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Bad news, nobody

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

A new emulator is currently in the works. If all goes well, there should be a release within the next couple of weeks.

Second, according to the folks at the MSX Resource Center, there is an MSX ROM mapper database, licensed under GPL. This may well mean the end of ROM type selection for fMSX. Special thanks to Manuel Pazos and Manuel Bilderbeek for their help.

If you can help with similar information for the Atari800 (ROM CRC and ROM type information), please let me know.

Great time to be part of open source development, to be sure.

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fMSX version 3.5.3 released

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

New features in this version:

  • Games/applications that require MSX Audio/MSX Music will no longer crash the emulator if either is disabled in System settings – there will simply be no Y2413/YM8950 audio
  • ROM type settings are now saved between sessions – up to 500 different ROM’s can be tracked by CRC32 value

The second feature requires some experimentation, and I welcome any feedback you may have. As mentioned, the limit is 500 ROM’s – this is not counting the “auto-detect” ROM’s, for obvious reasons. The list is updated when ROM type is changed via the System menu – to remove an entry from the list, simply set ROM type to “auto-detect”.

Searching through the CRC values is done in linear time, when a ROM is actually loaded, but for 500 entries, this is not likely to take long (I’m not sure how long reading/writing these entries will take to memory stick, however).

The list is loaded from stick when the emulator starts up, stored in memory while the emulator runs, and saved back to stick when emulator is exited.

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If you find this feature helpful and are willing to help, please see the previous post

UPDATE Version compiled for firmware 1.50 does not work. Please use the 2.00 version

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