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Nuxel has managed to convert his D2CKey into a 9 wire D2Pro Nintendo Wii modification chip. If you have the spare parts and time this could be a good solution for people who invested into a D2CKey and would like to take advantage of the D2Pro's 9 wire edition functionality. More pictures can be found here. The instructions and diagrams are not released yet, but should be by the end of the week.

Thanks to CZroe for the news tip!

Yodajr, OMG and Archilolo updated their Super Mario fangame "The Last GBA Quest". If you're a fan of the old Super Mario 2D games you might want to check out this homebrew game. The game has been inspired by the famous Super Mario Land for the original GameBoy and features 7 normal levels plus a bonus 8th level that can be obtained by collecting secret items from the normal levels.

What's New in v2.0 Final?

* Improved scrolling
* better mix of difficulty
* running a backup
* addition of original music

The world and level design have been professionally thought and and created by OMG and the levels are really impressive. The music, although sub par was composed by Archilolo, but it isn't horribly bad. The game play is almost smooth, but totally playable. If you're a fan of the Super Mario series you should give this one a run on your GBA compatible setup.

Download: Here

A new version of Yabause a Sega Saturn emulator for the Windows, Linux and the Dreamcast has been released. Using this emulator on either platform allows you to play your classic collection of games for Sega's older 32-bit console. With over 100 games playable this emulator is surely impressive.

One might notice in the change log (below) they mention a Nintendo Wii port and list a few specification such as SD card, sound and USB keyboard support. I was unable to locate a binary copy of this version since it's not been compiled as of yet (source is located on their CVS).

What's New?

"This release has an entirely new CD core for the Dreamcast that is written in hand-optimized assembly. Sadly, optimizing the CD core doesn't do much for speed overall, but it was good practice."

68k:
- Added 1010 and 1111 line emulator support.
cd block:
- Reworked bin/cue support. Reading should be a lot more accurate
now on tracks 2 and greater.

emulated bios:
- Fixed a bug in BupGetDate year calculation.
- Fixed a bug where interrupt mask wasn't being set correctly when
using emulated bios.

smpc:
- Added support for SMPC NMIREQ command.
- Added reset button emulation.
software video core:
- Improved software renderer: window, line scroll, mosaic are now
available and color offset and scroll screen has been fixed.

gtk port:
- Tagged most of gtk port strings to be translatable.

qt port:
- Added ability to specify address where binaries are loaded when
using command line.
- Other bug fixes.

wii port:
- Added support for bios and game loading from sd card.
- Added sound support.
- Added usb keyboard support.

windows port:
- Added pause emulation function.
- Other bug fixes.

dreamcast port:
- Rewrote all of the Dreamcast CD Interface in hand-optimized
assembly.
- Enabled use of the emulated bios if there is no saturn.bin on
the CD.

general:
- Updated peripheral interface so both ports can now be used and
multiple pads can now be connected to each port.
- Added translation support through mini18n library.

Download: Here