Marc had a major PC crash which delayed the beta-testing by 24 hours, but I've been able to fix his black screen problem. In the meantime I was working on slightly improving the Memory game (which, I've never hidden it, is my least favorite mini-game in Kyodai), and I've tested the game intensively. So I'm glad to announce that the final version of Kyodai 12.02 is now online ! Enjoy it. I'm almost certain that I've managed to remove all of the main DirectX problems introduced way back in version 11.21 (and version 12.00 for some, because of the new interface)...

Here's a preliminary version (Public Beta 3) of Kyodai 12.02... Marc Lesselberg, my main beta tester, is experimenting problems with it (black screen when the Game Selector appears), so I hope you won't have any trouble. It works perfectly on my two machines, so I'm expecting this beta session to help me find out if the problem comes from my programming or from Marc's configuration. Here is the link : Kyodai.exe (1,6mb). Please don't expect support for this beta version. It's targetted to power users. It should be fully functional for everyone, though.

Hello ! I'm very busy these days, but I wanted to give you a preview of several new features in the upcoming Kyodai 12.02...  This version should be released this week-end or a few days later. I'm extremely tired and I don't think I'd be able to spend, as always, a couple of days advertising the new update on all websites. So, although v12.02 is virtually finished, I'll probably wait a few more days.  

• [Cool] Implemented a camera-based contemplation mode, similar (but not identical) to Kyodai 10.21.
• [Cool] Implemented "Play in a window" feature for nostalgics. I couldn't do it before because I had to optimize maximized mode first.
• [Cool] Now the "View Tiles" feature (which is now in its own separate window) shows high-quality tiles.
• [Fix] Non-textured mouse cursor : found a workaround for flickering cursor problems. (Notably for ATI video cards)
• [Fix] Textured mouse cursor : improved 2D support to avoid important lag times when moving the mouse over the background.
• [Fix] Fixed a long-lived problem that would occasionally popup a Game Over window after one second...

Hi. Just wanted to tell you that I moved to another ISP, so if you are currently in contact with me, please do not write to my address at Free.fr, replace it with "Kyodai.com" instead. From now on I will use this e-mail address exclusively. As for Kyodai 12.01, I'm really happy. I haven't received a single mail complaining about the new version. It hadn't happened in a while. Now I'm working on version 12.02. It doesn't have much for now, but well, what could you expect ?

Hi ! As promised, Kyodai 12.01 is now available. I've only uploaded the Light version so far because, firstly, I'm in a hurry and I don't have time to upload the Full version for now, and secondly, v12.01 was only tested by me so far, and although it works perfectly for me (and even better than v12.00), I want to keep a copy of v12.00 online just in case a problem is found. Please feel free to send me your reports on this new version. You can, as always, find the update history here. Also, I'm glad I've been both featured on Lockergnome.com and Download.com (again !) today. I've never got that many visitors in one day !