Bumuckl released an updated version of his painting app for PSP.

Changes:

– new interface in a GIMP-style
– 50 different fonts, also including the “Unreal”-Font and the “Halo”-Font
– 16 different “Brushes”
– Fixed bug that made the app crash during creating a new picture
– improved menu-handling
– Grafitti-tool
– new ways of choosing a color
– line-tool has been improved
– comletely new menunavigation
– more speed due to cleaned up code
– CPU can be changed to 333 mhz, 222 mhz and 100 mhz
– Exitbutton for comfortable exiting the app
– Fuzzieborad has been improved, now capital letters can be used as well
– Add your own fonts
– add your own brushes
– save your picture as a brush
– small canvaspreview with cursorpositions
– change your defaultsettings easy in the CONFIG.CFG
– change default number of fonts or brushes in the app is possible as well

http://www.bumuckl.com/

There are quite a few lines concerning the status of the MAME port to iPhones. There is still no download.

CURRENT STATUS: Can definitely be made playable by choosing a suitably old version of MAME. Tested with version 0.29 since the code was simple enough back then to slap together something quickly to test performance. I am going to arbitrarily target whatever version runs the Galaga ROM I have on my arcade machine. I suppose I should start thinking about how I want to do the configurable control system. In addition to the straightforward “this area of the screen is this button/joystick/trackball/dial” controls, I’d like to support gesture based inputs as well. Imagine playing Tempest by making an actual circular motion on the touch-screen, or tapping anywhere to fire, or gesturing left-right up-down to move the joystick. You could play Pacman without any screen real estate wasted by displaying controls. I should be able to actually put some time into this over the weekend while I’m on vacation.

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-sdl-mame/

Space For Everything by PirataNervo is a collection of various helpful tools/routines in one program. It includes backup and freeing space functions.

New features:
– Fixed bug when replacing chinese, korean and japanese fonts with smaller fonts.
– RSS Remover
– Network Update Remover
– Restore RSS.
– Restore Network Update.
– added ICON0
– added PIC1

http://www.mediafire.com/?bm2myybr13y

This application by Akez flashes “own waves” to a PSP. Regarding the author it is fairly easy to use and it shouldnt brick your PSP unless the file you select to copy is not a system_plugin_bg.rco file.

http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-development-forum-11/t-update-psp-wave-changer-119426.html

News taken from http://www.insertcredit.com

You’ve all heard of Rose Camellia by Nigoro no doubt, the Japan-originating flash game in which haughty girls slap each other in specific ways so as to be maximally rude. It was so ubiquitous at the time that I didn’t bother to mention it here. You’ve also probably heard lots of people say it should be ported to DS – well, that’s happening right now! A French homebrewer called Mia (of Everlasting Love fame) has made a small proof of concept for it, which is by no means complete. Unfortunately, Mia doesn’t have time to finish the game, so he’s asking serious/brave DS homebrew developers to contact him via his site ( http://beyondds.free.fr/ ) to talk about finishing it up. And so I’m making this post. Somebody help the man!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AV8728EL

Battlejewels is simple to pick up — just match coloured mana gems together to clear them — and gives you a lot of meat to chew on as you play more. Delve into the game.. theres lots to fiddle with! There are dozens of gem-swapping games out there, but lets face it – you can play Bejewelled for hours on end, but why? Just to clear the level? Fine and good, they perfected the form. But in Battle Jewels you can clear the level, and smash the opponent too. Its as simple or as complex as you want .. play to clear, play to win, or play to level up.

Author release notes:

All four classes have spells up through level 10 which ought to take awhile to get to; theres a pile of gear (some 100 items give or take) defined, across those levels as well and crafted for differing purposes so you can customize your avatar. The opponent scaler tries to match your gear a little so you don’t overpower the AI purely on that basis. And heck, if your’e a gold farmer you can buy more skills and spells at the store to reward oyur time investment. Lots of tweaks to combat and so forth, and nabbed that crash bug I introduced back in 053..

So overall I think this should be pretty interesting to fiddle with, and hopefully stable. But I’m betting after a fw levels it could get unbalanced.. as with all these new spells and gear, we need playtesting to sort out what is over or underpowered. Please help.. play till your knuckles bleed and you’ve got carpal

http://www.codejedi.com/battlejewels/binaries/battlejewels-gp2x-058-beta.zip

PDRoms Coding Competition (short: PDRC) #3.667 has sixteen days left for the deadline.

Topic: “Backport”/”Convert”/”Redo”/”Recode” a Nintendo DS homebrew game to Gameboy Advance!

Rules:
[*]You must own all RIGHTS to your submission, this includes sound, graphics, code, simply everything! The use of copyrighted names and characteres should be avoided, unless you have an official permission, which should be forwarded along with your entry. We reserve the right to refuse or disqualify entries, which break any rule(s)!!!
[*]In case of VERY OLD GAMES (+10y), which do not seem to have a copyright holder anymore and which are not distributed commercially anymore, we can make an exception, but you must be still able to proofe that you tried to get in touch with the responsible copyrightholders.
[*]Keep in mind you OWN ALL RIGHTS to your production, this means you are also fully reliable for it. By submitting your production you declare that you did not break any copyright.

Prizes:
[*]Prizes can not be paid out in cash
[*]In case of entries having the same jury-end-score, the entry which has been submitted earlier will be the winner.
[*]In case of teamwork, the team-leader has to make sure the prizes are split proper within the team itself.
[*]The special prize is given to the person with the most “ports”. If there should be a person with equal amount of ports, the one who was sending in things fastest, will win this special prize. – The amount for qualifying is minimum five ports/conversions!!!

#1 – One GBA Micro (new, unused) + One GBADEV.org 2004 Compo Cartridge (new, unused) + One real-cartridge with your winner entry!
#2 – One Qwak GBA Cartridge (new, unused) + 1 x GBAccelerometer (new, unused) + One HAMLib license
#3 – One HAMLib license + One GBAccelerometer (new, unused)

Special Prize:
One GBA Micro (new, unused) + One GBADEV.org 2004 Compo Cartridge (new, unused) + One GBAccelerometer (new, unused) + One HAMlib license
The special prize is given to the person with the most “ports”. If there should be a person with equal amount of ports, the one who was sending in things fastest, will win this special prize (The amount for qualifying is minimum five ports/conversions!!!)

Entries:
[*]Submit as many entries as you like and have an extra chance to win the “special prize”
[*]No Splash-Screen required, you keep all your rights – even no need to mention PDRoms.
[*]The “ported” homebrew NDS game should be “brandnew” for GBA, already existing ports which were available for the public before 2nd August 2007 are not allowed, unless they are heavily major updated!
[*]You are not allowed to spread your GBA entry to the public before the official results!
[*]You grant PDRoms and its staff members the right to spread your entry freely (we won’t make money with it). We have connections to other important scene pages, so we’ll make sure you get proper attention for your production
[*]Entry should run on a REAL GBA
[*]Write a README with information about your game, this text will be used to present your entry, also add a screenshot!
[*]Please state out, which NDS game you were porting and send the NDS binary along (will not be published)!
[*]Package each submission in ONE compressed file archive and send it to shahzad.sahaib(at)web.de AND kojote(at)pdroms.de (just to be on the save side, due to agressive spam-filters – each entry will be CONFIRMED after max. 2 days)
[*]Entries can be updated by sending an updated archive ANYTIME before the deadline.

PS: If you feel left out: Release a NDS game first and then “backport”/”redo”/”convert” it to GBA and release it with this compo 🙂

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=341

Cid2Mizard has updated his “human friendly” hang-man game for NDS. For now it’s still fully in french language and contains about 500 different words to find out.

http://cid2mizard.dev-fr.org/

This game is based upon “The Light Corridor” from Amiga 500.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=14034

Learn from one alphabet to the other and back. Learn how to write the character and how it’s pronounced.

* Hiragana
* Katakana
* Romanji
* Nigori
* Maru
* Writing
* Speech option
* Repeat option
* Selectable sets

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2619&forum=28