DCEmu Homebrew Emulation & Theme Park News
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by Published on August 11th, 2006 16:16
The Hive, the excellent coder who released many emulators for the GBA has posted on his site about a new PRIVATE beta of his Spectrum Emulator for the Nintendo DS, heres what he posted:
What's new?
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+ Fixed graphical corruption in Cobra, Gutz, and many others.
+ Fixed problem with long filenames corrupting the file browser display.
+ Fixed problem whereby START & SELECT are transposed when saving game INI files.
+ Added interface II option to control configuration panel.
+ Fixed problem with sounds panning through single speaker only.
+ Added preliminary save states (uncompressed Z80's)
+ Added console/log output, although very little is logged currently.
Sorry that there isn't more - I've been really busy with life and hacking away at Doublevision my new Colecovision emulator. DSpec will get more attention in the next week or so. Stay tuned for a big update next time.
Download the only public version HERE ...by Published on August 11th, 2006 16:09
Via Nextgen
EA's head of development David Gardner has warned Sony to pick up its act in the handheld war against Nintendo DS.
The firm's VP and COO of worldwide studios told UK trade paper MCV, "I don't think Sony can afford to sit back. They still have things they can do with the price and performance of the machine, things that they need to address."
EA says it has shifted its handheld priorities since DS began pulling away from PSP. "There's no doubt that EA has historically bet more on PSP," said Garner. "I think we were excited by the technology, but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun.
"We must never forget that what we need to focus on is fun and so EA is putting more effort behind DS games, and creative ones that really take advantage of the hardware. ...by Published on August 11th, 2006 16:07
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Hardware sales and games sales stats for the month of July have been released by NPD, with Xbox 360 releases faring well and NCAA Football selling a million copies.
On the hardware side, DS sold 377,000 units for the month followed by PS2 with 240,000. Xbox 360 sold just over 200,000 units. PSP sold 160,000.
The top selling games, by dollars, was dominated by Electronic Arts' NCAA Football, taking the top spot (PS2) as well as numbers two and four for Xbox 360 and Xbox.
Chromehounds from Sega, Prey from Take 2 and EA's LOTR game did well on Xbox 360, all making the top ten. Eight games in the top 20 were Xbox 360.
Across all formats NCAA managed just shy of 1 million units while Cars came in at 420,000 copies. Prey on Xbox 360 sold just over 130,000 copies.
1. NCAA Football 07 (PS2)
2. NCAA Football 07 (Xbox 360)
3. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
4. NCAA Football 07 (Xbox)
5. Chromehounds (Xbox 360)
6. Battle for Middle Earth II (Xbox 360)
7. Prey (Xbox 360)
8. Guitar Hero bundle (PS2)
9. Cars - (PS2)
10. Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (PS2)
11. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PS2)
12. Cars (GBA)
13. 2006 FIFA World Cup (PS2)
14. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Xbox 360)
15. 2006 FIFA World Cup (Xbox 360)
16. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (Xbox 360)
17. Cars (GameCube)
18. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day (DS)
19. NFL Head Coach (PS2)
20. Fight Night Round 3 (Xbox 360)
The DS Lite again makes a ton of money for Nintendo ...by Published on August 11th, 2006 16:04
A new rather smart looking External Battery for the DS Lite has been revealed, no details on what charge it will bring etc but check out the screen via comments. ...by Published on August 11th, 2006 16:01
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Total U.S. console software sales for July were $386 million, according to NPD stats released this morning, up 22% compared to last year and much higher than even the most optimistic estimates.
Current generation software sales declined $45.5 million. Next generation software sales increased by $116 million. High points included DS software sales which have held up well in the aftermath of DS Lite's introduction.
Overall unit sales were up 22%, while ASPs, bouyed by Xbox 360 games, remained steady.
Year-to-date software sales are up 2% compared to last year, way up on most expectations which anticipated the market down. Wedbush Morgan Securities posted, "We intend to reassess our full year forecast with a bias for upward revision."
The analyst added, "We think that there will be a positive market reaction to the robust July sales growth. We are pleasantly surprised that software sales through the summer months have been so strong, and now believe that the decline in current generation software will be largely offset by next generation software sales for the next several months. Once the Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii are launched, we expect next generation software sales to surpass current generation software sales." ...by Published on August 11th, 2006 15:58
The port of the Snes emulator Zsnes to the Xbox has had an update, heres whats new:
* ZsnexBox now comes with two excellent (Zelda and Metroid) skins to choose from by Neverwill. Be sure to try them both.
* Added an animation to the Metroid skin
* Skin switching supported. Up to 15 skins are supported. Add additional skins to the skins folder. In each folder put a copy of the ZsnexBox.ini that has the correct text/image placement in this folder. It must be named the same as the folder name. For example, the Metroid skin is in the D:skinsMetroid folder and contains a Metroid.ini
* Added more text placement options. Virtually all the text can be adjusted.
* Changed the main menu, controller, and emulator options text to be centered.
* Added a Help/FAQ Menu option. This screen contains information about the use of ZsnexBox as well as an updated FAQ. Please look here "before" posting a question on the forums.
* Added option to adjust the clipping window for the Help text.
* Added a new Help background image for the Help screen
* Tweaked the timing and animation code. The animations now run much smoother.
* Fixed the HD corrupt graphics problem some users were getting. ZsnexBox should display correctly in 720p and 1080i for all Xbox versions (regardless of the dashboard used to launch it)
* Fixed Player 3 and 4 controls
* Added the ability to change the Rombrowser text clipping. The width can now be increased or decreased.
* Created a new menu called GUI Options and moved the Text and Image Options to this menu.
* Added a GUI transition between screens. The fade effect duration can be adjusted
* Added support for a zooming logo/graphic for the rombrowser.
* Fixed a bug where some text was too far to the right in HD modes.
* Fixed the invisible digit bug on the cheat menu in HD modes.
* Changed all GUI images to PNG format. JPG's are no longer supported anywhere. This alone frees up around 4MB of RAM and as a result, all of the previous HQ previews work again. The GUI looks even better as well.
* Changed the "Show ROM Info" option to be off by default.
* Fixed a bug where the Option screen would be dimmed if screen resizing was done outside of the emulation.
* Fixed a bug where the preview border values were not being saved correctly.
* Added a confirmation screen for exiting ZsnexBox.
* Added options to change the zooming logo animations on the main menu and rombrowser. The values that can be changed are minimum size, maximum size, and speed of animation.
* Decreased the amount of time before the rombrowser animation repeats.
* Added option to change the distance the rombrowser animated character moves (if it moves at all). The default value is 100. So a value of 50 would cause it to repeat in half the time.
More Info ...by Published on August 11th, 2006 15:56
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