2008-05-06

The new version of MagicEngine is ready!

MagicEngine 1.1.0

This time I won´t list all the improvements here, there are to many!

Check the readme file for the full list. This version fixes a lot of small glitches, many things were improved, and some nice new features were added, like the new cheat engine! A new section was created in the forums specialy for this new feature.

We like this version a lot, we hope you will like it too.

Have fun!

Only the PC version is available for now though, we have tried to make a simultaneous release for both PC and Mac but we ran out of time, the Mac version will be available in a few days.


What´s new?
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v1.1.0:

- added a cheat engine
- added IPS patch support for ROMs
- fixed a bug in the SPTI CD-ROM driver
- fixed a memory bug that could crash the emulator
- rewrote the CD-ROM driver, now both SPTI and ASPI
are supported at the same time allowing more drives
to be recognized
- added a new option ´[cdrom] driver´ in the pce.ini file
to select the CD-ROM driver (SPTI/ASPI)
- added a command line option to directly start a CD game :
´pce.exe -cd´ or ´pce.exe -cd:E´
- improved the ´boot CD´ menu, games titles are now
displayed directly in the menu when a game is recognized
- added an eject button in the ´boot CD´ menu
- added a quick setup window that appears the first time
you run the emulator
- improved program startup, the emulator will now starts
directly in the selected screen mode, it won´t display
a blank startup window anymore
- implemented the ´options´ panel in the ´load ROM´ window
- added a drop-down list in the ´load ROM´ window to quickly
select a drive
- added predefined configurations to the keyboard config panel
- added more options in the gamepad/keyboard misc config menu
- fixed a bug in the gamepad config panel, the list of buttons
was sometimes uncomplete
- added a new ´PC-Engine´ config menu to configure
the PC-Engine hardware
- added an ´extended_resolutions´ option to enable back
the extra PCE video modes (320/352)
- added an ´overscan´ option to select the vertical overscan
- added a screen ratio option (4/3, 3/2, fullscreen)
- added options in the pce.ini file to customize
the scanlines patterns
- added back custom resolution options in the pce.ini file :
´res_256´, ´res320´, ´res_336´, ´res_352´, and ´res_512´
- added more resolution choices for the fullscreen mode,
including low resolutions
- added new options in the pce.ini file to filter
screen resolutions based on size and depth
- added 16-bit video mode support
- added a triple buffering option ´[video] triple_buffer´
in the pce.ini file (DirectX only feature)
- added two sets of video settings in the ´video´ config panel,
one for windowed mode and one for fullscreen modes
- added a ´GUI´ menu to configure a few GUI options
- added a language option (English, French, Japanese)
- added back the ´compress_state_file´ option to
enable/disable state files compression
- fixed a bug in the PCX loader
- fixed Ys I&II freezing bug in MagicSystem
- fixed Ys IV ending bug in MagicSystem