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Picolarium is a PICO-8 game by tobiasvl. It’s a clone / demake of Polarium known from the Nintendo DS.

Changes:

* Level editor, which lets you create your own levels.
* Password system, which lets you share your custom levels with others, or import other people’s levels. The passwords are compatible with Polarium for DS, so you can probably find lots of cool levels online. (20 custom levels can be stored.)
* You can now get a hint (start and end positions) for every level in the pause menu. (@Chodot)

Astronomer is the first Atari 2600 game by Alex Pietrow. It is a simulation game of sorts that allows the player to get into the shoes of an astronomer and observe stars with the world’s largest telescope. The aim of the game is to aim the telescope beam at a star and observe it troughout the night. This is achieved by filling up an ‘observing bar’. However if the astronomer takes pictures of clouds while observing a star, the entire observation will be ruined and the astronomer will have to start over. This can make his or her life difficult as there is only a certain amount of time alocated to this one observer. Once this time is up, the game is over. Just like in real life, the observer who can do the most with their time will be considered the best, but this always will partially rest on luck. Can you get the high score?

Michael Chiaramonte goes on with his NES Programming tutorials.

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After getting the map code working, I rewrote the code to load the attributes into the memory buffer. This involved updating the asset tool to properly remap the metatiles to properly allow for attribute value lookup. In the end, we’re still running with too many cycles in NMI, but we’ll get that fixed on Thursday. Thanks for watching!

Radial Warning by Jayenkai has been released, and is available for Windows, Linux, MacOSX and Nintendo 3DS. Blast away the many enemy and fight for survival as the endless chaos ensues.

Taco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Super Famicom has more progress to show. Two items were implemented: Magnet and teleportation.

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

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Chris Abbott brings C64 music to live audiences and beyond! We chat about his work on Back In Time, Ninja Musicology and Project Hubbard! Plus, the new Amiga 1500+ with Stephen Jones.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/c64-remixer-supreme-chris-abbott-the-retro-hour-ep130

Bored? Need something to read? Maybe even free? What about the latest REV’n’GE? Issue #88 is out!

Michael Chiaramonte goes on with his NES Programming tutorials.

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Broken, fixed, and better. The map loading code was changed so that the asset tool can dump the entire map directly in to the file and then we seek into it and decrement our index vs our prior approach where it had the first screen at the beginning and then subsequent rows following. That went pretty quick and then we talked about what we would do for the next stream to get palettes and attributes working again with this new format, furthering our goal of finally getting to tile collision. Thanks for watching! See you on Monday

Brews & Homebrews takes a loot at homebrew NES/Famicom games, which are mostly available physically.

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Christmas. Star Wars. And new(ish) games for the Nintendo Entertainment System! Joe and Austin introduce unsuspecting JDUBS patrons to the grandaddy of new NES Hombrews, Battle Kid!

FPse for Android is the fastest and most compatible PSone/Playstation 1/PSX emulator for handheld devices. FPse is able to render PSone games in high resolution by using OpenGL which gives outstanding graphics!

Changes:

– Increase highly the smoothness of FPse, video Jitters no more exist! In the meantime FPse became much faster!
– Added preliminary support for native PS link cable multiplayer mode over Wifi For the list of supported games click here: http://www.fpsece.net/forum2/viewtopic.php?p=41661#p41661. A 5ghz wifi connection is recommended for the best experience
– Fixed bluetooth headset stuttering
– Fixed Long path for game files (caused some crash when scanning files if too long)
– Added shortcut support for Android 7.2 and more
– Fixed Battle Assault 2 US
– Fixed Starwars rebel assault II level 4
– Fixed Freezes on Legend of Dragoons
– Fixed the random pb with Multiplayer mode! works much better now!
– Fixed the TOP 5 reported bugs and much more fixes