play! progress report (01/07/2026)

A bit late, but still with the good news. We had a bunch of new games added to the compatibility tracker going directly from "who knows" to fully playables. I'm still on my way on working to make games with high EE usage run better, and there's a bunch that I've found and added patches to... some others will probably make me crazy by how much time I've spent without any result ;-; . Let's check the winners of the last month:

New verified playable games [06/2026]:

Marl de Jigsaw
Maple Colors - Kessen ha Gakuensai!
Chaos Wars
Virtua Fighter 4 - Evolution
In the Groove
Baldr Bullet Equilibrium

Marl de Jigsaw and Maple Colors: brand new to the tracker and already verified as fully playables.

Chaos Wars: previously broken (stuck at the intros, before the main menu), now fully playable with good performance.

Virtua Fighter 4 - Evolution: the last "main" Virtua Fighter title to reach playable state (we're now only missing the port of Virtua Fighter 2, but that's another can of worms...). Performance was the major issue here, now running much better with the patch I've made recently (a nice 100% improvement).

In the Groove: yet another case of "huh, why didn't I've ever tested this thing?". Now fully tested and confirmed as playable.

Baldr Bullet Equilibrium: same case as above and another nice surprise. Fully playable with good performance.

Sadly, there was another patch made that didn't made the cut due to lack of time, but I'll confirm if there's any issue with it and get it merged for next month (fingers crossed for another 2 or 3 that I'm making also working without issues...).

That's all for now, thx for all your support and see you all next month ;)

Useful Links

play! site: https://purei.org/

play! NAMCO System 246/256 compatibility list: List

play! repository: https://github.com/jpd002/Play-

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