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Slasher has released a new build of his WIP Space shootem up for the PSP.

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

Chilly Willy’s been busy this last week, programming with his new acquaintance CaptShoe, and here’s the result. This is Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 with MediaEngine support… for the Slim! There were also a few bug fixes as well. Although this is targeted at Slim owners, it works just fine on the phat as well. On the slim, it goes in GAME, GAME360, or GAME371. On the phat, it goes in GAME3xx or GAME if you have the kernel mode set to 3.xx.

One major limitation on this version – you cannot change the speed. It’s hardcoded for 333 MHz. This is because you cannot change the CPU speed while the MediaEngine is running or the Slim hangs. In a related issue, sleep mode has been disabled since sleep would have done nothing at all. As such, this will drain your battery rapidly.

AcChen is a simple to learn ‘find the matching tile’ game. It is more Arcade-Style than MahJongg. It contains a lot of different levels. Each level takes only a couple of minutes to finish.

New features in this version:

* bonus level
* highscore list ( with DLDI patch )
* smoother UI
* more levels ( 30 )
* more eye candy
* continue a lost game ( with DLDI patch )
* pause mode
* surrender button
* yingyang-hint-items
* lot of bugfixes

The source for “PSP Protection Password” has been released. It’s an application which will protect your PSP with a password of choice.

businessweek.com had an article about a possible iPhone SDK.

The article:

Will Apple Open the iPhone?
An official software-development kit may finally be announced at January’s Macworld. Why the wait? It may have something to do with Leopard.

William Hurley loves his iPhone. But he’d love it even more if he could write software for it.

He’s not alone. Hundreds of programmers showed up at an iPhone event organized by Hurley, an executive at software maker BMC (BMC), even though Apple hasn’t released the source code they need to exploit the device. That was in July, and the criticism of Apple’s refusal to open the iPhone hasn’t died down.

Now it appears Apple (AAPL) will soon answer those pleas. Sources familiar with the company’s plans tell BusinessWeek.com that Apple will release a software-development kit for the iPhone in early 2008, enabling programmers to create games, business-productivity tools, and countless other applications for the device. Few details are known, but sources say an announcement will come in January, which suggests it may be slated for Jan. 15, when Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.

Why the wait? Some analysts suggest the delay has little to do with frustrating developers or Apple’s official position about bugs from third-party software posing a threat to cellular networks. Instead, the timing may have more to do with Apple wanting to wait at least until the launch of the new operating system for its Macintosh computers. Known as Leopard, it was originally planned for June, 2007, but is now set for release on Oct. 26. Since the iPhone was built with the current Mac OS, the thinking is that Leopard’s new capabilities will enable more robust features on the iPhone as well….

Follow the link below for the full story!

Justin Sharrad is working on a FLAC player for PSP. FLAC is a high quality audio format, refer to a Wikipedia article if you want to know more about it.

In this early stage, it just plays the files as you select them with your up and down buttons. The X button starts playing and the O button stops playback.

You can leave feedback here: http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-development-forum-11/t-release-flacplay-early-beta-124628.html

Spinal has updated his NDS “Menu” two days ago.It’s a menu for loading homebrew and based on Chishm’s DLDI loader.

If you want to get it working on a R4 card you will need to encrypt the _ds_menu.dat using Chishm’s tool located at http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=13204

WebFest is a tunnel shooter game for PSP, based mostly on Tempest, but with slightly modified gameplay. This version is compiled for PSP firmware 1.50, so may not work on the newer slimline PSP2000 yet.

Thanks to Jum himself for the news via the PDRoms webboard: http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=390

This is a SIM unlocking tool for the iPhone.

Please note that this version works only on VIRGIN 1.0.2 or 1.1.1 phones. DO NOT USE IF YOU HAVE ALREADY UNLOCKED WITH ANYSIM 1.0

Here is a new version of PSPColem the Colecovision 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:

– Display and save thumbnail images for each save state
– New graphics
– Option to prevent the blue led to be displayed when
L or R are pressed
– Option to display frame rate