Emulator Release: System 16 .82 for DOS is released!!!
23:31: System 16 version .82 for DOS is released! Please download this at the Multi Arcade Emulator Page! This is what is new in the new System 16
Site News: SPC archive updated, other submissions lost
21:57: Updated: SPC archive.
All submissions to the other archives were accidentally lost, please resend them if you have the time. Thanks.
Emulator Release: Tosbox Dec. 23 beta (DOS)
21:00: The new beta of Tosbox, Atari ST emulator. Without a real version number too. Runs under CWSDPMI, unlike the last beta, Dec. 18. This beta is also about 20% faster (on the development machine, a Cyrix 686). If you have problems with VESA syncing add a "mode delay n".
Get it at the DOS Atari ST page.
Site News: New years in the east in 3 hours 20 minutes
20:42: It will be 1999 here in eastern U.S. in about 3 hours and 20 minutes. Anyone who'd like to celebrate the upcoming 1999 can come on IRC into my channel, #ZopharsDomain. Stick around for a while, you might have some fun :)
Site News: Links Page Updated!
18:18: Hey hey hey, like I said, I updated the Links page! I added like 2-3 new sites on to the list and ERASED all of the broken links! Now all of the links SHOULD work. If some of them don't work or you want your page on to the link list, please E-mail me at darkmazda@microdsi.net. Thank you and enjoy your New Years! :)
Site News: 1999 is coming...
17:41: Since 1999 is coming soon, and it may be the last new year that we experience (bwuahahaa), I figured I'd post my New Year's resolutions right here.
10) I will try to only post Nostradamus predictions every other month, for the weak of heart.
9) I will refrain from beating ZD staff members with a hard brass whip from Castlevania II.
8) I will stop rehiring staff members who delete front pages.
7) I will play StarCraft for often.
6) I will stop purchasing computer parts from Best (Worst) Buy.
5) I will believe in God again (after all, i believe in myself all the time! bwuahahaha.)
4) I will prepare myself to go to hell at the end of 1999.
3) I will buy a 17" monitor so my eyes don't die at 1024X768.
2) I will stop eD from purchasing a Voodoo Banshee.
1) I will stop accepting free Cyrixes.
My creativity level today is not that high, so forgive the stupidity of 75% of these.
Site News: New Links Maintainer
17:29: Hiya all!! My name is Jason Kono(A.K.A DarkMazda from YnT/RPGe/DMD) and I am the new Links maintainer for Zophar's Domain. I will make a HUGE UPDATE for the links page later on today since I saw LOTS of broken links and stuff. Feel free to E-mail me at darkmazda@microdsi.net with your comments and suggestions to the Links page! I have to really thank the Zophar's Domain Staff members for letting me in as a Staff member to the one of the Best emulation sites on the net!
Emulator Release: PSEmuPro 1.0.20
17:13: Yeah! In honor of the coming arrival of 1999, the PSEmuPro authors released a new version of their emu. Get it at the PSX page.
Emulator Release: DarcNES Updates
15:50: First of all, when I posted DarcNES about a week ago, I didn't realize it's for both Linux *and* DOS. I've now included it on the DOS NES Emulators page too, though you'll have to compile the DOS version yourself since one isn't provided from the official DarcNES page.
Ok.. now for the new release itself.. there have actually been two releases within the last 24 hours, so here's what's new in both.
v.19981230:
v.19981231:
You can download the Linux binary and source code from the NES Emulators for Unix page and the source code to compile a DOS version from the NES Emulators for DOS/Win page.
Emulator Release: MAME v.34 DOS Final
13:35: The final DOS port of MAME v.34 has been released. The What's New seems to be untouched since Release Candidate 2 so unless someone tells me otherwise, I'll assume there were just minor bugfixes. You can download MAME from the MAME Ports page.
Site News: Unresignation
13:29: Problem resolved, 'nuff said. ; )
12/30/98
Emulator News: DBOY 0.36 what's new
21:27: The what's new to DBOY 0.36 has now been translated to english, thanks to the official DBOY page having an english translation for the readme. Here's what's new:
Well, something like that. Be sure to check out the official DBOY page.
Emulator Release: aMAME & PMAME 0.34rc2
21:21: Release Candidate 2 of aMAME & PentiuMAME 0.34 has been released to correspond with MAME's 0.34rc2 a few days ago. You can download aMAME & PMAME 0.34rc2 from the MAME page.
Emulator Release: RockNES v0.60b released
20:07: The big news is sound support. Here's what else is new:
Download RockNES at the NES Emulators page.
Site News: ZD Poll Mid-Week Update
19:32: Well, as I promised, I'm doing a update on how the poll is doing mid-week. Here's some info about the current poll:
Do emulators of current consoles (like the Color Game Boy and the Playstation) make you less likely to buy the system or games?
Choice 1 was: "Yes, because I don't have to buy the system to play the games."
It received 47 votes (12.7 percent).
Choice 2 was: "Yes, because I want to play only a few games made for the system(s)."
It received 54 votes (14.6 percent).
Choice 3 was: "No, it makes me more likely to by the system."
It received 107 votes (28.9 percent).
Choice 4 was: "No, it makes me equally likely to buy it one way or the other."
It received 132 votes (35.7 percent).
Choice 5 was: "I don't care. I wanna play MAME. I don't care about these new systems."
It received 30 votes (8.1 percent).
Anyway, the poll is still open, and will be open until Saturday.
Oh yeah, so my mind doesn't hit a blank while I'm doing these polls, I wouldn't mind any ideas for them. So, if you have any, e-mail me.
Site News: Back...
19:20: Well, I take a short vacation, and as usual, all hell breaks loose. But rest assured, things will be getting back to normal here. We are very sad to see InVerse leave, and hopefully, I can work something out to get him back (don't worry about the person who threatened him, it's being taken care of).
Also, there is a *slight* possibility that, unfortunately, www.zophar.net might cease to work sometime in the near future. Don't be alarmed, it's a small possibility. So, bookmark this page: The official ZD location page. This page will never move.
Of course, I'm probably being paranoid, but bookmark that page just in case. Thanks to all for visiting ZD. 1999 is almost upon us. :)
Site News: Another Resignation
12:43: When I rejoined ZD, I made a promise to Zophar that nothing bad would happen to the site as a result of my involvement. This promise was intended to mean that I would do nothing against ZD myself, but now, due to terrostic threats made against Zophar's Domain as a result of my participation as a staff member, I feel I must resign so as not to break my promise to Zophar. I apologize for any problems my leaving might cause but I'm sure Zophar's Domain will recover with no problem, as it always does. I'd like to thank Zophar for giving me a second chance and I wish that I could have did more with the opportunity. Maybe I'll be back in the future if the current issues can be resolved, but don't count on it. As a result of several recent occurances, I have a bad taste in my mouth concerning the emulation scene. I think it's about time I dropped out and focused on what emulation is all about, the games. I have a list of Nintendo games I was never able to beat as a child.. I plan to do something about that now. To paraphrase my own text file... Until next time, save your smart bombs, avoid the eggplants and be careful with the warp zones, because once you hit -1, you don't come back. End of line.
Emulator Release: Famicom 5.0 beta 1
02:25: Since this new version of Famicom is in Japanese, I can't tell you exactly what's new, but I'll tell you what I've heard. I've heard that it has a partially implemented English mode and it runs some NES files now. If you want to download Famicom (or Pasofami since I forgot to put a link by it), go to the NES page.
Emulator Release: Pasofami 0.0j
02:19: Here's another new version of Pasofami, but I don't know what's new cause I cant read Japanese.
12/29/98
Misc. News: Emu Xpress Two-year Anniversary
16:14: Two years ago today, Emu Xpress (one of the most influential emulation sites around) was begun. It has seen better days, but it's still a great site to go to. It's my personal favorite.
Although I had to actually remind Lance McKay, the creator and maintainer of the site, that this was the big day, he left a little bit of a history of how the site was created and where it has gone from there. Anyway, e-mail Lance and give him a few kind
words about the site (possibly to get him to update more :).
Misc. News: The State of ZD Address
14:54: Well, I couldn't update all morning because my browser was broken.. I had to downgrade back to Netscape 4.08 from 4.5. Now that I've finally got everything working again, I can't find anything worth updating about. If I'm missi
ng something, somebody tell me, damnit. And as for the links page maintainer, he'll be making his debut very soon along with a big update to the links page, so stay tuned.
12/28/98
Emulator Release: Z26 1.23
19:53: John Saegar has released a minor update to his Atari 2600 emulator for DOS (and still my favorite), Z26. New in 1.23:
You can download Z26 1.23 from the Atari 2600 emulators page.
Emulator Release: BrSMS 1.13
18:55: Ricardo Bittencourt has released version 1.13 of his Sega Master system emulator to registered users (reminder: registration is free, just fill out the form and e-mail). Here's what's new:
When 1.13 is publicly released, it will be added to ZD's SMS/GG page.
Frontend News: SNES GameCenter .6c
12:24: A bugfix has been released for SNES GameCenter .6c. Nothing new has been added but four significant bugs have been fixed:
You can download SNES GameCenter from the SNES Frontends page.
Frontend News: DBoy Runner 0.02
12:02: NS has updated his Windows frontend for DBoy to version 0.02. There isn't exactly a What's New listing, but according to the documentation, here's what's currently done:
1)Regular & Game Boy Color ROM support
2)Convert Long File Names to DOS short file names so DBoy can parse it
3)... not much else ...
DBoy Runner can be downloaded from the Gameboy Frontends section.
Emulator Release: UltraSat v0.04
11:54: UltraSat, as you may have surmised, is a Saturn Emulator. No games are playable yet but it can obtain the copyright information from at least 15 different games. The author has included an FAQ and compatibility list with the em
ulator and his page is updated regularly concerning the progress of UltraSat.
You can download UltraSat from the Saturn Emulators page.
Site News: It's Catch Up time Again
11:00: Ok, I'm back from my little Christmas vacation and am working on catching up all the updates that were missed while I was away. I'd like to thank everyone that sends information my way so that I can post it here and also thanks
to everyone that points out errors on ZD so that we can fix them. I usually try to reply to all e-mail I receive, but there was so much of it while I was gone that it might take me a day or so to get caught up with them, so cut me a little slack.
As always, if you have news or comments for ZD, you can catch me on IRC in #zopharsdomain on EFnet as InVerse or by e-mail at inverse@atheist.com. You can also reach me on ICQ at 8864196, AIM at InVerSeX or Yahoo P
ager as InVerse2012, so keep the info coming and you'll see ZD continue to improve.
Translation News: 2 things
01:33: I've added 2 things to the translations page. First of all, Lash's Domain has chaged their name to TransRelic, made a new site, and released a new Treasure Hunter G patch. Second, a Penguin Dream Story p
atch has been released and is available for download.
Misc. News: ROM Hack/homebrewn ROM WWWBoard
01:02: Phylos has just opened a WWWboard that deals with ROM Hacks and homebrewn ROMs. If you are interested in such things, go there immediately and start posting.
Misc. News: ROM Trading WWWBoard
00:52: DarkMazda has opened a WWWboard for trading ROMs. I'm sure it has links to plenty of good ROM sites so go check it out.
12/27/98
Emulator Release: uNESsential 0.14
23:35: A new version of the totally unessential NES emulator, uNESsential (the name fits) has been released. New in 0.14:
You can download uNESsential 0.14 from the NES emulators page.
Site News: All of the Shrines have been updated!
21:37: I've put all the older versions of NESticle, Genecyst, and ZSNES that I could find on the shrines. Go check them out using the links above.
Emulator Release: EMU83 0.2 and TIGraph 1.0
11:53: I added EMU83, a TI-83 emu for DOS, and TIGraph, a TI-85 emu for Win9x, to the TI calculator page.
Site News: Myself & updates
00:00: I will be easing up on the updates and shall be letting the ZD staff do more of the updating, for the following reasons:
So, staffers such as InVerse and XiP will be doing the majority of updates. That's all, have a good holiday.
12/26/98
Site News: Poll update (finally).
23:01: Well, I finally decided to update the poll for once. I'm going to start updating it a little bit more often. That'll be every Saturday, with a mid-week update of where the poll is going every Wednesday. Anyway, on with the poll results.
Last weeks poll was: Will emulators ever replace the real thing?
Here are this week's results:
Choice 1 was: "Of course. Emulators will become better than the real thing."
It received 104 votes (27.7 percent).
Choice 2 was: "Yes, but they won't have much of a choice. They'll all die if we don't."
It received 61 votes (16.3 percent).
Choice 3 was: "They'll never replace the real thing. The emulators are much worse."
It received 27 votes (7.2 percent).
Choice 4 was: "There will probably always be people using the real thing. It'll never happen."
It received 159 votes (42.4 percent).
Choice 5 was: "I don't know/don't care/am just voting here because it was on the news page."
It received 24 votes (6.4 percent).
This week's poll is: Do emulators of current consoles (like the Color Game Boy and the Playstation) make you less likely to buy the system or games? I personally don't know whether or not I want to hear the results to this. Anyway, VOTE.
Thanks to InVerse for reminding me to update the poll. :)
Emulator Release: DBOY 0.36
21:41: These guys work fast! Here's what's new according to DarkMazda:
Go get it at the Gameboy page.
Site News: ZSNES Shrine updated
13:28: No, its not what you think, I didn't only add ZSNES .800a. I added the whatsnews from all the versions all the way back to ZSNES .150. I also added the actual files for the ones I could find (thanx to Maxim for sending me some). Since this is a big update, I expect you all to go to the ZSNES Shrine and look at it for once.
Emulator News: DBOY What's New Translated
01:51: According to Dark Mazda, the following things are new in the most recent release of DBOY, the current big thing in gameboy emulation.
I apologize for not doing many updates the last couple days, I'm currently on a IBM 486SX/33Mhz with 12 megs of RAM and a 170 meg HD but I'll be back to my normal location on Monday. (That's a hint to anybody that has spare computer parts lying around that they'd like to donate to the InVerse Foundation. ; )
Site News: Save archives updated
01:07: Updated: SPC, SRM, STA, ZST archives.
Happy holidays and all that. I hope you don't get the lump o coal that I got.
12/25/98
Misc. News: Emulator Icons
23:46: Matthew Campagna has asked me to place a bunch of icons that he has gathered from various places on ZD on Christmas. That would be today! (See, I didn't forget!) There are 426 of them, mostly NES related, and some SNES. Feel free to download it from the link below.
VideoGame icons from Matthew
Emulator Release: ZSNES 0.800a
23:36: Yesterday, ZSNES 0.800c was released. Today, a 100% assembly version of ZSNES was released. You may be thinking, 'wasn't ZSNES 100% assembly already?' Well, it was almost all assembly, the DSP1 and IPX parts were coded in C. You should only download this version if 0.800c gave you problems (especially if sound doesn't work correctly for you, or if it crashes), or if you'd like lower memory requirements. You can download ZSNES 0.800a from the SNES emulators page. Or, the ZSNES mirror.
Emulator Release: DBOY v0.35a
20:51: There was some kind of update to DBOY today, but I couldn't read it. Anyway, its probably a good idea to get it from the Gameboy page.
Emulator Release: Snes9x fix
18:10: There was a bug in the Windows version of Snes9x that I uploaded earlier today... the bugfix version, with the same name, has been uploaded. You can download it from the SNES emulators page.
Emulator News: Translated what's new from Pasofami99
13:03: DarkMazda has also translated what's new in the latest version of Pasofami. Here 'tis:
Thanks again to DarkMazda for this.
Emulator News: Translated what's news: Dboy 0.35
12:59: DarkMazda has translated the what's new in Dboy 0.35. Here's what it says:
Thanks to DarkMazda for this translation.
Emulator Release: Snes9x 1.16b28
12:39: The Snes9x team has released version 1.16 Build 28 of the Windows 95/98 beta version of Snes9x. It's based on the current Snes9x 1.16a source code, so everything that was new in the DOS version of 1.16 is new in this version (note that this Windows beta does not support netplay yet). Thanks to Xaviar for the news. You can download Snes9x 1.16 Build #28 Windows from the SNES emulators page.
Emulator Release: DBOY v0.35
11:03: Well, version 0.35 of DBOY has been released, but we don't know what's new (its in japanese). Go to the Gameboy page and download it.
Misc. News: Christmas and life in general...
01:50: Well, another Christmas is upon us, as you play your new ZSNES (with freeware roms I hope) and choke down your Christmas turkey here's a few things to think about: The world was just as screwed-up this time last year. Iraq is too lazy and poor (and not no mention ugly) to return our Ramadan present of Tomahawk cruise missles. President Clinton got his lump of coal early this year. And most of us have at least one year left to live, so be thankful and max out your credit cards, dammit.
Site News: zsnes shrine updated
00:07: Yep, its done. Go have a look.
12/24/98
Misc. News: New info site created
23:52: Well, a new info site was created by dawli2010. This site has many systems including the Nintendo 64, GameCOM and others. If you would like to take a look at this site, or contribute... Go to -=Dimension X=-
Misc. News: Merry who?
23:26: Holiday greetings, and thanks for all the e-mails... but for those who didn't know, I'm jewish. I don't even believe in my own religion anymore, much less Christmas. Thanks for caring though. However, for those of you who are christian, I'll wish you all a Merry Christmas anyway. I'm going to sleep now (just beat Gabriel Knight II for the second time), so I'll let another staff member go crazy on the christmas wishes.
Site News: ZSNES mirror updated
23:23: I have just uploaded the current ZSNES mirror to ZD. If you feel the urge to go there, visit it at the link below.
Emulator Release: ZSNES v0.800
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20:56: Ah yes, a new version of ZSNES chock full of bugfixes and additions just in time for Christmas. The big addition in this version is the fact that it now runs Super Mario RPG! (Only the japanese version has been dumped correctly).
Straight out of the What's new...here's what's new (naturally):
You can pick up the new ZSNES over at the SNES Emulators Page.
Misc. News: Why I've been "dead"....
18:12: I can't be online until the beginning of January, january 7th to be precise. Christmas costs me a load of money every year, and this year was no exception. I can't afford to pay a bigger bill for my internet use than my bill currently is. I hope you will bear with me for a while I don't do any much important stuff anyway, heh.
When I get back I hope to be much more active, though.
Ah, well. Cya in January.
Keep senging me mails about frontends, though.
Emulator Release: Megasis 0.02
16:14: J.T. & Bori have released version 0.02 of their Sega Genesis emulator for Windows95/98, Megasis. Beware, though, you'll need a VERY fast computer to have any fun with Megasis. Here's what's new in this version:
You can download Megasis 0.02 from the Genesis emulators page.
Emulator Release: CCS64 2.0 Beta Windows & DOS
16:01: A new version of CCS64, a Commodore 64 emulator for DOS & Windows, is now available. Here's what's new in the latest beta version of CCS64 2.0:
You can download CCS64 2.0 from the Commodore 64 emulators page.
Utility News: WinAmp Plugin for .cym files
14:47: A WinAmp Plugin for playing Callus CYM sound rips has been released and is now added to ZD.
Get it at the Arcade Utilities Page
Misc. News: G3 request
13:21: Sam Pettus has e-mailed me the following request, regarding his G3 document (available from the Genesis emulators page):
Guess what? I'm homebound by the ice storms that hit the U.S. today, so I'm doing some G3 research. I have a special favor to ask you, your friends, your users, etc. It's nothing complicated, and quite simple to do. I would like for everybody who owns original Sega CD games or Sega Saturn games based on Genesis/Sega CD titles to pull their copies and send me the following info on each title: author/vendor, copyright date, type, and language. If you can nail any of the other question marks in the Sega CD section at the same time, I'd welcome the input. I don't want a single question mark left in the new G3 if at all possible, but I'll need everybody's help to accomplish that goal.
Thanks!
If you can help him out, please e-mail him.
Misc. News: Archaic Ruins' future
13:14: The future of Archaic Ruins depends upon all of you. I'm sure you've all heard of this site, which has been around about half a year longer than Zophar's Domain. Roni has asked me to direct all of you to the Archaic Ruins post at the link below. If anyone is interested in helping to maintain Archaic Ruins, please check out the link.
Emulator Release: Pasofami 0.0h
13:07: A new release of Pasofami, a NES emulator for Windows that has been around longer than this site, Archaic Ruins, and probably even iNES, is now available. I have no idea what's new in 0.0h, since the entire documentation is in japanese, but it seems that the GUI has been redone. Anyone who has any information on what's new, please e-mail me. You can download Pasofami 0.0h from the NES emulators page.
Site News: Resignation
12:57: My job, my hard drive crash, and my faulty email provider...merry christmas to me...
I hereby resign as links maintainer. Now I'm sure that most of you are going to start making up stories about why I resigned...the reasons are listed above. This is not political, ZD isn't gonna end up hacked tomorrow by me, and I'm still cool with ZD.
Long live Zophar's Domain!
Emulator Release: Neo Danji 0.044
12:44: A new release of Neo Danji, an emulator for DOS for the Neo Geo, is now available. Since the documentation is an oriental language, I can't tell anyone what's new. Anyone who knows what's new (and not some cryptic translator which gives some defunct translation), please e-mail me. You can download Neo Danji 0.044 from the Neo Geo emulators page.
Site News: The State of ZD
12:03: Ok.. Zophar and I are getting ready to do a whole slew of updates (together this time, not just one of us doing 10 or so at once) but I thought I'd drop a quick note to keep everyone up to date on a few things.
You should have noticed over the last few days that the news has been updated more than usual. To help us improve things even more, we need you to let us know what's happening. If you see something that hasn't found it's way to ZD yet, let us know. You can e-mail the appropriate staff member from the submissions page or for an even faster response, check #zopharsdomain on EFnet. There's usually at least 1 or 2 staff members hanging out that can do your update.
We also need your feedback concerning the site. We can't improve things unless we know what you do and don't like so don't be shy about what you think should be done. There will be some new sections popping up after the holidays and maybe a few surprises as well.
On a final note, I'd like to thank the ppl that e-mailed me kewl Hello Kitty stuff and questions concerning Hello Kitty. If you're unfamiliar with Hello Kitty, I'd start with the official Sanrio website and then do a web search for Hello Kitty and you'll soon be wrapped up in the eliteness that is Hello Kitty. ; )
So with all that said, let the updating commence and be sure to explore ZD when you get a chance, you're bound to find something you never noticed before.
12/23/98
Emulator News: Tech request from dtmnt.com
21:34: Fellow emulationworld.com website, dtmnt.com, is requesting help and information for the following things:
guess Konami must do it their own way! What method do Sega Emus use to decompress ADPCM? If you have ever decompressed ADPCM on the fly, please e-mail me!
If you can help out Dave, please e-mail him: dayvee@rocketmail.com. Don't forget to check out the official DTMNT website.
Interview News: News-u-lator interviews Loopy
21:06: The News-u-lator has done an interview with the author of Loopynes, Loopy. Check it out at the link below.
Loopy interview
Emulator News: Intellivision Lives! CD
21:02: The Blue Sky rangers finally released (a few days ago actually) the Intellivision Lives! CD-ROM. You'll want to check out the Blue Sky Rangers homepage if you want to order it.
Site News: Update notes
20:59: I have been working the past few days, since I'm off from college for a month, so I haven't had time to do many updates. InVerse has done a great job maintaining the site while I've been away; expect me to update as usual starting tommorow.
One other note has to be said. PLEASE, people, do NOT e-mail me ROM requests. This is not a commercial game ROM site. We do not carry any games that have not been released into the public domain. The Lamer E-mail page will be updated again if this continues. Thanks, and have a great Christmas, Qwanza, whatever.
Utility News: Magic Kit 2.01
15:35: David Michel has released an update to his PCE development tool, Magic Kit. The changes are as follows:
-- conditional assembly
-- enhanced macros
-- user defined functions
-- data-groups
-- new concept of video object
-- programming tutorials
-- technical reference doc
-- assembler manual
-- support library documentation
Even bigger is the fact that Magic Kit now supports NES development! The NES tools are new and as a result aren't quite as advanced as the PCE development tools but they're still a very nice addition to an already great product.
You can check out the Magic Kit 2.01 at the newly created Development Utilities section. Note that this section is not yet linked to the index, so you'll have to follow the preceding link.
Utility News: Thingy .98
13:42: Necrosaro has updated his excellent ROM hacking/translating utility Thingy to version .98. The changes are as follows:
You can download Thingy .98 from the Translation Utilities section.
Emulator Release: NLKE .003
13:34: NLKE, the combined efforts of the NLKSNES and ESNES teams, has been updated to version .003b and features a huge list of improvements/bug fixes. Straight from the readme (cuz it'd take hours to do it any other way) here's what's new:
compatibility has been increased by rewriting some parts of the code.
of each tile in BG3.
than neccesary (in fact, the double).
vblank to be activated again before next (demo 2.68 Mhz).
grandhistoria, sponi).
Whew... ok, for those of you still with me, check out NLKE on the SNES Emulators section.
Emulator News: TeleGames Colecovision emulators
13:06: TeleGames, the company that owns the rights to the Colecovision (and sells a few ancient systems and games on the side, BTW) has released two commercial emulators that come with various Coleco games, such as Pitfall II and Quest for Quintana Roo. It's for Win95/DirectX, and a demo of it is available on the site.
Here's where you can find them:
Also, thanks to InVerse for doing his update. :)
Site News: SNES9x Source Uploaded and Other Problems Fixed
13:01: Ok.. I apologize for not updating ZD sooner. I should have did several updates by now but I've spent the last 3 hours trying to download the SNES9x Source Code (which I forgot to include when I added the emulator). After 3 hours and 25 resumes, something crashed and the download was deleted. Huge thanks to Cyber Warrior X for DCCing me the source after that.
As you've probably already concluded, the source code for SNES9x 1.16a is now available on ZD. I've also fixed all the broken links that were reported to me via various ppl who e-mailed me. Remember, if you find even a tiny problem, let me know so I can fix it. Thanks to everyone that e-mailed me concerning things that needed to be fixed and apologies to Stick Figure 98 for making him wait to do his updates while I fixed things and acquired the SNES9x source.
12/22/98
Emulator Release: SNES9x 1.16 for DOS (Non-GUI)
16:09: Fast on the heels of SNES9x 1.16 for Linux comes the DOS (w/o GUI) port of one half of the SNES emulation scene's big 2. Here's what's new according to the docs (and yes, it looks very similar to the Linux What's New but I didn't screw up and paste the wrong list. ;):
SNES9x for DOS is available from the SNES Emulators section and if for some reason you're unfortunate enough to need the Macintosh post, it's available over at emulation.net.
Emulator Release: FCE Ultra Beta 2
15:14: FCE Ultra is a Famicom/NES emulator for DOS which is based on the FCE source code. According to the web page, major modifications have been made to the source, resulting in drastically increased compatibility. Unfortunately, there is no documentation because, in the authors own words, he "doesn't feel like making any" but there are several screen shots available from the site.
Check out the FCE Ultra Homepage to see the screen shots of FCE Ultra in action and then download the emu from ZD's NES Emulator Section.
Emulator Release: SNES9x 1.16a for Linux Libc5
13:17: In the holiday spirit, the SNES9x team has released version 1.16a for Linux users. The current version is only available for Libc5 users but others are sure to follow. Straight from the readme file, here's what's new in this release:
I bet you'll be surprised to find out that you can download SNES9x 1.16a from the SNES Emulators for Unix page. Ok.. so maybe you won't..
Emulator Release: DarcNES
12:51: DarcNES is a new NES emulator for Linux. It supports the most common mappers and features sound support. The initial release was 3 days ago and a couple bugfixes have been released since then. As I'm not currently a Linux user, I'm not very familiar with the file format so I would appreciate if someone could go to the NES Emulators for Unix section and try out the files to make sure I have the proper ones uploaded.
Misc. News: Color Dreams ROMs Legalized!
11:53: And now for some good news.. apparently Emulators Unlimited has obtained the rights to distribute the ROMs of the NES games produced by Color Dreams. Color Dreams is one of the best known producers of unliscensed NES carts, creating such games as Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu, Menace Beach and Baby Boomer. There are currently 3 ROMs available for download with a promise of many more to come after the holiday season is over.
So head over to Emulators Unlimited's Color Dreams ROM Section and download their little early holiday gift.
Misc. News: The IDSA Strikes Again
11:44: Lazarus, the largest source for Amiga games on the 'net, has once again shut down. This time by the IDSA who claim to be acting on behalf of their members, though neither Amiga nor Gateway 2000 (who recently bought all rights to the Amiga) currently appear on the IDSA's member list.
According to the note posted in place of Lazarus's regular index, the site will remain shutdown for the remaining of the investigation. Go to what's left of Lazarus to see the IDSA's demand that the site be "taken down immediately".
Site News: Updates
11:03: Ok.. first I'd like to apologize for taking so long to do any updates. I don't have 'net access on Saturdays or Sundays so I can't do any weekend updates but due to the weather and the fact I was out of town, I was unable to do any updates yesterday either.
I'm currently in the process of scouring the entire site for missed updates, bad links, etc. If you find any problems, please let me know by e-mailing me at inverse@atheist.com or by catching me on IRC on the nickname InVerse. I'm in #zopharsdomain on EFnet just about all morning and afternoon on weekdays. This is also a good place to submit news if you want a prompt reply.
As you can see from the staff list at the bottom of this page, I'm an assistant maintainer. This means I'll be working on each and every section of Zophar's Domain so if you feel that the appropriate maintainer may have missed something that you sent them or are slow in doing the update, please let me know and I'll see that it gets handled properly.
12/21/98
Site News: Quotes page update (no...seriously)
23:57: Yes yes, I finally tossed up a small update to the quotes page(s). Most of the new stuff found its way to page 2, but there's a few things on the first page that are new.
I've come to the realization that I'm a great procrastinator(sp?), In the future I hope to do many more updates, much more than usual like I've promised you all before...certain issues outside of the site and IRC had arisen which has hindered my efforts since, but now you guys have got oh..90% of my attention, later.
Oh yeah, before I forget, the quotes page is located Ova Here.
Emulator Release: MAME 0.34 (DOS) Release Candidate 2
20:57: The DOS 0.34RC2 version of MAME has been released. Like the last 3 months of MAME releases, this is a beta and therefore, expect some bugs. You can download MAME 0.34 Release Candidate 2 (DOS) from the MAME page.
Emulator Release: R80 0.06
20:09: Version 0.06 of R80, a Sinclair Spectrum emulator for DOS, is now available. Here's the list of what's new:
You can download R80 0.06 from the Sinclair emulators page.
Misc. News: G3 v 0.98
19:57: Version 0.98 of Sam Pettus' Comprehensive Sega Genesis/MegaDrive Game Guide, also known as "G3", has been released. This is a list of just about every single Sega Genesis/32x/Sega CD game in the known world, a description of it, and what emulator, if any, it runs with. I urge you all to check out v 0.98 of it at the Genesis emulators page.
Site News: 6502 page maintenance
19:37: I performed some maintenance on the 6502 emulators page, and added Don Jarrett's 6502 emulator (discontinued), M6502 .15e. I would have added .16, but the link was broken. Be sure to check out the 6502 emulators page if you're a programming buff, or just want to see how some people emulate the 6502.
Emulator Release: Gameboy 98 0.05
19:25: A new version of this Gameboy emulator for Windows, Gameboy 98, has been released. Here's a list of all that's new in 0.05:
You can download Gameboy 98 0.05 from the Gameboy emulators page.
Emulator Release: DBOY 0.34
19:11: Another new version of DBOY, a DOS Gameboy emulator with Color Gameboy support, has been released. I don't know what's new in 0.34, but if you do, please e-mail me. You can download DBOY 0.34 from the Gameboy emulators page.
12/20/98
Misc. News: S.E.C stuff
18:53: The SEC (SNES Emulation Centre) has been updated with some design changes, and they've add a truckload of content to it. I.E: More stuff added :)
Go check it out at http://www.snes9x.com/SEC
Translation News: R/F(e) 0.5 from YnT
16:11: WOW, you like all those abbreviations up there? This can only mean one thing, that Yonin no Translators have released version 0.5 of their Rockman & Forte translation. Just about everything is done except the save/load text and some of Roll's reciever dialog. Here's what's new:
Get it at the translation page NOW!!!
Emulator Release: WinUAE 0.8.6 Release 6
15:31: A new version of WinUAE, an Amiga emulator for Windows, has been released. There's a lot of bugfixes, changes, and additions in WinUAE 0.8.6 Release 6, so if you want to see the list, check out the official WinUAE page. You can download WinUAE 0.8.6 Release 6 from the Amiga emulators page.
Site News: Gameboy ROMs added
09:35: Finally got to play through all the Gameboy games I found out there... the cream of the crop have been posted, and all I can say is that there are some very talented people out there working on some great games. Go have a look at the Gameboy ROMs page.
Misc. News: News-u-lator moves
01:25: News-u-lator has come under the EmulatonWorld flock. They now have their own domain name: http://www.lator.com.
Emulator Release: PCSloMo 0.24br5
00:02: A new version of PCSloMo, a multi-arcade emulator coded in Visual Basic, is now available to the public. Here's what's new in version 0.24br5:
You can download PCSloMo 0.24br5 from the Multi-Arcade emulators page.
12/19/98
Emulator Release: Atari800Win 2.5c
23:55: Another day, another version of Atari800Win. Here's a shortened listing of what's new in version 2.5c:
You can download Atari800Win 2.5c from the Atari 8-bit/5200 emulators page.
Frontend News: Mystique 1.0
20:23: Mystique is a new ZD-SPC frontend made by Nitro's sister, Lycia. And since her brother is the maker of ZD-SPC that kinda promises for good functionality, eh? :) Try it out.
Here're the news:
Get it from the SNES Emulator frontends page.
Frontend News: DBOYFront 1.0.0
19:43: Another DBOY frontend has been released. This time the frontends made by Maxim Viale, the one behind MAMEFront, M72Front and NeoRAGEFront, so I expect this one to be good. It has support for all the options of DBOY.
Go get it from the GameBoy emulator frontends page.
Misc. News: ZD-spc skin page
19:11: Well, I added 4 new skins, including a Christmas one which is pretty cool. A new version of ZD-spc is coming soon, so stay tuned!
Grab the skins at the Skins Page.
Grab the current version of ZD-spc at the ZD-spc page
Emulator Release: Nemu64 0.006
15:49: Nemu64 is the most promising of the N64 emus right now. Here's what's new in this version:
Get it at the N64 page.
Emulator Release: DBOY 0.33j
13:25: A new version of DBOY, a GameBoy emulator for DOS, has been released. I have no idea what's new in this version; please e-mail me if you can translate it. You can download DBOY 0.33j from the GameBoy emulators page.
Translation News: More translation updates
11:32: Here's the lastest news from the wonderful world of translations:
Read about this and more and the translations page.
Utility News: XcheatED 1.0
10:53: XcheatED is a small but very efficient utility which makes it possible to easily create and maintain large collections of PlayStation Xplorer/GameShark/Pro Action Replay compatible game cheat codes.
Get this nice program at the Playstation Utilites Page.
Site News: Translation and Hack pages updated
01:39: Looks like this is becoming a Friday night routine. I put up new translations for RPG Maker 95, Rockman & Forte and Glorious Light Of Heracles 2. There are also new hacks for SMB2 and DQ1. Go check them out at the translations page or the hacks page.
12/18/98
Misc. News: Update on the Mick Foley/Time issue
20:42: It appears that the many wrestling sites on the internet have spread a false rumour:
"I'm afraid you have been misinformed. We honestly do not care who wins the poll. We welcome all opinions. After all, our TIME 100 poll for greatest leaders of the 20th Century was won online by Attaturk, thanks to millions of votes from Turkey, and the TIME 100 poll for greatest artists and entertainers of the 20th Century was won by an obscure French singer. That's fine with us. As for the other things you've heard:
"No one from TIME ever said the following: "...Mick Foley has no place on our list, as he has not done anything significant for this nation, hence, we will, effective tomorrow, remove Mick Foley from the polls-and if he is voted for again, he will be removed again."
"We believe that this comment was sent around as a sort of urban legend. We could care less who you or anyone else votes for, as evidenced by the assortment of characters who have populated the poll. The reason the Time Man of the Year poll keeps coming down is because some moron keeps unleashing a voting "bot, which effectively shuts down service for the rest of our users. The matter has been referred to the proper authorities; we're hopeful the culprit will be caught and prosecuted for a denial of service attack. In the mean time, rest assured that you can vote for anyone, including Mick Foley, Hulk Hogan and anyone else you can think of. Feel free to pass this message on; we're getting deluged with mail from pro-Foley folks who are laboring under the same misinformation as you.
So, Mick Foley still has a chance. :)
Emulator Release: Nestra 0.51
17:39: Nestra 0.51, an NES emulator for Unix, has just been released. Since it appears that v0.50 was never updated on ZD, here's what's new from the last two releases.
Changes in version 0.51:
Changes in version 0.5:
Naturally, you can download Nestra from the Unix NES Emulators section.
Frontend News: DBoy Runner .01
15:42: [NS] has just released the first frontend for DBoy, aptly named DBoy Runner. The initial release doesn't feature very many options but it allows you to launch DBoy from a Windows95/98 interface and to select between Gameboy, Super Gameboy and Color Gameboy options. This should please everyone that's been asking for a Dboy frontend, so make sure and download it from the Gameboy Frontends section.
Emulator Release: R80 0.05
14:47: R80, a Sinclair Spectrum emulator, has been updated to version 0.05. Here's the LLLLOOOONNNNGGGG list of what's new:
Interface:
Fileselectors:
Debugger:
Formats:
Video:
r80.ini (new options):
Command line:
Other:
This is only a summary of the huge what's new text, so be sure to download R80 from the Sinclair Spectrum emulators section in order to see the entire list of what's been updated.
Misc. News: Mick Foley, Time Magazine, and things
14:11: This is totally non-emulation related, but I feel that this has to be said. For anyone into pro-wrestling, you probably know that Mick Foley, aka Mankind/Cactus Jack/Dude Love in the WWF, was #1 in Time Magazine's 'Man of the year' poll. It looked as if he was going to win it... and then Time.com issued this statement:
"...Mick Foley has no place on our list, as he has not done anything significant for this nation, hence, we will, effective tomorrow, remove Mick Foley from the polls-and if he is voted for again, he will be removed again."
Even for those of you who have no idea who Mick Foley is, I'm sure you realize that a great injustice is being done. Why should Time Magazine have the right to tell US who we think the man of the year is? 1984 anyone? All I can say is, I will no longer read Time Magazine, and anyone who feels the way I do should e-mail Time and let them know how you feel about this.
Utility News: PSGPlay32
13:44: From the author of CYMPlay32 comes PSGPlay32, the first ever player for PSG files. PSG files are logs of Sinclair Spektrum music. You can download PSGPlay32 along with it's source from the Comp. Systems Utilities section.
Utility News: CYMPlay32
13:39: Chipmunk has ported CYMPlay to Win32. CYMs are music files logged by Callus. You can download CYMPlay32 and it's source code from the Arcade Utilities section.
Emulator News: DBOY 0.33: What's new
12:29: A very big thanks to Blizzard & Zach for this. Here's what's new in DBOY 0.33:
The last two lines were modified by me, the original translation of them made no sense.
Site News: Guess what!?!?
11:48: You may have already won $10,000,000. Ok, so not really, though you have about as good a chance of winning ten million $ from ZD as you can from Publisher's Clearing House and we don't force feed you crappy magazines. ; ) Anywayz, in case you haven't quite figured it out yet, I'm baaaaaaaaaaack. My name is InVerse and I'll be your general maintainer for this little 3 hour tour. And if you're not down with InVerse and ZD, then I got four words for you... HELLO KITTY KICKS ASS!!
Emulator News: Raine to support 2 more games
06:30: The official Raine website is reporting that Bubble Shymphony and Plotting (the first Taito Z80 game), a puzzle game, are going to be supported in the next version. It will be playable with full sound. Be sure to check out the official Raine website for all the latest news on Raine.
Emulator Release: NeoMAME 0.34rc1a
06:24: This is the newest version of NeoMAME, Release Candidate 1a. This release supports the correctly dumped sound roms of KOF'96 and Overtop . You can download NeoMAME 0.34rc1a from the MAME page. Thanks to Quantum for the news.
Emulator Release: Atari800Win 2.5a
05:54: A new version of Atari800Win, an Atari 8bit/5200 emulator for Windows has been released. Here's what's new in version 2.5a:
You can download Atari800Win 2.5a from the Atari 8 bit/5200 emulators page.
Emulator Release: DBOY 0.33
05:44: A new version of DBOY, a GameBoy emulator for DOS with Color GameBoy support, is now available. I don't know what's new in version 0.33 as it's in some oriental language, so if you know what's new, be sure to e-mail me. You can download DBOY 0.33 from the GameBoy emulators page.
Site News: SPC, ZST archives updated
00:35: Updated: SPC, ZST archives.
Take a gander at the SPC archive's incomplete soundtracks; someone sent me the unused songs in Chrono Trigger (alternative battle music + 1 other song). And, whoever sent me a new BOF2 soundtrack, please re-send it, I accidentally misplaced it...
12/17/98
Media News: AltaVista article
18:45: It seems as though popular search engines are also jumping on the 'report on emulation' bandwagon. They've done an article entitled "Classic Arcade-Game Crackdown". Check it out at the link below. Many thanks to Machaon for the news.
Media News: The Times emulation article
18:33: The popular UK newspaper "The Times" has done an article on emulation. Thanks to DaddySnow for scanning this article. Be sure to check it out at the link below, and stay tuned, as we might be adding a section dedicated to emulation in the media sometime in the future.
Site News: Our hearts go out to GeechyGuy
16:51: From http://www.cherryroms.com, here is the news:
On Monday, December 14, 1998, Rapheal Joseph Straub was driving home from a friend's. On the way home, a drunk driver swerved and hit his car head on. At 10:47 PM CST, Joey was taken to the Stormont Veil Emergency Center and was announced in serious condition.
The world can be a cruel thing sometimes. If you have it in you, I ask you to leave an email, here, to express your thoughts, wishes, concerns, or just to give a happy word to his parents and family. Our hearts go out towards Joey and his family in this tragedy, and we hope you all get through this okay.
-Andrew Renolds
Friend of Rapheal Joseph Straub (aka "Geechyguy")
*snip*
All the staff at Zophars Domain hope that Joseph gets well soon.
Emulator Release: NES4PC 0.251
03:36: A bugfix release of NES4PC, the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator, has been released, fixing the 8x16 sprite bug.
You can get it from the NES Emulators page.
Frontend News: SNES Game Center 0.6
02:22: SNES Game Center, the SNES9x and ZSNES frontend has been updated, and with a lot of new things, have a look:
You can get it from the SNES Emulator frontends page.
12/16/98
Misc. News: Tile Layer 0.50b released
20:26: A new version of Tile Layer by SnowBro Software is here. This is what's new in this version:
If you're into ROM hacking, get this at the Translation Utilities page.
Site News: Contest Reminder
19:41: This is a reminder that the contest to win the SoundBlaster Live! is underway. What this means is that if you didn't know about it by now, it's probably too late for you to win. Remember, each day, from yesterday until this coming Monday, a site will place an icon with the letters 'EW' on it somewhere on their site. It's up to you to find out which site has which icon on which page on any given day. Again, the 7 sites are: Zophar's Domain, Emulation Camp, PSEmu Pro, System 16, Raine, Retrogames and Emulators Unlimited. Scroll down the page to Monday's news if you need more info.
Interview News: NES4PC author: Akilla
19:32: Another day, another News-u-lator interview. This one's with the author of NES4PC, Akilla (who just relased version 0.25 by the way). You can read all about it at the link below.
Emulator Release: NES4PC v0.25
19:30: A new version of NES4PC, Akilla's NES emulator for Windows, is now available. There's tons new in this release:
NES4PC v0.25 has an all-new Scanline-based rendering engine, for fast & accurate graphics rendering! Interrupts are fixed, causing many games such as the final fantasy series to work. There are a number of 6502 bugs fixed as well. However, one of the more important things is that because of those fixes, I was able to accurately implement many more mappers. All the mappers for a VERY large portion of the nes games out there are now fully and corretly implemented. Directsound support is now added for pulse channels 1 and 2. Trainers also are now fixed. SRAM is working and fully compatable with nesticle SRAMs, so pop your FF1E.SAV file right into the NES4PC directory. There are also some optimizations, so it should run faster than last version.
You can download NES4PC v0.25 from the NES emulators page.
Emulator Release: fMSX 2.0 Beta
19:07: Marat Fazyullin has e-mailed ZD to let us know that version 2.0 beta of his MSX emulator has been released. Here's what he had to say:
After a long delay, I have finally released a beta of the new version of fMSX, the ubiquituous MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ emulator! Complete list of features and the list of new features and fixes can be found in the documentation at http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX/.
This is a quite raw beta version which means many things may have gone broken since the old version. I expect those among you who are proficient MSX hackers to look for bugs and submit bug reports and bug fixes to me, as I simply have no time to do thorough bug hunting myself.
Be sure to check it out. Unix versions are available so far.
Emulator Release: Nemu64 version 0.005
03:22: Wow! Another version of Nemu64 just came out! Can this guy ever program fast. :Þ Basically all that is new in this version is it can play more demo's. Hey, this emulator is starting to look better than Project Unreality.
You can grab the new version at the Nintendo 64 emulator page.
12/15/98
Emulator Release: Echo 0.3b
19:42: A new release of Echo, an Atari ST emulator for DOS, is now available. Other than the fact that this version is noted in the readme as '0.1 + 0.2 + a few fixes', I have no idea what is new. You can download Echo 0.3b from the Atari ST emulators page.
Utility News: CYMPLAY 0.1
17:57: It appears the version of CYMPLAY we had online was a pre-beta. Version 0.1 of this .CYM (Callus logged music file) player, CYMPLAY, is the official release. Source is also available, but beware, you need a P233MMX in order to use this player without skipping and such. You can download CYMPLAY 0.1 from the Arcade Utilities page.
Interview News: Elitegamer interviews the IDSA
17:34: Now this is a surprising interview. The IDSA has recently been interviewed by Elitegamer.com. I just read it, and I urge all of you to read it as well, as it makes clear exactly what the IDSA is attempting to do as far as emulation is concerned.
Interview News: News-u-lator interviews Tratax of PSEmu
17:07: This is another News-u-lator interview, this time with Tratax of the PSemu team. You might want to read it, it's pretty good. You can check it out from the link below.
Emulator Release: Nemu64 0.004
17:05: This Nintendo 64 emulator was never added to ZD for one reason or another, so I'm adding it now. Nemu64 0.004 emulates about 50% of the CPU opcodes so far, and also emulates graphics. It can already run a number of demos, including n64stars, firedemo and fw-intro. Thanks to all who e-mailed in about this. You can download Nemu64 0.004 from the Nintendo 64 emulators page.
Emulator Release: DBOY 0.32
16:48: A new release of DBOY was made public today. Since I never added this to ZD, I am adding it now. It appears to be nothing more than VGB-DOS with Color GameBoy support, so get it while you can. You can download DBOY 0.32 from the GameBoy emulators page.
Emulator News: DeCent: Dreamcast emulator (no joke)
06:33: This is a Zophar's Domain EXCLUSIVE. That means, you see it here first. All future updates having to do with this will be announced on ZD. I spent a while trying to figure out how I would explain this one to all of you who visit ZD, without sounding like I'm on drugs :) But I assure ALL of you, this is NO JOKE. A new emulator is in the works: the world's first Dreamcast emulator. The authors of this emulator wish to remain anonymous, so I will respect their wishes. However, I guarantee all of you that this is a LEGITIMATE attempt to emulate the DC. No, it won't run at 60 FPS on a P200, this is not a miracle emulator. But it is without a doubt, a real project.
Below, you will find two screenshots of the emulator running a DC demo, called "Teapot". Notice that it's running at 2.5 FPS. Doesn't sound very impressive... except when you consider the fact that it runs 2.5 FPS on an Intel P200 MMX, in software rendering mode. This means that for those of us with 3D cards, it can run even faster. Enjoy these 2 screenshots from DeCent, and remember: I promise all of you that this is not a trick, this is a 100% legitimate emulator attempt.
12/14/98
Site News: Emulation World Contest
23:48: Beginning on Tuesday the 15th, and running for seven days (through Monday the 21st), Our host, Emulation World will be running a contest in which one of our frequent visitors will have the chance to win a Soundblaster Live! Value Edition soundcard. Your task is to find icons on seven of the major Emulation World sites, including this one. Each day, a different site will place an icon of a retrogaming character on their site for 24 hours only. If you find all seven icons over the next week, you will be in a drawing to win the soundcard. The seven participating sites are Emulators Unlimited, Retrogames, RAINE, PSemu Pro, Zophar's Domain, EmuCamp, and System16. If you are affiliated with any of these sites, or with Emulation World, you may not participate. For more rules and information, please visit http://www.emulationworld.com/emulation_world_contest.htm. Entries must have all seven icons identified and show which sites, and on which days they appeared on. Entries must be sent to contest@emulationworld.com.
Emulator Release: Ultra 64 0.2d
21:06: Ultra 64, the Nintendo 64 emulator, has been updated, adding support for some new opcodes and fixing some bugs. Keep an eye on this one, since it seems to be coming along kinda good. You can download it from the Nintendo 64 emulators page.
Emulator Release: CCS64 2.0 beta
21:04: Yeah, heh. A new beta of both the Windows and DOS port of CCS64, the Commodore 64 emulator, has been released even though you may assume the contrary :) All the betas are called 2.0 for some reason. Don't ask me why. Anyway, new versions of both ports have been released and you can pluck 'em off the Commodore 64 emulators page.
Emulator Release: AMAME & PMAME 0.34 RC1
20:57: Rodimus Prime's 2 compiles of MAME, AMAME for AMD/486/P2 processors, and PMAME for Pentium processors, have been updated to match the recent release of MAME 0.34 Release Candidate 1. You can download both AMAME & PMAME 0.34RC1 from the MAME page.
Misc. News: SNES Chart 1.53!
06:31: SNES Chart, the biggest compability list for SNES Emulators available has been updated. As usual you can find it at the top of the SNES Emulators page.
Emulator Release: FAN98 Emulator updates
06:07: Three of the ubquitious FAN98 emulators have been updated again. Here's the list of which three:
I'd like to give you more details, but of course, my deduction power of Japanese doesn't work very well.
You can pick up FCFAN98 on the NES Emulators Page, and GGFAN98 and SMSFAN98 on the Sega Master System/Game Gear Emulators Page.
Emulator Release: MAME 0.34 Release Canditate 1 DOS
03:58: A new release of MAME, dubbed 0.34 Release Candidate 1, is now available. It's still not considered the final version of 0.34, so it should be regarded as a beta, like the others. Lots of changes in this version, as always, which include new games supported and bug fixes. You can download MAME 0.34 RC1 from the MAME page.
12/13/98
Interview News: Christian Gyrling, TheSE author
23:42: One half of the TheSE team (an SNES emulator for DOS) has been interviewed by Cleric of The News-u-lator. Check it out at the link below.
Emulator News: Snes9x 1.15 source code
23:38: The source code to Snes9x 1.15 was released a few days ago, and it has now been added to ZD. Thanks to Xaviar for informing us about this, I don't know how we missed it. You can download the source code from the SNES emulators page.
Site News: SPC, ZST archives updated
22:16: Updated: SPC, ZST archives. The SPC archive now summarizes the new submissions at the top.
Misc. News: DarkMazda's Domain working great now!
21:06: Seems like many IE 4.0 users were having problems with your browsers crashing when you went to DarkMazda's Domain. Well, it looks like it works now so drop in and visit.
Site News: Happy Channukah!
18:04: Well, I know that I'm one of the few jewish emulator site maintainers, but I figured there are those of you out there who visit ZD who are jewish too. So, to all of you, I want to wish you a Happy 1st nite of Channukah. Don't get too sick from those greasy potato latkes, and send me all your chocoloate gelt in a self-repressed stomped antelope :)
Emulator News: More on the Snes9x new GUI
18:00: TeleKawaru has e-mailed me the following, regarding the upcoming Snes9x GUI:
The Snes9x GUI is nearing integration. Hopefully completion will be next week.
-TeleKawaru
You can check out the new GUI's look from the link below.
Emulator News: RPG-net returns
17:40: RPG-net will be back online on September 1, 1999. Check out new posting at www.rpg-net.com.
Misc. News: Emulation article in the Philadelphia Inquirer
04:43: An hour before my last day of History 121 at College(WHOO!) on Thursday, while eating my Sausage, Egg & Cheese on a bagel, I chanced upon an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, about emulation! Read it for yourselves, it mentions MAME and the IDSA, as well as other interesting things. Thanks to Kaiden for cleaning up my crappy scan :)
Emulator Release: Hu6280 1.84
02:20: What better way to try my new processor/motherboard than to try the new release of Hu6280, version 1.84? I can't think of any :) Here's what's new in version 1.84 of this great TG16 emulator:
Thanks to kueller for the news. You can download Hu6280 1.84 from the Turbo Grafx 16 emulators page.
Site News: New Motherboard/CPU problem resolved!
01:04: Thanks to everyone who sent e-mails, people on IRC who msg'd me, and the like, but when I realized how I had fixed it, not ONE of you had e-mailed me the correct way :) Here's how I did it.
First, I determined through motherboard program identifiers that my VXPRO+ is a VIA Apollo VPX chipset which was remarked. I followed the many links to 5 websites with identical motherboards and chipsets and the bios who relabeled it to suit their own needs (CYRIX/IBM anyone?) For those of you who are curious:
Vendor=VIA Technologies Incorporated No PCI-INT
Device=VT82C585VP Apollo VPX Chipset, System/PCI Ctrl., Rev=23h
Computer ID : FC, Type : AT
BIOS Date : 02/03/98
Award BIOS found : Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Award ID-String : 02/03/98-573+UMC8670-2A5LDH09C-00
Board/BIOS-Version : Release 02/04/1998 S ROM - NOT FOR SALE
OEM : HSIN TECH
URL : http://www.pcchips.com
Chipset : 573+UMC8670 //VIA VPX
The way I fixed the video slowdown problem was by flashing the BIOS with the new 2/4/98 update! Stuff is way faster than it was before, and faster than my old Cyrix PR166 was. Granted, this new one is only a Cyrix PR200, but the difference is there! A few people I want to thank for getting me through this dilema:
Rob`: Your kind donation of the VIA Apollo VPX chipset/motherboard and the Cyrix PR200 is what saved my life. I'll never forget you for it.
hypr: You lent me your PC for a week so I wouldn't go crazy. Thanks!
gb: You traded me your Matrox Millenium I for my Voodoo Rush because it wouldn't fit in the new motherboard... wait, why am I thanking you?
All the people who e-mailed me: Thanks for trying to help me.
Myself: I figured out after 8 hours where my chipset came from and where the correct BIOS was. Go me!
Thanks to everyone again, I'm really back now :)
12/12/98
Emulator Release: X-Mame v0.34b8.1 for Unix
18:28: The new beta version of the multiple arcade machine emulator, now running over 1000 games, wow! Anyway, what's new:
sorry about that, use $(DISPLAY) instead, or write a wrapper script
only enable this if you need it! It's slow
Unix arcade page.
Utility News: CymPlay
18:11: CymPlay plays Callus CYM music files. But be warned that only people with fast computers will enjoy it, it is extremly slow. Thanks to
TBisson705@aol.com for sending me this.
You can download CymPlay from the Arcade Utilities page.
Emulator Release: Snes9x v1.15 for libc5
18:10: The new version of Snes9x for libc5 systems, the libc6 version should be around shortly. This version is about the same as the dos port, what's new:
Unix SNES page.
Interview News: News-u-lator interviews Thomas Djafari
15:10: This one came as a complete surprise to me. While we don't post interview links here that often, this was a DEFINITE. For those of you who don't know/remember Thomas Djafari (I remember him as 'Frogger' on IRC), he coded 2 emulators, VCS2600 (Atari 2600) and CULT (ColecoVision). This interview is a MUST-READ for anyone who's been around for a while and remembers Thomas. You can check it out at the link below.
As a side note, Thomas, if you're still around, e-mail me sometime, or find me on IRC :)
Misc. News: EmuCamp releases new SMS ROM
15:02: I promised Zoop I'd post this, so here I go :) "Dick Tracy" for the Sega Master System has been dumped, and you can download the ROM from EmuCamp. I urge you to all visit EC right away.
Emulator Release: XPCE 0.11a
14:57: A minor release of XPCE has been issued. There's but one change in version 0.11a of this TG16 emulator for Windows:
You can download XPCE 0.11a from the Turbo Grafx 16 emulators page.
Site News: Updates
02:22: I've done some updates on the translations page and the ROM hacks page. Here's what I added to the translations page:
BTW, here is a message from Stellar Hacking's page:
"Stellar Hacking Is A New Translation Group Led By S-mercury.We are going to translate Secret of Mana 2/Seiken Densetsu 3 And Magic Knight RayEarth.We need both Translators And Rom Hackers...apply by sending an e-mail to s-mercury."
As far as the ROM hacks page goes, go there and see for yourself. I've added lots of new ones.
12/11/98
Site News: Save archives updated
20:06: Updated: SPC, SRM, CHT archives. The SPC archive's structure has changed a little: now complete and incomplete soundtracks are separated into two tables, and the top 10 list now includes the number of archives contributed.
Emulator Release: YAGE 0.91
18:46: YAGE, an Amstrad CPC emulator for DOS, has been released. This new emulator seems to be kinda good and I recommend you to try it. If you're interested in CPC emulation, that is :) There is no real what's new list, just that a lot of things are probably working better :)
Go get it from the CPC Emulators page.
Utility News: GenEdit Updated to 2.03c
18:36: Hi there, i found out that GenEdit was outdated but it's fixed now. :) The last version on ZD was 2.01 and there have been lots of updates so listing them would take the whole day... just go find out yourself in the readme.
Get this at the Genesis Utilities Page
Emulator News: Upcoming Snes9x GUI
17:54: Telekawaru has been working on the new GUI that will be in a future version of Snes9x. Cyber Warrior X has told me that to his knowledge, it's about 70% done, and will be ready sometime in the near future. Check out some early screenshots of this GUI at the two links below.
Frontend News: MAME OVER 1.01
17:31: Yep, yep. The MAME frontend that's all over Daves Classics has been added to Zophar's Domain now :) I must say that this frontend IS really good frontend. It's not hard to configure and you'll have it up and running in no time. Trouble could appear if you don't keep mameover.exe in your MAME directory, though, so be sure to keep it in the right dir. This little frontend also has one of the most creative names I've ever seen, even though it sounds like if MAME has been discontinued or something :)
Go get it from the Arcade Emulator frontends page.
Interview News: WinNES author
17:29: Cleric of the News-u-lator has posted an interview that he recently conducted with Cosimo De Michele, the author of WinNES. He talks about the next version of the WinNES, as well as his life. You'll definitely want to read this one.
Emulator News: SMYGB adding CGB support
17:24: According to the official SMYGB homepage, which is a GameBoy emulator for Windows, it will soon be supporting the Color GameBoy. You can check out some screenshots of CGB emulation from the link below. Check it out, it looks really good.
Emulator Release: XPCE 0.11
17:22: A new version of XPCE, a TG-16 emulator for Windows, is now available. Here's what's new in 0.11:
Thanks to AirRider for the news. You can download XPCE 0.11 from the Turbo Grafx 16 emulators page.
12/10/98
Emulator Release: Z26 1.22
23:27: A new version of my favorite Atari 2600 emulator, Z26, is now available. One thing new in 1.22:
You can download Z26 1.22 from the Atari 2600 page.
Site News: Regarding my new computer
22:36: Well, it's been a long two weeks, but I'm finally all set up. A HUGE thanks goes out to Rob` for the new motherboard and Cyrix PR200, you saved my life man :)
Anyways, I've also traded video cards with a friend (my Voodoo Rush could no longer fit in there, so I now have a Matrox Millenium...I can live without the 3D for now). The only odd thing I noticed was there was a slight speed DECREASE, even though I'm now running the mobo at 75mhz (old one was 66) and the CPU at 150mhz (PR200), as the old one was 133mhz (PR166). This new motherboard also has 512K cache, as opposed to the old one with 256KB, so it should be going a lot faster, not slower!
But anyways, that's the only real problem, and I can live with it for now. I'm guessing there may be something incorrect set in the BIOS (it's AWARD BIOS) that's causing video speed, possibly, to be slower than normal (the slower speed was also evident with the Voodoo Rush, so it wasn't the change of video cards that caused the slowdown). Anyone who can offer any help/suggestions can e-mail me.
Updates will now return to normal.
Frontend News: Run It renamed to WinFronT and updated
05:01: Run It, the multi emulator frontend, has been updated and renamed to WinFronT. This new release features:
You can go get it from the Universal frontends page.
12/9/98
Emulator Release: NeoMAME version 34b8b
23:46: A new version of NeoMAME is out. For a COMPLETE list of whats new, look here: \/
*pant* *pant* That took a while. :)
You can download the new version of NeoMAME at the MAME page.
Utility News: Some more Nes Utilities
05:32: Here are two more updates to make sure the newest versions is on ZD.
Go get these at theNes Utilities Page
12/8/98
Utility News: Genesis compatibility chart version 1.31
23:15: A new Genesis compatibility chart was released! Currently 923 games were tested on 2 emulators. (Genecyst, KGen98) Here are the stats:
Genecyst vX.XX (822 of 923 games work OK, i.e. 89.1%)
KGen98 v0.4b (835 of 923 games work OK, i.e. 90.5%)
Go ahead and download it from the Sega Genesis Emulator Page.
Misc. News: DarkMazda's Domain is back up again!
22:00: Due to popular demand DarkMazda's Domain is FINALLY back up after 2 months of absence. Go see it at its new location!
Utility News: Hexpose 0.215
11:14: This was actually released the 24th April this year, but someone must have missed it :). Well... it's here now and this is what's new in this and the last version (0.210) since it was also missed.
0.210
0.215
Get this version of Hexpose now at the NES Utilites Page
Emulator Release: BrSMS version 1.12 public
01:07: The BrSMS Sega Master system, and Game Gear emulator is released to the public today.
If you missed whats new before, here is whats new now:
You can get the new BrSMS version 1.12 while it's hot, at the Sega Master System\Game Gear page.
12/7/98
Misc. News: Patent Pending returns
20:38: I received an e-mail from MEGAߥTE, regarding the return of his website, Patent Pending:
After a month of downtime after SimpleNet kicked us off for breaking their ignorant ToS, Patent Pending is back! We have decided to create a game site network, under our old emudev name Konfiskated Teknologies. We now have our own domain and are hosted by maindomain (which is a lot nicer that SimpleNet). My computer suffered a hard drive crash, and we were not able to retrieve all of our files. Most notably, the whole Emulators section was lost. We are rebuilding as fast as we can however, and I should have about 50% of the site up by tomorrow night. After that, pages will have to be replaced one-by-one. It will be slow at first, but we have great plans ahead! The new URL is http://kontek.net/pp
--=MEGAߥTE
Emulator Release: DTMNT 0.55 beta
20:27: A beta version of DTMNT was released, 0.55. Here's what's new in the beta version:
However, it's about 150% slower than 0.54, so don't bother if you don't have a very fast computer. You can download DTMNT 0.55 beta from the Single-Arcade emulators page.
Emulator Release: SPCAMP 0.401
20:18: A minor update was issued to SPCAMP, a plugin to enable WinAmp to play SPCs:
You can download SPCAMP 0.401 from the SPC players page.
Site News: New SNES ROMs added
17:23: Ten new ROMS have been added to the SNES section. They are (in no particular order):
Go check them out at the SNES ROMs page.
Utility News: TetaNES 0.6.3
12:11: TetaNES, a nes rom image manipulation program has been updated to 0.6.3. This release is kinda old, so consider this as a catchup update to get all the newest utils on ZD.
Since the last version on ZD was 0.6.1, i'll write what's new in the last two versions.
0.6.2
0.6.3
Get it at the NES Utilities Page.
Site News: "New" Utilities Maintainer
11:50: I'm BACK! I'm sure you are very happy to see me here on ZD again :) For you who wonder who the hell this strange dude is, i got an answer. I was the Unix Emulator Maintainer before rouge, but i quitted due to lack of time and motivation. But now i'm back as the Utilities Maintainer (poor you :) and i'm better than ever...
Since the Utils section has been out of a maintainer lately, expect some updates today or tomorrow.
And offcourse, if you know about or made a kick ass utility. MAIL ME!
That's all folks...
Emulator Release: Ultra 64 0.2c
05:10: A new version of Ultra 64, the n64 emulator, has been updated. Some bugs have been squashed but still some remain and some opcodes aren't working properly yet. Anyways, this new release features a debugger, but it doesn't run anything yet so don't bug the author about it.
You can get it from the Nintendo 64 Emulators page.
Frontend News: NeoWal added
03:19: This frontend for NeoRAGE was actually released a really long time ago, but every time I've tried to add it something's gone wrong, heh.
Anyways, now it's added. This is a NeoRAGEW frontend with a nice text interface and support for the command line options of NeoRAGE 0.2d.
You can get it from the Arcade Emulator frontends page.
Frontend News: Run-It games file updated
03:12: Yep, the games file for Run-It, the universal frontend, has been updated to support MAME Beta 8. I'v updated the zip file with the newest version of games.csv, so all you have to do is go get it from the Universal Frontends page.
Misc. News: ZD-spc help needed
01:37: Does anyone know how to unzip/unrar in Visual C++ 5.0+?
I need this to make ZD-spc better.
If you know how, or have an example I can use, please e-mail me.
Thanks.
Emulator Release: PCSloMo 0.24br4
00:20: Frododead has released version 0.24br4 of his correctly named Visual Basic Multi-Arcade emulator, PCSloMo. Here's what's new:
You can download PCSloMo 0.24br4 from the Multi Arcade emulators page.
Emulator Release: SPCAMP 0.400
00:01: Well, SPCAMP is an emulator (for the SPC700) as well as a player, so I called it an emulator release. Sue me. SPCAMP is a WinAmp plugin that enables you to play SNES music files, known as SPCs. It's from the ZSNES team, and thus uses the same engine as ZSNES & SPCPLAY do. Here's what's new in .400:
You can download SPCAMP 0.400 from the SPC players page.
12/6/98
Misc. News: ZD-spc skins updated
23:24: I have gotten alot of skins in the mail, and I am posting them on the skins page. Go ahead and get the skins you want for ZD-spc!!
Grab them from the skins page!
Emulator News: New iNES coming soon
16:18: Marat Fayzullin has e-mailed ZD to let us know that he is hard at work on the next version of iNES. It includes the following features:
There is no release date at the moment. Also coming is Virtual GameBoy 1.4 with multiple bugfixes in the Color GameBoy emulation.
Misc. News: SNES9X author interviewed.
15:05: A pal of mine, Geechyguy, recently put up a pretty good interview with Gary Henderson (co-author of SNES9x) about SNES emulation in general. One of the questions is about what happened to make the development of SNES9x halt for a while (really interesting). It's pretty good (even for my high standards).
Read it here, and while you're at it, read Geechyguy's page, the Emulation Newstand.
Thanks to the Geech for telling me about this.
Site News: Poll update (finally)
14:46: I took a look at the poll, realised it was old, and decided to update it. Here's last week's poll:
What is your opinion of the recent IDSA shutdowns?
Choice 1 was: "I wish that the IDSA would die."
It received 187 votes (51.5 percent).
Choice 2 was: "We should start a petition or something."
It received 65 votes (17.9 percent).
Choice 3 was: "People should support organizations like CLEAR."
It received 31 votes (8.5 percent).
Choice 4 was: "The IDSA has to protect their members, don't they? Give them a break."
It received 52 votes (14.3 percent).
Choice 5 was: "I never visited any of the affected sites anyway. I don't care one way or the other."
It received 28 votes (7.7 percent).
As you can see, the results say something -- the IDSA is not liked by most of us (like we needed a poll to tell us this). Still, nearly 15% of people thought the IDSA was in the right, which was pretty much unexpected on my part.
This week's poll: Will emulators ever replace the real thing?
With all these emulators becoming just about perfect, will emulators be good enough to replace consoles or arcade machines someday?
Anyway, go vote.
Emulator Release: ZD-spc 1.60
05:17: WOOooo. I sound impressed, don't I? Hrm. A new version of ZD-spc was released. Here are the changes in version 1.60:
If you want to download this, go to the ZD-spc page.
Site News: ZD-spc Skins page opens
05:17: If you would like to take a look at the new ZD-spc skins page, go here. And if you have a skin you would like published on the skins page, go ahead and send it over to me.
Here it is again. ZD-spc Skins page
Emulator Release: TrueReality v1998112500 for Unix
04:03: New version of TrueReality Nintendo 64 emulator for Unix, not alot of news, more demos tested, many of which still have minor glitches. Commercial roms starting to be tested too, although don't go rom-hording just yet...
Unix Nintendo 64 page.
Site News: Greetings, Salutations, and Howdy
03:52: Well, folks, it looks like I've just been appointed as your new Free Demo/ROMs pages maintainer. Quite a mouthful there, I know. My ears are open for any homebrewn roms that you've created. However, be warned. Anyone emailing me for commerical games will be at my mercy. As Zophar has loaned me some of his 70's loving thugs, don't be surprised if you wake up with Flower Children tattoos and bellbottoms. Power's heady stuff.
If you have any news for me, send an email to Poetess@thuntek.net.
Emulator Release: VBEmu98 v0.5 for Unix
03:34: The Linux port of VBEmu98, the first Virtual Boy emulator. You'll need a high-end pentium or something like that to run it at full speed. The colors are black and white instead of black and red, and there is no sound yet. I own a Virtual Boy and I'm legally obligated to say that it rules, so...
Unix Virtual Boy page.
Emulator Release: NeoMAME 0.34b8
02:39: A few days ago a new variation of MAME was released. NeoMAME is exactly like MAME except that all the non NeoGeo drivers have been removed. This is good for all you out there that use MAME for NeoGeo games only since the executable size is MUCH smaller.
Grab NeoMAME from the MAME page.
Emulator Release: AMAME & PentiuMAME 0.34b8
01:00: A few days ago, the AMD & Pentium optimized builds of MAME 0.34b8 were released by Rodimus. We missed this update since I was away, tending to my fried motherboard. You can download both AMAME and PeniuMAME (pMAME) 0.34b8 from the MAME page.
Site News: Staff positions
00:42: Well, we have already decided on a new maintainer for the Free/demo ROMs sections, but there's a slight problem. Since I'm not on my computer at the time, I can't e-mail this person back. So, for the person I spoke to with the nickname of 'poetess', please e-mail me, or find me on IRC, since I no longer have your e-mail address.
The utilities maintainer position is on hold until my computer works again so that I can resume interviews.
12/5/98
Site News: E-mailing Zophar
21:26: Well, I have checked all of the e-mails sent to me over the past week today, and replied to most of them. Some of you may have received an e-mail from me that did not have a reply-to address of zophar@voicenet.com. It's because I'm still not on my own computer, but a friend's. You can now e-mail me without worry, I will receive all of your e-mails, and for those of you who received an e-mail from me, please reply to zophar@voicenet.com, not the e-mail address that i replied to you with :)
Emulator News: Final word on Neo Danji 0.040
21:22: DogHuang e-mailed me to let me know that he's located the names of all the games Neo Danji can convert to its format and supports:
aof3/bstar/drift/fury3/ke/klash/kof96/kof97
lb/mslug/ms2/ninjm/ovr/pstar/rbffs/rb2
rgard/shock/afig2/sonw3/samsh/sams2/spnm
sprit/star2/waku7
Thanks again to DogHuang for this list.
Emulator News: Neo Danji 0.040 documentation translation
21:04: I've received several e-mails and msgs pertaining to what's new in the latest Neo Danji, and it seems that ReGNaSTa is the one to thank for the translation. Here's what's new:
Again, thanks to ReGNaSTa for translating the 0.040 newisms.
Misc. News: Tech Request
19:39: Here is an e-mail for a tech request. If you have some info, please take some time to write him. :) Here is the e-mail straight from Netscape Messanger:
I am starting a new emulation page about the unemulatable systems to this date and I need some information on some systems, so maybe it would encourage new emulator authors to try and write one. The systems that I am most interested in gaining information for are : Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Game.com, Virtual Boy, and if you can, Dreamcast(This system has been released in Japan, some people might have info on this system) Could you please post an info request on your page?
Thanks
You can send him some info at his e-mail account : Dawli2010@aol.com
Emulator Release: Atari 800 version 2.5
19:27: Well, a new version of Atari 800 was released today. Here is whats new in version 2.5 of Atari 800:
If you want to download Atari 800, go to the Atari 5200 homepage
Emulator Release: Retrocade v1.10
18:51: New Retrocade released. Here's what's new:
Download the new Retrocade at the Multi Arcade Emulators page.
Utility News: Kaz's DirectSound Plugin for PSEmuPro v0.5
18:13: A new version of Kaz's DirectSound driver for PSEmuPro has been released! I have no idea whats new because there was no readme file in the zip.
You can download Kaz's DirectSound driver from the PSEmuPro Plugins page.
Utility News: Nik's Direct3d plugin for PSEmuPro v1.23
18:11: Nik has released a new version of his Direct3d driver for PSEmuPro. Heres whats new:
You can download Nik's Direct3d driver from the PSEmuPro Plugins page.
Utility News: Lewpy's Glide driver for PSEmuPro v1.1.15Beta6 released!
18:09: A new version of Lewpy's Glide driver was released. There is ALOT new, I'll just list whats new in the latest beta. Check the docs for a full list:
You can download Lewpy's Glide driver from the PSEmuPro Plugins page.
Emulator Release: Echo 0.1b
17:14: Previously known as OidsEmu, this Atari ST emulator for DOS was started with one purpose in mind: to run the Atari ST game, Oids, which it does. It's still not complete, however, so most games still won't run.
This version, 0.1b, (released last week) is more compatible than the last one, has sound emulation, among other changes. You can download Echo 0.1b from the Atari ST emulators page.
Emulator Release: Snes9x DOS v1.15
16:56: A new version of Snes9x for DOS has been released! Heres whats new:
You can download Snes9x from the Snes emulator page.
Emulator Release: vMAME 0.34b8
16:52: A new version of vMAME, the scanline-optimized version of MAME, is now available. This release corresponds to the 0.34b8 of the beta vesion of MAME. Both standard and pentium versions of vMAME are available. This is probably the last release of vMAME, however, since the changes are finally going to be implemented in the final release of MAME 0.34. You can download vMAME 0.34b8 from the MAME page.
Emulator Release: GalEMU 0.26
16:09: Barry Rodewald has released version 0.26 of his multi arcade emulator, GalEMU. Here's what's new in this release:
You can download GalEMU 0.26 from the Multi Arcade emulators page.
Emulator Release: Neo Danji 0.040
16:01: A new release of Neo Danji is now available. Since the english mirror has not been updated yet, I don't know what's new in version 0.040. When it's updated, I'll post what's new with it on ZD. You can download Neo Danji 0.040 (no sound) from the Neo Geo emulators page.
Site News: Regarding e-mails
01:35: Currently, I'm not able to check my e-mail, so I apologize for anyone who has e-mailed me during the past week. When I am able to use my computer again, I will check all of my e-mails, so sit tight.
Also, on an unrelated note, I am suffering from the flu or something at this moment, so this will be the last update I do tonight. Watch for a bunch tommorow, however.
Misc. News: IDSA releases statement regarding emulation
01:27: The IDSA, which is an organization responsible for the shutting down of many ROM sites, as well as other forms of piracy, has issued a statement on the recent shutdown of Dave's Classics while all ROMs were removed. You are all urged to read this; it's very interesting reading. Alas, it seems as though they have no intention of changing their current path of the destruction of every single ROMs site that they can get their hands on.
Site News: I'm back... sort of
01:22: Well, it's been a REALLY crappy week for me; only good thing that happened was the 4 corners dark match at the Sunday Night Heat tapings last week. Something happened to my computer. I still don't know the actual cause, and I even have doubts as to whether it's the CPU that fried, or if the whole motherboard just died.
In any case, I'm not on my own computer right now, a friend lent me his for the time being. A new motherboard and CPU is on the way, HUGE thanks to Rob for this; until then, I'll be trying to do a few updates here and there as best I can on my friend's computer.
I realize ZD hasn't been updated as much as it usually is; it seems that if I vanish, so does all sense of order. Thank you for your continued support of ZD, and hopefully, within a few days, things can resume some sort of normalcy.
12/4/98
Emulator News: NES4PC Status Report
03:57: AkIlLa^'s NES Emulator NES4PC has some new nifty features to be expected from its next version, and here they are:
You can always visit the NES4PC Homepage.
Frontend News: Late news, ho.
03:48: Ok. I was actually supposed to add this two days ago or something, but some stuff was messing up. Now it works though, so I can mention the updates I've done to the frontend pages:
TeleKawaru's SPCPlayer frontend has been updated to support ZDSPC. You cen get it from the SNES Emulator frontends page.
A NEW frontend for z26, the Atari 2600 Emulator, has been released. It's called AtariFrontZ and supports all the command line options of the newest z26.
You can get it from the Atari 2600 Emulator frontends page.
Btw, I've been sick too. Not mentally ill, though :) I Just had a plain little old cold.
Site News: SPC & ZST archives updated
00:27: After Zophar's computer fried, I did my silent update of the archives... but of course Zophar wants me to do these updates so it looks like I'm doing something. So, here we go: Updated: SPC, ZST archives. The SPC archive now has a top uploaders lists, kind of like the BBS days... While I'm on the subject of the SPC archive, some people have been e-mailing me asking the e-mail addresses of the contributors. I cannot disclose these to you, because 1) these mails have already been deleted, and 2) I do not wish to violate these people's privacy. So, please do not ask.
12/3/98
Translation News: AAGT changed name to YnT
23:22: AAGT, the group that is traslating Rockman & Forte, have changed
their name to YnT which means Yonin no Translators. I've updated the link on the translations page.
Emulator Release: z26 version 1.21
23:20: A new version of z26 is out. And now you don't have to type the extention for the filename. (woo!) Well, straight from the readme.txt, here is what's new:
If you would like to download z26, or the z26 source code, go to the Atari 2600 emulator page.
Emulator Release: CaPriCe32 version 0.05b
22:34: Well, a new version of CaPriCe32 is out, and this is a minor update, but none the less, a good one. (pesky splash screen) :) Straight from the whatsnew.txt, here is what's new:
You can download this version at the Amstrad CPC emulator page.
Emulator News: BrSMS Improves...
00:11: The author of BrSMS, a fast SMS emulator for a slow machine, announced the release of version 1.12...however, you must be a registered user in order to get it. Here's whats new in 1.12:
You can grab the public version 1.11 from the SMS/GG page, or visit the BrSMS site and check out the screen shots.
12/2/98
Emulator Release: New Beta of PSemu
23:54: Today the new beta of PSemu arrived! This beta has various fixed, amoung those are the GTE lighting functions and it now supports analog controllers. It's recommended you pick up the updated Smartazz gamepad plugin before running this beta.
Grab PSemu from the Playstation page, or visit PSemu's beta site for the plugins.
