DS-DOS is a first filebrowser of it’s kind. This text-based application will allow you to view/copy/move/delete/rename files on your memory card or built-in memory. It also allows you to boot other .nds binaries (users of certain cards may have trouble with this).

Changes:

-Auto DLDI-patching
-dropped Bootlib
-added chishm’s exec_stub
-no longer tries to boot if nothing is typed
-fixed “cd”

Release thread and discussion here: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15241&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

http://home.meltel.net/jwinkels/home.html

The guys at Giana’s Return are back with very interesting news:

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Earlier this morning (1am) [thUg] came up with a fixed tileset of World 1. It is looking a lot cleaner than the one we used before.

Some of you might think, why do you guys need to clean and detail pixel things?
It’s pretty easy to answer. The graphics are optimized for 320×200 pixel screens, this also keeps us the possibility open for a MS-DOS port. If we have “dirty” pixelgraphics and resize this to native solutions of other systems, things would look a bit rubbish. With this clean-pixel task we try to improve the quality for fullscreen stretching on any machine, while keeping the retro-style.

Due to the professional repixeling the amount of colors are also reduced a lot, which ensures we can save some RAM 😉 This might not be relevant for new systems, but we want to have this game running on many beautiful (retro) systems such as GP2x, Amiga AGA, Dreamcast, Playstation Portable, etc…

Also some gossip about Giana’s Return GP32: As our music is available as .xm this willl eat lots of CPU speed, it might be a special difficult task to manage this game on a GP32, which does not mean it will not happen. We are currently discussing what to do and if it’s possible at all. Our musician op3rator took the old MOD’s and improved them and added more channels, which turned out in 8 channel .xm’s. His base music is basically available as .xm only now (specially the new composed tracks) and we wont give him more work with “backcomposing” to .mod. So either we can get Giana’s jumping on a GP32 or not… the chances are 50:50.

Also there are still thoughts which platform we should support first. Initially we have thought about a GP2x release, but it’s unsure at this time, if this will really happen first. There are severall reasons for this… we will just track the homebrew scene, follow comments and behaviours of users and our decision will be positive for the “most helpful and thankful” community.

With today we are one stop closer and many more steps will follow. While the tileset adjusting is not fully done, we are working on many “minor” engine improvements – specially eyecandies. Our genious french coder is working very hard to get the bugtracker empty and add improvements, which should work out really well for the final product.

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

“Pimp My Name” is a custom style writing homebrew. Enter your name, choose your style and see the tag!

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=137543

Simon Quernhorst has released a 4k intro/demo for the Atari VCS at Breakpoint 2008. It’s really worth a check!

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50142

PSPDragon is a Dragon / Tandy Coco emulator for PSP. For those who haven’t seen previous version, Xroar is the best emulator of Dragon32/64 and Tandy Coco home computer running on many systems such as Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, GP32 and Windows32.

Changes:

– Speed improvements
– Add vsync option
– Add artifact mode
– Auto-fire mode, press RTrigger+X to switch it on/off
– New command menu to run disk program
– Bug fix in the low battery watchdog

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/

DSChess is a homebrew chess game for the Nintendo DS. It builds upon a very strong open source chess engine called Fruit 2.1 by Fabien Letouzey (free again: www.fruitchess.com). The engine was changed to meet the requirements of the Nintendo DS. It is the strongest playing chess game on the Nintendo DS as two representative matches against Chessmaster and Schach has shown.

Changes:

Human vs. Human playing mode
Moves record in standard algebraic notation (use Select to switch)
Infinite thinking time for analyzing positions
Optimized memory management and hash tables increases AI search speed by more than 50%, so this version plays a lot stronger than the previous ones
Eleven playing levels with increasing play strength for beginners (under CPU-Settings/Levels)
Loads of bugs fixed

Release thread and discussion: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15257

http://www.vonloesch.de/dschess

This application removes the duplicated channels installed after upgrading the Wii with a JAP or USA game. This application uses the trucha bug to remove channels. Don’t upgrade your Wii!!

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

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=79588&st=0

PSP Emulators Installer is an autoinstaller designed for Sony Playstation Portable to easy customize your console installing the full set of emulators for all available versions and firmwares.

Available emulators in ver.4.0 are:

-PSPUae v0.71
-Apple II Portable v1.00
-Dreamchip v4.0
-PSPX48 v1.1.0
-Unofficial GPSP 3.3 Test1
-DGEN v1.70 (for fat and slim)
-Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 ME (for fat and slim)
-PSPCap 1.3.4 (for fat and slim)
-PSPAtari v1.1.3 (for fat and slim)
-PSP2600 v1.1.2 (for fat and slim)
-PSP7800 v1.1.2 (for fat and slim)
-PSPYape v1.0.3
-CPS1PSP v2.3.1 (for fat)
-CPS1PSP v2.2.5 (for slim)
-CPS2PSP v2.3.1 (for fat and slim)
-NCDZPSP v2.3.1 (for fat and slim)
-PSPColem v1.1.1 (for fat and slim)
-PSPInt v1.1.0 (for fat and slim)
-PSP MAME4ALL v4.9r2
-PSPMSX v1.2.4 (for fat and slim)
-MVSPSP v2.3.1
-NesterJ v1.11
-PSPBEEB 1.1.0 (for fat and slim)
-Daedalus R13 (for fat and slim)
-PCE v0.7
-ScummVM 0.11.0
-SMS Plus PSP v1.2.4
-PSPVic20 v1.1
-PSPVice v1.2
-PSPsim v1.2.1 (for fat and slim)
-PSPThom v1.1.0 (for fat and slim)
-PSPti99 v1.1.0 (for fat and slim)
-PSPZx81 v1.2.0 (for fat and slim)
-PicoDrive 1.35b
-Masterboy v2.02
-Exult 2.1.7.0
-PSP IR Frotz v0.6 fat
-Basilisk II Macintosh Emulator
-QUASI88 v0.6.3
-PSPXTI Final v1.2.2 (for fat and slim)
-PSPVECX v1.01
-e[mulator] v0.82e
-PSPDragon v1.0.1
-PSP Yabasic v1.0a
-PSP Genesis v0.17
-PSP Vice v1.1 (for slim)
-PSPMo5 v1.0.2
-fMSX v3.5.1
-Colem v2.4.1
-PSPThom v1.2.0
-PSP Ti99 v1.0.3

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=137480

This is a LUA interpreter application for Playstation Portable modified by homemister91 who added a bunch of brandnew functions to it.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=137463

Collect diamonds and increase your score!

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=137500