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Multiple System Frontend - SimpleLauncher v2.11.0.5 - Added

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 19 March 2024

As the name implies, SimpleLaunches is a basic frontend that supports the majority of console and arcade emulators. As with most frontends, setup is a bit time consuming but not too difficult.

IBM PC Emulator - MartyPC v0.2.0 - Added

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 18 March 2024

Currently, MartyPC can emulate an original IBM 5150 PC, 5160 XT, or a generic XT clone machine.

DreamShell v4.0.0 - Added

Details: Category: Dreamcast; Published: 18 March 2024

The Dreamshell is the operating system for the Sega Dreamcast based on the KallistiOS kernel. It has a dynamic loadable modular system and interface for creating applications with XML UI and both C/C++ and Lua script on. You can see examples in ready-made applications and modules, drivers for various devices, formats and interfaces. Examples for audio and video decoding, compression, packaging, binding, network, emulation, scripts and more. From hardcore low-level assembler to high-level applications. There are also large subproject is the ISO Loader, which contains emulation of BIOS system calls, CDDA playback and VMU, also it can hooking interrupts for various SDKs and more.

ZX Spectrum Emulator - SpecEmu v3.4 build 050324 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 18 March 2024

What's New:

- Fixed a crash that can happen when saving very large blocks to TAP files.
- Fixed where loading a memory snapshot might not restore the correct 128K display.
- Added some level of protection against broken TZX files.

HP Calculator Emulator - Plus42 v1.1.6 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 18 March 2024

What's New:

Fixed keyboard mapping bug in the equation editor. This bug was caused by the alternate direct command mapping changes in 1.1.5.

ColecoDS v9.4b - Released

Details: Category: Nintendo DS; Published: 18 March 2024

What's New:

9.4b - Einstein RAMDISK now unified in /data/ directory (rather than have one for each directory of .dsk files)
9.4b - Tweaks to the CTC timer engine for Einstein JSW2

Weekly Updates 03-18-24

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 18 March 2024

These are emulators that are updated several times a day to a couple times a week.
Many of these emulators can be updated to the lastest "nightly builds" from within the emulator itself.
I'm posting the latest versions every Monday or Tuesday for those who may be interested.

PlayStation Emulator - Duckstation 03-18-24

Multiple System Emulator - FinalBurn Neo Nightly 03-18-24

PlayStation 2 Emulator - PCSX2 Nightly v1.7.5623

PlayStation Emulator - PCSX-Redux Nightly 03-16-24

Nintendo Switch Emulator - Ryujinx v1.1.1239

PlayStation Vita Emulator - Vita3K Nightly 03-18-24

Xbox 360 Emulator - Xenia (Canary) 03-18-24

Sega Saturn Emulator - Yaba Sanshiro v1.14.5 - Released

Details: Category: Android; Published: 18 March 2024

What's New:

Support for launching from frontends like Daijjisho.

Emulator Bundle - WinDS Pro v2024.03.17 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 18 March 2024

What's New:

New Version of WinDS PRO 03.24.17 with updates to project64, DeSmuMe, melonDS, ares, dolphin, pcsx-redux, duckstation, pcsx2, ppsspp, rpcs3, flycast, xenia, bizhawk.

Cemu Graphic Packs v904 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 18 March 2024

What's New:

[BotW] Add Glowing White to GlowingGuardianColor

Atari 8bit Emulator - Altirra v4.21 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 18 March 2024

What's New:

Features Added
– UI: Added support for more direct file association setting on Windows 11.

Bugs Fixed
– Cassette: Fixed a crash that could occur when loading raw tape audio.
– CPU: Fixed incorrect LDA (zp) and STA (zp) execution in 65C02 mode only.
– Input: Fixed a crosstalk problem between ports 1/2 and 3/4.
– Simulation: 5200 uses floating bus again (Star Raiders fixed).
– UI: Fixed internal BASIC option not being selectable for the XEGS.

Supermodel Frontend - Sega Model 3 UI v1.0.7.2 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 17 March 2024

What's New:

- display the number of Rom files you own.
- Availability is now displayed within the game list.
- Message window no longer appears when determining position and resolution
- If a window goes missing when setting the position and resolution, press the R key on your keyboard and it will return to the main monitor.
- Rows for selected games are no longer visible

Sega Dreamcast Emulator - Flycast v2.3 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 17 March 2024

What's New:

What's New
- Battle Cable support
- SystemSP hopper games: kingyo, manpuku, shateki, magicpop, unomedal, puyomedal, ochaken and westdmrg
- Club Kart card reader support
- Gamepad dead zone and saturation settings
- Switch: touchscreen and joycon rumble support, bug fixes, performance improvements
- HID barcode scanner support for card games (Mushi King, Dinosaur King, Love & Berry)

Fixed Games
- Initial D v2/v3
- Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
- Confidential Mission
- The Maze of the Kings
- Spikers Battle
- NBA Showtime
- NHL 2K2
- Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
- Monkey Ball
- Crackin'DJ 1 and 2
- F355 (Naomi)
- Samurai Shodown VI
- Shenmue
- Test Drive Le Mans
- Sakura Taisen 3
- Death Crimson 2
- Force Five
- NHL 2K2
- Shakatto Tambourine
- Xtreme Sports
- Blue Stinger
- RevolveR
- Kaen Seibo
- Nittere Shiki! Mirai Yosou Studio
- Shakatto Tambourine Arcade

Multiple Emulator Frontend - EmulationStation Desktop Edition v3.0.1 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 16 March 2024

What's New:

Detailed list of changes
- Added support for Android 10
- Removed Yuzu from the switch system
- Added Panda3DS standalone as an alternative emulator for the n3ds system
- (Android) Added support for placing the ES-DE and ROMs directories on mounted USB storage (/mnt/media_rw/)
- (Android) Added support for network mounted storage on the Nvidia Shield Pro (and possibly other devices)
- Added a more informative error message than "HTTP error code 430" when exceeding the daily ScreenScraper quota
- Added the Snes9x 2005 Plus RetroArch core as an alternative emulator for the satellaview, sfc, snes, snesna and sufami systems
- Added the Beetle SuperGrafx RetroArch core as an alternative emulator for the pcengine, pcenginecd, tg16 and tg-cd systems
- Added the Geolith RetroArch core as an alternative emulator for the arcade, mame and neogeo systems
- Added the .neo file extension to the arcade, mame and neogeo systems
- Added the .chd file extension to the sega32x, sega32xjp and sega32xna systems
- (Android) changed from %ROMPROVIDER% to %ROMSAF% for the C64.emu, PCE.emu (pcenginecd and tg-cd), Play! and Saturn.emu emulators
- (Android) Changed the required filename for the Fake-08 RetroArch core from libfake08-arm64.so to fake08_libretro_android.so
- Improved the layout for the miximage generator interface for some unusual display resolutions and aspect ratios
- (Android) Increased the maximum waiting time for the storage mount retry loop from 3 to 4 seconds
- Improved resilience to empty gamelist.xml files (they can now be updated instead of generating an error)
- (Linux and Unix) Made it possible to change the application data directory using the ESDE_APPDATA_DIR environment variable
- (Android) Removed symlink support
- Removed the "v" before the version number from the version printout on application startup and from the main menu
- Updated SDL to 2.30.1 on Android, Windows, macOS and the Linux AppImage builds
- Eliminated some deprecation warnings when building against FFmpeg 6.1 or higher

Bug fixes
- (Android) The supergrafx system had the Beetle SuperGrafx and Beetle PCE RetroArch cores mixed up
- (Windows) The MAME standalone emulator entry for the atari7800 system had the wrong machine type defined
- The Orphaned data cleanup interface didn't display the complete description text at some unusual display resolutions
- (linear-es-de) Creating custom collections named "now-playing" or "completed" could lead to them being unthemed

ColecoDS v9.4 - Released

Details: Category: Nintendo DS; Published: 16 March 2024

What's New:

- Tatung Einstein improvements - more games run more correctly.
- SVI Cassette Load fixes
- Other minor tweaks and cleanup as time permitted.

Supermodel Frontend - Sega Model 3 UI v1.0.7 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 15 March 2024

What's New:

- The resolution collection has been converted to an external file.
- A warning will now appear correctly if the resolution you are trying to adjust is larger than the screen size of the main form.
- You can now change the font size.
- Changed the color of some controls. It may have become difficult to see.
- Delete Write ini button. Written to ini file when app closes.
- Typo
- Changed some snap images.

(MESS) Messinfo.dat v0.263 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 15 March 2024

What's New:

- a5200_cart_slot, a800_cart_slot: Use multibyte.h helpers [AJR].
- aa310.cpp: Configured Acorn R225 with discless bootstrap. Configured Acorn A4 to auto-start !BatMgr. Reduced ROM region size, and mirrored. Removed RISC OS 3.19 from BIOS options, was only available in German A3010. Corrected ROMs in Acorn M4 [Nigel Barnes].
- adam.cpp: Made software list descriptions follow conventions [ArcadeShadow].
- aha2940au: Changed description to 'Adaptec AHA-2940AU SCSI controller'.
- apple2: Add ProDOS filesystem where applicable [AJR].
- apple2e.cpp: Update language card memory map when language card is enabled or disabled. Removed a duplicate variable assignment in Ctrl-Reset handler code [xotmatrix].
- apple3: Clean up drive configuration (and incidentally add ProDOS format) [AJR].
- apricotf.cpp: Overhaul. Correct system clocks and add baud clocks for CTC. Use raw parameters for screen. Use addressable latch device. Add RS232 port. Add speaker sound. Remove device tag macros [AJR].
- arc_ether1_aka25: Use multibyte.h helpers [AJR]. Corrected 16bit RAM access [Nigel Barnes].
- audiowerk2: Changed description to 'Emagic Audiowerk2 Digital Audio Recording'.
- bbc.cpp: Use idiomatic markup in descriptions in 'bbc_rom.xml' [Vas Crabb].
- bbc_1mhzbus_slot: Added The Barry-Box (not working) [Nigel Barnes].
- bbc_m4000: Added key mappings for 3 octaves [Nigel Barnes].
- bbc_tube_a500: Corrected ROMs for A500 2nd Processor, and moved previous set to new A500 (Dual MEMC) 2nd Processor [Nigel Barnes].