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retrohead has updated “Take the eggs! Ornithorhynchus Anatinus GO GO GO! DS.”

This is a port of the Sega Saturn game by NAXAT SOFT called Motteke Tamago with Ganbare! Kamonohashi. The game can be seen as a cross between the classic Bomberman games and Flicky.

Changes:

– Fixed the layer problem with the TV in character / world select.
– Improved 3D VRAM updates (Big thanks to DarkEz for the help).
– No more sprite flicker due to the new VRAM updates.
– New 3D Sprite system now allows for MP3 music in game. – This could not be implemented before due to the amount of flicker it caused.
– Few new SFX added courtesy of the extra RAM space available by using MP3.
– Smoother rotation on the stage select reel.
– Implemented world specific SFX.
– Added enemy to world 1. Don’t let him get you!
– Visual notification of the scores being gained / lost.
– Invisible fried egg bug should now be fixed (reports welcomed).
– World 3 is now unlocked for all to enjoy!

WiiFortune is an open-source game based on the famous Unix’ Fortune. It was re-written from scratch but uses the default database of original Fortune. Fortune is a simple program that displays a random message from a database of quotations.

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news.

Dodge the Squares coded by dan369.

Changes:

– Added GFX all by NICK^^
– Added Highscoring System
– Fixed the EBOOT (done by NICK^^ aswell)

A dodge the squares game by xXChromeXx.

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This is a simple dodge the squares game for PSP with a Metal Gear Solid twist and a new game mode called coin collect. You can choose between 2 characters Snake or Raiden. This game is coded in Lua and is run using Luaplayer HM By Homemister

Mario Paint Composer DS by BassAceGold is an adaptation of the music composer tool found in the Super Nintendo game “Mario Paint” with a few new adaptations.

Features:

– Saving and Loading of songs
– Sharp and Flat notes
– more lower ranged notes
– 4 new note types
– 4 notes per can be played at once rather then the 3 limit
– Longer songs

Pocketgamer.co.uk conducted an interview with Craig Rothwell, one of the master minds behind the upcomming Pandora console.

Please visit the link below for the interview.

The Homebrew Browser allows you to download the latest homebrew applications and games all through your Wii. You don’t need to take your SD card out. You don’t even need a computer! You can also delete homebrew you no longer want.

Changes:

– Rebuilt with latest libfat CVS to fix delete corruption bug (thanks joedj)
– Added Popular category
– Updated HBB about information

PSPHugo is a port on PSP of one latest version of Hu-Go. For those who haven’t seen previous version Hu-Go is a famous emulator of NEC PC Engine console, running on many system such as Linux and Windows. (see http://www.zeograd.com/ for details).

Changes:

– Improve global emulation speed, PC Kid is now fullspeed even at 222Mhz
(overclock parameter set to 26 and sound 22Khz mono)
– HCD file support but sound audio track are still ignored
– Cheat support !
– Memory monitoring engine to find your own cheat code !
(It is all explained in the README file on a simple example)

GrooveStep Digital Music Studio is a revolutionary ultra portable music making application for the Nintendo DS. GrooveStep features an easy to use step sequencer for pattern based music making. You can make beats, melodies and full songs with GrooveStep.

Features:

– 16 tracks with 2 sounds, 2 LFOs and ADSR envelopes for each sound.
– 16 patterns per song, with songs up to 255 patterns in length.
– Uses 16 bit standard RAW sample file format and custom “tone” format.
– Easy to use pattern editor and arranger.
– Comes with ToneGen command line tool for converting high resolution oscillators into tone files.

FreeTimeBox is a application for time displaying and time synchronization. As a evolution of FreeTimeSync, FreeTimeBox has all the functions of FreeTimeSync and fixes the bugs of it. It also can display time as the 3rd FP2 system.

FreeTimeBox needs to sign before installion. You can sign it with your dev cert. If you don’t know about cert and sign, please visit www.symbiansigned.com and follow the instructions to get FreeTimeBox Open signed.

Changes:

Add time sync through WAP
Add show seconds function
Add time format function(system, 24 hours and 12 hours)
Change the exception apps to ListType selection(black/white list)
Add list apps export and import functions
Add custom time correction
Exclude the built in uids of idle, phone and lock