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PSPHugo is a port on PSP of one latest version of Hu-Go. Hu-Go is a famous emulator of NEC PC Engine console, running on many system such as Linux and Windows, see http://www.zeograd.com/ for details.

Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public licence v2, read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

Changes:

– Improve global emulation speed
– ISO file support but sound audio track are ignored
– Screen size 320×240 is now supported (required for games such as R-Type)
– Add two new sound engines : mono (fast 22K or 44K) and
stereo (accurate 22K or 44K). You may have to reset the game when you change between mono and stereo, and save states may not work properly. (few games are now fullspeed using audio mono 22K at 222Mhz)
– Zip rom files are now decompressed in memory (much faster !)
– Bug fix with D-pad (didn’t work properly in previous versions)

NightFox is working on a new game, a collection of minigames. For now, there are three minigames included.

Alber_h has updated his Minesweeper clone for the Nintendo DS.

Changes:

– Modified the look completely, I think now is much better.
– Phased-a couple of unnecessary images, the game now weighs less.
– Code-refined and revised.

Homebrewgames.org are holding a Crap Games Coding Competition. Deadline is the 31th October 2008. Check out the full announcement via the link below.

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Well, the time has come for HomebrewGames.org’s first official competition, organised by none other than I, CongoZombie. You may be wondering what such a competition may involve? Why would anyone want to spend their time making something that is crap? Well, possible answers to the first question include “because it is fun” and “why not?”.

Thanks to www.emuboards.com for the news.

LuaKalender is a simple calender homebrew written in Lua.

Zodttd released an early build of VLC4iPhone.

Release notes:

As promised, I have released an early build of vlc4iphone v1.0.0 Beta. It is based on the latest stable release of VideoLan.org’s VLC, v0.9.2! Some core functionality is missing from it still.

If you would like to try out this version, please consider donating.

Senor Quack released the source code of his Abuse port for the GP2x. Abuse is a famous side-scrolling run and gun game originally released for DOS and Linux in 1996. It features beautiful pixel art, lighting effects, many weapons, and is a real challenge even on normal difficulty.

Corytheidiot1 released an alpha version of his Unamed RPG for PlayStation Portable.

Release notes:

I have been working on this for a few days. I finally decided to release an alpha. Unfortunately there are only 3 maps and thats really it. I plan to have this become a full game. My view for this game is classic rpg. Feel free to make suggestions/ideas.

A virtual fan for PlayStation Portable by Crait.

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This is the coolest homebrew out for PSP! It’s a virtual fan that has four different speeds so you can set the coolness to your prefrence!
Take it everywhere you go!
It was originally developed by MobiMate for Palm Pilots running OS 3 and higher. I completely coded a version for PSP from scractch.

Quran PSP allows you to read the Quran comfortable on your PSP. There is no english language version yet.

Changes:

– Adding mp3 player
– Adding Chapter 32
– Bug in backup
– search functions correct