News

NES.app emulates the hardware in a Nintendo entertainment system, allowing you to play games on your iPhone. There are many public domain, home-brew games available which have been written for the Nintendo platform, and depending on your country of origin, you may be entitled to play images of commercial games which you rightfully own.

Changes:

Updated for 1.1.3 (runs under ‘mobile’ user)
Everything is now under /var/mobile

Chris Miles released his awaited game iCrosswords for the iPhone community out there.

Release notes:

iCrossword is a native crossword puzzle client for the iPhone

– loads the puz file format popular with online crossword puzzles such as New York Times newspaper
– double tap navigation bar to get to options screen. There you can get info about current puzzle and perform operations on it
– add new .puz files into /var/root/Library/iCrossword/puz
– thanks armadillo for the icon

Notes:
– this has only been personally tested on 1.1.2
– I’ve tried a number of puz files and they seem to work. Cannot guarantee that you’ll be able to read EVERY one
– Only tested using English language
– use at your own risk

Red Squirrel released a new version of his Firmware Dumper. This one should fix all copyright related issues.

Skinz Sudoku is a Sudoku game which combines good looks and ease of use.

Changes:

– No more invalid grids generated

Pocket Finance Diary is a simple financial manager for tracking expenses.

Using Pocket Finance Diary you will have more income available, and you will perform your expenses in a more efficient manner.

Here are some news about an upcomming release/update of OpenTTD from Zod (Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe):

OpenTTD.app: This project will receive support for control and shift key input in an upcoming update. ETA: 1 week

Here are some news about an upcomming release of PSX4iPhone from Zod:

– psx4iphone: This project is being worked on as you read this, though it’s a long process. It’s basically being rewritten from scratch by Hlide and I. It will introduce some unique techniques for squeezing extra performance out of the dynamic recompiler and emulation of devices such as the GPU, SPU, and CDROM interrupts. ETA: 2+ weeks

Here are some news about an upcomming release of gpSPhone from Zod:

– gpSPhone: This project will soon receive a large update that will include both landscape and portrait mode! ETA: 1 week

SNES4iPhone is already a huge success, even before its public release!

Here’s a video of snes4iphone beta v0.4.1 submitted by atticus of the ZodTTD.com forums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJSvzyInHI

SNES4iPhone is being worked on more as we speak. Performance will increase, the tricky part will be to maintain or improve compatibility. In v0.4.1 the addition of landscape mode is included and the GUI has been replaced with a more familiar look.

The ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) for the public version of SNES4iPhone is about a week or less.

Caissa is a native chess game for Apple’s iPhone. The author is already about to work on the next release. Please donate him if you like his work.

Changes:

Board/pieces preview in the preference window #79
Chessboard coordinate letters added #100
bug fixes #101