PocketNES Version 9 is finally here! A massive new update, and all the new stuff is courtesy of flubba, while the original emulator code of course comes from loopy.

Here’s the list of what’s new since version 8, this includes all the previous updates in the flubba hacks: Added CPU sleep when idle in VBlank (saves battery =). Added slomo with L+Start. Added PCM IRQ generation, fixes”Fire Hawk”,”Last Starfighter”&”Silent Service”. Added mapper 228 (Action52 intro is wrong). Added mapper 180 (Crazy Climber (J), no controller yet though). Added mapper 105 (Nintendo World Championship) remember to disable CPU hack (for”Rad Racer”). Added mapper 93 (Fantazy Zone (J)) Added mapper 72,73,75,76,78,86,87,92,94,232. Added mapper 70/152. Saint Seiya doesn’t work correctly anyway, not the mappers fault. Added mapper 68 (Maharaja(J), Platoon(VS), no gfx in After Burner though). Added mapper 67 (Fantasy Zone 2 – The Teardrop of Opa-Opa (J)). Added mapper 34 (Deadly Towers&Impossible Mission 2). Added mapper 33 (“Don Doko Don 2″doesn’t work, everything else should). Added mapper 22,24,26,32,65,80&97. All”Kaiketsu Yanchamaru”games are playable now. Added mappers 19,23&69. Added mapper 79&18. Added mapper 15(Contra 16 100-in-1). Fixed”Low G Man”. Fixes to mappers 4,16,21&25. Fixed some of the savestate problems. Fixed graphic splits in scaled mode (many intro screens). Fixed PCM sample playing, takes a little more CPU now. Fixed multiplay, also supports up to 4 players now. Fixed background flicker. Fixed Sprite 0 hit a bit, Captain Skyhawk, Snow Bros&Saint Seiya starts now, probably break other games. Fixed sprites to background priority. Fixed sprites animation with CHR switching a bit (SMB3). Fixed scaled sprites a bit. Fixed invisible sprites (Ninja gaiden 2, TMNT 2). Fixes to multiboot,sram and Pogoshell (Herg). Fixed VS-palette for Platoon, Hoogans Alley, Pinball, Clu Clu Land, Machrider, Dr Mario, Super Sky Kid Battle City, Star Luster, Freedom Force&Slalom. Changed GBA hardware PWM frequency for (hopefully) better sound. Changed”Restart”in PogoNES to restart and added”Exit”to exit to the shell.

http://www.pocketnes.org/

A new beta of”gp32 Frodo”is out:

beta4:Speed improvements so have turned the cpu down from 133 to 100mhz – eat less batteries. Niced up the menu a bit. Timing’s still way out of wack. T64 files now work. Direct smc filesystem access now works better. Contrast setting for nicer palette. Snapshot feature, but it’s currently broken.

http://dexy.mine.nu/gp32/frodo/

I’m on the way to think about covering Dreamcast homebrewn news and probably a Dreamcast section again here at PDRoms. As the decision isn’t that easy, I would like YOU to leave feedback at the board and probably vote at the poll. No registration is needed, the poll works only for regged users. Thanks!http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=31

Memblers let us know on the PDRoms-Forum that he released a NSF Player (plays NES music files) for the SNES.I’m currently at work so I can’t check the file itself, I’ll add it later this day to the archive. In the meantime you can have a look at the linked files in the original message.http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=30

[News taken from GBAdev.org]Grumpy Cat’s”GI1000″is based on the CGL handheld game”Galaxy Invader 1000″from around 1980. Destroy the aliens and UFOs and prevent the aliens landing.It includes the following:+ 3 levels of difficulty.+ Samples from the real game.+ Authentic flickering LED style graphics.You start the game with 3 lives and 250 missiles. The game ends if:+ You reach 1000 points – congratulations!+ You use up all your missiles.+ You lose all your lives.+ An alien lands.At 700 points you will receive an extra life and 50 more missiles. A warning will sound when you have only 30 missiles remaining.http://www.geocities.com/grumpycatsoftware

Latley I’ve been the last in news, today I’m hopefully the first :)BigRedPimp released a new build of his”Berzerk Legends”game which is a clone of”Berzerk”. In this version following has changed:* shot code improved drastically* shots fire after user releases fire buttonGrab the latest build from BRP’s Homepage. And feel free to give him feedback, I’m sure he’ll love it to know what others think. Thanks to BigRedPimp himself for the news, he even told me about it before he updated his own page with the news 🙂http://berzerk.pocketheaven.com/

xRhino Releases Debian-based GNU/Linux Distribution for PlayStation 2A version of Debian GNU/Linux targeted for the Sony Playstation 2 has been released to the general public to promote independent hobbyist game and utility development for the console. This release constitutes a 1200+ software package Linux distribution that will hopefully be added to and extended by the general community. We will have a Debian package submission process shortly. For the moment, the current release should be a welcome update from the Kondara(RedHat) 5.2-based distribution released with the PlayStation 2 Linux kit. Note: Due to the massive size of”BlackRhino”it willnotbe avaliable on PDRoms!http://blackrhino.xrhino.com/

Round #11 is over and four news P2 demos are released :)* R-Eleven by NoRecess* Vume-vuu by Adresd* Travel by Nippy* A$$ by DarkSnakehttp://www.thethirdcreation.net/

Gameboy Advance
2 Bit Ball Wall by JustBurn
Arkanoid Demo (8-8-2002) by Jenswa
Blod-Runner v2 by Opus
B-Type by Nicky Hunt
Conways Game of Life by Andrew H Cox
FPocketNES v8U12 by FluBBa
GBonGBA v0.4 by Mael
Hergs Solitaire v0.8 by Harold Toler
Hergs Yahtzee v0.4 by Harold Toler
Mode 4 and Sprites by Jenswa
Runes v1.0 by Headspin
Star-Shot v4 by Opus
Touch v1.1 by Dave Mejia
Uranus Zero by ZoneGN

Gameboy Color
Dyna Mate by Jonas Norberg

GP32
Blop Blop v0.1 (Beta 1 66mhz) by JyCet
GPengine v0.4 by black-
InfoNES r2 (GP32) by Anders Granlund
InfoNES r3 (GP32) by Anders Granlund
LK Go v0.3 by Lapkill
Sokoban v1.0 by clem
Wind-ups v0.9 by Karthur

NES (8-Bit)
Crap Demo Shooter by Jandar
GITS2 by Sergey Ryumik
Raster Demo by Norix
Sack Of Flour v1d by CMU NESdev Team
Tanespot by Jonathan & Hans Knektar

Neo Geo Pocket Color
Slideshow by Thor

Playstation 2
Tabula Rasa by Haujobb

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