In a last few days I made some important improvements in MSX emulator, like support for BIN files and Konami SCC emulation, but I also added several games in MSX game library. Since today, there are more than 2,500 games in Pantheon's game library overall. New Pantheon will be released at the end of November.
It has been more than a year since Pantheon 1.500 was released. This was the last Pantheon with games for MSX computers, and it is about time to add more games. At the moment, Pantheon's MSX emulator only supports MSX computers series one, and only cartridge games, so there is still a lot of work for me to do.
At the moment I am preparing new release of Pantheon. There is a lot of different things to do: I have to check if all download links still works and fix them if they don't, create installation files and upload it, update website... New Pantheon will be available tommorow.
Game Gear has both a Master System mode, for backward compatibility, and a true Game Gear mode. In Master System mode, 256x192 resolution graphics is shrunk to 160x144 resolution and displayed on Game Gear LCD display. Of course, Pantheon displays graphics in original resolution.
Emulator no.13 is complete and you can now play fifty Sega Game Gear games: Arena - Maze of Death, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Chuck Rock, Devilish, Galaga '91, Griffin, Halley Wars, Junction, Jeopardy, Kawasaki Superbike Challenge, Lemmings 1/2, Madou Monogatari 1/2/3, NBA Jam and more.
Madou Monogatari is a series of fantasy role-playing games for Sega Game Gear. I have always been a fan of games like Wizardry, Eye of Beholder and Final Fantasy, and I have to say that I like Madou Monogatari a lot. The game is Japanese and I don't understand a word, but it easy to learn how to play, because there are no numeric stats. Everything is represented by character facial expressions and sprites. Madou Monogatari series of games will be available in next release of Pantheon.
I was working on Sega Game Gear emulator this weekend. The emulator works fine and now its time to add some games. Game Gear shares most of its hardware with the Master System, its LCD display has 160x144 pixel resolution and is capable of displaying 4096 different colors. A large part of the Game Gear's game library consists of Master System ports but there are also a lot of unique games of different genres available.
