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Last weekend GamesCom expo has been held in Cologne, Germany, where the RETURN magazine had a stall of its own. Among other games, Bomb Mania was running there, and again it proved to be a hit!
As part of the broadcast “Neues” (“News”) by the German language TV station 3sat, there is a video report entitled “Gegen den Trend” (“Against the trend”) featuring an interview with sign-set (Frank Erstling) from RETURN, and besides, one sees the Return stand and also Bomb Mania for a moment.
www.3sat.de/webtv/?100822_gegentrend_nes.rm

Further impressionens:
RETURN homepage
Clip by Videofreak
Photos by Brainstorm
RETURN at GamesCom – Forum64 thread (Viewing photos requires to have an account.)

Here is what Pawel has managed to accomplish this weekend:

NTSC fixing of Pieces II is almost done. Pawel has been testing the game today after the changes he made to the code, and it all seems good.

Pawel has done another small fix for Oxyron’s game today. Namely, he has fixed the situation when the “hi.scores” file has been deleted from disk accidentally (or on purpose? ). Previously in such situation random characters were displayed on the screen and the whole high scores file handling (loading/saving) was broken. Now even if there is no such file on the disk, everything will work as it should (default hi-score data is kept in memory).

Here is a summary of what Pawel has done on Pieces II last weekend:

Work on NTSC fixing the game has now begun.

Oxyron has been hard-working! The following features have been implemented into Pieces II:

More fixes are to come: The next task Pawel is going to work on is installing a decent IRQ loader system.

Leon has recently published another multicolor image inspired from the game Newcomer:
“Eva-1″ is available at CSDb.

Pac It is alive! After looong fruitless attempts it was now possible to put all parts of the Pac It Intro together. There were several space problems… In other words, a small breakthrough in the Pac It project has been achieved, and development finally continues.

The preview of the puzzle game Pieces II by Oxyron has already been presented at Forever 10 Party in Slovakia in 2009.

Pawel has compiled his ToDo list, which among other things includes installing a new fastloader and NTSC fixing the game. Furthermore, Timo created a really nice multicolor font. It should fit perfectly into the game start screen and replace the currently used mono-color font. Currently, Pawel is just writing a converter for it.

On protovision-previews.de the game’s section is now open – with first screenshots!