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.

  

Last year, 10tacle studios announced that they would be releasing Boulder Dash for the PSP and DS. For the guys unfamiliar with the game, Boulder Dash was originally created in the 80s for the Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Atari 400/800 home computers.

The game puts players behind the controls of Rockford, whose job is to dig through caves collecting gems and diamonds while avoiding hostile creatures and falling rocks. Fast forward to today, we we have received new details for this upcoming game, which has been renamed Boulder Dash-Rocks!:

• Completely revamped in-game graphics
• Release date moved to the fourth quarter 2007.
• The game will feature tools to help the players on their diamond-collecting, such as bombs and laser guns - the latter can be loaded with different types of ammo.
• Each laser ammo has a different characteristic: some have the ability to freeze enemies, while others pull objects towards the player.
• Five game modes: Single-player, Multi-player, and three other TBA game modes.
• Unique game modes for the PSP and DS (TBA).  

Just keep posted as 10tacle reveals more details on this upcoming game in the near future

Donning one of the weirdest names this writer has personally encountered, My Ketchup Is Dead has just updated his MSX homebrew emu for the DS, PenkoDS.

If the emulation speed in the previous version was only up to 75%, you'll be glad to know that My Ketchup Is Dead focused on the emulation speed in this version and thereby bumping up the speed to...*drumroll*...100%!!! Yippee-yay! So anyway, here's some of the other stuff you can look forward to in this release:

• Fixed bugs (management of transparency in mode 2, redundancy of files in the selector, etc.)
• I mainly worked on the speed of emulation. The 100% are atteinds in many plays.
• The support of DLDI should be better.
• Improved sounds.

For any bugs/glitches encountered, make sure you let My Ketchup Is Dead know via the comments section, alrighty? Enjoy(ness...)!

Download: [PenkoDS v0.2a]

Grafting from Marat Fayzullin's homebrew emulator, My Ketchup Is Dead recently released a new MSX emulator for the DS. PenkoDS v0.1a is currently on its early stages, and My Ketchup Is Dead wants some feedback to improve it. Currently, here are its features:

• A resize mode to manage the various resolutions of the MSX.
• Support DLDI
• Support of the roms and the discs
• Management of the sound (with the same problems as under CrocoDS)

One of the biggest problems right now is the impossibility of rebooting the system once the MSX disc is "inserted". Aside from that, roms are still workable. As with other emulators, just copy the rom file onto your flashcard and run it directly after patching.

Download: [PenkoDS v0.1a]

mvissers has added support for the M3SD card to fmsxDS v0.06. This release of fmsxDS is based on fmsxDS 0.06, a MSX emulator for the Nintendo DS. mvissers has added support based on MP3Play by Sata. fmsx is a emulator of a classic 80's computer series.

Instructions for Getting started:
1. Copy fmsxDS.ds.gba to sd-card (direct without M3 Game manager)
2. Copy Required ROM Images to sd-card (http://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/)
3. Copy desired MSX game to sd-card
4. Run fmsxDS.ds.gba from M3SD Card (NDS-Mode)
thanks to mvissers for the nice update.

Download: fmsxDS 0.06

Nyagos has updated his fMSX emulator for the Nintendo DS to version 0.05. This is an emulator for the old MSX computer series back in the day. Changes in this version include:

– Update gbamp driver. (Support GBAMP, SC CF, SC SD, M3 CF, SRAM)
– However, it has not worked in my SC SD yet.
– When a special key is pushed, the key font is changed. special key (japanese keyboard only)

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

Nyagosu has released a new version of his MSX emulator for the Nintendo DS, version 0.04. This emulates the MSX standard in the early 1980’s in which they were trying to create a single compatible computing standard. Changes in this release include:

– Screen positioning (set adjust) is supported all screen.
– Fix palette color of screen 8.
– Control a menu with a pad.
– Fix file select of subfolder.

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

FMSXDS, the MSX emulator for the NDS has been updated to fmsxDSx v0.03 r01. The changes include correcting the function of the backlight, coordinate calculation of the the touch screen, and GBAMP use.

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

Nyagosu has released an early work in progress release of the worlds first MSX emulator for the Nintendo DS .

You can get this file from our DS Download section here.