News

Here are some news from ZodTTD, coder of gpSPhone, SX4iPhone and other projects:

Yes you heard correctly, ZodTTD.com is announcing the first free homebrew video streaming service compatible the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

While still in it’s public beta phase, it is fully functional and is free to use! It allows users to upload video to share, and even allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to view video via it’s Safari web browser!

So take a look, upload some content, and enjoy being a part of not only homebrew gaming, but homebrew video as well!

http://video.zodttd.com

Also join the forums at http://zodttd.com/forum to discuss development of this new service!

Thanks,
ZodTTD – Home Of Homebrew

Here is the final version of PSPColem the Coleco Vision emulator for PSP.

For those who haven’t seen previous versions, ColEm is one of the best emulator of the ColecoVision videogame system written by Marat Fayzullin. It’s running on FreeBSD, HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, and other Unix systems. PSPColem is a port to PSP of Colem (Unix version 1.0).

Changes:

– Speed improvements, z80 part rewritten using jump tables.
Antartic Adventure is now fullspeed (60 fps) even at 133Mhz !
– IR keyboard support (mainly for menu)
– Auto-fire mode, press RTrigger+X to switch it on/off
– Add several new hotkeys :
. settings such as fps, render mode, auto fire speed
can now be directly modified inside the emulator
(no need to enter in the settings menu)
. quick save / quick load current state
(no need to enter in the main menu)
– Default Hotkeys can now be set in the keyboard mapping menu
(useful to add hotkeys on existing/previous keyboard files)
– Bug fix in the low battery watchdog
– Add vsync option
– Add ntsc/pal option and fix issue with default speed
(emulator was too slow in ntsc mode)

DSVideo is a video player for the Nintendo DS console. An entire movie can be compressed into around 400MB.

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

Metroid Life is based off of the old Conway’s Game of Life, only with metroids.

Metroids live and die based on these simple rules:
–Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by loneliness.
–Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
–Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives, unchanged, to the next generation.
–Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours comes to life.

Fort Apocalypse updated his game UFO Traffic.

Changes:

*added new part of game to shoot down ufo from homebase.
*added varied ufo traffic.

mobileZIPcodes is a small tool that allows you to browse ZIP codes and the corresponding city/state/district/country data on your iPhone or iPod touch.

As you don’t require to be online while looking up the ZIP code information, it is in particular useful for iPod touch users without the ability to use EDGE on the way.

Changes:

added support for 1.1.3
fixes some view issues

Neopiro has updated his hentai / adult game “Sega Girl”.

Caissa is a chess game for iPhone.

Changes:

Multiple saves/Fast saves
updated chess engine, implemented few new xboard commands
Xboard protocol support with certified chess engines
Wider range of difficulty settings (kids and grandmasters will be ecstatic)
1.1.3 support
bug fix #102. Thanks Nestor
bug fix #104. Thanks Grandma
bunch of memory leaks were addressed

Another udpated product from “Robota Softwarehouse” is their port of Go.

Features score display, last move indication, sounds, board size, komi, handicap, boardzoom and the loading and saving of SGF files. Last but not least you can step through the game.

Robota Softwarehouse updated their chess game for iPhone. It’s based upon GNU Chess featuring an own user interface.