Charles MacDonald, the author of SMS Plus, Genesis Plus, TGEmu, Sega System 24, and more, has posted a small update to his website from his recent post!

Small update for some common questions:

 

The two games I've dumped are xmcota and pzloop2j, which are both already emulated in MAME.

 

The ETA for a complete table dump (65,536 files) is 9 hours, and it's fully automated. Sometimes the system locks up randomly and has to be reset which slows things down, this occured quite a lot for pzloop2j and not at all for xmcota. They have different types of B boards, perhaps that has something to do with it.

 

Many people are suggesting to look at Street Fighter Zero and it's variants, as well as Rockman which had a less common CPS-2 release but is very similar to the CPS-1 version. The only thing that would be really useful is to find two games that are encrypted with the same or similar keys, so unless Rockman has an identical key as another game it's not that useful. I would be interested in getting data out of another variant of xmcota.

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Logiqx.com, the source of CMPro/RomCenter data files, and other useful utilities, has updated 4 of their tools.

Whilst I have a little time free, I have updated some of my tools:

DatLib v2.8, DatUtil v2.20, MAMEDiff v2.19 and ROMBuild v2.7.

DatLib v2.8 -> Homepage

Core to all of my tools it provides data file loading, cleansing, conversion and saving routines

DatUtil v2.20 -> Homepage

Data file creation/conversion tool

MAMEDiff v2.19 -> Homepage

Data file comparison tool

ROMBuild v2.7 -> Homepage

ROM manipulation tool that can convert modern day ROMs to older formats

»» http://www.logiqx.com/

http://www.arcade-history.com/history_database.php

2005-10-04 : '2x zoom' added for the cabinet pictures. 

2005-10-05  History.dat 1.04 released! (1,528.33 Ko) 

Arculator, a freeware Acorn Archimedes emulator for Windows, has been updated!

# Fixed reading of R15 in some instructions - Nebulus now works.

# Sound improved a bit.

# Fixed RSC instruction (don't think it affects anything though).

# Altered ARM timing.

# Beginnings of new-style Arc emulation (HD floppies + IDE hard discs in theory, not working yet though).

# Palette splits slightly more stable (Lotus 2).

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