Here is a list of new features:

• Completely new user interface (it was needed for the new features).
• Ability to load in your existing HyperSpin XML file into your favorites.
• Table-based design. You can sort by any column, and move the columns around (Just like an excel spreadsheet). Want to hide all your BIOS images? Sort by Genre, select all the BIOS games then move them to the exclude list!
•  See the size of games in your list.
• You can now see game descriptions, genre, clone information, year, manufacturer, rating,  and whether the game could be found for each list.
• Built-in auditor while customizing your list. Easily see which games are missing wheels, artwork, and themes.
• Searching! Search the names/descriptions for a particular keyword (e.g. search for “Metal Slug” or “(USA)”).
• Inverted searching! Only show the list of games that do NOT match the given search string.
• Misnamed/Missing auditor – Find out which games exist in your directory and are not in your HyperSpin list; or find out what games in the HyperSpin masterlist that could not be found.
• Changed some terminology. (Exclude is now known as Ignored, Custom is know known as Favorites).
• Added descriptions to help with the user experience.

BeaNES running Contra in windowed mode

I stumbled on an old program that I wrote and figured it would be worth sharing. BeaNES is a Nintendo emulator written in Java. This was written back in 2007 for a project of our choosing back when I was in college. My goal was to see how well an emulator could run in Java. While it “barely” has sound support, it’s still nice to look back on as a reference on how to make an emulator. I doubt I will do any future releases on this project since there are already many excellent NES emulators out there. Click here to check out the project page.

• Added a progress bar.
• Added right-click option to scan/autoselect ROMs in your list that are not in the master list.
• Added a prompt to remind you to save your config file before closing.
• Added check to make sure you are not overwriting your master list when exporting.
• Added resize and scrolling support for the windows.
• Internal code cleanup.

Click here to go to the project page.