Konami will release two new Contra titles. Contra; Shattered Solider for the Playstation 2 and Contra Advance; the Alien wars EX for the GameBoy Advance.
MSX Xpress Bussum Report
Apart from our very own fair report and photoshoot, the second Bussum fair report just got online.
Poll results
Wow, we never had a poll-result as clear as this. This time, we asked our visitors to choose their favorite MSX soundchip. Right from the start, one chip took the lead and it never gave the lead away. Despite the technological lead of the OPL4 soundchip, and the discussion in our forum, the SCC soundchip won hands down.
We've placed a textual report on the MSX fair in Bussum this year online. If you weren't there you can read about what you've missed and why you should be there next year. If you did visit the fair, read about it and know why you should be visiting again next year 
Source: MSX Mailinglist
Illusion City was one of the best MicroCabin games, released only for MSX turboR computers, released only in Japanese. After translating Parodius to English, a team of Portuguese and Japanese MSX users started translating Illusion City into Portuguese.
Source: #MSX on undernet and the MSX mailinglist
Adriano da Cunha translated Konami''s Parodius, which is originally only in Japanse, into English. Besides that he also translated some portions of the manual into English.
Michiel de Vries announced on the MSX Mailinglist that he will (try to) make the Moonsound work in Meridian. This is great news, since the structure of Meridian allows users to use more features of the Moonsound cartridge than Moonblaster does.
Alexandre Antoniutti Passos has scanned another MSX book, and a lot of magazine's: "Guia do programador MSX" and all of Magazines ("Revistas" in portuguese).
Bussum 2002 is over. It's too late already in this timezone, but we didn't want you to miss out the photo's. Check out the photo report. We add more info later.