UberNES 2010 version released

UberNES, a NES emulator for PC with online leaderboard features among others, has been updated.

Daily Deviation – Freaks

Miyamoto confirms – New Nintendo hardware

Gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto dropped a few brief details about upcoming Nintendo products during a presentation at the 13th Annual Japan Media Arts Festival on Saturday.

The bulk of the presentation was about his history in game design, but he did quickly mention that Nintendo is in fact developing new hardware and they he is working on a new MotionPlus game for the Wii, besides the previously reported upcoming Zelda title.

Daria – Complete series on DVD, May 11th

At long last, MTV are bringing the complete Daria experience to DVD this May with a box set that consists of all five seasons (including pilot), both movies and a portion of exclusive extras.

Total run time for the collection is listed as 1606 minutes!

Dimok and r-win release WiiXplorer R107

WiiXplorer is a file management system for Nintendo Wii.

Changelog:

• Code tidying and fixes
• Removed all compile warnings
• Improved memory usage of libtiff
• Improved memory usage and copying of files loading up
• Made a little speed up due to that for copying
• Added forgotten loop mode for background music
• Added the AutoConnect setting back to the Settings Because for connecting LAN seems to cause a crash (You need to turn it on you first start)
• Added missing translations in some places
• Proper use of ogglib (vorbisidec) no more tremor (thx to Tantric)

37th Annie Awards – Winner list

• Best Animated Feature
  Up – Pixar Animation Studios
• Best Home Entertainment Production
  Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder – The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• Best Animated Short Subject
  Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2.5 – ShadowMachine
• Best Animated Television Commercial
  Spanish Lottery "Deportees" – Acme Filmworks, Inc.
• Best Animated Television Production
  Prep and Landing – ABC Family/Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Best Animated Television Production for Children
  The Penguins of Madagascar – Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Animation
• Animated Effects
  James Mansfield "The Princess and the Frog" – Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Character Animation in a Television Production
  Phillip To "Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space" – DreamWorks Animation
• Character Animation in a Feature Production
  Eric Goldberg "The Princess and the Frog" – Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Character Design in a Television Production
  Bill Schwab "Prep and Landing" – Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Character Design in a Feature Production
  Shane Prigmore "Coraline" – Laika
• Directing in a Television Production
  Bret Haaland "The Penguins of Madagascar – Launchtime" – Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Animation
• Directing in a Feature Production
  Pete Docter "Up" – Pixar Animation Studios
• Music in a Television Production
  Guy Moon The Fairly OddParents: "Wishology-The Big Beginning" – Nickelodeon
• Music in a Feature Production
  Bruno Coulais "Coraline" – Laika
• Production Design in a Television Production
  Andy Harkness "Prep and Landing" – Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Production Design in a Feature Production
  Tadahiro Uesugi "Coraline" – Laika
• Storyboarding in a Television Production
  Robert Koo "Merry Madagascar" – DreamWorks Animation
• Storyboarding in a Feature Production
  Tom Owens "Monsters vs. Aliens" — DreamWorks Animation
• Voice Acting in a Television Production
  Tom Kenny – Voice of SpongeBob – "SpongeBob SquarePants – Truth or Square" – Nickelodeon
• Voice Acting in a Feature Production
  Jen Cody – Voice of Charlotte – "The Princess and the Frog" – Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Writing in a Television Production
  Daniel Chun – "The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XX" – Gracie Films
• Writing in a Feature Production
  Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach – "Fantastic Mr. Fox" – 20th Century Fox

Daily Deviation – Cat Assault squadron Unit 1

Lino releases fb4nds 1.0 Finale

Simple client for Facebook’s chat on Nintendo DS.

First release for this homebrew. More fixes and changes. Finally the chats working well.
If you have the expansion ram like 3in1 you can view your friends avatar.

Jabosoft release Jnes 1.0.2

Jnes is a NES emulator for win32 platforms that uses DirectX for it’s hardware interface. It’s emulation capabilities include graphics, sound, input devices, and emulating quite a few memory mapping boards found in most USA games and a few popular japanese ones. Jnes boasts a fairly intuitive user interface that makes playing NES a little more enjoyable. One of the coolest features is the included database of Pro-Action-Replay and Game Genie cheats.

ChangeLog:

• bugfix: full screen filters were broken
• bugfix: video dialog would accidently clear the filter while changing resolutions
• bugfix: rewrote mapper 23 (vrc2) vrom handling to fix Crisis Force

Halo Legends – US Premiere, February 10th

Halo Legends, the upcoming direct-to-video animated anthology film from Warner Home Video and Microsoft’s 343 Industries, will get its premiere at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco, CA, on February 10, 2010, courtesy of IGN. Halo development director Frank O’Connor will be available after the screening for a Q&A session with attendees of the screening. A limited number of tickets are available for fans, who can e-mail at halolegends@ign.com for availability.

Warner Home Video will distribute Halo Legends on February 16, 2010 as a Special Edition 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-Ray™ as well as On Demand and Digital Download.