Good and bad news… first the bad ones. We only have enough money to keep PDRoms alive for the next 2 months (without domain costs and without covering the loss I had with the sponsor of PDRC#3).

All the sponsoring income we ever had, has now disappeared.The good news – Our coder is still heavily developing the code for the new PDRoms and it’s comming along well.

Finaly we are working on the new PDRoms internal code, recoding will take around a month, re-adding everything from scratch will take two months. It might get december and for whole january I’ll be on vacation in asia.

I think we can target February 2006 as new start for PDRoms, any earlier re-launch would be even a surprise to me.

Before anyone hopes that we continue with the news for now, wrong thought. I was just in the mood to post. PDRoms will be fully back on track when the new design and the new code is ready. I think we can target November for a re-opening, whith a month break in January.

To tell more about the system: Everyone will be able to register with PDRoms. If you have a valued name, you get access to the news-module and can post things on your own, which will appear after a moderator has checked everything.

As the main code has not started yet, we still accept user wishes regarding the functionality.

Regards
Kojote

By request of”Robert L. Hunter, IV/Entertainment Software Association”I had to remove the Fangame”Donkey Kong by FJSantos”which was an Open-Source, one Level GBA homebrew.

If you happen to host this on your pages too, please remove it.In case FJSantos is reading that, you might modify the game and re-release it so they can’t complain about it anymore.

-Kojote

PS: If you happen to find any suspicious or problematic material on PDRoms, please let me know. It’s not a problem at all to remove things upon request, but don’t bitch around by talking about taking the whole site offline!

Update 25.07.2006
I finaly got the”reading confirmation”of my response from the ESA, wow that took a while. So once again I want to point it out: If any suspicious material is found, send a mail to webmaster(at)thispagesname.de and it will be removed as soon as I got notice of it, which usually takes not more than 10 hours.

Also consider titles which have similarities to commercial titles as fangames and not as agression against anyones copyright or trademark. No one on PDRoms intends to steal someone elses property and spread it in any form. We have not done this in the past and we will not do this in the future.

Update 27.07.2006
I’ve recieved the following lines by brad_yo today:
This is very short but here the thing the Entertainment Software Association had a DK fangame remove but Entertainment Software Association is just a anti-pirate group and does not have any copyrights over DK (Donkey Kong) only Rare & Nintendo do and their for the game should have not been remove. Anti-pirate groups have no right to bug people over what ain’t their business and the DK fangame was wrongly removed no copyright holder should ever be obeyed when it come to copyright.

The PDR-Team is still alive and still kickin’. The main-layout has been finished but needs some re-touching to grant a proper, modern and easy to navigate page. We probably target end of autumn 2006 for a new start.In other words, we’ll be back… and it’s just a question of weeks 🙂

Regards
Kojote&The PDR Team

The PDRoms-Team is still alive and enjoying the peace without news hassle 🙂 But for now… there are positive news and there are negative news:

First the negative one:We still want to rest, as we are busy with work or university. This will not change for the next few weeks or months.

The positive news, which most of you will enjoy:We decided to change the concept and make PDRoms more”interactive”, meaning PDRoms will be back sometime in the future (autumn/winter)! A new design has been made and a mate of mine, celeth, will recode everything from scratch. There will be really many very useful things, but more details on that when the time has come. You’ll for sure love the new PDRoms 🙂

-Kojote & The PDR Team

Please grant us a larger out-time, if we can regain our mood we might consider continuing work on PDRoms in a few months. The archive will remain online as all other pages and subpages. And don’t believe all rumours you might hear…

-Kojote

Dear visitors,

this one is probably going to be a larger post and if you don’t care reading, please leave this page right now. It’s time to take a serious and long break, I am not even sure if this is the end of PDRoms, probably it won’t, as I know myself very well. But one fact is here and is not removeable from my mind, I need a break. poqako and kedo will go on a break too, this means the whole PDRoms staff is (temporary) gone.

The homebrew scene has changed a lot since I started to support it, by founding PDRoms. My page turned from a simple, private hobby page into the thing, you can see right now. Plenty of free roms for various systems. My goal was always to proof that a) emulation is not illegal at all and b) that homebrew devers have a great power and can at least make as great games as professional developers, if they can afford the time for it. There are many uncountable games which proof my words, specially on Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, GP32, GP2x, the Nintendo DS and PSP – not to forget to mention the marvellous Dreamcast.

1) The scene I loved to support so much is just not what it was supposed to be. It hurts me to write this, it really hurts, but it has to be. The first shock I got was around half year ago, when the first”bricker”appeared. It turned out to be a joke and only limited to a tiny circle of people, but somehow it spreaded out fast and made even it’s headline at slashdot. How can someone intend to break somone else’s property? Of course this is discussable. The bricker has been created to fuck off pirates, but still the solution way was pretty wrong, which the coder appologized for. To not squirl the shit I don’t mention any names.

2) The second point: Many other pages get by far more attention and the PDRoms team is working their ass off to bring fresh news, many times (not always) faster than others. This is very discouraging! Please go to all the other pages, having hidden affilation codes in their links, having popups, charging for the use of their webboard to get advertisements removed, etc. I am simply sick of it. Homebrew is not about money, it’s about supporting the work of hobbycoders. Of course everyone has to pay his expenses but from many sources you can easily find out that some webmasters in the scene are justinto it for money. This concept is specialy widly spread in the PSP scene. Making lots of money with homebrew sucks! Don’t get me wrong, there are also respectable websites.

3) I’ve always put money back from the banner income (in form of competitions and donations to devs) and with the desaster of the third PDRoms coding competition, I had to pay 3 high quality prices out of my pocket, as the sponsor did not hold his word. I had a loss of around 1000 Euro, which hurted me a lot – I was earning 430 Euro per month at this time. I can not afford to have such a loss, the server must be paid as well. PDRoms is turning from a hobby into a time consuming and money eating full time job.

4) The time part is another bad thing. PDRoms takes around one hour daily, why this you may ask. Not every developer supports us and tells us where to find news, so we have to find them ourself. Most of the team members are very experienced by now, but it still takes a lot of time to find every single piece of news you can read here. I (Kojote) work seven days a week, kedo is student and needs to take care of his university lessons and poqako is a good friend who temporary took over (and did great work, thanks!).

As you can see everyone has a private life and many responsibilities, it is impossible to invest more time into PDRoms right now. All those things are essential for the decision to let PDRoms rest a while. I don’t know how long it will be, nor if I will continue work on PDRoms anyway.

Just take it as it is! I don’t need any comments, it’s too late!

Regards
Kojote

Image provided by: saboteurHere comes a new game for the GP2x by saboteur. Thanks to GP32spain for the news.http://www.pdroms.de/file_details.php?fn=2561

SamuraiX has updated his port of Beats of Rage, a side scrolling 2D beat’em up. Changes:

-Compatibility with 2.0 TIFF-New File Logger(BeatsOfRageLog.txt gets created when ever an error occurs)-Lots of Memory Fixes/stabilizing here and there.-Keep version identical to OpenBOR.-OpenBOR defaults to 333 MHz (Keep Video Smooth) since its much more complex than bor.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=42846