PSP Rhythm Composer is a homebrew drum machine for the Sony Playstation Portable. In this updated version there is a rewrite in the sequencer code.

http://www.iturzaeta.com/PSPRhythm/index.html

RomShark comes up with an improved version of Scorched Earth.

Well, here’s (checks notes) version .9! Wait, the last one should have been .4a, not 1.4a…

Anyway, major changes here! First off, there’s a customized eboot icon and background, thanks to Ryuu of the PSPUpdates forums. Great job!

Also, I’ve added a cool menu. There’s still more things on there that aren’t implenmented yet than are, but it gives room for expansion. So sorry, the network play isn’t in there. With the menu, you can change the ground, sky, gravity, player numbers, falling dirt, which landscape engine to use, landscape steepness (only for the new landscape engine). That’s about it so far.

In the game itself, we’ve now got up to 6 players. Blue and White tanks were added. I tweaked the shooting part to go faster, and I have ideas that might optimize it even more. Oh, and I tossed in Deaths Heads weapons, just in case someone actually wanted to use them . Although their use slows down that whole round of bullets, even after the heads have all exploded.

Using a better font file, so ther’s now lowercase and uppercase letters. The Hello-World team strikes again! File from the RIN source.

Next, I hope to have a scoring system of some type set up, as well as more weapons (dirt-based), and some more menu items working.

No source this time. In the game, use the d-pad to aim and adjust power (hold the L-trigger to go faster.) X to shoot, square and circle to cycle weapons, triangle to clear the screen of smoke traces. Use X to continue during tank dialoge (talking before firing or when dead). triange cancels shots, since sometimes it gets stuck (I’m still looking into that…) Select returns to the home menu.

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=7851&page=3&pp=10

Image provided by: MXSMSX has coded a”Button Logger”for the PSP.http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=9224

Franxis improved his MAME port for the GP32 a lot. The source-code and a binary are available from it’s official page. The changes are:

TheGrimReaper: General frontend working !!!. Only a FXE file is needed in GPMM subfolder (mamegp32.fxe). All other FXE’s are placed in GPMMMAMEGP32. Please delete old FXE’s from GPMM folder. NOTE: It is NOT mandatory to use the general frontend, FXE’s can be copied to GPMM and use the emulator like in previous MAME GP32 versions.

TheGrimReaper: Source code: Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 support.

Franxis: Sound core rewritten to be faster. Please, report possible bugs…

Franxis: Corrected slowdowns in Psycho Nicks Oscar.

http://www.talfi.net/gp32_franxis/

Today I had the pleasure to interview”Memblers”, webmaster ofNESdev. If you are interested in the NES homebrew scene this might be for you.

http://www.pdroms.de/interview_memblers.php

Release notes:

For those of you who are new to the forums, Tank AI is my one player version of Combat. I started it two years ago as a class project and had made a playable version. It was good enough that Digital Eclipse gave it the honor of including it in the Atari Anthology. Unfortunately the computer was not very competitive against a human being, and I was short on ideas for making it smarter. In January this year, I had rashly pronounced the project over.Since then things have improved. A breakthrough came when I realized that the code that directs the tank could be applied to guided missiles as well. I’ve put together a demo that shows how deadly guided shots can be.I have ruled out using complex mazes like my old demo, and have decided to use the three original playfields.Thanks to Rob Mitchell for not letting me give up. I gradually work on Tank AI from time to time, even though I prefer to focus on a non-infringing homebrew that can be put on cartridge. My priorities could change if I can work out a deal with Atari Inc. to include it on a future project. (Flashback 3?)

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74500

Image provided by: NielsA classic rotating cube made by Nils. It requires the Lua-Player for PSP.http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=2682&start=240

Christopher has released an improved version of PSP Chess. It’s basicly a port of BACE (Bowron – Abernethy Chess Engine, AKA Boo’s Chess Engine), a chess engine which Christopher had coded with a partner. Changes in this release:

I’ve been working on getting the infrastructure set up for networking so most of the changes are not user visible changes. The most visible change to end users will be the modification that should allow it to be installed in any directory not just psp/game/pspchess so you should be able to use the corrupt icon removal tool. RELEASE 0.31 client mode keys: RTRIGGER = show terminal screen START = show terminal screen Game Mode option supercedes analysis mode (NORMAL,ANALYSIS,CLIENT) Network Framework – Using txt file to mimic network input On Screen Keyboard Code tentatively: DOWN+LTRIGGER – clear input buffer LEFT/RIGHT – change character frame TRIANGLE/CIRCLE/SQUARE/CROSS – select character LTRIGGER – backspace RTRIGGER – space (1x) / enter (2x) UP – toggle shift lock SELECT – select quick string START – abort / return to game screen from terminal screen fixed path specific options that required pspchess to located in /PSP/GAME/PSPCHESS now you should be able to do the wacky corrupted icon removal thingy if you want.

http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=1760http://bace.bowron.us/

PSP Schedule allows you to have basic PDA capabilities by providing schedule and address book functions. This is also the first homebrew program to make use of Arwin van Arum’s P-Sprint text entry system. Changes in v0.25:

12-hour time format (AM/PM) now fully supported

Date is shown in red on the calendar if something is scheduled for that day

Selected items are now shown in red

Address book can now properly display multiple pages of names (L/R trigger to move back/forward pages)

Address book entry display bug fixed

Settings menu bug fixed

Address book entries can now be edited

Other minor changes

http://www.quinnsoft.com/pspschedule.php

Image provided by: EvilDragon“Mrs. Mopp”needs to keep her room tidy and clean. This is a conversion of an old Spectrum game. A similar version of this game (but with beer and different graphics) has been entered in PDRC #3.33 and was called”Mr. Catflap”. Thanks to EvilDragon for the news.http://www.gp32x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,27,868