Andrew Williams has updated his Christmas Tree Game which now adds sound effects.Aim of the game:To play the game, move the hand using the stick, watch the power gauge on the left carefully and use any of the D-pad buttons to shoot the light bulb. You have to hit all the sockets on the tree to win. The trick is that the bulb must be moving very slowly for it to catch on the socket, so you have to judge the power on your shots carefully. In the absence of working sound, you’re stuck with a nice graphical effect when you win. Less than about 60 seconds to complete the game would be a good time… Press Select to end the game.http://www.bolton.ac.uk/staff/adw1/gp2x

CPU LCD-Tweaker is a tool which let you adjust the CPU speed of your GP2x and also modifies the LCD behavior. This should be the last major release according to the authors.http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,8,1000

barnesy has released a new version of PyBrush, his PyGame drawing program. The new main features are:

Load images – You can now load images from anywhere on the SD/NAND, then draw all over them.

Save images – There’s a new onscreen keyboard for entering filenames

Undo – Lets you undo up to ten actions.

Phyton for the GP2x is required.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=23263

Hectorblanco has updated”Debian Vs Pimientos 2x”. It’s a kind of object shooting game for the GP2x. Here is the original changelog in spanish language:

El sistema de renderizado de texto ha sido portado a la libreria SDL_ttf.

Al hacer pausa, se muestra un fondo negro debajo del texto de PAUSA.

Las posiciones de la espiral de Debian en los extremos han sido afinadas un poco.

Los Cr?tos ya estan disponibles, aunque tienes que verlos enteros, pues no deja aun cancelarlos (nota para la siguiente version).

Mejorado el movimiento de los pimientos.

http://www.gp32spain.com/foros/showthread.php?t=25374

The”MPH Firmware launcher”allows to launch a firmware from the PSP’s memory stick. The firmware must be in file format and not in eboot.pbp format, for convert a firmware eboot.pbp in file, use the psardump02a tool. Use the tool at own risk! Release notes:

I have just finished the last version of firmware launcher which allows to play video (MPEG4 and AVC) with firmware 2.00 launched (2.50 bug).

http://mphwebsite.tuxfamily.org/index.php?page=0

The final prizes of the Drunken Coders Coding Competition are decided. Here is the original post from DC:

Natrium has donated $50 to the pool, and Peter has donated another $20 and what the hell I will add another $30 so we have $180 dollars in prize money and some other good prizes to spread about.We are still accepting donations of any sort. If anyone has access to cheap T-Shirt manufacture I could use about 8 or 10 T-Shirts made for compo entries (Ideally I would like to give everyone who enters one but who can afford that? :).

The competition ends on 1st January 2006!

http://www.drunkencoders.com/documents/DS/compo.htm

The PSP Trainer for”Liberty City Stories”has been updated and now even works for PSP’s with firmware 2.60. A few supported cheats are: Infinite Health and Armor, Set Wanted Level, Set Time, Set Weather&Spawn Anything. Detailed changes:

v0.4:

Your car is indestructible, always steaming, smoking, or on fire

No reload

Support for firmware 2.6

http://www.maxbot.com/gta/

Elxx has released a web sever application for the PSP.

What this does is basically let you download files from your PSP using your wireless network connection. You can browse through the files on your web browser, as if you’re surfing a website. HTML pages will even be displayed and rendered correctly so you could run a website off your PSP

http://download.qj.net/…

alatnet has released a public beta of his programming class project”Acnos Energizer”. It’s a puzzle game written in Lua.http://dl.qj.net/…

dkla has updated his japanese board/puzzle game conversation of Sudoku written in Lua. Changes:

“New Puzzle”now picks a grid from over 200 valid puzzles (all generated from gnome_soduku). Thanks to Benoit Favre for submitting the”New Puzzle”code!

A new selectable”Show Candidates”option shows the possible choices for the current cell in a fun and irreverent manner…

Fonts are still bitmapped, but the code is in there for TT fonts. Uncomment the code and see for yourself. 🙂

Graphic tweaks and cleanup

http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=4347