Xenesis Beta


Xenesis 0.92 Beta - Latest Revision
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 - Fixed SRAM/BRAM issue with some games (esp Dark Wizard for Sega CD)
 - Added support for E: and F: drives (silly typo kept it out of the last release)
 - XBox LED now flashes amber when accessing a Sega CD

 - Improved reliability of fast forward feature
 - Disabled Save Sates for Sega CD games (they don't work properly in Gens anyway)
 - Saving or Loading a State no longer returns straight to the game
 - Fixed a bug with the Sega CD eject/reload code
 - Fixed crashing problem when selecting screen stretch mode whilst in game list screen 


I guess this would probably be called a maintenance release. There are a few new features I want to add to Xenesis but I just haven't had time the last couple of weeks and I didn't want to wait that long without releasing anything. So I've decided to release this version to fix a couple of issues that were causing a few problems with v0.91.

I'll probably spend a couple of weeks now working on the other stuff I want to add. So unless there are any serious problems with this release there probably won't be any updates for a couple of weeks.

As always, please keep the bug reports and suggestions coming. They're really appreciated.



Xenesis 0.91 Beta
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 - Added better screen stretching support (can now toggle aspect ratio on/off)
 - Added screen positioning to the screen stretching option (use left thumb stick to position screen. Use X to centre it)

 - Added Fast Forward facility to help speed up game intros etc (hold left trigger and push right thumb stick to the right)

 - Fixed buggy video mode selection and widescreen support


This release includes a couple of new features and (hopefully) one big problem.

Quite a few people reported problems with their boxes locking when trying to boot the first release. After much scratching of the head I think I tracked it down to some bugs in my video mode and widescreen code. These should now be fixed and hopefully those people that had problems won't have them anymore.

There are still problems with Xenesis and the IGR function of some versions of Evo-X. To be honest I'm not sure what I can do about those other than suggesting trying another version of Evo-X. I will look into it though, but my main focus this past couple of days has been to fix the above issue.



Xenesis v0.9 Beta - Initial Release
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 - Megadrive/Genesis emulation
 - 32X emulation
 - Sega CD emulation
 - Supports bin/iso + mp3 images for Sega CD games
 - Also supports booting of Sega CDs, both original and backup
 - Save/Load state support (5 save states per ROM)

 - Four player support
 - Option to use analog stick for directional control (with selectable sensitivity)
 - Redefinable button layouts for each player
 - Game Genie/Action Replay cheat code support

 - Selectable video filtering modes, including 2xSAI and Advance Mame
 - Widescreen support (front end uses XBOX default setting, in game is selectable)

 - Surround speaker support (not actual surround sound, but output to all available speakers)

 - User interface with favourites and sub folder support