It's May 3rd, time to take a look at the MSX Download Charts of April 2008, our monthly overview of the most downloaded files from our Freeware MSX Downloads corner. Infinite's MEGA-Challenge entry Montana John and the Templar's Treasure has entered the MSX Downloads Overall Top 25 with more than 570 downloads. The complete MSX Downloads Charts of April 2008 look as follows:

MSX Downloads Top 10 - April 2008

1. Montana John and the Templar's Treasure (172 downloads)
   
2. X-Tazy Intro & Title (132 downloads)
   
3. PCM Encoder (86 downloads)
   
4. SymbOS MSX (72 downloads)
   
5. Deltree (60 downloads)
   
6. Rick Dangerous (56 downloads)
   
7. 666 The Haunted House (51 downloads)
   
8. VScreen Car (50 downloads)
   
9. Unknown Reality (48 downloads)
   
10. Car II (44 downloads)
    

MSX Related Downloads Top 10 - April 2008

1. Metal Gear 1 (228 downloads)
   
2. Metal Gear 2 - Solid Snake intro 2008 (110 downloads)
   
3. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake introdemo (99 downloads)
   
4. Solid Snake 2007 (98 downloads)
   
5. Kings Valley 2 (97 downloads)
   
6. Metal Gear - Red Alert (75 downloads)
   
7. Metal Gear - Big Boss (65 downloads)
   
8. Dragonslayer 6 - Legend of Heroes (57 downloads)
   
9. Maze of Galious - Castle theme (57 downloads)
   
10. Usas - Mohenjo Daro (53 downloads)
    

For a Top 25 of overall download statistics please have a look to our statistics page. Currently, our database contains 943 freeware MSX downloads. If you'd like to share your productions with the MSX community, send them to downloads@msx.org. Happy downloading!

Relevant link: MSX downloads database

In an effort to keep our links section up to date we did a little cleaning today. In total 23 links were removed due to 404s, unreachable servers or removed content while 10 links were updated to their new location or labeled "under construction". With that, our links section should be up to date again.

The MRC links section now contains slightly less than 250 links to MSX (related) websites from all over the world. Do you know of any MSX related websites that are not listed yet (or anymore)? Is yours listed? Let us know by registering an account and then submit your MSX links here. Thanks!

Relevant link: MRC links section

Today, we have updated our review of Manbow 2, the Space Manbow-inspired shooter game that was released by Sunrise during Bussum 2007.

Our initial review gave the impression that re-used cartridges were used, whereas in fact brand new cartridge cases were produced and used for this game's release. As soon as Sunrise gets the cartridge labels and game manuals to their customers the end-product will look as sparkling-new as it actually is.

Relevant link: Manbow 2 review

It's April 1st and as we're not pulling your April-fools-legs this year, let's move straight on to the MSX Download charts of March 2008. As you probably know by now, the MSX Download Charts are our monthly overview of which files from our freeware MSX downloads corner have been downloaded the most in the past month. About all attention of this month goes out to MEGA-Challenge entry Montana John and the Templar's Treasure, which was downloaded exactly 400 times during the 8 days after its release - an MSX download chart record! Another recent release, VScreen Car, is high in the charts again as well. Hopefully the first complete Vscreen-based game will soon see the light of day. Either way, the complete MSX Downloads Charts of March 2008 look as follows:

MSX downloads Top 10 - March 2008

1. Montana John and the Templar's Treasure (400 downloads)
   
2. VScreen Car (73 downloads)
   
3. Rick Dangerous (55 downloads)
   
4. Deltree (54 downloads)
   
5. PCM Encoder (52 downloads)
   
6. SymbOS MSX (51 downloads)
   
7. Car II (40 downloads)
   
8. 666 The Haunted House (38 downloads)
   
9. Unknown Reality (38 downloads)
   
10. Bet your life (35 downloads)
    

MSX Related downloads Top 10 - March 2008

1. Metal Gear 1 (160 downloads)
   
2. Metal Gear 2 - Solid Snake intro 2008 (108 downloads)
   
3. Kings Valley 2 (75 downloads)
   
4. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake introdemo (61 downloads)
   
5. Metal Gear - Big Boss (56 downloads)
   
6. Metal Gear - Red Alert (55 downloads)
   
7. Solid Snake 2007 (54 downloads)
   
8. Usas - Mohenjo Daro (45 downloads)
   
9. Maze of Galious - Castle theme (44 downloads)
   
10. Dragonslayer 6 - Legend of Heroes (42 downloads)
    

For a Top 25 of overall download statistics please have a look to our statistics page. Currently, our database contains 942 freeware MSX downloads. If you'd like to share your productions with the MSX community, send them to downloads@msx.org. Happy downloading!

Relevant link: MSX downloads database

Due to quite a stupid mistake (snout: 'I goofed!') the trackers in the freeware MSX downloads corner have been offline for quite a while. As of today, they are all back available - including screen shots and, when appropriate, DSK downloads. It concerns the following trackers:

• C-Qensr
• Koustracker promo
• Meridian 3.0 beta3
• Oracle 1.10
• PSG Tracker
• Sample Box 4.4 macro
• SCC Blaffer
• SCC Blaffer NT
• SEE (Sound Effect Editor) 3.0
• TraxPlayer

Happy downloading and tracking!

Relevant link: MSX Downloads - Music trackers

We have just added the 15th MSX Resource Center newsletter to our MRC Newsletter archive. Regular visitors of the MRC know this means a brand new newsletter is currently being sent out to those who subscribed to it.

Do you want to receive the MRC newsletter as well? Just register an account, log in and check the 'Newsletter' option in the 'My account' section of our website. Currently, more than 1,400 MSX fans have subscribed to the MRC newsletter.

Relevant link: MRC Newsletter #15

It's March 5th and finally there it is: the MSX Download Charts - our monthly overview of which files from our freeware MSX downloads corner have been downloaded the most in the past month. Special credits this time go to VScreen Car, which with 145 downloads in a month shows that quite some people are eagerly awaiting a complete Vscreen based game and Wolf's Metal Gear 1 rearrangement which broke through the 3000 downloads milestone this month. The rest of the MSX Downloads Charts of February(/March) 2008 looks as follows:

MSX downloads Top 10 - February 2008

1. VScreen Car (145 downloads)
   
2. SymbOS MSX (73 downloads)
   
3. Deltree (67 downloads)
   
4. PCM Encoder (58 downloads)
   
5. Rick Dangerous (50 downloads)
   
6. 666 The Haunted House (45 downloads)
   
7. Rally X (40 downloads)
   
8. Car II (39 downloads)
   
9. MuSiCa MML examples (39 downloads)
   
10. Bet your life (38 downloads)
    

MSX Related downloads Top 10 - February 2008

1. Metal Gear 1 (179 downloads)
   
2. Metal Gear 2 - Solid Snake intro 2008 (136 downloads)
   
3. Dragonslayer 6 - Legend of Heroes (83 downloads)
   
4. Metal Gear - Red Alert (76 downloads)
   
5. Metal Gear - Big Boss (72 downloads)
   
6. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake introdemo (68 downloads)
   
7. Maze of Galious - Castle theme (68 downloads)
   
8. Kings Valley 2 (66 downloads)
   
9. Usas - Mohenjo Daro (62 downloads)
   
10. Solid Snake 2007 (59 downloads)
    

For a Top 25 of overall download statistics please have a look to our statistics page. Currently, our database contains 940 freeware MSX downloads. If you'd like to share your productions with the MSX community, send them to downloads@msx.org. Happy downloading!

Relevant link: MSX downloads database

As of now, you can not only post reactions to the latest MSX news, our freeware MSX downloads and the articles, reviews and fair reports on our website, but also to our polls. So if you want to let our visitors know what you voted and why - or if you would like to comment your vote - now you can do so. Don't forget to cast your vote to the most recent poll while you're at it!

We have also made some minor changes to the right sidebar on the website, which now shows more links to the latest news and forum posts.

Relevant link: MSX Resource Center polls

We have just added the 14th MSX Resource Center newsletter to our MRC Newsletter archive. Regular visitors of the MRC know this means a brand new newsletter is currently being sent out to those who subscribed to it.

Do you want to receive the MRC newsletter as well? Just register an account, log in and check the 'Newsletter' option in the 'My account' section of our website. Currently, more than 1,300 MSX fans have subscribed to the MRC newsletter.

Relevant link: MRC Newsletter #14

It's the first of the month and thus time for the MSX Download Charts - our monthly overview of which files from our freeware MSX downloads corner have been downloaded the most in the past month. As of this months we have decided to expand the MSX Related Downloads charts from a monthly Top 5 to a monthly Top 10. Here goes:

MSX downloads Top 10 - January 2008

1. Rally X (98 downloads)
   
2. MuSiCa MML examples (67 downloads)
   
3. Deltree (60 downloads)
   
4. SymbOS MSX (52 downloads)
   
5. Explode (49 downloads)
   
6. Rally-X 1st version (48 downloads)
   
7. PCM Encoder (47 downloads)
   
8. Rick Dangerous (45 downloads)
   
9. 666 The Haunted House (42 downloads)
   
10. ROMLOAD (34 downloads)
    

MSX Related downloads Top 10 - January 2008

1. Dragonslayer 6 - Legend of Heroes (146 downloads)
   
2. Metal Gear 1 (134 downloads)
   
3. Maze of Galious - Castle theme (125 downloads)
   
4. Metal Gear - Red Alert (120 downloads)
   
5. Solid Snake - Intro (117 downloads)
   
6. Metal Gear 2 - Solid Snake intro 2008 (107 downloads)
   
7. F1-Spirit - Menu (102 downloads)
   
8. Salamander Medley (101 downloads)
   
9. Metal Gear - Big Boss (101 downloads)
   
10. Usas - Mohenjo Daro (100 downloads)
    

For a Top 25 of overall download statistics please have a look to our statistics page. Currently, our database contains 939 freeware MSX downloads. If you'd like to share your productions with the MSX community, send them to downloads@msx.org. Happy downloading!

Relevant link: MSX downloads database