=================================================== |¯| /¯/ \¯\ /¯/ | |/ / |¯¯¯\ |¯| /¯||¯||¯¯¯\ \ \ / / | / | |\ \ | | / || || |\ \ \ \/ / | \ | |_| || |/ |/ /| |_| | ____ | | | |\ \ | _ || /| / | _ ||____| / /\ \ | | \ \ | | | || / | / | | | | / / \ \ |_| \_\|_| |_||_/ |_/ |_| |_| /_/ \_\ =================================================== THE EMULATOR WITH A FUNNY NAME =================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT'S NEW v0.11 ===== - Added lowpass filter for sound. Toggle it from the in game menu - Disabled that Start+Back shortcut to exit games. Some people were exiting games by accident. Now if you want to exit a game, you have to use the ingame menu (right thumb click) - Applied some XBE version patching on the executable. That may fix issues some people have had with the emu not starting ? - Configurable rompath. Just edit rompath.ini - Kawa-X now stores on the HD what romsets you have or haven't so now, there is only a scan the first time you launch the emu. That should fix the problem people have had with the emu taking ages to boot up. It will only take ages the first time :) If you want to force a rescan, hit the X button on the game list. - Fixed some problems with the provided CLRmame and RomCenter dat files I provide with the emu. Files inside NEOGEO.ZIP were reported with the wrong names in some places. By the way if people have problems starting Neogeo games they should check the following: In their NEOGEO.ZIP: NG-LO.ROM should be named 000-LO.LO NG-SFIX.ROM should be named SFIX.SFX NEO-GEO.ROM should be named SP-S2.SP1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kawa-X is the XBox port of a Windows emulator I made some time ago named Kawaks. It allows to play titles from the Capcom CPS1, CPS2 and SNK NeoGeo library. Pretty much all games are supported, even these 90mb monsters that would normally not fit into the XBox's limited 64mb RAM. (This emu includes a significant amount of black magic :P) For the more recent encrypted NeoGeo games, though, only the decrypted form is supported (64Mb of RAM won't allow to do the decryption). Kawaks (PC version) can produce decrypted sets, if you only have encrypted versions... See the included list of supported titles for more info... There's the following goodies waiting inside : - CPS1, CPS2, NeoGeo support (doh) - Plenty of nice eye candy video filters (more about that later) - Redefinable controls (including handy macros like keys to do 3 punches, etc) - Can save screenshots - Savestates (8 slots per game) - You can play NeoGeo games either in arcade mode or in console mode - You can switch region (language settings) for every supported CPS2 game. For example, that means you can play the normally japanese only Mighty Pang in english if you want... About video filters. The following video engines are supported: - Regular blurry non filtered output. - AdvanceMAME 2x scaling - A zoom 200% output named Zoom 2x (fast and sharp) - 2xSai - Super2xSai - SuperEagle - A RGB effect which I named Monitor matrix that simulates lowres monitor ouput Imo, the one that looks the best is AdvanceMAME2x, so I made it the default. 2xSai, Super2xSai, SuperEagle ask for a lot of horsepower from the console, so I don't recommend using them (can cause slowdowns). AdvanceMAME2x looks just as good and is way faster anyway. The files Kawa-X generates are stored on E:\TDATA\0000FA7E That's where you'll find the screenshots you saved and the settings for all the games. Normally you won't need to mess with there but well... The rest is pretty obvious, there's even an help screen built in to remind you the controls to access the features in the emu. Roms go in the \ROMS subdirectory. For NeoGeo games you need the NeoGeo BIOS file (neogeo.zip) too... That's all folks, go play now :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr K aka MHz