Emulator Release: VGEN 0.14
16:40:  VGEN 0.14 has been released, and what a release! It's now the first *real* Sega CD emulator! Although it can't run any Sega CD games yet, if you put the BIOS in the vgen dir and click 'boot sega CD', it will show the bootup screen! Here's what's new in VGEN 0.14:

Site News: Happy Thanksgiving
16:20:  For all americans, it's Thanksgiving today. Before I go and eat my feast, I figured that I'd list the top ten things that we have to be thankful for.

10. Only one more year to doomsday.
9. I still know what you did last summer was actually better than the first.
8. Vince McMahon.
7. Newt Gingrich's announcement to not run again for office.
6. Icer Addis
5. Linda Tripp's 39 tapes for when Nytol just doesn't work.
4. Hulk Hogan's possible retirement announcement.
3. Nostradamus and Les Propheties.
2. The legalization in the 1980s of hardcore pornography.
1. 2 words: Zophar's Domain.

Have a tastie thanksgiving, and don't puke your guts out!

Emulator Release: NeoDanji 0.032
16:01:  A new version of NeoDanji was recently released. This is the no-sound version. From the english mirror, here's what's new in 0.032:

Emulator Release: EX68 1.05
15:41:  EX68, the only X68000 emulator for Windows, has been updated to version 1.05. I don't know what's new, since the homepage is in japanese. Anyone who can translate the 1.05 newisms for me, please send an e-mail. You can download EX68 1.05 from the X68000 emulators page.

Misc. News: The VB ROM post you've been waiting for
01:58:  I promised you all a link to a site with Virtual Boy ROMs. Well, I don't lie. Enjoy! (There are only 2 ROMs there right now, more shall follow).

11/25/98
Translation News: Magic Knight Rayearth tranlation
21:17:  Looks like RPGe has taken on the project of translating Magic Knight Rayearth. As of now, they are approximately 25% done. There's not a patch yet, so don't go asking about it. I added it to the translations page, and I'll keep you posted.

Misc. News: Genesis Chart 1.30 Beta 2
19:53:  Sam Pettus, in conjunction with Eidolon, has released version 1.30 Beta 2 of the Sega Genesis Compatibility list. It's just like the SNES chart, so if you've used that, you'll easily be able to read the Genesis chart. You can download it from the Genesis emulators page.

Misc. News: MAME Article in GamePro
19:44:  A few weeks ago, we posted that the December issue of GamePro that there was an article in it about MAME. Thanks to Scott of Scott's EmuClassics, there is now a scan of the article. Check out it at the link below. Also, if anyone is interested: in my opinion, this article doesn't really tell us anything we don't already know, except that GamePro appears totally neutral in the article.

Utility News: gym2mid 0.51
19:36:  A new release of gym2mid, a converter for Genecyst GYM music files, is now available. It appears we missed 0.50, so here's what's new in both:

Emulator Release: VBEmu98 0.5
16:04:  The world's first Virtual Boy emulator has arrived! It's called VBEmu98, and the first release is version 0.5. Although it has no sound, is black & white (instead of black & red), and is quite slow (requires a P2-300 for full speed), it can run about half of the entire (30) Virtual Boy game library.

If you can't find any ROMs, stay tuned, as later today I'll be adding a link to a site which carries all of the Virtual Boy ROMs.

You can download VBEmu98 0.5 from the Virtual Boy emulators page. Thanks to all who mailed in. On a final note, you can find the new Virtual Boy page under 'Emulators: Portable', since it doesn't really belong under HandHeld.

Misc. News: Tales of Phantasia tracking project
15:00:  DrkEtrnl has e-mailed ZD to let us know about a project he and his friend are working on:

Hey, I'm DrkEtrnl (DET) and me and my friend Hakiru started a ToP (Tales of Phantasia) project together. Our goal is to re-track as many songs from the game as possible into .IT (Impulse Tracker files) and .XM (Fast Tracker 2 files).

Our webpage is at http://drketrnl.weyland-yutani.net and it is soon going to have a smaller "easy to remember URL", something like http://come.to/projecttop .

Well, down to the point. I am asking if it be possible for ZD to publically announce Project ToP, it would be a great honour for me and Hakiru, and it will most likely inspire us to actually finish our songs.

Thank you!

Although the entire soundtrack, save the opening song with words, is available in SPC, there are advantages to mods, such as less CPU use, and an ability to edit the file's instruments, etc. Check it out.

Emulator News: More on Nofrendo
13:18:  A few weeks ago, we reported on the progress of Nofrendo. The official page has been updated again:

Emulator News: BrSMS
13:13:  The BrSMS page has been updated with the following statement:

A lot of people have asked me what happened to BrSMS. I stopped development of BrSMS some time ago, my original plan was to finish BrMSX and then get back to BrSMS.

However, I received a lot of e-mails asking me to resume work in BrSMS. Thanks to all the feedback, I'm now coding it again. The next version will be out on the next monday (30/11/1998), ONLY FOR REGISTERED USERS. I'm still accepting registrations, please send the registration form to ricardo@lsi.usp.br.

Also, Ricardo has announced that the next version will support 4 new games because of a now emulated secret video mode.

Site News: More on staff positions
12:39:  Well, we have interviewed a number of people so far and we will finish interviewing today or tommorow. By the weekend we should know who the new maintainer(s) is(are). Please, no more applications.

11/24/98
Emulator Release: Chip8 emulator 2.2.0
18:26:  After over a year of idleness, a new version of 'The Chip8 emulator' by Dave Winter is now available. Here's some of what's new in 2.2.0:

Misc. News: NeoDanji english mirror
18:07:  Thanks to Jay for the page, and VIL for informing me about it, we now have an english mirror of the NeoDanji page. Also, we now know the changes in the newest version:

Speed-up Test Version (NO sound in this version)

Display processing routine was not fixed yet. (Sorry for "weird" translation. If anyone can help me translate this part, email me). If it is fixed, speed will be improved again. Sound and joystick is not supported in this version because of bugs. Loading part is not completed yet either. From time to time you may not be able to see some parts of screen while it is loading.

Emulator News: PSyKe & PSEmu merge
18:01:  Duddie has announced on psemu.com that the PSEmu team and the PSyKe team have merged! Straight from the PSEmu homepage:

A great day for PSX Emulation! PSEmu Team and PSyKe team decided to Join Forces! We have estabilished a foundation called: TAB (no one will know what that means, but it does not matter). What that means to all of you? Try to think it. What we can say is that the most advanced PSX emulators soon will be available as ONE! It is much better to work in bigger team!!! So welcome NEW MEMBERS: mOoNsHaDo, RaskY, Twin. (alphabetic order... :) ). We dont know what happen out of that. But we have high hopes!

Thanks to all the people who e-mailed this one in.

Site News: Links Page Changes...
15:58:  Hey hey fellow emulatorers! As you may have noticed, the Links page is slightly out of date...

Right now, I'm in the process of doing an entire recode of the page, as well as checking EVERY single site on the page. It'll have a different look to it, as well as new information on it...hopefully it'll load faster as well.

Just as a side note, I do receive and read your emails, however I receive too many to respond to them all. In your email, be sure and include a description of the site and the maintainer of the sites' email address. It's also appreciated if you have the site's main man contact me himself, instead of having 30 people email me the same site and say "it's cool".

I project the new links page to be up and running by next week the absolute latest.

11/23/98
Emulator Release: NeoDanji 0.03
23:39:  A new release of NeoDanji is now available. The only thing I know about 0.03 is that it has sound disabled, so the 0.025 zip is still online. Any koreans able to translate the documentation for me? You can download NeoDanji 0.03 from the Neo Geo emulators page.

Emulator Release: BRMSX 1.115
16:19:  Ricardo Bittencourt has released version 1.115 of his MSX emulator for DOS. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: PSEmu Pro 1.0.19
15:54:  A small update to the 1.0.19 beta release of PSEmu Pro has been issued, this version fixes more GTE bugs. You can download it from the PSX emulators page.

Emulator News: MAME32 0.34 Beta 7
15:39:  The Windows port of MAME has been updated to 0.34 Beta 7, and has all the same changes that the DOS port of Beta 7 has. You can download MAME32 0.34 Beta 7 from the MAME page.

Misc. News: SNES Emulation Centre request
14:57:  Secain of the SEC e-mailed the following to me and ask that it be posted here:

The SEC is currently in the process of expanding and needs some help finding a wide range of information on all manner of SNES related things. A full list of what we need can be found on our site. Please take the time to check it out and help if you can.

Thanks, Secain, SNES Emulation Centre, http://www.snes9x.com/sec

If you can help him out, please do, as the SEC is a great source of information for SNES fans.

Site News: No more applications please
14:55:  Well, I have received some 50 e-mails or so applying for the Utilities and/or free/demo ROM pages, and will begin sorting through them today. For those of you that will be e-mailed back, expect a reply in the next few days.

No more applications will be accepted. Thanks to all who applied from myself and the rest of ZD.

Frontend News: Big news, lele.
07:07:  Yeah. Someone called warp17-e has been checking out the frontends. Seems as a bit of them were outdated. So did I notice, but that was last friday and it was time for me to catch the bus. However, warp17-e mailed me and told me to update. I received this mail today, along with another letter from Brad. Apparently cuz I didn't update warp17-e emailed Zophar and told him. K, so I struggle and stuff to update. But unfortunately today is slow-school-internet day and there were some frontends that I wasn't able to update. I'll do this ASAP, I promise.
Anyways. Updates have been made to the following pages:
Universal frontends page - Don't remember what, but it was something.
Arcade emulator frontends page - Arcade@home, Arcade Center, ArcadeEmu, NeoRAGEFront, NeoRAGE Frontpad, Run-It.
Gameboy emulator frontends page - VGB Express.
Nintendo emulator frontends page - fwNES Express, FWNFE.

I didn't get all necessary updates done since there were a few files that I was unable to download, but I'll fix this as soon as I can.

By the way: I'm really stressed right now and I'm late for class so disregard any spelling errors and remember that I am a Swede.

Bleh.

11/22/98
Misc. News: New Genesis Compat chart coming soon
23:35:  Sam Pettus has announced that a new version of Eidolon's Genesis Compatiblity Chart will be released within the next week or two. When it is released, it will be announced and posted on ZD, as usual.

Emulator Release: ZD-SPC VERSION 1.20!!!
23:30:  After a while of frustration on trying to find out how to do drag and drop, I finally got it in there!! (Thanx to Jason Wylie from Wizards Guild)

Here is a list of what's new in Version 1.20: (get something to drink for this one...)

Emulator Release: RockNES 0.58a
23:17:  A new version of RockNES, a NES emulator for DOS, has been released. Here's what's new in RockNES v0.58a:

Site News: Staff wanted
14:23:  Many people have been asking me, "Boy, I'd love to work for ZD, do you need any new staff?"

Well, at the moment, we have two positions open, and possibly a third by next week. The two positions are: Utilities pages maintainer, and Free ROM/demos pages maintainer. It is preferable that one person apply for both, but only applying for one won't necessarily exclude you from being considered.

However, to apply, you MUST meet the following requirements:

Emulator Release: vMAME 0.34b7 Release 4
14:14:  The fourth release of vMAME 0.34b7 is upon us. There are now 2 versions of it, a Pentium optimized version, and a standard version for all other CPUs. Here's what's new:

11/21/98
Site News: SPC & ZST archives updated
20:41:  Updated: SPC, ZST archives. I recommended grabbing the soundtracks to Terranigma (also known as Creation of Heaven & Earth) and Plok (composed by Tim Follin). The SPC count now exceeds 2,000. Thanks to everyone for contributing.

Site News: ZD-SPC help needed.
14:38:  If anyone can help me out with a DDE server, or how to do Drag and drop... I would really appreciate it!

E-mail me at gypsies@onlink.net

Most would be appreciated

Emulator Release: Sideway multiarcade emulator version 0.22a
14:37:  A new version of Sideway was released! It's a pretty small release.. but anyway... here it is.

11/20/98
Site News: Polls page updated again..
19:25:  The polls page was just updated again. Here are the results of the last poll:

What part of ZD do you find the most useful?

Choice 1 was: "The news updates"
It received 105 votes (59 percent).

Choice 2 was: "The emulators"
It received 21 votes (11.8 percent).

Choice 3 was: "Frontend utilities"
It received 2 votes (1.1 percent).

Choice 4 was: "Translation patches"
It received 11 votes (6.2 percent).

Choice 5 was: "Message Boards"
It received 21 votes (11.8 percent).

Choice 6 was: "Links page"
It received 1 votes (0.6 percent).

Choice 7 was: "General Utilities"
It received 3 votes (1.7 percent).

Choice 8 was: "Saved game archives"
It received 4 votes (2.2 percent).

Choice 9 was: "BIOS ROMs"
It received 5 votes (2.8 percent).

Choice 10 was: "Don't Know/Don't Care/They all suck!"
It received 5 votes (2.8 percent).

I guess we gotta work harder on the news. :)

Anyway, the question I so kindly picked out for this week was:

What is your opinion of the recent IDSA shutdowns?

Go vote, and make your opinion heard. You don't have to register, anyway.

Site News: Server change
14:21:  Many of you haven't even noticed it, but over the last week, ZD silently changed over to a new, faster, never-goes-down server! We are now hosted on emulationworld.com, which also hosts sites such as psyke.com, emucamp.com, psemu.com, hu6280.com...the list goes on. It's on a dual T3 and OC3 connection, and, best of all, it doesn't go down every other day!

So, we should never be down again if all goes well, and things should be speedy! No more wondering why you're downloading an emulator at .1k/sec from ZD. No more e-mails asking 'Why is ZD down for the 81st time in 1 week?' All of our troubles have been solved.

If anyone has any comments/questions on the server change, e-mail me. Note that the URL is still, and always will be, http://www.zophar.net. It won't change, even if we move again, which I don't think we will :)

As a final note, we lost 6 days on the message boards because of the move, but otherwise, everything is going smoothly. Let me know if you have any problems, and be sure to visit those message boards!

Emulator Release: NES4PC 0.15 Public Beta!
03:31:  Akilla has updated his NES emulator! This new version has a real load of new stuff, so here comes the big list:

Misc. News: Speed document
18:21:  The news-u-lator, which is one of the best and newest news sites out there, has released a document titled 'Speed'. It gives several methods to speed up emulation, and should be useful to emulator authors. You can get it from the link below.

Emulator Release: Boycott 0.43
18:18:  Gollum has released version 0.43 of his GameBoy emulator, Boycott. Here's what's new in the DOS version:

Emulator Release: PCott 0.07b!
05:25:  Gollum, the author of Boycott, the Gameboy Emulator, has made a PC Emulator. So far it's only been compiled for MS-DOS, which may seem a bit worthless, but since it's written in C/C++ it can easily be ported to other platforms in need of a decent PC Emulator. A platform that would benefit greatly from this is the Amiga, heh, since it doesn't have any PC emulator that's not shareware and costs a lot of money :)
Anyways, have a list of features and stuff:
Features:

Emulator News: More on GBFAN98
01:22:  So far, I've received one e-mail from someone shedding some light on any *FAN98 emulator. Here it is:

I cannot translate the Japanese docs, but I have been able to figure out a number of features.

First off, I am not too sure about support for anything other than your average Game Boy. It does sport seven different shade schemes and I think variable frameskip. However, the digital sound emulation is very clean, on par with SMYGBE. Even more of note, it's one of the few emulators able to run both US Pokemon carts (to date, only NO$GMB was able to do that, but I hated its sound emulation).

I have also eben able to discern some of the program's basic controls.

CTRL-F1 Load cart
CTRL-F2 Pause/unpause
CTRL-F3 Pause back to regular window/unpause

However, I am unable to see it in action properly. It does appear to have a windowing function, but the sound is turned off when that happens, which leads me to indicate that it is more in the nature of a "Fast Forward" than anything. Full-screen does NOT work on my machine at any of the specified resolutions, and it uses common video hardware. I would like to add this as a cautionary note.

Thanks to this unknown person for the news.

11/18/98
Emulator Release: PSEmu Pro 1.0.19 public beta
11:51:  First of all, let me start off by saying this is indeed a public beta (you can visit www.psemu.com and see for yourselves). This is version 1.0.19 of one of the only two PSX emulators out there, PSEmu Pro. Some of the new things in this version include:

Emulator Release: vMAME 0.34b7 Release 3
09:34:  Here's another release of vMAME 0.34b7. This version includes the SEAL beta, so it should be back up to par with past releases of vMAME. You can download it from the MAME page, and be sure to visit the official site as well.

Emulator Release: FCFAN98 1.03
07:07:  The final in a 4-part series of *FAN98 emulators, FCFAN98 emulates the NES, otherwise known as the Famicom in Japan. All I know about this one is that it has sound, can run The Legend of Zelda, and runs full speed on a P133. Anyone who can translate the documentation and/or EXE, be sure to e-mail me.

You can download FCFAN98 1.03 from the NES emulators page.

Emulator Release: GBFAN98 1.02
06:41:  The third of a series of japanese emulators which all include "FAN98" at the end, GBFAN98 emulates the GameBoy. Like SMSFAN98 and GGFAN98, it is for Windows, uses DirectX for video and sound, and seems to be able to log MIDIs (see the dirs it creates). Like the other two, I know nothing else about GBFAN98, so if anyone can translate the documentation and/or EXE, it would be appreciated. Just send me an e-mail.

You can download GBFAN98 1.02 from the GameBoy emulators page.

Emulator Release: SMSFAN98 & GGFAN98 1.02
06:27:  A series of emulators, which all include 'FAN98' at the end of the name, have been released. These are all japanese emulators for Windows, and all use full screen DirectX video modes. These two emulators, SMSFAN98 and GGFAN98, emulate the Sega Master System and GameGear respectively. They both emulate sound, and I believe the ability to log MIDIs are included.

I know nothing else about either of these emulators. (If the documentation is not japanese, but chinese, or korean, please don't yell at me, I don't know any of these languages!) Please e-mail me if you can translate the documentation to these two emulators, and can offer any other insight.

You can download SMSFAN98 & GGFAN98 1.02 from the Sega Master System/GameGear emulators page.

Misc. News: NGL
06:01:  A few weeks ago, the NeoGeo Game List website was opened. I'm reporting on it now simply because I didn't know about it until now. It's a great site for any NeoGeo ROM seeker. Check it out if that interests you.

Utility News: New NEOFix
05:48:  A new version of NEOFix (not to be confused with the NeoRage team's Neo Fix) has been released. This Windows utility replaces some bad Neo Geo ROM dumps with good ones. A great util to have. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: SideWay 0.21
04:56:  Somehow, we never added this MidWay multi-arcade emulator for DOS to ZD. It can run a number of old MidWay arcade games such as Seawolf, Boothill, Gunfight, Space invaders, Amazing Maze and Space invaders Deluxe. It also seems that there were many versions before 0.21, so here's what's new in SideWay 0.21:

Emulator Release: SNESkey (DOS) version 1.63
04:33:  WOOOHOO!!!! After about 4 months of the official site being down, it's back up and with it, is a new verison of SNESkey for DOS!!! Here is a list of what's new:

Site News: SPC archive updated
02:24:  Updated: SPC archive.

Emulator Release: NEOGem 0.005
02:22:  KRÆY & HÆN have released version 0.005 of their Neo Geo emulator, NEOGem. Here's what's new in version 0.005:

Site News: ZST archive updated
02:09:  Updated: ZST archive.

Emulator Release: GalEMU 0.23
01:59:  Barry Rodewald has released version 0.23 of his Multi Arcade emulator, GalEMU. Just a minor release:

11/17/98
Emulator Release: Megasis v0.01 released
23:06:  A new megadrive emulator, Megasis, was released a few days ago, written by a Japanese author. It is for Win9X and uses DirectX. While the speed of the emulator leaves something to be desired, the emulator manages to successfully run certain games that the more popular emulators do not. For example, the window layering in Warsong works. To download, visit the Genesis emulators page.

Frontend News: SPC Cooler Beta2
02:35:  SPC Cooler, the WinSPC frontend that I added yesterday, has been updated! Todays new list of features is coming right up:

Site News: News has been slow
03:35:  Lately, there just hasn't been much going on in the emulation world. Therefore, over the next few days, I'm going to be out looking for anything we may have missed. If you have some piece of news that hasn't been mentioned on ZD, and think it newsworthy, be sure to submit it.

11/15/98
Emulator Release: Gameboy 98 0.04 Beta 2
17:33:  A new version of Gameboy 98 has been released. Just a minor update for 0.04 Beta 2:

Emulator Release: fwNES .302
16:12:  A new version of the NES emulator fwNES has been released! Heres whats new:

Emulator News: NeoDanji 0.025 r2 changes
02:24:  Thanks to Yoonjoon Lee, we now have the list of what's new in the latest NeoDanji. Here it is:

On Nov 14th:

There is a converter bug in Art of Fighting 3. King of Fighters 96 and 97 work, but no sound, yet.

On Nov 12th:

New loading method improved the loading speed so that game starts faster. In some cases, the game screen doesn't show up until the game is fully loaded, but the problem will be fixed in the next version, hopefully.

You need to convert the file, once again. prg.bin img.bin lay.bin inf.bin z80.bin pcm.bin are the name of files that are being generated by the converter. You also need to have neo-geo.rom to execute the rom. Converter supports ss2_cnv.exe and aof3_cnv.exe, which are for Samurai Showdown 2 and Art of Fighting 3 respectively.

So, convert the file first, then run danji.exe. Since there is no file search funcion, you need to over write the converted file which is in the dame directory as the danji.exe is.

11/14/98
Emulator Release: Z26 1.20
17:25:  John Saegar has released version 1.20 of his Atari 2600 emulator for DOS, Z26. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: Gameboy 98 0.04 Beta 1u
16:58:  A new version of Gameboy 98, an emulator for Windows, has been released. Here's what's new in 0.04 Beta 1u:

Misc. News: New calculator BIOS ROM
16:11:  I dumped ROM v1.11 from my TI-92 and added it to the page. It only works with Emu92 because of its masked ROM format however. You can download it from the Calculator BIOS page.

Emulator Release: NeoDanji 0.025 Release 2
15:59:  Well, Release 2 of NeoDanji 0.025, a Neo Geo emulator for DOS that runs three games, is now available. Any korean-speaking people out there that know what's new? Then send me an e-mail. Thanks to CheatMan for the news.

You can download NeoDanji 0.025 Release 2 from the Neo Geo page.

Translation News: Tales of Phantasia 1.7 patch released.
14:22:  The new patch is out. This time almost all the items and monster names are translated.

You can grab the new patch here.

Translation News: Dragon Quest 5 Translation Update
02:29:  Partial Translations has teamed up with Dragoon-X Translations to translate DQ5. They have released a new patch (v0.14) which has most of the menus and most of the monsters translated, and another patch will be released in a few days to fix some bugs. Also, please read this and help if you can:

Dragoon-X translations and Partial translations are looking for _anyone_ interested in helping out with this project. This includes ROM hackers, fluent japanese speakers, beta testers, and of course, more ASM hackers. If you feel you can help us out at all, please e-mail Neil_ (r_mortensen@fast.net) or myself (kueller@inquo.net). If you have any prior experience with a translation \ rom hacking effort, be sure to include that in your e-mail.

You can get the latest patch at the translation patch page.

11/13/98
Emulator Release: DTMNT 0.54 Pentium release
23:36:  A Pentium-optimized version of DTMNT 0.54 has been released. For owners of true Intel Pentiums only, otherwise, you may get a speed decrease. The source to 0.54 has also been uploaded. Thanks to DoomStalK for the news. You can download DTMNT 0.54 Pentium from the Single Arcade emulators page.

And don't forget to visit #ZopharsDomain on efnet :)

Misc. News: Dave's Classics is back
23:21:  Dave's Classics has returned after 1 week of downtime. You can read all about what happened at Dave's page.

Misc. News: IRC and such
21:44:  Well, the other night in #ZopharsDomain on EFnet was very hectic. The flood of users to ZD killed it at exactly midnight, and havoc broke out, but still, it was very fun :) I've decided to make #ZopharsDomain a permanent channel. It's on EFnet, as I stated, so for those of you IRC users who want to say hi to a ZD staff member, chat, or just hang out, join us. If you don't have an IRC client, you can get one at mIRC.co.uk.

Misc. News: ZD Anniversary SNES demo released
21:28:  Vega Centario, from 777h, has been kind enough to code a SNES demo commemorating the 2 year anniversary of Zophar's Domain, which we celebrated this past Monday. It's quite a good demo for such a small size, even though, in Vega's own words, "the font sucks". If you've been following the hoopla during the week, or even if you haven't, get this cool demo now.

You can find the ZD commemorative demo at the SNES public domain ROM page here.

Site News: Friday the 13th: Nostradamus said so
16:38:  Well, another Friday the 13th, another depressing, evil, scary, or otherwise strange news post. This one is without a doubt the best Friday the 13th update ever. Here we go:

Over 400 years ago, Michel De Nostradame, better known as Nostradamus, wrote a series of 'quatrains', 4 lined predicitions that told of future events from the time of publication until the end of time. Known as The Propheties, they were written in a combination of French and Latin.

Below is my favorite prediction, one which has not come true yet. It predicts something, possibly World War III, the AntiChrist... well, we'll leave the explanation up to you. I scanned this from a book I bought years ago, The Final Prophecies of Nostradamus, by Erika Cheetham. Her explanation is at the bottom, the original text on the left, and the translation on the right. Enjoy!

In the year 1999, and seven months
from the sky will come the great King of Terror.
He will bring to life the great king of the Mongols.
Before and after war reigns happily.

Misc. News: Mythos Games
13:58:  Mythos Games, a company that used to make Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, and now makes games for the PC, has released those games, and are even promoting Z80 and WSpecEm on their page. One more for the good guys! Check out their site, and download those games for all your Sinclair nuts out there. Thanks to Drak for letting ZD know about this.

Emulator Release: Snes9x 1.10 unofficial GUI
13:48:  Not much to say here, except that an unofficial release of Snes9x 1.10, with a GUI, is now available. It isn't supported by any of the Snes9x team, so don't ask. The GUI is rather simple, but does the job. Thanks to Xavier for the news.

You can download Snes9x 1.10 unofficial GUI from the SNES emulators page.

Emulator Release: Neo Danji 0.025
13:24:  Neo Danji 0.025, a Neo Geo emulator for DOS, has been released. Since the documentation is in KOREAN (hope I don't offend anyone this time), I don't know what's new. If you know, e-mail me. You can download Neo Danji 0.025 from the Neo Geo page.

Emulator News: PCOTT 0.05 in dev stages
13:04:  Gollum, author of Boycott and UFE, has e-mailed ZD to let us know that he is working on a portable PC emulator, coded in C/C++. Its goal is to provide a PC 8086 (80286 and 80386 later) emulation, especially for demos and games. It will be ported it (it is only for MsDOS for now) under several platforms (Unix, Linux). Here's a list of features of 0.05:

Frontend News: Forte 3.2X!
04:16:  Forte, the SPCPlay, OpenSPC and WinSPC frontend has been updated! This new version supports the new version of WinSPC and its window finding function.

You can get it from the SNES Emulator Frontends page.

Frontend News: SNES Game Centre 0.5!
03:54:  Gosh, I'm stupid :) I added this frontend to the SNES Emulator Frontends page yesterday, but I forgot to add the news. I must be getting senile or something :)
Anyways, this is a frontend for both SNES9x and ZSNES. It supports SNES9x 1.12 for DOS, No GUI version and, being the first to support it, ZSNES 0.715c.

You can get it off the SNES Emulator Frontends page.

11/12/98
Translation News: A couple of things...
19:32:  First of all, a new Bahamut's Lagoon patch was released by Starsoft. It fixes up some untranslated names, changes the dialog of the intro, and fixes the battle menu font among other things. Second, I'd like to thank all of you that mailed me about the new translation patch page. I fixed up lots of things becasue of you guys. Go there and check out the new stuff.

Emulator Release: Gameboy 98 0.04 Beta 1t
19:19:  Somehow, I never knew this emulator existed until I read about it on EmuCamp today, so thanks go out to them for finding it :) GameBoy 98 is obviously a GameBoy emulator, and it's for Windows. It has sound, and runs fine on a P166. It doesn't break any new ground, but you should check it out anyway. Here's what's new since 0.04 Beta 1s:

Frontend News: Jonathan Pearce's ZSNES frontend!
04:29:  Yes folks, here's another nice little ZSNES frontend. This one's just in beta stage yet and the author says he WILL add more features, so this one just might get really good.

You can pluck it off the SNES Emulato frontends page.

11/11/98
Emulator Release: X128 v0.92
18:57:  The Sinclair section is now updated to reflect the release of a new version of X128, James McKay's superb emulation of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum system. New fixes in this release:

Emulator Release: vMAME 0.34b7
18:12:  The scanline-optimized version of MAME, vMAME, has been updated to correspond with MAME 0.34b7's release. It has a bug which causes it to crash randomly, however, so beware. You can download vMAME 0.34b7 from the MAME page.

Site News: Amstrad CPC emulator section has been added
17:01:  This was going to be part of the 2 year anniversary festivities, but with the problems with the server and now, it's not till now that we can safely say that our new Amstrad CPC emulator section is up. The CPC was a popular computer system in Europe in the early-mid 80's, and many have fond memories of their CPC. Well, don't just stand there, go visit it, or else....

You can find the Amstrad CPC emulator section here.

Utility News: gym2mid 0.3.50
16:34:  A new release of gym2mid, a utility for converting Genecyst .GYM sound files to standard MIDI files, is now available. Actually, 0.3 was released right before 0.3.50, so here's what's new in both of them:

Emulator Release: aMAME & pMAME
15:56:  aMAME, a version of MAME compiled for AMD, 486 & Pentium 2 processors, and pMAME, for Pentiums, have been updated to the latest version of MAME's beta release, 0.34b7. You can download them from the MAME page.

Utility News: Zen OpenGL 1.03 plugin for PSEmu Pro
13:53:  CitiZen X has coded a PSEmu Pro plugin for OpenGL, called Zen OpenGL. It works fine on Rendition V220s, but it untested on other cards. It comes with free source as well. You can download the plugin from the PSEmu plugins page.

Emulator News: SNEmul
13:40:  Archiede has e-mailed ZD to let us know a few things about SNEmul. First off, the official homepage has moved to http://www.multimania.com/cassiop/. There's also a mirror in France which you can reach at http://www.epita.fr/~lannie_n/english.html.

He also says that SNEmul will soon be ported to Linux (X-Windows, running in a window), NetBSD/i386 and Windows Direct X.

Finally, he's releasing the source code to SNEmul before the year is over.

Emulator News: NeoDanji docs translated
13:36:  Thanks to Kaphwan, and Chris for e-mailing me about it, ZD now has the NeoDanji documentation translated into english. You can check it out at the Neo Geo emulators page.

Frontend News: Run It! games file updated!
02:49:  The Run It! games file has been updated for the new beta release of MAME. I've updated the zip file with it, so just go get it from the Universal frontends page.

11/10/98
Emulator Release: WinSPC 0.4 beta 5
23:48:  CitiZen X has released version 0.4 beta 5 of his SPC player for Windows, WinSPC. He has also released the source code. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: NINCEST 64 Win32 Beta 2
22:33:  The Win32 port of Marius's Nintendo 64 emulator, NINCEST 64, has been updated to Beta 2. From the readme, here's what's new in this release:

It now does DirectX Fullscreen, and is (IMHO) a very stable DirectX hybrid. If you don't know what I mean, Fullscreen & Windowed without restarting the emulator. I almost put in FPS, since I did a (minor) speed increase, but I wont disgrace myself until I get the video conversion optimized. On the next release, I hope to get the pause and kill (N64 emulation) commands working.

Remember, it doesn't run any commercial games yet. You can download NINCEST 64 Win32 Beta 2 from the Nintendo 64 emulators page.

Misc. News: Site changes
21:54:  2 emulator homepages have moved. The first being DTMNT, and the second being System 16 & M72 emulator. Both now have their own domain names. Be sure to update your bookmarks.

Emulator News: Angry herd of South Koreans
21:47:  By accident, I put on the Neo Geo emulators page that Neo Danji's homepage was in Japanese. A herd of angry South Koreans e-mailed me to remind me it was Korean, so I changed it. Sheesh. :)

Emulator Release: NES4PC 0.12
21:41:  Akilla has released a new NES emulator, named NES4PC. It's for Windows9X, and sports a pretty impressive GUI and debugger. It has a very low compatibility rate currently. There was another version released a few days ago, so here's what's 'new' in 0.12:

CPU:

Emulator News: fwGBC 0.1
21:19:  DogHuang has sent me an e-mail regarding a new emulator from FanWen, of fwNES fame. This one is a GameBoy Color emulator, and will be released soon:

The auther FanWen will have to serve his military service ( as a constitutional duty, I've just finished it and are to start my career) on Nov.17. So, fwGBC 0.1 will be released before Nov.16! That's the deadline.

fwGBC is an emulator which emulate the new GameBoy Color. FanWen has it that the release will support standard Gameboy games as well as Gamboy color games. As for the part of Super GameBoy, not enough time to do it.

He says currently it runs well with TetrisDX/DQM/Hexcite with colors. I guess that's as what we see in VGBwin 1.3. No comments on sound. :-)

A huge thanks to DogHuang for e-mailing ZD about this. Guess we shall wait and see :)

Misc. News: Cheeky Mouse port
21:15:  I've received an e-mail from aibs with regards to a converted version of Cheeky Mouse for Amiga emulators:

I have written a conversion of the classic arcade game Cheeky Mouse. It is FREEWARE so you can make it downloadable on your site, if you want to. It runs on amiga and Amiga emulators for the PC (tested on Win uae 0.8.6 r3 with kickstart 1.3).

You can get from http://www.bellag.dk/cheekymouse

You will find that the .ADF version is best suited for running on emulators, at is a .ADF version of an autobooting disk.

Be sure to check it out.

Utility News: NeoCut 1.0
21:12:  From the author of Run-It comes a simple little utiility to fix the bad Neo Geo ROM dumps that are floating around out there. I don't really know much more about this, check it out for yourself. You can download it from the Neo Geo Utilities page.

Misc. News: Genesis chart
20:18:  Sam Pettus has e-mailed ZD to ask for help in finding some hard-to-find games:

The following is a list of games I am trying to locate for the G3 and Genesis Chart updates. I know you guys have some of these; Morgothlord has a lot of them, and some may not have yet been dumped. I lost about a dozen "new" carts when my hard drive crashed last week that I hadn't backed up yet, and they're also on this list. If you have them, or know someone who does, or if any of your patrons have the original carts and would be willing to write a review in the new G3 format, them please let me know.

He can be reached at spettus@cswnet.com. Be sure to e-mail him if you have any of the games in the list below.

Utility News: HebeGB
19:12:  Corpse and Nailbomb have released new versions of their GameBoy all-in-1 (does everything you'd ever want to do to a GameBoy ROM) utility, HebeGB. The DOS version is at 1.5, and the Windows version is at 2.0. You have to check these out if you're interested in a GameBoy header util, checksum fixer, and a zillion other things to GameBoy ROMs.

You can download HebeGB 1.5 DOS and 2.0 Win9X from the GameBoy utilities page.

Site News: 2nd birthday has passed
18:33:  Well, ZD's 2nd birthday has passed, and we were up almost 65% of the day. I'm going to seriously look into what's causing these downtimes because, quite frankly, it has to stop.

On a happier note, we got hundreds of e-mails from all of you wishing us a happy birthday. I'll be sharing them with my staff today, and we'd like to all thank you, and remember, ZD will always be around. Whether it's up or down, it will never be dead forever.

Never.

Finally, I'll be doing a slew of updates soon (I haven't forgotten about any of your emails!), but not right now, because I have a splitting headache, so stay tuned.

Site News: Guess the ZD staffer...the results are in!
17:53:  For those who played our guess the staffer game, you may now see if you were right or wrong. For the rest of you, you can now see seven of our staff members' pictures with "no strings attached."

You can still play the guess the staffer game if you wish.

Wonder what one of us looks like? Well, why not find out!

11/9/98
Misc. News: Dracula-X Copy Project
18:26:  Harry Tuttle, webmaster of the famous site, "The Dump", has sent ZD an e-mail, so that we could let all of you know about the Dracula-X Project. He is trying to get Dracula-X released, on the web, in a compressed, downloadable form. However, he needs a lot of web space for this to be a reality. Visit the site below, and if you can help him out, he'd appreciate it greatly.

Emulator Release: BrMSX 1.153
18:19:  Wow, what a day this is turning out to be for ZD's 2nd anniversary. BrMSX, an MSX emulator for DOS, has been updated to version 1.153. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: MAME 0.34 Beta 7
18:12:  This is it folks. Incredibly, released on the 2 year birthday of Zophar's Domain, MAME now emulates the one Arcade game I've always wanted to see emulated: Mortal Kombat. My life, as far as arcade emulation goes, is complete. Of course, on my Cyrix, I probably won't have too much fun.

It also supports ones such as: Smash Tv, Total Carnage, Narc, Strike Force, Hi Impact Football, Super Hi Impact, and a few others. Support for MK2 possibly in the future.

You can download MAME 0.34 Beta 7 from the MAME page. Thanks to Dave of DavesClassics for the news.

Site News: Guess the ZD staffer!
13:48:  Well, I've been promising this one for a long time now. Thanks to UMAX Astra 610P scanners, Kodak film, and polaroid cameras, we can now have the 'Guess the ZD staffer!' contest. Basically, there are 12 staff members of ZD. 7 of us (I won't say which 7, for all you know, mine may not even be one of them...but it might be!) submitted pictures. 5 of us did not. Your job is to guess which picture matches which staff member. You only get one try (multiple submissions will be ignored). If you guess all 7/7, you get a mention on ZD's front page, and maybe something else (haven't decided yet).

May the games begin! And don't forget to wish ZD a happy birthday.

Emulator Release: ZD-SPC release 1.0
13:45:  WoW! Another SPC player for Windows 9x\NT out!!! This SPC player has the best eye candy of them all! It contains support of all SPC's. (spc, sp1, sp2 etc.) It can even minimize to the system tray so it can get out of your way! The CPU core of this program is the SNES 9x version 1.10a source code, and the decompression routines are from WinSPC. (quite slow, but not for long) This program was written in Visual C++ 6.0. (which means it's faster for Windows 98 users, but not by much) If you want a VERY good SPC player for windows 9x, and have CPU to spare... get this player now!

You can download ZD-SPC HERE!!!

For you lazy people, here.

Site News: The Largest thanks list you'll ever see
13:23:  As I promised last night at midnight, I am now going to thank each and every person that has ever helped, in ANY way, to make ZD what it is today. Even people that I may no longer be on...shall we say... best terms, are thanked here. Basically, I am 99.9% sure I didn't leave anyone out. Here we go...

I would now like to acknowledge everyone, (yes, EVERYONE) who has helped in ANY way, to make ZD what it is today. So, without furthur adeu, I'd like to thank:

Chris Hickman and all of Archaic Ruins (Your site was my inspiration, I hope all goes well for you in the future), Lance McKay (BLEEM, real? HAH!), Dave W, AvatarZ & Node99 (RIP), Zoop, Lilac & all of Emulation Camp, Jim Pragit (...), JoseQ, nIRV,

Matt Conte (Good luck on Nofrendo II), Sardu (opiate), Carlos Alberto Lozano Baides (heya esnes!), Ishmair, Miguel Angel, zsKnight (a good friend & great coder), _Demo_ (ditto), bpoint, JamSponge, Trepalium (Canadian!@!@), The_Teacher,

Chris Walk, SwampGas (ESPECIALLY for zophar.net), Stick Figure 98, JavaGod, [NOAM], Rouge, XiP, Infe (Master of CGI), Nitro, alamone, Bjorn Astrom, (they all put up with my BS, my mood swings; they are true heroes and deserve a HUGE round of applause),

InVerse, Steve Grimmett, Grit9000, Total, crispana (past staff members that helped out a great deal)

eV|Lh0mEr/Ryan Vines (You are almost the entire reason ZD exists, thanks for making ZD a reality),

Demi (pmk), EFX (Mr Smiley!), Astos, RXX (you DID make a difference), Pharos (how's BNC?), Bludstone, NutMonkey, Hiroshi, Stacey Flewelling (hehe), TaNdRuM, Etherman, MadHatter, DiskDude, MonoPuff, Nailbomb (good luck on that emulator!), letoram (Dark Fantasy will be finished someday), sui, Lk*1 (lK Kl), faraway (future Iraqi leader), xodiak, XxDethxX, XScrawlX, _DrMario_ (I called you once!), zane (King of CD-Rs), Frogger, IceWizard (you're only here because you didn't re-reg zophar.net after it died), Shamanix, Nobody (Hosting), JL_Picard, Ripfob (Hosting), Ubu (Hosting), Dark Force, Wild/rob, VegaC/Centario, splice, hypr/eD (haW), gb/woss (GameBoy games don't fit in the disk drive!), Haruki Ikeda (RIP), ChaosKnight, Wes, Alex K., Harris R., Andriss, SoM2Freak (2MoS), Barubary, Nuxx, ROmBO, GitM/NPS & Vertigo (RIP), SumideXE, Jeremy Chadwick (I got a big ole asshole!) & all of Parodius (RIP), Lucia & DragonmasterLou (they don't know why I'm thanking them though; neither do I :]), P2ey, Teeth (The_Proletaithtrirurirhtrwermgn), Holliman, Lagomorph, herbman, Omega (for the old emulators!), Magickian, imid,

and especially, all of you who have visited ZD since 1996, those who have found us somewhere in between then, and those of you who have just stumbled upon the site, for making ZD one of the most complete emulation websites on the internet!

To all of these people, I'd like to thank all of you, and, although I am 99% sure I didn't leave anyone out, please e-mail me if you think you've been forgotton.

Here's to more great years to come!

Zophar
November 9, 1998

Misc. News: SNES Compatibility Chart 1.52
13:12:  Sam Pettus has released version 1.52 of the best SNES Compatibility list out there! And hey, what's this I see at the top?

Site News: SPC Archive converted to RAR
13:01:  The new SPC Archive is unveiled, with over 1400 SPCs for your listening pleasure. The conversion to RAR has been a success, dramatically reducing filesize. For example, the 3MB Chrono Trigger soundtrack has been reduced to around 300K. Finally, the other archives have been updated: GS0, SRM, STA, ZST.

Site News: Translation Patch and Utilities pages updated!
11:40:  In honor of ZDs birthday I completely redid the trnaslation patch page. I added about 15 translations, updated several patches, and got rid of some dead links. I changed the format a little too. Go check it out and tell me how you like it. I also did a huge update on the translation utilities page.

Site News: Polls page updated
11:03:  The polls page has been updated again, to complement the virtual Mardi Gras that is ZD's birthday. Last week's questions and results:

"In your opinion, what emulation event in the past two years has had the most impact?"

Choice 1 was: "Mindrape stealing the NESticle source."
It received 43 votes (15.8 percent).

Choice 2 was: "FF5e and the Translation Wars."
It received 41 votes (15 percent).

Choice 3 was: "The departure and resurgence of SNES9x."
It received 43 votes (15.8 percent).

Choice 4 was: "The mainstreaming of emulation."
It received 95 votes (34.8 percent).

Choice 5 was: "MAME's impact on gaming."
It received 24 votes (8.8 percent).

Choice 6 was: "Next-Generation system emulation."
It received 27 votes (9.9 percent).

As for this week's question, it's another one commerative one:
"What part of ZD do you find the most useful?"

Go vote, damn it!

Site News: We're going again!
10:10:  Looks like the flood of hits last night at midnight took down a router or something, but it back up now. There will be special updates throughout the day, so keep checking back.

Site News: Zophar's Domain is 2 years old!
00:02:  Well, we did it! Some people thought it would never happen, but Zophar's Domain has turned 2 years old! Later tonight, I will be posting a HUGE list of people I want to thank for making Zophar's Domain possible. And now, on with the show! Here's to another great year of Zophar's Domain!

11/8/98
Site News: The Ghost Train
23:41:  The Ghost Train is coming in 20 minutes kiddies....can you hear it's scream?

Site News: #ZopharsDomain
21:36:  Me and a few staff, and other people, will be in #ZopharsDomain tonight, to celebrate Zophar's Domain's 2nd birthday. It's an IRC channel on Efnet (for those who don't know what that is, don't worry about it too much). You can stop by if you want and chat.

Site News: 3 hours to go
21:00:  Three more tortured hours of waiting for ZD's 2nd birthday. Bet you haven't been this excited since Wrestlemania XIV.

Emulator News: More on NeoDanji
20:30:  Thanks to DogHuang, we now know more about NeoDanji. First of all, the documentation is in Korean, not japanese. Secondly, it also runs Puzzle Bobble. Finally, you can check out a translation of the Korean documentation at http://www.pixi.com/~sisaeni/danji.htm.

Emulator Release: NeoDanji 0.02
16:43:  A new Neo Geo emulator for DOS has been released, by the name of NeoDanji. Not much is known about it, except that it is very fast, has PCM sound, and runs one game: Samurai Showdown 2. There is a utility included to convert the ROMs. The homepage is in japanese, and nothing else is known about it, so if anyone has any information, please let me know.

You can download NeoDanji 0.02 from the Neo Geo page. Big thanks to Ray for the news.

Site News: Reflections VI: Bet you didn't know...
15:53:  This is the final edition of Reflections, and should be the most interesting of any of them. Be sure to stop by ZD midnight EST tonight, for the 2nd year birthday of ZD... you should have some fun :)

I'm going to share with all of you now, some facts about ZD that you didn't know about, from before ZD originated, until the present. did you know...

The person who designed the original layout of ZD was 'eV|Lh0mEr', and it lasted for over half a year, before Infe gave it a 'face lift'.

The name 'Zophar's Domain' comes from a video game called 'Lunar: Eternal Blue' for the Sega CD. My nick wasn't always Zophar, however. Before September of 1996, I was known as 'Ghaleon', a charactar from Lunar 1, and before that, I was known as 'The Shadow'.

In 1995 and early 1996, I ran a local Philly BBS called 'The Shadow's Domain'. Go figure.

On December 4, 1996, ZD got frames, and they stayed for about 4 weeks. The design basically flopped, as all the frames were used for was to encase the logo, and 2 floating NES and SNES systems. They did nothing to help make the page easier to navigate.

On December 14, 1996, I attempted to start a protest to get The_Brain to remove the yellow cripple from VSMC. It didn't work :)

When ZD opened on November 9, 1996, it only had 3 finished sections: the front page, the What's new page, and a links section.

On February 21, 1997, Zophar's Domain was hacked by someone. We never found out who. Everything was deleted. That's ZipLink for you ;)

ZD has had staff since the beginning, but not nearly as many as we do now, and none of them were documented. Some included: Shamanix, crispana, and eV|Lh0mEr.

According to the old news for March 1997, ZD 'removed a roms section', which I don't even recall ever putting up. Alzheimer's disease setting in already?

NESticle 0.20, Rishgar 0.91, and MAME 0.14 were all released the same day: April 3, 1997.

ZD has won about 30 awards since its start, 29 of which we didn't even bother looking at :) The only award we ever mentioned was the OWC Award, which, by the way, Emu News Service reported on (it was the second news article ever posted on Emu News Service, the first being 'Welcome')

On May 31, 1997, I wrote something called 'The Emulation Dream'. It was inspired by 'Conscience of a Hacker' (I'm sure you all know what that is).

On June 29, 1997, I posted this on the What's New Page:
Non Emu Related: Tyson loses to Holyfield in Rd. 3 for biting a chunk of Holyfield's ear off!

ZD has been up more than it's been down (I bet that's a fun fact you didn't know).

Hope you enjoyed this final edition of Reflections. If you'd like to see more in the future, e-mail me and let me know.

Remember, ZD turns 2 years old at midnight EST. Be here, or be doomed to eat a stick of butter forever.

Emulator Release: X128 0.92?
13:09:  Well, normally I would go into something like this:

James McKay has released version 0.92 of his Sinclair Spectrim emulator. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: GalEMU 0.22
13:04:  A new version of GalEMU, a multi arcade emulator for DOS, which supports Galaxian, its bootlegs, and a number of other games. Here's what's new in 0.22:

Emulator News: Famicom 4.04e Release 2
12:50:  MEGAߥTE has made Release 2 of his Famicom 4.04 translated EXE available. Everything is now translated (except documentation, which may be done by someone else). Be sure to check out his Famicom page, or you can grab it at the ZD NES emulators page.

Misc. News: SPCAMP clarification
12:45:  SPCAMP .300, as you all know, was released last night. For those that don't understand what a Winamp plugin is, it's a DLL file that you copy into the 'plugins' dir of WinAmp that will allow the player to be able to play SPC files. For those who have never heard of WinAmp, it's a multi audio format player (MP2/3, various MOD formats, Wave audio, etc) for Windows. If you don't have WinAmp, get it at www.winamp.com.

SPCAMP .300 has also been added to the SPC Utilities page, if you just have to see the comments I wrote for it :)

Utility News: SPCAMP v0.300 released!
03:00:  ZSNES team has released v0.300 of SPCAMP, a .SPC WinAMP plugin! Download SPCAMP v0.300 at the ZSNES Archive Mirror.

Emulator Release: TrueReality v0.1.1 (for Unix)
02:27:  Latest (and greatest) version of TrueReality N64 emulator for Unix. Nothing really big to be reported in this version, that and there is no what's new, there may be better controller emulation, it is unclear at this time... The only difference that I can tell is that they are using real version numbers now, although I liked the old way better... Also, as long as I'm here, NSFE the N64 emulator for win9x has been put on hold, the author is trying emulate the first commercial games (Mario64), not sure what that has to do with clearing the NSFE archive, but it's good nontheless! Thanks to Xaviar for the news...

Unix N64 page.

Emulator Release: Generator v0.03 for Unix
02:01:  New Genesis emulator for Unix, this one works under all Unix will X-Windows. No sound, no joystick support, no saving/loading game files, and no readme, this emu should run full-speed on a p100, but it still needs some, although the author seems dedicated to perfect emulation of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Unix Genesis page.

11/7/98
Site News: More graphics reductions
19:38:  Thanks to Sean Laibinis for reducing the main logo down to 10KB. We'll be doing lots of graphics optimizations so that ZD will load faster and we'll have more bandwidth available. More = good :)

Site News: VSMC: The past of SNES emulation was then
13:34:  VSMC, the emulator, which The_Brain liked to call 'The future of SNES emulation', has long since been discontinued...however, I feel that it deserves its own news post. This was the emulator that really began SNES emulation, and on a higher plane, console emulation itself! A huge thanks goes out to TCK for this. This is VSMC .70 Beta, pre-release 1...

Site News: Reflections V: Ancient emulators
11:26:  This is a very special Reflections. In doing this one, I found myself having to stop downloading these ancient emulators, and play the ones I had downloaded so far, just for the heck of it! I hope you all enjoy it.

In looking back on the past 2 years, I decided to upload some 'ancient' emulators, ones that I had found on local BBSs and emulator sites such as Node 99 and Archaic Ruins (the two sites that I always visited in 1996). This has been made possible thanks to Rob`, Bomberman, letoram and Omega. Enjoy this classic emulators!

Arcade

MAME 0.1 [Released 2-5-97]
This was the first version of the ultimate multi arcade emulator, MAME. MAME, which, as you all know, stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, only ran five games at the beginning: Crush, Ladybug, PacMan, MsPacman, and Pengo. Comes with full source too :)

GameBoy

VGB-DOS 0.62 [Released 5-28-96]
This emulator has special meaning for me. It was the first emulator I ever saw, back in July of 1996, when I had bought my new computer. My friend Ross (gb) told me about emulators, to which I responded, "haha, you can't fit GameBoy games in the disk drive". Boy, those were the days :) This was the fourth release of VGB-DOS. Check it out, still quite good as far as GameBoy emulation goes.

Genesis

GenEm 0.17 [Released 11-16-96]
This was the third version of GenEm, the second Genesis emulator (the first being MegaDrive, still available on ZD), coded by Markus Gietzen. This version included a faster, less compatible version and a slower, more compatible version. No FM sound was implemented yet, just PSG, emulated through the PSG. Sounded like crap but it was amazing nonetheless :)

NES

NESA 0.13 [Released 9-12-96]
This was one of the earlier NES emulators. Coded in assembly by Paul Robson, author of other emulators like GB 97, A26 (became Z26 by John Saegar), and TNES (previously NESA). There was no sound, and the best you'd get back then was Pasofami and iNES :) Still, it was faster than most others, and ran a few games.

Master System/GameGear

Massage 0.61 [Released 10-26-96]
The first Master System/GameGear emulator I ever used (I actually used 0.45, but can't find it to put here), it is STILL a great emulator, since there still aren't many SMS-GG emulators. This was the C version, which wasn't as fast as 0.7x and later, but who cares, it's a classic!

SNES

ESNES 0.10a [Released 3-12-97]
I actually used 0.02a of ESNES first, in 1996, but this was the earliest release I could find. ESNES was an SNES emulator coded in C by Carlos Baides, and when I first beta tested it, it could run a few demos, and Mr. Do! =)

Snes96 0.3.904 [Released 11-05-96]
There were many versions of Snes 96 before this, but this was one of the first versions that could play games at some sort of playable speed on fast computers. I found myself thinking back to when I found an even older Snes96 on a local Philadelphia BBS. Ahh, the good old days...

Snes97 0.0.0.1 [Released 3-3-97]
This was the first version of Snes97, which was Snes96 and then some. This version ran about 25 games or so, all of which fit in a tiny little text file :) Compare that with the SNES compatibility list's size, with all the games Snes9X now runs. WOW!

Super Pasofami 1.2e [Released 6-10-96]
3 words: DON'T RUN THIS. Unless you want to experience pain. :) This is the famous 'trojan version' of Super Pasofami, which deletes files like win.com if you attempt to register it, or edit the emulator in any way. Future versions of Super Pasofami may have contained this as well. A good emulator which was totally avoided due to 1.2e.

SNES Professional 0.05b [Released 11-17-96]
This emulator never really became much. This version ran nothing, and the final version ran a couple games. However, the reason it's here is because 1)it's old, 2)it was the third SNES emulator I ever tried, and 3)It has a kickass GUI. Enjoy the memories.

VSMC 0.9611a [Released 12-8-96]
This was the final version of VSMC before a yellow palette was inserted to make it pretty much unplayable. This was also the final free version of VSMC before The_Brain started charging. What can I say? Super Pasofami was the only emulator more advanced at the time, and this could have been something...download it and relive the memories!

I hope you enjoyed today's Reflections! Any questions/comments? E-mail me. 2 days and counting to ZD's 2nd birthday!

Misc. News: SNES Pad Support site
09:22:  A site I've known about for a while, but never really had time to post about...until now. This is a support site for people who wish to see emulators support the SNES pad, which can hook up to your PC through adapters, and other things. Check it out.

Emulator News: Future Simpsons and TMNT2 emulator
09:13:  The Ravage team has been working on a TMNT2 and Simpsons Arcade emulator. They are asking for help: anyone who has schematics for TMNT2 and the Simpsons Arcades, please e-mail any info to ravageteam@hotmail.com. Any help would be appreciated.

Utility News: gym2mid 0.2
05:57:  Paul Jensen has released version 0.2 of his Genesis GYM to MIDI file converter, gym2mid. This program is great for people wishing to create Genesis MIDI music, but want to have a base to work from, instead of starting from scratch. Here's what's new:

Emulator News: Virtual Boy emulation?
05:43:  I received an e-mail today pointing me to a page that seems to be making an attempt to emulate the Virtual Boy. If the screenshots are any indicator, it seems to be coming along. You might want to check it out. Thanks to 'mrg' for the news.

Site News: Smaller staff icons
05:38:  Once again, thanks to SumideXE, the 'staff' icons have been reduced from a total of 14KB to 8KB. This should make for slightly faster loading time, and should reduce strain on the server, meaning faster speeds for all of you.

Translation News: Famicom 4.04e
05:28:  Thanks to MEGAߥTE of Patent Pending, we now have an English translation of Seil's NES emulator, Famicom, for Windows. All but 2 lines are translated, and the documentation also needs to be translated, so anyone who can help out, feel free to do so.

Also, Patent Pending is down, due to SimpleNet's 'no emulator' policy, so stay tuned for more on that.

You can download Famicom 4.04e from the NES emulators page.

Translation News: Tales of Phantasia 1.6
00:52:  The ToP 1.6 patch is out. All the spells should be finished in this version, along with a few items. Get it while its hot (at the translations page).

11/6/98
Translation News: New FF5 patch and others
21:45:  Looks like RPGe has put their patches online. Go check out their page and get the new FF5 patch.

Emulator Release: z26 1.19
21:29:  Here's a new version of z26 for ya! This is what's new:

Site News: Reflections IV: The 5,000 fingers of Zophar's Domain
00:38:  For the few of you who have been visiting Zophar's Domain since the beginning, you should know that we have moved more times than a wandering nomad in the desert. But just how many moves do any of you recall? Well, this reflection will show each URL, the approximate duration we stayed for, and why we left. Note: ~ means approximately.

~October 1996 - November 9, 1996
URL:http://www.geocities.com/ .... (not sure of the actual URL)
Reason for leaving: What can I say? With 1 meg of space at the time, slow speeds, and a URL no one could remember, it just wasn't fun. At the time, the website wasn't really Zophar's Domain, as it had nothing to do with emulation.

November 9, 1996 - September 28, 1997
URL:http://www.ziplink.net/~shadow5
Notes: This was my ISP until the president of ZipLink changed the Agreement Terms to include 1)no more than 100 hours of use a month and 2) no more than 5 MB of space, with bandwidth restrictions.
Reason for Leaving: Same reason I left ZipLink and went with Voicenet. Not enough space, time, or bandwidth.

September 28, 1997 - November 21, 1997
URL:http://silent.darkening.com/~zophar/
Notes: The news page on September 28, 1997 read - Zophar's Domain has moved! Thanks go out to 'Nobody', who is now hosting my site!
Reason for leaving: The site was DoS'd by an unknown person, causing it to go down for a few hours. The admin flipped out, and we were kicked off.

November 21, 1997 - March 27, 1998
URL:http://zophar.internexus.net/
Notes: This was our first subdomain, provided by Ripfob and JL_Picard. This was when the modern ZD as you know it began to take shape. For a while it seemed as though we had finally settled in. However, I guess we were too much for the T1 New Jersey ISP to handle.
Reason for leaving: We used too much bandwidth for it to handle, and we were asked to leave.

March 27, 1998 - June 13, 1998
URL:http://zophar.malicia.com
Notes: Ahh, Malicia... this was when the 'downtime fairy' started visiting us. We had much more freedom, space, and bandwidth than ever before, and after almost 3 months, I was sure we were settled in.
Reason for leaving: We never really left! Instead, we moved to another 'box' which was also run by the same person who ran Malicia, and we became...

June 13, 1998 - August 8, 1998
URL:http://www.zophar.net (zophar.net)
Notes: Well, we thought we had it all. We were hosted on 'milhouse.web-ex.com' now, but with our own domain name, no one knew. All was well...until...
Reason for leaving: We lost the name! Someone didn't pay the bill! Cough.

August 8, 1998 - September 30, 1998
URL:http://zophar.malicia.com (milhouse.web-ex.com/~zophar)
Notes: We were still on milhouse, but zophar.malicia.com pointed to it.
Reason for leaving: We got our domain name back! We never left the server, but changed back to zophar.net

September 30, 1998 - ???
URL:http://www.zophar.net

What does the future hold for ZD? Only The Shadow knows... ;-)

Stay tuned for tommorow's edition of Reflections!

11/5/98
Site News: Save archives updated
23:58:  Updated: SRM, ZST, CHT archives.
Regarding the SPC archive's conversion to RAR, it will be unveiled in the near future... around 60 MBs of ZIPs have been reduced to 10 MBs of RARs. The SPC count is in excess of 1300 at the moment.

Emulator Release: VGB 1.3 Ports
22:09:  Ports to Marat Fayzullin's GameBoy emulator, VGB, for FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS, and OSF/1 have been released and posted on Marat's page. They will be added to ZD soon. Also, all of these include emulation for the GameLink feature via TCP/IP, but it's still far from perfect.

Emulator Release: DTMNT 0.54
21:45:  The mystery of the missing speech has been solved! The sound ROMset that is currently floating arouind is incomplete. The one change in this version is just that:

Misc. News: Combat School documentation update
20:51:  The Combat School emulator's documentation, which was written in a different language, was recently translated by Dragon-X. He has just updated the documentation, with help from his bilingual friend, so more of it makes sense now. Get it at the page below.

Emulator Release: Famicom 4.04
20:46:  Famicom, a japanese NES emulator for Windows, has been updated to version 4.04. I have no translation available for this new version, and since I don't read japanese, I can't tell you what's new. Anyone who can translate, drop me an e-mail.

You can download Famicom 4.04 from the NES emulators page.

Site News: Logo size reduced
20:35:  Thanks to SumideXE, the ZD logo's size went from 20KB to 14KB, a nice size reduction of 6KB.

Frontend News: Forte 3.0X!
04:54:  Forte, formerly named Forté and SPCPlugin :), the SPC Player frontend with the most features among all of them has been updated!
This new version features:

11/4/98
Translation News: Tales of Phantasia 1.5
21:33:  Just a few hours after I post the first one and another one comes out. All of the spells are now translated, although some are abbreviated alot. Get it at the translations page.

Translation News: Tales of Phantasia translation
19:14:  I don't want to get your hopes up too much, so I'll start off with this: This will not be a full translation. Now that that's out of the way, I'll tell you the good stuff. This patch will translate the menus and the status screens on ToP. It will help you alot with general gameplay. There also might be another patch on the way with translated spells. Get it, have fun, and stay tuned...

Emulator Release: PentiuMAME, aMAME version 0.34
19:04:  I decided to upload PenituMAME, and aMAME re-compiled for speed. PentiuMAME is for Intel Pentium processors, and aMAME is for AMD, Pentium 2, and 486 computers.

You can download both PentiuMAME and aMAME at the MAME page.

Site News: M.A.M.E. now moved to http://zophar.net/mame.html
19:01:  Well, we decided to move the MAME emulators into a seperate html file. This should make it easier to get MAME when new releases come out! :D

You can go to the new MAME page here.

Emulator Release: Hu6280 1.83
16:49:  JamSponge has released version 1.83 of his TG-16 emulator for DOS, Hu6280. Just some minor changes:

Emulator Release: vMAME BETA 0.34b6
16:01:  A new verion of vMAME was released. It is faster than pMAME and MAME but about 10% in scanline modes. If you have a slow computer, and are having speed problems, then go ahead and download vMAME today!

You can get vMAME at the Multiple Arcade Emulators page.

vMAME is a multiple arcade emulator for DOS.

Site News: Reflections II: The week of sorrow
12:51:  The first week of April was, indeed, a week that changed emulation forever (for better, or for worse? You decide). The events of this week include: The first release of NESticle, the death of Haruki Ikeda (for those of you who weren't around then, he was working on a Genesis emulator; he died in a car crash), the theft of the NESticle source, NESticle's cancellation, and the death of DC (Damaged Cybernetics). Here's the news ZD reported on that fateful week:

[Begin ancient News]

04/03/97
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NESticle 0.2 released!!! GET IT NOW!!! INES KILLER!!!!!!

NESticle was released recently and it is GREAT!!! Good sound and great pallete, with win95 and dos versions included!! Get it now and try it fer yerself!!!!

04/06/97
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Haruki Ikeda has died

He will be missed greatly, as he was invaluable to the emulation scene. In memory of Haruki Ikeda, we ask for anyone who wants to start a genesis emulator project, a colloberative effort, as Haruki was in the middle of coding Kyoto when he got into his car accident and was killed...we must not let his memory be in vain...

04/07/97
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Mindrape has destroyed NESticle

Mindrape has recently STOLEN the source for nesticle from Sardu, and distributed it in efnet's #emu. Even after many people objected he continued to offer it. Now Sardu has discontinued NESticle because of this. A Big FUCK YOU to Mindrape (Yes, this is the first time you've ever seen cursing on ZD and hopefully the last). Many of the #emu people have gone elsewhere, since almost NO ONE supports what Mindrape did. Oh, and Mindrape has most likely screwed DC over because of this. Thanks a lot Mindrape you bastard....we're hope you are happy with what you've done..

04/08/97
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Ding, Dong, DC is dead!

As Cixel from #emuroms stated so beautifully, DC has disbanded. Thank God, I say, now the emulation scene can try to make something out of this. I can inform you all that GitM is working hard to bring you the best in NES roms and translations/hacks. TyphoonZ has AR on archaic-ruins.parodius.com now, so we shall see what happens..

[End ancient News]

Any questions, comments, or anything else with regard to this edition of "Reflections"? E-mail me and let me know.

Emulator Release: Virtual GameBoy 1.3
12:19:  Marat Fayzullin has released version 1.3 of his GameBoy emulator (Windows version) to registered users. The unix ports will be available when Marat compiles them. Here's the list of new features in VGB 1.3:

Emulator Release: NINCEST 64 0.05b
11:27:  Marius Dumitrean has released a Win32 port of his Nintendo 64 emulator, NINCEST 64. Remember, NINCEST 64 is a beta and therefore you shouldn't be e-mailing bug reports and the like to anyone. You can download NINCEST 64 0.05b for Win32 from the Nintendo 64 emulators page.

Emulator News: N'tendo Beta stuff.
03:54:  So. Any of you lot out there who wants to try a pre-beta of N'tendo? :)
This beta has a kinda nice debugger with a little custom font and stuff and it supports 20 or so opcodes.

If you want to try it, you can pluck it from here.

Frontend News: fwNES Express 0.3!
03:00:  The most up-to-date fwNES frontend has been updated! fwNES does have a GUI now, but I don't know if it supports all the command line options like this frontend does yet. :)

You can get it from the NES Emulator frontends page.

Frontend News: TeleKawaru frontend news
02:49:  This is just a little update for all you people out there who might want to know :)
I've fixed the link to TeleKawaru's homepage, which strangely hosts all his frontends :), and I've also added his SPCPlay frontend: TeleKawaru's SPCPlay frontend.

You can get it from the SNES Emulator frontends page.

11/3/98
Emulator News: SSEmu canceled
23:20:  SSEmu, a Sega Saturn emulator that never really emulated anything, and hasn't been updated in ages, has been canceled. I noticed that the author is offering to sell the Saturn documentation he has received... which is funny because I remember sending him much of that info.

Anyways, thanks to Chris for the news.

Translation News: Rockman & Forte 0.4
22:52:  After over a month without updates, some of you may have thought that AAGT was dead. Well its not! They have a new R/F patch out that features a translation of Roll's reciever dialogue. There are also some other minor changes. Get it at the translation patch page, or I will kill you (maybe).

Emulator News: Boycott 0.43b release soon
20:26:  Gollum has e-mailed ZD to let us know that a new release of Boycott, his MS-DOS GameBoy emulator, will be available soon. Here's what will be in 0.43b:

Emulator Release: PCSloMo 0.24br3
20:16:  Don Jarrett has released version 0.24br3 of his multi arcade emulator for Windows. PCSloMo now supports 32 games. Here's what's new:

Site News: Poll Update
19:58:  Ok, for my first act of duty as poll maintainer, I do the only thing I'm able to really do: update the poll! Here's the results from the last poll:

"Pokemon, PSX, and Neo*Geo emulation : right or wrong?"

Choice 1 was: "It's all good!"
It received 116 votes (35.7 percent).

Choice 2 was: "Pokemon's alright, as the Gameboy is a portable system."
It received 6 votes (1.8 percent).

Choice 3 was: "The PSX is alright, as there's not much ROM distribution."
It received 39 votes (12 percent).

Choice 4 was: "The Neo*Geo is alright, playing arcade games doesn't hurt SNK directly."
It received 14 votes (4.3 percent).

Choice 5 was: "Pokemon and the PSX are okay, but not Neo*Geo, it's warez."
It received 9 votes (2.8 percent).

Choice 6 was: "The PSX and the Neo*Geo are okay, but not Pokemon."
It received 28 votes (8.6 percent).

Choice 7 was: "Pokemon and the Neo*Geo are okay, but not PSX."
It received 14 votes (4.3 percent).

Choice 8 was: "It's wrong, but I'll play them anyways! :P"
It received 42 votes (12.9 percent).

Choice 9 was: "I don't care, period."
It received 26 votes (8 percent).

Choice 10 was: "Emulating anything new is wrong!"
It received 31 votes (9.5 percent).

The new poll is one that's pretty much in line with ZD's birthday and all:

"In your opinion, what emulation event in the past two years has had the most impact?"

Exercise your right in the Polling Grounds.

Utility News: New PSEmuPro plugins
19:02:  Two new plugins for PSEmuPro have been released. Here they are:

Site News: Reflections I: The Translation wars
18:25:  This is the first part in a series of nostalgic ZD updates. I'll be randomly picking news posts that we've done over the past few years, and posting them here.

The following updates were posted on the 'News page' (which was merged with another page; we used to have 2 pages: a what's new page, and a news page) from June 11-12, 1997. They're in relation to the FF5 translation, way before RPGe existed, and Timko was at 'war' with Shadow...

[Begin ancient news]

06/11/97
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Shadow steals parts of FF5j from Timko's translation!

Shadow of dragonfire.net from the homepage http://www.dragonfire.net/~shadow1/netscape.html has stolen parts of David Timko's FF5j translation, which is at silent.darkening.com/~zophar/ff5e. Also, on his readme he has made it quite clear that he is in war with David Timko. I think shadow should be ashamed of himself.
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- The 16x16 tiles are being edited in pure HEX to binary code by moi. In your face David Timko! A stupid *** like you will never get it.
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Feel free to email this person with your comments >:]

Shadow alleges Timko lied!

Shadow says that he did NOT steal the translation, and in fact says he's been working on it for 2 months. Who is telling the truth? Beats me.

06/12/97
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Timko & Shadow merge!!

They have joined forces now! See the FF5e mirror on my page at http://silent.darkening.com/~zophar for furthur details on this great merge! Now maybe some work will get done :)

[End ancient News]

You can see the old, ancient "News" page at the link below. Be warned, however, it's like looking at the first draft of the Magna Carta ;)

Emulator Release: MAME32 V. 0.34b6
18:19:  MAME32, the Win32 version of MAME (of course you knew that already), has been updated to Version 0.34 beta 6. Here's what's new in the port (not the actual MAME):

Emulator Release: BRMSX Version 1.152
17:08:  This is turning out to be a pretty kickass day in emulation. BRMSX Version 1.152 was also released today. Here is a list of what's new:

Misc. News: EmuCamp is back!
17:42:  After months of Emulation Camp being down due to SimpleNet's 'no emulation' rule, it's back! It sports a new look, and...well, just check it out for yourselves :)

Emulator Release: Handy 0.52
17:37:  Keith Wilkins has released version 0.52 of his Lynx emulator for Windows 9X, Handy. Most noted change in this version is the added support for DirectSound. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: fwNES .301
17:28:  A small bugfix release of fwNES has been released. I could only find whats new on the Taiwan site, and here it is:

Misc. News: Famicom Disk System ROM added
17:05:  This is an update for all you hardcore Nes fans. It is the BIOS ROM from the Famicom Disk System. It is needed for FWNes to run FDS games. You can download it from the console BIOS ROM page.

Site News: ZD's Screen Saver updated
16:09:  I took off some icons... and updated some!

You can get the screen saver here.

Utility News: Metedit V. 0.7/Last Utils Update
14:58:  I have two pieces of news to report here. The first is that Kent Hansen has updated one of his level-editing utilities, this one being Metedit. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: MZ80 2.4
13:01:  A new version of Neil Bradley's Z80 cpu core was released about a month ago, and a few other versions were released that we missed. Heres whats new since 1.0:

Misc. News: Combat School docs translated
04:39:  About a week ago, an arcade emulator for Combat School was released. The documentation was in spanish. Now, thanks to Dragon-X, it's been translated into English. Be sure to download it at the Single Arcade emulators page, and a huge thanks goes out to Dragon-X for providing the documentation to ZD.

Misc. News: SNES Chart v 1.51
04:22:  Sam Pettus has just released version 1.51 of his SNES emulator compatibility chart. And the results are no surprise. ZSNES runs the most games out of any of the 4 covered emulators:

Site News: More Halloween treats
04:07:  Well, it's now 4:00AM on the east coast, but that doesn't mean that we still can't throw in some Halloween evil to depress your day. First off, don't forget to scroll down the page and check out my 'Necromican' post, and anyone who wants to cast a spell on me, feel free, for the powers of evil cannot hurt other powers of evil :)

Secondly, be sure to check out InVerse's Halloween ROM section with ROMs based on slasher films. Trust me, even if you don't like the man, you'll love the site :) At least, you'd better, or I'll cast a spell on all of you with my book of the Necronomicans.

Finally, please remember to cast evil spells on the RIAA, the IDSA, and the SPA, and to pick up your copy of H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Necronomican'. You'll be glad you did.

Emulator Release: XPCE 0.09 & 0.10 beta
03:52:  Missed update #8 (the final one): XPCE 0.09 and its source was released last week, and somehow, we missed it. I have no idea what's new in 0.09, and 0.10 is a beta with no documentation. Anyone want to translate what's new in these versions?

You can download XPCE 0.09 and 0.10 beta from the Turbo Grafx 16 emulators page.

Misc. News: fwNES website
03:05:  In case anyone didn't know, the fwNES website is located at the site below. Be sure to update your bookmarks if you're still using the old .tw site.

Emulator Release: FWNES 0.30
02:27:  Missed update #7: A new version of FWNES for DOS has been released! WOOOHOO!!! Here is a list of what's new:

Emulator Release: ZSNES 0.715c
02:14:  Missed update #6: It's a shame I missed the release of ZSNES 0.715c, but it could be worse, I could have been attacked by a herd of wild elephants led by a man with a Computer Science degree from Illinois :)

This is mostly a bugfix release, but there's plenty of bugs that were fixed, so I recommend you grab this one. The 'c' after the version number means that it's the version with C code in it (one with all assembly will be released in the future for people having problems with the 'c' versions). Here's what's new:

Utility Release: PSEmu Pro plugin updated!
02:13:  Nik released a new version of his Direct 3D plugin for PSEmu Pro.

You can download this plugin from the Plugins page.

Emulator Release: Come Back 64 0.98
01:54:  Missed update #5: A new version of Come Back 64, a Commodore 64 emulator for DOS with freely available source code is available. Just a few bugfixes in 0.98:

Emulator Release: MAME 0.34b6 DOS
01:39:  Missed update #4: Yes, we missed out on the Neo Geo sound release of MAME, but better late than never. This new release adds support for 22 new games, fixes some bugs, and the most important update of all, it adds support for Neo Geo sound. It's the first emulator to support it, so it's your only choice for now, if you want sound. Be warned, though, for even on a P2-233 it's pretty slow.

Remember, this is a BETA release, so please don't expect it to be perfect. You can download MAME 0.34b6 DOS from the Multi Arcade emulator page.

Translation News: DL tools released
01:26:  I've released the tools made to patch Der Langrisser. Do what you will with them. -(warui toransu).

Emulator Release: WinUAE 0.8.6 Release 5
01:07:  Missed update #3: While ZD was down, a new version of WinUAE was released. Just some minor changes in 0.8.6 Release 5:

Emulator Release: MSKISS 0.1.0
00:48:  Missed update #2: A new version of MSKISS, an MSX emulator for DOS, was released while ZD was down. New in 0.1.0:

Emulator Release: Z26 1.18
00:37:  Here's missed update #1. While ZD was down, a new version of John Saegar's Atari 2600 emulator, Z26, was released. Just one bugfix in 1.18:

Misc. News: Midnight on Old Hallow's Eve
00:26:  Well, it's just past midnight on Halloween, and, in the tradition of ZD Friday the 13th and Halloween nights, I will leave you all with a few links to contemplate. This Halloween's focus on ZD is the Necronomican. H.P Lovecraft wrote this book years ago, and it is said to be the ancient Book of the Dead, and by casting its evil spells, you never know what might happen...

Here are some links: