NESCafe Nintendo Emulator

The NESCafe Emulator for Java RECENT REVISION HISTORY NESCafe 1.000 (December 2007) Headlines: - Authorisation check at start-up removed (originally required to report game usage and issues with beta) - Sound, game graphics and UI graphics have all been improved Fixes: - Fixed issues with sound, and discontinued the mute versions of the emulator - Fixed issues where loaded state files weren’t starting the sound correctly - Fixed bug where text would not be presented in the correct codepage on some machines - Fixed bug where when a NES ROM did not load correctly an error message was not being displayed - Fixed bug where when running using the Applet Viewer some of the tags weren’t being interpreted correctly - Fixed bug where settings files and ROMs were being cached, and the latest version may not be being read - Fixed bug where lowercase keys in the settings file for the controls where not being interpreted correctly - Fixed bug where the / key could not be assigned to a key control in the settings file or the User Interface - Fixed bug where LOADSTATE tag was not being interpreted correctly unless the URL was specified in full - Fixed bug where screen would flicker when ROM files were loading - Fixed issues with error messages, they are now more meaningful and better explain the underlying issues Functionality Removed: - Removed Override Engine (this was not heavily used) - Removed Activity Monitor (because Authorisation Check is removed, this would not work) - Removed Debugger from Applet version (replaced by Code Profiler in Standard version) - Removed Image Smoothing and replaced with improved image scaling routines - Removed Sprite Tile view from Applet (this was not heavily used) Functionality Added/Changed: - Added F9 option to standard version to dump executable code (profiles the code as it runs) - Changed settings filename to nescafe-settings.txt (to prevent issues with MIME types on web-servers) - Changed how the CPU interprets undocumented operation codes, they now cause the CPU to halt - NESCafe Applet screen now dynamically resizes if the Applet canvas changes size - Cleaned up the Time Trial mode, pressing T causes the current screen and run-time data to be captured. NESCafe 0.706 (February 2007) - Fixed bug where Save States were not working for indirect URLs in Applet Tags - General maintenance improvements and updates to documentation NESCafe 0.705 (September 2006) - Maintenance release, incorporating improvements to remote debugging and updates to documentation - Now forces Applet installations to have a nescafe.settings file at start-up NESCafe 0.704 (August 2006) - Added Online Activity Monitor to allow users to view other games being played in real-time from other sites - Added DisableActivityMonitor tag to the NESCafe settings file to prevent the Activity Monitor from being used - Added StartActivityMonitor tag to the NESCafe settings file to cause it to start when NESCafe starts - Changed APPLET tags in the distributions to be OBJECT tags for betting compatibility (docs changed also) - Added ScreenSizeFactor factor to the NESCafe settings file