Success Hk have posted news that Goldeneye has been released on the Nintendo DS

Why save the world when you can rule it? Going where no previous James Bond game has dared to tread, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent breaks all the rules. Cross over to the dark side of the Bond universe and experience life as a high-rolling, cold-hearted villain. As an aspiring 00 agent dismissed from M16 for reckless brutality, you're recruited by Auric Goldfinger in a ruthless war against Dr. No for control of the Bond underworld. A brutal encounter with Dr. No costs you an eye, but Goldfinger's technicians provide you with a gold-hued, synthetic replacement, earning you the name "GoldenEye." With the ability to customize and upgrade your villain persona, wreak havoc as you make your unrelenting rise through the ranks. On globe-spanning missions of vengeance and demolition, cross paths with such infamous allies and enemies as Oddjob, Scaramanga, Xenia Onatopp, and of course, Pussy Galore.

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Emulatronia have posted news/screenshots of an Internal Nintendo DS emulator by Nintendo themselves, obviously theres no download but the screenshots can be seen below ...

Foxy has released a new Nintendo DS game called Magic Lines, download here --> http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/magiclines.shtml ...

Chris Double has released a bug fix version of the Nintendo DS emulator, DSemu.

Download from here --> http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/dsemu.shtml ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's top maker of memory chips, on Monday said it is the first supplier to mass produce graphic chips for the next generation of video games.
Mueez Deen, director of graphics for the U.S. semiconductor unit of Samsung, said it has begun high-volume manufacturing of a 512-megabit graphics DDR3 memory chip for use in gaming consoles and personal computers.

Samsung, which is based in Seoul, South Korea, has jumped ahead of rivals in the graphics memory chip market such as Hynix Semiconductor Inc., also of South Korea, and Infineon Technologies AG of Germany, he said.
Samsung's move to mass produce the chips comes several months ahead of the arrival of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, the first major device that will depend on the DDR3 powered chip.
By being first into mass production, Samsung stands to win a big chunk of the early market for these chips. But with the introduction of Microsoft's console still months away, Samsung rivals have time to reach volume production as well, analyst Dean McCaron of market forecaster Mercury Research said. ...

In a recent interview with German magazine Gamestar, ATi has made some of the boldest claims to date regarding the base-level power of the Xbox 360 console.

Perhaps offering the most in-depth look at how the 360 chip operates, ATi head of developer relations Richard Huddy said, “First and foremost we have a 'unified shader architecture'. No other console or PC chip can boast this. And what, in short, it means is that the hardware is always able to run at 100% efficiency. All previous hardware has separate vertex and pixel shaders. That means that that previous hardware just had to hope that the vertices and pixels came in just about the right ratios. If you got too many pixels then the vertex engines would be idle, and if you got too many vertices then the pixel engines would starve instead. (...) With a unified architecture we have hardware that automatically moulds its-self to the task required and simply does whatever needs to be done. That all means that the Xbox 360 runs at 100% efficiency all the time, whereas previous hardware usually runs at somewhere between 50% and 70% efficiency.”

Huddy went on to explain how memory can be accessed from these shaders: “Next on my list is the hardware support for directly accessing memory from within the shader units. This makes the Xbox graphics chip work in a much more flexible way than has ever been possible before. Now it’s relatively simple for a games developer to write code to do anything inside the graphics chip that they could do elsewhere. Accessing memory in arbitrary ways sounds like a very esoteric thing to do within a graphics chip, but actually it allows you to do some amazing things which mean that Xbox 360 games will be more like movies than you ever imagined. It’s so powerful that I’d say that this feature alone makes the Xbox 360 technically superior to any other console planned for the next five years.” ...

Heinrich Tillack just emailed me with this rather cool news for us Dreamcast sceners:

hi !
SH4 DMAC demo

Yeah, my first working SH4 DMAC demo.
I use DMAC channel 1 in this demo to copy large data amounts to the videoscreen!

This demo also shows how the PVR DMA, Store queues (SQ) and the CPU is performing this copy operation.
(There is also code for Colortable DMA which is not working.)

download at http://a128.ch9.de
Some results of this test:
Results for 1000 loops and 640*480*4 bytes transfer each loop:
test memory Sh4->PVR
51344 ms dmac 32bit mode
16298 ms dmac 256bit mode
40782 ms cpu loop
16321 ms sq loop
6222 ms dma loop
test memory Sh4->Sh4
8920 ms dmac 256bit copy loop
18966 ms CPU 32bit copy loop

bye
heinrich

Thanks to Heinrich for the very interesting news ...

Ethos has released a preview release of his Gameboy/Gameboy Colour emulator for the Nintendo DS, this release comes attached with a PD rom.

Download Here --> http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/gbemuds.shtml ...

Chris Double has took over the development of the Nintendo DS emulator, DSemu, he has released a new version which has some fixes in to get his demo working.

Download from here --> http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/dsemu.shtml

Thanks to Keith on IRC for the news ...