Miscellaneous News
Shatterdome has updated his game”PSP Helicopter”. Release notes:
I added some point balls that you can now collect, they are worth 150 and the multiplier affects them…also you won’t run out of buildings, but they never speed up, so i’ll figure that out yet, I have some ideas…Also the point balls require new graphics and there is a death animation now, so you’ll have to replace the old folder if you’ve checked this out before…
http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=35138
StereoMike has ported JonoF’s version of Duke Nukem 3D to PSP. Duke Nukem 3D is a solid 3D ego-shooter.http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=35872
This is a joke game like Mario where you get to be Mario with a backwards hat and a gotee and shoot people in wheelchairs. This was one of the first games lostjared ever wrote.http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=36018
naboo has released an updated version to his Bomb Jack remake for the PSP. Release notes:
Some improvements in game engine, 14 full action (and customizables) levels: put enemies, bombs, coins, everything what you want, but many objects make game slow [feature]. Added item wall for vertical obstacles. Get extra life in some levels.
http://www.postumum.com/home/
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM lets you run these adventures: Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used for many games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. Compatibility with supported games is continually improving, so check back often. Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2, SymbianOS/EPOC and many more…http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/
iR Commander is an Infra-Red Universal Remote Control software for Playstation Portable. It allows you to control various home appliances and other infra-red based equipments. It’s implementation is based on CIR (Consumer IR), not IrDA. Thus, it will not allow you to communicate with your laptop via IrDA for information exchange. CIR is typically used among most home appliances and electronic equipments with IR wireless remote controls, such as TVs, VCRs, DVDs, Projectors, etc.The current version of iR Commander does not allow your PSP to directly learn another remote control unit by pointing at it. Instead, it uses the most popular IR code available on the net, Pronto Hex Code. By copying the Pronto Hex Codes to your PSP, you can eventually turn your PSP into a Universal remote with support for over than 6000 equipments.http://www.ahman.co.nr/
PSP Universal Remot has been updated. It’s a program to replace dozens of your real remotes for TV, Video, etc.http://www.psp-ita.com/
What exactly is this program? Its a Virtual Machine, NOT a Emulator.. It interprets Atari 800 Assembly Language with a few extra instructions for modern computers NO you cannot run Atari 800 ROMS but if you get the assembly source than it can be interpreted. This is meant to help you learn how to write a interpreter/virtual machine as well as teach you the foundations of modern programming languages.
http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=35531
NJ, author of NeoGeo CDZ, has now picked up his own NegGeo CD emulator to be ported to the PSP. The sixth beta can be downloaded from his page.
http://neocdz.hp.infoseek.co.jp/