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MAME 0.250 was released

* Official - https://mamedev.org/release.html
* ARCADE64 - https://arcade.mameworld.info/
* For RPi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/

Other

* Classic99 v399.063 [T.I. 99/4a] - https://harmlesslion.com/software/classic99/

* Emulicious (2022-11-30) [Multi-system] - http://emulicious.net/news/

* bsnes nightly (2022-11-25) [SNES] - https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes/releases

* WinArcadia 29.32 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* 86box 3.11 [PC] - https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases

MAME v0.250 is released. MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.

What's news in MAME:

A long list of changelog at:

* HBMAME 0.245.9 [Arcade] - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/

* WinArcadia 29.31 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

RetroArch v1.13.0 is released. RetroArch is a multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and *BSD. It is formerly known as SSNES. Its design and background is quite different than most other emulators as RetroArch does not implement an emulation core itself. RetroArch talks to libretro, a generic emulator core API. This means that RetroArch is core agnostic, and it does not care which emulator core is running.

Currently there are libretro implementations for systems such as SNES, NES, GBA, GB/GBC, Genesis, and even arcade games (Final Burn Alpha).

libretro isn't only usable for emulators. A preliminary port of an open source reimplementation of Cave Story has been ported to libretro as well.

RetroArch believes in modularity. The application itself is a command-line driven application suitable for HTPC and/or headless use. There also exists a GUI frontend for RetroArch, supporting every single config option available in RetroArch.

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Flycast Dojo v0.5.7 is released. Flycast Dojo is a fork of Flycast, a multi-platform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi and Atomiswave emulator derived from Reicast, with a focus on netplay features and replay. We intend to keep Flycast Dojo updated with the latest downstream changes made to the parent project. Flycast is a multi-platform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi and Atomiswave emulator derived from reicast.

Flycast Dojo changelog:

WWWF Royal Rumble (NAOMI) - Enable Audio Sync by default
Ubuntu Linux 22.04 package compatibility
Upstream Changes
Steam Deck DPI Fix (@vkedwardli)
HLE BIOS: Fix PAL Detection for some WinCE games (Caesar's Palace 2K, The Next Tetris, KISS) (@flyinghead)
Game Box Thumbnails on Main Menu (@flyinghead)
GUI: Fix Divide by Zero crash when window is too small (@flyinghead)
Dependencies: Update SDL to 2.24.1 (@scribam)

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* Xebra (2022-11-06) [PSX] - http://drhell.web.fc2.com/ps1/index.html

* RPCS3 0.0.25 [PS3] - https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/releases

* WinArcadia 29.2 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* bsnes (2022-11-03) [SNES] - https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes/releases

* Wine 7.0.1 [Windows emulator for Unix] - https://www.winehq.org/

* GameEx 18.32 [Front-end] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

RPCS3 is a multi-platform open-source Sony PlayStation3 emulator and debugger for Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD. The purpose of the project is to completely and accurately emulate PlayStation 3 with the power of open-source community and reverse engineering.



Latest changes:

• Make PPU imports/exports thread-safe;
• Move "Start Paused" SaveStates setting to UI;
• Add support for mounting and unmounting CELL_FS_SIMPLEFS;
• Mixed files mounting;
• Move 'LOD bias addend' to debug tab;
• Add Texture lod bias to UI;
• Fix channel order in cellAudioAdd6chData();
• Use the system keyboard layout for osk;
• Implemented sys_fs_mount() and sys_fs_unmount();

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:: Code on Github
:: RPCS3 website
:: Latest development builds
:: RPCS3...

SameBoy v0.15.8 is released. SameBoy is a user friendly Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for macOS. SameBoy is extremely accurate and includes a wide range of powerful debugging features, making it ideal for both casual players and developers. In addition to accuracy and developer capabilities, SameBoy has all the features one would expect from an emulator – from save states to scaling filters. An SDL version is also available to Windows and Unix-like systems.

SameBoy v0.15.8 Changelog:

New/Improved Features
The button mapped to B, on both the keyboard and controllers, can now be used to return from menus in the SDL frontend
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that caused the new Cocoa debugger interface display glitched buttons on newer versions of macOS

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Cemu v2.0-13 is released. Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that runs commercial games. Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC. It's written in C/C++ and is being actively developed with new features and fixes to increase compatibility, convenience and usability.

Cemu Changelog:

Cemu experimental release

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Cemu v2.0-11 is released. Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that runs commercial games. Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC. It's written in C/C++ and is being actively developed with new features and fixes to increase compatibility, convenience and usability.

Cemu Changelog:

Cemu experimental release

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* SDLMAME for Ubuntu 0.249 - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/

* GroovyMAME 0.249 - switchres 2.002m - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases

* NegaMAME 0.249-1 - http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm

* melonDS 0.9.5 [NDS] - https://melonds.kuribo64.net/

* Sameboy 0.15.7 [Gameboy] - https://sameboy.github.io/downloads/

* Emulicious (2022-10-31) [Multi-system] - http://emulicious.net/news/

* Pantheon 12.000 [Multi-system] - http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/Download.htm

* ScummVM 2.6.1 - https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

* GameEx 18.30 [Front-End] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

Cemu v2.0-10 is released. Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that runs commercial games. Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC. It's written in C/C++ and is being actively developed with new features and fixes to increase compatibility, convenience and usability.

Cemu Changelog:

Cemu experimental release

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MAME 0.249 was released

* Official - https://mamedev.org/release.html
* ARCADE64 - https://arcade.mameworld.info/
* For RPi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/
* WolfMAME - https://github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases
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Other

* XRoar 1.2 [Tandy Color Computer, Dragon] - http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/

* ZEsarUX 10.2 [Multi-system] - https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases

* Rom Vault 3.5.1 [Rom Manager] - https://www.romvault.com/

* GameEx 18.29 [Front-end] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

After a whirlwind four weeks of development, MAME 0.249 is ready for release! Highlights this month include improved Atari 8-bit family emulation, a newer version of Kyukyoku Tiger with a two-player cooperative mode, another version of The Crystal Maze promoted to working, and lots of prototype cartridge dumps for consoles including the Atari Lynx, Nintendo Game Boy and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. There are also eight e-kara cartridges, including a rare e-kara Web cartridge containing twelve youth-oriented songs.

The modernisation of Apple II and Macintosh emulation is progressing steadily. This month, the last of the legacy floppy devices were phased out; various ADB emulation issues were resolved, making mouse/keyboard input more reliable; and the Apple IIe standard 80-column card now works properly. Brian Johnson has added some hard disk and sound cards for the Epson QX-10 and improved the keyboard support. Thanks to holub, MAME now emulates the ZX Evolution...

Cemu v2.0-8 is released. Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that runs commercial games. Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC. It's written in C/C++ and is being actively developed with new features and fixes to increase compatibility, convenience and usability.

Cemu Changelog:

Cemu experimental release

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SkyEmu is a low level GameBoy, GameBoy Color and Game Boy Advance emulator. Its primary focus is to provide a good user experience through a good mixture of tradeoffs of accuracy, performance, features and usability.

Changelog:

Look below

https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/releases/tag/v2

PyBoy v1.5.2 is released. Game Boy emulator written in Python.

PyBoy Changelog:

Removed license of unused SDL2 cython libs, and fixed some typos

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https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy

* HBMAME 0.245.8 [Arcade] - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/

* ArcCab View_MAMEUI64_0.248_BGFX_Chain_V2.2 - https://houba-mame.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html

* Mark5 1.9.0 [Hitachi BML3] - http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bml3mk5/download.htm

* WinArcadia 29.12 [s2650-related] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* DCVG5K (2022-10-20) [VG5000] - http://dcvg5k.free.fr/

* mGalaxy 9.0 [Front-end] - https://www.mgalaxy.com/download/

BGB v1.5.10 is released. BGB is a gameboy emulator which runs on Windows.

Features:
emulation of the GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and Super Gameboy
accurate emulation of the hardware, based on research with lots of test roms, useful for debugging/rom development. some highlights:
clock exact timing of LCD behavior/state changes
realistic initial ram values - random but with specific bit patterns, and simulated values left by bootroms (for example "nibbler (pd)" depends on this)
accurate emulation of LCD register writes during scanline (prehistorik man, demotronic demo)
emulation of inaccessible VRAM and OAM as on real hardware
10 sprites per line limit
clock exact emulation of sprites causing mode 3 to take longer
correct memory access timing (access happening at the last/second to last clock of an opcode)
accurate emulation of the differences between DMG and GBC, including timing differences, differences in hardware behavior, initial state, etc.
can run a GBC rom as on a DMG, and a...

RetroArch v1.12.0 is released. RetroArch is a multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and *BSD. It is formerly known as SSNES. Its design and background is quite different than most other emulators as RetroArch does not implement an emulation core itself. RetroArch talks to libretro, a generic emulator core API. This means that RetroArch is core agnostic, and it does not care which emulator core is running.

Currently there are libretro implementations for systems such as SNES, NES, GBA, GB/GBC, Genesis, and even arcade games (Final Burn Alpha).

libretro isn't only usable for emulators. A preliminary port of an open source reimplementation of Cave Story has been ported to libretro as well.

RetroArch believes in modularity. The application itself is a command-line driven application suitable for HTPC and/or headless use. There also exists a GUI frontend for RetroArch, supporting every single config option available in RetroArch...