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Nick Nillo talks about indie games on the GCW Zero and presents the upcoming commercial game Unnamed Monkey Game.

JOSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap (OSM) written in ​Java 1.6. It required the Pandora Java pack to work!

Currently it supports loading stand-alone GPX tracks and GPX track data from the OSM database as well as loading and editing existing nodes, ways, metadata tags and relations from the OSM database.

XM Solitaire by Petr Laštovička is a a card game with over 200 rules implemented, which allows you to play Freecell, Klondike, Fan, Spider, Pyramid, Gaps and many other card games. Ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.

Changes:

* PND now works, corrected the way of launching app + reviews of libs needed by XMSol

Super Giuseppe by atari2600land is a Super Mario like game for they Odyssey 2. The game is still a work in progress and develops slowly.

Release notes:

I fixed the problem I was talking about in today’s blog entry. When this new version is played on real hardware, the ship sometimes blinks. I don’t know what is causing it. Well, anyway, at least it looks better than it did. Here’s the latest binary file.

CannonBall is an enhanced Out Run Engine. Althought not an emulator it uses graphics and music via the Arcade ROM of Outrun Revision B. Most certainly the commercial ROM is not included.

Changes:

* Now with Time Trial Mode, a guenine new Play Mode for Outrun !
* Fixed crash under slackware (hopefully)

Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.

Navit’s modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering on the screen. It’s even possible to use multiple maps at the same time.

Locomalito‘s game L’Abbaye des Morts ported to Caanoo by Farox! The gameplay is directly inspired by Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy.

Release notes:

Just updated the archive with a new version for Caanoo (hope to see updated soon). In this version I have fixed a bug that allowed to jump when you are crouched. Now I have added B for jump so now you can use X or B to jump.

Trying to gain some more speed I have tested to init SDL with a 22050 sampling rate (to gain some cpu cycle) but with this the sound effect didn’t sound good (to be honest the only jump.ogg sound is playing strange) but for this version I have reverted to 44100Khz so we colud gain some little speed but maybe in a next version.

Anyway the speed is really improved from the last revision.

FCE Ultra GX is an NES emulator based on FCEUX. With it you can play NES games on your Wii/GameCube. The GUI is powered by libwiigui.

Features:

* Wiimote, Nunchuk, Classic, and Gamecube controller support
* iNES, FDS, VS, UNIF, and NSF ROM support
* 1-4 Player Support
* Zapper support
* Auto Load/Save Game States and RAM
* Custom controller configurations
* SD, USB, DVD, SMB, Zip, and 7z support
* Custom controller configurations
* 16:9 widescreen support
* Original/filtered/unfiltered video modes
* Turbo Mode – up to 2x the normal speed
* Cheat support (.CHT files and Game Genie)
* Famicom 3D System support
* IPS/UPS automatic patching support
* NES Compatibility Based on FCEUX 2.2.0+ (r2818)
* Open Source!

Changes:

* Updated core to latest FCEUX (r2818)

Free and legal NES roms to try with this emulator can be downloaded from here.

XM Solitaire by Petr Laštovička is a a card game with over 200 rules implemented, which allows you to play Freecell, Klondike, Fan, Spider, Pyramid, Gaps and many other card games. Ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.

ptitSeb ported PPSSPP to the OpenPandora handheld. PPSSPP is an open source project, licensed under the GPL 2.0 (or later).

PPSSPP is a PSP emulator written in C++, and translates PSP CPU instructions directly into optimized x86, x64 and (soon) ARM machine code, using an efficient JIT compiler.

PPSSPP can thus run on quite low-spec hardware, including stronger Android phones and tablets, as long as there’s support for OpenGL ES 2.0.

Changes:

* Compiled to test the merge of the Pandora config on git repo
* Compatibility should have improved a bit.
* Added Joystick handling. If nubs are set to joysticks, you should be abble to use them