Yodajr and OMG bring us a homebrew, freeware Mario fangame for Gameboy Advance.

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=17260

POWDER is a roguelike game. It is not a port of an existing roguelike. It is built around replayability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning. It uses actual graphic tiles (16×16) rather than the traditional characters.

Changes:

* Further use of just-in-time buffers to keep the stack small when hit with a fireball. Hopefully this avoids the GBA blowing up when killed by a summoned imp’s fireball splash damage.
* [DS] The play screen is now on the bottom. This means the text history scrolls into the top screen that makes a bit more sense.
* [DS] The splashscreen is now centered on the DS display.
* Messages are properly reported again when dipping items into certain potions.
* You again receive a message saying what is revealed as a result of polymorphing an item.
* Attempting to eat a book no longer grants you the spells – you must succesfully eat the book.
* [DS] No longer weird a characters in history. (Richard Quirk, Peter Biocini)
* [DS] Removed debug messages from startup. (Richard Quirk)
* [DS] I had ctrl_isanyrawpressed backwards on the DS which meant that all the prompts would require your button to be DOWN before continuing rather than UP, thus creating accidental clicks later rather than preventing them.
* No longer spam about submerged objects getting wet when you load a game.
* “Al the large bat munch on a bat corpse.” will now properly conjugate the munch.
* [DS] You can now remap the [X] and [Y] keys from the default Verb List and Inventory commands. These commands are likewise now available for general mapping to any key. (Mark Ehlke, Peter Biocini)
* “atom’s of the victim’s” now properly “atoms of the victim’s” (David Damerell)
* Generally, dimension, pleasant, and reminiscent spelled properly in the encylopedia entries (Richard Quirk)
* Dumped the encyclopedia through a spell checker to reduce the low-hanging fruit for bug reporters.
* [DS], [SDL] On screen keyboard to enter name using stylus/mouse rather than having to use my insane input mechanism.
* [DS] [X] and [Y] work as [R] and [L] for doing text input to make it easier to chord on the DS.
* When a ring falls off your finger, there is a period to mark the end of the sentence. It also properly reports cases where it isn’t a finger that it falls off. (David Damerell)
* A successful leap attack could leave a “ghost” of yourself in the old tile which you would attack if you tried to move into.

http://www.zincland.com/powder/index.php?pagename=release

Billy Box is a Sokoban game for Gameboy Advance created by “Z Production”. There are 48 levels to beat.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16939

CrazyLapinou updated his Jump’n’Run game “Conker Advance”. The game itself is still in early stages.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12433

HVCA is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for Gameboy Advance.

Thanks to http://www.aep-emu.de for the news.

http://mc68882.s53.xrea.com/agb/

After some months of silence, FluBBa is back with a new version of MSXAdvance, an MSX emulator for Gameboy Advance.

Changes:

*Added 64kB of RAM instead of 32kB (Batman).
*Fixed initialization of horizontal position of keyboard.
*Fixed initializing of all CPU regs on reset.
*Fixed pushing and poping of AF register (BC Quest for Tires II).
*Optimised some of the SBC instructions.
*Optimised DAA opcode.
*Optimised one of the SRA opcodes.
*Optimised tile rendering.

http://www.ndsretro.com/index.html

LOCKJAW is a tetromino stacking game that lets you set the rules. It’s a free software implementation of the Soviet Mind Game, a highly popular computer puzzle game that involves guiding tetrominoes into a well. (That is, LOCKJAW is to Tetris as GNU is to UNIX.) It includes over 20 options for making variations to the game rules, as well as “gimmicks” for practicing specific skill areas. It is known to run on PC, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS.

http://www.pineight.com/lj/index.html

The Snowman is a new release from Foxy – due to lack of french knowledge and refusal of releasing rubbish Bablefish translation, you can get more information in original language at it’s release thread.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16395

James Monkman aka Heavy Stylus, editor and owner of RGCD.co.uk – has added one more GBA homebrew in real cartridge form to his shop. Everything is sold on a non commercial, non profit base.

Here are the news:

Paradise Games and RGCD Present the Christmas Double Pack!
29th November 2007 by James Monkman

Paradise Games and RGCD have teamed to present you with a seasonal GBA special; our Christmas Double Pack!

For the last couple of years, Ian and the rest of the Paradise team have entered the Christmas game development competition hosted by www.drunkencoders.com, winning the competition in 2005, and being unfairly placed at a considerably lower position in 2006. After playing their games extensively I had a brainwave; perhaps Paradise Games would be interested in working with RGCD to create some sort of Christmas-themed compilation for our readers? A few emails later and the Paradise/RGCD Christmas Double Pack GBA cart was born.

So what do you get for the bargain UK POUNDS 5.50 price tag? Limited to 50 copies, the double-pack (which is a deliberately erroneous title as the cart actually includes a third hidden game..!) contains both Santa’s Chimney Challenge and Santa’s Skidoo Scarper; arguably the best Christmas themed releases to grace the GBA platform. Visit the Shop and buy your copy today!

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http://www.rgcd.co.uk/news/2007/11/29/

POWDER is a roguelike game. It is not a port of an existing roguelike. It is built around replayability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning. It uses actual graphic tiles (16×16) rather than the traditional characters.

Changes:

When you are prompted to cast a spell you cam hit [SELECT] or [i] or [?] to get help on that spell. (Arthur Littlefield)
Eating a book temporarily grants you the spells/skills in the book. (Fancy Carrot)
Gold Beetles are now hostile if you are wearing anything they want.
If timed unchanging expires the same turn as stoning takes effect, there is no longer the risk that the unchanging will expire first and thus turn you to stone. (Yes, this happened to me.)
All creatures will now eat if they are not full, not just special ones like gelatinous cubes.
Hungry creatures will pick up food that they can eat.
RNG seed saved to hiscore table so starting games on the GBA should become more varied.
Torches and flamingswords are extinguished by dropping into water.
More consistent behaviour of lava/greekfire/acid/water with item interaction.
New spells: Wizard’s Eye, Possess.
Artifact armour that has a melee attack will now allow you to attack appropriately on occasion. Ie, a head butt, punch, or kick with the helmet, ring, or boots. Improvised Weapons skill will greatly increase the chance of this happening.
One more room.

http://www.zincland.com/powder/index.php?pagename=release