MSX BSB 2004 photoshoot
Last weekend the MSX BSB 2004 meeting was held for the first time in six years. In Brasilia, Brazil, several MSX users met for 3 days and enjoyed new and old MSX games and hardware. Sandro Zanelli took many pictures on this event which you can see on this page.
The third round of forum-voting of our current mega-poll has just begun. You can help us in our quest for the most underrated MSX game in the world. Cast your votes in this forum thread, where you can find the votesheet with all 28 nominees and an explanation of the voting system. Happy voting!
Although the Sargon website hadn't been updated for a couple of months, Sargon now announces a new English translation to be released at the MSX fair in Tilburg, April 24th.
Last week Ricardo Bittencourt released a beta version of his MSX port of Girls Garden, a game originally released by Sega in 1984. Today, a new beta version was released. Now, the game is fully playable. Next, Ricardo will implement some sounds.
Bomb Jack for MSX
Slotman of MSX Files has just released a new MSX game, a port of the Sega SG-1000 game Bomb Jack for MSX. You can get this game in the games section of his website.
UP, a musician from Tokyo and submitter of this newspost notified us of the 'MSX3 in 1' audio CD he has just created. It contains 10 audio tracks, including several songs with an MSX feel. To accomplish this UP useed several MSX voices, including 3 of the 4 standard 'beep' sounds. The album also contains a 13 minute MSX Medley, remixing 14 MSX game sounds DJ-style.
The second round of forum-voting of our current mega-poll has just begun. You can help us in our quest for the most underrated MSX game in the world. Cast your votes in this forum thread, where you can find the votesheet with all 56 nominees and an explanation of the voting system. Happy voting!
Karel Jolij sent us a useful tool for MSX fans using Windows. PMA is an often used compression-format on MSX computers. However, popular decompressors on PC like WinRAR and WinZIP do not support this filetype. On MSX Banzai you can already find a Win32 tool for extracting LHA and PMA files.
4 new DrMSX songs
DRM Digital Work released 4 new songs for MSX, created with Musica. Both MP3 files and BGM files of all four songs are available. The new songs were created between the 10th or March 2004 and the 9th of April 2004 and are titled 'Fake metaphysician', 'Griffin', 'Grave of Emotion' and 'Eternal Blossom (second)'.
