News

Grumpy Cat is now responsible for the second “Thrust” clone on the GBA 😉 The download could be get from GBAdev.org.

Here are a few lines from the readme:

Grumpy Cat’s “Thrust” is based on the Atari ST version of “Thrust” by Alan Butcher – which is the version I played the most in the 80s. It includes the following:

+ Complete game: intro, info screens, demos, high score table (and the game itself). All 80s style.
+ All 10 missions from the Atari ST version.
+ High scores saved to battery backed RAM.
+ Antialiased sprites and tether.
+ Reverse gravity.
+ Invisible landscape.
+ All-new sound effects.
+ Original Atari ST “Thrust” theme by Rob Hubbard.

My Gameboy Advance has an Afterburner backlight and the color palette has been tuned for high contrast and good AA performance on that screen – that’s why the bullet sprites are white instead of red… red bullets were almost invisible on my screen.

Jeremy C. Smith wrote the original “Thrust” for the BBC Microcomputer. I used the status display and font from his version as I think they look better than the Atari ST version.

http://www.gbadev.org/

Some of you maybe recognized that there is a new Flash-Linker & Rom for our all beloved GBA. It seems that the flashing speed is rather fast and the whole thing is easy to use (regarding the description and product details). If you want to play all the avaliable homebrewn roms on your real GBA, this might be a way for you.

Details about the product on it’s official page, oders can be placed trough GameGizmo.com

XG-Flash Homepage
GameGizmo.com – XG Flash Order / Product Link

Lynxyx send me an e-mail regarding his “Text Input Routine” for GB. More information in italian language on his page.

http://www.officinagameboy.supereva.it/

Another game I missed is “LodeRunner” by Consolecoder. This game has been released on the 27th December 2002 and is based on… guess 😉 (This project is open source!)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ck/GBA/index.htm

“Klass of 99” is an adventure game for the GBA. This game has been released a few days ago. More information and the download could be get from the official page (link below).

http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/rjordan/klass/index.htm

After 2 months of silence the NESdev page has been updated with a few new things. Even a new NES game appeared called “Manhole”. (I was not able to get past the title screen, maybe it was an emulator problem)

http://nesdev.parodius.com/

As the one or other knows, the PHP coder of PDRoms, “Pancid” will be away for a few months. The last present for you out there is the “News Archive” script. Now you can check older news from June 2002 on.

Another CHN production… SIDPlay (GP32) is a port of SIDPlay. It let you listen to funky oldschool SID tunes on your GP32. This program has been also ported for the Dreamcast! Downloads avaliable on his page.

http://chn.roarvgm.com/

CHN updated his page with a new version of MODplay!

Author notes:

Released a new version of MODPlay for the GP32. The update includes a sleep mode and sound enhancements. You can now also use the MODPlay library for playing music and sound effects in your own, non-commercial GP32 programs.

http://chn.roarvgm.com/

Oscar BraindeaD informed me about a new release in the spanish GP32 scene. I can’t read spanish, but there are 2 new GP32 demos avaliable. You might check it out using the link below.

http://www.nylsoft.net/gp32dev/project.html