The deadline for this years PDRoms coding competition is approaching! You are still having the entire weekend, which might be enough to do something little and get a chance of one of the nice prizes.

Here is the brief data:

Topic: Create a logic/puzzle game
Competition running time: Thursday, 02 April 2009 to Sunday, 31st May 2009
Deadline: Sunday, 31th May 2009 @ 23:59, in YOUR timezone!
Systems allowed: Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Coleco Vision, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Game Gear, IntelliVision, Master System, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo Entertainment System, Odyssey2, Wonderswan, Wonderswan Color, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis/Megadrive, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo 64, PC Engine, Sega 32x, Sega CD and Vectrex.
Prizes to win: A WIZ console, 2 PSP Games, 1 Genesis Game, 5 R4 Cards, 10 Acekards and 150 US$ in cash

Prizes are sponsored by: http://shop.gp2x.de – http://www.flashlinker-shop.com – http://www.superfighter.com – http://www.gamekool.com – http://www.slanina.pl – ph0x

http://pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=4642

Wii Quizz is a quiz/puzzle homebrew application.

Changes:

Wii Quizz save/read the save in data/Wii Quizz/ on SD/SDHC
Added the version of the settings save (settings.dat)
Check each start if a new version of the settings save (settings.dat) is available (adding new options to save, etc …)
Screenshots are now stored in data/Wii Quizz/ on SD/SDHC

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Quizz

Have you ever wondered which Indian Actor/Actress was born on a particular day (like your own birthday)?

In this little application, the authors have gathered the birth dates of all your favorite stars from BOLLYWOOD and other film industries in India.

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/starwasborn

Coming to you from PBS KIDS Sprout, the Sprout Player is your one stop destination for all PBS KIDS Sprout podcasts available for you and your preschooler to enjoy!

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/sprout-player

Goal is to reach 10 points. A more detailed description is available in japanese.

http://appshopper.com/games/tenpoint

Hu-Go is a famous emulator of NEC PC Engine console, running on many system.

Changes:

– Audio Track support for CD-ROM (support only MP3 format with stereo 16 bits samples at 22k or 44k rate)
– CD-ROM TOC file format support.
– Using TurboRip, ripped CD can now be used directly with PSP-Hugo ! (see README file for explanations)
– Increase PSP clock speed when playing mp3 CD tracks
– Disable sound while saving states & screenshots (to avoid scratchy noise for few seconds)
– Fix sleep mode issue
– Replace SDL sound engine by direct PSP audio stuff
to improve performances
– Fix issue when loading more than one CD image
– New backgrounds

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/362-PSPHUGO-PC-Engine-Emulator-for-PSP-v1.3.0-CD-MP3.html

PrDoom is an engine allowing you to play the famous ego shooter Doom.

Quote from joyrider:

Hey all i just tried compiling prboom for the dingoo and it works perfectly without any hickups. It still needs some work though like the bottom part of the screen. (it’s currently running in 320×200 mode and the 40 left over lines are being duplicated). I also need to add keybindings. I can play the game fine but can’t seem to find out the menu button. (one can redefine the keys).
The sound is spot on without any problems. The clicking you hear when the gun fires comes from recording with my webcam, it can’t handle the loud sound and i have no way to change the volume recording of my build in microphone.

here’s the video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JOJ-6cQ-Lc

i just wanted to try it out to see if i could get it to run and if it would actually run smooth and god was i amazed 🙂

oh yeah the version is compiled from the latest stable version of prboom.

http://a320.freeforums.org/prboom-a-doom-engine-running-on-dingoo-linux-t471.html

The wordgame Mot Mot Motus recieved minor bugfixes but the version number from last time did not change.

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

http://www.dev-fr.org/index.php?topic=4228

A high-performance object-oriented OpenGL 2.0 & OpenGL ES 3D engine with a simple implicit library interface. Includes GLSL, Bullet physics and Lua scripting support. CubicVR can also be compiled for the Dreamcast, iPod/iPhone and PSP.

http://dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=266

maRk2512 updated his game QuirkDS. It’s a remake of the old GameBoy game “Kwirk, A-mazing tater”.

This release fixes a bug in level 24.

PS: You need an account at PAlib.info to be able to get the update, as it’s released in form of an thread discussion attatchement.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6687.0