And once again Team CARROT brings you an unreleased ROM release! This time it's both the US and european versions of Sydney 2000, which was released for PlayStation, Dreamcast and Windows PC, but cancelled for N64.

Title: Sydney 2000
Date: 05/09/2010
Company: ATD
Area: USA & Europe
System: Nintendo 64
Size: 256 MBits
Supplier: CARROT

Team CARROT have done it again! This time they bring you the unreleased german version of Starcraft 64.

Starcraft 64 (Unreleased German version)

Title: Starcraft 64
Date: 27/08/2010
Company: Blizzard
Area: Germany
System: Nintendo 64
Size: 256 MBITs
Supplier: CARROT

Great one, CARROT, keep them coming!

The now classic Mario spin-off finally shows up on the Wii Virtual Console! The first Mario Tennis game (don't forget Mario Tennis for Virtual Boy!), you can play as all your favorite Mario characters (that were around back then) into some really frantic and polished tennis action.

Sure, Mario Power Tennis for the Gamecube (and it's Wii upgrade) are still available today, but if you feel for some nostalgia, as well as one of the best tennis games ever made, you can't possible go wrong with Mario Tennis.

Since the initial announcement of the Nintendo 3DS on March 23th, I've been excited about the idea of another 3D console by Nintendo, 15 years after the ill-fated Virtual Boy, which almost instantly manifested itself in plans to create a website about it.

The name "Planet 3DS" was quickly chosen and the domain planet3ds.net registered on the same day. A rather lenghty period of finding a concept for the site followed in which I found two equally enthusiastic co-editors, Herman and Max, but also scrapped just as many ideas as I had for the site. Noticing I was going in circles, I created another site in the mean time. Pokémon-Mini.net, build for my friends from Team Pokémé, is based on WordPress and phpbb and was a perfect test run for Planet 3DS, which will now go the same (or at least a very similar) route.

Since Herman will be attending E3 2010 and the unveiling of Nintendo 3DS from June 15th to 17th, we of course had something like a deadline for getting the site up and running, but many other commitments came in the way. The result of this is the quickly put together, temporary site we have now. Should be enough to get you all the news from E3 until I can find the time to start working on the final site design. I still don't have a definite concept for the site, but we'll see how it develops, so for now, Planet 3DS is hereby going live and open to the public.

Stay tuned for some great days next week when E3 2010 takes place. As mentioned above, Herman will be attending and providing us with the hottest info, photos and video footage every evening. Meanwhile, Max will be in the US as well, albeit not at E3, but in South Carolina, New York City and Washtington D.C., and talk to the press, while I will try to post while being at work. Heh.

A ROM of a beta version of the unreleased Dragon Sword 64 has been released by a generous anonymous collector. Check the included readme file (or read on) for more info.

The critically acclaimed N64 RPG is finally released on the Wii Virtual Console! For those who are unfamiliar, Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber is a tactical RPG featuring many possible endings, plus a genre-defining character class system.

This strategic epic has retained its place in the hearts of tactical RPG fans for more than a decade, telling the story of Magnus Gallant, a recently graduated officer of the Palatinean Army who is assigned to the troubled southern region of his native land.

There he witnesses the plight of the lower classes – the victims of a tyrannical ruling elite whose only thought is for the preservation of its own lofty status. With civil war brewing, Magnus is faced with a terrible choice: to betray his own noble origins in the name of liberty, or to turn a blind eye to the evils of his rotten society....

With the help of hidden-palace.org's drx, cen of zelda64.net has released a Debug ROM of Majora's Mask, very similar to the Ocarina of Time Debug ROM already available. VERY nice!

You can thank him and help him making some money back by making a PayPal donation to cendamos@gmail.com.

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SubDrag released v1.0 of "Perfect Editor", a comprehensive and exhaustive setup editor for Perfect Dark for N64 over at Goldeneye Vault.

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Here's a preview video of marshallh's homebrew N64 racing game in development, called "Downshift". Drool!

In the user menu bar on top of the site, you can now find a link to a batch game rating form (unter the "Submit" tab). This now allows our registered users to quickly rate games all on one site, instead of having to go to each game site to submit a rating. You can rate released N64 and 64DD games as well as unreleased N64 games of which ROM dumps were publically released.

I think that user ratings are a pretty good representation of a game's quality. The more people vote, the more accurate, meaningful and important the average scores (and this site) become.

Therefore, all our current and future users are warmly invited to submit scores for the games he or she has played to fortify the reference status of 64DD.net and its community. Thank you!