T.I.M. “The Imploding Mutant”, a game for the GP2X, and possibly later on for Zaurus and other Linux based machines.

A video and more screenshots are on it’s official page.

These are WORK IN PROGRESS news, there is no download yet.

http://www.bitmaniacs.com/project-tim/

AS_N and his version of Pong.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,27,2188

The objective is to advance as much as possible into enemy territory, and to try to survive. Move to the right, shoot down enemies, and don’t charge alone! Wait for your army to back you up. Use the different weapons to defeat your foes, and capture their flagpoles until you can’t anymore.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,30,2184

Reword is a clone of a Flash game called TextTwist.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,1867

Hooka grabbed Orkie for an interview. Orkie involved in the development of Open2X.

http://hooka.gp2x.de/2795/

A new version of Franxis Mame port for the GP2x has been released.

Changes:

A lot of improvements have been done by Slaanesh:
– Updated threaded sound core. Restart with each game for better reliability. No more disappearing sound for games.
– Major bug fix in FM sound, no more disappearing sound in FM based games! ie. Bobble Bobble, Black Tiger, MANY others.
– Bug fix to YM3812 sound system. Fixes for sampled instruments handling.
– Sample sound code adjusted. Should play better. Specific fixes with samples in Galaga (explosion), Star Trek, Gorf and Berzerk. Note: Star Trek requires new sample set.
– Bug fixes (memory leaks) in core MAME code: unzip, palette and other common functions.
– Bug fixes (memory leaks) in game drivers: 1943, Break Thru, Black Tiger, Commando, Sega System 8 games, Atari System 1 & 2 games (Gauntlet, Xybots, etc).
– Some debug code has been added to detect new memory leaks.
– Protection emulated in Solomon’s Key.
– Updated driver for Return of the Jedi.
– Bobble Bobble sounds didn’t sync correctly with video and audio clock at 100%. Fixed.
– Optimizations in the Sega System 8 video hardware. Games like Choplifter running significantly better now.
Thanks, Slaanesh, for all your hard work!

– DrZ80 compatibility improvements. More games are now compatible: Windjammers, Tokio, Bobble Bobble, etc.
– Added Turtle Ship (turtship) (MAME 0.35b1). It has been also added to the ClrMAME DAT. 1139 romsets are now supported!.
– Tehkan World Cup can now be played with two players using USB joypads. Thx to Pepe_Faruk.
– Small bugfix in the MMUHack flush-cache calls. Thx to Notaz.

http://www.talfi.net/gp32_franxis/

Kouky released a new version of his video artist software Pikix.

Changes:

– New version of the Kouky2x codec : version 14
(better compression rate: files are 20% to 50% smaller than with previous codec version)
– This pikix release loads .k2X files version 12, 13 and 14
– Pikix works pretty well with a USB keyborad plugged into the cradle
– new special effect : extreme contrast
– new special effect : negative colors
– new special effect : zoom
– new special effect : hue colorisation
– new function : assign in and out points for a video track

http://www.pikilipita.com/vj/

Amoebax, a free Puyo Puyo-style puzzle game, got an update.

Changes:

Today we released a new version of Amoebax, our own multi plataform Puyo-Puyo clone. Among other fixes, this new version features a new tournament mode that allows “human” player to play on the same console. When two human players are going to fight, the games changes the grid’s layout to landscape and each player controls a console “side”.

http://trac.emma-soft.com/amoebax/

Gngeo by Pepone got an update.

Changes:

– Sound support on the 2nd CPU!
– That means you can play most games Fullspeed with sound at 200MHz!

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,1098

Gp2xpectrum by Metalbrain has been updated.

Changes:

– Fixed some instruction timings
– Added bus contention for IN and OUT
– Replaced the memory contention emulation using a more precise model

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,1786