Clover Studios, who brought us Viewtiful Joe and their recent Okami title (Totally win BTW) has been decided to close at the end of the 2007 fiscal year.

Clover Studio Co., Ltd. has met the goal of developing unique and creative original home video game software, however, in view of promoting a business strategy that concentrates management resources on a selected business to enhance the efficiency of the development power of the entire Capcom group, the dissolution of Clover Studio Co., Ltd. has been raised and passed at a Board of Directors' meeting.

Press Release (ENG)

While all is not lost, some of the former Clover folk have decided to open their own studio without Capcom in the way as what Wired states.

May they be Wii bound? Who knows?

Colecovision emulator for DS

Here is the new version of ColecoDS, whose only innovation is to be compatible with more DS linkers (NinjaDS and G6Lite, this last only in mode GBFS, is necessary to have for the moment lib FAT32 compatible with the devkitpro: (…).

It is a minor update of the version presented at the Neoflash competition last summer.

 

 

Version 1.1, 12/10/2006

 

* Addition of the NinjaDS supports (tested) and max Media, EZ4 (not tested)

* Addition of the G6Lite support via GBFS

>> Get it HERE.

Emerson Arcadia emulators

Changes since 2.01:

 

"Change register/memory..." feature.

"Save ROM..." feature.

"View pointer?" option.

"Loop playback?" option.

Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

>> Get it HERE.

Source: http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EE...ypuMJNSavTE.php

ZsnexBox v2.99

>> Nes6502 released a new version of ZsnexBox(info), a port of the Zsnes Super Nintendo emulator to Xbox.

What's new/fixed:

* Added a music player to the GUI. Music is played at 44100 16-bit stereo. The following file formats are supported: GBS, SPC, NSF, VGM, GYM, and VGZ.

This covers the following systems: Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sega 32X, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, SG-1000

* Updated the FAQ.