EmuControlCenter 0.9.8.R2 (2008.12.02)

- Added platforms:
- Apple 2GS
- Camputers Lynx
- Coleco Adam
- Híradástechnika Szövetkezet HT-1080Z
- Interact Home Computer System
- Jupiter Cantab - Jupiter Ace
- Microsoft XBox 360

- Added Scripts:
- PALE (Camputers Lynx)
- VINTER (Interact Home Computer System)
- DCMOTO v10.1 (Thomson MO5)

- Small updates
- Fixed bug where Xpadder always ask where to save the setting, by adding a INI file.
(if you already configured Xpadder, the original .ini will be renamed to .bak)
- Fixed the 'error reporting' notices and warnings, they where set in php.ini
but didn't help because it was re-configured in the PHP files.
- Cleaned the system informations by removing most of the Wikipedia
references in-page, like:
- [1] t/m [50]
- [citation needed]
- [verification needed]
- [dead link]
- [...]
- DAT file updates:
- MAME: v0.124b to v0.128
- CPS-1: v2007.09.22 to v2008.10.18
- CPS-2: v2007.11.09 to v2008.10.18
- Neo-Geo: v2008.01.01 to v2008.10.18
- Model2: v2008.01.03 to v2008.06.05

- ECC Startup
v2.3.1.2
- Fixed a small bug where ECC startup did create the userfolders everytime when
one or more platforms were disabled.
v2.3.1.1
- ECC Startup will now scan your userfolder and create userfolders if nessesary
and if the platform is set active!, this way when new platforms are inserted,
the userfolders for those added platforms will be automaticly created!
(thanks to Andreas for the 'create userfolder' implementation!)
v2.3.1.0
- Made the splashscreen configurable & customizable
- You can edit ecc-themes[THEMENAME]splashscreen.ini to fit your needs.
- When 'splashscreen.ini' is not found in a ECC theme it uses the settings
from the "ecc-themesdefaultsplashscreen.ini" file.
v2.3.0.5
- Let ECC start in fullscreen again.
- Found a better way to 'by-pass' the PHP-GTK window bug.
- Many small tweaks and improvements.

- 3rd party updates
- Updated, Notepad++ v5.1.1
- Updated, 7-Zip v4.62

» Check out the EmuControlCenter homepage
» Download ECC from here

» Download EmuControlCenter 0.9.8b
Thanks to ecc for the submissions in our forum

Beta 6 comprises of the following changes:

• Slider bug fixed (finally)
• Faster slider scroll
• Covers scroll speed ups
• Messenger display the correct icon now (game or audio)
• Lot of bugs that caused some emulators not to work propertly
• Bug fixed in the covers(drag and drop from pics)
• Bug fixed adding folders(@ES was unable to add folders with a dot in the filename)
• Added sounds for each menu, icons, background and intro!
• Multi-stream playing(100% complete but not used at all atm... more comming soon)
• Speed ups in the grabbing code
• Small fixes in the ePSXe grabbing code
• Small fixes in the PJ64 grabbing code
• Fixed problems switching to fullscreen(ePSXe and PJ64)
• Shortcuts added (for use with TV-Cards Remote control)
• Gamepad support (complete but not 100% implemented due the lack of time)

The following shortcuts are now available.

ALT+P = Play
ALT+N = Next song
ALT+B = Last song
ALT+R = Scroll forward
ALT+L = Scroll back
ALT+X = Select item
ALT+Q = Quit(buggy)
ALT+Up = Up(console menu)
ALT+Down = Down(console menu)
ALT+S = Switch emulators(pSX, ePSXe etc.)
ALT+Y = Back to previous menu
ALT+F = Fullscreen/Back to normal
ALT+1 = Call Consoles menu
ALT+2 = Call Albums menu
ALT+3 = Call Video menu
ALT+ESC = exit emu(or just press ESC as always)
ALT+M = Gamepad mapping(not complete yet and therefore not fully functional)

CTRL + W will bring up the Emulators menu tabs. (This will not work in fullscreen mode yet )
CTRL + E will hide them again

Right mouse-click on any cover to use the slider.

New added skin sound info:
Add a folder called "Sound" and store your audio files in .mp3 format there.. doing that your skin will have custom sounds for almost every menu aswell as background and intro sounds.
A sample can be downloaded here

Note from @ruantec:
"Last but not least I would like to announce the @ruantec´s forums... First of all I want to make clear that by no means I am leaving the NGemu forums.. The new forum will also hold personal projects that am planning for my future as well as @ES of course so stay tuned "

» Download @ES beta 6 from here
» Download the @ES soundtrack here
» Check out @ruantec's forum here here or at NGemu
» Visit @ruantec's websites here or at NGemu 

To keep things organized a bit (and not have all news within two or three days), we've decided to use the original date of the news posts instead of todays date. This means if you scroll down, you'll find lots of news items in june and may which haven't been there before - so make sure to check out the whole news page!

• CRC Bugs fixed entirely (thanks goes to ECC - from EmuControlCenter - for the tips and links).
• GBA, NES, SMS, GameGear, Genesis, 32X, SNES and N64 roms will need to be added to @ES one last time to be able to use the cover-packs that are now available for download(roms need to be scanned).
• Model2, ePSXe and SSF support is now included.
• Can now have both ePSXe and pSX set-up to use at the same time (Press F9 in the rom list to switch emu's). Same goes for VirtuaNES and NESTOPIA.
• The executable size was reduced again from 630kb to 616kb!
• Better Skin support (still not complete though).
• Daemon Tools support(please edit the settings file manually and look for "DT=" as i forgot to remove my path.. so @ES will not prompt you to look for the executable).
• Daemon Tools is needed for ePSXe and SSF support.
  

Reading the accompanying readme file is very recommended.

» Download:
-> @ES beta 5
-> cover packs for @ES
» Check out @ruantec's homepage (website updated!)

New features:

• Fullscreen mode (Won't work for PJ64 though in the update as it is harder to add for PJ64 then originally thought, but will be added at a later time!)
• Fullscreen Video mode.
• Volume knob in Video controls(Ctrl+W to show the menu, Ctrl+E to hide the emu)
• Ctrl+F = Switch to fullscreen.
• Ctrl+D = Switch back to @ES screen
• NESTOPIA support (Works perfectly!)
• CRC check for rom covers (Works for all cartridge based consoles)
• Arcade emu's can now use the titlescreen packs that mame has available for download.
• Bug fixes in the Audio/Video and Games menu which caused @ES to crash sometimes.
• No more menu flickering in Windows XP!!!
• Full Media keys support.
• MSN Scrolling text
• MSN display the game name and the game icon while playing

Features to expect in the future:

• Easy setup.
• PJ64 and soon ePSXe fullscreen mode.
• ZIP support.
• Cover scroller fix.
• Fullscreen controls.
• SSF support.
• a way to delete items.
  

UPDATE: A quickfix build has been released, that adresses some errors while adding games in the PSX, PS2, GC sections. If you downloaded @ES beta 4 before the update fix, you may download the updated @ES beta 4 (Fix 1) from the same link.

» Check out @ruantec's homepage (still in construction, feedback welcome)
» Check out the recently added @ES forum section (for support and feedback)
» Download @ES Evolution beta 4 (Fix 1)

Changes in version 0.6: 

• Memory Card open function rewritten, files should load a lot faster now.
• Fixed a small error when editing icon of the save on Memory Card 2.
• Old DexDrive cards (with missing slots) and the ones with corrupted header are now supported.
• Requirements have been dropped down to .NET Framework 2.0.
• Right click menu added per Hard core Rikki's suggestion.
• Added save cards prompt upon closing if memorycards have been edited.
• Added occupied slots indicator in save information dialog.

» Check out the author's homepage
» Download MemcardRex 0.6 

@ES is an frontend supporting many popular emulators, and featuring innovative design concepts for this software category. @ES also includes a significant number of multimedia capabilities.

It is highly recommended to read the readme.txt document included.

Changes in Public Beta 3:

• Slowdowns with nullDC and many other emus when using a low-end PC or Laptop
• Added a better background pic which looks better than the last one
• Fixed some random bugs i found in the source code that caused @ES to crash sometimes.
• The scroller was activated even if not visible causing sometimes some random crashes (still not 100% complete though)
• Fixed audio bug which appear when tried to play new albums after playing a game.

• NullDC bug fixed (thanks to darkIIraziel)

The following Beta 4 update should feature the following, so stay tuned:

• Fullscreen support
• Nestopia support
• Bug fixes in the audio menu
• A fix to a Dolphin issue
• CRC check
• MAME and fba titlescreens
  

» Check out this ongoing thread about the progress of the public beta

• Fixed minor issues with the font change feature.
• Emulator database updated.
• Keyboard shortcuts added:
  - Ctrl + B - Browse.
  - Ctrl + W - Switches.
  - Ctrl + S - Skins.
  - Ctrl + O - Options.
  - Ctrl + C - Configs.
  
• Some additional skins were made for Emu - Raptor:
  - Windows Classic skin.
  - Industrial skin.
  - Mac skin.

• Fixed error with the SSSPSX config dialog opacity.
• Fixed error with skin trimming and framebar text position.
  - It was working all right in 0.8, seems like i screwed it up in 0.9, anyway it is fixed now.
• Upgraded skin support.
  - skins from 0.8/0.9 might work, though it is not recommended to use them.
• Fixed bug with the test procedure for Cdrom plugins in SSSPSX.

Well, today I'll talk a bit about how the ds texture compression works and what I've accomplished with it (not that much, really). It's actually quite simply, if I understood it correctly (not sure I did). Well, a compressed texture is theorically, quite simple. We use one texture slot (even if not fully) for actual texture data, being it texture slot 0 or slot 2 (there're 4 possible slots in the DS).

For every 4x4 pixels block, we'll use one 32bit number from slot0 or slot2, that'll define the actual pixel data, 8bit a row per 4 columns, makes the total 32bit. So we define every pixel with a 2bit number, that'll use after for palette indexing. Now we need some more data, a 16bit value: the palette offset and a mode how this will be used, that'll will be located in texture slot1.

So, the general idea is quite simple in the end. Read a 32bit value from either slot0 or slot2, read a 16bit value from slot1. Then, use the 16bit value to determine the mode (there 4 possible modes, each filling each row in different manners) and palette index. With this palette index, go through each of the 2bit values, contained in the 32bit, and add each of them (separately, of course, for each colour) to the palette index, to get the final palette index to be used for each pixel. Then, with this value, you can just index in the normal palette data to get the colour. Depending on the mode, colours will be (or not) treated in different manners. Seems it's not that simple :P

My implementation is far from complete, I've severe bugs that just show lots of garbage. I'll try to fix it tomorrow.

I also have been doing some severe register hacking, that is just, that some memory locations are mapped to specific hardware of the DS. So, for example, writing to 4000490h will push a new 10b vertex to the render queue. So, I've just hacked a few of the registers so make games/demos work better, even if it's not correct emulation

 

» Blog is here

• better interrupt handling and dsp emulation
• input should work in more games now
• improved gx emulation (with new engine at its early stage)
• savestates can be created without the debugger
• simple thp video player included (thpview)

» Download here

* cart:

• A few Netlink changes(still doesn't work).

* cd block:

• CD Block play disc command fixes and improvements. Play Modes now handled correctly.
• Added correct Repeat counter support.
• CD audio data is now written to its own buffer, which is then played by the SCSP.

* scsp:

• CD audio data is now played by the SCSP. EFSDL and EFPAN support still needs to be added.

* opengl video core:

• glutInit is now called before any other glut function(except for on the windows port).

* software video core:

• Added normal sprite flipping(copied from scaled sprites).
• Corrected a bug with 8 bpp color calculation in scaled and distorted sprites.
• Fixed a bug that caused duplicated textures in 8 bpp regular sprites.
• Distorted sprites made safer (won't read outside the texture)
• Fixed transparency for distorted sprites.
• Fixed scaled sprites bug in zoom points modes two points mode and C point upper than A.
• Fixed a bug that was causing sprite priority problems.
  

* linux port:

• Fixed a gtk warning.
• Added Joystick support.
• Added a test in configuration dialog so input tab is displayed only when emulation is initialized.
• Added NTSC/PAL setting
• Input settings are now disabled when PERCore isn't initialized.
• Added a sound setting tab.
  

* macos port:

• Added code to handle settings (everything should be working now, except the "browse" buttons).
• Controls are now using the new Per* functions.
• Fixed some bugs in combo boxes.
  

* windows port:

• EC Compatibility list link added to help menu.
• Fixed an issue where default values weren't set correctly when yabause.ini wasn't present.
• Fixed an issue where Yabause would go into an endless loop if bios path was incorrect.
• DirectX error messages now return more info when there's an error.
• Fixed an issue where people without hardware sound buffers on their sound card would have problems trying to run with sound.
• Fixed some inaccurate information in the README.WIN file.
• Fixed cut-off text in Memory Transfer dialog.
• All dialog windows can now be closed using the X icon in the top-right corner.
  

* general:

• Fixed an issue where in certain cases Yabause would crash when sound settings were altered.
• Some useless files were removed.
• Moved SDL detection in "global" part of configure script as it may be used by all ports.
• Fixed a weird issue where a few functions were trying to return a value when they obviously can't(How come GNU C compilers won't detect this?).
• Fixed a number of things that were causing compilation issues in VC++ (VC++ still doesn't completely compile Yabause yet).
• Configure now checks if c99 variadic macros are available.

» Download Windows port here

» Download Linux port here

• Speed Increase since last release
• Loading multiply roms without closing should now work fine
• Basic frame skipping (dont use unless your experimenting as it could cause glitchs)
• Savestates should also be alot better
• New KeyConfig dialog
• Anything else ive missed

• New screen resize option (Ymin/Ymax) to reduce the size of the screen and then speed up the emulation. This works best in car games such as V-rally 3. It's simple but it hopes to win up to 5% on CPU speed.
• Press Start+Select to return to the emulator menu (whatever the key mapping you have set). This feature overcomes the issue encountered in previous versions, wherein players couldn't go back in the emulator menu because the assigned key isn't responding.
• Added the save battery feature. This is already available in the original VBA source code, but it hasn't been tested in the new version.

• Fixed a bug in timer processing when updating ncdzpsp.
• Fixed a bug when a reset occurs in watchdog, there is a chance that the program falls into an infinite loop and cannot exit.

• Quick fixed a minor problem in the header detection algorithm in the Snezziboy builder. (This may require a more proper fix later...)
• Fixed a bug with the XCE code that was emulated wrongly.
• Fixed the VRAM allocation so that Illusion of Gaia works correctly again.
• Remove the wraparound bug that causes clones of Samus' ship during the Super Metroid demo.

I'm currently testing DSLinux together with the author, pepsiman. It does work but still has a few problems.
This is a screenshot of the current status

 

 

 

Ladies and gentlemen, hello. I am Japanese who one of the PSP fans. GB emulator for PSP was released by Mr. MIRAKICHI in 2ch that was the most famous forum in Japan a little while ago. It links with the file. http://psp.holybell.to/uploader/upload/gbemu1.zip screen shot *posted above* Please rename a GAME ROM to ROM.GB and put it to the same folder as EBOOT.PBP. In the firm only version 1.00, operation is confirmed. Please enjoy it!!!