Sunday, 31 October   Jackal update [22:46 CET] By Bobbi   Expert made a status update on Jackal, a PSX emulator which is still in early stages. Here's what he wrote at Emualliance : New version is preparing and will contain probably a debugger,mmx support for gpu routines,better GUI and many bug fixes.Also gte routines are working (i have add delay slots and gte opcodes working on). If anyone wants to help in any way with the project just drop me a e-mail. Sounds promising, visit the Jackal homepage here.   Additional bleem! tool [11:12 CET] By Bobbi   While surfing the web I found another tool which allows you to control your CD-Rom access speed. It's called "CD Bremse" (engl.: CD brake) and allows you to get your CD-Rom speed even down to 1x. Users with choppy music/video *MAY* get a speedup using this tool. Get it from the tools1 page or download it directly here (-310k-). Feel free to send me your results with this tool. On a sidenote I wanted to mention that Megaman's bleem! support page is back online after one day of downtime (he's the programmer of BleemBoost).  Null's SPU Plugin 0.39 [10:22 CET] By Bobbi   Null released v0.39 of his PSEmu Software Mixing Audio Driver Plugin. What changed from v0.38 is the removal of a small bug. Get Null's SPU plugin v0.39 from the Plugins page.

	Saturday, 30 October   BleemBoost 0.2 released [10:41 CET] By Bobbi   Megaman's bleem! support page released BleemBoost 0.2, a tool which should speed up bleem! especially on slowers computers. Here's what's new : BleemBoost! 0.2 released. This is a final bug-fix version (I think so). Fixed safety issues and added a lot of stuff to installer. Uninstall feature now available. Please make sure you remove previous version. Make sure to read the Release notes before using this tool. Download BleemBoost 0.2 here.

	Friday, 29 October   Sony VS. bleem! beta team [23:44 CET] By Bobbi   It's public that Sony if fighting against bleem! right now, and that the next court is located somewhere in April 2000. But now, Emuunlim comes up with some (yet) unverified news : It has been brought to my attention that bleem beta testers are being contacted by Sony for a second time, this time they are being summoned to court by Sony. A little known fact is that all bleem beta testers were fired about a month ago, some of these fired testers are being contacted by Sony with no warning from bleem. More news on these shocking turn of events as more is known. Today, Emuunlim made another post, to "clear up things" a bit more : It has been confirmed that sony is indeed taking bleem to court and calling beta testers from the bleem beta team in to testify. The news is still breaking, im sure bleem will make a statement sometime soon on the current situation ... Also from my sources this is just the begining of this New Round of Sony Vs Bleem. Beta testers are just starting to get their subpoena's from Sony and are being called into court not to just give evidence. My post above was confirmed with bleem employees, not people who guess on whats going on and delete my posts. To make things even more complicated, a discussion has been started on bleem!'s UBB here, where DY talks about what HE knows : In the past, some (all?) testers were subpeaned (sp?) for information... IE : What do you know, what are you hiding, etc. The current news is stating that the beta testers are now being summoned (to court? for a chat?)... It would be two different instances, though they both ammount to the same thing ... Let me add, nothing is official... I have not been summon`d. EmuUnlim.com posted news, but I do not know where they got that news. Well, nothing official yet, we'll keep you up to date on the happenings.

	Thursday, 28 October   LAP review [20:44 CET] By mathew2   Some time after Randy added mouse support to bleem!, I ordered a new mouse to be able to use that function better. But I still wasn't satisfied in the way the mouse worked, so I thought about getting a new mousepad as well. While looking through several different mousepad revies, I found the LAP as winner in most of the competitions and decided to order one and to review it ! Read the review here, thanks to Bobbi for some help with writing it !

	Wednesday, 27 October   PSX Game Edit news [20:05 CET] By Bobbi   The PSX Game Edit page got updated with the following news regarding the next release : Direct hardware support for XPlorer/XPloder cartridges!! Support for load'n'save of MadCatz DataDeck files Improved IconEditor, which lets you IMPORT and EXPORT PlayStation Icons to and from Windows Icons (.ICO files) UI and GUI improvements Help file (Hmmm.... can it be true??) And other features to be announced Sounds pretty cool, let's hope we'll see a release soon !   Additional bleem! tool [18:28 CET] By Bobbi   Rumors are flying around about another program developed for bleem!. A part of the topic in #bleem for example is : "3rd party bleem app - 2 weeks away". We don't know exactly what this program may be, but I heard a demo version will be avaible soon of it. Keep an eye on this page as we'll have some other news about this tool soon !   The time after the 1.5 release [18:23 CET] By Bobbi   1.5 got released and many things happened with it. First the bleem.com message board went up and down because to many people were downloading it, what caused server problems and they needed every avaible source for more speed. Here's the post from the page : Due to the overwhelming demand for bleem! v1.5 if our sever is slow or non-responsive you should be able to download bleem from one of the following sites. The Message Board may be up and down through-out the day as the sever needs available resources. Let's hope they'll fix their server soon. The file is avaible on our server here. And what's going on with FF8 in bleem! 1.5 ? Here's a post from the bleem! message board from DragonYen, one of the main testers : 3 Current Known Issues with FF8 in v1.5 -- Please let me know of additional problems! 1. Opening (and other) MDECs do not have sound. 2. Opening (and possibly other) MDECs run Jerky/Choppy. 3. Using a GF will cause bleem to hang. Again, we know about these three issues, post additional problems with FF8 (in bleem!) in THIS THREAD ONLY. Read the whole message board post here.

	Tuesday, 26 October   Bleem! 1.5 is out! [07:23 CET] By Bobbi   Bleem.com finally posted the long awaited version 1.5 ! To read a list if the imporovements go here. *PLEASE READ THE README FILE BEFORE USING THIS VERSION* AND READ THIS LIST WITH IMPORTANT CD-ROM INFOS !! Download bleem! 1.5 here. Massive respects go out to Randy, David and all the Bleem! crew for delivering another edition of this quailty emulator. If you haven't bought bleem! yet go and buy it from you local store or buy it at bleem.com and support Bleem!. Check back here later for in-depth information about Bleem! 1.5 and and Screenshots taken from the new version.

	Monday, 25 October   BleemBoost 0.1a released [12:16 CET] By Bobbi   Bleemnet.cjb.net released BleemBoost 0.1a today, a tool which should speed up bleem! by disabling all unrequired background applications. Neither bleem.com nor psxemu.com take any warrenty for this product ! Here's what's new : Added oleaut32.dll Added About dialog to installer and blmboost.exe (type "blmboost about" to see version number) Fixed problem with multi-partition drives Minor interface inhancements Read the BleemBoost 0.1a release notes here and download BleemBoost 0.1a here.   1.5 today [11:59 CET] By Bobbi   The long awaited bleem! 1.5 version will, according to a post on bleem.com be out today. People were waiting for this a long time and the feature list is really long. Important things were that the speed limiter is removed now and that bleem! uses an ini file, which allows you to edit database entries yourself. We at psxemu.com will start our own ini file with user submissions soon. That way, we can take some work from the already pretty busy bleem! team. We'll keep you updated on the happenings here at psxemu.com and will supply you with screenshots of the new features short after the release.

	Saturday, 23 October   Bleem.com updated [00:00 GMT] By mathew2   Bleem.com updated! bleem! reported some news regarding the impending release of v1.5: 1.5 Update Don't beleive everything you read - The East Coast PR people got ahead of us on this one and (being 3 hours later there) we were to late to stop the news from hitting the wires.... 1.5 is done, but won't be up until Monday. We were able to include a few more systems in the last round of testing and decided that we needed a few adjustments to optimize the speed limiter for better timing on a wider range of systems. We're running our entire game collection through (again - 500+ games.. ugh) to make sure the database is 100% up-to-date. So far, everything's testing beautifully - stay tuned. Hopefully by monday everyone will be playing with 1.5!, goto bleem.com and take a look ! Don't forget to discuss this on our messageboards!   BleemBoost Released [23:20 GMT] By mathew2   Megaman's bleem support page has bleemboosts first release! October 23 BleemBoost! 0.1 beta released. This one is for beta testers.Use it at your own risk. Sounds cool, check out his homepage here. this little program lets you choose your shell on startup basically!

	Monday, 18 October   PSEmu page updated [15:30 GMT] By Bobbi   Yep, you heard right : The PSEmu page got updated again (after 4 months without an update). Here's the update : The download page has been updated to reflect the newer plugins that weren't listed before, and also to link the last release of PSEmu Pro (v1.0.21 BETA). ttfn - Lewpy Do not ask us or other people about images of PlayStation games, those are illegal and such activity causes programmers to loose money. Also copying games, or any commercial products is a crime. If you really love to play a game, check in compatibility list if it is playable on this emulator and go to shop and buy original. Program worth using is a program worth buying. Do not e-mail us stupid questions, like "Why my favorite game is not playable?". We never answer such questions. If you notice a game that is playable and we do not have it on our list, e-mail us as soon as possible. Do not ask us about source code to emulator. We do not give it to you. What we can give is on download page. We already gave you for free a lot of our free time. Good to know the guys are still alive. Check out the PSEmu page here.   What's BleemBoost ? [15:20 GMT] By Bobbi   Megaman's bleem support page is reporting this : I started programming BleemBoost! This is supposed to be a software to solve multitasking problems in Bleem. It is like running Bleem in DOS mode. Yesterday I tried to use it and it did greatly improve music and speed ! I will let you know about my progress Sounds cool, check out his homepage here Let's hope we'll see a release soon.

	Sunday, 17 October   New GPU plugin [19:20 GMT] By mathew2   Pete updated his GPU Open Gl Plugin to version 1.23 lots of optimisations palettized textures support back in Get it from the Plugin's page.   Logo contest update [17:40 GMT] By Bobbi   Just a reminder for all people who're not checking here regularly : We have a logo contest running and will send out a PSX game of your choice to the winner. If you're keen in making graphics and have some time left, make a logo and send it here. We already got some cool logos, I'll put up a page with them at the beginning of the next week.   Bio Hazard 3 review [17:33 GMT] By Bobbi   Stefan sent in a kickass Bio Hizard 3 review, one of the best I ever saw. His result about the game : A really cool game which lets you kill all kind of monsters. You have much fun while playing and you always get scared when a monster jumbs into a window or stands beside you suddenly ! It works almost perfect. Some little graphical fixes here and there and itīs really perfect !! If you're a horror fan make sure to check out this kickass review here.   PSMac! moves [17:27 GMT] By Bobbi   The Macintosh emulator PSMac! moved to EmuHQ.com. Although the page isn't completly working yet, you may take a look here. About the emulator itself, this got posted : Progress is slow right now, lots of stuff to do with school and work. I have fixed (and created) some bugs in the DMA transfer routines but I still need to get a lot of bugs out before I release it. It'll hopefully display the Sony startup screen by then. I've also added in some cd-rom register handling, no real cd-rom yet. Still trying to get some GTE demos working. till then!   The PI news [17:24 GMT] By Bobbi   The PI homepage got updated with some news regarding the next release and what has been fixed : The texture mapping now looks perfect Better transparency/shading, the "Bitz & Pieces" demo now looks wonderful !!! Some primitives rewritten in PPC assembly for speed Flat Polygons are now implemented. Better/faster gouraud polygons Better GPU timing accuracy, although the texture cache is not taken into account The author still wants to fix several things before the next release, check out their page for more details.

	Sunday, 17 October   New GPU plugin [19:20 GMT] By mathew2   Pete updated his GPU Open Gl Plugin to version 1.23 lots of optimisations palettized textures support back in Get it from the Plugin's page.   Logo contest update [17:40 GMT] By Bobbi   Just a reminder for all people who're not checking here regularly : We have a logo contest running and will send out a PSX game of your choice to the winner. If you're keen in making graphics and have some time left, make a logo and send it here. We already got some cool logos, I'll put up a page with them at the beginning of the next week.   Bio Hazard 3 review [17:33 GMT] By Bobbi   Stefan sent in a kickass Bio Hizard 3 review, one of the best I ever saw. His result about the game : A really cool game which lets you kill all kind of monsters. You have much fun while playing and you always get scared when a monster jumbs into a window or stands beside you suddenly ! It works almost perfect. Some little graphical fixes here and there and itīs really perfect !! If you're a horror fan make sure to check out this kickass review here.   PSMac! moves [17:27 GMT] By Bobbi   The Macintosh emulator PSMac! moved to EmuHQ.com. Although the page isn't completly working yet, you may take a look here. About the emulator itself, this got posted : Progress is slow right now, lots of stuff to do with school and work. I have fixed (and created) some bugs in the DMA transfer routines but I still need to get a lot of bugs out before I release it. It'll hopefully display the Sony startup screen by then. I've also added in some cd-rom register handling, no real cd-rom yet. Still trying to get some GTE demos working. till then!   The PI news [17:24 GMT] By Bobbi   The PI homepage got updated with some news regarding the next release and what has been fixed : The texture mapping now looks perfect Better transparency/shading, the "Bitz & Pieces" demo now looks wonderful !!! Some primitives rewritten in PPC assembly for speed Flat Polygons are now implemented. Better/faster gouraud polygons Better GPU timing accuracy, although the texture cache is not taken into account The author still wants to fix several things before the next release, check out their page for more details.

	Friday, 15 October   New reviews [22:05 GMT] By Bobbi   Slow days, so I updated the reviews page with two new reviews. There are now : Granstream Saga Need for Speed 4 Check them out here. If you want to take part at our competition and win a PSX game of your choice, send in your review here. Our logo competition (started one week ago) is still running for one more week. Make a logo for the page and send it to Bobbi@psxemu.com to win another free PSX game of your choice !   Bleem message board back [22:00 GMT] By Bobbi   Sorry, the update got lost a few days ago, thanks to Cerlyn for the hint : Bleem.com's message boards are back up. Here's the quote from the page : Today (October 11, 2020) the online bulletin board system here at bleem decided to take a nosedive. We have since brought it back up, and hopefully intact. If your account has problems, email webmaster@bleem.com (this address is for issues about the web site ONLY). Please only use the adress if you have account problems with the UBB and not for anything else !! Thanks to Cerlyn for the hint.

	Wednesday, 13 October   New Segu Plugins [21:45 GMT] By mathew2   Segu Released a new load of PSEmuPro Controller Plugins, they are : DirectInput Joystick Plugin 0.2 (DX6) DirectInput Keyboard Plugin 0.3 (DX7) DirectPadPro Plugin 0.2 (DX6) DirectPadPro Plugin 0.3 (DX7) Get them from the Plugin's page.   Interview with David H. [21:37 CET] By Bobbi   Sorry that I wasn't able to update yesterday, school kept me busy. Looks like we still might need somebody to post news ... If you're the right one for this, mail me :). Anyway, to the news : David Herpolsheimer, CEO of bleem, LLC has been interviewed by All Gamers. There're several known facts, but also some new things to the bleem! world : The reason 1.5 isn't out is that Randy wanted to get FF8 battle menues working in D3D. Kickass idea Randy, and after I talked with several peoples on IRC, all were happy with that idea as well and willing to wait some more days for it. Now they're TARGETING (the date isn't set) for this weekend. The other interresting point was that David talked about bleem! 2.0 (no joke !). 2.0 will have some very interresting features, although nothing is set in stone yet. Check out the whole interview (it's a movie) here.   Another bunch of FF8 shots [21:32 CET] By Bobbi   Somehow the public really CRIED for it, so DY played again FF8 on 1.5 and we were able to see some nice pictures. Check them out below : Save screen    Disk change    Name screen    Battle menues If you also have some kickass shots from the DragonCam (hey, I can't watch it all the day :)) feel free to mail them to me.

	Monday, 11 October   New SPU plugin [21:09 CET] By Bobbi   Null updated his SPU plugin to 0.37. Here are the changes : fixed bugs of loop point fixed problems of key-off added LowPassFilter. fixed some critical bugs Get it from the Plugin's page.   Another bunch of 1.5 news [20:03 CET] By Bobbi   Like reported yesterday, the DragonCam took pics from 1.5 testing. Below are three nice pics I saw yesterday evening I wanted to show you. The pics are not of high quality, but I think you'll get what they show :) 1.5 logo    FF8 talking    FF8 battle menues   Bleem.com message board down [20:00 CET] By Bobbi   There's been this post on bleem.com today : Today (October 10, 2020) the online bulletin board system here at bleem decided to take a nosedive. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to bring it up as quickly as possible and as intact as possible from a backup. Our message boards are still working, check them here.

	Sunday, 10 October   1.5 testing [09:21 CET] By Bobbi   Interrested in what the two head beta testers, Matthew and Jesse (alias DragonYen and LanGaidin) are doing right now ? Of course testing 1.5, but what are they doing right now ? Find out by going here to see them testing 1.5 ! Hurry up since nobody knows how long they'll test :) s   Logo contest [09:21 CET] By Bobbi   I decided, that we need another logo for this page. So here's the chance for all you logo designer out there to win a free PSX game of your choice : Make a logo that fits into the color scheme of the page. Everything else is your opinion, it just has to fit in here. Send your ready made logos to Bobbi@psxemu.com. We'll make a descission in about 2 weeks.

	Saturday, 9 October   New poll [22:36 CET] By Bobbi   There's a new poll on the right, where I ask you : What may be the "neat surprise" we'll get with 1.5 ? Opinions are Net play, Quicksave, Cheat feature, Dual Shock support, Glide support, Music converter or something else. Just head over there and tell us YOUR opinion.   Bleem! shipping [12:10 CET] By Bobbi   For all of you who didn't already noticed (and I think those are most) : Bleem.com doesn't do the shipping any more. Instead of them, Digital River does them now. They have to ways to shop bleem! : Using UPS within the USA for $5.95, or using Fed Ex, who are charging between 14.95$ and $44.95 for international orders. Go here to order it using Digital River.   New poster [12:06 CET] By Bobbi   I'd like to welcome mathew2 as a news poster at PSXEmu.com. He already helped me pretty much building up this site and now looks for the PSEmu plugins and news on the main page. On another sidenote, I wanted to metion that the message boards are now accessable for everyone, not only for registered members. So if you have a problems, head over to the Boards !

	Thursday, 8 October   Another game review [23:02 CET] By Bobbi   I added another game review to the "Game reviews page". This time it's Quake 2. Thanks to Langdon X for this one. If you want to take part at our monthly competition and win a PSX game, send in your own review. For more details, check the reviews page under "Bleem!".   Message board opened [22:59 CET] By Bobbi   Just a quick note : The PSX message board is opened for all your questions and suggestions about everything PSX emulation related. To get access to all boards, you have to register, click on "Board" under Main on the right to view the board and more informations about registering (it's free of course)

	Thursday, 7 October   Game reviews up [21:39 CET] By Bobbi   I just uploaded the game reviews section. In this section, you can view reviews of the latest games and how they're running in bleem!. But this section needs YOUR help. If you got a cool game and want to write a review about it, just do it and send it to us. Of cause you can get something for your work. At the end of each month, we're voting the "review of the month", and the editor will get a cool present (maybe a PSX game, maybe a gamepad, maybe something else). Just head over to the Game review section under "Bleem!" on the left and take part !   New PSMac version [18:15 CET] By Bobbi   A new version of the macintosh emu PSMac! got released today. Not much in the way of new demos working although I have fixed a lot of sprite bugs so most demos that do work, work nice. The Sand demo now works, kinda, there is an anoying flickering which I think relates to the VBL timing, but other than that it works ... You only need to select the ROM file once when PSMac first launches then it should load it automatically. The Code will (Hopefully) compile under Codewarrior Pro 5 now, once you add MiniPrefrences.c to the project. to ask questions. For more infos, visit the PSMac! homepage, get the file from the Download area.   Emualliance having troubles ? [18:02 CET] By Bobbi   Seems like Emualliance.com has some problems with Sony after they released Jackal, a new PSX emulator. Here's the post from the page : Rather nasty Sony letter about Jackal and the PSX bios, tried to shut site down etc...lol, well NINTENDA is way too used to this so I got the site back up for good I hope. Much luck Emualliance. Remember the day Daves VGS got shout down because they had the PSX Bios on their server ?   New PC PSX Controller [17:42 CET] By Bobbi   A new joypad for the PC got released. The special thing about it is that it looks simular to a PSX Dual Shock Controller. With it's two analog ministicks and FF support, it's something every bleem! user was looking for. Check out the review by Gamecenter here.

	Wednesday, 6 October   About this site [22:50 CET] By Bobbi   I thought I might give you a short overview about the content of this page : When you need informations of help with bleem!, you might be interrested in our support section. If your problem isn't solved there, you can also contact us by E-Mail. Most E-Mails got answered within 30 hours. When you're looking for other PSX emus, you should check out the PSX Emus section. Most (if not all) current PSX emus are there with all required infos. You have a PSX emulation related page ? You need some fast hosting ? Just send me an E-Mail and we can talk about your hosting on this site ! Just look around a bit on the page and feel free to send me your comment about it. Small sidenote : We're currently looking for somebody with a fast Macintosh to test current Mac emus on it. If you can help us out, also write me an E-Mail !   Big site opening [21:05 CET] By Bobbi   After many weeks of hard work, we're finally ready to present you PSXEmu.com, formal the bleem! support page. This page is one of the biggest sources for playstation emulation, and we're working hard to become better. Some sections are still missing, but most parts are already up and running. I'd like to send out a big thanks to all people who helped and supported us in the time we made this page. Special thanks go out to : Randy, David, DragonYen, Jesse, mathew2, Stefan, PJ, faceless and all other people who supplied me with help and cool ideas. Without you, this site would most propably not exist ! When you need informations of help with bleem!, you might be interrested in our support section. If your problem isn't solved there, you can also contact us by E-Mail. Most E-Mails got answered within 30 hours.