On the MSX Magazine website you can now watch a video in WMV format (for Microsoft Windows Media Player) that contains the entire talkshow of the current and previous MSX Magazine editor.
Yawara is a game music and sound effects player that can play the music and sound effects of MSX games directly from the game data. The main idea is to load the game data into Yawara 'shell' and just pick the song you like to play. It supports PSG, SCC and MSX Music soundchips.
The Yawara package comes with all necessary files to play the tracks from your favourite game.
In a previous posting we already told you a bit about the MSX-BASIC for Education program.
In japanese schools, students must learn the basics of programming, writing small programs containing FOR...NEXT and IF...THEN lines.
As of today, it is possible to send financial donations to the MSX Resource Center Foundation.
As the corresponding text explains, we are counting on the MSX Community in many ways.
Konami released a new version of Parodius, designed for iMode phones. Parodius is Konami's own parody on -mainly- the Gradius (Nemesis) series and several other Konami games. Parodius was released on MSX in 1988.
THe MSX Revival and the MSX Festival have proven once again to be effective methods to draw attention to MSX again. The cover of last week's Weekly ASCII Magazine mentions the festival, and inside is a full-page, full-colour review on it.
Liksang.com, a Hong Kong based supplier of neat Asian videogame stuff, has put online a in dept article about the new GameBoy Advance SP.
Nice pictures, not only taken from the outside of this slick device but also from the inside.
We reported earlier about the retranslation of Hideo Kojima's popular tactical espionage game Metal Gear.
We are very proud to announce that a new milestone was reached for the MSX Resource Center. Today, the 2000nd post was made on our forum.
Although we have had a forum for quite a long time, its activity started to rise with the launch of our new website in december 2002.
Thanks to the success of MSX Magazine and MSXPLAYer, the march issue of the Japanese magazine 'Microcomputer BASIC magazine' will contain MSX-BASIC source codes.