Image provided by: KojoteDirectly from the Giana’s Return Homepage:

A long time without update, but now a larger one with probably very bad news. Our coder CHN is missing since around March 2004, just shortly after the Giana’s Return v0.90 release for Dreamcast and GP32 he disappeared, with the reason beeing busy and working on his university diploma stuff. The last direct contact with CHN was end of March 2004, the last indirect contact around June 2004. The point is: NO CODER = NO FINAL RELEASE. The rest of the team is very unhappy about this situation and we tried to keep everything running, but sometimes there is a point where you just can’t hide facts. We tried almost everything to reach him, calling him on his homephone (no response at all), writing emails to all of his known email-accounts and so on. We even tried to get in touch with his brother and asking about CHN’s situation. We really do not know what happend to him as he even did not have the time to write a short”beeing absent”mail to the team.Of course the team would be happy to finalize the game, as many people wait for it. The game is at least 95% done, Alex has finalized the music last week, Kojote has finalized all the levels, but it all does not help without coder. He is the only one having the source!!!There is also a Giana’s Return v0.90 – Windows since March 2004 (development version), but we can’t release it, as it’s teamwork and everyone should have the possibility to say his opinion about a release. As this is not possible, due to CHN’s disappearance, we still keep it internal.We are thankful for all the donations so far, the great feedback, all people who supported us. As soon as CHN gives a sign of life, we try to finalize everything in time, before he has the chance to disappear again. Thanks for reading and never forget: Live long&prosper!

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

Image provided by: GP32 NewsDrumaster released a compressed version of the F-Zero-like racing game Giro. The game is exactly the same as the original release, but takes only 800kb instead of 6MB on your SMC.http://www.gp32news.com

Image provided by: www.gbadev.orgMotus Advance is a thinking game based on vocabulary. More information and download available at www.gbadev.org.http://www.gbadev.org

Image provided by: www.gbadev.orgThis novel pong game by Neil Kemp is available at www.gbadev.org.http://www.gbadev.org

Loopy and Flubba have released an updated version of SNES Advance, a SNES emulator for the GBA. You can download version 0.1f from the site below;http://hem.passagen.se/flubba/gba.html

Another competition starts this day: The ADIC 2004Info from the official homepage:This year, you will have to create anything you want as long as it’s running on GP32 and run by itself (we do not accept pwads for Doom for example). It can be a game, a demo, an emulator or anything else. We also accept new bios as long as they are fxe. Here is a list of our actual sponsors : * Lik-Sang (GP32 Mugs + first prize) * NewMedia (2 Pok?ns Mini) * Gamepark (10 GP32 BLU + the possibility to see your game edited into a boxed version) …and more to come ! All contestants will receive some goodies.More Prizes will come soon ! ! !Good luck !http://adic2004.gp32news.com/

skeezix updated his cool Bomberman remake (created using Zot)Improved collision deteciton to be more conservative when bombs going off.http://www.gp32x.com

The new GBAX and Emuholic 16 Days coding competition for the GP32 has now started. You have 16 days to enter your game, emulator, application… anything that works on GP32 hardware. This year we have some great prizes, how does a brand new Nintendo DS, $100 in cash or games, a NeoGeo Pocket + Games and more sound for a first prize? 2nd and 3rd prizes will also win a DS and extras.More information about the competition can be found athttp://16days.gp32emu.com/. Good luck to all entrants! If you have any questions about the competiton feel free to ask on our Developersforum, guest posting is allowed.

Pirotic updated his RPG Maker tool for the GP32. He added properly working savestates. Yay 🙂http://www.pirotic.com/gp32/gigas/

skeezix updated his multi-OS (Windows, GP32, PalmOS, MacOS and Linux)game scripting engine to a new version and also updated Bombz, his Bomberman clone created using Zot!http://www.codejedi.com/zot/