Homebrew developer Lordus released a new update to the jEnesisDS, an award winning Genesis/Megadrive emulator for the Nintendo DS. Alongside the many bug fixes released for jEnesis version 0.7, the coder also released a preview to another emulator also for the dual screen handheld. ApprenticeMinusDS v0.2.6 is a Sega Master System portable/Game Gear emulator, though as it's an early version, it has its share of issues that must be sorted out. Get all that at the full story.



Download: jEnesisDS v0.7 with ApprenticeMinusDS v0.2.6 preview

Sephiroth_FF7 has released version 0.1 of his Ghostbusters game port, known as GhostBustersDS. As you can probably guess, this Ghostbusters homebrew game has you defending New York against the onslaught of less than benevolent ghosts.

How to play this Ghostbusters port after the jump!

Download: GhostBustersDS v0.1

The classic console-emulating crowd should enjoy this entry from AlekMaul for the Neo Summer Coding Compo 2007. This is the latest update of DSMasterPlus - the Sega Master System and Game Gear emulator for the DS.

Version 1.3 is enhanced with DS Motion Card support as well as a brand-new interface and Pro Action Replay code support. For the complete list of new features, check out AlekMaul's changelog:

• New interface (thanks again Lobo)
• New graphic engine for backgrounds
• Code optimization everywhere
• Pro Action Replay codes support !!!
• No more German translation (some sentences are missing).
• DS motion card support

Since there's now support for the motion card, it's best to try and take advantage of the new feature with games that work best with motion-sensitive controls, such as Marble Madness.

Also, please take note that you need to patch DSMasterPlus v1.3 with the DLDI patchers using the correct drivers or else, it will not run properly on your DS. For more information, please browse through the Readme file included in the download package.

Download: DSMasterPlus v1.3

You'd think that having more than six billion people populating our mother planet guarantees a constant flow of fresh ideas. But no, we still have to put up with the likes of The Terminator, Digimons, and a "family guy" trying to be cool.

Fact of the matter is, every industry has a huge mainstream-stamped cargo strapped across its back. You have Hollywood that never runs out of the Asian-plus-wacky-western-guy combo, comic books that have WonderMan (replace the first four words with "sup" and you got the picture), and the music industry (if you could call it that) being lorded over by "artists" like Paris Hilton and Justin Timberlake. Yep, the world's one fudged up place, and if you think we're safe from its clutch just because we're locked up in our room all day mashing buttons, you're dead wrong.

True gamers would have now known what I'm trying to imply. That the gaming industry, like all the money-driven organizations in the planet, is one huge merry go 'round - only instead of horsies, we have copycats, and boy are they running lose. Saints Row's Homies can show us nothing the Leone Mafia Family hasn't. How about HOT PXL's (PSP) board-toting Djon? He reeks of WarioWare if you ask me.

You think this is something new? Remember Golden Axe Warrior for the Sega Master System? Anyone who has taken over the character of Link would immediately notice how shamelessly similar it is to earlier Legend Of Zelda installments. Here's another one - Rainbow Arts' Great Giana Sisters. The younger 'uns might never have heard of it before, but simply put, it's got all the Super Mario Bros. elements in it - powerups, bricks shattered by heads, diamond (at least not coin) collection, and all enemies looking weirdly like the plumbers' bitc**s - only instead of brothers Mario and Luigi, you have sisters Giana and Maria.

Click on the "full article" link below to read more about videogaming rip-offs!

If there aren't any yet, expect to see this as a bumper sticker soon: "Got Pink?" Why? Well, it seems like everyone is going that way lately. Pink this, pink that and now - a pink M3 lite. This image came from M3 Team themselves, who are soon to release the newest incarnation of the M3 Nintendo DS slot 2 mod.

The Lite version, aside from using microSD media cards for storage, is built to set flush in the DS Lite without sticking out at all. The unit comes as well, with a built-in emulators for legacy systems like Gameboy Mono, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Nintendo and Turbografx16.

This unit is also a multimedia player, picture viewer, full functioning PDA and digital book viewer. M3 Lite really stands out beyond the other mods that are out today. And most importantly, it comes in pink!

Sega Master System Flubba has updated his SMS Advanced to v0.8. This version has the following files support and fixes:

• Added support for Street Fighter II.
• Added config for using R as Start.
• Fixed Pause in Robocop 3.
• Fixed some scrolling glitches (Gunstar Heroes intro, Rygar).

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