23:07 - Phantasy Star Release! - Tempest
Gideon Zhi, numero uno man of AGTP, has released another 100% patch! This time, it is for Phantasy Star Adventure for Game Gear. I highly encourage you to check this one out, being part of the excellent PS series. The patch can be found here.

14:29 - An Update - Jandar
Please excuse our dust and our dullness. The SGC is currently undergoing major alterations and movements, and the extent of these changes presently escapes even me. There are plenty of dreams for this site, at least one of which many people are well aware, others of which staff members of the site are aware, and perhaps even some that will be startling to everybody involved. Please bear with us during this period of instability as we try to get the ball rolling again.

4:16 - New ZSNES! - SirYoink
Version 1.28b of ZSNES is out. You can get the windows port here or go to zsnes.com for the DOS release. This release fixes SA-1 emulation bugs in version 1.28, which was just released.

22:19 - It is Finished. - Tempest
After a long period of hacking, translating, and beta testing, Bongo` of Stealth Translations has released the 100% patch for Gulliver Boy, an action RPG for the SFC. The link is to download the patch directly from Stealth's website because our translations archive is currently down for maintenance. Sorry if this causes any inconveniences. Now go play!

23:58 - WinUAE Release - Jandar
I'm slightly behind on this one, but a new version of WinUAE, a Windows based Amiga emulator, has been released. Like the DBOY release below, you can currently find the emulator on the WinUAE Homepage. The download will soon be available in our Amiga emulators section.

• FIXED: Stupid shift-key issue (me)
• FIXED: Should be back to 50Hz at A500 speed emulation, so audio latency should be reduced or non-existant. (me)
• FIXED: Graphics-updates may work now on Voodoo cards (Toni, me)
• FIXED: Updated file-version info in WinUAE.exe resource. (Georg)
• FIXED: Bug with version-number checking and GUI DLLs (Georg)

23:54 - DBOY Release - Jandar
A new version of DBOY, a Gameboy emulator for DOS, has been released. Version 0.75a is now available, can for the moment you can download it from the DBOY homepage. I will be placing this version within our Gameboy emulators section as soon as possible. I'm not sure what has been updated in this release, but if you can read Japanese I am certain that the DBOY site has the information upon it.

16:05 - Dejap News - Patrick Higgins
There has been some progress on successfully emulating Star Ocean and Far East of Eden Zero! It seems that Dejap Translations have been extracting the graphics from the roms and decrypting them seperatly, so you can download the graphic packs for use with ZSNES when they are done! Star Ocean is estimated to be 20% decrypted and Far East of Eden Zero is completely extracted and categorized, but not optimized. Dejap intends to release two graphics packs for Far East of Eden Zero a week (41 packs total). These graphics packs will allow Far East of Eden Zero to be fully playable in ZSNES (DOS) and soon in ZSNES (WIN) once RTP support is fully operational. English translations for both Star Ocean and Far East of Eden Zero are already underway. Anusp of J2e Translations has begun hacking Far East of Eden Zero and Dejap will mostly likely join him and work on the project together. Byuu has started some assembly hacking on the Star Ocean ROM. So far he has coded a variable width font routine and a font editor. Bongo` has agreed to help decompress the dialog to extract the script. This is very promising news for an english Star Ocean translation.

In other Dejap news, the Dragon Quest V translation is still nearing completion, but it seems like we won't see a full english translation of this game for a long time. Loads of ASM work has yet to be done and it is going through extensive testing as many nasty and hard to fix bugs have been found. Then they will begin the tedious proccess known as script formatting.

There will also be an upcoming patch for Tales of Phantasia which will fix some typos and bugs. Sometime in the future we might see (actually hear) english voices in the game if they choose to go that far. A few. The multilingual Tales of Phantasia translations are still being worked on, and some are nearing completion. Stay tuned and thanks to The Whirlpool for this news.

15:09 - NoPrgress Makes Progress!! - Tempest
Exactly six months after his first release, NoPrgress has put out another excellent patch for Dragon Quest VI! This one translates roughly 75% of the game's total dialogue. However, due to the nonlinear nature of the middle parts of the game, some minor texts may have been missed, but all of the main storyline up until the point where the hero has gathered all of the legendary equipment should be in english. What else can I say? Get the patch right here from our file archives and have at it!

23:52 - RockNES DOS Release - Jandar
Version 1.910 of RockNES has been released for DOS and I've added it to our NES Emulators page. Here's what's new in this version:

• Partial rewrite, squashing lots of problems and bugs (too much for listing);
• Fixed a flaw in the MMC3 IRQ timing;
• Fixed VRC6 output (working nicely now, thanks Alexandre);
• Fixed a bug in the PCM channel, plus $4015 sound register;
• Fixed command line parse, thanks to everyone for the feedback;
• Fixed save state feature (may be incompatible sometimes);
• Fixed tons of GUI problems (+internal Help);
• Fixed config file reading (+small changes);
• Added an option (ROM patch) to fetch the byte value from current address;
• Using last Matt Conte's 2A03 (6502) CPU emulator;
• Source fixed to compile with no warnings;
• Cosmetic changes, plus general optmizations.

12:04 - Zsnes Releases - Jandar
Version 1.26 of Zsnes has been released, and I've added it to our page. Of course, Zsnes comes in three flavors now, it's available for DOS, Windows, and Linux, so I've added it to each section in turn. You can download the files directly by clicking the link below:

• MS-DOS
• Windows
• Linux

1:25 - TGEmu - SirYoink
Richard Bannister has released version .1.5 of TGEmu, a Turbo Grafix 16 emulator for the Macintosh. Get it from our TG16 emulators section

15:52 - Bye bye Plasticman's Emulation Zone - LordRed
Well, it looks like yet another ROM site has bit the dust. According to Plasticman, he couldn't get the funds for bandwidth costs and domain name payments. (Sound familiar?) You will be missed Plasticman. But, for now, I found a great site, Vimm's Lair. They have an extensive NES and SNES ROM archive and have a ongoing project where they plan on scanning in every manual for every game they have.Go check it out.

23:03 - R.I.P. Romhacking.com - Tempest
If you haven't been able to access any sites on Romhacking.com lately, it's not because of any temporary server problems. It looks like InVerse has decided to close the site's doors due to a lack of funds to support the domain name payments and bandwidth use. I quote InVerse :

- The domain expired. I can't afford to renew it. It takes over a week to get a reply from EW, so I figure it'd take at least another month to get moved over there. I was asked by the current host to have the site moved off the server by today. The site is currently down. At first, I thought OpenSRS had simply disengaged the domain but it appears that the server is actually down. I stopped ROM hacking and removed all emulation related materials from my hard drive. In accordance, I also deleted the Suicidal Translations site. So, in short, there's no new host and the domain name is expired, so someone else will just have to go buy the domain name once OpenSRS releases it into the wild and then start the site over from scratch if romhacking.com is ever going to be active again.

Source : Whirlpool WWWBoard

16:59 - RockNES News - Jandar
The RockNES homepage has been updated with the following statement:

• We are finishing the works on RockNES, meaning a short beta-test period before a public release. Both DOS/Win32 ports will be updated. Get ready for some surprises...

10:27 - SMS+ .9.5 - SirYoink
Version .9.5 of SMS+ is out. The latest update to this Master System/Game Gear emulator for the Macintosh features minor bugfixes and some new video modes. Get it here.

10:19 - Virtual NES v.14 released - SirYoink
A new version of VirtualNES, a NES emulator for Windows, has been released. The documentation is in Japanese, so I can't really say what's new. The emulator still seems very good. Get it here.

21:58 - Nofrendo 2.0pre1 - Neil Stevens

Nofrendo, a portable NES Emulator, has finally emerged. The Nofrendo 2.0pre1 source is out, and ready to be compiled by Unix NES enthusiasts everywhere. Nofrendo 2 only has temporary web page yet, but there is a description and download available in the NES emulators for Unix section.

22:18 - New Article! - Tempest
Yep, there's a new writing in the Articles Section, and it just happens to be by me, so go read it! The article is about SGC's stance on Next-Gen emulators, and the foundation of the Emulation Scene as a whole. You can view it right here.

12:50 - ZSNES comes to Linux! - SirYoink
The current version of ZSNES has been ported to Linux. It has all the features of the current release of ZSNES for Win9x/DOS. Linux users, get version 1.20 now!

22:43 - News Bits - Tempest

• Dragon Quest fans, rejoice! NoPrgress has updated his site, and he's been busy! Dragon Quest 6 has reached the 60% mark, and he has updated the Adventure Logs in the DQ6 section. He also mentions his hacking work on the Langrisser 2 rom. It appears that he's working on a joint project with Hiryuu Honyaku in an effort to make the rom playable in an emulator other than Genecyst (bleh), and finding the last block of text that contains the untranslated ending sequence. More details to come!
• A new translation group has been founded! Its name is RPG ONE, and they are working on Dragon Quest 1&2 Remix for SFC, and also Dragon Quest 3 Reprise. The hacker for these projects seems to know what he's doing, as he already has preliminary patches out. The patch for Dragon Quest 1&2 translates most of the menus, and some dialog in DQ1. The Dragon Quest 3 patch translates menus for the first few towns, some battle text, and dialog for the first two towns. Check them out!
• Lastly but surely not least, Stealth Translations has been updated with good news about Bongo's two newest projects, FEDA : Emblem of Justice, and Silva Saga 2. The former has had 7 blocks of text dumped from it, and the text is currently being translated. Ditto for Silva Saga 2, which is proceeding quite nicely.

3:01 - ZSNES updated! - SirYoink
As was foretold by the prophet Jandarius, ZSNES had been updated! Version 1.20 is out for Windows and DOS. Super Eagle mode is now faster; I can get a constant 60fps in it now. I don't think Pilotwings works yet, but Mystic Quest works again. Joy. Here's a complete list of what's new: