The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Content:

We get the inside story on Graftgold, developing Uridium, Rainbow Islands, Fire & Ice and much more with Steve Turner!

http://www.theretrohour.com/graftgold-the-inside-story-with-steve-turner-the-retro-hour-ep47/

Qmmp is an audio-player, written with the help of the Qt library. The user interface is similar to winamp or xmms. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

Release notes:

– Latest stable release. See Changelog.
– Updated libs and sources.

https://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=qmmp-stable

Eager to play Lemmings on your Nintendo 3DS? Thanks to bayleef. Lemmings 3DS is basically a clone of Lemmings for DOS. Fill the subfolders of /lemmings folder with data from DOS Lemmings (see README.txt files in these subfolders). These files are not included in the archive since they are protected by copyright law. In order to run the software, at least one subfolder must be filled. You may fill any combination of subfolders, depending on the Lemmings games you own.

Thanks to Nintendomax for the screenshot!

https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-lemmings-for-3ds.441997/

Custodian is an Arcade shooter in which you have to protect energy bases from parasites that are trying to drain it dry! It will be the very first release for the Atari Jaguar by Piko Interactive. It features 4 area levels, many weapons and power ups, and awesome chiptune music!

Pre-orders will be available 2-3 months before shipping starts. The game will be manufactured with all new parts and assembled by hand. Packaging will come factory sealed.

https://www.pikointeractive.com/store.html#!/Custodian-Atari-Jaguar/p/72153794/category=20971056

mGBA is a Game Boy Advance emulator written in C. The project started in April 2013 with the goal of being fast enough to run on lower end hardware than other emulators support, without sacrificing accuracy or portability. Even in the initial version, games generally play without problems. It is loosely based on the previous GBA.js emulator, although very little of GBA.js can still be seen in mGBA.

Changes:

– Core: Fix importing save games as read-only
– FFmpeg: Fix encoding AAC
– GB: Fix invalid STOP behavior on Game Boy Color
– GB: Initialize audio properly
– GB: Properly clear KEY1 bit 0 when switching speeds
– GB: Properly unload save files when unloading a ROM
– GB, GBA: Fix emulator hardlocking when halting with IRQs off
– GB MBC: Fix MBC7 when size is incorrectly specified
– GB MBC: Fix RTC access when no save file is loaded
– GB SIO: Don’t auto-clock external shift clock
– GB Video: Setting LYC=LY during mode 2 should trigger an IRQ
– GB Video: Fix video frames getting missed when LCDC is off
– GB Video: Clear screen when LCDC is off
– GBA Cheats: Fix holding onto pointers that may get invalidated
– GBA Cheats: Fix key-activated CodeBreaker cheats
– GBA Cheats: Fix uninitialized memory getting freed when saving
– GBA Hardware: Improve Game Boy Player rumble behavior
– GBA Memory: Fix several unused I/O register read values
– GBA Savedata: Fix loading savestates with 512Mb Flash saves
– LR35902: Fix events running with the wrong cycle active
– Qt: Fix “close” button on Overrides view
– Qt: Fix saving overrides
– Qt: Fix directory set unloading when replacing the ROM
– Qt: Fix patch loading
– Qt: Fix crash when saving an override if a game isn’t loaded
– Qt: Fix showing default display driver as OpenGL (force 1.x)
– SDL: Attach rumble in SDL frontend
– Util: Fix PNG identification on files too small to be a PNG

Misc:
– All: Only update version info if needed
– All: Split out install locations for Libretro and OpenEmu
– FFmpeg: Encoding cleanup
– GB: Reset active region when reloading ROM
– GB Memory: Initialize RAM pattern for GBC
– GB Video: Improved video timings
– Qt: Manage window sizes slightly better
– Qt: Remember scale option independent of core dimensions

https://mgba.io/

mGBA is a Game Boy Advance emulator written in C. The project started in April 2013 with the goal of being fast enough to run on lower end hardware than other emulators support, without sacrificing accuracy or portability. Even in the initial version, games generally play without problems. It is loosely based on the previous GBA.js emulator, although very little of GBA.js can still be seen in mGBA.

Release notes:

A new release of mGBA, version 0.5.1, is available. This version is a bugfix release, which fixes many issues that weren’t caught before the release of 0.5.0. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

https://mgba.io/

Atari800-3DS by asie is a port of the Atari800 8-bit home computer emulator to the Nintendo 3DS. Remember that this emulator requires Atari ROMs to be present in /3ds/atari800!

Changes:

– no changelog found

http://asie.pl/homebrew/

FPse for Android is the fastest and most compatible PSone/Playstation 1/PSX emulator for handheld devices. FPse is able to render PSone games in high resolution by using OpenGL which gives outstanding graphics!

Changes:

– Added Dual Screen multi player mode with Pad or Guncon! Play with two players on your Smartphone or Tablet
– Fixed Guncon on port 2
– Fixed Policenaute Guncon scene
– Fixed Point Blank 3 Guncon support
– Added selection for Pad 1 type and Pad 2 type
– Added Special button controller selection. Switch from controller 1 to 2 quickly. Defeat the boss on MGS or play easyly with Policenaute
– Fixed Winning Eleven 2002 crash

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emulator.fpse

Tetrix (previously known as Cylinder) is an Android game by Franz Lankes. Take a very famous Russian block game and instead of lines, try to produce those lines around a cylinder. Voila!

Changes:

* improved graphics & game play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ngd.p_0003

Marat Fayzullin updated his Coleco Vision emulator ColEm for Android devices.

Changes:

* Fixed sprite check to stop on the 5th sprite, not 4th! (River Raid)
* Switched to NDK v13 and CLANG C compiler.
* Refactored all native code, fixing CLANG warnings.
* Now always hiding FAB buttons on devices with no touchscreen.

This is a free, limited version of ColEm that may show ads and nag you to buy the full version. For the latest, full, ad-free version, with better joystick, network play, and the ability to share your saved game play with other users, get ColEm Deluxe.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fms.colem