Unity was originally invented in Japan 1985 as “Chain Shot!” by Kuniaki Moribe. After that it has spread all over the world with names such as SameGame, TumeGame, KomeGame, MameGame, DebaGame, TileFall, Cabeem, MaciGame, GD-BMD etc.

The idea is to clear the whole playing area by removing tiles in groups. The more tiles you remove at the same time, the more points you get.

http://jouni.miettunen.googlepages.com/unity

Imagine someone giving you an audio blogcast talking about homebrew releases – your wish has become true!

Homebrewcast is just doing this!

Episode 8 has the following topics:

– PSP Homebrew
– KDE4 Mobile
– MyWindows 1.XX.01.2
– Homebrew Commando Suicide 2
– iLife PSP 1.0
– Lonpos
– NDS Homebrew
– TouhouDS 1.5
– Xsystem 0.1
– CellsDS
– Bunjalloo 0.7
– Mario Paint Composer DS: Goomba Release

http://homebrewcast.net/?p=52

KnightFox released an alpha version of his minigame collection Puzzlemania.

http://blogs.gamefilia.com/knightfox/01-10-2008/13735/codename-puzzlemania-alpha-completada-del-3er-puzzle

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

Changes:

– Fixed copy protection in “Metal Slug 2” (SNK logo in VRAM).
– Fixed control problem in “Rockman Battle & Fighters” (MIRR opcode).
– Fixed background glitch in “Memories of Pure” (HCount register).
– Fixed problems with DMA probably affecting many games.

http://www.ndsretro.com/

Genesis4iPhone, a Sega Genesis (MegaDrive) and Sega CD emulator for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch has been released to the public.

Changes:

– A port of Notaz’s continued support of PicoDrive.
– New interface/GUI similar to mame4iphone.
– Sound has been heavily improved! To enable sound, goto – Now Playing and turn up the volume slider before entering a game.
– Save state support is now working.
– Supports zipped ROMs, and they happen to load much faster than unzipped ROMs…still!
– Sega CD support is implemented though currently untested by me.

http://www.zodttd.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4343

Soulless released a Maze game for PlayStation Portable

Release notes:

Its been a while since I have posted here, but I was going through some of my old Lua code, to try and find a project I was working on eariler on in the year, and stumbled accross my Lua-Slyder game I was toying with, so I thought i’d post a demo of this, is not anything fan-tas-tic but it was a bit of fun.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=144933

A binary of the BATARI Basic sample game Zombie Chase.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=132344

pyGSync – Synchronize google calendars with your phone.

Release notes:

removed an ugly workaround that was there since the old python didnt read calendar entries as should but they fixed it in newer release.

http://code.google.com/p/pygsync/

PyS60 (Nokia Series 60) music player for old module formats such as mod, xm, s3m, it and sid.

http://code.google.com/p/pymuz/

“Trojan LCD Simulator ” is a LCD Simulator of “Trojan Horse” (Gakken) for Nintendo’s Wii.

Changes:

– Added support for WIImote.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Trojan_Wii