It's high time for the "Most important MSX news of 2006" mega-poll! In this thread you can submit your nominees. Please obey the following rules:

• You can only nominate events that were reported on MSX.org as news posts
• You can only nominate news posts submitted between January 1st 2006 and December 31st, 2006. As the event took place in 2006, we will make one exception on this and automatically nominate it: MSXdev'06 closes with 19 entries'
• You can nominate as many news posts as you like, but please try and be reasonable in your selection. Nominate what you genuinely think of as important MSX news.
• Motivate why you nominated a certain news post

For instance:

Nominee: MSXdev'06 closes with 19 entries
Why: 19 brand new MSX1 games! Simply amazing!

To make it easy, here are a few quick links into the news archive:

MSX news of January 2006
MSX news of February 2006
MSX news of March 2006
MSX news of April 2006
MSX news of May 2006
MSX news of June 2006
MSX news of July 2006
MSX news of August 2006
MSX news of September 2006
MSX news of October 2006
MSX news of November 2006
MSX news of December 2006

So, there you have it. Thanks for taking your time on this and... happy nominating!

nom: MSXDev'06 announcement
why: one of the major development events of 2006 resulting in 19 new products (of which some are quite )

nom: XL2s cancel MSXDev'06 entries
why: lead to an interesting discussion on specs and development reality, also, at least one of these entries was quite huge..

nom: Dragon's Lair intro for MSX, by NYYRIKKI
why: very interesting development

nom: MSX Unleashed
why: new MSX1 effects, most notably the color mixing/alternating/flickering/

nom:
why: YOU KNOW WHY, YOU FOOL!

I take it that the actual news is: introduction of new smileys ^^ (of which there was never a newspost, only a forumthread)

hmmm... what to do with it..

[edit] no, only real newsposts count. The only one could nominate is our dev entry.

/me only has one nomination: The relase of the RNFF game...
Why? Since it's just the coolest game around

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I take it that the actual news is: introduction of new smileys ^^

RIght

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[edit] no, only real newsposts count.

Darn

Ok, one serious entry:
nom: WOOMB - There it is!
why: because we've been waiting for this for about 15 years ^_^

Cute, but WRONG!

snout's nominees of January and motivation

nom: http://www.msx.org/PCM-Encoder.newspost3486.html
why: crystal clear PSG samples on MSX. Unheard before!

nom: http://www.msx.org/Photo-shoot-MSX-fair-Nijmegen-online.newspost3512.html
why: not because of the pictures, but because the first edition of Nijmegen was a real success. (New) MSX fairs and meetings are very important! Hope to be able to be there this year...

nom: http://www.msx.org/Space-Manbow-2-preview.newspost3517.html
why: most stunnig amateur MSX game (preview) ever.


that's how it's done! ^_^

Here's an other one:
nom:One chip MSX hits the streets in Japan
why: The OCM is vapourware no more! Bring it on!

hmm... we need more nominees... don't go complaining on me that your favorite MSX news wasn't nominated in the voting rounds! Here go some more nominations from my side. This times the months February, March and April....

Nom: http://www.msx.org/IDE-on-MSX1-tutorial.newspost3585.html
Why: Cool factor!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Imported.newspost3562.html
Why: I don't know who that coder is, but I like this demo style on MSX!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Technicolor.newspost3604.html
Why: because Wolf already nominated MSX Unleashed

Nom: http://www.msx.org/MRC-Scene-Music-Remake-challenge-closed.newspost3617.html
Why: 12 nice scene remakes!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Lenny-Kravitz-goes-MSX.newspost3618.html
Why: I think this one goes without explanation

Nom: http://www.msx.org/MSX-Association-and-Konami.newspost3626.html
Why: Unexpected 'return' of Konami!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Konami-and-IIJ-launch-retro-games-section-on-i-revo.newspost3631.html
Why: Kind of goes together with the earlier nominee, so... Unexpected 'return' of Konami!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/EdiOS-0.0.newspost3637.html
Why: Because it really is a nice shell-os. It's objectives are different than SymbOS's... one should take that into account

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Guess-what%21-Were-back%21.newspost3645.html
Why: Finally an MRC dedicated server that can cope with datatraffic, tremendous amounts of spam (filtering), and server-load!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Matra-and-Bitwise-to-release-games-on-cartridge.newspost3646.html
Why: NEW CARTRIDGES FOR MSX! I repeat: NEW CARTRIDGES FOR MSX!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Dumas-more-information-revealed.newspost3672.html
Why: MSX + USB + Ethernet + 512kB == w00t

Nom: http://www.msx.org/One-Chip-MSX-available-for-pre-order.newspost3972.html
Why: One of many OCM newspost, but the one with most interesting feedback

Nom: http://www.msx.org/MSX-BASIC-game-contest-closed.newspost3591.html
Why: Brought more attention to MSX Basic programming

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Dragons-Lair-introdemo-for-MSX2-update.newspost3694.html
Why: A really cool demonstration of what the MSX is capable of

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Universe-Unknown%3A-final.newspost3686.html
Why: Final release of a one of the best MSX1 shooters

Nom: http://www.msx.org/blueMSX-2.6.1-secret-edition.newspost3925.html
Why: Lots of new features, e.g. support for CX5M, MIDI-IN/OUT, Digitizing, Video capture, Obsonet, ...

Nom: http://www.msx.org/openMSX-0.6.1.newspost3792.html
Why: Another great release of this open source MSX emulator

Time for my June, July, August & September nominees

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Knightmare-Gold-2.0-released.newspost3704.html
Why: Nice way to pimp MSX games, and a very nice result!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/One-Chip-MSX-MKII.newspost3805.html
Why: The second chance of the One Chip MSX surprised the MSX community -- in a pleasant way this time

Nom: http://www.msx.org/X-Tazy-goes-opensource-2-playable-levels.newspost3816.html
Why: Because it revealled how cool the game actually was -- and I hope someone/group will actually finalize it one day

Nom: http://www.msx.org/MSX-Frappr.newspost3873.html
Why: MSX Frappr rulez!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Wii-loves-MSX.newspost3884.html
Why: Because it's very big news. Nintendo embracing MSX and vice versa.

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Waves-1.2.newspost3910.html
Why: Amazing demo!

(I think this poll ain't gonna work. too many reading and clicking to be done... )

We've been doing the poll for 3 years in a row now... each year I wonder if we should skip nomination stage and head over to voting right away... but in order to prevent "why did you not nominate..."-remarks I'd rather stick to a few days of nominating on the forum.

Nom: http://www.msx.org/WOOMB-There-it-is%21.newspost3944.html
Why: Games from various developers back on sale again, MSX revival taking another step outside Japan

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Shock-the-dev%21-free-ROM-cartridge-for-MSXdev-contestants.newspost3948.html
Why: Great initiative to boost MSXdev entries!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Manuel-Pazos-announces-MultiROM-and-new-MegaFlashROM-SCC-cartridges.newspost3950.html
Why: New cartridges rule!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/1up-says-MSX-is-Missing-in-America.newspost3959.html
Why: Attention for MSX on a huge website!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/msx.org-10th-anniversary.newspost3993.html
Why: 10 years o'serving the MSX community!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/Manbow2-preview-on-MySpace.newspost4055.html
Why: Boy, is this game going to rock!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/SymbOS-1.1.newspost4075.html
Why: Amazing milestone in the development in the OS nobody expected - remember it all happened in just one year!

Nom: http://www.msx.org/SCMD-and-MML-compiler-1.07.1.newspost3913.html
Why: Innovative use of the SCC - or even 2 SCCs!

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We've been doing the poll for 3 years in a row now... each year I wonder if we should skip nomination stage and head over to voting right away... but in order to prevent "why did you not nominate..."-remarks I'd rather stick to a few days of nominating on the forum.

yeah, but THIS nomination round is to much clicking/reading, thaz my point. U know I'm lazy, do you?