atari2600land has posted an update of his Atari 2600 homebrew game “Jack and the Beanstalk” which is based upon a fairy tale with the same name.

Release notes:

New version (I know, the second one today. I have nothing else to do, so…)

Changes:
+Level 2: Added the bird swooping down (or up, if the case) to try to get you. I also added two new screens at the end so now there’s 32 screens instead of 30.

+Level 3: Fixed everything about the giant’s room, both in and after (i think.) You can no longer keep going into the giants’ room and kill him multiple times.

By the way, I forgot password “99” which is a shortcut to the giant’s room; and the music at the end is gone.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=118991&st=200

Blind Assistant is an attempt to help blind human, using softwares that run not on expensive and complex hardware, but on a simple Sony PSP.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146828

Total_Noob updated Ultimate VSH Menu for PlayStation Portable.

Features:

– Press SELECT for open/close Ultimate VSH Menu
– Don’t activated VSH Menu in camera
– Don’t activated VSH Menu in internet browser
– Possibility to change XMB CPU
– Possibility to change Game CPU
– Possibility to change USB device
– Possibility to change UMD iso mode
– Possibility to change game kernel
– Possibility to activated skip sony logo
– Make autoboot battery
– Make pandora battery
– Make normal battery
– Shutdown function
– Suspend function
– Reset function
– Load EBOOT(ms0:/PSP/GAME/VSHMENU/EBOOT.PBP)

Changes:

– Fixed much bugs
– Ultimate VSH Menu is now much more stable
– Don’t activated VSH Menu in OSK
– If “ms0:/PSP/GAME/VSHMENU/EBOOT.PBP” does not exist, it will not loaded
– changed much in the menu
– Added a small function to disable M33 VSH Menu
– Added “SCREENSHOT” to make screenshots(“R” + “NOTE”)
– Added “VSH MENU COLOR” to change the color(BLACK, BLUE, GREEN, RED)
– Added “RECOVERY MENU” to load the recovery menu
– You can press “SELECT” in recovery to exit

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146840

intraFont is a bitmap font library for PSP using the PSP’s internal font (firmware pgf files).

Changes:

added text scrolling in intraFontPrintColumn() (flags INTRAFONT_SCROLL_LEFT/RIGHT/SEESAW/THROUGH)

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146839

PSPdisp gives you an additional monitor with a 960×544 resolution (four times the area of the PSP display). There are four components working together, on Windows a display driver, an usb driver and the interface application which captures the screen, compresses it and sends it over USB to the PSP. On the PSP side there is an application that decompresses the frames and displays them. All settings are adjustable from the Windows side, the PSP really only acts as a passive display.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146849

Copete23 updated his platform game Evelonth.

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

http://nds.scenebeta.com/noticia/evelonth

DSMetronome is a virtual metronome for Nintendo DS.

Features:

– A sequencer with nice drum kit elements which you can activate/deactivate to make part of your own custom rythm.
– Save the current configuration in order to restore it the next time you launch the app.
– Tapping tempo to match rythms of, for instance, a song you’re listening now.
– Different Key signatures 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 1/4
– Help pages to instruct users how to use it
– Nice interface

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

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6451.0

This app runs after install, and after soft-reset, and immediately starts up the GPS hardware through the WM5+ GPS API. It waits 5 minutes for a GPS lock, or it quits. The GPS polling is limited to every 3 seconds to try to conserve some CPU cycles.

Currently does not use AGPS, but you can turn it on/off at your registry leisure.

This attempts to reduce the Time-To-First-Fix (TTFF) during which the GPS ephemeris almanac is slowly built up. This can take up to 12.5 minutes for a non-QuickGPS/AGPS accelerated device from a cold-start. By kick-starting immediately after soft-reset, subsequent GPS locks for the next ~6 days should be much quicker.

Takes 21K of disk, and ~1K of ram.

Changes:

1.0.0.3: fix multi-threading issues that caused popup notifications to fail

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468249

S2U2 (Slide2Unlock2) is a simple lock/unlock application which has the iPhone style slide unlocking. It can be used as a screensaver while you don’t use your device. It has a CallerID function (but some devices may not work, so please try it first); S2P control plugin; and volume control.

Changes:

– added option “Slider Inertia” to tune the inertia of the slide button.
– fixed the occasional problem that the system is locked after dialling out (again).
– fixed the occasional problem that the system will be shut down when the screen is blanked during a phone call.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=464695

This program is a touch driver to handle the touchscreen presses and vibration. A settings program exists to configure how the vibration works. Since this is a touch driver, there is no program you need to run to start it.

Changes:

– Option to vibrate on release of touch
– Option to disable vibration when stylus is out
– Option for vibration to only be enabled for on-screen keyboard
– Better auto-detection of device model / vibrate id

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450256