Dreamcast emulator

Well, this isn't the surprise I was talking about but it's still better than nothing

Makaron Test 10/1 is out. You know the drill.

 

T9/4 and T10 were rather unstable but this time around I'm more happy with both GD and DMA code. It's not just bugfixes though, there are several new features in this version:

- support for VMU sounds

- improved Z-buffering

- fully functional DSP

- experimental anisotropic filtering

 

DSP is enabled by default. It might slow down things a bit, though (as usual) if you have a fast C2D you won't notice it. I'm really considering running whole AICA on separate thread now by the way, so it should improve in future for multi-core systems.

Please note that there's a slight slowdown noticable (in audio) when sequenced music is being played, in all Makaron versions released so far. This is sort of design flaw (and due to rather demanding hardware setup) and will be someday corrected.

 

Anisotropic filtering is too enabled by default, to 8x - it will be scaled down if your card can't support such mode. This will only be a problem for those cheap cards that support AFx8 but are very slow at it, in this case you might get quite a performance drop.

>> Get it HERE.

(V7.3 has now been superseded, please see above for the V7.4 press release.)

EMULATORS

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Official Patch 0.126u1

SDLMAME 0.126u1

SDLMAME for OS X Universal 0.126u1

MameUI32 and 64 0.126u1

MAMEXT32 and MAME Plus! XT 0.126

Mame Plus 0.126

MAMEUIFX32 0.126

Ash-build 0.126

SDLMAME for Ubuntu 0.126

DATS

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Story.dat / mamescore.ini / default.el

Mameinfo.dat, MAME32 Category-, Version and Alltime inifiles 0.126u1

Catlist.ini 0.126u1

Japanese Game List and Language Pack 0.126

AGEMAME

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NOTES

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>> Get it HERE.