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Valyria Tear is an open-source single-player medieval-fantasy 2D J-RPG based on an extended Hero of Allacrost engine and inspired by classic console RPGs. The player incarnates Bronann, a young boy forced to take part into the struggle for the possession of a mysterious crystal. This powerful artifact will lead him to discover the actual threat set upon his world, but also courage and love. Ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.

Mupen64Plus is a cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator which is capable of accurately playing many games. Included are four MIPS R4300 CPU emulators, with dynamic recompilers for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit amd64 systems, and necessary plugins for audio, graphical rendering (RDP), signal co-processor (RSP), and input. There is 1 included OpenGL video plugin, called RiceVideo. There are 3 other excellent video plugins being maintained by wahrhaft, called Arachnoid, Glide64, and Z64.

The international non-profit just for fun game development group Retroguru is looking for helping hands! Several of their games such as Giana's Return, Sqrxz, Sqrxz 2 and Sqrxz 3 were ported to several oldschool (but also newschool) consoles, handhelds and computers. Still they suffer to find a helping hand to support them with homebrew Wii development. Certainly they will be also happy if you can code for other systems not yet supported such as PSX or PS2, Haiku, BeOS, etc... Most up to date engine is used in Sqrxz 3 available for 18 systems! Main code was usually done by Thor using C/SDL 1.2.

Pandora Image Viewer (PIV) by Jon Sneyers is a simple and fast image viewer.

XInvaders 3D is a 3D "Space Invader" style game. Ported by Loic2003.

POWDER is a roguelike game, which is not a port of an existing roguelike. It is built around replayability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning. Author of this piece of software is Jeff Lait. POWDER Wii has been ported by insin.

Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt4 framework. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

EgoTrip comes up with the follow up to Subtera Puzlo! Jewel Warehouse is a new puzzle/platform game in development featuring 15 levels for now. The idea is to collect all the jewels on each screen then head to the exit. There are various obstacles such as spikes, fires, acid drops, and puzzles to be solved such as pushing crates to make a path, and conveyor belts.

Speccy is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer emulator. It will run software written for Spectrum 16k, 48k, 128k, +2, +2A, +3, Timex Sinclair, Pentagon, and Skorpion home computers.

Pandora Image Viewer (PIV) by Jon Sneyers is a simple and fast image viewer.