I totally forgot to post news about a brandnew NES game. It’s of small size and was entered into the 4k category of the Minigame Coding Competition. The information so far:

Author: Michael MartinPlatform: NESWelcome to Galaxy Patrol! You must fly through the starfield, avoiding stars and collecting fuel so as to continue your journey. Your score is based on the amount of fuel you have spent.

http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/

News taken fromhttp://www.ps2newz.net/:

Today we are pleased to announce a brand new project currently entitled Ps2Boy Advance, the very first GBA emulator for the ps2 currently being ported by Warren. Currently frontend is being developed along and overall framework is being made.This is a port of visualboy advance with the preliminary goal to support for GBA games but and later support GB and GBC games. Will support loading ROMS from HOST0 (naplink, ps2link), Memory card/Devolution mode, CDVD or HDD(when the filesystem drivers are in place). Will save configuration and saves to Memory card initially, later on will save save games to HDD and lots more features as the project progresses. The official website and forums for ps2boy will be hosted right on ps2newz at http://ps2boy.ps2newz.net/ This is truly great news for the ps2 scene as emulation on the ps2 lives on!

http://ps2boy.ps2newz.net/

Lazy Reader is a new program by Woogal (author of Bob The Amazing Lemon) which allows you to read text files on the GP32. It’s called Lazy Reader because the author is lazy to press a button each time to display the next page so this program has a variable scrolling speed which automatically scrolls down the text file at your convienience 😉 Visit the homepage athttp://gp32.sector808.org/for more information and the downloads.

FluBBa updated his PCE emulator for the Gameboy Advance. This version fixes the SRAM bug only. No other changes are mentioned in the readme.txthttp://hem.passagen.se/flubba/gba.html

A new version of the multi-game game GPGames for GP32 has been released. If you are not familiar with GPGames it features Solitaire, Shanghai, Tetrisand Ball. Translated changes for this release are:

Solitaire– Added to sound when desocultar letters or to happen of the deck.Shanghai– New levelAll Games– Scores are recorded on the SMC. Press SELECT on the game menu to see them

Downloads can be found atGP32Emu.

That’s right, Rlyeh has actually released fSMS 😀 with tons of features, namely optimisations over the old private betas, and:

– PNG grabbing support – Scaling modes 1:1 and 1.25:1.25 for SMS / 1:1, 1.5:1.5, 2:1, 2:1.5 and 2:1666 for GG – Added lot of options: autofire, double buffering, vsync, frameskip, gamma correction, etc… – Untested multiplayer support (RF) – Fixed bugs everywhere as usual…

There’s still no PCM sound, but FM is clear overall, thanks to CHN’s sound lib. Rlyeh is now on holidays so this is the last release for a bit :)In addition to all this we have a fast filesystem manager (able to scan 1300 zips per minute), CRC32 ROM naming detection using GoodSMS and GoodGG by Cowering, plus other additions covered in the readme. Grab the file atGP32Emu!

Just got a new beta from rlyeh. Here is what he has to say:

What’s new———-Some optimizations donePNG grabbing supportScaling modes 1:1 and 1.25:1.25 for SMS / 1:1,1.5:1.5, 2:1, 2:1.5 and 2:1666 for GGAdded lot of options: autofire, double buffering,vsync, frameskip, gamma correction, etc…Untested multiplayer support (RF)Fixed bugs everywhere as usual…What’s missing for a release—————————-Just some hoursWhat’s missing for a decent emu——————————-Adding crystal FM soundAdding PCM soundFixing some minor compatibity bugsAdding SC1000, SG3000 supportKnown bugs———-Some games do not display gfx ok (Space Harrier).Some games do not run at all (Shadow Dancer).NoPCM sound yet.FM sound to be fixed (metallic sound).Following options are disabled: Pirotic’s USB Libraryfor multiplayer, saving/loading movies, cheats.

Thor released the sources of two of his games for the Neo Geo Pocket Color. If you are interested in NGPC coding you might check those sources.http://www.geocities.com/rtb7/

Seems we can count with a new version of”Little John”very soon. This lines are taken from the homepage:

WIP Release soon…. Eventually mmc5 bug for KOEI gamecorrected ! It was a really nasty bug…

http://gp32.sector808.org/btal.php

Woogal updated his”15 Day Coding Competition”entry”Bobt The Amazing Lemon”to version 0.2. This release fixes a few bugs and the levels are in order (instead of random). Get the new release from it’s page at:http://gp32.sector808.org/btal.php