game news, Hombrew and stuff!
Well I'm now back on Broadband at 2MB, I've had download rates of 150KB on torrent and 250KB on direct downloads, it's very sweet indeed.
In some news Nintendo have delayed two major games, the first being Zelda Twilight Princess, it has been delayed to make the game better but that is a huge blow to Nintendo this christmas but the cube still has Fire emblem and Pokemon XD as well as a wealth of third party games. The second is Metroid Prime Hunters on the DS it is looking likley that it has been delayed so that NST could add online play to it as fans have been demanding it since it was announced without online play at E3.
Nintendo announced the price of the Game Boy Micro at the rather high £69 which is the same price as the GBA:SP, now it came with Play Yan I could understand the price but cough up another £30 and you could get a DS and by the time christmas comes around the DS could come with a game for £100. I will have to admit that the Famicom face plate looks great
In some news Nintendo have delayed two major games, the first being Zelda Twilight Princess, it has been delayed to make the game better but that is a huge blow to Nintendo this christmas but the cube still has Fire emblem and Pokemon XD as well as a wealth of third party games. The second is Metroid Prime Hunters on the DS it is looking likley that it has been delayed so that NST could add online play to it as fans have been demanding it since it was announced without online play at E3.
Nintendo announced the price of the Game Boy Micro at the rather high £69 which is the same price as the GBA:SP, now it came with Play Yan I could understand the price but cough up another £30 and you could get a DS and by the time christmas comes around the DS could come with a game for £100. I will have to admit that the Famicom face plate looks great
Microsoft have announced the price for the X-Box 360 at £209 and £299. The £209 version you a wired controller, faceplate and standard AV cable but no hard drive but with the £299 you get 20GB detachable hard drive, Wireless controller, Removable faceplate, Headset, HD-AV cable, XBL silver membership as well as a media remote. It'll be interresting to see the sales of each package but the £209 package could attract some gamers this christmas.
The M3 apdator team are claiming that there GBA support in there upcoming product is nearly perfect, much better then supercards, this piece of kit will be the ultimate in GBA multimedia and ROM playing and it also has support for DS which they have now unveiled their Pass Me device, this looks better then the current pass mes as the DS card does not stick out the top but goes down the bottom of the console, the pic is off the CF Card version I myself am waiting for the SD Card version. more info.
Recently I have been playing on smsadvance which is a new Game Gear and Master System emulater for GBA and it is at PERFECT SPEED! Compatibility is not brilliant nor has it got save state support yet but it is still very early. I can not belive what is being achieved on the GBA in regards to emulation as it has the power of a SNES with 32-bit RISC, first perfect NES, then Game Boy and now Master System, if you own a Flash Cart or Supercard then check it out.
Next up is a new app for Nintendo DS called Moonshell this program allows you to file browse and play MP3 files of any size, various picture formats and text files, still in early stages with updates happening very often but hopefully more support will be added. I have not tryed it yet but according to this post it is very good. Take a look.
Take a look at this topic. That is the GPX2, the sequa to the GP32 made by Gamer Park Holdings. It will host a 250Mhz CPU with 64MB of DDR Ram and uses SD cards. It will be powered by Linux. It will be the ultimate homebrew handheld as that is what it is created for. It also supports various Media types and ROm support, it is going to be good. Take a good look
The M3 apdator team are claiming that there GBA support in there upcoming product is nearly perfect, much better then supercards, this piece of kit will be the ultimate in GBA multimedia and ROM playing and it also has support for DS which they have now unveiled their Pass Me device, this looks better then the current pass mes as the DS card does not stick out the top but goes down the bottom of the console, the pic is off the CF Card version I myself am waiting for the SD Card version. more info.
Recently I have been playing on smsadvance which is a new Game Gear and Master System emulater for GBA and it is at PERFECT SPEED! Compatibility is not brilliant nor has it got save state support yet but it is still very early. I can not belive what is being achieved on the GBA in regards to emulation as it has the power of a SNES with 32-bit RISC, first perfect NES, then Game Boy and now Master System, if you own a Flash Cart or Supercard then check it out.
Next up is a new app for Nintendo DS called Moonshell this program allows you to file browse and play MP3 files of any size, various picture formats and text files, still in early stages with updates happening very often but hopefully more support will be added. I have not tryed it yet but according to this post it is very good. Take a look.
Take a look at this topic. That is the GPX2, the sequa to the GP32 made by Gamer Park Holdings. It will host a 250Mhz CPU with 64MB of DDR Ram and uses SD cards. It will be powered by Linux. It will be the ultimate homebrew handheld as that is what it is created for. It also supports various Media types and ROm support, it is going to be good. Take a good look
posted by shinshade at 8:14 pm
8 Comments:
'Grats on the Broadband - it must be wonderful to have it 'full speed' again! I hate it when the connection goes down for a few hours, can't imagine what it's like after two or three weeks!!
Continuing from the last comment post...
I think that if it did come with PlayYan, or something similar it'd be quite good - but that's not really the market that they're going for with the Micro (less 'tech' minded and more style conscious 'I-don't-play-games-cause-they're-for-losers - oh-erm-well-except-when-its-cool' crowd)
I think a free game and a store discount would make me more willing to buy (I got 10% off my original GBA with my NUS card), but £70 is just too much for, what is essentially, old rope!
Ditto Xbox360. You're right about the christmas crowd, they're the ones who are being targeted with the lower price point. Still, when will they learn to put TWO controllers in the box rather than one... they might get it right eventually...
Gotta go - my car's booked in for a service & MOT... just watch the money mystically drain from my bank account LOL
oh lets hope it passes.
Yeah, it has! w00t!
I hope they release some decent first-party software for the GPX2. I know it works great with homebrew, but there tends to be hundreds of conversions rather than anything particularly new created for it!
I hope so to but an english language option in the games would be decent. There was a decent RPG out on the GP32 but no one could understand it.
Oooh, just logged into my Moved.In account and it looks as if I have a couple of invites - huzzah!
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If you're interested just give me a nod & I'll send one out to you...
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Its a nice offer but it will probably be better for a more hardcore blogger, I haven't really had time to update this blog.
M3 to be released on the 20th in its native homeland! Huzzah!
How much is it? Considering you can get a supercard & superpass for about £50, it'd better be fairly cheap...
http://www.divineo.cn they got it for $90 and shippiung is $5 which comes to £52 and it does come with a Pass me but the size of the SD card version is not as small as it could be http://www.scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=647 but apprently it is a lot more compatible and there is less slow down then supercard.
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