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Skull is a Jump’n’Shoot game which was already available for Wiz, Linux and Windows. GECA_soft now ported the game over to the Pandora. The main character is based on the anime character Skull Man, while the whole game has an essence of Capcom’s Mega Man in it. Original author of this game is Diogo Lapa.

Changes:

-changed default jump and fire button from start and select to x and a (game buttons) however these can be changed from the settings menu just like before, this update will only work if you delete the appdata folder (or at least the file named SkullUserKeys.dat) from your appdata folder

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.

Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.

Changes:

* All upstream changes.

David Douglas‘s Gravity Force has been updated. The game is similar to to well known game Thrust.

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

Terry Cavanagh’s VVVVVV (PC version) has been ported to Pandora by Pickle already a while ago. and made a Pandora port. Now here is an update. Original data files are required!

PCSX-ReARMed is another PCSX fork, based on PCSX-Reloaded. It has no relation to PSX4ALL, PSX4Pandora or PCSX4ALL (other than being PCSX derived) and has the source available (under GPL2). The main feature it has is Ari64’s dynarec, modified to suit PCSX. There is a bit of NEON for color space conversion too. The compatibility should be close to the PC version.

Other notes:

BIOS files are optional, but are needed for compatibility with some games. These uncompressed files should be copied to /pandora/appdata/pcsx_rearmed/bios/ , and selected after launching the emulator itself (Optopns -> BIOS/Plugins).

OpenKore is a custom Ragnarok Online client.

Midori is a lightweight web browser.

Changes:

+ Implement about:widgets to test rendering
+ Fix resizing of inspector by applying a minimum size
+ Use dark theme with GTK+ 3 in private browsing
+ Use channel-(in)secure-symbolic icons if available
+ Use .security-(un)trusted classes with GTK+
+ Improve notebook resizing peformance
+ Fix tab icons in GTK+3 and don’t look for GTK+ jscore
+ Use system-wide CA file with libSoup 2.37.1
+ Improve cookie manager performance
+ Action and tab creation for faster startup
+ Fix number of items in trash in private browsing
+ Add Cairo version to about:version
+ Add X-GNOME-Keywords and X-AppInstall-Keywords to .desktop
+ Add easy privacy list to default Adblock filters
+ Fully implement speed dial for GTK+3
+ Disable box shadows with WebKitGTK+ 1.2.7
+ Fine-grained monospace font overriding
+ Implement resizing of Location and Search in toolbar
+ Don’t show empty speed dial shortcuts in-between
+ Use Midori’s name in midori-private.desktop
+ Hide all bars in fullscreen and a menu to Unfullscreen

Leafpad is a simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor. Leafpad is simple to use, is easily compiled, requires few libraries, and starts up quickly.

Yabause is a Sega Saturn emulator under GNU GPL. It currently runs on FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Dreamcast, PSP and Wii. Yabause support booting games using Saturn CDs or ISO files. Latest Dreamcast port has been realized by BlueCrab.

Thanks to VasiliyRS for the news via e-mail!