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Battojutsu is a PICO-8 game by hierronacho. It’s a quick game inspired by Samurai Kirby. Draw your sword faster than your opponents! Push X when you see the “!” icon to attack.

Changes:

* Local 2 Players mode added
* Fault State added: player loses a hit point if he presses the attack button before the signal
* Tie State: is now possible that both players attack at the same frame. When this occur, no one loses life.
* Initial life and HP recovery: Player’s life been reduced from 5HP to 3HP on single player mode. However, player will gain 1HP for each two battles won, for a maximum of 6HP
* Now running of 60FPS for getting faster inputs
* General bugfixing and code optimization (or at least tried)

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.

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The Assembly Line is a NES homebrew podcast started by Sole Goose Productions and Kevin. They cover a variety of theoretical topics, feature a central game under review, have guest interviews with folks, and also showcase some music.

Quote:

Episode 7: Spook-o’-tron!

https://soundcloud.com/user-463768680/e07-spook-o-tron

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

This week:

This week we’re moving out of our parent’s house at age 17 to play some N64 shooters. SquareEnix has disappointed fans again with another port of a SNES RPG, and someone found a way to make Q*Bert freak out. We wish the PS2 a happy birthday, and warn against contacting ET’s. We’ve got burning hot Pac Man lamps and new controllers for old systems in this episode of the Retro League.

In this fourth episode of NES Programming Michael Chiaramonte explains the difference between NMI and V-BLANK.

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qgit is a graphical user interface viewer for GIT repos. With qgit you will be able to browse revisions history, view patch content and changed files, graphically following different development branches.

Viewnior is a fast and simple image viewer for GNU/Linux by Siyan Panayotov. It supports animated .gif’s in fullscreen on your Pandora and many other formats.

SDLLopan is a classic remake of Linux Lopan (a Mahjong clone) by Dave Ashley. nop90 invested couple of days to get this ported to the Nintendo Switch. Like other Mahjongg games, you try to remove all the pieces. To remove pieces you must select a pair of pieces with the same drawing.

cpasjuste updated his port of pFBA (portable Final Burn Alpha) for the Nintendo Switch. FB Alpha is an Arcade and Console emulator.

Changes:

* PFBA: some ui adjustment
* PFBA: fix 4/3 aspect ratio
* NX: add audio (not perfect, but mostly ok)
* NX: many fixes and improvements
* PSP2: lot of ui changes
* PSP2: fixed shaders (was not properly scaling, linear filter and sharp+scan shader is now perfect)
* PSP2: many, many changes…

Trolli Pinball is a pinball game with cult potential, allowing users in search of more than a classic pinball machine to enjoy themselves to the fullest. Level one’s Halloween World sees the introduction of the “Glotzer,” (Pop Eye) a horrifying fruit gum which – in place of a regular pinball – floats through a seemingly infinite area full of exciting detail and spectacular effects. Gathering enough “Dracula-Zähne, (Dracula teeth) “Fledermäuse,” (Bats) “Trolli-Burger” or “Saure Glühwürmchen” (Sour Glowworms) will help to ring the Trolli alarm and reach new high scores at breakneck speed. A game of gruesome fun leaving users hungry for more!

Changes:

* Enjoy our new level: MiniBurger!