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Here are some news from ZodTTD:

The number one request I’ve gotten for gpSPhone has been to scale the screen larger. I decided for the next release I will do just that, as well as improve sound support. I’m debating whether to add landscape support since it’s very odd to hold the iTouch / iPhone sideways. Instead I rearranged the skin for portrait mode. Also take note in the screenshot below that making the tiny GBA resolution any larger than below would make things very blocky. So there’s less a need for fullscreen or landscape now. I also added n A+B button in the very bottom right corner (not shown in the skin).

I’m sending the beta of v0.1.5 to all people who donate to me for gpSPhone. I really appreciated the donations and this is my way of giving back. If you donated and would like the beta, send an email to: helpttd [at] pobox [dot] com

Avoiding spam, so replace the [at] with @ and the [dot] with .

A little beta testing should go a long way in helping me iron out some of these bugs as well. Thanks for the support everyone!

EDIT: Fixed the video rendering color bug as well. 🙂

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ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Changes:

* Broke portrait mode a bit in the last update. Fixed.
* Did some minor display and mouse cursor optimizations (your framerate won’t drop when you move the “mouse” around a lot anymore).

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This is the definitive port of The Ur-Quan Masters to the GP2X. It is believed to be quite stable (no crashes have ever been reported by users so far and your author has neither ever had a crash.) It runs at full speed in almost every situation at 200mhz, except on planets with ridiculous tectonic or weather activity, but even then it is near full-speed.

Ur-Quan Masters is an open source port of Star Control II.

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Infantile Paralysiser updated his MP3 Player / alarm clock application for NDS once again.

Changes:

The bug that the mp3 decoder halted occasionally was corrected.

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The guys behind iR Shell released an important bugfix release…

Changes:

Fixed a critical bug in the iR Shell firmware patch which results in unable to launch UMD in XMB and also causes various incompatibility issues with other homebrew apps & seplugins. Just apply the new patch and all issues will be resolved.
Fixed a bug in Contect Menu which wouldn’t allow you to choose “Select” or “Start” menu items.

Installation Instructions:
– If you’ve already installed iR Shell 3.8, download iR Shell 3.81 Update which only contains update files. Unzip it and merge to your existing iR Shell installation and apply the new firmware patch.
– If you haven’t installed iR Shell 3.8, download iR Shell 3.81 Full Release which is a complete distribution with all updates included. Then, install as usual, don’t forget to apply the firmware patch.

Download Links:
iR Shell 3.81 Update [500KB] (Download this if you’ve already installed 3.8)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yugya4
http://rapidshare.com/files/71625986/pspirshell381_update.zip.html (mirror)

iR Shell 3.81 Full Release [26MB] (Download this if you haven’t installed 3.8)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/32eqbx
http://rapidshare.com/files/71626252/pspirshell381_full.zip.html (mirror)

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Mobile Juhu is a client for the jaiku web service that runs on iphones and ipod touches.

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NES.app is a fully functional, feature-rich Nintendo emulator for Apple’s iPhone.

NES.app uses a heavily modified version of the InfoNES emulation core to mimic the 6502 processor in a Nintendo Entertainment System, allowing you to play ROM dumps of games designed for the NES console. ROM dumps are files containing the dumped instruction code from a physical cartridge. In many cases, you are legally entitled to posess a ROM dump of any game that you presently own. ROM images for NES are widely available online, or with the appropriate hardware, you can dump them yourself directly from the cartridge.

NES.app started as a fork of iPhoneNES v0.01, but has been completely rewritten to run very fast, and with many additional features including sound, multitouch support, full-screen, landscape mode, game genie codes, saved games and much more.

Changes:

[jonz] Added delete confirmation of saved games
[jonz] Made “Don’t Save” game option destructive/red button

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ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Changes:

Optimized some screen handling stuff, which mainly affects the AGOS engine (Simon the Sorcerer should run a lot better now).

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What’s?
RS Psar Dumper is a “derivated” from classical Psar Dumper (last version of which was released by M33 Team).
Its functions are the same of classical Psar Dumper (so dump Firmware from an Official Udpater Eboot), but it’s more! Infact this version has a user interface full of colors, more interactive and especially it has the new important function to make a dump of Firmware directly on PC, without using Memory Stick!
Infact this Homebrew has a USBHostfs connection function with a PC, so the program can read eboot directly from Hard Disk (that is a good profit because new Sony Updater Eboots weigh also more than 20Mb!) and it can also dump the Firmware directly on PC, so Memory Stick is NEVER used during the process!

What is the effective profit?
1. Well, first of all homebrew does not require free space on Memory Stick (that can be full too!)
2. You spare time because you do not need to copy files betwenn PC and Memory Stick!
3. Extracting and Dumping process require a very smaller time!
An example? Look to this my little “experiment”:

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This is one of the more famous shells for PSP.

Changes:

Supports the latest M33 firmwares across both Phat & Slim. Slim users can choose among 3.60M33, 3.71M33-1 to 3.71M33-3.
PSOne 2-Player Adhoc Support.
Introduces a new Context Menu System. Functions (plugins) under context menu will always be available to all file types, similar to the right mouse menu click under Windows.
Added a new Multi-tasking PRX Plugin System. This allows user written PRX Plugins for iR Shell to multi-task with another game/app. The included PRX HTML/Text Viewer developed by korDen allows you to view HTML & Text documents while playing games or homebrews..
With the help from Dark_AleX, support to M33 & NP9660 No UMD Modes have been added. NetHostFS & UsbHostFS are also available for the No UMD modes.
Added support to the latest Popsloader for 3.71M33-3 by Dark_AleX.
Allow random start of MP3 for the alarm clock function, so you’ll be greeted with different tunes each morning.
Added the options to put your PSP to auto-sleep while idle to save battery.
Allows you to press Hot-Key to turn off/on all LEDs. The annonying memory stick or WiFi LEDs will no longer distract you from watching your favorite video/movie.
Support TV-Out for Slim via component cable.
Added the display of volume bar for PSP main volume in iR Shell.
plus numerous bug fixes.

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