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Danmaku 100 Bullet Demo is a techdemo by pubby. It displays up to 100 bullets on the screen at once using the backround layer to prevent flicker.

Jum has freshly updated his Coleco Vision emulator for PS2 after many years. This version is coded to run off of a CD and has been tested with many game images and almost all run fine. The author quotes that 95% of the games are playable. Great to see an update for this piece of Playstation 2 software after such a long time.

Changes:

1. Tidied up the rom selector
2. Removed extension (.ROM) from being displayed in ROM selector (NB: NO NEED TO REMOVE THE .ROM EXTENSION OFF ROM FILES!)
3. Merge in updates from Colem 3.6 source code
4. Fixes to magnified sprite rendering
5. Modified to work better in NTSC mode.
6. Render 5th sprite (DigDug title screen)
7. Fix to noise channel (colem 3.6 noise code)
8. Fix to beamrider background grid (colour 0 issue)
9. Fix to border / backdrop colour
10. Turbo controller emulation
– PS2 pad “keys” mapped to Coleco 2nd controller
9. Roller controller emulation
– “Spinner” Slither mode
– PS2 pad “keys” mapped to Coleco 2nd controller
– Slither, Victory, Wargames, Omega Race, Centipede
10. PS2 dualshock key mapping to get all Coleco keypad numbers:
– Dualshock L1, L2, R1, R2, TRAINGLE for Coleco 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
– SQUARE + L1, L2, R1, R2, TRIANGLE for Coleco 6, 7, 8, 9, 0
– SELECT for Coleco *
– START for Coleco #
11. PS2 video mode changed to 284×240
– “Zooms” the playfield slightly
– Reduces borders slightly
– Borders needed for same look at CRT TV.
12. Use R3 to get to options menu

Jinroh still works on his Atari VCS Jump’n Run Carrot Kingdom. Enjoy another teaser video.

Bored? Need something to read? Maybe even free? What about the latest REV’n’GE? Issue #56 is out!

Cylinder is a new Android game by Franz Lankes. This game was already seen on the GP32 years ago under the name Elena. The game is easy to explain… Take a very famous Russian block game and instead of lines, try to produce those lines around a cylinder. Voila!

Mediathekview is a java based for wrapper for German state channels.

Changes:

+git repository https://github.com/willhelm-mueller/mediathekview_openpandora/tree/master
+updated to latest Mediathekview (version 10 build 865)

Beret is a 2D puzzle-platformer game about a scientist named Beret who has gained telekinetic abilities through his research at the Evil Corporation. He decides that the Evil Corporation is too evil for his liking, and begins his solitary quest to overthrow the corporation and punish the evil deeds of his employers.

Changes:

* Recompiled, with some simplification and speedup
* Some optimizations from M-HT

Tanks of Freedom is a classic turn-based strategy game with two armies fighting against each other. Challenge yourself in campaign against AI or hot-seat battle with a friend. Using easy map editor you can create any imaginable scenario to play. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

Changes:

– Latest beta release.
– Removed custom cursor.

Silent-Hunter comes up with the text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure 4.

RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight, and portable.

List of included libretro cores:

NES: FCEU, Nestopia, QuickNES
SNES: PocketSNES, SNES9x-Next
GBC: Gambatte, TGB Dual
GBA: Meteor, VBA
Genesis / Sega CD: Genesis Plus
Saturn: Yabause (Very slow!)
Playstation: PCSX-ReARMed
Atari 2600: Stella
Chip8/16: Maxe
Arcade: iMAME4all, MAME078, Final Burn Alpha
Mednafen cores: PCE-Fast, WSwan, PSX
Natives: NXEngine (Cave Story), PrBoom (Doom)

Changes:

To read what’s new, go to the built-in Help Screen on the app (Help -> What’s New?)