Riff released version 0.5.0 of Nuance on Wednesday, the NUON emulator for PC’s. A great deal of effort has been made to make this version of the emulator as fast as possible.
Whats new in 0.5.0:
- Fixed TimeToSleep, making Snake playable again (but still requires disabling MIDI in source code)
- Fixed many compiler bugs, fixing Walkthru and Room demos
- Modified minibios initialization procedure to fix media MPE crashes when AudioInit called prior to SprInit
- Added support for SetISRExitHook BIOS routine
- Added syscall interface for improved program performance when running on emulator
- Added compiler support for bilinear memory access instructions and conditional branches. Virtually all instructions are now compilable.
- Added functionality required by the bootloader application.
- Eliminated need to set the DVDBase variable manually.
The latest version of the emulator is available here.
Here’s the latest entry into the video blog series that DragonShadow Industries is putting out. It turns out that GFKAEV stands for “Game Formerly Known As Escape Velocity,” the original name for Decaying Orbit. In this episode, Skah_T walks us through the entire game, missing only the branches to the higher difficulties. It’s a good watch, especially if you’ve had trouble getting a hang of Decaying Orbit in the past.