TASing - creating a Tool-Assisted-Speedrun - is the hobby, or art if you like, of creating ultimate run-throughs of video games. Basically the goal is to use tools to create the best possible speedrun of a game, taking out the limiting factor that human players can be (and often are).
Malaya's Treasure
Ever wanted to go treasure hunting in some far away place? Now you can from the comfort of your own home with the translation of Malaya no Hihou. Explore the forests, the caves and the many villages along the way. Perhaps you will be the one to uncover the legendary treasure.
Metal Gear quartet
THIS IS BIG BOSS. There's no way to get rid of one of the most popular MSX2 games, the stealth Konami classic Metal Gear by Hideo Kojima. Whether it's the countless rearrangements, speedruns, remakes or ridiculous eBay prices, Metal Gear is big franchise and MSX cult.
Ever wanted to play MSX games on a device that wasn't built for gaming, e.g. on MP3 player? Then you need Rockbox, a replacement OS running on a variety of media players such as Archos, iriver, Cowon, Sansa e200 and old iPods, for which you can develop a plugin in the C language.
Knight Tyme remake
Amongst platforms such as ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, our MSX system was host to a graphic adventure game series by Mastertronic, revolving around a character named Magic Knight.
During the MSX Vriendenclub Marienberg meeting that was held last weekend, SuperSoniqs showed that their PlaySoniq works nicely together with the soon to be released
38th RU Barcelona
For the 38th time, there will be an MSX user meeting in Barcelona! The party place has been reserved for December 4th 2010, and like recent editions, the place to be is the meeting room of Cotxeres de Sants.
Caanoo-MSX 1.1.0
Caanoo-MSX is an fmsx port for the GP2X Caanoo handheld.
Colecovision CV2
With projects like the One Chip MSX, Franky and the recenlty released Playsoniq extension the latest trend appears to be that retro computer scenes borrow more and more from each other.
It's been quite a while since we reported on the frequently updated Bargain compression suite for MSX. The toolkit celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and only a few days ago a new version was released. As usual, quite a bit of extra optimization and bugfixing was performed.
