FreezeSMS 2.0 WIP
posted in Emulator Release by xip on Jun 24th, 2001
FreezeSMS is a good Master System emulator for Windows. Here's what's new:
[EMULATION]
Added GameGear system
Added Sg1000 system
New tile caching method, more flexible and faster
Rewrite of SN76489 sound engine (currently missing noise)
Added Mode2GFX line renderer for SMS games (F16 Fighter)
Codemasters custom GFX mode added
Codemasters rom mapping added(Micromachines, Cosmic Spacehead, Dizzy)
Added Support for 5 *REAL* Master System bios's
-Normal Snail Game Bios(USA)
-Hangon/Snail Game Bios
-Alex Kidd bios
-Sonic bios
-Japanese Bios
Added Pro Action Replay support
16 and 32bit desktop colour modes supported
8 filters are now available
-Normal
-Scanlines1
-Scanlines2
-Scanlines3
-Scanlines4
-Doubled Pixel Mode
-RGB monitor filter
-Black and White Filter
-Mosaic Filter
Rewrote time-syncing code, much more accurate and returns cycles to windows operating system more efficiently. You can cap the frame rate to anything you want
Added support for FOUR joysticks to be configured and used.
Added onscreen messaging system to tell you FPS and other assorted system messages
Debugging window showing SMS related information about registers cpu, sound, paging, etc
Tile viewer window which shows you all the tiles currently loaded into VRAM, and allowing you to select two to look at closer
[GUI]
New GUI coded by Maxim, based around an idea we had
Allows box art, screenshots, PAR codes, box information and cheats to be used with the emulator
All configuration options are saved in registry
[Suggestions]
This is a Work In Progress beta, please post bug reports and suggestions to my email address.
Get it at the Master System and Game Gear page.
Thanks to Dela Rossi for the news.