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Bennu is a scripting language aimed at making games. Bennu is designed as an easy tool you can use to develop games with. It provides easy solutions for sound and graphic operations. While not being as easy as Game Maker, it is also not as limiting as Game Maker. With Bennu, you decide what game you make.

CFW 6.60ME (Minimum Edition) for OFW6.60 is a custom firmware for PSP by neur0n. It is curently in beta testing stage, so please use at your very own risk!

DCEric made a few more videos of game being compatible with the Dreamcast SD-Card Adapter. It’s a wonderful time saver for owners of such a card – Don’t look around on your own, don’t waste time on what is compatible, just keep track of DCEric’s YouTube Channel!

New SD-Adapter compatible games recorded:

* Missile Command DS
* BricksDC
* ApricotDC
* Ball O Tron
* Profonation
* Crazeeman
* Block Rage
* DC Asteroids
* Xump

GENPlusDroid is an open source Sega Genesis emulator powered by GENPlus. Runs Sega Master System and Sega Mega Drive games. Supports all Android 2.0+ and 3.0+ devices. Devices with a good GPU can use shaders to increase the graphic quality. Real time rewinding of game play. Amazing multi touch input. Use a keyboard or gamepad with custom key bindings if you have one. Lots of features! This port will be inline with all the features on the PS3/Wii version.

Features:

– Supports Android 2.0+, 2.3.X and 3.X
– Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, Sega Master System
– Multi Touch/Keyboard/Gamepad controller supported
– Custom key bindings
– Real Time rewind (see youtube for video)
– Fast Forward
– Auto Save, phone calls won’t ruin your game
– Move and resize the touch input controls to your liking!
– Load/Browse compressed archives (*.zip)
– Custom ROM directory, RomFetcher support
– PAL support
– Shaders! (hq2x, super eagle, 2xSaI, etc). Requires a device with a good GPU. Download within the application. Users can add their own too if they want.
– Tablets, many tablets are known to be working perfectly

Changes:

* 6 button support
* added hit box around dpad
* refined dpad input a bit for street fighter and alike
* more minor optimizations

Running flawless on:

– HTC Incredible S
– Nexus S
– Samsung Galaxy S
– Samsung Galaxy S II
– Samsung Captivate
– Motorola Xoom
– Acer Iconia A500
– Sony Xperia Play

Pocket Island DS by MJaoune is not (yet?) a game. There are little guys which you can annoy with your stylus and there are few options to change the weather.

Changes:

-Added the full theme song.
-Added many sounds for pygmies.
-Fixed some touch glitches.
-Improved the tornado (You have got to have strong lungs though :)).
-Fixed some Graphical problems.
-Fixed some bugs and glitches that were detected recently.
-Some interface modifications.

E02 is a versatile, multiplatform 2D game development system. Its editors and powerful script interface allow users to create the characters and environment that make up the game, while the program handles I/O, low-level player/object management, etc. Many 2D Genre are possible with this system, such as Platform, Adventure, SHMUP, Fighter, RPG, Paddleball/Pinball, and others.

Release notes:

The E02 multiplatform 2D Game Engine has been in development for some time now, and is now available for the Wiz

Two game demos are currently available:
Megaman: Triple Threat – http://stealth.hapisan.com/MMTT
Sonic the Hedgehog: Project Mettrix – http://stealth.hapisan.com/Mettrix

ThatOtherDev updated his homebrew PS3 game “The Unmapped Forest”. It is an action RPG game but in early development stages.

Changes:

I’ve fixed the problem that caused it to freeze at a black screen when running at certain resolutions.
You have health and can be hurt.
You can now kill monsters.
You gain experience for killing monsters and you can level up infinitely (there is no level cap).
When you level up your maximum health is increased and you are fully healed.
When a monster (or its corpse) and its spawn point are both out of view then the monster is given full health and returned to its spawn point to wait for you to approach.
There are now five types of monsters.
The world has been expanded upon. For anybody that wants to further edit the game world you can easily do so by modifying the file “/dev_hdd0/game/UNMAPPEDF/USRDIR/world.dat” with any text editor.
The camera is zoomed out further.
You can now use the right analog stick to move the camera around.
Movement speed has been slightly increased.
I have improved the way that sprites are layered (there is still a problem with things occasionally being incorrectly drawn in front of trees that they are standing behind but this will be fixed soon).
Improved collisions.

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:

* add timing parameters, divide number for clock and smpc other timing. ex., Rockman 8 (it seems to be called as Mega Man 8 in the other areas) works at the divide number for clock=7, but very very slow.
* add “Remove Setting File”, “Reset Settings” menus
* some minor fixes and changes

Ladies, Gentlemen – Thank keda for another nice Nintendo DS homebrew and take out your swords! 🙂

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13714&f=19 for the news.

Wickeycolumbus is working on a small game, which is currently named “Muncher”. You play as a yellow square and your goal is to “eat” the red squares while avoiding aliens.

Release notes:

I’ve added the ability to move faster by pressing the joystick button. There is now a meter at the bottom left indicating how much longer you can move fast. You can replenish the meter by collecting more red while going slow.