Arcade emulator

Ok, here is the latest 0.50 version, with some badly needed fixes, the return of the 2 last emudx games, and a new game options dialog with more options than you ever saw in the allegro version !

 

Now it's probably going to be the last version for quite a while, unless some critical bugs are reported. I had a lot of this for the past month, and this version is very close to what I would call "the ideal raine version for me", especially the part related to yuv overlays which allows it to work on my pvr350 !

 

raine (0.50.2) unstable; urgency=low

 

* Improve slightly yuv overlay rendering, and add support for the yv12 overlay, used by mpeg cards. It should allow raine to render directly to an mpeg card if the picture on screen isn't interlaced !!! It works with a pvr350 in linux, just be sure to run ivtvctl --set-yuv-mode=mode=1 before running raine to avoid interlacing in yuv overlays. You can now select your prefered yuv overlay format from the video options dialog : don't change this unless you have problems with the default YUY2 format (raine will automatically switch to YV12 if YUY2 is not hardware accelerated for you).

* Fix frame skip (automatic and fixed).

* The game selection dialog now starts with the selection on the currently loaded game.

* dkong and frogger are supported again, with or without emudx. Only restriction for now : no alpha blender functions for the flames in dkong, I need more time to experiment with this, but it's very playable without them anyway ! They both require new emudx sound files, which are about 1Mb shorter : dkongm.dx2 and froggerm.dx2.

* Finally added a game options dialog with "reset game hardware", "load/save game" with support for unlimited number of save states, "graphical layers", and "cpu frame skip". Also moved the cheats dialog here. And you now have complete control over the fps of the game. This is the kind of very useful dialog if you want to control raine with only a joystick !

* Added a savegame converter, from the old allegro format to the new 0.50 format in the bonus folder (make converter to build it).

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Arcade emulator for Xbox

28/01/07 update

 

- fixed a little mistake in the sound engine that caused some little cracks

- rumble function rewritten so that it now uses only one .ini file and can be used with all systems (thx to IQ_132)

- hsf2a driver added (thx to IQ_132)

- scale3x and hq4x added, hq4x is unusable (10fps)

- added native support for 720p and 1080i, the interface is now truely in HD

- corrected some things in resolution selection (not necessary in PAL mode, widescreen mode automatically detected, now displays which mode is selected,...)

- background now totally destroyed when launching a game, free up more RAM which can only be good for VMM and HD modes

>> Get it at the usual place(s).

MSX emulator for the DS

PenkoDS?

PenkoDS is an emulator MSX2 for Nintendo DS. It is based on fmsx of Marat Fayzullin.

The speed of emulation is currently 75% on average (either about 30 to 40% faster than the port fmsx of nyagosu of which I took again the management of the keyboard and the joystick).

 

Among the functionalities, one finds:

- A resize mode to manage the various resolutions of the MSX.

- Support DLDI

- Support of the roms and the discs

- Management of the sound (with the same problems as under CrocoDS)

 

Level use, it is enough for you to copy the Romanian one in the root or the /rom/msx repertory of your chart flash, patcher the nds with patchor DLDI and of launching this homebrew from your Nintendo DS

 

To test with the version msx bombjack of Kralizec or with one of the releases of the MSXDEV' 06.

 

One of the large bugs current is the impossibility of rebooting after the insertion of a MSX disc. (On the other hand, not a problem of reboot with the roms). This version is a version alpha, therefore I await all your remarks in order to improve it.

>> Get it HERE.

After much work over the past few days, we finally succeeded - we have an easy-to-use downgrader for v3.03 PSPs!

 

Some ground-rules:

 

* This downgrader is for v3.03 firmware only. But if you have v2.81 - v3.02, no problem - you can just upgrade to v3.03 to use the downgrader.

* You need a copy of the unpatched GTA:Liberty City Stories UMD. No ISOs, no patched UMDs, not Vice City Stories. See here for some info on how to check if your version is patched. The most reliable way : the unpatched disks have the v2.0 firmware update on them.

* This downgrader is intended to enable homebrew. Homebrew is NOT the same as piracy. Don't be a thieving loser - buy the games you play.

* The downgrader will work on all current PSP hardware (TA-079 - TA-086). Patching of TA-082+ is automatic in the downgrader.

* You downgrade at your own risk. There is always a chance of bricking, although we have done everything we can think of to make this process safe.

 

Full instructions for downgrading are included in the Downgrader_HOWTO.txt file in the ZIP file. Read them carefully! You will need:

 

* The 3.03 downgrader package

* Official v1.50 Firmware Update EBOOT

* Official v3.03 Firmware Update EBOOT (only if your PSP is not 3.03 already)

 

Enjoy! You can get support for any problems at the PSPUpdates forum.

 

Remember to check out the PSP Homebrew Database for information on homebrew that can be run on your newly-downgraded PSP!

 

Warning: After downgrading from 3.03 to 1.5, there are some remnants of 3.03 left in flash. If you later try to re-upgrade to 3.03 and repeat the downgrade, things will break. At some later point, we will work on a cleaner that will remove these extra files. Until then, enjoy! (Don't worry, upgrading to 3.03 OE firmwares still works fine).

If you're not keen on the risk of downgrading your PSP, you might prefer to use a homebrew loader instead. Well, we've thought of you - we give to you "HEN 303 - the Duff release" (named in the eLoader tradition!).

 

HEN 303 (short for Homebrew ENabler) works in the same way as Dark_AleX's HEN for 2.71 firmwares. By running HEN, it installs a patch in your PSP's memory, that allows you to run homebrew almost as if you had a v1.5 PSP. This patch remains in place until you fully turn off your PSP - it will survive the PSP being placed into sleep mode.

 

The requirements for HEN are the same as for the downgrader - you need the unpatched GTA:LCS, and a v3.03 firmware PSP.

 

You can view the readme.txt file in the archive for more details about how to use it. Remember that not as much homebrew works with HEN as it does with eLoader or v1.5 firmware. But we hope to release an eLoader plugin for HEN soon, that would improve that situation - and remember that the amount of homebrew that works with HEN is increasing all the time.

 

The important parts of HEN 303 are included in the downgrader release - but if you don't want to downgrade, you can download the full HEN release below.

 

Note: a pre-release version of this file was leaked on the internet. It is dangerous and could brick your PSP - do not run it or distribute it. The authentic version contains the text "This is the official final released version of 3.03 HEN" in the readme.txt file.

Download 3.03 Downgrader / Download HEN 3.03 / Source