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Dicewars DS v0.3.8 (NDS Game)

Dicewars DS is a multiplayer version of a popular Flash based strategy game Dicewars for Nintendo DS handheld console. Your task is to conquer the whole game field by rolling dice. Each turn you may attack any opponent’s territory from one of your adjacent territories as long as your territory has more than one die on it. When attacking, If you roll more than the defender, you win.

At the end of each turn, the greatest number of adjoining territories you have is calculated, and you are awarded a bonus of that number of dice, which are placed randomly on your territory.

Changes:

13/09/07 Version 0.3.8 is now up with further fixes, mostly the local hotseat multiplayer mode works now much better. Meanwhile I’ve also tested the network game and it looks like we’re finally ready to continue multiplayer testing!

Fixes on hotseat game mode
Local hotseat players can be now renamed
Optimized the field paint and fixed the sorting issues with areas and dice drawn in wrong order
Fixed automatic turn ending when no more moves are possible

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Rise Of The Triad v0.5 (NDS Game Port)

Rise of the Triad DS is a port of “Rise of the Triad” for the Nintendo DS.

Changes:

Sound effects are now fully supported.
Music is now supported, with caveats. ROTTDS cannot (currently) play the game’s music natively; however you can extract the music files from the game, convert them to ADPCM on your PC, and place the resulting files in your /rott/ directory, and ROTTDS will play them. I’m providing a music package containing the shareware music in ADPCM format. See the README.NDS file for more info.

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iFlickr v0.0.4 (iPhone Application)

iFlickr is a native application for iPhone’s to access and use the service “Flickr”.

Changes:

Tagging.
Auto rotation of photos on flickr.
Improved performance over EDGE. Now you can take a few pictures and minimize the application. It takes its time to upload over EDGE, and updates the number of pictures it is processing over the iflickr icon (The application now runs in background, and exits when it is finished uploading all the pictures)

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iPhoneeBooks v1.0 (iPhone Application)

Books.app is a simple eBook reader for the iPhone. It reads HTML and text files stored in your Media/EBooks folder, and is smart enough to enter subdirectories, if, for instance, you’ve broken a book down by chapters.

Changes:

Bug fixes! Books.app is now completely bug-free, and all features requested by users have been implemented. In addition, world peace has been achieved, Apple has announced that it’s open-sourcing the iPhone, and my children got A’s on their last report cards. Well, okay, that last one was an exaggeration.

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Secrets of Firmware v3.71 – Part 2 (PSP misc)

More news from Freeplay:

More diggings, this time into the RCO files!

game_plugin.rco:
The application software and all related data will be deleted from the
Memory Stick(TM).
Are you sure you want to continue?

msvideo_main_plugin.rco:
Progressive Download
maybe like how you can play a video on Xbox Live while it’s downloading?

The download could not be completed.
You must save a valid user key before downloading.
see, DRM!

This content cannot be accessed on your account.

To use this content, you must activate the system.

This video is protected.
Are you sure you want to delete the video?

The effective period of the user key has elapsed.
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The effective period has not started. Progressive download is not available.
The system will download without playback.

This video includes copyright protection.
Are you sure you want to delete it?

This video is set with a password. You cannot do progressive download.
The video will download without playing.

The copyright protection information is invalid.

This content has a time limit.
Go to [Settings] > [Date & Time Settings] > [Date and Time], and select [Set via Internet] to set the date and time.

The content has expired and is no longer available.

This video cannot be played.
The region code is not correct.

music_browser_plugin.rco:
This track cannot be played.
The service registration is invalid.

Delete failed.
The copyright protection information is invalid.

This track cannot be played.
The copyright protection information is invalid.

This track cannot be played.
The number of plays is restricted.

npsignin_plugin.rco [NEW]:
Sign in to PLAYSTATION(R)Network.

The connection with PLAYSTATION(R)Network timed out.

PLAYSTATION(R)Network is closed.

Use of PLAYSTATION(R)Network has been suspended.
Try to sign in again later.

PLAYSTATION(R)Network is busy.
Try to sign in again later.

You cannot use PLAYSTATION(R)Network with this account.

Use of PLAYSTATION(R)Network is suspended for this account.

An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PLAYSTATION(R)Network.

premo_plugin.rco:
[contains an image of a SixAxis controller]

To continue use of PLAYSTATION(R)Network, you must sign in again on the PS3(TM) system.

screenshot_plugin.rco [NEW]:
[msg_screenshot and msg_savescreenshot_conf are just “Pending”.]

topmenu_icon.rco:
[CONTAINS A SKYPE ICON – tex_fcs_skype]

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Project JDS v1.29 (NDS misc)

Project JDS is a handy package to help you learn the Japanees basics. With this you can learn back and from hiragana, katakana and romanji. There is an option to show nigori and/or the maru of characters if any. Seeing how it’s written, hear how it’s pronounced and make your own set on the fly.

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

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