GameDaily published an article about Sony public-semi opening the Playstation 2 for third party developers. Unfortunatly you will still require to buy the official devkit from them, which is a bit pricy for the regular user.

Here is a partitial quote of the article:

Kiev, Ukraine – PlayStation development took center stage at Casual Connect when Sony Europe’s developer relations manager George Bain addressed an audience of Eastern European developers.

The PlayStation 2 has sold 131.3 million units to date, he said. The software sales for that platform have been over 1.4 billion.

The PlayStation Portable has sold 41.3 million units. Software sales have been 169 million.

And as of June 30th, the PlayStation 3 has sold 14.4 million units, with software sales of 94 million.

The most important information Bain had for his audience was news that, in Europe, the PlayStation 2 “is effectively an open platform,” adding, “You no longer have to submit a game for content approval.” He used examples from Russia and Indian developers, saying they can “create low-development cost titles and release them in their market.”…

Please follow the link below for the full article. The above quoted text is of course copyright by GameDaily.

http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/casual-connect-sony-on-developing-for-an-open-ps2-platform/?biz=1

This program is designed to prepare your PSP Memory Stick to be used with the Pandora Battery. Unfortunately this program can not change your Battery to Pandora, however it will copy programs to the Memory Stick in order for you to do this yourself.

Changes:

– Revert back to style of compression used in v2.3 for 64-bit compatibility.
– Removed AutoStart PRX from the Support Tools and added Custom FW Extender.
– Updated the following Support Tools:
Hellcat’s Recovery Flasher 1.41 (Pandora)
CXMB 3.3 (XMB)

http://www.psp-hq.com/postt343.html

smallHex is a hexeditor for Playstation Portable by Xeeynamo.

Changes:

– Software completely rewritten and optimized
– Added flash0 (read), flash1 (read&write), flash2 (read) and UMD (read) support (SQUARE)
– Added in file manager the current path
– Added a key to return at root (TRIANGLE)
– Extended the Undo function
– Added Search function (HEX/DEC 8/16/32 BIT UN/SIGNED)
– Added Add Mode function
– Added Backup function
– Added a converter (HEX/DEC/BIN)
– Added a small help
– Added diagonal scroll with the analog pad

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=145571

Wii Web Server is a simple Web-Server for the Wii. Still it’s in very early stages of development and at present can only display a built in test page.

Changes:

– Recompiled for HBC 9 beta
– Now has a sane download name

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Web_Server

The guys at Drunken Coders are now accepting Wii and GameCube entries. Check out their page for more information.

http://www.drunkencoders.com/compo

The guys at Drunken Coders are now accepting Wii and GameCube entries. Check out their page for more information.

http://www.drunkencoders.com/compo

Split the Bill helps you split the bill at a restaurant.

The idea is you fill in the Bill, the gratuity and the number of people to split it by and it gives you an amount that each should pay. This is rounded up to make sure you pay at least the bill + the gratuity.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=440597

Email Scheduler is just that, an email scheduler.

Changes:

Fixed/Added VGA support
Fixed 24 hour bug
Added Weekend settings options
Compiled againest .net 2.0

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=438970

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

Changes:

-Quickfix because of changes on VRR

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=379751

Gouky and Foxy, the guys behind the “Magic Team”, released a port of Rick Dangerous over to the Wii.

Instead of a pure port enjoy an update version of this fantastic game including new gfx, musics, special effects and totally new intro and final ending sequences!

Thanks to Foxy himself for informing me via MSN 🙂

http://www.gouky.com/?menu_nav=PROJECTS&sub=RICKWII