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| Misc talk | 29 May 2006 |
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Hmmmm, not much has been done in the last 2 weeks, messing around with the savestate code for SMSAdvance.
I got a dude (Florence?, thanks a lot) betatesting it every now and then, and he found some other smal
glitches & erros as well. The postal office seem to have lost my Brain Age game and a GBAMP somewhere
between here and Lik-Sang... I thought I was going to test stuff on the DS soon (though I can use my
old flashcarts I wanted to test the CF stuff now), oh well. And there is a new SNES emulator for the
GBA (for those that have missed it) called Snezziboy.
I haven't tested it yet as I have had enough just doing SMSAdvance, but I will test it very soon.
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| GreenBoy V0.5 | 14 May 2006 |
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Smal fix to the Green Beret emulator, now also plays Mr. Goemon.
*Added Mr Goemon.
*Fixed sound after restart.
Download V0.5
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| Murdoc V0.3 | 13 May 2006 |
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Fixed a smal bug in Murdoc that shut off the sound if you restart it, just download it again.
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| SMSAdvance V1.5 | 13 May 2006 |
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I thought I would release this yesterday but it was too sunny so I had
to spend some time outside and drink a few beers.
I'm sorry but there are no savestates in this release either, I will do that for the next release though.
*Fixed volume attenuation.
*Fixed soundclicks in rom selection menu.
*Fixed a bug with the new sprite collision.
*Fixed some bugs with the sprites in Mode 0 & 2.
*Fixed a rare background bug in Mode 0, 1 & 2.
*Fixed cpu timing for both PAL & NTSC (confirmed on real HW).
*Better update timing in PAL mode.
*More colorful SG-1000 palette.
*Optimised BIT7 instructions.
*Optimised some of the shift instructions.
*Optimised DD/FD instructions.
Download V1.5
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| Cologne V0.5 | 11 May 2006 |
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Just a smal update to the Coleco Vision emulator.
*Fixed soundclicks in rom selection menu.
*Fixed rare lockup bug in game select.
*Fixed double 16x16 sprites in scaled mode.
*Fixed reseting of scalemode on restart.
*Fixed graphics mode1 a bit.
Download V0.5
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| Murdoc V0.3 | 10 May 2006 |
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Just a smal update to the Mr. Do! emulator.
*Added 2nd soundchip.
*Added 16bit sound mixing.
*Fixed soundclicks in rom selection menu.
*Fixed volume attenuation.
*Optimised some CPU ops and fixed some other.
Download V0.3
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| GreenBoy V0.4 | 9 May 2006 |
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Just a smal update to the Green Beret emulator, mostly interesting for the source.
*Added 16bit sound mixing.
*Fixed soundclicks in rom selection menu.
*Fixed volume attenuation.
*Optimised some CPU ops and fixed some other.
Download V0.4
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| MSXAdvance V0.2 | 30 April 2006 |
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Finally ready with V0.2 of MSXAdvance, hope it works as expected =).
I also updated the Pogo2Pack with SMSAdvance 1.4 and MSXAdvance with a C-Bios.
*Added a virtual keyboard.
*Added better keymapping.
*Added SCC sound emulation.
*Added 32kB RAM instead of 16kB.
*Fixed Multiboot transfer.
*Fixed blending when used as plugin.
*Better update timing in PAL mode.
*Better game mapper detection.
Download V0.2
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| MSX Basic | 23 April 2006 |
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I have now added a virtual keyboard which also is used to remap the GBA keys,
32kB RAM is available now which means the Basic can be used, I struggled a lot with
Kings Valley II which refused to work when I added the RAM, but I finally fixed that as well.
I'm also messing around with the html on this page, I hope it still works.
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| MSXAdvance and more | 20 April 2006 |
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I've got the sound to work correctly with both the AY and the SCC chip,
will release it as soon as I get something more done.
I don't have much time to code at home right now, I've started working at a
new company and it takes most of my time right now.
Don't worry just yet though as I still have a lot of things to do on the GBA =).
And eh, I'm not doing anything relating to C64 emulation if anybody thought that,
sorry about mentioning the dumping of my old C64 discs, it was just something that had to be done.
Oh, got a CD (a real CDDA!) for my birthday from my gf yesterday, LE SPORT,
now go download some of their music. The best part is on the back of the CD where it says:
This disc contains all the songs plus bonus tracks in the mp3 format for easy sharing and listening with modern technology.
And the tracks are 192kb/s so they are good quality as well.
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| MSXAdvance SCC | 12 April 2006 |
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I said something about SCC not being possible to a few people, well, it wasn't that hard to implement,
kind of like a cheap version of the PC-Engine sound chip.
I still need to tweak it a little bit I think, and maybe optimise it some more, handle both soundchips and so on.
To the people from msx.org, I read the forum and listen to what you have to say even though I don't write there =).
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| MSXAdvance V0.1 | 31 March 2006 |
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Sorry for the latenes, I have been trying to dump some of my old C64 discs.
Anyway, here is MSXAdvance V0.1 for you all to download =)
Download V0.1
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| More MSX | 28 March 2006 |
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I started to play around with a keyboard though it will probably not be in the first version.
I will release the first version this friday, just don't expect too much from it.
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| More MSX | 20 March 2006 |
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I just have to tease you some more before I release the MSX emulator :P.
I've fixed up most of the sound, I think all functionality should be emulated correctly, some games still sound bad though.
I added a new scaling mode which looks quite nice if I may say so =).
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| Cologne V0.4 | 12 March 2006 |
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* Fixed the NMI bug.
* Added 16bit sound mixing.
* Optimised some of the shift instructions.
* Optimised DD/FD instructions.
Download V0.4
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| MSX advancing | 10 March 2006 |
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I've fixed preliminary sound and joystick input, hopefully I can make a correct AY38910 emulator
that doesn't use too much cpu. I will also implement the most common mappers so we can play the
Nemesis and Parodius games.
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| First try at MSX | 7 March 2006 |
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I swapped the IO ports for the VDP and rewrote the memory map from Cologne, and this is what happens.
I have no idea on how this will turn out in the end though.
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| Cologne V0.3 | 23 February 2006 |
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Fixed keypad/joystick reading (lots of Atari games).
Download V0.3
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| Cologne V0.2 | 20 February 2006 |
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Some small fixes to Cologne, better sound (coming in SMSAdvance as well), fix a rare bug
with Pogoshell and a real builder by Loopy.
Download V0.2
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| NDS Bios Dumper | 6 February 2006 |
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I compiled a NDS bios dumper, credits must go to Loopy, Costis, CaithSith & Martin Korth for
finding the hole/code example to dump the ARM7 bios.
Download
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| Cologne V0.1 | 30 January 2006 |
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I spent a couple of days hacking SMSAdvance into a Coleco emulator.
I also hex hacked the builder so watch out for falling debris.
Some problems do exist, some games crash/freeze others are missing correct controls.
Download V0.1
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| SMSA V1.4 | 17 January 2006 |
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SMSAdvance V1.4 is released.
Added support for fake sprite collision, fixes most games which use sprite collision.
Download V1.4
Also fixed a Speedhack for Fantasy Zone Gear.
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| SMSA V1.3 | 15 January 2006 |
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SMSAdvance V1.3 is released.
- Added support for running the GG bios in SMS mode.
- Added support for all SMS Bioses.
- Added option in builder for "empty" slot at the end of ROMlist. (Loopy).
- Added option to lock the 2 toprows in unscaled mode.
- Added "Perfect Sprite" option for games like:
- Global Gladiators.
- GP Rider (GG).
- Speedball 2.
- Xenon 2.
- Added emulation of locking the right side of the screen, games:
- Gauntlet.
- Golvellius.
- Griffin (GG).
- Line of Fire.
- Megumi Rescue.
- Rygar.
- Fixed IO port 2, Laser Ghost.
- Fixed Monaco GP, SG-1000.
- Fixed the support for Jang Pung II (KR).
- Fixed priority on zoomed sprites in mode 0 & 2 (Bank Panic, SG-100).
Download V1.3
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| OutRun unscaled | 6 January 2006 |
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Added a new option to unscaled mode in SMSAdvance to lock the 2 toprows of the display.
This works wonders for games like OutRun, Double Dragon & Battle Maniacs. New release in a few days.
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| Drunken Santas | 1 January 2006 |
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New year. Bad hangover. Short sentences.
I sent a little game over to the Drunken Coders compo.
I think the downloads should be available in a day or two.
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| SMS Slideshow | 8 December 2005 |
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I pixeled some pictures in 16 colors for the SMS, also on the new misc download page.
Sega Slide V1.0
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| New Black Tiger | 3 December 2005 |
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Fixed a rare graphics bug in Black Tiger and added new batch files for the old MAME roms.
Download V0.2
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| SMSA V1.2 | 30 November 2005 |
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SMSAdvance V1.2 is released, added support for mode0 & mode2, so now 2 SMS games (F-16 Fighter
& Loretta no Shouzou) and most SG-1000 games are playable. Also fixed the saving of 32kB SRAM.
Download V1.2
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| SG1000 | 23 November 2005 |
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Fighted with F-16 Fighter and tried to implement Mode2 graphics and succeded quite well
I think, the few SG1000 games I have tried started as well. The only thing missing is sprites.
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| Black Tiger ready | 16 November 2005 |
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The first version of my Black Tiger emulator is ready for download, the biggest showstoper might be
the naming of the roms... MAME has changed the name of the roms quite recently I think so I might have
to do some new batch files for the old names as well.
Download V0.1
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| Black Tiger | 11 November 2005 |
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Been messing around with a Black Tiger emulator, don't know if I can make it totaly playable on the GBA though...
The reason I started with it is that I've also been optimising the MAME emu for the GP32.
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| More SMS | 3 November 2005 |
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Updated SMSAdvance to V1.1
Added sprite following (somewhat).
Fixed background color (lots of games).
Fixed Game Over screen on Rambo III.
Fixed sprite bugs on Codemasters game in scaled mode.
Optimised CPU abit, again.
Download V1.1
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| Thanks Easybuy 2k | 14 October 2005 |
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Fixed the Codemasters mapper in SMSAdvance.
Also received an X-Rom from Easybuy2000 so I could fix PCEAdvance to work on it,
new version released with some fixes to CD emulation. Get them both from the download page.
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| More SMS | 26 September 2005 |
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Updated SMSAdvance, lots of small fixes.
Download V0.9
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| SN76496 | 17 September 2005 |
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Updated Murdoc, GreenBoy & Goomba with some fixes.
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| SF2 kicking | 3 September 2005 |
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Updated SMSAdvance:
Added support for Street Fighter II.
Added config for using R as Start.
Fixed Pause in Robocop 3.
Fixed some scrolling glitches (Gunstar Heroes intro, Rygar).
Download V0.8
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| Surprise! | 18 August 2005 |
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After reading some stuff over at the MagicEngine forum I decided to take a look at PCEAdvance again and so
I added support for the greyscale bit on PCEAdvance and probably fixed Arcade Card support.
Download PCEAdvance V7.4.
And I also did some stuff on SMSAdvance...
Fixed Rise of the Robots.
Less flicker in Arch Rivals.
Download SMSAdvance V0.7.
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| Gunstar fixes | 15 August 2005 |
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Fixed Gunstar Heroes (bug in V0.5).
Download V0.6
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| SMSAdvance fixes | 13 August 2005 |
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Fixed the Codemaster mapper and some more.
Download.
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| SMSAdvance release 2 | 10 August 2005 |
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Fixed a memory mapping bug.
Download. Still beta.
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| SMSAdvance release | 9 August 2005 |
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Time for the new SMS emulator, Loopy made a builder and I've fixed a few games since the last beta.
Download. Oh, and this should probably be considered beta for now.
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| U2 | 30 July 2005 |
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I was at the U2 concert at Ullevi stadium here in Gothenburg yesterday and it rocked the
socks off of everyone who was there. Probably a little better than Metallica last year.
The SMS emulator is more or less finnished now and it will probably be called SMSAdvance,
still no builder though, if anyone wants a preview version for Pogo just mail me.
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| Phantasy Star | 21 July 2005 |
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Most of the SMS emulator are in working condition now, it plays Phantasy Star without a hitch
which was one of the major reasons for making my own (and it has multiboot support also).
Now I just need to make/get hold of a builder for it, anyone interested in helping out?
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| SlaveBoy? | 11 July 2005 |
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Took some time of from work this week... got this far with a sms emu today.
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| Mr. Duh! | 11 July 2005 |
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The results from the GBAX.COM 2005 competition are online,
and that means I can release a new version of the Green Beret emu here, so V0.2 is now on the download page.
I didn't win anything this time, so to celebrate that I also release a "Mr. Do!" arcade emulator =).
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| JP magazine | 5 July 2005 |
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Clarification for the news sites that didn't understand yesterdays post... The NES uses a 6502 cpu,
Green Beret and Mr Do! uses a Z80 cpu, the part about the DAA instruction on the Z80 cpu was not
about PocketNES. Anyway, I got a question some time ago from a Japanese magazine if they could include
my emulators on a cover CD, and I said of course, but can you please send me a copy of the magazine as well?
And wada ya know... it showed up yesterday, I don't think I understand a word in it but it seem really cool
if you can understand Japanese.
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| PNES fixes | 2 July 2005 |
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Hmmm the verdict of the gbax.com competition seem to take a long time, anyway I fixed a little thing
with the IRQs on PocketNES which affected Guardian Legend. I've also fixed the DAA instruction on the
Z80 cpu core so it should be quite complete now (clears all the test on ZEXALL SMS version).
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| Polishing | 22 June 2005 |
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Back from the vacation, the cpu is fixed up (except for the DAA instruction) and I've also added sound
and MultiBoot so you can share Green Beret with your friends (if you have any ;), I will release it as
soon as the compo winners are anounced.
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| GBAX entries | 9 June 2005 |
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The entries from the GBAX 2005 competition can be downloaded now.
I will release a new version in a week or two, going on vacation to Bulgaria now =).
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| Green Beret it is | 31 May 2005 |
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It's a "Green Beret"/"Rush'n Attack" arcade emulator, not much to show the world, I know...
But it's a good start to test out the Z80 emulator so I can build more emulators with it.
It still has some annoying bugs in it but I'll hopefully fix them soon enough.
I have sent in a version to the GBAX.COM 2005 competition, I don't know when the results
are released and I won't release a version here before the competition is over.
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| More arcade | 24 May 2005 |
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Been poking around with a Z80 cpu emulator, first one to guess which game gets one point =).
Ofcourse I've been to the movies and watched Star Wars III, as usual George Lucas directing
is under par but it's a nice action/adventure movie and the link to the first 3 movies (or
should that be the 3 old movies?). If you want to see an action flick with some heart in it
go and see "Unleashed" ("Danny the Dog" in EU) instead.
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| Updated PocketNES | 8 May 2005 |
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Blah blah blah, watched "A Tale of Two Sisters" yesterday, it was quite scary and interesting, a little slow though, definitly worth seeing.
Oh and I fixed the interrupt on Mapper5 and updated pnes again.
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| Updated PocketNES | 6 May 2005 |
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Fixed a small bug in the scaling code, source and binary updated.
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| New PocketNES | 3 May 2005 |
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Updated PocketNES, only some cosmetic changes.
Changed screen position in scaled modes.
Fixed some blending issues in the GUI.
Lot of small changes.
UPDATE: fixed the sound... download again.
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| GBP Rumble doc | 2 May 2005 |
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Wrote a document on the Gameboy Player and the rumble, you can find it on the techdocs page.
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| Renegade freed on bail | 17 April 2005 |
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Finnaly cleaned up some of the left overs in the code and now released Renegade, get it from the download page.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
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| Goomba Rumble | 14 April 2005 |
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Added rumble support to Goomba, now version 2.2, go to the download page.
I've only tested 2 games so far, Pokemon Pinball & Hole in One Golf.
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| Ready to Rumble | 10 April 2005 |
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Rumble Pong is ready for downloading from the download page together with source code.
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| Rumble Pong | 8 April 2005 |
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I have implemented rumble in the Renegade emulator, but I got sidetracked for
some time with documenting it and making an example game, Rumble Pong.
This was just so that other people can understand the code without having to
wade through the emulator code. Oh, if anyone is interested in the Renegade
emulator please mail me and say so.
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| Rumble in the Player | 31 March 2005 |
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I have finaly figured out how the rumble works in the Gameboy Player.
Just have to tidy it up and then also put it in the Renegade emu =)
Also there are now 4 DS emulators of which 3 are released, I haven't tested any of them yet though.
And no, none of them plays any commercial games yet.
Dualis
iDeaS
DSemu
HyperDS
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| Playing Renegade | 15 March 2005 |
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Sprite tiles are working now though sprite priority is not correct yet, controls are also done (at least for player 1).
Still have to do dynamic tile rendering and scaling for the foreground layer.
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| A Coin For Renegade | 13 March 2005 |
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Fixed the coin interrupt and sprite position decoding, so now you can actually start a game and move the sprite around.
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| Start Renegade | 11 March 2005 |
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Background tiles are starting to show up correctly =).
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| More Renegade | 9 March 2005 |
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Renegade goes through the start screen and demo play, the test mode says OK to the ROM and RAM. Now onto that graphics again...
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| Renegade | 7 March 2005 |
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I think I got Renegade (the arcade game) runing now, the palette is set correctly at least, now I just need to decode the actual graphics so it can be played.
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| Jaleco still around? | 4 March 2005 |
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It seems that Jaleco/PCCW are still looking for new updates to PocketNES.
So, Jaleco if you want me to implement anything special (like a mapper for one of your games) just tell me.
Or you can just send me and Loopy an email and say thanks at least.
And GBAFAN has reopened with a new layout and an interview with me =).
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| New HP layout | 26 February 2005 |
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I decided to change the layout of this page to be able to write some boring stuff, instead of just having a download page.
PCEAdvance is updated to V7.3, lots of small stuff fixed and optimized, mostly noticable
in the menus but also a little faster on some games.
Use the bar to the left to reach the download page.
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| Dracula X on GBA | 6 December 2004 |
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The Super CD-Rom emulation is also working now,
Too bad you'll need an EZ3 flash card to see it working.
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| Old news stuff | 21 September 2004 |
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SNESAdvance hack
Download
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| Old news stuff | 30 July 2004 |
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TMNT savestate
Download
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| Old news stuff | 20 July 2004 |
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sound source
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| Old news stuff | 14 July 2004 |
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Added swapping of A-B buttons
Download
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| Old news stuff | 13 July 2004 |
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Fixed the new mapper #4, hopefully doesn't break any games
Maybe even fixes some...
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| Old news stuff | 12 July 2004 |
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Fixed transfer on EZFA cards (hopefully)
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| Old news stuff | 11 July 2004 |
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Fixed some more stuff with the saving menus
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| Old news stuff | 8 July 2004 |
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Fixed garbage when leaving rommenu if too long names used
Transfer works if used as a compressed (.mbz) plugin in pogo now.
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| Old news stuff | 7 July 2004 |
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New test version of PocketNES
Look out for vertical scroll glitches
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| Old news stuff | 5 July 2004 |
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Test version of PocketNES
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| Old news stuff | 4 July 2004 |
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Weird portable stuff emulated somewhat
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| Old news stuff | 18 May 2004 |
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The CD emulation is coming along quite nicely.
Just some screenshots to show the progress and to start off this page =)
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