MrMr[iCE] is on the way to bring us a new Tetris game. But it isn’t just another Tetris game. The one or other might remember a game called”Rotris”by Yarin which was 4k in size and really fun to play. Tiltris works similar.The pieces fall at a constant rate but as you gain levels, the board twists harder. The 4th number is a bonus multiplier and the more the board swings, the higher that number is. The higher that number is, the more points you get.Currently Mr. Mister is in the task to fix the highscore… after that he is going to release it to the public, and you can be sure to see it here after it’s released 🙂

Many of you might remember a game called”The Great Giana Sisters”. It was developed in 1987 by Chris H?k (Music), Armin Gessert (Code)&Manfred Trenz (GFX). The game was avaliable for Commodore 64 and Amiga.A few people (including myself) created a remake of this alltime cassic game called”Giana’s Return”. We entered it in the GBAX Competition, but didn’t got permission from Armin Gessert in time, to release it. Since there is allready a screenshot floating around (at the GBAX2003 page) we decided to release some Information about the GP32 version.In general the game has 5 worlds where each world is splittet into 5 levels and themed (snow, fire, mountain, cave). The grahpics are completly redone and overworked by Arthus. CHN did all the code, Myth created the leveleditor (he also did”Giana Worlds”a PC remake which was never finished,”Gianas Return”is manly the final version of”Giana Worlds”). My part (Kojote) was to design all the levels and level-beta testing. Finally our Mr. Music”Operator/Sue??composed a few nice chiptunes for oldschool feeling.The game is nearly at the stage we want to have it and of course its allready full playable! As mentioned we are just waiting for the permission to release it to the public. This might take a while. In the meantime you can have a look at the screenshots :)CHN wrote a bit more about the technical stuff behind”Gianas Return”on his page and posted a few other screenshots which aren’t posted here. See related links for a link to CHN’s page!The pics:

Related Links:“The great Giana Sisters”Original Teamhttp://www.spellbound.de – Armin Gesserts Companyhttp://www.mt-fanpage.de – Manfred Trenz Fanpagehttp://www.huelsbeck.com – Official Page of Chris H?kImportant Note:Please don’t BUG any of them regarding”Gianas Return”since it’s a remake and they don’t have to do anything with it!!!“Gianas Return”Teamhttp://chn.roarvgm.com/ – CHN’s Homepagehttp://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~sinsch/ – Myth’s Homepagehttp://www.sueno-productions.de – Demogroup where Operator is Member ofAnother Note:Myth’s Homepage is horribly outdated! We do not need Leveldesigner for any clone of Giana and there is NO support for”Giana Worlds”or any of the DOS versions! Arthus does not have a homepage as far as i know.

Another updated emulator is snes9xGP which is an SNES emulator for the GP32. Changes are:

– Test version of Snes9xGP released.- Assembly optimized sound mixing, a little graphics drawing code, and all of the microprocessor main loops.- Not finished, still need to optimize more graphics code and processor code.- Sound mixing code optimizations about finished.- Please report any problems.

http://www.snes9xgp.com02.com/

FluBBa released an updated version of his PCE emulator for the GBA. This version seems to have improved speed.http://hem.passagen.se/flubba/gba.html

Flavor just dropped me a note that he updated his DynaMate port which he entered in the GBAX2003 competition to v2.0! This new version includes a built in level-editor.http://www.personal.triticom.com/~erm/GP32/DynaMate/

I just received an e-mail from Adriano (aka ZoneGN) with this content:

Hi, an easy version of Uranus Zero is come.The game is called URANUS ZERO EV (EASY VERSION). Don’t forgot to make the mondial best score and put on the high-score web site.I also announce officially that I would not make any more”free”games for the gba. I am very occupied with other projects…ZoneGN.http://www.zonegn.comhttp://www.pocket-dev.net/zonegn

You can get the file either from the official page at ZoneGN.com or from PDroms.http://www.zonegn.com/

Another news stolen from GP32-Xtreme… Thanks Hando! 🙂

What a day 🙂 Release after a release. Just few minutes ago Elf Logic, a logical game with beautiful graphics was released. If you are interested, download it asap 🙂

http://gp32.emu.pl/

Regarding”Hando”, webmaster of GP32-Xtreme rlyeh ported a Colecovision-Emulator over to the GP32. It seems to work very fine. here are a few lines from Hando’s posting:

After sending a fMSX emulator for GBAX competition, Rlyeh has ported another emulator for GP32. This time his choice was ColecoVision emulator.In August 1982, Coleco released the ColecoVision. It was a new $175 videogame system with graphics and sound superior to both the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision. What really”made”the ColecoVision, however, was its pack-in game: the mega-popular Donkey Kong. In any event, Coleco’s console went on to become one of the most popular game machines among 1980s players, as well as among today’s classic gamers. (info from Classic Gaming Museum)Back to nowadays 🙂 There is no public release of this emu yet, but it is going to happend soon. Emulator works with fullspeed and frameskip=0 at 66MHX clock, has full sound support, load normal/zipped/gzipped roms. And of course there are plenty arcade classic games for this system, so it is worth of waiting. You can see more screens from emu (screenshots was taken by me on Geepee emulator so they have some glitches which do not exist on GP32) after clicking more.

http://gp32.emu.pl/?artc=262

GP 32Deep Ship by Joseph Le BrechDynaMate v1.0 by FlavorfMSX32 (17-03-03) by rylehGP Waba by ph0xGPasteroids by giffelJump n Bump by Michael HeinemannLK Shoot (GBAX 2003) by Ronan LeroyNoiDZ v0.1 by rovThe New Trip Of Peuppy by Satu Lagi

Gameboy AdvanceAlpha Wing by Jon WingroveBattle Spaceship by Werner MendizabalBeru by SaikouBlocks v1.0 by Werner MendizabalBroken Link by Jonathan KaufmannCarbie by phargChopper by Christian AubyCoin Quest by Scott MCommando Advance by SeagalCutegotchi Advance by FNX GamesDangerous Xmas by Spoutnick TeamDragon Tiles by Red5DrSMS by Dave ReesDvck Hvnt v1.00 by Trevor BentleyFill It Up (GBAX 2003) by Matthew GummoGameland by Stephen StairGBAttaxx v0.1 by Thomas MathysKasbrik by Yannick RousseauKeeper v1.0 by Jeremy MorelandKlan Wars by Lord GragaKunoichi Yami (Beta) by Louis-N Dozois and Phil StroffolinoLights Out Advance v0.9b by KujaM-Adventure by Paolo BorziniMagik Tales Demo v1 by BennymarrouMilos Quest by Nicholas ScheltemaNight Hawk by Christian AubyPaint Master by Jason HaffnerPanic At Work by ZoneGNPCEAdvance by FluBBaPocketGB v0.1a by JustBurnPunch-Out GBA by Phil StroffolinoPunto Banco Advance by coca77Reversi by Mr MisterSerp by Miguel Angel Alvarez GarciaSkweez by PeebrainSpace Shooter by Bernhard DeiningerSqueekby BigRedPimpSun Invaders by Philippe-Andre LorinThe NomadII -Trapped- v1.0.1 by Alex MarkleyThe Server Ninja by Mark Bowers and Jim OtermatThe Tragical Historie of Rodion and Rosalind by Bertil HoerbergWonkie Guy (07-03-2003) by Sean ReidWordwise v2.0 by Erik RoundsZoop Zone by Martin KonradZXAdvance 1.0. by The HiVE