Nestopia v1.08

posted in Emulator Release by narvick on Oct 15th, 2003

Well it seems that Martin Freij updated his excellent NES emulator Nestopia a couple days ago rather quietly. Anyway, here's what's new:
  • Added a launcher
  • Added support for drag-drop files
  • Added some more options in preferences dialog
  • Changed so that relative paths are preserved
  • Fixed mapper 1, glitches gone in "Air Fortress"
  • Fixed mapper 4, sound in "StarTropics" & "StarTropics 2- Zoda's Revenge" works (MMC6B games which differ from MMC3)
  • Fixed mapper 10, "Fire Emblem" plus others work
  • Fixed mapper 18, "Toukon Club" plus others work (minor glitches still there though)
  • Fixed mapper 19, "Family Circuit '91" and "Wagan Land 3" plus others work
  • Fixed mapper 23, all valid versions of "Akumajou Special- Boku Dracula Kun" should now work
  • Fixed mapper 32, "Ai Sensei no Oshiete- Watashi no Hoshi" and "Major League" work
  • Fixed mapper 33, glitches gone in "Captain Saver"
  • Fixed mapper 51, "11-in-One Ball Games" works again
  • Fixed mapper 58, "Study and Game 32-in-1" works
  • Fixed mapper 60, "Reset Based 4-in-1" works
  • Fixed mapper 62, "Super 700-in-1" works
  • Fixed mapper 68, "Maharaja" works
  • Fixed mapper 70, less glitches in "Gegege no Kitarou 2- Youkai Gundan no Chousen"
  • Fixed mapper 82, glitches gone in "Kyuukyoku Harikiri Stadium 3" plus others
  • Fixed mapper 87, "City Connection", "Ninja Jajamaru Kun" plus others work
  • Fixed mapper 88, glitches gone in "Dragon Spirit- Aratanaru Densetsu" plus others
  • Fixed mapper 90, less glitches in "Mortal Kombat 3- Special 56 Peoples"
  • Fixed mapper 101, "Urusei Yatsura- Lum no Wedding Bell" works
  • Fixed mapper 113, glitches gone in "16 Mahjang"
  • Fixed mapper 119, glitches gone in "Pinbot" and "Highspeed"
  • Fixed mapper 185, "Bird Week" works
  • Fixed Game Genie bug (certain codes would either not work or crash the application)
  • Improved CPU/PPU synchronization. Screen shaking gone in many games ("Times of Lore", "Kick Master")
  • Tweaked the DMC and noise channel's output frequencies for PAL mode. PAL sound is now more accurate
  • Tweaked DMC DMA/IRQ counters. Most games relying on correctly time DMC IRQ triggering should now work (Codemasters games, Ian Bell's Tank Demo)
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