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News from June 2001

30/06/2001  

Calice v0.3.6 released
 
Heres whats new...
  • Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha (Japan 960805).
  • Modified mz80 to allow kabuki decryption.
  • Added kabuki decryption.
  • Added QSound support for CPS-1 games.
  • Added Adpcm support for CPS-1 games.
  • Fixed sound for some CPS-1 games.
  • Fixed graphics for Muscle Bomber Duo.
  • Fixed Slammasters driver.
  • Added PreAmp slider in the sound configuration.
  • Added Hebrew translation.
  • Fixed button 6 support for player 2.
  • Added P1+P2+P3 and K1+K2+K3 buttons.
  • Added screen rotation for shoot'em'up games.
  • Modified Mercs drivers thanks to Logiqx.
  • Fixed sound in Quiz Tonosama no Yabou 2 Zenkoku-ban.
  • Added sound support for ZN hardware games.
Grab this new version from our downloads page.
 
   

 
28/06/2001  
Elsemi has released Nebula v1.5a. This is bug fix version correcting problems in avsp and ssf2xj. The new version can be found on our downloads page.
 
   

 
27/06/2001  

Release 041
Dedicated to pza the donator.
 
Alien vs. Predator
 
Alien vs. Predator (Euro 940520)
(677kb)
 
These files are not ROM's in any way, they simply
allow encrypted ROM's to be non-encrypted.

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Release 042
Dedicated to Hoonis, johnick, ryu1999 & sifu.
 
Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha
 
Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha (Japan 960805)
(631kb)
 
These files are not ROM's in any way, they simply
allow encrypted ROM's to be non-encrypted.

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Kawaks v1.07 released
 
Heres whats new...
  • Added games AVSP (Euro) and SFZ2A (Japan).
  • Cleaned startup code, maybe less crashes?
  • YM2151 logging. Logs to Callus style CYM file.
  • Changed the balance so OKI is louder.
  • TAB key now hides or shows menus.
  • Resize Window with CTRL+1 2 or 3.
The new version can be found at the Kawaks homepage.
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Nebula v1.5 released
 
Heres whats new...
  • Added CPS1 support. Not all games added yet..
  • Sprite Masking and Priorities emulated.
  • Added a skin selector (new skin dir).
  • Support for up to 10 ROM directories.
  • Added pink BG option in the Shots factory.
  • Many other internal changes
The new version can be found on our downloads page.
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Finally...
 
New versions of CPS2mame (including windows effects by Aaron Giles), Nebula dats and LogiqX dats supporting these new release's can be found on our downloads page.
 
   

 
23/06/2001  

Kawaks v1.06 released
 
Well Kawaks is coming along very very nicely, just look at the latest additions (edited) in this new release...
  • CPS1 sound! Yup, that's right. But YM2151 (that's music) requires a good CPU so added options to enable/disable OKIM6295 and/or YM2151.
  • Fix for Mercs backgrounds (CPS1).
  • Added Forgotten Worlds and Lost Worlds (CPS1).
  • Sound glitches should be VERY rare now.
  • Pixel format autodetection.
  • New autoframeskip code.
  • Fixes for S3/S4 GFX card users.
  • Changed many things in the menus.
  • Added a 4th rompath option (requested).
There are other changes too so be sure to read included docs for the full list. The new version can be found at... Yup you guessed it, the Kawaks homepage.
 
   

 
22/06/2001  
I have added a page of Nebula skins for those people who want to change it's style. The link to it is on our downloads page but you can get to it here.
 
   

 
20/06/2001  

Release 040
Dedicated to pcb-a-holic the donator.
 
Armored Warriors
 
Armored Warriors (USA 941024)
(947kb)
 
These files are not ROM's in any way, they simply
allow encrypted ROM's to be non-encrypted.

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I've updated CPS2mame and the Nebula dats to support the new release and LogiqX has also supplied new verify DAT's. Grab it all from our downloads page.
 
Kawaks has also been updated to v1.05 to support this new release and has many other fixes included too. You can get the new version from the Kawaks homepage.
 
   

 
17/06/2001  
Calice has been updated to v0.3.4 with the following;
  • Fixed fullscreen modes flicker
  • Direct Input 3 and 7 keyboard plugin
  • 400x300 and 512x384 fullscreen mode
  • Auto Frameskip (sunc to 60 Hz)
  • Two players mode
Grab this new version from our downloads page.
 
   

 
13/06/2001  

Release 039
Dedicated to Mito the donator.
 
Street Fighter Zero 2
 
Street Fighter Zero 2 (Japan 960227)
(591kb)
 
These files are not ROM's in any way, they simply
allow encrypted ROM's to be non-encrypted.

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I've updated CPS2mame and the Nebula dats to support the new release and LogiqX has also supplied new verify DAT's. Grab it all from our downloads page.
 
Kawaks has also been updated to v1.04 to support this new release, it also has other fixes included too. You can get the new version from the Kawaks homepage.
 
   

 
11/06/2001  
Kawaks has been updated to version 1.03 adding joystick support and fixing many minor issues, its also got itself a new home at http://kawaks.retrogames.com. You can get this new version from there or our downloads page.
 
   

 
10/06/2001  
Barry Rodewald ( homepage ) updated his Qsound player to version 1.4.2 finally adding ZIP support. Grab the new version from our downloads page.
 
   

 
07/06/2001  

Release 038
Dedicated to walk the donator.
 
X-Men: Children of the Atom
 
X-Men COTA (Japan 941208 rent version)
(519kb)
 
These files are not ROM's in any way, they simply
allow encrypted ROM's to be non-encrypted.

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I've updated CPS2mame and the Nebula dats to support the new release. Kawaks has been updated to v1.02 and LogiqX has supplied new verify DAT's. All can be found on our downloads page.
 
And finally 2 new cool skins for Nebula.
 
Nebula Digital skin

Download Nebula Digital Skin
(473kb), by Design.
 
Nebula Super Puzzle Fighter 2 skin

Download Nebula SPF2 Skin
(474kb), by Mirkuma.
 
   

 
06/06/2001  

Kawaks v1.01 released
 
Kawaks has been updated and should now fix the speed issue with the emu running to fast for many people. You can download the new version below as it seems Kawaks homepage is down at present.
 
Download Kawaks v1.01 (283kb), author is anonymous.

NOTE. Kawaks is not supported so do not email us with any problems you may have using this emulator.
 
   

 
05/06/2001  

Kawaks v1.00 released
 
This is one hell of a fast CPS-2 emulator which has been in development for months now (author wishes to remain anonymous for the time being). It has almost everything in there already and netplay will be added in the future.
 
Head over to the Kawaks homepage and get it NOW!
 
NOTE. Kawaks is not supported so do not email us with any problems you may have using this emulator.
 
   

 
03/06/2001  
Want to make Nebula look like this?
 
Nebula GEAR skin

Then download the skin by Design here
(477kb).
 
   

 
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