Source - R.Belmont

Running in reverse

As most people understand by now, the ZiNc arcade emulator runs games based on varients of the original 1995 Sony PlayStation hardware. For a variety of reasons (one being just to see what happened), I’ve done some initial work towards having it also emulate the base home console itself. The 3 major points of difference are the CD-ROM drive’s type (custom Sony vs. IDE or SCSI in the arcade boards that used CDs), the memory cards, and the joypads. I hooked up a CD-ROM capability by loading and calling out to an ePSXe-compatible CD plugin and almost immediately started getting some cool things to happen. Here’s a few:

 

Silent Hill: Boot warning Title

Wipeout XL: Title In-game

Tekken: Galaga (loading)In-game

Crash Bandicoot: Title

Time Crisis: Title In-game

Madden NFL ‘97: Main menu In-game

 

Please note that the final fate and design of this feature are not yet decided, so if you’re definitely interested in shaking things up a little in PSX emulation (it’s been kinda dead for a while, hasn’t it?), voice your support on the official ZiNc forum at bannister.org.

25th January 2006 - GameEx 5.45

 

When viewing game artwork full screen you can now navigate through the other artwork without going back, and can also view the snap even if your using video previews. A feature request asked for several times.

More intuitive display initialisation:

If GameEx can't set a full screen resolution it will run at the current windows resolution and not error.

When 32 bit colour not available will automatically switch to 16 bit colour.

Much better compatibility with Remote Desktop/Terminal Services. Because of the above should run full screen without changing settings.

In most cases GameEx will not crash when connecting to it through remote desktop.

Fixes issue where any advanced emulator config game device mapping was mapping all buttons above 6 to 6.

Fixes slowdown issue navigating emulator lists when GameExtender enabled and you have no snap for a game.

Fixes toolbar not working when media controls disabled.

>> Get it HERE

January 25, 2006 - Mednafen 0.4.5 Released

Mednafen finally compiles AND works on Mac OS/X on PowerPC, and big-endian platforms in general. Woohoo.

 

0.4.5:

* drivers/opengl.cpp now includes the GL header files AFTER the header file that eventually loads config.h is included to fix compilation on Mac OS X.

* Redefined SFEND from { 0 } to { 0, 0, 0}, and fixed older code to use the SFEND macro, to fix crashing on OSX and possibly other platforms when saving or loading states.

* Reduced SDL's buffer size when using the SDL sound driver(used on MacOSX).

* Restructured and merged some of the sections in the autoconf script.  Note to future self:  I noted that it seems if the first instance of PKG_CHECK_MODULES() is in a statement that doesn't evaluate, any other PKG_CHECK_MODULES() statements will fail.  I don't know if this is a bug in autoconf, or a misunderstanding on my part.

* Removed the largely unused ESD sound driver from compilation, as it is mostly unsuitable for use in Mednafen.

* Also removed the jack driver, as it was unfinished, and couldn't be used anyway.

* PCE:  Fixed CD-DA playback from "WAV" audio files on big-endian platforms.

* Fixed a compilation problem on big-endian CPUs by adding appropriate type-casts in psf.cpp.

 

0.4.4:

* Modified the GBA code to not use many INLINEd functions in arm.cpp.  This greatly reduces RAM and CPU usage during compilation, and should have only a negligible impact on performance(and might even improve performance on cache-starved systems).

* Fixed a compilation problem on non-x86 and non-PPC platforms in the NES emulation code.

>> Get it HERE

Jan. 25, 2006 - JEmu2 version 2.1 released!

The following was added/fixed:

I fixed the AY-3-8910 emulation (missing noise channel and I/O ports), fixing the sound in all MSX games and many Arcade games using this chip. For example, the sound in 1942 is now perfect.

Fixed the gunsmoke arcade driver.

I also solved a problem in the MSX VDP emulation, which fixed the colors during boot-up sequences of the Konami games. I added support for online high scores in 6 MSX games (The Nemesis series, Salamander, Parodius and Penguin Adventure).

Last but not least, I started adding support for MSX2, but I've got a long way to go until I can show something complete. I'm starting with rudimentary support for just SCREEN 5 because that is what most games use.

>> Get it HERE