StrmnNrmn pulled out a new release of Daedalus PSP, a Nintendo 64 emulator for PSP’s.

Release notes:

I’ve just finished packing up R13 and uploading it to sourceforge:

Daedalus PSP R13 for v1.00 Firmware
Daedalus PSP R13 for v1.50+ Firmware
Daedalus PSP R13 Source

The most significant new feature is savestate support. You can now save your progress at any point, via the Pause Menu (accessed through hitting the Select button). Savestates are written out to the memory stick, and consume around a megabyte per slot. You can load up a savestate at any time from the Pause Menu, or via the front end (hit the right shoulder button to swap from the rom list to the savestate list.)

Other than savestates, the most significant change in R13 is a number of optimisations to the dynarec core which should give a 10-20% speedup depending on the title being played. I’ve tested these optimisations as much as I can, but if you find that roms which worked with R12 are now broken, try disabling ‘dynamic recompilation’ and/or ‘dynarec stack optimisation’ from the rom’s preferences screen.

I haven’t looked at compatibility at all in R13, so it’s unlikely that any roms will have started working in R13.

I’m interested to hear your feedback on both of these features. Let me know if you have any problems with savestates, or if you’ve found roms are no longer working in R13. I’ll try and keep on top of the comments pages over the next couple of weeks.

It’s taken a LOT longer to get R13 out than I had hoped. I can’t quite belive the last release was in June! I’m hoping now I’ve got this release out of the door I’ll be able to get back to making small, more frequent releases.

-StrmnNrmn

http://strmnnrmn.blogspot.com/2007/11/daedalus-psp-r13-released.html

Jaklub released JPong, which is a Pong remake. You control your paddle with D-pad (first player) or triangle and cross (second player). It contains music, sounds, 1player and 2player modes, pause, map selecting, etc.

http://www.gmclan.org/up444_4_jpong05.html

Kalog Dev Team have released their second homebrew named Culture Clash. A fighting game composed of 3 characters namely Maria Ozawa, Saaya Irie and Erika Sato.

http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-development-forum-11/t-release-culture-clash-v10-by-kalog-dev-team-126547.html

PSP Gnu Chess use the GNU Chess version 5.07 for the Artificial Intelligence, and ZUX-81 added a Graphical User interface.

Changes:

– Option to specify search depth (i.e: difficulty)
– Add Undo feature
– Add Book feature, move database is stored in file book.dat.
The file given with this homebrew is the book.dat provided
with gnuchess (but you can replace it by your own)
– Bug fix when you put black on the bottom of the screen,
King and Queen weren’t at the right place !
– Bug fix with keys/analog pad (sensitivity was too high)

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/242-guid.html

Chilly Willy updated his PSP Doom port:

Changes:

v1.2 – 2007/11/02: Added ability to access the OSK during the game so that strings can be entered. Slowed the OSK by half to make inputting characters easier. TRIANGLE can now be used as BACKSPACE when entering the game save description. Added network support for infrastructure TCP/IP (wireless access points). Also added a selector for 16:9 or 4:3 rendering to the LCD menu; that way you can have “normal” graphics in 480×272 mode. Optimized the rendering for almost twice the frame rate.

http://groups.google.com/group/chilly-willys-ice-flow/web/doom-for-the-psp?hl=en

PSPIRC is a basic IRC client for the PSP.

Changes:

– Bug fix in danzeff keyboard (characters ? and # weren’t mapped properly)
– Bug fix on fw-3x, the PSP freeze when more than 7 tabs were opened simultaneously
– New line edit mode in irc console

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/241-PSPIRC-IRC-Client-for-PSP-v1.0.7.html

Chilly Willy updated his PSP Doom port:

Changes:

Fixed problem with strafing and turning at the same time.
Big cleanup of the controller handling code in general.
Added ability to disable the analog stick and to calibrate it.
Added two forms of cheats.
If there is no default settings file, or if the default doesn’t specify the main WAD file, it now tries to set the main WAD to the shareware WAD (idiot compensator).

http://groups.google.com/group/chilly-willys-ice-flow/web/doom-for-the-psp?hl=en

Buddy4point0 has updated his snowboarding game for PSP.

Changes:

-Optimized File Arangment
-remade some menus
-fixed blitting times, everything scrolls correctly now, instead of sometimes appearing like before
-no more ugly white screens for finishing, high score, level select, ect.
-full analog support

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=78116

Here is a new version of PSPWrite the text editor for PSP

It permits to edit even huge text file, in both dos and unix mode, using iso8859-1 (8bits) characters encoding. All iso8859-1 characters are present in the “Danzeff like” virtual keyboard.

The IR keyboard support is based on the work of Harald Fielker (author of the PSP IR Keyboard Library) with a new patch from Craig to support Sprint PCS IR keyboard.

Changes:

– Add option to change the font size (8×8 or 6×10)
– Use Analog pad to move faster
– New CPU clock (from 133 to 333)
– Two cursor modes :
. the cursor move only on already written text.
. the cursor can move everywhere.

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/240-PSPWrite-A-Text-Editor-for-PSP-v1.0.3.html

Here’s Chilly Willy’s conversion of ADoomPPC, one of the better DOOM conversions (for the Amiga). It’s got a simple, decent gui that runs before you start the game which allows you to set most of the major DOOM settings. On the Slim PSP, it supports TV out. This arc includes the source, two sets of MIDI instruments and the shareware WAD file. Up to date as of 2007/10/28.

http://groups.google.com/group/chilly-willys-ice-flow/web/doom-for-the-psp?hl=en