zBoy v0.60 is released. zBoy is a multiplatform GameBoy emulator that provides a load/save feature, can perform PCX screenshots either manually or automatically (every few seconds) and emulates an internal battery for ROMs that were designed to use one (this allows to use the internal save option provided by such games, remember highest scores, etc).

zBoy supports some additionnal features, too, like intelligent saving of hi-scores for some games that aren't able to save their hi-scores table by themselves because of the lack of a battery-backed RAM on the cartridge, and improving screen's resolution output using graphic algorithms like Scale2x, Scale3x, eagle... Here you can see a comparison between graphic algorithms supported by zBoy. This is also one of the very few GameBoy emulators that provides a 2-gameboys link emulation, which makes it possible to play some games in 2-players mode on a LAN.

zBoy allows to play GameBoy games using a keyboard or a joypad (or both). The emulator is available for Linux, DOS and Windows (but should compile for other systems without much headache as well).

zBoy v0.60 Changelog:
– Migrated from SDL to SDL2,
– Created a DOS port using the Allegro library (the port comes with its own setup utility),
– Dropped the ‘–noscreensaver’ parameter (always enabled now), and replaced the custom screen-saver inhibitor by SDL2’s generic routine,
– zBoy’s configuration changes are persistent now,
– Added a custom colorization feature (–custcolor), so players can colorize games themselves,
– Fullscreen can be switched in-game on the SDL2 backend (ALT+ENTER),
– Added colorization support for Pipe Dream,
– Removed the ‘–bootlogo’ option,
– Added ‘–resetcfg’ to reset the configuration to default values,
– Hi-score persistent memory (–hiscores) is enabled by default,
– PCX screenshots are saved with a 4bpp depth (results in 50% smaller screenshot files),
– Renamed the ‘–colorization’ option to a shorter ‘–colorize’,
– Renamed ‘–hiscoresmem’ to ‘–hiscores’ and added ‘–nohiscores’,
– Renamed ‘–nospeedlimit’ to ‘–fullspeed’ and added ‘–nofullspeed’,
– Renamed ‘–nocpuidle’ to ‘–cpuburn’ and added ‘–nocpuburn’.



Download: zBoy v0.60
Source: Here