The Golden Flower
Lionel Ritchie, ex-member from infamous Bau De Jogos group, has translated Alejandro Reye's The Golden Flower adventure to English. It's a trilogy of MSX-BASIC text adventures, containing over a hundred rooms and 50 objects.
sd_snatcher has just announced that, with the help of people in this forum thread, Psycho World HD/multi-language is now finished! Features are:
- Ported to hard disk.
Team Nowind has just released a new version of their usb interface firmware and usbhost program (v4.0). New in this release:
- Major update with a completely rewritten NowindHost implementation, assisted by Wouter Vermaelen (openMSX)
- Because of a sharing collaboration with emulator developers, openMSX, blueMSX, nowind emulator and the real usbhost use the same code.
Capitan Sevilla
Computer Emu Zone, who just got rewarded the runner-up position in MSXdev'08 have released a remake of Captain 'S'.
It's the first of March, and as announced in the previous poll, we were to do two quick two-week polls instead of the usual monthly poll. Prior to initiating the new poll, let's see what February brought us.
MSXdev08 - results
One month ago, the yearly MSXdev contest came to an end with twelve brand new games. What followed was a month of testing and judging by the jury members, and they have brought up the following ranking:
- 01. Deep Dungeon (WINNER)
- 02. I Need Speed
- 03. La Corona Encantada
- 04. Danger Tower
- 05. Peek-A-Boo
- 06. Sp8 Invaders
- 07.
A few weeks ago, a TurboFix for Metal Gear 2 saw daylight. Now a new game has been fixed: Konami's shooter Salamander.
fMSXpSO v1.03
A new version of the Japanese emulator fMSXpSO has been released. Changes in this version:
- Disk processing has been fixed
- The Nemesis version from Game Collection 3 now works with and without SCC+ cartridge
- Software that worked in version v1.01 but not in v1.02 now seem to work again
- For PSG emulation the emu2149 library is used, for SCC emu2212.
Japanese game developer M-Kai has put his MSX productions on his web site for download recently. One of the games is Pleasure Hearts. Until now that was a very rare side scrolling shoot 'em up game with mindblowing speed, huge numbers of enemies and very nice graphical effects.
M-Kai was also the maker of Kyokugen which also can be downloaded from his site.
Eggbert goes iPhone
A number of days ago, TouchArcade reported that Toki Tori will get an iPhone release. Toki Tori, by game studio TwoTribes, is otherwise known to us as Fony's Eggbert, an MSX2 game released in 1994.