News Archive

September 1998

9/30/98
Emulator Release: Snes9x 1.10 for Linux and Solaris

23:20: This is the new verion of the snes emulator Snes9x for Lunux(i386) and Solaris(Sparc). Features include:

New netplay for up to 5 players

Improved SFX support, Mario Cart now playable

DSP fixes

Get the new version on the snes unix page.

Emulator Release: PCSloMo v0.23br7
22:37: Frododead has released version 0.23br7 of his VB-coded multi arcade emulator, PCSloMo. Three new games are supported now:

Space Chasers

Space Phantoms

Cosmic Monsters

You can download PCSloMo 0.23br7 from the Multi Arcade emulators page.

Site News: New staff member
21:33: Hallo, I'm the new Unix pages maintainer, you can probably find me idling all day on EFnet. If you have any questions or anything go ahead and e-mail me.

Misc. News: DarkMazda's Domain status
21:28: It appears that DarkMazda's Domain is not going down after all. Sycraft has talked with him and the site is now mirrored at http://sycraft.ml.org/darkmazda, where it will remain until he can find a permanent home. Thanks to Sycraft for letting ZD know about this!

Emulator Release: DTMNT 0.52
21:24: A new release of DTMNT, A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles emulator for DOS, is now available. Here's what's new in DTMNT 0.52:

Thanks to help from 'Jesus LA' (thanks!) I changed the way the drum chip is emulated - it's much more accurate now. What this means is Orchestra hits (chord sounds) are now played

SBSND driver doesn't try to change mixer settings (people complained it was too quiet - use the Windows mixer, or DOS mixer program - I think it's more reliable)

Still the romset's sound is incomplete (this isn't up to me I'm afraid)!

Some people have a bug where if you use autoframeskip (which is the default) and SBSND, it hangs on a purple screen. If this sounds familiar, find out some more info (do you have a joypad on Grip mode... or something) and then e-mail me.

You can donload DTMNT 0.52 from the Single Arcade emulators page.

Emulator Release: uNESsential released!
16:53: uNESsential, called by the author as "The crappiest NES emulator ever made", has been released! This emulator isn't anywhere near complete, and it was written in Quick Basic. Still, that won't stop Zophar's Domain from proudly adding it to it's NES Section, along with NESticle, fwNES, and BioNES!

You can get uNESsential from the NES Section.

Site News: More on www.zophar.net
14:14: As a reminder to everyone, http://www.zophar.net is our new address. You probably already know this, or else you wouldn't be here. zophar.malicia.com currently goes nowhere, and no emulation news pages seem to want to post that we've moved here, so if anyone asks where ZD went, you be sure to tell them :)

9/29/98
Utility News: HebeGB SE added!
23:04: A special edition of HebeGB, that ultimate Gameboy utility with the eye-candy design, has been released.

Here's the changes from v1.5:

- IPS Patching was b0rked, fixed now.
- Licence list updated with more names.
- Layout 3 added, Watery Death.
- Updated Fish Extra
- HTML Listing looks better
- Fixed a Rename bug
- Updated Config Screen
- Changed some fonts/appearances
- Any other little bugs i forgot to write down

Kalas also informed me to mention that Rigamortis is still coding this thing. Enjoy!

HebeGB and friends can be found in the Gameboy Utilities Section.

Emulator Release: Added GalEmu!
19:53: I have added GalEmu, a simple Galaxian emulator, to the Arcade Section. It emulates Galaxian, some Galaxian bootlegs, and even more cheesy 80's space shooter games!

I do like small emulators like this, as I can take them to play on my school's lame computers. A 4-meg+ monster like MAME won't fit on a disk. I plan on passing some time in PASCAL class tomorrow with this :)

Get it from the Arcade Section.

Utility News: Tecmo Super Bowl Manager Added
19:33: I have added Flash's Tecmo Super Bowl Manager to the rapidly filling Facelift Section. This utility basically allows you to customize that kickass NES football game to your liking! You can do whatever you want with this. Update the roster to today's players, make an Alaskan pink football team with a really vulgar name, or whatever the hell you want!

You can find Tecmo Super Bowl Manager in the Facelift Section.

Site News: The Return of zophar.net
17:49: As you may or may not have seen/heard, zophar.net has returned as of 7am EDT this morning, thanks to my elite InterNIC skills.

May ZD live on and on forever...amen:)

Translation News: Rockman & Forte 0.35 released
16:11: AAGT has released version 0.35 of the Rockman & Forte patch. Although it wasn't a mojor update, here's what's new:

added item descriptions in the item select screen

added a little more dialogue on the fight with king section

added some dialogue to Forte's ending

fixed a bug that screwed up the japanese text in the cd database

You can download it at the translation patches page.

Frontend News: UZI 0.92!
03:56: UZI - The Ultimate ZSNES Interface, heh. Maybe not the ultimate, but a very good one :) has been updated. This new version most importantly fixes the problems that it had with the newest version of ZSNES(0.635).

Go get it from the SNES emulator frontends page.

Emulator News: Gameboy Lite tidbits
00:36: A new gameboy emulator called Gameboy Lite is under construction. Its being coded by Don Jarrett and Daniel Maresca Jr. Although there's no webpage or screen shots yet, we do have some information for you. The z80 emulation is 100% done, and the tile palette is 50% done. A tile editor is also in the making. We'll post more info when we get it.

9/28/98
Utility News: Duper 0.70 Released
20:11: Duper is a universal ROM util that detects duplicate roms for many systems, edits headers, etc. New in 0.70:

- UI improvements including full-row selection, perma-highlighting of dupes, dynamic dupe tracking which increments or decrements the unique count as dupes get deleted or modified, and sorting by any column (though the new sort routines are very slow; I'll find a better method soon)
- Fixed some issues with NES editing
- Fixed a bug with reading high mapper numbers
- Added real CRC-32 calculation to NES roms, which will slow things down but make things much more accurate (doesn't include the header/title areas in calculation)
- If you have a delimited list of NES checksums ('nescrcs.txt') with their matching title, duper will look through it and put the matching checksum's title in the 'Artificial Title' field; this behaves somewhat like the PCEID util for PCE ROMs...feel free to submit lists of additions/corrections to ash@baltimore.crosswinds.net
- Added ability to launch items to easily test them (very rought around the edges right now...)
- Added MP3 ID3 tag support, including mass-tagging
- Added generic comparison of files in zips by their embedded CRCs
- Sped up zip file processing
- Better zip support; now actually looks into zips for suitable files instead of assuming there's only one ROM in them
- Added IPS patching, courtesy of the uCON source.

You can download it at the general utilities page.

Emulator Release: PCSloMo 0.23br6
13:54: Yep, it's another release of PCSloMo from Frododead. There's 4 new games support in 0.23br6:

Boot Hill

Clowns

Destination: Earth

Sea Wolf

You can download PCSloMo 0.23br6 from the Multi Arcade emulators page.

Site News: New Message Board added to ZD!
13:42: Your prayers have been answered. With the downing of Demi's message board for a while, many people have e-mailed me asking for a, if not permanent, at least a temporary, ROM Hacking message board on ZD. So, go enjoy it, it will be up at least until Demi's goes back up. From then on it depends on you.

Zophar's ROM Hacking Board

Emulator Release: NINCEST 64 0.05b
01:25: Marius Dumitrean (faraway) has released version 0.05b of his N64 emulator, one of few with freely distributable source, NINCEST 64. The source code has been released, and there is a version online with lots of debugging stuff. You can download NINCEST 64 0.05b from the Nintendo 64 emulators page.

Emulator Release: PCSloMo 0.23br5
01:11: Frododead has released version 0.23br5 of his Multi Arcade emulator, PCSloMo. Here's what's new:

Supports 2 more games: Super Earth Invasion & Galaxy Wars

Supports Revision 1 of Centipede

Fixes to Lunar Rescue

You can download PCSloMo 0.23br5 from the Multi Arcade emulators page.

Emulator Release: Fellow 0.3.3
00:44: After over half a year of inactivity, Petter Schau has released version 0.3.3 of his Amiga emulator for DOS, Fellow. Here's what's new in Fellow 0.3.3:

68010, 68020 and 68030 instruction set emulation now capable of running some programs.

MOD Ripper (contributed by Rainer Sinsch)

Virtual Filesystem handler

Added some new user manual translations, as well as converted some of it to HTML.

Various other smaller changes, see readme.txt

You can download Fellow 0.3.3 from the Amiga emulators page.

9/27/98
Translation News: Gryzor Patch Released!
23:43: The Mad Hacker has released a translation patch for that kickass shoot em' up Gryzor, or Japanese Contra. The difference between the Japanese version and the English version of that NES game, which we all slept with under our pillows at night, is a storyline and improved graphics. This is really worth playing, so go find a ROM of this game (if you don't have it already), and apply this patch!

The patch for Gryzor can be found in the Translation Section.

Emulator Release: O2EM 0.701
13:59: This is just a minor update to O2EM 0.70. From the official homepage:

The bug fix "Fixed the shape of the '$' character and added the missing 64th character" didn't make it into the V0.70 release for some reason, this version fixes that.

You can download O2EM 0.701 from the Odyssey 2 emulators page.

Site News: Site Record, 19 updates
00:25: Looks like we made history. We had 19 updates in one day today! Never in the history of Zophar's Domain have we ever done that many in one single day. And I don't know of many emulation sites that have done that many in a day either. Yesterday was a big day, so be sure to read everything so that you don't miss anything!

9/26/98
Emulator Release: XMame 0.34b3
18:43: Here is the new beta version of XMame, supporting more games and lotsa more stuff.

Get it at The Arcade Emulators for Unix Page.

Emulator Release: Nestra 0.4
17:59: Hi! This is the first of my final updates before i resign forever.. =(
So, Nestra is a new NES emu for Linux and it uses dynamic recompiling to boost the speed, as far as i know this is the first NES emu that uses this. Note that this is still in early development stages.
Features:
- 6502 Emulation using Dynamic Recompiling
- Graphics using X11
- Keyboard Input :)

Get this nice thing at the NES Emulators for Unix Page.

Emulator Release: The M72 Arcade Emulator 0.20b
17:56: From the author of The Sega 16 Arcade Emulator, comes an IREM Arcade emulator called The M72 Arcade emulator. Although it requires a fast cpu (P2-233 or better) for full speed, it runs all the games with sound and music very well. 5 games are supported:

R-TYPE JP

Ninja Spirit

Legend of Hero Tonma

Battle Choppers

Image Fight

You can download The M72 Arcade Emulator 0.20b from the Multi Arcade emulator page.

Misc. News: New locations for pages
17:19: Well, the PSyKe page and the RockNES page have both moved. Be sure to take note of their new locations:

RockNES page

PSyKe page

Emulator Release: O2EM 0.70
17:14: Dan Boris has released a new version of the best, most complete, and only (heh, you knew there was a catch) Odyssey 2 emulator available, O2EM. This version adds support for voice, among other things:

Fixed shape of '$' character. Thanks to Mattias Persson.

Added missing 64th character to character set. Again thanks to Mattias.

Added Voice support. Thanks to Jason Gohlke

Fixed bug in drawing of bottom grid line. Thanks to John Donzilla.

Fixed a bug in the CPU core related to the handling of branch instructions near page boundaries.

CPU core now jumps to the correct address on an external interrupt, Killer Bees now runs.

You can download O2EM 0.70 from the Odyssey 2 page.

Misc. News: SNES Emulator Centre returns
17:00: After a brief period of downtime, the SNES Emulation Centre has returned. Visit it or be attacked by a herd of wild goats.

SNES Emulation Centre

Emulator News: Gekko to return commercially
16:55: Johan K�hler, who coded the first Neo Geo emulator (which ran one game) that there was, may be returning to release a commercial version of it, with SNK's OK. I say 'may be', because this seems to have been done in an IRC interview, and you never really know...but here's the link to the interview with Gekko:

Interview with Johan K�hler

Site News: Broken Link to CVEdit
16:49: Thanks to Ismail Saeed, I found out that there was a broken link to CVEdit, one of Kent Hansen's NES level editor utilities. The link is now fixed.

Facelift Utilities

Site News: More on DarkMazda's Domain
16:38: As most of you already know, DarkMazda's Domain (home of AAGT, translators of Rockman & Forte) lost its webhost and will be gone very shortly. They will be back when they can find a new home. To hear the complete story from DarkMazda himself, download this RM file.

Emulator News: PSyKe progress suspended for a month
16:25: PSyKe, the newest PSX emulator there is, is in trouble. The co author left the team, and RaskY isn't so sure he wants to continue it. Here's the full story, from www.psyke.com:

Sorry for this fast and stupid update, but it's late here and I'm too tired to code. I didn't have so much coding in last days, because I'm moving to another city, so I had other things to do. But, I'm sorry, I've a very bad news for you all. PSyKe is ufficially suspended for a month. mOoNsHaDo and me had some discussions in last days, and he decided to leave the team. I have some very talented friends that want to help me continuing PSyKe, but I'm not so sure that *I* want to continue PSyKe. This is why I'm suspending it for a month: I need to think. I hope that mOoNsHaDo will change his mind and go back working on it, I'm waiting for him. Otherwise, I'll let you all know what I'll do at the end of October. The site should not been updated until that date. And, please, please, don't mail me: I've decided to suspend it, and your mails are simply useless.

We at ZD wish RaskY and mOoNsHaDo the best of luck.

Site News: ZSNES Shrine Updated
16:17: I updated the ZSNES Shrine with the newest version of ZSNES (.635). You can go there if you want.

Site News: TurboExpress section sort of added
05:18: As I was looking at the site and trying to figure out what sections were missing, I realized that I never added the link for TurboExpress. Unlike the Sega Master System and GameGear, which shared very similar (almost identical) hardware and used different games for each system, the TurboExpress was IDENTICAL to the TG16, except for the fact that it was handheld. Since it runs the same games, all emulators that emulate the TG16 also emulate the Express. So yes, it's kind of a cheat, but hey, que sera sera, right? :)

TurboGrafx 16/TurboExpress page

This waste of time has been brought to you by Zophar (c) 1998

Utility News: PCE-ID 0.003
04:48: Yep, it's me, Zophar, doubling as utilities maintainer for now, until we find someone to maintain it (hint hint). This time, it's a new PCE-ID, which is a utility by the author of Hu6280 designed to identify every single Hu6280 card image that exists. It currently can identify 403 ROMs. There is but one change in PCE-ID 0.003:

Now contains mostly correct names + more rom info.

Download PCE-ID 0.003 from the Turbo Grafx 16 utilities page.

Emulator Release: Hu6280 1.81
04:32: Yes that's right, here comes another release of the Turbo Grafx 16 emulator, Hu6280. A few more games work in this release. Here's the list of newisms:

Added crc rom detection to hu6280. (now the emu knows which rom you're running ;)

Fixed the following games to actually run:
- Fixed 'Sonic Spike Volleyball (usa/jap)'
- Fixed 'Final Match Tennis (usa/jap)'
- Fixed 'GAIA (jap)'
- Fixed 'City Hunter (usa/jap)'
- Fixed 'Toyshop Boys (jap)'
- Fixed 'Homedata Chess Game (jap)'
- Fixed 'FinalSoldier (jap)'

Added hu6280 logo to front of emu ;)

Removed logging stuff ('shit.log') that somehow made it into the last version... :)

You also should check out the new & improved Hu6280 official page, it's been redesigned! You can download Hu6280 1.81 from the Turbo Grafx 16 emulators page.

Utility News: CV1Edit 1.0
02:33: Kent Hansen, level editor guru of NES games, has released yet another level editor. This one's for Castlevania 1. Basically, it's like all his others, it lets you edit the levels. However, he hasn't found the room order table yet, so the order of the rooms is incorrect.

You can download CV1Edit 1.0 from the Facelift Utilities section.

Emulator Release: MAME 32 0.34 beta 3
01:54: It's here. You can get it at the Multi Arcade emulators page.

Emulator Release: NEOGem 0.001�
01:39: KR�Y & H�N have just relased a new Neo Geo emulator! Dubbed NEOGem, this emulator can run a large number of games without any problems, although not as many as Neo Rage. It does not support sound yet, however, it may in the future. There is also a version of NEOGem that is for Neo Geo CD games, but it currently will not run any games; it just loads the Neo Geo CD BIOS.

You can download NEOGem 0.001� and NeoGemCD 0.0001� from the Neo-Geo emulators page.

Site News: Still in need of new staff
00:32: This is a reminder that we are still in need of an emulators for UNIX maintainer. Anyone familiar with UNIX who would like to fill this position, please don't hesitate to e-mail me, or find me on IRC (I frequent Efnet).

Emulator Release: Come Back 64 0.94
00:16: Yes, it's version 0.94 of JHF Software's Commodore 64 emulator, come Back 64. Here's the list of changes:

Online documentation (ALT+F2)

SB not required anymore

No math Copro required anymore

Fixed frameskip bug

Fixed sound on SB PROs

Fixed loading errors (no more system crashes)

Fixed keyboard/joystick 1 conflict

You can download Come Back 64 0.94 from the Commodore 64 emulators page.

9/25/98
Emulator Release: BrMSX 1.51
23:57: Ricardo Bittencourt has made a minor update to his MSX emulator for DOS, BrMSX. Here it is:

Support to another undocumented VDP feature ("Cross Blaim")

You can download BrMSX 1.51 from the MSX emulators page.

Emulator Release: SMYGB 0.10
02:04: Ming-yu Shih has coded a new (I could have said brand new, but someone else has patented it) GameBoy emulator for Windows 95/98, called SMYGB. Although it is a little slow (requires a P166 or greater for full speed), it has excellent sound, supports most GameBoy games, and other neat features:

Supports window and full screen modes of DirectX

Can play the sound like the real Game Boy

Support some SGB features

Can realtime save and load the game state

You can download SMYGB 0.10 from the GameBoy page.

Site News: More on the 1,000,000th hit
01:31: Well, it seems as though Nitro got the 1,000,000th visit to Zophar's Domain. He even posted about it before me. I had this whole thing planned out for the update, but I guess he beat me to it :)

So, I'd like to take this oppurtunity to thank everyone that has been visiting Zophar's Domain for the past 22 months (it'll be 2 years old very soon). I hope you all keep coming back, and if anyone would like to offer any suggestions, comments, anything, don't hesitate to e-mail me.

As a side note, a few people e-mailed me fake screenshots, and one additional person e-mailed me a real screen shot, but he was not really the 1,000,000th since the counter does not count reloads. Nitro is the real 1,000,000th.

Emulator Release: BrMSX 1.150
01:27: Ricardo Bittencourt e-mailed us yesterday to let us know that he released version 1.150 of his MSX emulator for DOS, BrMSX. This would have been added yesterday, but the official homepage was down. Here's what's new:

Support to sprite collision detection ("Magical Kid Wiz", "Abu Simbel's Profanation", "Pitfall 2", "ON SPRITE GOSUB"). You can disable this feature with the option "-nosprcol".

Support to 8kb roms ("Frogger", "Video Hustler"). Thanks to Omar Mosqueda for the roms.

Support to MegaROM Mapper #8: original Panasonic FM-PAC with 8kb SRAM. Thanks to Sean Young for the info and Dal Poz for the dump.

VERY PRELIMINARY YM2413 (MSX-Music) emulation. Use the switch "-fmpac" to enable it. Thanks to Andre Delavy for the data book.

New and improved video engine, this make "-win" and "-dos" obsolete since this new engine is faster than both, and works in any OS. MMX users should still use "-mmx".

Fixed the support to 48kb roms ("Donkey Kong"). Thanks to Omar Mosqueda for the report.

Fixed a bug in video cache ("Red Moon"). Thanks to Jaime Galle for the report.

Fixed a bug in PSG registers 1,3,5 ("Crazy Train").

Fixed a bug in vertical position of zoomed sprites.

Fixed the sound sync bug, now the sound emulation should be a lot more stable.

Fixed a minor bug in LOAD ROM for MegaROM games. Thanks to Dal Poz for the report.

Fixed a bug that made BrMSX crash when executing code on a non-existent page. Thanks to Cyberknight and Adriano Cunha for the report.

Fixed emulation of R register in JR opcodes ("Magical Tree").

Fixed a problem of psggraph in SCREEN 0. Thanks to Cyberknight for the report.

Now BrMSX only saves the SRAM in disk when a cartridge actually has a SRAM ("Gall Force").

Now BrMSX adjust the system clock at exit. Thanks to Cyberknight for the report.

New debugger screens "3" and "4" (information on FM-PAC registers, SCC memory dump and VRAM dump).

Now the MegaRAM is cleared in a hard reset with TURN OFF. Thanks to Dal Poz for the report.

You can download BrMSX 1.150 from the MSX page.

Misc. News: The media on PSX emulators
01:12: IGN posted an article 2 weeks ago that I think deserves some mention. It talks about the PSX, the fact that it's being emulated, and more. Here's an excerpt:

Just recently, the idea of emulating the PlayStation has taken its first major steps toward reality. Two separate emulators have successfully replicated the console's basic operation � and more. Drawing on cutting-edge 3-D acceleration technology, they are able to not only run real PlayStation games, but run them better than the real thing� in some cases.

Thanks to Jason Z. for the news.

IGN Article

Emulator News: SNEeSe rumours
01:08: I've received a number of e-mails regarding SNEeSe, an SNES emulator for DOS that was recently discontinued, possibly being resumed very soon. Here's an IRC chat that ensued between Slaik and the 'mystery man':

TRAC - SNEeSe is NOT dead!
Slaik - TRAC: Please explain.
TRAC - Simple - I used to be a co-author; I've received the go ahead to continue on the project.
Slaik - Ahh... Cool.
TRAC - It was either that, or make a new SNES emulator... something I didn't want to have to bother with.
TRAC - expect some news on it in a couple weeks... until then... this is all that's being said... SNEeSe lives on...

Can anyone else verify this?

9/24/98
Emulator Release: ZSNES 0.635
23:53: Yep, another awesome release by zsKnight, _Demo_ and Pharos of their SNES emulator, ZSNES. This release includes optimizations and save state and SideWinder fixes:

Sidewinder fix options are now swapped since the majority seems to work better with the other sidewinder routine.

Implemented EXTBG mode7 in 256 color old graphics engine.

Fixed a DSP Sound bug where some sound effects weren't played in certain games

Tweaked joystick routines again

Fixed up a bug where sometimes loading a game after playing another game screws up emulation

Optimised 640x480x8, 512x384x8, and 512x384x16 video modes

Implemented EXTBG mode7 in 65536 color old graphics engine.

Fixed an offset per tile mode range clipping bug

Fixed up offset per tile mode in new gfx 8bit engine

Fixed a bug which caused a crash when a state is loaded while playing/recording a movie file

Optimised new gfx 16bit non-transparency mode

Implemented SPC700 stall detection/recovery attempt

Fixed up a new header detection bug in v0.625

Modified memory allocation routines. Hope this fixes those random crash problems that some people seem to have

Fixed a sound bug where the song leaks after it ends, sometimes producing an unwanted beep

Optimised new gfx 16bit transparency modes

Multiple DSP sound bug fixes

Implemented transparencies in high res 16x8 tiles

Implemented a command line to disable the sound DSP (-dd). Use -s and -dd if you want spc700 emulation to be enabled without sound to improve compatibility

Fixed a bug where joystick support makes the emulation slow

Had to remove some memory allocated variables and convert them to arrays since they were causing random crashes on specific computers.

Fixed up pressing save state/load state in game so that it doesn't clear any key presses

You can download ZSNES 0.635 from the SNES page, or the ZSNES mirror page.

Misc. News: DarkMazda's Domain Shutting Down
21:09: DarkMazda's Domain, home of AAGT, may be shutting down. Just incase you don't know what AAGT is, they are the group that's translating Rockman & Forte. Here's what is posted on the page:

Sorry for saying this. But DarkMazda's Domain is being shutted down!!!! Peon.net is going down so everything that has to do with my page is down.. Sorry to tell you this.. I can't do anything about it.. So I am really sorry to say this but I am REALLY SORRY!!! :( If anyone can submit me a Domain name with hosting or any webspace more then 40 mb or 50.. Please E-mail me at drkmazda@earthlink.net So.. This is our LAST EVER UPDATE!!!! Well it looks I am off.. see you all later when we meet again!! Peace out yall!!! Thanks for all of the people that support us!!!!

This is a really cool page (IMHO), and I'd hate to see it shut down so please help them if you can. BTW, if this page goes away then the R/F translation might do the same thing. =(

Emulator Release: DTMNT 0.51
20:44: A new version of DTMNT is out. Here's what's new:

SBSND SoundBlaster code fixed for low end soundblasters.

Drum emulation improved (volume, more drums, pitch) Sounds very good!

If you use SBSND, press O for an visual waveform, and again to see the 'drum' chip's registers (debug info for me)

Waveform sounds are now clipped (no static when loud sounds are played)

You can download it at the single arcade emulators page.

Site News: And the 1,000,000th hit goes to...
18:15: ME!

:D I couldnt' believe it myself, but when I went to the bottom of the page, voila! There was 1,000,000.... heheh.
Zophar isn't home yet... so, I don't know what I win...
:D
well, have a nice day, and lets keep ZD going for at least another 1,000,000 hits!!! If you would like some proof, here is a picture

Misc. News: Woo, hehe.
06:01: Well, I was nr. 1000111 :) I just felt kinda obliged to tell, since I thought that number looked kinda cool :)
Now we're just waiting for someone to mail us saying: "I was nr. 1000000!". Well, heh. We're waiting for someone who actually WAS nr. 1000000 to mail us, that is.

This was a message from Bjorn. Now I HAVE to attend to my German class, heh.

Frontend News: NeoFront 0.61 and 0.7!
04:48: Both ports of the first to ever be released NeoRAGE frontend has been updated. The news for both ports is that you can now choose the NeoRAGE exe name of your choice. It doesn't need to be called neorage.exe anymore. There aren't much other news than that for the DOS port, but the Win9x port now features support for up to 5 screenshots per game. Right click menus for file management has also been added to the Win9x port.

You can get it from the Arcade emulator frontends page.

Frontend News: TeleKwaru's SNES9x frontend!
04:44: Yeah! A new program made in QBasic! Don't worry though :) This program isn't as buggy as UNIROM. This one's actually good. It supports the most common features of SNES9x but will soon be improved with mouse support and other stuff.

You can get it from the SNES Emulator frontends page.

Site News: Counter is nearing 1,000,000
03:09: A reminder to anyone who wants to go down in ZD history as the person to be the 1,000,000th counted visitor, remember to check the counter at the very bottom of this page to see if you're the lucky visitor. If you are, take a screen dump (ie, print screen) of the page with the counter visible, and e-mail it to me.

Emulator News: Raine adds 2 more games
01:03: Straight from the official Raine page:

More good news for all of you, Rodland is playable with sound and Taito / Sega Tetris, is also playable on the next Raine!

Check out the Raine page for more info.

Emulator Release: Virtual GameBoy 1.2
00:56: After months of anticipation, Marat Fayzullin, author of various emulators for Windows and Unix platforms, has e-mailed us to let us know that he has released version 1.2 of his GameBoy emulator, Virtual Gameboy. Here's what's new in all ports of VGB 1.2:

Documentation extended and corrected in many places. READ IT!

Complete Super GameBoy support! Some games may still not work properly, but only a small part.

Partial Color GameBoy support! Unfortunately, this hasn't been properly tested yet.

Separate Pocket GameBoy support! Correct colors and ID code.

Speedup due to somewhat improved memory access code.

Automatic detection of SGB/CGB capabilities in cartridges.

New GBCarts library properly recognizes new switch types and ROM sizes.

Soundtrack saved directly into MIDI files. No conversion needed.

Separate screen refresh routines for the normal GameBoy, SGB, and CGB.

Fixed SGB multiplayer function, thanks to Pascal Felber.

Improved VRAM->SGB data transfer code.

Fixed MBC3 bank switching. (Wario World 2, etc.)

Fixed window rendering in video controller, thanks to Pascal Felber. (Star Trek, Donkey Kong, PGA Golf, etc.)

Fixed serial I/O support and timings, thanks to Paul Robson. (Stargate, Alleyway, Nintendo Baseball, Winning Goal, etc.)

Fixed joystick port handling. (Beetle Juice, Battle Bull, etc.)

VGB-Unix supports 8bpp, 16bpp, and 32bpp X-Windows modes.

Marat has released versions for Solaris, SunOS, FreeBSD, Linux and OSF1 (Digital Unix). The Windows version is also being sent to the registered users. No demo is available.

Virtual GameBoy official page

9/23/98
Emulator Release: RockNES 0.55
20:15: A new version of RockNES is out. Here's what's new:

Fixed Mapper #1, now more games works fine (like Metroid, Mega Man 2, CastleVania 2 etc);

Fixed Mapper #4, now more games works (Mega Man 6, Sword Master);

Implemented a new way of swapping ROM banks. This doesn't speed up the emulator or make it run any more games, however, it does make it a lot easier to work with and understand;

Added Mappers #10 and #23 (no games seems to run for now);

Added autoframeskip system;

Added the old frame rate system;

Compatibility increased;

Minor changes across mappers/6502 functions;

Fixed a bug in the graphic engine (current PPU name table);

Fixed a bug in the 6502 from Marat (now, with correct timing, the emulator has the correct speed);

Fixed a bug in the sprite code that can fix some games;

Fixed the NES ROM header read function (partially for extended mappers);

Fixed stupid bugs in the startup messages;

Removed video mode options by command line (just use rocknes.cfg);

Config file generator adapted with the new changes;

Fixed screenshot save function (I forgot to say, sorry! Press ).

You can get it at the NES page.

Site News: Save archives updated
01:47: Including GS0, SPC, SRM, STA, ZST, and CHT.

9/22/98
Misc. News: Zophar's Domain Ripoff?
23:25: As Links page maintainer, I feel obligated to relay this bit of info to you all...if someone already hasn't. I'm sure more ZD staff members will want to make news note about this as well.

Emulation Zone requested that I link to them, however, upon viewing their page, I saw a mirror of ZD with the colors changed. Heck, they even used my backup "Made with Notepad" graphic. This type of lameness shouldn't be tolerated amoung ourselves, and I encourage future web page designers not to "steal" the looks of other more popular sites, thinking that it will make you cool.

Sorry if I seem harsh, but I'll gladly rip up a site that is a rip off. The above comments are MINE and may not necessarily represent the views of other ZD staff members, Malicia, nor any other affiliated source.

Misc. News: Ripping ZD is becoming a trend
23:24: http://www.emulationzone.org/

Well well well, looky here folks, a newly reformed page. It's so cool looking i'm going to just go there everyday from now on.

Let's see what we can find out...

Wow, his tables look...familiar..
Hrm, he's got a staff AND icons...wow..where've I seen that?
Oh and wow, look at that copyright at the bottom, this is clearly his own work.

Hrm, as I recall this is also the same person who stole information from Zophar and from Avatar_Z way back in the day. Yeah this guy is your genuine nut.

Feel free to voice your opinion to him at wacko@javanet.com.

Emulator Release: Z26 1.13
21:54: John Saegar has released version 1.13 of his Atari 2600 emulator for DOS, Z26. This fixes some bugs that cropped up in previous versions:

Fixed column blanking. (broken in 1.12)

Fixed icehocky. (broken in 1.10)

You can download Z26 1.13 from the Atari 2600 page.

Emulator Release: NeoRAGE �eta RELEASED!
17:14: The RAGE team has released a �eta of their incredibly popular Emulator, NeoRAGE! This removes the CRC checks of 12 unknown games, i.e. making them playable.

Get it at the Neo*Geo Section!

Utility News: PSEmu Pro sound plugins updated.
16:48: The null sound driver will now open on certain systems, and the seal driver has many bug fixes, and a new configuration dialog.

You can download these plugins at the PSEmu Pro Plugins page.

Misc. News: More on Vertigo
13:47: As a followup to the news posted about Vertigo the other day, you might want to check this out: GameShock. It appears that Vertigo might be revived soon.

Frontend News: Genesis Launchtool 1.5!
03:37: Yes! For the first time since february the best Genesis emulator frontend has been updated! This is the frontend that make it look like if Windows 95 was made to support Genesis emulators, mostly due to the clever use of graphics and other stuff.
And Oh boy, is this an update worthy of 7 months of work, here's the new stuff:

Fixed the annoying menu font error!

Now all settings, patches, etc are saved in an INI file instead registry! (converter included)

Changed the menu distribution! I should done this a long time ago...

New window to configure the emulator's keys!

Blazing fast SMD<->MD conversions!

Command to insert RAM size in the ROM list

Product code can be included in the ROM list

"Register file types" and file drag and dropping should now work with Windows98

New tool: "Change ROM id...". (mark a ROM as an specific file type)

New "announcements" window, updatable from internet!

Added a 5-star rating system in the status bar

LaunchTool's window title now can show the other rom title if the default one is invalid!

Added a new option: "File syncronization" (under "Personalize" menu

Now the toolbar is also configurable (right-click it!)

KGen98 support!

Genecyst support updated!

Option to launch SciTech Display Doctor before running emulator

Now launchtool tries to auto-find the the emulators and Display Doctor in all hard disks and network drives

...and also get the default temporary directory from Windows

Now if you select not to fix the ROM size or SMD header, LaunchTool will never ask you this again.

Added an "Genecyst's extra options" option with: change screen resolution, sound rate and select folders

...as a consequence, Set sound rate isn't in main screen anymore

New tool to edit RAM information stored in ROM!

Option to set picture preview and ROM description to Always On Top

Removed the "Saved Games combo" from main menu. Finally I noticed: It's useless. :P

Rewrote CoolButtons (much better!)

A new Hex to GameGenie (and vice-versa!) converter!

New option to align configurable controls to a imaginary grid

More menu items are disabled when you lock LaunchTool's interface (like restore default interface)

Now the windows should never be shown outside the main window or behind the task bar

Now you can hide/show ANY control of the form using "Show/Hide..." option screen

The toolbar button to set preview image is now show/hide preview window

Fixed bugs in interface settings (positions not being saved and controls appearing on top of others)

Now you must set a picture preview directory, and all your images should be there (supported formats are the same)

Preview and description windows are always visible now

Fixed overflow error in ROM listing

Special window to register (and now unregister!) file types with LaunchTool (instead of just menus)

Added a description window (works much like picture preview)

Option to hide the toolbar

More company codes added to copyright interpreting

Fixed bug in backup RAM detection code (overflow error)

Added a right-click pop-up menu for picture preview

Now "Open With..." window is showed when you run a file that
isn't a ROM and isn't associated with anything

The "additional parameters" box is now saved with the config

More buttons to the toolbar

Little bugs fixed in "Save interface settings"

Cleaned up code (you may notice some speed ups)

You can get it from the Genesis emulator frontends page.

9/21/98
Site News: Sinclair section is online
23:31: I'm pleased to announce we've finally brought the Sinclair section online! While we only have the Spectrum emulators for DOS and Win95 up at the moment, expect more to arrive soon, but until then, be sure to check the new section out.

You can access the Sinclair Spectrum/QL section here.

Emulator Release: Z26 1.12
23:11: John Saegar has released version 1.12 of his Atari 2600 emulator for DOS, Z26. Here's what's new:

No more jitter! As far as I know, there are no games that jitter inappropriately. This is due to further improvements to RIOT timer emulation, as well as improvements to VSYNC and VBLANK emulation.

Added ability to scroll the vertical position of most games with (PgUp) and (PgDn) keys. (Home) returns to default position.

Got some missing graphics to show up. Like espial's scoreboard as well as the scoreboard and logo in some of the Mystique games. This is due to improved VBLANK emulation.

You can download Z26 1.12 from the Atari 2600 page.

Misc. News: Vertigo oddities
21:48: You probably remember a few weeks ago when we posted that Vertigo 2099, a ROM releasing group, had bit the dust. Well, you might want to check out this page. It makes you wonder... Thanks to "JonnyButt" for the e-mail.

Misc. News: PSEmu Compatibility page
21:44: The PSEmu Compatibility page has just been redesigned. You should check this site out, as over 200 games have been tested with PSEmu, and results of each one.

Emulator News: Raine news
21:41: Although the Raine page was down for a bit, that didn't stop news of the next release of Raine from coming down the grapevine! If you check out http://www.davesclassics.com/raine.html, you can see screenshots of 3 games that the next Raine will support: Blood Brothers, Cabal, and Darius. Check it out! Thanks to Sir Frag for the news.

Site News: Well...
19:22: I guess me and _Bnu have had the same problem with our internet service. I got the hell off of USWest, and I'm now temporarily on onlink... so, if you would like to send me a message, mail me at gypsies@onlink.net

Emulator News: PSEmu Pro FAQ Homepage Updated
06:27: [DoOm] has announced the update to his PSEmu Pro Faq, complete with a new keypad driver.

http//user.itl.net/~starwars/PSFAQ/index.html

Site News: Wonder why I haven't been around?
03:02: The explanation is right here. I haven't had any internet access over the last three days, so I haven't been able to update or anything. I WILL get around to doing my update, heh. There is only one, yeah. I'm just posting this as a message to the people that are wondering where the hell I've gone off to. Well, anyway. Instead of doing any decent work I've been playing Final Fantasy 7. At first I downloaded a ripped version from internet, played it for a while and then I decided that just because it's such a wonderful game I'd give my support to Swuare. So I and a friend(Lars) decided to buy it, so we split the payment for it and bought it. So now I've got FF7 with movies. Sweet? Yes :)
Don't use the ripped version. Buy it.

9/20/98
Emulator Release: CCS64 2.0 BETA
22:49: Another beta of CCS64 is out. Here's what's new:

Monitor now can assemble mnemonics, new command A.

Monitor now supports illegal opcodes.

New version of the .TAP format, now handles long delays (24-bit) using 00 xx xx xx sequence.

The DirectX routines now has a delay of one second before initializing.

Get it at the C64 page.

Utility News: PCE-ID 0.002
22:19: Jamsponge, of Hu6280 fame, has released version 0.002 of his Turbo Grafx 16 ROM image identifier for DOS, PCE-ID. This release supports 403 ROMs. You can download it from the TG-16 utilities page.

Site News: New sections
21:38: A few days ago, I mentioned the fact that we are adding a Sinclair section. So I began thinking, what other sections might people be interested in?

So here's your chance to speak out! Anyone who loved an old system, and knows emulators exist for it, but that ZD doesn't have a section for, send me an e-mail and tell me what type of system you'd like to see ZD carry emulators for.

Site News: 1,000,000th visit coming soon
21:18: For those of you who never noticed, ZD *DOES* have a counter, at the very bottom of this page. It's currently at about 981,000 hits. What does this mean? It means that our 1,000,000th visitor will be upon us within a week or so. So keep your eyes peeled, and if you're the 1,000,000th, be sure to drop us an e-mail.

Site News: Total dropped from ZD staff
18:02: As many of you unix-using visitors of ZD may have noticed, we have neglected the Unix sections of ZD lately. In fact, over the past 3 months, we have porobably had less than 10 updates having to do with Unix emulators. Why is this? Well, the maintainer of the emulators for unix pages, Total, was not doing the best job. So, he has been let go. However, we hold no grudges against Total. We wish him the best of luck.

Anyone who has the time and energy, and wants to maintain the emulators for unix pages, please e-mail Zophar. Note:you MUST be experienced with Unix operating systems.

Utility News: Added PCE-id!
01:14: Jamsponge, one of the authors of Hu6280, has released PCE-id. PCE-id is a utility that identifies your TurboGrafx ROMs, and currently supports 251 different ROMs. It can be found in the rather barren TurboGrafx 16 Utilities Section.

Emulator News: Virtual GameBoy 1.2 coming soon
01:02: I've just received an e-mail from Marat Fayzullin, author of iNES, VGB, MasterGear, and various other emulators coded in C. Basically, VGB 1.2 is coming very soon! Here's the e-mail:

Virtual GameBoy 1.2 is coming soon to a WWW site near you. Among features are faster emulation (due to some optimizations in memory access), multiple bugfixes to serial I/O and display controller, bugfixed MBC3 mapper emulation, separate GameBoy and Pocket GameBoy modes, almost-perfect Super GameBoy emulation (no more color glitches, no more scrambled SGB frames, etc.), and also preliminary emulation of GameBoy Color.

Other features (present in the current version):

Up-to-date ports to Windows, MacOS, Windows CE, various Unices, and Linux, as well as many other ports (not necessarily up-to-date)

Super GameBoy emulation

Game Genie emulation

MBC1/MBC2/MBC3 support (MBC5 support is coming)

Saving soundtrack directly into MIDI files

Automatic CRC/CMP check

Resizable window (VGB-Windows)

Settings saved individually for each game based on game name embedded into a cartridge (VGB-Windows)

Joystick support (VGB-Windows)

Battery backed RAM saved into .SAV files (all of it now, not just the first 8kB)

Sound (except noise channel) emulated via wave synthesis (VGB-Unix and VGB-Windows) and via MIDI (VGB-Windows only).

Cartridge handling based on the GBCarts library available for use by the other authors (see http://www.komkon.org/fms/EMUL8/)

Be sure to keep an eye on http://www.komkon.org/fms/VGB/, the official VGB Homepage.

Emulator Release: Hu6280 1.80
00:58: Jamsponge has released version 1.80 of his Turbo Grafx 16 emulator for DOS, Hu6280. Here's what's new:

Removed gtmode because it was shit, and it was slowing shit down.

Fixed Sprite bug in 'wondermomo'

Fixed Sprite bug in 'keith courage'

You can download Hu6280 1.80 from the Turbo Grafx 16 page.

Site News: Poll updated!
00:53: I have also updated the polls tonight. Here are the results of the last poll, "So, why are you into emulation?":

Choice 1 was: "To relive the classics!"
It received 25 votes (6.4 percent).

Choice 2 was: "To play games which I never got a chance to play."
It received 47 votes (12 percent).

Choice 3 was: "To pirate software, especially the newer stuff!"
It received 9 votes (2.3 percent).

Choice 4 was: "Because it's fun!"
It received 24 votes (6.1 percent).

Choice 5 was: "Because I have nothing better to do."
It received 5 votes (1.3 percent).

Choice 6 was: "I'm not into emulation."
It received 2 votes (0.5 percent).

Choice 7 was: "Choices 1 and 2"
It received 158 votes (40.3 percent).

Choice 8 was: "Choices 1, 2, 4, and 5"
It received 93 votes (23.7 percent).

Choice 9 was: "Different Combination of Choices"
It received 21 votes (5.4 percent).

Choice 10 was: "Other"
It received 8 votes (2 percent).

The main reasons most of the voters are into emulation are to relive their fond childhood memories of things like beating TMNT in the arcades with their friends. Another large reason is to play games that they never had a chance to play, like Final Fantasy 5 and games before their time. The voters also expressed that emulation helps to alleviate boredom and make life more fun.

The new poll is, "Should newer systems/games be emulated, if possible?". Voice your opinion on this in the Poll Section now!

Site News: CHT archive added, other archives updated
00:38: Hi guys. On request (a while ago) I have added a .CHT archive for ZD. Right now there's only one .CHT, so contribute your .CHT collection (but remember one game per .ZIP). Check it out here. In addition, I've updated the other archives: SPC, SRM, and ZST. The SPC page now also has links to SPC players. Have fun, and if you have suggestions for new save archives don't hesistate to e-mail. (A ZSNES movie archive is up and coming, so please don't ask about that.)

Utility News: GunEdit v1.0 Released!
00:03: I have added yet another SnowBro facelift utility, GunEdit. This is a level editor for that game you probably played for hours upon hours when you were a kid, GunSmoke. It can be found in the Facelift Utilities Section.

Yeah, I know I quit the Utilities Section, but since no one else is doing it, I shall do updates when and if I feel like it. Note that I have not quit working for Zophar's Domain, I just really cannot do a good job of keeping the utilities up to date, at least on weekdays. I still care for this site. Again, please DO NOT ask to be the maintainer of the utilities, FAQ, poll, pornography, or whatever section.

9/19/98
Site News: Links Page Updated
18:02: The Links page has been updated. Lots of dead rom sites were removed (thanks to Amalgam).

Just another quick note about telling me about changes...to make my life easier, go read an email I received from Jandar and use it as a template. He was specific, clearly showed what needed to be changed, and even said "thanks".

Emulator Release: SNEeSe 0.16f Released and Project Discontinued
14:57: Savoury SnaX, the author of SNEeSe, has discontinued the emulator, but not before posting the final version online. Here's whats new in version 0.16f:

Compatibility is vastly improved

More ROMs play music

New screen modes available

Various bug fixes

"Thanks for all the support and perhaps a future system will take my fancy and I will be back, but for now goodbye and good luck to all the authors of emulators world wide!"

Good luck to you too Savoury SnaX. You can download the final version of SNEeSe on the SNES page.

Utility News: WinSPC; PSEmu Pro Plugins added
14:07: I've added a new section to Zophar's Domain, the PSEmu Pro Plugin Section. Here you can find the necessary plugins to get PSEmu working, if you haven't already.

I've also added WinSPC, an SPC player for Windows that uses the sound engine of Snes9x. It's really easy to use, as it's simple in design, and I recommend getting it if you're into video game music. You can find WinSPC in the SNES Utilities Section.

I'd also like to announce that I am leaving the position of Utilities Maintainer at Zophar's Domain. I no longer have the ridiculous amount of free time I did this summer anymore, so I can't do a quality job of keeping the utilities section up to date. For example, I should have done this update days ago. I'll try to keep the FAQ and polls updated when I have the time to do so. Also, please DO NOT ask me, Zophar, or anyone else to be the utilities maintainter.

9/18/98
Emulator Release: DTMNT 0.50
23:55: This is the release guys. Version 0.50 of the TMNT emulator for DOS, DTMNT, has just been released. The mystery of the missing speech samples has been solved:the current romset is incomplete, which explains the reason why the samples could not be found within the ROMs. A new set should be available soon. Here's what's new:

Drums - but they are not truly emulated, kick/snare/hihat are just hacked in.

New SoundBlaster code (SBSND) rewritten by yours truly

SAVE and LOAD functions (F5/F7)

Virtual arcade machine never loses power (ram is saved and loaded before/after play)

MOVIE recording (Shift-F5/F7)

SPEECH and THEME MUSIC are now back in

MAME's new ym2151 code, thanks guys!

You can download DTMNT 0.50 from the Single Arcade emulator page.

Emulator News: Retrocade 'babe' patch
16:17: By now, most of you have tried out Retrocade, and I'm sure you've noticed 'Retrobabe', if you have all the GUI files, every time you start Retrocade :) Well, Zoop has made a patch for those of you who use Retrocade and its GUI. It gives Cyberbabe a more 'natural' look ;-)

Retrocade 'natural babe' patch

Misc. News: MAME website moves
14:13: The official MAME website moved yesterday to http://mame.retrogames.com/, so update your bookmarks. I found this out from Emu News Service. I would have liked to post this sooner, but instead I received 24 e-mails about the new ZSNES instead, and had to find this out on my own.

Emulator News: Note about SideWinders and ZSNES 0.625
14:05: For those of you (ie most of you) that have trouble using your SideWinders in the new ZSNES, remember to go to options in the GUI, and select 'sidewinder fix'. The reason that you need to check this is that the sidewinder routines were 'tweaked' for the 2% of people who were having problems using SideWinders, and the new routines don't seem to work very well for many people.

Site News: More on the upcoming Sinclair ZX Spectrum section
13:52: Javagod (ie, a member of the staff who isn't lazy) updated yesterday to inform all of you that we will be adding the Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator section sometime during the next week. You might want to know that of the 21 e-mails I got with reference to the Spectrum section, only one person didn't want the Spectrum section. He instead wanted a ZSNES movie archive. Sorry, but that's up to alamone bub :)

Misc. News: FFV Petition
13:49: Although this has absolutely nothing to do with emulation, I have a number of updates to due today due to LSS (Lazy staff syndrome). An FFV petition has been set up at http://www.thegrid.net/kin/ff5/petition.htm. For anyone who would like to see FFV translated by Squaresoft and come out for the PSX, you will probably want to sign it. Otherwise, you can always download the FF5 patch and play it on ZSNES :)

Misc. News: PSEmu page problems
13:46: Anyone who has problems getting to the PSEmu Homepage, you should know that they just changed servers and it will take a few days for the domain to update for everyone, so if you can't access the page, sit tight.

Emulator Release: ZSNES 0.625
13:31: zsKnight, _Demo_ and Pharos released version 0.625 of ZSNES last night, while I was asleep (I feel asleep very early last night) and my staff didn't seem to feel like doing the update... but more on them later. Here's what's new (and there's a LOT, including a speed increase and movie saving ala NESticle):

Fixed up a major speed drop bug by just adding some empty space. Most likely a cache/alignment problem.

Used an older version of wdosx because the new version sometimes crashes during compiling

Executable is now uncompressed. It's 3 megs, but it provides a much faster start up time.

Seems like EPACK can only support a maximum of 6 commandlines. Fixed after executable is decompressed

Fixed a bug where buttons 7 and 8 of 8 button joystick support sticks once pressed

Swapped button 5/6 and 7/8 in the default joystick configuration for 8 button joysticks

It seems like 16bit HDMA < 5 was causing problems with some sound cards. It now reroutes back to 8bit DMA like how v0.400 did it.

Implemented a new offset per tile mode engine into the old graphics engine (mostly transferred from 8bit newgfx engine)

Implemented Horizontal offset per tile mode in both 8bit and 16 bit old graphics engine (Mode2/8x8 only)

Implemented Horizontal offset per tile mode in 8bit new graphics engine (Mode2/8x8 only)

Tweaked sidewinder routines. Hopefully, this will help those who have troubles using sidewinder support

For those with sidewinder pads who has troubles with the tweaked routines, a 'Sidewinder Fix' option in the GUI is added in the Config/Options menu

Commandline -i now uninterleaves an incorrectly interleaved rom

Tweaked GamePad Pro routines. Not exactly sure if this will help those with 2 GPP joysticks though

Fixed up sticky buttons in the GUI cheat menu when no cheat codes are present

Fixed a bug where using -1 and -2 in the commandlines didn't activate the joystick movement/buttons

Fixed an offset per tile mode wrapping bug

ZSNES will now not crash when zsnes.cfg and zguicfg.dat are write protected files

Fixed up the GUI when 239 y resolution is used in the game

Optimised some minor mode 7 routines

SNES Header display in the GUI now displays the filename for blank headers. This will fail for headers with garbled header names

Inserted an extra reminder in the cheat menu

Implemented 239 y-resolution support for .PCX snapshots

Implemented 239 y-resolution support for .BMP snapshots

Added multiple .SPC saves (Up to 10 saves only)

Save State Selection Menu (default F3) now highlights used state boxes in red

Tweaked 2player/6button/8button joystick routines a bit

Fixed a cheat code bug where pressing TAB adds an extra character at the end of the address

Removed the blank line from the .PCX and .BMP snapshots

Implemented Joystick Calibration for non digital joysticks

Fixed a bug where parallel port LPT2 player 2 wasn't selectable in v0.605

Stabilized the joystick code a bit

Fixed up a cheat code bug where using a PAR code that accesses RAM doesn't freeze when the .cht file is loaded

Added a small delay to play a note when a key on is issued from the sound DSP. Not sure if this fixes anything though

Fixed some sound compatibility problems when RESET is used

Implemented Movie Record/Playback support. Read GUINotes.txt for details.

Added a small detection for long filenames and prevented users from selecting it when it isn't detected

Fixed a bug where max frame skip didn't save

Fix a timing bug where running a game off the gui ran 1 less line in the 65816 than running off the commandline

Implemented FPS at start option in the Config/Options menu

Fixed a bug in the newgfx16bit engine where 8bpp tiles displayed incorrectly

Reduced the filesize by 1200k through many changes in the code (filesize is now 2.0 megs)

Fixed some VIRQ bugs that caused certain games to crash

Added DMA area execution for IRET

Added a 'Bugs Section' in the readme.txt

Show all extensions is now disabled when snes header view is selected in the GUI

Implemented partial Direct Color mode in Mode 7 (no transparencies yet, only works in 16bit old gfx engine)

Improved header detection a bit

Fixed up a sprite bug in games which changes the address in the middle of the screen

You can download ZSNES 0.625 from the SNES page. The mirror and shrines will be updated eventually (see Webster's New World dictionary: 'lazy staff').

9/17/98
Site News: Sinclair ZX Spectrum section to be added
20:14: Due to overwhelming response in favor of our plans to add a Spectrum section to Zophar's Domain, we will be adding such a section within the next week, so please keep an eye out for its addition. Of course, we know you'll keep coming back anyhow, we're just too darn addicting....

9/16/98
Misc. News: Regarding Sega CD and emulation
23:52: Over the last year, I have gotten so much e-mail asking about why Sega CD emulators don't exist. I finally am ready to pour out my thoughts to you.

Anyone who has owned a Sega CD probably owns the Lunars. Therefore, I am sure these people know that if there is ANYONE who would like to see the Sega CD emulated, it would be me. However, there are still no Sega CD emulators, and there are many reasons. And here they are:

The Sega CD was a bomb. Yes, there were many good games, like the Lunars, Shining Force CD, and others. Unfortunately, it DID bomb, partly because of all the FMV crap games. And as such, many programmers out there haven't liked the Sega CD enough to write an emulator for it.

There is very little tech info available on the Sega CD. And I mean *very little*. Yes, the SNES also had very little tech info, and much has been figured out through reverse engineering and trial & error. But the SNES was a very popular system, going back to point 1.

It's a CD system, and many people don't see the use of emulating it. I see many uses, and so do many others, but you have to realize that most don't.

So there you have it. If anyone out there wants to write a Sega CD emulator, by all means, the world would welcome one (or at least I would). Hint hint...

Misc. News: Online video game manuals
23:43: A while back, many of you may remember ZD wanting to add online manuals to the site. Well, unfortunately, the person who was to do this page, whose name will not be mentioned, never followed through. However, another site seems to have started an online manual page, and it's located here. Check it out when you get some time.

Emulator Release: MAME v0.34 Beta 3 DOS Released
23:26: What's new:

Rewritten the SN76496 emulator. This fixes speech in Choplifter.

New -romident option. Use "MAME -romident dirname" to identify unknown ROM sets.

New ROM sets supported:

Terra Cresta (two sets merged)

Regulus

SWAT

Heavy Metal

Brain

Toki no Senshi

Gardia (not decrypted YET)

DakkoChan Jansoh (not working due to encryption)

Ufo Senshi Yohko Chan (not working due to encryption)

Wonder Boy

Pitfall II (encrypted version)

Water Ski

Last Duel (bootleg)

Lady Bug (bootleg)

Lode Runner (set 1)

Lode Runner (2 Players)

Penguin-Kun Wars

Stinger

Zig Zag (2 sets merged)

River Patrol / Silver Land

Jumping (merged with Rainbow Islands)

600 (merged with Turtles)

Area 88 (merged with UN Squadron)

720 Degrees (set 2) (merged)

Crystal Castles (set 2) (merged)

Kangaroo (bootleg) (merged)

Klax (set 3) (merged)

Missile Command (set 2)

Pooyan (Konami) (merged)

Neo Mr. Do

Download the new version and source at the Multi Arcade Emulators Page.

Emulator Release: WinUAE experimental Beta released!
15:54: Yeah, yeah all you Amiga emulation fans out there. Now WinUAE has been released in a new experimental beta. This new beta adds support for bsdsocket.library, which helps network-using Amiga applications. This beta should not be used, however, if you're not familiar with UAE and can't stand code that's a bit buggy.

If you think you can handle it, then you can get it from the Amiga emulators page.

Emulator Release: New CCS64 Beta released!
15:20: A new beta version of CCS64 has been released! For those of you who don't know what CCS64 is, it's a Commodore 64 emulator. Just for your information: The Commodore 64 is NOT a 64 bit system, it's an old home computer :) Anyways, here's the news:

Speed-o-meter option in the specials menu. This shows the speed compared to real C64 and how many frames per second that are actually drawn to the screen.

The DOS version now has VESA screen modes like 512x384, 640x480 and 800x600.

Speed increase.

For the DOS version the syncrate option "Screen" now syncronizes to the vertical blank.

You can get it from the Commodore 64 emulators page.

9/15/98
Site News: Submitting updates
23:59: Hello again, Zophar here. This is an announcement to let all of you know that over the last few weeks, very few of you have been submitting updates to ZD. One of the best ways we get information on new emulators and such is from you, and without your support, we can't provide you with the greatest service, fastest news, and so forth. It does me no good to send me updates about 'zsnes 0.600', which I already know about days in advance (I run the mirror site, remember?) So, remember, to submit news to ZD, use the Submit news form, or e-mail me. Remember, we can only do this with you.

Emulator Release: MSKISS 0.0.9
23:53: Here's another emulator that I never seemed to have on ZD. This one's an MSX emulator, coded in C. It's for DOS. Although it's not the fastest in the world, and is missing many features, you may want to check it out just for same. Here's what's new (as opposed to what's old):

Original FM-Pac (64 KB) mapper added

PSG registers 1,3 and 5 properly masked

GUS Sound bug corrected

VESA 2.0 Routines now correctly coded

SB-Digital detector added

Minor corrections to SCC pitch

Slightly corrected the GUS noise-freq table (still more work needed, but now it's near perfect)

Converted to inline code for faster performance

You can download MSKISS 0.0.9 from the MSX page.

Site News: Sinclair Spectrum section?
23:39: This is a question that I'm posing to all people who visit ZD. Would any of you be interested if Zophar's Domain were to put up an emulator section for the Sinclair Spectrum? There seem to be a ton of emulators available for it, yet I've never used or owned a Spectrum, nor do I know what one looks like, or what software was available for it. E-mail me, and if I get a lot of e-mails in favor of it, I'll add one within a week or two.

Emulator Release: Come Back 64 0.93
23:34: ZD has just been made aware of a Commodore 64 emulator which was never featured here before. It's called Come Back 64 (for DOS), and seems to have been around for a while, as there have been around 10 updates to it so far. It features sound, good compatibility, and free source code. Here's what's new since 0.92 (although this is the first version to be uploaded to ZD):

Improved sprites

Improved sound and volume control

Some optimizations

Improved compatibility

Plus other minor improvements

You can download Come Back 64 0.93 from the Commodore 64 emulator page.

Emulator News: Raine to add support for 3 new games
23:18: It has been announced on the official Raine (a multi arcade emulator for DOS) homepage that 3 new games will be playable in the next release! From the homepage:

More games added to Raine, we begin with Crime City

Also playable are Rastan Saga & Master Of Weapons with sound!

We'll keep you updated on furthur developments.

Emulator News: NeoRAGE zipfile fixed
23:11: It was brought to my attention that the zip of NeoRAGE 0.2d uploaded to ZD was corrupt. This has been fixed, and anyone who still hasn't downloaded it yet, can get NeoRAGE 0.2d from the Neo Geo page.

9/14/98
Translation News: FF3 spoof patch released
18:58: Disklexic Japancheese have released version 3.5 of their FF3 spoof patch. It is translated to Tokuru villege. If you want it, you can get it at the translation patches page.

Misc. News: Retrocade GUI Addon
18:32: Well, yesturday I didn't upload the GUI for Retrocade... but today, when I looked over it, WOW, I must say.. it was the best GUI I have ever seen. So, I uploaded all the files for the GUI. Take a look at it now, even if you just want to see this GUI.. (:

You can get Retrocade and the GUI Addon at the Multiple Arcade emulator page.

Frontend News: UZI 0.90!
16:01: UZI, the only frontend for ZSNES currently updated for the newest version of ZSNES has arrived. This new version adds, of course, support for all the options of the new ZSNES, plus it adds a speed boost to ZSNES by raising it's priority.

You can get it from the SNES emulator frontends page.

Frontend News: SNEqr source code released!
15:56: That's right boys and girls(heh)! The source code for that SNES emulator with a really cool GUI but no sound has been released! As it seemed in the e-mail that Qwertie sent to Zophar he's no longer got any time to work on it. So if you figure you're a talented programmer then go check out that source code, figure out how everything works and then you add the sound support :)

You can get the source code from the SNES emulators page.

Frontend News: NeoRAGEFront 1.6.0
15:53: NeoRAGEFront has been updated again! This one is, in my opinion, the best NeoRAGE frontend to use among all of them. Being the most regularly updated that also means it will be the most bugfree one :)

Here's the news:

Cosmetic changes

Better support for the 2nd screenshot.

Well I'm sure nobody cares but I've added a small but functional screenshot manager ;-)

And some extras... (double-click on a shot to launch a game, etc...)

You can get it from the Arcade emulator frontends page.

Emulator Release: Retrocade for DOS.
03:27: Finally, Retrocade was released for DOS. This Multiple Arcade emulator can run 100+ roms, it has a nice GUI, and hell, I stayed up for 3 hours longer just to wait for it to come out! The win95\98 and UNIX versions are NOT out yet, however, they will come probly sometime today.

You can get the DOS version at the Multiple Arcade emulator page.

Emulator News: Nofrendo author's computer stolen.
02:03: Here is what's on the Nofrendo's page:

Sorry there haven't been any updates. My computer was stolen on Aug. 24th, and all the Nofrendo source code was lost. =( Seriously, this sucked dick with a dry mouth.

Don't fear, though, work has begun on Nofrendo 2, and the core is nearly complete, including full sound. More to come later. This project has not been cancelled!

We here at Zophar's Domain are totally sorry for what happened, and we wish good luck to Matt Conte.

9/13/98
Emulator News: XPCE 0.07
23:26: The Turbo Graphics 16 emulator XPCE's Readme was in Japanese, and we didn't know what was new, Jade translated them for everyone... and here is what's new

Joystick support by DirectInput

Key assignment is now customizable

Sound support (buggy)

Timer cycle repaired

You can get XPCE at the Turbo Graphics 16 emulator page.

Emulator Release: New N64 emulator: NINCEST 64
20:43: A new Nintendo 64 emulator has been released by Maruis Dumitrean, otherwise known as 'faraway' on IRC. This emulator, although it cannot play any games, can run some N64 demos, such as the Firedemo, and N64stars. Please don't bother faraway with requests, bug reports and the like, since this is a very early beta.

You can download NINCEST 64 0.04b from the N64 page.

Emulator Release: RockNES 0.54
20:02: RockNES, the NES emulator for DOS formerlly known as xNES, has been updated to version 0.54. Lots of changes and bugfixes in this release:

Fixed an error in ClearScreen() - now there is no 'Error in ClearScreen()'

Fixed sprite priority - sprites can go behind things now (For example, in Zelda when you walk up/down stairs)

Fixed mapper #2 bug - Only a few more ROMS work, some still don't

Fixed mapper #3 bug - All mapper #3 ROMS should work now

Fixed mapper #9 bug - Now, PunchOut looks much better, but not playable yet

Fixed a slight problem when you reset some ROMs

Changed the palette to the one Nesticle uses because it works/looks better

Changed the pallete around so that a border isn't shown around the screen

Added support for extended mappers #16+, no mappers implemented yet

Added a configuration file

Added a little text displayer (it pops up, when you reset, raise/lower the frame rate, etc..)

Some small optimizations, barely noticeable

Some bugs fixed in the Rd6502/Wr6502 functions, mappers

Player 2 support w/ redefinable settings for buttons

Don't show left 8 pixels of the screen [PPU flag] (Paperboy needed this flag working as well as others)

Don't show sprites in left 8 pixels of the screen [PPU flag]

An option to specify a ROM directory location in the configuration file.

You can download RockNES 0.54 from the NES page.

Site News: Emu News Service reaches 10 mill
18:26: I guess that it should be noted here that Emu News Service, an emulation news website which has been around since April 1997 (and many of you visit regularly), has reached 10,000,000 visits on its counter. Congratulations and stuff.

Speaking of which, ZD is not too far away from 1,000,000 visits (see the counter at the very bottom of this page for the current count). So if you are the 1,000,000th, let me know. Note that my counter does not count reloads. (If it did, the count would be very high and way off).

Emulator News: True Reality & NSFE homepage moves
18:21: TrueReality, an N64 emulator for UNIX systems, and NSFE, for Windows 9X, have had a homepage address change. They are now located at http://www.snes9x.com/n64emulators/

This change has been made on the N64 emulators for UNIX page, since the current emulators for unix maintainer is leaving soon, and doesn't seem to be doing much these days.

Emulator Release: XPCE 0.07
18:15: A new release of XPCE, the Windows9X DirectX port of the japanese TG16 emulator called FPCE, is now available. However, since the documentation is in japanese, I am unable to list the changes to version 0.07. So if anyone knows, please e-mail me. You can download XPCE 0.07 from the Turbo Grafx 16 page.

Emulator Release: The Marble Madness Emulator 0.2
18:00: A new version of the fastest Marble Madness emulator, known as 'The Marble Madness emulator', has been released. This build is much faster than the first release. Here's what's new in version 0.2:

Added support for DirectDraw full-screen mode (big performance increase - now runs full speed or better on my P133)

Replaced Windows menus and dialogs with an 'on-screen-display' type interface. Invoke it with the [TAB] key.

Fixed the inter-cpu communications (unfortunately the game still won't coin-up. Keep using FREEPLAY mode for now. Also, for some reason, the coin switches only work with romset 1, so currently the emulator will only work with that set.)

You can download The Marble Madness Emulator 0.2 from the Single Arcade emulator page.

Emulator Release: NESemu 0.40a
17:50: Kent Hanson has released version 0.40a of his small NES emulator for DOS. Here's what's new:

Built-in tile editor added

Built-in hex editor w/ font table support added

You can download NESemu 0.40a from the NES page.

Site News: Links Page
12:08: Ok guys...this time I'm announcing that the Links page has been updated. Contrary to popular thought, it's updated quite frequently; refer to your browsers help file under 'Refresh' or 'Reload'. Once again, I'll explain this: If the site contains broken rom links, tons of banners, or pop up windows, I'm probably not going to add it. I receive lots of email and only choice sites deserve to get a link. If you notice a link is broken or has changed, email me and I'll see to it that it gets the proper changes done. Unannounced updates usually occur on weekends.

On a more personal note and in reference to the current message board postings, I consider myself above the name-calling and accusing that is going on in there - you will not get a response out of me.

9/12/98
Utility News: PSX Utils updated
22:24: The PSX utilities page has been given a minor update with utilities pertaining to playing and extracting XA audio, as well as a new (untested) realtime movie player.

Emulator News: Intellvision Emulator Acknowledged :)
20:20: Red Ant Productions is working on an Intellivision emulator, and they want the news out. Here is the email Zophar forwarded to me:

Just got IntelliV: An Intellivision Emulator site up about a month
ago... the URL is
"http://members.tripod.com/~Red_Ant_Productions/IntelliV/" No releases
as of yet... may not be any soon, as there aren't any roms(that I know
of). If I don't find any I may break down and make a rom dumper for
Intellivision roms. However I have started work on the CP1600 series
CPU... Please make a small post acknolaging it's existance.

Thanx,

WILL of Red Ant Productions
E-Mail: 'raproductions@hotmail.com'
Web Page: 'http://members.tripod.com/~Red_Ant_Productions/'

If you can help these guys out, please do.

Site News: CGI working again
17:20: As many of you may have noticed, many CGI scripts (ie, message boards, search, etc) were not working these past few days. This has been fixed and you can now search ZD and post on message boards as usual.

Zophar's Emulator Message Domain

Talk of the Town (Non emulator related)

Buy/Sell/Trade board

Search the Domain

Emulator Release: Z26 1.11
17:10: John Seigar has released Z26 1.11. Here's what's new in the latest update to this Atari 2600 emulator for DOS:

Better emulation of RIOT timer and WSYNC register.

Some games are more stable like brickick.bin, dishastr.bin, gopher.bin, and rocnrope.bin.

Some games jitter like they're supposed to like crosfrce.bin and tetris26.bin.

You can download Z26 1.11 from the Atari 2600 page.

Utility News: Added PSEmu MSCDEX Plugin
15:07: I know it's old news, but I finally added the plugin to the PSX utilities page. If you can't get PSEmu to work because of the "Cannot read RAW images" disclaimer, get this.

PSX Utility Page

Emulator Release: Added Hu6280 1.79!
14:13: JamSponge and Mr Kipling have updated Hu6280, the newest TurboGrafx16 emulator! This release is a major speed increase over version 1.78, so check it out.

Also, if you have any TG16/PCE CD's, the authors would really appreciate you donating them, so they can further CD support.

Hu6280 can be found in the TurboGrafx16 Section.

Emulator Release: NO$GMB 1.8
00:58: Here is a new version of NO$GMB... This GameBoy emulator is the first to support speech! You can download a rom that has speech here. Here is what's new:

Fixed various digital sound bugs.

plays digital speech.

fixes a number of gameboy & SGB emulation bugs.

works under win NT, and does some other cool things.

You can download the new NO$GMB at the GameBoy emulation page.

Site News: New Utilities, New Poll!
00:45: Sorry if I haven't been too involved in the page lately, as my birthday was on the 9th, and I've been playing Rainbow Six intensely for the past few days... that game is incredible!

Anyways, I have added some more PSX utilities and two new SNES utilities to the Utilities Section. Go check them out.

In addition to that, I added a new poll. Here are the results from the last poll:

What systems have you been playing emulators for lately?

Choice 1 was: "Neo*Geo"
It received 61 votes (20.1 percent).

Choice 2 was: "Arcade"
It received 21 votes (6.9 percent).

Choice 3 was: "Super Nintendo Entertainment System"
It received 129 votes (42.6 percent).

Choice 4 was: "Sega Genesis"
It received 21 votes (6.9 percent).

Choice 5 was: "Nintendo Entertainment System"
It received 56 votes (18.5 percent).

Choice 6 was: "Game Boy"
It received 4 votes (1.3 percent).

Choice 7 was: "SMS / Game Gear"
It received 1 votes (0.3 percent).

Choice 8 was: "Atari Systems"
It received 4 votes (1.3 percent).

Choice 9 was: "Other, older (Colecovision, TG16, etc)"
It received 4 votes (1.3 percent).

Choice 10 was: "Other, newer (PSX, N64, etc)"
It received 2 votes (0.7 percent).

Well, it seems as if the lovely new ZSNES sure rekindled some interest in one of my favorite consoles! The SNES dominated the polls, receiving 42.6% of the votes. The Neo*Geo, which has gotten an enormous amount of popularity due to some of the ROM releases, was the runner up. The ever so classic (but still kickass) NES wasn't far behind, and came in third.

Oh, and the new poll is "Why are you into emulation?"
Cast your vote NOW in the Poll Section!

9/11/98
Translation News: Rockman & Forte v0.3 released
23:47: The people at AAGT are sure doing a good job on this. All of the item shop is translated now and so is most of the misc. text. You can pick up this great translation at the translation patches page.

Site News: ZSNES shrine updated
00:45: Ok folks, I updated the ZSNES shrine with all the newest versions. There are no new screenshots yet, but I'll try to put some up in a few days. Here's a link to the ZSNES Shrine in case you want to go there.

9/10/98
Site News: Stuff
23:57: I will be home most of tommorow due to my Spanish professor (I don't even know his/her name yet) canceling the first day of Spanish class tommorow, so I'll be doing a bunch of updates I wanted to do.

Emulator Release: WinNES 0.0.5
23:55: A new release of WinNES, a NES emulator for Win9X coded in Delphi, is now available. Here's what's new in 0.0.5:

now supports nes palette changing

mapper supported MMC #0, #1, #2, #3, #4, #7, #8, #9, #10, 11, #15, #16, but with some bugs

fixed many bugs

You can download WinNES 0.0.5 from the NES page.

Emulator Release: ZSNES 0.605
22:09: Yet another bugfix followup to ZSNES 0.600, this one fixes a few more bugs, and adds a couple new features. Here's what's fixed, and the new features:

Fixed up a FPS display bug when switching between auto frame rate and manual frame rate in the GUI

Cheat Codes can now be toggled ON/OFF by double clicking on them

Tab key now switches from the Cheat Code enter box to the Description box

Fixed a Save State/Load State bug in the menu where it saved in the load directory instead of the save directory

Implemented 8button joystick support (Not tested)

Implemented an option in the .cfg file to enable reversed stereo sound (ReverseStereo)

Implemented an option in the .cfg file to share Player 1 and Player 2 controls with Player 3 and Player 4's controls. This option allows you to use 2 devices (Joystick and Keyboard) for both player 1 and player 2, but this also disables MultiTap support. (Pl34to12Share)

Added Reverse Stereo to the GUI under config/sound

Added Player 3, Player 4 to use as Player 1, Player 2 in the GUI under config/options

Compiled under a new version of wdosx. Hope this doesn't cause any problems

You can download ZSNES 0.605 from the SNES page.

Site News: The current state of UNIROM
04:52: Hey all you ROM hackers and game translators out there! Time for a new news report about UNIROM, the universal ROM text editor.
The current state of the new UNIROM is that it's almost at full functionability by now. And by saying almost I mean ALMOST. The speed has been decreased due to improved functionality. But I hope that the Speed isn't really a problem, since the Features should make up for it. Now the new .DTX files support ANY dual HEX value, so you don't have to worry about the limitations of the last UNIROM. The bookmark files have been changed and made easier to use. No more multiple page shit, I mean. You don't have more than 16 bookmarks at once anyway. The script dumping has been rewritten, due to the use of the new .DTX files and is slightly, but just slightly, slower. The search function does not work, and I don't know if I want to fix it. It was so slow, and I can't really find any way of fixing that. A real GUI is not far away at all, in fact I've already "made" one that I will release to my beta testers as soon as I get a chance to do so.

You haven't tried UNIROM? Well, you COULD always try the old version available from the UNIROM homepage, but I don't recommend you to do so though. It lacks a lot of functionality that the new version will have when it's released.

Emulator Release: ZSNES 0.601
02:31: A minor bugfix update to ZSNES was just released, only 2 hours after the initial release. Here's the fixes:

Fixed up a sound card deinit bug that sometimes caused ZSNES to crash in certain sound cards

Disabled Autoinit mode when a low sampling rate is used in 8bit sound. Probably was also causing problems in some cards

Note that I didn't experience either of these bugs with my AWE64. You can download ZSNES 0.601 from the SNES page.

9/9/98
Emulator Release: ZSNES 0.600!
23:31: After months of waiting, rumours, and other fun things, zsKnight, _Demo_, and the most recent addition to the ZSNES team, Pharos, have released version 0.600 of what (if you didn't think so before, you should certainly think so now) is the most complete and ultimate SNES emulator around. Here is the longest list of changes I have ever put on this front page for ZSNES 0.600:

Added partial 65816 execution in the DMA registers (doesn't seem tofix much due to some other problem) Thanks to Alucard for this info! This also slowed down emulation a bit.

Implemented sprite priority correction into the new graphics engine

Implemented mosaic into the new graphics engine

Implemented true 512 horizontal resolution into new graphics engine (both 16x8 and 16x16 tile modes)

Implemented interlaced 448 vertical resolution into new graphics engine

Implemented offset per tile mode into the new graphics engine (Mode 2/Vertical only). More accurate compared to the old graphics engine. (seems to be a bug where the game gets very slow sometimes though)

Started 16-bit new graphics engine

Implemented sprite priority correction in 16bit new gfx engine

Implemented palette raster effects in 16bit new gfx engine

Fixed a minor bg enable/disable bug in the new gfx engine

Multiple SPC700 bug fixes. More games run now!

Implemented SPCPlay sound engine into zsnes :

* Echo & FIR Filter Support (Slowed down emulation, but gives better sound) Thanks to feenix65 for info on FIR Filter!
* Volume fixes
* Rewrote ADSR/GAIN engine
* Added Adjustable Volume through the commandline and zsnes.cfg
* 16000 and 32000 extra sampling rates
* Many other bug fixes

Fixed a minor HDMA bug

Fixed an old style joystick read bug that prevented the joypad from functioning in certain games

Several optimisations on Echo & FIR Filter

Several Sound DSP Fixes

Temporarily fixed a V-latch bug in some games that don't update the display at every frame

Add/Removed some game hacks for compatibility

Modified Song Start Search in .spc capture. Should be much better now.

Fixed a sprite window clipping bug where it was used when it's not supposed to be.

Modified memory allocation technique in zsnes. This should now eliminate some random crash errors. Thanks to Y0SHi for this info!

-c now does full screen instead of small screen in 640x480 modes. For small screen, use -cc

Fixed a back area 1/2 addition bug which caused the background to be sometimes darker than usual

Fixed a mode 7 transparency bug

Added 8-bit stereo sound and 8-bit sound high speed mode support (high speed mode support is just the implementation of 8bit 44100khz or 22050khz stereo) Thanks to Crono for a lot of help on this!

Fixed up sound blaster deinit code Thanks again to Crono!

Wrote an entirely new GUI :

* Mouse driven GUI/Menu Based
* Full Keyboard Support in all the Quick (Arrow Menu), Load, and Cheat menu items
* Ability to display load names under 8.3 filename format, snes header name, and win95 long filenames
*Support for Save State, Load State, and Select State through menu items
* Quick Load Menu (Arrow menu) which allows you to quickly load the last 10 games loaded
* Ability to Freeze or Clear the Quick Load Menu
* An Options menu which allows you to configure settings such as video mode, sound settings, frame skip, etc.
* Added the ability to customize the game keys such as the save state key, misc toggles, etc.
* A lot more, read whatsnew.txt

Fixed a bug when clearing the screen in 640x480x65536

Implemented full add, half add, full subtract, and half subtract into the new 16bit graphics engine Not sure why, but some transparency modes are actually slower than the old engine. Most likely flushing the cache a lot somewhere.

- Implemented background transparencies into new 16bit graphics engine (implemented incorrectly at the moment. Some transparency modes also is slower than the old graphics engine, but that will change in the future)

Too much to list on ZD, read whatsnew.txt

You can download ZSNES 0.600 from the SNES page.

Emulator Release: MAME32 .34 beta 2 is here!
22:01: The Windows 95 port of the newest MAME beta is done, and its bigger than ever. Other than many more games being supported, here's whats new:

Added Robert Schlabbach's Windows NT driver for OPL chip access (ym3812 sound). Requires a Sound Blaster compatible sound card. This driver gets loaded dynamically for games that use it, so you must run MAME32 with Administrative privledges.

Enabled keyboard LED indicators to emulate the 1 player/2 players start lamps. This currently works only in Windows NT.

Added Audit Tab to Game Property sheet.

Added Pause/Continue feature to Audit Dialog.

Added Game Directory under title in Properties popup.

Download it at the multi-arcade game emulators page.

Site News: Message Board woes
21:15: Yes, we know about the message boards being broken, and yes, we are working on fixing them, but it might take a bit. So sit tight, have a drink, and play an emulator.

Emulator Release: New Marble Madness arcade emulator debuts
20:34: Peter Hirschberg has made a marble madness emulator for Windows 95 called "The Marble Madness Emulator". Although there is no sound of joystick support yet, here is what is done:

Uses Neil Corlett's Starscream 68000 CPU core (100% assembly)

Uses Neil Bradley's m6502 6502 CPU core (100% assembly)

Translucent marbles

Translucent alphanumerics layer

Native Windows+ 95/NT

You can get it at the single arcade emulators page.

Emulator Release: madNES 0.95 Beta 4
20:31: Beta 4 of madNES 0.95, a NES emulator for DOS, has just been released by Roberto Rosario. There's a few changes in this version:

The gfx now supports two modes of operation. This fixes Astyanax again.

Bug fix to Mapper 2 & 3. Metal gear works again.

Support for ZIP files (read beta.txt).

Increased snapshot limit to 999.

Snapshot name can be the name of the game.

Some internal changes.

You can download madNES 0.95 Beta 4 from the NES page.

Emulator Release: Atari800Win 2.4
20:18: A new release of Atari800Win, an Atari 8 bit computer emulator for Windows 9X, has been released. There is a LOT new in this version, here we go:

Big feature: support for save states (also known as "snapshots").

Machine language routines here and there; small speed difference.

Atari crashes are much less dramatic now, as you don't have to exit Atari800Win.

Added 512x384 mode. Should help those on slow machines without 320 modes. Shows full overscan and on most cards has that "scanline" feel.

Completely rewrote the keyboard handler.

Keyboard templates option added (Options/Keyboard.. menu). This is a complicated feature for expert users, consult the README for details.

Keyboard joystick reworked. Now handles combination keys (numpad4 + numpad8 = diagonal up/right). Ignores your Windows key delay/repeat settings and works right off the keystroke (instant feedback).

Checkbox for "use AGP memory", which controls whether a surface is allocated as "local video memory" in Ddraw terms.

Fixed a problem with small graphics selector dialog used in 320 modes.

All full screen modes clear their backgrounds.

Bolder, more ambitious icons, less filling but taste great. Any icon artists out there?

Machine type and speed shown in window title (status bar in full screen)

Finally remembered to add keyboard click. You will notice a slight delay between the keystroke and sound, can't be helped at present.

Fixed a display bug that had crept in when in windowed mode with the display partially off the desktop

If you exit while running full speed, the next time you launch sound will be (correctly) disabled until you switch back to normal speed

Pause shows paused text on Atari screen (for full screen modes)

Fixed crash bug that sometimes occurred changing artifacting modes.

You can download Atari800Win 1.4 from the Atari 8bit/5200 emulators page.

Misc. News: ISP Woes & College
04:42: This is a 2 part post, the first of which is very important for everyone to read, and the second of which you can read but don't have to.

First off, any e-mail anyone sent to me, or anyone who used the submit news page to submit any emulator news, is out of luck, because none of it got through to me due to VoiceNet's stupidity. More on that at a future time perhaps. Basically, mail is working fine again for me now, so please re submit your e-mails/emulator submit news's, if they were important.

Second of all, I started college today. I already have about 150 math problems to do for Thursday, reading assignments in history, and I spent 140$ on books so far (and that's only my first day, and just for 2 of my 4 classes!) So basically, don't expect as many updates from me as you used to. Instead, my staff will be working hard to provide the same amount of updates that you're all used to. So fret not. :)

That's all.

9/8/98
Utility News: HebeGB 9x released!
18:23: RiGaMoRTiS PRoDuCTioNZ has released their ULTIMATE Gameboy ROM manipulator, HebeGB9x for Windows 9x! This, unlike other ROM manipulators, is a pleasure to view with your eyes, as it sports a beautiful, graphical GUI. This can do just about anything you want to your Gameboy ROMs, so look no further if you need to view, list, apply ips patches, or whatever to your ROMs!

HebeGB can be found in the Gameboy Utilities section.

Utility News: Ghosts n' Goblins editor released!
17:36: Well, I'm back from my labor day weekend vacation, and I have added GngEdit to the Facelift Utilities page. This is ANOTHER level editor from the one-man-programming-army, Kent Hansen. GngEdit is a map editor for the NES hit, Ghosts n' Goblins, so take a look and fiddle around with it! If you redo the entire game or something, tell me, I'd like to see it.

GngEdit and a horde of other game editors can be found here in the Facelift Section.

Translation News: Ys 2 patch added
16:50: Adol has released a new Ys 2 patch that is almost 50% translated. Its been added to the translation patches page for your downloading convenience. I also fixed the link to Disconnected Translations if anyone was wondering about that.

9/7/98
Translation News: New Rockman & Forte patch released
18:20: The Rockman & Forte translation is going along quite nicely. DarkMazda and the AAGT crew are working hard to bring us a translation of this great game. In this release, they added dialog to the end of the game and to the parts shop. They also improved some dialog at the beginning. You can download v0.2 at the translation patches page.

Emulator Release: XPCE 0.006!
13:27: XPCE is a new TG-16 emulator that's actually just a Windows port of an old TG-16 emulator that was called FPCE. The news are kinda strange, but as this IS a new emulator I encourage you to at least take a look at it. :)

Here's the news:

XPCE can now run Populous. The name of the ROM should be populous.pce, otherwise won't run correctly. If you do a mistake with the file name, the title will appear badly.

You still can't use the Backup command.

Go get it from the TG-16 emulators page.

Emulator Release: PSEmu Pro 1.04
12:34: It's only been a week since the release of PSEmu Pro 1.03, and now there is a new version available. Here's what's new in this Playstation emulator for Windows9x:

Separated pad driver from PSEmu and now works as Plugin

A bit speeded up

Some fixes to DMA channels

New GTE instructions to make Colin McRae Rally (E) work

Fixed MDEC skipping for GranTurismo (J) - but this game still can't work

New PAD DirectInput Keys Driver pluggin

Almost all plugins (many, significant changes) and those plugins will work only with new version of PSEmu

Seal now plays stereo sound!

You can download PSEmu Pro 1.04 from the PSX page.

Frontend News: Run-It 1.5!
11:27: Run-It 1.5 has been released! And for all of you who don't know what it is, it's a NeoRAGE frontend. Yes, soon we can begin swimming in them, but I guess it's good having a few choices. Here's the news:

- Neorage 0.2d support
- Automatic snapshot renaming
- Automatic snapshot integration
- Multi-file bios support
- HTML documentation
- Installation indicator (CD/HD)
- Joystick option removed (It works !)
- Illegal operation bug corrected

Yaya, go get it from the Arcade emulator frontends page.

Frontend News: NeoRAGEFront 1.5.2!
03:52: NeoRAGEFront, THE most updated NeoRAGE frontend has been updated again! This new version fixes a few bugs that were in the last version, plus it adds preliminary support for a second screenshot window!

You can get it from the Arcade emulator frontends page.

Misc. News: Neo Geo compatibility list started
01:09: Feesh is starting a Neo Geo compatibility list similar to the SNES Chart. He asks that you mail him if you have any ROMs that aren't in the following list, and you are willing to write a review about them. Mail him at da.boss@fourty2.hypermart.net. Here are the ROMs he already has:

Art Of Fighting, The

Blues' Journey

Crossed Swords

Cyberlip

Fatal Fury

Ghost Pilots

Goal! Goal! Goal!

Joy Joy Kid {AKA Puzzled}

Metal Slug

Nam 1975

Puzzle Bobble

Puzzle De Pon

Soccer Brawl

Super Sidekicks

Super Sidekicks II

Thrash Rally

Viewpoint

Windjammers

World Heroes

9/6/98
Translation News: New Bahamut's Lagoon patch here!
22:10: Starsoft has finally released a new Bahamut's Lagoon patch. Cool. Download it at the translation patches page.

Site News: Article #6: Myths and Misconceptions: The Buck Stops Here.
17:20: Yes folks, it's time for Article #6: Myths and Misconceptions: The Buck Stops Here. In this article by Shamanix, he explores the legalities of emulation and commercial ROM images, and misconceptions that people have about them. You will want to read this article, trust me :) Any comments about Article #6, please post on the Emulator Message Domain (ZMD).

Article #6: Myths and Misconceptions: The Buck Stops Here.

The Articles Page

Frontend News: New Frontend site founded!
14:23: JViper has recently started a new Frontend site, and since I'm the Frontend maintainer I guess it's just logical for me to post the news, eh? :) Well, anyway. Here's the message that JViper wanted me to post on the page:

"Front-End Central is a "For Authors. By Authors." website designed to be
a central gathering place for Front-End authors. If you are interested
in joining us please drop by and visit the Members section."

Have fun, go check it out.

Misc. News: Zophar's Domain is now a mirror for SNES Chart!
14:17: That's right! SNES Chart, the biggest SNES ROM compability list currently available! This is a really good document to read before you go download a 4 Meg ROM just to realize it doesn't work. It's also a really good document to check out how good and if what games work with what emulator. This docs points out the good and the bad stuff about the emulation of the games. This document can be read by clicking on the link at the top of the SNES Emulator page, or by checking this link out.

Misc. News: New interview at Emulators Unlimited
14:08: Emulators Unlimited has posted an interview in its E-Mail Wars #22 with ORG of ROMLIST. The interview concerns the NeoRAGE hack controversy, and asks ORG how he got started dumping ROMs as well as many other topics.

Also, Emulators Unlimited wants to make a public call to all emulator authors to send their addresses to a section of their site called the Emulation Donation Station, which is set up such that end users can donate money or resources (hardware, etc.). Authors can also post specific hardware needs as the occasion arises.

Misc. News: Vertigo 2099 no more
13:51: Vertigo 2099, one of the most prominent ROM releasing groups around, has fallen apart. From the Vertigo 2099 news page:

As some of you may have already seen and heard, Vertigo 2099 is no more. Seems that some issues have caused us to close down. I will not disclose or discuss it since no one seemed to have thought about emailing and telling me about this. I had to read it myself, so that's that. Thanks to all the other visitors of this site for sending in thoughtful emails regarding this, each one is appreciated. As to what will happen to this site, i'll keep it up so people may have a reference to what was released. Updates will still be made if needed.

The last Vertigo pack was given to Spirit in the Contraption. Vertigo will be missed.

Translation News: New Rockman & Forte patch released
12:53: AAGT has released v0.1b of their Rockman & Forte translation, and another patch will probably be released today. You can download the latest one at the translation patches page.

9/5/98
Emulator Release: Hu6280 1.78
21:50: The newest version of the Turbo Grafx/PC Engine emulator, Hu6280, version 1.78, has been released to the public. Changes that come with the new version include:

Modification of some hardware register emulation code, clears up some graphic glitches

HU6280 now supports zipped .pce files... eg: hu6280 galaga90.zip - will use the first .pce file in the .zip specified

GUI now displays both .pce and .zip files

You can find the newest version of Hu6280 on the TG16/PC-Engine page.

Site News: Article #5: Is legal emulation for consoles coming?
18:54: Zophar's Domain is proud to present the 5th in a very long series of upcoming articles dealing with certain topics in emulation. This article was written by Stick Figure 98, and focues on the possibility of consoles emulating other consoles, legally. I'm sure you've all heard about DreamCast and the rumours surrounding it. Read Article #5: Is legal emulation for consoles coming?

Article #5
The Articles page

Utility News: New Utiltiy Section, New Utilitiy!
13:04: I (and InVerse) noticed that the NES utilities section has become quite bloated with editors for individual games. Therefore, I added a new utility section: the Facelift Utilities Section. Go check it out, perhaps you might want to totally remake a classic NES game! That, I would like to see :)... just as long as it's not 3 screens or so.

Of course, there is also a new Facelift Utility I would like to share with you: GoonEdit! This is yet another awesome map editor, from the author of NESemu, Kent Hansen. This utiltiy edits the NES classic, Goonies II. Go ahead, have fun with it!

Thanks to InVerse for the inspiration.

GoonEdit can be found in the Facelift Utilities Section.

Site News: Article #4: A Positive Perspective on the Emulation Scene
02:35: Article #4: A Positive Perspective on the Emulation Scene, has been added to Zophar's Domain. This was written by fifreak, a fellow emulation follower like many of you. Here's the summary:

Many people say the say the the emulation scene is spiraling downwards, however all important is not lost in the scene. Read some of fifreak's thoughts on the trends of the emulation scene and learn how we can all work together to rebuild the scene.

Article #4
Articles Page

Misc. News: Back from Reading Phillies game
00:41: Well, today I went to Reading, PA for most of the day to see the minor league Reading Phillies play. They lost, 5-4. The game kind of sucked, so I decided to liven it up a bit. This guy was trying to get a wave started, and tried three times and failed. So during the 4th try, he said '1...2...' and i pointed to the outfield and screamed out "OH MY GOD! IT'S MANUTE BOL!!!" I had the entire section I was sitting in, along with a section in back literally cracking up. (Manute Bol is a basketball player who used to play for the 76ers. He really sucked.) The guy who attempted to start the wave gave up and sat down.

That was the most fun part of the game.

Site News: Finally updated the poll!
00:02: I finally did a new poll!

The question from last question's poll was:

Are MAME betas being released too frequently?

Choice 1 was: "Yes, and I'm getting sick of beta releases."
It received 41 votes (27.9 percent).

Choice 2 was: "Yes, there should be less releases between finals."
It received 29 votes (19.7 percent).

Choice 3 was: "I don't really care."
It received 40 votes (27.2 percent).

Choice 4 was: "No, they're doing the right thing."
It received 28 votes (19 percent).

Choice 5 was: "No, they should release even more betas!"
It received 9 votes (6.1 percent).

Personally, I can't wait to play the arcade Mortal Kombat and other 34010 games again =)
However, it is a strain having to put up a 2mb+ file every week or two on your site, and it's probably a strain for others involved with MAME, as well... I still offer my support and thanks to the authors of MAME, it's an incredible emulator that I play quite often!

Well, anyways, the new poll is:

What emulated system have you been playing the most lately?

Cast your vote in the Poll Section now!

9/4/98
Frontend News: NeoRAGEFrontpad 1.9
12:13: Woohoo, the swedish-manufactured NeoRAGE frontend has been updated :) This one is definitely recommended to try, as well as NeoRAGEFront.
This one does not support all options of NeoRAGE 0.2 yet, though.

Here's the news:
- Total Rewrite.
- Added support for the new functions in Neo Rage v 0.01b.
- Skipped cfg file. Now uses Windows registry.
- Changed buttons....
- Various bugfixes.

You can get it from the Arcade frontends page.

Frontend News: NeoRAGEFront 1.5.1
12:09: This was actually released a while ago, but I'll update anyway :) This is one of the best and most regularly updated NeoRAGE frontends out there. Definitely the most regularly updated one, heh. If you have trouble with all of NeoRAGE's command line options I recommend you to use this one or NeoRAGE Frontpad.
The news this time is that it now looks for Zip files instead of directories, since NeoRAGE now loads Zip files and it now has support for loading ROMs from a CDROM.

Get it from the Arcade frontends page.

Frontend News: RAINEFront 1.1.0 Release 2
12:06: RAINEFront, the really good RAINE frontend has been updated! The big news this time is support for zipped ROMs in the ZipRoms directory. Now you might be thinking: "Why the hell would I want a frontend for an emulator that has a GUI?". Well, you see. RaineFRONT only let's you select a game from the ones you have installed. It doesn't show a complete list over the games even if you don't have them installed.

You can get it from the Arcade frontends page.

Site News: Save Archives Updated
05:07: Well, I've posted all the new saves I've got since my last update. Some people are STILL not filling in their .FRM files properly, which results in slower updates because I have to weed them out. Keep in mind the HTMLs are updated automatically on the basis of these FRM files. Please double-check before sending them in.
See what's new at the CS0, GS0, SPC, STA, and ZST archives, and keep the contributions flowing.

Emulator Release: Direct Pad Pro '98
00:11: Well, I noticed that I didn't update this when it came out... so, i'm doing it now.. :D and I will do it for every other release they have. (: This program lets you use lots of console controllers on your PC, just like SnesKey 9x.. but this is used like real joystick drivers, and is much faster than the SnesKey 9x version. Here is what's new:

-TurboGraFX Controller Added
-(S)NES DirectPad Configurable Controller fixed - PLEASE RE-READ SECTION
-Atari joystick fire button fixed

You can download Direct Pad Pro '98 from the Joystick emulation page.

9/3/98
Site News: Article #3 added to the Articles section
23:56: After 5 months of no new articles, we are once again updating the articles section! Our first new blood is JL_Picard, of Vertigo fame (and also helped ZD relocate to zophar.internexus.net about half a year ago, for those who remember). He has written an article on the effect flame e-mails and other negative feedback are having on emulator authors, and why it should be stopped.

Article #3: Sending spam/flames to emulator authors

Emulator Release: DTMNT 0.49 released
23:29: A new version of DTMNT, a TMNT arcade game emulator, has been released. Here are the new features:

-A bit more user-friendly (e.g. autodetects which rom set you have)
-Fire flicker effect is now an option
-Fixed a bug in hicolor PCX saving

There's also a new version of the source code out. Download them at the single arcade emulators page.

Utility News: 2 New Utilities
17:47: I finally gotten around to adding two utilities:

tniNES Update: This update fixes some bugs, and adds support for Unisystem ROMs and a few more fwNES mappers.
tniNES is a NES ROM manipulation utility.

MetEdit: Another kickass level editor! This nifty utility edits the levels in Metroid for the NES. I'd like to see an alternate Metroid game, so go have a blast with this!

These utilities can be found in the NES Utiltiy Section.

Misc. News: SwissAir Flight 111 went down.
02:51: As most of you may know, a jumbo jet crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia last night. No survivors so far, but we are hoping. I know this has nothing to do with emulation... but I felt we owed it to the people risking their lives to try and help the people in the crash.

Thanx for your time.

9/2/98
Emulator News: Mame WIP Page updated with MK shots
23:56: Normally I wouldn't do this (hi Dave!). But I have to make an exception.

The Mame WIP Page has been updated with early Mortal Kombat driver pic's. For those of you that don't the Mame WIP Page is located here.

Credits for the screen shot's and everything else there go to Dave of Davesclassics.

Site News: Stuff you should know
23:47: Hi people. Zophar here. Basically, there are a few things that I feel you all should know, so I'll post them right here.

- Zophar's Domain's current address is http://zophar.malicia.com. Not http://milhouse.web-ex.com, or http://www.zophar.net(although we're working on getting this domain name back). Past addresses included http://zophar.internexus.net, http://silent.darkening.com/~zophar, http://www.ziplink.net/~shadow5 and even geocities! (Ewww). So as you can see, we've moved a lot, but we're still here after almost 2 years!
- Tommorow is my last day at my full time summer job. But I start college this coming Tuesday, so it doesn't mean I'll have more time to work on ZD, but it does mean that my cash flow will decrease :/ Oh well.
- Anyone who's interested in writing an article for Zophar's Domain, please e-mail me and let me know, we're looking for people to write some of their opinions and other things on emulation, because the articles section is being neglected and we could use some 'fresh meat', so to speak.

That's all. Any questions? Don't hesitate to ask.

Translation News: Fire Emblem 3 patch released and Starsoft back up!
19:37: A group called Fire Emblem Translations is attpemting a translation of Fire Emblem 3. They have released a preview patch for you to check out. Also, it appears that Starsoft is back. If you don't remember them, they were translating Bahamut Lagoon. You can get the patch and the links to the sites at the translation patches page.

Emulator Release: NeoRAGE .2d
17:39: Lookie here, a new NeoRAGE. Here's what's new this time around:

- Some games was frezing the first time you started it with 0.2c but that should be eliminated now.
- Savestate bugfix again ;), unfortunally it can made your old state files useless with this version.
- Sidewinder player two bug-fix.
- Character bug-fix in some games.
- Super Sidekicks protection fix (thanks to whom discovered it).
- Fatal Fury 2 protection fix (thanks to whom discovered it).
- We have start to use PMODEW instead of DOS4GW
- Support for Samurai Shodown 4.
- Support for Art Of Fighting 3.
- Support for Blazing Star.
- Support for xxxxxxxxx ;).(Future Romlist releases)
- Support for xxxxxxxxx ;).(Future Romlist releases)
- And MS2(hate to do this:(. Because of the hacking lamers)

Pick up your brandy new copy over at the Neo Geo Page.

Misc. News: Playstation roms now online.
01:56: I decided to put some PSX roms online for your enjoyment. These are however demo roms, and are freely distributable. These were only tested on the PSEmu Pro emulator for it can run demo's via the "Run Developer" command button, then clicking on "Load EXE" and then selecting the file, and pressing "run". For some reason, only 2 out of the 5 roms uploaded work so far, but, I hope some of you out there have some more legal PSX roms to add to this collection, if so, please drop me a message and i will get back to you about putting them up.

You can download the currently online PSX roms at the Playstation roms page.

Site News: Counters fixed
01:20: The counters throughout the site, to the best of my knowledge, are now fully functional. Let me know if any of you see any counters that are in need of fixing.

Emulator Release: VICE v0.15 released
00:03: The VICE team has just released a new version of VICE, a Commodore 64 emulator. Here are the new features:

-C128 emulator
-Brand new monitor, featuring breakpoints and watchpoints (under construction)
-More PET models, with complete on-the-fly configurability
-Support for cartridge files in the VIC20 and C64 emulators
-Support for 40-track disk images
-User-definable colors
-User-definable keyboard layouts (Unix only)
-Support for a new GCR-encoded disk image format (G64)
-More accurate 1541 emulation
-Triple buffering for smoother animations (MS-DOS only)
-1351 mouse emulation (MS-DOS only)
-Completely programmable joystick keysets and support for up to two PC joysticks
-Complete support for P00 files
-RS232 and printer emulation (Unix only)
-Speed optimizations
-Sound oversampling
-Source-level support for Dag Lem's reSID engine
-Bug fixes

Download it at the Commodore 64 emulators page.

9/1/98
Emulator Release: madNES 0.95 Beta 3
17:31: A new version of madNES (no pun intended) is out.... here is what's new:

-The new gfx engine is almost complete
-Perfect scrolling & splitscreens
-Mapper 15 appears to be 100% complete.
-Bug fixes to PPU
-Friday the 13th's paralax scrolling & Crystalis' playfield no longer get out of sync.
-Sprite priorities are now emulated a 100%. Theres still one bug left.
PPU improvements.
-Final Fantasy 1 now fades in & out correctly.
-Added 32k bank switch support to the mapper 1.

You can download the new version of madNES at the NES Emulator Page.

Emulator Release: PSEmu Pro 1.03
17:05: A new release of PSEmu Pro released this morning. This is only a minor update which only benifits programmers.

You can get it at the Playstation Emulator Page.

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