GrooveStep Digital Music Studio is a full featured music making application for the Nintendo DS. GrooveStep features an easy to use step sequencer for pattern based music making. You can make beats, melodies and full songs with GrooveStep.

Changes:

1. Replaced RAW sample support with basic WAV file support (mono, 44100KHz)
2. Added pattern RESET button to Edit Tab on PopUp screen.
3. Added TEMPO edit to SONG screen.
4. Added WAV file preview ON/OFF option to Settings Screen + functionality to file select screen when selecting wav files
5. Added XYPAD LINK option in Settings to allow independent track control for the X and Y axes.

Disucssion: http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6337.0

http://www.groovestep.com/

Hyper World is a spanish RPG game currently beeing coded by Davpk. It’s using the Nitro 3D engine.

Overall the game can’t be called game yet, as it’s in too early stages. The coder is also looking for 3D and 2D graphic artists, if you think you can help out, you might give him a helping hand (or two).

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_juego-homebrew-hyper-world_1150308

chongtin released an early build of his “Puyo Puyo” clone for Nintendo DS.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6331.0

AemioDA is a single arcade game emulator of the game Asteroids coded by Alekmaul. He seems to turn into the “single arcade machine game emulator king” these days 🙂

Of course the commercial rom is not included and you need to find it on your own – do not ask the author of this emulator nor anyone on this site for it.

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

http://www.portabledev.com/pages/posts/aemioda-version-1.0610.php

nyarla has a nice gift for us today, it’s a special XMAS preview of his Drunken Coders Coding Competition entry “Snowride”. Enjoy!

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16305

Nitro Hax is a cheat tool for official games running on the Nintendo DS. It supports any Action Replay DS code type with a few important additions.

Release notes:

New release out today, version 0.92, available as usual from the NitroHax page on my website. For an extra special Christmas present (continuing the tradition), you can has sauce with your codez.

This release fixes Pokemon Diamond/Pearl, and incorporates some improvements to the cheat engine as suggested by Normmatt.

Now before anyone asks, I am releasing source now because circumstances have changed. Practically all flash cards support AR codes now, either through ripped-off engines or ones they’ve written themselves, so there’s no point keeping that secret any more. I would love to release the card reading functions too, but unfortunately I’ve been informed that they’re actually covered by a patent. This means the BootLoader won’t build completely from the supplied source, but a compiled copy is in there already.

Discussion: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=12622

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

http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/NitroHax/index.html

With Mii Lib you can use custom Mii’s in your homebrew games. Wii Mii’s will NOT work.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6323.0

DS Invaders is a “Space Invaders” remake with retro/classic graphics.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com fro the news.

http://www.dev-fr.org/index.php/topic,3991.0.html

WordDS by Frezzy is a html-based textwriter for the Nintendo DS.

Changes:

– added an error sound
– fixed the bug with the yellow keyboard boxes
– you can’t confirm an emty filename or open a file which ain’t created by WordDS
– files which are created by WordDS v0.3 or lower can’t be opened by WordDS v0.4 cuz the files which are created by WordDS v0.4 have a watermark in the html-code which prevents that non-WordDS-files can be opened

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://iiiiiifrezzyiiiiii.blogspot.com/2008/12/wordds-v04.html

XRoar is a Dragon and Tandy CoCo emulator for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, GP32, Nintendo DS and Windows32.

Features:

Emulates Dragon 32, Dragon 64, Tano Dragon, Tandy CoCo 1/2.
Emulates DragonDOS, Delta and RSDOS disk systems.
Raw and translated keyboard modes.
Reads and writes virtual cassettes (“.cas” files).
Reads audio files as cassette input.
Reads and writes DMK format virtual floppy diskettes.
Reads (and supports in-memory writing of) JVC and VDK format virtual floppy diskettes.
Custom snapshot format; no “.pak” support yet.

Changes:

Fixed WD2791/3 side compare flags for double-sided disks on CoCo.
Honours user-specified RAM size again.
Automatically determine which machine user has ROMs for.
Added -load and -run options (automatically attaches files on startup, -run attempts to autorun them).
New manual to replace the README file.
Handle more truncated CAS files.

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

http://www.6809.org.uk/dragon/xroar.shtml