Nuance v0.1.0

posted in Emulator Release by narvick on Nov 28th, 2003

It has been brought to our attention that a new release of a NUON emulator has emerged yesterday! This brings about a new sections at ZD. For those who don't know (or forgot) what NUON is, here's a description from the homepage:
    NUON is the name of a chip designed by VM Labs that brings interactive features to DVD players in which it is integrated. In addition to high-end DVD playback features such as smooth, seamless scanning of DVD video, 20X zoom, action capture, angle view, smart matrix, and snap shot, NUON enhanced DVD players also come with the built in Video Light Machine (VLM) and the ability to play video games. The initial run of games includes Tempest 3000, Iron Soldier 3, Freefall 3050 A.D. and Ballistic among others.
Nuance is a NUON emulator that has succeeded its predecessor, NuonEm. Both are coded by Mike Perry (aka Riff). Also from the homepage are some remarks about this release:
    This release celebrates one major milestone in particular. Commercial games now are playable for the first time in the history of the emulator! Space Invaders XL, Merlin Racing and Tempest 3000 are perfectly emulated. The Next Tetris is also playable with some "minor" texture corruption. The games run mind boggingly slow, but if you have a top secret experimental 8GHz machine or a dual processor setup overclocked to 4GHz, the frame rates may be somewhat reasonable.
New features since the last version of Nuance (v0.0.1B):
  • Fixed tons of instruction handling bugs
  • Fixed critical instruction scheduler bugs
  • Added support for many new pixel DMA modes
  • Added support for most Media BIOS calls
  • Added commercial game compatibility list to distribution package
Grab it at the new NUON Emulators section!

Thanks to VGN for the news!