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Waterskier v0.5 (A2600 Game)

Fort Apocalypse has posted an update to his homebrew game “Waterskier”.

Release notes:

bug in after 3 dies fixed (wasn’t calling return enough). life counter used when hit enemy (which makes it a little too hard to fall for now).

Shark minigame added (try to fall to see it- if you survive you ski again).

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Wii hacked? (Wii misc)

It seems some group of coders were able to hack the Wii and run native code on it, thanks to MK2k for the video. Unfortunatly he did not mention any source along with this.

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wxWidgets v2.8.7 (Stable) (GP2x misc)

wxWidgets is a cross-platform GUI toolkit under LGPL, which is used by more and more applications. This build is based upon Orkie’s X server and X11 libraries by ParkyDr. Both are required if you want your GUI to appear.

Still to be tested, please don’t shout if it doesn’t do what you expected

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Drunken Coders XMAS Competition Deadline Approaches (NDS misc)

Here news directly from the Drunken Coders page:

Only 5 days (give or take) remain to get your game polished and entered. Even if you don’t think your demo has a shot don’t be shy, at worst you will receive some honest feedback and have a better idea on how to approach future competitions.

Thanks to Scott’s recent $100 donation the stakes for the Christmas Compo have risen to nearly $600 in cash prizes.

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Nethack DS v1.13a (NDS Game Port)

The goal of this project is to create a port of NetHack for the DS utilizing the unique features of the DS to create an easy-to-use NetHacking experience.

Release notes from Abcd1234:

Bah, left some debugging code in the previous release by accident, which prevented NHDS from powering off after a save. This is fixed.

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Looking for NDS coder (NDS misc)

We’ve found this quote below on the PAlib page. Unfortunatly the guy doesn’t say if it’s paid or unpaid work, but you might still want to help out.

Quote:

I am looking for a programmer for a 2D ds game. Programmer must fit the following:

-Be able to program engine and be able to implement animatons quickly.
-Be able to put in music and sprites that I provide.
-Be able to work with particle effects.

Thank you. I REALLY NEED a programmer!

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Opentyrian2x v0.3 (GP2x Game)

OpenTyrian is a port of the classic DOS game Tyrian to C using SDL, so it can run cross-platform without DOSBox. (Descriptin taken from http://code.google.com/p/opentyrian/ )

Changes:

* Non-fullscreen mode is now centered. See Title -> Opentyrian menu.
* ARM assembler sound mixer. Nice speed up, Pentium detail level is fully playable! Code is thanks to sweetlilmre and his efforts porting Tyrian to the Gizmondo.
* Improved controls within menus. No longer uncontrollably fast!
* Improved controls for accessing PAUSE and IN-GAME SETUP.
* GP2X specific readme-gp2x.txt providing instructions and setup.
* Redefinable fire keys. See Options -> Joystick menu.

This release is a full package! No additional files are required.

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