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Open BoR is a port of “Beats of Rage” and the enhanced OpenBOR for the GP2x. It’s an marvellous fighting engine with plenty of modifications available.

Changes:

New Features:
* Official OpenBOR Logo, Menu and Icons is now in place. Thank You Fightn Words!
* All new Menu for Windows/Linux/PS3/GamePark (Other platforms will be upgraded too!).
* Two Types of Window Releases (DLL linked executable and the new Single file executable).
* Previews for Mods are now available within the menu!
* Music playback for mods are now available within the menu!
* Logfile Viewer is now available within the menu!
* Auto detection for widescreen mode is now done for menu.
* Auto detection for Windowed/Fullscreen mode is now done for menu.
* Automated Build system now compiles every platform including XBOX!
* Menu now automatically boots to mod if only one mod is found. (Great for mod creators!)
* Updated Credits screen, to reflect Fightn Words contributions.

Bug Fixes:
* Bilinear & Bilinear Plus Widescreen filters are now fixed.
* Special Animation is now being checked properly (No longer a required animation).
* Engine Crash while Switching filters during mid-level now FIXED!

Known Issues:
* GP2X controls are screwed up! Need testers that provide quick feedback! Otherwise it remains broken!
* New filters still need to be implemented officially into PSP, Dreamcast, XBOX and GP2X.
* Switching filters in options does not update screen until I leave current menu (Only applies for MMX filters). Currently investigating
* Probably a whole lot more I’m not aware of….lol
Notes:
* Delete settings.sav prior to using it!!!

Pikix is a VJ Software for the GP2X. It features two layers mixing and classic VJ softwares options.

Termula2x is a UNIX terminal emulator for GP2X, including vi text editor. It supports background images.

Changes:

* Full terminal features, including the vi text editor.
* USB keyboard and GP2X F-200 touchscreen support.
* Customizable interface.

LittleGPTracker (a.k.a ‘The Piggy’) is a sample based tracker currently under development. It implements the user interface of littlesounddj, a very famous tracker for the Gameboy platform. It currently supports 8 monophonic 16Bit/44.1Khz stereo channels as well as 16 channel midi output.

Protein[DS] is a little audio manipulation software running on Nintendo DS, which ables you to manipulate audio, anywhere you go – it is in some ways similar to ElectroPlankton concept.

Using Protein[DS], you can play with up to four modules at the same time to create a live music set and control external applications, using the touchscreen, audio in/out levels, midi-out, and even motion-control. You can even play with live-recorded audio sample.

The project has evolved a lot since last release. Here’s is the “proof of concept” v080522 of now called “Protein[DS]” – in this occasion, here is a new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQCZnwNr0ms – Enjoy!

PSPCAP32 is a CPC Emulator for PSP, based upon Caprice32. This emulator faithfully imitates the CPC464, CPC664, and CPC6128 models.

Changes:

– Major speed improvements, frame rate reached 55 fps at 222Mhz
on startup and 67 fps at 266Mhz
– Fix IR keyboard issue with fw >= 3.80 for FAT PSP
– Add gzipped disk file support, reduce disk file size from 190k to 20k !
(you may gzip original dsk file using www.7-zip.org)
Of course, gzipped disk files are also browsable using disk explorer
inside the emulator, and when possible, they can be run automatically.
– Add eboot’s music
– A thumbnail image is now displayed in the file requester
while selecting any file with the same name of a previously
saved game (snapshot, disk, keyboard, settings).
It might be very helpful to recognize that game later if you
have thousand different games in your disk and snapshot folders !
– The virtual keyboard is now usable in the file requester menu to
choose the first letter of the game you search !
– In the emulator menu you can go directly to keyboard and settings
menu using the L-Trigger key.
– Fix random black screen issue
– Source code can now be compiled to build a linux version

JezzballDS, a clone of Jezzball from the Microsoft Entertainment Pack.

Changes:

* added version number on splash screen
* reduced splash screen minimum display time
* replaced the tiled font by a bigger 16c font (based on “SF Pixelate” from dafont.com)
* little code refactoring in messages

BlobbDS is a 3D Tamagotchi style game in early stages for Nintendo DS.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

OGG4iPhone got a massive update, not does it only play OGG files as before, it also plays MP3 now 🙂

Changes:

MP3 support added. ogg4iphone now plays MP3s in addition to OGG.
Playlists added. Add music to two playlists available. This feature will be worked on much more.
Stop music button added. Enjoy the silence. 🙂
Random play added in the Settings.
Volume increased 3x. Now you can hear the music too!
Tons of bugs fixed.

Thanks to ZodTTD, the author himself, for the news.

JezzballDS, a clone of Jezzball from the Microsoft Entertainment Pack.