0.104

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Exidy Sorcerer (diskless) [Robert]

- Sony Playstation (scph3000 J v1.1 01/22/95) [incog]

- Sony Playstation (scph3500 J v2.1 07/17/95) [incog]

- Turbo Grafix-16 [Rob Bohms]

- Acorn Electron [Wilbert Pol]

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [AT] Cleaned up A20 gating.  [Nate Woods]

 

- [COCO3] Fixed a timing bug in video rendering.  (bug #743) [Nate Woods]

 

- [PC] Fixed PC keyboard ESC char code (it is now 27; used to be 26).  [Nate Woods]

 

- [EXIDY] Fixed keyboard, printer and video speed.  Added natural keyboard support.  (bug #615) [Robert]

 

- [PCE] Various improvements, updated renderer and removed GAME_NOT_WORKING flag.  [Rob Bohms and Charles MacDonald]

 

- [VTECH1] Fixed key definitions.  (bug #835) [Robert]

 

 

User Interface Changes:

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- [Windows] Fixed a bug that caused crashes if a dialog was presented, the emulation reset, and a subsequent dialog presented.  (bug #834) [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows GUI] Fixed a bug that caused zip files where the file extension was not all lowercase to not be recognized as such.  (bug #831) [Oliver Stoenberg]

 

 

Imgtool Changes:

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- [OS9] Removed a limitation that prevented images from loading that have allocation bitmaps larger than 1024 bytes.  (bug #825) [Nate Woods]

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.104.  This incorporates all features of the update to this core.  [MAME team]

 

- Changed how devices are specified.  The new system resembles how MAME CPU and sound cores are specified.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Added a "input" command to the debugger.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Cleaned up natural keyboard code.  No longer have QUEUE_CHARS/ACCEPT_CHARS and CHARQUEUE_EMPTY; callbacks are now installed at runtime.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Fixed a file manager memory allocation bug.  [brian Sturk]

 

- Moved MESS validity code into a separate file.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Enhanced error reporting when loading images.  (bug #827)  [Nate Woods]

>> Get it HERE

NDS Bios Dumper 6 February 2006

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.

>> Get it HERE

The newest PSX emulator, pSX has been upgraded to v1.1, however due to an error on their server we are unable to view the readme or download the emulator.

>> Get it from HERE (when it's working again).

Thanks to RetroK of AEP Emulation, here is the changelog:

* v1.1 ALT+F4 now exits the emulator

* Pressing F1/Shift+F1 switches back to windowed mode for file dialog

* *.mcr files are shown in memory card dialog

* Option to disable status icons (CD/XA/MR, etc..) - disabled by default

* dbghelp.dll is now optional (required for saving crash dumps though)

* CD drives (IoControl and ASPI) should now work

* pSX now works under Win98/ME (hopefully

* Fixed save state loading bug

* Fixed crash when entering non existant save state filename

No changelog available for 5.51 or 5.52 

 

5th February 2006 - GameEx 5.50

 

Enhancements

A new theme with two variations is now included - "MCE Glossy" and "Default New". Many thanks to Alan R. The MCE Glossy theme really is something special and worth the download.

There is a new theme picker available right within GameEx to allow you to preview themes and change on the fly.

GameEx now plays a "Please Wait" animation when its performing tasks that are going to take several seconds.

Its now possible to continue playing music after launching an emulator, and its possible to skip go to previous and stop the Jukebox music while running an emulator.

GameExtender Viewer application has been optimized to run faster.

Fixes

 

Fixes attract mode when its set just to play videos

GameExtender Viewer now resizes correctly when the resolution is changed

Fixes Jukebox not disabled when installing for MCE or Games only usage.

 

Changes

Replaced the rectangular blue GameEx logo in all themes.

>> Get it HERE