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10th April, 2007 - GameEx 8.03

 

* Updated Media Center theme thanks to Alan (AKA Amos)

* Fixes importing MESS emulator configs

* Should fix hideos.exe not always showing

* Fixes window not returning to correct position after running a game

 

8th April, 2007 - GameEx 8.01

 

* Supports MKV Videos (codecs required)

* Upgrading GameEx forces a re caching of graphics. Should fix a few issues

* Emulator groups now properly turn off any databases

Changelog / Download

New patch and binary. Fixed the audio somewhat and switched to the scummvm ym3182 emulator. Also, made the x87 use single floats instead of double, this will probably cause problems with some apps, but should be a lot faster with programs that use the fpu frequently. The 16 color vga modes now use 4bpp textures, not much of a speed improvement here though because converting the data from planer to packed is cpu intensive; if any has any ideas how to speed this up, right now it uses a lookup table, I'd like to hear them.

Get it here: PS2dev Release Thread

GBC emulator for GBA

New version built on older code. Speeds up stack manipulation. Fixes a crash bug from DK.

There is also a version available for people who need 32k save size, instead of the normal version's 64k size.

Get it here: Dwedit's Board

Finally caught up with this one...

v0.4 Daytonaaaaa

 

This version includes the (still preliminary) emulation of the Fujitsu MB86234 DSP present in the original Model 2 and Model 2 A-CRX boards. This means that some of the games running in these boards are playable now. The emulation is still preliminary because it has been done by reverse engineering the complete instruction set of the DSP and there are still bugs. This has been possible thanks to the help of Olivier Galibert (that helped me starting writting the DSP disassembler some years ago) and Ernesto Corvi (that analyzed my disassemblies and compared against other games and the model1 HLE in mame). I'll list now the known problems and gliches in the games:

 

* Daytona USA games: when stopping the car, or starting a course from a stop (advanced and expert) the screen says REVERSE.

* Sega Rally: Automatic transmission doesn't work, only manual.

* Original Model 2 games have wrong colours in the 3D textures and wrong lighting.

 

To play Daytona USA, when the network check screen appears, press F2 to enter test mode and in Game Settings set the game mode to Standalone.

 

This package includes the single threaded and the multithreaded version. Use the multithreaded version in systems with more than a cpu, dual core, core duo, etc...

There are several fixes in the syncronization code that should reduce the crashes in the emulator.

>> Get it HERE.