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Dreamcast Media Center (DCMC) (Beta 1) (DC Application)

Dreamcast Media Center (DCMC) is a media player application for Dreamcast by PH3NOM.

Video formats supported:
– LibXviD (. avi)
– Libmpeg2 (.m1v/.m2v)

Audio formats supported:
– Libmpg123 (.mp2/.mp3)
– LibOGGVorbis (. ogg)
– Libfaad (.mp4/.m4a/.aac)
– Liba52 (. ac3)
– Leer listas de reproducción (.m3u/.pls)

Picture formats supported (up to 1024×512):
– JPG
– PNG

Thanks to http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=483 for the news.

http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=101213

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Virus Cleaner (Source Code) (NES Game)

Virus Cleaner is a homebrew NES game by Roth. Goal is to sweep away Viri from the playing field, while it’s being protected by some sort of electric waves going around the screen.

To support the growing NES community, Roth released the source code of his game – although it seems not to be very well documented, it might be useful for others. In the case you are not a coder, you may still go to his page and grab the release for a few minutes of gaming fun.

http://robertlbryant.com/index.php/gaming/development/nes-virus-cleaner/

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Hamtaro Holidays v2 (PSP Lua Game)

Hamtaro Holidays by leviadragon is a simple virtual pet game featuring the famous hamster Hamtaro! The initial release of this homebrew happend back in 2007.

Features:

– Pool! Hamtaro can swim with his friends!
– Mini-Walk! take a little walk with Hamtaro in a lot of (strange) places
– Gift! Give to him a little present
– Ball! Play with a ball
– Cure! Cure our little hamster
– Feed! Feed him with berries found during Mini-Walk.
– Day & Night circle with music associated.
– Now Stable and bug fixed.

http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,7144.0.html

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Crystal Mines (Source Code) (NES Game)

Dan Lawton and Ken Beckett released the source code to Color Dreams‘ “Crystal Mines“. It was a former unlicensed commercial game for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom.

The game is NOT released to the Public Domain / Freeware pool yet and possibly will never be, but the source code is available for free but bound to “Ken’s License”. All other artwork related to the game is still under copyright, such as the graphics, levels, sounds and music.

The screenshot is courtesy of UVL.

http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=8057

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PDRoms Roundup-News (misc)

Hello everyone,

There been many things the past few weeks and months, so lets have a small roundup.

PDRoms has been relaunched using a new “Content Management System”. While the old custom page coded by celeth was great, it was unfortunately never brought into the shape we wanted to have. Real life and other priorities simply did not allow us to finalize the code. Many features were never realized. The new CMS used is WordPress with a few customizations made by CrazyRaven. By using such a popular CMS we can rely on many plugins, which can extend the functionality in several ways – While on one end it’s time saving it also bears risks, but no solution will be ever perfect. Even migrating from a custom solution to the new one, took us really many weeks – but the result so far is acceptable and good.

Other than that, we have moved to a more powerful server. This step was unfortunately necessary due to WordPress eating all resources on the old server and crashing the machine each few hours, which resulted into down times. As of now everything should run smooth again.

One of the new features is commenting. Registration, which is available upon request, enables you to comment on posts, or when appropriate rights are given, even post your own news on the main page. This might be especially interesting for developers who want to get their homebrew program spread to a large audience.

PDRoms is still just a hobby and having additional costs for setting up a new server plus paying it’s monthly fees isn’t a pleasure, especially as this page has only created costs so far. If you value our work, please consider donating or helping with news.

Another thing being asked many times – We currently do not plan any coding competitions. The homebrew community isn’t hidden in dark corners of the internet anymore and many homebrew pages do run coding competitions as well. There is simply no need anymore – but of course we are still open minded if there is enough serious interest.

Keep on visiting PDRoms and thanks for reading!

Kojote & Team

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Adamant Armor Affection (AAA) v1.0.0.1 (Pandora Game Port)

Adamant Armor Affection by quasist is an action game where you have to kill terrorists. You are the top agent of an anti-terrorist organization and your goal is to stop some filthy little act of international terrorism. Remember to visit the tutorial level! Ported to Pandora by sebt3!

This game is also available for Wiz and Caanoo!

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=aaa

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Panorama v0.1.271.0 (Pandora Application)

Panorama is an application lanucher written in Qt for the OpenPandora portable gaming platform. The focus lies on creating an extremely portable, modular and extensible system that also is visually appealing and uses little resources. Having intuitive controls and an efficient usage of screen real estate is also a primary goal.

Changes:

+ New libmilky, fixes upgrades

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=bzar-panorama

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