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Lua is a powerful, fast, light-weight, embeddable scripting language. The Saturn Lua Player is a powerful runtime environment for homebrew Saturn games written in Lua. It provides access to hundreds of functions of popular Saturn programming libraries.

It’s simple, it’s fast, it’s powerful and it makes fun! Making Saturn games is now as easy as opening up a text editor and writing:
slPrint(“Hello World”, 5, 5) while true do slSynch() end

The Saturn Lua Player has proved it’s usefulness by running Police Officer Smith and various complex 3d demos. It successfully handles multiple 2D scrolls, rotational scrolls, complex 3D scenery, realtime gouraud shading, textures, save files, CD reading, PCM playback and a lot more!

http://dcemu.co.uk/saturn-lua-player-released-118343.html

Ura Kaiten Patissier is the runner up game of “Kaiten Patissier”, with more possibilites and features. It’s also a touch more difficult thant he original series.

Kaiten Patissier is a “collect ’em all” game, but with the twist of having a rotating playingfield. After collecting all but the last item in each level, a bonus item will appear somewhere in the level, so be sure to keep an eye out for the bonus items if you want to get 100% completion.

Update 23:23: According to MK2k, the guy who ported this piece of work over to the PSP, the only change is the addition of a new splash screen “Action Love”.

http://maglog.jp/alpha-secret-base/Article317768.html

D.K. has updated his game Kaiten Patissier.

Kaiten Patissier is a “collect ’em all” game, but with the twist of having a rotating playingfield. After collecting all but the last item in each level, a bonus item will appear somewhere in the level, so be sure to keep an eye out for the bonus items if you want to get 100% completion.

Due to lack of japanese knowledge, we can not inform about potential changes.

Update 23:23: According to MK2k, the guy who ported this piece of work over to the PSP, the only change is the addition of a new splash screen “Action Love”.

http://maglog.jp/alpha-secret-base/Article313069.html

Sleep’n’Wake is an application for dozing off to your favorite music playing silently and getting waked up again with the music you chose, this time with the volume maxed to the system volume setting on your Playstation Portable.

Features:

Full support of cbr/vbr/abr 8kbps-320kbps 44.1kHz MP3 of arbitrary length
Playlist Management for sleep and wake lists
Set a special more silent volume for sleep mode
Time settings for wake up, fade in and sn00ze
Utilization of OpenAlarmLib by Mr305 for Suspend/Resuming the PSP and thus saving a lot of battery power
Multilanguage Support (EN_DE_FR_IT_NL_FI_PT_PT-BR)

Release notes:

The current version 1.99b adds compatibility to Custom Firmware 3.xx and 4.xx by utilizing Mr305’s OpenAlarmLib as well as fixes a bug in snooze mode for AM/PM time users.

Thanks to MK2k himself for the news.

http://mk2k.net/serendipity/index.php?/archives/3-SleepnWake-PSP-1.99b-MULTi-8.html

WordStreamer (aka MiniMuncher) is a speed reading tool. t works on the principle that our brains only process text when our eyes are not moving. WordStreamer simply streams a text file a set number of words at a time, at a rate specified by you. Since your eyes are not traveling from line to line and across the page, this allows you to read at a faster rate in no time by simply pressing up to increase the rate at which the words are displayed.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=383655

Every wanted to have an easy way to learn the for your driving licence? Here is a possibility, at least for our german visitors. The German Licence Trainer File for 2008 is included and working, everyone can now create such file for every country.

Changes:

-Fix: Removed Menu points from old version
-Update: Complete use of CF 3.5
-Update: Licence Plates Form added
-Update: Some About shit

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371306

You’ve got three basic colors : RED, BLUE and YELLOW.

You can mix two of them:
RED+BLUE=PURPLE
RED+YELLOW=ORANGE
BLUE+YELLOW=GREEN

Then you need to have the three basic colors on one single block in order to create a white block:
PURPLE + YELLOW = WHITE
RED + GREEN = WHITE
BLUE + ORANGE = WHITE

Once 3 white blocks are aligned, they disappear.

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

http://icodeatwork.blogspot.com/

This J2ME porting can run java mobile phone games even better than the average phone and with more confortable controls, for example it can run DoomRPG, Worms 2007, 300, Company of Heroes, Rainbow Six Vegas, Destroy all Humans 2 ect fullspeed!

New in this release:

– Screen rotation now works properly even for 240×320 games that now can fit perfectly the gp2x screen
– Added a variable to choose when to launch a game with rotated screen or not
– Added Dungeon Dweller as sample game, it’s a great Roguelike and is freely downloadable here: http://roguelikedevelopment.org/dweller/
– Some minor bugs fixed

Now the porting needs *only* sound support for MIDP2 games, if you’re a developer interested in making a release or you just want to mess with the code follow the instructions and hints in the readme file.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,8,2634

CXMB allows to load XMB themes from your memory stick.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=141870

SeanPaul223 has released a Luigi related fangame for PSP recently. Gaol is to collect gold coins!

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=141808