2003-09-04: Nathan Woods sent some more MESS-specific fixes to the core and forwarded a small change to the interrupt handling in the PlayChoice-10 and VSNES from Brad Oliver. Stefan Jokisch fixed a bug that caused the volume settings get corrupted when loading old .cfg files. Robin Merrill submitted an improvement to the 8 player support, adding proper JOYCODEs for devices 5-8 and increasing the maximum number of mice and joysticks to 8.

2003-09-03: Stefan Jokisch improved the 8 player support and fixed a crash that happened when entering the general inputs menu. Brian A. Troha added Bakuretsu Breaker to the Kaneko16 driver but the background graphics are messed up in-game so it’s not really playable