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Bluescale Demo by wickeycolumbus displays all the shades of blue possible. On 29th April the source-code has been released, which is also posted just right under this news text.

Here is the source code:

.text
.globl _start

#_start:
main:
ldis r7,0x8809
ori r7,0x20
ldis r6,0xa040
sw! r6,[r7]
ldis r7,0x8807
ori r7,0x00
sw! r6,[r7]
ldis r7,0x8807
ori r7,0x04
sw! r6,[r7]
ldis r7,0x8807
ori r7,0x08
sw! r6,[r7]
ldis r6,0x8803
ori r6,0x00
ldis r7,0x0000
ori r7,0x1000
sw! r6,[r7]
ldis r7,0x8821
ori r7,0x30
ldiu! r6,3
sw! r6,[r7]
ldis r7,0x8803
ori r7,0x50
ldiu! r6,0
sw! r6,[r7]

Frame_buffer_start:
ldi r10,0x0000
ldis r8,0xa040
ori r8,0x0000
ldis r9,0xa044
ori r9,0xb000

ldi r11,0x0001
store_color:
sh r10,[r8]+,2
addc r10,r10,r11
cmp.c r8,r9
ble store_color
inf_loop:
j inf_loop

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Goomba is a Gameboy emulator for the Gameboy Advance. Beyond the advantage of being able to store many games on one cart, Goomba also includes save states and customizable borders. At least, Kuwanger’s fork does. Also available are many palettes, along with the ability to make your own. This feature has lead to the creation of a small gallery, for your viewing pleasure, see http://kuwanger.net/gallery/

Release notes:

2009-05-01 – Fix custom palette loading

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This is a port of Quake to the Wii based on the GC Quake port by Peter Mackay, ported to Wii by Eluan and enhanced by Piko.

Changes:

Gamecube controller enabled, no default bindings.
Classic controller enabled, no default bindings.
Improved controller input detection.
Configurations will be saved.
Input code clean up.
Bug fixes.

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FluBBa has released his first Nintendo DS emulator, emulating the arcade game Green Beret. It’s can be considered a “test build” right now to get feedback and improve everything.

Thanks to http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=152453 for the news.

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LiraNuna’s aging NDS 2D lessons have been updated to conform to the latest version of libnds. They should now compile and run on a modern devkitARM toolchain.

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

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Tiny Tetris SDL has been ported to Dreamcast. It’s a nice and simple version of the worlds most famous russian block game.

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Short and simple, GfxBoost activates “QTV” mode for specific surfaces. This makes for example DirectDraw display smoother and: a bit slower or significantly faster, depending on how you look at it. It also seems to have a small effect on Direct3D/OpenGL.

For HTC-built MSM7K-based devices only! All MSM7K are technically capable, but only HTC’s may have the correct drivers. Will probably not work on stock ROMs.

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SNES9x GX is a Super Nintendo emulator for the Wii based on the PC emulator SNES9x 1.51. SoftDev is responsible for the original SNES9x 1.51 GameCube port, whose work was continued by crunchy2. Wii support was added by michniewski, and SNES9x 1.51 was ported by Tantric. The project is currently being maintained by michniewski and Tantric. The GUI is powered by libwiigui.

Changes:

Improved scrollbar
Built with more stable libogc/libfat
Fixed rumble bug in filebrowser
Added confirmation prompts
Fixed settings saving glitches

Free and legal SNES roms to try out with this emulator can be found here: http://www.pdroms.de/files/supernes/

News Source: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Snes9x_GX

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SNES9x GX is a Super Nintendo emulator for the Wii based on the PC emulator SNES9x 1.51. SoftDev is responsible for the original SNES9x 1.51 GameCube port, whose work was continued by crunchy2. Wii support was added by michniewski, and SNES9x 1.51 was ported by Tantric. The project is currently being maintained by michniewski and Tantric. The GUI is powered by libwiigui.

Changes:

Improved scrollbar
Built with more stable libogc/libfat
Fixed rumble bug in filebrowser
Added confirmation prompts
Fixed settings saving glitches

Free and legal SNES roms to try out with this emulator can be found here: http://www.pdroms.de/files/supernes/

News Source: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Snes9x_GX

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FCE Ultra GX is a modified port of FCE Ultra v0.98.12. With it you can play NES games on your Wii/GameCube. The GUI is powered by libwiigui.

Changes:

Improved scrollbar
Multiple state saves now working
Built with more stable libogc/libfat
Fixed rumble bug in filebrowser
Fixed PAL sound stuttering
Added confirmation prompts
Fixed settings saving glitches

Free and legal NES roms to try with this emulator can be downloaded from here: http://www.pdroms.de/files/nes/

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