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Multiple:Option’s second DS homebrew release is Snatcher Pilot DS, an adventure game by Konami and an early game of Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid). This game is a demo (hence “Pilot”) and is based upon the PC-Engine “Snatcher Pilot Disk,” but uses the Sega CD version’s assets. Read the readme.txt for more information.

Do you remember the two farting guys “Terrance & Phillip” from South Park? Now those two guys have their very own computergame on the Atari 2600 platform. Release notes: Here’s a binary with the new sprites. I had to change the jumping one a little bit, but I think Raccoon Lad definitely did a good job with these sprites.

If you are looking for a threading solution on the DS a port of DarkPhantom has been made available. The thread dispatcher replaces the standard interrupt dispatcher provided by libnds at the moment so beware of compatibility issues. Thanks to http://www.drunkencoders.com for the news.

seemo has updated his shooting game Omicron 2k. Release notes: Hi, here’s a new version, what’s new – enemy ‘roots’ are born from blinking ‘eggs’: you can catch those ‘eggs’, to prevent the enemy from growing (and score 8 points )… but you must be quick, or the ‘egg’ will turn into a ‘root’. This introduces a ‘risk/reward’ factor in … Read more

ANTONIOND updated his 3D Pong game few days ago.

colloQ is an improved IRC client for the iPhone, based upon mColloquy. Release notes: After a hiatus from coding, I recently got back to it and fixed the extended ASCII characters bug! This fix is so important that I decided not to spend time with any more fixes or enhancements and release it right away. It is available on Cydia … Read more

iBlackjack seems to reach v1.0 soon. Notes: Thanks to everyone for testing out the early versions of iBlackjack. Your insightful feedback, encouragement and generosity has helped me create a great game. Since all efforts are now focused on making iBlackjack a great commercial game developed under the official iPhone SDK, we had to deactivate the old unsupported versions. By now … Read more

In mid of February there were some more progress news about the ongoing “Ports of Call” remake for Nintendo DS. Read on: It’s about time for another update. Although i only make slowly progress there is at least some progress. The bug checks are taking more and more time despite the short cuts i take in testing. But each and … Read more

A new version of iDialer is out. Release notes: Attached is iDialer v3.0 for manual installation and testing. Just copy the files into your existing /Applications/iDialer.app folder from a previous install. Changes: 1. Loads ten times faster – handles 1000 contacts ok. 2. Ignores missing/blank numbers 3. Option to ignore Fax #s 4. Compatible with 1.1.3 (and probably 1.1.4) 5. … Read more

iNewsGroup is a newsgroup client for the iPhone. Changes: Fixed sending bug that made it unable to post in some circumstances.