Well… unfortunatly the competition results are delayed till next weekend. One of the judges was short on time and will hand over his results the next few hours.

Please be patient, results will be for sure out by latest next weekend.

Regards
Kojote

The french homebrew community site dev-fr.org faces a new design since midnight. Check it out! 🙂

http://www.dev-fr.org

Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online.

Content:

* Our 10th Anniversary
* Many Faces of Astrochase
* Nintendo Realm – Before the Famicom
* Taking the Pole Position
* Gaming in the Magic Kingdom
* Old wine in new bottles – Namco TV Games
* Nintendo Amusement Park
* Inside the Numbers of the Many Faces

Thanks to http://www.atariage.com for the news.

http://my.stratos.net/~hewston95/RTM/RTM_Home.htm

Brakken, owner of TehSkeen.net returns, tho in a modified way.

Welcome to my new personal “scene” blog. With the closing of TehSkeen, one of the Internet’s most unbiased, uncensored, independent news and development sources I’ve been left with a yearning for something to write about. If you’ve been around for the last three years you are probably aware of the rise and fall of my activities and the aggressors that tried to keep me down. Unfortunately, TehSkeen had to close and these “other” entities are still flourishing. Although, I find it ironic that an honest site had to close while others whom feed off of the talented authors in the various homebrew console development scenes flourish.

My new blog will retain TehSkeen’s name, but you won’t find scene news here. What you will find is my personal opinions on various political developments in the scene and the reporting of dubious activities that these “other” scene sites participate in to fill their own pockets at the communities expense.

You may recall my Anti-PS2NFO site humbly named “PS2BANZ”. In good faith that things would get better I took the page down. At the time I believed this was a right course of action. If I was going to be running my own scene news site I wanted to distance myself from the trouble the page stirred up to clear TehSkeen’s name of any actions that were taking place due to the page. Even though I was taking an unbiased stance on both pages I believed that running an anti-PS2NFO site and a scene site would cause the public to be confused.

If you weren’t around to see the pre-mentioned page I will briefly explain it’s purpose. PS2NFO, now calling themselves PS3NEWS (the name change was to try to wash their bad image down the drain) is a self proclaimed scene site that feeds off of the work of others. After analyzing their business model I aggressively monitored and reported on their various activities including, but not limited to censoring forum posts, blatantly plagiarizing other peoples work, removing the authors credits and legal documentation from homebrew releases and replacing them with their own unwarranted website address and name.

As you can tell those are some pretty harsh accusations, but I had screen shots, binary dumps and authors of the stolen programs to back me up. Sadly, Mr. Serafin, the owner of PS2NFO hired a lawyer who drafted a letter stating I was violating his clients rights by using his sites name, likeness and images without permission. Other then using the images, which I believed were covered under the Fair Use Act (title 17, U. S. Code) I was doing nothing illegal, but my web hosting company (the same one I’m using now) was frankly scared to defend it’s own customer and sided with Mr. Serafin. After this happened I moved the page to a Russian hosting company who in all reality deleted the correspondence that PS2NFO, Maxconsole and PS2-SCENE were sending to them (I’ll get to the other mentioned pages here shortly).

So here I am three years later. Running my own scene news site for two years led me to learn a lot about the internal politics and helped me forge valuable relationships with fellow site owners, homebrew coders and console hackers. During this time, as I’ve stated already, various scene sites that use the public lack of awareness to profit have flourished. This sickens me. My new blog will be dedicated to revealing, to the best of my knowledge, the truth about these various sites. Don’t expect any fancy screen shots to back up my claims, but what you should expect from me is my honesty and what you should expect from yourself is to keep an open mind with your eyes wide open.

You can digg the news here: http://digg.com/gaming_news/Famed_Hacker_Dark_Alex_s_PSP_Stolen_and_Released_Now_used_by_Sony_to

http://www.tehskeen.com/

The deadline is now definatly over wordwide and there were 7 submissions. Presentation and results this weekend!

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=53

For those who are taking part in the current PDRoms Coding Competition, the deadline is TODAY (23:59, in YOUR country)! There are just a few entries, so the chance of winning something is pretty high if you hack something together in few hours.

Gool Luck!
-koj

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=341

Just a fast reminder to let you know that the currenct PDRoms Coding Competition runs till this Sunday.

There is still one full weekend left to create something, so keep on coding. So far three entries arrived, the chance of grabbing a nice prize is highly given considering the low amount of entries yet.

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=341

Create a Nintendo DS or GBA game with a holiday theme. Be it Wack-a-Santa or nuclear snowball fights with diminutive elves we want to see your wintery creations.

PS: Don’t forget the PDRoms compo is still going on till 16th September, you might want to enter there and then do some nice stuff for this compo organized by http://www.drunkencoders.com 🙂

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

Celeth has returned and plans to continue improving the non public beta page. Let’s see what will happen 🙂
-koj

PDRoms Coding Competition (short: PDRC) #3.667 has sixteen days left for the deadline.

Topic: “Backport”/”Convert”/”Redo”/”Recode” a Nintendo DS homebrew game to Gameboy Advance!

Rules:
[*]You must own all RIGHTS to your submission, this includes sound, graphics, code, simply everything! The use of copyrighted names and characteres should be avoided, unless you have an official permission, which should be forwarded along with your entry. We reserve the right to refuse or disqualify entries, which break any rule(s)!!!
[*]In case of VERY OLD GAMES (+10y), which do not seem to have a copyright holder anymore and which are not distributed commercially anymore, we can make an exception, but you must be still able to proofe that you tried to get in touch with the responsible copyrightholders.
[*]Keep in mind you OWN ALL RIGHTS to your production, this means you are also fully reliable for it. By submitting your production you declare that you did not break any copyright.

Prizes:
[*]Prizes can not be paid out in cash
[*]In case of entries having the same jury-end-score, the entry which has been submitted earlier will be the winner.
[*]In case of teamwork, the team-leader has to make sure the prizes are split proper within the team itself.
[*]The special prize is given to the person with the most “ports”. If there should be a person with equal amount of ports, the one who was sending in things fastest, will win this special prize. – The amount for qualifying is minimum five ports/conversions!!!

#1 – One GBA Micro (new, unused) + One GBADEV.org 2004 Compo Cartridge (new, unused) + One real-cartridge with your winner entry!
#2 – One Qwak GBA Cartridge (new, unused) + 1 x GBAccelerometer (new, unused) + One HAMLib license
#3 – One HAMLib license + One GBAccelerometer (new, unused)

Special Prize:
One GBA Micro (new, unused) + One GBADEV.org 2004 Compo Cartridge (new, unused) + One GBAccelerometer (new, unused) + One HAMlib license
The special prize is given to the person with the most “ports”. If there should be a person with equal amount of ports, the one who was sending in things fastest, will win this special prize (The amount for qualifying is minimum five ports/conversions!!!)

Entries:
[*]Submit as many entries as you like and have an extra chance to win the “special prize”
[*]No Splash-Screen required, you keep all your rights – even no need to mention PDRoms.
[*]The “ported” homebrew NDS game should be “brandnew” for GBA, already existing ports which were available for the public before 2nd August 2007 are not allowed, unless they are heavily major updated!
[*]You are not allowed to spread your GBA entry to the public before the official results!
[*]You grant PDRoms and its staff members the right to spread your entry freely (we won’t make money with it). We have connections to other important scene pages, so we’ll make sure you get proper attention for your production
[*]Entry should run on a REAL GBA
[*]Write a README with information about your game, this text will be used to present your entry, also add a screenshot!
[*]Please state out, which NDS game you were porting and send the NDS binary along (will not be published)!
[*]Package each submission in ONE compressed file archive and send it to shahzad.sahaib(at)web.de AND kojote(at)pdroms.de (just to be on the save side, due to agressive spam-filters – each entry will be CONFIRMED after max. 2 days)
[*]Entries can be updated by sending an updated archive ANYTIME before the deadline.

PS: If you feel left out: Release a NDS game first and then “backport”/”redo”/”convert” it to GBA and release it with this compo 🙂

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=341