Category: MSX
The MSX Cartridge Shop has announced that the new game Tina’s Adventure Island, which started with pre-sales back at the end of 2016, is finally ready for sale. In this side-scroller action game, you help Tina to find her missing boyfriend, Takahashi. She will have to get through 35 stages and defeat the 5 bosses in order to find him. You can…
Aetherbyte Studios has released a selection of PC Engine games in the past, such as Pac-Man influenced Pyramid Plunder and free mini-game Reflectron, but they have now turned their focus to the MSX with Inferno – a platform action game for MSX2/2+ and to celebrate the near-completeness of the game, they have released this quirky VHS-style commercial. Inferno should be…
A new vertical shooter called RMD, short for Raiden MoDoki, has been added to the MSX shooter arsenal. This game, by Naoki Ito from Japan, shows us the power of C compiled games for MSX. It is free to download or play online. MRC user N.I., the handle of Japanese MSX user Naoki Ito, has been busy lately making games….
A new racing game “Highway Fighter” by software house Kai-Magazine will be available on digital format in April 2017. This game is a Road Fighter clone with some new features and comes as an MSX game-cartridge for MSX 2 and 2+ machines. Registration to get a copy has opened. Inspired by Konami’s Roadfighter, from Kai Magazine, let’s you battle other…
The first entry in the brand new MSX Freestyle category, ΧΙ∧∃Χ (Zevimodoki) by GW’s Workshop is a homage to Namco classic Xevious. Xevious also got an MSX release, which was an interesting joint effort between Namco and Compile. Notable as well is Zemina‘s Xevious Micro. Category: MSX Freestyle Name of the game: ΧΙ∧∃Χ (Zevimodoki) Game size / RAM size: 64KB ROM /…
ZERO and the Castle of Infinite Sadness was released earlier as a freeware 32k ROM in the MSXDev ’14. Dioniso has been working on an improved 48k ROM version, with the following enhancements: expanding the stages from 35 to 80 added an intro demo updated graphics fixed sprite detection routines modifying the easy mode so that the screen won’t be…
MSXdev’17 just got its second contestant, Slime Center by the group N.I. and based on our quick glance at the game, the competition just got harder! It consists of an action game where you have to help the hero to find it is way out from the place where you are trapped. Several items can help you achieve the goal…
The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…
The neverending problem with cartridge-based computers is the chore to swap them all the time. The common solution was the multi-cartridge adapters that were sold back in the day for many platforms. Nowadays, it is not that easy to find these devices and new hardware to fill that gap is always welcome. For the MSX platform, Tecnobytes is starting to offer their…
Z88DK is a C cross compiler package that targets the z80 and consists of a C compiler, an extensive set of assembly language libraries, an assembler / linker, and a tool for generating executables in a number of formats. Development in C, assembly language or a mixture of the two is directly supported. After one year since the last release, it…
