NEStopia Linux has had it’s first feature update now that we’ve solved the funny “keyboard doesn’t respond” issue. Release G puts you in the driver’s seat with Mighty Mo’s NEStopia XML cheat files, because now the descriptions show. Enjoy!

I am extremely proud to announce the release of NEStopia 1.40 release A B C D E F G for Linux. You can find it on the NEStopia Linux page.

This brings all the NEStopia core improvements since 1.37 to Linux and also a vastly improved and reworked new Linux GUI shell, with many new features supported. Some of the highlights include an archive browser, updated 7zip support, a Cheat Manager, more flexible video configuration, automatic soft-patching, support for XML ROMs, start button support so you can play the Vs. system games, and more. Have a fun!

I’ve had a lot of major updates this week to get used to, and I thought I’d say a few words about ’em. (Note: Revised one major section!)

– Fedora 9 is nice as usual, although also as usual you get a noticably better system if you back up your home directory and do a complete wipe-the-drive new install. For whatever reason Anaconda just doesn’t always cough up a perfectly working system when you just have it upgrade. I think this is why people use Ubuntu.

Pluses: the new PulseAudio no longer has infinite latency and it plays a lot nicer with everything than it did in F8. Minus: KDE3-based apps like Amarok and KMail wouldn’t work properly after pulling down al the updates. A reboot or 2 later and they’re happy again – I have Amarok blasting away as I type this. Still not sure what actually went wrong though.

– Firefox 3 is snappier and uses less memory. However, the “AwesomeBar” (new super-auto-completing URL entry field) is the worst idea in software since ever. Luckily the “OldBar” add-on restores sanity.

– KDE 4 (4.0.5 specifically) is a lot nicer than I’d initially feared. The good: KTorrent’s been upgraded to 4.x spec and they didn’t change a thing (yay!), there’s a bunch of whizzy Compiz effects you can enable without making everything explode like in 3.5, and the new concept where widgets are everything and everything’s a widget is very powerful and very customizable once you get your head around it. The bad: it defaults to having all manner of intrusive sounds and I couldn’t figure out how to shut them off on a notification-by-notification basis so I ended up just turning off all KDE-generated sound.

And the NEStopia Linux cheat manager gets even nicer. (Ignore the theme difference. The previous shots were on Fedora 8, this is Fedora 9 now).