ColecoDS - An Emulator for the DS/DSi. Original port by Alekmaul. Phoenix-Edition by Wavemotion with support for Colecovision, ADAM, MSX1, Sord-M5, Memotech MTX, Spectravision SVI, Hanimex Pencil II, Tatung Einstein, SG-1000/SC-3000 and the Creativision.
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V9.8: 23-Apr-2024 by wavemotion-dave

Cleanup of MSX BIOS handling - we now support the Panasonic CF-2700 directly. See MSX BIOS section for details.
MSX status line now shows RAM (based on machine chosen) on the status line (was previously showing ROM size which no other machine in ColecoDS did).
MSX Caps Lock now has LED indicator on the virtual keyboard.
Added ROM/CAS/DSK size and CRC32 on the main screen after choosing a game.
Numerous fixes for Save/Load states especially for the MSX and Einstein.
Improved memory handling to free up some DS resources for future expa

CPCEC is an emulator of the family of home microcomputers Amstrad CPC (models 464, 664, 6128 and Plus) whose goal is to be loyal to the original hardware and efficient in standard modern systems. Thus it brings a faithful emulation of the Z80 microprocessor and it replicates the behavior of the CRTC 6845 and Gate Array video chips, the PSG AY-3-8912 sound chip, the remaining circuits found in the original hardware, and the tape deck and floppy disc drive that made possible loading and running software.

CPCEC includes several related projects. ZXSEC is an emulator of the Sinclair Spectrum family (48K, 128K, +2/Plus2 and +3/Plus3) based on the components it shared with the Amstrad CPC family: the Z80 microprocessor, the PSG AY-3-8192 sound chip, the tape system and the NEC765 disc drive controller; CSFEC is an emulator of the Commodore 64 platform, similarly based on shared code; and MSXEC is an emulator of the MSX family (1983 MSX, 1985 MSX2, 1988 MSX2+), also based on shared code.

DSi Menu replacement for DS/DSi/3DS/2DS

What's new?

Top screen of the R4 and GBC themes now uses the same font as the bottom screen!
Cursor in the R4 and GBC themes, as well as the Settings menu, has been replaced with highlighted text of your favorite color!
    Does not affect the SEGA Saturn-themed settings menu.
Like the original R4 menu, selecting the music icon in the R4 theme now boots Moonshell!
    Install your preferred Moonshell version, then place _moonshl.nds on the SD root.
    Moonshell will run with TWL clock speed on DSi or 3DS consoles.
@mentusfentus: Cursor now moves smoothly in DS Classic Menu! (#2394)
@spellboundtriangle: Added widescreen support for CTGP Nitro v1.1.0.
When a Guru Mediation Error occurs, the master brightness is now cleared, in case if an error occurs with the screens fully white or black.
Various: Updated translations.

Bug fixes

ESRB splash screen (disabled by default) now appears when launching a DS(i) game with the R4 or GBC theme!
Fixed game-skipping count when pressing Left/Right in the R4 or GBC theme.

Game Boy emulator written in Python

Fix missing .py files in sdist package

Fixed a crash when entering fullscreen while playing Super Smash Bros. 3DS on Vulkan (#87)
Minor across-the-board performance improvements on Mali GPUs
Android: Fixed on-screen overlay joysticks having an incorrect draw order
Updated build environments
Formatting: Clang 15 --> 18
Linux build: Clang 15 --> 18
Android build: AGP 8.2.1 --> 8.3.2
Gradle 8.2 --> 8.4

Notes:

The Smash Bros fix included a large-scale restructure of several sections of the Vulkan renderer. This may result in compatibility improvements for other games which we did not expect. Please feel free to share these with us if you find any!

Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.

What’s new in this release:

Build system support for ARM64X.
Some restructuration of the Vulkan driver interface.
WIDL improvements for ARM support as well as SLTG typelibs.
Various bug fixes.

Hatari is an open-source Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator.

From the announcement post:

12 of Retro Classix games (titles developed by Data East and re-published by Ziggurat Interactive) are going to be delisted on April 30th, 2024. The silver lining here is that each of them are discounted -50% until the time of the delisting – here's a link to find them all: https://www.gog.com/promo/retro_classix

And here's a list of the titles:

BAD DUDES VS DRAGONNINJA
Break Thru
Express Raider
Gate of Doom
Heavy Barrel
Joe and Mac: Caveman Ninja
Joe and Mac Returns
Night Slashers
Super Real Darwin
Super Burger Time
Two Crude Dudes
Wizard Fire

Also, all games are sold as emulated arcade titles.

iGBA was a copycat version of developer Riley Testut's open-source GBA4iOS app, with the addition of ads on top. While it did not explicitly name GBA4iOS, Apple told us it removed iGBA from the App Store after learning that it was a knockoff app that copied another developer's work and attempted to pass it off as its own.

Notably, Apple confirmed to us that emulators on the App Store are permitted to load ROMs downloaded from the web, so long as the app is emulating retro console games only. Apple also said it had approved iGBA's functionality, before learning that it was a knockoff app, suggesting that Game Boy emulation is permitted on the App Store, but the company has yet to share any other examples of retro game consoles.

All in all, it appears that iGBA was removed from the App Store entirely because it was a ripoff of GBA4iOS, rather than due to piracy concerns resulting from users being able to load any ROM downloaded from the web. However, exactly which consoles Apple considers to be retro, and if there will be any other restrictions, remains to be seen.

Compilation of games that received fan translation in March 2024. Some of them got released exactly in March while the others aren't but received notable upd...

ColecoDS - An Emulator for the DS/DSi. Original port by Alekmaul. Phoenix-Edition by Wavemotion with support for Colecovision, ADAM, MSX1, Sord-M5, Memotech MTX, Spectravision SVI, Hanimex Pencil II, Tatung Einstein, SG-1000/SC-3000 and the Creativision.

V9.7: 16-Apr-2024 by wavemotion-dave

Fixed Colecovision RAM mirrors such that Boulderdash runs properly.
The Heist now forces RAM to clear (all zeros) as it is known to be picky about contents of RAM on power up.
Fix EEPROM sequential reads so Activision PCB games like Jewel Panic work correctly.
Added the Wildcard and Print buttons on the virtual ADAM keyboard. All ADAM virtual keys should now be present.
Added new configuration options to select the Colecovision mode to run in - you can force ADAM emulation, force PCB types, and set EEPROM sizes, etc.
New global option to force ADAM mode, SGM can be Disabled, and BIOS auto-patch for 'Fast BIOS' to force the 15 second wait down to 3 seconds.
Minor cleanup and optimizations to the Adam core.

Improved rasterizer cache validation heuristic
This results in extreme performance improvements for several games. See here for examples
Android: Added an option to adjust the size of on-screen buttons
Android: Added an option to adjust the opacity of on-screen buttons
Non-user facing code improvements related to the removal of telemetry

Notes:

If you are using Android, please migrate to using Obtainium for installing and updating Lime3DS, as this is now our official method. You can find more information in our readme
This update introduces a regression in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon while using Vulkan. This involves a consistent crash during the first Pixelator cutscene. Please use OpenGL for the time being when playing this game. Apologies for any inconvenience
This update changes which files are available to download with releases. Namely, Android App Bundles (.aab) and 7Zip archives (.7z) are no longer available to download

Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games.

Updated web view library
Updated controller input and audio playback (SDL) libraries
Play time not being counted properly if system is suspended during gameplay
Shutting down system from Playnite causes application exit script not work properly sometimes
List of disabled controllers is sometimes erased after disabling new devices
Background music starts from scratch instead of resuming when exiting a game
Updated emulator profiles
"Hide imported" option on scan folder dialog doesn't prevent games from being imported
Crash in Fullscreen mode after library update
Crash when shutting down Playnite while also connecting/disconnecting controller devices
Crash when parsing release dates on specific Windows locale settings

A front-end (GUI) for mednafen emulator

Added a 'Recent files' menu.
Fix misalignment of screenshots.
Added and fixed settings (up to mednafen 1.31.1).
pce, pce_fast: Correct sha-256 bios (thanks to SamRohod for reporting).
[MacOS] Use macOS keyboard mapping when __ APPLE __ is defined (patch by codeman38).

SameBoy is a user friendly, powerful and open source Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy emulator for macOS, Windows and Unix-like platforms.

This version is backwards compatible with save states from SameBoy 0.14.3 and newer, as well as save states from any BESS compliant emulator

The SBEMU project emulates a Sound Blaster and works with real DOS on a range of obsolete computers. Instead of getting only PC speaker sound, we now have FM...

https://www.mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0264.txt00:00:00 New working systems00:01:01 New working clones00:02:04 Systems promoted to working00:02:13 Atari 2...

After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it’s not satisfied with the changes the company made...

DSi Menu replacement for DS/DSi/3DS/2DS

What's new?

DSi-based themes: Startup time has been decreased by 2 seconds!
    Console icons are now only loaded when such ROMs are listed.
R4 theme: Added support for the original .bmp skin files!
Moved the Game Loader setting from the nds-bootstrap settings page to the Games and Apps settings page.
File/Directory listings are now logged.
Like with the rest of our April Fools features, the .ntrb format is now hidden on days except for April 1st!

Bug fixes

Fixed a long-standing bug where TWLMenu++ would crash if single-character files are found. (ex. X.gb)
3DS theme: Fixed a returning bug (due to LTO), where the box art would appear behind the rotating cubes.
Fix GBA bios.bin detection on flashcards.
Re-compiled the included FastVideoDSPlayer build.
The libnds sleep mode function is now fully disabled, in order for TWLMenu++ to properly boot with SLEEP_MODE = 0 set in sd:/_nds/TWiLightMenu/settings.ini and on consoles which trigger sleep mode with the console lid opened.
Other minor fixes and improvements.

ColecoDS - An Emulator for the DS/DSi. Original port by Alekmaul. Phoenix-Edition by Wavemotion with support for Colecovision, ADAM, MSX1, Sord-M5, Memotech MTX, Spectravision SVI, Hanimex Pencil II, Tatung Einstein, SG-1000/SC-3000 and the Creativision.

Removed DrZ80 core - the high quality CZ80 core is all that remains.
Complete overhaul of the Adam handlers to clean and refine.
Fix for games like Best of Broderbund (dsk and ddp) now load properly.

A Nintendo 3DS emulator based on Citra

Android: Major stability improvements for the Vulkan renderer (Thanks GPUCode!)
Enabled SPIR-V optimization, allowing for smaller compiled Vulkan shaders
Android: Added an overlay button to swap screens
    This button is disabled by default, and must be enabled in Overlay Options --> Toggle Controls
Android: The side drawer is now locked by default
Default system username is now "LIME3DS"
Default number of play coins has been updated to 300
Fixed the Exit hotkey not working correctly

Classic Atari 2600 and 7800 games emulator

.net sdk update; lightgun movement fix

A video game ROM collection manager to help filter, sort, patch, archive, and report on collections on any OS.

Release Highlights
Fix: parent/clone inference with game "alternates"

@MrNoOneRed found that the GoodTools-style [a] and [a#] tags were not getting grouped into parent/clones with TOSEC DATs. This has been fixed.
Checksum cache updates

Feature: checksums of non-archives are now cached.

This is most helpful when copying or moving large files such as ISOs, or when calculating MD5/SHA1/SHA256 hashes.

Fix: test for cache write permissions.

Previously, igir would write its cache file to ./igir.cache. But it can't be assumed that this file path is writable, as reported by @TheBrainScrambler on NixOS. So now igir will fall back to writing the cache file to ~/igir.cache.

##$ Token updates

Feature: new {romm} token.

@maxexcloo has added support for RomM, a web UI to help visualize ROM collections. As of writing, RomM does not have any mass ROM sorting functionality, so igir is a great choice to help organize RomM collections.

Feature: added "cracked" game type.

A new "cracked" game type has been added that will affect the {gameType} output token. Games considered "cracked" have had some copy protection removed, and by definition are not retail, so they will also be excluded by the --only-retail option. Thank you @MrNoOneRed for the feature suggestion!

Fix: "Famicom" and "Super Famicom" DATs.

"Nintendo Entertainment System" and "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" have been supported for a long time, but @kerobaros pointed out that "Famicom" and "Super Famicom" were not. This has been fixed.

Sudachi is a Nintendo Switch emulator for Android, Linux, macOS and Windows written in C++

Rebranded logos and strings to use Lime3DS's branding over Citra's
Compatibility list is now stored locally
Window title and Discord RPC now use full game titles instead of abbreviated ones
GSP_GPU: Fix framebuffer dirty bit
HLE DSP: Fix sample clamping in SimpleFilter
Fixed misc build issues with GCC and Clang

Notes

This is the initial release of Lime3DS. Above patch notes are relative to Citra 2104
If you were using the Android alpha builds of Lime3DS, you will need to uninstall that version before installing this one, as the app ID has been changed