After four years of staying on top, it's the first time for the Wii to experience a sales decline. Satoru Iwata owns up to the issue, but remains optimistic about Nintendo bouncing back into the game. Much of that is apparent as early as now - Nintendo is steadily adding more games into WiiWare and Virtual Console, grabbing more big Wiixclusives, unleashing the Black Wii, and even introduces a new king-sized DSi.

by Glenn M.

For those who want some arcade-style action on their Wiis, here's a new version of Wii homebrew dev Toad King's SDL MAME Wii, a Wii port of the popular SDL MAME arcade emulator.


Download: SDL MAME Wii v0.3

Wish you had your very own arcade cabinet at home huh? Well, at least virtually, this is as close as you can get. 3D ArcadePSP demo allows you to "walk around" a 3D environment (Myst-style) and activate the emulator by going to the Arcade cabinet on the corner. In this demo, playing on the Arcade cabinet will boot Mame4All.

Download: 3D ArcadePSP Demo
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Now this is gamer love. A dad builds his daughter, Bella, her very own arcade machine and put it in her room, complete with 250 arcade classics and comes in flaming hot pink. News is a little old, but I figured I'd share it with you guys. Details, screens, and a video in the full article.

Lookie here, it's another shoot -'em up! Actually, 1942 was one of my favorites when I was little. Especially when I get to the part where I get those little planes on my side to add some firepower as well as fodder just in case someone tries to ram me. Copper has just updated this cool game for the Nintendo DS, and the changelog is inside. Click.


Download: DS1942 v1.1

This one, I like. I remember playing this game for hours at a time in the NES days when I was little. I used to love it when I get my ammo upgrades plus those two little planes that help you out once you get the bonus. Gaming nostalgia at its finest, all thanks to DS brew dev, Copper.


Download: DS1942 v1.0

Christmas break's over, guys! It's back to work for Ibicelyne (and me), and he's starting off with the release of his latest update for his FBA Ibicelyne project, FBA lbicelyne 1225 V12p2. Still a mouthful, I see. And this release has got quite a mouthful to say too. Check it out after the jump.


Download: FBA lbicelyne 1225 V12p2

This here's looking cool. PuzzleKlax v1.0 is a brewed arcade emulator by Alekmaul for the game Klax. For those of you not old enough to be familiar with the game, Klax is a1989 computer puzzle game whose objective is to line up blocks according to their colors so they'll disappear.

We now have the latest release from Ibicelyne of his CPS 1, 2, 3, 4 and more emulator for the PSP. We have more info for you after the jump.


Download:  FBA lbicelyne 1119 preV12 Demo3

iPhone and iPod Touch homebrew developer ZodTTD has released a MAME arcade emulator for iPhone and iPod Touch devices running on firmware 2.x. Right now, it supports a whopping 2,000-plus games ranging from the 70s to the present, although it's worth noting that not every rom may work with mame4iPhone. More in the full article.