I (zeldaking) have started on my biggest and toughest project ever, called Condor (may be changed with notice). This is written in axe, with no axioms, and will be a app (or a program with crabcake). This will be a 2 player (may make a computer player and a storyline), game, you have to protect your base while trying to destroy your enemy(s), similar to a gameboy game (that i can't remember the name).
There are:
-multiple maps
-unlockable vehicles/weapons
-170 grayscale sprites(at the moment)
-17 unique troops ready to be deployed
  -infantry
  -artillery
  -transport vehicles
     -air transports
     -vehicle transports
     -water transports
  -tanks
     -light tank
     -heavy tank
     -neo tank
  -helicoptor
  -bomber
  -jet
  -submarine
  -cruiser
  -battleship
  -missiles
  -anti air machine guns

So far I have all the sprites done, a nice scrolling tilemap, a info screen; which tells you what terrain/weapon/vehicle/person you are on, and a movement screen; which allows your troops to: walk, capture, attack.
Here is a screenshot of all the above except (walking,capturing,and attacking).

Any question, comments, concerns? Please feel free to comment.
 

I am still debating, should I do 2 player via the usb, or just 2 player on the same calc?

Yes, that would probably same sweat and anger if I had it on the same calc. Yes, it is turn based.

So, this is like [wikipedia]Advance Wars[/wikipedia]?  Cool, another one--looks like it's coming along pretty well
(the old one was in the first axe contest, but dev on it stopped)

2-player via a 3-pin cable (the hole labeled "I/O") is supported by axe tho.
It's not very documented, but threads such as this may help

One suggestion I have, tho I'm not sure how feasible it is, is to work with Axe's grayscale so the scrolling is smoother.  Maybe display the frame something like 3 times between each Horizontal/Vertical command?

There's three physical pins but only two manipulable pins iirc?

* Darl181 was counting in the ground as a pin..

There's three physical pins but only two manipulable pins iirc?

Yeah, I guess that's right. There are only two lines that data can be transfered through.

One answer at a time.
-thank you Darl for saying advanced wars... Exactly that is where I got my inspiration. I am glad someone plays cool games.
-it will be on the same calc, grayscale is crappy as it is.
-Darl: the scrolling is supposed to look like that, it loops through displaying it (8 times) to get to the next tile.
-runeazn: well it is supposed to be done for the ticalc zcontest, but alas school started again and my time is limited so maybe a rough version will be done for a Christmas present.
-toxic: thanks.
Also, I am trying to work on the moving (ie:moving around to different tiles) aspects of the characters (pretty difficult) and am going to puzzle on it until I finish that.