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Zelda: Oni Link Begins v1.5 (PS Vita Game Port)

Rinnegatamante ported the unofficial fan game Zelda: Oni Link Begins to PS Vita. You can download it via GBAtemp.

Brought down by a terrible curse since his recent victory on the Dark Lord, Link is changing, day by day, into a powerful creature with a destructive nature named Oni-Link. Bannished from Hyrule, the young Hylian asks the princess Zelda some help. She shows him his last hope: a portal to a secret world.

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Making NES games with NESmaker – Tutorial for patched versions 3.1.1 – 3.1.3 (misc)

NESmaker allows users to create cartridge based, hardware playable NES games in an intuitive, faux object oriented environment without ever having to write a single line of code.

Notes:

This tutorial is for the NESmaker beta patch, versions 3.1.1, 3.1.2, and 3.1.3. Check your version number! It also likely requires knowledge of the original 3.1.0 beta tutorials.

Shooting at monsters! Monsters shooting at you! Boss barriers! Screen triggers! A swath of fixed bugs in the engine, and a handful of fixed features of the tool!

This is a super quick run down of new things. It is meant to by synthesized with your knowledge of the first run of beta tutorials, with a quick refresher of necessary steps, if creating from scratch.

Antiyoy v1.22h (Android Game)

Antiyoy is an Android game by Yiotro. It’s a turn-based strategy with simple rules. This game is fully free of charge and has no ads!

Changes:

– Improved diplomacy
– Added ‘user levels’ section
– Improved level editor
– New campaign levels
– New game: Bleentoro
– Bug fixes

RetroArch v1.7.2 (Multiple Emus for Android)

RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight, and portable. Starting with v1.3.6, RetroArch users can download compatible freeware content, such as the shareware release of Doom, right from the app.

List of included libretro cores:

NES: FCEU, Nestopia, QuickNES
SNES: PocketSNES, SNES9x-Next
GBC: Gambatte, TGB Dual
GBA: Meteor, VBA
Genesis / Sega CD: Genesis Plus
Saturn: Yabause (Very slow!)
Playstation: PCSX-ReARMed
Atari 2600: Stella
Chip8/16: Maxe
Arcade: iMAME4all, MAME078, Final Burn Alpha
Mednafen cores: PCE-Fast, WSwan, PSX
Natives: NXEngine (Cave Story), PrBoom (Doom)

Release notes:

This should fix a bug that would cause a crash at startup on certain Android devices.

Pushover v1.1 (Android Game)

Petr Liลกka remade the great DOS / Amiga game Pushover for Android. You play as a little but strong ant and in each level you need to rearrange all dominoes so they can be toppled by single push. You will encounter 10 different dominoes and 100 levels with increasing difficulty.

The game is completely free and without any ads.

Changes:

* Fix bug when game gets very slow from level 45 on some devices