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Since 2009, the blueMSX databases have not been updated. Different personal reasons explain that, but I don't want to annoy you with more details. We have however collected many new data, especially because the MSX, Coleco and Sega communities are very active. So, here's finally a big update that must be viewed as a prelude to a new version of your preferred emulator. No, you don't dream, we are preparing also a big update of the emulator itself !!!! You can find the updated databases on our Resource page. http://www.vik.cc/bl...x/resource.html Here's a small list of the changes : - Coleco database : added many alternative dumps and new created roms - Sega database : added many new dumps, especially Korean games Remarks about Sega games : * at the moment, you need to rename the small Korean/Taiwanese .sms games with the .rom extension (the .sms extension will be supported in next blueMSX version) * some games don't work, we hope to fix that in the new version of the emulator (the RAM extension for King's Valley will be emulated and there are also launching problems to be fixed) * the 4 following games require to be launched on the SF-7000 machine : Magical Kid Wiz, Super Boy I, Super Boy III, Xyzolog - SVI database : added some dumps, especially in the dsk section - MSX tape database : no any change (will be developed later) - MSX system roms database : added new dumps, many are related to new machines - MSX game roms database : added a mountain of new creations, alternative dumps coming especially from Korea, Arabic countries, the MSX Legacy Collection, also conversions and/or improvements and/or translations made by Django, GDX, Kabish, the MSX Files team, etc ... Remark : some Korean MSX games use the MSXDOS2 mapper, it's recommended to select this mapper manually as the emulator fails to use the correct mapper in this case, even with the updated database (a bug that we hope to fix in the new blueMSX version) Enjoy still better your preferred emulator with these updated databases !

Important : if you get audio problems with this beta, please deselect the option “Enable reverse playback” in the Options/General menu before booting a machine.

Thanks ! We hope to make more work for blueMSX in 2011 !

2010 was a very difficult year for the blueMSX team, this for personal reasons. We have however made some additions and improvements, but all is not ready for an official release. As these additions and improvements can interest some people, we have decided to release a beta version for Christmas ! Remember : it’s a beta version, only the core of the emulator is updated and some bugs could appear. What’s new ? - added support for smooth rewind of emulation (check hotkey in shortcut editor) - added support for ColecoVision Super Action Controller - added support for ColecoVision Super Expansion Module hardware - added support for ColecoVision Expansion Module #2 using mouse - added support for Parallax ARC cartridge - added support for stereo PSG in MSX machine configuration - fixed critical bug that caused trainer and cheats to fail as well as memory writes in the debugger when any of the following languages were selected : Catalan – Chinese Simplified - Chinese Traditional – Dutch – Finnish - Russian - fixed bug in handling of transparent sprites - fixed ARTRAGs VDP command engine bug - fixed ‘no frequency’ bug in SN76489 emulation - fixed minor bug in Beer IDE emulation You can find this beta here : http://www.bluemsx.com/rel_download/blueMSX_2.8.3_beta.zip

Version 2.6 of blueMSX has been released ! blueMSX is the first freeware emulator to support the Game Reader, a device that allows an user to play real MSX cartridges on a PC. blueMSX is using Vincent van Dam's API to access the Game Reader device. The support requires the Game Reader hardware and official drivers that can be purchased from Sunrise or MSX-ASSOCIATION. Note that the support is very different from MSXPLAYer and some cartridges will not run as well as with the MSXPLAYer. Another surprising new feature is support for ObsoNET, the only Ethernet solution for MSX, developed by Daniel Berdugo. Read carefully the manual as this support requires to install first WinPCap, the Windows Packet Capture Library. After many requests from gamers, the emulator comes finally with input event logging, replay and AVI rendering. Conceived as enhanced save states, this great feature gives to the user a more complete MSX experience ! blueMSX 2.6 has also support for the Sega SC-3000 and SF-7000 computers, that were very close to the MSX1 system without being compatible. Which are the other changes ? - Added support for low resolution in fullscreen mode - Added SVI printer support - Added selection of video in grabber - Added support for Sony Playball roms with digitized speech - Added support for MegaCart®, a new type of Coleco rom - Added dutch version of the user manual - Fixed crash caused by video grabber card - Made video grabber unload if not selected (in 2.5, the grabber was always enabled) - Fixed NMI bug in z80 emulation causing some Coleco games to fail running - Fixed detection of Sega rom types in menus and dialogs - Fixed bug in screen 10 vertical border color - Fixed header of PNG screenshots - Fixed bug in the S1985 device that caused emulator to crash when debugger was open. - Fixed the joystick button triggers for the SVI joystick - Fixed bug in the I8250 UART used in SVI-328 that caused emulator to hang - Fixed SVI-328 PPI bug - Fixed default rom mapper handling - Changed default width of the memory window in the debugger to 16 bytes - Fixed some printer emulation bugs - Fixed save state in R-Type rom mapper so it doesn't crash the emulator - VDP timers are now saved correctly in save states - Updated MSX Printer emulation to include a static font - Fixed screen 6 sprites - Fixed CC sprite bug that made CC sprites visible even if no non CC sprite was present - Fixed sprite collision index in Status Register 0 for screen 5-8 sprites - Fixed bug related to CC sprites (having the attribute "Mix color with sprite that has next higher priority") You can find this emulator here : http://www.bluemsx.com

Time now for another kind of game in the MSXdev'06 contest. The Dutch Darkstone group has announced his participation with a puzzle game called Beez, without any other precision (so, it will be a surprise !) In the past, Darkstone has released Bouce Mania and a Xmas'demo. MSXdev site : http://msxdev.msxblue.com/ Darkstone site : http://darkstone.neovamp.net/

In full summer heat, there's no rest for the MSXdev' team as we are proud to present you the first finished game for the 2006 edition of this great contest : a full MSX conversion of a Spectrum game released by Taito in 1987, Operation Wolf ! Not only this version is better than the poor port made by Ocean in 1988, as it uses all the MSX capabilities, but this version detects also if your machine or emulator has external or internal MSX-MUSIC and can therefore enhance also the musical experience ! Enjoy this conversion made by the TOYBOX team Tip for blueMSX users : add manually the rom file in a cartridge slot and select the 'mirrored rom' mapper type. The game will be added later to the blueMSX database. http://msxdev.msxblue.com

Version 2.5 of blueMSX will be released globally 8.7 at 14:00 GMT ! The big launch event has been arranged today at the MSX Info Update 2006 party in Helsinki. Daniel Vik presents new features to all party visitors on video. After almost 10 months since the previous release, the new version of blueMSX is a big update, full of very advanced features : - The implementation of a new controllers and keyboard editor gives still more comfort to the gamers and will allow to support easily other computers or consoles in future versions. - Requested since a long time by the MSX developers, the hard disk emulation is now a reality and besides the well-known Sunrise IDE hard disk controllers, blueMSX has also implemented the Beer IDE and GIDE supports. - In the musical domain, blueMSX is the first emulator that is capable to support the Yamaha CX5M, CX5M-128 and CX7M-128 computers by emulation of the YM2151 sound chip and the YK-01, YK-10 and YK-20 music keyboards. The MIDI part of the Yamaha SFG cartridges is not yet available. Which are the other changes ? In the emulator : - Added support for the MHT Ingenieros Gunstick and the ASCII Plus-X Terminator Laser - Added support for two 80 columns graphics cards on MSX1 : Microsol VMX-80 and SVI-737 - Added support for Video In, Sony HBI-V1 digitizer and the digitization part of the Philips NMS-8280 computer - Added superimpose and external video source support in V9938 emulation - Added support for PNG screenshots - Added support for creating new disk images of various size on MSX and SVI-328 - Added support for undocumented screen mode (screen 0 with screen 2 style name table addressing) - Added a new display synchronization method - Added a video option to blend consecutive frames and get smoother picture - Added support for the YM2149 PSG - Fixed the MIDI-IN support in the Turbo-R machines - Added new rom mappers for SFG-01 and SFG-05 (used in the Yamaha music computers), the F&M Direct Assembler System and the SG-1000 version of The Castle - Improved SRAM enable/disable handling in FM-PAC - Restructured Keyboard and Joystick input - Optimized the video rendering - Added support for running blueMSX from read only media - Added support for running blueMSX without storing any data on local machine - Fixed addressing in Konami mappers - Fixed bug in 1kB ram mapper used in ColecoVision and SG-1000 - Border rendering is now cycle accurate - Fixed HREFRESH timing in VDP - Fixed bug in XVRAM emulation - Fixed sprite status bug - Fixed VDP timing in Turbo-R and MSX2+ machines In the debugger : - Added find dialog to search for strings or values in the memory - Improved editing in memory window - Added debugging support of OPL sound chips In the trainer : - Extended the cheat database to 396 MSX games You can find this emulator here : http://www.bluemsx.com

MSXdev'06 7th entry: Monster Hunter by Nerlaska Studio Time now for another different genre entry, one of the top genres in the most wanted games for the MSX: a brand new RPG ! Prepare your armour, weapons and magic spells for Monster Hunter ! This 7th entry for the MSXdev'06 contest is very promising as it will include a turn based fighting system and SCC music ! The team entering the contest with this promising game, Nerlaska Studio, is new into the MSX development, but expert in developing videogames for PC, mobile devices and even PlayStation 2, as you can check in their corporate website. The author of this project started to code in 1988 with his MSX-1: now, he decided to enter the MSXdev contest with this good looking MegaROM ! MSXdev site : http://msxdev.msxblue.com/ Nerlaska Studio site : http://www.nerlaska.com/

15/05/06 MSXdev'06 6th entry: Malaika - Prehistoric Quest by Karoshi Corporation Less than one month after his launching, the 2006 edition of the MSXdev contest seems to become really a great edition, as 6 entries have already been announced and we guess that other projects are also planned, but for the moment kept in private area. The 6th entry is made by the founders of this great challenge, Karoshi Productions (Jon Cortazar and Eduardo Robsy), who have released in the previous editions a total of 8 games (Duck Hunt, Factory Infection, Griel's Quest for the Sangraal, Guru Logic MSX1, Picture Puzzle, Saimazoom, Snail Maze, Soukoban Pocket Edition). With an atttractive intro screen, Malaika - Prehistoric Quest will be another platform game ! And we guess that Karoshi Corp. has other surprises in preparation MSXdev site : http://msxdev.msxblue.com/ Karoshi Corp. site : http://www.karoshicorp.com/

10/05/06 5th entry in the MSXdev'06 contest : Dash by XL2S Entertainment The winners of the MSXdev'05 contest, XL2S Entertainment, with the game The Cure, have announced their participation to the 2006 edition with Dash!, another platform game. Formerly planned as a possible MSXdev'05 entry, it looks like this awesome Boulder Dash clone will make it for the actual edition of the contest. This is the fifth entry in this contest since his launching on 17 april and the second participation of XL2S Entertainment to the MSXdev'06 contest (first participation is LUX, a platform adventure game) MSXdev site : http://msxdev.msxblue.com/ XL2S Entertainment site : http://www.xl2s.tk/

03/05/06 MSXdev'06 : a three-head jury ! Since his launching on 17 april 2006, the MSXdev'06 knows a high success and many projects in progress are the perfect proof that the MSX community is alive and kicking. Now the MSXdev team has announced the formation of the jury. Contrary to the previous editions, the jury is no more based on one person, but it's a three-head jury, because having more than one person involved in the jury could allow to obtain results with mixed points of view. The three MSX'ers that have kindly accepted this difficult task are : - Cas Cremers, founder of the well known MSX software company Parallax in 1989 and creator of legendary MSX pieces with one thing in common: to push the MSX system to its limits (Vectron, Arc, Magnar, Black Cyclon, Blade Lords, Akin, Core Dump promo) ; - Jesús Pérez Rosales (aka [DK]) , member of the excellent MSX game development group Team Bomba, responsible of the very nice gameplay, level design and major improvements to masterpiece Bombaman ; - Philip Pera (aka msxgamesbox) , webmaster of the famous site The Msx Games bOX, organizer of the MSXart contests and supplier of lots of information about homebrew MSX games and a photo gallery covering most MSX computers and consoles. More infos and links on the MSXdev site : http://msxdev.msxblue.com

27/04/06 4th entry in the MSXdev'06 contest : the Infinite mystery ! Since his launching on 17 april 2006, the MSXdev'06 contest has a great success. Now the Infinite group (Edwin, Wolf) has announced his mysterious entry. As usually they will speak only in morse until the very last instant (remember Universe: Unknown in the 2005 edition). The only thing we know about this very secret wip game is that it is a platform-adventure game! Infinite website : http://www.infinitemsx.org/ MSXdev website : http://msxdev.msxblue.com/

26/04/06 3rd entry in the MSXdev'06 contest : LUX by XL2S Entertainment The winners of the MSXdev'05 contest, XL2S Entertainment, with the game The Cure, have announced their participation to the 2006 edition with LUX, a platform adventure game. This is the third entry in this contest since his launching on 20 april !!! It looks like that the 2006 edition will be fantastic for the developers and the gamers ! MSXdev site : http://msxdev.msxblue.com/ XL2S Entertainment site : http://www.xl2s.tk/

22/04/06 Cyberware: Chapter IV ~ Katarsis episode II ~ : Second MSXdev'06 entry submitted! Only two days after the news about the first MSXdev'06 entry being submitted, the second entry has been submitted by The New Image http://www.tni.nl Cyberware: Chapter IV ~ Katarsis episode II ~ will be a so-called Platform Shooting Adventure and pretends to be the new MSX space epic! Visit the official MSXdev website at http://msxdev.msxblue.com.