Konami have announced they will release an edition of their popular game series Castlevania on Nintendo DS in the fall of 2005.
Happy 2005!
On January 1st, 2003 we started a tradition in which we combined our best wishes for the new year with some statistics on the usage of our MSX portal. 2004 as been an amazing year for the MSX Community. It has been a very long time since so many new software titles were released for MSX in one single year.
It's a new year so it's time to have a look at the overall top 10 downloads from MRC's freeware downloads database.
Unpleasant Cell by Daria
The first nominations to the second MSX in the Media Challenge are starting to drop in. Yesterday the emulation portal Emufanatics posted an interview with Daniel Vik, one of the developers of the popular MSX emulator blueMSX.
BodyHammeR of Darkness God of Destroy has just opened a new MSX website called Ai! No Yabou (Ambition of Love).
asMSX 0.11c
Today a new version of Eduardo Robsy's Z80 compiler asMSX was released. In this new version a few minor bugfixes were implemented. What is more important is that it now comes with a set of easy-to-use tools that come in very handy when developing MSX software. The included tools are binDB, RLEpack, PCX2MSX and MSXwav.
ExecROM 1.2c
After releasing several patches for ExecROM today and earlier this week a new version of ExecROM itself was released by Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha as well. ExecROM can be used to load ROM files into a MegaRAM cartridge.
Scritron Digital Contents announced they will release a very special box with 8 cds and 1 DVD full of classic sounds from arcade and console games from the 80s and 90s. The eighth (bonus) disc is a special MSX cd which contains Konami shoot'em-up soundtracks.
More ExecROM patches
Earlier this week a set of 10 Execrom patches were released by Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha. These patches can be used to run MSX games from MegaRAM cartridges and sometimes add optional cheats. As of today 7 new ExecROM patches are available.
