News

Hello everyone,

There been many things the past few weeks and months, so lets have a small roundup.

PDRoms has been relaunched using a new “Content Management System”. While the old custom page coded by celeth was great, it was unfortunately never brought into the shape we wanted to have. Real life and other priorities simply did not allow us to finalize the code. Many features were never realized. The new CMS used is WordPress with a few customizations made by CrazyRaven. By using such a popular CMS we can rely on many plugins, which can extend the functionality in several ways – While on one end it’s time saving it also bears risks, but no solution will be ever perfect. Even migrating from a custom solution to the new one, took us really many weeks – but the result so far is acceptable and good.

Other than that, we have moved to a more powerful server. This step was unfortunately necessary due to WordPress eating all resources on the old server and crashing the machine each few hours, which resulted into down times. As of now everything should run smooth again.

One of the new features is commenting. Registration, which is available upon request, enables you to comment on posts, or when appropriate rights are given, even post your own news on the main page. This might be especially interesting for developers who want to get their homebrew program spread to a large audience.

PDRoms is still just a hobby and having additional costs for setting up a new server plus paying it’s monthly fees isn’t a pleasure, especially as this page has only created costs so far. If you value our work, please consider donating or helping with news.

Another thing being asked many times – We currently do not plan any coding competitions. The homebrew community isn’t hidden in dark corners of the internet anymore and many homebrew pages do run coding competitions as well. There is simply no need anymore – but of course we are still open minded if there is enough serious interest.

Keep on visiting PDRoms and thanks for reading!

Kojote & Team

OhBoy is a Gameboy and Gameboy Color emulator for native Dingoo, initially made by UBYTE.

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Adamant Armor Affection by quasist is an action game where you have to kill terrorists. You are the top agent of an anti-terrorist organization and your goal is to stop some filthy little act of international terrorism. Remember to visit the tutorial level! Ported to Pandora by sebt3!

This game is also available for Wiz and Caanoo!

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Panorama is an application lanucher written in Qt for the OpenPandora portable gaming platform. The focus lies on creating an extremely portable, modular and extensible system that also is visually appealing and uses little resources. Having intuitive controls and an efficient usage of screen real estate is also a primary goal.

Changes:

+ New libmilky, fixes upgrades

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Emulator for the SNES/Super Famicom based on Snes9x 1.43. Snes9x EX is properly licensed and the author will also answer questions related to this app on the official Snes9x message boards.

🛡️ Click to play — activates YouTube and transfers data to Google.

Features:

* Accurate emulation and similar compatibility to Snes9x 1.43 on the PC
* Full quality 44KHz stereo sound
* Supports games in .smc, .sfc, .fig, and .1 formats, optionally in .zip files
* Super Scope support, touch screen to fire, touch off-screen to push Cursor button
* Mouse Support, see Snes9x EX section on website for instructions
* Configurable on-screen multi-touch controls & keyboard support (needs Android 2.1+ for multi-touch, up to 3 touches supported at once)
* Multiplayer-capable Wiimote + Classic Controller and iControlPad support (no need to purchase a separate app)
* Backup memory and save state support, auto-save and ten manual slots for save states. State files from Snes9x 1.43 should work on Snes9x EX and vice-versa.
* Portrait/Landscape auto-orientation support

Changes:

* Adjusted sound pitch and interpolation enabled
* Fix a crash setting the on-screen D-Pad off with L/R on it
* Support all possible Android key maps. Note: you must re-configure your keys due to config file changes
* Pause game if active behind another window
* Auto save-states can be saved after 15/30mins
* GPU Sync Hack option to work around broken OpenGL drivers on some phones. Only enable if you experience OS lock-ups
* Increased the bounding box size for the fast-forward on-screen control

Thanks to http://www.aep-emu.de/PNphpBB2-file-viewtopic-t-17472.html for the news.

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Reversmii by Chris is a Wii implementation of Othello.

Changes:

* New graphics and themes, courtesy of SpriteAttack.
* More music.
* Tweaked the AI. It still sucks though 🙁

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fMSX is an MSX home computer emulator. It will run software written for MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ computers. Before running fMSX, make sure you place the following MSX system ROMs onto your SD card: MSX.ROM MSX2.ROM MSX2EXT.ROM DISK.ROM.

Changes:

* Unified framework with other touch based platforms.
* Added option to save screenshots (enabled by default).
* Added option to record music to a MIDI file.
* Added accelerometer support (please, test).
* Bigger, better spaced virtual keyboard and on-screen corner buttons.
* Some on-screen cues shifted to the right for better visibility.
* Sony Xperia Play buttons are fully supported now (please, test).
* Fixed sync frequency computation.
* Fixed TV scanlines effect.

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They Do Not Die 2 by ThatOtherDev is a successor of “They Do Not Die”. A top-down Zombie shooter with simple graphics.

Changes:

* You can save the game at any time and obviously also load that save.
* The on screen text now scales so it no longer fills an overly large portion of the screen at low resolution.
* In addition to your gun you now have a rocket launcher.
* Rockets explode when they are shot, hit a person or hit a wall.
* Explosions destroy walls, push people back and hurt people.
* You can now run which consumes energy.
* Shooting momentarily prevents energy from regenerating.
* If you try to consume energy when you have none left then you will instead lose health.
* The speed that your health regenerates at directly correlates to how much energy you have.
* The screen (specifically the edges of it) turn red when you are low on health.
* The world is more densely populated.

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Liam released a short footage of his very own personal TOP 10 Nintendo DS homebrew games.

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spinal_cord adapted Jayenkai’s “Super Spike Dislike” for Nintendo DS. Bounce as far as possible, without hitting spikes!

Changes:

* Achievements added
* Spike positions revised a little

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