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Dr. Hirudo, a homebrew coder from Bulgaria, who was previously hosted at PDroms, bought his own webspace and domain. If you have time, make sure to visit ihm on his very own place now 🙂

Good Luck, Ventzislav!

PS: http://drhirudo.pdroms.de will act as redirector in the future and will remain there.

http://hirudov.com

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Web Video Downloader can download .flv or .mp4 videos from web sites.

Release notes:

This version support this site:
– Dailymotion
– XnXX

You can change the path to save video path in the wvd.xml

This program work fine on my HTC Touch with WM6.1. It’s work also on wm5. You need the Compact Framework 2.0 I’m waiting your comments and your sugestions.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427702

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G-Alarm is an alarm clock with a special mechanism to wake you up. Before the alarm clock stops you need to guide a ball through a labyrinth.

Changes:

[ADDED] Multilanguage support
[ADDED] German language to the default skin
[ADDED] Languages added: croatian, czech, dutch, french, german, spanish

Discussion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=422362

http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/about

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Michniewski and Tantric updated their SNES9x port to Wii and Gamecube once again.

Changes:

michniewski:
– added: Superscope/mouse/justifier support, with Wii remote
– added: 3 render modes – Original, Filtered, Unfiltered
– added: widescreen compensation option
– added: DVD support on the Wii
– changed: zoom – limited range, added reset zoom option

Tantric:
– added: now uses SNES 1.51 core (thanks to eke-eke for help with this)
– added: cheats menu! Loads .CHT file from /snes9x/cheats folder, .CHT file name must match file name of ROM
– added: load/save preference selector. ROM, SRAM, Freeze, and preferences are saved/loaded according to these
– added: preliminary Windows file share loading/saving (SMB) support on Wii: You can input your network settings into snes9xGX.xml, or edit s9xconfig.cpp from the source code and compile.
– added: ‘Auto’ settings for save/load – attempts to automatically determine your load/save device(s) – SD, USB, Memory Card, DVD, SMB
– added: ROM Information page
– added: Game Menu – all game-specific options are here now: SRAM save/load, Snapshot save/load, game reload, etc
– added: Credits page
– fixed: sd gecko works now
– fixed: full USB support
– changed: menu structure
– changed: preferences are now loaded and saved in XML format. You can open snes9xGX.xml edit all settings, including some not available within the program
– changed: if Home button is pressed when a game is running, Game Menu pops up
– changed: if preferences can’t be loaded at the start and/or are reset, preferences menu pops up – remove to save your preferences!
– changed: SRAM load – game reloaded automatically after loading SRAM

Discussion: http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8932

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Snes9x_GX

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PSPCAP32 is an Amstrad CPC emulator based upon Caprice32.

Changes:

– Emulation speed (small improvements)
– Improve file requester with virtual keyboard to choose sequentially rom files beginning with a given letter
– Add documentation for settings in help menu

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/335-PSPCAP32-Amstrad-CPC-Emulator-for-PSP-v1.4.3.html

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PSPHugo is a port on PSP of one latest version of Hu-Go. Hu-Go is a famous emulator of NEC PC Engine console, running on many system such as Linux and Windows, see http://www.zeograd.com/ for details.

Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public licence v2, read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

Changes:

– Improve global emulation speed
– ISO file support but sound audio track are ignored
– Screen size 320×240 is now supported (required for games such as R-Type)
– Add two new sound engines : mono (fast 22K or 44K) and
stereo (accurate 22K or 44K). You may have to reset the game when you change between mono and stereo, and save states may not work properly. (few games are now fullspeed using audio mono 22K at 222Mhz)
– Zip rom files are now decompressed in memory (much faster !)
– Bug fix with D-pad (didn’t work properly in previous versions)

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/336-PSPHUGO-PC-Engine-Emulator-for-PSP-v1.0.3.html

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NightFox is working on a new game, a collection of minigames. For now, there are three minigames included.

http://blogs.gamefilia.com/knightfox/22-09-2008/13341/codename-puzzlemania-lo-prometido-es-deuda

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Alber_h has updated his Minesweeper clone for the Nintendo DS.

Changes:

– Modified the look completely, I think now is much better.
– Phased-a couple of unnecessary images, the game now weighs less.
– Code-refined and revised.

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_homebrew-buscaminasds-actualizado-v1-1_1097939

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Homebrewgames.org are holding a Crap Games Coding Competition. Deadline is the 31th October 2008. Check out the full announcement via the link below.

Quote:

Well, the time has come for HomebrewGames.org’s first official competition, organised by none other than I, CongoZombie. You may be wondering what such a competition may involve? Why would anyone want to spend their time making something that is crap? Well, possible answers to the first question include “because it is fun” and “why not?”.

Thanks to www.emuboards.com for the news.

http://www.homebrewgames.org/cgc/

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LuaKalender is a simple calender homebrew written in Lua.

http://www.pspsource.de/hdp_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?240312.0

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