MAG/PiratePila and AntonioND have released a new front SD Card loading utility for the Nintendo Wii. It supports loading ELF and DOL (Wii Mode) and is booted using normal methods such as the Twilight Hack, Trucha Signer and Homebrew Chanel.

How to use:

1) Format your SD card to FAT/FAT16.
2) Decompress MAG_Loader.rar
3) Rename the magloader.elf to boot.elf and copy it to the root of your SD card. The elf also creates a called folder (in the same root). In this folder you will have to put all the ELF and DOL that you want to load with the MAG Loader.
4) Insert the SD in the Wii and load boot.elf from the homebrew channel or twilight hack and now you can enjoy all your ELF in Wii.

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_MAG-Loader_998560

A Pong game with sources included.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=138564

Age of Nations is a new project started to setup a strategy game looking like the well known Pc Game Age of Empire, only in LUA, playable on PSP.

For this first release, you only have a map, with scrolling function.You can explore it and have a look at the basics of the game.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=138561

The newest release of ChessNET supports Castling, En Passant, and the 50 move rule. It’s also sporting a shiny new user login system, allowing you choose your own user name and password, each up to 16 characters long.

Changes:

Added a custom icon to the ROM.
Added account handles and passwords.
Added account registration.
Added support for Castling.
Added support for En Passant.
Added support for 50 Move Rule.
Added status screen while the DS downloads a game.
Fixed a buffering error in the Client POST Handler.
Fixed checkmate detection. [No more victory on check. ;]
Completed the About menu option.
Local save games show when the last move occured.
Added screens after winning or losing a match.
Touched up the Online Games screen.
Touched up the Find Opponent screen.

http://www.armoredtactics.com/chessnet/?page_id=3

Phantom, maintainter of the FreeSCI port for Dreamcast, is quite unsure, if he should continue or stop development on this.

Quote:

FreeSCI’s “glutton” branch is expected to become the stable branch in the near future. I’m unsure whether continuing to maintain the DC port is worthwhile. Is anyone still using FreeSCI on DC?

Go and tell him what you think, if you want to have a proper FreeSCI port on Dreamcast, you know what to do!

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the note.

http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=97035

With JoyDS you can use your DS as a wireless Joypad for PC. It’s a Client-Server App, where DS is the Client and PC is the Server. The Client gets input from the DS and sends to server in UDP packets. The server receives the input and uses PPJoy to emulate the Joystick. JoyDS emulates a real Joystick, no keyboard or mouse. You don’t have to configure nothing inside PPJoy, the Server does all the hard work for you. It also has some cool features like Button Sequences and Multiple Consoles. You need .NET Framework 2.0 to run the Server.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://luccax.sg-php.com/?page_id=11

Toiletking has released his “late” PDRoms Coding Competition entry to the public. It’s called “Where is Zeoblackos”. Details in french language at it’s release thread.

http://www.dev-fr.org/vos-news/(nds)-wiz-where-is-zeblakos-(pdrom-compo-too-late-edition)/

The Wii Proof of Concept Linux mini-distro is a small Linux OS for the Wii, based on GC Linux.

Changes:

adds support for USB keyboards through the IOS keyboard interface

http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Homebrew_apps/Wii_Proof_of_Concept_Linux

Insert contact numbers when composing SMS messages.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=383421

Send SMS from your PDA via your VoipBuster account (if you have one).

Changes:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=347726