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Sega Dreamcast Emulator - Flycast v2.3 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 17 March 2024

What's New:

What's New
- Battle Cable support
- SystemSP hopper games: kingyo, manpuku, shateki, magicpop, unomedal, puyomedal, ochaken and westdmrg
- Club Kart card reader support
- Gamepad dead zone and saturation settings
- Switch: touchscreen and joycon rumble support, bug fixes, performance improvements
- HID barcode scanner support for card games (Mushi King, Dinosaur King, Love & Berry)

Fixed Games
- Initial D v2/v3
- Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
- Confidential Mission
- The Maze of the Kings
- Spikers Battle
- NBA Showtime
- NHL 2K2
- Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
- Monkey Ball
- Crackin'DJ 1 and 2
- F355 (Naomi)
- Samurai Shodown VI
- Shenmue
- Test Drive Le Mans
- Sakura Taisen 3
- Death Crimson 2
- Force Five
- NHL 2K2
- Shakatto Tambourine
- Xtreme Sports
- Blue Stinger
- RevolveR
- Kaen Seibo
- Nittere Shiki! Mirai Yosou Studio
- Shakatto Tambourine Arcade

Multiple Emulator Frontend - EmulationStation Desktop Edition v3.0.1 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 16 March 2024

What's New:

Detailed list of changes
- Added support for Android 10
- Removed Yuzu from the switch system
- Added Panda3DS standalone as an alternative emulator for the n3ds system
- (Android) Added support for placing the ES-DE and ROMs directories on mounted USB storage (/mnt/media_rw/)
- (Android) Added support for network mounted storage on the Nvidia Shield Pro (and possibly other devices)
- Added a more informative error message than "HTTP error code 430" when exceeding the daily ScreenScraper quota
- Added the Snes9x 2005 Plus RetroArch core as an alternative emulator for the satellaview, sfc, snes, snesna and sufami systems
- Added the Beetle SuperGrafx RetroArch core as an alternative emulator for the pcengine, pcenginecd, tg16 and tg-cd systems
- Added the Geolith RetroArch core as an alternative emulator for the arcade, mame and neogeo systems
- Added the .neo file extension to the arcade, mame and neogeo systems
- Added the .chd file extension to the sega32x, sega32xjp and sega32xna systems
- (Android) changed from %ROMPROVIDER% to %ROMSAF% for the C64.emu, PCE.emu (pcenginecd and tg-cd), Play! and Saturn.emu emulators
- (Android) Changed the required filename for the Fake-08 RetroArch core from libfake08-arm64.so to fake08_libretro_android.so
- Improved the layout for the miximage generator interface for some unusual display resolutions and aspect ratios
- (Android) Increased the maximum waiting time for the storage mount retry loop from 3 to 4 seconds
- Improved resilience to empty gamelist.xml files (they can now be updated instead of generating an error)
- (Linux and Unix) Made it possible to change the application data directory using the ESDE_APPDATA_DIR environment variable
- (Android) Removed symlink support
- Removed the "v" before the version number from the version printout on application startup and from the main menu
- Updated SDL to 2.30.1 on Android, Windows, macOS and the Linux AppImage builds
- Eliminated some deprecation warnings when building against FFmpeg 6.1 or higher

Bug fixes
- (Android) The supergrafx system had the Beetle SuperGrafx and Beetle PCE RetroArch cores mixed up
- (Windows) The MAME standalone emulator entry for the atari7800 system had the wrong machine type defined
- The Orphaned data cleanup interface didn't display the complete description text at some unusual display resolutions
- (linear-es-de) Creating custom collections named "now-playing" or "completed" could lead to them being unthemed

ColecoDS v9.4 - Released

Details: Category: Nintendo DS; Published: 16 March 2024

What's New:

- Tatung Einstein improvements - more games run more correctly.
- SVI Cassette Load fixes
- Other minor tweaks and cleanup as time permitted.

Supermodel Frontend - Sega Model 3 UI v1.0.7 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 15 March 2024

What's New:

- The resolution collection has been converted to an external file.
- A warning will now appear correctly if the resolution you are trying to adjust is larger than the screen size of the main form.
- You can now change the font size.
- Changed the color of some controls. It may have become difficult to see.
- Delete Write ini button. Written to ini file when app closes.
- Typo
- Changed some snap images.

(MESS) Messinfo.dat v0.263 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 15 March 2024

What's New:

- a5200_cart_slot, a800_cart_slot: Use multibyte.h helpers [AJR].
- aa310.cpp: Configured Acorn R225 with discless bootstrap. Configured Acorn A4 to auto-start !BatMgr. Reduced ROM region size, and mirrored. Removed RISC OS 3.19 from BIOS options, was only available in German A3010. Corrected ROMs in Acorn M4 [Nigel Barnes].
- adam.cpp: Made software list descriptions follow conventions [ArcadeShadow].
- aha2940au: Changed description to 'Adaptec AHA-2940AU SCSI controller'.
- apple2: Add ProDOS filesystem where applicable [AJR].
- apple2e.cpp: Update language card memory map when language card is enabled or disabled. Removed a duplicate variable assignment in Ctrl-Reset handler code [xotmatrix].
- apple3: Clean up drive configuration (and incidentally add ProDOS format) [AJR].
- apricotf.cpp: Overhaul. Correct system clocks and add baud clocks for CTC. Use raw parameters for screen. Use addressable latch device. Add RS232 port. Add speaker sound. Remove device tag macros [AJR].
- arc_ether1_aka25: Use multibyte.h helpers [AJR]. Corrected 16bit RAM access [Nigel Barnes].
- audiowerk2: Changed description to 'Emagic Audiowerk2 Digital Audio Recording'.
- bbc.cpp: Use idiomatic markup in descriptions in 'bbc_rom.xml' [Vas Crabb].
- bbc_1mhzbus_slot: Added The Barry-Box (not working) [Nigel Barnes].
- bbc_m4000: Added key mappings for 3 octaves [Nigel Barnes].
- bbc_tube_a500: Corrected ROMs for A500 2nd Processor, and moved previous set to new A500 (Dual MEMC) 2nd Processor [Nigel Barnes].