NEZplug++, a multi-format music player, is a modification to the original NEZplug which allows for playback of the two additional music formats CPC and SGC. You can download it at the NEZplug++ download page.

I have specifically posted this program in advance of a major reformatting of the Game Gear and MSX music archives upcoming in the near future.

Peace,
-Montie

Despite being identified as a final release in 2009, JCOM-SPC, a Super Nintendo Entertainment System SPC music file player for Windows, was updated to version 1.96 on Monday. Here's a list of what's new:

• A small bug concerning how VB deals with registry accesses on Win7 64Bit, causing a \"Runtime error 13\". More specifically the part that recalls the last window positions. Added in some type conversion function calls and reports fixed the problem.
• A few minor adjustments here and there.
• Removed the 32bps option and a warning will issue if you attempt to set a sample rate above 48Khz. This is a limitation of uematsu.dll, not JCOM-SPC or SNESAPU.dll.
• Removed the code for the REALMagic remote control and a few other cosmetic bits. The upshot of this is that JCOM-SPC should run with the plain vanilla VB6 runtime which is supplied by default with pretty much every version of windows since XP. NO MORE RUNTIMER!!! Also JCOM-SPC is now pretty much Windows user profile safe.
• Debug logging is now written to the current user's My Documents folder as \"JCOM-SPC-LOG.txt\" and any temporary files get generated in the current user's TEMP folder.
• This will be the last version of the this codebase. Development on a brand new from scratch JCOM-SPC is slowly in progress. Emphasis on slowly...

Sega Megadrive/Genesis VGM Player plays VGM files on the real machine (after conversion to optimised format). It is now available on its download page.

Thanks to TubeBar for bringing this to our attention.

Peace,
-Montie

ePSXe 1.9.0 for windows and linux have been released.

You can find them in the downloads section.

The main changes are:
Many fixes to the core and cdrom decoder (Fixed/improved 30+ games)
More cheat code support
Updated internal SPU plugin

Regards,
ePSXe Team.

Download it here (Windows),
here (Linux), or at http://www.epsxe.com/

Thanks to Marco925 for the news.

Steem SSE v3.5.2 uploaded

Changes:

• Bugfix options 'Drive track info', 'Pasti only for STX' on/off (Win32)
  
• Drive track info: no sector when fast mode
  
• Infobox will display SSE readme and FAQ; new font and size
  
• More screenshots (100,000 instead of 1,000)
  
• Bugfix CPU: Aladin, Fuzion 77 78 84
  
• MFP: some improvements/refactoring inspired by Hatari (IACK, IRQ delay)
  
• Blitter: writing 0 in #lines register translates into 65536.
  
• Bugfix line -106 bytes shifter trick threshold (Just Buggin')
  
• Shifter trick STE line +20, shift display (Riverside)
  
• Bugfix read SDP: Mindbomb/No Shit (vs. SNYD/TCB)
  
• Internal: new method for demos that destablise the shifter (option
  
• \"STF wake-up state 2\")
  
• Some ACIA bugfixes and improvements (High Fidelity Dreams, Overdrive Demos, Brataccas)
  
• Floppy disk: handle when there's no disk in drive (European Demos)
  
• Sound: renounce for now anti-aliasing attempts
  

NinJax, a Windows level editor for Ninja Gaiden for the Nintendo Entertainment System, was updated to 0.22.0 on 02 April 2010.

Those of you who have tried to download the earlier uploaded version and found it corrupt should try downloading it again from the NinJax download page.

Thanks to DANGER X for pointing out the corrupt file and to InVerse for providing the download link for the current version.

Peace,
-Montie

While I don't usually rant about stuff I update on the page and just say what's new, here's something that's got my seal of approval. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion but what I have to say is directed more towards those who are into the video-sharing scene like Youtube, Dailymotion, etc. who like to upload their gameplay videos.

There is a multi-system emulator going around called BizHawk that in my opinion, is shaping up to become among the best emulator of all-time. While there are still improvements too be made, there are several things so far that this emulator allows you to do that one would wish all emulators could do for some of the lesser supported systems and one of them is being able to record compressed AVI for Colecovision for example. Most people consider using MESS and record uncompressed AVI and compress it from there but with Bizhawk you can go through the process the same way you do with most Nintendo-related emulators that have that option. In fact, BizHawk was built to be based off each current supported system's best emulators like the recently added 7800 support is based off of EMU7800.

The mother of all features is the ability to import movie files from other emulators like lsnes, snes9x, etc. and if that don't float your boat, with the press of a button you can rewind the action then resume to correct any previous mistakes you made in the game. You can also fast forward the action to skip those annoying cutscenes but keep them intact if you are a longplayer as a speedrunner can choose to skip it altogether if possible.


You can download the emulator here and view all the current details here at http://tasvideos.org/Bizhawk/ReleaseHistory.html

Note: Copy all the contents of the dll folder and past them into the main folder in order to operate this emulator.

mGalaxy has been updated. Author's note:

Author's Note:

Author's Note:

FBZX Wii, a Spectrum ZX for the Nintendo Wii has been added.

Changes:

• Screen snapshots visible on screen in file select menus;
  
• Option to activate the virtual keyboard with the wiimote IR pointer;
  
• Changed menu navigation rules (2 and B always come back to previuos menu);
  
• FTP and SMP connect also after start up;
  
• Tape stops after machine selection change;
  
• Fixed contention in normal mode emulation;
  
• Fixed crackling in turbo auto mode;
  
• Other minor bug fixes.
  

ZX emulator for the DS has been updated.

Changes:

• Spectrum +2A/+3 snapshots are not rejected right away anymore. Instead, they are executed in 128K mode with extended paging enabled. This makes some +2A/+3 RZXs and exclusive software work quite fine.
  
• Added a bit of color coding to the controls screen.
  

PSX emulator for PC/Windows updated:

Changes:

• Many fixes to the cd-rom decoder and core that fixed almost 150 games
  
• Improved input devices support
  
• On the fly memory card change
  
• Fixed changedisc feature
  
• Support for SBI subchannel files
  
• Support for PBP disc images
  
• Cheat codes support
  

TurboGrafx/PC-Engine emulator for PC/Windows updated

What's new:

• The movement of \"6-Button Pad\" has been improved. In \"Emerald Dragon\", the problem that the III-VI button of 6-Button Pad did not occasionally work was solved.
  
• With a fast CD-ROM access PC environment, in the last stage of \"Tengai Makyou II\", the problem that the voice occasionally became interrupted was solved.
  
• With a fast CD-ROM access PC environment, in \"Ranma 1/2\", the problem that the display of the visual scene occasionally fell into disorder was solved.
  
• With a fast CD-ROM access PC environment, in \"Mugen Senshi Valis\", the problem that had occasionally stopped was solved.
  
• Additionally, a detailed part has been improved and corrected.
  

NES emulator updated

What's new:

• Huge mappers overhaul, all latest mappers from fceu-mm;
  
• Win32: Bug fixes;
  
• Win32: Proper fullscreen support and correct aspect ratio;
  
• Win32: Major improvement of debugging tools;
  
• Win32: TAS Editor 1.0;
  
• Various bugfixes in movies/replay engine;
  
• Improved Lua drawing, new Lua functions and scripts;
  
• Win32: fixed compare-type cheats and game genie codes;
  
• \"Display FPS\" option;
  
• Win32: \"Force Grayscale\" option;
  
• Win32: Support for HUD recording in AVI dumping;
  
• SDL: fixed various segfaults and build issues;
  
• SDL: added gtk hotkey configuration dialog.