Regular as usual, another update of PSP Chess. Changes:

cleaned up evaluation code a bit – easier to understand what’s going on. If anyone wants to write up another evalation function for a new personality, feel free to do so and send me the code. I would like to have selectable opponents in the game. (if you modifiy anything outside of evaluate() please use different function names so that I can drop it in without name conflicts)

passed pawn weights

removed clear tables options

opening book changes (probability of move proportionate to frequency) – better opening book utilization

removed load book key and menu option

added book loading to reset game

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

Jim ported MikMod a program which plays various module formats over to the PSP. Thanks to self0 for the news. Author notes:

I’ve ported MikMod module player V3.0.3 to PSP. I think this about the last version released before the player GUI was split from the actual player, c1999. I can’t find any current maintainer to submit changes to. It will play most MOD, XM, IT, S3M, STM, MTM, 669, FAR, DSM, MED, ULT and UNI tracker files (while other things are happening). An example app is included. I built it with cygwin and beta 1.0 SDK. The modules I used are hardcoded in the source.

http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=2540

snesDS by loopy is a SNES emulator for the Nintendo DS. Changes: (8/7/2005) ARM9/ARM7 bins provided for building .NDS (wifi-able) roms. Still very hacky, I’ll fix it up later. Thanks toEmunews24for the news.

http://home.utah.edu/~u0422123/snesDS/

Syn-Z comes up with an improved version of his DGen port for the PSP. DGen is a Megadrive/Genesis emulator for the PSP.

http://emuholic.emuboards.com/…

Image provided by: mcdonglePSP Weather by mcdongle is a program which allows you to get weather-data for your specified region over Internet/WiFi connection. Thanks to emuholic for the news.http://mcdongle.i8.com/

Agena World is a space shooter game for the PSP.http://www.edepot.com/game.html

Nanashi-soft released an updated version of their game Karuna.http://yun.cup.com/

Currently PDR Coding Compo #3.33 is going on, the official deadline is on Thursday (14th), but will be extended to Sunday (17th). This will give you a whole weekend to finish up some stuff or start writing a simple entertaining game.Allowed systems are:Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx, Gameboy Classic, Gameboy Color, Intellivision, Neo Geo Pocket Classic, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Odyssey 2, Wonderswan Classic, Wonderswan Color, Game Gear, NES, Master System, Pokemon Mini, Watara Supervision, Gameboy Advance, Megadrive/Genesis, GP32, PC Engine, SNES, Dreamcast, Arcade Hardware (NeoGeo, NeoGeo CD, CPS1), Sega 32x, Playstation 1, SegaCD, Virtual Boy, Vectrex, ColecovisionAll rules can be found here:http://www.pdroms.de/pdrc3_33-rules.php

Image provided by: UnknownSpace Trainer description:

In this game two cadets pilot a spaceship and must use their agility to hit the space bubbles as many as possible to gain points. The bubbles give you more points if they do not stay too long at the space place.

http://minigamecomp.org.uk/games.php

cwbowron with another update of his chess game. Changes:

REALLY fixed illegal move – related to principal variation storage

reset to human vs human on checkmate, stalemate, draw

added psp:black and psp:white to options menu

removed demo key

updated pspsdk and as such had to rename a few functions and change around some makefile stuff

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