December 23, 2005 - Mednafen 0.4.1 Released

The Win32 build will be updated later, sometime before the next year.

 

Changes:

 

 

Joysticks initialization is now slightly more verbose.

Fixed hash calculation in the joystick code, and added a workaround for hash collisions(which would occur if two extremely similar joysticks are used on the same system).

Video initialization is now more verbose.

The -.special command-line arguments for selecting a special scaler now take the short name of the scaler, which is found in the documentation, instead of arbitrarily-chosen numbers. However, out of the goodness of my cold, black heart, arbitrarily-chosen numbers may still be used, though it should be considered deprecated.

Example:

  -nes.special 1 (deprecated, but works, selecting hq2x)

  -nes.special hq2x (good!)

  -nes.special wombat (bad!)

 

libsndfile is now used for WAVE recording(instead of the old ugly code).

Altered the internal floating-point format used to represent audio data by changing the range to -1.0

NES: Fixed a 1-byte overflow bug in the Barcode World input device emulation code by changing a strcpy() to a memcpy().

Added a "-help" command-line option, which prints out command-line argumentsand parameters.

Fixed the configuration file loading code to exit the emulator if invalid data is in the configuration file, instead of just ignoring it and the rest of the entries, thus trashing the configuration file on exit.

Changed the default xscale and yscale settings for Lynx to 4.

Physical mouse buttons can now be assigned to virtual buttons.

The width and height of the state preview are now saved in save states, fixing a problem with broken save states if the -nes.clipsides option is used, and possibly in other situations(note that this won't fix the problem in old save states, only new ones).

Fixed a garbage(OSD stuff) problem in screen snapshots and save states when they are done after a frame that has been skipped(the solution is to delay the snapshot/save state until the next frame, which is set to not be skip).

Fixed a typo that broke the hq3x effect(it had weird graphical glitches).

Modified more settings to use the new plain-text configuration file format.

>> More HERE

3.82 (23-Dec-2005)

 

* fixed: byteswap fixing routine in scanner's checksum analysis functions

* fixed: circular rename of chd files in MAME.102u5

>> Get it HERE

retroguru.com reports that VICE2X, a port of VICE (the Commodore64 emulator) to the GP2x, has been released. This test version of VICE2X was done by Snaff. Below are the release notes.

This is an early release for preview/test purposes. Currently there's no UI, you have to edit the startup script to specify what you want to load.

 

The only input available is the joystick. The right shoulder button toggles between ports 1 and 2. Fire when the joystick is in port 1 is the same as pressing space so gets past most intros.

You can visit the official homepage of VICE2X here, or simply click here to download it.

AEP Emulation Page reports that Mocha, the Java-based TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) emulator, has been updated to version 1.16. Below are the changes in this version.

- Fixed various issues with undocked applet.

- Added another complex-artifacting optimization.

- Drawing the bounded-mouse currently doesn´t work in full-screen exclusive mode...there seems to be a bug when using JFrame instead of Frame. Researching.

You can visit the official homepage of Mocha here.