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Contra Force & 30 Others Released
Posted on June 16, 2009.

Thanks to your generous donations, the following games were added today:

All-Pro Basketball, Conquest of the Crystal Palace, Contra Force, Cyberball, Deadly Towers, Destination Earthstar, F-15 Strike Eagle, Flying Dragon - The Secret Scroll, Ghoul School, Magmax, Orb 3D, Pac-Mania, Phantom Fighter, Pinball Quest, Racket Attack, Rock 'n' Ball, Seicross, Shingen The Ruler, Ski or Die, Sky Kid, Sqoon, Star Trek - The Next Generation, Super Sprint, Tecmo World Wrestling, Totally Rad, Twin Cobra, Ultima - Quest of the Avatar, Ultimate Basketball, Urban Champion, Wayne Gretzky Hockey, Wheel of Fortune - Starring Vanna White.

Also, this wasn't mentioned previously, but some settings regarding color emulation on vNES were changed in 2.09, making the games look slightly different when you're playing them. This change was made to more accurately emulate the color output of the original NES on an NTSC television.

vNES Applet 2.09 Released
Posted on June 16, 2009.

Edit: I had broken something and caused games to not load at all for about 12 hours. It's fixed. I'm very sorry.

An update to vNES is now available for website owners, it can be downloaded here. Users of this website do not need to take further action, the upgrade is a server-side fix.

The release is mostly optimizations of the code and removal of unused items that are not necessary for emulation. It also includes mapper support for BxROM, which was apparently used only in the game Deadly Towers.

I'm waiting on USPS to deliver the shipment of games for this month, but I've ordered some really great games that I'm sure all of you will enjoy.

A Brief, Unimportant Update
Posted on June 2, 2009.

These four games were added today: Alien³, Felix the Cat, Low G Man, Mario Is Missing!. They were provided to vNES by www.yourgamestore.net.

In related news, the vNES Retrogaming Store powered by 4Triangles was updated to include this great new USB adapter - it allows you to plug in two N64 controllers to connect to your PC. It's available here for $19.99.

A Long-Winded, Unimportant Update
Posted on May 20, 2009.

Well, to kick off this month's update, let's just get to the list of games.

Classic NES Games added in this update: Barbie, Home Alone, Ikari Warriors III: The Rescue, Legend of the Ghost Lion, Monster Party, Ring King, Sesame Street: Countdown, Stinger, Vegas Dream.

Pirate Original Games added in this update: Gaiapolis, Rocman X, Samurai Showdown III, Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter V, Street Fighter V Turbo 60, Super Donkey Kong 2, Super Shinobi, The, (Depressing Soviet) Tom & Jerry 3.

Prototype games added in this update: Superman 2

I usually like to do theme updates, with one category of game at a time, but that wasn't really possible this time around. All in all, the new 19 games should keep every busy for awhile. Also, I'm not sure what to call the prototype Superman game, as it has no title screen, or basically any other information about it that I can find. It's also not based on any of the movies, as far as I can tell.

As for things behind the scenes here at vNES, I have been working on a large rewrite of the program, to clean up the source and try to solve various issues with individual games. I'd like to be able to focus more on compatibility, and my work on the technical side of this has limited the frequency of updates recently. One of the other changes I've made in the beta I'm working on is a correction of various palette issues that somehow didn't get fixed previously. This is going to cause the colors in the game to look very slightly different, but it will be more accurate when compared to the NES, when hooked up to the TV.

One other thing that has been brought up at various points throughout about this time last year is the inclusion of ROM Hacks. I've told a few people that there is a plan underway to start rolling out those games. And while there is, and considering that we've gotten past the legal issues of doing so, the underlying problem remains that most ROM Hacks are terrible. For every one good ROM Hack that brings something new to the table, there's one hundred useless hacks of people re-coloring Mario or drawing a penis. (That's not a joke.) So, the question is how high the Quality Control bar for this is going to be. To be honest, I'm setting it way too high, and a lot of the people who are suggesting games for the upcoming section are either setting it way too low. Hopefully, a good middle-ground will be found in the future. But until then, it is still being planned, and I do ask for your patience.

Also, vNES Support Forum user HexStunner has sent me a patch that will be implemented soon. With it, you'll be able to log in to vNES, and the server will store your save codes, instead of prompting you to copy and paste them. I'm going to do a lot of testing to ensure this works correctly, and I'm going to work on a way to let users enter the save codes they have been using previously into the database, so you won't lose your progress. It's going to take some time, but it is in the pipeline, and will hopefully be done soon.

Have a great summer, I'll be back with more games to add in three or four weeks.

-- Jamie Sanders

vNES News Titles Don't Convey Actual News
Posted on April 21, 2009.

Hey everyone! It's your favorite nameless, disembodied and apparently British writer back with news about what the vNES team is up to this week!

For this week's update, we've got nine awesome games - the first being "Solar Wars 2001" which is a homebrew game (like D-Pad Hero is) for the NES. You can head on over to the homebrew section and play this awesome game - but it's best if you've got one of your mates at the keyboard with you, as this game requires two players - don't worry, it's a turn based game, so both players can use the same controls if they want.

The other eight games are in the newly-opened Pirate Originals section, a new category of games that were made by frequently indeterminate individuals and sold in various places in Asia. Apparently, nobody really holds a copyright on these games anyway, so they are essentially free to use - the vNES team isn't required to own an original cartridge of these games.

The Game of the Month archive page doesn't have some of the newer Games of the Month. Apparently, nobody can be bothered to write a description of the games, which is why that keeps not getting updated. I'm told it will be fixed soon.

Hey, remember Dexy's Midnight Runners? Yeah! Nobody has thought about them for years, but the nameless, apparently British writer decided to remind you about them for no reason!

Go play some games.


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