Vampier videos
In the USA everything is bigger, including Vampier's appetite for gaming. Ever since openMSX has a reverse feature, recording games seems to be his core business.
In the past years more and more people started to delve into games to make content out of them. MSX Solutions focused on good old maps, a handful o' people make enhancements like MSX2 versions for MSX1 games, or even smooth versions of Konami's shooters. Other people make textual walkthoughs with screenshots and recently various people have started to upload walk through videos to YouTube.
blueMSX Launcher 1.8
The year 2010 starts with news for emulator fans: a new version of blueMSX Launcher has been released. This is a front-end for blueMSX and now also openMSX.
Like Vampier, MSX cow in disguise Hydragon has also been keeping himself busy with testing openMSX reverse.
M.I.J.E.T., known in the game hacking and translation scene for his quality Mega Drive game translations, published his first MSX work, a surprise translation of Pack-In-Video's Silviana.
Silviana (also the name of our hero in the game) is a 20 y
MSX Solutions celebrates its five years anniversary! In these five years Brazilian mapmaker only_69 has produced a whopping 148 maps. That means not only playing and finishing 148 games, but also editing the maps, getting rid of the sprites and adding helpful markers.
Most people will know KdL from his OCM-PLD Pack, a comfortable update for a bare 1chipMSX that's been at version 2.2 since april 2008. Today, KdL has updated his website with a gift for MSX community: his concept of an unofficial MSX3 logo, provided in several versions, including a wallpaper.
CheatMSX has added a new Dev build of openMSX to their website: Dev 11023 (2009-12-25). Apart from the regular Win32 build, CheatMSX has now also added a build for Macintosh (OSX32). Both versions have been build by CheatMSX according to openMSX standards, which means these versions have been build the way the openMSX team would've build them.
MSXdev09 - Results
Hate it or love it (just like the grumpy Dr. Pill), but the MSXdev'09 competition is now completely over. Months of hard work have now come to an end with the announcement of the winning entry: Dr. Pill. After receiving this news, the doctor himself just sent us a telegram with the words: "Muhahaha, epic!
