Dear readers, This automated two-weekly email message contains the MSX Resource Center news summary dating from Dec 01, 2004 until Dec 15, 2004. In these two weeks 38 news articles were posted at the MSX Resource center. The complete newsarchive can be found here: http://www.msx.org/newsarchive.html
Kind regards, MSX Resource Center team ___________________________________________________________________________________ THE DARKNESS GOD OF DESTROY - UPDATED (2004-12-14 18:03:06) BodyHammeR has just updated The Darkness God Of Destroy. Some noticible changes are: * Changed size of all pictures to 320x240 to lessen the amount of data on server * Added more than a dozen new pictures taken during the Bussum 2004 Fair & Marathon *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2535.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN LEVEL EDIT CHALLENGE: CLOSED (2004-12-14 00:13:23) On October 28th, 2004 we started the Bombaman Level Edit Challenge. Six weeks later, 2 days before the deadline of the challenge we had not received a single entry yet. Then, BiFi decided to submit a set of levels. Within two days we received 13 levelsets... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2534.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN LEVEL EDIT CHALLENGE: ENTRY 8 TO 13 (2004-12-13 23:52:47) Robert Wilting surprised us with not one, not two, not three but six sets of Bombaman levels, making a grand total of 30 new Bombaman levels for the Bombaman Level Edit Challenge. If you want to play them all, check the six relevant links below. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2533.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN LEVEL EDIT CHALLENGE: SEVENTH ENTRY (2004-12-13 23:28:44) Robert Vroemisse just sent in a second set of levels for the Bombaman Level Edit Challenge. You can download Yum's levels - Part II over here. Relevant link: Yum's levels - Part IIRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2532.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMB JACK PROMO (2004-12-13 22:06:46) On the 26th MSX User meeting of Barcelona, held on October 30th, 2004, Kralizec released Bomb Jack for MSX2, an accurate port of the original arcade classic. Earlier this month we announced Bitwise are to distribute the game in the Netherlands and people... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2531.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN LEVEL EDIT CHALLENGE: SIXTH ENTRY (2004-12-13 21:56:27) Robert Vroemisse just sent us Yum's Bomba levels as an entry to the Bombaman Level Edit Challenge. With 2 hours to go before the deadline of the challenge, you can still join and you might win one of the five available prizes. If you take the time... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2530.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN LEVEL EDIT CHALLENGE: FIFTH ENTRY (2004-12-13 21:43:06) Vincent van Dam entered the Bombaman Level Edit Challenge with a set of five levels called (Not) my cup of tea. With a bit more than 2 hours to go before the deadline of the challenge the amount of entries finally equals the amount of prizes to give away.... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2529.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN LEVEL EDIT CHALLENGE: FOURTH ENTRY (2004-12-13 21:35:54) Nyyrikki sent us a set of Bombaman levels for the Bombaman Level Edit Challenge. Unfortunately Nyyrikki could not test the levels himself, as he does not own Bombaman, which resulted in 5 levels that look cool but are marked as 'non-playable' levels by... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2528.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN LEVEL EDIT CHALLENGE: THIRD ENTRY (2004-12-13 20:23:14) Chaos just sent us the third entry to the Bombaman Level Edit Challenge, called Thousand bombs and grenades. With less than 4 hours to go to the deadline there are 3 entries and 5 prizes to give away. If you can create 5 levels for Bombaman within 3 hours... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2527.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX MAGAZINE 3 - FEBRUARY 2005 (2004-12-13 20:07:10) Source: Gigamix On ASCII's MSX Magazine website more information on the upcoming MSX Magazine 3 was published. The third edition of this magazine will be published in February 2005, about a month before the production of the One Chip MSX starts. At... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2526.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ CHIMA CHIMA AND EGGY FOR MOBILE PHONES (2004-12-13 20:02:00) Source: Gigamix Bothtec have released 2 new mobile games for in Japan: Chima Chima and Eggy. Screenshots from both games can be found in this review on itMedia and on the Bothtec mobile pages. Relevant link: Bothec mobile pages - Chima Chima and... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2525.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GENERATION MSX - MINOR UPDATES (2004-12-13 19:38:50) Today a few updates were performed to the international MSX software database Generation MSX. Users can now add scans of gamecovers to the database. Furthermore a page with 4 different overviews of the latest changes in the database has been added. Relevant... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2524.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN LEVEL EDIT CHALLENGE: SECOND ENTRY (2004-12-13 12:27:39) With about 12 hours to go before the deadline to the Bombaman Level Edit Challenge the second entry just came in. BiFi has sent in 5 levels for Bombaman which you can find over here. As both entries are created by BiFi he is very likely to win two of... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2523.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA MEGAPOLL - ROUND 4 (2004-12-13 00:05:27) The third round of voting in the MSX in the Media megapoll has just been closed, which means we only have one round of voting in the forums to go in which is decided which 5 fo the 10 remaining options are going to battle on a frontpage poll. So what... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2522.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MRC MEMBERS GAIN CONTROL OVER MRC ADS (2004-12-12 23:25:05) Although the largest part of the costs the MSX Resource Center Foundation makes to host the MRC, write reviews on hardware and software, offer prizes to challenges and visit MSX fairs are donated to the foundation on a regular basis by the MRC admin team,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2521.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BOMBAMAN LEVEL EDIT CHALLENGE: FIRST ENTRY (2004-12-12 22:26:16) With about 26 hours to go before the deadline to the Bombaman Level Edit Challenge the first entry has finally arrived. BiFi has sent in 5 levels for Bombaman which you can find over here. With this he can win a Sunrise MSX Game Reader, an MSX Joystick... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2520.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA MEGAPOLL - ROUND 3 (2004-12-11 00:01:10) The second round of voting in the MSX in the Media megapoll has just been closed. 20 winners went on to the next round and can still become the coolest MSX in the Media event reported from May to November 2004. Do you want to decide which one is going... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2519.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TRCAS AND TAPE2CAS BY MARTOS (2004-12-10 19:57:37) We have just added two tools related to cassette tapes to our downloads database. Both tools were created by Martos. TRCAS is a tool that adds support for tapes to the MSX turboR, which lacks a cassette port. How? By using the microphone and the PCM... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2518.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2 RAYFORCE BGMS BY HACKURL (2004-12-10 19:47:07) Source: Vorc.org Hackurl frequently releases MSX related songs on his website. As of today you can find 2 new songs, both MSX style arrangements of the songs Penetration and Aggressiveness from the arcade game Rayforce. Relevant link: HackurlRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2517.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS HEMMINGS (KONAMI UK) (2004-12-09 23:43:33) An interview with Dennis Hemmings (Konami's retired PR man in the UK) is now avaliable online at djh1697's website. MRC visitors had the chance to ask questions in this forum topic. Some of these questions have not been answered, although as you can see... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2516.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ FREE MSX GAME READER? (2004-12-08 23:15:12) Earlier this year MSX Association released the MSX Game Reader, a device which allows you to play MSX games straight from cartridge in MSXPLAYer, the official MSX Emulator. In December 2003 Sunrise already announced they would develop a Game Reader based... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2515.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX POSSE RETRO DAYS (2004-12-08 17:38:27) After a discussion on their forums, MSX Posse decided it was time for a Retro event in Deventer, the Netherlands. The MSX Posse Retro days were born. On, February 12th and February 13th, 2005, retro fans can gather for a bit more than 24 hours of gaming,... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2514.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA MEGAPOLL - ROUND 2 (2004-12-08 15:15:29) The first round of voting in the MSX in the Media megapoll has just been closed. 40 winners went on to the next round and can still become the coolest MSX in the Media event reported from May to November 2004. Do you want to decide which one is going... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2513.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ NESTORBASIC 1.11 (2004-12-07 03:46:16) After releasing InterNestor Lite 1.0 and Inlib Konamiman also released a new version of NestorBasic. This new version incorporates all changes needed to work correctly with the new InterNestor Lite release. This means you can even create your entries... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2512.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ KIKI KAIKAI FOR MOBILE PHONES (2004-12-06 12:17:45) Source: Gigamix Taito have released their 1987 MSX2 game Kiki Kaikai for Mobile phones in Japan. Over here you can find a review of the mobile version of the game. Kiki Kaikai for mobiles - reviewRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2511.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2,000,000 VISITORS ON THE MSX RESOURCE CENTER (2004-12-05 23:12:16) On December 28th, 2003, just a bit less than a year ago, we celebrated the fact our NedStat counter, which has been counting visits to the MSX Resource Center ever since August 1996, passed the 1,000,000 visits barrier. It took the MRC 7 years to reach... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2509.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ INLIB (2004-12-05 21:59:32) Together with the release of InterNestor Lite 1.0 Konamiman released Inlib, an InterNestor lite development library which can be used with SDCC (of which an MSX-DOS backend can be found over here). With this library you can use all features InterNestor... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2508.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ INTERNESTOR LITE 1.0 (2004-12-05 21:56:24) Konamiman has just released a new version of InterNestor Lite. Changes in this new version: * Detection of InterNestor is now done by using a BIOS hook, instead of reading fixed memory locations * Telnet client with partial support for VT100 escape codes *... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2507.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX MAPS - RAMBO MAP ADDED (2004-12-05 21:45:50) MSX Maps contains maps of several MSX games. As of today, the maps of Pack-in Video's Rambo are available on MSX Maps as well. Relevant link: MSX MapsRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2506.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA CHALLENGE - SECOND EDITION (2004-12-05 21:09:25) Earlier today we closed the first round of the MSX in the Media Challenge, which resulted in a grand total of 80 nominations. Over here you can vote for which MSX in the Media event you liked the most. As we want to keep reporting about MSX getting in... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2505.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ BITWISE TO DISTRIBUTE BOMB JACK IN THE NETHERLANDS (2004-12-05 17:49:40) Bomb Jack for MSX2 is an interesting port of the arcade classic for MSX, developed by Kralizec. Bomb Jack was released on October 30th, during the 26th MSX User meeting of Barcelona. Today, the Dutch MSX group Bitwise announced they will be distributing... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2504.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ MSX IN THE MEDIA CHALLENGE 1 - CLOSED; LET THE VOTING BEGIN! (2004-12-05 15:17:16) 6 months sooner than expected, we have decided to close the first edition of the MSX in the Media Challenge. The reason for this early closing is the huge amount of nominations we have received already: a grand total of 80 events of MSX getting attention... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2503.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GENERATION MSX ADDS SCREENSHOTS OF SPANISH SOFTWARE (2004-12-05 02:12:49) On Generation MSX you can find an ever growing overview of MSX software that has been released in the past. As of today more than 400 screenshots of Spanish MSX software were added to the database. Another recent addition was a statistics page on which... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2502.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GRIGORI BY DRMSX (2004-12-04 09:01:30) Source: Vorc.org DrMSX has released yet another MSX song for PSG, OPLL and SCC in both MP3 and MGS format on his DrMSX Soundwork pages. In this new song, called Grigori, DrMSX experiments with breakbeats on MSX. Relevant link: DrMSX websiteRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2501.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ CASABLANCA FOR MOBILE PHONES (2004-12-03 23:38:37) Source: Gigamix Falcom has released a mobile phone version of the game (Love to) Casablanca, originally released in 1987 by the Japanese company Thinking Rabbit. Relevant link: Casablanca for mobile phones - PreviewRead more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2500.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ TEAM BOMBA ANNOUNCE BLOX FOR GFX9000 (2004-12-03 01:48:16) Team Bomba have just restyled their website, adding information on their products of the past (Bombaman being the most famous one) and announcing what they are going to do in the future. On the Team Bomba website you can find information on the GFX9000... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2499.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ GANBARE GOEMON FOR MOBILE PHONES (2004-12-02 23:33:33) Source: Gigamix Throughout the past few years Konami have released several of their all-time classics for mobile phones on the Japanese market, including Metal Gear 1 and (previously MSX only) Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. As of January 2005 another Konami... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2498.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS TOP 10; NOVEMBER 2004 (2004-12-01 01:19:12) It's the first of December, so lets have a look at which files have been downloaded the most in November 2004. Entries to the MRC Bounce Challenge are still going strong and so are the new releases of Polka, Vscreen, F-Copy and the GFX9000 library. In... Read more at: http://www.msx.org/newspost2497.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
