Over at The Moon Books Project we are celebrating documentary week and making available a varitable flood of documentaries in both DPG format (for viewing on the Nintendo DS with Moon Shell) and MP4 format.
So far we have made available the following documentaries, so head on over and enlighten yourself:
BBS: The Documentary (if you are unfamiliar with BBSes and want to know what people did before the Internet, check this out!)
Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist: Addendum
Also, we have launced a review website for games, movies and other cool stuff called Moon Books Magazine, we know it’s not very original, but it works… :p
Following up on our posting of the various Nethack variants on the Nintendo DS, we have uncovered a version of the popular roguelike Angband, as well as a working variant called FAAngband for the NDS.
For those not aware Angband is a dungeon-crawling roguelike computer game derived from Umoria. It is based on the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, in which Angband is the fortress of Morgoth.
FAangband is based on Oangband. Changes have been made principally with the intent of immersing the player in the world of Tolkien’s Silmarillion late in the First Age. While it is certainly not perfectly consistent (all the bad guys are still alive; all the good guys are dead, or at least have lost their best equipment), an attempt has been made to remove as many anachronisms as possible.
As well as the binaries for the NDS, source is also available for FAAngband, for homebrew coders to tinker with.
The Moon Books Project has now made strips #1 – 731 of xkcd available for download and viewing on the Nintendo DS.
Issues 1-170 of the Heroes graphic novel are now available for download in 5 volumes for reading on the Nintendo DS with Comic Book DS.
Also available is the graphic novel version of Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now.
Download comics for the NDS and then download ComicBookDS to read the comics.
What better way to celebrate a great actor like Jack Nicholson’s career than to make some of his early movies available for watching on the Nintendo DS!
Digging into our archives of public domain content, we have pulled out three Jack Nicholson films for your viewing enjoyment.
The Little Shop of Horrors – Albeit a small part as a masochistic dentist patient, the film itself is a classic.
The Terror – With such minds as Roger Corman and Francis Ford Coppola on this one it has to be good, right?
and
The Wild Ride – This one has the most Jack in it, as he has the main role, as a rebellious beatnik ne’er-do-well.
I have been hard at work on the latest and greatest version of Moon Books. For those not familiar with The Moon Books Project it is a website dedicated to bringing classic literature, films and other cool stuff freely to the Nintendo DS community, for use on the Nintendo DS.
We currently have a growing collection of homebrew, books, movies and even audio books and audio drama for download and use on the Nintendo DS via the Moon Shell homebrew application.
Head on over to Moon Books and enjoy some books by Mark Twain, Edgar Rice Burroughs or listen to the audio book of Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland. Maybe you would prefer to watch Night of the Living Dead or play Jeff Lait’s latest version of his roguelike Powder.
Oh, and our science fiction audio drama section is now in podcast format, for all of your podcatching fun!
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Feel free to use this logo in your entries in this year’s Winter 2009 Competition!
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Syobon action (original title しょぼんのアクション) is a 2D Japanese freeware video game notoriously known as a parody of the Nintendo classic game Super Mario Bros. but with extremely difficult levels (Wikipedia).
Scognito decided to port the game on the Wii console…
Recently Nintendo have been mounting a more aggressive stance against the manufacturers and distributors of the cards we use to boot homebrew on the DS due to increasing piracy. The cases against Divineo in France and Grupo Movilquick in Spain have been resolved in favour of the defendants with the ability to “extend the utility of the devices for perfectly legal purposes” cited as the reason for dismissal of the lawsuits.
Movilquick ruling (translated), original.
Assenntek press release (translated), original.
These decisions appear to be in keeping with the most recent amendment to the ECD which protects reverse engineering rights for purposes of interoperability – DIRECTIVE 2009/24/EC
The current DSi “compatible” cards used to boot homebrew in DS mode on the new console are not affected by these rulings given that they all use modified commercial games to provide this functionality.
The Moon Books Project has relaunched with Moon Shell 2 compatibility for all film and book content. All books available are readable on Moon Shell 2, as well as all films.
Also, both audio and video quality of films have been upgraded for your viewing pleasure.
Brandon @ MoonBooks.net
The Moon Books Project 2.0