As I am at work right now and can't modify the Giana's Return pages, I am posting a few"work in progress"news here.The project is still NOT deadThe project has a new coder who will stay unmentioned for now. He is currently in the task of recoding the WHOLE game. As he is busy with regular paid work, this task might take a bit long.The project has a new gfx artist who will also stay unmentioned for now. He is currently retouching all the graphics of Giana and will be done with most of the retouching by this weekend.The GP32 version is probably dropped forever, but this is NOT sure yet.There might be versions for Linux, BeOS, MacOS, PSP, Dreamcast, Saturn and other computers/handhelds/consoles. I (Kojote) currently try to contact Armin Gessert again, who is the copyright holder of"The Great Giana Sisters"and who also kindly allowed us to use his trademark, if he wishes to not create the one or other port due to legality issues. We don't want to harm him and respect him much. Unfortunatly he has not responded to one of my two mails yet.Due to security reasons, the webboard had to be completly deleted. It is too much work to take care of two boards, so a probably new"Giana's Return"discussion board will be merged with the boards at PD Roms.Stay tuned for more news...http://www.gianas-return.de Read more
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PSP Kick seems to be a kind of Tracker for the PSP. Get the download on it's page. There are 2 versions available. One for PSP v1.0 and one for PSP 1.5 users. PSP users with a v1.51 or v1.52 bios CAN'T run homebrew yet.http://www.pspkick.com/ Read more
Mr. Mirikachi has released v1.28 of his GB/C emulator for the PSP. Thanks to EvilDragon for the news.http://mirakichi.hp.infoseek.co.jp/software/RIN.html Read more
Deadline is Sunday 23:59 GMT+2, so you still have a WHOLE WEEKEND to produce something and win a funky GameKing with a few games. Rules and allowed systems are mentioned on the rules page.http://www.pdroms.de/pdrc3_33-rules.php Read more
News from Rockin-B:The SEGA Saturn cannot change texture coordinates in game by hardware. This means that textures are pre-mapped and cannot change (except very few and very limited programming tricks, not worth mentioning) which is required for some of todays lightning effects.So I started to implement the generation of a texture from a big source texture using texture coordinates and expanded it to a full featured real-time texture mapping support library. Three demos were released and the 3rd new demo is really.....ahm.....really worth to look at, I think.Features of the demo are: I'm so lazy writing stuff down here. Just look at the screenshots, view the video capture and download the SEGA Saturn demo to play AFTER READING THE INCLUDED README.TXT FOR CONTROLS. Because the demo is all about using the control pad smartly. You can do a lot with it if you know how. It is no auto-demo.http://www.rockin-b.de/ Read more
Author notes:Hey all, I'm releasing a port of Angband 3.0.6 for the PSP tonight. For those not familiar with the game, it's similar to the recently released Rogue Clone II, but much deeper (IMO anyways).Screenshots of the PC version of the game are available here, though my version does not look exactly the same. It's still just as addicting as the PC version however and plays better than I expected on the PSP.Please see the ReadmePSP.txt in the zip file for controls, known issues, disclaimers, etc. The zip includes executables for both 1.0 and 1.5 firmware PSPs as well as the source code. Hope you all enjoy.As a heads up, it takes about half a minute to load the game, but after that things proceed without delays.Feel free to leave bug reports or suggestions in this thread.-abszerohttp://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=7856Update: The file uploaded to the board seems to fail at unzipping. If you know of any other location to get this program, please let us know. Read more
"Y"has released an updated version of his SNES9x port for the PSP.http://ypspdev.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ Read more
HuE is a PCE/TG-16 emulator for the PSP. You can download the release from:http://hue-e.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ Read more
Image provided by: RomsharkRomshark released a Scorched Earth remake for the PSP. Scorched Earth is a classic PC game from the DOS days where two or more tanks shoot a variety of weapons at each other, ranging from simple baby missiles, to molten napalm, to full scale nuclear weapons!http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=7851 Read more
An early alpha version of Scumm VM for the PSP has been released. ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=2550 Read more