XDPirate released an ASCII Art Maker for Nintendo DS.

Release notes:

This is an ASCII Art Maker for Nintendo DS that I made for fun. Some people on my regular IRC channel liked it, so I thought I’d release it here, to hear what other people have to say. Written with devkitARM and PAlib. You can draw with whatever character you want, both upper and lower case.

Thanks to www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/-nds-ascii-art-maker-148105.html

Another new BD-J game by Buunyan. Defend against crows as long as you can.

Thanks to Snesy for the Japanese translation.

http://bu-nyan.m.to/BD-J/bdj.htm

MouseTrap is a challenging old-style puzzle game, involving you collecting fruit and avoiding the enemy red dots. The aim of the game is to eat as many of the white fruit pieces as you can possibly manage before dying. Your reaction times will tested to the limit!

Thanks to www.dreamcast.es for the news.

http://dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=154

Dev-Fr.org are holding a coding competition with a school/education theme. Deadline is the 6th October 2008 and NDS, GBA, PSP and PPC entries are allowed. Check out the full announcement via the link below.

http://www.dev-fr.org/index.php/topic,3739.0.html

EP has released yet another new version of the popular menu system uLaunchELF for the Sony Playstation 2. Using this homebrew program as your main ELF is common as it allows you to browse your hard drive, USB device, DVD/CD-ROM drive and memory cards to run homebrew and perform basic file manipulation functions.

Changes:

-Fixed a bug in the CNF parser, preventing variables from being accepted when not separated by any other character from the ‘=’ character preceding its value string.
NB: Since uLE always uses a space separator in creating CNF files, this bug has never affected CNF files created by uLE, but only CNF files edited by ‘hand’ and the SYSTEM.CNF files of game discs, causing some of those not to work with the PS2Disc command of uLE. So try again now, with games that failed earlier.

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/official-ulaunchelf-forums/37242-unofficial-launchelf-v4-21-a.html

This application by Akind allows you to use your Sony PlayStation Portable as a gamepad on your PC while connected with it’s USB interface.

Changes:

If you’re stuck at a black screen with “WAITING” printed across the top right, then you must downloa

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.psp-hacks.com/2008/09/07/remotejoylite-v015-released/

Here is a new release of AFKIM (Away From the Keyboard Instant Messenger), the instant messaging application for PSP written by Danzel and improved by ZX-81.

Release notes:

Here is a new release of AFKIM (Away From the Keyboard Instant Messenger), the instant messaging application for PSP written by Danzel !
(see http://localhost.geek.nz/)

This version is only for people encountering name resolution and bitlbee connection issue. I have added a simple workaround to specify timeout values used during connection process (see afkim.cfg configuration file to change default values).

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/

Gravity by rockybulwinkle is a multiplayer game that is somewhat similar to Gravity Well by Software Engineering Inc. The goal is to kill the other players on the screen. All objects other than the planets are affected by the gravity of the planets.

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Gravity

Gnextop is the portal that lets you edit documents, browse the web and talk to friends, all at the same time! It is currently at Beta 3 (Version 0.3), and it is on schedule to be released in the second/third quarter of this year.

Gnextop combines features of Linux’s Gnome and KDE, to make a friendly yet powerful interface. If you don’t like the look of the interface, it’s easily changed!

Gnextop is a free product by BlazeByte.net, and it includes many features, including:

File storage
When you save a file, it is stored on the ‘virtual disk’. Files you save will be available when you login at a later date. The File Browser allows you to browse and open files.

Text editor
Make notes, write a document – Gnextop’s Text editor allows you to store your documents on the PSP so you can open them another time. Type quicker with Gnextop’s QWERTY keyboard.

Instant Messenger
Connect to MSN, Yahoo!, AIM and many other protocols using Gnextop’s Instant Messenger.

Web browser
You can browse the internet inside Gnextop using the web browser.

Maps
Lost? The Gnextop Maps application allows you to search for a location and bring up a map of the area, that’s right, Google Maps on your PSP, and you don’t even need custom firmware.

Contacts
Keep track of all your contacts, phone numbers and email addresses using the contacts application.

Calendar
Never miss a meeting with the calendar! With Gnextop it’s easy to schedule meetings, holidays and other events.

Image Organizer
Organize your images, add titles, view a slideshow.

Weather
Check the weather forecast for anywhere in the world!

Calculator
A device that always comes in handy, Gnextop’s calculator is quick and easy to use.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=144357

“Closed” has been udpated to version 1.5.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=18350