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Dear visitors,

do you know, that there are people out there, who steal content from others, without crediting? Additionally they pretend to help the homebrew scene…

Well it happened once again, our majesty, Wraggster the Thief I., honest webmaster of the money making machine DCEmu.co.uk has copied PDRoms Openmoko section, two hours after after PDRoms introcuded it. Of course he also grabbed three Openmoko news, without credits.

The content does not appear on the main page of DCEmu, apparently Homebrew-King Wraggster wants to avoid PDRoms Main News on his front page, to lower the impression that he is a bloody thief.

Fact is, the news were stolen, without credits, may they be on the main page or not. As I am not able to check topics on DCEmu myself due to beeing banned, the no credit fact has been confirmed by RoBoCop_ ( http://www.c64.ch ) and myself via using a proxy.

Yesterday there was an issue where Wraggster has stolen news from Brakken/Tehskeen.net, pretty fast and with an apology Wraggster added credits to the stolen news post. He probably fears Brakken more than PDRoms, because the community there is a lot larger.

To be continued…

Update 8.7.2008 01:02am

To be fair here is a “response” from Wraggster http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118972

Now a few things to clear up:

* I am not a “german”, you may look at a country south to germany…

* PDRoms is a hobby for me as well. I have a 40h/week main job with a sidejob along with a family – then additional work with PDRoms kicks in, also few hours daily. Just beeing busy is no excuse to forget credits with a clear system. You are angry at me because I told the public that you stole an article and rewrote it with your own words. That’s a fact and your apology was just the one you gave to brakken yesterday. Beeing tired is no right to leave out appropriate credits. If you have power to rewrite a whole article, which you have seen somewhere else, then there should be credits with it too.

* If your banners dont bring any money, then why you just dont remove them? There are enough pages where people can figure out if a decent dealer is trustable or not. You could even do that in your boards without spoiling your main page with more than 4 banner ads. Also we should not forget the hidden affilation codes in most posts – Your explanation just does not work out if you think logical. GBAdev also has a discussion sections about dealers without extraordinary hughe advertising anywhere. If your statement is true, you know what to do now…

* Neither I am jelous nor do I really want to go the public way, but the public critism so far did not seem to have impressed you. If you want to earn or not earn money, is your personal problem. I just want proper credits for everyone. If you forget it sometimes, hell, it’s perfectly okay. But if you follow your own news, there is a structure that you grab from sites such as nintendomax without any credits. As we are into homebrew for ages, I believe we do have the same sources of aquiring information, so I pretty much know what I am talking about. If not, I am open for beeing teached.

* If someone would blame you for something horrible which you have not done or you never did, I would stand up for you too. Even now, it’s not a question of “friendship” in any form. Unfortunatly the police still did not track down that guy as he was using a proxy… that troll was also after other people. Probably he has seen it as kind of sports to make other people bad.

* As we are in the same “homebrew” boat I suggest two things. Peace or war! It’s fully up to you. Just don’t say I did not offer you a situation to iron anything out. All I want is proper crediting for everyone (even if you are tired) and a proper apology. So sweetheart… it’s your turn! You may rant back a bit for public entertainment 🙂

Update 8.7.2008 02:30am

Wraggster has deleted his “response” but it’s saved in the PDRoms webboard as screenshot, you may read that up there.

http://pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=462

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DragonMedia Player is a native Wii application with the intent of being a multi-source media player on the Wii.

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/DragonMedia_Player

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Sam B. is working on a virtual instrument for GP2x called 2xBand. The “drum” part is already done, but there is no release yet.

Full work in progress information can be found by following the link below.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?act=ST&f=59&t=42926

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GRRLIB for GX RGB Renderer Library provides lots of nice functions for programming beginners.

All versions of GRRLIB before 3.0 are not supported anymore dueto the lack of real full GX support.

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/GRRLIB

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libwiisprite is a C++ sprite library written for the Wii which utilises GX for all it’s graphical operations, meaning the GPU is used to accelerate graphics.

libwiisprite aims to make developing Wii homebrew simple and fun with better graphical results than currently existing libraries.

All possible pngs can be loaded, even the ones with an alpha layer, so you can get started immediately!

The library comes with full Doxygen documentation to help get development started. It is also available online: http://feesh.braingravy.co.uk/libwiisprite/

Changes:

Added a reference pixel system. It allows to rotate and scale a sprite around a specific point on itself. Check the documentation how to use it. The spritetest example also has a little example on it.
Fixed a huge memory leak when loading an image which was in every previous version. Upgrading is recommended.
Several speedups which can increase the speed of the library when drawing Sprites and TiledLayers, or even assigning Images.

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Libwiisprite

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Nuvalo has posted some information and a link to a Youtube video which shows he’s gotten XSERVER booting on the Nintendo Wii. It’s still in early stages, but looks promising.

Quote from Nuvalo:

Hi good news: The xserver runs !!!!! XD XD XD:

Here is a video, booting the T2 SDE 6.0 linux distribution for powerpc. It boots from an external usb hard disk, using the SD card as a pivot root. It can´t boot directly to an USB hard disk, as it isn´t recognized at boot time. The colours are wrong, as the X server runs in RGB mode, and the wii framebuffer only supports yuv2 colours. And the usb mouse doesn´t seems to work. Anyway, it shows how to boot, the login and little more. Here is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1UCQEMO8yc

Have fun

Thanks to brakken / http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showpost.php?p=34097&postcount=43

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ThrottleLauncher is a launcher app designed for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 in c# and c++. Basically it consist’s of several pages containing rows. Each of the rows depending of it contents can be scrolled horizontally by using the finger. The app is fully configurable through xml files so the rest of the features depends on the diferent setups.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=390553

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Manage your contacts with iContact…

Changes:

Added contact pictures!
Sped up program start time
Revamped contact details screen and call log details screen
Added button for contact summary, (and therefore ability to delete)
Added more contact details: fax, pager, car phone, radio phone, assistant phone, company phone, url
Added auto-detection of email account name
Added incoming/outgoing/missed indicator in call logs
Smoothen-ified scrolling for slower phones, thanks truburt!
Added link to “Outlook Contacts” to start menu, thanks l3v5y
Added seperate skin setting for battery, “TitlebarBattery”
Made dates and times obey the locale format
Added Header bar to program, and to skin
Fixed program exit when clicking empty space in contact details
Added more error handling code
Fixed startup error message that occurred on some WM6.0 phones

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=395829

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Space Shooter is an original 2D space shooting game. It’s simple, just shoot anything that moves or shoots back. The objective is to destroy all enemies on the four levels.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/SpaceShooter

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Planet Hively, a musicdisk which has been seen on platforms such as GP2x, Windows, Linux, and GP32, now sees a Wii release as well.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Planet_Hively

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