VisMake is a visual novel maker for the DS.

Features:
– Edit as you play
– Variable width font
– Goto action
– Page based system
– Save/Loading
– Intuitive editor

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

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4266&forum=28

Scott McFly released an update to his Blackjack game for Nintendo DS.

Changes:

* A basic stats page has been added to help you keep track of your win/draw/loss record and how many blackjack’s you’ve racked up. These reset when you return to the main menu.
* The background has now been extended over both screens, so the top screen is now no longer just black, which makes it look a lot better IMO.
* The buttons now fade-out when going to the next page to add a bit of polish to the game.
* If the player gets blackjack, the dealer will no longer take any cards (as there’s no point!) unless they’re on a 10 or an ace in which case they take one more card to check if they have blackjack too.
* General tweaks to the split card system in regards to giving you new cards and how they appear on screen.
* And finally a nice sound effect on button presses, the first piece of audio to make it into a release, hooray!

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&type=&topic_id=4279&forum=9

eAthena is an Server software for Ragnarok, an MMORPG.

Full details at the release thread.

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&type=&topic_id=4277&forum=9

Spinal brings us another movie player to the Nintendo DS.

Read on:

I have been working on a small movie player based on work by Eponasoft and nicoco73. I originally intended to make Eponasofts converter a bit quicker, but ended up changing the movie format and adding a couple of extras.

Format-wise it is similar to Eponasoft’s media format, using jpg images for the frames and uncompressed audio. It uses ffmpeg to convert the movies, so almost any format can be converted (I have already tested mpg,vob,flv(youtube) anbd a few others. You can skip back and forward using the << and >> buttons and you can seek by tapping the progress bar. Pleas not though, you may need to hold the stylus down for a short period, as a lot of the processing power is taken up by the decoding.

Anyway, I’m having a little trouble getting the timing right (you might hear a slight clicking in the audio), so if anyone wants to help, please do.

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4276&forum=28

Rainbow Sprite Wars is a 2D sprite-based shooter. The game is still in early stages.

Leave feedback here: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15038

http://www.geocities.com/theoxylo/rsw-download.html

Yes, here it is: yet another game of life for the DS but this time, it has a twist!

Controls:

Start – Opens up “draw mode” which allows you to use the touch screen for drawing
Select – While running the game it changes the display mode from the original B&W to colour mode (and back) in drawing mode it clears the screen.
A – while in drawing mode this will put down a white point on the position of the red cross-hair
D-pad – moves the cross-hair
R – Random filling
All the other buttons – decoration

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15037

Release notes from darkplastic:

Just like to say thanks for the lib and the pretty amazing docs that came with it. For my first game I just extended one of the existing demo’s quickly and made puckerDS. Includes Basic AI and dodgy goal scoring physics, but is good for a bit of quick entertainment. 😀

Source is at:

http://svn.jamesgrafton.com/pucka_ds/

Comments welcome!

(works best on supercard hardware)

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4274&forum=9

DesertDog released a remake of the PC “Fate Stay Night” visual novel game for Nintendo DS.

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4270&forum=9

Zajako released a kind of “love intro” for his girlfriend Caroline.

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

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15036

DSmaps is a map viewer for the Nintendo DS game console. It obtains images on-the-fly from the Google Maps ‘keyhole server’ using the Wi-Fi hardware that’s built into every DS. DSmaps came about when I was trying to think of a good project to learn DS programming and was inspired by the truly sublime mapping application on the iPod Touch. At its current stage of development, DSmaps is a very long way from even approaching that sort of standard, but it is definitely the benchmark.

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

http://dsmaps.wordpress.com/