REVOLUTION RENAMED THIS WEEK?

Revolution's real name to be revealed at GDC? Plus, those residual rumours of a June release re-examined

16:33 Over in the US of A (we hesitate to use 'good' or 'old'), the annual Game Developers Conference is starting to get into full swing and we've got a couple of juicy Nintendo rumours for you to chew over this afternoon, concerning the big N's next-generation machine.

First up is a strong whisper that the Revolution's real name will finally be confirmed this week at the show, probably as part of Nintendo president Saturo Iwata's keynote speech on Thursday. Long-standing Nintendo watchers will know that each console the company produces labours under a codename during its development period, and so it's assumed that Revolution won't be the final name.

According to our sources, this week will be the week when the Rev finally gets its new moniker, but what it might be is still anyone's guess. We'd welcome your suggestions in the forum below, so delight, dazzle and tantalise us with your insight - and since the announcement will probably come on Thursday, if you come up with a corker, there's still time for Nintendo to change its mind yet.

The other persistent rumour which has been doing the rounds is that Nintendo may launch the Rev as early as June. It's a fair old long shot this one, comparable to us suddenly being called up by Sven for the England World Cup squad on the strength of a good five-a-side game at the weekend. However, its shelf life has been slightly extended by Akiteru Itoh from Japan's Media Create.

Speaking to BusinessWeek, Itoh said, "There are rumors that the Revolution could be released as early as June. If that happens and Nintendo sells around one million units, Sony could have a harder time catching up."

We mention it not because it's true, but because it's an interesting quote. However, you can cover us in strawberry jam and call us Susan if Nintendo launches the Revolution (or whatever it's called by then) in June. Still, what a magnificent prospect to contemplate and what a massive coup it would be if it'd managed to keep that one under wraps to astonish a waiting world. Now that would be the biggest GDC surprise of all.

CV&G Web

2006-03-20

 

* CPU:  Added the LZ77UnCompWram SWI 

* CPU:  Fixed a typo in the SWI 3 emulation that caused single cycle waits 

* GPU:  Added the option to display only one of the DS' screens (useful in fullscreen mode if only one of the screens are used) 

* GPU:  Added support for texture alpha bits (for 16-bit textures) 

* APU:  Optimized the resampling filter a bit, and applied filter to PCM16 samples as well 

* APU:  Added PSG emulation (rectangle waves only) 

* GUI:  Added fullscreen support (toggle with Alt+Return) 

* GUI:  Added a couple more registers to the I/O register viewers 

 

The preferred fullscreen resolution can be specified in dualis.ini.

Some new keyboards shortcuts have been added: Ctrl+Shift+1..Ctrl+Shift+3 to select which of the screens are displayed, and Ctrl+Shift+F to toggle on-screen fps display while in fullscreen mode.

I've also written a little PSG demo that plays 3-channel rectangle wave music.

>> Get Dualis HERE, and the demo HERE.

Sega Saturn emulator. No English changelog.

>> Get it HERE.

3.85b

 

* fixed: profiler doesn't list new dats

 

 

3.85a

 

* added: rebuilder advance option for a remove-only run. Although you have to specify a destination folder. Disabling the 'normal' remove-rebuilt-source option will disable that advanced option, too

* added: scanner view popup menu set...(showfolder/size/manufacturer/sampleparent/parent)

* added: scanner view popup menu rom...(show size/crc32/complemented/md5/sha1)

* added: scanner view popup menu chd...(show md5/sha1)

* removed: old profile-based 'show manufacturer' option

* removed: old profile-based 'show complemented crc' option

* misc: improved the profiler refresh speed (for all optimizations the profiles have to be rescanned though) but even without you should see a speed gain.

* misc: improved scanner speed for biosroms

* misc: changed some samplepath warnings

* misc: changed the order of the popupmenu a bit

* misc: no tree refresh when nothing important was changed in 'checksums'

* misc: optimized loading speed of scanresults a little bit

* misc: speed optimization on profiler-refresh

* misc: removed leading 0x from exported dats

>> get it HERE.