I spoke myself with the tech support of the company and asked some
questions :
- All clean dump will work, no patch needed !
- The superpass price should not be more than 20 €
- The update will be free and available on the Official Website in one month (quite long yes, but a fully working update is better than a crappy beta which will brick your supercard...)

Here is the first pic available on the official website :

Second and last one :

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QU-KMB-HLN (Expires 14 August 2005)
RD-RLT-WLU (Expires 18 August 2005)
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Another nice port reaches the DS, this time it's the scummvm emulator, emulating good ol' LucasArts titles such as Monkey Island. A demo of that game is also included in the binary below.

If you want to know more about scummVM, I suggest you check out http://www.scummvm.org/

It seems that the old FPS, Heretic, is being ported to the Nintendo DS. Sofar not a whole lot of information is available, or a public binary for tat matter, but keep an eye on this one...

For more info, please visit http://heretic.drunkencoders.com/

The homebrewn game section has received an update, an upgrade as well as a move to our kindly provided server in Asia. You can now find the section here: http://203.132.203.220/gba/gba-games.xml

But it's of course also available from the GBA section.

The NeoFlash coding competition has launched. Here's the info from the NeoFlash team.

[1] Rule:
There will be 2 categories for entries. The first is for NDS homebrew games, the second, for NDS apps. Apps include multi loaders, emulators, audio players, video players , PDA, MAC driver, Linux driver and whatever else you can think up.
The NDS game and NDS APP division will have same prizes for each top ten. The prizes list:

The No.1 for game and APP : NeoFlash 1Gb + MagicKey2 8Gb + PSP console
The No.2 & No.3 for game and APP : NeoFlash 1Gb + MagicKey2 4Gb
The No.4 ~ No.10 for game and APP : NeoFlash 512M + MagicKey2 1Gb

We just accept the *COMPLETE* programs, please don't submit anything until it's final. And a NeoFlash splash screen (see below) is required before the main program starts. For example click the NEO splash to continue is fine.
Every one can enter this contest, and one author can enter both division, without any limit. It'll be best if you can send your source code to our mail box for double check, but it's not forced, and we will never release the source code in public.
We will collect all the top ten to NEO driver CD for demo, and come with author credit.

[2] How to submit your project?
Enter here, choose your project is GAME or APP division, then mark the post title as this format: "contest: NDS GAME - game name - By: your nickname" or "contest: NDS APP - APP name - By: your nickname" , then...

     [a.] Upload your rom file,it should be compressed to ZIP or RAR format, and must offer 2 version ROMs, one can run in NDS EMU, another can run in NEO flash cart (if you can't make sure it can run in NEO or not, just add the NDS loader to the rom then upload it to forum, we will check it);
     [B.] Upload the screenshots for your project;
     [C.] Release your description about your project, if your project is APP then should have the user menu;
     [D.] Last step, if you like to send your source code to us, please don't upload to forum, just send it to neoflash_team@hotmail.com.

[3] How to judge the winner?
We will make the poll for each GAME and APP, then everyone can vote their favorite, the result of poll will become the best reference for our last decision.

[4] When can announce the top 10 winner?
It'll take 3 weeks to handle everything, around 20th.Aug, and we will close the submit after 10th.Aug.

Besides the comding compo announcement, NeoFlash has also announced that MagicKey2 is in the works, by adding a nice big banner on their website.

What exactly the MagicKey2 is about has yet to be announced, but rumor has it that SD/MMC's are involved.

For more info, please visit www.neoflash.com

Rumors claim that Majesco Entertainment filed for chapter 11, bankrupcy, this weekend. But this doesn't seem be to true after all.

cgno.com posted the following news bit today:

We received information from a Majesco employee that Majesco itself was filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection. It turns out they were only half right. Hip Interactive, a subsidary of Majesco, announced that it was filing for Chapter 11- not Majesco itself. Our source became confused by this, and mistakenly told us that Majesco itself was filing for bankruptcy, which is evidently not the case.

An email obtained from Ken Gold, the Vice-President of Marketing from Majesco Entertainment specifically states that the company is not bankrupt.

It was presumed correct, not only due to the employee, but the fact that Majesco has certainly seen better times financially. Earlier this week, Majesco disclosed to its shareholders that it was expecting a full-year loss. The CEO, Carl Yankowski, resigned amidst a flurry of share price drops, resulting in almost 50% of the price reducing.

CGNO apologizes to Majesco, and sincerely regrets the error for all of our loyal readers.

(21/7/2005) More sound changes, in-game menu (touch the screen). 

I've managed to borrow a copy of the old N64 Top Gear Rally 2 game and decided to compare it to the final...

Here's the result ( read )