Super Luigi Sunshine with Luigi's voice!

January 27th, 2020, 21:34 Posted By: wraggster

Although the mod featured in the posted Youtube video was lost due to computer problems, Nintendo 64 Wizard has made a new voice-clip replacing Super Luigi Sunshine mod with the help of Yoshi2.
Now, for the first time ever, Luigi fans can enjoy Super Luigi Sunshine properly with Luigi voice-clips instead of Mario voice-clips using means freely available to the public.
Visit the project page for more info and the download link.



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TotalJustice releases Reset Parental Controls NX allowing you to get rid of Parental

January 26th, 2020, 21:44 Posted By: wraggster

Like the PlayStation Vita and many modern video game consoles and portable devices, the Switch also comes with parental controls in order to restrict gaming time among other things.



However, hacking communities always find ways to circumvent them and now, the Switch has joined the ‘parental control bypassing’ club thanks to Reset Parental Controls NX by TotalJustice.


As its name suggests, this homebrew utility allows you to change your parental control PIN to whatever you want without having to know the PIN currently imposed. This means that it could be used to remove any parental controls imposed on the system with just a few simple steps. Unlike TotalJustice’s previous offerings such as GameCard Installer NX, Reset Parental Controls doesn’t come with a GUI interface but a straight-to-the-point text-based interface which is enough considering the frequency with which the application will be used!

You may read more about it by following this link to its GitHub README. Downloads can be accessed from here.

http://wololo.net/2020/01/25/switch-...ce-releases-r/

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L4T Ubuntu 2.0 released with many requested features

January 26th, 2020, 21:43 Posted By: wraggster

It’s no secret that the Nintendo Switch can run Linux and in fact, usable Linux environments were up and running as early as April 2018 when the ShofEL2 exploit, making use of the bug exploited by fusée gelée, was released.

Moving on to last May, L4T Ubuntu was released which is a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS-based Linux distribution intended for general usage and now, it has received a massive update with many highly-requested features.
As per its changelog, Switchroot‘s L4T Ubuntu 2.0 comes with:

• Support for LP0 sleep mode (this should make things a bit lighter on your Switch’s power management)
• Improved Bluetooth Joycon support
• Numerous fixes in relation to the touchscreen, charging, SDCard, audio, docking and pin muxing
• Ambient Light Sensor support (this needs some further work in the user-mode)

You may read more about L4T Ubuntu and view its installation instructions from this link. The L4TUbuntu image download link may be accessed from this link (MEGA) and a Google Drive link is available a few replies down.

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NGC Magazine 64 - february 2002 (UK)

January 26th, 2020, 21:20 Posted By: wraggster

This time, we go back 18 years in time to where NGC Magazine 64 was on the store shelves.
We begins straight away with the cover story: the import review for Super Smash Bros Melee.
We then look at the special investigation for Turok Evolution, which includes a Q&A session with David Dienstbier, the games creative director.
Then we jump from one dinosaur hunter to the next with the Making Of... feature on Turok Dinosaur Hunter on the Nintendo 64. And finally, we look at the review for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.
Enjoy!

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Final Fantasy IV - Ultima (VERSION 7.0)

January 26th, 2020, 21:08 Posted By: wraggster

Final Fantasy IV - Ultima version 7.0 is out!
This update includes features requested by players of this hack such as new items, spells, and even more custom graphics for the new enemies, etc. Again, huge thanks chillyfeez and the FF4 romhacking community for their help on some of the cool new features of this version such as the new item Berserk Ring and the new command Fortify for Cecil. Also included with this update are the requested new enemies and bosses that have intricately been worked into the flow of the game. This should be close to this hack’s final iteration barring any future bugfixes and minor adjustments.
Hope you’ll all check it out and continue to enjoy this hack immensely!
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions and/or comments! Cheers!!
FF4 Ultima Discord: https://discord.gg/4MqjwJt

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Nintendo can continue preventing cancellation of pre-orders in Germany

January 23rd, 2020, 17:40 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo has prevailed in a nearly two-year-long suit brought by consumer advocacy bodies in Norway and Germany, claiming that Nintendo's practice of prohibiting cancellation of pre-orders was in violation of Norwegian and EU laws.
Norwegian publication Pressfire reports the results of the case, saying that a Frankfurt judge dismissed the suit and ordered the plaintiff to pay court costs. However, the German consumer representative plans has already begun the appeal process.

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mGBA v0.8

January 22nd, 2020, 20:44 Posted By: wraggster

mGBA v0.8 is released. mGBA is a new emulator for running Game Boy Advance games. It aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators, as well as adding features that other emulators lack.

Features:
- Near full Game Boy Advance hardware support[1].
- Fast emulation. Known to run at full speed even on low end hardware, such as netbooks.
- Qt and SDL ports for a heavy-weight and a light-weight frontend.
- Save type detection, even for flash memory size[2].
- Real-time clock support, even without configuration.
- A built-in BIOS implementation, and ability to load external BIOS files.
- Turbo/fast-forward support by holding Tab.
- Frameskip, configurable up to 9.
- Screenshot support.
- 9 savestate slots. Savestates are also viewable as screenshots.
- Video and GIF recording.
- Remappable controls for both keyboards and gamepads.
- Loading from ZIP files.
- IPS and UPS patch support.
- Game debugging via a command-line interface (not available with Qt port) and GDB remote support.

mGBA v0.8 Changelog:
Features
Improved logging configuration
One-Player BattleChip/Progress/Beast Link Gate support
Add Game Boy Color palettes for original Game Boy games
Debugger: Add unary operators and memory dereferencing
GB: Expose platform information to CLI debugger
Support Discord Rich Presence
Debugger: Add tracing to file
Enhanced map viewer, supporting bitmapped GBA modes and more displayed info
OpenGL renderer with high-resolution upscaling support
Experimental high level “XQ” audio for most GBA games
Interframe blending for games that use flicker effects
Frame inspector for dissecting and debugging rendering
Switch: Option to use built-in brightness sensor for Boktai
Ports: Ability to enable or disable all SGB features (closes #1205)
Ports: Ability to crop SGB borders off screen (closes #1204)
Cheats: Add support for loading Libretro-style cht files
GBA Cheats: Add support for loading EZ Flash-style cht files
Support for unlicensed Wisdom Tree Game Boy mapper
Qt: Add export button for tile view (closes #1507)
Qt: Add recent game list clearing (closes #1380)
GB: Yanking gamepak now supported
Qt: Memory range dumping (closes #1298)

Emulation fixes
GB: Fix using boot ROM with MMM01 games
GB Audio: Only reset channel 3 sample in DMG mode
GB Audio: Sample inactive channels (fixes #1455, mgba.io/i/1456)
GB Audio: Fix channel 4 volume (fixes #1529)
GB I/O: Filter IE top bits properly (fixes #1329)
GB Memory: Better emulate 0xFEA0 region on DMG, MGB and AGB
GB Video: Delay LYC STAT check (fixes #1331)
GB Video: Fix window being enabled mid-scanline (fixes #1328)
GB Video: Fix mode 0 window edge case (fixes #1519)
GB Video: Fix color scaling in AGB mode
GBA: All IRQs have 7 cycle delay (fixes #539, mgba.io/i/1208)
GBA: Reset now reloads multiboot ROMs
GBA BIOS: Fix multiboot entry point (fixes Magic Floor)

Other fixes
Core: Improved lockstep driver reliability (Le Hoang Quyen)
FFmpeg: Drain recording buffers
GB: Fix reading ROM immediately after unmapping BIOS
GB SIO: Fix lockstep failing games aren’t reloaded
GBA Cheats: Fix value incrementing in CB slide codes (fixes #1501)
Libretro: Fix crash changing allowing opposing directions (hhromic)
Qt: Fix some Qt display driver race conditions
Qt: Fix menu bar staying hidden in full screen (fixes #317)
Qt: Only show emulator restart warning once per settings saving
Qt: Fix LibraryController initialization (fixes #1324)
Shaders: Fix gba-color shader resolution (fixes #1435)
Switch: Fix audio when video rate desyncs (fixes #1532)

Miscellaneous
CMake: Don’t use libzip on embedded platforms (fixes #1527)
Core: Add keysRead callback
Core: Create game-related paths if they don’t exist (fixes #1446)
Core: Add more memory search ops (closes #1510)
Debugger: Make tracing compatible with breakpoints/watchpoints
Debugger: Print breakpoint/watchpoint number when inserting
Feature: Switch from ImageMagick to FFmpeg for GIF generation
FFmpeg: Support audio-only recording
GB Memory: Support running from blocked memory
GBA BIOS: Add timings for HLE BIOS math functions (fixes #1396)
GBA BIOS: Fix clobbered registers in CpuSet (fixes #1531)
GBA Savedata: EEPROM performance fixes
GBA Savedata: Automatically map 1Mbit Flash files as 1Mbit Flash
Debugger: Add breakpoint and watchpoint listing
mGUI: Remember name and position of last loaded game
OpenGL: Only resize textures when needed
Qt: Don’t unload ROM immediately if it crashes
Qt: Support switching webcams
Qt: Cap window size on start to monitor size
Qt: Open a message box for Qt frontend errors
Qt: Increase maximum magnifications and scaling
Qt: Add native FPS button to settings view
Qt: Improve sync code
Qt: Add option to pause on minimizing window (closes #1379)
Qt: Scale pixel color values to full range (fixes #1511)
Qt: Remove What’s This icon from dialogs
Qt: Printer quality of life improvements (fixes #1540)
Qt: Add copy and QoL improvements to graphic views (closes #1541)
Qt: Show list of all sprites in sprite view
Qt: Add option for disabling OSD messages
Qt, OpenGL: Disable integer scaling for dimensions that don’t fit
SM83: Support PC-relative opcode decoding
Switch: Dynamic display resizing
Switch: Support file associations
Vita: L2/R2 and L3/R3 can now be mapped on PSTV (fixes #1292)


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Fizeau - Adjust color of your Switch screen

January 22nd, 2020, 19:34 Posted By: wraggster

• Adjust the color of the screen of your Nintendo Switch.
  
  Features:

  • Creates a layer which color you can adjust.
  • Preset values for color temperature (f.lux/redshift-like).
  • Control screen brightness.
  • Save dusk/dawn times & screen brightness, and apply settings automatically.

  Overview:
  Temperature/color:
  

  • Use the temperature slider to select the desired shading.
  • You can override the color by using the RGBA sliders.
  • The "Alpha" value controls the opacity of the layer.
  • Due to the way Fizeau works, it is sadly not possible to directly modify the screen color. Instead, it creates a transparent layer and applies color to it. However, this can lead to an overall increase of luminosity, especially visible with dark colors.
  • Additionally, the layer is not visible in screenshots/recordings.

  Dawn/dusk:
  

  • When set, Fizeau will start at the "dusk" hour and shutdown at the "dawn" hour.
  • You can override this by using the checkbox. Fizeau will then stay in the specified state.

  Brightness:
  

  • Use the brightness slider to set the desired screen brightness.
  • This is not redundant with the built-in setting, as the value will be set at dusk time.

  Settings:
  

  • Settings are saved at /switch/Fizeau/config.ini, which you can also edit.
  • To reduce the memory usage of the sysmodule, settings are not read continually. Instead, they are applied on application launch.
  • Thus, you will need to launch the client after a reboot to restart Fizeau.

  
  Link: https://github.com/averne/Fizeau/
  
  

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Texas court sides with Nintendo on Wii Remote patent, overturns previous jury verdict

January 21st, 2020, 18:25 Posted By: wraggster

• Back in 2017, Nintendo lost a court battle, where iLife Technologies took them to court, claiming that they originally had the patent for motion-sensing technology, and that the controllers used for the Nintendo Wii and Wii U both infringed upon them. Their patent was used for motion-sensing in the medical industry. iLife sought $144 million in damages, and after a jury deliberation, they were awarded a smaller sum of $10 million. Nintendo immediately filed for an appeal in court, and now, after two years, a verdict has been handed down. The federal courts in Dallas, Texas, have ruled that the patent was too vague and "impermissibly trying to cover the broad concept of using motion sensors to detect motion". With this ruling, the $10 million dollar fine against Nintendo has been thrown out, invalidating iLife's claims to the patent.
  
  Source
  
  https://gbatemp.net/threads/texas-co...m-fine.556729/
  
  

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Cooly Skunk (SNES, Unreleased)

January 20th, 2020, 20:07 Posted By: wraggster

While many unreleased games never get to see the light of day beyond blurry screenshots in old magazines of days past, Cooly Skunk (released in the US under the title Punky Skunk) is one of the few games that holds the unique distinction of having been cancelled several times before ultimately ending up released on a completely different platform than it started off on. Initially released on November 1, 1996 in Japan for the original PlayStation, Cooly Skunk was, for lack of a better term, a relative stinker that didn’t generate much buzz around release. Even the game’s lack of a real instruction manual, which instead was a simple two-page sheet of paper, hints at a troubled development that was perhaps rushed out the door sooner than it could be given the proper care that all the years of work behind it deserved.



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Switch Release: GameCard Installer NX – Bug Fix Edition (1.0.1)

January 20th, 2020, 20:05 Posted By: wraggster

On Friday, developer TotalJustice released GameCard Installer NX, a utility met with a good deal of fanfare as it answered the wishes of many physical game buyers.

As its name suggests, GameCard Installer NX allows you to install physical games directly to your Switch’s internal memory (NAND) or microSD card which grants you the benefit of not having to carry around your game cartridges wherever you go. However, it must be noted that the installed games can’t be used online and there’s a risk of being banned by Nintendo by using this utility since the installed games make use of FS patches so be wary of going online while having games installed through the utility.
Now, GameCard Installer NX Bug Fix Edition (1.0.1) has been released to fix 3 issues, which have affected a limited number of users, namely:

• Incorrect FW version reporting
  • In the initial release, FW 8.1.0 was reported as FW 8.0.1
• A bug in which a game installed with the utility would sometimes appear as a game cartridge even though the cartridge itself is removed

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1964 - Carnivorous Edition (2020/01/18)

January 20th, 2020, 18:21 Posted By: wraggster

1964 - Carnivorous Edition (2020/01/18) is compiled. Unofficial fork of 1964. 1964 is a free Open Source N64 Emulator. It is one of the top Nintendo emulators arround that you can get with a high game compatibility rate.

1964 - Carnivorous Edition Changelog
Bundle
Updated GLideN64 to WIP build
Updated GLideN64 to WIP build
Updated GLideN64 to WIP build
Updated GLideN64 to WIP build
Fixed GLideN64 mipmaps
Updated GLideN64 to WIP build
New GLideN64 texture pack for GoldenEye (HUD only)
Updated GLideN64 to WIP build
Added DirectInput plugin
Updated readme FAQ and install guide
Updated GLideN64 (Public Release 4.0)
Updated GLideN64 to WIP build
Recompiled RSP.dll
Added beta crosshair to texture pack
Updated GLideN64 to WIP build (split-screen supported)
Updated readme FAQ
Updated 1964.ini to use correct defaults for all ROMs
Updated readme FAQ (thanks to Graslu00)
Added 30fps cheat for GE\GF
Replaced No Audio 1964.dll with No Audio.dll (more stable)
Updated readme FAQ (thanks to DuskyLW and Pheonarx)
Updated N-Rage plugin to 2.3d
Added counter factor settings to 1964.ini for GE\PD
Updated Glide64.ini to use new buffer swapping for Perfect Dark\GoldenEye: X
Inserted Goldfinger 64 CRC to 1964.ini\Project64.rdb\Glide64.ini
Cleaned up readme
New Glide64 texture pack for GoldenEye (HUD only)
Removed standalone Perfect Dark speed-hack (now included in 1964)
Unpacked UPX compressed dlls msvcp60d.dll and msvcrtd.dll (caused antivirus false positives)
Replaced ASPack'd zlib.dll with unmodified zlib.dll
Replaced saves with more complete saves
Updated readme guide and FAQ (thanks to Graslu00 and Oxygen)
Fixed typo in readme (thanks to Rekrul)
Updated GLideN64 (Public Release 2.0)
Inserted GoldenEye: X 5e CRC to 1964.ini\Project64.rdb
Inserted GoldenEye: X 5d CRC to 1964.ini\Project64.rdb
Removed GE-MP (unfinished and source of false positive antivirus detection)
1964
Will ask user which video plugin to use on first launch
Fixed borderless fullscreen bug on ROM close
Added borderless fullscreen mode
Always disable autoload cheats on start up
Fixed Memory Pak corruption for players 2\3\4
Added 60fps firing rate fix to GE
Added region checks for GE\PD hacks
Adjusted filename for loading RSP.dll
Only update Project64.rdb if using Jabo
Status bar shows correct CF on launch
Default rdram\counter factor set to - 1 & 8mb
Opening cheats will now restore mouse cursor
Fixed show\hide cursor bug when returning from dialog window
Cheat settings will load from 1964.cfg
Combat boost now works at 60fps
No longer reset counter factor settings for GE\PD
Tweaked the default window size
Improved timing stability for GE\PD
Fixed GoldenEye TLB gamehack that caused issues with 24MB ROM hacks
Removed maximize button
Added option to increase PD speed-hack frequency
Reduced PD speed-hack inject rate (less aggressive)
Fixed bug that caused game to soft lock when unpaused
Fixed Memory Pak corruption on first write
Improved GE\PD ROM detection for loading default settings (supports Perfect Dark +)
Added PD speed-hack from Mouse Injector (more stable)
Will ask user for ROM folder on first launch
Profiling stats disabled by default
Changing states will display the new slot # in the Status Bar
Reverted relative filepath for saves\plugins as it caused issues with Windows 10
Removed CTRL+R hotkey for RSP plugin settings
Fixed bug with ROM properties window not displaying the correct defaults for GE\PD
Lock counter factor to 1 while Overclocking
Default counter factor set to 2
Extended overclock to 18 times (requires powerful CPU)
Removed overclock profiles (combined all in one exe)
Integrated overclocking into menu
Fixed save issue with uncommon characters in filepath
Removed registry functionality (uses 1964.cfg instead)
New icon provided by deuxsonic
Maximum Kernel Frequency on by default
New option - Set Maximum Kernel Frequency (thanks to deuxsonic)
New option - Disable Status Bar
Cursor is unhidden when opening plugin configuration windows
Backported 1964 1.1 cheat engine (better compatibility)
TAB now hides status bar (thanks to deuxsonic)
On first load, set input plugin to Mouse Injector in registry
Unpause only when entering fullscreen
Fixed cursor hiding while changing plugin settings
Fixed show\hide cursor bug (TAB now toggles cursor)
Changed filenames - caused emu detect issues in W10 (thanks to Stunning Cactus)
Auto enable\disable RSP emulation for GoldenEye 007\Perfect Dark (ROM name detection)
Adds ROM CRC to Project64.rdb when running new ROM (for Jabo compatibility)
Default plugins set to Jabo - Mouse Injector - Azimer
Romlist shows filename by default
Set Perfect Dark\GoldenEye: X to EEPROM 16KB (ROM name detection)
Two overclock profiles - six\nine times
Compiled non-overclocked 1964 version - for slow cpus\novelty
Mouse Injector
Adjusted UI
Rewrote BONDDATA scanning
Lowered FOV range for speedrun build
Adjust weapon position for override FOV
Compensate for override FOV while in aim mode
Limit SetCursorPos execution
Updated Copyright
Sanity check pickup threshold before overwriting
Created speedrun build (removes FOV advantage and pickup threshold adjustment)
Version 1.9 Released
Lock crosshair X axis when driving the tank while tank equipped as weapon
Override camera y axis pickup threshold (from -45 to -60)
Added enum type for mouse\keyboard
Enable revert after clicking detect input button
Flush input when starting injection thread
Replaced pthread_create with CreateThread
Doubled BONDDATA scanning time
Use beta crosshair when show crosshair is enabled
Fixed EMU_ReadShort()
Removed offset parameter from memory.h
Version 1.8 Released
Cleaned up ini loading and device function
Safely close ManyMouse and Discord Rich Presence on shutdown
Added option to compile without discord rich presence in makefile
PD - Compute recoil rotation
Increased FOV sanity check range (for ROM hacks)
Added Discord Rich Presence support
Version 1.7 Released
Reduced mouse acceleration
PD - Cursor aiming now supported
Emulate centering code when cursor aiming is disabled
Removed overclock requirement for cursor aiming
Recalibrated aiming table for GE
Added GE hack for jitter free aiming mode
Removed unused define in goldeneye.c
Analog stick value set to 127 from 120
Fixed FOV hack not replacing init value for GE
Version 1.6 Released
Restored autolock option (thanks to deuxsonic)
Fixed sanity check for FOV ini load
Emulate logic for camspy\slayer
Added intro skip button combo for GE\PD (FIRE+AIM)
Added camspy\slayer compatibility for PD
Fixed non-zooming weapons reverting to default FOV
Replaced autolock option with unlock on window loss
Added geshowcrosshair to INI_Reset()
Now removes GE autostand code
Added Show Crosshair for GE option
Version 1.5 Released
Added Copyright notice for ManyMouse library
Fixed edge case where ManyMouse would fail to initalize (thanks to Marthur)
Inlined memory functions used by goldeneye.c\perfectdark.c
Refactored codebase to use headers more effectively
If Mouse Sensitivity is set to 0%, show None instead
Allow Mouse Sensitivity to be set to 0%
Removed PD speed-hack
Rewrote Hoverbike pointer scanning (less false positives)
Increased FOV ViewModel Warning (only displays above 75*)
Uses wide character filepath to access ini file
Mouse Acceleration is applied for GoldenEye cursor aiming
Fixed bug where bike pointer was incorrectly detected
Use double slash argument for fopen
Replaced atol with atoi
Version 1.4 Released
GE - While in menus, Aim button is binded to B button
New option - Mouse Acceleration
Fixed GE ROM hack crouch bug
Fixed keyboard race condition - input would not detect keydown every poll
FOV compensates for horizontal aspect ratio
UI Improvements
Version 1.3 Released
Fixed clear bug when profile was empty
Accept all device input if one player is the only active profile
Uncheck Cursor Aiming and speed-hack for non-overclocked 1964 (to avoid confusion)
PD - Improved speed-hack
New option - Field of View slider (thanks to SubDrag)
New option - Perfect Dark speed-hack toggle
Created MinGW makefile
Converted Mouse Injector to ISO C11
Version 1.2 Released
Increased sensitivity range to 500%
Replaced windows injection with direct injection
Removed ReadProcessMemory\WriteProcessMemory functions
Fixed secondary button load bug
Version 1.1 Released
Fixed bug where secondary buttons would not apply
Fixed revert button bug (reverted all players instead of current player)
New option - Autolock Mouse on Window Focus
Fixed edge case where foreground window is incorrectly set upon launching ROM
Cleaned up code and fixed comment typos
Optimized input and injection (bypass disabled players)
PD - Disable speed-hack if slo-mo cheat is detected (ignored for PD ROM hacks)
Removed Project64 support (unstable and incompatible with ManyMouse)
Fixed edge case crash when initializing plugin
Created icon for standalone speed-hack
Created standalone Perfect Dark speed-hack for N-Rage plugin
Informative message boxes now have icons
PD - Fixed rare case where radial menu direction would become stuck
PD - Clicking in radial menu now resets back to center
PD - Fixed bug where radial menu direction would apply after match ended
Increased mouse wheel tickrate
Fixed crash when opened config window after closing ROM
Supports 4 players
Converted to plugin
Mouse locks correctly on multi-screen setups
Now reads from driver (thanks to ManyMouse by rcg)
Replaced strcmp with strcasecm - possible source of emu detect issues
New option - Radial menu mouse control for Perfect Dark
New option - Toggle Crouch
PD - Disable speed-hack if player is using combat boost or match is slow motion
Capped emulator search rate
Capped injection rate for Perfect Dark speed-hack (was unstable)
Changed description for Aim Mode to Cursor Aiming
Crosshair Movement set to 50% by default

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BetterJoyForCemu (2020/01/18)

January 20th, 2020, 18:20 Posted By: wraggster

BetterJoyForCemu (2020/01/18) is released. Allows the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller to be used with the Cemu Emulator and Cemuhook. Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that runs commercial games. Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC.

BetterJoyForCemu Changelog:
Added option from starting the application minimized to tray
thanks marco-calautti
Fixed gyro drift on some controllers
thanks brakhane
Added option to config to remove affected devices at application shutdown
Should prevent any more issues of the controller being unusable after the program (even though this can be fixed if you read the README)
Added battery level indicator by changing background colour of respective controller icon
Fixed multi-joycon lag
thanks quark-zju
Allow for more than one pair of joycons to be joined up
Fixed stick casting overflow
thanks idan-weizman
Separated swap buttons into swapAB and swapXY; hid BetterJoy from Alt+Tab when minimised
Added way to automatically enumerate options and enable to control them directly from the UI. Any further options can be supported.
Click the arrow to open config panel.
thanks StarryTony
Fixed joycon LED bug and minimising behaviour.
thanks agustinmorantes
Added option to calibrate gyroscope for 3rd (and 1st) party controllers.
Experimental - only supports pro controllers at the moment
thanks xqdoo00o
see NonOriginalController option
Fixed exception when pressing Add Controllers button
thanks spacechase0
Added the ability to toggle the HOME button ring LED on and off
thanks Houdini111
Perform null check on enumerate.serial_number. Caused by Mayflash Dolphinbar and nonOriginal selected
thanks Trozmagon
Added a way to use single joycon in vertical mode
with a single joycon attached, click on the icon to change its orientation
Added Switch SNES controller support
thanks KurtYilmaz

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Vvctre v6.2.0

January 20th, 2020, 18:19 Posted By: wraggster

Vvctre v6.2.0 is released. Vvctre is a Nintendo 3DS emulator based on Citra.

Vvctre v6.2.0 Changelog:
Added error messages:
- You are running default Windows drivers for your GPU. You need to install the proper drivers for your graphics card from the manufacturer's website.
- Your GPU may not support OpenGL 3.3, or you do not have the latest graphics driver.

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emu4crt A10

January 20th, 2020, 18:15 Posted By: wraggster

emu4crt A10 is released. emu4crt is a Mednafen emulator mod intended to be used on a system connected to a CRT screen. It brings "pixel-perfect" rendering by switching host resolution to match emulated system resolution.

Mednafen modules ported to emu4crt:
* Sony Playstation
* Sega Saturn
* Nintendo NES/Famicon
* Nintendo Super NES/Super Famicom
* NEC PC Engine / PC Engine CD / SuperGrafx
Many options, meaningless in a CRT screen usage, have been removed from Mednafen in provided emu4crt build (shaders, etc.).

https://github.com/emu4crt

http://www.emucr.com/2020/01/emu4crt-a10.html

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Towers 2 Unreleased GBC dungeon crawler released

January 20th, 2020, 18:14 Posted By: wraggster

• Unreleased games making an appearance in the homebrew world is nothing terribly new but it is not every day we see a fully realised game for the gameboy color. It appears it is the usual story with a near finished game (it making it to the point of having an ESRB rating) not making it out of the door due to publisher having money troubles and not being able to fund its final release. One of the developers, Vince Valenti, then making the game available a few days back.
  In this case we have a port of the Atari Jaguar title "Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer", sequel to Towers which also got a GBC port (though that one did make it to release in the form of Towers - Lord Baniff's Deceit).
  
  The photos above are from an EZFlash Junior running on a stock AGS001 Gameboy Advance, and speaking of the GBA it appears this would have joined the ranks of the few GBC games to ever use the "I'm in a GBA" mode that such things can enjoy (the Zelda Oracles games, Shantae and Wendy: Every Witch Way being the other examples) though we don't know what that added at this point. Seeing it run it does employ several rather notable quirks (think this but for the gameboy screen) so it looks rather nicer on hardware than it does on emulators, and this is in addition to the FMV and quite some amount of voiced audio they somehow managed to squeeze into the GBC. We have limited time with it thus far but were it not for the two lack of buttons on the Gameboy Color... we have played worse DS dungeon crawlers, and certainly have had worse GBC ones.
  A shame we never had it at the time but better late than never for this one.
  
  archive.org post of ROM, information and associated data from the game.
  GBAtemp mirror (game)
  GBAtemp mirror (media pack and related files)
  
  
  https://gbatemp.net/threads/towers-2...leased.556602/
  
  

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Switch Release: Serious Sam TFE and TSE ports released

January 19th, 2020, 15:31 Posted By: wraggster

If you’re interested in ports of FPS games to the PSVita and Switch, then you’ve probably head of fgsfds as he’s ported Half-Life 1 to the PSVita and Quake I/II/III to the Switch among other many titles. Now, he’s released a port of Ryan C. Gordon’s fork of the Serious Engine for hacked Nintendo Switch consoles which lets you play both the classic versions (not the HD remakes) of Serious Sam The First Encounter (2001) and The Second Encounter (2005); both of which are pretty well-received FPS PC titles of last decade.

According to the port’s release thread on GBATemp, the port is a tad janky and barebones and comes with a few issues which include:

• Long loading times
• Performance isn’t great, especially in some levels, due to dynamic lights
  • Thankfully, these can be disabled by changing the ‘shd_iAllowDynamic’ option in Scripts/PersistentSymbols.ini although some levels depend on having them enabled to be fully playable
• The demos that come prebundled with the game are desynchronised
• While it has multiplayer support, most PC servers run version 1.07 of the Serious Engine but the Switch port is based on version 1.10 so you may not be able to play on many of them
• The framerate is quite low in the menus and the NETRICSA menus can’t be controlled although they can be quit from by pressing the ‘+’ button
• Other than these, there are some peculiarities detailed in the ‘Notes’ of the GBATemp thread linked below which you should surely read about.

To play some Serious Sam 1/2 on your Switch, you can grab the port’s binaries from this its GBATemp Release Thread. You need to provide the game files for the classic versions yourself which can be purchased online from websites like Steam/GOG (currently on sale on both websites).

http://wololo.net/2019/12/30/psvita-...to-the-switch/

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Switch Release: N-Xplorer gets official release after major rewrite

January 19th, 2020, 15:20 Posted By: wraggster

Now, another file manager has been released for the Nintendo Switch by the name N-Xplorer and it’s inspired by TheFlow’s famous VitaShell, the de facto file manager on the PSVita. Its developer CompSciOrBust has been working on the file manager for quite a while having released an NRO file for version 0.5 around 17 days without much fanfare but 2 days ago, version 0.6, which is a complete rewrite, was released together with a GBATemp post for the project to gain some popularity.

Currently, the file manager isn’t as fully featured as other offerings for the Switch like NX-Shell and Apollo (which only saw one pre-release in July) but version 0.6.1 [current version] still has a couple of features including:

• Basic file management capabilities like being able to copy, move, rename, create and delete files/folders
• A text editor
• A basic image viewer which doesn’t have zooming/rotation code yet

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Torrent client (nxTransmission 0.2.3) for the Switch

January 19th, 2020, 15:15 Posted By: wraggster

last week, a port of Tranmission 2.94 which is an open-source torrent client. This port is currently in a WIP state and currently only supports FAT32 as using it on an exFAT microSD cad may lead to data corruption and torrent management isn’t done on device but through a web interface accessible on any device on your local network. Some hours ago, version 0.2.3 was released which fixes UDP trackers and the replacement of non-ASCII characters in filenames.
You may grab nxTransmission 0.2.3 from this link and make sure to read its GBATemp thread for more information.

http://wololo.net/2020/01/17/news-re...-the-psvita-2/

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higan v107.6

January 19th, 2020, 11:48 Posted By: wraggster

higan v107.6 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：
* Dot PPU: latch BG fine-X scroll at H=0 instead of H=56
(fixes a minor score screen glitch in Full Throttle Racing)
* v107.6
SFC: do not latch H/V scroll offsets
SFC: calculate nameTableIndex and characterIndex directly
SFC: correct a mode7 mosaic edge case
* v107.5
SFC: mosaic emulation improvements.


https://gitlab.com/higan/higan

http://www.emucr.com/2020/01/higan-v1076.html

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