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Changes in version 16 final (2006-09-30)

• The user may now only choose a certain BIOS type when it is available in his/her BIOS directory.
• Ability to customize the background color of available ROMs in the list.
• Ignoring joystick device initialization message within Gngeo standart output.
• Bug fix in the manual ROM selection window.
• ROM selection in the list doesn't require double click any more, just single.
• Increased ROM list displaying speed (especialy when Show available ROM only option is enabled).
• Improved ROM list refreshing feature (now applied just after having updated the ROM directory list).
• Ability to remove a ROM from the file system through the ROM list window.
• Support of a ROM drivers file switched to a ROM drivers directory (the new standard since GnGeo 0.7).
• Minimum accepted Gngeo version increased to 0.7 (current ).
• Long name for all new history entry (Achraf cherti).
• Optional use of Psyco (if module is available) to boost XGngeo's overall speed performance (Achraf Cherti).
• Bug fix: no more crash when removing an entry which was below a just removed one in the ROM History menu (Achraf Cherti).
• xgngeo.desktop : Freedesktop.org menu entry (Achraf cherti)
• Bug fix: multiple custom ROM directory paths were considered as one single big path because of lack of line break in the related configuration file (patch by Achraf Cherti).
• Even more improved ROM detection in the ROM list.
• Several code style enhancements.
• LICENSE.txt updated (because of old FSF adress) (Achraf cherti)

Changes in version 16 beta (2006-07-14)

• Improved ROM detection in the list and file selection dialog (now directly based upon Gngeo's scaning results: faster and more accurate!).
• ROM list now supports multiple ROM directories.
• New hotkeys configuration support, for the 2 players.
• You can now see a ROM preview image (if activated) when loading using the file selection dialog.
• New options support: 68kclock, bench, hwsurface, transpack, z80clock, sleepidle.
• Visual indication of unavaible ROM and ability to remove entries in the History menu.
• Added possibility to select the new Universal BIOS.
• Added comments and general layout preservative writting method for the `gngeorc' file.
• Better guessing of the default path to Gngeo's `romrc' file.
• Added possibility to choose XGngeo window to be centered on the screen on start.
• Bugfix: no more problem in the Rom list with some PyGTK installations.
• Various GUI enhancements.
• Added checking for the PyGTK version (must be 2.6 or more).
• Minimum accepted Gngeo version setted to 0.6.11 (current ).
• System-wide installation (using distutil) & per-user XGngeo configuration.
• New German translation by Peter Kainrad.

Changes in version 15 (2005-07-14)

• Big configuration panels reorganization with now 3 different windows: Important paths (which contains the required parameters that have to be valid for a correct emultation), Global emulation (which contains Neo Geo default emulation options for all Roms) and Other things (which mostly contains XGngeo-specific parameters).
• Improvements on the Rom list window which now features, for the first time in a Gngeo frontend ever, the possibility to set Rom-specific emulation options! ^___^";
• Added a new Joystick section, merged with the Audio one, where you can, among others, modify the joystick devices used by the two players.
• Improved key configurator which, among others, now displays the key names in place of their SDL values.
• Use of the new GTK+ file chooser for selecting files and directories.
• Added support for the bigger windowed screen size and the Raster effect options.
• Now preventing effect in the list from being selected when the YUV blitter (which does not support effect) is choosed.
• Display of a sort of progress bar indicating that the Rom is being started, and of warning messages that may return Gngeo if it encounters a problem starting the game.
• If already on the History menu, loaded Rom name isn't repeated any more but moved to the first place. By the way, this menu can now be torn off.
• Some options involving path now come along with little icons which indicate whether the path is valid or not (yeah that's a killer feature ).
• Better handling of parameters in configurations files.
• Loads of GUI enhancements, and replacement of the GTK+ deprecated widgets.
• Added the possibility to set the absolute path of the Gngeo executable. It may be interesting if the gngeo command isn't in your $PATH or if you have several versions of Gngeo installed.
• The fullname of a manually loaded Rom is now displayed in the status bar too (if its MAME name is recognized).
• Rom list add-ons (Rom preview image or informations) can be simply enabled/disabled using check boxes.
• Bugfix: no more problem with paths containing space or quote characters.
• Bugfix: Gngeo wasn't killed when you want to quit XGngeo while the emulator was running.
• Bugfix: XGngeo crashed if it didn't find Gngeo's global configuration file.
• Rom history maximum size raised to 20.
• Widely enlarged documentation (with spelling corrections powered by Hori the wonderul!), now quickly accessible through the Infos menu.
• Addition of a marvellous XGngeo icon. ;

Changes in version 14 (2003-12-31)

• Many new configurable things: auto start roms, preview images directory, history, etc.
• XGngeo still usable while running Gngeo (game may be stopped from interface).
• Some interface improvement.
• XGngeo can now be run from any location without problem (images not loaded, etc.).
• Full support of GGF's xml file to get Rom informations.
• Updated documentation.
• A small source code cleaning.

Changes in version 13 (2003-11-23)

• New configurable options: Neo Geo type (arcade or home), country and interpolation.
• Display of the Gngeo version used, in the About window.
• Now, in the Roms list, only available roms are shown by default.
• New Portuguese translation by Paulo Eduardo Chiva.
• Updated documentation.

Changes in version 12 (2003-10-25)

• Added a (amazing ^o^) keys configurator!
• Added an Audio section to the configuration...
• Moving of the lang/ directory into the brand new data/ directory.
• Move of images into data/img/.

Changes in version 11 (2003-09-25)

• New History menu which allow you to load one of last 5 roms loaded.
• A Configuration error! dialog appears if some parameters look strange.
• Bigger (+10px!) main window's width.
• New Polish translation of XGngeo by Matma.
• New configurable option: Auto Frameskip.
• Added a documentation in PDF format (into doc/).
• New localized README files: README-fr.txt; README-es.txt and README-pl.txt.
• The fronted word that reapered from the hell ought to be corrected now!

Changes in version 10 (2003-09-06)

• Ability to browse to set romrc and libGL.so paths easyly.
• Now the file selector open into the last specified directory
• Added support for Internationalization! Yeah! XGngeo is now aviable in English, French and Spanish.
• New configurable option: Show FPS.

Changes in version 9 (2003-08-25)

• New Graphic configurable option: Scale (1 to 5).
• Now XGngeo remember the last Blitter or Effect selected when re-configuring.
• Added: Rom can be loaded from List, with preview image! XGngeo is fully compatible with preview images used in the other Gngeo frontend: GGF.

Changes in version 8 (2003-08-22)

• Bug with rom's filename that contained spaces fixed.
• Including the Brand New configuration file writing method called WAGLAMOT (Write A Gngeorc Like A Maman Ours Technology). This one is able to preserve options that aren't interpreted by XGngeo yet. WAGLAMOT is the Future! O_o;;
• New Graphic's configurable options: Blitter & Effect.
• Creation of a CHANGES.txt file