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VIDEO EMULATION |
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Improved |
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TMS9918/28/29, V9938,
V9958 VDP's |
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Support for two 80
columns graphics cards on MSX1 : Microsol
VMX-80 and SVI-737 |
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192kB VRAM (extended
VRAM) |
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16kB VRAM (for some
MSX1 machines with a V9938) |
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Correct specific
palettes of colors (MSX1, MSX2/2+) |
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Correct Z80<->VDP
timing for Panasonic MSX2+ and MSXturboR
machines |
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Pixel accurate
rendering: horizontal screensplits are
rendered almost correctly |
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Correct overscan
behaviour |
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Support for NMS-8280
digitizer |
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Support for NMS-8280
superimpose |
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Support for Sony HBI-V1
digitizer |
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VIDEO EXTRAS |
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Full screen rendering |
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Support to emulate any
non-colour monitor, like monochrome-green,
amber or white |
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Screenshot feature
with different options |
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Scale2x monitor
emulation |
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Hq2x monitor emulation |
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Hq3x monitor emulation |
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Gamma/Brightness/Contrast/Saturation
controls |
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PAL video emulation |
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Additional noise to
get better old TV feeling |
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Selectable video
resolution in fullscreen mode |
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Horizontal and
vertical stretch on all monitor modes |
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Real interlace mode
and deinterlace |
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Sliders for adaptable
scanlines and RF Modulator effect on all
monitor modes |
Improved |
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DirectX support |
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Supports 16 and 32 bit
color |
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Interpolation from
emulated video out to PC screen to get
smoother video |
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Autodetection of
emulated video sources |
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Event logging, replay
and AVI rendering |
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AUDIO |
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AY-8910, YM-2149 and
SN-76489 PSG's |
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MSX-Audio |
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MSX-Music |
Improved |
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MoonSound |
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VLM-5030 speech
synthesis |
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Sony Playball
digitized speech |
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Jaleco Moero!! Nettou
Yakyuu '88 sample player |
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Yamaha SFG-01 and SFG-05
OPL |
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Konami synthesizer PCM |
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Majutsushi PCM |
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MSXturboR PCM |
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SCC and SCC-I |
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MIDI-Out support |
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Real MIDI-in support
for MSXturboR |
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Support for MIDI input
and output in the Philips Music Module (MSX-Audio)
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Support for MIDI input
and output in SFG-05 (Yamaha CX5M/CX7M) |
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Support for keyboard
input in the Philips Music Module (MSX-Audio) |
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Support for Yamaha YK-01/10/20
keyboard input |
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SIMPL/Covox (sound via
the printer port) |
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"Moonblaster
Stereo": MSX Music on one channel,
MSX Audio on the other |
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Mixer with Mono and
Stereo sound |
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Audio capture |
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Joyrex PSG module |
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STORAGE |
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Support for the MSX
Game Reader |
Improved |
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Sunrise IDE interface
with harddisk |
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NoWind USB interface |
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Several floppy disk
controllers: Toshiba, Panasonic, National,
Spectravideo, Microsol, NEC |
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SRAM for several
cartridge types, PAC, ASCII, Koei, ... |
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Sony HBI-55
datacartridge |
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ESE-SCC cartridges
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ESE-RAM cartridges
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Mega Flash ROM SCC
cartridges |
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BEER IDE interface |
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GIDE interface |
Improved |
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MEGA-SCSI interface |
Improved |
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WAVE-SCSI interface |
Improved |
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MSX Club Gouda SCSI
interface (NOVAXIS) |
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Support for SCSI CD
Audio and CD-ROM |
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DIR as DSK feature |
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Support of 3 CAS
formats : fMSX-DOS, fMSX98/AT and SVI318/328 |
New |
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Support for .der copy
protected disk files |
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Support for creating
new disk images of various size on MSX,
SVI-328 and SF-7000 |
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Support for loading
zipped ROM/DSK/CAS files |
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If a zip file contains
multiple files, a list with the matching
file type is displayed where the user can
select the file to load. |
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MAPPERS |
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Plain linear memory
mappers (RAM, ROM) |
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Konami with/without
SCC |
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Manbow 2 with SCC and
Flash memory |
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Matra Ink with AMD
Flash memory |
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ASCII8 with/without
SRAM |
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ASCII16 with/without
SRAM |
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GameMaster2 with SRAM |
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Halnote with SRAM |
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R-Type |
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Cross Blaim |
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Harry Fox - Yuki no
Maou hen |
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Super Pierrot |
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Koei |
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Super Lode Runner |
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Zemmix multigame roms |
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Holy Quran |
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PAC/FMPAC/FMPAK |
Improved |
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DRAM in MSXturboR |
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Panasonic firmware
mappers with SRAM |
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National firmware
mapper |
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MSX Bunsetsu Henkan
Jisyo ROM |
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12×12 dot Kanji |
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Kanji JIS ROM 1 and 2 |
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Basic rom mapper |
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MegaRAM |
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Konami Keyboard Master |
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Sony HBI-V1 |
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F&M Direct
Assembler System |
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Yamaha SFG-01 and SFG-05 |
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MSX-DOS2 |
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OTHER EMULATION
FEATURES |
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Improved |
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Cycle exact Z80
emulation with full support for
undocumented instructions and flags |
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Real time timing,
using an advanced timing model |
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Emulation of the
Philips printer |
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Emulation of the Epson
printer |
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Uart emulation |
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Magic key dongle |
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Tetris II Special
Edition dongle |
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Different CPU clock
speeds, including those for the Panasonic
MSX2+ machines |
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Rensha turbo auto fire
support |
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Run time insertion and
removal of cartridges and other
extensions |
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Option to run at
maximum possible speed |
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Speed setting (in
percent) |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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Plugin structure that
allows to add external program (dll's) :
debugger and trainer |
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Databases in XML
format |
Improved |
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Manuals online and in
distribution |
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Multiple language
support |
Improved |
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Save states |
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Quick save feature
with filenames with sequence number which
makes it easy to restart emulation from
an old saved state |
Improved |
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More than 180 MSX
machine hardware configurations included |
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Support for Forte II
Games arcade boards |
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Support for ObsoNET,
the only existing Ethernet solution for
MSX |
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Support for
Colecovision, SVI-3x8, Sega SG-1000, SC-3000
and SF-7000 |
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Cheat finder dialog
that supports cheats for many games |
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USER INTERFACE |
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Powerful user
interface with menus, property dialogs
and status bars |
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User friendly machine
editor that allows the user to build his
own configurations and to emulate
specific machines |
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Configurable shortcut
keys for easy access to most UI actions |
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Virtual keyboard |
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Input Editor which
allows gamepad inputs and keyboard inputs
on the PC to be assigned to both emulated
keyboards and joysticks |
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MSX keyboard matrix
quirk emulation |
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Joystick and mouse
support |
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Support for the MHT
Ingenieros Gunstick |
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Support for the
Arkanoid pad |
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ASCII Plus-X
Terminator Laser control |
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Drag and drop of ROM,
DSK, hard disk, CAS and STA files |
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Registration of file
types, so double clicking a file
automatically starts blueMSX |
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Change of multiple
disks with a single key click |
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File history which
lists the most recent roms/disks/tapes
loaded |
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Support for XML based
themes which allows users to create their
own look of the emulator |
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Saves the position of
the main dialogs on the screen |
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Ability to disable of
the Windows screensaver and the Windows
menu keys |
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DEBUGGER |
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Disassembly window
with single step, step into/over |
Improved |
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Memory viewer window |
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CPU and peripheral
register window |
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Breakpoints |
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Stack window |
New |
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Support for MSX1 VDP
timing checks |
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Symbol file support
for several assemblers which shows
symbols in the disassembly window |
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Debug device: write
data with special Z80 instruction
sequence and it gets logged to the trace
window. Very useful if you develop MSX
assembly programs in blueMSX |
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