Dear Wraggster,

If you are supposed to get “inspiration” from my page, I would appreciate proper and full credits for EVERY news item. This also applies if you get “inspiration” from other places such as http://www.gp32spain.com for the recent releases at GPAIN, etc… If 90% of the homebrew webmasters can give proper credits, you should learn this too.

A year ago you were fighting with others to stop misuse of homebrew, these days you are misusing homebrew on your own. You better go back to your honest roots.

Don’t pretend to help homebrewers, simply because
* Hotlinking pictures is stealing – you wont help anyone with this -> bandwith stealing!
* Not giving proper credits is stealing.
* 75% of your news are “borrowed” all over the net or are “rewrites” in your own words, which is stealing again.
* A page having such a bad combination of picture advertising and text advertising, combined with the shitload of affilation codes – what did you effectivly put back into the scene? Just don’t tell it just covers your plain costs.

Everyone with eyes in his head can see this… your page is plain commercial, you have become plain commercial – this is what you never wanted to be. Congrats!

– Kojote

Here is another brandnew article from brakken:

Wiili.org is generally known for its attempt to gain the public’s interest in getting Linux up and running on the Nintendo Wii. They have been featured on many mainstream news site and social media sites including Digg.com. What isn’t known and should be is the fact that they site administrator is copying its content from Wiibrew.org and there is turmoil going down surrounding the situation. To sum it up – Wiili.org is feeding off of others people work for profit.

[Read the rest at it’s release page]

Not only the Wii scene is affected by such people, but I suppose generating lots of profit with others free work is a common thing in the homebrew scene. Sadly.

http://www.brakken.net/comments.php?mid=42e180dc22cb2e5f7bb66ce29

Team ICE and SorroW have released a “overflow.tiff” exploit today which is confirmed working on PS3 firmwares up to 2.10 on BOTH PAL and NTSC consoles.

At the moment the TIFF file freezes the PS3 via “heap overflow” (not buffer overflow), but by knowing the “backend number and making the right calls” it is possible to inject a simple code.

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news!

http://www.ps3hax.net/showthread.php?t=2800

Headoverheels updated Squidges port of Final Burn Alpha once again. It’s now at version 7.1. This release fixes speed issues along with minor control problems.

Source: http://www.gp32spain.com/foros/showthread.php?t=52142 (probably needs registration to get the file, in reason it’s already hosted at PDRoms).

http://pdroms.de/files/1519/

Pocket Finance Diary is a simple financial manager for tracking expenses.

Using Pocket Finance Diary you will have more income available, and you will perform your expenses in a more efficient manner.

http://www.pocketfinancediary.com/

KidPaddle updated his Arkanoid / Breakout style game Blockoid.

Changes: (translation from german to english by Kojote)

– added one power up
– deactivated hardware-cursor
– removed flickering while displaying screen content
– modified level structure

http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?t=4881

jailbreakme.com has been updated! It contains AppSnapp which is brought to you by Conceited Software and will enable third party iPhone applications on your iPhone.

Changes:

New! 2/1/08 Automatically oktoprep’s (for easy 1.1.2 upgrade functionality, no need to install the package anymore).
New! 2/1/08 Reduced footprint and optimized for speed. We got rid of over 700KB of data and optimized the new application with the new toolchain.
Fixed! 2/1/08 Now removes root.zip and youtube.zip (if present) from the root to make space for more music/apps.
Fixed! 2/1/08 Fixed reliability issues and .svn/__MACOSX directory creation.
Updated! 2/1/08 Installs Installer.app v3.0 on the iPhone/iPod Touch with Community Sources preinstalled.

http://jailbreakme.com/

phaistos updated his “Voxel” techdemo.

Release notes:

changes : screenshots, rendering quality, reduced size, new icon

http://phaistos.googlepages.com/gp2x

GP2X-7800 is an Atari 7800 emulator for GP2x. It’s based upon ProSystem coded by Greg Stanton.

Changes:

– Many optimizations to speed up the emulation, frame rate is now 50 fps at
220Mhz in many games.
– Auto-fire mode, press RTrigger+X to switch it on/off
(useful for games such as xevious !)
– Add new hotkeys :
. settings such as fps or render mode
can now be directly modified inside the emulator
(no need to enter in the settings menu)
. quick save / quick load current state
(no need to enter in the main menu)
. setup auto fire speed
– Default Hotkeys can now be set in the keyboard mapping menu (useful to add
hotkeys on existing/previous keyboard files)

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/283-GP2X-7800-Atari-7800-emulator-for-GP2X-v1.0.3.html

RS-GUI PopStationMD is a GUI that allows an easier use of Dark_Alex’s PopStation. This is a only-Windows program, so it does not work on other OS’s!

Changes:

-Added Turkish, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish and Greek translations!
-Added popstation.exe support, now 1CD PSX games can be converted too! Only one program to convert ALL PSX Games!
-Thanks to Brisma, no BASE.PBP or KEYS.BIN is required by popstation.exe
-Added the zero compression level for 1CD PSX games
-Added a Splash Screen with a security check for the presence of program’s necessary files
-Possibility to disable and ri-enable aforesaid Splash Screen
-Added support for NRG and MDF CD images. Now program read these following formats: ISO, NRG, IMG, BIN and MDF!
-Now popstation.exe and popstation_md.exe will ask user to press any key before closing them, so users can understand what is the error which does not allow the eboot creation (if it exists!).
-Added a list of games titles-codes
-Possibility to search for a game title quickly from the listbox
-Auto-recognition of Game-ID from its title
-Added a security check for Game-ID correctness
-Added a “real time” preview of eboot personalization
-Possibility to enable/disable aforesaid real time preview
-Added the possibility to insert any image as PIC0, PIC1 and ICON0! All formats and sizes are accepted! Program will resize and covert images automatically
-Added the possibility to choose the output folder name (Noone, Game Title and Game Code)
-Added a check for the true existence of selected image
-Added the docmaker!
-Possibility to create a DOCUMENT.DAT standard alone or with the eboot itself
-Possibility to insert any image to DOCUMENT.DAT, program will resize and convert images automatically (so all formats and sizes are accepted!)
-Possibility to add, remove or clean the images list added to docmaker
-If DOCUMENT.DAT will be created together the eboot, it will created in the same folder of the eboot
-Many v2.0b bugs fixed
-Something other that I don’t remember at the moment

http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-development-forum-11/t-release-rs-gui-popstationmd-v300-134282.html