Today, Square Enix made the surprise announcement that it is moving to acquire Taito, best known for games such as Puzzle Bobble and Graffiti Kingdom. Square Enix currently plans to buy 247,900 shares, or about 67%, of the company. Regarding the stock there is no set limit to how many shares one corporation can buy, but 67% is the maximum currently being publicly traded. So if possible, Square Enix will continue to buy all the stocks that they can until they hold 100%, or whatever maximum Taito allows. If for some reason they are not able to purchase all 247,900 shares Square Enix has stated that they will not go through with the buyout.

 

However, both companies have expressed a desire for this acquisition so if everything goes as planned, Taito will become a subsidiary of Square Enix.

 

What does this mean for gamers? Well, maybe if we're lucky we'll be able to play as Vaan and Ashe in the next Puzzle Bobble!

Thanks to Keith of Emufanatics.

Whats New:

 

GUI: The Scanlines option should now show up in the DOS port. [ipher]

GUI: Video filters that do not work without MMX are now hidden in the Video menu when MMX is disabled or not available [ipher]

SRC: Updated makefiles. Minor src cleanup. [Jonas Quinn]

Get it from the official site here.

Credits: News - Changelog

Introduction:

M1 lets you enjoy music from over 1100 arcade games, from the classics through the 3D era.  It even supports many games for which full emulation isn't otherwise possible.  For most games, you can also listen to all the sound effects, but 100% coverage is not guaranteed of all sounds in all games.

Changes since 0.7.4:

* zlib updated to latest so bad zip files won't cause crashes.

  NOTE: m1 is not claimed or intended to be secure and should not be run as "root" on a Linux system or "Administrator" on 2000/XP.

* Latest MAME sound cores, latest MAME ROM sets, too many changes to list out.

* Changed stop detection from 2 to 3 seconds to compensate for songs that don't start immediately.

* New drivers, including Jaleco Mega System 32, Raizing/Eighting PS Arcade '95, and V-System Mahjong (Final Romance series).

* Overclocked Taito F3 CPU.  This seems to make the cutout problem much less severe, but sometimes individual notes are missed now.  Taito sucks.

* Fixed long-standing Crusin' USA/World troubles.

 

Known problems (do not waste time on the boards asking about there)

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* Taito F3/Super Z/JC System games sometimes cut out after a few minutes of playback.

* SCSP-based games (Sega Model 2A/2B/2C and Model 3) may not work properly at any output rate other than 44100 Hz.

* Star Wars Arcade has corruption at the start of some songs.  This is known.

* Namco C352 games do not sound perfect, especially Mr. Driller and a few others. This is known.

* The YMF271 OPX chip is not yet perfectly emulated and not all songs in all games will sound exactly right.  This is known.

You can obtain a Windows or Linux version at the official site here.

dsHeretic 0.2, a port of the dos game Heretic, has been upgraded to version 0.2

Unfortunately, there is no changelog.

Get it at the official site here. You need to supply your own WAD file.

Credits: Official Site