Jnes v0.50 Beta 1

posted in Site News by lillymon on Jul 11th, 2002

What's this? A new Jnes? This version was actually annouced in an EmuTalk post by the Jabo so you won't find anything about it on the official site. Still, nice to see it isn't discontinued! :-) Here's what's new:
  • Fixed Deady Towers, Mapper 34
  • Fixed an issue with palettes that affected Archon
  • Added code toggling to the game genie interface (usually works without reset)
  • Cheats are now a single file, and some popular ones are included
  • Game genie usage in MMC3 games is now fixed
  • Tweaked noise a little bit, more like 0.30a which was better
  • Added a NES stereo sound option
  • Better menu handling while files are not active
  • Recent menu is a little nicer, stamping is better, also deletes invalid entries
  • Fixed bitmap capturing in triple buffer full screen
  • Rewrote Direct Draw locking logic
  • Direct Sound library used is same as other projects
  • Using accelerators now, keyboard shortcuts improved and more reliabile
  • PPU rendering rewritten for palette based rendering
  • Added network play support via the Kaillera 0.90
  • Added a video timing option to allow and extra line of vblank
  • Window position remembered when returning to windowed mode from full screen
  • Put back 24-bit rendering (works?) and removed 8-bit from full screen
  • Rom Browser added, sort by name, mapper, and battery saves
  • j6502 was ported back to C from X86 assembly
  • New settings dialog: file association, IPS patching functionality, directory paths
  • Direct Input library has improved error detection for disconnected joypads on load, and tabbed dialog
  • New video dialog, replaces the old series of menus, also adds enumeration of full screen display modes
  • Brand new help file
  • ZIP file support using ZLIB 1.1.4 DLL
  • Almost every other aspect has seen rewrites and cleanups over time...
You can get this from our NES Emulators page.