Although MarioBreak! is a breakout clone, it has alot of cool new gameplay.For example, if the ball hits the floor. The floor will sink, each floor tile can be hit 3 times before it completely sinks into the lava. Mario , ofcourse, can’t stand on the lava so that makes it quite hard. Luckily there are enough powerups for Mario to collect (such as a mushroom which restores the floor tiles). Also if mario collects coins, he can fire a canon with the A-button. The canon will take 1 row out. The more coins you collect the higher the canon will go. The game features multiple levels.

http://gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=1353

Dropbear is a small SSH2 Server and Client running on a variety of POSIX-based platforms. It has been mainly developed by Matt Johnston.

PSPSSH is a port of the version 0.48.1 to the PSP.

This ssh client gives you a remote access to your PC (if you have a SSH server installed of course), and you can then enter commands and run scripts as if you were directly in front of your PC.

This software is usefull for linux users who might want to connect to their PC/server from anywhere using a wifi connection, and then read their mail using text based tool such as pine, elm or mutt, run text irc client, watch log files, edit configuration files, restart services etc …

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/189-guid.html

A new version of Franxis Mame port for the GP2x has been released.

Changes:

A lot of improvements have been done by Slaanesh:
– Updated threaded sound core. Restart with each game for better reliability. No more disappearing sound for games.
– Major bug fix in FM sound, no more disappearing sound in FM based games! ie. Bobble Bobble, Black Tiger, MANY others.
– Bug fix to YM3812 sound system. Fixes for sampled instruments handling.
– Sample sound code adjusted. Should play better. Specific fixes with samples in Galaga (explosion), Star Trek, Gorf and Berzerk. Note: Star Trek requires new sample set.
– Bug fixes (memory leaks) in core MAME code: unzip, palette and other common functions.
– Bug fixes (memory leaks) in game drivers: 1943, Break Thru, Black Tiger, Commando, Sega System 8 games, Atari System 1 & 2 games (Gauntlet, Xybots, etc).
– Some debug code has been added to detect new memory leaks.
– Protection emulated in Solomon’s Key.
– Updated driver for Return of the Jedi.
– Bobble Bobble sounds didn’t sync correctly with video and audio clock at 100%. Fixed.
– Optimizations in the Sega System 8 video hardware. Games like Choplifter running significantly better now.
Thanks, Slaanesh, for all your hard work!

– DrZ80 compatibility improvements. More games are now compatible: Windjammers, Tokio, Bobble Bobble, etc.
– Added Turtle Ship (turtship) (MAME 0.35b1). It has been also added to the ClrMAME DAT. 1139 romsets are now supported!.
– Tehkan World Cup can now be played with two players using USB joypads. Thx to Pepe_Faruk.
– Small bugfix in the MMUHack flush-cache calls. Thx to Notaz.

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

Undisbeliever founded a new SNES development website:

I have just recently setup a website for SNES Development.

At the moment it consists of a blank SNES wiki (which I can’t work on until July), and the >Entertainment (a SNES development project group) discussion board.

To be honest, the website is still in development.
We currently have 2 major and 2 minor projects planned, and will be looking for another SNES coder to help with the minor projects in the near future.

If you like the site, offering feedback or willing to help. Please don’t hesitate to post here.

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=1307

Kouky released a new version of his video artist software Pikix.

Changes:

– New version of the Kouky2x codec : version 14
(better compression rate: files are 20% to 50% smaller than with previous codec version)
– This pikix release loads .k2X files version 12, 13 and 14
– Pikix works pretty well with a USB keyborad plugged into the cradle
– new special effect : extreme contrast
– new special effect : negative colors
– new special effect : zoom
– new special effect : hue colorisation
– new function : assign in and out points for a video track

http://www.pikilipita.com/vj/

Amoebax, a free Puyo Puyo-style puzzle game, got an update.

Changes:

Today we released a new version of Amoebax, our own multi plataform Puyo-Puyo clone. Among other fixes, this new version features a new tournament mode that allows “human” player to play on the same console. When two human players are going to fight, the games changes the grid’s layout to landscape and each player controls a console “side”.

http://trac.emma-soft.com/amoebax/

Gngeo by Pepone got an update.

Changes:

– Sound support on the 2nd CPU!
– That means you can play most games Fullspeed with sound at 200MHz!

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,1098

Gp2xpectrum by Metalbrain has been updated.

Changes:

– Fixed some instruction timings
– Added bus contention for IN and OUT
– Replaced the memory contention emulation using a more precise model

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,1786

Greader2x, a graphical text reader, for the GP2x got an update.

The main changes in this version are the addition of an audio player, the inclusion of config routines within the program, UTF-8 support for multiple languages along with language files to translate all the prompts/menus and an improved “on the fly” wordwrapping that decreases load times and means you don’t lose your bookmark when you change config settings.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/greader2x

The Music Player Oldplay by Micket got an update.

VERSION 1.20
* 10 new formats supported: ADL, WLF, JBM, D00, TTA, APE, MPC, WV, MIDI, AAC
* Increased some clockfreqs since i found FLAC and other formats to be a bit to heavy
when scrolling. (Most are at 150 MHz)
* TTA (The True Audio) support with seeking and ID3v1 parsing (actually, i haven’t tested it)
* APE support with seeking and ID3/APEtag parsing. I only think newer version work though
and nothing over high compresseion rate will play (I intentionally disabled them).
* Updated AdPlug to latest version. New format supported: ADL, WLF, JBM, D00
* MIDI support. Needs the sound patches installed in oldplay/timidity/timidity.cfg
and oldplay/timidity/instruments/… (Just extract in the oldplay dir)
/mnt/sd/timidity/timidity.cfg also work.
It might take a few seconds to load midis though. (Not sure if i can reduce the wait)
* WV (Wavpack) support. No seeking or tag parsing present though. Not sure about WVC files.
* MPC (Musepack) with seeking (no tags right now, I got bored)
* Increased sample rate for libmodplug and sidplay from 22.05 KHz to 44.1 KHz, and changed sid’s to mono
* MPEG2 (and 2.5, i think) should have correct samplerate now.
* Fast accurate seeking in VBR mp3’s that has a Xing header.
VBRI headers would be supported as soon as i had one to test out (send me one if you got the FhG encoder).
* Zip’s are now listed among the directories, then comes playlists, then other files.
* Added another color to the theme, color for playlists. Updated the 2 themes i include.
* AAC-playback. No support for mp4 yet though. Support for ID3-tags

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=36829