A few weeks ago, a TurboFix for Metal Gear 2 saw daylight. Now a new game has been fixed: Konami's shooter Salamander.
fMSXpSO v1.03
A new version of the Japanese emulator fMSXpSO has been released. Changes in this version:
- Disk processing has been fixed
- The Nemesis version from Game Collection 3 now works with and without SCC+ cartridge
- Software that worked in version v1.01 but not in v1.02 now seem to work again
- For PSG emulation the emu2149 library is used, for SCC emu2212.
Japanese game developer M-Kai has put his MSX productions on his web site for download recently. One of the games is Pleasure Hearts. Until now that was a very rare side scrolling shoot 'em up game with mindblowing speed, huge numbers of enemies and very nice graphical effects.
M-Kai was also the maker of Kyokugen which also can be downloaded from his site.
Eggbert goes iPhone
A number of days ago, TouchArcade reported that Toki Tori will get an iPhone release. Toki Tori, by game studio TwoTribes, is otherwise known to us as Fony's Eggbert, an MSX2 game released in 1994.
At last! Finally! Way too late, we know. But, better late than never! Thanks to OeiOeiVogeltje and Manuel Bilderbeek there are Nijmegen '09 photos at MRC.
Hertz interview
In this forum thread, CRV of the Game Developer Research Institute has announced that he has been talking to Tsunetomo Sugawara, a former employee of
Crimson 1 article
PassionMSX has published an article about Xtal Soft's RPG Crimson 1, an MSX2 game made in 1987. The article is complete with screenshots of the game, an overview of weapons, magical items, menu options and a walkthrough.
Another month, another poll. Prior to introducing the new poll, let's have a look at the outcome of the poll running of January/February: how do you write (or prefer to write) the name of that blue new FPGA-based MSX?
Donkeyrol Jukebox updated
[DK] has just updated his Jukebox with new MSX and non-MSX tunes!
In 1988, Scaptrust released one of the most famous adult games on MSX: Starship Rendezvous.
