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jEnesisDS is a Genesis/Megadrive emulator for the Nintendo DS.

Author release notes:

As promised, here is the updated version with the newer cpu core. I decided to split the HW and SW renderer versions, because it makes my life a bit easier…

The SW renderer version is included as a separate binary in this release and features 2 different scaling types: “Jitter” might look better for action games, “Blend” mostly makes text more readable.

There is also a new option in the HW renderer: Force Update

If enabled, it reduces the chance of tile corruptions, but can also lead to massive slowdowns, if a game updates more tiles than the DS can handle in rapid succession. So “off” is basically faster. You can however switch to “on” temporarily, if the tiles got corrupted to force a one-time update (Viewpoint).

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68175&page=4

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2, SymbianOS/EPOC and many more…

Changes for the NDS version:

– Changed word completion keyboard to get the word list from the pred.dic main dictionary instead of the game dictionary
– Fixed several key repeat bugs
– Improved control system in Goblins 3
– Added icons for build D – F
– Added snap to borders option to make it easier to get the mouse cursor to the edges of the screen.

http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=4209

Lameboy is a Gamboy and Gameboy Color emulator for the Nintendo DS.

Changes:

* fixed: joypad register emulation (fixes Wario Blast)
* fixed: GBC hdma (fixes Pokemon Crystal graphics)
* fixed: interrupt flags emulation (fixes Bouble Bobble)
* fixed: V-blank interrupt timing (fixes Altered Space)
* fixed: split window emulation (fixes Donkey Kong graphics)
* fixed: GB timer initialization (fixes Pokemon Pinball)
* added: fake serial interrupts (fixes many early games)
* added: RTC emulation
* added: pseudo bilinear upscaling mode

http://lameboy.ath.cx/?p=16

Spider Solitaire is a One-player card game that has gained popularity since being included as a default game on the Windows Operating System. The basic idea of the game is to get piles of cards from K to A of the same suit. There are 104 cards with the possibility of playing with either 1 suit, 2 suits, or 4 suits.

Changes:

– Fixed M3 compatibility bug; Pressing Hint when no possible moves would freeze the game
– Fixed bug where if there were only one card on a pile and Hint were pressed it would freeze the game

http://jt0.org/projects/spidersolitaire

Happy Halloween, formerly known as Halloween Havoc, for Atari 2600 has been updated.

Changes:

Fixed the shortcuts.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=108451&st=25

Gngeo2x is a NeoGeo Emulator for the GP2x, with assembler Z80 core and graphics dumper. It runs most games fullspeed with sound and features save states! This is the developmental build of the emulator and therefor may be unstable.

The dual CPU bug should be fixed in this version.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,2182

News from nickspoon. Mister Block v0.2 is out!

Mister Block has lost all his favourite blue blocks! Help him find them by navigating various levels, each dotted with traps and pitfalls. Information on playing the game and creating levels (it’s easy, try it) is in readme.txt. A level editor is now included with Mister Block! Details on using it are in readme.txt

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,27,2231

This is a Breakout game by birslip with an ASCII Plasma effect in tthe top screen. The “game” was unplayable in Dualis.

http://www.dev-fr.org/index.php?topic=540.15

Videlectrix Secret Collect is game for you collect secrets from all over the globe. Featuring a Strong Bad! It have all kind of futuristic maze for you to run around in.

http://www.mrphlip.com/ds/secret/

Brunni has updated his coding library for the Nintendo DS. Download is directly available here: http://brunni.dev-fr.org/dl/nds/uLibrary.rar

More information is available in french language at it’s release thread.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6239&page=4