Front End

ML TNG Release Notes

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July 17th, 2007

Beta u19 Released

 

- Preliminary .BDF Font support. You can load in the .BDF font of your choice to use as a display font in ML. There are some restrictions as to size and it's not as yet perfected, but it allows for much needed flexability as regards to front end's look. I'll place a few fonts on my page for download. For more information, refer to MLREADME.TXT

 

- With move to allowing external fonts, I widened the text display window a bit to let more information be displayed per line. I'm aware there are might be some graphic overlapping, it's an issue I'll attempt to fix in the future.

 

- Suppressed some keystrokes that were causing problems while selecting a .BDF font and values for a command.

Changelog / Download Front-end and the BDF fonts

Team M33 have released an update to Firmware 3.51 M33. The update adds an additional NO-UMD mode that features enhanced compatibility.

 

Also, the team notes that if you have not yet applied the previous WLAN update, this update will patch the WiFi issue as well.

Source and Downloads: eXophase

Front End

1.6.9

- Fixed: crash when the last favourite set is removed, and text is typed into the search box.

- Fixed: crash if you accidentally clicked 'no' when your firewall asked for approval on mame commandline executions (-verifyroms is one). mp.dat wouldn't be created which led to a 'file not found error' the next time you clicked 'verify all sets'. Deleting mp.ini was the only solution.

- Fixed: not switching from favourites to non favourites view after 'Verify All Sets'.

- Removed: support for defunct path/directory options.

- Fixed: crash if splitters went out of view, when the main interface is resized.

- Changed: titlebar caption, so that MAME version is before application name, making it visible on the taskbar.

- Added: Default MAME Options button to the toolbar.

Changelog / Download

Sega Genesis emulator for DS

As promised, here is the updated version with the newer cpu core.

I decided to split the HW and SW renderer versions, because it makes my life a bit easier...

 

The SW renderer version is included as a separate binary in this release and features 2 different scaling types:

"Jitter" might look better for action games, "Blend" mostly makes text more readable.

 

There is also a new option in the HW renderer: Force Update

 

If enabled, it reduces the chance of tile corruptions, but can also lead to massive slowdowns, if a game updates more tiles than the DS can handle in rapid succession.

So "off" is basically faster. You can however switch to "on" temporarily, if the tiles got corrupted to force a one-time update (Viewpoint).

Source and Download: DCEmu release thread