11:58 PM - Xmame Release - Jandar
A new version of Xmame, which is, lo and behold, the Unix port of MAME, has been released. This version (0.36b15.2) can be found in the MAME section. Here's what's new:

• Fixed the X11 target when compiled with XIL but without MITSHM.
• Fixed compiling on machines without DGA (sorry about this one ;)
• Added -version / -V to show the version, mainly for frontends.
• Fixed -listclones.
• Now accepts both -option and --option (--version for example)
• -showconfig no longer tries to print string options which are NULL.
• Updated german readme, thanks to: Robert Hamberger
• Renamed signal to sound_signal in src/sndhrdw/geebee.c, this should fix compiling it under HP-UX

10:31 AM - Dragonball Z: Gokuden 1 Translation - Neil_
A new group, Kakkoii Translations has sprung up and is working on Dragonball Z: Gokuden 1. Thanks to 8:05 AM - News Bits - Neil_

• WakdHacks as announced that WPJ is closer than ever to completion and that they hvae started work on a "SECRET PROJECT". Looks like those are mighty popular these days.
• Klepto Software has released a 40% patch for DBZ: Legend of the Saiyans for the SNES.
• The Doki Doki Translations page has had its projects page updated with new percents for Radical Dreamers and others.
• Prez has updated his page with the news that he has figured out the SD Gundam Knight Story 2 pointers, which means he can now expand stuff to the lengths that look good. ;) Also posted were various screenshots of work before and after he figured out the pointers which look pretty dern cool.
• Assassin Productions has been updated with the news that SD Gundam Knight Story 1 is at about 15%.

11:11 PM - EmuDX Release - Jandar
The long-awaited version 1.0 of EmuDX was released yesterday evening, and I have now added it to SGC. This version, as well as AMD and Pentium optimized versions can be found in the EmuDX section.

11:05 AM - DGen Release (1.21) - Jandar
A new version of the Windows based Genesis emulator DGen has been released. Version 1.21 can now be found on the Genesis emulators page. Here's what the author had to say about this version:

• Switched to Richard Mitton's excellent RAZE Z80 emulator, which fixes the out of time music on some games. Most of you described the problem as 'the music isn't in sync with the game'. Anyway, this is now fixed.
• Sonic1/2/3, Aladdin are all fine now. I imagine there will be others. Eternal Champions's music is okay and you can play the game with Musashi.
• DAC sound plays at the right pitch now (e.g. 'Sega' chord, 'Eswat' speech)
• No shadows yet (e.g. Sonic2 bonus game)

11:01 AM - MagicEngine Release (MacOS) - Jandar
The MacOS port of MagicEngine, a TG-16 emulator, has been updated to version 0.96 final. This version can be located on the TG-16 MacOS emulators page.

10:34 AM - Italian Translation Updates - Jandar
Thanks to D-Chan, of SadNES cITy Translation, I have some more information for the Italian translations page, such as the percent complete of several more translations listed there. Oh, and I'm home.

8:47 PM - DQ5e news - Neil_
That jerk that runs Partial Translations told me to tell you all that the script errors plaging the final script for the past week or so have been corrected, or at least at this point it apears that way.
Partial Translations
NOTE: The opinions expressed by the poster are in no means representative of the rest of the SGC staff, although I think that Jandar has some personal vendeta against this Partial Translations guy. ;)

4:39 PM - Another lovely Aniversary - Neil_
Well, several sites have been talking about the first year aniversary of UltraHLE, most have ignored the first aniversary of UHLEFix. For those who aren't privvy to the story, the day after UltraHLE was released, a news story was posted on ZD about a program called UHLEFix The program, which advertized that it boosted performance for non 3dfx cards, actually was just a basic program compiled with space added to make it look legit. Instead of boosting performance, it mearly deleted several windows directories. The program was posted only on ZD, and caused several angry threads on the ZMD message boards. To celebrate, InVerse has put up a happy birthday page dedicated to this little program.

2:59 PM - News Bits - Neil_

• Satsu has announced that a menu patch for Hourai Gakuen will be out shortly thanks in big part to Akujin for hacking info and translating/dumping the script. ^^
• Lina'chan recently updated her page with information that their new project is Record of Lodoss War, and that it will be the center of their attention. As a side note, she stated that the Tenchi Muyo patch would be a little longer as they have decided to wait until the battle text bug is fixed.

4:01 PM - KGB Release - Jandar
Yet another emulator release that you will have to go to the homepage for. Version 0.22 beta 2 of the Windows based GB emulator KGB has been released, and it can currently be found on the KGB homepage.

3:59 PM - MAME32 Release (0.36b15) - Jandar
Wonderful, now I'm at home, and having FTP trouble, so I still am unable to upload files.. Well, for now you can find the new release of MAME32, the official Windows port of MAME, on the MAME32 homepage. The port has been brought up to speed with the DOS version, as well as receiving some additional improvements.

10:24 AM - Hu6280 Beta Released - Jandar
Another beta version of the Tg-16 emulator Hu6280 has been released and, until I get a chance to upload the file locally, it can be found on the Hu6280 homepage.

4:21 PM - AP-Heracles - Vonpleck
Well, I have began hacking Heracles. I have made a script dump, and it will be sent to the translator. Expect some screen shots soon!

1:59 PM - NESten v.6 beta 9 released! - Neil_
TNSe's brilliant work continues in this brand spakin' new version of NESten. Here's what's new:

• 2x screen mode, makes use of 640x480 fullscreen instead of 320x240.
• 2x screen mode allows usage of 100% scanlines.
• Whole lotta core bugs fixed. (I had forgotten an opcode :P)
• Mapper 1 fixed, now (nearly) all MMC1 games work.

1:45 PM - News Bits - Neil_

• Cless has joined Suicidal Translations and thus his project, Shinsenden, is now a Suicidal Translations project.
• Assassin Productions has acquired two new team members, Vonpleck and Finn, who will be working on Heracles.
• PR Translations has begun work on Harvest Moon for the GameBoy Color. Currently a bit of dialogue and some menus are translated. Thanks to RPGd for the news.
• Bongo` of WakdHacks has just informed me that the last section of text in WPJ has been translated and insertion is about to begin! YAY!

11:13 PM - DarcNES Windows Port - Jandar
Nyef's NES emulator, DarcNES, has recently been ported to Windows. The Windows version (1.0) can no be found on the newly formed Windows Multi-console emulators page. Thank you, thank you.

10:53 PM - DGen Release - Jandar
A new version of DGen, the Genesis emulator for Windows, has been released. Version 1.20 has been added to the Genesis emulators page. Does anybody else notice that I use a very generic format for all emulator release news? Oh well..it's worked well so far. Thanks to EmuSphere for the news. Here's the information about this latest release:

• Fullscreen mode now works with high resolution graphics cards that don't support 320x240x16.
• Triple buffering in fullscreen modes (disabled by default - select Graphics/Triple Buffering to enable it).
• Fixed a DMA bug (fixes EA intro a bit)
• Thinner mode now scales to the whole screen if Any Size is enabled. (e.g. Golden Axe front end, TMNT, SF2)
• Made Any Size the default
• No interpolation/bilinear filtering/Direct3D/Glide/3dFX support yet. Don't e-mail about this, I know you want it.
• There are still bugs in the jumping on Altered Beast, Alex Kidd, Rolling Thunder 2, and Eternal Champions. Another misemulation affects Columns's score.
• Speed is still bad. I know this because I myself don't have a fast computer.

11:09 AM - Dragon Warrior Monster & Elation - Neil_
I just decided to share my overwhelming joy with all of you over my recent playing of Dragon Warrior Monsters. I am so excessivly happy about this... the sections of script Hoimin translated for the project I was working on with him and Weirdman_ match almost word for word the translation that Eidos released yeterday. Playing this game complete is like a dream come true for me, and despite a few things that irk me (like the short 4 letter names), I am in love with this game. I'd encourage you all to run out and buy a copy. Don't download the rom, buy the game. It's worth it. As for me, I'm off to play!!!

8:28 PM - EMDPMA! - Airety
A new section has been added to SGC. Not related to emulation whatsoever, it will mainly involve the insanity that we all know and love from the SGC staff and also plenty of Chu-Chu Rocket stuff, even the official EMDPMA comic strip! Don't check it out yet, but do sometime in the next couple of weeks, because I will do some work to it sooner or later.

9:04 AM - WakdHacks & WPJ - Neil_
Well, WakdHacks has put up a picture of some lovely ASM hacking by Lord Tech. Look at the pretty VWF! Also implemented was Text compression which means they will be able to fit in a lot more text without compromising accuracy!

5:14 PM - DGen Information - Jandar
The DGen site has been updated with some additional information on the emulator. Here is what they had to say:
If I were you I'd avoid playing Phantasy Star 4 on DGen - it has a problem where the screen blanks and the game crashes on some battles a fair way into the game. That would certainly annoy me if I was playing it...Haven't a clue what's causing it. I get a few e-mails every week about this. Other games with trouble are WarSong and Shining Force 2 I think. Regarding old versions and speed, any idea which was the best version in terms of speed? Speed seems to have really dropped between 1.00 and 1.19, but it's hard to say where the code was the 'best' (e.g. speed/compat tradeoff).
Thanks to Vintage Gaming for the news.

5:11 PM - MacMAME Release - Jandar
The MacOS port of MAME has been updated once again. It is now up to the level of the most recent DOS port. I'm currently in the process of uploading the latest version, and it will be available from the MAME section in the near future. Here's what's new here:

• In sync with DOS beta 15. [Aaron Giles]
• Added "Attach clones to parent" option in the sorting menu. [Aaron Giles]
• Fixed folder alias handling in the frontend. [John Butler]
• Some internal reorganization for faster compiles. [Aaron Giles]

9:22 PM - Do-Re-Mi Fantasy: Milon's Quest Translation Released!! - Neil_
Just days after a previous release, Gaijin Productions does it again. Recluse has stated that the project is as complete as it will get unles an ASM hacker comes forward and helps him with the compressed graphics. All the dialogue is translated however, and it's a great game to play!
Gaijin Productions
The Patch

8:10 PM - News Bits - Neil_

• Bongo` of WakdHacks has updated his Hex Editor. Here's what's new: found a bug in the search routine, it's fixed now, and I made the romanji search much faster also. I added Wildcard searches again and Compiled another version so that people who don't need 3 byte code dumping can dump much faster than before.
• Prez sent me an email today containing information on the current status of his Gundam Knight Story 2 translation. Current progress is as follows: Weapons/Armour 100% translated and inserted, Intro complete, translated and inserted, and the Location names are about 50% done. Right now, Prez is focusing mainly on the items, shops, and menus, as his new group member, Celes, wades through the dialogue script. Shots of current work can be found here. And, a specia SGC exclusive, an animated gif of the intro, can be found here.
• Dinesquick has posted a progress report of his current projects on his page. It runs down as follows:
  • Energy breaker: almost completely dumped so it shouldn't be long before translation is begun
  • RS3 has now been totally debugged
  • Madara 2: Font decompressed and now starting to work on the text compression.
  • Romancing Saga 2: VWF has been inserted and work on the dumper started
  • ToP: no word from the rest of the team. guess this one is dead
  • Gran Historia: on hold aparently
  • SPASM: Expect something that works fairly soon

7:59 PM - Snes9x Windows Release - Jandar
Yet another version of the Snes9x Windows port has been released. You can now find version 1.29 on the SNES emulators page. Thanks go to EmuSphere for the news about the release.

7:49 PM - NESten Release - Jandar
A new beta of NESten, a wonderful NES emulator for Windows, has been released. Version 0.6 beta 8 can now be found on the NES emulators page. Here's what's new:

• RAW PCM added. Adds voice and *THWUMPS* to games
• Game Genie Codes.
• Saving/Loading of Cheats.
• Sound Engine now requires way less CPU power.
• Illegal opcode showing is now optional.
• Dynamic fullscreen mode is now removed.

2:14 PM - Gundam Knight Story 2 progress! - Neil_
Prez, aka ZERP, has put up two screenshots of dialogue insertion on his page! It's looking great!

11:39 AM - Raine..hmm - Jandar
Well that's interesting.. the Raine page has been updated with a version 0.28f and the following message:
Gotta go now! *waves*
What does it mean..your guess is as good as mine.

10:07 AM - RockNES WIP - Jandar
The RockNES page has been updated with a WIP report:

• Fixed sound static problem! Now, all 5 channels sound nicely

9:56 AM - Hu6280 DX Beta - Jandar
Yet another Direct-X beta of Hu6280 has been released, and added to the TG-16 emulators page. Thanks to EmuSphere for the news.

9:43 AM - Meka Public Release - Jandar
The new version of Meka that was released to registered users a few days ago has now been released publically. Version 0.40 has been added to our GG/SMS emulators page. There are a ton of changes is this version..too many to list in fact. If you're interested, you can find the changes in this text file on the Meka homepage.

1:00 AM - Hu-Go Release (1.08) - Jandar
Both the DOS and Linux versions of Hu-Go, the TG-16 emulator, have been updated to version 1.08. They can be found on the DOS and Linux TG-16 emulator pages, respectively.

12:42 AM - Raine Release! - Jandar
Version 0.28a of Raine, a multi-arcade emulator for DOS, has been released. The latest version, as well as additional information on the emulator, can be found in the Raine section. This version has added 14 more playable games, as well as sporting many other improvements. The complete list of changes can be found here. Thanks go to EmuSphere for the news.

12:47 PM - NLMSX 0.21 beta 4 - Jandar
Yet another beta version of the MSX emulator NLMSX has been released. Version 0.21 beta 4 can be found on the MSX emulators page. Thanks to M.E.P. for news of the release. Here's what has changed for this beta release:

• Konami MEGAROM's are supported again !
• All configurable devices can now be added and removed online.

10:24 PM - Satsu releases tons - Neil_
Satsu has released two patches and some docs. One patch is a complete translation of Umihara Kawase, the other is a partial menu patch for Tokimeki Memorial. Also released are two docs, one being a WPJ guide, and the other a guide to creating table files.
Satsu's page
Umihara Kawase Patch
Tokimeki Memorial Patch
Table Doc

10:15 PM - Musashi patch Release!! - Neil_
Yup, Musashi v.98 has been released. For all intents and purposes it is completly translated, however it'll stay at .98 since they want to leave room for any unforseen bugs that might be found by players. ;)
Gaijin Productions
The patch

8:27 PM - DGen Corrupt File - Jandar
The version of DGen that we updated yesterday was apparently corrupt. I've uploaded the corrected version (1.19a), and added it to the Genesis emulators page. Thanks to Emulation Camp for the news.

8:18 PM - Raine WIP Report - Jandar
The Raine site is reporting that a couple of additional games have been added to the emulator. These are V-Five, a shoot-em-up from Toaplan, and Chuka Taisen (Cloud Master), an arcade game from Taito.

8:13 PM - WinUAE Beta Testing - Jandar
According to the WinUAE site, version 0.8.11 R1 of this Amiga emulator has been released to beta testers. We will keep you informed on the progress of this emulator, and when the latest version is released publically, you'll find it here.

8:08 PM - MAME Release (0.36b15) - Jandar
Yet another new version of MAME, the multi-arcade emulator, has been released. Version 0.36 beta 15 can now be found in the MAME section along with the most recent source code. Thanks go to Retrogames for the news.

8:05 PM - NLMSX Beta Release - Jandar
A new version of the MSX emulator NLMSX was released yesterday, and can now be found on the MSX emulators page.

1:35 PM - MacMAME Release - Jandar
A very minor update of the MacMAME emulator has been released. Version 0.36 beta 14a can now be found on the MAME page. Here's what's new:

• Fixed numerous bugs in 0.36 beta 14. [Aaron Giles & John Butler]

9:05 AM - News Bits - Neil_

• Dragoon-X has commented on the recent RS3 developments. Here's what Kueller had to say:
  I suppose I should clarify a few things, for those of you who have been e-mailing me with questions I didn't feel like answering. As of right now, RS3 is still in progress. I know that "The Prisoners" are supposedly 90% done, but do I give a fuck? No, not really. So, until they release a patch, we'll continue working on it. Second of all, I'm almost positive that disnes has left the group for "The Prisoners", but since I never received a formal resignation, or a response of any kind for that matter, he's still "in". As for the rest of us, believe it or not, real world and real work has been taking up 100% of everyone's free time, so nothing has progressed on any other project. Plans have been discussed as to when to re-initialize the work, but no specific dates or times have been settled on.
• The Lunar Magic School Translation Project has released some dialogue sections and stated that anyone interested in helping them should jump on this chance to see if they can actually do it. ;)
• The Prisoners have updated their page with status reports on all their projects. A rather interesting read. Everything seems to be progressing rather well. They're currently working on Energy Breaker, RS3, RS2, and Madra 2.
• A translation site of a different color. A group calling themselves Unstable Translations has opened their doors. They plan on working on various literature translations.. by that they seem to mean manuals, guide books, and the like. A rather interesting idea. ^^;;

10:02 PM - Meka 0.40 Registered - Jandar
A new version of Meka, 0.40, was released today to registered users. Version 0.40 will be available to non-registered users a few days from now.
Meka homepage

6:18 PM - Spanish Translations - Dream Doctor
Yume Pengin Monogatari for NES has reached the v1.0, as some of u may have seen ont eh board.
U can download the 100% translated version on teh Spanish translations page.

1:55 PM - News Bits - Neil_
First off, I'd like to apologize for my lack of posts lately. I've been really bogged down by work and problems...

Musashi of Gaijin Productions has announed that a project they had started in secret is being put on hold temporarily due to the fact that it's a bit larger than they expected. The game is Holy Umbrella - Dondera's Wild. Some screenshots of preliminary progress are up on the page.
• ZERP, aka prez, has posted some news on SD Gundam Knight Story, a cool little RPG he's translating. He'd like some feedback on the fonts, if you all would be kind enough. =)
• Remember that translation project for Shinsendou I mentioned in my last post? Well, Cless has put up a nice little page for it.
• You may remember quite some time ago hearing about Capsule Corp and their Super Kunio Kun translation. Well, guess what? The translation still lives, however it's no longer a Capsule Corp project as that group aparently kicked the bucket some time ago. In any case, the SKK translation page is back up, with an alpha patch and the news that they're 98% done!

6:22 AM - RockNES Update - Jandar
The RockNES site has been updated with some news on the emulator's progress:
Added Konami´s VRC6 extra sound chip emulation, used by mappers #24 (CastleVania 3j) and #26 (Madara), both japanese games. Added preliminary mapper #90 support (pirate Super Mario World works).
Thanks to EmuSphere for the news.

6:21 AM - NLKE WIP Update - Jandar
A progress report for the SNES emulator NLKE has been posted on the NLKE site. Also, the site has recieved a fresh new look after what seems like an eternity of the same old appearance. Here's what the WIP report had to say:

• NLKE isn't working actually in pure msdos. Actually it isn't init allegro before of read the config file what looks like work fine in win95/98 but simply crashes in msdos. Please if it crashes in your machine, and you really want get it working leave me know, and i will compile a beta for you, or only wait a soon update fixing it. Thanks for the info go to Jani.
• Magnus Ohlsson is having problems to get his joypad working in nlke. He has a Logitech WingMan GamePad. I 'd like know if someone has this joypad working with nlke, or with some other msdos emulator what is using allegro. (mame, snes9x ...)
• The actual version of NLKE (v.05b) has a problem in the GUI what does what you don't be able reinit the spc700 emulacion from the GUI if you did disable it. You can enable it again editting the config file manually. I 'll be fixed in the next version. Thanks for the info go to Brice.

10:04 PM - Hu6280 DX Beta 1.31 - Jandar
A couple new beta releases of the Hu6280 Direct-X version have been released. The latest of these is version 1.31, which is now on the TG-16 emulators page.

9:57 PM - DGen Windows Release - Jandar
A new version of the Genesis emulator DGen has been released for Windows. Version 1.19 has been added to the Genesis emulators page. Thanks to Emulation Camp for the news, and here's what's new in this version:

• Fixed SRAM problems (e.g. Phantasy Star 4). Let me know what SRAM works now.
• H-Interrupt fix (from 1.18) seems to have fixed a lot of games e.g. Sonic 1 Level 4, Mortal Kombat, Toe Jam and Earl (these games previously never worked at the same time - now they do).

1:04 PM - News Bits - Neil_

• Cless has announced a new project, a cool little Famicom(NES) game called Shinsendou.
• X Translations has announced they're working on After School and Battle Jockey.
• The following was emailed to RPGd: TT has decided to translate the 1st and 2nd Megami Tensei games for the SNES. We will work on MT1 first, then after it's completion, MT2. The people working on this project are:
  Jaxter-Lead Translator
  Nightengale-Proofreader/Translator
  EsperKnight-ROM Hacker
  Tempest Translations
• Suicidal Translations has finally revealed the list of announcements. Among the things announced were new members and new projects.
• As a sort of selfish side note, I am looking for Japanese translators interested in helping out on various Dragon Quest translation projects in various levels ranging from dialogue translation to checking others work. If you are at all interested, my email is at the top of this post. Thank you.

9:43 AM - MacMAME Release (0.36b14) - Jandar
MacMAME has been brought up to speed with the DOS port, as well as sporting a few additional improvements over the previous release. This version can be found in the MAME section. Here's what's new in this release:

• In sync with DOS beta 14. [Aaron Giles]
• Rewrote the frontend dialog code, adding a number of sorting and filtering options. [Aaron Giles & John Butler]
• Added the ability to select fonts, sizes, and styles for the main list. [Aaron Giles & John Butler]
• Fixed a bug that caused the RAVE plugin to not work properly on a second monitor. [John Butler]
• Sped up a number of operations, including auditing and reports. [Aaron Giles]
• Added a feature to not display screenshots of the parent if the clone's screenshot wasn't found. [John Butler]

11:49 PM - Snes9x Windows: As Promised - Jandar
Due to some FTP problems, the new version of the Windows port of Snes9x has been released a day later than planned, but released nonetheless. It can now be found on the SNES emulators page.

11:43 PM - NESten Release - Jandar
A new beta of the NES emulator NESten has been released, and I've added it to the NES emulators page. Here's what's new:

• Added Autofire. (For you lazy guys... YOU KNOW WHO I MEAN :)
• 8bpp static palette fullscreen speedup.
• General speedup. (But not as much as certain people want...)
• Cheat Searcher (you cheaters!)
• Core bugs fixed. (OOps)

2:18 PM - Free Speach, Emulation, and Stupidity - Neil_
Lately, there's been a lot of fuss over the emulator known as "RAPE: Rather a Pokemon Emulator." Several sites have refused to post any news about it, in a futile attempt to force the emulator author to change the name. I for one find this completly disgusting. No, not the name, the little war people are creating to kill the emulator's name. No one had a problem with Nesticle, it's little testicle icon, or mascot Shit Man (present in all versions but x.xx). No one had a problem with NiNcest, the N64 emulator even though the readme and about box stated "Get sis or get out". What's the big deal with R.A.P.E.? "It offends people." Well, guess what? I'm offended by N64 warez kiddies. I'm offended by every single next gen console emulator. Maybe we should boycott all of them! Hell, why stop there! Lets ban CGB emulation too. The fact that people don't buy CGB games but instead just play the roms offends me. You know what? I'm sure Nintendo is offended by all Nintendo emulation. Maybe we should try not to offend them! I've got news for you people. Some aspect of emulation is going to piss someone off. Could be a company, could be a specific person, could be a group of people. Emulation is not mainstream. Emulation need not bow to political correctness. Emulation FOREVER. Free Speech FOREVER. Political Correctness NEVER. Consider this my rant for the week.

12:07 PM - Thingy v.13 released! - Neil_
While I was gone, this bit of news was emailed to me by the author, ZackMan. Here's what's new:

• The new version has completed double-byte line and section breaks. Please note that I will stop updating thingy32 for quite some time. I am not sure when I'll resume it; probably when I get some ideas to upgrade it and get interested in it again.

• Chaos World hits 40%! Yup, there's a nice little animated gif to prove it. YAY. Here's a nice little message from the team, and AGTP's homepage.
• Here's some more DoE2 screenshots showing more of the great work Destiny Translations have been pumping out lately
• Vilgust SNES Translation news:Thanks to The Gun we now have unlimited space for text so we are going to go back in and overhaul the portions of the game that seem a little flat due to space. Mostly townie talk but there is a little main story dialogue that could probably use a bit of touching up.
• Major WakdHacks Revalations:I am releasing a beta of my hacking program.. It's on the utilities page under Hex - Edit beta.. It's neat.. The read me is inside.. This was released to get suggestions for better things and to see what newbies and experienced hackers want to see. NOTE please read the readme =p. Let me know here. Thanks.. now on another note, we are gonna release a beta patch of the Fuzzical fighters here pretty soon, I'm doing some small code modifications and having the script inserted.. Look for it soon.. We have decided "NOT" to release a beta patch of WPJ, instead it will be realeased when done.. [Bongo`]
  I'll refrain from adding it to the utilities page until a "full release" version is put out. ;)
  WakdHacks

1:32 PM - Raine Status Report - Jandar
The Raine page has been updated with the following news:
- I'm very happy to be able to play Armed Police Batrider! This is an amazing vertical shooter from Raizing. This game was released in 1998, and has a lot of really nice graphics...
Thanks go to Emulation Sphere for the news.

1:24 PM - Hu-Go! Releases - Jandar
Both the DOS and Linux versions of the TG-16 emulator Hu-Go have been updated to version 1.07. Thanks to Emucamp for the news. The author posted the following information about the recent release:

• I've continued coding Hu-Go! and I'm making a new release today with sound under Linux and begin of Adpcm support e.g. (plus some little improvement in iso and hcd emulation).

1:17 PM - NESten Release (0.6b4) - Jandar
A new version of NESten, an excellent NES emulator for Windows, has been released. The latest version has been added to the NES emulators page. Here's what's new in version 0.6 beta 4:

• Fixed frameskipping
• Added Fast forward key (Press BACKSPACE)
• NESten should now work with NT again (But without sound??)
• Oh. Anyone wanted configfile?
• Wav logging, for those of you who really need it :)
• Added a new Fullscreen mode.
• Minor changes to sound.

9:42 PM - Slight Links Page Change - Jandar
Although this change probably won't effect you visitors very much, I thought I should at least make a small mention of it here. I've finished up a new script to maintain the links page that fixes some bugs we had in the past and makes it much easier. Maybe by the time I'm done the page will know how to update itself =). Until then, we just keep finding better and better ways to bring emulation to you, a little piece at a time.

11:44 AM - Snes9x Progress Report - Jandar
Snes9x is an emulator we havn't heard much of recently. Yesterday, however, an update was posted in the Snes9x Developers Journal that explained the delays and gave the following information on the continuing progress of the emulator:
- I'm currently in the middle of adding cheat code and cheat search dialogs to the Windows port, once that done, I'll make a release. The cheat code entry dialog is done, the cheat search dialog is in progress. After that, its OpenGL support.
- Other things coming up, in no particular order, are 3d card screen rendering, internet netplay support for the Windows port, investigate sound emulation problems, convert more the code to assembler and other random things that I can't think of at the moment.

11:35 AM - RockNES WIP - Jandar
A little bit of information on the progress of the RockNES emulator has been posted on the RockNES homepage. Here's what they have to say about things to come:

• Fixed a lot of minor bugs (like broken mirroring) due the rewrite
• Moved some C stuff to avoid too much "public items", and did some optimizations, cosmetic changes
• A second release should happen this weekend, stay tuned

9:09 AM - Nosefart Release 1.7 - Jandar
A new version of the NSF Winamp plugin (Nosefart) was released at some point yesterday. NSF Players page has it now, and you can find it there. Here's what's new:

• Added simple and scaled average DSP
• Optimized playback thread to hell and back
• Optimizations to sound core
• Fixed problem with unnecessary noise clipping (codebald)

10:27 PM - SD Splatterhouse v2.0 - Neil_
Spinner 8 has released version 2.0 of his SD Splatterhouse translation. The only change is a cool new title screen. YAY for releases.
Spinner 8's page o' stuff
Quick Download
Thanks to Ballz even though he slaiked the link. ;)

4:33 PM - NESten Release - Jandar
NESten version 0.6 beta 3 has been released, and I've added it to the NES emulators page. The following things have been updated:

• Done some changes to Sound. (PLEASE let me know if you like it better now!!!
• Made ROM Loader a lot faster when updating!
• Now should work with DirectX 5.0...
• Mapper9 and 10 should be near perfect now
• Zip file support in ROM Loader

10:48 AM - News Bits - Neil_

• First news bit should be filed under the "How many times have we heard this" catagory. Yes, another Bahamut Lagoon translation. Again, the group running this translation has said that they have figured out the compression scheme and are looking for translators. And, just like every other group who's ever claimed that, they're also asking for help from translators and promising that your work will not be in vain, as they have cracked the compression scheme. This time, the group is YnT. Not to sound overly pesimistic, but I'll believe it when I see it. No, I'm not saying that I don't trust YnT, I just remember the five hundred thousand other Bahamut Lagoon projects, and how each one of them said they understood the compression fully and then all of the sudden died with some message about needing ASM help. To any would be translators: You might want to wait a little bit until they say they've got the entire script dumped just to make sure that they really do have the compression issues worked out.
• This next news bit can be filed under "Oops". Jay and Dinesquick released a cool little ASM hacking utility yesterday, but it was aparently bug ridden. ;) They've cleaned it all up and have a new, bug fixed version up for all you ASM hackers to download and use. Enjoy.

10:04 PM - Pretendo WIP - Airety
From the Pretendo page:
lalala. okay, a real update, albeit is a small one, it still counts. first on the list, if anybody remembers, i mentioned sometime in july that we would be starting our own 6502 core. well, strangely enough, i've re-acquired enough motivation to start working on it again, and it's comming along very nicely. it's written in C, and we expect it to be fast. oh yes, it will also be public domain! you may donwload the sources and stuff like that when it's ready..... hmm, we're making progress on pretendo as well... we added support for a couple more mappers, and changed a bunch of things internally... hopefully we'll be able to release another (faster) WIP version in a couple weeks.

10:02 PM - SPASM dk v.99 beta released! - Neil_
SPASM Development Kit is a full featured SNES ASM studio for performing ASM modifications to SNES roms written by Jay and Dinesquick. No, it won't do jack for you if you don't know ASM. However if you do know ASM and do regular ASM modifications to SNES roms, this thing will save you a lot of time. You can get it here

I'd update the utilities page, but I have a nasty migrane and am going to sleep now. Good night.

8:30 PM - Gens Release (0.14a) - Jandar
A new version of the relatively young Genesis emulator Gens was released recently. The latest version can now be found on the Genesis emulators page.

4:10 AM - Bleep! 1.04 Added :) - Chuwim
I forget this one. Neill Corlett's NSF player. I'm sure you already know about this one. If not, i'm going to tell you. This is Neill Corlett's NSF player , it's a plugin for Winamp, it's has a very easy to use configuration gui, so you can change things like the sampling rate and some other stuff. If you don't have this one.
Go get it!. NSF players

1:53 AM - Thingy32 now uploaded - Chuwim
Yep, i know.... too late. But now you can download it here. I will be updating it. Trust me. (i repeat... too late) heh.
Go get it!. General Utilities

12:46 AM - GBMB too! You need both. - Chuwim
Well not necesarily, but maybe you want to give it a try.GBMB gives you a large (1024 x 1024 tiles max) canvas on which you can draw tiles made by GBTD, which supports any tile size and color GBTD can handle. This can be used for map or level-design. It let's you define your own properties, with which you can manage extra storage for each location of your map. It will even keep track of default property values for each tile, making usage of properties a lot easier. Super-neat utilities, don't you think? Really cool if you want to make your own gameboy game.
Go get it! . Gameboy Utilities

12:05 AM - GBTD to the Gameboy section - Chuwim
Here's one,the Gameboy Tile Designer, this is a very very cool utility. You can design tiles in different sizes, including 8x8, 8x16, 16x16 and 32x32, both in standard Gameboy, as well as colors for the Super Gameboy and Gameboy Color.You can cut and paste tiles in and out of GBTD to other graphical programs, using the standard clipboard functionality under Windows. This means you can put any graphic-format you have inside you tiles.GBTD exports directly to RGBDS Assembly-source, Objectfile ("RGB1"), GBDK C-source, TASM Assembly-source, ISAS Assembly-source and flat binary, in a range of formats; it can also automatically add counters and compress the data, making conversion programs or editing by hand in most cases unneeded.
Go get it!. Gameboy Utilities

12:00 AM - I'm just sad... - Chuwim
Just the day i come to home i see i'm replaced... i feel bad. Anyway, even if i'm not mentioned as a staffer, i will keep uploading utilities. ... haw... i'm just sad..

11:06 PM - New "Article" - Airety
I have ideas. They usually don't happen because I never get around to it because I am not sure if they are worth the time. Well from now on I will share them, and if people feel they are worthwhile, voiced by e-mailing me or by using the message boardSGC will make them a reality.

The first has to do with NESticle Netplay. If you read it, please respond in some way. Even if you say good idea, or that is retarded, I definitely need to hear from you.
Thanks

10:30 PM - New Thingy For Windows! - Vonpleck
Zackman has released a new version of Thingy32.
You can get it at members.xoom.com/JediRJ/zackman/thingy32.htm

9:12 PM - Xmame/Xmess Release - Jandar
The latest source of the Xmame/Xmess project has been released. This puts it at version 0.36b13.1, which is up to date with the other ports of the emulator. The latest source can be found in the Xmame/Xmess section. Thanks to Retrogames for this news.

9:05 PM - Minor MacMAME Release - Jandar
A slightly updated version of MacMAME, the multi-arcade emulator for MacOS, has been released. Version 0.36 beta 13a has been added to the MAME section. Here's what's changed in this release:

• Fixed resolution and depth switching in the ATI plugin, and in MacMAME. [Aaron Giles]
• Added AccessTexture options back to the RAVE driver. [John Butler]
• Fixed Gradius III and Splash video bugs. [Aaron Giles]

9:00 PM - RockNES Release (0.99) - Jandar
A new version of the NES emulator RockNES was released today. The latest version has been added to the NES emulators page. Thanks to Emulation Sphere for the news. I wonder what the RockNES team has in mind as they draw near the fateful 1.0 release..

8:21 PM - News Bits... again? - Neil_

• Lee Chaolang made a rather interesting announcement on the current status of all his projects, some of which are duel projects with Dinesquick, who coincidentally updates his page with a nice picture of test text inserted into Grand Historia and Energy Breaker as well as a comment about the Lee Chaolang announcement.
• Square Translations, despite rumors to the contrary, is alive. They're currently working on Rudora no Hihou and Live a Live. RnH text translation is estimated at about 30% and LaL text translation is estimated at around 100% with only insertion problems remaining to be overcome. They're also working on Treasure Hunter G, however due to an unspecified problem, the project is stalled. Thanks to RPGd for the news.

10:19 AM - News Bits - Neil_

• The Ranma 1/2 Translation Group has canceled their project in light of recent announcements of major progress by other groups. They plan on picking up a new project, but they aren't sure what that will be yet.
• WakdHacks posted screenshots of the VFW routine LordTech implemented in WPJ about 5 days ago, and I saw it then, but aparently didn't post it... or posted it and don't remember. Regardless, it looks pretty cool and deserves a second post if this is indeed the second one (boy am I confused).
• Suicidal Translations again aviods the issue of what exactly they're planning to do soon, but hints at another off line project that will be announced soon.
• And as has become a daily fixture in the News Bits, Dinesquick has released another screenshot and some info on how his current projects are progressing. Most interesting is a little bit on the translation progress of EnergyBreaker and some news on SD Gundam Knight.
• Pelrun is looking for some help from translators in verifying his item/enemy translations for Ranma 1/2. If you know Japanese and care to help, more info is available from the above link.
• And, as a side note, Toma said I suck. =)

10:12 PM - Minor Jnes Update - Jandar
A very minor update of the NES emulator Jnes has been done. Version 0.30a has been added to the NES emulators page. Here's what the author had to say about this minor update:
- revision 0.30a, fixed some NSF banking problems and an overflow problem with raw pcm that caused Jnes to crash in one game.

9:59 PM - Come Back 64 Release (somewhere) - Jandar
Retrogames is reporting that a new version of Come Back 64, the Commodore 64 emulator, has been released for DOS. However, the Come Back 64 page seems to have temporarily vanished off the face of the earth. As soon as I am able to access the site again, I will upload the new version.

11:53 AM - Magic Engine Beta 3 for Mac - Airety
Hmm. . . we didn't have it. So I put info up, and Jandar will upload it later. Here's what's new anyways.

• joystick support; using InputSprocket (beta testers reported mixed results, that may or may not work on your machine)
  
• tiny bug fix in the video code; that should fix the shifted display and the crash problems
  icon support; MagicEngine now attaches an icon to PC Engine ROMs and can be started by simply double clicking on a ROM file
  
• removed '.pce' file extension requirement
  support for hardware blit using DrawSprocket (enabled from the pce.ini file with the 'zoom' option); note that if you machine doesn't support hardware blit this option will slowdown the emulator a lot
  
• CD emulation bug fix; Ys, Far East of Eden II, Emerald Dragon, and perhaps a few other should work using MagicSystem now

9:11 AM - News Bits: Bit sized bytes for byte sized bots. - Neil_

• Surging Aura translation goes open source!?!? That's what it looks like. Unable to find a translator and thus unable to make much progress, Eidolon has released a "developers package" of translation utilities for use in the Surging Aura project. Basicly the only condition he gives them out under is that you stay in constant contact with him and everyone works together on the same project. Interested?
• RPGd is reporting on a new group working on Captian Tsubasa 4. Well, here's a little adendum to that. They have a homepage... sorta. Due to either server overload or some freak of nature, I was unable to connect to it, however the group leader gave me the address, so it's gotta be right. :)
  V3 URL: http://welcome.to/emulatory
  Non V3 URL: http://users2.50megs.com/juggco/

8:04 AM - MacMAME Release - Jandar
MacMAME, the MacOS port of the popular multi-arcade emulator MAME, has been brought, once again, up to speed with the MS-DOS port of the emulator. Version 0.36b13 has been added to the MAME section.

8:02 AM - VisualBoy Release (1.3.1) - Jandar
Yet another new version of VisualBoy, a Gameboy emulator for Windows, has been released. Version 1.3.1 can be found on the Gameboy emulators page.

• Doesn't require DX7.0 for sound anymore
• Faster emulation on slower machines

10:56 AM - NO$MSX Release (v1.2) - Jandar
A brand new version of NO$MSX, the MSX emulator, was released yesterday. Version 1.2 is now available in both DOS and Windows versions. Thus, it can be found on the DOS and Windows emulator pages. Thanks to Emulation Sphere for the news.

10:43 AM - WinEMU Release (C16/Plus4 emulator) - Jandar
A new version of WinEMU, the C16/Plus4 emulator for Windows, has been released. You can download this version here. Also, I have included this emulator on the C64 emulators page despite the fact that it does not emulate the C64. It emulates systems that are in what I consider the same family as the C64, and thus this was (I feel) the best place for it. Thanks, once again, to Emucamp for the news.

10:35 AM - Calypso Release (Beta 11) - Jandar
A new version of the SMS emulator Calypso has been released. The latest release, Beta 011, has been updated on the GG/SMS emulators page. Thanks go to Emucamp for the news.

10:27 AM - NLKE Release (O_o) - Jandar
Here's an emulator we havn't heard much from in a while. NLKE, an SNES emulator that seemed to be very promising at one point, and then sort of dropped off, has been updated recently to version 0.5b. The latest version has been added to the SNES emulators page. This seems to be a very major release. Some huge advances have been made, and some major obsticles overcome. Here's is the complete list of what's changed in this version:

• The number of supported PAR/GG codes has been increase to 10 every one
• The sound mute should be correct now during the pause and going to the GUI
• Added support to save/restore videos during the game, so you can play, and show it later to your friends :-)
• The Nintendo Scope and Mouse are autodetected now, using a internal database. It can be selected from the GUI or from the config file. If you have some game what should support mouse or scope and it isn't detected please send us a mail
• Super FX support has been added. Thanks go to _demo_ and zsknight of zsnes by the Super FX emulator, and to Gary Henderson of snes9x by a very usable wrapper :-)
• GUI Language can be selected from the GUI and the config file, actually only english and spanish are supported. Please if you want support to your language, and you would like help, send us a mail
• Offset per tile has been added to the mode 2, what was necessary to get starfox correctly working, it does work better other games like strike gunner
• The resolution 512x224 and 512x240 is now supported in the mode 5, but it is only supported in 640x480 pc modes. (-gfxmode 3, and -gfxmode 7). So finally seiken3, douky2, smana and more are fully playables
• Interleaced mode has been added to mode 5 (512x448,512x480), what is necessary in some intros (super soccer 94, super family tennis) and in the game rpmracing
• A sound filter included in the sound library Seal, can be now selected from the GUI or config file. It gives a smooth sound in the rain of zelda3, and similar sounds
• A new icono is included with the emulator, thanks go to Jose Luis "El Jose"
• Some bugs has been fixed in the GUI, and new options has been added to has a full control of the emulator without need edit the config file. So you can modify the language or the colors of the gui from a new option, add alternative directory paths and so on
• Added support to savegames done with zsnes, with the extension .zst,.zs0 ... Actually it doesn't support FX savegames. Thanks go to zsknight of zsnes
• Fixed a bug accessing to the DMA RAM, what fixes the graphics in some games (nhl and clayfighter series)
• New command lines has been added, -sound, -spc, -guires x, and more
• Bug fixes here and there. :-)

10:47 PM - Thingy32 v.10 - Neil_
As I made mention of below, a new version of Thingy32, ZackMan's win32 port of Necrosaro's Thingy v.98 has been released. We now have the actual program (if you didn't read the post below, don't ask. long story). =)
Here's what's new:

• cursor positioning bug fixed

10:28 PM - News Bits - Neil_

• Dinesquick has inserted a new font into Energy Breaker, and wants to know your opinion on how it looks.
• News on Rudora no Hihou from WakdHacks: we may have some major font and ASM work done on Rudora no hihou really soon.. including expansion and VWF

9:10 PM - Acorn/RiscOS Emulators - Jandar
The next in our series of emulator sections has been completed. As of now, the Acorn Emulators Section is unvieled. I'd also like to take this opportunity to give a big thanks to Archaic Ruins, who has the only other archive of emulators for Acorn/RiscOS (that I know of). So that is where I got much of the information that went into the creation of this section. RiscOS users (wherever you are) rejoice.

8:47 PM - Come Back 64 DOS Release - Jandar
The Commodore 64 emulator Come Back 64 has been updated. Version 0.9C was released recently, and was followed a short time later by version 0.9D, which fixed bugs in the sprite draw method. Version 0.9C contains the major changes, and the author said the following about it:
Major fixes include fixes with the sprite code (fixes games like Detective and Mayhem), the Sound Blaster volume is also fixed. There are also cosmetic changes and INTERLACE mode is now off by default.
The latest version has been added to the C64 emulators page.

7:22 PM - Impact Release - Jandar
Many people have been in great anticipation of the release of the multi-arcade emulator by the name of Impact. At long last, the first public release of the emulator has come. It's only a beta release, and you may have to expect some problems with it. The site also reported that "since it's a Beta you should expect some glitches and other problems. Crashes might also occure but nothing serious." Download Release 1 either here or from the Impact Section.

5:06 PM - Online MSX Emulator - Jandar
M.E.P. has posted Java based MSX emulators for many different games. This allows you to play the games online without downloading an emulator for it: the emulator is the java applet. I've tried a few of them, and they work very well.

1:35 PM - ZD-SPC 2.4 Released - Jandar
Nitro has released a new version of his SPC player, ZD-SPC, and you can find the latest version on the SPC Utilities page. The following is a list of changes in version 2.4:

• Fixed a bug for loading .zdr's (compressed spc's) was fixed
• Fixed another bug for loading spc's and zdr's in another folder fixed
• Fixed a bug for saving spc's
• Maybe fixed a rare IE problem. It will erase the reg entries for the plugin when uninstalled

9:10 AM - News Bits - Neil_
Good morning emulation community! Welcome to the first full week of the new year. I've only got two news bits to fill you all in on, but they're both rather interesting. ;)

• Some rather impressive news on the Ranma 1/2 RPG translation front. Pelrun has, out of seemingly nowhere, come forward with a rather impressive looking array of screenshots. As you may or may not know, there are two other groups working on this project currently. One can be found here, and to the best of my knowledge, the other group does not have a web page currently. Lets all hope this doesn't end up like every other project that's had multiple groups working on it ends up.
• Dinesquick's page has been updated with a screenshot of a side effect of the two line item name code he created yesterday. Lets hope he can find a quick and easy solution. ^_^

6:29 PM - Save State Editors - Jandar
A little something I whipped up for the new year, and the addition that Airety mentioned earlier today, is a set of Save State editors that I have added to the utilities here on SGC. It's a bit of a new years gift.

5:40 PM - GalEMU Release - Jandar
The first release of GalEMU in the year 2000 has come. Both the DOS and Windows ports have been updated and they have been added to the DOS multi-arcade emulators page and Windows multi-arcade emulators page respectively.

5:31 PM - News Bits - Neil_

• Dinesquick has put up a picture of some window expansion he has done for Energy Breaker. It's uber l33t if you ask me. Gawk at it here.
• A new version of Thingy32 was released, but no copy of it is available anywhere at the moment. ;) How does that happen? Well there is no thingy32 homepage, and it gets distributed to a few site owners via email.. the SGC isn't on that list. ;) No, no other site has it up yet... ah well, the burden of being the first to notice news.

2:47 PM - New MESS Out - Airety
Not uploaded, but Yandar will do it soon.
I have no idea when he will do it, but it should be soon enough. I also have no idea whats new other than a new MSX driver was added.

I think we have a suprise for you soon, I might just introduce it now since Yandar isn't around.

11:49 AM - DoE2 Screen =) - Neil_
Yaya. Another cool screen from the translation project that's looking better and better each day. Yeah, I know I missed it in my news bits, but I'm sorta out of it this morning. ;)
Screen

10:18 AM - DarcNES v.9A0101 - Neil_
A new DarcNES was released this morning at 1 after midnight. =) Here's what's new:

20000101:
• A new release.
• Added a keypad emulation interface to the XWindows UI layer.
• Added keypad emulation to the CV driver.
• Started adding Apple ][ emulation.
• Cleaned up some stuff in snd.h.
• This release breaks all targets other than XWindows (and I'm in no position to fix them).

9:56 AM - Visual Boy v1.3 - Airety
The first emulator of the New Year is Visual Boy, please mark that down somewhere.

What's New

• Fixes in HDMA, SGB and compatibility problems
  
• Sound is added
  
• ROMs can be played directly from ZIP files
  
• Added .CGB as accepted extension for ROMs

9:42 AM - Hmmm. . . - Airety
Right now the counter reads 100147. . . even though when I left last night we had just hit 96000 or so. Jandar claims he didn't tamper with the counter.

So I am left to thank Neil_ for his translations wars article. . . and I can't be lazy.

I am traumatized. I was almost sure it wouldn't happen, but it did. So as of now, I can't be lazy.

9:14 AM - News Bits 2000 - Neil_
Happy new year! Contrary to popular opinion, it's not a new millenimumumum. so don't go there, k? :P I hope you had more fun yesterday than I did.

• Toma now has a little retro look for his page, it looks a lot like it used to, although a bit cleaner IMO. Or it could be I'm just on crack or something...
• WakdHacks has decided to make my news bits posting dificult and now will list the small project news I love so much on seperate project pages rather than the main page. Major group news will still be listed on the main page. I don't know why any of you would need to know that, but I felt like complaining, and since my title as listed at the bottom of the page is Granbanian royalty, I suppose I'm allowed to. ^_^
• Last but not least, InVerse of Suicidal Translation has announced that there will be two big announcements shortly. What they are is left up to speculation. YAY

3:07 AM - Moment of truth (mark 2) - Jandar
Is the news script _now_ y2k compliant?
And happy new year everybody!

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