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jbs30000 updated his recently released Tron game for Atari 2600.

Release notes:

I’m through working on this game. It’s better now, but still has a bug or two that I no longer have the patience to try and fix.

Improvements from what I posted a couple of days ago:
-Enemy light cycles now include a light cycle sprite, instead of just showing the light wall.
-Timer in grid spider game cut to make it harder to play. Score increases when you kill a spider.
-You usually can make it to level 2 after clearing all 4 games in level 1, and even usually get to level 3.

Bugs:
-The light cycle game can mess with your life counter when you win or lose.
-It happens rarely, but in the tank game and grid spiders game, the missile you fire might just pass through an enemy.

Anyway, that’s about it. The main menu in each level changes, just like in the arcade game, so that if you go up for example, on the first level you’ll get the tank game, but the second level will get you a different game if you go up. Also, just like in the arcade game, when you complete a game, you can’t play it again until you advance a level.

And for the heck of it. When the game first starts: 1C PP = 1 Coin Per Player; C 0 = Coins 0

I’ll post the source code, but any of you who haven’t looked at any of my code before will run for the hills when you see it . It’s not the neatest and this is a pretty big program. I started making notes but decided, what’s the point? I’ll post everything anyway and if somebody actually wants to make an improvement or two but has no idea what the heck I was thinking, or is just confused by my sloppy programming , go ahead and ask, and I shall answer.

Edited to add – While in the main menu, if you press the Start button it will add more lives. You can have a maximum of 6 I believe.

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MK2k, a more or less known PSP developer, has just opened his own webpage. As expected it covers all of his PSP work such as

– Chess Clock aka Game Clock PSP 1.0
– Kakuro Nichiyou PSP 1.1
– Heartlight Deluxe PSP 1.0
– Jump ‘n Bump PSP 1.51b
– PSPFun 0.1 MULTi 2
– Tankw00rst PSP 0.1
– Sleep’n’Wake PSP 1.99 MULTi 8
– …

His work is worth checking, so if you haven’t yet, you know where to go 😉

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Woopsi is a Nintendo DS GUI library for rapidly creating user interfaces for homebrew software. Modelled after the AmigaOS windowing system.

Archives of Woopsi 0.30 demo, source and Xcode/SDL project are now available.

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necris.developer released an update to his “BinaryClock” application.

Changes:

fixed 12/0 hour bug
swaped position of seconds and hours

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ThumbCal is a customizable fingerfriendly calendar application for Windows Mobile Pocket PC’s. You do not need your stylus anymore to navigate through months and years, tasks and appointments or to quickly create or delete them.

ThumbCal is free for personal use.

As of now there is no changelog available – the release thread with the announcement of v0.5.1 is here -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=373971

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This a a little program to create Wayfinding Lists for Buses on http://www.vrr.de

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“Icarus Adventure System” allows you to built your own Nintendo DS adventure game, without coding skills.

The whole software has now been translated to french language.

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.

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Cortes48 updated his remake of “Balloon Fight” for Nintendo DS. This version fixes problems a problem with the highscores.

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Japanese Traning is a Nintendo DS program aiming to help you learning japanese in an easier way.

Changes:

* Handwriting recognition :
– more stable (less freezes)
– 245 ideograms stored in the database, need to improve my drawing though 🙂
– use append/replace to modify the database
– use LEFT, RIGHT, L, R to navigate
– use compare to practice your handwriting

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.

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NervOS is a multifunctional application for Playstation Portable.

Features:

Image Viewer – PNG and JPEG files
Music Player – MP3 files
Can run homebrew – PBP files
Can run ISO/CSO files
Can run UMD’s
Can load prx plugins (some prx plugins may not work)
USB Mode
Shows the current time – hours, minutes and seconds
Shows the battery life percentage
Shows CPU Speed.
Take screnshots – press Select
Task Manager – press L+R
Multi-tasking
After exiting from a game/homebrew, you are returned to NervOS.
Autoboot feature
Shows the volume in a volume bar
Theme Support
NervOS Configurator
Config.cfg file (configuration file)
USB Activated at Startup
Custom Text color (change it from config.cfg)

Changes:

Added:
New menu animation (when in music column, I have a new animation made but will be used on the net version)
Ability to change the CPU Speed from the configuration file.
CPU Speed is shown on the top bar.
Added a “Are you sure?” question when running something from NervOS.
Battery percentage is shown in red if it’s below 10%.
Displays “Charging” if the battery is charging.
Added “Control Panel” title to L+R Window.
You can change the text color of the Control Panel (L+R to access it).

Changed:
Fixed bug with the task manager.
You can have up to 1000 themes in your THEMES folder.
Fixed a file browser bug.
Fixed bug with the volume.
Now when exiting from something, you return to the same point as you were before (example: “when going into browse for tracks, then exiting it should put you back at the music menu rather than putting you at the USB”)
Removed the stop button.
No more crashes when pausing/stopping music and then loading music
again.

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