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August 19th, 2019, 22:52 Posted By: wraggster
bsnes-hd beta 9 is released. bsnes-hd (formally "HD Mode 7 mod") is a mod of bsnes v107.1 by byuu (high-level emulation for co-processors came right on time for this). It performs Mode 7 transformations (incl. HDMA) at up to 4 times the horizontal and vertical resolution.bsnes is an emulator for the Super Famicom and SNES video game systems.
bsnes-hd changelog:
Smooth (true color, high resolution) gradients for color math from fixed color, e.g. for pseudo perspectives
True color processing for all color operations
Fixed crashes on combined high scale and widescreen settings
HD and super sampling scale up to 10x (4K+)
preview: Smooth (high resolution) Window effects, like shadows or spells (top and bottom edges have issues)
https://github.com/DerKoun/bsnes-hd
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August 19th, 2019, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
bsnes-plus v05 is released. bsnes-plus (or bsnes+) is a fork of bsnes (based on bsnes-classic) intended to introduce some new features and improvements, mostly aimed at debugging. bsnes is an emulator for the Super Famicom and SNES video game systems. The purpose of the emulator is a bit different from other emulators: it focuses on accuracy, debugging functionality, and clean code.
What's new
- "Step over" and "step out" buttons in debugger
- Improved debugger UI with register editing
- Improved handling of address mirroring for breakpoints (extends to the entire address space, not just RAM)
- Real-time code and data highlighting in memory editor, with fast searching for known code/data locations and unexplored regions
- Cartridge ROM and RAM views in memory editor for mapper-agnostic analysis
- SA-1 disassembly and debugging
- SA-1 bus and BW-RAM viewing and (partial) usage logging
- Super FX disassembly and debugging
- Super FX bus viewing and usage logging
- SPC file dumping
- IPS and BPS soft patching
- Multiple emulation improvements backported from bsnes/higan (mostly via bsnes-classic)
Non-debugging features:
* Satellaview / BS-X support
* SPC file dumping
* SPC output visualizer (keyboards & peak meters)
* IPS and BPS soft patching
* Multiple emulation improvements backported from bsnes/higan (mostly via bsnes-classic)
bsnes-plus v05rc2 Changelog:
Migrated project from Qt 4 to 5
Added reworked debugger/disassembler view [BenjaminSchulte]
Added support for symbol files in VICE, FMA, and WLA-DX formats for CPU, SMP, and SA1 [BenjaminSchulte]
(.cpu.sym, .smp.sym, or .sa1.sym extensions)
Added reworked sprite viewer [UnDisbeliever]
Added reworked breakpoint editor; supports unlimited breakpoints and symbol usage [Revenant]
Added configurable comparison operators for breakpoint "data" field [Revenant]
Added context menu to memory editor, including shortcuts to add new breakpoints [Revenant]
Added buttons to debug view for running to next NMI/IRQ/vblank/hblank [Revenant]
Added support for variable BS-X memory pack sizes up to 32Mbit [Revenant]
(default size for empty pack is configurable in emulator options)
Added more accurate emulation of Satellaview download bandwidth [Revenant]
(allows simulated downloads of smaller games and other content without crashing BS-X)
Added support for save states with BS-X cartridges [Revenant]
Added support for NTT Data Keypad controller [raphnet]
Added built-in support for expanded SPC7110 ROMs [Revenant]
(allows running Tengai Makyou Zero translation without special manifest)
Fixed mouse cursor staying locked when window loses focus if using mouse/super scope/etc [Revenant]
Fixed scaling of window elements on hi-DPI Windows systems [CypherSignal]
Fixed unfiltered screenshots still incorporating gamma curve if enabled [Revenant]
Fixed memory editor ignoring uppercase letters A-F when editing [Revenant]
Fixed memory editor sometimes copying one more byte than what's actually selected [Revenant]
Fixed "reload" option and drag-and-drop for special cartridge types [Revenant]
Fixed detection of SA1 carts with a battery but no BWRAM [Revenant]
(partially fixes Pachi Slot Monogatari PAL Special)
Fixed Esc key potentially closing both a dialog box and parent window at the same time [Revenant]
Fixed automatically loading an empty BS-X memory pack if none was previously specified [Revenant]
Updated memory editor to allow opening multiple instances simultaneously [BenjaminSchulte]
Updated tilemap viewer to show address of selected character [UnDisbeliever]
Updated some Cx4 timing and memory mapping details [Revenant]
Updated some BS-X base unit register behavior for downloading content [Revenant]
Backported SA1 mul/div register behavior fixes
Backported DMA/HDMA timing fixes
Backported PPU timing tweaks from higan v106r124
https://github.com/devinacker/bsnes-plus
http://www.emucr.com/2019/08/bsnes-plus-v05.html
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August 19th, 2019, 22:45 Posted By: wraggster
As the name suggests, 60FPS mods are hacks applied to retail games that increase their frame limit to 60FPS (usually from 30FPS). Sometimes, games on portable consoles have their framerate limited in order to save on battery life and improve thermals even though the hardware is enough to push out a much high framerate.
In other cases, you need to overclock the device’s CPU and GPU to achieve a framerate closer to 60FPS which is something easily doable on the Switch with sysmodules like sys-clk.
However, not everybody cares about the aforementioned benefits since some folks prefer a smoother experience while sacrificing a bit of battery life. Due to this, masagrator decided to create a bunch of 60FPS mods for retail Switch games which include:
http://wololo.net/2019/08/17/nintend...-overcooked-2/
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August 19th, 2019, 22:38 Posted By: wraggster
After being stuck in PR limbo for a while, the ever-popular 3DS emulator Citra has finally added texture dumping & replacement to its official Canary builds!
The features are still experimental, so it may take a while before they reach Nightlies, but if you're curious, you can play around with them and make your own texture packs right now! Once you've got the latest build, you can find all you need in the Graphics section of the emulator's Configuration window. Three options are available, and they're pretty self-explanatory: "Use Custom Textures", "Dump Textures" and "Preload Custom Textures". The system in place is very similar to Dolphin's own: dumped textures will be placed in <User Directory>\dump\textures\<title id> as PNG files, while custom ones will be loaded from <User Directory>\load\textures\<title id> (you can also right-click on a game entry and choose "Open Texture Dump Location" / "Open Custom Texture Location" for easier access). After editing the dumped files (or grabbing a premade pack from the internet), you can just drop everything in the custom textures folder, boot up your desired title with the correct options enabled et voilà, your game will have a brand new look!
Note: This feature is currently still WIP (Work-in-progress)!
Texture dumping and replacement have been implemented for Citra, by Khang06.
For more details, see PR #4868.
Instructions for dumping textures
- Open Emulation > Configure... in Citra’s menu and go to Graphics > Enhancements.
- Enable Dump textures and click OK.
- Now open a game of your choice, and start playing. As you keep playing, the textures used by the game will be dumped as .PNG files.
- Right-click on your game in the games list and select Open Texture Dump Location to open the dump folder.
Instructions for replacing textures
- Right-click on your game in the games list and select Open Custom Texture Location to open the folder where custom textures will be loaded from.
- Place your custom texture .PNG files in the folder.
- In Emulation > Configure... > Graphics > Enhancements, enable Use Custom Textures and click OK.
- Additionally, if you want your custom textures to be pre-loaded to RAM, enable Preload Custom Textures as well. This will help improve the performance but will also increase memory usage.
Click to expand...
Are you excited about this feature? Will you use it to give your favourite titles an unofficial HD remaster or are you hyped for more "games repainted"-like texture packs? Let us know by leaving a post below!
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August 19th, 2019, 22:37 Posted By: wraggster
Released earlier this year was DerKoun's HD tweak to the emulator bsnes, which added widescreen to classic games, while also dramatically upscaling Mode 7 graphics. After a few months of work, a new release has been made available, bringing with it some exciting new features. In this build, DerKoun has added HD upscaling and super sampling up to 10x original resolution. Should you have the right hardware and a desire to play your Super Nintendo games in 4K, you now can. Also featured in this version is smooth gradients and true color processing, which allow for better graphics from a distance and more accurate color emulation, respectively.
Changelog:
- Smooth (true color, high resolution) gradients for color math from fixed color, e.g. for pseudo perspectives. This combines the new true color support and high resolution smoothing of HDMA effects to turn approximations of gradients into real ones. This is noticeable in many games with Mode 7 perspectives, often in the top/distant part, which often fades to black or another color. Enabled by default, on medium setting "4". (see image: left side before vs. right one with this improvement)
- True color processing for all color operations. Colors are upconverted from RGB 555 to 888 early, before any further processing.
- Fixed crashes on combined high scale and widescreen settings. All combinations available in the settings dialog now work. Also manually editing the config file now allows for wider widescreen, but it still crashes due to too high combinations.
- HD and super sampling scale up to 10x. So you can go for true 4K with the right combination of settings and really good hardware.
- preview: Smooth (high resolution) Window effects, like shadows or spells. This is considered a preview, as the top and bottom edges of such effects still look SD and therefore stand out. It is disabled ("0") by default. You can set "1" or higher values to give it a try. Please let me know what works good and what does not. Screenshots and savestates would be much appreciated.
DerKoun's next step for bsnes-hd is to merge the newest updates and changes from the official branch of bsnes, before moving onto new ideas and implementations. Currently, bsnes-hd beta 9 is available on both Windows and Linux, and is available to download below.
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https://gbatemp.net/threads/new-bsne...to-10x.546169/
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August 19th, 2019, 22:32 Posted By: wraggster
Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that runs commercial games. Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC.
# Cemu detailed changelog for 1.15.12
# Patreon release date: 2019-08-09
# Public release date: 2019-08-16
general:
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Fixed a bug where Cemu would take two screenshots when gamepad view was closed
general: Taking a screenshot will now show a notifcation on the screen (if notification overlay is enabled)
general: Added game profile option to set either TV or GamePad output as the default screen (#152)
general: The graphic pack window now has an option to filter for games that are in the game list (enabled by default)
general: Fixed a bug where any changed graphic pack settings would get lost when updating graphic packs (#150)
general: Added fallback for community graphic pack download in case cemu.info is down or unreachable
GX2: Added support for accessing gl_PointCoord in shaders
This makes stars in the night sky in BotW visible. It's unknown if anything else is affected
Requires proper point sprite support in compatibility profile which is working on all vendors except AMD's windows driver |
http://cemu.info/
http://www.emulation64.com/view/3005...512b-released/
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August 19th, 2019, 22:28 Posted By: wraggster
As a popular game whose localization for the SNES was highly memorable, the script writing for Final Fantasy VI is a topic frequently discussed in fan circles. But the sheer number of translation errors in its original English release, compounded by the alterations and inaccuracies found in later versions, have had the result of obscuring and distorting many of the details of the story.
In response to this, user hairy_hen decided that it would be appropriate to rewrite the script for Final Fantasy VI, in order to create a version for the SNES that faithfully presents all of the story and character details found in the Japanese original. Drawing upon his experience as a story editor, and closely following the live translation featured on Legends of Localization, hairy_hen went through the entire game and rewrote the dialog line by line, in order to restore all of the missing and distorted information. With the details presented in a correctly translated form, the internal logic of the story becomes much clearer. The focus of the plot is more unified and comprehensible, and the flow of each conversation becomes consistent in tone and coherence.
The overriding goal was to be as accurate to the intent of the original script as possible, but to keep the text in a form that would read naturally in English, rather than trying to replicate the quirks of Japanese grammar. With debates about the wording of specific lines often overshadowing discussions about the story, hairy_hen found it necessary to take an objective approach to the merits and shortcomings of previous releases. Consequently, while he did retain some of the memorable “flavor text” from earlier versions, he eliminated any changes in the dialog that interfered with the meaning of the story, and generally preferred to rewrite rather than hang on to the earlier phrasing.
The character of Cyan, whose speech had been somewhat mangled in previous releases by incorrect application of archaic grammar, was rewritten most extensively of all. Researching works dating from the time of Early Modern English allowed Cyan’s dialog to be written in a way that convincingly reflects the usage from this period, while remaining clearly understandable to a modern audience. Additional documentation about the specifics of the style is also provided.
The project’s aims also included the translation of non-story text; and therefore the game’s enemies, items, spells, and other abilities were renamed for the sake of accuracy. Most of these used the official names from Square Enix, but some were changed as needed in order to more closely reflect the Japanese originals. Mistakes in their accompanying descriptions were also corrected. To streamline the experience of the player, bug fixes were applied to eliminate potentially game-breaking glitches in the original code, and a few small enhancements such as B-button dashing were included for convenience. The Japanese title screen and uncensored graphics are also present in this version.
Since the Legends of Localization video series made it plainly obvious just how many previously undocumented translation mistakes the game actually contained, the necessity of creating a version that would rectify all of the issues became clear. This release, therefore, is aimed at anyone who prefers to play the game in its original form for the SNES, but without any of the associated textual problems. With its focus on story, Final Fantasy VI: Retranslated is designed particularly to appeal to those who wish to immerse themselves in the world of the game, and to experience a version that adheres as closely as possible to the intentions of the game’s writers.
https://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-vi/
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=29094
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August 19th, 2019, 22:22 Posted By: wraggster
Nintendo appears to be purging YouTube of all unauthorised music uploads from its various classic soundtracks.
YouTuber GilvaSunner, whose channel features tunes from a wide range of video games and has amassed 300,000 subscribers, shared screenshots of his inbox via Twitter, showing a series of copyright claim notices against his videos.
All of the videos -- 145 shown, and likely more across his channel -- featured music from Nintendo games, including Fire Emblem Awakening, Super Smash Bros Brawl, and various Mario and Zelda titles.
In a tweet, GilvaSunner suggests that Nintendo "started manually with the most viewed content on the channel, and are now going through the playlists one by one."
He added: "Looking at the time of the claims, it seems these are coming from Japan HQ."
Elsewhere, the people behind the channel BrawlBRSTMs3, which specialised in Smash Bros music, has voluntarily shut down. Kotaku reports it was hit by similar copyright claims from Nintendo earlier this year.
"Part of the reason for our voluntary shutdown is out of respect for the copyright owners of all music we've shared," the channel wrote via Twitter.
Nintendo has been particularly active in clamping down on violations of its copyright via YouTube, to the point where it built the Nintendo Creators Program -- an initiative that ensured all videos featuring Nintendo games, including Let's Plays, were approved (and partly monetised) by Nintendo.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...music-channels
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August 19th, 2019, 22:19 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft's blossoming friendship with Nintendo continued today with the news that Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition will arrive on Switch next month.
The hit 2015 game by Moon Studio joins Cuphead and Minecraft as Microsoft-owned IP making the move to Nintendo's console. It was revealed as part of Nintendo's latest indie game showcase ahead of Gamescom.
The news follows the E3 reveal of Banjo-Kazooie coming to Nintendo's Super Smash Bros series. Banjo and Kazooie are characters that made their debut on N64, but are now owned by Xbox. Elsewhere, Microsoft's recently acquired studios Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Obsidian all have titles due for Nintendo Switch.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...e-blind-forest
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August 14th, 2019, 21:51 Posted By: wraggster
Atmosphère is a CFW for hackable Nintendo Switch consoles, which include fusee-gelee vulnerable units and ipatched units running FW 4.1.0 for now although support for Switch firmwares up to version 7.0.1 will almost certainly come in the future.
Similar to other CFWs, Atmosphère lets you do a wide variety of things on your Switch including running homebrew games/utilities, using custom modules (similar to plugins in PSP/PSVita jargon), overclocking your console and even running a secondary version of Horizon OS stored on your SDCard via emuMMC.
Other than being quite feature-packed, this CFW is also frequently updated and a few hours ago, Atmosphère 0.9.3 landed with:
- Significant optimisations, by hexkyz, to fusee’s boot sequence which means that Atmosphère’s boot times have been greatly reduced and you’ll be spending less time staring at its splash screen!
- Automatic backing up of your Switch’s BIS keys which are instrumental in fixing a corrupted NAND especially on ipatched units since they don’t have the RCM bug
- The “pm” (Process Manager), “creport” (Crash Report) and “fatal” system modules were rewritten with numerous improvements
- The version string in the Settings App now displays whether you’re using emuMMC or not and defaults pertaining to hbloader’s memory usage in applet mode were added to ‘system_settings.ini’
- The bundled version of hbl has been updated to version 2.2 (from 2.1) and hbmenu got updated to version 3.1 (from 3.0.1)
- Other fixes and minor updates which can be found by browsing through its commit history
To grab Atmosphère 0.9.3, check out this link and make sure you update fusee-primary when installing it.
http://wololo.net/2019/08/09/release...etter-visuals/
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August 14th, 2019, 21:43 Posted By: wraggster
It’s no secret that an emulator with decent compatibility (264 playable games as of today) for the Nintendo 3DS exists and that emulator is Citra, the creators of which are now mostly working on Yuzu which is a Nintendo Switch emulator seeing doing some great progress.
However, Citra focuses more on getting games to work rather than emulating everything perfectly and until a couple of months ago, audio was emulated with code implemented on a per-game basis rather than emulating the actual audio chips.
On the other hand, Corgi3DS is an LLE emulator which focuses on emulating every last bit of the Nintendo 3DS to the point of starting execution from original Boot ROMs, loading the 3DS OS from a NAND dump and even booting to the 3DS’ Home Menu for a fully authentic experience. This emulator, from ‘PSISP‘ who authored DobieStation (a largely unfinished PS2 emulator for Android which can boot some games with inadequate performance), is currently in a pretty early stage since no games actually work, the emulated 3DS OS hangs after a while due to unfinished WiFi card emulation code and speed is horrible. As a result, there’s no way we’ll get the full 3DS experience in an emulator with excellent compatibility any time soon but the progress is pretty promising. If you want that, you might as well spend a few bucks and grab a cheap Nintendo 3DS off eBay or locally!
http://wololo.net/2019/08/11/news-co...30-new-levels/
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August 14th, 2019, 21:41 Posted By: wraggster
Contrary to the PSVita, the 3DS’ homebrew haydays have been over for a pretty long time but noteworthy releases still drop from time to time. One of these releases was Twilight Menu++ 9.0.0 some days ago which came with Widescreen support (lets you play DS games in Widescreen (16:10) thus filling up the 3DS’ upper screen).
Unfortunately, this feature wasn’t useable since TWL Patcher was required and that wasn’t out then. That finally changed on Sunday as Sono released his patcher which can enable Widescreen mode by following a short tutorial on a 64-Bit Windows PC. You can grab TWLPatcher from this link and follow the instructions found here to use it on your console!
Many DS games are a lot of fun but playing them in Widescreen on your 3DS makes them even better!
On the other hand, TWiLight Menu++ received an update to version 9.0.4 yesterday and this brings along:
- Support for 202 Widescreen Mode games
- Combined with version 9.0.3, titles like Final Fantasy IV, Pokemon Platinum and Assassin’s Creed II – Discovery are now supported
- Sanity checks relating to Widescreen mode have been added which make sure that a working copy of ‘TwlBg.cxi’ is present in “sd:/luma/sysmodule” and whether it’s backed up
- Some small bug fixes having to do with file copying
To grab TWiLight Menu++ 9.0.4 and enjoy DS games in Widescreen, check out this link to grab and install it. Do note that updating via TWiLight Updater doesn’t work as of right now so you must update your binaries manually!
http://wololo.net/2019/08/14/news-na...-games-on-3ds/
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August 14th, 2019, 18:58 Posted By: wraggster
Muffin the Alpaca is a Game Boy game by Fronze, made for ZGBJAM#2. It’s possibly not a real game yet, but nice to check out.
<img class="alignnone wp-image-63730 size-medium" src="https://pdroms.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Muffin-the-Alpaca-Game-Boy-Game-300x270.png" alt="" width="300" height="270" srcset="https://pdroms.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Muffin-the-Alpaca-Game-Boy-Game-300x270.png 300w, https://pdroms.de/wp-content/uploads...e-Boy-Game.png 347w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />
Quote:Run across the infinite Alpaca’s Valley. A wonderful place where all the alpacas can run freely without any distraction.
Feel this allegory of the intense non-stop life-style we are all living.
PS: It has some in-app purchases for just 666$ for no reason at all. Buy our alpaca’s hat today!
Soon in VR too!! (only Oculus Vive)
By The Alpaca Paca’s & Alpacapacino Team with <3.
https://pdroms.de/nintendo-gameboy-g...-game-boy-game
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