New mednafen version!

[F-3582]

Yup, my favourite GBA/NES/PC-Engine emulator for Linux (and Windows, too) has been updated. A lot. Here's the new things:

Originally Posted by www.mednafen.com

December 22, 2006 - Mednafen 0.7.0 and Mednafen-Server 0.3.0 released

Sleeeeep, braaaaaiiins.

Read the ChangeLog, ChangeLog is good! This release as a whole should be considered beta-quality, since so many core changes have been made. PC-FX emulation in this release is very pre-alpha-ish, but it does work with a couple of games(yay Chip Chan Kick), though without FMV...but you do need a dump of the PC-FX's BIOS ROM, which I won't provide, so you'll just have to write a program and burn it to a CD-R to dump the BIOS ROM using pulse-width modulation sound output like I did, nyaaaah~

A few happy additions:

• Button settings saved in plain-text mednafen.cfg file. No more evil inputmap.cfg!
• Better network play console. FEEL the fuzzy networking.
• Support for 6-button PC Engine gamepad emulation.
• Support for PC Engine mouse emulation. If you're smart, you can play 2-player Lemmings with mice over netplay...probably. ^_^
• New internal font!
• More sound drivers(ALSA and jack) available for UN*X.
• Short help screen by pressing F1 screen.

That was two days ago. And now to the newest news:

Originally Posted by www.mednafen.com

December 24, 2006 - Mednafen 0.7.1 released, minor bug fixes.

Changes:

• Began work on an experimental stdio interface, see drivers/remote.cpp if you are a frontend author and can read C code, though it is disabled for now. Documentation for it will be written when it is closer to completion.
• Switched to trio_snprintf() from snprintf() in the input configuration code, this should fix problems under Windows(and any other OS with a lame snprintf() implementation) with joystick button configurations not saving properly.
• Fixed parsing of the "sounddevice" setting(it was erroneously being compared to the long, descriptive name of the driver instead of the short name).
• PC-FX: More changes.

Get the whole thing here.

By the way: The emulator has become a lot user-friendlier. They finally managed to add a little help screen when pressing F1 and to move the button configuration to a key combination that was not close to your "Save State" key :P