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Diablo2 Sorceress Project is a resurrected DS homebrew made by LeRodeur. The game is a Diablo 2 tribute, where you play as a sorceress that must survive an onslaught of zombies.

Release notes / Changes:

For the players:
-Added a menu after splash screens, save/load/controls.
-Npc dialogue (with sound streaming) On
-Quest-line: small and simple quests. Complete the quest-line for a special reward
-Finished way-point menu
-Fixed some display glitches
-Adjusted some skills, firewall/blaze were too powerful

Code improvements:
-Map are now loaded via nitrofs, with text files for config
-Quests can be made easily via a text file
-Sprites/images are now loaded dynamically, it’s a bit more clean
-Cleaned some ugly parts of the source code (though theres a lot to do left…)
-Fixed various bugs

Thanks to http://nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=14319&f=19 for the news.

🔗 http://gbatemp.net/topic/325885-diablo2-sorceress-project-v112/

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ZXDS is an emulator of Sinclair ZX Spectrum for Nintendo DS, written by Patrik Rak. It is steadily reaching a mature stage of development, and it already has some noteworthy features, like accurate emulation of Spectrum 48k, 128k and Pentagon models (including sound), or support for TAP/TZX/PZX tape files, TRD/SCL disk files and RZX playback files.

Changes:

* The paused time is now not counted towards the current file times.
* The sleep time is now not counted towards any times but sleep time.
* Fixed the stats date display.

🔗 http://zxds.raxoft.cz/

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Once in a while someone bothers to create a demo for the Vectrex and Where Have All The Pixels Gone? by cmucc is actually a quite good one! Vectrex forever! And guess… they even managed to add Nyancat 😉

🔗 http://capped.tv/cmu_computer_club-where_have_all_the_pixels_gone

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Dolphin Swimming In A Pitcher Of Beer is a fast demo released at The Gathering 2012.

🔗 http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=59213

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viDSnips 3 by IceDaddy is a basic media player library for playing short video clips on the NDS for libNDS based homebrew projects.

For PALib based projects viDSnips 2 is probably more suitable as it gives better audio quality and performance.

Thanks to IceDaddy himself for the news!

🔗 http://icedaddy.net/projects/nds/vidsnips-3-libnds

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ROXTerm is a terminal emulator intended to provide similar features to gnome-terminal, based on the same VTE library.

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=roxterm-9690

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XChat is an IRC chat program allowing you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=xchat-xchat-4814

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Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries by Enlight Software is a former commercial realtime strategy game. Original game data was released as GPL and can be found here.

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/files/pnd/Seven-Kingdoms-AA/previews/preview.jpg

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UAE Wii is a port of the famous Amiga emulator UAE and is based on the source code of E-UAE. The port uses SDL Wii.

Changes:

* Added dms and zip support
* Added drive sound
* (build) Compiled against libogc 1.8.9

🔗 http://wiibrew.org/wiki/UAE_Wii

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PND Manager by B-ZaR is a tool to browse online through PNDs, install and update them.

Changes:

* Bug: Updates don’t show up until next time PNDManager is started
* Threaded syncing (no stuttering when syncing)
* Faster filtering (no need to add enter-pressing)
* Move launch button to the right

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=pndmanager-bzar

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