Kraln, who has been judge at the PDRC #3, has started his own coding competition now. It supports various systems like SNES, Genesis, GB, GBC, GBA, and a few more. The rules are not in final state yet. Expect the final rules on 30th August. The competition officialy starts at 1st September 2005 and ends on 1st October. This is a whole month to work out something nice.

Competition rules so far:

No Polygons

No Emulators

No pre-exisitng submissions

Demos are discouraged.

Source code should be released at the end of the competition

http://www.kraln.com/…

Squarez is a simple action game utilizing the PSP’s analog stick. Changes:

Fixed a problem where some people were getting”Error locating default theme folder.

http://www.globware.com/psphomebrew_squarez.php

Image provided by: etketk has released a new version of his GBA game”Plane”. Thanks to etk himself for the news. Changes:

Pixel Precision Collision

Score,Bonus and”Time”is now shown when you die

http://etk.scener.org/…

Image provided by: Mike HaggarMike Haggar has released a new game to the public. Now it’s a Tetris game made in Lua. It requires the Lua-Player for PSP.http://haggar.pocketheaven.com/

PSP Rhythm Composer is a homebrew drum machine for the Sony Playstation Portable. This v0.98 fix release removes problems with the clear pattern bug.http://www.iturzaeta.com/PSPRhythm/

Thunder, Yoyo and Laxer have updated their SNES Emulator for the PSP. Second quick update in a row, and should be the last one. Changes are :

[NEW] autosave modified SRAM is now an option (can cause major slowdowns in some games).

[NEW] reverted the directories name for V1.5 to standard KXploit since new names was causing issues on some PSP.

http://yoyofr92.free.fr/psp/snespsp.html

Miqualke has updated his puzzle game”Grid Challenge”which was previously known as”GridLock”. The game has 750 levels and various themes.

http://miqds.free.fr/…

DS Heretic is a port of Raven Softwares'”Heretic”tothe Nintendo DS. It’s a 3D Ego-Shooter. Of course it comes WITHOUT the required games files, you need to obtain them from your legal PC-Version.http://www.thepernproject.com/heretic/

ScummVM DS is a port of ScummVM to the Nintendo DS handheld consoleby Neil Millstone (agentq). ScummVM is an interpreter that allows you to play Lucasarts’ back catalog of point and click adventure games on modern computers. Changes:

Crash bug after playing for a while has been fixed

All games have a performance boost

Saves are compressed in SRAM allowing more than one

Saves don’t get lost at random any more

Engine configuration is saved into SRAM

Added option to clear SRAM (hold L+R on startup) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis now works

The sound glitches are reduced

http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/

SnesPSP is a SNES emulator for the PSP made by Thunder, Yoyo and Laxer. It is based on two various SNES emulator ports. Version 0.2b is a quick bugfix release with the following changes:

[FIX] older ini file leading to crash.

[FIX] cpuclock not initialized at startup (need to access menu).

[FIX] low battery 10 seconds-long message not cleared after closing.

[FIX] some wrong timing (autosaving at launch instead of after n minutes, …).

http://yoyofr92.free.fr/psp/snespsp.html