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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 arbitary 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.

Cortes48 released his new NDS homebrew game Totitoes to the public.

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

This application allows you to read large Text (.txt,.text), Palm Doc (.pdb), Mobipocket (.pdb,.prc,.mobi), Plucker (.pdb), HTML (.htm,.html), and FB2 files quickly and efficiently on the iPhone. This application lacks many of the advanced features of ruBooks or Books.app, but it can quickly load and display large text files that currently cause Books.app or other UI Text View/Web View based apps problems.

HiivelyPlay is a basic AHX/HVL module player with Wiimote and FrontSD support.

Copy the contents of “SDCard/” from the zip file to the root of your SD card, then put any extra AHX or HVL files you want to play in the “/hvltunes” directory. Then select HiivelyPlay from the homebrew channel. Follow the onscreen instructions to load and play AHX or HVL tunes.

In Fallspiel you have to catch falling V’s with a bat – and that’s it already.

Akop Karapetyan has updated his port of fMSX for Playstation Portable.

New features:

* Games/applications that require MSX Audio/MSX Music will no longer crash the emulator if either is disabled in System settings – there will simply be no Y2413/YM8950 audio
* ROM type settings are now saved between sessions – up to 500 different ROM’s can be tracked by CRC32 value

repeaterDS is a free music application for the Nintendo DS that allows you to “play” a sample by drawing on the DS screen. The vertical axis controls repeat length. The horizontal axis controls the playback offset into the sample.

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

A port of id softwares Quake 1 to the Nintendo DS. The main goal of this project is to drastically reduce the memory requiremments needed to play quake on the DS.

Discussion: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15668

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

JelloPhysics is a soft body library for XNA Windows and XBOX360.

PS: The link on the main page still refers to 0.4, you should manually change that to 0.5 and the download will work.

Wii Web Server is a simple Web-Server for the Wii. Still it’s in very early stages of development.