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MrDictionary has recently released Lemmings DS! v7 Alpha. This is the latest release in open source LemProject for the DS; a Lemmings clone.

From the release notes:

I’ve done a whole load more stuff to Lemmings… alternative ways of doing stuff that should be more R4 friendly: copy everything in here to the root of your card (don’t forget to patch it, too), and see what happens. (New version! Works on R4! Possibly! Really this time!)

Yeah, it still takes half a minute to start up and to begin a level. (Enumerating levels and stuff)

I took out all the .xms except one to speed things up a bit. If you want to put them back, use the xm’s from the rar in the post below.

The final version of this will boot and load levels instantly. (It’s debugging stuff that slows it down.)

There are only a couple of test levels in this version to test traps and hazards. Levels made with LemmingsDSBuilder -will not work- on this version. This version is just to test these levels for now.

Thanks to Dave2 for putting up with a barrage of nds tests! :D 

Download: Lemmings DS! v7 Alpha

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Bronto has released NDSMail 0.56a. It now features partial iso8859 support, as well as other enhancements.

• support for ISO-8859 mails
• keyboard fixed
• use latest libnds/dswifi/libfat
• bonus eyecandy
• other misc. fixes

The R4DS Team was kind enough to donate one of their excellent cards for testing and development. This is why I also provide a pre-patched version for R4DS owners. Have fun!

ndsmail.nds - unpatched version, supports some cards like the SuperCard, and can be patched for others

ndsmail.nds - R4DS

It seems the .ds.gba versions are not needed anymore, so I did not include them.

My SSL library unfortunately still behaves strangely in “pure DS mode”. It works perfectly on Win32, Linux and even DSLinux! I’m preparing for another hardcore debugging session..

There is still a little work to be done until this is stable and fully supports SSL, but this is definitely a step in the right direction. If it is not working on your cartridge, be sure to give DLDI a try.
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From next-gen.biz:

The free service enables Wi-Fi game-play on over 60 titles, the most popular of which are Animal Crossing: Wild World, Mario Kart DS, Metroid Prime Hunters and Pok?©mon titles Diamond and Pearl.

“The milestones represent millions of hours of fun and camaraderie despite miles between players,” said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime.

Read the full story at next-gen.biz.

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GameIndustry.biz reports the Wii has helped turn things around for Nintendo Austrailia.

The launch of the Wii has helped Nintendo of Australia record sales of AUD 138.8 million (EUR 84.5m), almost double that of the previous year.

Profits have risen to AUD 6.4 million (EUR 3.9m) for the year ended March 31, with the company shifting 80,000 Wii units in the region, almost half of which were sold in the first four days of launch, reports News.com.au

Sales and profits costs were accompanied by a rise in the cost of doing business in the region, with Nintendo accumulating sales costs of AUD 107.8 million (EUR 65.5m), compared to AUD 56.5 million (EUR 34.4m) in 2006.

Marketing costs were up over 68 per cent 10 AUD 10.6 million (EUR 6.4m), with selling costs at AUD 9.2 million (EUR 5.6m), a climb of 169 per cent.

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x3sphere at Exophase.com posted that 2 new DS colors are coming to Japan June 23.

 

Nintendo has announced that it will bring two more lavish DS Lite colors to Japan: Metallic Rose and Gloss Silver. This now brings the total count of DS Lite colors in Japan to seven, two of them being a shade of Pink.

No word if these colors are coming to the U.S.

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Backups of the recently released NTSC version of Mario Party 8 have been confirmed to not work on any PAL consoles with any chip. This news comes from several tips we’ve received from various sources.

This is the second blow Nintendo has dealt to Wii pirates recently. As you may recall they also recently removed some pins from a chip that prevents the installation of all currently available modchips. Both of these actions coming on the heals of their recent statement against pirates and would-be pirates. It’s clear they’re taking steps to stop pirates but unlike Microsofts retro-active/offensive approach Nintendo seems to be taking more of a passive/defensive approach.

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A new modchip product has been released to help with the ease of installing the WiiFree modchip for the Wii: WiiFree Easy Connect. The WiiFree Easy Connect provides a quick solder interface and an externally mounted chip socket making it easy to install and upgrade a WiiFree chip. In addition to the quick solder interface, ribbon cable, and socket it also includes a PIC12F629 making it essentially an all inclusive, ready to flash modchip.

 

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Denman from TehSkeen’s SkeenDev Development Forums has released a new version of SNES9X GX2 for the Gamecube and Wii. This update includes the ability to create zipped save states as well as support for PAL consoles. From the changelog:

- DVD automount fix (eke-eke) from 29.03.07 implemented
- Pal-Wii Support
- Imports old SNES9x 1.43 SRAM Saves ***NEW***
- Freezing State to MemoryCard (zipped) implemented
needs only 9-16 blocks ,now you can save your game everywhere ;-)

Download: SNES9X GX2 Zip Freeze+PAL

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Nutki has released version 0.7 of Lameboy for the DS. From the release notes:

0.7
- fixed: less interscreen video glitches
- fixed: correct flag bits locations, helps Zelda Oracle of Ages
- fixed: window size overflow, helps with menu in both Zelda Oracles
- added: 60fps emulation speed sync
- added: fast mode with L button
- added: cpu emulation optimizations, more games run fullspeed

Lameboy is a Gameboy emulator for the DS.

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A Version 3 of the homebrew game AmplituDS has been released for the DS. From the release notes:

I didn’t forget about my Nintendo DS projects. The last couple of months I had been working on AmplituDS again to give it a well-polished look and feel. I’m proud to announce AmplituDS v3. which also includes more stages and DLDI support amongst other things.
A quick shout-out to Violation Entertainment for creating a really professional 3D ship model to put in AmplituDS and to slap on the boxart.

And that’s not the only thing that’s new, as you can see. A friend of mine, retrohead, created this all-new website for me to post information on my projects. Currently I have three main Nintendo DS projects: AmplituDS, Project S.A.N.T.A. and RTS4DS. And I have a sideproject: a 3D model conversion and a 3D model viewer program for Nintendo DS. Also newly released now and up for download. You might want to check out what they’re all about. If you’d like to talk about any of them, feel free to hit the message board which is now expanded to include talk for more than only AmplituDS.

Oh, and a big thanks to the people who helped in making AmplituDS v3 a reality… be it via content, suggestions, advice, testing or support in general.

So run off to the projects and/or downloads pages to get the new AmplituDS release and the model tools release.

In the words of Commander Kahn: “AmplituDS is gooooo!!!”

For those unfamiliar with AmplituDS it is a music and rythm game similar to Amplitude for the Playstation 2.

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