Thursday, November 29, 2001

	Wednesday, November 28, 2001

• Three (Asia) boards arrive: Marvel Super Heroes (Asia Grey), Street Fighter Zero 2 (Asia Grey) and Super Gem Fighter (Asia Grey) have all arrived to CPS2Shock, I updated our Game List with this awesome new info. - cyrussd

	Tuesday, November 27, 2001

• Dungeons & Dragons 1 (Hispanic Orange): Yet another board is on it's way to CPS2Shock, I updated our Game List with this new info. - cyrussd • WinKawaks v1.38: A quick little update adding support for the newly released Metal Slug 3, here's a complete list of whats new: Added Metal Slug 3 (non encrypted P) Added Metal Slug 3 (non encrypted P, decrypted C) New language packs : Hebrew, Russian, Swedish, Greek You can get it on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Sunday, November 25, 2001

• WinKawaks v1.37c: Another bugfix update, check out whats new this time around: Added more Language packs, and fixed a couple Fixed Japanese text in Garou (Grant cinematic) Fixed the most debated Close C attacks in Garou You can get this newer version on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Saturday, November 24, 2001

• WinKawaks v1.37b: A quick bugfix update for today's earlier release, here's whats new: Hopefully fixed bug introduced in 1.37 which caused blinking borders in fullscreen Added Japanese, Catalan, Polish, Chinese (simplified) language packs. You can get this newer version on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • WinKawaks v1.37: Finally, a non-proto version of Garou is playable Here's what else is new: Added Garou: Mark of the Wolves (this is the retail, non prototype game) Added Garou: Mark of the Wolves (decrypted C) (same game as above, with decrypted GFX roms) Added The King of Fighters 2000 (encrypted) (this is the retail, non prototype game) The old "The King of Fighters 2000" set is now named "The King of Fighters 2000 (fully decrypted)" Direct Draw rewrite: Kawaks should run fine with DirectX 5 now (that means no more DDRAW.DLL error) Added a "Multitask friendly" switch (Misc menu) for those who think 1.35 was faster than 1.36 Language pack support. Now you can have Kawaks in your mother tongue Added a hack to prevent crash while loading in kof2000n for those who still have the bad M1 rom Fixed columns width in Shot Factory Added many tracklists, courtesy of DarkCloud It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Tuesday, November 20, 2001

• Darkstalkers (Asia) arrived, 3 more sent: CPS2Shock has finally received this board, and not only that, but Asia versions of Marvel Super Heroes, Street Fighter Zero 2 and Super Gem Fighter are on the way now too. I updated our Game List with this great new info. - cyrussd

	Sunday, November 18, 2001

• New CPS2 DATs: Logiqx has released updated versions of his DATs for ROMCenter and ClrMamePro, adding support for Wednesdays XORs, a few new ROM dumps, along with a few minor ROM name corrections. They are both available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • FinalBurn Alpha v0.220: A minor bugfix update today for one of my favorite emu's Here's what's new: Fixed cawing & clones buildings gfx error. Fixed repeating sounds. Fixed sound crashing in DDTOD & other games. Changed keys for volume up and down. Fixed aspect ratio for vertical games Added the third button to the mtwins driver. fixed crash bugs in cawingj, knightsj, qadj, striderj, varthj & varthu. You can get it from our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Nebula v1.94b: Alot of nice little bugfixes and updates in this version, check out what's new: NEOGEO Changed kof2000 romset names to kof2000.zip and kof2000n.zip. Fixed console mode for nitd and kof2000 Added support for decrypted C romsets Fixed kof99 and kof99d graphics CPS2 Fixed a Directsound 3D bug that was causing strange problems (I forgot to add an EMMS opcode at the end of the MMX code) GENERAL Slowdowns while connected to internet or using other audio programs in background *should* be mostly fixed now. Added an option in Nebula.ini to show the sound codes stack, useful to find codes for Force Feedback. You can get it from our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Friday, November 16, 2001

• ClrMamePro v2.32a: One bug fix and alot of updates and new stuff in this version, check out what's new: fixed rare rebuilder-skips-source-files issue zipcache controls are back It can increase the zipping speed ...depends on the values. Check out what's the best value for you. updated zlib core modified zips get a set archive bit results will only be shown when 'add/show statistics' is enabled. several changes to the scanresults window (editable entries, scanresults statusbar will be cleaned when no set is active, etc.. only really missing bios files are listed (not the complete list of biosfiles) missing bios roms are now listed as 'missing bios rom' progesswindow while running binaries is a "topmost" windows now some minor gui changes funny...ClrMamePro works fine with MAME32 You can get it from our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Thursday, November 15, 2001

• Introducing Terminal_Vertex: I wanna take a moment to welcome this kewl kid who's been doing random stuff for me behind the scenes to our team, with his latest contribution being our awesome new banner After going thru over 50 different ones, we finally decided on this one (I'm such a picky bastard Also, since he will continue to help out around here, I have decided to add his contact info to our About page under members. - cyrussd • FinalBurn Alpha v0.210: This version was released yesterday, but was unavailable due to server probs at the FinalBurn Alpha website. It's up now though, so you can enjoy the new drivers and cheats for yesterday's XOR releases It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Palom's CPS2mame Cheats: This awesome collection of CPS2Mame cheats has been updated for yesterday's XOR releases. You can get em on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Stingray v0.1.7: This nice little CPS2Mame frontend has also been updated to support yesterday's XOR releases. You can get it as well from our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Wednesday, November 14, 2001

• Five new XOR's: Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (Euro 940412), Street Fighter Zero 3 (Asia 980701), Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (Asia 970519), X-Men: Children of the Atom (Euro 950105) and X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (Euro 960910) have all been released thanx to CPS2Shock. You can get em on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • WinKawaks v1.36: Mr. K has updated his emu to support today's new XOR releases, along with a little bugfix that should fix some jerkiness. He would appreciate feedback as to if this fix speeds up or slows down emulation. With that said, here's what's new: Added Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (Euro 940412) Added Street Fighter Zero 3 (Asia 980701) Added Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (Asia 970519) Added X-Men: Children of the Atom (Euro 950105) Added X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (Euro 960910) Added The King of Fighters 2000 (encrypted C) Added trackball emulation for The Irritating Maze Fixed 257-m1.bin merge info for kof2000/kof2000n Fixed a last bug in the Romcenter DAT generation. Found a bug in the sound sync code. May fix some jerkiness for some people. Included some code to try to make Kawaks less CPU intensive and more multitask friendly Changed Step frame from Space to Shift+Space Added some keyboard shortcuts to modify cheats. Fixed the puzzle game in Three Wonders (CPS1) Fixed macros for NeoGeo games Changed Redefine keys dialog box so it shows macro text next to the macro key New Shot factory (Tools menu). Works very nicely with NeoGeo games It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • FinalBurn Alpha v0.200: Woo hoo, FB does raster effects baby!!! This is the most dramatic update for FinalBurn yet, and not the last either Here's the complete HUGE list of what's new in this version: Re-added T key. Fixed sound stop when you select menu. Fixed slammast input players 3/4. Fixed captcomm input player 4. Fixed forgottn analogic input. FBA version in About dialog is dynamically updated. Show volume value. Added Pang! 3 working driver. Fixed the menu to disable a few options during netplay. Added sprite masking. Added small sprite fix. Added BgHi. (thanks ElSemi) Added scroll limits. Added new load dialog. Ported FBA to Cygwin/MinGW. Added new stretch options. Added switch to use arcade resolution for full-screen mode. Added support for beam-synchronized interrupts. Optimized sprite masking. Numerous small fixes. Added (and fixed) new sound interpolation routines by ComaC. Added command line parsing. Added automatic generation of the driver list & gamelist.txt. Fixed the dip switch engine so it works with the sega games. Fixed CpsFsStopOpposite so it won't stop 3kick and 3punch. Added fix to cpst.cpp by TRAC of the SNEeSe Emulator to fix a sprite clipping bug on CPS games. Alphabetically listed the drivers (so the Kaillera game list doesn't screw up). Fixed batcir 4 player fix, so it actually works. Updated some stuff in the fbcheat.dat file. Fixed the default controllers so they are set to different devices. Removed the 'flip monitor as standard for XMvSF in netplay' fix as it's no longer needed. Re-arranged the panel in netplay a little so it's a little more compact. Updated the CpsFsStopOpposite function with lots of new input ports and updated a few CPS-2 drivers to use it. Updated most CPS drivers so that the correct sound codes are blocked when the user selects that option. Added previews snapshots (PNG format) to the load menu. It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • CPS2mame v2.560: Raz's version of Mame has been updated with support for today's new releases. You can get it on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Nebula Game DATs: These have also been updated to add support for today's new releases. You can get these as well on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Monday, November 12, 2001

• Nebula v1.94: I was out with my girl this weekend and missed this update, but just incase it passed you by too here's a look at what's new in this version: NEOGEO CD: Fixed NeoGeo CD game always reported as missing (Red) Fixed some loading screens that caused emulation crash Fixed ISO+MP3 crashes Fixed kof99 crashing NEOGEO: Added King of Fighters 2000 (decrypted set) Removed Metal Slug 3 from the gamelist Added 512 Kb S rom support Changed the gfx decryption method, it should be faster and require less memory If there is not enough memory to perform the decryption, games will run with encrypted graphics CPS2: Fixed 4 point interpolation equation that was causing some sound artifacts in high pitched sounds. Added the new QSound code to the Directsound 3D renderer Slightly faster Z80+QSound emulation by removing some unneeded FP operations. Fixed Directsound 2d Narrow mode always being Mono, now it’s Stereo. CPS1: Fixed Nemo (Japan) always appearing in the gamelist. GENERAL Added Hotkeys documentation that was missing in latest releases. It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Tuesday, November 6, 2001

• ClrMamePro v2.31a: This great ROM management utility has been updated again, take a look at what's new: fixed some import issues with weird pathnames fixed sysdefaultpaths window crash last sysdefpaths will be remembered now warnings window can't be closed with ESC anymore some more profiler index checks It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Monday, November 5, 2001

• WinKawaks v1.35: Oh my God, KOF2000 is emulated!!! Not only that, but a kewl new decrypted ROM dumping feature has been added too! Take a look at what's new: Added The King of Fighters 2000 Added Ganryu (decrypted C) Added Nightmare in the Dark (decrypted C) Added Strikers 1945+ (decrypted C) Added Prehistoric Isle 2 (decrypted C) Added feature to save decrypted Cs from encrypted games. Enable "Enable save decrypted Cs after loading" in the Tools menu before loading an encrypted NeoGeo game. Support for the new WinJammer S1 rom Rewrote audit. It's now a lot more accurate It can now detect roms with a bad name, a bad crc, or that are missing; and reports correct rom sizes Rewrote Romcenter dat generator. Should be 100% perfect now New ClrMAMEPro dat generator. Changed it so the Load dialog box filters don't act on Audit or DAT generation anymore Changed 'Use HotRod configuration' map things more cleverly for NeoGeo games Tidied the menus a bit You can get it on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Saturday, November 3, 2001

• WinKawaks v1.34: Yeah baby, support has been added for the newly discovered NeoGeo algo, which means 4 new NeoGeo games Here's what else is new: Added Ganryu Added Nightmare in the Dark Added Strikers 1945+ Added Prehistoric Isle 2 Alpha Mission 2 romset has changed to match the latest MAME Changed The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle so it uses the real encrypted gfx roms. This is the standard MAME set, with encrypted roms, encrypted Ps, no S1, the standard Vs This has the inconvenient of making load times a LOT longer for people who have 128mb of RAM or less, so I added a new subset of kof99: "The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle (full decrypted)" (kof99nd.zip) which is exactly the same game, but uses different roms, requires significantly less ram, and loads really faster. It uses : kf99p_c*.rom from the prototype (this makes NO difference game wise compared to using the real encrypted roms) kf99_s1d.rom which was released some time ago kof99_v*.rom and kof99_m1.rom from kof99.zip kf99n_p1.rom and kf99n_p2.rom from the new kof99n.zip from MAME 0.56 That gives a simple standard NeoGeo set, gamewise identical to the big encrypted one, that could even run in NeoRAGE X Fixed a bug where tick marks in the menus where cleared by changing the video memory settings from the menu or on the first launch It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Nebula v1.93: The next step ladies and gentlemen in CPS/NeoGeo Emulators is here! Yes folks, along with CPS1/CPS2 and NeoGeo emulation, we now have NeoCD support in this emu!!! Check out what's new: NEOGEO CD: Added support for NeoGeo CD games. You'll need a game CD or a ISO+MP3 image. You'll need the NEOCD.BIN file in a file called NEOCD.ZIP, (512Kb, CRC: df9de490) and the NG-LO.ROM in the NEOGEO.ZIP file. To play a NeoGeo CD game, launch the "Neogeo CD" game that appears in the gamelist. this will start the neogeo cd, press A button to go to the player or start to start the game. To configure CD emulation (CD or ISO image), press ESC and go to "CD options". No savestates or cheats are available for NeoGeo CD. NeoGeo CD emulation has still some bugs. If you get a "Disc I/O Error", exit to the GUI and run the "NeoGeo CD" game again. NEOGEO: Fixed rasters for some games (ridhero, galaxy fight, neo turf masters, top hunter, ddragon) Added Vliner emulation. Check the special button configuration for this game in the controls menu. Added Kof99, Prehistoric Isle 2, Ganryu, Strikers 1945 Plus and Nightmare in the Dark graphics decryption, using MAME's decryption algorithm (that means that some gfx may be wrong as the algorithm may be incomplete) CPS2: Fixed mshvsf VS screen top lines being drawn upside down. Fixed Cheats and region for mshvsf. Added VSAV2 rom data file Rewritten Qsound emulation engine. Written in MMX optimised ASM it's now 3-4 times faster and more accurate. It also has a new interpolation mode that uses 4 points instead of 2. It requires more CPU power, but sounds better. GENERAL: Fixed the usage of parent cheats if a clone has no specific cheat data. Now Region is never taken from the parent cheat, and cheat configuration is stored in the clone dat file. Removed some games from the internal database that caused problems with the new dump names. Fixed some Force Feedback problems Fixed surface memory allocation. Now nebula requires much less VRAM to work. Added separate audio configuration for each system (Qsound, Neogeo and CPS1) You can get it on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Darkstalkers (Asia Grey): Many thanks to Dr MAD for buying this board that is now on the way to CPS2Shock I was the top bidder in a previous auction for this same exact board up until the last few seconds, and now that it's being sent I don't feel so bad that I lost it I updated my Game List with this great new info. - cyrussd • ClrMamePro v2.31: Looks like i'm a little late on this one, but as they say, better late then never Take a look at what's new in this version: optional move of not renamed (still wrongly named) sets to backupfolder profiler last used date/time stamp some documentation updates new/not used datfiles are listed with a possible subpathname improved set name check again removed possible .dat extension for default "save missing" filename no double messages in the warnings window minor gui changes listing set when it's already listed as wrong named cmpro freezes when you access a file which is currently being downloaded closing settings with [x] applies changed settings You can get it on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Goutetsu's Kawaks and Nebula Cheats v6: Hot from my email account are these cheats that i've been eagerly awaiting Check out what's new: Added codes for Vampire Savior 2 (CPS2), Pnickies and Knights of the Round (CPS1) Revision of Vampire Saviour (USA, Japan and Asia versions) They're available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Thursday, November 1, 2001

• Palom's CPS2mame Cheats: This complete set of cheats has been updated to include yesterdays XOR release. You can get it on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Ace v1.7a: A new release today that addresses a few minor bugs, here's whats new: Fixed a bug in tile32 rendering You can now choose arcade/console mode for NeoGeo (neogeoarcade parameter) Corrected Super Sidekicks - now it works You can get the updated version on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Ace v1.7: A nice little update with over a half dozen new games added Here's the list of em: Added Super Dodgeball Added Goal Goal Goal Added Neo Turf Masters Added Shock Troopers Added Super Sidekicks Added Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter Added Vampire Savior 2 It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd