Agentq has released a new version of ScummVM for the DS, heres the release info:
Please test this new beta version of ScummVM, and post your results here. It would be good to know which games you have tested.

If you see problems, please post the details here, and include details of your setup.

Since this is a beta version, full instructions are not yet available, but instructions for use are essentially the same as the previous version, so see the ScummVM DS website at http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com

Hopefully, this build should now work. I'm espcially interested in people who want to test Lure of the Temptress, Kyrandia 2 and 3, and Inherit the Earth.

Fixes in beta4

- Fix crashing in Inherit the Earth and Lure of the Temptress
- Speedups for all Kyrandia games



Fixes in beta3

- Mouse cursor palette corruption fixed.


Fixes in beta2

- Mouse cursor icon is hidden when screen tap method is enabled
- Audio is no longer corrupted when high quality mode is on
- Speed fixes for Kyrandia engine (thanks, LordHoto!)
- Properly enabled AGI and CINE engines
- Fix occasional mouse button getting held down



New Features

- New games supported:
- Lure of the Temptress
- Nippon Safes
- Lost in Time

- New laptop trackpad style input method

- New option to drag for hover, tap for click, and double tap for right click

- Reorganised options screens

- New top screen scaling options

- The usual round of bug fixes


Supported Games


Build A:
Manic Mansion
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Loom
Passport to Adventure
The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Bear Stormin' (DOS version only)
Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise (DOS version only)
Fatty Bear's Fun Pack (DOS version only)
Putt-Putt's Fun Pack (DOS version only)
Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon (DOS version only)
Putt-Putt Joins the Parade (DOS version only)

Build B:
Beneath a Steel Sky
Flight of the Amazon Queen

Build C:
Simon the Sorcerer 1/2
Elvira 1/2
Waxworks (Amiga version only)

Build D:
Sierra AGI games
Gobliiins 1 - 3
Bargon Attack
Ween: The Prophecy
Future Wars
Lost in Time

Build E:
Inherit the Earth (DOS Floppy version only)

Build F:
Kyrandia 1

Build G:
Lure of the Temptress

Build H:
Nippon SafesDownload and Give Feedback Via Comments
Attached Files scummvmds0-12-0beta4.zip (7.79 MB)

Sonic Smarties Episode 2: Evil Amy Sonic Smarties rated YT-14 recommended for teens and older for use of moderate language and suggestive themes. Written, Animated, and Edited by Sean S (SonicSmarties) Voice Credits: SonicSmarties: Sonic, Dr. Robotnik, Knuckles, Amy, Big, Decoe, and Bocoe Homsarrunner1: Tails

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This is a long-awaited update to the previous Palin thread. A LOT has happened since then, which I think deserves additional discussion. The last time Palin's Travels was linked to was 2004 and his most recent book that you could view on the site was Sahara. But now you can read the full texts of two more books in Michael Palin's wonderful travel/adventure series: Himalaya and New Europe. There are also loads of pictures, video (Quicktime req.) and audio clips.

i find my friends in woods only to find that we are soon attacked by the evil which we now know as our friend gaz and he soon takes another victim

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I knew the iPhone was powerful, but I had know idea it contained the sort of mystical energies needed to call for one of the Great Old ones. Mobile content developer Digital Jokers have just creating content for the Apple device, and their first effort shall be summoning the living embodiment of terror and madness in the form of Call of Cthulu: Darkness Within. It's exactly the sort of point and click adventure that the iPhone needs to help important, on-the-go people look like they're still on-the-go when they're actually just goofing off with the elder gods.

The company will be demoing the game later this month. In the meantime, here are the first, oddly non-threatening screens.

http://kotaku.com/5045467/cthulu-is-calling-your-iphone

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Ubisoft inks TV show adaptation for release this holiday season; adventure game to feature five different cases, new minigames.

Ubisoft inks TV show adaptation for release this holiday season; adventure game to feature five different cases, new minigames.

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Last week during PAX 2008, we sat down with Hothead COO and Penny Arcade Adventures Producer Joel DeYoung as he guided us through Episode 2 and improvements to the engine. The gist of it is: if you liked Episode 1, you'll like Episode 2 that much more. Here's the rundown from our talks:

• Highlighting points of interest has been made easier! "If you have your proximity putting you close enough to 2 or 3 things, you can slide through that with bumpers," said DeYoung.
  
• There are now difficulty levels, including an Insane Mode (unlockable only after beating the game). Special collectibles and pickups are only available if you play Insane Mode. Comparatively, Episode 1's difficulty is "a little easier" than medium.
• All the weapons have been replaced. Tycho gets a shotgun, Gabe has new fist upgrades and your player now possesses -- wait for it -- a hoe! Also changed are the special attack minigames.
  
• You now have, among other new items, a revive potion. Healing won't be enough to bring your troops back to life. "Just adds a little bit of depth to it," said DeYoung.
• The real-time reaction for defense has been made more obvious (e.g. "Block!" now appears when you need to push block), but nothing analogous for attacking has been added.

More after the break.

Gallery: Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 2

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Click for all our Fallout 3 coverage We were given one hour with Fallout 3 at this year's PAX, and we don't mean some pared down, nerfed, demo-ized level; this was the full version. Not only that, but the Bethesda folks showed it to us in the tricked out Fallout 3 Airstream Trailer, complete with a nuclear family peering in.

Lead designer Emil Pagliarulo started us out roughly an hour into the game, when you exit the vault for the very first time. We missed the whole "growing up" phase in order to rush right into the action. We didn't mind. but what of our first 18 or so years? Maybe you start out on the cellular level, and fight your way out in a glorious Spore/Fallout hybrid. Your guess is as good as ours.

Gallery: PAX 2008: The Fallout 3 Airstream Trailer

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Educational software developer Knowledge Adventure announced a partnership with publisher Majesco to release Math Blaster In The Prime Adventure for the Nintendo DS. The Math Blaster title, which will be available this holiday season, marks the studio's first entry into the Nintendo DS and another step the company has taken towards extending its product line beyond traditional educational software releases. Knowledge Adventure recently launched JumpStart Advanced Preschool World, a 3D virtual world targeting 3-to-5 year ...

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"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn..." but not for long. A company called Digital Jokers, in conjunction with a subsidary called Mayhem Studios, is bringing HP Lovecraft's cuddly, horrible, insanity-inspiring Great Old One to the iPhone in the form of a graphical adventure game called Call of Cthulhu: The Darkness Within. It looks like fun, although if the laughable trailer is any indication, they'll need to do some spell checking and additional translation before the game actually goes live.

Still, Cthulhu fans will slog through some pretty bad software if it means there's a good Lovecraftian story in the mix. We'll keep an eye on this one -- graphical horror-based adventure on the iPhone done well could make for a good (or should we say evil?) time.

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Une expérience nature à travers le Massif des Vosges.Ceci Résume plusieurs randonnées- pêche à la mouche de 4 ou 5 jours en bivouac. C'est à l'age du macadam le désir de renouer un lien fort avec la nature et ses merveilles. Paysages à perte de vue, lacs glaciaire, faune et flore fascinante, tout y est !

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A real Dead Fantasy is off the table. Tecmo who has been aggressively showcasing their upcoming games in North America and Japan for the past few days is saying no to Square Enix’s friendly proposal. Instead Tecmo is courting Koei, the creators of the never ending Dynasty Warriors series and other tactical action games. Tecmo believes they have brand recognition in the West thanks in part to Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive in addition to adventure games, and a good Pachislot business in Japan. Koei is popular in Japan with their tactical action games, otome (Women’s games), and online games in Asia. Together they can compliment each other on a global basis.

Temco’s proposal is to merge management through an “integrated administration committee” to make both companies more competitive. This news comes shortly after Tecmo rejected Square Enix’s offer with an official statement.

Images courtesy of Tecmo and Koei.
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Could the Image Revolution ever happen again?

Could anything like that (or Dark Horse Legends, another one I forgot in that post this morning) work in mainstream comics these days? Especially because comics are so writer driven these days?

Hypothetically, let’s say Bendis, Brubaker, and Millar all had creator owned comics coming out from one imprint at the same time, an imprint that’s also publish work from other popular creators. Let’s just ponder that hypothetical for a moment, and then remember that that describes Icon and move on.

Let’s raid DC instead. Let’s say Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Keith Giffen, and let’s throw in Mark Waid, even though he’s in editorial at Boom! now (just to complete the 52 set) get fed up with writing cross over tie-ins. Instead of going to Marvel, they decide to strike out on their own.

Each guy writes a comic that plays to their strengths. Johns does an old school superhero book, Rucka does a mystery/crime/police procedural kind of thing, and Morrison does some kind of gonzo adventure comic with a lot of meta and subtext. Giffen does… well, whatever he wants, as long as he’s got a scripter. Don’t want to go against the the theory now. Does that take the DM by storm? Well, probably not, but surely it would draw a good chunk of their audience, and probably produce some good comics.

Maybe I’m looking at this wrong. Maybe you’d need really popular creative teams to really draw people in. Millar and Hitch! Brubaker and Phillips! Loeb and Sale! Morrison and JH Williams! Let Alan Moore write whatever he wants and hope Dave Gibbons wants to draw it! Steal the Way/Ba and Whedon/whoever combos from Dark Horse to get emo kids and excessively passionate genre show fans!

So, that stuff’s fun to ponder, to me at least. I’m sure we could all come up with our dream lists of creator owned line-ups we’d like to see.

I’m not saying I don’t think more creator owned work wouldn’t be great for comics. As much as I like Morrison’s DC work, I look forward to him doing his own thing again. I don’t always like his creator owned stuff, but he’s always at least interesting to me, and he can really run wild with all those mad ideas he conjures with LSD and cardio or whatever. I’d like to see what Loeb and Sale could do with a blank canvas.

I’ve just never been a binary guy. I can’t get wrapped up in the creator owned vs. work for hire debate, any more than I can superheroes vs. art comics or Marvel vs. DC. I just want entertaining/engaging comics (I’m not sure any(all) of the comics I like are good in a nuts and bolts/art with a capital A way), and I don’t care whether they come from Marvel, DC, Top Shelf, Oni, Fantagraphics, or somebody’s home printer. I’m just too apathetic to join Team Comics, or any offshoot of it. Activism of any kind makes my skin crawl. Or activity. It just stinks of effort, man. Of course, I’m tuning out Sarah Palin’s speech in the other room, so I kind of can’t care about anything to strongly other than my own entertainment. I totally stole that from the Nightly News.

Of course, the big argument against that sort of thinking is that there may not be a comics medium (people usually say industry, but I don’t care about the dollars and cents of it all, even if that stuff is inexorably tied together). Really, though, I think comics will live on well past all of us, creator owned ones most of all. Everything from mini-comics to web comics to the fact that publishers from Image to Drawn and Quarterly always have new work to publish should prove that. People are always going to want to tell their own stories with words and pictures because, well, Harvey Pekar pretty much covered that one already. You should know. But it’s here anyway. So, I’m not worried about comics future. They’ll morph in to something beyond what we know them as to survive, once someone can finally figure out what that is.

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Coladia today announced Secret of the Lost Cavern for Mac OS X. Secret of the Lost Cavern plunges the player into an inspiring adventure that takes place during the Paleolithic period in prehistoric time, 15,000 years B.C. Delve into a world of exploration and intrigue as you embark on a Stone Age quest filled with puzzles and mystery. Pristine photo-realistic graphics and environments including rivers, troglodyte caves, and green valleys, will take players back to the dawn of human existence.

Harry Potter pulled a disappearing act from Hollywood’s fall and holiday schedule, his sixth big-screen adventure bumped from this November into next summer. Tags: neopets freebies Bookmark to: More here: Fall Films: Bond, Bush & High School ...

Sorry somehow seems a bit inadequate when you've just flushed away $1.29 billion of your clients' money. But Dwight Anderson, in his letter to investors, isn't giving much more explanation for his epic adventure in value destruction since the start of the year. Imagine tearing up five million dollar bills every day for eight months.$