DROD (Deadly Rooms of Death) is a Dungeon crawling / Puzzle game developed by Caravel Games.

Its principle is simple: you inspect dungeons, you fight monsters with your sword, in turn-by-turn combats. But the silly architecture of these dungeons makes these fights extremely challenging and versatile.

As the GP2X screen is a bit small for this game, a zooming feature, allowing the user to display the whole DROD screen or to zoom on any part of it, is implemented.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,26,2209

sephiroth ff7 has released a new version of Cube Breakout, a 3D Arkanoid/Breakout game.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7955

CyBeRCeD has released a new game called VTT DS, which is currently in alpha stage.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=8094

A new version of GP2x MAME is out! Most ofthe improvements in this version were done by Slaanesh.

Changes:

– Updated vlm5030 sound system. Provides speech and sound effects in a number of games like
Yie Ar Kung Fu, Jail Break, Track and Field (and clones) or Salamander.
– Updated DAC sound system. Please use audio clock 100% for DAC games as they rely heavily
on precise timing. Ie. Donkey Kong, etc.
– Update to FM sound system re: disappearing sound. Bug REALLY fixed this time. :-).
– Added tilemapping code. Useful for adding new games and improving existing games.
– Updated Xain’D Sleena to use tilemaps. Large increase in speed. Plays nicely at 240Mhz.
– Updated Ghost’n Goblins to tilemaps. More tilemap games to come!.
– Fixed bug introduced in 3.9 re: samples not playing in Gorf, Wizard of Wor and Berzerk.
– Update to Sega System 8 games. Speed to games like Choplifter.
– Fixed Wonderboy in Monster Land (bootleg). Now playable with good sound.
– Bug fix to Time Pilot (memory leak).

http://www.talfi.net/gp32_franxis/

Skinz Sudoku by Mollusk has seen an update today. Previous release was Beta 2, this release does not have any version number on first sight.

http://www.dev-fr.org/index.php?topic=251.0

Phillips released a working homebrew translator with fat support for DS several weeks ago . He only published it in chinese so it seems that it did not get attention from the english speaking community. The program, which is using stardict dictionary files (http://stardict.sourceforge.net/index.php), is currently running on R4 (Thanks Phillips!!), M3SD and SCSD.

Thanks to Uwe for the news.

http://www.ndsbbs.cn/read.php?tid=111151

Nimish released a screensaver type application for the NDS.

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&type=&topic_id=3171&forum=28

A new version of Lameboy DS is out, which is a NES emulator for the Nintendo DS.

Changes:

* fixed: GBC speed change did not work for some games (like Mario Bros Deluxe)
* fixed: interrupt priority
* fixed: corrected timers interrupt frequency
* fixed: tile in foreground color 0 is transparent
* added: preliminary sound emulation
* added: auto save on exit to rom menu

http://lameboy.ath.cx/

Notaz has updated his NES emu for the GP2x.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,2136

Cal2X is a calculator application for the GP2x by Baek Jonghyeon.

http://blog.naver.com/elfrog