News

DS Visual Novel Reader is a visual novel reader for Nintendo DS.

Changes:

* bugfix: setimg didn’t work for images taller than 192 pixels
* bugfix: skip function doesn’t ignore endscript anymore
* bugfix: now creates a save folder if one didn’t exist
* Rewrote sprite-drawing code to improve performance

Thanks to www.ds-scene.net for the news.

Web Video Downloader can download .flv or .mp4 videos from various web sites.

Changes:

Try to fix the starting crashes (Catch exceptions when loading background and pictures)

A Visual Task switcher in the style of Dynamo3.

Changes:

– there is a scan for active windows at the first start of the app
– Gesture control. You can now scroll up/down by screen gesture if there are more windows than there is space on the screen
– names of the window are shown over the pictures
– improved stability

TouchLaunch is simple application launcher, which scans start menu shortcuts, and list them alphabetically. Kind of similar to Scoll Launcher but this has new quick alphabetic scroll function.

Changes:

+ Skin changer
+ Better skinning support
+ You can use bitmaps as list item highlight
+ 6 premade skins
+ closeAfterLaunch feature

UZA: The First Journey by DesertDog is an arcade action game similar to Robotron/Geometry Wars.

Quote:

Guide UZA through fifty rounds of frenetic action, where wave upon wave of relentless enemies test your speed, accuracy and coordination. Watch as your gameplay performance creates a piece of real-time abstract art. With only one life, how long can you survive, how much can you score, and what will your actions look like?

STPPC2x is a GP2X port of Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection, a set of 31 addictive logic and puzzle games.

Jayenkai has updated his puzzle platform game JNKPlat.

Release notes:

Levels
Over 100 levels of kick ass hardcore platform puzzling action.

Level Editor
Make your own kick ass hardcore platform puzzling levels.

Two Jump Buttons
Jump one way!
Jump back!

Graphics
FOUR whole graphical styles!!
Now it really will hurt your eyes a bit!

Beeps
OMG! Your ears will explode from all the retro onion beeping!

Crazy
Beat all the levels to earn a whole nothing!!!!

It’s JNKPlat!!
Platform Puzzling the way it’s meant to be.

Imagine someone giving you an audio blogcast talking about homebrew releases – your wish has become true!

Homebrewcast is just doing this!

Episode 9 has the following topics:

PSP Homebrew
– pspux – stardogg
– Windows Vista PSP Edition (Not Sucky) – spanner
– Lockdown PSP beta 2 (Slim & Lite Only) – Torch
– RemoteJoy Lite 0.17 – takakind
– Penguin Bobsled Halloween Edition 2.0 – CoderX

NDS Homebrew
– Tripe Triad 1.0 beta 2 – Minoru
– Orscol 1.1 – Bakaban
– Codename Puzzlemania: Alpha – Nightfox

What We’ve Been Playing
Emails
Shoutouts and Wrap-ups

dark-jey has updated Casino Royal. There are three games included: Poker, Black Jack and a Slot machine.

Hermes has updated his PC Engine emulator for the Nintendo Wii.

Changes:

fixed: save bug