SNES9x Discontinued Part II Jerremy Koot sent the following e-mail to SNES Emulator Review:
"First let me start with
saying that Snes9X has been the greatest project that I have working on
ever ! It was fun to do and every time I went to #EMU I knew why I was
doing it... But all of this has ended....
"Due to several reasons
Snes9X can't continue... One is a possible claim of Nintendo... But you
probably all think that that's the main reason, it isn't... Another reason
is getting fucked over by other people, this is probably a more important
reason... And then there is one more reason which, due to circumstances
I can't even explain...
"But all in all, I would
like to thank all the users for the great support, I've been reading several
web pages and see that Snes9X is said to be either the best and/or the
most used emulator on the World... This does make me smile from deep down
inside... Seeing that since 5 July 1997 I had 500.000 hits probably proves
that it was/is used a lot, with the latest DOS version getting 14.000 hits
in two days, not even counting the number of times it was downloaded from
other sites, shows how much people loved Snes9X.... So to all the Snes9X
users: THANK
YOU, IT WAS GREAT !
"A small note for all the
developers out there who see a chance in getting the Snes9X source, we
will not give it away ! So don't mail me or Gary about it ! If you want
to do something for the SNES emulation 'scene', then help authors like
zsKnight, _Demo_, Lord Esnes, NLKSnes, etc.
"And to all those emulation
wannabe's, if you think you can program an emulator, just start and see
where it leads, because maybe you'll have your own Snes9X!"
- Jerremy Koot
One of the author's of Snes96,
Snes97 and Snes9X.
Thanks to Zach for the news.
Juno First to Support RType II! Chris Hardy has just announced that he is working on adding support for RType II to his Juno First emulator!
Currently there is no sound and it only runs under 16-bit colors, but from the above screen shot, it looks like Chris has made a lot of progress.
There is no release date as of yet so the author is asking that you NOT send him e-mail about the state of the emulator or when it's going to be released. He's working on it as fast as he can. An announcement will be posted here as soon as it's released.
Looking for PSX Info Programmer Sadruddin Rejeb is developing a Sony Playstation emulator for Linux. He is looking for information on the Playstation's GPU, GTE and also the CP0 control processor. His e-mail address is [email protected].
SNES9x Discontinued SNES9x, probably the best and most popular Super Nintendo emulator has been discontinued. Gary Henderson had decided to resign from the SNES9x team a few days ago mainly as the result of the recent Mr. Grim/ZSNES/SNSES9x controversy:
"I've had enough of the constant battles with other emulators, junk e-mails, abusive e-mails, sick e-mails, e-mails from people who don't bother reading the README file, personal attacks, liars taking credit for things they didn't do, etc., etc."
However, it appears even greater events transcended this resignation.
"...but events have overtaken that and it looks like its the end of Snes9x for me, Jerremy and everyone else. I'll leave it to Jerremy to fill in the details, but I can say that Nintendo are involved."
http://www.emulation.net/snes/snes9x.html
A.G.E. ver 0.3 Released Ivan Mackintos has released version 0.3 of his A.G.E. (Arcade Graphics Editor) ROM utility. This tool allows you to edit graphics of eleven different arcade games such as Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede. This new version adds mouse support.
http://dales.rmplc.co.uk/ivan/age/
Looking for System 16 ver 0.2
and 0.3 Thierry Lescot, the original
author of System 16, no longer has copies of versions 0.2 and 0.3 of his
System 16 emulator. He is looking to complete his collection and get all
version of his emulator back on his harddrive. If you happen to have version
0.2 or 0.3 of System 16, please contact Thierry at:
http://users.skynet.be/sky73910/system16.html
xNES/MacOS ver 0.21 Released! Richard Bannister has just released ver 0.21 of his Macintosh port of xNES. This version is a bugfix release. According to Richard,
"This update has been released to fix the crashing bug while loading certain ROMs, notably Kirby's Adventure, under xNES/MacOS 0.2.0. (Kirby's Adventure still doesn't work, but at least it no longer crashes!)."
Some other bugs have also been fixed since the last release:
Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator News! UAE-Win32/DirectX 0.6.9, Release 12, Public Beta 9 has been released! Here's what's new:
http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~ortmann/uae/
(Note: the server is down as of this writing
but should be back up shortly.)
1.9 Millionth Hit Congratulations to Alan Alford for becoming EMU News Service's 1,900,000 hit since May 23rd:
"At last, I get the recognition that I have so richly undeserved... I was your 1,900,000th hit. Thanks for the great site."
French EMU News Service Mirror Debuts Gandalf has just started a French mirror of EMU News Service. EMU News Service is now available in ten different languages:
The French mirror of the EMU News Service is located at:http://www.mygale.org/~emunews/
Real Nintendo 64 Emulators in the Works? A person by the name of Michael Tedder has announced his intention to develop a Nintendo 64 emulator. Michael claims that is not a "fake piece of trash that simply displays some pretty pictures in a window, or tells you to buy a faster computer. This is the real thing that a majority of the Internet thinks is impossible."
Michael is developing this emulator in C++ intended for the Windows 95 / DirectX platform. According to the author, this project is in the very early stages. He asks that he not be bombarded with e-mails about when he will release it. (Rest assured that if and when a release is made, it will be posted on EMU News Service.)
http://server2.powernet.net/~bpoint/n64emu_right.html
Also, another programmer, Saggy wrote to say that he's working on a Nintendo 64 emulator called Ice CreEm 64:
"This has been into development for 2 months now. I'm just revealing it now. I still need docs on graphics and sound. If you have docs e-mail me at [email protected]."
http://members.tripod.com/~Pelvis31/
PSE ver 0.1.27 Released! Duddie and Rafu have just released a new version of PSEmu, the world's only Sony Playstation emulator:
"There is nothing visible changed but I know that at least one game more is working: RapidReload (PAL) and works almost fine.... just also some games with 3d gfx should now work."
In addition, Duddie has partially resolved the MDEC skipping problem.
http://www.szczecin.top.pl/~duddie/
madNES Author Drops Emulator Roberto Rosario has announced that he is dopping his new madNES emulator:
"I have left madNES, no more development will be done. Thanks go to the few people who helped me with my emulator, If you would like to read the whole story go to madNES page."
http://members.tripod.com/~r_rosario/madnes.htm
PDP 8 Emulator for JavaScript! A programmer by the name of Neal Sample has written a PDP-8 emulator in JavaScript! This was written for a computer science class taught at the University of Wyoming. What's a PDP-8 you ask? The PDP-8 was a minicomputer introduced in 1965 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). At the time, the PDP-8 was a revolutionary machine - costing only $10,000 (a small price back then).
http://plains.uwyo.edu/~nsample/pdp8/main.htm
I did some research and found a picture of a real PDP-8:
http://www.teleport.com/~prp/collect/pdp8.jpg
Finally, how's this for a user interface:
http://www.teleport.com/~prp/collect/pdp8c.jpg
GBMac 0.9.4a7 and NESMac 0.3.6a4 Released! Hideki Naito has released not one, but two emulators today: GBMac (GameBoy emulator) and NESMac (Nintendo Entertainment System emulator).
http://pweb.pa.aix.or.jp/~naito/
Jupiter Ace Emulator ver 1.3 Released! Paul Robson has just released his first update to his ACE32, his Jupiter Ace emulator. Here's what's new:
http://members.aol.com/autismuk/ace/index.htm
EX68 ver 0.13 Released! Version 0.13 of EX68, the only X68000 computer emulator has been released. This new version has improvements to the 68000 emulation (Strider and SX Windows now work perfectly). Joystick support has been added along with other bug fixes.
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/8729/
XNes 0.20 for Linux Released! Chuck Mason has just released his Linux port of XNes. Directly from the official webpage, here's what's new:
Saturnia A Fake A few weeks ago, Opiv Rox came forward to announce his intention to develop a Sega Saturn emulator with several other fellow programmers. His announcement drew lots of attention. SaturnWorld, a popular Sega Saturn site even did an interview with him*. Many people had their suspicions about him from the start (including myself). But there was no real evidence to prove these allegations - until now.
Recently, Opiv Rox posted on his site the following screen shot as 'evidence' of Saturnia's progress:
http://www.sega.com/products/productdb/screenshots/pc/pcvfigscr3.gif
Please note that everything's exactly the same - the characters (Rage and Wolf), the move, the clouds in the background and even the exact time on the clock.
When I confronted Opiv Rox about this, he confessed and removed the Saturnia homepage.
"Saturnia is a fake! We were going to make a real one but we didn't have enough time. We did start making the Saturnia but then I asked my girlfriend to marry me and then after that I didn't have much time on the Saturnia. And for the reason, I couldn't just say to people I'm stopping the emulator. Everyone was soooooo excited about this emu project."
* One final note: SaturnWorld's interview sparked some negative feedback on the part of Saturn owners against emulation.
Mac XNes ver 0.20 Released! Richard Bannister has just released version 0.20 of his MacOS port of Nicolas Hammel's XNes emulator. It supports all the advances made in the DOS original plus these Mac-specific features:
SNES9x Mac 0.24b Released! John Stiles has released a new version of his SNES9x port for the Macintosh. Emulation.net is reporting that "this is actually a pretty major upgrade. Several new options and patches have been added that allow SNES9X to be compatible with many more titles."
http://www.emulation.net/snes/
XNes ver 0.20 Released! Nicolas Hammel has released ver 0.24 of his Nintendo Entertainment System emulator. Here's what's new:
Looking for Virtual Boy Information Programmer Jason Sperske is looking to develop a new Virtual Boy emulator:
"I'm looking for everyone who knows or wants to know how to program an emulator. This will be a very open project, source code will be published. I'm looking to make a DOS port first but it will go where ever the members want it to go. Support for stereo glasses and such will be down the line. If your interested then please e-mail me at [email protected]."
Jason is also looking for technical
data. If you have any sort of information on the Virtual Boy, please send
it to Emulation Programmer's
Resource so that it can be made available for any programmer wishing
to develop a Nintendo Virtual Boy emulator.
SNES9x 0.24 for Windows 95 Released! The SNES9x development team have just released the Windows 95 port of SNES9x! This release incorporates all the changes present in the other ports. The SNES9x homepage has been updated:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/jkoot/
Thanks to Ashtoreth for the e-mail.
Translation News Christopher Kim has updated his Front Mission Translation Patch. The new version is 0.3:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/9685/index.html
Also, Translation Corporation has released a new patch today for Final Fantasy 3. Here's what's new:
Nintendo Wins Battle Against Game Copying Devices Next Generation is reporting that Nintendo has reached a settlement with Game City. Game City was selling ROM image copying devices called Doctor V64 and Game Doctor. As part of the settlement, Game City agreed to a $100,000 fine as well as the permanent end to all sales and distribution of Doctor V64 and Game Doctor. The lawsuit was filed in May on the grounds that Game City was violating Nintendo's copyrights.
http://www.next-generation.com/news/102497i.chtml
New Atari 800 Emulator Debuts! Programmers Joseph and Mike Fenton have just released their new Atari 800 emulator for the Macintosh. They call it the Weightless Atari Computer Keepsake Emulator, or Wacke for short. It supports sound but it is shareware. Full screen mode is available only in the registered version.
http://www.emulation.net/atari800/
XZX 2.2.0 - ZX Spectrum Emulator for UNIX/X11! Erik Kunze has just released ver 2.2.0 Beta 1 of XZX, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for UNIX. There are lots of changes in this release; to see them all, just click here.
http://www.philosys.de/~kunze/xzx/
Interview With Jerremy Koot of SNES9X! As promised yesterday, here is the interview with Jerremy Koot, co-author of SNES9x. Thus far, Jerremy has been fairly quiet about the SNES9x vs ZSNES controversy. AFAIK, this is his first public statement about it. Again, thanks go out to Mike Gregerson for conducting this interview.
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Thierry Lescot Leaves System 16 System 16 creator, Thierry Lescot has left the System 16 emulation project. Here's the announcement he posted on his page:
"I leave the System 16 Arcade Emulator project for two reasons. The first one ... [is that] ... I'm too busy to spend hours programming the emulator ... and 2nd reason, I receive a lot of stupid and aggressive mails in return"
Thierry then posted one of those e-mails:
"i'm very ungry because you
are a fuckin idiot.
you have much to learn before
publish this games.
chinga a tu madre, cabron
hacete pirovar.
putaso!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE MASK ([email protected])"
There is some good news in this. System 16 has not been canceled. Co-author Li Nih Hwo will continue the project and Outrun support has not been dropped.
http://users.skynet.be/sky73910/system16_whatsnew.html
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