LTK has posted a new version of CPCast the Amstrad CPC Emulator for the Dreamcast, heres whats new via translation:

New version of CPCast. Still one is a quite primitive version of which it is expected is the final version. There are enough quite significant changes and, Here a list


- A little more speed.
- Partial support of virtual keyboard
- Feasible Selecionable from images DSK
- Car writing of run " exec_file in the modoemulador
- Fosforito Ways/Color
- Intensity of selectionable Monitor
- Directional Pad mapping with the keys Or, P, Q, To, SPACE,
- (Perhaps) U.S.able with no need of keyboard

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Weekly Movie/Music update: Over 100 new J-Pop, Anime, Soundtrack & Movie releases - Sympathy For Lady Vengeance Deluxe Special Edition, Nana Two-Discs Special Edition, Bleach Beat Collection Ichigo Kurosaki & Zangetsu & more

Welcome to this week's Movie/Music news roundup, containing all new Japanese and Hong Kong Video and Music releases from this week listed at Play-Asia.com. Over 100 new items are covered in this week, including new J-Pop, Anime as well as Japanese, Hong Kong and Western movie releases and much more.

Here's a summary of all new releases that were published between Saturday, April 29th until Friday, May 5th. If some specific item that you are looking for is missing, please don't hesitate to contact our customer service with your request.

J-Pop Music releases (30)

Ao no Requiem (~Chitose Hajime) JPN US$ 9.90
Big & Taff (~Jumbo Maatch from Mighty Jam Rock) JPN US$ 9.90
Bonno 60% (~Kuroku) JPN US$ 14.90
Booootsy (~Your Song is Good x Beat Crusaders) JPN US$ 15.90
Dainihon Itan Geishateki Nomiso (Gyaku) Kaiten Zekkyo Ongenshu (~Gazette) JPN US$ 29.90
Hatsumi Shibata Single Collection (~Hatsumi Shibata) JPN US$ 33.90
Ikitai (~Takuya Niizawa) JPN US$ 9.90
Kabopan (~Kabocha Pants) JPN US$ 14.90
Kibun Jojo (~Mihimaru GT) JPN US$ 9.90
Kibun Jojo [CD+DVD Limited Edition] (~Mihimaru GT) JPN US$ 11.90
Kimi no Inai Sekai / Raining (~Eri Motomura) JPN US$ 9.90
Klaxon Love - Oniisan Motto Ganbatte (~Fumido) JPN US$ 11.90
Klaxon Love - Oniisan Motto Ganbatte [CD+DVD Limited Edition] (~Fumido) JPN US$ 14.90
Live + (~Atsuko Hiyajo) JPN US$ 23.90
Michael (~Vanvi) JPN US$ 9.90
Mikki Mausu March (family. falling in drops. version) [CD+DVD] (~Cutie Mommy) JPN US$ 17.90
Miracle (~Rina Aiuchi) JPN US$ 9.90
Normalize (~Pinhead) JPN US$ 23.90
On the Street (~Hitoshi Arai) JPN US$ 24.90
Osampo (~Char) JPN US$ 11.90
Precious (~Yuna Ito) JPN US$ 11.90
Push Up (~Zorro) JPN US$ 24.90
Reggae Shining Rude Fish Music Reggae Compilation Vol.2 JPN US$ 24.90
Result (~Nami Tamaki) JPN US$ 11.90
Sayonara wa Yuki no Youni / Hanakage (~Domino) JPN US$ 9.90
Soul Bossa Production 1994-2005 JPN US$ 29.90
Time Limit Bottle [CD+DVD] (~Reiko Sada) JPN US$ 33.90
Vista / Humming Life (~Going Under Ground) JPN US$ 9.90
Vista / Humming Life [Limited Edition] (~Going Under Ground) JPN US$ 9.90
Water Mother (~Shinji) JPN US$ 23.90

ENKA Music releases (4)

Ame no Futarizure / Ame ga Yandara / Yopparai no Okei (~Anna Ohbayashi / Anna & Momiji) JPN US$ 9.90
Hino Ataru Basho (~Hiroshi Takeshima) JPN US$ 11.90
Nihon no Otoko (~Mika Shinno) JPN US$ 11.90
Uta, Kono Fushigi na mono (~Sayuri Ishikawa) JPN US$ 11.90

Anime Soundtracks & Drama CDs (5)

Bleach Beat Collection Ichigo Kurosaki & Zangetsu (~Ichigo Kurosaki (Masakazu Morita), Zangetsu (Takayuki Sugo)) JPN US$ 13.90
Hybrid Universe [CD+DVD] (~Nana Mizuki) JPN US$ 31.90
Nerima Daikon Brothers Remix 1 JPN US$ 29.90
Okusama wa Joshikosei - SoundFile Asami no Monologue Asa hen JPN US$ 29.90
Okusama wa Joshikosei - SoundFile Asami no Monologue Yoru hen JPN US$ 29.90

Hong Kong Version Movie releases (18)

Derailed (~Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, ...) HK US$ 18.90
Destination Germany 1 Groups A & B (~Ho Fai side commentary) HK US$ 8.90
Destination Germany 2 Groups C & D (~Ho Fai side commentary) HK US$ 8.90
Destination Germany 3 Groups E & F (~Ho Fai side commentary) HK US$ 8.90
Destination Germany 4 Groups G & H (~Ho Fai side commentary) HK US$ 8.90
Geochilmaru The Showdown (~Kwon Min-ki, KIM Jin-myung, ...) HK US$ 8.90
Nana [Two-Discs Special Edition] (~Mika Nakashima, Aoi Miyazaki, ...) HK US$ 17.90
Pallbearer (~David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow, ...) HK US$ 8.90
Separate Lies (~Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, ...) HK US$ 18.90
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance [Deluxe Special Edition] (~Lee Yeung Ai, Choi Min Sik, ...) HK US$ 20.90
The Boxer's Omen (~Ko Fei, Lam Hiu Yin, ...) HK US$ 7.90
The Foxy Ladies (~Wei Wan, I Tei, ...) HK US$ 7.90
The Movie - Yu-Gi-Oh (~Animation) HK US$ 11.90
The New World [dts] (~Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, ...) HK US$ 14.90
The New World (~Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, ...) HK US$ 6.90
The Thunderbolt Fist (~Sze See, Chuen Yuen, ...) HK US$ 13.90
The Young Avenger (~Sze See, Yueh Hua, ...) HK US$ 13.90
Transporter II (~Jason Statham, Amber Valletta, ...) HK US$ 19.90

Japanese Movies (2)

Gekiringmi Nananinshu (~Sachiko Suzuki, Ruby Moreno) JPN US$ 47.90
Hontouni Atta Kowai Hanashi Chakushin 2 JPN US$ 37.90

Non-Japanese Movies / Japanese Version (32)

A Problem With Fear (~Paulo Costanzo) JPN US$ 46.90
Arrogance JPN US$ 47.90
Basket Case Special Collection JPN US$ 19.90
Bet Your Life (~Billy Zane) JPN US$ 47.90
Breaking News (~Kelly Chen, Richie Ren, ...) JPN US$ 37.90
Cerberus JPN US$ 47.90
Cheerleader Queens JPN US$ 47.90
Dekoboko Shiritsu Tanteisha Vol.1 (~Leslie Cheung) JPN US$ 46.90
Dekoboko Shiritsu Tanteisha Vol.2 (~Leslie Cheung) JPN US$ 46.90
Dekoboko Shiritsu Tanteisha Vol.3 (~Leslie Cheung) JPN US$ 46.90
Drowning Ghost JPN US$ 47.90
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Via Gamespot

Last year, journalists who arrived early for the Electronic Entertainment Expo glimpsed the first clues that the event had a momentous announcement in store. Until then, Sony had maintained a monastic level of silence regarding its next-generation console. The device didn't have a name yet, and reps for the electronics giant shot down any inquiry about the unnamed device with the refrain "Sony has not made any announcements regarding PS3." (Sony used PS3 as shorthand in correspodence, but insisted it was not an official name.)

That official wall of silence showed its first cracks the weekend before E3. As a small army of roadies set up dozens of multimillion dollar displays inside the Los Angeles Convention Center, Sony was busy plastering the outside with massive billboards saying "Welcome Chang3." The words were written in the distinctive PlayStation 2 font, and were next to partially obscured recreations of the PlayStation's emblematic triangle-circle-square-X buttons.

Not only were the "Welcome Chang3" ads on the LACC's exterior, they also appeared inside bus shelters around the massive venue and, most eerily, on stickers stuck to the screens of televisions inside game journalists' hotel rooms.

Within days of the ads going up, Sony officially unveiled--and named--the PlayStation 3 in a press conference which remains controversial to this day. One year later, the Japanese electronics giant appears to be up to the same tricks. Once again, Sony has covered the area around the LACC with a series of ads. But while the "Chang3" ads were pretty obvious, the new campaign is taking a more subtle tack.

The most obvious ads are a series of massive billboards prominently visible from the LACC's main entrance. One shows a surrealistic take on a game of rock-paper-scissors--with the person making "scissors" actually having steel blades for fingers, and the person making "rock" actually having a stone fist.

Another ad, which covers one side of the neighboring Staples Center, shows a massive canyon with a person in the upper-right-hand corner who looks as though he's about to jump off a cliff. Two ads on nearby triangular kiosks show similar scenes of extreme outdoor activity: one of a woman traversing a series of gymnastic rings above a red-hot lava floe, another of someone playing on a swing--underneath a structure resembling the 630-foot St. Louis Arch.

All four of these ads have two things in common--they each have the words "Play Beyond" on the top and the PlayStation logo at the bottom. However, their meaning is less clear. The most prevalent theory is that they are the beginning of the ad campaign for the PlayStation 3's online service, since they appear to be deliberately one-upping Xbox 360's current tagline, "Jump In." Others have taken the rock-paper-scissors ad as a portent that the new PlayStation 3 controller--which will be unveiled on Monday--will have some kind of motion-sensing capability like the Nintendo Wii.

However, until there is official word, these theories are just that--theories. As of press time, Sony reps were unavailable for comment. However, their meaning should be more clear on Monday afternoon following Sony's pre-E3 press conference. ...

As E3 draws near, those of us who have been following Will Wright's newest brainchild, Spore, are abuzz with expectation. And lo! Someone posted to YouTube a video that shows 'unedited footage of Spore that will be going to TV networks covering E3 next week'. It includes a look at the overhauled creature editor, a first glimpse of the texturing tools, and various other exciting things that had not been shown this clearly in the early prototype seen at the 2005 GDC. One of them is the ambient music when the UFO visits different planets." It certainly looks like the game we saw last year, but take with a grain of salt just the same.

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Via xbox360fanboy

2K Sports continues to test their bugged-out games the way Shaq shoots free throws, which is to say poorly. Reader Trevor complains:

I loaded up NBA 2K6 for the 360 earlier this week and it prompted me for a forced update. After the update I played a game and the crib points (rewards for in game acheivements to buy in game stuff) were totally messed up. For example, I got one rebound and got the 10 rebound reward, I scored 10 points and I got the 100 point reward, made 2 free throws and I got the 15 free throw award etc.....

Obviously the patch screwed up the stat recording by a factor of 10. Dozens of people have been complaining on the 2k forums The question is why wasn't this caught. It's blatently obvious in the first 10 seconds of playing the game. No testing what so ever.

A road trip to the forums finds plenty of complaints and no answers. How many fouls does 2K get before people just stop buying their products? ...

via Mercury news

I attended an engineering speech by Nick Baker, the director of Xbox Console Design Architecture. He's one of the top chip architects on the Xbox 360's chips. Most of the chat was deep in the woods. But one of his comments was startling. He said that Microsoft had now sold 3.3 million consoles worldwide. Microsoft PR confirmed that number to me just now.

What's interesting is that Microsoft said in its earnings statement that it had shipped 1.75 million consoles by March 31. Because of its rough start in manufacturing, it took 4.5 months to reach that number. The original goal had been 3 million units in the first 90 days, but the manufacturing glitches scotched that goal. Now it looks like Microsoft is making up for lost time.
Microsoft's goal is 4.5 million to 5.5 million units by June 30. ...

Team XXX released a new version of FBAxxx.

What's new:

* fixed 60fps support in PAL50Hz, now the synchronization is perfect, could be useful for later
* fixed a bug sound in D3d sound (sorry, it was my fault)
* optimized a little lowpass ( 1/(1[[15) = ]]15), lowpass filter was always executed, corrected that
* removed neogeoblackscreenfix, it doesn t seem to crash anymore, if you have a black screen with neogeo roms, try to mess with FM interpolation
* added a minimenu, hope you'll like it, you can desactivate it in the menu option, it can't be desactivated in kiosk mode though
* added kiosk_mode, if you don't know what it is, you just don't need it

More Info--> http://fbaxxx.fr.st ...

PSP News and Lik Sang are proud to host a mini comp aimed just at coders who Code in LUA.

The Competition has only 11 days to go

You can submit any Game, Demo or APP written in Lua, full rules can be found on the competition page.

Heres the Prizes:

The Prizes to the winner are

Multi Cradle



The Multi-Cradle is a cradle style charging solution that includes stereo speakers, multiple viewing angles, and stylish blue lights.

Lithium Battery Pack 2600mAh



A high quality lithium battery pack able to be recharged over 10,000 times. The battery pack provides 2600mAh of power for your PSP.

Replacement Faceplate (e.g. Liquid Platinum) (color winner's choice)



Replace your boring faceplate with exclusive new colors

Replacement Button Set (e.g. Agent Orange) (color winner's choice)



Replacement button set for PSP including the digital pad (D-Pad), Analog stick and all face buttons including the 4 main action buttons, start, select & home, volume, audio and display.

Now this competition is aimed towards those who are new and not so experianced or to those who just want some neat accessories.

Full Details on rules at the Competition Page, Let the LUA CODING BEGIN

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Moonlight has updated moonshell.

Moonshell is a multimedia player for the Nintendo DS. It can play wav, mp3, ogg, display text files, display jpg, bmp and play video.

Whats new:

Renewed Setup.exe.
MoonShell is possible to start from the M3 menu with A button. It referred 'Pepsiman-M3powerloader.zip'.
Fixed MS-Windows30Like skin. (Thank you Xtreme!)
readme(english).txt updated.
readme(finnish).txt updated.
readme(german).txt (fixed & saved to Unicode)
readme(russian).txt (saved to Unicode)
readme(spanish).txt (saved to Unicode)
readme(swedish).txt (saved to Unicode)

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