DB-Soft's Woody Poco is a colorful adventure from 1987 that was virtually unplayable without any knowledge of the Japanese language. Tsunami Translations and Max Iwamoto have translated this game for you to enjoy, it will be released as an IPS-patch.
In two months the fifth edition of the annual MSX Fair in Nijmegen will be held. It's the only major pure-MSX fair left in The Netherlands after the annual Bussum fair was discontinued. As of today, the registration form is online! Tables for this fair have a width of 1m40 and cost €7 each. Traditionally, the day will end in the nearby Chinese restaurant.
SuperSoniqs has put the first version of the instruction manual of Franky online.
In little over two weeks we'll be presented with the harvest of MSXdev'09, the yearly game programming contest that managed to break through after MSXdev'04 and was especially fruitful during MSXdev'05. You may recall from last year that there was an awful silence regarding the number of entries we would be seeing.. until that last evening when games kept coming and coming.
Today, Retroworks released a port of the classic Konami platformer King's Valley for Spectrum 48k and Spectrum 128k.
The Mini Game Competition 2009 1KB/2KB category results are in. Three MSX games were submitted and one of these reached a runner-up position!
SuperSoniqs just informed us that they are busy with developing a MIDI-PAC cartridge. The MIDI-PAC reroutes MSX-Music to external MIDI interfaces such as keyboards, MIDI modules and synthesizers.
Yoshida Konzern
Have you ever dreamed of making a shoot'em up, but never succeeded in forming a group? A game editor like Yoshida Konzern might be the answer. Imanok thought up the idea to collectively make a new game by each contributing a level.
Konami has decided to release five of their classic MSX games for the Virtual Console, a specialized section of the Wii Shop Channel.
Another month, another round of downloads!
