The Emulation64 Network reports that SSF, the Japanese Sega Saturn emulator for Microsoft Windows, has been updated to version 0.07 beta R2. As there is no change log of what's new in this version readily available, I will post the new compatibility specifications of the emulator with the actual Sega Saturn hardware.

SH2 emulator - 100%

68000 emulator - 100%

VDP1 block - 100%

VDP2 block - 90%

SCU block - 100%

SMPC block - 100%

SCSP block - 100%

CD block - 85%

You can visit the official homepage of SSF here, or simply download it here.

Emu#dreams reports that development for RockNES is underway now. Fx3 announced last night on the RockNES forums that he's officially started working on RockNES again, after a busy personal schedule. Below is a quotation of the RockNES-related paragraph in his post.

Restarted my works on RockNES. I'm playing the PPU tests so... debugging is in progress. Actually, 2 of 7 tests are OK. Basically, it's NMI and VBlank timing related. Plus, it seems the PPU rendering can be optimized... o.O but I have no clue (yet) the procedure showed up in NESdev. ;; More to come soon.

You can see the post for yourself here. Be sure to check the official homepage here in the coming days/weeks.

Emu#dreams reports that recently the topic of Project64 updates came up at EmuTalk.net. Below is what a Project64 team member had to say about it.

hmmm.. well yes, just do not know when, do not expect it any time soon tho. I am planning to release frequently to the people who have donated for testing. But publicly, I want a lot more done and it a lot better before I would even consider looking at a public release. I think you would be extremely lucky to see a public release before the end of 2007, but you never know. There is a chance that 1.6 will get a couple of little bug fixes.

You can see the post for yourself here, and the official homepage of Project64 is here.

AEP Emulation Page reports that BeebEm, the multi-platform BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator, has been updated to version 3.1 beta 4. Below are the changes in this version.

- Added econet emulation. Still a few issues to iron out, it does not work in Master 128 mode yet but the Acorn level 1 file server software works in Model B mode. Note that the default DFS ROM in Model B mode has been changed to the Acorn DNFS ROM. (Note also that TORCHNET works using the Torch Z80 Co-Processor)

- Added some more command line options. The hardware model and tube support can be specified on the command line. See the notes in readme.txt.

- Fixed default read value for IO pages FRED and JIM. Fixes graphics corruption in tape version of Alien 8.

- Fixed bug in video emulation where it was attempting to display one too many lines causing visual artifacts (thanks to Phil Sainty for highlighting this one).

- Added SCSI ADFS Hard Disc support

- Added SASI Torch Z80 Hard Disc support

- Removed IDE support as no longer needed

- Added Acorn ADFS 1.3 ROM to Model B and B Plus modes so SCSI hard disks can be used.

You can visit the official homepage here, or simply download it here.