What a difference a week makes. Within seven days of cracking the hardware encryption in Capcom's CPS III arcade platform, the emulation scene is making rapid progress. While Dave Haywood's MAME Work In Progress page appears to be down for the count, other emu scenesters are releasing new screens of the emulator looking to have progressed far beyond the boot stage.

SPEKSNK.org has tons of shots of how the emulator has progressed, with noticeable improvements coming out by the hour. Impressive stuff. Ideally, I'd prefer to see this sort of content coming for Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, but seeing games like Street Fighter III and Warzard running on a PC is heartwarming for the jaded emulator within. Michael McWhertor

UPDATE: As PSMonkey points out, these screens are not from the MAME CPS III driver, but from a CPS I/II emulator Nebula. Thanks for clarifying that!

New CPS III Emulator: Images, Information [SPEKSNK.org via MameWorld]

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