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MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The name is an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

Changes:

Notaz:
– Improved the Cyclone M68k core compatibility.
E.g. Road Blasters lacked wrapper correct IRQs handling and Indiana Jones needed to know previous PC to emulate the protection chip.
– All the games run perfectly now with the standard executable.
– The compatible executable is removed because it is not needed now.
– Some optimizations have been done to the Cyclone core.

Slaanesh:
– Added 6 new romsets from MAME 0.35-0.37b12:
MAME 0.35: Wardner (World) (wardner), Wardna no Mori (Japan) (wardnerj), Pyros (US) (pyros), Funky Bee (funkybee), Sky Lancer (skylancr)
MAME 0.37b12: Pandora’s Palace (pandoras) (play it with video and audio clock at 100%)
– Improvement to The New Zealand Story sound.
– Improvement to Space Panic (now uses samples for sound).

Pepe_Faruk:
– Added 16 new romsets from MAME 0.35b8-0.35b13:
MAME 0.35b8: Caveman Ninja (World Rev. 3) (cninja), Caveman Ninja (World Rev. 0) (cninja0), Caveman Ninja (US) (cninjau), Joe & Mac (Japan) (joemac), Stoneage (stoneage)
MAME 0.35b11: Armed Formation (armedf), Terra Force (terraf), Terra Force (US) (terrafu)
MAME 0.35b12: Combat School (combasc), Combat School (bootleg) (combascb), Double Dribble (ddribble)
MAME 0.35b13: Cosmic Alien (cosmica), Devil Zone (devzone), Magical Spot II (magspot2), No Man´s Land (nomnlnd), No Man´s Land (Gotlieb) (nomnlndg)
– Tilemaps have been added to Galivan and Dangar to fix some graphic errors.

Franxis:
– Compatibility improvements in the DrZ80 core. A lot of new games can be played correctly with the ‘fast’ executable. E.g. Black Tiger (not bootleg), 1943 (USA), Tehkan World Cup, Solomon’s Key, Mr. Do, Ms. Pacman, etc.
– 1943 has been fixed, it was broken in the previous release (v4.0).
– The ClrMAME DAT has been updated with the latest romsets. An additional DAT for the samples has been added.

Who Wants To Be A Fake Milionaire is a multiple choice quiz game in the style of “Who wants to be a milionaire”. It’s in early stages and very basic for now.

DiagnoSe is a DS function tester, designed to test the features of the DS.

Using the stylus to navigate the menu, from the top left you have –

1. Test Buttons
2. Test Stylus
3. Test Wifi
4. Boot GBA
5. Test Microphone
6. Test Speakers
7. Fix stuck pixels
8. Test screen lights
9. Test motion card/pak/mk6 motion
10. Test rumble pak
11. Test DLDI FAT
12. Credits

Here is a new release of AFKIM (Away From the Keyboard Instant Messenger), the instant messaging application for PSP written by Danzel!

Changes:

– Improve IR keyboard handler, it’s now usable everywhere (menus & window) !

PSP-PDA is a set of PDA programs including notepad, music player, image viewer, address book, calendar, calculator, and clock.

Changes:

– Improve IR-keyboard handler !
– Bug fix in theme chooser
(but you need now to restart psp-pda to view the new theme)
– Many bug fix in calendar
– New theme designed by ** Vashts121 **

Finalburn Alpha is an emulator for MC68000/Z80 based arcade games. This release is able to play “Donpachi”.

GMenu2X is an alternative frontend for the GP2x.

GMenu2X’ main feature is the ability to create direct links to your games & applications so that you can directly launch them without having to browse through all the filesystem manually.

Release notes:

Ram timings
You can now apply the famous ram timings tweaks from inside GMenu2X for every link, without having to write complex scripts.

Translations
GMenu2X is now also available in the following languages: Italian, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, German, French, Finnish, Portuguese, Swedish, Slovak, Norwegian and Russian.
If you want to contribute a translation, you’ll find the latest strings to translate at this page: Translation template

Skins/Wallpapers support
It is now possible to change skins and wallpapers on the fly from 2 dedicated links in the settings section.
The wallpaper list will show all the wallpapers from the currently selected skin and from the Default one, so you can safely place you custom wallpapers in the “skins/Default/wallpapers” directory.

Fixed tv-out
Tv-out display is now working correctly, and it can be activated from within GMenu2X. There are still some issues to solve, but it’s already working.

Full Changelog
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Added gamma setting (global and per-link)
Added option to tweak ram timings
Added skins support
Added link to activate tv-out
Added support for multiple wallpapers
Color of message dialogs changeable by skins
Automatic icon association for links with icons found in the skin “icons” directory
Adding a link to a file without gpu or gpe extension automatically enables the wrapper feature
Added support for translations (Italian, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, German, French, Finnish, Portuguese, Swedish, Slovak, Norwegian and Russian included)
Use of a new font code which supports (some) utf8 characters
Added graphics for gp2x buttons
Moved screenshot in the selector under the text
[selFullPath] is automatically added at the end of the params when using the selector and no [marker] is specified
Easier access to the last row of links
Moved manual indicator to the bottom bar
Save screenshot with A+L+R (only on the main screen)
SD corruption when using USB on certain setups should be fixed
Fixed half tv-out screen
Fixed flickering in various locations
Fixed bugs in the manuals navigation system
Other small changes

Lemmings DS is an open-source port of the classic Amiga action-puzzle game Lemmings for the Nintendo DS.

It features all 120 levels from the original Amiga Lemmings, and all 100 levels from Oh-No! More Lemmings.

Changes:

v7.02: Updated the downloads with the correct levels Fun 11 and Fun 23. You can download the fixed levels by themselves from the linked page. Copy them into the “Lems A – Fun” directory to play ’em.

PSPColem is a ColecoVision Emulator for PSP.

Changes:

– Save state files are now saved using gzip compression (with STZ as file extention). It’s much faster to save or load states now. You can use gzip or 7-zip to convert old STA to STZ. STA file format is still supported for loading, so you convert your previous saved files inside the emulator.
– Save state dates are displayed in the emulator window (it’s now easier to identify and to load the right save state slot)
– New graphical functions with new smoother render modes. It uses the PSP GPU for rendering, it does not run faster, but it’s a lot smoother.
– Add a new fullscreen option (render mode max)
– Bug fix in Rom file requester
– Multiple keyboard mapping feature (Thanks to Pou-chan) : You can now toggle between three differents keyboard mapping using L/R Trigger keys

ColEm-PSP is a ColecoVision emulator for PlayStation Portable. It’s an initial release.