PDRoms reports that Lazy1 has released his port of an old computer game: Sopwith, for the Nintendo DS. Below are his release notes.

I have gotten quite a bit of work done on my port of sdl sopwith to the nintendo ds, right now the game is playable but I'm not the best at finding bugs. So I'm releasing this alpha version to see how many people can find.

 

The game is playable in it's current state but must be run under real hardware and does not have any sound. Keep in mind its still far from release quality.

 

Tested using a gbamp and passme so I'm not sure about other loading methods.

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EasyMame 5.2.5 release info:

- New : Added new status 'Bad CHD'.

- Fixed : Small issue in the.CHD verification.

- Fixed : Memory leak in the rom verification.

- Improved : Faster rom verification. (about 10% faster)

>> Get it HERE

From Mamedev, the latest update to the King of Emulators.

0.102u2

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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

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f1en097u1gre2 [Anonymous]

ozmawars055gre [RansAckeR]

 

Source Changes

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Some minor cleanups to the System 32 driver. Air Rescue and F1 Exhaust Note now share common multi-PCB faking logic. [Anonymous]

 

Properly hooked up tape samples in Thief, NATO Defense, and Shark Attack now that sample pausing is available. [bart Tobalske]

 

Fixed several uninitialized variables, incorrect string compares, and inconsistent variable declarations found by the VC compiler. [Oshah]

 

Fixed 16-bit i386 disassembly so it stays within the current segment. [Nathan Woods]

 

Some minor Turbo Sub changes: [Philip Bennett]

* Added some more notes.

* Corrected some hardware functions in accordance with the schematics.

 

Tweaked the 68000 disassembler to display F-line traps in a more obvious fashion. Also changed to decorate jump targets for relative branches. [Alex Jackson]

 

Rewrote the Voodoo emulation code to be more accurate to the original.

* Support for multiple simultaneous boards (hello Silent Scope)

* Pixel-pipelined framebuffer accesses now work

* Alpha buffer operations now supported

* Triple buffering now supported

* Proper memory allocation and handling based on configuration

* Proper FIFO handling, including low/high water marks and stalling

* Approximate timing calculations based on quoted fill rate specs

* Detail textures implemented

* All math is done in fixed point

* Proper edges calculated for polygons (stars appear in Gradius 4 now)

* Much easier to add specific rasterizers now

This is a work in progress; some stuff is not quite right yet. Voodoo 2 emulation is completely broken. [Aaron Giles]

 

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

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Lovely Pop Mahjong Jan Jan Shimasyo 2 [Guru]

 

New clones added

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Trivia Master (set 2) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Tech Romancer (EURO 980914) [Arzeno Fabrice]

Splatter House (World) [Arzeno Fabrice]

Strider 2 (USA 991213) [brian Troha]

Touch & Go (World) [stefan Lindberg]

Wonder Boy (system 2) [David Widel]

Kageki (World?, hack) [David Haywood]

 

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

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Fighting Vipers 2 [Ville Linde]

Tang Tang [David Haywood]

Spectrum 2000 [David Haywood]

Spikeout [Ville Linde]

Spikeout Final Edition [Ville Linde]

>> Get the DIFF HERE

History.dat 1.05d -> HERE

Mameinfo v0.102u2 -> HERE

MAME32qa -> HERE

MAMEplus! -> HERE

MAME Plus! 0.102u2

2005-12-02fixed cheat menu crash

some GUI changes:

 

added 'Aspect Ratio' treeview

fixed 'Resolution' treeview

added more info to 'General' tab

Mame32Plus Special (no link)

MAME32FX -> HERE

Updated to MAME 0.102u2 - MAME32 0.102

 

- Added option to enable/disable auto volume adjustment feature to the GUI.

- Removed YMF271 sound chip changes. (They were incorrect)

- Removed some drivers changes. (They were incorrect)

MAME32Hp4 -> HERE

The PSP Trainer for "Liberty City Stories" has been updated. For now it already supports a few basic cheats like: Infinite Health and Armor, Set Wanted Level, Set Time, Set Weather & Spawn Anything. This trainer in it's version 0.1c works on the US/Canada version of LCS and requires a 2.0, 2.01 or 2.50 firmware. Version 1.0d seems to work only with the UK version of this game.

 

Unzip the archive to your memory card so the files go in PSP/SAVEDATA/ULUS10041S0 if you're installing the US version, PSP/SAVEDATA/ULES00151S0 for the UK version. This replaces the first save on the card. To start CheatDevice, simply load it like a saved game. You can then load another save if you want and CheatDevice stays in memory.

 

Disclaimer: THIS CAN CRASH YOUR GAME. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Some of the spawn choices like the RC toys and boats will crash the game. Don't save your game after using this.

This news comes from PDRoms, and more information is available here.