Nintendo is hoping North American gamers are ready to strain their brains the way Japanese have already, as today they announced the first two games in their Brain Age series.

 

The first taste of this series will come in the Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day flavor, due out on April 17. Gamers (and the non-gamers this game is obviously hoping to attract) will then get to give the old noodle a spin again with Big Brain Academy just over a month later on May 30.

 

While there are fifteen different tasks like word memorization and counting, the hallmark of Brain Age is the inclusion of Suduko puzzles. With its recent surge in popularity, odds are you might see more people pulling out their Nintendo DS on the train or subway not because they want to save the princess, but because there's a ridiculous Suduko puzzle that's driving them crazy.

 

Nintendogs kicked off Nintendo's aim for a unique type of Nintendo DS 'game,' and the Brain Age series looks to continue it. It's not a new Super Mario Bros. platformer, but hey, at least it's different.

Will it suceed? Will it offer more people to jump on the DS bandwagon? Will it sell more then Electroplankton?

Changes in 2.2.6 (January 29, 2006):

 

- several APIC and I/O APIC fixes make SMP Bochs booting Windows NT4.0 in

  SMP configuration (Volker, Stanislav)

- critical APIC timer bug fixed (Volker Ruppert)

- several fixes in the hard drive, keyboard, timer, usb and vga code (Volker)

- fixes in Bochs debugger (Stanislav Shwartsman)

- obsolete SMP BIOS images removed (MP tables created dynamicaly)

- new userbutton shortcut "bksl" (backslash)

- enabled #PCE bit in CR4 register, previosly setting of this bit

  generated #GP(0) fault (Stanislav Shwartsman)

- enabled LAHF/SAHF instructions in x86-64 mode (Stanislav Shwartsman)

- determine number of processors in SMP configuration through.bochsrc file

  - new.bochsrc option to choose number of processors to emulate

  - new configure option --enable-smp to configure Bochs for SMP support,

    the old --enable-processors=N option is deprecated

- fixed bug in PMULUDQ SSE2 instruction (Kevin Lawton)

- enable VME (virtual 8086 mode extensions) by default if cpu-level >= 5

- enable Bochs disassembler by default for all configurations (Stanislav)

- win32 installer script improvements (Volker)

- ips parameter moved to new cpu option

- show IPS value in status bar if BX_SHOW_IPS is enabled (Volker, Stanislav)

- updated Bochs instrumentation examples (Stanislav Shwartsman)

- user and development documentation improved

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Beeb-em 3.1, a BBC emulator, has been released.

No changelog.

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Sintax has updated his promising remote desktop emulator on the Nintendo DS!

v0.2:

-Added scrollable zoomed view of the desktop.

-Added faster speed option for screenshot updates which will not wait in between screenshots.

-Added small borders on the full-screen view for easier access to the screen edges.

-Improved touch keyboard functionality.

-Added support for special keys sent to Windows.

-Added middle mouse button support.

-Changed button layout on DS.

-Added 'Run on Startup' option to have the server start when it is ran.

-Settings are now saved in Windows between sessions.

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