ZX-81 released a new version of GP2x-Thom.

Changes:

– Load and save state !
– Speed improvements
– Display and save thumbnail images for each save state
– Auto-fire mode, press RTrigger+X to switch it on/off
– RTrigger/LTrigger keys can be used in the keyboard settings menu to navigate between Normal, LTrigger and RTrigger compose mapping.
– Add several hotkeys :
. settings such as fps, auto fire speed can now be directly modified inside the emulator (no need to enter in the settings menu)
. quick save / quick load current state (no need to enter in the main menu)
– Default Hotkeys can now be set in the keyboard mapping menu (useful to add hotkeys on existing/previous keyboard files)
– Option to prevent the blue led to be displayed when L or R are pressed

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=41409&st=0&p=598722&#entry598722

The entries of the GLBasic.com and GP2x.de Coding Competition are now online and can be downloaded. Overall, there are 15 entries in the competition.

http://www.glbasic.com/main.php?site=games-gp2x-compo

Pickle and Hitnrun released their port of DOSBox for the GP2x.

Features:

– Change for a high compabiltity with many games, no more crashes
– Touchscreen support (in game mouse suppport)
– Zoom feature (zoom in high resolution games showing the zoom in section at the native resolution)
– OSD feature: see the cycles, frameskip, fps, and game exe name on screen
– Fullscreen option: scale resolutions smaller than 320×240 to fit the screen (a must for touchscreen users)
– No more SDL cursor
– Profiled the code for a possible 20% increase in speed
– And all the options you would expect from the previous releases

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=41400&st=0&p=598571&#entry598571

Franxis and team updated their MAME port for GP2x. MAME is a “multiple arcade machine emulator”.

Changes:

Changes by Headoverheels:
– New Gaelco games added (MAME 0.37b7): Big Karnak (bigkarnk) and Biomechanical Toy (biomtoy).
– New SunA 8 bit games added (MAME 0.37b15): Hard Head (hardhead), Hard Head (Bootleg) (hardhedb) and Rough Ranger (rranger).
– Optimizations in Xain’d Sleena.
– Fixed the NEC cpu bug that caused slowdowns in Raiden (MAME 0.37b15).
– Fixed some bugs in the I86/NEC cpu emulation. This includes raster effects problems in Geostorm and the 99 credits bug in Lethal Thunder (MAME 0.66).

Changes by Franxis:
– Cheats support added.
– Auto-fire support. Thanks to the code by AGAWA Koji.
– Jackal has been corrected.

Changes by Slaanesh:
– Optimizations in Commando (now it uses tilemaps).

http://www.talfi.net/gp32_franxis/

fMSX is a famous emulator of the MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ 8bit home computers. It runs MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ software on many different platforms including Windows and Unix.

It has been first written by Marat Fayzullin, and later Vincent van Dam ported it on SDL.

GP2X-MSX is a port on GP2X of the version 2.7.0.40 of fMSX-SDL from Vincent van Dam that ZX-81 had previously ported to PSP.

This version fix game compatibility issue (all games that required painter.rom cartridge)

Changes:

– Speed improvements in CPU and sound emulation
– Add missing keys such as HOME, GRAPH, STOP
– Add option to increase emulated sound volume (different from gp2x volume)
– Auto-fire mode, press RTrigger+X to switch it on/off (useful for games such as 1942)
– RTrigger/LTrigger keys can be used in the keyboard settings menu to navigate between Normal, LTrigger and RTrigger compose mapping.
– Add several new hotkeys :
. settings such as fps, render mode, auto fire speed can now be directly modified inside the emulator (no need to enter in the settings menu)
. quick save / quick load current state (no need to enter in the main menu)
– Default Hotkeys can now be set in the keyboard mapping menu (useful to add hotkeys on existing/previous keyboard files)

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/299-guid.html

This is an extension to the previous touchscreen tests, besides the previous test accessing the hardware directly, now includes a test using SDL only. Also tests for various resolutions.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,46,2533

KidPaddle, author of Blockoid, a brakout style game, posted some work in progress news.

One of the following changes might await us in the next release:

– New graphics by JohnDavidson
– Simple Skin System
– Save and Autoload of config file on start
– Level editor with test function

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

STPPC2x is a GP2X port of Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection, a set of 27 addictive logic and puzzle games.

This beta has 21 fully-working games, the rest are in various states but only two are completely unplayable on the GP2X – Mines and Pegs.

Feedback is appreciated (especially from F-200 and USB mouse users) and full source code is available from Ledow’s website.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,2532

Notaz has continued ZodTTD’s and Exophase’s work and presents an updated version of gpSP for GP2x.

Release notes:

The second public release of a GameBoy Advance emulator. Thanks to tweaks and dynarec it can run A LOT of games fullspeed with sound!

Small fixes by notaz to prevent the evil crashing and increasing speed 🙂

Over 400 legal GBA homebrew games can be found here: //files/gameboyadvance/

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,2114

Zikitrake released a new game for GP2x called “Go Bear Go”.

Thanks to http://www.gp32spain.com for the news.

http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/ficha.php?id=16