GPF who is hosted on the DCEmu Network has posted another great screenshot of his Port of Frodo the Commodore 64 emulator for the Nintendo DS



Hes also posted some more screenshots and WIP news, head on over to http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk for the Full info (post some comments too ) ...

Nintendo Australia is excited to announce a new price point for Nintendo DS™ of $179.95 SRP.

The price drop will take place on September 22nd, just in time for the launch of the widely anticipated Nintendogs™. Nintendogs, which is now a cultural phenomenon in Japan, has just launched in the United States with sales of a quarter of a million units in its first week. This makes it America's hottest-selling video game and the best-selling new game franchise ever for a portable system.

“This is an exciting move for the already popular Nintendo DS, particularly aimed at making the unit more affordable and accessible to the new audiences we hope to be opening up with the release of Nintendogs” said Rose Lappin, Director of Sales and Marketing. “The new price point of $179.95 coincides with the launch of two new hardware colours of Cosmic Blue and Mystic Pink. Add to this the amazing new experiences with Nintendogs at the fantastic price of $49.95, making September 22nd a very big day for the Nintendo DS.”

With an onslaught of brilliant games coming for the rest of the year, there is something for everyone on the Nintendo DS. October 6th sees the release of the very unique Kirby™: Canvas Curse, and for the hardcore audience, the critically acclaimed Advance Wars®: Dual Strike. A new Pac Man adventure, Pac’n Roll™ is due November 3rd. The popular Mario Kart® series returns in November with Mario Kart® DS. Nintendo will also be releasing Meteos™ and Metroid® Prime Pinball in December. Metroid Prime Pinball will come bundled with the new DS Rumble Pak accessory that lets players feel all the rolling, bumping and tilting motions.

With around 30 new titles by the end of the year from other video game distributors, including King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie from Ubisoft, this promises to be an exciting holiday period for all Nintendo DS owners. ...

Torlus writes:

Here is a small project I've just done :

Lua4gba is a quick port of Lua (http://www.lua.org/) for the Gameboy Advance. Lua is a powerful scripting language with many high-level features, used in many projects.

This project is based on Lua 5.0.2 so is more up to date than GBALua (based on 4.0 version of Lua) and was made using DevkitARM.

One thing interesting about it, is that it uses the Lua source tree as-is, with
only one small (necessary) modification for console output. So this whole project should be considered as kind of tutorial on how to embed Lua into your projects.

It uses Damian Yerrick's GBFS for script embedding.
Best regards,
greg aka Torlus (http://torlus.com/) ...

The NinjaMod team has just released their v2.0 BIOS for their GameCube chip heres whats new:

Supports Multi-Game Discs
Auto-Dectecs Media (Mult, Normal, Backup)
Boots DVD-R/+R and Originals
Re-Read Command Added (Less DRE)
Streaming Audio Fix
New Loading Methods (Runs problem games)
Graphical Enhancements

http://www.ninjamod.com/ ...

News From DCEvolution

Cydoca (formerly Cyberdog Castle), Dreamcast Scene, BlueCrab and also the DC Evolution Network will all be represented at the Dreamcon 2005 convention. It is held at the East Coast Gaming Expo 2005 on Sunday, September 18th, 2005 at The Inn at Reading in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.

Curtiss Grymala we be there on our behalf. There will be a setup of several Dreamcasts and on the convention you can play with almost every image we made! If you like an image you can even get a complete disc with original covers to take home for free.

In addition to unveiling some really cool new stuff that will see its first public release at the convention, we also hope to breathe even more new life into the Dreamcast community by showing all of the ECGX attendees just how much can still be done with the DC.

If you live nearby, please take a visit. Hope to meet you there!

The DC Evolution Team.

Shame i cant be there but its a little far to travel. ...

At the Reuters Technology and Telecoms Summit in Tokyo today, Chief Xbox Officer Robbie Bach announced an expected lag of seven to ten days between launches of the Xbox 360 in North America, Europe, and Japan (”in the same holiday season”) to give Microsoft “a chance to manage the logistics.” MS has previously confirmed that it will be launching its next console in a simultaneous worldwide release during Holiday 2005, and most assuredly in the month of November (if rumors of the 4th or 25th are to be believed).

Bach also had something to say regarding recent polls that placed the 360 well behind its competition from Sony and Nintendo in the minds of Japanese consumers: “None of that is worth anything…. Ultimately if we had great games, people would have put a big, black Xbox in the living room. We learned a lot from the first launch of Xbox in Japan. People didn’t get excited about the games.”

Unfortunately, analysts don’t have high hopes for Bill’s brighter box in the Land of the Rising Sun, either. Tokyo-based Deutsche Securities analyst Takashi Oya states: “Microsoft will have done well if it gets 10 percent market share in Japan,” and KBC Securities Analyst Hiroshi Kamide believes the 360 will be a success if “sales match the market share of Nintendo’s next offering.” None of those interviewed think the Xbox can take the PlayStation’s number-one Japanese market position, however, at least in this next console cycle. ...

Japanese gaming mag Famitsu has had a long and storied history of spilling the beans on new games and such, and things are no different on its printed pages in the days leading up to the Tokyo Game Show. Today, we’ve just received word from Famitsu Weekly fans that Japanese developer Monolith will be announcing Xenosaga 3 for the PS2, Baten Kaitos 2 for the GameCube, and Xenosaga 1 + 2 for the DS(!) at TGS this week.

The combo of the first and second parts of the Xenosaga series will be completely adapted into 2D, but Namco will try to squeeze as many of its (in)famous full-motion video (FMV) cutscenes in as possible. As for Xenosaga 3: Thus Spoke Zaratharus, it will be the final installment in the PS2 RPG storyline, but you never know whether its creators will pull an Onimusha and bring the series back in some form later on. (Next-gen ‘saga, anyone?) ...

One of the aspects of the Xbox 360 launch that Microsoft has been touting is the global launch of the system, which left many to believe that come one lucky day in November, children all over the world would be opening their Xbox 360s and duking it out over Xbox Live in a quasi-"We are the World" moment.

It appears that won't be the case. Microsoft Chief Xbox Officer Robbie Bach told Reuters today that the launch of the Xbox 360 in Japan and Europe will occur seven to 10 days after the North American launch. Microsoft hasn't announced a specific US release date for the next generation console yet, but conventional wisdom points towards a mid-November date.

"We will launch in North America, Europe and Japan in the same holiday season," Bach said to Reuters in a summit held by the news organization in Tokyo today. "There will probably be a week or 10 days in between the different territories, just to give us a chance to manage the logistics."

Microsoft will be holding a pre-Tokyo Game Show press conference in Japan tomorrow to unveil additional information regarding the Xbox 360. The company has begun advertising the console in Japanese magazines this week, which publicly announces that the next-generation gaming console will be released at the end of the year in the country.

In America, the Xbox 360 will be offered in two SKUs, the Xbox 360 Core System and the Xbox 360. The two products will be sold at $299 and $399, respectively, and break down as follows:

Xbox 360 Core System - $299
- Xbox 360 console
- Wired controller
- Detachable faceplate
- Xbox Live Silver membership
- Standard AV cables

Xbox 360 - $399
- Xbox 360 console
- 20GB detachable hard drive
- Wireless controller
- Wireless Xbox Live headset
- High-definition AV cables
- Ethernet cable
- Xbox 360 Media Remote Control (limited time)
- Detachable faceplate
- Xbox Live Silver membership ...

Nintendo's diminutive new handheld, the Game Boy Micro, has sold better than expected - but not quite as well as the Game Boy Advance SP did at launch, according to retailers.

The GB Micro launched in Japan on Tuesday and one shop clerk told Reuters that 70 per cent of units were reserved before the new handheld went on sale. In contrast, all allocated GBA SP units were pre-ordered before the console launched back in 2003.

The GB Micro is priced at 12,000 yen (just under EURO 90) and comes in silver, purple, black and blue versions, along with a limited edition design based on the classic Famicom console.

"The orders have been going well," a spokesperson for leading electronics retailer Yamada Denki told Reuters.

"Especially, the Famicom colour version is really popular."

Nintendo has previously stated that it aims to sell 10.2 million Game Boy Advance units, including 4 million Game Boy Micros, by the end of the financial year.

The GB Micro will launch in the US on September 19, priced USD 99. A European release will follow on November 4, when consumers will be able to choose from silver, pink, green and blue units priced at EURO 99 each. ...