Friday, December 28, 2001

	Wednesday, December 26, 2001

• FinalBurn Alpha v0.230: A quick bugfix update for today's earlier release, here's what's changed: This build should fix the drop in performance that has been experienced by people with slow PC's. This was probably caused by new Platform SDK DirectX 8.0 elements. Please let us know if you still experience a drop in performance. Fixed bug with Mercs driver This newer version is available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • FinalBurn Alpha v0.227: A nice update with support for the new XOR releases, along with some other sweet additions Here's a look at what's new: Added starfield emulation. Added support for changing layer-sprite priorities with raster effects. Fixed pgear/armwar glitch. Added hotkeys for savestate slots. Updated the cheat engine so it can use same cheats for multiple games. Added screenshot feature. Added a basic shot factory. F8 to activate. Slightly changed shot factory to include sprite toggle. Updated the fbcheat.dat file with a ton of cheats. Driver changes Fixed controls for mercs & clones. It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Darkstalkers (Euro Blue) date info: CPS2Shock has released the date info for this new board which arrived a few days ago, so I updated our Game List to show this. - cyrussd

	Tuesday, December 25, 2001

• Merry Christmas: It's Christmas day here in California and I wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, just don't drink too much "eggnog" - cyrussd • CPS2 verifiy DATs released: Both the ROMCenter and ClrMamePro DATs have been updated to include the new XOR releases along with a few other changes. You can grab em both from our Downloads page. - cyrussd • WinKawaks v1.40b: A minor little update for yesterday's release that fixes movie support. You can get this newer version on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Monday, December 24, 2001

• 5 new XORs released: Looks like I guessed right, jolly old Raz gave us Rockman 2 (Japan 960708) for a Christmas surprise after all, along with Street Fighter Zero 2 (Asia 960227), Marvel Super Heroes (Asia 951024), Darkstalkers (Asia 940705) and Vampire Savior (Euro 970519) releases as well. You can go grab em all off of our Downloads page. - cyrussd • WinKawaks v1.40: An AWESOME release of my fav emu, including raster emulation, triple buffering and a few nice optimizations Take a long look at what's new: Added Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Asia 940705) Added Marvel Super Heroes (Asia 951024) Added Rockman 2: The Power Fighters (Japan 960708) Added Street Fighter Zero 2 (Asia 960227) Added Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (Euro 970519) Added Metal Slug 3 (encrypted) Added Garou: Mark Of The Wolves - This is a new encrypted set. The older "Garou: Mark Of The Wolves" becomes "Garou: Mark Of The Wolves (alternate set)" Added The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle (nonecrypted P) -This one uses encrypted Cs and non encrypted Ps. It's just here for completeness sake Added The King of Fighters 2000 (nonecrypted P) Same. This one uses encrypted Cs and non encrypted Ps. It's just here for completeness sake Triple buffering. Makes things as smooth as a baby's butt Even if you don't use triple buffering, things should be smoother than before CPS2 rasters emulation. Fast and accurate Improved sound sync a bit in CPS2 games. Is now 100% perfect Record input aka Movie recording/replaying support. Now you can show everyone your 123Hits combo Optimisations to the video rendering for both NeoGeo and Capcom games Kawaks now remembers window zoom level New macro token: ~ which means "hold this for 20 frames" Added a Freeplay setting for NeoGeo games Made it so if no cheat file is available for the current game, the cheat file for the parent is loaded instead Added a menu item to save cheat search matches to a file. Handy when you can't get under 20 matches... Added option to delete emu text when making screenshots Implemented Background color change for NeoGeo games You can now select more than one sprite at once New button in Shot Factory to disable all selected sprites New button in Shot Factory to reenable all selected sprites Added layer enable/disable buttons Fixed: NeoGeo game settings and hiscores aren't lost anymore when reseting the game Fixed some sound issues with Metal Slug 1/2/X Fixed cheats not applying when using Step Frame Fixed savestate bug for CPS1 & NeoGeo when using states saved at a different sound frequency Fixed Kawaks crashing when display was beeing destroyed (starting a fullscreen DOS prompt...) Fixed button 3 not working in some CPS1 games (Mega Twins...) Fixed crash on 1941's Test menu Fixed occasionnal crash on Pang 3 and Quiz Tonosama no Yabou 2 Zenkoku-ba (CPS1 games) Fixed 68000 debugger register modifications Savestate format change to accommodate the changes (rasters...) Old savestates are still 100% compatible though Updated languages packs to reflect changes This new version is available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Nebula v1.95d: Another emulator update adding support for today's new releases, here's a look at what's new: NEOGEO Fixed garou.zip (set 1) (Main set, needs the new 253-sma.bin) Fixed garouo.zip (set 2) (Old set, uses the old 253-smao.bin, parent: garou.zip) Fixed garoud.zip (Decrypted C set, parent: garou.zip) Added MSlug3 (Encrypted set) (needs 256-sma.bin) Fixed kof99p P1 rom CRC. Fixed sound samples loading for games with gaps in the sound roms (kof95 missing tracks) GENERAL Changed some rom names in sync with kawaks and MAME. There are still some small differences, mainly in CPS1 romsets. Fixed romcenter dat generation. Now it includes merge info. Fixed cheat engine parser to allow longer lines to fix problems with the great cheat collection released by Mike Haggar (haggar.emuunlim.com). Added more language packs This new version along with the updated Nebula game DATs are available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • CPS2Mame v2.561: Last but not least, this emulator has been updated as well to support today's new XORs. You can get both it along with Palom's updated CPS2mame Cheats on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Darkstalkers (Euro Blue) arrived: This board has arrived to CPS2Shock, but it's date has not yet been posted. I updated our Game List to reflect it has arrived, and will add date info as soon as it becomes available. - cyrussd

	Tuesday, December 18, 2001

• Darkstalkers (Euro Blue) on the way: Another Darkstalkers board is on the way to CPS2Shock to go alongside the (Asia Grey) one that has already arrived, I'm happy to see that donations are still rollin in I updated our Game List with this info. - cyrussd

	Saturday, December 15, 2001

• Nebula v1.95c: Yet another update for this multiple platform emulator, here's a look at what's new: NEOGEO Added Garou (set 1), note that romset names have changed to match current mame names Fixed sound problems with very short samples. GENERAL More languages added. External font added, with some special chars now available (á,é,ñ,ç, etc...) a font editor is in the work. This new version is available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Two more boards returned to donators: Raz has sent Marvel Vs. Capcom (Asia Grey) and Darkstalkers (Asia Grey) on their way back to their donator. I updated our Game List with this info. Also, has anyone else noticed that Rockman 2 (Japan Green) has been removed from the Currently Wanted Boards section? I wonder if this means the board is secretly on it's way or has already arrived, possibly for a surprise gift from santa - cyrussd

	Friday, December 14, 2001

• Marvel Vs. Capcom (USA Blue) on the way: Yep, you read it right, this awesome fighter is now on it's way to CPS2Shock, and since there was no release this past Wednesday maybe we'll see it as a Christmas XOR I updated our Game List with this info that is sure to put a smile on alot of faces - cyrussd

	Wednesday, December 12, 2001

• ClrMamePro v2.41a: A nice little optimization update, here's a peek at what's changed: fixed save-missing-list bug when using merged sets changed some memory management stuff here and there... may increase the speed here and there fastscan doesn't clear the warnings window anymore major ziproutines source clean up added support for digital-signatures in zipfiles cmpro detects wrong localfileheader-offset in zip-central-dir-entries It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Monday, December 10, 2001

• Vampire Savior (Euro Blue) upped to ABEM: Raz has upped yet another new ROMset to ABEM, go get it before it's flooded off the server - cyrussd

	Saturday, December 8, 2001

• Nebula v1.95b: A minor little bugfix update, here's a look at what's changed: NEOGEO Fixed kof2000 (Not encrypted) that was being decrypted, sorry for the problems. Fixed alpha mission 2 romset to match the latest redump GENERAL Added Chinsese (Simplified, GUI only) ,Italian Russian (gui only) and French languages This new version is available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Friday, December 7, 2001

• Nebula v1.95: Here's a brand-spankin new release for you Nebula junkies out there, take a look at what's new: NEOGEO Fixed at last (I hope) kof99. Added MSlug3 (Not encrypted). Added Garou: Mark of the wolves (Encrypted) Added Kof2000 (Original set) version Fixed GFX decrypting tables Added the new S rom banking needed for Garou and Mslug 3 Fixed rasters in some games Fixed sound state restoring when loading an state. NEOGEO CD If you are having frameskip problems in the BIOS intro, just insert a CD in your currently selected CD drive. If the in-game GUI hangs when going to the cd options menu, configure the cd manually in the GENERAL.DAT file in the CONFIG folder CPS1 Fixed sound state restoring when loading an state. GENERAL Fixed crashing when changing the sound options while playing. Added 48000 Hz sampling rate. Added Language support. You will be able to translate almost all Nebula text strings using .lng files in the SKINS directory. Use the original (English.lng) file as a template. Remember that the graphics font for in-game menus has only standard 7-bit ASCII chars, so chinese, japanese or special language letters will not be possible in that menus. It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • Vampire Savior (Euro Blue) arrives: This board has completed it's journey to CPS2Shock, and I wouldn't be too surprised if the new ROMset popped up on ABEM shortly I updated our Game List with this info. - cyrussd

	Wednesday, December 5, 2001

• ClrMamePro v2.41: Another update has been released adding even more optimizations. Here's what's new: added automatic zip fix (Wooooohooooo). Fixes bad date/time flags and bad central directory entries (if possible) added some more functions to the easter egg added the "looking for unneeded & wrong named sets..." progress dialog shows now the currently checked file, too added "MB" behind the zipcache value zips with DataDescriptionTags (rarely used) aren't skipped in a possible fixname operation anymore little update to the DataDescriptionTags support when reading a zip sets don't have to exist anymore when using the set mask/wildcard selector filebrowser initially opens in the correct (last used) folder increased the cache which is used in the fixname procedure speed update for the paths selector in the settings dialog. This new version is available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Sunday, December 2, 2001

• ClrMamePro v2.40: A nice update for this emu with speed ups for a few functions and an easter egg hidden somewhere Take a look at what's new: major source cleanup own unzip/unzip2memory routines replaced with the zlib class ones super fast "case fix" (no decompress/compress needed) much faster "name fix" (no decompress/compress needed) all scanner fix operations will even work on zipsubfolders now (so a fixed file won't be moved to the root anymore) scanresults are shown after a fastscan (with enabled add/show stats only) easter egg fixed files with non-ansi chars weren't removed by the rebuilder It's available on our Downloads page. - cyrussd

	Saturday, December 1, 2001

• Vampire Savior (Euro Blue) on the way: One of the final few of the remaining regions left for this game is on it's way to CPS2Shock, I updated our Game List with this info. - cyrussd