We are currently looking for someone who has expirience in webdesign (css, etc…) and wants to give PDRoms a new face. As PDR is a non commercial page you wont get rich, basically you will only do it for fame and fun.

We can offer you: A permanent link somewhere near the bottom of every page similar to “Design by xy”, while xy is linked to your page. Along with this we are willing to give you a brand new GBA Micro as gift (there will be no games with it).

If you are interested or if you know someone who could be interested, please write an email to kojote(at)pdroms(dot)germany

Please spread the news if possible. Basicaly this is the only step left to make PDRoms public again.

-koj

French homebrews devers for GBA/NDS/PSP/Wii and GC might be interested in this brandnew development portal “Developpement Amateur Francophone”.

http://www.dev-fr.org/

DS81 is a ZX81 emulator with hi-resolution support by noddybox.

http://www.noddybox.co.uk/index.php

EvilDragon and myself have finalized the judging, the results are:

#1 Matrix Runner – Gameboy Advance
#2 Dastardly Dungeon – GP2x/Fenix
#3 Elevator Madness (Pre) – Super Nintendo Entertainment System
#4 Subhunt – GP2x
#5 Monsterattack – GP2x
#6 Dungeon and Dragon – GP2x/Java
#7 Skeet Shoot – Gameboy Advance
#8 BugHunt2x – GP2x
#8 LCD Race – GP2x
#9 Watch Rally – GP2x
#10 The AcchiappaStelle – GP2x
#– Kick and Play – GP2x
#– Musical Chests – Gameboy Advance

We had a total of 13 entries, while two had to be disqualified. Rank #8 is shared between two entries as they had the same score.

Unforunatley we had to disqualify two entries.

If you can read this, congratulations! You seem to be privileged enough to recieve the brandnew RSS feed from the to be soon reborn PDRoms.

PDRoms wont be back online as webpage for another while, _but_ with this feed you should recieve regular news again, hopefully in the usual quality and speed. To mention it again: Following any links to pdroms.org will NOT work yet 🙂

Kudos to celeth, who is coding his ass off! 😉

We are also looking for three reliable beta tester, more information at the PDRoms Webboard located at http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb

Or you can visit us at EFNET #pdroms, but don’t expect a very talk-active channel 😉

On a sidenote: The new PDR will allow posting of approved members, coders are welcome to join when the time has come and spread their news directly to a hughe audience without delay. If you want to know more about this, please try to catch me either on the webboard or on EFNET. I also do have ICQ, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, MSN, Yahoo Messenger and Jabber on request.

http://www.pdroms.org/feeds/news.xml

Good and bad news… first the bad ones. We only have enough money to keep PDRoms alive for the next 2 months (without domain costs and without covering the loss I had with the sponsor of PDRC#3).

All the sponsoring income we ever had, has now disappeared.The good news – Our coder is still heavily developing the code for the new PDRoms and it’s comming along well.

Finaly we are working on the new PDRoms internal code, recoding will take around a month, re-adding everything from scratch will take two months. It might get december and for whole january I’ll be on vacation in asia.

I think we can target February 2006 as new start for PDRoms, any earlier re-launch would be even a surprise to me.

Before anyone hopes that we continue with the news for now, wrong thought. I was just in the mood to post. PDRoms will be fully back on track when the new design and the new code is ready. I think we can target November for a re-opening, whith a month break in January.

To tell more about the system: Everyone will be able to register with PDRoms. If you have a valued name, you get access to the news-module and can post things on your own, which will appear after a moderator has checked everything.

As the main code has not started yet, we still accept user wishes regarding the functionality.

Regards
Kojote

By request of”Robert L. Hunter, IV/Entertainment Software Association”I had to remove the Fangame”Donkey Kong by FJSantos”which was an Open-Source, one Level GBA homebrew.

If you happen to host this on your pages too, please remove it.In case FJSantos is reading that, you might modify the game and re-release it so they can’t complain about it anymore.

-Kojote

PS: If you happen to find any suspicious or problematic material on PDRoms, please let me know. It’s not a problem at all to remove things upon request, but don’t bitch around by talking about taking the whole site offline!

Update 25.07.2006
I finaly got the”reading confirmation”of my response from the ESA, wow that took a while. So once again I want to point it out: If any suspicious material is found, send a mail to webmaster(at)thispagesname.de and it will be removed as soon as I got notice of it, which usually takes not more than 10 hours.

Also consider titles which have similarities to commercial titles as fangames and not as agression against anyones copyright or trademark. No one on PDRoms intends to steal someone elses property and spread it in any form. We have not done this in the past and we will not do this in the future.

Update 27.07.2006
I’ve recieved the following lines by brad_yo today:
This is very short but here the thing the Entertainment Software Association had a DK fangame remove but Entertainment Software Association is just a anti-pirate group and does not have any copyrights over DK (Donkey Kong) only Rare & Nintendo do and their for the game should have not been remove. Anti-pirate groups have no right to bug people over what ain’t their business and the DK fangame was wrongly removed no copyright holder should ever be obeyed when it come to copyright.

The PDR-Team is still alive and still kickin’. The main-layout has been finished but needs some re-touching to grant a proper, modern and easy to navigate page. We probably target end of autumn 2006 for a new start.In other words, we’ll be back… and it’s just a question of weeks 🙂

Regards
Kojote&The PDR Team