Reword is a clone of a Flash game called TextTwist.
Hooka grabbed Orkie for an interview. Orkie involved in the development of Open2X.
A new version of Franxis Mame port for the GP2x has been released.
Changes:
A lot of improvements have been done by Slaanesh:
– Updated threaded sound core. Restart with each game for better reliability. No more disappearing sound for games.
– Major bug fix in FM sound, no more disappearing sound in FM based games! ie. Bobble Bobble, Black Tiger, MANY others.
– Bug fix to YM3812 sound system. Fixes for sampled instruments handling.
– Sample sound code adjusted. Should play better. Specific fixes with samples in Galaga (explosion), Star Trek, Gorf and Berzerk. Note: Star Trek requires new sample set.
– Bug fixes (memory leaks) in core MAME code: unzip, palette and other common functions.
– Bug fixes (memory leaks) in game drivers: 1943, Break Thru, Black Tiger, Commando, Sega System 8 games, Atari System 1 & 2 games (Gauntlet, Xybots, etc).
– Some debug code has been added to detect new memory leaks.
– Protection emulated in Solomon’s Key.
– Updated driver for Return of the Jedi.
– Bobble Bobble sounds didn’t sync correctly with video and audio clock at 100%. Fixed.
– Optimizations in the Sega System 8 video hardware. Games like Choplifter running significantly better now.
Thanks, Slaanesh, for all your hard work!– DrZ80 compatibility improvements. More games are now compatible: Windjammers, Tokio, Bobble Bobble, etc.
– Added Turtle Ship (turtship) (MAME 0.35b1). It has been also added to the ClrMAME DAT. 1139 romsets are now supported!.
– Tehkan World Cup can now be played with two players using USB joypads. Thx to Pepe_Faruk.
– Small bugfix in the MMUHack flush-cache calls. Thx to Notaz.
Kouky released a new version of his video artist software Pikix.
Changes:
– New version of the Kouky2x codec : version 14
(better compression rate: files are 20% to 50% smaller than with previous codec version)
– This pikix release loads .k2X files version 12, 13 and 14
– Pikix works pretty well with a USB keyborad plugged into the cradle
– new special effect : extreme contrast
– new special effect : negative colors
– new special effect : zoom
– new special effect : hue colorisation
– new function : assign in and out points for a video track
Amoebax, a free Puyo Puyo-style puzzle game, got an update.
Changes:
Today we released a new version of Amoebax, our own multi plataform Puyo-Puyo clone. Among other fixes, this new version features a new tournament mode that allows “human†player to play on the same console. When two human players are going to fight, the games changes the grid’s layout to landscape and each player controls a console “sideâ€.
Gngeo by Pepone got an update.
Changes:
– Sound support on the 2nd CPU!
– That means you can play most games Fullspeed with sound at 200MHz!
Gp2xpectrum by Metalbrain has been updated.
Changes:
– Fixed some instruction timings
– Added bus contention for IN and OUT
– Replaced the memory contention emulation using a more precise model
Greader2x, a graphical text reader, for the GP2x got an update.
The main changes in this version are the addition of an audio player, the inclusion of config routines within the program, UTF-8 support for multiple languages along with language files to translate all the prompts/menus and an improved “on the fly” wordwrapping that decreases load times and means you don’t lose your bookmark when you change config settings.
The Music Player Oldplay by Micket got an update.
VERSION 1.20
* 10 new formats supported: ADL, WLF, JBM, D00, TTA, APE, MPC, WV, MIDI, AAC
* Increased some clockfreqs since i found FLAC and other formats to be a bit to heavy
when scrolling. (Most are at 150 MHz)
* TTA (The True Audio) support with seeking and ID3v1 parsing (actually, i haven’t tested it)
* APE support with seeking and ID3/APEtag parsing. I only think newer version work though
and nothing over high compresseion rate will play (I intentionally disabled them).
* Updated AdPlug to latest version. New format supported: ADL, WLF, JBM, D00
* MIDI support. Needs the sound patches installed in oldplay/timidity/timidity.cfg
and oldplay/timidity/instruments/… (Just extract in the oldplay dir)
/mnt/sd/timidity/timidity.cfg also work.
It might take a few seconds to load midis though. (Not sure if i can reduce the wait)
* WV (Wavpack) support. No seeking or tag parsing present though. Not sure about WVC files.
* MPC (Musepack) with seeking (no tags right now, I got bored)
* Increased sample rate for libmodplug and sidplay from 22.05 KHz to 44.1 KHz, and changed sid’s to mono
* MPEG2 (and 2.5, i think) should have correct samplerate now.
* Fast accurate seeking in VBR mp3’s that has a Xing header.
VBRI headers would be supported as soon as i had one to test out (send me one if you got the FhG encoder).
* Zip’s are now listed among the directories, then comes playlists, then other files.
* Added another color to the theme, color for playlists. Updated the 2 themes i include.
* AAC-playback. No support for mp4 yet though. Support for ID3-tags
Coder_TimT released a new music player for the GP2x.
I present to you One More Music Player Client or ommpc2x. It’s a fairly full featured client for the Music Player Daemon(mpd). As such, I also present mpd for the gp2x. So, yes, this is a standalone music player solution and not just a frontend for mpd on another machine.