puNES is a NES emulator. Currently the program supports mappers 0, MMC1, UNROM, CNROM, and the sound is available. It uses the SDL libraries and it works on both Linux and Windows.
puNES v0.104 Changelog
Fixed graphical problem with xBRZ filter.
Fixed mappers 50, 90, 156, 178, UNL-KOF97, UNL-VRC7, MMC3 KT-008 PCB.
Fixed possible issue with High DPI monitor.
The shortcuts were not applied and saved correctly. Fixed.
For the general UxROM mapper use a full 8-bit bank select register.
Fixed compilation with QT 5.12 under Windows.
Fixed the management of the zapper that now also correctly manages the X coordinates.
Updated the Russian translation (thx Alter0ne).
Fixed the disappearance of the mouse cursor after two seconds.
Fixed the emulator freezing if pressed "Switch Sides" hotkey.
Added the rewind function that replaces the timeline.
Now it is possible to "rewind" the game. Once the rewind function has
been activated (at any time during the game) it is possible to move
forward and backward in the gameplay one frame at a time or at different
speeds (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x or 64x). You will be able to move
freely in the recording until you press the "play" button, from that
moment all the gameplay memorized after the selected frame will be lost.
In the "general settings" you can select the duration in minutes of the
recordable gameplay (the different options are: disable, 2mins, 5mins,
15mins, 30min, 60mins or unlimited) but keep in mind that the more
minutes you can record the more space on the hard disk will be used.
Virtual GameBoy is a program that emulates the Nintendo GameBoy handheld on your computer. It runs GameBoy, Super GameBoy, and GameBoy Color games on PCs, Macs, PocketPCs, Unix boxes, etc. VGB also helps debugging GameBoy software without using a costly development system.
Virtual GameBoy v5.6 Changelog:
Fixed RTC day of the week calculation (Pokemon games).
melonDS is an open source Nintendo DS(NDS) emulator. melonDS is part of a second wave of DS emulators. There are a few other emulator projects that are part of it, which you might have already heard of. Either way, check them out!
melonDS Features:
* almost-complete 2D graphics
* 3D graphics (software renderer) with texturing, alphablending, lighting
* input: keyboard and joystick, touchscreen
* backup memory
* booting from the BIOS
* resizable video output window, preserving aspect ratio of individual screens
melonDS Changelog:
Arisotura finally stopped being lazy, among other things, so here we go, we present you melonDS 0.7.4.
This release is hardly going to be revolutionary though, but I had to get it out before starting work on the hardware renderer.
The highlight of this release is the upgrade to the online wifi feature. Two main points there:
1. Under direct mode, you can finally choose which network adapter will be used by libpcap. The wifi settings dialog also shows their MAC and IP as to help you ensure you're picking the right adapter.
2. Indirect mode, which, as mentioned before, works without libpcap and on any connection. However, it's in alpha stages and it's a gross hack in general, so you can feel free to try it out, but don't expect miracles.
As usual, direct mode requires libpcap and an ethernet connection, and that you run melonDS with admin/superuser privileges.
Other than that, there are a few little fixes to the SDL audio code. melonDS now only emits sound when running something, so it shouldn't emit obnoxious noises when starting anymore. Also, it no longer crashes if you use WAV microphone input with a file that has multiple channels.
And other little things.
Now, full steam ahead towards 0.8! Or not quite. I also need to finish the redesign for this site, among other things.
Gearboy is a Nintendo Game Boy emulator written in C++. The emulator is focused on readability of source code, but nevertheless it has good compatibility. A lot of effort has gone into this in order to follow OOP and keep it as simple as possible.
Gearboy Features:
GearSystem is a Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator written in C++ that runs on iOS, Raspberry Pi, Mac, Windows and Linux. The main focus of this emulator is readability of source code with very high compatibility.
Features:
- Highly accurate Z80 core.
- Multi-Mapper support: SEGA, Codemasters, and ROM only cartridges.
- External RAM support with save files.
- Automatic region detection: NTSC-JAP, NTSC-USA, PAL-EUR.
- SMS2 only 224 mode support.
- Internal database for rom detection.
- Sound emulation using SDL Audio and Sms_Snd_Emu library.
- Integrated disassembler. It can dump the full disassembled memory to a text file or access it in real time.
- Compressed rom support (ZIP deflate).
- Multi platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi and iOS.
Gearboy is a Nintendo Game Boy emulator written in C++. The emulator is focused on readability of source code, but nevertheless it has good compatibility. A lot of effort has gone into this in order to follow OOP and keep it as simple as possible.
Gearboy Features:
[quote]- Highly accurate CPU emulation, passes cpu_instrs.gb from blargg's tests.
- Accurate instruction and memory timing, passes instr_timing.gb and mem_timing.gb from blargg's tests.
- Memory Bank Controllers (MBC1, MBC2, MBC3 with RTC, MBC5), ROM + RAM and multicart cartridges.
- Accurate LCD controller emulation. Background, window and sprites, with correct timings and priorities including mid-scanline timing.
- Mix frames: Mimics the LCD ghosting effect seen in the original Game Boy.
- Sound emulation using SDL Audio and Gb_Snd_Emu library.
- Game Boy Color support.
- Integrated disassembler. It can dump the full disassembled memory to a text file or access it in real time.
- Saves battery powered RAM cartridges to file.
- Save states.
- Compressed rom support (ZIP deflate).
- Game Genie and GameShark cheat support.
- Multi platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi, iOS and as a libretro core (RetroArch).
PPSSPP is a fast and portable PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux, written in C++.
PPSSPP v1.8.0 Changelog:
* Avoid crash when starting PPSSPP due to bad AMD Vulkan drivers (#11802)
* PowerVR Vulkan display corruption fixed (#11744, #11747)
* Naruto Shippuden 3 hang fixed (#11780)
* Fixes to various lighting bugs (#11567, #11574, #11577)
* Fix control issue in Sonic Rivals and Rock Band (#11878, #11798, #11879)
* Significant performance improvement in Earth Defense Force 2 (#11172)
* Fix "real clock sync" setting (helps with latency for music games - #11813)
* More speed in FF4 effects and other generated curves (#11425)
* Support for resizing Vulkan on Linux (#11451)
* Improved support for GLES on Linux/IoT (#11507, #11537, #11541, #11632, #11746, #11806, #11845)
* Percentage based frameskipping (#11523)
* DXT accuracy improved, fixing thick white line in Gran Turismo sky (#11530)
* Fix Motorstorm freeze on non-Windows (#11618)
* Faster block transfer in some games like Digimon Adventures (#11531, #11553, #11776)
* Blending optimizations and improvements (#11543, #11620)
* Improve D3D11 rendering issues (#11584)
* Change default graphics backend to D3D11 or OpenGL (#11621, #11658)
* Remove some outdated settings (#11665, #11666, #11667)
* Fix remote disc streaming with ipv6 (#11689, #11700)
* Vulkan: Workarounds for some driver bugs for 5xx series Qualcomm GPUs (#11691, #11694)
* Fix some Qt port issues with recent performance improvements (#11720, #11807, #11808)
* UWP Xbox One: fix X/Back button confusion (#11740)
* Fix Formula 1 2006 timing issue (#11767)
* Fixes and workarounds for some vertex range culling bugs that broke a few games (#11785, #11859), and disable it on older GPUs (#11712, #11773, #11787)
* Android: Allow putting PSP storage on custom paths like SD cards (#11812)
* Corrected vocp instruction, fixing models in Artdink games (#11822, #11835)
We had a power supply failure on the main server this morning. The power supply was replaced and the server was up and running within an hour or so. Although the server works fine now we will replace it with newer and more powerful hardware within the next few days, a test migration is progress.
New server hardware will be:
Intel Core i7-7700
64 GB DDR4 RAM
2 x 512 GB NVMe SSD in RAID 1
1 Gbit/s connection
The SSD's should improve performance by quite a bit.
The secondary server which stores automatic daily backups and also host some sites will keep its current hardware (i7-4770, 32 GB RAM, 2 x 2 TB SATA in RAID 0) for now.
