Here are a few news from the Giana’s Return team:

after a heavy motivation lack of the organizer (the coder and beta tester were still pretty active) here comes a larger update…

* we have a new graphic artist, who was and is involved in commercial gba and nds games. he will take care of the tilesets and will adjust them to the backgrounds of each world. we can assure you, the first drafts look excellent and the game will rock even more. if the first tileset has been retouched, you’ll find a screenshot or more here.
* our main musician operator is currently not reachable, or not answering our mails, for whatever reason. this ain’t too bad, because there are two other people who are willing to help out. music isn’t really an issuse and quality chipmusic is granted as well. the two guys i am talking about made a soundtrack for “poussin”, the successor of “xump” (gp32, dreamcast, win32) but as the second part of xump will take some time, we will just misuse the unreleased tracks for giana.
* parts of the storyline are drawn, just minor work is left.
* when time comes, we need few translators, who will localize the game into their mother tongue. so far there is an english version and a pretty poor german translation. basically everything is possible if we have a translator: french, spanish, hungarian, finish, swedish, whatever… but for this we will need you! you can already start posting in the comments, we will get back to you. english, french and german are already covered.

if we keep the speed as it is, we hope to pull the game out by around new year, but this shouldn’t be a promise 😉

http://www.gianas-return.de/

Biniax is an original and unique arcade logic game. It requires just a minute to learn the rules and you will get hours of gameplay. The gaming field is a 5×7 grid filled partially with pairs of elements. Every pair consists of two different elements combined of four possible.

You control the box with an element inside. You can move around the field on empty spaces. You can also remove pairs of elements, if you have the same element as the one of the pair. When you remove the pair your element becomes the other one element of the pair and the score is increased;
The gaming field scrolls down slowly (increasing the speed with your progress) and your goal is to stay as long as possible on the field. Remember, that if you can not take the pair in front of you, the scrolling will move your block down!

Biniax is an original and unique arcade logic game. It requires just a minute to learn the rules and you will get hours of gameplay. The gaming field is a 5×7 grid filled partially with pairs of elements. Every pair consists of two different elements combined of four possible.

You control the box with an element inside. You can move around the field on empty spaces. You can also remove pairs of elements, if you have the same element as the one of the pair. When you remove the pair your element becomes the other one element of the pair and the score is increased;
The gaming field scrolls down slowly (increasing the speed with your progress) and your goal is to stay as long as possible on the field. Remember, that if you can not take the pair in front of you, the scrolling will move your block down!

Bianax (Classic) v1.2 has been ported to the GP2x by Running Free.

http://biniax.com/

Spooky has ported the adventure game Valhalla to GP2x. Its a first version, there may be bugs. Feel free to send feedback and bug reports.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=38925

Graphics library for gp2x. Includes 2D, 3D, Text, Time, Joystick, and Sound (ogg) functions. Includes working example code, and .gpe files.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,19,2349

Metalbrain has updated his Spectrum emulator for the GP2x.

Changes:

– Fixed a bug that prevented the Y button to be assigned to a key using the virtual keyboard
– The virtual keyboard won’t make all frames show when frameskip is 1 (it resulted in half speed)
– I was still applying contention emulation in a place where I shouldn’t when “no contention” was selected. Now the no contention mode will be less precise, but default speed has been reduced to 125/155MHz.
– Fixed a bug that made port contention not to be applied in most cases.
– Fixed a bug in HALT timing, it was taking 8 states instead of 4.
– Improved floating bus emulation, now passes floatspy test and other similar ones.
– Improved interrupts emulation including how EI affects them.
– Small optimizations.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=38902

The GL-Basic source code of Freecell2x, a card game for GP2x, has been released.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,46,2348

One of the rare moments in time when a GP2x demo gets released. Here is “Integrated Software for Omega Devices” by Software Failure & Sector Omega.

Release date : October 2007
Release party : BCN Party 2007

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=32552

GP2X-Write is a simple text editor for the GP2X.

It permits to edit even huge text file, in both dos and unix mode, using iso8859-1 (8bits) characters encoding. All iso8859-1 characters are present in the “Danzeff like” virtual keyboard.

How to use it ? Everything is in the README.txt file. Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public license, read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/235-GP2X-Write-A-Text-Editor-for-GP2X-v1.0.1.html

CromoZome is a score attack genetic survival game by Kevin “PokeParadox” Winfield-Pantoja, where you strive to keep your CromoZome alive, by eating the other CromoZomes.