A.Firstly, Thanks for the interest :).I guess the lastest things of interest are that some games now runat 60fps on my p120 (mainly thanks to the Starscream 68000 engineand also rewriting the gfx code in asm...). These games are Rainbow Islands,Rastan and Toki. Other games that are working well now areWrestleFest and SnowBros (some of the monsters are walking backwardsin SnowBros, they were fine with the UAE engine, so I think it must beto do with Starscream... I'll have to find the dodgy opcodes...).Also, Terra Formation is looking ok (it's not correct, but not that faroff).

Q.Right, the question that everyone is wishing to ask, is it true that RAINE will support WWF Wrestlefest and if so, what is the current status of this emulator (eg how it works, sound etc)?

A.I've been working on WrestleFest, the gfx are about 90% correct (just needto clean up the clipping of sprites). Palette is now 100% correct all the time (as far as we've played). Controls are mapped (to the keyboard, need to add joystick support). Um, sound is not attempted at all yet, I'd like tofind someone to work on that, as I'm not sure about emulating sound chips...It runs on my p120 drawing every 4th frame, but the gfx have not been rewritten in asm (that should more than double the speed, it did for Toki,Rastan etc...).

Q.Have you thought of adding support for the WWF Superstars arcade game?

A.Not really, but that's because I don't think the roms are available...If they get dumped, I'll give it a go (as long as they are no too big I only have 16mb...).

Q.Will Wrestlefest be included in RAINE's next release?

A.Yes, I'll try to release it.

Q.Any chance of the date of the next release?

A.Saturday, probably...

Q.What are your thoughts on the re-imergance of the Snes9x project andon their statement saying that SuperFx will be supported?

A.Excellent news! I still like to use snes9x for some games, though ZSnes has come so far and does a lot that snes9x 0.24 does not... I read that the new snes9x developers might even release the sourcecode. I reallyhope that happens.

Q.What arcade games would you like to see emulated that are not in the RAINE emulator to date?

Liquid Kids (Taito)... I'd really like to see these roms dumped so I could at least take a look (I'm not sure if it is 68000 based). Also, I hope there will be a New Zealand Story emulator soon (there was one in development, but I don't think it's getting anywhere). New Zealand Story is z80, so It's not reallygood for me to try it (I'm sticking to 68000 based systems).I'd also like to see a NeoGeo emulator soon...

Q.How much is left to do before the next release?

I'd like to rewrite some of the WreslteFest gfx routines in asm, also I need to tidy a lot of stuff up... I might remove some of the unplayable stuff too (eg. Robocop and BadDudes, which have at least three other emulations being worked on for them).

Q.Other than RAINE what is your favourite emulator?

A.Ah, I guess Mame for the huge number of games (esp. BubbleBobble). I'm very keen on Rage right now too :).

Q.What are your three favourite video arcade games?

A.1: Bubble Bobble2: Bomb Jack3: Sega Rally