higan v106r125

March 29th, 2019, 19:18 Posted By: wraggster

higan v106r125 is released. higan (formerly bsnes) is a Nintendo multi-system emulator that began development on 2004-10-14. It currently supports the following systems:
- Famicom
- Super Famicom
- Game Boy
- Game Boy Color
- Game Boy Advance

higan also supports the following subsystems:
- Super Game Boy
- BS-X Satellaview
- Sufami Turbo

higan Changelog：
* Update to v106r125 release.

byuu says:

nothing useful, just refactoring of audio code

https://gitlab.com/higan/higan
http://www.emucr.com/2019/03/higan-v106r125.html

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Nintendulator 0.985 beta (2019/03/28)

March 29th, 2019, 19:13 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendulator 0.985 beta (2019/03/28) is released. Nintendulator is an open source Win32 NES emulator written in C (plus some assembly optimization). The original goal was to emulate the NES down to its hardware quirks; though it's fallen behind over the years, recent builds have caught up once again and can emulate certain behaviors most other emulators neglect to handle. However, this emulation precision comes at a price - a 1500MHz (estimated) or faster CPU is required to emulate at full speed.

Supported file formats include .NES, UNIF, FDS (fwNES format), and NSF. Mappers are handled using external DLLs, complete with extra sound channels for most games which provide them. Other notable features include writing to FDS images (by storing the differences in the SRAM folder), Game Genie support (limited to 3 codes), customizeable controllers (including 4 player), input movie recording and playback (with re-recording), AVI capturing, and a debugger.

http://www.qmtpro.com/~nes/nintendulator/

http://www.emucr.com/2019/03/nintend...-20190328.html

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Mupen64Plus for Nintendo Switch Updated

March 29th, 2019, 19:03 Posted By: wraggster

m4wx has released a version of Mupen64Plus with the GlideN64 plugin that runs Resident Evil 2 and Star Wars:RS without major issues!

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ScummVM for the Switch updated with USB Mouse/Keyboard support - PSP Also

March 29th, 2019, 19:01 Posted By: wraggster

rsn8887 has released yet another significant update to ScummVM for the Switch which brings about support for USB mice and keyboards.

This which will translate to a more faithful gaming experience and more accurate input as games that can be run in ScummVM are all ‘point and click’ adventure games like Leisure Suit Larry. Rsn8887 notes that not all mice may work and some keyboard/mouse combos don’t work either due to limitations in the Switch’s USB driver so if the mouse you try using doesn’t work, just try another one!
To grab this build of ScummVM (and an updated PSP build), simply follow this link and download the NRO provided.

http://wololo.net/2019/03/22/switch-...d-scummvm-for/

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Cpasjuste’s pNES, pSNES and pFBA all get updated

March 29th, 2019, 18:59 Posted By: wraggster

If you aren’t a big fan of RetroArch and prefer standalone emulators for the Switch, then you’ve got some updates to install as 3 important emulators have just been updated! These are Cpasjuste’s pNES, pSNES and pFBA, all mature emulators that have been around since last year.

These updates (v3.1) apply to all three emulators and are available for both the Switch and Linux; they include:

• Support for zipped skins so you can have a more organised skins folder and save a bit of space along some other minor updates
  • You may now select the skin of your choice from the main menu
• The save state menu received numerous bug fixes and is now able to return to the main menu when pressing the back button successfully among other things
• On the Switch, you can press the joystick on the left joycon for START and the joystick on the right joycon for SELECT
• The Force_60HZ option is not automatically applied, the auto interpolation options and NeoGeo BIOS selection have been fixed (Included in pFBA only through a separate v3.3 release)

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DosBox dynarec working on the Switch and frangar working on enabling it for the Vita

March 29th, 2019, 18:57 Posted By: wraggster

While the DosBox emulator is one of the most popular emulators around, the Switch and PSVita ports of it didn’t see as much love as other emulators.

Due to this, dynarec wasn’t working on both these ports but now, m4wx decided to change things a bit and has been to get DosBox’s aarch64 (ARM 64) dynamic recompiler (dynarec) working on the Switch. This means that many more MS-DOS games, such as WarCraft 2 (below) and Settlers 2, run great and performance in Windows 95/98/ME is probably much better which means that some older Windows games may be playable on the Switch!
Switching focus to the PSVita, its DosBox port is also seeing some love as frangar pushed some commits to GitHub relating to dynarec support. As of right now, no official word has been given on the state of DosBox’s dynarec on the Vita but MS-DOS/Windows 9x emulation on the device might get a significant improvement soon!

The Switch builds of DosBox with dynarec aren’t publicly available as of right now and are only available in beta form for Patreon supports of m4wx or rsn8887. That being said, they’ll probably be made available to everybody in the coming days/weeks as both developers are big contributors to the homebrew community.

http://wololo.net/2019/03/22/switch-...d-scummvm-for/

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SX Installer v1.52 Available

March 28th, 2019, 20:38 Posted By: wraggster

The other day, our users noticed we silently pushed out v1.51 without an announcement and many were asking what the changes were. At the time we didn't want to take focus off our major SX OS update news, but now that v1.52 of SX INSTALLER is now available to enjoy, here is the 'changelog' below, which is boring as this time around unlike our previous releases, no new features have been added.

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Atmosphère 0.8.6 released

March 28th, 2019, 20:37 Posted By: wraggster

• Another day, another June 15th - @SciresM and his team has just released version 0.8.6 of his Custom Firmware for the Nintendo Switch!
  
  The update fixes a rather well-known issue occurring in Exosphère when overclocking the CPU, so now the system should no longer crash if you use tools such as Freebird or sys-clk with all the due precautions, as well as a plethora of other minor or lesser known ones (with another smaller yet notable fix bringing back compatibility with firmware 1.0.0). There are also a few other important changes: a couple of improvements have been made to the cheat sysmodule allowing users to create more complex cheats - see the changelog for more in-detail explaination - and cheat toggles are now loaded/saved to a text file when opening/closing a game, the Homebrew Launcher is now accessed by holding down R and opening the Album or any installed game (instead of opening the Album without holding R) and a few functions have been added for homebrew developers to let their applications use web applets.
  
  As usual, most of the previously mentioned features' behaivor can be customized by changing INI values, however due to HBL's new launching method the hbl_config!title_id=app setting has been deprecated and will be removed starting from Atmosphère version 0.9.0.
  
  The full changelog can be seen below:

  • A number of bugs were fixed, including:
    • A case of inverted logic was fixed in fs.mitm which prevented the flags system from working correctly.
    • Time service access was corrected in both creport/fatal.
      • This fixes the timestamps used in fatal/crash report filenames.
    • A coherency issue was fixed in exosphère's Security Engine driver.
      • This fixes some instability issues encountered when overclocking the CPU.
    • Loader now unmaps NROs correctly, when ldr:ro is used.
      • This fixes a crash when repeatedly launching the web applet on < 3.0.0.
    • Usage of hidKeysDown was corrected to hidKeysHeld in several modules.
      • This fixes a rare issue where keypresses may have been incorrectly detected.
    • An issue with code filesystem unmounting was fixed in loader.
      • This issue could occasionally cause a fatal error 0x1015 to be thrown on boot.
    • Two bugs were fixed in the implementations of dmnt's cheat virtual machine.
      • These could cause cheats to work incorrectly under certain circumstances.
    • PM now uses a static buffer instead of a dynamically allocated one during process launch.
      • This fixes a memory exhaustion problem when building with gcc 8.3.0.
    • A workaround for a deadlock bug in Horizon's kernel on >= 6.0.0 was added in dmnt.
      • This prevents a system hang when booting certain titles with cheats enabled (ex: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe).
    • set.mitm now reads the system firmware version directly from the system version archive, instead of calling into set:sys.
      • This fixes compatibility with 1.0.0, which now successfully boots again.
  • dmnt's cheat virtual machine had some instruction set changes.
    • A new opcode was added for beginning conditional blocks based on register contents.
    • More addressing modes were added to the StoreRegisterToAddress opcode.
    • These should allow for more complex cheats to be implemented.
  • A new system for saving the state of cheat toggles between game boots was added.
    • Toggles are now saved to atmosphere/titles/<title id>/cheats/toggles.txt when either toggles were successfully loaded from that file or the system setting atmosphere!dmnt_always_save_cheat_toggles is non-zero.
    • This removes the need for manually setting cheats from all-on or all-off to the desired state on each game boot.
  • The default behavior for loader's HBL support was changed.
    • Instead of launching HBL when album is launched without R held, loader now launches HBL when album or any game is launched with R held.
    • Loader will now override any app in addition to a specific title id when hbl_config!override_any_app is true in loader.ini.
      • Accordingly, the hbl_config!title_id=app setting was deprecated. Support will be removed in Atmosphère 0.9.0.
  • First-class support was added to loader and fs.mitm for enabling homebrew to launch web applets.
    • Loader will now cause the "HtmlDocument" NCA path to resolve for whatever title HBL is taking over, even if it would not normally do so.
    • fs.mitm will also now cause requests to mount the HtmlDocument content for HBL's title to open the sdmc:/atmosphere/hbl_html folder.
      • By default, this just contains a URL whitelist.
  • General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

  
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  Source
  
  https://gbatemp.net/threads/atmosphe...leased.534501/
  
  
  

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NXBlood - NBlood on the Nintendo Switch

March 28th, 2019, 20:35 Posted By: wraggster

• NXBlood is a port of NBlood for the Switch which itself is a attempted Source port of the 1997 game Blood
  the port is relatively feature complete compared to the existing version of NBlood
  
  This is my first homebrew application so there are still some issues and the mapping of buttons isn't perfect yet
  
  Installation:
  - move NBlood.nro into your /switch folder
  

  • make a folder called nblood on the root of your SD and copy the following files into it
    BLOOD.INI
    BLOOD.RFF
    BLOOD000.DEM-BLOOD003.DEM
    GUI.RFF
    SOUNDS.RFF
    SURFACE.DAT
    TILES000.ART-TILES017.ART
    VOXEL.DAT
  • copy nblood.pk3 into the nblood folder
  • start NXBlood

  
  Controls:
  THERE CURRENTLY IS NO WAY OF CHANGING CONTROLLER CONFIGURATIONS IN-GAME
  if you do want to change your controls anway you can edit the nblood.cfg in your /nblood folder
  
  Joycons:
  Menu:
  A - Select Option
  B - Nothing (back button will be implemented soon)
  Start - Crashes the game (unintended, will be fixed soon)
  Up/Down/Left/Right - Goes Up/Down/Left/Right in the menu
  
  In-game:
  Left Joystick - Movement
  Right Joystick - Looking around
  Right Joystick pressed - Crouching
  A - Use
  B - Jump
  ZR - Fire
  R & L - Switching Weapons
  Left & Right - Switch items
  
  Keyboard and Mouse are fully supported and you are free to use them
  
  CREDITS:
  

  • Nuke.YKT for NBlood

  
  Downloads:
  - Source Code: https://github.com/Jan200101/NXBlood
  - Binaries (.NRO): https://github.com/Jan200101/NXBlood/releases/latest
  
  via https://gbatemp.net/threads/nxblood-...switch.534587/
  
  
  

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Homebrew App Store 2.1 released

March 28th, 2019, 20:34 Posted By: wraggster

• Do you own a modded Switch or a Wii U? Would you like to get your homebrew directly to your console? If you answered yes to both questions then you most likely already know about @vgmoose and Team 4TU's Homebrew App Store and if not, it's a great time to give it a shot!
  
  The new version 2.1 is available for both of the aforementioned consoles and delivers a good number of improvements. For starters, you can expect faster downloads as well as a new miscellaneous category for homebrew apps, while platform-specific Switch additions include a smoother UI thanks to hardware accelerated rendering, a new category dedicated to themes (with the ability to install them once downloaded) and being able to launch NROs after installing them. Of course, there are also several Wii U-specific improvements as well: a search function has been added, more details are available for each package, the code was synced with the Switch version of the hb-appstore (so you'll be able to enjoy some features and enhancements perviously exclusive to that version) and a few others.
  
  Those are just some of the highlights - if you're interested in reading about all that's available in this version, the full changelog is available below!
  

  Switch:
  

  • new theme category + allow theme installation
  • NRO launching after installation
  • uses GPU to render (smoother)

  Both:
  

  • faster downloads
  • can actually exit with minus button
  • misc category added

  Wii U:
  

  • synced with switch codebase! Now using SDL2
  • can search now!
  • can control without touch screen
  • can scroll and read more details about packages (size, changelog, etc)
  • can install files anywhere on SD (Retroarch, haxchi, etc updated)
  • sort apps, smoother scrolling, and other quality of life things from syncing with Switch

  The PC build has also started migrating to Buck + Buckaroo for building and dependency management. It is my long term goal to use the same Buck configuration to compile across all platforms!
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  Source
  
  https://gbatemp.net/threads/homebrew...leased.534637/
  
  
  

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Goldleaf 0.5 released

March 28th, 2019, 20:33 Posted By: wraggster

• @XorTroll has released an important update for Goldleaf, his Nintendo Switch title installer and Swiss Army knife. Goldtree, its USB companion app, has also been updated aswell.
  
  Version 0.5 sports a quite lenghty changelog and has been described by the developer as, quote, "the most stable update ever". Let's go through some of the highlights quickly: the user interface has been revamped and now supports touch controls, a new config file enables users to customize the UI to their liking, USB installations are more stable and reliable due to some backend changes, 7.0.X support has been added (it had been available in nightly builds already, however this is the first stable release to include it officially), NSP installation received some reliability improvements (mainly to avoid being left with corrupted data due to bad installs and there's also a new check to make the installation of newer/older versions of titles more streamlined) and a good number of quality of life improvements.
  
  On the other hand, NCA extraction has been removed temporarily as the developer plans to implement a completely rebuilt system to support it. The CFW menu is no longer present aswell due to redundancy and usefulness issues (NXThemes are now handled externally, meaning its only good feature would be to check if qlaunch was replaced in your CFW of choice).
  
  As usual, the full changelog is available below:

  • Huge UI refactor:
    • Dialogs have been refactored, now they aren't full-screen, and are roundy and well designed
    • Several graphics have changed (main logo)
    • Touch support, mainly noticeable in dialogs and menus. (scrolling still not supported)
    • On file browsers (SD / console memory), the element size has been changed from 100 to 50, doubling the element count being showed, and improving browsing in very populated directories.
    • As Plutonium changed on 0.2.1, now moving up on the top element in a menu will move to the latest one, and down on the latest one to the top one.
  • USB is in a better state now:
    • Installations are no longer handled by two different threads, which makes them more stable.
    • USB system has been changed on the libnx fork, hence some things are easy to handle now, like connection issues or callbacks while USB reading.
    • Don't worry, multi-installation USB is planned for 0.6 or sooner versions
  • New and rebuilt content manager:
    • Titles are sorted by all their subcontents (in case they have updates or DLC)
    • Any kind of content can be deleted individually
    • System titles are also supported, but deleting them is not allowed by default.
  • New config file! Goldleaf.ini:
    • Support to replace UI colors and assets.
    • Support to enforce a custom language
    • Via RomFs replacing icons, texts, even translations can be replaced!
  • File browsers:
    • Files and directories are sorted properly now.
  • NSP installs:
    • 7.x installs are supported by doing a temporary copy of CNMT and control NCAs to NAND SYSTEM (which gets deleted right after the install, don't worry)
    • Install dialog might take a few seconds to show up as the change mentioned above. Just a small delay, nothing dangerous.
    • Bad installs will (attempt) to remove half-installed contents to avoid corrupted installs.
    • If the title is already installed, Goldleaf will uninstall it so that the new one can be installed. This might happen with updates (share the same application Id so are considered as the same title internally)
  • USB installs:
    • Sizes were fixed, transferring methods were revised... now USB installs are more stable than ever (after those tons of bugs with 0.4)
    • Goldtree also had small changes related to USB commands, so other PC clients should get updated too. Not a big change, but a really relevant one.
  • Error handling:
    • Not a very big addition, but now caught errors are displayed on a FBI-ish style (dialog showing error type, description..., not just the error code on the footer)
  • NXTheme installs:
    • Now Goldleaf doesn't handle these installs itself, instead it uses NxThemes installer, which should be installed in order to install themes. This fixes compatibility with new changes.
  • User accounts:
    • Now icons are checked whether they are valid 256x256 JPEG icons before using them for account icons.
    • On previous versions the only user (in case there was just one) could be deleted. Now that has been corrected.
  • Removed features!?
    • NCA file support (extractions) was removed as a new system to dynamically mount and access NCAs is being worked on for next versions
    • CFW support as it resulted in a pointless menu, which just was useful to see whether qlaunch was replaced in the selected CFW.
  • General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

  
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  Source
  https://gbatemp.net/threads/goldleaf...leased.534644/
  
  
  
  
  

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melonDS v0.7.4 released!

March 28th, 2019, 20:30 Posted By: wraggster

melonDS is an open source Nintendo DS(NDS) emulator. melonDS is part of a second wave of DS emulators. There are a few other emulator projects that are part of it, which you might have already heard of. Either way, check them out!

melonDS Features:
* almost-complete 2D graphics
* 3D graphics (software renderer) with texturing, alphablending, lighting
* input: keyboard and joystick, touchscreen
* backup memory
* booting from the BIOS
* resizable video output window, preserving aspect ratio of individual screens

melonDS Changelog:

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Virtual GameBoy v5.6 released!

March 28th, 2019, 18:56 Posted By: wraggster

Virtual GameBoy is a program that emulates the Nintendo GameBoy handheld on your computer. It runs GameBoy, Super GameBoy, and GameBoy Color games on PCs, Macs, PocketPCs, Unix boxes, etc. VGB also helps debugging GameBoy software without using a costly development system.

Virtual GameBoy v5.6 Changelog:

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puNES v0.104 released!

March 28th, 2019, 18:54 Posted By: wraggster

via http://www.emulation64.com/view/2954...0104-released/

puNES is a NES emulator. Currently the program supports mappers 0, MMC1, UNROM, CNROM, and the sound is available. It uses the SDL libraries and it works on both Linux and Windows.

puNES v0.104 Changelog

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iNES v5.6 released!

March 28th, 2019, 18:54 Posted By: wraggster

via http://www.emulation64.com/view/2955/iNES-v56-released/

iNES is a program that emulates Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Famicom videogame consoles on your computer. It plays NES games on PCs, PocketPCs, Macs, Unix boxes, etc.

iNES v5.6 Changelog:

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Super Mario Bros. NES - PAL Revision B (unofficial) has finally come

March 28th, 2019, 18:48 Posted By: wraggster

Finally, Super Mario Bros. NES european Revision A now receives an unofficial revision, which is called Revision B. This revision contains further bugfixes, improvements, and a few differences. Here they are:

• The Lakitu now throws the Spiny Egg correctly.
• Mario and Luigi have separated fire color palette.
• Except Bowser and the mountain graphic, all the green-colored enemies/items/graphics have darker green color.
• After having more than 9 lives, the counter shows the actual hexadecimal values.
• The edge of the cloud/bush is now fully filled with black line.
• Between ‘THANK YOU’ and ‘MARIO!’ (or ‘LUIGI!’) there is now a comma.
• The exclamation mark and the dot has been resized.
• The original game over music is now replaced with the unused alternative one.
• The musics and the sounds have their original speed again.
• The coin’s sound is different.
• The coin’s counter has 3 digits.
• The “x” graphic at the coin counter has been moved up a little bit.

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Pokemon Perfect Crystal has received a number of updates lately!

March 28th, 2019, 18:46 Posted By: wraggster

Over the past month, Pokemon Perfect Crystal, the hack that has been made to be an idealized definitive version of Pokemon Crystal that has every Pokemon available to catch and to fix a number of glaring glitches has received a number of updates!
These updates include:
Update (18/02/2019):

• Moved the 3 legendary birds to more logical locations around Johto and Kanto.

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Cuphead will bring Xbox Live to Switch

March 28th, 2019, 18:31 Posted By: wraggster

Xbox Live is coming to Switch after all. Nintendo kicked off presentation today by announcing that StudioMDHR's run-and-gun action game Cuphead would launch on the Switch April 18.
"You can thank StudioMDHR for making their award-winning game so special, and our friends at Microsoft for helping us bring Cuphead to even more players," Nintendo manager of publisher and developer relations Kirk Scott said during the clip.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...live-to-switch

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Nintendo reveals the best-selling indie games on Switch

March 28th, 2019, 18:23 Posted By: wraggster

At GDC this week, Nintendo released an updated list of the ten best-selling indie games on the Switch.
At a GDC session, which was attended by Kotaku, Nintendo revealed that familiar indie hits Stardew Valley, Shovel Knight, Celeste, Golf Story, Enter the Gungeon and Overcooked had made the list for the second consecutive year.
There were four new entries on the list, which is not in order of sales volume: Overcooked 2, Undertale, Dead Cells and Graceful Explosion Machine.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...switch-to-date

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Nintendo to unveil two Switch models this summer, The Wall Street Journal reports

March 28th, 2019, 18:20 Posted By: wraggster

Two new versions of the Nintendo Switch could be unveiled as soon as E3, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.
One version will be a new Switch with, "enhanced features targeted at avid gamers," which The Wall Street Journal noted will not be as powerful as the PlayStation 4 Pro or the Xbox One X. The report cited multiple sources who have seen a prototype of the hardware, including, "parts suppliers and software developers."
The second model will be aimed at casual gamers and sold at a lower price -- Nintendo's attempt to address a similar market to the Nintendo 3DS.
On Twitter, Wall Street Journal tech reporter Takashi Mochizuki elaborated on the article, quoting a source who claimed that the new hardware is, "different from the original and you'd be surprised."
One source pointed to E3 as the likely window for the new hardware to be unveiled, with a full launch, "a few months later."

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ournal-reports

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