Here comes Drill2x Xtreme from a french developer! This is a very polished version of Mr. Driller for the GP2x.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,1,2206

Metalbrain has updated his ZX Spectrum emulator GP2xpectrum.

Changes:

– More speed optimizations, and this time they are noticeable. 48K Sound sound be cleaner, and if it was already clean before, you may put down the speed a bit without any problems
– Now in virtual keyboard Y button will press a key and disable virtual keyboard (useful for game menus)
– Small changes to the configuration menu:
— Now the default option is Return
— Load State and Save State have been separated to decrease the chance of mistakes

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,1786

Reword is a word puzzle game for the GP2x.

Changes:

– fixed (I think) rogue letters flying off screen on shuffle
– fixed memory leak in letter sprite class destructor
– fixed pressing Y in pause mode would end game
– speeded up menus fractionally (ok Jozef?) but more to do
– changed stick+L+R exit to go to hiscore if needed

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,1867

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page.

Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2, SymbianOS/EPOC and many more…

http://scummvm.distant-earth.com/scummvm/2007/06/0100-preview-1-released.html

The team behind Gianas Return is still working on their jump and run sequel. There is no download yet, but few news which were posted today:

Lack of updates, once again!
Oh well… everyone of the team is busy. This blog is mainly updated by one person only, tho the whole team has access. This person has been on vacation recently for one full month. Maybe this explains the lack of updates 😉

Music status
Operator is back from UK and has sent us an updated version of the soundtrack.

Graphics status
Our gfx artist Jayne was busy with final papers in school, recently she had the last test and can fully concentrate on drawing again.

Gianas-Return Beta (07-06-2007)
* new gameover screen
* some joypad fix in menu

http://www.gianas-return.de/

johnnysnet released a first preview version of a remake of the classic DOS game Brix. The first 10 levels are playable, but it’s currently lacking any sound effects and music.

Thanks to EvilDragon for the news.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,2201

While staying at a house you have just inherited a very heavy storm starts. If you don’t catch enough of the drops of rain comming through the roof your house will be too damaged to repair and will have to be torn down.

http://www.heckrothindustries.co.uk/products.html

Akuma no Houkon rewrote his GPsquares from GP32 to GP2x.

The controls are simple:
On the Menu ‘X’ selects an option
In game ‘X’ + Direction captures a line. ‘Y’ Exits back to the menu.

http://gp32.indiedevs.com/GPSquares_GP2X.tar.gz

This is a port of XRally (see http://www.linuxgames.com/xrally)

You control a blue car and collect yellow flags around a maze-like map, while avoiding the red cars. The blue car can use clouds of smoke through the maze. If a enemy touch any of these clouds, it stops for a while. The enemy cars can also crash one with the other, what gives you some extra time.

This game use the X server, which is included in the file and automatically installed (if not present)

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,27,2195

Metalbrain has released a bugfix version of GP2xpectrum.

Changes:

What’s new:
– Fixed loading of .SNA files that became broken in previous version
– Small optimizations

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,1786