I allready posted about the new webboard yesterday. Now I want to go into detail. The sections are:

Announcements
PD Roms – News regarding planned things or new additions
New FREEWARE Console Releases – Got a new version of your game/demo/application? If so you are right here (No registration for that part needed. Please don’t misuse this, otherwise we’ve to disable Guest posting)

PD Roms – Talk, Talk, Talk 🙂
Freeware ROM Talk – Talk about Freeware ROMS (old and new stuff) here
Development Talk – How? Why? What? Questions over questions, maybe you getan answer here
Console Hardware Talk – Hardware Add Ons, MOD-Chips&Co
Off Topic Talk – Everything which does not fit above

Requests
Freeware ROM / (DISK) IMAGE requests – You are looking for a FREEWARE computer/console production? Ask here and we’ll try to help you out! (REMEMBER ONLY FREEWARE allowed, if you are not sure about the status of the production you request better let it, any commercial production request will end into a ban)

So far this is all. Moderators besides me and my cousin Nabeel are: Guyfawkes/GBAemu & fr4nz/Spoutnick Team. I hope the one or other will sign up and discuss with us. So far there are allready 17 registered users.

A thanks to following people helping me setting up the board: Guyfawkes, and Space Commander/Bytegeiz

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/index.php

Lynx sent me a simple tech demo for GBA which displays a “Zero Wings” logo. You can press left/right and it will move into that direction. If you press the same direction again it will get faster etc…

The demo has been uploaded to the PDRoms archive. Download it from the GBA/Demo section.

Gameboy Advance
FPocketNES v8U9 by FluBBa

Game Park 32
Sarien (GP32) v0.3 by Anders Granlund
InfoNES (GP32) v1.0 by Anders Granlund

Anders Granlund released a port of InfoNES yesterday. Download from his page.

http://w1.243.telia.com/~u24315537/

Anders Granlund updated his Sarien port again! More information on his page.

[2003-01-14] version 0.3 – Fixed save/load bug

http://w1.243.telia.com/~u24315537/

Flubba released another unofficial version of PocketNES yesterday. The changes in this version:

v8U9 (FluBBa)
Fixed sprites to background priority.
Fixed sprites animation with CHR switching (SMB3).
Also fixed PAL timing IRQ for mapper 69 (Mr. Gimmick).
Added mapper 93 (Fantazy Zone (J))
Added mapper 105 (Nintendo World Championship (U)) remember to disable CPU hack (for”Rad Racer”).
Added mapper 180 (Crazy Climber (J), no controller yet though).

http://hem.passagen.se/flubba/pocketnes.html

I thought it’s time for a Forum/Webboard… and here we go!

Hopefully it will be usefull for the one or other! This board is about Freeware Rom & Development Talk only. Commercial rom requests and commercial game talk is strictly forbidden.

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/index.php

A new version of “GB on GBA” appeared yesterday. GBonGBA is a Gameboy Emulator for Gameboy Advance.

Changes:

12/01/2003 :GB on GBA is not so dead!! – Speed up a bit (say 15% faster now)

GBonGBA 0.4.
– Fixed Sound Channel 4, it now plays waveram banks.
– Added a cpu trace mode in option menu. So options are: To enter menu : LS + RS to switch Trace on/off : ATo switch sound on/off : BTo exit menu : RS

http://mapage.noos.fr/gbongba/

Gameboy Advance
Blocks (FIX) by SatanicFreak
FPocketNES v8U8 by FluBBa
Gorillas Advanced v2.1 by Benjamin Stark
LodeRunner v0.1 by Consolecoder
Merry Christmas by Parallax Sisters
Thrust by Grumpy Cat
Xmas Demo by Mr Mister
Zelda Demo by Dark Cloud

Neo Geo Pocket Color
SODChess v1.1.0 by Thor

Game Park 32
gpSCUMM (5 Jan 2003)(3c)by ph0x
MODPlay v0.20b by CHN
Sarien (GP32) v0.1 by Anders Granlund
SIDPlay (GP32) v0.01b by CHN
snes9xgp v0.72a by Snes9xGP Team
xRick (GP32) by Anders Granlund

Playstation 2
Happy New Year 2003 by NoRecess
Stench by Tyranid
New Year by adresd

Gameboy Color
FGB by Plasma Works
Tom Atom by Tomas Rychnovsky

Nintendo 8-Bit (NES)
Manhole by KZ-S

Flubba released another new unofficial version of PocketNES.

Changes are:

Added ROM mapping to $6000 (Mr. Gimmick)
Fixed”Low G Man”Fixed scaled sprites a bit.

http://hem.passagen.se/flubba/pocketnes.html