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Multi System Emulator

ares is a cross-platform, open source, multi-system emulator, focusing on accuracy and preservation.

ARM64 Windows builds are now available.
The 32X core is no longer marked as experimental, having reached 95% compatibility. There are still have some minor glitches here and there, the majority of games can now be played.
There have been significant improvements to many other cores too, refer to the change log below for details.
Change Log

User Interface

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• Debugger: set per-processor trace history depth [invertego]
• Debugger: store 64-bit addresses in trace history [invertego]
• Debugger: use a hashset to track visisted addresses [invertego]
• Move Audio Driver settings onto a new line, to prevent large device names overflowing the container [LukeUsher]
• Implement 'Reload Current Game' hotkey/menu option [LukeUsher]
• Controllers: bind analog inputs only on motion away from center...

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Linux for Nintendo Switch

hekate 6.0.1 or newer is mandatory to boot

Kernel/Driver changes

• RAM

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  409MB RAM was freed from carveouts and was given to CMA so everything can easily use it with mmap
  [*]Joycon/Procon driver
  Added support for Sio (Switch Lite gamepad)
  Improved HD Rumble and fix it once and for all
  Improved and reorder init sequence
  Improved high speed uart stability
  Fixed hangs when using hd rumble
  Changed Procon D-Pad from HAT to actual D-Pad
  Fixed HORI analog stick limits
  [*]WiFi & Bluetooth
  Fully unlocked almost all WiFi channels,1-13 for 2.4GHz and 34-165 for 5GHz. 14/144 disabled).
  Many 5Ghz channels will only be used if there's an existing AP (radar detection), for regulation reasons.
  Fixed Bluetooth SCO mode (HSP/HFP). It now properly transmits audio instead of static
  Significantly improved signal on both WiFi 2.4GHz and Bluetooth since default is now USB2
  (USB3 can be enabled back via ini config)...

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* WinUAE 4.10.0 [Commodore Amiga] - https://www.winuae.net/download/

* Hoxs64 1.1.2.2 [Commodore C64] - https://www.hoxs64.net/

* WinArcadia 29.34 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* NO$PSX 2.2 [Sony PSX] - http://problemkaputt.de/psx.htm

* Clrmamepro 4.047 [Rom Manager] - https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/

BigPEmu v1.03 is released. BigPEmu is the first Atari Jaguar emulator to feature compatibility with the entire retail cartridge library, along with excellent performance and a wide variety of unique features.

features:

Full compatibility.
BigPEmu can run every game in the Jaguar's retail cartridge library.
Fast.
The emulator runs the entire retail library (with default settings) at full speed on almost any x64-capable processor. Every Jaguar processor runs on a single native core (maintaining deterministic emulation) and doesn't rely on any dynamic recompilation (maintaining console compatibility), all the while maintaining extremely low system requirements.
Accurate.
It's the most accurate Jaguar emulator to-date, although there is still lots of room for improvement. I'm continually working toward achieving system-wide cycle-accurate timing.
Better than hardware.
Although the emulator defaults to settings which are catered toward compatibility and accuracy, it's...

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PPSSPP v1.14.1 is released. PPSSPP is a fast and portable PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux, written in C++.

Changelog:

(NOTE: 1.14.1, released on December 20, fixes a black screen bug on older Android devices, plus some other odds and ends)

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MedGui Reborn v0.121 is released. MedGui is a GUI (Frontend) for Mednafen WINDOW OS.

MedGui Reborn v0.121 Changelog:

Updated Newtonsoft.Json to v.13.0.2
On perconfig fixed a problem with doubled quoted string
Better management of errors on failure extraction for compressed archive
In Cheat manager if the error 403 appear, MedGuiR try to connect again one time to gamehacking.org server
Unrecognized games will be named as original file name (thx Cyber Akuma for report the bug)
Fixed a bug with multiple entries for the same game with multi bin file (thx Cyber Akuma for report the bug)
Added sound device selector
Improved and fixed scan detection on PSX and Saturn games
Fixed error message for ST-V games on 32 bit OS
Added no$psx bios v2.1 hash to the supported psx bios
Fixed a regression on last MedGuiR release on multiple entries for bin file and undetected cd based games

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* SDLMAME 0.250 for Ubuntu - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/

* NegaMAME 0.250-1 - http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm

* Qemu 7.2.0 [PC] - https://download.qemu.org/

* BML3MK5 1.9.1 [Hitachi BML3 computer] - http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bml3mk5/download.htm

* Hoxs64 1.1.2.1 [Commodore C64] - https://www.hoxs64.net/

* VBA_M 2.1.5 [GB/GBA] - https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases

* Pantheon 12.144 [Multi-system] - http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/Download.htm

* WinArcadia 29.33 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* PPSSPP 1.14 [PSP] - http://www.ppsspp.org/downloads.html

RetroArch v1.14.0 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.

Changelog:

1.14.0

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DuckStation is PlayStation emulator focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to be as accurate as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices.



Here are changes for latest development builds:

• Don't prevent GetlocL after CDROM Init;
• Update sync interval on MakeCurrent() with OpenGLHostDisplay;
• Fixed broken missing-SBI detection;
• Don't unconditionally apply TTY enable patch;
• Remove sleep logging[/URL] in HostDisplay functions;
• Improved Timer SleepUntil();
• Allow using input button to clear bindings in FullscreenUI;
• Ensure Android source is always enabled in InputManager;
• Various fixes for the postprocessing controls in the fullscreen GUI;

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:: Code at Github
:: Latest development builds
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BigPEmu v1.01 is released. BigPEmu is the first Atari Jaguar emulator to feature compatibility with the entire retail cartridge library, along with excellent performance and a wide variety of unique features.

- Added variable-sized EEPROM support, thanks to Reboot for providing some test cases. 512 byte and 2KB EEPROM settings are picked up from the MRQ file if it exists, otherwise any number of EEPROM address bits can be specified via the -eeprombits command line option.
- Added JaguarGD bank switching support.
- Fix for exception-handled M68K reads in unmapped address space.
- Fix for Blitter not correctly wrapping cyan/red on add when ADDDSEL is set, thanks to ScatoLOGIC for reporting the BattleSphere bug which led to this fix.
- Fix for Blitter not starting on the correct bit when block width is less than pixel size and phrase mode is not enabled, thanks to ScatoLOGIC for reporting the BattleSphere bug which led to this fix.
- Going in for a major surgery...

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PPSSPP is advanced PSP emulator, that translates oryginal handheld CPU instructions into optimized x64 or ARM64 machine code using JIT recompilers. Thus it can run on quite low-spec hardware, including ARM-based phones and tablets with OpenGL ES 2.0 support.



Here are changes for latest development builds:

• Add savestate checkpoints to verify that MEASURE and WRITE match;
• OpenXR HUD support for even more games;
• Reserve some space in the checkpoints vector;
• Add a NOOP state to reduce logspam after error;
• Better handling infnan fog coefficients in softgpu;
• Cull verts outside post-viewport Z in softgpu;
• Optimize out texture proj for UVs;
• Handle infnan fog coefficients better;
• Fix wrong vreinterpret neon intrinsic usage

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:: PPSSPP webite
:: Emulator on Github
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BigPEmu v1.00 is released. BigPEmu is the first Atari Jaguar emulator to feature compatibility with the entire retail cartridge library, along with excellent performance and a wide variety of unique features.

features:

Full compatibility.
BigPEmu can run every game in the Jaguar's retail cartridge library.
Fast.
The emulator runs the entire retail library (with default settings) at full speed on almost any x64-capable processor. Every Jaguar processor runs on a single native core (maintaining deterministic emulation) and doesn't rely on any dynamic recompilation (maintaining console compatibility), all the while maintaining extremely low system requirements.
Accurate.
It's the most accurate Jaguar emulator to-date, although there is still lots of room for improvement. I'm continually working toward achieving system-wide cycle-accurate timing.
Better than hardware.
Although the emulator defaults to settings which are catered toward compatibility and accuracy, it's capable of...

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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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