:  A new version of Nemu64 has finally been released! Here is a list of what's new:

Emulator Release: fMSX BeOS 2.1 Released!
20:16:  This one caught me while I was terribly busy at work, and unable to update. The lull in BeOS emulation was finally broken by a little fMSX port to the OS. It seems to be on par with the UNIX fMSX emulator, except for the fact that it lacks sound, a clean configuration interface, and some keys are not mapped. It does seem, however, that it shall be updated at least enough to fix these problems, and perhaps beyond.

You may find fMSX BeOS on our BeOS Computer page.

Emulator Release: NESten 0.6 Beta Doomsday
19:21:  A new version of NESten, an NES emulator for Windows, has been released. Here is what's new:

Media News: Doubtful that there will indeed be a FINAL Fantasy soon...
15:25:  While we are on the subject of domain name registration, I just read on RPGamer that Square has recently(February 10th) registered the following domains:

• ff12.com
• ff13.com
  
• ff14.com
  
• ff15.com
  
• finalfantasyxii.com
  
• finalfantasyxiii.com
  
• finalfantasyxiv.com
  
• finalfantasyxv.com
  
• finalfantasy-xii.com
  
• finalfantasy-xiii.com
  
• finalfantasy-xiv.com
  
• finalfantasy-xv.com
  

Emulator Release: RockNES 1.01
12:06:  RockNES 1.01 has been released! Here's what's new:

Misc. News: X-Box confirmation?
11:59:  It seems that Microsoft isn't so intent on keeping their X-Box secret any longer. Microsoft has just registered the xbox.com domain name, as reported by ZDNet. Check out the links for more info.

Media News: Back In Time Update
04:04:  There is a new review up on Back In Time, it's for The Next Tetris, both PC and Playstation version. The PC version is WAY different than the Playstation version, so read the review to see. Mike Stulir also says, "Keep an eye on Back In Time, as the 1st Anniversary episode of the Back In Time webcast will be posted within the next week or so. Since it is the 1st Anniversary of the show, I have lined up a VERY special secret guest."

You can go to the Back In time website if you wish.

Thanks to Mike Stulir for the news.

Emulator Release: Generator32 .12
03:46:  The Windows port of Generator is now available. It uses a command line interface at the moment, and runs very few games as of yet.

You can download it from the Genesis emulator page.

Thanks to Special K for the news.

Emulator Release: Fellow 0.3.5
03:23:  A new version of Fellow, an Amiga emulator, has been released recently. Among the new features:

• Blitter minterms $0b evaluated wrongly, fixed.
• Alt-N Cycling removed from the GUI, can't remember what it was for.
• Frame-speed was broken, fixed.
• HAM mode translated to garbled colors in some 16-bit modes, fixed.

Emulator Release: Java MSX
03:11:  The Java-based MSX emulator has been updated for a few games to allow for 512x384 resolution for those who run their monitors on a higher resolution meaning no more squinting for 1024x768 users.

You can either check out the link on the Java MSX emulator page, or try it out at http://www.file-hunter.com.

Thanks to The MEP-Crew for the news.

Media News: Dreamcast Modchip a reality
02:33:  You read it right, a modchip is now available for any version (US/Canada, Euro, Japan) of the Dreamcast, allowing any version of Dreamcast software to run on it. It also mentions that it can run backups, but since GD-ROMs can't be copied right now, that fact is kind of irrelevant.

You can check out the information and order the Dreamcast Modchip at the modchip.com webpage.

Thanks to Bytoro for the news.

Media News: The 30th Issue of Retrotimes
02:03:  Retrotimes, a classic gaming newsletter, has hit it's 30th issue. Here's what's inside for the special occasion:

Misc. News: The Scribe updates G3O
01:40:  The Scribe has updated G3O, his listing of reviews for Sega Genesis games. Added are exclusive reviews for Shadow of Atlantis and Virtua Hamster. Check them out at the links below.

Misc. News: Kinox loads up on Sega
01:24:  MGandhi has interviewed TyRaNiD, author of Lucifer and Sat'On'Em (both Saturn emulators) and a new Saturn debugger. During the interview, he talks about SEGA stuff as the difficulty to get tech docs about the system, Saturn failures as the bad marketing by SEGA, programming tips and some exclusive news as the announce of a SEGA CD emu coming soon!

Check it all out at Kinox.

2/26/2000
Emulator Release: no$gmb 2.4
04:38:  This was released, and uploaded before, but a post wasn't made, so here goes... *ahem*
Martin Korth has released a new version of his Gameboy emulator. The new features include:

• Major Sound fixes
• Various Bugfixes
• Long filename support
• Windows Version
• And more... if interested, check out the full list

Interview News: MGhandi Interviews Sean Doidge of Sega
04:28:  MGhandi of www.kinox.org has interviewed Sean Doidge of Sega, better known to Sega IRC'ers as Barbarian Wookie.

You can read the interview if you like.

Thanks to MGhandi for the link.

Emulator Release: FPSE 0.07
04:18:  This has been out a while, we just haven't caught it till now. Among the new features are:

• SPU inital work. now play sound.
• More GTE support
• GPU software render sprite & tile bug fix
• dynamic compiler NOR opcode bug fix
• sopport WATCOM C++ / Borland C++ Bulider (perhaps Borland C++ too)
• and Implovement by LDChen
• Now sio, pads (even dual-shock) and memory cards work fully;
• Interrupt and async events work fully.
• All memory access are closed to 8 MB (infact 0x000000 and 0x00200000 point to the same location);
• GPU dma are closed to 8 MB (see above);
• Added frame rate limiter to 60Hz (see HW.C for details);
• Added frameskip and screenshot (see GPU.C for details);
• Added a primitive but useful debugger ( '-e' option);
• Added a CDNULL driver.
• A small fix to root counters;
• Bios can be used for running demos;
• Now cdrom can generate interrupts;
• Some changes on layout of the code:

Emulator News: Bronze Dragon + Dragon Side II Disk Images
01:27:  The Disk Images for the Apple II games Bronze Dragon and Dragon Side II (an add-on to Bronze Dragon) were recently released into the public domain. Bronze Dragon is a text-only adventure that was released in 1985.

You can pick both games up at the Apple II Disk Images page.

Thanks to Karzon for the news.

Emulator Release: GameBBR
01:02:  A new GameBoy emulator based on HASH has been released. It's called GameBBR, and it's in the Portugese language. In its first version, it features:

Misc. News: New C64 TAP Files
00:49:  The C64 TAP Central has several new TAP files available, including Los Angeles SWAT and Rambo:First Blood Part 2. (TAP files are old C64 tapes. They are trying to preserve them before they are gone forever.)

Emulator Release: New Fusion
00:44:  Fusion, a Mac emulator for PC, has been updated to version 2.2. I can't seem to find a newer demo than the one already on our Mac page, though. Perhaps only registered users can upgrade?

Check the Fusion site for more info.

Thanks to Mike Green for the news.

Site News: Seven (7) 1234567th Million Visitor to ZD!
00:39:  About two weeks ago, we had our seven millionth visitor:

As the seven millionth vistior to your site, and recipient of the white coloured counter with six zeros, I just wanted to wish you a happy seven million visitors.
-Cameron Williams (MetalCow)

Sorry this took this long to report, but Zophar has been on vacation :)

2/25/2000
Emulator Release: MAME 0.36 RC1
20:58:  It looks like the end of MAME 0.36 is drawing near. Soon, we'll be seeing new and more exciting version numbers like 0.37. You can get this new version of MAME at the MAME page.

Misc. News: WinZIP 8.0 Beta 2
20:54:  WinZIP 8.0 Beta 2 has been released on WinZIP.com. They used the idea from the code I sent them for tooltips in explorer. I'm happy. :)

Download WinZIP 8.0 Beta 2.

Misc. News: EmuForce interviews author of AGES
20:47:  EmuForce has done an interview on the author of AGES. You can view the interview at Emuforce.

A thanks goes out to DarkMazda's Domain for the news.

Misc. News: PSXEmu.com down
20:38:  You read right. PSXEmu.com is down temporarily. Here is the message left on the site:

"I'll take this as a place to send out an excuse to a real friend for something that happened, that went a way I never wanted it to go. All I need to tell him is : It went a way I didn't wanted it to go, your things ARE out, was nice to meet you.

Maybe PSXEmu will be back later - When I'm in the mood to continue this - But I won't if it still goes the way it's going right now, since this isn't worth running the risk (what happened now) to loose some real friends.

Signoff
- Bobbi"

A thanks goes out to DarkMazda's Domain for the news.

Site News: ZD Title graphic reduced
04:00:  Thanks to Marcus, the main logo on the front page has been reduced by 7KB, without sacrificing quality.

Site News: Save & Music archives updated
02:30:  Save archives updated: GS0, STA, SRM, ZMV, ZST archives.
Game music archives updated: GYM, NSF, SPC archives.

Misc. News: Nintendo Dolphin and Gameboy Advance Info
00:02:  I've just read a few things on www.nintendodolphin.net. I'll outline them here.

• The Dolphin and the Gameboy Advance are being delayed until 3rd Quarter 2001. Nintendo doesn't want to hurt sales of Nintendo 64 or Gameboy Color systems OR games.
• Developers have mentioned that Nintendo is still charging high licencer fees despite saying that systems are supposed to be cheap to develop for.
• If you haven't heard, the Gameboy Advance isn't just an upgraded gameboy. It has polygon graphics capabilities and a 32 bit RISC processor. I've also heard on other sites(RPGamer) that it would have the sound capabilities of a Super Nintendo. Plus, it is supposed to double as a Dolphin controller.
• It's rumored that Namco and Konami are developing for Dolphin, Namco is releasing a Xevious game, and Konami will be releasing a Gradius game. Both are expected to be released 3 months after Dolphin's launch, but since that news bit was posted before the delay was announced, it may be a launch title.

2/24/2000
Media News: Good Gaming News Site
23:29:  If you're into gaming software and hardware news, check out http://www.gamersuplink.com/. I'm not just posting this for the sake of it; I just added this site to my bookmarks. It's a keeper.

Emulator Release: Gens v0.2
23:27:  Gens, a genesis emulator for Windows, has a new big release. Here's what's new:

Misc. News: Geoshock closes it's doors...
20:16:  katharsis posted the sad news today that the GeoShock website will be closing down indefinitely. Legality and bandwidth, among other issues were the cause. You can read the full story on the GeoShock website.

Misc. News: Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 news
02:05:  I recently found a preview for MvC2 on fighters.net and I thought I'd report on it here, because of a couple of unique features.

Firstly, the game will be released for Dreamcast and the Arcade at the same time. What is unique for the DC version, is that people who own the Dreamcast version can play it at home, and on the internet, and earn points which are saved to a VMU file, which in turn can be used to 'purchase' secrets, such as hidden characters and the like. You could also take your VMU to the arcade and earn another kind of points.

It's unfortunate, but there is a chance that the US arcade version won't have the VMU feature, and instead will rely on either codes or time release features.

The characters in MvC2 include Anakaris(Darkstalkers), Miss Tron(MegaMan Legends), Hayato(Star Gladiator/Plasma Sword), Jill Valentine(Resident Evil, I think), Cable, Wolverine(With or without Adamantium), Shuma Gorath, Iceman, Dr. Doom, and way more.

• Fighters.net

Emulator Release: SNEeSe 0.41
01:42:  Trac does it again with another update to SNEeSe. In this version:

• Timing tweaks, improved ADSR, layering selection

2/23/2000
Utility Release: Thingy32 0.15b
23:31:  A new version of Thingy 32 has been released. Thingy32 is the Windows version of a popular translation utility. Here is a list of what's new:

Utility Release: ROM Zipper 1.35 Beta2
23:30:  A new version of Rom Zipper has been released. Rom Zipper is a utility that will zip up all your ROMs into individual zip files to save space. Here is what's new in this version.

Emulator Release: NES9x version 1.0 released
22:42:  A new Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for DOS called NES9x has been released. Currently, it has the Main 6502 CPU, The NES Sound System, PPU, Memory, Almost all Video Modes, and Controler 1 emulated. It supports mappers #0, #1, #2, #3, #7.

Check it out on the NES Emulators area.

Emulator News: Death in the family.. (It looks like RAINE)
11:18:  It looks like RAINE is dead, unfortunately.

After two years in which many of us couldn't imagine life without the emu, it's gone.

Read the message at the RAINE homepage.

something interesting to note is the hidden message in the page source:
[!-- K????? B? M????? A?? L????? (O? A?? T??? T?? S??? T????) / M4X1MUM 0WN4G3 --]

As Retrogames was nice enough to find someone to transcribe, it supposedly means this:
[!-- Killed By Mamers And Lamers (Or Are They The Same Thing) / M4X1MUM 0WN4G3 --]

It is quite unfortunate that RAINE has suddenly died, and I know that I (for one) feel a sense of emptiness due to its passing. If it ever returns, I'd be quite happy. If no, I'd remember the memories the emu gave me.

Thanks to Torvus and Retrogames for the news.

2/22/2000
Misc. News: New N64 Demo Rom
22:51:  More UltraHLE-related news...a free N64 rom has just been released, available at the UltraHLE download page. It's clay shooting, remniscent of the game included with Duck Hunt, but with a digital pad, it's nigh impossible. If you use an analog controller, it might work, but digital is too imprecise to aim.

Emulator News: New Pictures of UltraHLE
22:40:  RealityMan has posted new pictures of the upcoming UltraHLE version 1.5 at the official UltraHLE homepage. The screenshots show textures now:

"Well, the next stage has now been reached and textures are starting to work so I have decided to show some new screenshots to show this."

Hopefully, a new version will be released soon, but please don't bother RealityMan with email about it.

Emulator News: RockNES info
18:16:  Some new information has been posted on the RockNES website. Apparently, they are close to a release, and expecting version 1.01 to come out this weekend. Some mapper 64 problems are also fixed, and the author is wondering if somebody wants to make a RockNES WinAMP skin.

Check out the RockNES site for more details.

Emulator Release: MAME32 0.36b16
18:10:  MAME32 0.36 has been updated to beta 16. Here's what's new specific to the 32-bit version:

Emulator Release: DarcNES dn9a0219
17:22:  A new version of DarcNES, a NES emulator for Linux,has been released. Here's what's new:

2/21/2000
Emulator Release: SNEeSe 0.40
12:24:  A new version of SNEeSe has been released, and here's what's new:

Emulator Release: Hu-Go 1.10 Source
07:13:  Zeograd has released the source to the latest version of Hu-Go to the public. You can it at the TurboGrafx 16 page.

Emulator Release: ZSNES 0.9891
07:06:  Another new version of ZSNES has been released, this time with a very small version change. Here's what's new:

Utility Release: PSMplay version 0.2a
00:30:  A new version of a great PSX utility has been released. Here is what's new in this version:

2/20/2000
Utility News: Che's Ogre Battle version 1.05
13:39:  Che has released a bug fix version of his Ogre Battle cheat for windows. Here is what he had to say:

I accidentally made it so that it loads characters 49-96, but it saved on 1-48 =(. I also fixed some class things. Thanks again to Qing for pointing out my mistakes!

You can download this new version from his homepage.
Be sure to also check out his Ultimate cheater at the Cheat utilities page.

Utility Release: KeroNeko english translation
13:29:  Yuldark, the author of KeroNeko, has translated his SPC player to english. Check it out.

You can download it at the SPC Players/Utilities page.
You can also download some SPC's at the SPC Archive.
Finally, you can download the SPC Internet plugin, which uses the ZSNES sound engine, at the ZD-spc homepage.

Utility Release: SPCPlay .650
13:12:  A new version of SPCPlay has been released. This version fixes the pitch, which caused all SPC's to be off key.

You can download it at the SPC Players/Utilities page.
You can also download some SPC's at the SPC Archive.
Finally, you can download the SPC Internet plugin, which uses the ZSNES sound engine, at the ZD-spc homepage.

Thanks go out to Dan for the news.

Emulator Release: NESten 0.6 Beta Cataclysm
13:04:  A new version of NESten, a great NES emulator, has been released! Here is a list of what's new:

Site News: Save & Game Music archives updated
00:29:  Save archives updated: GS0, NSM, STA, CHT, ZMV, ZST archives.
Game music archives updated: GYM, NSF, SPC archives.
The NSF page now links to Chris Covell's NES Music Ripping Guide v1.3.

2/19/2000
Misc. News: More Emulator Z info
22:36:  I received more info on the Emulator Z emulation cart for PSX from Spiffmaster Cow. Apparently, it runs the games a bit slower than the actual carts on the machines, due to frameskipping. I received an E-Mail from someone saying it had very poor sound emulation, and no sound at all for some systems. Spiffmaster gives this explaination: "And yes, it does have sound, but it's about like running Massage with the PC speaker sound output option :P The SMS stuff is the same way. The Gameboy one doesn't have sound, but it does have SGB color support :) It functions as a plugin mod also, which isn't too shabby :)" For those of you that don't know, a plugin mod is an external way to allow your PSX to run import games, as well as backups of your games. Also, if this is something you are interested in purchasing, head over to SpiffCo Industries. He sells them for $12 and is a little more local than Hong Kong. :)

Emulator Release: Hu-Go 1.10
21:43:  A new version of Hu-Go, a TurboGrafx 16 emulator for DOS, has been released, and here's what's new:

Misc. News: GG/GB/SMS/PCE for Playstation?
18:23:  The Ai Trading Company is advertising a unit for the Playstation that resembles a Game Shark (plug version), and will allow the PSX to emulate Game Gear, Game Boy, Sega Master System, and Pc-Engine (TurboGraphx16) games. There really isn't any info given, but it is list at $13US.

Check it out yourself at the Ai Trading Company's Website.

Misc. News: Windows 2000 Compatibility Updates
18:11:  Are you a gamer and want your Windows 2000 too? Looks like Microsoft is looking out for you after all. They have released The February 2000 package. It has fixes that allow 48 different game titles to work with Windows 2000. A full explaination and the patch can be obtained from the Microsoft Windows 2000 website.

Special thanks to the Shadowvision Network for the news.

Misc. News: Shadowvision Network born
13:20:  Everyone else gets to post about personal projects, so, here's mine. :)

The Shadowvision Network is a network of various sites with various content, all linked together, sort of like a mini portal. The network covers such categories as hardware/software beta reviews, music, women, and more. As part of our Grand Opening, we are running a contest. The winner of the contest wins the game of his/her choice for any platform, up to a $50 value. All you have to do is head over to Shadowvision.net and sign up for our ListBot. That's it! You're automatically entered. The official rules of the contest can be obtained when you get to the site.

Once again, please visit the Shadowvision Network. You'll be making myself and several other very happy. :)

Misc. News: Genesis Project updated
13:11:  In similar fashion to the G3 by The scribe, the Genesis Project is going through every known Genesis ROM, and testing it in KGen98 and GenecystXXX. Then, they document which ones work in which, what problems they have if they don't work, and then give you a comprehensive layout of information about the ROM, including File Name, Game Name, Author/Vendor, When the game was released, What Type of game it is, the Language the game is in, and then a descripion of the game. The current update adds the section N through O, and tidying up the B section, mostly with Game Genie files.

If you want to see this for yourself, head over to Genesis Project.

Misc. News: Rent video games over the net?
12:33:  Well, if we can rent DVDs over the net, why not? I received the following E-Mail from Mark Boyko:

"Hi! I have some news that should be of interest to anyone who is an avid player and purchaser of console games. I have developed a sort of 'gamers library' where you borrow games instead of buying them. To my knowledge, this is the first video game rental service on the Internet! For a set monthly subscription fee, members are allowed to pick a game and keep it as long as they want. Then, when you're sick of the game, you just send it back for a new one. The idea is you can play more games for less money than buying at retail and be able to keep the game longer than you would be able to by renting at your local video rental store. Here's a url to a page explaining the concept in greater detail:

http://www.gotm.org/club/whatisthevgpc.htm

I'm just starting out with this idea, and as of now my game libraries are not too large. However, I think it would be a great service to gamers everywhere if this kind of idea could catch on. The idea is as more and more members join up, the game libraries will expand and provide a better service to game players.

Mark Boyko
fewlio@gotm.org
the video game player's club
http://www.gotm.org/club/"

Give it a look over and let him know what you think!

Emulator News: RockNES for Windows coming soon
10:45:  It seems as though our friends over at RockNES are working on a windows port. Here's a clip from the RockNES homepage:

A Windows port is being developed by another guy. Currently, it´s *very* slow ´cause of 6502 emulator used (we´re trying to replace it) and it runs at 14FPS in my P166.

Check out the RockNES homepage or download RockNES at the NES Emulators page.

Misc. News: Bleem! programmers better than Sony programmers?
06:56:  Marcus emailed us and brought up an interesting, yet funny, point.

Say... One moment, Sony asks for Bleem's source code, the next moment, they announce they're having huge trouble emulating the playstation on the ps2... Hmmm, why do you think they wanted the source?

Head over to the message board to discuss.

Emulator Release: SadNES 32 v0.11 Beta 5
06:51:  SadNES, a Nintendo emulator written in basic (yes, that useless language you learned in high school), has come out with a new Win32 beta. Better mapper #0 support is planned for the next version.

Snag a copy from the NES page.

Emulator Release: A-Saturn v0.15
06:42:  Ben-J informed us that a new version of A-Saturn, one of the best Sega Saturn emulators, is out. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: WinBoycott v0.61b
06:33:  WinBoycott, the Win32 port of Boycott, a Gameboy/Color GB emulator, has been released in a "He's back!" release. Here's what's new:

Misc. News: Nogginknockers X Beta 7
05:58:  A new beta of Nogginknockers X has been released just now. Among the new features:

• New characters! Hellbent Vs. Stumpy in a chainsaw death match!
  
• New background with mouse-controllable moving walls and the Bovine Trap!
  
• Four new endings, including the most painful moment in gaming history!
  
• All new text rambling in the background!

2/18/2000
Misc. News: Enter: EmuFAQ 2000
13:38:  Here is the openning part of what will eventually become EmuFAQ 2000. It's an analysis of the Sony vs. Connectix court case, and its implications to the emulation scene. It's written by our friend the Scribe. =) Be sure to check it out.

Misc. News: PS2 Incompatibility, Round 2
13:30:  So much for Playstation 2's much-touted compatibility feature. Sony has created an extremely preliminary list of Playstation games that will not work with Playstation 2. Here's the list (these are Japanese games with a Japanese PS2):

Emulator Release: BrMSX 2.3
13:21:  A new version of BrMSX has been released, and here's what's new:

Misc. News: Microsoft X-Box specs revealed
06:39:  In Microsoft's continuing quest to dominate the computer world, they have decided to enter the gaming world...by trying to beat Playstation 2. The project is code named X-Box, and some specs were leaked to a UK games publishing trade title MCV.

Here's the part you all want to hear. DVD drive, 56k modem, 1GHz CPU, 64MB ram, 4GB hard drive with a Windows-like OS. Yes, that's 1 giga hertz (1 billion cycles/sec). The unit is supposedly going for US$149. Quite a deal.

As many have put it, this may just be a ploy to knock down PSX2 sales...but then again, maybe something to bring the console and PC industry together is just what we all need. Simplicity of a console system with the power of a desktop system.

Thanks to Inferno for the email.

Emulator Release: Atari800 Emulator v0.9.9f
06:24:  A new version of Atari800, an emulator that emulates the Atari 800, has been released with full source. Here's what's new:

Translation News: DGen 1.21....in French!
06:05:  A french translation is available for DGen v1.21. If you have sound problems, reduce your mixing rate to 11kHz. Also, Game Genie codes produce a protection fault.

Utility Release: NesToy v3.01
05:50:  NesToy is a utility that identifies, repairs and can rename your NES/FAM ROM images. Windows 2000 support is enabled in this version.

Grab it from the NES Utilities page.

Misc. News: Borland ANSI C/C++ Compiler now freeware
05:46:  With the recent release of Borland's ANSI C/C++ Compiler v5.5, they have decided to make it freeware. Michael Swindell, the director of product management at Inprise/Borland, said that with the amount of projects going open source as of late, Borland should encourage and help stimulate their growth by having their compiler become freeware. So far, Borland has led the programming industry with their various compilers by offering the most powerful and versatile compilers and builders available.

Misc. News: Windows 2000 and emulation
05:32:  Power Emulation has an exhaustive list of emulators and their compatability with Win2k. If you have Win2k or are planning to get it, make sure you check this out--it could change your decision.

Utility Release: GBSnd 0.2
00:02:  A new utility named GBSnd has been released. GBSnd converts DBoy .snd files to wav's. Check it out.

You can download it at the Gameboy utilities page.

2/17/2000
Frontend News: MAMEfront WIP v0.9.7
23:19:  A new version of MAMEfront, a MAME front-end, has been released. I would like to say what is new, but I didn't see anything on either the web page, or the documentation.

You can download the new version at the Arcade frontends page.

Overclocked Update: Several OverClocked issues released
23:06:  Over the last couple weeks, there have been several new overclock issues released. You can find all the issues at the OverClocked homepage. Here are a couple recent issues:

A Polite Reaction : This issue is about the most recent case about Connectix and Sony. Pretty funny.

Dead or Alive : This issue is about recent emulators which have "come back from the dead". This one is another good one.

Check them all out, they are all great. Keep up the good work David!

OverClocked.ORG

Utility Release: GoodGEN 0.27
22:55:  A new version of a Genesis ROM renaming utility has been released. Here is a list of what's new:

Utility Release: Thingy32 1.4
22:48:  A new version of a great translation utility has been released. Here is a list of what's new:

Utility Release: NoSeFart 1.8
22:38:  A new version of Nosefart, an NSF WinAMP plugin, has been released. Here is a list of what's new:

Utility Release: Rom Graphics Cracker 1.3
22:31:  A new version of a great ROM graphic viewing utility has been released. Here is what's new:

Emulator News: What was new in T98
05:19:  Hyuga was nice enough to translate the what's new list for T98, a PC-98 emulator for Windows, and here's the translated list:

2/16/2000
Media News: Correction and info regarding previous posts
22:08:  The magazine that the emulation article I refered to in my previous post was actually Big Brother Magazine, and not Transworld Skateboarding Magazine. Big Brother Magazine can be visited online at bigbrothermagazine.com. Thanks to mikey b for pointing that out.

Also, within minutes of posting about the message on Blizzard.com, the message is now gone. From what I am reading, they relaunched the site with a new design. Sorry for any confusion. Now, back to the news. :)

Utility Release: Che's ultimate cheaters
22:00:  Che has released a couple new cheat utilities, and updated another. Here is what's going on:

Misc. News: BeOS Interest
21:21:  I have been receiving a rather large ammount of interest from you, our readers, lately, about BeOS. Not to discourage questions directly to me, but I wanted to give everyone a small list of links. I shall likely put these on a larger, more informed BeOS p age sometime after I am not so busy, and not so ill. These are a few links which may answer some questions, and save you a bit of time, in seeking any BeOS related answers, news, or information you may have..

Be Inc's main site.
BeNews. My favourite BeOS news site.
BeGroovy. Updated a little more frequently than BeNews sometimes, but not as in-depth.

You may also find a great wealth of knowledge on IRC #beos, on EFnet. BeOS 5 ought to be out soon, and remember: the basic version is free to download.

Utility Release: BeBochsConfigurator 1.0 Released.
21:09:  A little utility called BeBochsConfigurator has been released, from the people who brought you BeBochs. It is a GUI editor for the .bochsrc file. It presently only edits this .bochsrc file, no other configuration VM files. Read/write capaibility of VM is planned, though.

You may find BeBochsConfigurator on our BeOS Utility Page.

BeOS Emulation has been rather slow lately. I suspect a smashing release of BePcEngine or BeGameboy soon though.

Media News: Transworld Skateboarding Magazine does article on emulation
20:55:  Transworld Skateboarding Magazine has done a...unique article on emulation. The article talk about emulation, the legality, and has some strange analogies. Featured with the article are pics of various games, including BS F-Zero 2. You can view a scan of the article here that was sent to us by -=Ragdoll=-. Just a friendly ZD warning of the strong language content in the article.

Media News: Philadelphia Inquirer reviews Bleem!
20:43:  There is an article up on the Philadelphia Inquirer's online website with an article on Bleem! It's dated from Jan. 27. You can check out the article on Philadelphia Inquirer< /a> website.

Thanks to Tickenest for the news.

Misc. News: When will they ever learn...
20:36:  Seems we have another upstart website who wants to make a few bucks, or in this case, pounds, selling ROM CDs for Apple II, Commodore, and Amstrad. You can head over to the site and then let them know how you feel about it.

Thanks to Drewbert of Pure Emulation(pure.emu-world.com) for pointing this out.

Emulator News: Sega 32x emulation getting close?
20:31:  The Smoker sent me a link to a site that has screen shots of an apparent 32x emulator being worked on. The emulator has not been released, however you can view the screenshots on The Official AGES Pa ge. Now, let's all keep our fingers crossed on this one!

Misc. News: Somthing big happening with Blizzard Entertainment?
20:28:  Blizzard Entertainment, makers of such fine products as Starcraft and Diablo, have one of those ominous "something new and exciting is going to happen" messages on their site. Head on over to blizzard.com and check i t out.

Thanks to -=][nferno=- for pointing this out.

Translation News: Fire Bird
18:23:  Dragoon-X Translations has released a new version of their Fire Bird translation for Famicom. This fixes up some bugs and untranslated areas.

Get it from the Translations page.

Misc. News: X68000 Games Pile updated..
03:34:  I don't have very much to post about, but I might as well post about this. Some of you might know that I'm running a site called the X68000 Games Pile at http://x68k.retrogames.com. This page is dedicated to Japane se computer emulation, such as the emulation of the X68000, PC-98, etc. I updated it the day before yesterday with 14 new PC-98 games available for download, so go snag them if you're interested. Also, the reason I haven't updated much lately is because m y parents shut down my phone, so I can't connect to the internet at home, only at school.

Site News: MEKA 0.41 RC 2 News
03:15:  On Emulation Camp the what's new list for MEKA 0.41 RC 2 has been posted! It's looking good from what I can see. Have a look yourself:

Misc. News: More on UCITA..
01:18:  Unfortunately, UCITA was already passed by the Virginia Senate unanimously, likely at the time I posted my message.

But, after receiving a bit of information from Grog, the probably may not be as bad as originally percieved. A large amount of misinformation has been going around about the bill, and here's a quote from him:

"The UCITA bill, as passed in Virginia, does not make any substancial changes to the laws governing software licenses.

"The 'reposession' element has always existed in existing law, and the bill in fact requires 15 days notice before any such software termination can be legally applied via automatic means (like across the internet). The law outlines many legal penalties f or a company attempting to do so improperly."

Thanks to Grog for the info.

2/15/2000
Misc. News: Virginia House of Delegates passes UCITA
15:12:  InfoWorld and Slashdot recently reported about the passing of the UCITA bill in the Virginia House of Delgates by a unanimous vote.

In case you need to know, the UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) is a bill strongly supported by microsoft. The purpose of the bill is essentially to regulate how business is done on the Internet. The bill attempts to make the buyer and seller equal in footing.

What are the problems with the bill? First of all, it's too broad, and could possibly limit the right to use some software. Secondly, there is a measure in the bill to allow a "repossession" of software for anyone failing to follow the software licensing agreement.

It's quite a scary prospect, especially considering the "repossession" provision. In a way, it could promote a form of censorship and takes away consumer rights, which (of course) is never good.

Make sure you read the InfoWorld article or the Slashdot article before anything else.

Also, I've included a link with a list of state Senators in Virginia, who will also be voting on the bill soon. Please voice your opinion to your State Senator if you live in Virginia, because this is quite important.

Thanks to MajereDB8 for the news, and hopefully a bunch of emulation junkies will be able to save the day. ;)

Misc. News: Top 100 Emulators of all Time poll
05:34:  EmuCamp is conducting an online poll to detirmine the top 100 emulators of all time. There is a list of 150 emulators to choose from, and you can cast a vote for your top 25. The poll results will be announced on March 31st. Head over to EmuCamp and cast your vote now!

Thanks to lilac of Emulation Camp for pointing this out.

Misc. News: Thunderforce Remix in the works
05:22:  The NemoProd team contacted us and pointed out that they have begun working on a remake of Thunderforce III for Sega Genesis. It is for Win9x. If you'd like to see this preliminary beta, head over to their website and click the "Thunderforce III...It's Here" banner.

Utility Release: LemAsm v0.1 released
05:12:  LemAsm, an N64 Rom editor/assembler for Win9x, has been released. It was created by Lemmy of Nemu fame. Here's what it can do, courtesy the readme file:

Main program features
- Allows you to edit existing n64 rom files
- Has Hex Viewer, Mips Editor and image viewer
- Loads rom completely into memory, so there is no need to do a backup before loading into LemAsm
- Calculates the CRC when saving using a crc algorythm compatible with Mario's bootcode
- Allows you to easily load the rom into an emulator to test it (only tried nemu ;))
- Can change size of a rom
- Directly jump to an address (press F4)
- Byteswap feature
- Wordswap feature

Features of MIPS assembler/disassembler (activate by pressing F3 in MIPS disassembly mode)
- Can show registers as R0,R1,R2... or R0,AT,V0,V1...
- Immediate values are decimal if entered as "1234", or hexadecimal if entered as "$1234"
- Supports all known opcodes of the n64 main cpu, including COP0 and COP1 opcodes
- Allows you to enter hex values directly by pressing $

Features of image viewer
- Supports formats 5551 and 8888

Not bad for it's initial release. Check it out in the N64 Utilities area.

Thanks for all the E-Mails and posts to the message boards about this one. Sorry for the delay.

Emulator Release: Z80 Stealth v0.150 'Millennium release' released
05:03:  Z80 Stealth, a Spectrum emulator for DOS, has been updated to version 0.150. Here is what's new:

- New : New AY-3-8910 emulation code by Hacker KAY (including AY's digital sound emulation &
ACB stereo mode).
- New : Wrote my own SB engine which uses auto-init DMA mode to produce clean sound.
Sampling rate is 44100. Also you can choose between stereo and mono output (SB_OUT= option in z80s.cfg).
And there's a lot of new options in z80s.cfg to control SB mixer.
- New : Rewrote beeper emulation routines.
- New : Z80Stealth supports AY-LPT. There's 3 new options for AY-LPT in z80s.cfg.
- New : Covox emulation! 2 new options in z80s.cfg : COVOX=YES|NO, COV_P=XX
- New : Added support for TRD disk images of 2x40,1x80,1x40 disks
- New : 1818VG93: Write Sector(s) command support. Added this hotkeys to the disk menu :
F6 - Toggle write protection
F9 - Save disk to file
For safety: you cannot overwrite files with readonly attribute.
- New : Border line-by-line rendering.
- New : Now you can set default directories for snaps/tapes and disk images
(SNAPDIR= and TRD_DIR= options in z80s.cfg)
- New : Hotkey (F11) to avoid Kempston joystick/Keyboard conflict in some games (Sabre Wulf, Atic Atac).
- New : Updated FAQ (z80s.faq).

Try it in the Sinclair Spectrum/QL Emualtor area.

Thanks to Mr.Kirill for the update.

Emulator Release: WOOM! v0.3beta released
04:52:  Woom!, an MSX emulator for Win9x, has been updated to version 0.3beta. Here is what's new:

Utility Release: GoodGEN v0.26 released
04:42:  GoodGEN, the Genesis ROM renamer/fixer for DOS, has been updated to version 0.26. Here is what's new:

2/14/2000
Site News: First edition of the new ZD FAQ up
23:58:  I've uploaded the first version of my new FAQ. It's worth mentioning that it's very small, and answers very few questions right now, but keep in mind, I'm doing this all from scratch. Within a month, I'll have added a lot of content to the FAQ, and I'll be sure to let you all know when I do. Any questions/comments/concerns should be directed to me through the contact page.

You can read the FAQ at the FAQ area.

Misc. News: WinAMP 2.6 Released
22:33:  A new version of WinAMP, the great music player for Windows, has been released, and here's what's new:

Emulator Release: RockNES 1.0
15:45:  A new version of RockNES has been released, and here's what's new:

Emulator Release: T98 0.25a
03:21:  T98, a PC-98 emulator for Windows, has been updated to version 0.25a. The what's new list is in Japanese, so I can't read it. If you want to, feel free to visit the T98 homepage and translate it for us, it would be greatly appreciated.

You can download it from the PC-98 emulators page. I really keep a close lookout on these Japanese computer emulators, don't I? (*hint* http://x68k.retrogames.com *hint*)

Emulator Release: Bochs 2000.0104c
03:09:  Bochs, an x86 computer emulator available for various operating systems, has been updated to version 2000.0104c. Here's what's new:

FPU mods:

Site News: Emu+ 0.36b16
02:43:  Emu+, a build of MAME with some nice added features such as autofire and emulated processor overclocking, has been updated to beta 16 and is now in sync with the current official MAME release.

You can download the various optimized Emu+ binaries from the MAME page.

Site News: AMAME/PMAME 0.36b16
02:33:  Rodimus Prime has updated both of his optimized MAME builds to beta 16, so now they're in sync with the current official MAME release.

You can download them both from the MAME page.

2/13/2000
Utility Release: MeTool version 1.95
22:23:  A new version of MeTool has been released. MeTool is a utility to create, and edit headers of TG-16 ROMs. It is also a front-end for Magic Engine to help you manage your backup RAM. Check it out.

You can download it at the Turbo-Grafx 16 utilities page.

Site News: Important ZD Information
19:44:  After well over three years of maintaining the emulation website that everyone has come to know as "Zophar's Domain", I have an important announcement for everyone. Effective midnight on Monday, February 14, 2000 I will be transferring all duties and responsibilities over to Kevin Young (XiP) of ZD.

Don't worry, I'm not quitting. :) However, after years of running a website, I feel it's time to take my first true extended vacation (not a 4 or 5 day break like there has been in the past). Tomorrow afternoon I'll be skiing at Shawnee Mountain for a week. I've never gone skiing before, and although I've been told to "Break a leg", I don't think that applies here. I know that Zophar's Domain will be in very good hands, so all of you have nothing to fear. Updates will continue as usual, but from now until I return, be sure to e-mail all things that you would normally mail to me, to Xip (see the contact page).

Thanks to everyone who's been supporting me for years, and I'll see you again in the future! I promise I'll get to everyone's e-mails eventually, so don't worry if you haven't received a response yet.

Thanks for visiting ZD!

Site News: Zophar's Underworld Volume 4
18:49:  Yo!

It's time for the 4th installment of "Zophar's Underworld". The last three episodes seemed to have been lacking something...an intro! So, for all people on high-bandwidth connections (80KBps+), you'll be able to see the first ever Zophar's Underworld intro! I'd like to give a huge thanks to Louis "BDLou" Martinez for creating this incredible intro (along with all the updating he's been doing recently).

There's also a special announcement within ZU4 regarding myself and this website, so if you want to find out what it is early... view (or listen to) the episode! This month's special guest is Marp, of YMAmp fame. Other topics include the recent DoSing of yahoo.com and other sites, and a conclusion to the whole "Rather A Pokemon Emulator" fiasco.

Thanks for visiting ZD, and you can be sure that we'll be around for a long time to come!

Emulator Release: VZEM V. 1.2
10:43:  A new version of VZEM, V. 1.2, has been released. VZEM is an emulator for the VZ200/300 computers, along with the Laser 200 and Texet TX8000 (which it is known as in some countries). Here's what's the emulator supports in this version:

Emulator Release: Pretendo WIP2 v0.06 released
10:28:  Pretendo, a NES emulator for Win9x, has been updated to ver 0.06. Here's what's new:

Emulator News: What's New in DBOY v0.56
10:11:  Here is what is new in the latest version of DBOY translated:

Emulator Release: PacMAME v0.36 b16.1 released
10:07:  PacMAME, a Pac-Man only port of MAME for Win9x, has been updated to v0.36 b16.1. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: GalEMU v0.40.9 released
09:56:  GalEMU, a multi arcade emulator for Win9x and DOS, has been update to version 0.40.9. Support for the following 2 games have been added in this version:

Utility Release: PSmplay v0.1 released
09:47:  PSmplay v0.1 has been publicly released. This PSX utility for Win9x can playback PSX .str video files, .xa audio files, and even display .tim picture files. It also seems to have some sort of search method to find hidden .str files in games like Final Fantasy 8, Tekken 3, etc.

You can try it yourself at the Playstation Utilities area.

Thanks to Vintage Gaming Network for the news.

Utility Release: GoodGEN v0.25 released
09:23:  GoodGEN, the Genesis ROM fixer/renamer for DOS, has been updated to version 0.25. Here is what's new:

Misc. News: Charles Schulz dies at 77
08:17:  Charles M. Schulz, creator of the popular comic strip Peanuts (Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the gang), died in his sleep at about 9:45pm Saturday night at the age of 77. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in November of 1999 and decided to retire the comic soon afterwards. Today is the day that the final strip runs in newspapers.

Emulator Release: ZSNES v0.989
08:01:  ZSNES, one of the best SNES emulators, is out with a few minor bug fixes.

Emulator Release: Return of CoCo 0.8
01:35:  It's not everyday in which we get to say that a brand-new emulator has been released, but today is officially one of those days. This emulator, Return of CoCo 0.8, emulates these computers:

Emulator Release: DBOY V. 0.56
00:57:  A new version of the Gameboy emulator DBOY has been released for the first time in three months. The documentation is in Japanese (of course), so I unfortunately can't tell you what's new.

If you can tell us what happens to be new in this version, tell us on the Contact page.

You can pick up DBOY on the Game Boy Emulators page.

Thanks to sKaNkPiT for the info.

Translation News: Destiny Translations Update
00:49:  Destiny Translations has updated their page with an animated gif screenshot of the translated intro of Destiny of an Emperor 2.


**NOTE** Due to people complaining about the size of images, a link to the image is provided instead of putting it on the news page.

Destiny of an Emporer 2 Animated Gif

2/12/2000
Emulator News: New UltraHLE screenshots
21:10:  RealityMan has posted some new screenshots of the upcoming version of UltraHLE. These screenshots were taken in software rendering mode. It sort of looks like a new N64 emulator being made from the looks of the screenshots.

You can check them out at the UltraHLE screenshot page.

Thanks go out to Lakyan for the e-mail.

Emulator Release: AdriPSX Version 00.01.09
04:15:  A new version of this newer Playstation emulator was released a couple days ago. The official AdriPSX site is no longer up, however. New features in this release:

• Corrected SQR GTE instruction.
• Some enhancements on CDROM Decoder interrupts generation.

Site News: Save & Game Music archives updated
00:40:  Save archives updated: GS0, STA, SRM, CHT, ZMV, ZST archives.
Game music archives updated: GYM, NSF, SPC archives.

2/11/2000
Emulator Release: NESten 0.6 Beta Belzebub
23:31:  A new version of that awesome NES emulator for Windows has been released. Here is what's new in this version:

Misc. News: More Raine to come?
15:20:  I don't really call this an official statement, but it looks good. Posted on Emuviews, are three pictures drawn by ne7/napalm that say Raine is not dead, just resting. I hope this is true!

Raine news.
Picture 1.
Picture 2.
Picture 3.

Thanks go out to ThumB for the e-mail.

Emulator Release: MameCE v0.02 Beta
13:21:  MameCE is a port of Mame32 for the Cassiopeia computer (CE). Here's what's new:

Utility Release: GoodSMS v0.1
00:01:  How many times when you have downloaded a Sega Master System ROM, and not know what the game is, because of the filename? Would you like all of your SMS ROMs to be renamed to the appropriate name, but don't have the time to? Well this program will do it for you. Just tell it which directory your SMS files are in and it will rename very quickly. Check it out.

You can download it at the Sega Master System utilities page.

Utility Release: GoodPCE v0.2
00:01:  Get tired of the TG-16 ROMs you download being named 00001132.pce? Well you won't have to worry about playing the game, just to find out which ROM it is. Just run this utility, and it will rename all your PCE files in the specified directory to the real name it should be. Check it out.

You can download it at the TurboGrafx 16 utilities page.

2/10/2000
Media News: Where Have You Gone, Joe Developer?
23:58:  A great article written up by Brandon Justice. This article talks about how people are trying to gear towards the PlayStation 2, leaving Dreamcast behind. Read this article, It is very good, and makes a lot of sense.

The article: Where Have You Gone, Joe Developer?

Thanks go out to Boba Fett for the e-mail.

Emulator News: Connectix announces a victory in Sony lawsuit
23:09:  Earlier today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to "reverse and remand" a Preliminary Injunction on sales of Connectix Virtual Game Station on all counts. What this means is that Connectix is now able to sell their Playstation emulator, Virtual Game Station. They also announce that a Windows version will be available soon.

You can read the full press release at this link.

Thanks to Sonniku_a for the news.

Utility Release: Che's Ultimate Cheater 1.22
22:56:  Che has released a new version of his cheating program. This program is a pack of bundled cheat programs for many games such as Final Fantasy III, Breath of Fire, and more. Check it out. Here is a list of what's new:

Utility Release: FF3 save game editor 1.51 for Windows
22:56:  A new version of an FF3(FF6 jap) save game editor has been released. Here is what's new:

Emulator News: Loopynes page is down
20:38:  The Loopynes page seems to be down. When I accessed it earlier today, it had an index of it's root directory...

• Loopynes page(DOWN)

2/9/2000
Emulator Release: PlasticNES Beta 3
23:47:  PlasticNES Beta 3 has been updated to Beta 3. Among the new features:

• It is now optimised for Windows 2000
• Also now optimised for windows 3.0 and 3.1
• (new in Beta 2) Fixed the nasty litte bug where if left on for 3 hrs or more it crashes

Utility Release: IcoRoms 1.33b
23:17:  A new version of IcoRoms has been released. IcoRoms enables you to quickly add icons to your ROMs in Windows, and have them open the ROM with your favorite emulator fast. Here is what's new:

Utility Release: SPC-Fix
23:12:  Have you downloaded any of the new SPC's with timer support, and couldn't listen to the whole song because your SPC player would stop the SPC even if you didn't want it to? Well this program will let you delete all the timers from your SPC's so you don't have to do it yourself. Check it out.

You can download it at the SPC utilities page.

Utility Release: Rom Graphics Cracker 1.0
23:02:  A new ROM graphics viewer for Windows has been released. This graphics viewer lets you extract graphics out of many console ROMs.

You can download it at the General utilities page.

Utility Release: GoodGen 0.24
22:52:  A new version of GoodGen, a Genesis ROM naming utility, has been released. Here is what's new in this version:

Utility Release: SetCleaner 2.1.6
22:43:  A new version of an arcade ROM cleanup utility has been released. Here is what's new in this version:

Utility Release: Iron C.L.A.D.
22:36:  A new cheat utility for Windows has been released. This cheat utility lets you edit practically any save state you give it. This is possible from .map files that you can download, to tell the program which part of the save state to edit. Check this out.

You can download it at the Cheat utilities page.

Utility Release: Final Fantasy 3j save state editor #2
22:36:  Henry has released a revision of another Final Fantasy 3j save state editor. This editor has a great GUI, and is much easier to use. Check it out!

You can download it at the Cheat utilities page.

Utility Release: KOSRE 2.0
22:35:  A new cheat utility has been added to ZD. This utility is an editor for King of the Fighters R2, a NEO-GEO pocket color game.

You can download it at the Cheat utilities page.

Utility Release: Thingy32 v0.13a
22:18:  A new version of a great utility for the help of translating ROMs. The only thing that is new in this version, is it is now English.

You can download it at the Translation utilities page.

Misc. News: Playstation 2 may not run all PSX games
14:29:  According to The Register, the Playstation 2 may not be compatible with all old PSX games as they originally claimed. You can read all about it at the aforementioned link. Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

Emulator Release: Pagan 0.1.9
07:46:  A new version of Pagan has been released. This version includes a GUI. You can get it at the N64 page.

Emulator News: Wonderswan Emulator in the works
02:28:  A group of people in Japan are trying to create a Wonderswan emulator. They have asked for technical information on the Wonderswan, so if you know anything that might be helpful, be sure to drop them a line.

2/8/2000
Site News: About the new FAQ being made...
23:19:  Alright... I have now begun what will be my 'final draft version 1' of the all-new Zophar's Domain FAQ. I asked earlier if anyone could send me ideas on what to put into the new FAQ, but sadly, I have yet to receive any ideas. I would like to ask again if anyone had anything they'd think would go nicely in a ZD FAQ. As well, a new poll is up, it is FAQ related, asking opinions on whether or not I should create a frames-enabled version of the FAQ. It would be made after the first draft, and it would be used for easier navigation between questions and such. If you have any suggestions or questions related to the FAQ, or even news on homebrewn or free ROMs, please visit the contact page and drop me a line.

Translation News: Klepto Software Updates
22:01:  Appologies to SirYoink and crew...

About a week after I posted his Dragon Ball Z patch, he released a new one!

Dragon Ball Z: Legend of the Sayans v0.40

Also, another translation of theirs has been added:
Dark Half v0.10

Get them from the Translations page

Misc. News: GuildFTPD v0.96
20:14:  A new version of GuildFTPD, an FTP server program for Windows, has been released. This is not emulation news, but I thought it was my turn for a non-emulation related post. Here is what's new:

Utility Release: Redump v2.9 released
12:21:  Redump, a Neo-Geo mgd2 to MVS ROM converter for DOS, has been updated to version 2.9. Here is what's new:

Utility Release: GoodGEN v0.23 released
12:09:  GoodGEN, the Genesis ROM renamer/fixer for DOS, has been updated to version 0.23. Here's what's new:

Misc. News: RockNES website moves
11:44:  fx3 has moved the RockNES website from emucamp.com to emuviews.com. He has also given the site a facelift, and updated the WIP with the following:

Emulator Release: PlasticNES beta 1 released
11:32:  PlasticNES, a port of NextFCE for DOS, has been released. It is a NES emulator. Not much is known, as NextFCE was a japanese emulator, however, here is what is new in this release:

Emulator Release: Generator 0.12
03:29:  The Linux port of Generator, A SEGA Genesis emulator, has been updated to version 0.12. Here's what's new:

Utility Release: NesToy 2.9
03:18:  Digitoxin has released another version of NesToy, his NES ROM renaming/header fixing/etc utility. Here's what's new:

Site News: MESS 0.36b16!
03:09:  The DOS port of MESS, a multi computer/console emulator, has been updated to version 0.36b16. Here's what's new:

New drivers supported (in no particular order):

2/7/2000
Site News: The NIFTY Page-O-Hacks is now hosted on ZD
21:47:  Zophar's Domain is proud to announce that we are now hosting DarKnight13's NIFTY Page-O-Hacks! The site is devoted to the ROM Hacks that DarKnight13 creates. Some of the highlights of his site are the Super Carrots hack of Super Mario Bros. 3, which edits the graphics as well as the levels themselves, as well as The Mario-Final Fantasy Project, which is converting Final Fantasy for Nintendo into a Mario themed game. The site is also host of a WWW Board for discussion of ROM hacking and other niftiness.

You can find The Nifty Page-O-Hacks at niftyhacks.zophar.net, and it will be linked in the Hosted Sites pulldown at a later time. We'd like to apologize for the delay in letting you all know this info!

Misc. News: More on the Dreamcast having a TG16 and Genesis emulator in the works
21:38:  Patrick Lance sent us a scan of an article from the latest edition of the Offical Dreamcast magazine. In the FYI section, they mention the deal on Sega teaming with NEC to make a GDROM that will allow the DC to emulate a Genesis or TurboGrafx 16. The user can then download the games to their DC for a cost of $1-3 per play. The game will then be deleted when the DC is powered off.

You can check out the scan of the article here. (521KB file)

Emulator Release: NE v1.04 released
20:58:  NE, a Nintendo emulator for DOS, has been updated to version 1.04. Here is what is new, translated thanks to Sephirstein:

Misc. News: CrossCut Games makes Bronze Dragon ROMs public domain
19:13:  CrossCut Games, Inc. has made their old 1985 Apple game Bronze Dragon: Conquest of Infinity, and the add-on Dragon Side II: Twisted Speare, public domain. You can grab both of them, as well as the manuals for the games at the CrossCut Games, Inc. website at the bottom of the Downloads section.

Special thanks to Karzon for the info.

Misc. News: All 75 ChuChu Rocket puzzles available for play online
19:02:  Apparently when Sega first released the Shockwave online playable version of ChuChu Rocket, they posted a total of 75 puzzle, but quickly removed them, leaving just the original 25. Well, Jakobe was kind enough to point out a site that has all 75 puzzles available for your enjoyment!

Check it out on sl1me's ChuChu Rocket page.

Misc. News: Videogames.com features History of Nintendo and History of Video Games
18:51:  VideoGames.com has done a very detailed 19 page write up on the History of Nintendo. They have also done a piece on the History of Video Games.

The History of Nintendo
The History of Video Games

Special thanks to Bytoro for the info!

Emulator Release: Anex86 2.11
02:06:  Anex86, currently the most regularly updated PC-98 emulator for Windows, has been updated to version 2.11! I have no idea what's new, since the homepage and readme are both in Japanese, so if you can translate the what's new for these emulators it would be appreciated.

You can download it from the PC-98 emulators page.

Misc. News: Tiger Woods video
00:13:  I have uploaded the video of Tiger Woods playing Mario on a computer just in case you were curious. Listen to what the announcers say... it's pretty funny. Now we can ALL put to rest that he IS playing Mario for DOS.

Thanks go out to Jose for the avi.
Thanks go out to XiP for sending me the Mario game.

Tiger playing Mario.

2/6/2000
Emulator News: MAME Turns 3 Years Old
15:04:  Yesterday MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, turned 3 years old. MAME, in many people's opinion, is the best emulator ever made. It can emulate over 2000 different arcade games from old games like Mario Bros to new, more advanced games like KoF '98. MAME is truly an amazing piece of software. All of us here at ZD would like to congratulate the MAME team on this great achievement. =)

Emulator News: What's New in Pasofami 1.3n
14:41:  Now that a couple of people have e-mailed us the translation, I can tell you what's new in Pasofami 1.3n. It can now play NSF files, and there's also a NSF analyzer/creator included. You can get Pasofami at the NES page. Thanks to Maiko and Sakuro for the translation.

Misc. News: Nintendo describes Dolphin as 33% faster than Playstation 2
14:30:  At a toy fair in Germany, Nintendo of Europe said that the Dolphin, Nintendo's next console system, will be 33% faster than the Playstation 2. You can read more about it at IGN. Thanks to Retrogames for the news.

Emulator Release: Speccyal 0.71
14:17:  A new version of Speccyal, a Spectrum emulator for Windows, has been released. The "whatsnew" section is very long, so it's on a separate page. You can get Speccyal at the Spectrum page.

Emulator Release: Hu-Go 1.09
14:04:  A new version of Hu-Go, a TurboGrafx 16 emulator for DOS, has been released, and here's what's new:

Emulator Release: Ultra.ini 1.0.27
13:58:  A new version of the ultra.ini file for UltraHLE has been released, and here's what's new:

Emulator Release: NESten 0.9 beta Apocalypse
13:52:  A new beta of NESten (with a weird version number) has been released, and here's what's new:

Site News: Save & Game music archives updated
01:44:  Save archives updated: GS0, NeoRAGEx, NSM, STA, SRM, CHT, ZMV, ZST archives.
Game music archives updated: GYM, NSF, SPC archives.
Congrats to the winner of ZD NSM Contest #5, Dalamar! The feat was beating Solstice (without dying) in 9 minutes, 45 seconds. Quite a feat, I probably couldn't even last that long before throwing the controller out the window. Check out the winning submission in the ZD NSM Contest Hall of Fame.
As a side note, we will soon be migrating from the proprietary Nesticle NSM format to a new standardized NES movie/state format (SNSS). This format will replace our existing archives and serve as the new medium for our movie contests.

2/5/2000
Utility Release: ROM Zipper 1.25
21:35:  A new version of ROM Zipper has been released. Here is a list of what's new:

Site News: Update on the nameserver situation
19:40:  Earlier today, I posted about the nameserver situation with ZTNet, LLC. A couple hours ago, Zachary Williams of ZTNet posted a long explanation of the nameserver problems that affected many of the hosted sites, along with an apology. You can read the entire post at www.ztnet.com.

I urge everyone to read this post, and then move on with your lives. :) Emulation Forever!

Misc. News: RetroPlayers Debuts
16:50:  A new website called RetroPlayers has made its debut on the Internet. It has monthly updates, weekly news, competitions, and a wide range of hosted sites. Go check it out!

Emulator Release: Fusion 2.0
16:30:  A new version of Fusion, a commercial Mac emulator for Windows, has been released, and here's what's new:

Emulator News: MEKA 4.1 released to beta testers
16:24:  Zoop has released MEKA 4.1 to the beta testers. Here's some of the new features:

Media News: More On Bleem Incite Article+Another Bleem Article
11:13:  We now have a scan of the Bleem Incite article as well as the text from it.

Beware, the scans are 283k and 353k, respectively.

Interview News: Azuco of A-SATURN
09:15:  Azuco, the coder of the Saturn emulation project "A-SATURN", was interviewed recently by Consollection.com. While the interview is a little difficult to understand given the language barrier, it's an interesting read nonetheless.

Thanks to Ben-J for the news.

Misc. News: Final word on Tiger Woods & Mario
08:40:  After countless e-mails, and many viewings of the following picture: tigeremu.jpg, it has been determined that the game he was playing on his computer was infact a clone of SMB called "MARIO VGA". I had this clone a long time ago, and you can see that he's not playing on any emulator, but instead an old clone.

Thanks to everyone who e-mailed in! Now let's put the matter to rest. :)

Emulator News: EmuDX status report
08:32:  The official EmuDX (an arcade emulator with graphical improvements) homepage has been updated with the latest news on its progress. From the official site:

Firstly, a big thankyou to those of you who sent in constructive e-mail about the EmuDX1.0 release.

Due to popular demand, more games have been added both to the work in progress and games being considered list on the DX Status page. Those of you who would like to contribute with Graphics or music should also check out the page to see what games are available for new multimedia.

If you are having problems with joystick and or sound problems in 1.0, you will be pleased to hear that some fixes and additions have been made to the code, making it more compatible with more cards and pads, although a release with these fixes has not yet been confirmed or even considered at this time.

For those of you who have contacted me about contributing to the project and have not yet recieved a reply, do not worry, as there will be an e-mail sent out soon, with some details about the next beta cycle of the emulator and how you can contribute in the most efficient and painless way possible.

For a list of all the new games that EmuDX will support, be sure to visit the EmuDX site. Thanks to EmuHQ.com for the word.

Emulator News: RockNES progress
08:28:  Over at the official RockNES (a NES emulator for DOS) homepage, Fx3 has posted his new progress report. From the official site:

A lot of stuff were optimized, but due the sound improvements (I guess), the emulation is a bit slow right now. The sound output is much better, but no envelope (fade in/out) or frequency sweep (Mario jump) yet, but hopefully that “long notes” problem was fixed. There´s an unknown problem with vblank/nmi scanline hit, different settings causes some games to work and others to hang, probably a CPU bug. No release date ´cause I would like to add some stuff requested in the GUI.

This is hot: do you know the game Mortal Kombat 3 Special 56 People (pirate)? Well, did you know there is ANOTHER game (hidden)? Yes, a “Mortal Kombat II Special” in the same ROM. It´s not a joke or ROM hack, here´s a screenshot to prove:

For the screenshot of MK2 Special, as well as other RockNES news, be sure to visit the official RockNES homepage. Thanks to Emusphere.com for the news.

Emulator News: NE readme translated
08:18:  A week or so ago, we posted on a new NES emulator with french documentation called NE. Sephirstein has been kind enough to translate the documentation for us. Here's the translation of what's new in the latest version:

Site News: Emulationworld DNS troubles
07:40:  Early this morning, Emulationworld (the server that hosts us along with many other emulation sites) DNS information was tampered with. The following sites may have been affected:

*.emulationworld.com, www.rainemu.com, *.emucamp.com, *.darkmazda.com, www.hu6280.com, www.system16.com, *.emuunlim.com, www.dtmnt.com, www.nofrendo.org, www.emulationzone.org

Visitors going to the following sites may have been redirected to various outside websites with questionable content on them. This is not a part of Emulationworld or ZTnet, LLC., it was a redirection to an outside site. The previous listed sites were not hacked. For users still getting bounced around when visiting these sites, the problem should be fixed very shortly (for some ISPs that already updated their NS lists, the problem has already been fixed).

ZD was not affected. Be sure to come back here during the day for any updates on this problem.

Misc. News: Tiger Woods Super Mario stuff..
05:10:  Ok, now we have gotten a whole LOAD of e-mails saying that this is just the shareware version of Mario VGA. I know I've been playing that game, and getting past level 1-4 is impossible since it's shareware. But now you all know that he was not using an emulator, so please stop mailing about it, hehe. Thanks.

Misc. News: Emulation Comic #7: Spokesman
02:06:  Due to the recent revelation of Tiger Woods' love for emulation, I have dedicated today's comic to him.

Emulation Comic #7: Spokesman

2/4/2000
Site News: Lina-chan and Nuku-Nuku Page Update
23:06:  L&N updated their page with new info on their latest translation!

'Ok, here it is, the new translation is Record of Lodoss War! This is one of the four translations, yup!, four translations we are working on. This is the one that's the farthest among the others so we are going to work on this one a little bit more in order to finish it quickly.

And umm, about Tenchi Muyo.. ehehehe, it seems that it will take a little longer. (Gomen neee! ;.;)'

Lina-Chan's and Nuku-Nuku's Homepage

Translation News: New Translations
23:03:  WakdHacks finished their Fuzzical Fighter translations on the 30th (oops, I couldnt find the url. Make sure to submit that too!)

ShadowSlayerX has release a new Majin Tensei patch to make it v0.3.

Download them from the Translations pages.

Emulator Release: Basilisk II 0.8-1
21:09:  After months of silence, Basilisk II, the Mac Classic/II emulator has been updated to 0.8-1! The list of changes is too long to effectively print here. There have been plenty of bugfixes and changes, though.

You may find Basilisk II, as well as the updated link to the actual Basilisk II homepage, on our BeOS Computer Emulation section.

Thanks to _axelay_ of BeEmulated for this news!

Emulator Release: Pasofami 1.3n
17:28:  A new version of Pasofami, a NES emulator for Windows, has been released, but I can't tell you what's new because it's in Japanese. If you can read Japanese, go visit the Pasofami webpage. Otherwise, you can get it at the NES page.

Emulator Release: Hu6280 1.50 for Windows (DirectX)
17:09:  A new version of the DirectX version of Hu6280 has been released, and here's what's new:

Media News: More news on the Tiger Woods update..
16:03:  We've gotten a number of comments mentioning that our good friend Tiger Woods may not have been playing an emulator yesterday when the PGA tour got rained out.

Some people have said that he could've been playing a shareware clone of Super Mario World, others said he was playing Super Mario All-Stars, and still others have said that Nintendo actually released a PC version of the SMW game.

If anyone can CONFIRM what it was (no speculation), please tell us at the Contact Us page.

All I know is that whatever it was, it was pretty darn cool. ;)

Site News: Poll Update
15:55:  Well, after much wrangling with the poll, we finally got it working. So, it's time for a poll update.

First off, here are the results from the last poll:

What do you think about the ZD newsletter?

Choice 1 was: "It's great, and I like to read it."
It received 115 votes (35.6 percent).

Choice 2 was: "I don't really like it quite that much."
It received 76 votes (23.5 percent).

Choice 3 was: "I haven't read it yet, so I don't know what to say."
It received 97 votes (30 percent).

Choice 4 was: "I don't care."
It received 35 votes (10.8 percent).

I guess the results are somewhat mixed, because a large percentage of the contingent seems to have not read the newsletter.

Anyway, here is the next poll, courtesy of Shade Eagle's idea:
"Should Shade Eagle create a Framed version of the FAQ for navigational purposes? A no-frames version WILL exist."

If you feel the need (which I know you do), go vote.

Site News: Singapore lifts Half-Life ban!
05:09:  Seems like the people in Singapore that banned Half-Life realized that it was just a game after all. You can read the full article about it here: http://www.gamecenter.com/News/Item/0,3,0-3716,00.html.

Thanks to Chris Jennings for the news!

Site News: SNES emulator used at PGA tour!
05:03:  Chess Piece Face sent us a really interesting e-mail, check this out:

"Today i was watching the PGA tour on CBS, and they had to cancel the round of golf they were playing due to extreme winds... The point is, after they showed that no more golf would be played that day, their was a CLEAR shot of tiger woods playing Super Mario World on a PC! It was impossible to tell which emulator he was using, but think about the multimillion dollar endorsement that could be for a SNES emulator!"

Thanks to Chess Pie Face for the news!

Emulator Release: Gens v0.12 Beta for Win9x
03:37:  Gens, a genesis emulator, is out with a new Win9x/DirectX interface. Here's what's new:

2/3/2000
Emulator Release: MAME 0.36 beta 16 (DOS) released
20:15:  MAME, the ultimate multi arcade machine emulator for DOS, has been updated to 0.36 beta 16. Here are the new games supported:

Bomb Bee [Nicola Salmoria]
Cutie Q [Nicola Salmoria]
Navalone [Juergen Buchmueller]
Kaitei Takara Sagash [Juergen Buchmueller]
SOS [Juergen Buchmueller]
Fighting Soccer [Phil Stroffolino]
Toryumon [Andrew Prime]
Berlin Wall [Luca Elia]
Kodure Ookami [Takahiro Nogi]

The new clones supported are:

Gee Bee (Namco)
Crazy Cop (= Gang Busters)
Champion Wrestler (Japan)
Big Pro Wrestling (= Tag Team Wrestling)
Guerilla War (version 1)
Guevara (= Guerilla War)
Bermuda Triangle (older)
World Wars (= Bermuda Triangle)
Great 1000 Miles Rally (set 2)

Get your MAME fix from our MAME area.

Emulator Release: Ultra.ini 1.0.26
02:53:  A new version of ultra.ini for UltraHLE has been released, and here's what's new:

Misc. News: More on Final Fantasy IX, X, and XI
02:18:  More information on the new Final Fantasy games has surfaced in the past few days. There's not really any plot details availible yet, but the overall style of each of the games has been revealed, and some trailers have been released.

For starters, FF 9 will be released on the PSX and will have a similar style to FF 7 and 8. It will have 3D characters on a pre-rendered background. The world in which it is set, however, will be different. FF 9 will be set in more of a fantasy world like FF 4-6 instead of a Sci-Fi world like FF 7 and 8. FF 9 will also bring back the MP magic system, classic airships, and probably much more.

There is much less information availible about Final Fantasy 10 and 11. They will both be released on the PS2, and they will introduce new styles of gameplay to the Final Fantasy series. FF 10 will feature a totally 3D environment as opposed to the 2D backgrounds with 3D characters used on the PSX. FF 11 has an even bigger change; it features online gameplay. Some will love it, and some will hate it, but, like it or not, that's where the Final Fantasy series is headed.

Thanks to The Gaming Intelligence Agency for the information. You can get the trailers from GIA too.

Media News: News segment on violence in video games
02:06:  For those of you in the Metropolitan New York area, WWOR Channel 9 will have a news segment about violence in video games. It's scheduled to air on Thursday, February 3rd during their 10pm news slot. Those interested should check it out.

Thanks to sounder666 for the news.

Media News: More Final Fantasy stuff
02:01:  RPGamer has posted some movies and screenshots of Final Fantasy IX/X/XI. As well, they have posted information on Final Fanyasy IV for the WonderSwan. For those of you who are interested, check 'em out.

• Movies on RPGamer's New Media section
• Screenshots on RPGamer's New Media section
• Info on FFIV for WonderSwan

Interview News: RealityMan's Wife Interviewed
01:52:  Havok from Exposure2K.com has inverviewed Realityman's wife. She offers her thoughts on UltraHLE and more. It appears that UltraHLE is taking up lots of RealityMans's time, so shame on anyone who sends him pointless e-mails! =)

Emulator Release: FAMtasia Version 5.10 Beta 2
01:45:  A new version of this NES Emulator for Windows has been released. Since the docs are in Japanese, and I currently can't read Japanese well enough, I can't tell you exactly what is new. In any case, you can download it from the NES emulators page.

Thanks to Joe Bucci for the news.

2/2/2000
Emulator Release: BePcEngine 0.01 Released!
19:13:  Here is the much larger news on the BeOS emulation front. Our dear french friend David Raingeard HAS a reason for slow updates to BeGameboy. This is it. BePcEngine's first release is amazingly functional. It runs quite a number of roms, and features the same GUI that BeGameboy has, although a few options are not available yet: save/load state, scanlines and screensize values. From the notes:

PcEngine Emulation, .PCE and other formats of roms, All scanline effects are supported, Start/Reset/Pause emulation, Frameskip : realtime or x1,x2,x3, Keyboard and Joystick support-with menu driven keyboard configuration-, Full multithreading, 15 bits windowed display, GUI, x86 R4.5

It runs at a slow, but rather smooth framerate on my p233mmx, by the way.

You may get BePcEngine and others on our BeOS Console page.

Emulator Release: BeMame 0.36b5 Released!
19:02:  Quite a bit has gone on behind the scenes of BeMame which everyone may or may not know. Firstly, they have a new homepage.

You may have noticed that BeMame's progress has been slow, and it is far behind the other ports. This is due to the fact that the majority of the developers/porters have been extremely busy with other projects/life. To my knowledge there is only one person working on it currently, Jonathan Belson. He would rather like some help on the project. So if you are interested in helping and contributing to BeMame, please contact him on their new page.

Now, onto the update. This update seems a little strange. Other than bringing it inline with the .036b5 source, I would assume, a few things are actually missing, namely, Joystick support. Also, the emulator may crash if you load a rom while it is still checking for roms.

You may download BeMame from our BeOS Console page. And please do contact Mr. Belson if you have any experience/interest.

Emulator Release: BeBochs .5 Released!
18:29:  Firstly I must apologize. I have been extremely ill lately, and not really able to do updates. Most of the BeOS community probably already knows about the updates.

BeBochs was updated to version .5. A nice release by all means.

01/30/00: BeBochs 0.5 released containing the latest Bochs source code with FPU and Pentium emulation. Added CD-ROM support. Ejection is not complete so you won't be able to eject a disk inside Windows (yet), and Windows98 should install correctly. Added primary configuration check to see if you have configured BeBochs correctly, and don't try to boot if incorrect. Working on SB16 emulation.

I am going to give it a bit of a whirl with 98 once I stop passing out every so often.

You may find BeBochs on our BeOS Computer Emulation page.

Misc. News: FF4 Ukraine hack
18:00:  NeoBlaze is hosting the official web page for the Final Fantasy 2 US hack Final Fantasy 4 Ukraine. This is merely intended as a "spoof" version of FF2 US with altered dialog and stuff like that. Keep in mind that this patch has some explicit language in it and is not really intended for people under 18.

Check out NeoBlaze's site for screenshots and download! Thanks to NeoBlaze for the news!

Site News: Emulation News Service Tool
17:04:  You're going to love this. A guy called Tom Lowrie has made a program that let's you download general emulation news from a special server when you start it up. No need to start up your web browser anymore if you just want to check out the latest general emulation news! Just start up the EMulation News Service Tool Client and it'll retrieve the news for you!

Go visit this page: http://disflux.net/emunews/, read more about it and download it! Thanks to cooey, news updater/publicist for the Emulation News Service Tool stuff, for the news!

Site News: Phoenix BIOS petition
06:35:  It seems like the big BIOS manufacturer Phoenix BIOS, that merged with Award BIOS not long ago, have decided to do something new (although incredibly stupid it's still new)... The have decided to put advertisements in your BIOS. Imagine that, not even when you start up your computer could you avoid the banners that you have to live with while surfing the web. I suggest you go visit this site: http://www.weslow.net/bytethis/columns/phoenixbios_petition.htm and sign the Phoenix BIOS petition to at least try to stop them from putting advertisement stuff in their future BIOS! Thanks to Erik Hejl for the news!

Misc. News: Beyond Emulation gets a facelift
06:28:  The emulation news site Beyond Emulation has gotten itself a new look! They now have nice drop down menus on the left side of the screen and a nice blue and black layout, hehe.

Now, go check out the new Beyond Emulation design!

Emulator Release: MZ80 Revision 3.3
02:35:  This Z80 emulator has been updated to Revision 3.3. Among the new features:

• Undocumented opcodes added to the C emitter
• Bug fix to the C emission that properly handles shared RAM regions (I.E. with handlers that are NULL)
• Now using 32 bit registers to do register/memory access. Slight speed increase (assembly version only)

Misc. News: UltraHLE .ini 1.0.25
01:26:  A new UltraHLE .ini file has been released, new features include:

• More codes for Goldeneye007(multi-player dk mode, paintball)
• More codes for Mario 64
• More codes for Zelda 64

2/1/2000
Misc. News: About those free Gameboy ROMs I've been posting about...
23:37:  The Gameboy ROMs that I reported on a couple days ago are actually entries in a Bung-sponsored competition. Iron Hike, for example, got second place in it. I will add the ROMs that were in this competition within the next few days, but for now, they're available for download at Bung's website.

• Bung's Third Gameboy Coding Competition

Emulator Release: DGen SDL 1.20
17:05:  The Unix/X11 port of DGen, a SEGA Genesis that uses SDL for graphics and sound, has been updated to version 1.20 and the full source is available for download from the SEGA Genesis emulators for Unix page.

Site News: News and more news galore
05:17:  Yo!

What's up everyone? I'm about a cheesesteak and two soft pretzels away from going insane, but that's OK! A few alcoholic beverages is all I need and I'll be up and at 'em in no time!

Things have been pretty crazy around ZDland over the last few weeks. I know I say this every time I post one of these updates, but I'd like to apologize to everyone for not being able to respond to your e-mails quicker. I want you all to know that I do read each and every one of your e-mails, and with patience you can be sure that I'll eventually reply to it (assuming you know from reading the contact page which e-mails I won't answer). Everyone knows that the heart of Zophar's Domain lies with its user base, its fans. So remember that the next time a few days pass and you haven't received a reply or some sort of recognition.

The NSM contest (number five) has ended, and boy were the entries close! A few more submissions need to be checked and I'll be able to declare a winner. The winner will be announced on Wednesday (February 2, 2000) so be sure to check back here then if you entered the contest or if you're just curious as to exactly who the winner will be.

The Scribe sure has been busy lately! From his recent D2 update to the ZD exclusive "Road Trip 2" (where the Lunar series is mentioned quite a bit, I might add), you can be sure that where there's life, there's text. And as everyone knows, "the pen is mightier than the sword". I wonder if the author of that quote knew that the keybaord was even mightier than the pen? Then again, if you ever saw the first Batman movie, you probably would go with the pen. :)

Overclocked! What? Yes, we always listen to our fans. We will no longer be posting about the emulation-related comic parody strip, Overclocked, on a daily basis. We realize that the entire world and their parents have heard about Overclocked by now, and we feel that shoving it down everyone's throats isn't the way to go. ZD will always support the comic strip, of course, but we will no longer post daily play-by-play updates about Fresh Green's debacles with Pretzel. We promise!

You've all noticed Chris Comstock (Shade Eagle) has joined ZD by now. The entire staff of Zophar's Domain would like to welcome Chris to the ZD family. If you have any Free ROM or FAQ related emails, be sure to send them over to him. He'll be more than happy to help you out, provided your email/news submission is within the rules.

A few weeks ago, we received some help from The Sheik with regards to some inaccurate descriptions on a few of our emulator pages. I haven't had the time yet to plug them into the various different pages, but they will be soon. I would mention a site that he had which was a great resource for translation hackers (as it contained various scripts for import games) but it appears to be down now. If it goes back up, we'll mention it here. Thanks a million, Sheik: I owe you one!

Well, that should wrap it up for tonight. I have 40 more e-mails to go, but I'm totally dead. I'll see you all same bat-time, same bat-channel. Once again, I would like to thank every single person that visits us, every website that plugs us, and even every constructive negative feedback. Whether you have good or bad things to say, what's important is that Zophar's Domain grows stronger with each passing day because of all of you.

Thanks for visiting ZD!

Site News: 6,666,666th visitor to Zophar's Domain
04:57:  On January 21, 2000, a landmark hit was reached. One that will go down in ZD history forever. Once which happened over a week ago but that hypnotized me so much that I was unable to do the update. Well actually, I've been on a "ZD vacation lite". :) Congratulations to RollingSkull (what a name for the 6,666,666th hit, eh?) for being the 6,666,666th visitor to Zophar's Domain. He doesn't win anything except the recognition and respect of everyone (or at least me). Congratulations, RollingSkull, and may we have 6,666,666 more visitors in the future!

Site News: Metroid 2 Secret Worlds site joins ZD!
04:52:  I'd like to welcome Jesse D.'s "Metroid 2 Secret Worlds" website into the ZD familiy. The Metroid 2 Secret Worlds website is a page dedicated to the two large areas in Metroid for Gameboy that were never intended to exist. It has everything you'd ever want to know about the glitch that made for some interesting game-time! All Metroid fans should be sure to give the site a visit.

Media News: Bleem! Countersues Sony
02:57:  Well, if something absolutely shocking didn't happen to Bleem! at least once in a week, it wouldn't be Bleem!, would it? Anyway, this message board thread confirms that Bleem!'s creators are countersuing Sony.

You can read it here.

If anyone could scan in the latest issues of Incite PC or Forbes magazine (which both mention it), we'd be much obliged. If you have a copy, please tell us at the Contact page.

Site News: New FAQ being made...
02:38:  One of my jobs here is to create a new Zophar's Domain FAQ. For this reason, I'd like you all to visit the contact page and send me some questions that might look good on a Zophar's Domain FAQ. Note that obvious questions such as "where can I find ROMs" are already thought of.

I look forward to hearing from you all.

Media News: Censorship of Free Long-Distance on College Campuses?
02:27:  Here's an interesting topic. Now, anyone who lives in a dorm room on a college campus knows that long-distance phone calls are the worst part of the whole deal. Well, Clemson University has decided to recently ban Dialpad.com, the most well-known of these sites, and is also doing it to a number of other ones as well (such as MyFreeLD.com and some others).

One of our readers has scanned the article from the school newspaper for us to read. He'd really like to get some feedback on it.

Here's the link: Combat censorship in Clemson!!

Here's the guy's e-mail address: lsrutko@clemson.edu

He wants to hear from college students in particular about the issue, so please e-mail him, especially if you live in a dorm.

Thanks to Artius for all the information. Hopefully, a boycott is in order. :)

Emulator Release: KGB for Windows v0.22 beta 2
02:22:  This gameboy emulator for Windows has been updated. New features include:

• Control keys can be changed...
• You can now make the display smaller or larger as you wish...
• 50% Scanlines (thanks TNSe ^_^ )
  
• A favorites list for your 10 favorite games.
  
• Auto-load state from slot 0.
  

Misc. News: Dreamcast Database updated
01:30:  The Scribe has updated his Dreamcast Database file which contains a summary of all games available the Sega Dreamcast, game ratings, release dates, what languages the games have been released under, and so on. It also includes information regarding the Dreamc asts evolution and information about its accessories.

You can pick up the new version by downloading the following file:

Site News: SoftVMS 0.8 for Macintosh
01:18:  The port of the only Sega Dreamcast VMS emulator to Macintosh has been updated to version 0.8.

Get it at the Macintosh Sega Dreamcast VMS section.

Emulator Release: Generator 0.11 for Macintosh
01:15:  Generator, the Genesis emulator for Macintosh has been updated to correspond with the recent Linux release. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: Frodo v4.1.9 for Macintosh
01:12:  Frodo, the Commodore 64 emulator for Macintosh has been updated to 4.1.9.

Get it at the Commodore 64 for Macintosh section.

Emulator Release: Laser 0.3
01:08:  My Space Invaders emulator has recieved it's fourth update in three days. Here's what's new:

Interview News: EmuDX author interviewed by Emugaming.com
01:07:  Mike Green, the author of EmuDX, has been interviewed by emugaming.com. Go read it if you're interested.

Misc. News: Nogginknockers X - New Beta Available
00:59:  The sixth Nogginknockers X beta is now available for download. Here's a list of some new features:

• New characters! Mr. Tripps vs. The Wireman!
• New background with obstacles never-before-seen in a NogginKnockers game!
• Introduction of Buddy Tardinski's best friend - Lenny the Overgrown Tard!
  
• And more!

Emulator News: UltraHLE Voodoo 3 issues
00:50:  On the UltraHLE official site, they warn that if you update your drivers for Voodoo 3 cards to the latest ones, that they don't work with UltraHLE. For more information, visit the UltraHLE webpage.

• UltraHLE Webpage

Emulator Release: NE 1.03
00:42:  NE is a new NES emulator that has a nice GUI. However, since there's not much documentation, I can't tell you much more. You can download it and try it at the NES page.

Frontend News: MAME SFE file requirement
00:39:  The Dragon Keeper has been getting quite a few e-mails saying that his frontend, MAME SFE, wouldn't run correctly without a library file. So, pick up this file if you're experiencing difficulties running this frontend.

You can pick it up by going on over to the Arcade Frontends page.

Thanks to The Dragon Keeper for the e-mail.

Media News: CNN.com reports on Bleem!
00:27:  There is an article on Bleem! at cnn.com. It discusses what Bleem! is and has some information on the lawsuit between Sony and Bleem!. Check it out at the following link:

• Article on Bleem! on CNN.com

Misc. News: The Scribe: Road Trip 2
00:26:  The Scribe has released a second edition of his Road Trip chronicles. The Scribe goes to a flea market and realizes that there are many treasures to be found in the musky second hand stores.

You can check out this article by visiting the following link: