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February 26th, 2020, 22:05 Posted By: wraggster
BlastEm v0.6.3 pre (2020/02/26) is released. BlastEm has the goal of being an extremely accurate Genesis emulator while still running on relatively modest hardware by using advanced techniques. Currently it meets neither my accuracy nor performance goals, but those goals are pretty high. Speed and accuracy should be sufficient for most purposes. It runs at full speed on an old first generation Intel Atom and can run Sonic 2 at around 600 fps on a Haswell desktop using a single core. To my knowledge, it is the only emulator besides Genesis Plus GX that can properly display the "TITAN 512C FOREVER" portion of Titan's Overdrive demo, and the only emulator besides Exodus that passes all 122 of the tests in Nemesis' VDP FIFO Testing ROM and can properly display "Direct Color DMA" demos.
BlastEm Features:
* savestates
* integrated debugger
* GDB remote debugging
* joystick/gamepad support
* Mega/Sega Mouse support
* save RAM and EEPROM support
* Sonic & Knuckles lock-on
* turbo and slow modes
* configurable low pass filter
* single pass GLSL shaders (though there are no interesting ones presently)
https://www.retrodev.com/blastem/
http://www.emucr.com/2020/02/blastem...-20200226.html
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February 26th, 2020, 21:56 Posted By: wraggster
The live action Sonic the Hedgehog movie Sonic has become the number one film globally for two weekends in row.
Grossing a box office of nearly $210 million in ten days, the Sonic movie hasn't lost momentum since performing Detective Pikachu in the US during opening weekend.
The total US box office so far is $107 million. In a statement, Sega described the movie's success as a "new page in the history of video game films."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...pening-weekend
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February 17th, 2020, 19:59 Posted By: wraggster
Redream v1.5.0 is released. Redream (originally called Dreavm) is a work in progress emulator for the SEGA Dreamcast.
Redream Changelog:
Added
Disc swap support.
Redump BIN/CUE support.
Widescreen hack support.
Codebreaker cheat support.
Raspberry Pi 4 support.
HLE BIOS font support.
Exclusive fullscreen support.
High DPI support on Windows and Mac.
Nintendo Switch controller support.
PowerVR trilinear filtering support.
PowerVR secondary accumulation buffer support.
PowerVR parameter selection modifier volume support.
Register aliasing support to improve ARM32 register allocations.
Changed
Numerous CPU and GPU performance improvements as a result of the Pi bringup.
Removed GL_ARB_fragment_shader_interlock dependency for per-pixel sorting.
Ignore removable media drives on Windows which have no disk in them.
Librray scanning responsiveness improved for large libraries.
Library scanning is now limited to a single worker thread.
Filter out noisy axes when catching key binds.
Fixed
Major HLE BIOS refactor, fixed all known incompatibilities.
Refactored renderer to support rendering shadows before fog.
Video output only filling half the screen in some PAL games.
Video output flickering over component in some PAL games.
Codebreaker main menu not rendering.
Langrisser Millenium main menu not rendering.
NFL 2K/2K2 field textures not blending correctly.
NFL Blitz 2001 shadows not blending correctly.
NHL 2K2 ice appearing black.
Real Sound framebuffer vertical bands.
World Series Baseball 2K2 blurry textures.
V-Rally 2 main menu flickering.
Numerous AICA stream fixes.
Missing CDDA music in a few games.
Decoding of ADPCM audio to be bit-perfect.
Sega Bass Fishing audio going off the rails.
Capcom Fighting Collection hanging on boot.
Fast Striker crashing at the end of level 1.
Gundam Side Story crashing during third mission.
Tech Romancer crashing after a few rounds.
Library scanning not working with exFAT drives.
https://redream.io/
http://www.emucr.com/2020/02/redream-v150.html
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February 17th, 2020, 19:51 Posted By: wraggster
An English translation of the classic dungeon crawler Sorcery Saga Ⅰ (Madou Monogatari Ⅰ) for the Sega Mega Drive has been released!
It’s the day of the graduation exam at Magic Kindergarten, but only one person has qualified to take it: the promising mage but uninspiring student Arle Nadja, who fluked into passing the preliminary by choosing random answers. Now, Arle finds herself unexpectedly facing the school’s terrifying final exam: to escape from the massive, monster-infested Magic Tower in the playground. Will Arle make it out? And more importantly, can she earn enough points to pass her exam and graduate from kindergarten?
Sorcery Saga Ⅰ for the Mega Drive is a 1996 dungeon crawler by Compile. It’s nominally a remake of the first episode of the Madou Monogatari 1-2-3 trilogy, originally released for the MSX2 home computer in 1990, but aside from the basic story premise and a few gameplay concepts, it’s essentially a completely new game. Turn-based combat has been scrapped in favor of a fighting game–inspired action battle system, the dungeon layouts are completely different, and a new system for catching and battling with monsters plays a prominent role. It also holds the distinction of being the very last game officially released for the Mega Drive in Japan.
This patch was the work of TheMajinZenki (translation), Supper (hacking), cccmar (editing and testing), filler (original script dump), Xanathis (testing), and Oddoai-sama (testing). It’s the culmination of a series of translations of the Sorcery Saga series done mostly by the same group, with previous releases including Sorcery Saga Ⅱ, Ⅲ, and A for the Game Gear.
In a separate but related release, the group has collaborated with scanslator Novyal to produce a complete scanslation of the manual for Sorcery Saga Ⅲ, which is now bundled with the patch for that game. It can also be viewed on the patch’s web site: http://stargood.org/trans/madou3_manual.php
Additionally, a small unofficial patch for the 2010 English translation of the Game Gear version of Sorcery Saga Ⅰ has been released to fix hardware compatibility issues that prevented it from working properly when run on an actual Game Gear.
This will be the final release in this series of Sorcery Saga translations. The authors are grateful to everyone who’s played the translations, and hope this project has brought a little light to a woefully underrecognized series. Enjoy!
http://stargood.org/
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/5388/
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February 11th, 2020, 21:17 Posted By: wraggster
SSF PreviewVer R15 is released. SSF is a Sega Saturn emulator for Windows systems using DirectX 9.0b. The current version claims near-complete implementation of the Sega Saturn hardware (not counting emulation bugs), and can emulate the Saturn based Sega Titan Video arcade hardware too. As with most emulators, CDs or disc images are not included and have to be owned separately. The BIOS is also not included; as of 0.07 Beta R3, games run without the BIOS however. The usage of BIOS files is optional but recommended for better compatibility, and needed for tasks such as management of the contents of the internal memory of the Sega Saturn, or setting the system clock.
https://twitter.com/fessx
http://www.emucr.com/2020/02/ssf-previewver-r15.html
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February 11th, 2020, 21:09 Posted By: wraggster
A major update of KiddEd was released!
KiddEd is a game editor for the SEGA Master System game Alex Kidd in Miracle World. It allows to edit several aspects of the game such as palettes, tiles, sounds, levels, texts and physics.
It was for example used to create recent hacks such as “Voyage - A Sorceress’ Vacation“, “Alex Kidd in Miracle World 2” and “Duke Nukem” for the Master System.
Hacks currently in development with KiddEd include “Alex Kidd in Miracle World 3“.
Additionally, games of genres different from Jump’n'Run are in development. These include Shmups such as Spitfire SP-20 and 1969 and also Action RPG such as Azled in Fantasy World.
Users of KiddEd can receive the update via the update system, others can check it out at https://kidded.emulicious.net
Also checkout KiddEd’s Discord server at: https://discord.gg/DTVx5Da
https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/1111/
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February 9th, 2020, 11:36 Posted By: wraggster
BlastEm v0.6.3 pre (2019/10/10) is released. BlastEm has the goal of being an extremely accurate Genesis emulator while still running on relatively modest hardware by using advanced techniques. Currently it meets neither my accuracy nor performance goals, but those goals are pretty high. Speed and accuracy should be sufficient for most purposes. It runs at full speed on an old first generation Intel Atom and can run Sonic 2 at around 600 fps on a Haswell desktop using a single core. To my knowledge, it is the only emulator besides Genesis Plus GX that can properly display the "TITAN 512C FOREVER" portion of Titan's Overdrive demo, and the only emulator besides Exodus that passes all 122 of the tests in Nemesis' VDP FIFO Testing ROM and can properly display "Direct Color DMA" demos.
BlastEm Features:
* savestates
* integrated debugger
* GDB remote debugging
* joystick/gamepad support
* Mega/Sega Mouse support
* save RAM and EEPROM support
* Sonic & Knuckles lock-on
* turbo and slow modes
* configurable low pass filter
* single pass GLSL shaders (though there are no interesting ones presently)
https://www.retrodev.com/blastem/
http://www.emucr.com/2020/02/blastem...-20200203.html
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February 6th, 2020, 17:47 Posted By: wraggster
Kronos v2.0.2 is released. Kronos is a unofficial port of Yabause SEGA Saturn Emulator( http://yabause.org/ ).
Kronos changelog:
Features: Addition of the 128 mb memory cartridge for the game Heart Of Darkness (François Care).
STV: Support for nvrams files (Barbudreadmon).
STV: Added Fantasy Zone game (Benjamin Siskoo).
STV: Mausuke No Ojama the World: Correction of the missing background (François Care).
STV: Cotton Boomerang: Correction of missing trees (François Care).
STV: Sakura Taisen - Hanagumi Taisen Columns: Correction of the NBG3 layer (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Afterburner II: Correction of the missing loading screen (François Care).
Emulation Saturn: Batman Forever - The Arcade Game: Fixed problems with the controller, the game is playable (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Code R: Correction of missing characters in the game (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Digital Pinball - Last Gladiators: Fixed problems with the controller, the game is playable (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Digital Pinball - Necronomicon: Correction of problems with the controller, the game is playable (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Firestorm - Thunderhawk 2: Fixed problems with the controller, but did not work with Dual Shock 3 (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: GameWare Vol.1: Fixed problems with the controller, the game is playable (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Grandia: Correction of the title screen in the game and of the city floor (François Care).
Emulation Saturn: Hearth Of Darkness: The game starts and is playable (François Care).
Emulation Saturn: Last Gladiators - Digital Pinball: Correction of problems with the controller, the game is playable (François Care).
Emulation Saturn: Lupine The 3rd - The Master File: Fixed problems with the controller, but did not work with Dual Shock 3 (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Metal Fighter Miku: Correction of a black screen after pressing start (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Minnesota Fats - Pool Legend: Correction of an artifact on the press start screen (François Care).
Emulation Saturn: Next King - Koi No Sennen Oukoku: Correction of artifacts on portraits (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Rayman: Fixed problems with the controller, the game is playable (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Ryuuteki Gosennen - Dragons Of China: Fixed a restart problem (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Sega Rally Championship: Correction of the missing HUP interface (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Shockwave Assault: Fixed problems with the controller, but did not work with the Dual Shock 3 (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Side Pocket 2: Correction of artifacts on the press start screen (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Space Harrier: Fixed missing loading screen (François Care).
Emulation Saturn: Street Fighter The Movie: Correction of shadows with the Compute Shader - is not corrected in OpenGL (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: The Need For Speed: Fixed the missing loading screen (François Care).
Emulation Saturn: The Tower: Fixed a crash in the game, the game is now playable (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Thunderhawk 2 - Firestorm: Fixed problems with the controller, but did not work with Dual Shock 3 (François Care).
Emaultion Saturn: Thunderhawk II: Fixed problems with the controller, but did not work with the Dual Shock 3 (François Care).
Emulation Saturn: Voice Idol Maniacs - Pool Bar Story: Correction of problems with the controller, the game is playable (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Winter Heat: Correction of window resizing with VDP1 layer (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Waku Waku 7: Partial correction of the character selection screen (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: World Cup Golf - Professional Edition: Correction of artifacts on the press start screen (François Care).
Saturn Emulation: Yuushun Classic Road: Fixed a restart problem (François Care).
Wiki: Addition of the following games on the wiki: Flash Volume 1 to Flash Volume 32, Bottom Of The 9Th, Heart Of Darkness, Dark Legend, Heim Waltz, Japan Super Bass Classic '96, Kamen Rider - Sakusen File 1, Kidou Senkan Nadesico - The Blank Of 3 Years, Lunacy, Oh-Chan No Oekaki Logic, PTO - Pacific Theater of Operations II, Purikura Daisakusen, Sanguozhi IV, Sanguozhi V, Solar Eclipse, Tokyo Shadow, Winning Post, Xianjian Qixiazhuan, Zenkoku Seifuku Bishoujo Grand Prix Find Love (Benjamin Siskoo).
Miscellaneous: Wiki update (Benjamin Siskoo).
Miscellaneous: Update to Qt 5.14 (Benjamin Siskoo).
Miscellaneous: Correction of Ubsan error messages (François Care).
Miscellaneous: Correction of a regression with the CCD format (François Care).
Miscellaneous: Update
https://github.com/FCare/yabause/
http://www.emucr.com/2020/02/kronos-v202.html
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February 5th, 2020, 22:01 Posted By: wraggster
Sega has revised its full-year forecast after weaker than expected packaged game sales after nine months of the fiscal year.
In the nine months ended December 31, 2019, Sega's Entertainment Contents business earned ¥186.26 billion ($1.7 billion) in revenue, an increase of 12.1% over the prior year.
Entertainment Contents -- which includes arcade products and toys, as well as video games -- made an operating profit of ¥16.2 billion ($148 million), up 52.8% year-on-year.
In terms of games, Sega had a relatively busy third quarter, with Persona 5 Royal, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, and New Sakura Wars all launching in the three month period.
Those releases helped to push nine month unit sales to 19.33 million, up from 18.51 million over the same period in the prior year.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...packaged-sales
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January 31st, 2020, 21:32 Posted By: wraggster
The Game Gear version of Compile’s classic dungeon crawler Sorcery Saga A (Madou Monogatari A) has been translated into English!
On the first day of her summer vacation from Magic Kindergarten, four-year-old magician-in-training Arle Nadja has decided to go visit her grandmother on the other side of the Fairy Forest. Since she’s such a big girl now, Arle is even allowed to go by herself! But on the way there, she comes across a strange man with wings and horns who wants to cut down the forest to build an amusement park. Determined to save her fairy friends’ precious forest, Arle sets out to put a stop to this heinous evildoing.
Sorcery Saga A: Vivacious Vacation (Madou Monogatari A: Doki Doki Vacation) is a prequel to the original Sorcery Saga trilogy, which is probably best known as the origin of the Puyo Puyo franchise. It was initially released for the PC-98 home computer in a three-game bundle with sister games Madou Monogatari R and S. Later, it was ported as a standalone title to the Sega Game Gear, which is the version this translation targets. As is typical for the series, this port bears only vague similarities to the original version; the story and dungeons are almost entirely new.
This patch was the work of filler (translation), Supper (hacking), TheMajinZenki (additional translation), cccmar (testing), and Oddoai-sama (testing). Special thanks goes to Kingofcrusher, who did the original hacking for the first Sorcery Saga game’s translation.
In addition to the main release, minor updates have also been made to the translation patches for Sorcery Saga II and III to fix bugs and keep messages shared among the games consistent.
With this patch, English translations now exist for all the Sorcery Saga games on the Game Gear. The authors still have more releases planned, though, so look forward to more Sorcery Saga!
http://stargood.org/
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=29995
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January 30th, 2020, 20:52 Posted By: wraggster
Reicast Git (2020/01/30) is compiled. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds.
Reicast Git Changelog:
* REAFCTORCAST: Term refactors, clean exit on android, no savestate load bugs
* REFACTORCAST: Wait for g_GUIRenderer on VDC::Term, fixes for savestate load race condition.
* emscripten: include version header
* Merge pull request #1773 from reicast/skmp/emscripten-threaded-wasm
* REFACTORCAST: Init audio on main thread. Needed for emscripten.
* Emscripten: Enable AsyncRendering by default
* Emscripten: Initial support
* Init/state: JNI state setting fixes, re-init from glswap, re-init less from Java,
https://github.com/reicast/reicast-emulator
http://www.emucr.com/2020/01/reicast-git-20200130.html
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January 30th, 2020, 20:48 Posted By: wraggster
Sega Europe is abandoning plastic packaging for its physical games, after it today announced the introduction of recycled cardboard cases for all its PC products.
The news comes just months after Sega subsidiary Sports Interactive revealed it would be using specially designed recyclable cardboard cases for Football Manager 2020.
Studio director Miles Jacobson said at the time that he hoped the wider industry would soon follow suit.
Now, three months later, Sega Europe has expanded upon the work done by Sports Interactive to deliver recyclable packaging across its entire PC portfolio, starting with Total War: Rome II - Enemy at the Games Edition, which is set to release next week.
Much like the packaging used by Sports Interactive for Football Manager 2020, the new cases are more expensive to produce, but are made from 100% recycled and recyclable materials.
This increase is partially offset by savings in shipping costs, thanks to the reduced weight overall. Sega Europe quoted Jacobson's initial statement on the additional cost, saying it's "a price worth paying to help secure the planet's future."
"This initiative underlines Sega Europe's commitment to reducing its plastic waste and its ongoing efforts to implement environmentally friendly business practices," said Sega Europe president and COO Gary Dale.
It was estimated that the decision to go green with Football Manager 2020 would prevent up to 20 tonnes of plastic waste. Sega were unable to provide figures on how much waste this portfolio-wide move could prevent, but suggested it would be exponential.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-all-pc-titles
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January 27th, 2020, 21:41 Posted By: wraggster
SSF PreviewVer R14 is released. SSF is a Sega Saturn emulator for Windows systems using DirectX 9.0b. The current version claims near-complete implementation of the Sega Saturn hardware (not counting emulation bugs), and can emulate the Saturn based Sega Titan Video arcade hardware too. As with most emulators, CDs or disc images are not included and have to be owned separately. The BIOS is also not included; as of 0.07 Beta R3, games run without the BIOS however. The usage of BIOS files is optional but recommended for better compatibility, and needed for tasks such as management of the contents of the internal memory of the Sega Saturn, or setting the system clock.
SSF Changelog:
Windows version changes LLVM to 9.0.1
What happens when you directly rewrite the registry
Others shouldn't have changed ...
Fixed bug that Android version does not start on Android 10
Fixed a bug where bilinear filtering was not working
Others shouldn't have changed ...
https://twitter.com/fessx
http://www.emucr.com/2020/01/ssf-previewver-r14.html
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