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Friday, January 31, 2003 |
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• Nebula 2.22 (almost):
ElSemi did release this, but then recalled it due to some serious bugs. I'll update the
Downloads page once it's officially out. But for now, changes include:
- GENERAL
- Added a Winamp jukebox option. Be careful as it's a
bit different than how Kawaks works. You'll need to create
a music mapping table (check the sample kof98.TRK file in
TRACKLST directory) and nebula will replace the
sound codes you indicate by the mp3/cd track/ogg/wav/...
you specify in that file. You must have winamp running
before loading a game that you created track lists for.
The option to enable/disable it is in the Sound menu.
It only works with Winamp 2.x.
- Improved the video plugin interface to support rendering
plugins.
- Added a preliminary graphics renderer based in Direct3D. I highly
recommend using it if you want to run in 32 bit desktop
or play rotated games (19xx,dimahoo) as it is a lot
faster than the Hardware Blit one in these cases.
- Also it has some projection features and any bright
scanlines. Scanlines doesn't work well with rotated
games.
You'll need a video card with the following features:
- non square textures
- non power of 2 textures
- textures bigger than 256x256 pixels (sorry, no voodoo)
- NEOGEO
- CPS1
- Fixed "Step Frame" button in the shots factory
- Fixed Mega Twins music speed.
- Fixed missing sprites in Forgotten Worlds
- Fixed games crashing on 32 bit desktop
- CPS2
- Added Marx Matrix drivers.
- Fixed wrong flash frames in MvsC.
- Fixed some Dimahoo cheats not working (from
the latest Mike_Haggar cheat collection file)
- Fixed games crashing on 32 bit desktop
Like I said, I'll update the
Downloads page once it's released
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Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
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• New CPS2 dats:
Uploaded the new dats that include yesterday's Mars Matrix release. Once again, thanks LogiqX, and thanks cyrussd for informing us on the forum, but not updating the news page 
As usual you can find them on our
Downloads page
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Tuesday, January 28, 2003 |
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• 1944 (USA 000620) board arrives:
This board arrived today at the doorstep of
CPS2Shock, so I of course updated our
Game List with this new information 
• CPS2mame 2.64.1:
Along with the new XOR's, Raz has also compiled a new CPS2mame. Here are the changes:
- Added CPS2 sprite offset emulation.
- Addressed a couple of CPS1 naming issues.
- Added the Shiriru raster and sprite lag fixes.
Again, it's available on our
Downloads page
• New XOR's!:
Raz has released the XOR's for the Japan and USA versions Mars Matrix!!
You can find them on our
Downloads page
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Monday, January 27, 2003 |
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• ClrMamePro v2.88.1:
A minor bugfix update from Roman, here's what's new for this release:
- fixed profiler->name, author, version, description display shows nothing
- fixed profiler->move profile (folder tree is shown correctly only at startup)
- reduced the size of the documentation pngs (thanks to Ben Jos Walbeehm)
You will find it on our
Downloads page.
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Sunday, January 26, 2003 |
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• Nebula Jukebox 2.7:
ElSemi has just released a new version of his Jukebox player.
Here's a list of what's new:
- Added 2xSCSPs emulation for Model 3 sound board. Only the 2 good Model 3 dumps added: Virtual-ON 2 (von2snd) and Lost World (lostsnd).
- Improved SCSP timers speed (but it's still too fast)
- Added preliminary SCSP envelopes.
- Added MultiPCM emulation. Thanks to R.Belmont
for the MultiPCM emulation from M1.
- Fixed Mega Twins music speed
- Megaman (CPS1) sound codes are working now
- Now jukebox will also search for .DAT files in
subdirectories inside MUSICDAT dir.
- ZN Games can be added using ROMDATA files.
As usual, you can find it on our
Downloads page
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Wednesday, January 22, 2003 |
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• ClrMamePro 2.88:
Ah Roman, we love you...
Here is a list of what's changed:
- Added: Profiler->create subfolder, profiler->move datfile which also moves/creates the belonging datfile/fastscan/scans files (both options are available via popup menu)
- Added: Warningswindow message for obsolete CRC32 integrity checks
- Added: (readded by request) 'mark useless zipfolderstructs as unneeded' option
- Added: Several new messages for corrupt/shared/skipped diskimages (instead of showing just a 'missing diskimage')
- Fixed "hide / show bad dump" options
- Fixed: Miss-list includes fake clones (natodefa) & counts the files correctly
- Misc: Profiler->delete can also remove folders
- Misc: Profiler->create can put an exe-based datfile in a selectable subfolder
- Misc: Recompress option moved back to rebuilder main window
- Misc: Revised cancel checks for "fix missing scans all sets"
- Misc: Revised scanner->drag&drop rules & destinationfolder initilization
- Misc: Scanresults are also kept when using ESC key
- Misc: Source cleanup (decreasing cachefilesize a bit as well)
- Misc: 'delete incomplete sets' includes sets with bad crc32s, too
- Misc: Don't show "romfolder xyz matches setname" warning for 1-set-datfiles (like marquees, snaps, flyers, etc.)
Get it from our
Downloads page
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Sunday, January 19, 2003 |
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• New CPS2 Dats:
Latest dats have been uploaded for both Romcenter and ClrMamePro. Big thanks to LogiqX.
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Monday, January 13, 2003 |
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• Cheat Archives v0.2.94a:
Mike Haggar has updated his cheat archives for MAME, Nebula / Kawaks and FBA. Here's the list of what's new for this release:
- [FBA & MAME] only:
- [ALL] archives
- New games added:
- Added more cheats for:
- Fixed some cheats for:
- Marvel Super Heroes & Clones
- Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter & Clones
- Marvel Vs. Capcom & Clones
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 & Clones
- Super Street Fighter 2 & Clones
- Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers Revenge & Clones
- Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire & Clones
- Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire & Clones
- X-Men Vs. Street Fighter & Clones
- X-Men: Children of the Atom & Clones
You will find em available on our
Downloads page.
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Friday, January 10, 2003 |
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• ClrMamePro 2.87:
Roman has released a new version of his great rom manager, here are the changes:
- Fixed: no-recompress-rebuild creates wrong files when using unzipped AND zipped sourcefiles (Ozon)
- Fixed: "remove-rebuilt-sourcefile" doesn't remove a file when having 2 (or more) roms with equal CRC but different sizes (Cowering)
- Fixed: statistic shows wrong number of missing roms when using split or full merge mode (Chrisbee)
- Added: profiler->hide green/red/grey profiles (right-click in profile tree to access the options)
- Misc: '\' or '/' path separators in rom/sample/diskimagenames won't be filtered anymore but replaced with '`' ...until a real full setsubfolder support is added
- Misc: compiled with updated ziparchive package
- Misc: missing diskimage also shows chd-md5 information
- Misc: replaced the hyperlinks in 'ABOUT' with buttons and changed the url routines for better mozilla support
- Misc: rewrote recursive profiler-treebuild function (old worked....but wasn't as stack-friendly as the new)
As usual you can find this on our
Downloads page
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Monday, January 6, 2003 |
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• ClrMamePro v2.86.1:
Roman has added a full-chd-integrity-check fix, to match the latest MAME WIP for Killer Instinct 1 & 2. You will find it on our
Downloads page.
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Sunday, January 5, 2003 |
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• FBA News:
Straight from the FBA forums by Jan Klaasen himself:
The next FBA will include Andrea Mazzoleni's AdvanceMAME Scale x2 blitter, which is the one Kawaks/Nebula copied. It will also Kreed's 2xSai, Super 2xSai, and Super Eagle, and the Direct3D blitter will have improved scanlines at high resolutions and the option to pre-scale the image (like MAME's -sharp effect, only you can use other RGB effects on top). The enhancements in the D3D blitter won't cause any slowdown, you can run CPS games at 1280x960 with RGB effects, scanlines, and pre-scale enabled without speed loss on a PII 266 ( as long as the graphics card is good enough).
Hmm, I may have to start using FBA o.0
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Wednesday, January 1, 2003 |
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• Nebula / Kawaks and MAME cheats too:
These cheat collections have also been updated to v0.2.94, so that they are up to date with the previously mentioned FBA cheats. The below list for FBA matches what's new in these two releases as well, except that the "New games added" titles have been excluded from the Nebula / Kawaks release. You will find em all available on our
Downloads page.
• FBA Cheats 0.2.94:
Mike Haggar has released a new set of cheats for the new FBA, here's a list of what's new:
New games added: - Air Gallet
- Battle Garegga (ver. Sat Mar 2 1996)
- Dangun Feveron (ver. 0.01 Thu Sep 17 1998)
- DoDonpachi (1997 2/5 master ver.)
- Donpachi (ver 1.01 1995/05/11)
- Donpachi (ver 1.12 1995/05/2x)
- ESP.Ra.De (1998 4/14 master ver.)
- ESP.Ra.De (1998 4/21 master ver.)
- ESP.Ra.De (1998 4/22 international ver.)
- Guwange (1999 6/24 master ver.)
- Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (version 95/03/22)
- Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (version 95/03/22
- Rainbow Islands
- Uo Poko (ver. 1998 Feb 06)
Get it from our
Downloads page.
• I think I speak for all of us when I say:
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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• Month In Review •
- XOR's Released
- Mars Matrix (Japan 000412)
- Mars Matrix (USA 000412)
- Boards Dumped
- News
- 1944 (USA 000620) arrived to CPS2Shock
- Happy New Year!!! :)
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