Gifs
New Match of the Millennium Gifs by SyxxPac have been added to the Omake/Gifs section.

2.11.00
Exclusive Faselei News
New screen shots and information on Sacnoth's latest roleplaying creation have just landed in our inbox, directly from the source. Check out the official screens and PR below:

Overview:
Faselei, the new adventure RPG for the NeoGeo Pocket Color, is set 100 years in the future. At this time, wars are fought by a new breed of foot soldier. These mechanized destroyers, known as Toy Soldiers, are used both to create and thwart revolutions. A kingdom is in crisis: The king has been assassinated and a revolution has begun. Your squad has been asked to help bring peace again. Players take command of their Toy Soldiers and go into battle, clearing missions to gain experience and money. Parts, weapons, and supplies are available to upgrade and equip your Toy Soldier, even down to the CPU. Players can also purchase new Toy Soldier models and upgrade their entire squad.

Features:
3 Game Modes - Training, Story, and Mission New Control and Attack System - Instead of turn-based attacks, players use "computer chips" to program their Toy Soldier’s next moves, anticipating what the enemy will do next Upgrade your Toy Soldier with money, items, and parts collected during battles, or purchased from the supply store NGP Link Compatible for head-to-head battles Data Save Capabilities

Faselei is planned for release in North America this March.

2.9.00
New Review
substance J has finally posted his thoughts on SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium in his full Review, which has been added to the Games section.

Famitsu Report
A trip to Kinokuniya uncovered a bit of information today, from the pages of Weekly Famitsu Magazine. Within the recent issue was a single NGPC software review - SNK Gals' Fighters. Yumekobo's fem fighter score../../d straight 6's with the Famitsu crew, for a final score of 24/40. For those unfamiliar with Famitsu, such a score is considered above average by most gamers. Famitsu is generally pretty tough on games that aren't magically selected as the-next-big-thing (FF, GT, etc..), so you can probably bump that score up a bit. Oh, who are we trying to kid...we just want some hyper-Kawaii fighting action!

2.8.00
1999 Handheld Awards
The new March issue of Gamers' Republic magazine landed in the ol' S:NGP mailbox a few days ago, containing some great NGPC coverage - the 1999 Handheld game awards. 9 NGPC games in 7 categories received the following awards:

Action
First Place: Metal Slug: 1st Mission (NGPC)
Runner Up: Sonic Pocket Adventure (NGPC)

Fighting
First Place: Match of the Millennium (NGPC)
Runner Up: Samurai Shodown! 2 (NGPC)

Role Playing
First Place: Pokemon Yellow (GBC)
Runner Up: Survival Kids (GBC)

Puzzle
First Place: Crush Roller (NGPC)
Runner Up: Bust A Move (NGPC)

Shooting
First Place: R-Type DX (GBC)
Runner Up: Asteroids (GBC)

Sports
First Place: Mario Golf (GBC)
Runner Up: Baseball Stars Color (NGPC)

Handheld Game of the Year
First Place: Metal Slug: 1st Mission (NGPC)
Second Place: Samurai Shodown! 2 (NGPC)
Third Place: Ghosts & Goblins (WS)

Woo hoo! Some pretty hot exposure for our beloved 'Pocket, needless to say. Apparently Gamers' Republic never heard of Biomotor Unitron or Neo Geo Cup PLUS, though...

2.6.00
The Eternal Question - Slash or Bust?
A new review of Samurai Shodown 2! has been added to the Games Section, courtesy of C.K. Gan.

Links
The Links section has been updated with a link to "Kazuya's NeoGeo Reviews and Faqs" along with the current URL of C.K. Gan's Samurai Shodown Forever.

2.4.00
Ad Scans
The Omake section has been updated with slick new Japanese SNK vs. Capcom ad scans contributed by Jolly Green.

2.3.00
Retail Support Continues to Expand
Corporate HQ, Babbages Etc, has recently announced that all of it's 500+ US stores, going by such names as Babbage's, Software Etc, Super Software, and Gamestop, will begin carrying SNK's current line of Neo Geo Pocket hardware, software, and accessories. Originally, at the time of its release in early June of 1999, the Neo Geo Pocket Color was available only at selected test locations (reportedly fewer than 20 stores, nationwide). By the 2nd week of February, all stores should have the products fully stocked. Thanks to Ghostwalker of Starbase 299 letting us in on this great news.

Gals Fighters Info
Ron Kiser has just informed us that the Japanese release of Yumekobo's recent fem-fighter, Gals Fighters, does not support English text display. So, those uncomfortable with Japanese text would best be advised to pick up a kana chart, or wait for the US version, which is planned for later this month. The listing for Gals Fighters on the Software Info page has been updated accordingly.

Coming Attractions
MadMan's Cafe recently posted screens of Metal Slug: 2nd Mission, Ogre Battle Gaiden, and Gekka no Kenshi ~Special Episode~ (all shown above), along with a bit of info on each title. Check out MadMan's Soup Du Jour section for more.

Also, Magic Box has posted new information about Evolution for Neo Geo Pocket. More specifically, it's new Chat system. The Chat system takes full advantage of the Neo Geo Pocket's internal clock to modify conversations with other characters, relative to special dates such a Christmas, etc.

Other Stuff
Now for what's been updated around here. The Coming Soon and Software Info pages have been breifly updated, with obvious changes like released titles being moved from the former to the latter, etc. The Coming Soon section will be updated again in the near future, when we sit down and do a bit of translating. The Links section has been updated with a new link to Neo Geo Pocket Colour Wales *phew*, and a few other URLs have been updated. And lastly, the news of January has been added to the Archives (below).