Tehskeen.net, a scene site with various news about exotic hardware and also homebrew application and game news, seem to have shut down. Not sure what happened, but sad to see another site going which was into homebrew 🙁


-koj

http://www.tehskeen.net/

Most of the feedback so far critizes that you need to “backport” something. Please don’t take “backport” too serious. I’ve changed the description now to backport/convert.

If you have graphics and sound from a homebrew NDS game and the GBA version looks like the NDS version, it will be counted as “backport” 🙂 In simple words, use your resources of the NDS version, the code can be brandnew too.

-Kojote

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=341

The recently coding competition GBAX 2007 has been brought to an end and the results are out now.

Many apologies for the lateness in announcing the winners. This years competition was our hardest ever to judge. There were half a dozen or so entries that were deserving of the three winning places and we had a truly tough time deciding on them. There can however only be three winners and below you can find them.

1st Place – Sqdef
2nd Place – Ozone
3rd Place – Battlejewels

Winners will be contacted shortly by GP2x.co.uk (GBAX) with further details on how to claim their prize.

As always a wide selection of entries and it seems every year the standard gets better and better. We are already dreading the judging on what next year will bring 😉 Thanks again to everyone that took part in the competition but especially to the coders who make the GBAX coding competitions what they are! See you next year!

http://gbax.gp2x.de/gbax2007.html

Competition running time: 3rd August 2007 to Sunday, 16th September 2007


Deadline: Sunday, 16th September 2007 23:59, in YOUR timezone!
Systems allowed: Gameboy Advance only
Topic: “Backport” a Nintendo DS homebrew to Gameboy Advance!

Copyright:
[*]You must own all RIGHTS to your submission, this includes sound, graphics, code, simply everything! The use of copyrighted names and characteres should be avoided, unless you have an official permission, which should be forwarded along with your entry. We reserve the right to refuse or disqualify entries, which break any rule(s)!!!
[*]In case of VERY OLD GAMES (+10y), which do not seem to have a copyright holder anymore and which are not distributed commercially anymore, we can make an exception, but you must be still able to proofe that you tried to get in touch with the responsible copyrightholders.
[*]Keep in mind you OWN ALL RIGHTS to your production, this means you are also fully reliable for it. By submitting your production you declare that you did not break any copyright.

[Prizes]
#1 – One GBA Micro (new, unused) + One GBADEV.org 2004 Compo Cartridge (new, unused)
#2 – One Qwak GBA Cartridge (new, unused) + 1 x GBAccelerometer (new, unused) + One HAMLib license
#3 – One HAMLib license + One GBAccelerometer (new, unused)

[Special Prize:]
One GBA Micro (new, unused) + One GBADEV.org 2004 Compo Cartridge (new, unused) + One GBAccelerometer (new, unused) + One HAMlib license

The HAMlib licenses are sponsored by Emanual Schleussinger http://www.ngine.de. HAMlib is a software development enviroment for the Gameboy Advance. The HAMLib license will be registered to the winners name, so of course we will require your real name, adress and stuff like this (just to let you know in advance). The prize can not be paid out in cash.

The GBAccelerometers are sponsored by Keith E. The GBAccelerometer is a 3-axis Kionix accelerometer that plugs into the Gameboy Advance link port to enable full motion sensing on the Gameboy Advance compatible with GBA and GBA SP, NOT with GBA Micro! – Those prizes are sent by Keith E. directly, we will forward your name and postal adress for this! The prize can not be paid out in cash! http://www.kionix.com/gbaccelerometer/

The two GBA Micros and the real GBA cartridges (2 x GBADEV.org 2004 Competition Cartridge + 1 x Qwak) are sponsored by Kojote of PDRoms. Those cartridges are pretty RARE!!! Prizes can not be paid out in cash! http://www.pdroms.de

[*]Prizes can not be paid out in cash
[*]In case of entries having the same jury-end-score, the entry which has been submitted earlier will be the winner.
[*]In case of teamwork, the team-leader has to make sure the prizes are split proper within the team itself.
[*]The special prize is given to the person with the most “ports”. If there should be a person with equal amount of ports, the one who was sending in things fastest, will win this special prize.

Entries:
[*]Submit as many entries as you like and have an extra chance to win the “special prize”
[*]No Splash-Screen required, you keep all your rights – even no need to mention PDRoms.
[*]The “ported” homebrew NDS game should be “brandnew” for GBA, already existing ports which were available for the public before 2nd August 2007 are not allowed, unless they are heavily major updated!
[*]You are not allowed to spread your GBA entry to the public before the official results!
[*]You grant PDRoms and its staff members the right to spread your entry freely (we won’t make money with it). We have connections to other important scene pages, so we’ll make sure you get proper attention for your production
[*]Entry should run on a REAL GBA
[*]Write a README with information about your game, this text will be used to present your entry, also add a screenshot!
[*]Please state out, which NDS game you were porting and send the NDS binary along (will not be published)!
[*]Package each submission in ONE compressed file archive and send it to shahzad.sahaib(at)web.de AND kojote(at)pdroms.de (just to be on the save side, due to agressive spam-filters – each entry will be CONFIRMED after max. 2 days)
[*]Entries can be updated by sending an updated archive ANYTIME before the deadline.

Judging:
[*]To be announced 🙂

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=325

Just a few minutes ago, we have changed our board software from phpBB 2.0.22 to phpBB 3 RC4. This piece of software seems quite stable and pretty much useable and offers many more features than the old phpBB2. Enjoy!

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/

The prizes for PDRC #3.667 were updated!

* Play-Asia did not reconfirm their offered prizes, so we guess they are not interested anymore. Maybe the responsible person is just on vacation, who knows – anyway, for secure reasons they are currently out of the sponsoring pool.
* Emanuel Schleussinger is sponsoring 2 more copies of HAMLib, an GBA software development enviroment -> http://www.ngine.de
* Keith E. sponsored three GBAccelerometers -> http://www.kionix.com/gbaccelerometer/

Thanks Emanuel & Keith!!! (Please check their pages *g*)

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=325

PDROMS Coding Competition #3.667 is almost in the pipe! The topic has been choosen, the prizes are ALMOST confirmed (currently reconfirming with http://www.play-asia.com/ for their voucher offer) – the action starts after the dev-fr.org Coding Competiton. Probably August 3rd (not 100% fixed), running for one full month.

Prizes as per today can be found in the PDRoms Webboard.

If anyone wants to contribute in form of prizes, feel free to do so 😉

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=325

1timeuser.com are running a coding competition for PSP and NDS.

Rules Of Competition

1) Sony PSP & Nintendo DS submissions only.
2) Must be a new Application/Game or a significantly updated version of a Application/Game.
3) No sprite/Graphics/Music limitations apply, you may use what you wish.
4) Entry MUST include (as first screen) the 1timeuser.com Coding Competition 2007 splash screen.
5) No restriction on coding language used. Any language is fine.
6) Competition starts now (18/7/07) and the deadline day is (30/8/07)
7) No entry’s will be accepted after the deadline day.
8) Prizes will be sent out within 3 days of competition ending.

PDRoms-Team note: We haven’t heared about 1timeuser before, so we can not assure you that the competition is fair. The page is updated pretty rare and none of the mentioned names seem familiar to us. Of course this does not say anything about being reliable or not.

http://www.1timeuser.com/index.php?topic=23.0

Brunni has updated his coding library for the Nintendo DS. Download is directly available here: http://brunni.dev-fr.org/dl/nds/uLibrary.rar

More information is available in french language at it’s release thread.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6239&page=4

A part of the page is back. It’s the news service. Have fun!

Basically this is the display of the RSS-Feed available on PDRoms.org. PDRoms.org is currently in Alpha-Testing stage and will offer many new features compared to the old page.

PDRoms.org ist NOT available for the public yet, it’s not a bug and we know about it 😉 Just stick with the news here at PDRoms.de in the meantime. Updates are made almost daily.

PS: Spread the news! 😉
PSS: Authors of homebrew programs have the possibility to post own news, if you are interested get in touch with Kojote.
PSSS: EFNET #pdroms (with PDR-Newsbot!)