After four years of staying on top, it's the first time for the Wii to experience a sales decline. Satoru Iwata owns up to the issue, but remains optimistic about Nintendo bouncing back into the game. Much of that is apparent as early as now - Nintendo is steadily adding more games into WiiWare and Virtual Console, grabbing more big Wiixclusives, unleashing the Black Wii, and even introduces a new king-sized DSi.

by Glenn M.

Now this is gamer love. A dad builds his daughter, Bella, her very own arcade machine and put it in her room, complete with 250 arcade classics and comes in flaming hot pink. News is a little old, but I figured I'd share it with you guys. Details, screens, and a video in the full article.

Lookie here, it's another shoot -'em up! Actually, 1942 was one of my favorites when I was little. Especially when I get to the part where I get those little planes on my side to add some firepower as well as fodder just in case someone tries to ram me. Copper has just updated this cool game for the Nintendo DS, and the changelog is inside. Click.


Download: DS1942 v1.1

This one, I like. I remember playing this game for hours at a time in the NES days when I was little. I used to love it when I get my ammo upgrades plus those two little planes that help you out once you get the bonus. Gaming nostalgia at its finest, all thanks to DS brew dev, Copper.


Download: DS1942 v1.0

This here's looking cool. PuzzleKlax v1.0 is a brewed arcade emulator by Alekmaul for the game Klax. For those of you not old enough to be familiar with the game, Klax is a1989 computer puzzle game whose objective is to line up blocks according to their colors so they'll disappear.

Fans of NeoGeo fighting games should definitely not miss out on the latest version of NeoDS v0.1.1, the NeoGeo AES/MVS emulator for the Nintendo DS (previous version here). What's new this time is the optional function to use Slot 2 ran as sprite cache (if available). Check out the changelog in the full article.

Download: NeoDS v0.1.1

Fans have been clamoring for it for years, and finally we are all one step closer to CPS3 emulation. After about two months of hard work, the encryption in the Capcom Play System 3 has finally been broken down by a coder who goes by the name of Andreas.

This new development doesn't actually guarantee CPS3 emulation just yet, as MAME developer David "Haze" Haywood points out. The decryption's already done but the emulation side of the equation still has a ways to go. Nevertheless, this is without a doubt one of the many memorable emulation milestones in recent years.

If you're wondering what CPS3's decryption will bring to the emulation world, here's a list of titles that run on CPS3. It's pretty short, but the games on it are quite good, cementing the CPS3's rep as an extremely powerful 2D system with smooth, fluid animation.

• JoJo's Venture
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• Street Fighter III: New generation
• Street Fighter III, 2nd Impact: Giant Attack
• Street Fighter III, 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future
• Warzard/Red Earth

The Amstrad CPC (Color Personal Computer) was a series of 8-bit home computers from the 80s and early 90s. The Amstrad CPC was designed for head-on competition with the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum systems. The CPC came in four configurations:

• 464 (Tape deck, 64 KB RAM, square-edged keyboard)
• 472 (Tape deck, 72K RAM)
• 664 (3" Floppy disk drive, 64K RAM)
  
• 6128 (3" Floppy disk drive, 128K RAM, more PC-like keyboard)

Why are we telling you this? Because we came across a CPC 6128 emulator for Nintendo DS called CrocoDS Alpha v0.1a by My Ketchup Is Dead. Okay, we're not sure about the developer's name. Our "French" tongue is limited to four-letter words.

CrocoDS Alpha v0.1a allows the loading of files SNA and DSK in the root of the GBA cartridge (use of the LIBFAT of picodriveds) while pressing the Select button. Pressing R starts again the emulator. Pressing  L switches between the emulation joystick and keypad. The developer is working to replace "the core Z80 out of C by a version asm (I think of directing myself towards the bookshop DrZ80 Reesy to create for MAME), to add the support of the zippées images." The bitmap of the keyboard is temporary.

This is where our limited French comes to an end.

Download: [CrocoDS Alpha v0.1a]

Alekmaul has released MarcaDS. MarcaDS is an arcade emulator. It uses the same principle as Mame but it's not using its code,Mame is too huge for our little DS :), but it's just my opinion. To use this emulator, you must have compatibles ROMS with NO COMPRESSION ZIP format. With this version, emulated games are:

– Pacman
– MsPacman
– CrushRoller
– Pengo

You can get it in our Nintendo DS Download section [here].