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Yabause Wii is a Sega Saturn emulator for Wii and is the first of its kind as emulating the complex processes of the Sega Saturn is much harder then it looks and now even harder to run it on the limited hardware of the Wii.

Changes:

* compile with devkitPPC r25 and recent libogc (support new remote plus)
* based on the original yabause r2858 (including mainly improvements of VIDSOFT & SCSP drivers)
* branch software video driver to two drivers: old one and new one
* some minor fixes and changes

ZXDS is an emulator of Sinclair ZX Spectrum for Nintendo DS, written by Patrik Rak. It is steadily reaching a mature stage of development, and it already has some noteworthy features, like accurate emulation of Spectrum 48k, 128k and Pentagon models (including sound), or support for TAP/TZX/PZX tape files, TRD/SCL disk files and RZX playback files.

Changes:

+ Proper save requester, including support for basic file management operations.
+ Alternate between two different directories by tapping the save/load file icon again.
+ Quickly switch models in load requester with various L/R+X combinations.
+ Risky operations now use confirmation requesters.
+ It is now possible to step the emulation frame by frame.
+ Added pouet.net and Tipshop pokes library to servers.cfg.
* Implemented HTTP redirects, required by some pouet.net sites.
+ Directly poke decimal, hexadecimal, or binary values in the data dump view.
* Switched to PNG for background and icon graphics. The BMP support remains, but note that some names have changed – check skins/readme.txt for details.
* Augmented the 128k keyboard graphics with symbol characters. Thanks, Paddy.
* The selected keyboard is now saved to the config file.
* Distinguish the load and save slot screens with colored slot frames.
* Disable the keyboard matrix effect during multiplayer session. It is often difficult enough to configure the controls even without it.
* Switching to maximum speed while loading tapes in fast mode now disables the display updates entirely. Handy for slight speed boost if you feel desperate.
* Other subtle changes (nicer boot message, increased cheat poke limit).
* Fixed loading of Pentagon SZX files (ROM paging, step direction).
* Minor bugfixes (libfat mkdir and aliasing, ZIP long name skipping).

Thanks to http://nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=14256&f=19 for the news.

DS2x86 by Patrick Aalto is a PC emulator for Nintendo DS. It’s purpose is to allow you to run old DOS games on your Nintendo DS game console. DS2x86 is a port of DSx86 port using the SuperCard DSTwo’s MIPS processor, therefor it will just run with such a card.

Changes:

– Implemented “rep stosd” for Mode-X with irregular map mask (Micro Machines 2)
– Forced INT 15 AH=88 to report no extended memory (Borland RTM DOS Extender)
– Implemented “LAST_FIT” memory allocation strategy handling (Borland RTM DOS Extender)
– Implemented “LES reg,m16:16” page fault handling (Borland RTM DOS Extender)
– Implemented INT 21 AH=4D proper return mode reporting (Borland RTM DOS Extender)
– Improved SB emulation to not hang after invalid SB command (Jazz Jackrabbit)
– Implemented support for reading data from file to Mode-X VRAM (Jazz Jackrabbit)
– Implemented proper AdLib timer handling (Mortal Kombat etc SB detection)
– Fixed a bug in ARM9 SB audio buffering scheme (Mortal Kombat, Supaplex, etc)

Thanks to http://nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=14263&f=19 for the news.

“Micro Lua DS” is a Lua programing language and interpretor for Nintendo DS. Source code can be found here.

Release notes:

* Added Papymouge’s shell as the default one.

Thanks to http://nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=14275&f=19 for the news.

Spirits DS by NightFox is a game inspired by Topo Soft‘s Spirits.

Changes:

* Fixed a bug in the animation of the character at the end of the game, that causes the character to be invisible if he was immune at the time to kill the eagle.
* Added the “Minimap” function, pressing the “X” key.

Thanks to http://nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=14276&f=19 for the news.

Rockbot is a Megaman fan game with level editor.

PanMess – Multi Emulation Super System for the OpenPandora. Based on the AdvanceMESS platform with code borrowed from mcobit.

Changes:

* Makes use of Notaz’s fabulous accelerated SDL library
* Full Screen menu, just like PanMame
* Displays all systems AdvanceMess supports that do not require any sort of bios
* Auto scaled full screen modes for all emulated platforms
* Uses OSS sound by default for best speed and compatibility
* Numerous tweaks to the default advmess.rc file to favor speed on all systems

PandaBAS is a Pandora port of the SpecBAS BASIC interpreter. Based on Sinclair BASIC, but allowing the user to take advantage of more modern hardware – 8bit graphics, sound samples/mod/mp3 etc, with a much more advanced graphics and windowing system.

Changes:

* Added sysvar access with the OPTION command.

Sqrzx 3 by Retroguru is a pretty insane Jump’n Run Game with Puzzle elements, available for Amiga OS4, AROS, Caanoo, Dingoo A320 (OpenDingux), Dreamcast, GP2x, Mac OS X, Motomagx, MorphOS, NetBSD (Intel), Pandora, Playstation Portable (unsigned), Symbian OS Series 60, Symbian OS UIQ3, Ubuntu, Windows and Wiz.

Make sure your mind works faster than a thunder and your fingers should be even faster than that.

The Dreamcast version has been updated, while all other 16 platforms are an initial release to it’s respective platforms.

The well known Mozilla Foundation‘s browser Firefox ported to Pandora by hdondk. The award-winning Firefox Web browser has security, speed and new features that will change the way you use the Web.