Firebird BGM by Hackurl
Hackurl has released an PSG/MSX-MUSIC/SCC version of the main theme of Konami's Firebird (Hinotori). You can find it, like many other MSX inspired songs, on Hackurl's website.
In December 2003 we reported Konami had licenced the Falcom game YS VI - The Ark of Napishtim for a worldwide (English) release on Sony Playstation
WAVeR 3 - beta test
Eduardo Robsy of Karoshi Corporation released a Karoshi Games Collection as a test for his high-speed cassette loading tool WAVeR 3. In December 2002 Robsy released WAVeR 2.0, which made it possible to load games through the cassette port at -for cassette- extremely high speeds.
On November 30th Joy Division, the team behind the Metal Gear Origin plans, announced they would like to re-translate Konami's all-time classic Metal Gear as the English version originally released by Konami missed a l
On September 10th we reported ASCII and MSX Association are going to demonstrate the One Chip MSX on Altera's event
J-War just finished the second version of the rearrangement of "Metal Gear 2 Theme Of Solid Snake" (Opening Bgm 1). The first version of this arrangment was released by J-War three years ago. You can download the new arrangement from J-War's remakes page here: j.war.free.fr/fr/remakes_divers.htm
In 1998 three members of the MSX group Fony went to Tokyo, Japan, experiencing one of the most impressive cities of the world in a search for MSX collectibles. At the time several shops in Akihabara were still loaded with rare Japanese MSX software titles.
Single chip anyone? Since a few days you can order the Mega Drive PlayTV. This small console comes with 6 games and a Mega Drive style Controller. In contrary to all the other TV consoles available , this Mega Drive has real computing power under the hood in the form of a complete Mega Drive in a small IC. Another one holds the games.
SDCC is a C compiler for microcomputers that generates Z80 compatible codem released under the GPL license at Sourceforge. On the website of Avelino you can find a patch for this compiler, which makes the SDCC compiler generate MSXDOS compatible code.
MSXPlug 2004-10-25
Digital Sound Antiques has just released a new version of MSXplug, a plugin for WinAmp and KbMediaPlayer that allows you to play several formats of MSX songs on PC.