The recently held”Neo Coding Competition 2005″has ended and all entries are available for download. There were many interesting projects. If you are a fan of NDS homebrewn you should definatly have a peek on the submissions.

http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php?board=14.0

Image provided by: Matan GillonWindows 95 on the PSP? Matan Gillon makes it possible. He ported the Open-Source x86 emulator to the PSP. Read more:

Yes, it’s true. I’ve managed to run Windows 95 and Linux on the PSP. I’ve done it by porting the excellent open source x86 emulator Bochs.

Windows 95 actually runs quite well but don’t expect it to be a speed demon. It takes about 10 minutes to boot but afterwards it’s pretty usable. I was able to do things like: open”My computer”and browse the virtual hard drive, complete a whole game of Minesweeper and run various other applications. Now you too can get your Minesweeper fix on the go 🙂

I’ve also tested DLX Linux which comes pre-packaged with Bochs and it works just fine. However, I couldn’t do much with it because there’s no keyboard support. If you want to do your word processing on it then wait until keyboard support is implemented (though I doubt it will be any fun using the joystick).

In windows, mouse handling is extremely difficult. I suspect it has something to do with the”boost”feature windows has. Once you get the mouse moving it will keep moving in that direction even when you’re trying to move to a different direction. The solution is to counter the movement by moving to the opposite direction. It’s sort of like trying to push the mouse the other way in order to stop it.

http://www.hacker.co.il/psp/bochs/

FluBBa has released version 0.5 of his Master System emulator for the Gameboy Advance. This release fixes the Codemaster mapper and some other things.

http://hem.passagen.se/flubba/gba.html

Image provided by: PSP-HacksPSP Rhythm Composer is a TR-x0x style drum machine. It features a easy to use 16 step sequencer, 16 drump pattern loops and 16 drum sounds. Thanks to PSP-Hacks for the news.http://www.psp-hacks.com/…

Infantile Paralysiser has released a new version of MoonShell. Release notes:

It supported to Japanese long file name by the file list. Japanese long path name is unsupported.

bugfix:There is an error margin in the operation of TouchPanel. It is a unverification.

JpegPlugin bugfix:It is not possible to end when displaying it to the last minute.

JpegPlugin bugfix:The image loops when the page scrolls.

PNGPlugin:When it displays outside cache, it opens again automatically. but very slow. When you display the ‘PictureViewWindow’, It scrolls with the cursor key. It becomes x4speed while pushing A button.

http://mdxonline.dyndns.org/archives/nds/

Image provided by: arogDidou has released a Volfied style game for the Nintendo DS. Volfied is originally a classic arcade game developed by Taito in the late 80’s. The game is very similar to an early game called Qix — you take control of an object whose purpose is roam the screen, closing rectangles and removing them from the playfield. The goal is to clear xx% or more of the screen, and each additional percent adds more points to your balance.http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=6562

Image provided by: GBAdev.orgNurdogan is currently working on a remake of”Impossible Mission”to the Gameboy Advance. You can get the download at GBAdev.org.

http://www.gbadev.org/index.php?ID=527

Drugwars has been updated again. The changes: 8/12/2005 – Version 1.04 has been posted. This fixes a few things with music as well as gives you more options for the music. I also tweaked the interface some more.

http://www.youngmx.com/ndsdev/

Sakahi has released an updated port of”Neko Project II”an PC-9801E emulator.

http://sakahi.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

Drugwars for the Nintendo DS has been updated. This version features sound! The aim of the game is to deal with drugs and profit from it. In other words: This game is not suitable for everyone.

http://www.youngmx.com/ndsdev/