Emulation

Plus: How's that GameCube emulation on the new console, anyway?

Winlator github repo hyperlink

Dev "Producdevity" provides more detail about the purpose and launch details via the r*ddit link here::

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1leeyi0/emureadycom_is_live_a_better_way_of_sharing/

"This update is notable for having a high number of improvements to game performance and compatibility. Please read the change notes.

Additionally, for x86_64 devices (most desktop computers), this update requires a CPU which has SSE4.2 instructions, and it is likely that all future releases will also have this requirement. This feature is available in all modern CPUs released in 2011 or later. The few users who have hardware which doesn't support this instruction set can compile the emulator from source with the ENABLE_SSE42 CMake option disabled."

cont. reading via linked source.

Video description box with all the direct links copy pasta:

This month’s retro news round up includes the National Museum of Play needing some help, a new module for the Polymega, and the discovery of possibly the rarest commercially released game ever? There was only one copy! And yes that is a very excited baby you can hear in the background on a couple of occasions. Sorry about that.

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The show even has chapter breaks, so you can watch just the parts you want:

0:11 - The Strange and Unusual 1:30 - Ports and Remakes 2:40 - Hardware and Accessories 3:05 - Homebrew 4:02- Long Thought Lost 4:55 - Fan Translations

Support the Retro Wave movement by listening to this month's playlist (same as last years - sorry!): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsLHRkveU8agG_DA0C6lZcPUDzg5R4jPU

This month's links:

Help New York's Strong National Museum of Play: https://www.museumofplay.org/support/individual-giving/

Help Japan’s Game Preservation Society: https://www.gamepres.org/en/

GameBook Advance: https://www.nintymedia.net/products/gamebook-advance-standard-edition

Game Boy Camera Manager: https://www.marcrobledo.com/game-boy-camera-manager/

The VMU Pro: https://8bitmods.com/vmupro-handheld-visual-memory-card-for-dreamcast-smoke-black/

Painter Man on the ZX Spectrum: https://ktbproductions.itch.io/painter-man

GORF on the ZX Spectrum: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13465

Telethugs on the ZX Spectrum: https://www.patreon.com/maisodiados

Goblinarama on the ZX Spectrum: https://zero-budget.itch.io/goblinarama

Bubble Cop on the ZX Spectrum: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13564

Operation Moo on the ZX Spectrum: https://jgajete.itch.io/operation-moo

Herbie wants to be a millionaire for the ZX Spectrum: https://bitmagine.itch.io/herbie-millionaire

Spy Kombat for the Commodore 64: https://tnd64.unikat.sk/Seuck_Compo_2025.html#Entry12

Star Skimmer for the Commodore 64: https://tnd64.unikat.sk/Seuck_Compo_2025.html#Entry13

El Cartero for the Commodore 64: https://bonnette2020.itch.io/el-cartero-c64-demo

Slither for the Commodore 64: https://milasoft64.itch.io/slither

BDTZ on the Amiga: https://acneproduction.itch.io/bdtz

Gemdalus on the Amiga: https://retream.itch.io/gemdalus

Mundialito for the Amiga: https://acneproduction.itch.io/mundialito

Luckyman for the Atari XL/XE: https://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1746818948&archive=&start_from=0&ucat=1&ct=nowinki

Dawnrazor on the Game Boy Colour: https://sbtalbain.itch.io/dawnrazor

Frontier Force on the Master System: https://badcomputer0.itch.io/frontier-force

ZPF on the Mega Drive: https://megacatstudios.com/pages/zpf

Yoomp for the Atari ST/STE: https://dekadencedemo.itch.io/yoomp

Friends of Mana on mobile: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YjJiOQwhul12atUOAulJOp9njcWusBCPsKOonibadpY/edit?tab=t.0

Evangelion The Fighting Impact Rebuild on mobile: https://x.com/RockmanCosmo/status/1927347863769498100

Bomberman Puzzle Special on mobile: https://x.com/RockmanCosmo/status/1924892891178229802

TRIPITAKA: https://archive.org/details/tripitaka_win_mac

Ultravore footage: https://x.com/SongbirdPro/status/1919916302254084215

Vertexer footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P85Mq7LJpU

English language translation of Dungeons & Dragons: Tower Of Doom on the Saturn: https://segaxtreme.net/resources/dungeons-dragons-tower-of-doom-english-patch.426/

English language translation of Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon on the Saturn: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1URtYeta1xmjeZOi8ZZbhZl8rRSK9XhWW?dmr=1&ec=wgc-drive-globalnav-goto

English language translation of American Oudan Ultra Quiz for the SNES: https://krokodyl.github.io/post/2025/05/america-oudan/

English language translation of Wonder Trek on the PS1: https://romhackplaza.org/translations/wonder-trek-english-translation-playstation/

"Welcome back, ROM readers! Or maybe you should be welcoming me back? How does this work when I took an extra week off due to the flurry of gaming news last weekend? Maybe we each bust out a "nice to see you again" and get down to business.

This week's main focus is a bit different than usual — a personal reaction to a story I saw more than a week ago that'd been eating at me ever since. There's been a good bit of emulation news since last issue, but this felt like a more important topic to me than an extremely questionable PS3 Android emulator that somehow made its way onto the Play store (maybe I'll revisit this one next issue)."

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"[Chromehounds lobby]

Me: [chanting] mechs, mechs-

Other pilots: Mechs, MECHS

Mechanic: [pounding her toolbox] MECHS, MECHS, MECHS!

Hello! Apologies for the late issue, but this story came together last minute, on account of capital-L Life, and also because the subject is developing fast. Hopefully it's worth the wait! I've got an exclusive interview for you on a shit-hot community project to resurrect a FromSoftware game that was criminally underappreciated in its day. I mean, that's practically all FromSoftware games, but this one was just born in the wrong time and place — I think it would be a substantial hit on Steam in the year 2025.

But I'm getting ahead of myself, while also being behind. So let's jump right into it! It's big stompy robot time."

Copy Pasting OP long-term MAME Contributor MameHaze from here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1ks52p4/new_jakks_pacific_plug_and_play_games_to_be/

Over the last week a number of previously undumped JAKKS Pacific Plug and Play units have been dumped by TeamEurope the same techniques developed a few months ago. These will be supported in the next version of MAME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Bv1HpiyY4

The Amazing Spider-Man in Villain Round-Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NheliPLg0

Marvel Heroes: Ultimate Action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZiNEohWcDo

Shrek / Over the Hedge (with bonus SpongeBob Dilly Dabbler footage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS4NhOW8e9w

Arcade Gold featuring Pac-Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FmyNsln0m0

Retro Arcade featuring Pac-Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhq4jBmucLQ

Super Pac-Man Collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6QtRgqhUqU

Disney Princess Magical Adventures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIJO-XKBmPk

Cinderella - Once Upon a Midnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBC8M9O-UY

Sleeping Beauty - Tales of Enchantment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUM1HEsBqCQ

High School Musical

I've also been improving MAME's VT369 (enhanced NES clone hardware) This progress may or may not make the next version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ZdMv4q5Bs

Various VT369 based Disney Handhelds and other bootleg-like multigames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6cDzT12WU 'In a Tin' VT369 based games