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So far we have made available the following documentaries, so head on over and enlighten yourself:

The Yes Men Fix The World

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

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libnds 1.4.4
Refactored and improved eeprom detection code.
changed timerStop() to clear the entire register and an internal variable.
added timerTick(), timerPause(), timerStop(), timerUnpause() and cpuGetTiming() functions.
fixed overflow bug in timerElapsed.
restored stderr output on default console.
added oamClearSprite() to clear a single sprite.
corrected keyboard = symbol.
improved and extended doxygen documentation.

default arm7 0.5.13
recompiled with latest libraries.

nds-examples 20100724
updates for new libnds.
added several new timer examples.

With thanks to Vuurobin for his major contributions to this release.

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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.

Angband and Variants for the NDS

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xkcd at Moon Books

Comic Book DS at Moon Books

xkcd Homepage

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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.

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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.

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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!

The Moon Books Project

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First Place: Inuit Wars

Graphics: 4
Sound: 4
Music: 4
Controls: 4
Network: 0
Fun: 4 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 29 / 40

Very nice work, an RTS is not a small endeavor and your game is playable if somewhat lacking in polish. The graphics
were a bit sparse but they worked. An amazing amount of room for improvement with a good start…I can see this game
actually being playable soon.
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Second Place:Yeti Xmass

Graphics: 5
Sound: 4
Music: 2
Controls: 4
Network: 0
Fun: 4 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 28 / 40

Was pretty fun, if only it had a goal and one more board/enemy type. The graphics were great if a bit glitchy at
the polygon seams.

Second Place: Electric Snow

Graphics: 4
Sound: 3
Music: 4
Controls: 3
Network: 0
Fun: 4.5 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 28 / 40

Very simple gameplay that turned out to be rather addictive…enough so that my 8 year old wanted it on his DS and my Mother-
in-law spent several minutes playing it. Good work.

And the runner ups in no particular order:

AmazeDS

Graphics: 4
Sound: 0
Music: 3
Controls: 3
Network: 0
Fun: 2 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 19 / 40

Comments: Cute little maze game with quality graphics and nice sound. Not terribly exciting
but well done for what it was.

Glactic winter games

Graphics: 4
Sound: 0
Music: 3
Controls: 3
Network: 0
Fun: 3 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 21 / 40

Christmas IQ

Graphics: 3
Sound: 2
Music: 2
Controls: 2
Network: 1
Fun: 2 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 19 / 40

Well..not much of a christmas trivia buff so didnt do all that hot. Seemed a bit buggy at times with the snow
ball animations rolling up/down the hill.

Facebook for DS

Graphics: 3
Sound: 0
Music: 0
Controls: 3
Network: 4
Fun: 0 x 2
Theme: 0

Total: 10 / 40

Not very wintery and not very gamey but pretty useful in and of itself…could not actually get it to connect
but probably an error on my part and did not try to hard since without a wintery theme or gameplay its pretty
difficult for an entry to compete.

Flake Out

Graphics: 4
Sound: 3
Music: 4
Controls: 4
Network: 0
Fun: 3 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 26 / 40

Pollished and interesting presentation, the gameplay was a bit challenging. It could have used an interactive
tutorial to demonstrait the purpose of each elemental power as i never quite go the hang of employing them.

Helicopter DS

Graphics: 4
Sound: 0
Music: 0
Controls: 4
Network: 0
Fun: 3 x 2
Theme: 4

Total: 15 / 40

Well, the wintery theme was a bit slapped on but the gameplay was pretty fun if a bit too hard to be engrosing.
The lack of sound and music really hurt you…and how hard would it have been to slap in a sleigh in instead of a
helicopter! :)

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‘drunk’, ‘drunk_news’, ‘Homebrew’, ‘dsdev’, ‘wiidev’

Please abuse this feature as the more news on the main site the better for everyone (including the scene in general). My goal is for the main page to be a bit more social and driven by the scene.

And no dave, i did not filter out things tagged ‘palib’ yet (still considering it)

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