MeBoy is a Gameboy emulator for mobile phones (which means you can use it to play Gameboy games on a mobile phone). It works on phones with support for Java Micro Edition, specifically MIDP 2.0. Your phone manufacturer’s web site can tell you if this includes your phone.

MeBoy supports both Gameboy and Gameboy Color games, and with version 2.0 you can even play your games with sound!

With MeBoy you can also save your progress at any time, whether the game itself supports saving or not. Any number of saved games can be stored concurrenly (only limited by your phone’s available storage space). Since version 2.0, you can share your saved games with your friends via Bluetooth..

Release notes:

Improved speed of writes to graphics memory
Improved screen redraw syncing, especially for Advanced Graphics mode
Improved speed of doubled sprites (8×16 pixel) by drawing one large image instead of two small
Improved speed of decoding images in Advanced Graphics mode
Tweaked the sprite drawing loop to be slightly faster and better reflect the order sprites should be drawn, especially in Gameboy Color games
Simple Graphics mode now crops images that have transparent borders
Simple Graphics detects solid images, and creates Images without alpha channel
Tweaked decoding of images when scaling the screen to 75%
Fixed flicker when the LCD screen was turned off
Fixed bug when decoding Gameboy Color palettes (Pokemon trading card game starts now)
Fixed HDMA bug when interrupts are disabled (Donkey Kong Country starts now)
Fixed speed-switch bug where read-only bits could be written to (Conker’s Pocket Tales starts now)
Tweaked handling of cart-RAM (hopefully improving compatibility, but it’s hard to tell)
Emulation is now paused when setting keys

Thanks to http://www.1emulation.com for the news.

http://www.arktos.se/meboy/

Lampiro brings XMPP and GTalk to your mobile phone, letting you connect and chat with your friends everywhere. With the help of gateway services, Lampiro can connect you with your friends that use MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and ICQ. Lampiro uses the most advanced features that XMPP offers, allowing you to interact easily and effectively with remote services.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/lampiro/

This tool is useful for determining the status of the network and various foreign hosts, tracking and isolating hardware and software problems, and testing, measuring, and managing networks. Want to stay online while you chatting, downloading etc. without your phone going in power safe mode, which will disconnect your network? No problem, just hit Follow key and you are set to go!

Changes:

– added bookmark context menu in , and tabs. Hold your stylus over the text box, to use this feature. The bookmarks are saved in “bookmarks.txt” file, which can be modified easily if needed
– added limitation in log window, to hold maximum 15 rows (FIFO)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=404545

Bushing from Hackmii has started to hack the NDSi, check out the wiki!

Thanks to http://www.wiibrew.org for the news.

http://dsibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page

Boomshine2x is a relaxing game where the aim is to cause a chain reaction of explosions to complete each level.

Changes:

I have released Boomshine2x 1.1 for the GP2x. The new version features improved graphics by Ruckage, a near complete re-write of the games code and various bits and bobs like the ability for F200/Wiz users to sign their name for the highscore screen. There are also five other shapes added by GPH of all people. Wasn’t that nice of them?

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?s&showtopic=46484&st=0&p=695933&

Easy to use Usenet Client for Windows mobile. Download directly from Usenet to your mobile device.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478026

DS Visual Novel Reader is a visual novel reader for Nintendo DS.

Changes:

Global vars were reset when loading a save file.
Changing the skin via config.ini didn’t work.
Date wasn’t saved properly in save files.
Missing resources no longer generate warning messages.
Fast reading by holding Y is now a lot faster.
Background fades more intelligent (fade to black on bg change)

Thanks to http://www.ds-scene.net for the news.

http://www.weeaboo.nl/index.php?aid=20

Help Miku playing her music instrument!

http://www.geocities.jp/momoonga/

Retrogaming Times Monthly #56 is available. RTM is a retro magazine, sometimes with focus on homebrew things.

Content of this issue:

01. Attract Mode
02. Old Wine in New Bottles #12
03. RTM Idiocy
03. Apple II Incider – Donkey Kong and Pac Man
04. The ZX81
05. Game Over

http://my.stratos.net/~hewston95/RTM56/RTM56.html

S60 client for wordpress written in Python for Nokia mobile phones, helping you to manage your blog while saving time and bandwidth. Common blog operations, like posting, approve comment, post delete, comments visualization, for instance, are possible using Wordmobi.

http://code.google.com/p/wordmobi/