XBOX

Xbox News For July 2003

XBoyAdvance v4
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:28 PM

what's New :
- Fixed support for long filenames (some games would load, e.g. off CD media,
but save games would not save. Or some games wouldn't load from network
share at all.)
- Bugfixed screenshot display from favorites listing
- Other bugfixes/UI/Skin changes to bring it up to date with other emu releases

You can download it from #xboxemu irc.zoite.net

OTHER NEW EMU RELEASE
Sorry we missed posting about this:
Smsplus-x V6
It is ofcourse available to download from #xboxemu

Aussie mod- chip sales ban
Posted by Sin-Tex at 12:02 PM

News Source: The Register

Australia is now officially under the thumb of the mod-chip banners, after the Court of Appeal, accepted its argument that mod-chips should be made illegal.

Mod chips enable games console players to overcome protection built into their machines to run imported games bought legitimately and to back up games legitimately. But they also facilitate the playing of pirated games too.

For a short time, selling mod chips in Australia was legal - officially, following a court ruling last July. Sony had filed a suit against a Sydney mod-chip trader, Eddy Stevens.

FCEUltra v8
Posted by Wraggster at 0:22 AM

Xport has released a new updated version of his Nes emu for the Xbox, heres whats new:

What's New :

- Sound and video hiccups should be gone

- Fixed bug where screenshots were not showing up in favorites list

- Fixed bug with loading games across network share with filename length > 42

- Default skin by boo_se updated to include animation on the loading screen.
Overwrite the existing skin dir with the new contents of this package.
Then, from the main menu, select "Select Skin" and reload the skin.

- Skin System Update:
+ Removed specific variable for amount of time to delay on loading screen
+ Added general variable to *all* menu configuration screens to specify
how long to let animation loop before giving control to the user.
This is useful for instances where you want some animation to run before
the user can do anything.

Xbox Top 100
Posted by Sin-Tex at 10:00 AM

Xbox Top 100 has been reset. If you have time make us number one & give us your vote.

All you need do is click here and click vote.

NeoGenesis v3
Posted by XDelusion at 2:35 AM

Features :
- Full sound/video
- Excellent compatibility - ported from Gens
- Runs real Sega CDs that you put in your XBox DVD drive or it can
read ISO/MP3 and BIN image files
- CUE sheet processing for more accurate CD-MP3 playback
- CDDISSECT-friendly. Rip with CDDISSECT, upload to XBOX, run CUE
- Selectable GENS settings : (see notes below feature list)
+ Country code ( Autodetect or force a specific country code )
+ CD Emulation Method - Perfect Synchro or Normal
+ 4-player adaptor on port 1 or port 2
+ Show CD LEDs
+ Fast Blur Effect
+ Sprite Limit
+ YM2612 Improvement
+ DAC Improvement
+ PSG Improvement
+ Selectable MSH2 processor speed
+ Selectable SSH2 processor speed
- ZIP support
- Netplay

ect. Read the NFO file.

News from Xbins

SMSPlusX v5
Posted by XDelusion at 2:32 AM

v5 Features :

- Fixed screen tearing
- Added FM disable/enable option

v4 Features :

- Relax shares are properly sorted
- Added option to force 50hz/60hz mode
- Graphics filter will not auto-default to "None" anymore

v3 Features :
- Emulates the Sega Game Gear/Sega Master System
- ZIP support
- Cheat system - Search/Create your own cheat codes

- Favorites list
- Resizable game screen
- Save States with 10 save state slots
- Take in-game screenshots and display them on the game selection list
- Netplay (2 players)
- Skin-able :
- Backgrounds
- Sounds
- Background Music
- Sprites
- Text position (right/left/center, top/bottom/center)
- Text color, select bar color
- Font
- Fading speed
- Screenshot position
- Can specify 2 sprites to surround the selected menu option
- Option to have a transparent select-bar color (from select-color menu)
- Can flip sprites horizontally/vertically
- Continuously loop sprite animations or just loop once
- Assign motion_x and motion_y variables
- Assign a bounding rectangle in which sprites can move
- Assign a degree of rotation that the sprites should turn when they hit a boundary
- If you want to change the way something looks in this new UI,
chances are that you can change it via the Configuration menu.
- Samba/NetBIOS sharing support (read NES roms from your PC)
- Relax Network Sharing
- Play MP3 or M3U playlists in the background
(Can also read MP3/M3U from across Samba shares.)
- User definable save directory. If you don't like the default of
E:\SAVES\SMSPLUSX you can change it via the SMSPlusX.INI file
- Graphics filters :
+ 2xSai
+ Super 2xSai
+ Eagle
+ Super Eagle
+ SuperScale
+ AdvanceMame 2x
+ Simple 2x
+ 2xSai Scanline
+ Super 2xSai Scanline
+ Eagle Scanline
+ Super Eagle Scanline
+ SuperScale Scanline
- Netplay option to allow for smoother netplay : netplay skip.
When server starts netplay, you can select a netplay skip value.
This number specifies how often it should skip checking for network data.
The higher the number, the less often it checks for network data, but the
result will be a less responsive controller.
- Record/Playback feature - record your gameplay in the emu and then
play it back again. Record up to 10 minutes of gameplay.
- Every single in-game command is fully customizable on any of the
four joypad controllers.
- Map any emulator or UI command to a single button or a combination of
two buttons. (e.g. RTrigger+LTrigger = Save State)
- Autofire capabilities for any emulator button on any controller
- One-button combos (define a series of emulator commands to be played
back when you press a user-definable XBox controller combination.)
(E.g. Press RTrigger+LTrigger to execute the command string
A,B,A,B,Up,Down,Left,Right)
- Traverse any directory on any drive ( Continue selecting the parent
directory entry on the file selection list to get the drive selection
list. Selectable drives are C, D, E, F, R, X, Y, Z, and SMB.
R is the CDROM drive. SMB is the samba share you have defined in your
SMSPlusX.ini file.) Press Y from any file-listing screen to go up one
directory level.
- All UI commands (save state, load state, screenshot, etc) can be
invoked from the Options/Pause menu as well as in-game via your
customized joypad mappings.
- Save Game management - delete save game files
- Can be invoked from a command-line to directly run a game from a front-end
or dashboard and bypass the user-selection screens. (Only if the frontend
or dashboard supports this feature.)
- Can return to the launching program *if* the launching program supports this
feature. For example, if the custom-launch routines are incorporated into
a new frontend, that frontend could launch SMSPlusX and when you exit
SMSPlusX, that frontend can be automatically reloaded.
- Cigar and a waffle

News from Xbins

FCEUltraX v5
Posted by XDelusion at 2:30 AM

What's New :
- Option to force PAL/NTSC
- Relax bugfixes (sorting, etc)
- Faster video output (makes no difference since all games already run at 60fps :P )
- New Skin options :
+ Continuously loop sprite animations or just loop once
+ Assign motion_x and motion_y variables
+ Assign a bounding rectangle in which sprites can move
+ Assign a degree of rotation that the sprites should turn when they hit a boundary
- Misc. bugfixes


News from Xbins

Kawa-X v0.11
Posted by XDelusion at 2:27 AM

WHAT'S NEW
v0.11
=====
- Added lowpass filter for sound. Toggle it from the in game menu
- Disabled that Start+Back shortcut to exit games.
Some people were exiting games by accident.
Now if you want to exit a game, you have to use the ingame menu
(right thumb click)
- Applied some XBE version patching on the executable. That may fix issues
some people have had with the emu not starting ?

- Configurable rompath. Just edit rompath.ini

- Kawa-X now stores on the HD what romsets you have or haven't
so now, there is only a scan the first time you launch the emu.
That should fix the problem people have had with the emu
taking ages to boot up. It will only take ages the first time :)
If you want to force a rescan, hit the X button on the game list.
- Fixed some problems with the provided CLRmame and RomCenter dat files
I provide with the emu. Files inside NEOGEO.ZIP were reported with the
wrong names in some places.

By the way if people have problems starting Neogeo games they should check
the following:
In their NEOGEO.ZIP:
NG-LO.ROM should be named 000-LO.LO
NG-SFIX.ROM should be named SFIX.SFX
NEO-GEO.ROM should be named SP-S2.SP1


News from Xbins

Kawa-X
Posted by XDelusion at 18:36 PM

From NFO file:

Kawa-X is the XBox port of a Windows emulator I made some time ago named
Kawaks.
It allows to play titles from the Capcom CPS1, CPS2 and SNK NeoGeo library.
Pretty much all games are supported, even these 90mb monsters that would
normally not fit into the XBox's limited 64mb RAM. (This emu includes a
significant amount of black magic :P) For the more recent encrypted NeoGeo
games, though, only the decrypted form is supported (64Mb of RAM won't allow
to do the decryption). Kawaks (PC version) can produce decrypted sets, if you
only have encrypted versions...
See the included list of supported titles for more info...


There's the following goodies waiting inside :
- CPS1, CPS2, NeoGeo support (doh)
- Plenty of nice eye candy video filters (more about that later)
- Redefinable controls (including handy macros like keys to do 3 punches, etc)
- Can save screenshots
- Savestates (8 slots per game)
- You can play NeoGeo games either in arcade mode or in console mode
- You can switch region (language settings) for every supported CPS2 game.
For example, that means you can play the normally japanese only Mighty Pang
in english if you want...

News from XBins

XBoyAdvance v3
Posted by Sin-Tex at 10:49 AM

XBoyAdvance - GBA/GBC/GB/SGB/SGB2 Emulator for XBox v3

What's New :
- Tactics Ogre now works
- Reflect mini-game in Wario Ware now works
- Jumpy graphics in games like Doom and Duke Nukem is fixed
- Borders now display on Super Gameboy games
- Won't crash when reading many,many files via Relax share
- GB/GBC Cheating now works
- Fixed greater than/less than bug in cheat code searching (they were reversed)
- Cheat code searching in GBA now searches all GBA memory instead of just the
main portion.
- Added Gameshark/Codebreaker Support

Got Released Yesterday, you can download it from #xboxemu irc.zoite.net

Xboy Advance v2
Posted by Wraggster at 18:16 PM

Xport has quickly released an update to his port of Visual Boy Advance to the Xbox, heres whats new:

- Removed the FPS text (ooops!)

That FPS stuff is actually slightly impacting the actual FPS of the games.
I was using it for testing purposes and I completely forgot about it.
I am aware that certain games like Tactics Ogre crash in XBox and not PC version. I'm looking into it.

Xbox Top 100
Posted by Sin-Tex at 10:27 AM

Xbox Top 100 has been reset. If you have time make us number one & give us your vote.

All you need do is click here and click vote.

Xboy Advance v1
Posted by Wraggster at 7:22 AM

Xport the coder who has ported so many wonderful emulators to the Xbox Console has done it again and has now ported Forgottens excellent Visual Boy Advance to the Xbox, its called Xboy Advance and heres some of the features:

- Emulates the Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Mono, SuperGameboy 1 and 2

- Excellent compatibility - ported from VisualBoy Advance v1.5.1

- ZIP support

- Cheat system - Search/Create your own cheat codes

- Favorites list

- Resizable game screen

- Save Game management - delete save game files

- Skin-able :
- Backgrounds
- Sounds
- Background Music
- Sprites
- Text position (right/left/center, top/bottom/center)
- Text color, select bar color
- Font
- Fading speed
- Screenshot position
- Can specify 2 sprites to surround the selected menu option
- Option to have a transparent select-bar color (from select-color menu)
- Can flip sprites horizontally/vertically
- If you want to change the way something looks in this new UI,
chances are that you can change it via the Configuration menu.

- Samba/NetBIOS sharing support (read NES roms from your PC)

- Relax Network Sharing

- Play MP3 or M3U playlists in the background
(Can also read MP3/M3U from across Samba shares.)

- User definable save directory. If you don't like the default of
E:SAVESXBOYADVANCE you can change it via the XBOYADVANCE.INI file

- Take in-game screenshots and display them on the game selection list

Frodo-X Beta 2 Released
Posted by Wraggster at 10:51 AM

Today sees an update to a port of Frodo the Commodore 64 emulator called Frodo-X, heres whats new in this release:

-Whats New/Fixed:
- Added Zip file Support
- Added USB Keyboard Support
- Cleaned up frontend game list
- Added new background image
(C64 computer pixel art courtesy of robotriot: http://omr.planet-d.net/)


From the readme file:

Let me first apologize for the atrocious time between releases. I've been wanting to update this for like ever. Real life unfortuately has first dibs on me, and I program for a living. So programming more when I get home is sometimes very tough to get motivated for. Anyone who is in my field I'm sure can sympathize. Anyhow, I found some time about a week
ago and decided to get some additions into it. I still have a few more things left I wanna wrap up, so Im hoping to release another version soon (without a year passing ;) )

Xbox Homebrew Site
Posted by Wraggster at 21:35 PM

Today sees the unveiling of a new site for the Xbox scene that concentrates on the Homebrew ports, games, demos and apps like Xbox Media Player only. Today it has been updated with pages for all these games:

- Ballzy
- Duke3D X
- SDL QUAKE
- Xbomberbox
- Breakout 3dX
- Pacman X
- ROTT X
- Sarien X
- Quake2 X
- Sensitive X
- Stepmania X
- MineXsweeper
- Connect 4
- Boxes
- Chess & Othello
- Invador X

FCEUltra v4
Posted by Wraggster at 21:12 PM

Todays sees a new release of FCE Ultra for the Xbox, which is a Nes emulator for the Xbox console, heres whats new:

- Relax Network Sharing
- Option to not have BGM play when you start ROM
- Delete Screenshots from the "Browse Screenshots" option
- Specify a default ROM directory in the FCEU.INI file

MAMEoX v 0.71.2b
Posted by XDelusion at 5:57 AM

>> What's new/fixed:
* Enabled writeback caching for > 64 megs (Games should be playable on 128mb Xboxes)
* Exiting from a ROM to the ROM list should now be MUCH faster. For some, this was taking from 10 seconds to several minutes.
* Added code to allow 4 ROM paths
* Changed it so romstatus.xml file is only parsed when scanning for new ROMs. This decreases load time between ROMs for large XML files.
* Added public function to force reload the rom status file
* Fixed Backup feature (yet again, this is what, the 3rd time I broke it? I'm still surprised that people use it :))
* Added code to allow 4 ROM paths
* Changed the text for "problem ROM" filters
* Changed backup feature to use CopyFile, as it was broken in the change to multiple ROM paths (break #4 :)). For some reason MoveFile craps out when I try to move across partitions (or maybe just different logical drive letters)

MameOx Homepage

FCEUltra v3
Posted by XDelusion at 5:56 AM

> Whats New/Fixed:
- Emulates NES/Famicom/Famicom Disk System
- Near 100% compatibility
- 100% speed and sound (even with filters and background MP3 playing.)
- ZIP support
- Cheat system - Search/Create your own cheat codes or enter Game Genie codes
- Favorites list
- Resizable game screen
- Save Game management - delete save game files
- Skin-able :
- Backgrounds
- Sounds
- Background Music
- Sprites
- Text position (right/left/center, top/bottom/center)
- Text color, select bar color
- Font
- Fading speed
- Screenshot position
- Can specify 2 sprites to surround the selected menu option
- Option to have a transparent select-bar color (from select-color menu)
- If you want to change the way something looks in this new UI,
chances are that you can change it via the Configuration menu.
- Samba/NetBIOS sharing support (read NES roms from your PC)


News From Xbins.org

irc move
Posted by Sin-Tex at 0:10 AM

This is becoming a bit of a ritual i know :)

Anyway our friends at wworg.com will be turning off there server so we have now moved to irc.zoite.net with luck this will be the last time for awhile.

We have the latest PCSXBOX v7 release available so feel free pop along. Once again we our now at #xboxemu irc.zoite.net

PCSX Xbox v7
Posted by Wraggster at 20:56 PM

Xport has released a new version of his port of the Playstation emulator PCSX to the Xbox console, heres whats new:

- Fixed freezing during loading of XBE (see below)
- Fixed freezing during loading of game (see below)
- Press Y from any file listing to go up one directory
- Settings files (STG) will be saved with graphics filter now.
The settings file format should remain static.
- Background Music should stay stopped or stay started when
entering/exiting a game now.
- New Configure Skin menu option - Show Available Memory
Shows how much memory is currently available.
Please remember that sometimes an emulator will allocate memory the
first time it is run - so when you are making a skin be sure to run
the emulator at least once before determining how much memory you have
left for your skin.
- Small change to Samba routine - but it's not likely it changes much.

SDL Quake on the XBOX?
Posted by XDelusion at 19:20 PM

Lantus has posted a picture of SDL Quake running on the XBOX, go check it out on his site!

Official SDLx Homepage

dvd2xbox 0.3.6
Posted by XDelusion at 4:32 AM

>> What's new/fixed:
* increased Video DVD ripping speed
* get name from Video DVD (unfortunately this functions failes for some encrypted discs, same function works in copy mode !?)
* added CDDA and Data CD to media detection
* added CDDA to ogg ripping/encoding using CDRipXlib (only vbr quality setting for the time being, 0.1 lo up to 1.0 hi)
* added config settings for background color (nothing mind but requested)
* reenabled open tray notify

News from XBins

Xbox Sales Totals
Posted by Wraggster at 21:18 PM

Seen this interesting bit of news over at Xbox Rules.Com

According to EGM(as of 6/26) and some recent information from my inside sources, I have discovered the following sales statistics:

PS2: 51.2 million sold
Xbox: 13 million sold
GC: 9.4 million sold

This was over a month ago, but the most recent sales tally available, however Microsoft plans to release their fiscal sales totals within the coming weeks.

Only 5-6 months, prior to these sales figures, the Xbox was at 9 million. Strong sales indeed, over 50% increase in sales in 4 of the slowest months of gaming. In March Microsoft was believed to have said they did not expect another 1 million units sold by the end of June.

Don't forget, this is a "somewhat old" report and the figures may just be a rumor, but as always it's news, especially with Microsoft's upcoming fical year report!

...and more SDL news.
Posted by XDelusion at 4:36 AM

libSDLx V1.2 - Xbox Release V0.02
>> Whats New/Fixed:
- Fixed Axis problem on gamepad
- Added Axis 2 and 3 for Right Analog Stick
- Added Buttons 8-12 for non analog buttons.
- Fixed SDL_DOUBLEBUFFER issue
- Fixed SDL_Flip() issue.

Lantus is keeping my fingers sore lately, but a release this important to the sceen can not go un-announced.

SDLx Homepage

Xbox Top 100
Posted by Sin-Tex at 1:35 AM

Xbox Top 100 has been reset. If you have time make us number one & give us your vote.

All you need do is click here and click vote.

PCSXBox v6
Posted by Sin-Tex at 0:14 AM

News Source: #xboxemu

Playstation Emulator for XBox v6

What's New:
- Samba/NetBIOS fix. This should hopefully fix the problems that some people
have been having with Samba/NetBIOS shares.
- New SKIN features :
+ Can specify 2 sprites to surround the selected menu option
Be sure to re-install the PCSXBOX_DEFAULT skin in this package
to see an example.
+ Option to have a transparent select-bar color (from select-color menu)
- Fixed bug where MP3 would start up again after game ends even if it was stopped.
- All *.PNG screenshots in screenshots dir will be displayed on game select
screen regardless of filename now.
- Fixed bug where fade speed of 0 resulted in game-loading screen not displaying
- New graphics filters :
+ 2xSai Scanline
+ Super 2xSai Scanline
+ Eagle Scanline
+ Super Eagle Scanline
+ SuperScale Scanline
- New netplay option to allow for smoother netplay : netplay skip.
When server starts netplay, you can select a netplay skip value.
This number specifies how often it should skip checking for network data.
The higher the number, the less often it checks for network data, but the
result will be a less responsive controller.

libSDLx V1.2 - Xbox Release V0.01
Posted by XDelusion at 13:55 PM

>> From The readme:
[QUOTE]
This is a Xbox port of SDL. More information can be located at http://www.libsdl.org or http://www.lantus-x.com/SDLx for the Xbox version.

Notes
-----
- SDL and SDLMixer have been combined into one lib
- No Vorbis/OGG support (yet) - do people want this?
- if your SDL application uses MP3 support, you need to link libSMPEGx.lib in your target application. (For some reason trying to link libSMPEGx.lib in the libSDLx project causes INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR).
- SDL encapsulates Xbox API functionality. For example video routines create its own DirectX device, sound creates is own DSound device etc. So trying to mix xbapp.cpp etc and SDLx is bad news. The whole point of SDL is to provide a nice interface and portable code across platforms.
- Remember if you decide to port an existing SDL app/game/demo/emulator you must provide source code as per GPL.


Any problems with the lib contact me or discuss your issues on my SDLx forum at http://www.lantus-x.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=9.

I wont bother reading issues about how to compile code etc.

Finally if anyone has knowledge in setting up CVS to host the source contact me.
[/QUOTE]

SDL Homepage

Download Here

SDL Coming To The Xbox !
Posted by Wraggster at 21:54 PM

Lantus the author of Xsnes9X amongst other things for the Xbox now has a new project in the works, heres what he says on his new site:

welcome to the new section
as people may be aware , i have been working on a SDL library to the Xbox console.
current status: 85% complete with gamepad routines and yuv overlays still outstanding. Other than this the lib is fully functional and supports all SDL functions including CDDA audio, MP3 and full mouse and keyboard support.
Over the past few months compiling up SDL demos and sample apps to test my lib and i am at the point where im satisfied enough to think about releasing it out to the public in the near future.
"Your lying SDL isnt possible on the Xbox!" - Incorrect, infact if you have been keeping track - RoTT and Duke3d use SDL Mixer routines which were initially ported to enable MIDI music from those games. SarienX uses SDL for its graphics rendering and keyboard handler. Team Avalaunch also use libSDLx for their MOD/S3M/XM/IT (and soon MP3 and CDDA) routines via SDLMixer.
how will libSDLx be distibuted? Source code will be freely available (as per GPL) and pre-created libs should be available from the usual places although im still deciding this.
why SDL? - quote from the SDL page "Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power"
Ultimately - to be added as part of the official SDL CVS is where i am aiming. The source is certainly clean enough for this but this will need to be discussed with the SDL authors and see what their wishes are.

PCSXBox v5
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:24 PM

News Source: #xboxemu

PSX Emulator for XBox v5

What's New:
- Fixed bug when reloading favorites list containing files with spaces in them
- Fixed bug where screenshots were not displaying on favorites list
- Samba/NetBIOS library updated and added option for a nameserver
- XBE should now load regardless of any screwy settings
- New option - see full path or just filename on favorites list
- Changed location of save files to E:\SAVES\PCSXBOX
Existing save files will be moved there.
- User definable save directory. If you don't like the default of
E:\SAVES\PCSXBOX you can change it via the PCSX.INI file
- New option - overwrite D:\PCSX.INI and D:\EMUSKINS\SKINNAME\SETTINGS.INI
files with current settings. Makes it easier to package up your custom
skins.
- Loading a new skin should work correctly now
- Record/Playback feature - record your gameplay in the emu and then
play it back again. Record up to 10 minutes of gameplay.
- New main menu option "Configure Game" Set all configuration for a game
from the main menu so you can just click on the game to play it.

Rip DVD to your XBOX alas!!!
Posted by XDelusion at 5:52 AM

dvd2xbox 0.3.4
>> What's new/fixed:
* added config file. configure your favorite dump positions
* added media detection (XBOX DVD / Video DVD)
* copying Video DVDs using libdvdread/libdvdcss :-) (testing. still needs some speed improvements if possible. If DVD isn't authenticated, restart box and try again)

I have yet to test this, so I am not sure how good it works or don't work at this moment, but be sure to keep an eye on it, as it is still being updated and therefore improved.

News Source: XBINS.ORG

DMS3 Review Soon!
Posted by DCMASTER at 19:50 PM

We are due to recieve some DMS3 Chips, compliments of DMS Technologies, for us to review. The DMS3 is the most advanced PS2 chip to date. You can check it out here.

A BIG thanks to DMS Technologies for donating these chips to us!

xSnes9x -v1.05 Info + Happy B'day
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:19 PM

News Source: xSnes9x

Lantus has posted news about the upcoming release of xSnes9x v1.05.
Tomorrow also happens to be the 1st Birthday of xSnes9x, on Wednesday 10th July 2002 Lantus released the first Alpha Version.
Greets to Lantus :)

QUOTE:
people are probably wondering what the delay is with the new version. Theres a few reasons, ill explain:

- In all honesty, xSnes9x is pretty close to as good as you will get. Theres no real reason to do monthly updates anymore, so i will only be releasing on major updates or "emergency" type fixes.

- There is a new Snes9x release coming out really soon 1.40, i am holding off on any changes until that has been released and any kinks have been ironed out. Its looking good and i cant wait to bring all the new code across to the Xbox.

- Burned out. I've been a little burned out and needed to take a break for a while.


The new release will have quite a few game fixes, as well as the DSP-2 chip emulation (Dungeon Master) and updated DSP-1 emulation. I believe, although im not 100% sure it will make it into the Windows release, that the APU code has been rewritten.

There are also a string of bugs fixed - the changelog is quite large some of which ive mentioned before (cheat codes), some which are new.

On top of this for my port, ive implemented:

- LightGun support for Superscope Games and Justifier (Lethal Enforcers!).
- Nintendo Mouse emulation support using USB Mice.
- Added some rendering filters - Simple and AdvanceMame.
- MOD/S3M/XM/IT/MP3 background music support if you didnt like SID tunes.
- The ability to shortcut to roms via evox (command line parameters).
- SMB support for loading roms remotely
- Other things that may/may not make the final cut.

Other than this - I havent messed around with the UI very much because i like the way its turned out in V1.04. I think (its been a while) i fixed some Progressive Scan problems but i will revisit it.

So stay tuned - things will ramping up again.

Oh and xSnes9x turns 1 year old soon :)
END QUOTE

Duke and ROTT Updates soon!
Posted by XDelusion at 2:22 AM

This is not a release statement, but I have heard from Lantus himself that he has continued work on the almighty Duke, and has wiped out many of the bugs that plaqued the Easter release, and has also added Keyboard and Mouse support! Expect a release soon.

Also Keyboard and Mouse support will be added to Rise Of The Triad as well.

Not bad at all, thankx again Lantus!

Lantus' Homepage

MAMEoX v0.71.1b
Posted by XDelusion at 3:51 AM

>> What's new/fixed (most notable changes):

* Integrated MAME core 0.71
* Switched to a more aggressive handling of silent XBE dependencies. This change frees up almost another megabyte of RAM, which will hopefully get a couple more games working. This will undoubtedly break games that used to work until they are reported and thrown into the new families, but it gives up about a meg of RAM.
To anyone who just read through that paragraph, please pardon the yelling:
THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE THAT THIS BUILD WILL BREAK SOME ROMS THAT WORKED BEFORE! THIS IS A CONSEQUENCE OF AN AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY TO RECLAIM A LITTLE MORE RAM. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE REPORT ANY ROMS THAT HANG/CRASH!!
Just had to make sure that everybody gets at least that part, if you guys don't report the bugs, I don't find them and can't fix them for you :)
* Added a START menu to the Launcher. Many actions that were previously accomplished via shortcuts are now performed by pressing "START" and selecting an item in the menu.
* Integrated new graphics from r4dius and cleaned up the layout of the help/options screen.
* Fixed a problem where BIOS games were hidden when "clones"
were filtered out
* Added several ROM filter/sorting options, these may be changed via the Options menu. Filtering is toggled with the BLACK button.
* Put in support for rom colorization/filtering on ROMSTATUS.XML (This file will become available to the general public when the new site goes live). See the addendum below for info on the format of this file for the adventurous testers out there :)
* Fixed the problem where moving a ROM to the backup directory
would not remove it from the ROM list cache file.
* Changed the functions in the MAME core that ask for memory to use a wrapper function where we can properly catch out of memory conditions. This makes the system far more stable, and as a bonus, we can print out a sensible error message (Out of memory) instead of asking you guys to learn the 20 different messages that really just mean "Out of Memory"
* Added VSYNC option
* Added frame throttling option
* Increased autoframeskip reliability
* Removed history.dat support (we might add support in the Launcher in the future, but in-game history is probably out of the question, sorry for getting everybody's hopes up w/ the last release).

Can be downloaded from irc.wworg.com #xboxemu

Mameox Homepage

Pcsxbox V4 released
Posted by Deviance at 0:16 AM

>> From Xport
[QUOTE]
This is a completely new UI which I plan on incorporating into most of my other releases. I tried to include as much customization and as many features as possible, but I'm sure there will still be changes and additions that people will want to see. Please provide feedback on the xbox-scene.com emulation forums so that this UI can be refined and then placed into the other ports.
What's New :
* Customizable skins
-Backgrounds
-Sounds
-Background Music
-Sprites
-Text position (right/left/center, top/bottom/center)
-Text color, select bar color
-Font
-Fading speed
-Screenshot position
-If you want to change the way something looks in this new UI, chances are that you can change it via the Configuration menu.
* Default Castlevania:SOTN skin gives example of what you can do.
* Netplay (2 players)
* Samba/NetBIOS support (read CD images from your PC)
* Every single in-game command is fully customizable on any of the four joypad controllers.
* Map any emulator or UI command to a single button or a combination of two buttons. (e.g. RTrigger+LTrigger = Save State)
* Autofire capabilities for any emulator button on any controller
* One-button combos (define a series of emulator commands to be played back when you press a user-definable XBox controller combination.) (E.g. Press RTrigger+LTrigger to run the series of commands that will cast Soul Steal in Castlevania)
* Traverse any directory on any drive ( Continue selecting the parent directory entry on the file selection list to get the drive selection list. Selectable drives are C, D, E, F, R, X, Y, Z, and SMB. R is the CDROM drive. SMB is the samba share you have defined in your pcsx.ini file.)
* 10 save state slots
* Take in-game screenshots which can later be browsed and can also be viewed on the game-selection list.
* All UI commands (save state, load state, screenshot, etc) can be invoked from the Options/Pause menu as well as in-game via your customized joypad mappings.
* New graphics filters :
-2xSai
-Super 2xSai
-Eagle
-Super Eagle
-SuperScale
-AdvanceMame 2x
-Simple 2x
* Can be invoked from a command-line to directly run a game from a front-end or dashboard and bypass the user-selection screens. (Only if the frontend or dashboard supports this feature.)
* Can return to the launching program *if* the launching program supports this feature. For example, if the custom-launch routines are incorporated into a new frontend, that frontend could launch PCSXBox and when you exit PCSXBox, that frontend can be automatically reloaded.
* Support for M3U playlists of MP3 files. (Currently only supports MP3 files) (Can also read MP3/M3U from across Samba shares.)
* Favorites list
* Save Game management - delete save game files
* CD-Changing should hopefully be fixed
* Schmoke and a pancake

What's Not New:
* Compatibility - this version does not fix or break any games from v2/v3.
[/QUOTE]

You can download it in the usual place: #xboxemu irc.wworg.com
News source: XPort himself

Thanks go to Surf for telling me about the release, and thanks to XPort, for uh, making it.

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UAEX, now with USB Mouse Support!
Posted by XDelusion at 10:51 AM

V0.81 Unofficial

What's new/fixed:
* Added USB mouse support. If your USB mouse doesnt work then its not supported by the xbox, try another.

Tis true, UAEX is shaping up to make the XBOX more and more like the real experience...
...without all the disk swapping! :)


UAEX Home Page

Chameleon News- Works on Xbox 1.3 Now
Posted by Wraggster at 22:30 PM

News Source = Console Hardware News
The makers of the Chameleon Modchip now have posted that they have it working on the new Xbox 1.3

V1.3 Chameleon RELEASED

As of today all further shipments of the
CHAMELEON will be V1.3 compatible.
WE have also included a small additional feature by request.
With the use of DIP 3 in mode 4 our customers can now pre-select between bank 0 (256k) or bank 2 (512k)
for boot with the power button ;)

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