News from Torch:

What does Hold+ do when the switch is enabled?

* Switches off the LCD backlight.
* Switches off the actual LCD screen.
(This is important because the backlight and actual screen are two different things. You can have an image being displayed on the screen while the backlight is switched off, such that you can see the image if you use a flashlight. You can also have the screen switched off while the backlight still illuminates the powered off screen.)
* Underclocks the CPU to 61MHz
(Sony has changed the clock speed functions such that only certain combinations of speeds work correctly. Simply trying to underclock to arbitrary values will result in the CPU simply running at the stock speed. I have verified that Hold+ successfully underclocks to 61MHz.)
* The original screen brightness and clock speed are restored when the Hold switch is released.
* Prevents the PSP from going into suspend mode if you accidently push the power switch too far when turning off Hold mode.
* Allows operation of the PSP with the display turned off, to change volume, skip songs etc.

Release notes:

Fixed a bug where the Analog Up features would not respond after opening the Photo menu in the XMB. After you exit the Photo menu, just toggle the Hold switch once and the Analog Up features should work after that.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=141671

dark_jonax released his first PSP homebrew game. It’s in portuguese language.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=142724

thoduv has improved his platform game Lapinou Jumps.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10082

Le Rodeur has started his work on a Diabolo fangame for Nintendo DS. Currently it’s in an extremly early stage of development.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=26367

DSRoomMaker acts as garden or room design tool. You can build your own styled room or garden with a bunch of objects.

Changes:

-Now you can edit the walls and ways of your room!
-Added more objects
-You can combine the objects now
-The garden is bigger
-Deleted kitchen,bathroom and bedroom to combine it in one big main room

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=5247.0

Vong stands for “Vertical Pong” and is a Pong game for Atari 2600.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=123455&st=75

Pocket CM Contacts is a “finger friendly contact application” for Pocket PC’s.

Changes:

– Fixed bug with favorite image (not showing)
– Fixed crash when pressing contact image in contact detail view
– Pressing the favorite image now toggle favorites
– Fixed text layout in SMS bubble: now a long text without space should display correctly (character wrap)
– Fixed bug that prevented a long press on the number button in contact detail page to show the dialer
– Fixed bug that prevent background to be cached for complex controls.
– Changed animation of number edit panel to be the same as the one used for most dialog
– Theming: Added option so that SMS bubble can stretch according to text (for instance: smslist.*.received.read.compressbubble=1)
– Theming: fixed counter position, now you have contactlist.*.item.smscount.box and contactlist.*.item.picture.smscount.box, deciding the global box where the counter and image will go, and contactlist.*.item.lastsms.box, contactlist.*.item.lastsms.box,… to place the element inside this box.
– Theming: added format to counter (contactlist.*.item.smscount.unread.format, contactlist.*.item.smscount.format), use %u for unread sms, %s for sms, %c for call. You can also use: %0u for blank if 0 unread and the number for more than 0 unread sms. (and therefore %1u will show the unread counter if you have more than one unread message).
– Improved black theme

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=343616

PocketCM ImageViewer is currently a test version, the purpose is to experiment what’s possible with image on our Windows Mobile device using the PocketCM framework.

Changes:

– Favorite folder list: now you can mark folder as favorite, in order to get a shorter list of the useful folder
– Folder are sorted alphabetically not by image count anymore
– Improved look: comes with a default theme now
– Performance enhancement
– Bug fixes
– You can customize the theme in theme.zip, feel free to post if you make something that look great

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=333559

OIST stands for Oldsap’s Individual SMS Tones and allows you to set an individual ringtone for each contact.

Changes:

– alarm scheduler: Play sound(wav or mp3), and show a message box
– no more tray icon on today screen
– Remote Control Feature: retrieve unread sms
known bug:
– sometimes the incoming sms tone plays twice
– vibrate option for alarm scheduler not yet working

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407933

SetVolume is a finger friendly volume changer.

Changes:

* added vibration when switching to vibrate
* fixed small bug in qvga skin

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=395695