The 88th issue of Retrogaming Times Monthly is availalbe to read online. The monthly retrogaming zine is read online just like a magazine – there are arrows at the bottom of the page to move pages back and forth. This issue includes news, Apple II Incider – Steve Jobs: The End Of An Era, Retro Collecting 101 – Hunting Treasures In A Foreign Land, Gaming Tetralogies – The Legend Of Zelda Series, MAME Reviews – Radar Scope, Dual Perspective – Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones and much more. Head over to the Retrogaming Times Monthly issue 88 front page to start reading.

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I am happy to announce the official release of Final Fantasy Zz, a hard-type hack of the original Final Fantasy for the NES! Final Fantasy Zz includes both bugfixes and enhancements that will make this hack more fun and more challenging to play than the original.
Some of the enhancements include the ability to see the contents of a treasure chest without having to drop something if your inventory is full, the ability to buy 9 items at a time, new and more powerful magic spells, slightly remapped dungeons, new enemy formations and AI, improved and rebalanced classes, new equipment, and the ability to dash by holding the B button. Some of the bugfixes include fixing the INT bug for magic, fixing broken magic spells like TMPR and SLEP, fixing some cosmetic bugs, and fixing the multiple level-up bug.
This hack is recommended for people who are very experienced with the original Final Fantasy. There aren’t any cheap enemy encounters, such as Iron Golems in the Earth Cave, but if you are not careful, any battle could be your last.
This is a great hack that has taken almost four years to develop. Give Final Fantasy Zz a try! Good luck! (You’ll need it!)
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Uname updated to v0.2 by benjamin

uname prints the following things about your Wii:

System Menu version
Device ID
boot2 version
IOS version
Region
IP address
Netmask
Gateway
MAC address

Changelog
0.1 - September 7, 2011
Initial release
0.2 - September 10, 2011
Netmask, gateway and MAC address are now retrieved

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Uname

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Nowhere 0.9 released by copete23

What would happen if I woke up in an unfamiliar place with no one around you, and not knowing who you are?. In Nowhere have to delve into the mysterious citadel and find out that allows you to leave that cold and sinister place. Will there really a way out?, What mysteries hide this strange place?

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Back on November 28, 2010, somebody started a thread on Apple's support forums about someone spending more than $50 of his iTunes Store credit on iPhone apps. That discussion thread has since swelled to more than 45 pages, with nearly 700 posts. 'Someone — or some group of someones — seems to be able to spend iTunes gift card credit without permission, buying apps that users don't want. And whoever's doing the hacking seems pretty good at it: Hundreds of users have seen their iTunes credit stolen, and the hack shows no signs of slowing, ten months after it was first reported.' Apple has refunded certain accounts, but not in all cases. Apple suggests that the hack stems from weak, easily guessable passwords, and/or phishing attacks where customers are fooled into entering their passwords into hackers' forms."

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/0...Sign-of-Fading ...

Perhaps the most un-secret 'secret' game in history, EA's remake of Bullfrog classic Syndicate, has leaked online via the publisher's Origin download service.
Developed - as previously rumoured - by Swedish Chronicles of Riddick studio Starbreeze, the reboot is described by a now-removed Origin listing as "a unique action shooter set in a not too distant future, where Business is War."

The new game takes the form of a "visceral" first-person shooter and will include 4-player co-op and "clip enhanced gameplay."

Players take on the role of Miles Kilo, corporation Eurocorp's latest prototype agent, and embark on "a brutal action adventure of corruption and revenge". The plot is scribed by Crysis 2 writer Richard Morgan.

The remake has been strongly rumoured for what seems like forever now, and last yearStarbreeze confirmed that it had canned its other project, based on Jason Bourne, to focus on one game.

CVG was of course among the first to out the remake, as we exclusively reported back in 2008 that the Bullfrog original was indeed getting a current-gen makeover.

The Bullfrog original was released in 1993 and later followed up in 1996 by Syndicate Wars.

The game put players in charge of a militant global corporation, and tasked them with leading cyborg agents around a gritty cyberpunk world rescuing captured allies and assassinating rival syndicate executives. It was awesome.

Here's the Origin listing (via NeoGAF) in full:

Syndicate is the re-imagination of a cult classic franchise from 1993 - a unique action shooter set in a not too distant future, where Business is War.

2069 - No longer governed by politicians, the developed world is divided up into regions controlled by megacorporations known as Syndicates. These Syndicates have revolutionized how the consumer interacts with the digital world. No longer does the consumer require a device to access the worlds data and control their technology, they can do this at the blink of an eye via neural chip implant. Civilians flocked to be chipd and enjoy all that their selected Syndicate has to offer; housing, medical, banking, insurance, education, entertainment and jobs. One complete package. One complete lifestyle. In return, the Syndicates gained unprecedented insights, and control, over the individual and their behaviour. With little governmental oversight, business has become war. The Syndicates will stop at nothing for ultimate market dominance. At the front line of this war are the Agents, the Syndicates bio-engineered and chip-augmented enforcers. They can breach anything in the wired world including their enemies, their weapons and the environment that surrounds them, making them the most efficient and deadly technological weapons in the world.

Take on the role of Miles Kilo, Eurocorps latest prototype agent, and embark on a brutal action adventure of corruption and revenge.


Chip Enhanced Gameplay: Slow down time, see through walls, and breach your enemy and everything digital in the world with Dart vision - A neural DART6 chip implant that allows you to interface directly with the Dataverse.


4-Player Online Co-op: Assemble your Syndicate for global domination. A 4-player, online co-op experience like no other, with chip enhanced gameplay and 9 missions re-imagined from the original Syndicate.


Visceral FPS Experience: Utilize an upgradable arsenal of futuristic weapons, armor and gear to annihilate your enemies and harvest their chip technology for personal advancement and sinister corporate greed.


Sci-Fi Fiction: Immerse yourself in the world of Syndicate 2069, with a world-class sci-fi story experience, written by bestselling author Richard Morgan.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...reens-details/
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Sony's Xperia Play smartphone will be available through AT&T on September 18, complete with PlayStation gamepad and running on Android's Gingerbread (2.3.3) platform. The Xperia Play has been available through Verizon since May 26, and AT&T is offering some exclusive content for its customers' patience, including 4G capability, a "stealth blue" paint job, and the Sony Ericsson Multimedia Dock DK300 and music cable.

AT&T's Xperia Play will come with seven pre-loaded games, in a slightly different lineup than we saw with Verizon's release:
Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave
Asphalt 6 Adrenaline
Star Battalion
Madden NFL 11
The Sims 3
Tower Bloxx: My City
Crash Bandicoot
The Xperia Play will cost $49.99 with a new two-year agreement through AT&T, which is drastically less than Verizon's initial offer of $199.99 with the same agreement. However, AT&T's Xperia Play doesn't come pre-loaded with Tetris, which is totally worth the extra $150, in our opinion.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/09/so...ndt-customers/ ...

id Software just released the source codes for iOS titles Wolfenstein 3D Platinumand Doom Classic in the newest batch of updates (2.1). If you're into it, grab the source code for Wolfenstein 3D Platinum right here, the source code for Doom Classic right here, and the trailer for the 2011 sci-fi thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Source Code, here.

If you don't care how your games work, so long as they just work, update 2.1 features a revised user interface, remastered HUD, improved framerate forWolfenstein and the removal of multilayer, which id will integrate later in a "more robust fashion."

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/10/id...m-and-doom-cl/ ...