U64Emu v1.17

posted in Emulator Release by dhalamar on Dec 24th, 2000

The Killer Instinct arcade emulator U64Emu has been updated to version 1.17. Here's what's new:

  • Frame Skip is now disabled by default. Enable it if you have a slow computer. If your computer is medium, you are best _without_ frame skip, as the overhead for skipping consumes cycles. Thus if you get anything north of 45Hz without frame skip then leave it off.
  • The Up and Left (or whichever) problems should be fixed with whatever input devices were causing the problems. I've yet to verify the bug, so i can't be sure it is fixed, but i did discover a likely problem area.
  • The command line parameter -auto (all lower case) will launch the game without further ado.
  • There are random crashes and some fatals still don't work.
  • Some new keys are mapped. F7,F8,F9 and F10 are Coin1,Coin2,Coin3 and Coin4. Someone wanted the coin triggers mapped for some reason... so that is it.
  • The Test Mode button (key '2') has been moved to F11. Hopefully F11 is not hardwired to something on the HotRod as well. ;)
  • An attempt is made to have DirectDraw create surfaces in 'driver optimal memory'. Hopefully, this will result in a speed up on older cards that lack the ability to transfer quickly to and from video memory. In addition, this could, possibly, fix the full screen problems that some video cards (ATI) have.

You can download this from the Single Arcade Emulators section.