Ah, The eternal struggle between 50hz and 60hz, PAL vs NTSC, Japanese vs European... but have no fear: Z80ST is here!
MSX translations veteran DJANGO has improved his work on American Success.
Source: Michel Sondagh
Konami have released their classic arcade game Rush 'n Attack Green Beret in the Playstation Network and Xbox Live.
In 1986 a man called Hideo Kojima joined the MSX computer division of Konami and - even though he himself would have preferred to work on the NES division - that turned out to be a life-changing event.
MIDI music to MSX
Since december 2010, popolony2k has been developing a way to convert MIDI files (.mid) to a format our MSX can deal with. As a result of his investigations, he has found music software for MSX and PC, and he made compiler to help this conversion process.
Another Tool Assisted Speedrun of an MSX game has been submitted to Tasvideos.
Some time ago, we reported about the 10th Bonami Retro Fair. A few weeks back, the Dutch site Retro Computer en Games Museum has put a photoshoot online.
Spelunkers
Japanese MSX developer Hackwrench has presented the community with a fresh piece of sofware which, concerning gameplay, very much resembles IREM's classic Spelunker.
Despite the current difficulties in Japan (blackouts, gasoline shortage, low supply of daily items), the MSX user Jazzin released version 1.3 of his frontend NekoLauncher openMSX for Mac OS X.
Marcelo Tini informs us that his MSX History website is updated with simpler navigation and cleaner look. All questionable content has been removed. Only the interviews and labels remain. Luckely the interviews with famous Brazilian MSX users are still there.
Related link: MSX History
