Here is a NEW and FREE GERMAN (!!!, sorry no english version available) Sega magazine. It basicly covers commercial things, but free reading material is always nice. The download is available as PDF!If you want to see more issues of this professional magazine, be sure to send the authors feedback! Each feedback improves the chance of seeing another issue 🙂

http://www.sega-magazin.de/

On the behalf of the PDRoms-Team, we wish you a happy new year!Thank you for reading and supporting PDRoms with your visits. A big thank you also go out to hundrets of active hombrew developers, who spend hours of work to bring us free console and handheld entertainment, far away from the commercial market.This year has been a hughe boost for homebrews. PDRoms exists since 1998 and provides regular news since 2002. The past 7 years (yes, we missed to celebrate that) we never had so many news than in this year, 2005. Specialy this month, December 2005, with over 350 news was a very busy one. Basicly the PSP scene and now the GP2x scene were responsible for this massive boost in the homebrew scene.Unfortunatly we can not launch the new PDRoms page with 1st January 2006, but prepare for a lot of new features and a new layout within the next weeks.Good luck, take care and see you in 2006 :)Kojote / Founder&Webmaster&Official News-SlaveKedo / Newsposter support

Peldet is an IRC and Telnet client for the PSP.http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=24922

miemt11 has released another patch for MPH’s Firmware Launcher. Changes:

1: Include a new special mode for FIRMWARE 2.50 only (Should inprove stability)

2: Triangle + SELECT to toggle the mode status (Only can be set before emulation start)

3: Default special mode status is”OFF”

4: Fix some driver.c and patch.c conflict to minimize hang (Only tested on FIRMWARE 2.50 and little bit stable)

5: What is the special mode? It is a background thread to minitoring the sceIO.. API and to prevent hang

6: Patch the ICON

7: The last U version for MPH 1.3.7 series and now wait for MPH 1.3.8

8: Final note: Always remember to support the original software company

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=16225

Woogal has updated his port of Duke Nukem for the GP2x.

This release should (hopefully) now work correctly with all versions from 1.3 upwards (should be no more jumping or floating alien problems). Pay careful attention to the installation instructions in the readme – you must make sure you use the correct version of some files or you will have problems. Also fixed is the abillity to assign B from the options screen. I noticed that someone on the wiki reported that the projector wasn’t playing in the theatre – this isn’t a bug and is happening because adult mode is switched off in some config files. Please see the wiki for how to enable adult mode.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=24002

Nickspoon released a Flash Player for the GP2x.

This program will play flash movies, and to a certain extent flash games. The mouse movement is a little dodgy at the moment, and there’s no keyboard or sound support. To run, simply create a script that includes the line: ./flashplay and run it from the same directory as flashplay.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,8,1083

Image provided by: GPFGPF has ported Another World to the Dreamcast! Enjoy!http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk/AnotherWorld.shtml

deniska has updated his port of”SuperTux”for the Playstation Portable. SuperTux is an open source Mario clone, featuring the Linux penguin. It’s worth a view!http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?p=322463

Brakken has let us know that SoftDev have updated their GameCube port of Hu-Go! (a PCE/TG-16 emulator).

http://softdev.tehskeen.com/news.htm

soulphalanx has updated his attempt to create a side scroller game. It’s written in Lua.http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=4482