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This is an easy to use utility for performing some tasks on SNES / SFC ROMs!

Following functions are included:

Add header: adds an empty header
Remove header: removes an existing header
Edit ROM information like title, country/region and version
Fix checksum: fixes a broken checksum. You always should do this before saving, if possible. Please note that some beta or demo ROMs have an odd checksum anyway …
Fix ROM size: fixes wrong internal ROM size information (useful for some ROM hacks)
Expand ROM: expands ROM to a specific size up to 64 Mbit (BS-X up to 32 Mbit). Mirror option should only be used, when there are problems with standard expanding. Always check if your ROM still works after doing this!
Split ROM: splits ROM into multiple parts
SwapBin: swaps binaries to get a “Close-to-SNES-Mask-ROM”-layout (27C801)
Deinterleave: some copy stations like “Game Doctor SF” or “Super UFO” use interleaving when dumping HiROM games. This will reverse...

Brand new Guide for the Creation & Use of Jabo 1.7 Format Textures using Project64 3.x

We are also proud to host the Unofficial Release version of Jabo_Direct3D8_1.7.0.57 ver 6 to be compliant without issue
for continued use on Project64 3.x and up.

Changelog:

Project64 Direct3D Viedo Plugin and Jabo Config Support Ini (Unofficial Release)
Jabo's Direct3D8 1.7.0.57-ver6, to be used with PJ64 2.x-4.x

Released by PJ64LegacyTeam By kind permission of Jabo

Changes:

• Improved compatibility with PJ64 2.x-4.x
• Changed the section name the plugin is looking for "Basic Mode=0" from [default] to [Settings]. Fixes displaying the Advanced settings tab.
• The ROM settings "Resolution Width", "Resolution Height", "ClearvFrame", "Aspect Correction" were requesting the emulator to save to Project64.rdb before. Redirected them to save to Project64.cfg like all the rest.
• Disabled "d3d syslog.txt" which affected gameplay performance and could...

* HBMAME 0.245.9 [Arcade] - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/

* WinArcadia 29.31 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

RetroArch v1.13.0 is released. RetroArch is a multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and *BSD. It is formerly known as SSNES. Its design and background is quite different than most other emulators as RetroArch does not implement an emulation core itself. RetroArch talks to libretro, a generic emulator core API. This means that RetroArch is core agnostic, and it does not care which emulator core is running.

Currently there are libretro implementations for systems such as SNES, NES, GBA, GB/GBC, Genesis, and even arcade games (Final Burn Alpha).

libretro isn't only usable for emulators. A preliminary port of an open source reimplementation of Cave Story has been ported to libretro as well.

RetroArch believes in modularity. The application itself is a command-line driven application suitable for HTPC and/or headless use. There also exists a GUI frontend for RetroArch, supporting every single config option available in RetroArch.

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Flycast Dojo v0.5.7 is released. Flycast Dojo is a fork of Flycast, a multi-platform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi and Atomiswave emulator derived from Reicast, with a focus on netplay features and replay. We intend to keep Flycast Dojo updated with the latest downstream changes made to the parent project. Flycast is a multi-platform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi and Atomiswave emulator derived from reicast.

Flycast Dojo changelog:

WWWF Royal Rumble (NAOMI) - Enable Audio Sync by default
Ubuntu Linux 22.04 package compatibility
Upstream Changes
Steam Deck DPI Fix (@vkedwardli)
HLE BIOS: Fix PAL Detection for some WinCE games (Caesar's Palace 2K, The Next Tetris, KISS) (@flyinghead)
Game Box Thumbnails on Main Menu (@flyinghead)
GUI: Fix Divide by Zero crash when window is too small (@flyinghead)
Dependencies: Update SDL to 2.24.1 (@scribam)

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* Xebra (2022-11-06) [PSX] - http://drhell.web.fc2.com/ps1/index.html

* RPCS3 0.0.25 [PS3] - https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/releases

* WinArcadia 29.2 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* bsnes (2022-11-03) [SNES] - https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes/releases

* Wine 7.0.1 [Windows emulator for Unix] - https://www.winehq.org/

* GameEx 18.32 [Front-end] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

RPCS3 is a multi-platform open-source Sony PlayStation3 emulator and debugger for Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD. The purpose of the project is to completely and accurately emulate PlayStation 3 with the power of open-source community and reverse engineering.



Latest changes:

• Make PPU imports/exports thread-safe;
• Move "Start Paused" SaveStates setting to UI;
• Add support for mounting and unmounting CELL_FS_SIMPLEFS;
• Mixed files mounting;
• Move 'LOD bias addend' to debug tab;
• Add Texture lod bias to UI;
• Fix channel order in cellAudioAdd6chData();
• Use the system keyboard layout for osk;
• Implemented sys_fs_mount() and sys_fs_unmount();

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:: Code on Github
:: RPCS3 website
:: Latest development builds
:: RPCS3...

SameBoy v0.15.8 is released. SameBoy is a user friendly Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for macOS. SameBoy is extremely accurate and includes a wide range of powerful debugging features, making it ideal for both casual players and developers. In addition to accuracy and developer capabilities, SameBoy has all the features one would expect from an emulator – from save states to scaling filters. An SDL version is also available to Windows and Unix-like systems.

SameBoy v0.15.8 Changelog:

New/Improved Features
The button mapped to B, on both the keyboard and controllers, can now be used to return from menus in the SDL frontend
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that caused the new Cocoa debugger interface display glitched buttons on newer versions of macOS

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Cemu v2.0-13 is released. Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that runs commercial games. Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC. It's written in C/C++ and is being actively developed with new features and fixes to increase compatibility, convenience and usability.

Cemu Changelog:

Cemu experimental release

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Cemu v2.0-11 is released. Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that runs commercial games. Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC. It's written in C/C++ and is being actively developed with new features and fixes to increase compatibility, convenience and usability.

Cemu Changelog:

Cemu experimental release

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* SDLMAME for Ubuntu 0.249 - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/

* GroovyMAME 0.249 - switchres 2.002m - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases

* NegaMAME 0.249-1 - http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm

* melonDS 0.9.5 [NDS] - https://melonds.kuribo64.net/

* Sameboy 0.15.7 [Gameboy] - https://sameboy.github.io/downloads/

* Emulicious (2022-10-31) [Multi-system] - http://emulicious.net/news/

* Pantheon 12.000 [Multi-system] - http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/Download.htm

* ScummVM 2.6.1 - https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

* GameEx 18.30 [Front-End] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

Cemu v2.0-10 is released. Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that runs commercial games. Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC. It's written in C/C++ and is being actively developed with new features and fixes to increase compatibility, convenience and usability.

Cemu Changelog:

Cemu experimental release

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MAME 0.249 was released

* Official - https://mamedev.org/release.html
* ARCADE64 - https://arcade.mameworld.info/
* For RPi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/
* WolfMAME - https://github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases
*

Other

* XRoar 1.2 [Tandy Color Computer, Dragon] - http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/

* ZEsarUX 10.2 [Multi-system] - https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases

* Rom Vault 3.5.1 [Rom Manager] - https://www.romvault.com/

* GameEx 18.29 [Front-end] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

After a whirlwind four weeks of development, MAME 0.249 is ready for release! Highlights this month include improved Atari 8-bit family emulation, a newer version of Kyukyoku Tiger with a two-player cooperative mode, another version of The Crystal Maze promoted to working, and lots of prototype cartridge dumps for consoles including the Atari Lynx, Nintendo Game Boy and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. There are also eight e-kara cartridges, including a rare e-kara Web cartridge containing twelve youth-oriented songs.

The modernisation of Apple II and Macintosh emulation is progressing steadily. This month, the last of the legacy floppy devices were phased out; various ADB emulation issues were resolved, making mouse/keyboard input more reliable; and the Apple IIe standard 80-column card now works properly. Brian Johnson has added some hard disk and sound cards for the Epson QX-10 and improved the keyboard support. Thanks to holub, MAME now emulates the ZX Evolution...

Cemu v2.0-8 is released. Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that runs commercial games. Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC. It's written in C/C++ and is being actively developed with new features and fixes to increase compatibility, convenience and usability.

Cemu Changelog:

Cemu experimental release

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SkyEmu is a low level GameBoy, GameBoy Color and Game Boy Advance emulator. Its primary focus is to provide a good user experience through a good mixture of tradeoffs of accuracy, performance, features and usability.

Changelog:

Look below

https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/releases/tag/v2

PyBoy v1.5.2 is released. Game Boy emulator written in Python.

PyBoy Changelog:

Removed license of unused SDL2 cython libs, and fixed some typos

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https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy

* HBMAME 0.245.8 [Arcade] - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/

* ArcCab View_MAMEUI64_0.248_BGFX_Chain_V2.2 - https://houba-mame.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html

* Mark5 1.9.0 [Hitachi BML3] - http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bml3mk5/download.htm

* WinArcadia 29.12 [s2650-related] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* DCVG5K (2022-10-20) [VG5000] - http://dcvg5k.free.fr/

* mGalaxy 9.0 [Front-end] - https://www.mgalaxy.com/download/

BGB v1.5.10 is released. BGB is a gameboy emulator which runs on Windows.

Features:
emulation of the GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and Super Gameboy
accurate emulation of the hardware, based on research with lots of test roms, useful for debugging/rom development. some highlights:
clock exact timing of LCD behavior/state changes
realistic initial ram values - random but with specific bit patterns, and simulated values left by bootroms (for example "nibbler (pd)" depends on this)
accurate emulation of LCD register writes during scanline (prehistorik man, demotronic demo)
emulation of inaccessible VRAM and OAM as on real hardware
10 sprites per line limit
clock exact emulation of sprites causing mode 3 to take longer
correct memory access timing (access happening at the last/second to last clock of an opcode)
accurate emulation of the differences between DMG and GBC, including timing differences, differences in hardware behavior, initial state, etc.
can run a GBC rom as on a DMG, and a...

RetroArch v1.12.0 is released. RetroArch is a multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and *BSD. It is formerly known as SSNES. Its design and background is quite different than most other emulators as RetroArch does not implement an emulation core itself. RetroArch talks to libretro, a generic emulator core API. This means that RetroArch is core agnostic, and it does not care which emulator core is running.

Currently there are libretro implementations for systems such as SNES, NES, GBA, GB/GBC, Genesis, and even arcade games (Final Burn Alpha).

libretro isn't only usable for emulators. A preliminary port of an open source reimplementation of Cave Story has been ported to libretro as well.

RetroArch believes in modularity. The application itself is a command-line driven application suitable for HTPC and/or headless use. There also exists a GUI frontend for RetroArch, supporting every single config option available in RetroArch...