There is just about one month left for the current Drunken Coders coding competition. Enough time to get something started 😉

Read on:

Just a friendly reminder that one month remains until the 2008 compo deadline has expired.

Its looking like winner take all for the Wii compo as the prize pool has leveled out at about the $100 mark.

The DS/GBA side, however, have exceeded last years cash prize pool and hovers at nearly $850. $425 for a first place finish is a pretty good haul for our friendly little competition.

On the off chance people have a few dollars to spare around the holliday season let’s see if we can raise the last $60 and put the combined prize total to $1000.

http://www.drunkencoders.com/compo/

Quirky, author of Bunjallo and other fancy homebrew software, wrote an article about how to update to the latest devkitARM without too much hassle, if you are on Linux!

Partitial quote (read the rest by visiting Quirky’s page):

The latest version of the devkitARM toolchain was released last week, and it was a biggie. A whole new API for sprites and backgrounds was added to libnds. A new default ARM7 binary was added that automatically handles wifi, sound and sleep mode. The other big addition was a new fangled sound library that adds mod playback and fancy sound effects.

This is my post on the upgrade process for Bunjalloo on Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 in particular). Hey, if you read all this and get through it, then you could probably help out hacking on Bunjalloo too 🙂

A summary for the impatient: not without hassles, but the gain is worth the short term pain.

I assume you have a directory devkitPro somewhere. This will contain devkitARM and libnds. You should set an environment variable DEVKITPRO to point to this directory. Something like this will do:

export DEVKITPRO=$HOME/devkitpro_r24
mkdir -p $DEVKITPRO

…

http://quirkygba.blogspot.com/2008/12/upgrading-to-devkitarm-r24-on-linux.html

funkystuff updated “Pong The Original”.

Changes:

Added P1 or P2 Wins dialog

Thanks to http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=122906 for the news.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6279

PAPong is a Pong game which uses PAlib.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6277.0

funkystuff released “Pong The Original”.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

PS: This and the next news item is dedicated to Widdy, who is a true pong lover 😀

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6279.msg44737;topicseen#new

Qub3DS is a Nintendo DS port of Qub3D, a tetris like mini-game from Grand Theft Auto IV.

Discussion: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16270

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://wojtekj.blogspot.com/search/label/Qub3DS

DexterDS is an application which holds descriptions of 151 Pokemon’s.

Release notes:

Hi. This is my first post here and it is also my first homebrew.
Here is DexterDS. It’s a pokedex for the DS from a pokemon fan perspective. Therefore it does not include where to catch or different descriptions for each game. Let me know what you think.

Kanto Edition:
151 pokemon
search function fully implemented

IMAGE:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/benjifs/3977dexterDS.png

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ODQT35E4

WEBSITE:
http://dexterds.blogspot.com

Discussion: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16194

http://dexterds.blogspot.com/

3D Engine – Nitro Engine is a 3D engine coded by Antonia Nino Diaz.

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_motor-3d-nitro-engine-v-0-4-2_1078371

Multiple:Option is proud to introduce a new concept into the DS homebrew world – Relationship Middleware. Want to give your loved one a special message in the geekiest gamer way? Easy Proposal Maker featuring The Search Master has done all the hard work for you. Just put in your message, and then let your loved one play “The Search Master” (a tile search game). When they finish the level, surprise! Your message will be displayed. Whether it’s a marriage proposal or just a simple confession of love, Easy Proposal Maker lets you concentrate on what’s important – your relationship!

Multiple:Option is proud to introduce a new concept into the DS homebrew world – Relationship Middleware. Want to give your loved one a special message in the geekiest gamer way? Easy Proposal Maker featuring The Search Master has done all the hard work for you. Just put in your message, and then let your loved one play “The Search Master” (a tile search game). When they finish the level, surprise! Your message will be displayed. Whether it’s a marriage proposal or just a simple confession of love, Easy Proposal Maker lets you concentrate on what’s important – your relationship!

Video in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKbrAv0NiCQ

http://multiple-option.blogspot.com/2008/12/easy-proposal-maker-featuring-search.html