The results of the”WinDS Coding Competition”are online. Thanks to drunkencoders.com for the news.

This was the first coding competition GBAWinS.com ran – and i see it as a success, we got an overall of 10 entries, and i think it’s alot for a small compo like this one. We will surely run another compo soon. I hope to see more outstanding works even when we are not running a compo

http://s3.invisionfree.com/GBAWinS/index.php?showtopic=324

Lylatitude released the shooting game”In The Air”for the PSP. It is based on a windows shooting game.http://dl.qj.net/…

Tuyo Kiss has been updated again and reaches version 3.1. It’s a kind of interactive story for the PSP.http://www.geocities.jp/psp_rk/

Image provided by: UnknownS?stien has released Solitaire2x. Solitaire is a famous card game, part of each Windows setup since Windows 3.11. Now you can play this card game on your G(ame)P(ark)2x.Download here

Image provided by: UnknownPSP-OSS (Playstation Portable Open Source Shell) is a shell for the PSP. Changes:

Homebrew launched from PSP-OSS should always go back to PSP-OSS when pressing Home

LUA Files are supported and also go back to PSP-OSS

Mouse Speed can be edited from the Settings Menu

Short cuts can be created by clicking O on any item in the file file browser, then click on Make Ql and they will apper on the desktop. Eboots will have to be renamed.

CPU Speed bug fixed in this release

Vista Skin Included

http://www.psp-oss.com/public/

Miyu has modified the previous patch for the GP2x firmware to reduce the writes to your NAND. This will increase the lifetime of your GP2x. Here are details:

It has now been optimized for Firmware 1.2.1 and you now have the possibility to either install the cleaned bootscripts, ext2 support for SD-Cards AND the NAND lock or only the Bootscripts, the ext2 support but not the NAND lock.

WARNING:This is something for people who know what they are doing. Keep in mind that doing something wrong can brick your GP2x easily. Also keep in mind to uninstall this patch, before upgrading to a newer firmware.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,42,1148

ApM did a quick-hack port of Kenta Cho’sNoizto the DS. It’s still pretty alpha (no saving, no level / miss counter, etc), but it may amuse you.http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=8097

Image provided by: KinskiKinski has updates his WonderBoy remake for the Gameboy Advance. It’s getting closer to be nice and useable. Changes:

fixed bugs : impossibility to shoot more than once on skateboard, bad skate direction, items displayed twice or more…

introduction of platforms and trampoline;

number of lifes remaining is displayed;

sublevels 1-3 and 1-4 : an axe is given to the player;

title screen;

http://kinskifromfrance.free.fr/

“Retrogaming Times”is a kind of magazine/newsletter dealing with retrogaming. It basicly has nothing to do with homebrew but it’s worth a read 🙂http://my.stratos.net/~hewston95/RTM20/RTM20.html

Image provided by: DweditDwedit has released another alpha version of Goomba Color, which is a Gameboy Color emulator for the Gameboy Advance. A couple of games already have pretty good compatibility (a compatibility list can be foundhere). Changes:

No longer shows colored solid tiles when the screen should be off

Fixed off-by-one scanline problems introduced in alpha 1. Now you can specify whether you want to emulate a GB, GBC, or GBA

Added double speed mode, either timers only or complete

Fixed splash screen corrupting graphics

Go Multiboot feature for smaller GB roms (and a couple tiny GBC games too)

Major changes to SRAM save system

Added 32k saves, Enter the menu with L+R to save the game’s sram

Stack writes to SRAM are now saved

Save files smaller in pogoshell

Some changes merged from Kuwanger’s version

Palette changes apply immediatly

http://boards.pocketheaven.com/viewtopic.php?t=3280