Eugene Plotnikov has updated his SMS (Simple Media System) multimedia playing application for the Sony PS2. Using this program you can view multimedia files including DIVX, AVI, XVID, MPEG, MP3, etc … on your Sony Playstation 2 video gaming console.

Changes:

– some optimizations regarding avi indices;
– fixed some bugs in the FAT (USB) filesystem driver;
– fixed issues with .sub/.txt subtitles. Thanks to ‘Karol Nowak’ for the research and sample files;

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://home.casema.nl/eugene_plotnikov/

FluBBa released a new version of his NeoGeo Pocket Color emulator for GBA.

Changes:

* Added speedhacks for a lot of games.
* Added emulation of batteries & sub battery.
* Added RTC alarm.
* Added power button (SELECT).
* Added D button (R) (check Doko Demo Mahjong).
* Fixed a couple of cpu bugs affecting Metal Slug 1 and a couple of other games.

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.ndsretro.com/

Scognito is working on Wiicross, the game is not out yet but there is an online level editor available.

Release notes:

Finally today I decided to write a post for my next upcoming homebrew game for the Nintendo Wii and Gamecube: it is called Piero’s Wicross.

As the name suggest it is based on a popular puzzle game Mario’s Picross, a game based on an existing puzzle game called Nonogram.

Thanks to http://wiibrew.org for the news.

http://scognito.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/new-wiigamecube-homebrew-is-coming-pieros-wiicross/

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Changes:

– Fix crashing in Inherit the Earth and Lure of the Temptress
– Speedups for all Kyrandia games

Thanks to www.ds-scene.net for the news.

http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=6161

Hellcat has updated Recovery Flasher.

Changes:

– Fixed a flaw in the backup/restore functions that made them going haywire on CFWs of 3.52 and below when restoring a full firmware from a backup.
Now works fine on those lower CFWs as well

– Well, this one is more “just for fun” than meant serious…. I made an additional build of the app, that runns on unpatched, virgin, original 1.50
Restoring and creating backups works as fine as installing a fresh M33 CFW (3.71/4.01) – YES, you can go from 1.50 STRAIGHT AND NONSTOP to a fresh 4.01-M33 this way!
The other way round also works: restoring a 1.50 from a backup when running on 4.01.
(this might also help people having installed the 1.50 AddOn and so unable to use the original build)

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=143300

FBA2x is a port of Finalburn Alpha for the GP2X console. It is an arcade emulator for MC68000/Z80 based arcade games. It plays CPS-1, CPS-2, Cave, Toaplan, NeoGeo, and other arcade games.

Changes:

o Replaced MAME’s Z80 core with CZ80 core. Games like Mazinger Z and Metamoqester are faster.
o Little optimizations in the generic tiles renderer
o Disabled kernel read ahead cache
o New supported games:
. * Cave:
– – – Power Instinct 2 (pwrinst2, pwrins2j) (cache required)
– – – Power Instinct Legends (plegends, plegendj) (cache required)
. * Tumble Pop hardware:
– – – Tumble Pop bootleg (tumbleb (bad sound), tumbleb2)
– – – Jump Kids (jumpkids)
– – – Metal Saver (metlsavr)
– – – Pang Pang (pangpang)
– – – Super Trio (suprtrio)
– – – Hatch Catch (htchctch)
– – – Cookie & Bibi (cookbib)
– – – Choky! Choky! (chokchok)
– – – Wonder League Star (wlstar)
– – – Wonder League ’96 (wondl96)
– – – Fancy World – Earth of Crisis (fncywld)
– – – SD Fighters (sdfight)
– – – B.C. Story (bcstry, bcstrya)
– – – SemiCom Baseball (semibase)
– – – Date Quiz Go Go (dquizgo)
– – – Jumping Pop (jumppop)
. * Ninja Gaiden hardware:
– – – Shadow Warriors (shadoww, shadowwa, gaiden, ryukendn, ryukenda)
– – – Tecmo Knight (wildfang, tknight)
– – – Raiga – Strato Fighter (stratof, raiga)
– – – Dragon Bowl (drgnbowl)
. * Unico:
– – – Burglar X (burglarx)
. * ESD16:
– – – Multi Champ (multchmp, multchmk)
– – – Multi Champ Deluxe (mchampdx, mchampda)
– – – Head Panic (hedpanic, hedpanif)
– – – Tang Tang (tangtang)
– – – SWAT Police (swatpolc)
o Fixed games:
– – Guwange (guwange)
– – Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition (hsf2, hsf2j) (cache required)
– – Aero Fighters (aerofgt, aerofgtb)
– – Turbo Force (turbofrc)
– – Karate Blazers (karatblz)
– – Spinal Breakers (spinlbrk, spinlbru, spinlbrj)

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?&showtopic=43932

Dynamo is a cool, animated task manager for your PocketPC 2003/05/06 device. Say goodbye to boring text lists of running programs and instead manage your programs by sliding in images of all your running applications onto your screen. For each program on your device an image is saved and when you click the hotkey they all zoom onto your screen. Simply click the one you want and it will increase to fill the screen. Quickly seeing all the running programs is far more efficient than having to read through a text-based task list so Dynamo can make task switching a much faster, and cooler, experience.

Dynamo also allows you to quit programs from inside the image view meaning that it does everything your old text-based program manager could do.

As well as just looking generally cooler, Dynamo offers far more customization than before and allows the whole application to be controlled using either your PDAs hardware keys or the stylus.

Changes:

# bug-fixing: double windows, empty slot crashing, closed windows still displayed, exiting on inactivity
+ snapshots are taken periodically, not once

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=420220

Micro Lua DS by Risike allows you to launch Lua scripts on a Nintendo DS.

Changes:

This version correct the bug with exceptions. Now when an error occured it will displayed on the lower screen. Now the no$gba tester works.You can download it in the download section.

http://microlua.risike.com/

G-Alarm is an alarm clock with a special mechanism to wake you up. Before the alarm clock stops you need to guide a ball through a labyrinth.

Changes:

– [FIXED] Fade-In Bug (hopefully fixed now)
– [FIXED] When setting “Force volume” is checked, the actual volume mode (vibration, muted) is restored after alarm
– [FIXED] Playlist repeats now
– [FIXED] Device goes to normal power mode when snooze mode is activated (device is able to sleep during snooze time)
– [FIXED] Some minor bugs
– [ADDED] Option: “Show alarm over all windows” (works with S2U2, not yet with ThrottleLock (?))

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=422362

Hermes released a PC Engine emulator for the Nintendo Wii.

Release notes:

Here I am presenting an emulator of PCEngine ported from the version I made for GP2X, gp2xengine, with a few things improved:

– Supports roms in format. Pce or compressed. Bz2 (the program can compress this format, pressing a button). Zip

– Supports ISOs and a special file,. Toc which contains a description of all tracks of audio data. In other words: my emulator supports audio as well (which may be in formats. WAV or. OGG) or discs with multiple tracks of data.

– I have prepared a utility to you cree file. Toc and tracks data format. Iso formato.ogg and audio from a CD-ROM image as a CUE / BIN

– It supports up to four Wiimote and you can configure the buttons to add or autofire exchange, for example

– You can save the state complete a game and retrieve it later to continue playing. The saves are compressed to minimize space

– It can capture a frame format. Bmp and then view it from the same Wii or export it to the PC to portray a good death , A score achieved or any curiosity. When entering a rom the meter is set to 0 and go to number catches in succession.

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_emulador-wiiengine-1-0_1087551