Emulator News: NES4PC Alpha 2
17:57:  Yep, yep that's right. David De Regt, also known as AkIlLa^ has released a new Alpha version of his NES Emulator NES4PC. There are quite a few new things done to this version, and here's a nice list for your viewing pleasure:

Emulator News: Meka to be released soon
08:16:  Zoop has recently announced that his Sega Master System & GameGear emulator, Meka, will be available very soon. He's also set up a homepage for Meka, which includes some information about the emulator, as well as screenshots. Finally, he's released two SC-3000 ROMs for use with the upcoming release of Meka (the SC-3000 is an old computer by Sega). Be sure to check out EmuCamp for more details.

Emulator News: Matt Conte finds new home for Nofrendo webpage
08:09:  Matt Conte, author of that NES emulator for DOS named Nofrendo (that's a lower case "f") has e-mailed in to let everyone know that he's all set and ready to move into the new server where Nofrendo will be hosted. When he's all settled in, we'll post the URL right here.

2/27/99
Emulator Release: DRR-NES 0.30
18:21:  A new release of DRR-NES, a NES emulator coded in QBasic for DOS, is now available. A lot has changed since 0.20. Here's what's new in 0.30:

Utility News: Intellivision page added
18:08:  I have added an Intellivision page to the utilities section, and have also added the following utilities to it.

CP1600 decompiler - Decompile CP1600 roms

Intellivision Development Kit - Develop your own games

You can check out the new Intellivision page at the Intellivision page.

Emulator Release: Snes9x 1.18d for Linux
17:12:  A new version of Snes9x has been released for Linux(i386), Solaris(Sparc), and SunOS(Sparc). There source has not been released yet. Here's what's new:

Misc. News: Emu News Service returns
15:09:  Emu News Service has returned, and you can find the site's new URL below.

Emulator Release: GBFAN Plus 1.08
12:06:  Here's another new version of GBFAN Plus, but the readme is still in Japanese so I can't read it. Don't worry, we'll get it up eventually. For now, get GBFAN Plus at the Gameboy page.

Misc. News: N64 controllers on the PC?
11:36:  Working together, Stephan Hans, Simon Nield, Earle F.P. III, and Benji York have successfully developed an interface that will allow you to hook N64 controllers up to your computer. Current software doesn't support N64 controllers yet, but SNESkey and DirectPad are being updated and should work soon. Until then, you can start building the interface or mess around with the test programs. Go to this website to find out more. Thanks to saint for the e-mail.

Emulator Release: IMAME 0.35b3
10:39:  Now there's a 32-bit version of IMAME. It should have the same features as regular MAME32, the only difference is that the text is in Italian. If you want it, you can get it at the MAME page.

Misc. News: Ultrahle.com opens
10:07:  Before I mention this, you should all know that the following website is not endorsed by the UltraHLE authors.

Nathan Lazur has launched www.ultrahle.com, a website dedicated to the world's first working N64 emulator, UltraHLE. If you're interested in it, be sure to check out this website.

Emulator Release: New Namco System 1 Emulator!
05:05:  JROK has released an early beta of his Namco System 1 Emulator for DOS. Currently it only plays Pacmania US and JPN editions, but Galaga 88 should be added in future releases.

Get it on the Multi Arcade Emulator page.

Misc. News: N64 Chart v0.84
04:10:  The Scribe has also released v0.84 of his N64 Compatibility List, the N64 Chart. According to this chart, UltraHLE can run 61 out of 220 titles tested, which is 27.8% of all titles. Note that many demos are included in this listing as well, not just games. You can download the N64 Chart from the N64 emulators page.

Misc. News: SNES Chart v1.80
04:00:  The Scribe has just released version 1.80 of his SNES Compatibility list, The SNES Chart. Look which emulator has taken the lead:

No. 1 emulator: ZSNES v0.800 (1598 of 1740 games work OK, i.e. 91.8%)
No. 2 emulator: SNES9X v1.16 (1594 of 1740 games work OK, i.e. 91.6%)

You can download the SNES Chart v1.80 from the SNES emulators page.

2/26/99
Misc. News: Links updated
23:18:  Well, once again, it is the end of the week. (ok, so not yet... but I probably won't be able to update tomorrow)

I've added about 12 links, and sadly taken off 2. hehe

Well, you can visit the links at the links page.

Site News: Goodbye
23:12:  Its been fun, but I really don't have the time or interest to do this anymore. bye

Utility News: XCheatED version 1.20
23:05:  A new version of the PSX cheat editor has been released. New in this version is as follows:

Translation News: More hacks
20:37:  2 more hacks that were rotting in my mailbox

Interview News: Steve Snake Interviewed!
19:47:  Zing has interviewd Steve Snake about what he's been up to, and with the new Sega Smash Pack.

See the interview here.

Emulator Release: WinNES 0.0.6
13:59:  A new version of WinNES, a NES emulator for Windows (duh) has been released. Here's what's new in version 0.0.6:

Misc. News: Non-emulator related fun
13:26:  I've noticed that a large number of emulator sites deviate from emulation every now and then...but this is Zophar's Domain. ;) Therefore, all deviations here will be weird, twisted, and insane.

I found this MP3 on IRC yesterday, and almost died laughing. I won't offer any opinion, just listen to it and form your own! However, except for a few bleeps, it leans towards an 'R' rating, so if you get easily offended by adult-oriented humour, then this is not for you. But if so... enjoy! (It's about a meg big. The format is 64kbit, 44100hz, mono. If you don't have an MP3 player, grab WinAmp).

Misc. News: More on the FCC Ruling
13:16:  The Great George Lulu has informed me that the FCC has issued another press release which says, simply, that even though the internet is interstate in nature, the law which says that the internet is exempt from interstate charges is still in effect. You can read more about it at the link below.

Misc. News: Internet access declared interstate commerce.
06:01:  Anyone know a good way to ruin a good thing? The FCC does. They recently decided that the net access isn't intrastate commerce because it's an ISP. It's interstate commerce because you start in one state and end up in another. What does this do? It gives phone companies the right to charge long-distance access on ISP calls. Will they do it? Only time will tell. What'll probably happen is that phone companies that own ISPs will make those ISPs more desirable by making them non-per-minute access.

Read the story and see what I mean.

This could cause huge problems if it's taken the wrong way.

Site News: Poll updated again.
05:54:  Well, after sitting around on the last poll for a couple of weeks, I came up with the idea to update it for once. So I did it.

Here are the results from the last poll:

What kind of PC do you use to play emulators on?

Choice 1 was: "486-level chip or Lower (you are a GOD if you use a 386)"
It received 37 votes (5.3 percent).

Choice 2 was: "Low-end Pentium (P133 or lower)"
It received 94 votes (13.5 percent).

Choice 3 was: "High-end Pentium (P166 or higher)"
It received 176 votes (25.3 percent).

Choice 4 was: "Celeron or Pentium II"
It received 218 votes (31.3 percent).

Choice 5 was: "Low-end AMD (K5 or lower)"
It received 10 votes (1.4 percent).

Choice 6 was: "High-end AMD (K6 or higher)"
It received 112 votes (16.1 percent).

Choice 7 was: "Low-end Cyrix (6x86 or lower)"
It received 20 votes (2.9 percent).

Choice 8 was: "High End Cyrix (6x86MX/MII or higher)"
It received 19 votes (2.7 percent).

Choice 9 was: "I have a Macintosh. (Virtual Gamestation baby!@!@)"
It received 6 votes (0.9 percent).

Choice 10 was: "I'm using WebTV, or for some other reason I can't vote."
It received 5 votes (0.7 percent).

Someone also sent me the first write-in I've ever seen: a 8086, which he used to run NO$GMB. He supposedly got 1/3 fo the full speed outta it. Not bad. More power to him.

Anyway, here's what the next poll is about: Which SPC player do you use?

Good enough question, right? :)

Anyway, go vote.

Frontend News: NeoFront homepage move, plus....
05:41:  The NeoFront and NeoFront9x homepage has moved to http://members.xoom.com/admasoft/neofront.html. And also, a new version of NeoFront9x is out. This update only features a changed background image so it's not much of an update anyway :) But if you want it you can get it from the Arcade emulator frontends page.

Frontend News: MAMEFront 0.9.78WIP
05:29:  Maxim Viale has released a new version of his very good MAME frontend. This new version adds correct support for the VESA options. Well, hehe. Have fun with it :)

It's on the Arcade emulator frontends page.

Misc. News: Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell To Attend CGE '99
05:27:  For those of you who don't know what the Classic Gaming Expo is, it's an annual event which celebrates the roots of video gaming, so I figured this was appropriate to post here at ZD. The founder of Atari (who created Pong, the world's first video game, as well as Chuck E Cheese's) will be attending this year's CGE, in Las Vegas, Nevada. You can check out the entire press release from the link below.

Utility News: Hexposure 0.44b
05:18:  Some of you may remember this hex-editing utility, coded by Kent Hanson some time ago. Recently, it's been receiving a ton of updates. Here's what's new in the just released Hexposure 0.44b:

Emulator News: GGFan98 documentation translated
05:05:  The documentation to GGFan98, a GameGear/Sega Master System emulator for Windows, has just been translated. A big thanks goes out to Issey for translating the documentation. You can check out the translated documentation, and the emulator itself, at the Sega Master System & GameGear emulators page.

2/25/99
Misc. News: Sorry.
09:03:  Sorry for the lack of updates and stuff, but last sunday+monday have been tough for me :\ I've been forced to reformat my harddrive AGAIN and my comp is still not up and running. I can't seem to find Win98 anywhere. And on top of all this the school's connection has been going up and down all week, soooo. Sorry. I'll get around to update later. But, heh. I did get a nice new web account :) I got myself some space on a brand new server called www.cola.nu. My homepage is actually here but there's not much there yet. It it a server made by a couple of Swedes, but it'll get a well deserved upgrade soon, and if you don't want GeoCities or something else you could prolly get an account there. Subdomains will be available later, too :) Enough of this, I'm going to find all the frontend updates I need to do.

Misc. News: StarLaunch link fixed + stuff.
04:39:  I've fixed the link to StarLaunch on the Universal frontends page. Thanks to StarFox(author of StarLaunch :)) for noticing it.

I do have some updates to do, but I don't have time, due to a chemistry test that I've got today. Wish me luck :)

Emulator Release: NES4PC 0.35 Alpha 1
03:59:  Somehow, I missed the release of NES4PC 0.35 Alpha 1. It was actually released over a week ago, so most of you probably have it by now. See the readme for the changes from 0.30. You can download NES4PC 0.35 Alpha 1 from the NES emulators page.

Emulator News: Progress update on NES4PC
03:47:  Akilla has been steadily working on improving his NES emulator for Windows, NES4PC. Here's some of the things he's been doing:

Right now, I'm working on the MMC1 code. There seems to be a problem with the code for 256k page switching, and likely some other stuff, so games like Dragon Warrior 3 and 4 don't work right now. (Of course, DW1/2 don't work either, but that's another story...) Zelda 2's overworld map is also screwed up tile-wise, just like it was before it broke, so I'm trying to find out if it's a MMC1 error or if it's something in my sprite 0 hit code or my scanline engine or what... =/

Thanks to the news-u-lator for this update. Don't forget to check out the NES4PC homepage from the link below.

Emulator News: KBMAME 0.35 Beta 3-3
03:41:  Beta 3 build 3 of KBMAME, a version of MAME for Neo Geo ROMs, with some additions, has been released by Deimos Zero. Here's what's new in both build 3 and 2, which we missed:

Misc. News: Chris Hickman returns to Archaic Ruins
03:25:  At least, that's what it looks like! Archaic Ruins, which is one of the oldest and still-standing general emulation sites out there, and also 1/2 of the original inspiration for my creating ZD in 1996, has received a facelift, courtesy of Chris Hickman who is the founder of AR (what a mouthful). If you haven't been there recently, you should check it out now as it sports a much cleaner, more simple layout.

Interview News: Bjorn Astrom interviewed!
03:18:  ZD's own Bjorn Astrom, aka _Bnu, has recetly been interviewed about a NES emulator he's working on, uNESsential. For those who don't know, uNESsential is a NES emulator coded in Qbasic. You can check out the interview from the link below.

_Bnu interview

Interview News: 2 new e-mail wars from Emu Unlim
00:03:  Two new "e-mail wars" (interviews done via e-mail) are now available at www.emuunlim.com. The first is an interview with P/AMAME author, Rodimus Prime, and the second is of Steve Snake, the programmer of Kgen and the Sega Smash Pack. Check them out!

2/24/99
Translation News: I'm Proud to Present a New Section!
17:01:  Today I am presenting to you all, the Romhacking Documention Secion on ZD. This was started a while back, when XiP and InVerse decided to attempt to making it, I finished it up and here is the product. Hopefully, all you newbies, and learning romhackers can come here to learn more about translations and romhacking. If I missed a good doc, please tell me so I can add it. Let the hacking begin!

Visit the new Romhacking doc section.

Frontend News: StarLaunch 3.0X!!!
12:41:  StarLaunch, one of the leading universal frontends, has been updated! And wait 'til you see this news list:

Emulator Release: GFAN Plus 1.07g
22:27:  Here's another new version (how many is this now?). You can get it at the Gameboy page if you want it.

Translation News: 2 More hacks
01:20:  We have some nice pretty hacks for everyone today

2/22/99
Emulator News: PSEmu Pro is still alive
23:38:  Tratax updated the PSEmu Pro page yesterday with news about the emulator. Here's some of what he had to say:

"Hi guys, Tratax here. Some of you have probably been wondering if PSEmu is dead with all its members abandoning the project. Well, dont forget that Rasky and Moonshadow are still a member of TAB. Though they are busy with other things, you shouldnt count them out yet."

There's more info at the PSEmu Pro homepage.

Emulator Release: GBFAN Plus 1.07f
23:31:  Another new version of GBFAN is out, and I still can't read Japanese. If you want it, go to the Gameboy page.

Utility News: Tecmo Super Bowl III Manager
02:52:  A Win 95/98 utility that lets you open up the SNES Tecmo Super Bowl 3 ROM and edit it. It's an extremely easy-to-use, yet very powerful little utility!

If you want to download it, go to the Face Lift page.

Utility News: pceID version 0.99b
02:22:  A new version of pceID was released. There is no "whats new" or anything, but I'm guessing it just fixed a minor bug.

You can download it at the Turbo Graphics 16 utilities page.

Misc. News: Lewpy's 3Dfx/Glide³ plugin for PSEmu Pro ver 1.0.16
02:11:  Well a new version of Lewpy's plugin for PSEmu pro was released, and here are the new features:

Emulator Release: Hu6280 1.89 Beta 6
00:37:  Well, it was a very busy day, and it seems that today will be a busy day as well. Jamsponge has released version 1.89 Beta 6 of the Windows port of his TG-16 emulator, Hu6280. Here's what's new:

2/21/99
Emulator Release: RockNES 0.73
23:48:  Fx3 has released yet another version of RockNES, his fourth in just one week. Here's what's new in RockNES 0.73:

Emulator Release: Virtual-E 0.1a
23:38:  Here's a new Virtual Boy emu, but it doesn't run any games. Actually, it doesn't even emulate any op codes according to the readme. Well... they're working on it. Right now it displays ROM info and has an awesome GUI. Get it at the Virtual Boy page.

Misc. News: Confirmed: Sega Smash Pack uses KGEN
23:19:  Thanks to two people who e-mailed me, Iang and Greg, it's been confirmed that Steve Snake, author of KGen (a Genesis emulator for DOS) has indeed used his emulator in Sega's Smash Pack. In the readme for the Sega Smash Pack, you can clearly see this, near the end:

Lead Programmer and Original Technology
Steve Snake

Also, in the smash.cfg file, the first 4 letters are:

KGeN

The ROMs used in the Sega Smash Pack appear to be 16 bytes more than the .BIN format (*.kvq), but they are not in any format that I've ever seen. Once again, a huge thanks to Greg and Iang for verifying this. You can check out both the readme and the cfg file below.

Interview News: New Email Wars Interview
20:23:  ManBeast has informed us that a new E-Mail Wars interview has been posted at Emulators Unlimited. It is an interview between Zing and 64bit (Moonlit Coalition/Sunset64)

Misc. News: Classicgaming makes a statement
19:26:  A few minutes ago, Fragmaster, the person who runs Classicgaming.com, has issued a statement regarding Emu News Service leaving Classicgaming.com:

James Pragit (the guy who ran EmuNews) left this site because the company that hosts ClassicGaming also owns the EmuNews domain. The domain EmuNews.com was oned by CriticalMass long before James came onboard, and before that the domain EmuNews.com was owned by The Techs Network.

In his final news posting James neglected to mention that he was an employee of CriticalMass and was paid for his services. It has been a policy of CriticalMass owns all the domains of sites it hosts, including the EmuNews domain. They own ClassicGaming.com as well. I don't have a problem with that; They continue to support this site with publicity and resources even though it isn't profitable -- CG uses an incredible amount of Bandwidth (*cough* NEO-GEO roms *cough*) and the only reason it exists is because I love classic games.

I've worked on ClassicGaming for over a year now. It may not be the best emulation \ classic gaming site out there, but I try. If it doesn't float your boat, there's other sites out there like Dave's and Zophar's.

I'm sorry that James couldn't come to an agreement with his employers, but sometimes disagreements are inevitable.

Meanwhile, ClassicGaming will still be around. Until the IDSA drags me away :)

I don't know what to say, really, except that this is a very odd situation.

Emulator Release: aMAME & pMAME 0.35 Beta 3a
18:30:  New compiles of Rodimus Prime's AMD and Pentium optimized versions of MAME are now available. Thanks to Raven of www.emucamp.com for the news on this. You can download aMAME & pMAME 0.35 Beta 3a from the MAME page.

Emulator Release: DarcNES v19990221 for Unix
18:17:  New version of DarcNES, NES, SMS, PCE emulator. I missed the update before this (they were within 12 hours of each other) so, what's new since v19990214:

19990221:

Misc. News: Problems for Classicgaming.com
18:01:  I sat down for about 15 minutes, deciding how I should do this update. Basically, Emu News Service & the Nofrendo homepage are both moving off of CG because of some moral issues, which you can read all about at Emu News Service, which is currently back at AOL, where the site first started. Here's an excerpt:

A little less than a year ago, I moved this website from its original location on America Online to ClassicGaming.com. Without going into the nitty gritty details, it was a mixed blessing. Sometime after my move, ClassicGaming.com (which is a part of Critical Mass) registered the domain name www.emunews.com. They did so without telling me. In fact, I didn't even find out about it until much later. You can imagine my surprise when I read about it in a posting on Zophar's Domain's message board.

Time will tell what the future holds in store.

Emulator Release: RockNES 0.72
17:51:  Fx3 has e-mailed me to announce that he's released version 0.72 of his NES emulator for DOS, RockNES. Here's what's fixed:

Emulator News: Sega Smash Pack, an Emulator?
14:53:  Rumor has it that the newly released Sega Smash Pack, is really a new version of Steve Snake's KGen Genesis emulator. Could this mean good or bad things for Sega emulation in the future?

If you can confirm this rumor, please email Zophar

Emulator Release: DarcNES 990220
11:18:  A new version of DarcNES is out. It looks like we may have missed a few releases, so here's what's new since the last one we had:

Misc. News: AZD-spc mIRC script updated
01:52:  Sokrin Hou has released a new version of the mIRC script for playing SPC's in mIRC. Now (if you want) when you play an spc, it loads ZD-spc on other peoples computers (who have the script) and plays it on their pc. (if they have the spc, with the same filename) Its getting better and better. :)

You can download it at the ZD-spc page.

Misc. News: PSX Compatability Chart v0.10
01:25:  The Scribe has released an early version of his PSX Compatability chart, just as he did with SNES, N64 and Sega.

Get a copy of it on the PSX page.

Misc. News: UltraHLE Compatibility Chart v0.82
01:19:  The Scribe has created a compatibility chart for UltraHLE (if you don't know what UltraHLE is by now, don't ask), in the spirit of his SNES and Sega compatibility charts. You can download the UltraHLE Compatibility Chart v0.82 from the N64 emulators page.

2/20/99
Misc. News: AZDspc mIRC script
20:41:  Cool! Two scripts in 1 day. :)

This script allows you to use ZD-spc in mIRC, and it doesn't even have to be registered with .SPC files. You can have a list of spc's thoughout the directories. (I like that even better than my playist)
:)

You can even have time intervals between spc playing. (every minute or so, a new spc plays)

Although it has all these things, there still isn't one to broadcast in a channel that you played so and so spc, and the other peoples script plays it for ya.

Go download it, check out the other one too.

You can download it, and ZD-spc at the ZD-spc page.

Site News: Weekly links update
16:21:  Through-out the week, I've updated the page with over 10 links.. (ohhh scary) And have deleted nothing. (cool)

Take a look at the new links!

Misc. News: DanSolo ZD-spc script for mIRC
16:11:  DanSolor released a ZD-spc script for mIRC to let you play SPC's in mIRC. Its pretty good.

You can download DanSolo's SPC script at the ZD-spc page.

Emulator News: GB Fan 1.07 changes translation
15:50:  The changes in GB Fan 1.07, a Gameboy emulator for Windows which was recently released, have been translated. Here you go:

Interview News: Neil Bradley interviewed by JoseQ
15:42:  JoseQ of www.emuviews.com has interviewed Neil Bradley, one of the authors of Retrocade, a highly optimized multi-arcade emulator for DOS. Neil has worked on other emulation projects as well. You'll want to check this interview out, as it's very interesting.

Misc. News: Get well soon Atila!
15:16:  Somehow, I missed this, but while I was browsing www.retrogames.com, I came across this note:

I received an email from Atila's brother: apparently Atila is ill from an infection in his leg. I'm also told that he's getting better, so hopefully he'll return soon. Get well Atila!

We here at ZD would also like to wish Atila (the owner of retrogames.com) a speedy recovery. Get well soon!

Emulator Release: KBMAME 0.35 Beta 3
15:13:  Deimos Zero has released a new compile of MAME 0.35 Beta 3. KBMAME is like NeoMAME (only emulates Neo Geo games), with the following additions:

Emulator Release: RockNES 0.71
14:54:  Fx3 has just released version 0.71 of RockNES, a NES emulator for DOS. Here's what's new in this version:

Emulator Release: Hu6280 Windows 1.89 Beta 5
14:40:  Jamsponge has just released version 1.89 Beta 5 of the Windows port of his TG-16 emulator, Hu6280. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: GBFAN Plus 1.07d
00:53:  Another version of GBFAN Plus (formarly known as GBFAN98) has been released. I don't know what's new, but you can get it at the Gameboy page.

Misc. News: Emulation Article on CNN
00:37:  About a week ago, there was an emulation article on the CNN website. It doesn't really have anything new to say, but hey, its on CNN! Go look at it here if you want.

2/19/99
Emulator News: Bleem! Webpage updated
23:25:  Speaks for itself, it appears that Bleem! might be released in the next few days.

The Bleem! homepage.

Misc. News: Sega Smash Pack!
20:16:  Sega America released a pack of 8 games which you can play on your PC: Altered Beast, Columns, Golden Axe, Outrun, Phantasy Star 2, Sonic Spinball, Super Shinobi, and Vectorma. It's set out in stores this week and requires a P133 w/16MB of ram to play. The comment below the article states:

"How nice, Sega got their Genesis emulator working..."

Read the original article here

Emulator Release: NeoMAME 0.35 Beta 3a
19:46:  A new release of NeoMAME is now available, thanks to Snotz. This version supports the fixed Samurai Showdown 3 sound ROMset. You can downloaf NeoMAME 0.35 Beta 3a from the MAME page.

Misc. News: The Tetris company stuff
14:07:  We recieved this little mail from someone known to us only as Erik, and it isn't really promising for the future of... Well.... Tetris emulation :)

"Apparantly, the Tetris Company (www.tetris.com) is clamping down on Tetris-clones and the like. I don't imagine they'd be too keen on emulated version either, hm? There's a page about it at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2430/tetris.html."

And once again, thanks to Erik for this news.

Translation News: More hacks!
02:18:  A couple more hacks for you gents today.

2/18/99
Misc. News: Interview with RealityMan
18:39:  Finally, an interview with RealityMan, member (I guess, or former member perhaps) of the UltraHLE team... Perhaps my favorite interview up to date. Gives insight to the controversy behind UltraHLE, and RealityMan also gives his opinion on the "scene" and such. The link.

If indeed he reads this, or, in some other way, reaches him, I'd like to congradulate RealityMan (and Epsilon and the other too, of course) for the success and advanced nature of UltraHLE. I'd also like to see it's development continued by RealityMan and Epsilon, oh well, maybe for Christmas... :)

Emulator Release: RockNES 0.70
13:39:  Fx3 & Kritz have released version 0.70 of RockNES, their NES emulator for DOS. Here's what's new in this release:

Emulator Release: MAME32 0.35 Beta 3
13:04:  The Windows port of MAME has been updated to version 0.35 Beta 3, now in sync with the DOS version. Thanks to Cheatman for the news. You can download MAME32 0.35 Beta 3 and its source from the MAME page.

Emulator Release: DarcNES v19990214 for Unix
03:11:  Sorry it's a little late, I couldn't connect to the internet for a few days (I got disconnected in the middle of the update)... Anyway, new version of DarcNES (probably the most updated emulator for Unix now), NES and SMS and other emulator. What's new:

2/17/99
Misc. News: Rename VBEmu98 Contest
23:49:  In case you didn't hear, the VBEmu98 author decided to rename his emulator, and is using your input in doing so. He's now moved into the voting phase, where you cast your votes for the names you'd like. The top 3 choices will be sent to Dave, the author, and he'll choose the one he likes best.

Visit the voting page to cast your vote. Voting ends March 1st.

Emulator News: DBOY 0.44c changes translation
23:22:  The what's new to DBOY 0.44c, a Gameboy emulator for DOS, has been translated, courtest of the official DBOY english mirror. Here's what's new (modified by me so people can understand it):

Emulator Release: loopynes 2-14-99 "secret" beta
23:19:  This is a very interesting update. While browsing Archaic Ruins, I came across a version of loopynes that seems to be "secret". It's found on the official loopynes homepage by clicking the 'l' in 'loopynes'. I don't know anything else about the beta at this time, so download it from the NES emulators page at your own risk. I tried it myself, and it works fine, but I have no idea what new features were added.

Misc. News: Source code to UltraHLE? NOT!
22:32:  I've seen a TON of rumors floating around, and even had a friend email me about how IGN64 reported that the UltraHLE source had been released. Well, the circumstances were somewhat different. Here's an excerpt from their retraction:

"Yesterday IGN64 erroneously reported that the source code to the Nintendo 64 emulator UltraHLE had been released across the Internet. The fact of the matter is that the so-called source code is nothing more than a reverse-engineered decompile, which, according to programmers, is more or less useless."

Read the full retraction for more info.

Emulator Release: DBOY 0.44c
19:50:  Yeah, it's out, and I don't know what's new yet. Get DBOY at the Gameboy page.

Translation News: 2 COMPLETE Gamboy translations
07:16:  Wow! I'm really impressed with these 2 gameboy translations...not many get finished! Thanks to Omi for the info, we got word that TransBRC managed to finish:

Translation News: Hacks updated AGAIN
07:00:  2 hacks for you guys today.

Translation News: Intelligent Translator needed.
06:18:  The script dump for Fire Emblem 3 requires a translator with a high vocabulary of kanji, as it has some pretty odd ones in there. If you think you have the skills to be able to take on the script (Only serious people and willing to finish the job) email me here

And please, Only submit MAJOR game hacks to me. Thank you.

Emulator Release: ZD-spc 1.81
00:05:  After many complaints about different things... I decided to update ZD-spc with some new features.

2/16/99
Emulator News: DBOY 0.44b changes translation
19:17:  Here's what's new in version 0.44b of DBOY, which was recently released:

Emulator Release: DBOY 0.44b
19:01:  A new release of DBOY, a Gameboy emulator for DOS, is now available. I don't know what's new, so I'll wait for Steven Livingston to e-mail me the changes again. ;-)

You can downoad DBOY 0.44b from the Gameboy emulators page.

Emulator Release: Hu6280 1.89 Beta 4
18:53:  Jamsponge has just released a new Windows version of his TG-16 emulator. Here's what's new in 1.89 Beta 4:

Translation News: Woo Creative Hacks
15:38:  2 Interesting and seemingly cool hacks for ya today!

Emulator Release: Direct Pad Pro 4.5
01:41:  Woah! I never thought they could do this... but they did. (Ain't emulation great?) The creators of Direct Pad Pro released a new version of their famous console joystick software... and whats the great news? PSX Support!!! Ok, so that wasn't the good news.. because SNESKey already has this... the good news is that Direct Pad Pro has Force Feedback support!!! Now you can play cool games like NFS3, Flight Simulator 98 with your PSX dual shock controller... cool huh? Thanx to LMM for the e-mail.

You can jump over to the Joystick page to get it!!!

Utility News: PSXPlay 1.15
01:37:  Well, for some reason this program was not on ZD... So I put it up. This lets you watch motion JPEG files off your PSX CD rom. If I had a PSX CD on me, I would take a look... but they are all packed. Thanx to JagXL for the e-mail.

You can get this at the PSX utilities page.

Site News: Save archives updated
01:37:  Updated: SPC, STA, ZST archives.

Emulator Release: IMAME 0.35 beta 3
00:02:  A new version of IMAME, the Italian version of MAME, is out. It should have the same things new as regular MAME. Get it at the MAME page.

2/15/99
Emulator Release: A/PMAME 0.35 Beta 3
23:47:  New builds of PMAME & AMAME, for Version 0.35 Beta 3, are now available at the MAME page. A/PMAME are Pentium and AMD/486 optimized versions of MAME.

Emulator Release: DBOY 0.44a
23:06:  A new release of DBOY, a Gameboy emulator for DOS, is now available. You can see what's new a few posts below. DBOY 0.44a is available at the Gameboy emulators page.

Misc. News: SNES Chart V 1.7 Released!
21:27:  The Scribe released the new SNES Cart! Snes9x runs an astonoshing 92% of all game tested!

Get it at the Snes page.

Utility News: Squaresoft Soundfont
21:17:  A new Squaresoft Soundfont was sent to us.

Get it on the Soundfont page

Emulator News: DBOY 0.44a changes translated
20:16:  Here's the list of translated changes from the Gameboy emulator for DOS, DBOY 0.44:

Media News: Emulation Reality to boycott Nintendo
05:29:  I received an e-mail from }-RaEJaE-{ of Emulation Reality that they are preparing to boycott Nintendo and other stuff. I can't really put this in my own words so I'll just c&p the e-mail :P

"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Emulation Community:

The time has come to show that the emulation community will fight strong against the people who will try and oppress the true spirit of emulation with lies, deceit, and brainwashing. Nintendo of America has announced its intentions to file suit against the creators of UltraHLE on the grounds that they circumvented a security chip, an accusation which Epsilon and RealityMan have said to be completely untrue.

In light of this matter, Emulation Reality (http://www.emulationzone.org/er) is attempting to organize a mass boycott of Nintendo Corp. should they pursue this lawsuit. We have a boycott section on our site, where people can sign their names in support of this boycott. If we get enough signatures, we will compile them all into a list and send them to Nintendo, in hopes that we might have an impact. Please help spread the news of this boycott; it's only made possible by the people!

}-RaEJaE-{
raejae@emulationzone.org
http://www.emulationzone.org/er
"

Support Emulation Reality, I do :)

Frontend News: Stuffed news
05:22:  Ok, here's my news update for the past week. Due to the fact that most Swedes are complete dorks I haven't been able to update until now, so... I've got bad news and I've got good news. I'll start with the bad news, hehe >:)

sl98 a fairly excellent universal frontend has been discontinued due to lack of interest. But however you can still write new profiles for new emulators for it. There's a link to the homepage on the Universal frontends page.

Also, I would've added a BrSMS frontend but the comp administrator deleted it along with some other "hazardous .exe files" that I had on my user. Moron.

Now for the good stuff :) Maxim Viale has released a new version of DBOYFront, his DBOY frontend, adding support for the new versions command line options. Get it from the Gameboy frontends page.

Emulator Release: NeoMAME 0.35 Beta 3
00:03:  A new compile of NeoMAME is now available. This version has all the changes that MAME 0.35 Beta 3 has, which was released yesterday. This version isn't on the official NeoMAME page yet, but thanks to Snotz, you can download it from ZD's MAME page.

2/14/99
Emulator Release: MAME 0.35 Beta 3
18:46:  MAME, the Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator, is showing off its shiney new title of Beta 3...here's what's new:
Graphics:

• Added the interesting parts to Gals Panic
  
• Fixed big sprites in Tokio, and unified it with Bubble Bobble
  
• Sprite zoom support in Aero Fighters
  
• 16-bit color support in the NeoGeo driver
  
• CPS1 games are being worked on
  
• Improved Star Fire

Emulator Release: PSEmu on hiatus
17:17:  2 weeks after Duddie announced his resignation from the PSEmu team, Kazzuya has decided it was time for him to leave as well, due to a future job he wants to take. Here's an excerpt:

I can't continue on the project but I know some programmers that are very skilled and, most importantly, knowledgeable of PlayStation hardware to whom I can pass the ball.

PSEmu needs to be around now more than ever to represent the world of consoles emulation as I know it: enjoyable technical demostration and act of respect towards the creators of the hardware and software.

You can read the full announcement at the link below. Thanks to Tony for the news.

Emulator Release: AMAME & PMAME 0.35 Beta 2c
14:46:  New compiles of the AMD and Pentium optimized versions of MAME are now available. Rodimus's Beta 2C versions of AMAME & PMAME now support a few more Neo Geo sound ROM fixes. Thanks to the News-u-lator for the word. You can download AMAME & PMAME 0.35 Beta 2c from the MAME page.

Site News: Week update
14:41:  Well through the week I've added over 20 links, and removed over 30. :) Hopefully it will get even bigger than what it is... and i'm thinking of having seperate pages for each link section.

Thanx for all your links, and keep sending them!

Emulator Release: DBOY 0.44
09:57:  Its out, but I don't know what's new. Get it at the Gameboy page.

2/13/99
Translation News: Ah yes...porn.
15:30:  Please, do not send me any XXX game patches. Meaning, if it's not safe to show your younger brother without getting into trouble, don't send it to me. :D Thanks.

Translation News: A Message...and some info
15:24:  Apparently, ShadowSlayer X's Ys5 Patch is unstable. This is the email I recieved:

ShadowSlayerX's Ys5 patch can cause the game to hang at several places. If this happens you can just load the unpatched Japanese rom and play until you pass the area. I've already e-mailed him about it but haven't heard from him. Also, if you don't delete the Ys5 trans patch after it's installed and it has the same name as the rom, IMOHE, ZSNES will load it each time and truncate the Gothic Font patch.

Also, I updated some of the Percentages in the Translations section.

Misc. News: PCGamer writes about Emulation
14:49:  PCGamer has posted an online article about emulation. Although its doesn't really say anything that we haven't heard somewhere before, its still interesting to read. Go check it out here. Thanks to "ST" for the email.

Emulator Release: GFAN98 1.07b
11:32:  Here's the newest version of GFAN98, but I can't read what's new because its in Japanese. You can get it at the Gameboy page.

Misc. News: Nintendo may not sue Reality Man & Epsilon
11:18:  After I read that Nintendo might take legal action agianst Reality Man & Epsilon, I got kinda pissed off, so I sent Nintendo this letter:

"I have a question. I heard that you are taking legal action against the makers of UltraHLE, the N64 emulator. Now we all know that you want to protect your rights, but what do you hope to accomplish by going after Reality Man and Epsilon? They have already stopped making the emulator and taken down the webpage. What more do you want?"

Here's their reply:

"To: XiP@aol.com

Hello.

I don't know if we're filing suit, but if we were, I wouldn't be
able to comment on current litigation.

If you would like information on the topic of emulators, go to
the Corporate Info area of our web site, enter the Company
FAQs section, and link to "What is Nintendo's position on
Intellectual Property rights, disk copy devices, and
emulators?"

If you have any questions that aren't answered on our web
site about this topic, please seek the advice of your own
attorney.

Hope this helps and Play it Loud!

Nintendo of America Inc.
Mitch Crim

Nintendo's home page: http://www.nintendo.com/
Power Line (Automated Product Info): (425)885-7529"

Assuming Nintendo isn't lying to me, they haven't decided if they are going to file a suit or not.

Translation News: More and more and more...
04:48:  lala...more updates at 2am

2/12/99
Misc. News: Just what does Japan think of FF8?
23:35:  As most of you know, Final Fantasy 8 was released in japan a couple of days ago. Thanks to Mike Gilroy, He translated some messages of comments on the newsgroups. As Translator maintainer, I thought most people would like to know.

"From what I've played so far, FF8 seems to be just a collection of CG movies. Gameplay seems to be an afterthought."

"It's no longer a game. It's become a movie."

"I'm rather worried about FF this time..."

I guess only time will tell what FF8 brings to the USA

Translation News: Hacks updated
19:47:  A couple of hacks here added. Also, Thanks to Dando for making the SMB roms into IPS Patches. Keep sending 'em in! Here's whats new:

Emulator Release: BrSMS 1.17r
15:50:  A week after it was released to registered users, Ricardo Bittencourt has released version 1.17r of his Sega Master System & GameGear emulator to the public. Here's what's new:

Interview News: Telekawaru interviewed by JoseQ
15:34:  JoseQ of EmuViews has conducted an interview with Telekawaru the man in charge of the Snes9x DOS port. Check it out, it's an interesting interview.

Scope it out over at EmuViews.

Emulator Release: HelloGB v110212
14:31:  A new version of HelloGB, a GameBoy emulator for Windows, has been released. Here's what's new in v110212:

Media News: President Clinton acquited of both counts
13:27:  The President of the United States has been acquited today of both the perjury charge, and the obstruction of justice charge. The vote was clearly partisan, as you can see from this party line vote, with only a few republicans stepping over the boundary:

PERJURY

Dem GOP Tot

Guilty
00 45 45

Not Guilty
45 10 55

Total
45 55 100

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

Dem GOP Total

Guilty
00 50 50

Not Guilty
45 5 50

Total
50 50 100

I know, it's not emulation news, but every once and a while, I feel it's good to deviate from the usual, and since this was a very important issue for all who live in the U.S., I felt it should be posted. Now that the Republicans are through with torturing the President (of course, there's always censure... sigh), the country can get back on track.

Translation News: Assorted Translation Updates
03:08:  A couple of fixes and releases here:

Added Rainbow Silkroad 1.0 Translation Patch

Here are some screenshots from the complete Rainbow Silkroad Trans:




You can download Rainbow Silkroad at the Trans page.

Site News: SPC archive updated
01:52:  Updated: SPC archive.

2/11/99
Emulator Release: ZD-spc 1.80
22:52:  Well, it wasn't released again, but I've talked to many people that just did not see it on ZD because of the mass updates that have been going on. :) So I decided to post it again.

Media News: Nintendo confirms legal actions toward UltraHLE
22:39:  Here is the news directly from FGNOnline:

N64: Beth Llewelyn, PR manager of Nintendo US,
has issued a formal statement regarding the action
the company will take over the UltraHLE emulator
issue. It appears that legal action against Reality
Man and Epsilon will be forthcoming. "Nintendo is
very disturbed that Reality Man and Epsilon have
widely distributed a product designed solely to play
infringing copies of copyrighted works developed by
Nintendo and its third-party licensees," she stated.
"We are taking several measures to further protect
and enforce our intellectual property rights which, of
course, includes the bringing of legal action.
Emulators and Roms are clearly infringing and
damage not only 'larger industry players' such as
Nintendo but hundreds of smaller companies who
invest millions of dollars and thousands of hours to
develop and program software only to have it stolen
on the Internet." Emulators of the world take note.


I say that it will be turned down. I mean, come on... whats up with this?

Site News: Ok, that does it
22:32:  I updated the links once again today. And thats the last time I'm gonna post that I updated the links. Cause I update them everyday. So, at the end of every week, I will post how many sites I added, and deleted. How is that?

Utility News: Final Fantasy 3© SRM hack
22:27:  Thanks to Jumper, we now have an SRM hack for Final Fantasy 3. This hack can enable the user to edit almost anything saved in the FF3 save slots. I love it!

Have a look.

Utility News: Metroid editor version 0.82
22:16:  WHAT?
Did I not just update this? :D

Well, a new version is out, here is a list of whats new:

Utility News: Goonies2 editor
22:13:  A new version of the Goonies 2 editor was released.

Here is whats new:

Site News: New Trans and FAQ Maintainer. Hi!
21:12:  Hi, My name's Taichou...my icon comes from Taichou of Bahamut Lagoon, which is a squaresoft game I have been translating for some time now.

I'm the new trans and FAQ maintainer. XiP decided he wanted to be an assistant maintainer, so I was hired to continue doing the translation section. You can email me here if you would like to submit some translation news, or any updates to the translation page. I will be going over it tonite to see if there is anything i can add. Thanks!

Emulator Release: NeoMAME 0.35b2b
16:54:  A new release of NeoMAME, a compile of MAME that supports only Neo Geo games, is now available. This version supports Stakes Winner 2. Thanks to retrogames.com for the news. You can downloaf NeoMAME 0.35b2b from the MAME page.

Emulator Release: TrueReality for DOS
03:45:  The author of the popular Windows9x N64 emulator, NEmu64, has ported TrueReality (for unix) over to DOS. Nothing much has been added.

It can't run commercial roms, just like the Unix version, but it does run many demos.

Take a look, if you dare.

Emulator News: RetroFX tech request
03:29:  A new group, calling themselves 'RetroFX', is working on a new emulation project. They are looking for any 2D or 3D graphics artists, as well as musicians. They've asked as many webpages as possible to spread the word around, so if anyone is able to help them out, please be sure to e-mail them at retrofx@yahoo.com.

When we have more information on this project, we'll be sure to post it.

Emulator Release: Hu6280 Windows 1.89 Beta 3
03:08:  The Windows port of Hu6280, an emulator for the TurboGrafx 16, has been updated to V1.89 Beta 3. Here's what's new:

Utility News: Dragon Warrior town editor version 2.001á
02:27:  A new beta version of the Dragon Warrior level editor was released... here is whats new:

Utility News: Metroid level Editor 0.81
02:22:  Not a big update, but here it is:

Media News: PSM Article on Connectix
02:16:  PSM has done an article in this month's issue on... you guessed it, Connectix emulating the PSX! Thanks to Ballz, we now have a scan of the article. It's two pages long, and if you have a few minutes to spare, you might want to read it.

Emulator Release: iNES 1.0
01:55:  Marat Fayzullin has just released the long-awaited version 1.0 of his NES emulator, iNES. Here's a list of what's new:

2/10/99
Misc. News: No update today :(
03:40:  No real one, at least. I'm just posting this to let you know that I can't update any frontends today since I only have this short break and no other free time :( Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with a new DBOYFront and a brand new frontend for NeoRAGE. Oh, yeah. I also forgot to take any schampoo when I washed my hair today, so right now I look like hell.....

Site News: SPC archive updated
02:50:  Updated: SPC archive.

2/9/99
Emulator Release: ZD-Spc 1.80
22:44:  Well, after about a month of beta testing, here is 1.80, and here's whats new:

Site News: Don't I get a break?
21:53:  K, the links are updated once again. Hopefully all the links are up-to-date.

If not, you know what to do.

Check it out.

Emulator Release: HelloGB v110209
21:43:  A new version of HelloGB, a Gameboy emulator for Windows, has been released. This version finally works on my computer, and I've updated the description of it on the Gameboy page as such. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: Hu6280 Windows 1.89 Beta 2
20:42:  Just one day after its initial release, the Windows version of Hu6280, a TurboGrafx 16 emulator, has been updated to version 1.89. Here's what's new:

Emulator Release: NextFCE v0.06
15:55:  This is a new NES emulator for FreeBSD, initial release far as I know. And, since the entire homepage is in Japanese, I have no idea what's new. Get it on the Unix NES page.

Thanks to Grugru for the new on his emulator. I'd also like to say that if anyone codes or knows of any emulators for Unix I would appreciate it if you e-mailed me about them. Kthx.

Emulator News: MAME WIP news
08:35:  The MAME WIP (Work In Progress) page has been updated with some news on the next version of MAME:

Mike Balfour added Canyon Bomber prototype. Bryan McPhail made the ADPCM code support two OKI 6295 chips with samples in different memory regions. Phil Stroffolino made Trojan use the new tilemap system. Quench fixed KyuKyoku Tiger and Zsolt Vasvari, and got Birdie King 2 playable (without sound though).

Steve S. has added two new CPS1 games, Capcom World 2 and Quiz And Dragons. Nicola fixed Street Fighter 2 Turbo title graphics.

You'll want to keep an eye on the official MAME homepage for more WIP news. Thanks to the News-u-lator for the news.

Emulator News: Massage 1.0?
08:28:  Although I've read on various sites that Massage 1.0 is coming soon, the only indication I've seen of this is the following, taken from the official Massage homepage:

Coming Soon... V1.0 Delayed. Coming VERY soon.

I also recall 0.9 freeware has been coming soon for about a year now. ;) Keep your eyes open though. Also, for those who don't know, Massage is a Sega Master System & GameGear emulator for DOS. Thanks to Retrogames & EmuCamp for the news.

Emulator News: DBOY 0.43a-x what's new
03:15:  Here's what's new in DBOY 0.43a-x, which XiP recently posted on ZD:

Emulator Release: Hu6280 1.89 for Windows
00:27:  This is an official port of Hu6280 to Win9X. It runs all Hucards that the DOS version runs, although this version has no sound, joystick, zip loading or save state support. If you want it, go get it at the TurboGraphx 16 page.

2/8/99
Emulator Release: DBOY 0.43a-x
23:53:  Yes, here's a new version of DBOY. No, I don't know what's new (wait for Zophar to post it). Yes, that's REALLY the version number. Get it at the Gameboy page for a limited time only! ...no, not really.

Site News: Links updated once again
21:00:  I deleted 2 sites off the links page that I was not supposed to. They were down the day I updated the links, so I took them off. (bad timing?) So, I took the liberty on putting them back up, along with 2 other sites.

Go take a look.

Misc. News: Next-Generation articles
18:54:  These scans come from the newest issue of Next-Generation (the scans are by ZD's own Stick Figure). The first scan is of a letter written in to the magazine which shows a great perspective on the emulation scene, game companies, and, of course, the IDSA. The second scan is of an article on the Playstation emulator being developed by Connectix (the authors of VirtualPC) for MacOS. Thanks to Stick Figure for the enlightening scans. :)

Utility News: Fliprom
02:40:  Fliprom is a utility to improve the accesibilty (ie fps and compatibilty) to roms when they run on UltraHLE.

Want it? GO GET IT!

heh

Site News: Links page updated
02:32:  Ok, so what. I was 2 hours over. Sue me. I was playing Zelda64. (and no, not on UltraHLE... I bought it.)

Well, I have taken all the broken links out. (took about 30 mins) and I added a bunch of new ones. So I hope you appriciate it.

:D

Go to links? k, then GO!

2/7/99
Emulator News: RockNES progress
22:40:  It seems that work on RockNES, a NES emulator for DOS, is progressing. Here's a list of things that have been done and will be present in the next version:

Emulator Release: NES Soundfont 1.0
22:31:  Mideeman has released a soundfont designed for NES midis. For all of you people out there with AWE32/64's, or any other sound card that supports soundfonts, you'll want to download it from the Soundfonts page. It makes many NES midis sound closer to the real thing!

Emulator News: NeoDanji homepage moves
22:09:  The official NeoDanji webpage has moved to http://emutopia.new21.net/danji/. You should update your bookmarks.

Misc. News: Sega 8 bit Chart v1.0
21:49:  The Scribe has just released version 1.00 of his Sega Master System & GameGear compatibility chart, which he's named the 'Sega 8 bit Chart'. You probably remember him from such charts as the Genesis chart and the SNES chart. If you want to know which game works with which SMS-GG emulator, this is the chart for you! You can pick it up from the Sega Master System & GameGear emulators page.

Emulator Release: New beta of helloGB
21:39:  On the official helloGB homepage, the author of helloGB mentions that a new beta has been released. However, he doesn't indicate the version number, nor what's new. All that it says there is this:

If you can't run helloGB, I suggest you run with '/nodsound' option. This option is the effect which doesn't do the initialization of DirectSound. If you are not able to run with this, plz wait a little, and i am investigating the cause of error at present.

I can't run the emulator even with that option, so... you can download helloGB from the Gameboy emulators page. Thanks again to the news-u-lator.

Emulator Release: JFF 0.18
21:25:  JFF (short for Just For Fun) Emulator version 0.18, which is a multiple arcade emulator for DOS, has been released. Here's what's new:

Site News: New Utilities \ Links Maintainer
14:17:  I am the new Zophars Domain Utilities and Links maintainer. If you have any questions \ comments, please write to Someone who cares. :Þ

Have a nice day.

Oh yeah, and the links will be updated today... bigtime.

Emulator Release: DBOY 0.43
13:36:  A new release of DBOY, a Gameboy/CGB emulator for DOS, is now available. Here's what's new in version 0.43:

2/6/99
Emulator Release: GBFAN98 1.06e
15:20:  A new version of GBFAN98 is out, but I can't read what's new because its in Japanese. If you want it, go to the Gameboy page.

Emulator News: More UltraHLE stuff
14:54:  Not to be outdone by the other 5 billion websites jumping on the UltraHLE effect bandwagon, Techweb has done an article called 'Emulators Strike Back' (so creative). You can check it out at the link below. Thanks to Bur[N]er for the news.

As a side note, PLEASE, I do not want people e-mailing me dissasembled UltraHLE 'source', nor do I want to see C files which were generated by exe2c. ZD has no intention of putting up the UltraHLE source, be it some pathetic dissasembly attempt, or stolen from the authors. All it does is clutter up my mailbox. Thanks.

Emulator News: uNESsential 0.20 source released
14:50:  Johannes Holmberg has just released the source to uNESsential 0.20, a NES emulator for DOS by him, FrodoDead, and ZD's own _Bnu. Why _Bnu didn't do this update instead of me, I don't know :)

You can download the uNESsential 0.20 source code from the NES emulators page.

Emulator News: MAME WIP page moves to the official site
14:43:  The MAME WIP (Work in Progress) page, which is a page dedicated to letting people know all about facts regarding the development of MAME, has moved to the official MAME page, mame.retrogames.com. Also, as a side note, MAME turned 2 years old yesterday! So, check it out.

Misc. News: Teeth, orthodontists, and updates
14:39:  I'll be updating ZD as much as possible, but I feel that you should all know that if I miss any updates, it's because I'm in a lot of pain right now and can't think straight. My orthodontist decided that he should just keep picking at all of my teeth to get a wire in... which caused a filling to fall out.

If any of you have ever had fillings fall out, you know that it's not fun. Add to that the fact that I have *very* sensitive teeth. Anyway, I'll be updating as much as possible. Once it's refilled, I can breathe easier.

Site News: YES, the poll is updated again.
00:07:  You want a poll update? Here you go. After three weeks, you got one.

Here are the results from the last poll from the long, long past:

What do you think of Demi's new ZD logo?

Choice 1 was: "Great. Best logo that ZD's ever had."
It received 134 votes (34.9 percent).

Choice 2 was: "Good. It's all right, but I've seen better ZD logos."
It received 36 votes (9.4 percent).

Choice 3 was: "Alright. It's nothing too interesting, but it works."
It received 35 votes (9.1 percent).

Choice 4 was: "Mediocre. This logo is pretty damn close to shit."
It received 27 votes (7 percent).

Choice 5 was: "Sucks. That's all."
It received 38 votes (9.9 percent).

Choice 6 was: "It beats Lycia's. That's all I care about."
It received 22 votes (5.7 percent).

Choice 7 was: "I want Lycia's back!!!"
It received 77 votes (20.1 percent).

Choice 8 was: "Don't know/don't care/I don't look at images."
It received 15 votes (3.9 percent).

The people have spoken... the new logo stays (like it was going to be taken off in the first place).

Anyway, Zophar suggested this for a new poll:
What kind of PC do you use to play emulators on?

Good idea, eh? Now we get to find out by our scientific purposes (read: none whatsoever) what PC everyone uses.

I'm tired, let me sleep. You got your poll, so vote.

2/5/99
Emulator Release: Neo Danji 0.0
16:24:  Version 0.0 (have to love these version numbers) of Neo Danji, a Neo Geo emulator for DOS, has been released. This version adds back sound support, which has been missing for several months. It also appears that it supports ARJ'd ROM archives now. A big thanks to Retrogames.com for this info. You can download Neo Danji 0.0 from the Neo Geo emulators page.

Emulator Release: AMAME & PMAME 0.35 Beta 2a
16:13:  A minor update has been issued to Rodimus's AMD/P2/486 and Pentium builds of MAME. It fixes a minor joystick problem. You can download version 0.35 Beta 2a of either of these from the MAME page.

On a side note, I felt I should put a comment here. Although I haven't tried either of these yet, I should note that on my Celeron 300a (running at 374mhz at the moment), I get slowdowns in TMNT when many enemies are on the screen. Is something wrong here? No, it's just typical speed-demon MAME. ;-)

Interview News: Nicola Salmoria interviewed by JoseQ
14:56:  JoseQ of EmuViews has recently interviewed the original author of MAME, Nicola Salmoria. You will want to check this interview out, as this is the man who really started the Arcade emulation revolution. (Before MAME, it was mostly all single arcade emulators).

Nicola Salmoria Interview

Misc. News: Sony loses restraining order against Connectix.
05:47:  Sony is now going to have to not only deal with the fact that the emulator is being sold, but also with the fact that they're probably going to lose the case against Connectix because the judge has thrown out the temporary restraining order that Sony had against Connectix. It's a big victory for emulation, but a premature one -- we gotta see where it goes from here.

ZDNet (our sister site) has an article about it, which is basically just giving Connectix press.

BTW, the poll will be updated today.

Site News: Save archives updated
00:01:  Updated: SPC, STA, ZST archives.

2/4/99
Emulator Release: TrueReality v19990131
21:29:  New verison of the TrueReality, Nintendo 64 emulator for Unix. Sure. I guess it's not as exiting as UltraHLE or anything, but what are you gonna do? Simple, download this new version of TrueReality... Since when did I start advertising TrueReality? I don't know... Anyway, mostly alot of bugfixes in this version, documentation updates, and some code optimizing, for a complete list of day-by-day updates, here's the link.

Get the new version of TrueReality on the Unix N64 page. Alright? Alright.

Emulator Release: BRSMS 1.17
19:33:  A few days ago, I finally registered my copy of BRSMS. :) Just an hour ago, 1.17 was released to registered users. Here's what's new:

Utility News: Glid3d 0.24
14:26:  Glid3d is a glide wrapper that gives you glide support on most D3D compatible video cards. It allows you to play many PC games including UltraHLE. Get it at the N64 Utilities page.

Emulator Release: Nemu64 0.009
13:52:  A new version of Nemu64 is out, and here's what's new:

Emulator Release: DBOY 0.41a
10:54:  Another new version of DBOY is out, but I don't know what's new yet. Zophar will probably post it later. Anyway, download it at the Gameboy page if you want it.

Media News: Crystal Dynamics breaks ranks with IDSA on emulation.
06:31:  Now this is interesting. Could the IDSA be overusing its' power in shutting down emulation sites? Here's the quote:

Crystal Dynamics has not even been in business for 10 years and has only made games for 32-bit game systems. Crystal Dynamics does not support the IDSA and has no games old enough to have been emulated. Please take our company off the list of companies you are boycotting as we are not one of the ones making this happen. Thanks.

They've been offically taken off the IDSA Boycott Page, where this message was e-mailed to.

Now I'm happy about emulation again. :)

Frontend News: UZI X4!
03:52:  UZI, the Ultimate ZSNES Interface, has been updated. This new version adds a screenshot archive function and the video options are back where the rest are; on the tab sheet. Have fun.

Go get it from the SNES Emulator frontends page.

Frontend News: HUfe - HU6280 frontend
03:46:  A HU6280 frontend has now been released and therefore a Turbo Grafx 16 emulator frontends section has been added. I haven't been able to test this one since you need the VB6 runtimes, but I don't think it's a trojan.

You can get it from the Turbo Grafx 16 frontends page.

2/3/99
Translation News: Dragon Quest 3 Beta Patch Stolen
16:45:  Matthew (a.k.a. Bandito) of Transmoglifications Anonymous has informed us that their beta patch of DQ3 (SNES) was stolen when someone hacked into the computer of his partner, Hackermajere. If any mysterious DQ3 patches turn up in the near future, please mail me.

Media News: More exciting UltraHLE news
16:20:  Well, this is just getting so exciting. Here's some more links to various UltraHLE news stories throughout the web:

Utility News: CYMPLAY 0.7JB
16:11:  Starshine has released a new version of his Callus CYM music player for DOS, CYMPLAY. Here's what's new in version 0.7JB:

Emulator Release: PSEmu Pro 1.0.21
11:53:  A new public beta of PSEmu Pro has been released by Kazzuya. Here's what's new in version 1.0.21:

Misc. News: UltraHLE Compatibility list updated.
01:33:  Demi released an update to the compatibility chart for the UltraHLE emulator.

You can view it at the N64 page.

kthxbye

Emulator News: Famicom now known as Famtasia
01:02:  Because Famicom is a trademark of Nintendo, the authors of Famicom have changed the emulator's name to Famtasia. Thanks to Munya for the info.

Emulator Release: IMAME 0.35b2
00:11:  IMAME is an Italian version of MAME. There shouldn't be any difference between IMAME and MAME except the language. I you want it, download it at the MAME page.

2/2/99
Emulator Release: Famtasia Ver.5 Beta Version 2
22:42:  Thats all we need. Another NES emulator. This one is Japanese, (with an english mode) and it has a lot of mappers supported (but nowhere near as many as the more popular ones).

If you want to download this NES emulator, you can grab it at the NES emulators page.

Emulator Release: Echo 0.6
20:01:  A new version of Echo is out and here's what's new:

Emulator Release: DarcNES v990131
18:26:  A new version of DarcNES, or rather, the source of DarcNES is out. Here's what's new since the last release:

Emulator Release: NeoMAME 0.35 Beta 2a
23:43:  Apollo69 has released a new version of NeoMAME, 0.35 Beta 2a, to correspond with the latest beta of MAME. NeoMAME is a compile of MAME which only supports Neo Geo games (thus, making for a smaller file size). You can download it from the MAME page.

Media News: More on UltraHLE in the media
23:27:  Well, I keep getting a ton of e-mails about UltraHLE. ZD is no longer accepting articles submissions, as we have already chosen the best 4 out of the many articles you all sent. Please don't take offense if your article wasn't selected, as we can't possibly put them all up.

Also, I will be posting my own article by the end of the week. I hope things can get back to normal soon, as there is more to emulation than N64 emulation. Heck, even NESticle didn't cause this much outcry.

Following, you will find a few links to other articles on various sites, and they're all about UltraHLE. Thanks to Erik and Jason Oliveira for these links.

Emulator Release: AMAME & PMAME 0.35b2
23:17:  It seems that a few days ago, both AMAME and PMAME were updated to version 0.35b2, to correspond with the latest public beta of MAME. AMAME is an AMD optimized version of MAME, while PMAME is optimized for Pentiums. You can download both from the MAME page.

Emulator Release: Shark 3.0
14:28:  A new version of Shark, a multiple arcade emulator for Windows, has been released! And, as a special treat, I've found out what's new in 3.0! Just take a look right here:

<JoseQ> Zophar: A lot of new games
<Targaff> Zophar: new games ;>

There you have it! 'A lot of new games'. Come to think of it, didn't MAME and Raine have the same newisms?

You can download Shark 3.0 from the Multi Arcade emulators page. Don't forget to stop by #retrogamers on Efnet and join in the fun. :)

Utility News: XcheatED 1.10
13:48:  A new version of the Playstation cheat utility XcheatED has been released.

New in version 1.10 :

Emulator News: Duddie leaves PSEmu
13:18:  It has just been announced on the PSEmu website that Duddie is leaving the PSEmu team. He had some disturbing things to say, however. Here's his message, right from the page:

Hi all lovers of PSEmu, the stream of life flows and causes things to change. So this moment had to happen sooner or later, but it happens today. I'm leaving PSEmu and am starting a new life. Of course I'm not leaving all of you dear emulator fans, and I'm not leaving my friends. I just have to leave PSEmu due to the fact that it will collide with a future job.

Speaking of emulation, it became strange in the last days, and it turned into a flame war of rom beggers, pirates, thieves, etc. Those people can ruin everything, especially since I, as emu author, know how much work it costs. We do things for free, killing our social life, spending every free minute on exploring the meaning of one bit (which sometimes takes hundreds hours). But people dont appreciate this work, and simply dont understand this style of life.

Actually I'm addicted to emulating, but I think that reading of those lame postings on News Services will get me out soon from this. It became strange. People only want new versions, want to play games, that they never bought, and they usually send 'rude words' in emails, about their favourite game not working on the emulator. I personally have a PlayStation and I play on this. PSEmu was made only to broaden my horizon and to learn more. If it satisfied people on this planet, then I'm happy.If they are not satisfied with PSEmu, I dont care.

I wish all my friends and enemies, everything good. Just try to clean up the scene, or if you are not interested in living in clear environment, just continue this lame war, buy a bigger nuke, and blow yourself up.

With Best Regards, Duddie ex. PSEmu author

We at ZD wish him the best of luck. Victim 4 of the UltraHLE effect?

By the way, Kazzuya has announced that he is still going to continue PSEmu, and he wants everyone to cheer up, so please do :) Thanks to Matt for the news.

Site News: 4 Articles Added
01:11:  Well, I have just added 4 new articles to ZD. I suggest you read these as they are all very good.