FCE Ultra v0.81 for Windows and Linux

posted in Emulator Release by slein on Aug 19th, 2002

The NES emulator FCE Ultra has been updated to version 0.81. Here's what's new:
  • Screen snapshots can now be taken while playing an NSF.
  • Saving screen snapshots will no longer corrupt the frame buffer.
  • Added many more games to the list of games that usually are found with bad iNES headers.
  • The NSF player will now disable the FDS sound channel on song initialization.
  • Reads from $4090 and $4092 while emulating the FDS will now return the current envelope settings.
  • Merged a lot of pirate MMC3 multicart emulation code with the main MMC3 emulation code.
  • Added support for the MMC5's split-screen mode.
  • Writes to $8000-$FFFF with D7 set during MMC1 emulation will cause the MMC1 mode register to be OR'd with $C.
  • Replaced an MMC1 hack that I used to get "Bill and Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure" to work with something more accurate.
  • Fixed the MMC5 read handler.
  • Added support for the game "Ishin no Arashi" in the iNES format.
  • Added support for MMC1 games in the iNES format with 16KB of RAM via CRC32 comparisons.
  • iNES mapper 1 now supports pageable CHR RAM if CHR ROM is not present. Fixes "Family School".
  • Added support for iNES mappers 51 and 52.
  • Modified MMC3(iNES mapper 4/118/119) IRQ counter emulation.
  • Fixed an iNES mapper 32 emulation bug.
  • Fixed iNES mapper 33/48 IRQ emulation.
  • Fixed iNES mapper 16 IRQ emulation.
  • Added support for "Famicom Jump 2" as iNES mapper 153.
  • The VS Unisystem bit in iNES headers is no longer recognized.
  • Now VS Unisystem games are recognized by CRC32 value.
  • Reads from $4015 no longer reset DMC IRQ.
  • PPU NMI now occurs a few cycles later.
  • BRK emulation now sets the I flag.
  • Changed a few zero-page address mode functions to read directly from emulated RAM.
  • Added a new video mode(256x224 at a refresh rate of 103 Hz).
  • Increased the refresh rate of video mode 2 to 65 Hz.
  • Increased the refresh rate of video mode 3 to 120 Hz.
  • Added speed throttling used when sound is disabled, and a command-line switch to control it.
You can get it from the following pages: NES Emulators NES Emulators for Unix/Linux