News from the Giana’s Return team:

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Musicmaster Alexander “Op3rator” Oldemeier came up with new tune previews today. It’s pretty amazing and rockz the house. If it will happen that Giana’s Return is unplayable or crap, at least the music will save everything 😉

Alex’s extraordinary depressive chipmusic style is really a gift for the project! Thank you for your work!

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The lava world has got some tuning and looks much better than before.

Additional to the screenshots there are of course more news. The lava world is fully converted to the new set, which makes a sum of 28 complete levels. We are working on three more worlds and then we can consider this game finalized.

Unfortunatly we wont make the release at end of April, but we had neat progress almost every day of the week and hope to keep the speed.

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

Willems Soft / Joyrider Released a new version of his puzzle game blockdude. For those that don’t know yet, Blockdude is a puzzle game where you need to be able to reach the exit by moving boxes, it’s as simple as that. It is a remake of the Blockman Game from Soleau Software and the TI 83 Blockdude game by brandon sterner. There are 23 levels included. 21 Levels from the orginal blockman game and 2 levels created by me. The game has a built in level editor so you can create new levels on your own and release them as levelpacks. You can also play upto 25 of your own ogg/mod music files, there is skin support and lastly you can reconfigure your external joysticks button mappings!

Changes:

– Added support for external joysticks on the cradle
– Added an option to remap the external joystick’s button function.
– Added fusion’s powers FP_default2 skin

http://www.willemssoft.be/index.php?main=5&sub=6&action=productdetails&id=221

GP2x-TI99 is a TI-99/4 emulator for GP2x.

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/260-guid.html

For those who were not able to get the official 4.0.0 firmware from it’s official page, it has just been added to the GP2x archive.

Please note this is for F-100 models only!

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,42,2544

VNCServer2x is a simple VNC server for the GP2x.

Make sure you have network working. Then telnet and launch vncserver2x in background (“./vncserver2x &”). You can also put this in a script and return to the menu. Then start a VNC viewer to the gp2x ip address. You should see your screen on your pc. This will work on most programs (that use /dev/fb0), some programs won’t work (eg mplayer, …).

More information: http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=39351

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,8,2545

Quasis has updated his tank game “Mutant Tank Knights”, it was firstly released at the recently held PDRC #3.99 coding competition. This is the final release with DPAD-mod support and fixed bugs.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,27,2516

ZodTTD has started to work on PSX4GP2x again and released a new test version.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,2542

News from ledow:

An update to the earlier Beta 1 on my efforts to port Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection to the GP2X. This is a a set of 27 addictive logic and puzzle games. Some are old favourites (like sudoku, sliding puzzles and minesweeper) and others you may not have seen before.

This is the second beta release of the entire collection of the games, which I now call “STPPC2x”. This beta has 26 fully-working games, the only remaining one is completely unplayable on the GP2X – mines, a minesweeper clone. I’m trying to get help from Simon Tatham himself to fix this as I think it may be that the “Portable” puzzle collection isn’t as portable as you might think.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=41451&view=findpost&p=599426

KidPaddle has udpated his Breakout/Arkanoid game Blockoid.

http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?t=4881&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30

Joyrider and Willems Soft released their new game Dynamate for the GP2x.

Release notes:

Dynamate is a game originally made by Björn Kalzen and Jonas Norberg. It is a puzzle game where you have to try to remove colored pieces from the playfield by letting them collide with another specific colored piece. There are pieces that are stuck to the playfield, moveable pieces and special pieces like color changes, direction rotators, teleporters, … The game can have upto 25 of custom OGG/MOD music files, has a built in level editor, support for TV out and external usb joysticks using the cradle !

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=41442&st=0&p=599296&#entry599296