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News from the Giana’s Return team and their attempt to port their own game over to the Playstation Portable.

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Our coder made quite a progress for the PSP version.

Earlier this day he had to fight with memory issues, but he managed to sort out those during the day. Now it’s quite late and we DO HAVE a working PSP version, but it has graphics glitches, minor transparency issues and is a bit slow. Also the controls seem too sensitive for an analogue stick and completly wrong for digital cross usage.

We keep you guys updated!
(at least for the next few days before our organizer and “blog udpater” rushes out for a longtime vacation).

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GSlide, “Generic Slide”, is simply a explorer with a kinetic slider interface.

Discussion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=421034

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Musicman247 has released a new version of his application MusicFlo.

Changes:

-fixed clock
-removed Weather Auto Update
-fixed restart-startup error
-fixed various other small bugs

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Guyfawkes was wondering how big the Wiz would be in size compared to other handhelds so with the help of Size Easy, he entered some handheld sizes to see how big the Wiz is.

You can view the page linked below. The Wiz (Violet) is slightly bigger than a GBA Micro (Blue) and slightly smaller than a DS Lite (Green).

Thanks to http://www.emuholic.com for this interesting comparison!

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Raphael has updated triEngine, it’s a programming library useful for mostly game coders.

Changes:

– Added default sprite mode width/height (if set to 0) resolving to image width/height.
– Changed triDraw*Rotate to not depend on ortho mode anymore (Thanks Xfacter).
– Added double displaylist optimization.
– Added triple Sysram buffer mode that saves up VRAM (API change for triInit() required).
– Added TRI_DLIST_SIZE_KB macro to override the display list size.
– Added new triDraw primitives and fixed triDrawCircle functions (also don’t require a numSteps parameter anymore).
– Added inbuilt font.
– Added support for saving/loading own file format (trf) and compile without Freetype (TRI_SUPPORT_FT).
– Added function to make a font mono spaced.
– Fixed font drawing bug.
– Added triArchive (by tommydanger).
– Added custom particle render function.
– Added more documentation to triGraphics.
– Created branch/modelanimation for preliminary implementation of model animation support.

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copete23 has updated his Pong game “KomoPong DS” for Nintendo DS.

Changes:

– improved menu of options, now was able to adjust the volume
– added two new levels with different challenges
– added appropriations at the end of demo
– more music for each level
– break system, pressing start (although it has no utility)

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

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A quiz about Dragonball by _MasterXP_.

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Tic Tac Toe…

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VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X, SkyOS or Mac OS X machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20, almost all PET models, the PLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka C610).

Changes:

this is just a test version to make sure that usb keyboard support works for everyone..
(this also means i’ve added usb keyboard support to minilib 0.c as well)

– added usb keyboard support (NOTE THAT; not all keys are mapped)
– added tv/lcd output selection (i didn’t test this, it may not work)

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Pong for Nintendo DS by René C. Kiesler.

Release notes:

Well… My first PAlib project is what I came here for. A Pong for Nintendo DS, supporting the Taito Paddle Controller (but also the D-Pad and shoulder buttons, no worries).

Version 0.1 is rather simple, has only one player support and an easy to beat CPU player.

What makes PONG extreme special, is the vague idea of “Synesthasia”. The game music changes according to your and to the CPUs game performance. Not really polished yet, but it’s my first project anyway. I’m open for suggestions and will likely do a follow-up version.

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