Finally months after the official announcement 3000 lucky people can now preorder the Worlds fastest handheld console that boasts a processor capable of up to 900MHZ, PowerVR 3D Graphics, a large 800x480 LCD Touchscreen, Wifi, Bluetooth, USB, Dual SD Card Slots, TV Out, Dual analogue and digital controls, a clamshell DS Lite style shape and a 43 button mini keyboard.
The Console already boasts an amazing amount of ready to be released software such as Ubuntu and many full speed emulators for systems such as Snes, Amiga, Megadrive and many more that are not publically announced yet.
The Console is as powerful as original Xbox and on a par with the Nintedo Wii and thats very impressive, add to that the keyboard, bluetooth, dual analogues and you have what is a Pocket PC/Handheld Console Hybrid with software that will amaze and if your an emulation fan then this console will do everything the PSP can and more, we should expect full speed MAME, PSX, GBA, Snes, Megadrive, Master System, Colecovision, Commodore 64, PC Engine and yeah the list goes on, what should also be very doable to full speed should be Nintendo64, Sega 32X, Sega CD, 3D0, the coder of NullDC an excellent Dreamcast emulator for Windows has publically stated that he his looking to port to Pandora.
Those Interested should visit OpenPandora.Org the home of the Pandora Console
For the full history of news about the Pandora from start until now check outPandora Homebrew Site
Tantric has released a new version of the Game Boy Advance emulator for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Gamecube, heres whats new:
[What's New 1.0.0]
Now compiles with devkitpro r15
One makefile to make all versions
Complete rewrite based on code from SNES9x GX
Now has a menu! ROM selector, preferences, controller mapping, etc
Wiimote, Nunchuk, and Classic controller support
Button mapping for all controller types
Full support for SD and USB
Load/save preference selector. ROMs, saves, and preferences are saved/loaded according to these
'Auto' settings for save/load - attempts to automatically determine your load/save device(s) - SD, USB
Preferences are loaded and saved in XML format. You can open VBAGX.xml edit all settings, including some not available within the program
Headoverheels has released a new version of the Final Burn Arcade emulator for the GP2X:
Heres whats new;
Beta 7.3 Features:
Replaced the core Z80 breast by CZ80, games that used it as Mazinger Z or run faster Metamoqester
Small optimizations in the code of generic painted tiles
Off the cache read ahead kernel
New games supported:
Cave: Power Instinct 2 (pwrinst2, pwrins2j), Power Instinct Legends (plegends, plegendj) (Requires cache)
Tumble hardware Pop: Pop Tumble bootleg (tumbleb (bad sound), tumbleb2), Jump Kids (jumpkids), Metal Saver (metlsavr), Pang Pang (pangpang), Super Trio (suprtrio), Hatch Catch (htchctch), Cookie & Bibi (cookbib), Choky! Choky! (Chokchok), Wonder Star League (wlstar), Wonder League'96 (wondl96), Fancy World - Earth of Crisis (fncywld), SD Fighters (sdfight), BC Story (bcstry, bcstrya), SemiCom Baseball (semibase) Date Quiz Go Go (dquizgo), Jumping Pop (jumppop)
Ninja Gaiden hardware: Shadow Warriors (shadoww, shadowwa, Gaida, ryukendn, ryukenda), Tecmo Knight (wildfang, tknight), Raigada - Strato Fighter (stratof, Raigada), Dragon Bowl (drgnbowl)
Single: Burglar X (burglarx)
ESD16: Multi Champ (multchmp, multchmk), Multi Champ Deluxe (mchampdx, mchampda), Head Panic (hedpanic, hedpanif), Tang Tang (tangtang), SWAT Police (swatpolc)
Games corrected:
Guwange
Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition (hsf2, hsf2j) (Requires cache)
Aero Fighters (aerofgt, aerofgtb), Turbo Force (turbofrc), Karate Blazers (karatblz), Spinal breakers (spinlbrk, spinlbru, spinlbrj)
Franxis has released a new version of Mame for the GP2X:
New version of my MAME port for the GP2X:
Changes by Headoverheels:
- Fixed graphic priority in Xain'd Sleena.
- Added 7 new romset from MAME 0.37b7:
+ Batsugun Special Ver. (batugnsp)
+ Exerizer (Japan) (bootleg) (exerizrb)
+ Mahou Daisakusen (Japan) (mahoudai)
+ Pipi & Bibis / Whoopee (Japan) [bootleg ?] (pipibibi)
+ Shippu Mahou Daisakusen (Japan) (shippumd)
+ Sky Fox (skyfox)
+ Truxton II / Tatsujin II / Tatsujin Oh (Japan) (tatsujn2)
Changes by Slaanesh:
Use Cyclone for M68010 as well as M68000 CPUs.
This gives a good speed up for games such as Gauntlet, Marble Madness and other Atari games.
Changes by Franxis:
Raiden CPU frequency fixed (reduced from 20 to 10 MHz). Still very slow.
Flubba has released a new Neogeo Pocket Emulator for GBA:
New version of NGPAdvance, a lot of games should be a bit more playable thanks to speedhacks. I also added support for a lot of internal hardware (RTC/Alarm, Power button, DA/DA IRQ) so that you can use the real bios. Still no flash emulation as I can't really see how to implement it on the GBA... Also uploaded a tech doc for the NGPC.
*Added speedhacks for a lot of games.
*Added emulation of batteries & sub battery.
*Added RTC alarm.
*Added power button (SELECT).
*Added D button (R) (check Doko Demo Mahjong).
*Fixed a couple of cpu bugs affecting Metal Slug 1 and a couple of other games.
The ScummVM Team has released a new version of ScummVM for tons of consoles and Operating Systems,
Heres the release details:
We can call it a tremendous development. Half a year since 0.11.1 passed pretty quickly, and we are pleased to announce the release of 0.12.0!
This new version of ScummVM adds support for 5 completely new games. The games that now run smoothly on many more platforms than was initially intended are: The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate, The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge, Lost in Time, The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble and Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back.
The number of supported platforms grew as well. The PS2 port has been revived, and the GameCube and Wii are now supported too. Take your Wiimote and make your beloved adventure game protagonist run around the screen :).
Ive posted this over at DCemu and thought i would share news of the newest emulation/homebrew console to hit the news. The announcement of the Wiz or GP2X Wiz has certainly gave us a new console to crave for.
We now have a new console coming in less than a month which boasts the fastest speed on any handheld console at this time (533Mhz - the PSP is 333Mhz - GP2x is 2x200Mhz) and comes with 3D Chip and 64 Megs of ram.
For those interested in what will be a new homebrew console heres the specs:
Little bigger than a mobile phone, more raw power than a PSP and 100% open.
Play games, emulators, movies and music - never has so much power been available in such a small handheld console.
Building on the already well established GP2X software base but adding more speed and graphical power to take open source gaming to the next level.
533Mhz ARM CPU
3D OpenGL Accelerator
64MB RAM
OLED Touch Screen
Li-ion Battery
Charge over USB
12 included games plus a large library of free games
News posted by Bluecrab on my Sega Saturn site that ill gladly repeat here.
The Yabause team is happy to present a new release of the Sega Saturn emulator Yabause today. This release contains the normal slew of bugfixes and such (detailed below).
0.9.6 -> 0.9.7
vdp1:
- Added clipping for line-based drawing to software renderer.
vdp2:
- Toggling a screen is now core independent.
- Added per-character priority to software renderer.
gtk port:
- Fixed fullscreen setting and added a keep ratio one.
- Fixed a bug in the vdp2 debugger that was causing the emu to crash.
- Full software mode can be compiled again.
- Fixed segfault when taking screenshots in full software mode.
- Fixed default value for region.
- Window position is now saved and restored when re-opening the emu.
- Fixed a problem when changing input cores.
qt port:
- Improved compilation process: make (un)install now works.
- Fix crash when configuring input while using translated version.
windows port:
- Changed resolution list generation so it adds the resolution to the list, regardless of whether it supports 60 hz or not.
- Fixed error when trying to add blank cheat code.
- Fixed all code that allowed the user to choose filename for saving so it
automatically places a default extension.
- Save and Clear buttons are now enabled when loading a cheat file.
- Fixed a bug with AR code adding where it was tracking the wrong edit
window.
- Fixed a bug when adding raw cheat codes.
- Fixed bugs in vdp1 debugger.
- Fixed a bug where saving/loading a save state and an error occured would cause sound looping.
- Scroll bar in memory editor now works properly when you move the thumb
control.
- Added support for x64 builds in Visual Studio.
general:
- Fixed a bug that was causing older save states to fail.
GPF has posted about a port of Frodo, the c64 emulator for the Wii. Display is the only thing hes got working so far, (filesystem, keyboard/joystick controls to come later). But if your game, he has released the test binary for all you kids to try out.
The best N64 Emulator for Windows may finally be coming back to life:
The project has been on hiatus for a little bit, well probably about a year! With the payments, I have found another company to try. I have re-enabled the donation page to see how they work out. The account creation process is not automatic so I will have to create the accounts by hand. I still have a busy life, things have not slowed down. My wife is now currently 8 months pregnant. If this payment method works, then I will over the next few months look at doing some work on improving the site. Then I will get back to the actual coding of the emu, where I am sure everyone of you would like me to be.
We hereby release the source code of Dolphin and most of its plugins under the GPL 2.0.
You can check out the code using Subversion (we recommend TortoiseSVN), from our new repository at Google Code. .
A few new features are included:
* New OpenGL graphics plugin by zerofrog
* Basic patch/cheat system (no search yet), support for decrypted Action Replay codes
* Much faster JIT in 32-bit, slightly faster in 64-bit
* Basic Wii support (plays a couple of intro movies, starts zelda, no working wiimote)
* Some more I forgot about right now, see them as bonuses..
With the new gfx plugin, the code mostly builds and even runs a bit on Linux, but games don't work yet. There's now a cross platform wxWidgets GUI.
We'll release some new official builds soon, too.
Compatibility has not increased since the last release, but speed has in many cases.
Dolphin is currently not in a super polished state, but we hope that the community can help fix that, and maybe in the long run also add more features and compatibility. If anyone has a new feature or fix and wants SVN write access, just contact us and we'll add you to the project. Or you could just fork the whole thing, but that would probably be annoying
After 4 years without any new version, the well known Playstation Emulator ePSXe has been updated!
ePSXe 1.7.0 has been released. You can download it in the files section.
Short changelog:
Multiple changes has been done in the Pad support.
The internal SPU plugin has been updated to the 1.7.0 version.
The iso support code has been rewritten.
The MDEC decoder has been rewritten.
A new version of the Pete's Software Plugin is included.
The XA/CDDA support has been worked in this new version.
Many things have been fixed in the cd-rom decoder and the core.
I finally had some time to work on FrodoDS again after nearly a year without an update, I have added save snapshot support and loading snapshots directly from filelist.
Will save the snapshot using the currently mounted .D64 name changing extension to .FSS. This new functionality is on the button X.
Also now when it starts the filelist will no longer popup automatically, so after the c64 boots up, press the left trigger to bring up the filelist, now if you select a snapshot file ending in .FSS, it will automount the same name with .D64 and then autostart the snapshot.
Shuttle mouse support.
When numeric window mode - Windows key and mouse cursor display ON / OFF.
Creation of a sound at intervals of 1 / 2 the option was established.
Expand the size of the buffer to 512 or less if the noise out, Half Buffering to check please.
VDP2 drawing multithreaded processing.
3CPU over (CPU number -1) threads in the process.
1.52:
- When using Ootake with "Non-Scanlined" screen-setting, at the display of frame-rate with "Info->Show FPS" menu, the bug that had not been occasionally displayed by the environment was corrected.
- When switching to the FullScreen mode, the refresh rate of display switches to "60Hz" by the automatic operation. (*In Windows98/Me, it is not possible to switch by the automatic operation.)
1.51:
- In the start demo of "Pop'n Magic", the problem that the screen has fallen into disorder was corrected. (Timing of CD-ROM access processing)
- At the display of frame-rate with "Info->Show FPS" menu, the bug that had not been occasionally displayed by the environment was corrected.
- In the continue-screen of "Paranoia(Psychosis)", the problem that some characters had shaken was corrected. (Correction of timing)
- Additionally, a detailed part has been improved and corrected.
• Acorn Z80 tube emulation
• Various fixes to video and sound
• New bandpass sound filter - recommended! (sounds very BBC-ish)
• Fixed crash bug on exit
- Fixed the handling of the initial keystroke.
- Added a curses (text-based) front-end.
- GTIA artifacts now support various GTIA models.
- GTIA supports now user-defined color maps.
- The GUI can now be used entirely by the keyboard or the joystick, use the cursor keys to move the pointer from gadget to gadget and press RETURN to click on an object.
- Added a RelMouseStick input device that reacts on the relative mouse movements rather than its abstract position.
- Fixed the POKEY audio muting, it is now able to detect situations in which a lower mixing frequency is audible even though the channel itself is not.
- Fixed initial timing/speed setting, could have caused audio-drop outs or slow play-back.
cd block:
- Reworked bin/cue support. Reading should be a lot more accurate now on tracks 2 and greater.
emulated bios:
- Fixed a bug in BupGetDate year calculation.
- Fixed a bug where interrupt mask wasn't being set correctly when using emulated bios.
smpc:
- Added support for SMPC NMIREQ command.
- Added reset button emulation.
software video core:
- Improved software renderer: window, line scroll, mosaic are now available and color offset and scroll screen has been fixed.
gtk port:
- Tagged most of gtk port strings to be translatable.
qt port:
- Added ability to specify address where binaries are loaded when using command line.
- Other bug fixes.
wii port:
- Added support for bios and game loading from sd card.
- Added sound support.
- Added usb keyboard support.
windows port:
- Added pause emulation function.
- Other bug fixes.
dreamcast port:
- Rewrote all of the Dreamcast CD Interface in hand-optimized assembly.
- Enabled use of the emulated bios if there is no saturn.bin on the CD.
general:
- Updated peripheral interface so both ports can now be used and multiple pads can now be connected to each port.
- Added translation support through mini18n library.
