Nintendo has accepted responsibility for the "Red Tulip problem" in DS title Animal Crossing: Wild World, putting an end to rumours that the bug was caused by malicious hackers.

Animal Crossing: Wild World lets players set up home in a cartoon-style town, and visit each others' towns via the Wi-Fi Connection service. The game is not out in Europe until March 31, but many eager AC fans have already imported copies from the US.

Last week reports began to circulate that players were receiving a special letter within the game which contained a "Red Tulip" item. Players could plant the tulip in their homes, but then found that unlike other items, it could not be picked up, covered or removed.

As more and more gamers began to experience the same problem, speculation that the Red Tulip was some kind of hack or possibly even trojan virus began to grow - with some claiming that the "Red Tulip plague" was proof the Wi-Fi Connection network had been hacked.

But now Nintendo has gone on record to deny these rumours, stating that it's all down to a problem with its systems at the time of the Red Tulip's upload.

"Nintendo would like to thank its numerous Animal Crossing: Wild World fans for helping identify and correct an unforeseen issue with the game. Some users of the community-simulation game for Nintendo DS noticed that receiving a letter containing a 'Red Tulip' could cause interference with gameplay," Nintendo said in an official statement issued to the press.

"We have isolated the problem and determined that there was a temporary error with the upload tool when this letter was posted. Thankfully we have been able to limit the number of people affected by removing the related file from circulation. Players who have received the letter should delete it before placing the Red Tulip anywhere in their characters' homes."

The statement goes on to emphasise that "tulips themselves are not the problem", noting that other colours do not cause any disruptions to gameplay. In addition, the Red Tulip only results in problems if players plant it indoors.

Nintendo pledged to find a solution to the problem, stating: "We are investigating ways to remove the item from the homes of players who have experienced gameplay interference, and we will update the Animal Crossing: Wild World FAQ on NintendoWiFi.com when we have more information to share." ...

PSMonkey who is hosted here at DCEmu Network, posted this very interesting news on his site:

I just felt like saying this. I today, theoreticaly, made a new first for the psp. It's ungodly ugly, slow (1.5fps) and wont progress farther in the near future. Yet on a technical test it's damn interesting. It's nothing complex (a simple port from pc with much cleaning) yet it might open a huge can of worms on the psp scene. Expect a full anouncement & release (bin & src) in a few days by wragster (it will be a dcemu exclusive). There will be some baggage to this release (i am fed up with another sites brown nosing certain coders) but it will be my statement & a cheap technical laugh to give me a short 2 day break on iris. Thats all i say for now. Iris is not suffering over this. Iris is my #1 priority now. This was just done for kicks (and something i've been thinking about for months).

What can it be, check out the site and leave comments here --> http://nemo.dcemu.co.uk ...

Edison Carter has updated his Trainer for the PSP Game Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories".

Cheats Include: Infinite Health and Armor, Set Wanted Level, Set Time, Set Weather & Spawn Anything.

Whats new:

Teleport ability addded
improved Video recorder

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KaosOverride has updated his port of Rick Dangerous a platform game to the GP2X,

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statikeffeck has updated the new memory type game for the GP2X, heres the info:

A simple memory/pattern game written in C with the SDL libraries and Karl Bartel's SFont code for the bitmap font drawing routines. Watch the computer choose a sequence of button presses, then repeat the pattern using the A B Y X buttons. So far I couldn't do more than 15 steps.

Changes in 0.8:
- Controls more responsive
- Added Volume controls
- Changed graphics slightly

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Madelman has updated the port of Bochs for the GP2X.



Heres the info:

Implemented a virtual keyboard

Download Here --> http://gp2x-emulation.dcemu.co.uk/bochsgp2x.shtml ...

Bigs posted this:

Here is an adaptation of an old french adventure game. Quite old and doesn't really suit the ds, but i wanted to revive this game I was crazy about when i was little. I have spend so much time playing this on my amstrad...pfff.

Version 0.9

finished to retranscript scenario but untested)

Still need to add sound and to finish presentation aspect.

Check out the site here --> http://ds.bigs.info/ ...

SukkoPera has posted in our forums his new PSP Manager Application for the PSP, heres what he posted:

Upspear is a new application to fully manage the PSP from a PC. It's thought for PSPs with firmware 1.50, at least for the moment. Support for other firmwares may be added in the future, in case somebody gets homebrew running on them.

At the moment you can:

See the homebrews you have installed, rename and delete them.
Identify useless folders in psp/game.
See your savegames and delete the ones you don't need anymore.
Hide the "corrupt data" icons or push them to the bottom of the list.
Kxploit a 1.0 eboot.pbp, making it work under 1.5 firmwares.
View the contents of a .SFO format file (i. e.: param.sfo).

All these functions can be performed through the nice graphical interface the program has. The program itself is in English, but it uses GNU gettext, which means that it can be easily translated in other languages. At the moment only an Italian translation is available, but anybody can submit more translations, see the "Contributing" section below if you're interested.

Upspear is programmed in C, using the GTK+ toolkit. Development is done under Linux, but it should run with no problems on other operating systems, such as Windows and MacOSX. The code is released under the GPL, so it is free software (as in "free speech", not as in "free beer").

Download via the release thread and please give feedback here --> http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=17952 ...

Danzel has updated his RSS/Atom reader for v2.0 and v1.5 PSPs, heres whats new:

Fixed to work on 2.00
Adding in some more character escapes

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