xRick, an open source Rick Dangerous remake, has been ported to the PSP. Read on here:http://emuholic.emuboards.com/…

Anders Granlund ported the Linux Rick Dangerous clone”xRick”over to the Gamecube! Get the file from his page or at the PDRoms Gamecube/Game section. Thanks to Anders himself for the news!http://w1.243.telia.com/~u24315537/

Some of you might remember the port of XRick (Rick Dangerous Clone) to the GamePark 32 by Anders Granlund. Now Andreas Gustafsson had a look at the sources, and added savestate possibility to the SMC and there are level passwords now. If you used to play Anders’ port, be sure to get the updated one by Andreas, you can’t be wrong.http://www.lysator.liu.se/~sdw/other.html

Switchblade was a game originally developed by Core Design (Tomb Raider, Rick Dangerous, Wolfchild, etc), and published by Gremlin Interactive (Top Gear, Body Harvest, Zool). Piko Interactive, who owns the IP now, brought up a Kickstarter to get funding for the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis release. 45 US$ and a copy is yours!

Switchblade Game Backstory:

On the cyber world of Thraxx, Havok has returned. After 10.000 years of peace, the Fireblade, source of power for the ancient Bladeknights, has shattered.

The night burned red, and the people of the Undercity fell beneath the onslaught of Havok’s nightmare creations. Helpless, the Bladeknights died alongside their people. Only one of their order survived.

You play Hiro, the last of the Bladeknights, a hi-tech warrior armed with stealth, cunning and a powerful re-programmable cyber-arm. You must enter the Undercity and reassemble the sixteen fragments of the shattered Fireblade. Only then will you be able to take on Havok and average the death of your people.

Oh… and there will be Switchblade action figures too!

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

Content:

We get the story on Bubba N Stix, Rick Dangerous and many more from Simon Phipps of Core Design and Gremlin Graphics!

http://www.theretrohour.com/core-design-gremlin-graphics-with-simon-phipps-the-retro-hour-ep48/

DCEric made a few more videos of games being compatible with the Dreamcast SD-Card Adapter. It’s a wonderful time saver for owners of such a card – Don’t look around on your own, don’t waste time on what is compatible, just keep track of DCEric’s YouTube Channel!

New SD-Adapter compatible games recorded:

* Tunnel
* PIXPANG
* SDL Fighter
* Paratrooper
* Smash DC
* Sqrzx 2
* Catz N’ Dogz
* DC Blast
* Crack Attack
* Rick Dangerous (xRick)
* Brkout
* CarsDC
* Trampalien Gunmen DC
* Shuffle
* Warlord
* Tux and Barrels
* Circus Linux
* Digimine
* Dynamate
* Grande
* Rocket Racer (BETA)

http://www.youtube.com/user/DCeric

Here is a new release of this StyxDS, an Atari ST emulator for the Nintendo DS.

What’s new ?
In one word : quicker ! (but not yet realtime)
– Auto-frameskip (max 5)
– New screen handling (next version will be ARM asm based)
– Mouse in touchpad mode is quicker.

Which games are really playable ?
Rick Dangerous I & II, Xenon 2, Speedball and many other Atari ST great games.

How to use it ?
Copy bios and disks in the /roms/st.
Bios file (tos102fr.img or other bios) have to to be renamed to tos.bin
Disks have to be in the .st format

http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,3942.0.html

The secret has been uncovered now – Magic Team is working on a remake of Rick Dangerous 2.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6157

Tyrell did another update of his Spectrum emulator for the GP32. Here are the changes:

– Version v0.2 is released!What’s new:- Added AY-3-8910 sound ! Sound is very clean in some games. Try”head over heels”128k version,”Rick Dangerous 2″,”Tetris2″… However, in other games (especially in the menus) AY sound is not that good, there’s some background noise. But all in all, I think it’s a welcomed feature, evenif it’s not 100% perfect.- Enhanced Beeper sound. Now, it’s a little bit clearer than before, and few or no background noise can be heard.- Enhanced the virtual keyboard and added the space key (the ‘*’ on the virtual keyboard). Now, press”B”button to select the key and the”A”button to quit without pressing a key.- Options screen: when pressing the”B”key, options are not saved but they are taken into account (was not the case before).

http://www.speccyal.be/

Tanglewood by Big Evil Corporation is making progress! Don’t miss the development news via their Facebook page.

Set in the realm of Tanglewood, the game follows a young creature, Nymn, separated from the pack after the sun sets. Unable to get back to the safety of the family’s underground home, Nymn must find a way to survive the night terrors and get to morning. Tanglewood’s world is a dangerous one after dark; guiding Nymn you must use your skills of evasion, traps and trickery to defeat predators.