Currently we do have a coding competition here on PDRoms. It’s comming to an end in nine days, but it’s still enough to write a minigame and compete – pick up your coding tools and extend the amount of homebrew games for the community, along with this there are also chances to win some of the supplied prizes!

Competition running time: 24th January 2008 to 2nd March 2008
Deadline: Sunday, 9th March 2008 @ 23:59, in YOUR timezone!

Systems allowed: Atari 2600, Coleco Vision, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Game Gear, Genesis/Megadrive, GP2x, Intellivision, Master System, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Nintendo DS, PC Engine, Playstation Portable (PSP), Wonderswan, Wonderswan Colo, Neo Geo CD

Topic: Create any kind of childproof game (no pr0n, racisms, extraordinary violence and adult humour, …) by using maximum four colors only on screen at once per scene (this could be a level, menu, etc) (also applies for dual screen systems – 2 screens count as one unit). Black, white, grey do count as color! You can choose your four colors freely. If your game features music and/or sound fx is up to you.

Good luck!

http://pdroms.de/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=59

Are you looking for a Sega Master System VDP testing program? If so, you might be interested that FluBBa has recently updated the 2007 release with 10 more tests.

http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10695

DroidDraw is a graphical user interface (GUI) builder for the Android platform.

http://code.google.com/p/droiddraw/

Converter.app by Vladimir Kofman is a unit and currency converter for iPhone.

Changes:

1. Advanced Mode: now it’s possible to see more than just “from” and “to” units, results are displayed for all units. Also in advanced more it’s possible to rearrange the units’ list as you wish.

2. More Languages:

– Spanish by J. Palacio and Southie

– Chech by janvacula

– Simplified Chinese by super3547

– Danish by Nikolaj Mogensen

– Polish by Piotr Biegala and Tomasz Szeweluk (will be available in the next version)

– Dutch by Herbert Kats (will be available in the next version)

– Logical Hebrew support (big thanks to Amir Leshem)

3. Update Currencies issue on 1.1.3 firmware: It should work now! (let me know…) Also, any 1.1.4 feedback is welcome!

4. No new measurements/units: I know I promised to add more measurements… I’m planing a major update (both for content and technology) for the next version, so please be patient (I’m sorry to keep you waiting…).

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-converter/

ZiPhone is a famous unlocking tool for MacOSX and Windows.

Release notes:

ZiPhone 2.5 is now on download site for
you all to enjoy. I decided to release it for everyone since MANY are helping supporting sponsors. And it would not have been fair to them.

I suggest you to do a restore to 1.1.4 not an update. Because installer keeps old installed apps in it’s cache and you would have problems.Hoping people at nullriver software resolve that soon. After restore to 1.1.4, just use “ziphone -Z Y” or the first button on GUI versions.

Have fun! And thanks to everyone for supporting and caring! Stay tuned! More interesting things are coming up on this site!

Namaste!
Zibri.

http://www.ziphone.org/

d136b by neoscientists is a Playstation 2 demo released at the recently held Oxyron Party 2008.

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=49795

Beat2X is a Dance Dance Revolution like game for the GP32. It’s now at Beta 2 status.

For all who don’t have an account at GP32spain, get a local download without registration here at PDRoms – //files/1554/

http://www.gp32spain.com/foros/showthread.php?t=52468

The Fibonacci calculator allows you to generate the fibonacci number. Extract the ZIP to Memory Stick Root. Then chose the number of fibonacci numbers you want to compute and press cross. The fibonacci number will be saved in a text file named “ms0:/fibonacci.txt” or “ms0:/fibo.txt”.

http://maxthebest.110mb.com/fib.html

Automatically turn on your speakerphone.

While the application is running, when an incoming call is received, the speakerphone of your device will automatically turn ON when you receive the call. You can also automatically activate the speakerphone when you are making an outgoing call by checking the Outgoing ON in the menu. It should work on smartphone and PocketPC WM5/WM6.

Changes:

– Auto answer on/off
– Delay options before auto answer

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=369399

S2V (Slide2View) is a stylus-free picture viewing application. It can also be used to set up the wallpapers for S2U2 (0.97 or later), and assign a pic to a contact.

Changes:

– added option to set a pic as Today’s wallpaper.
– removed the dependancy of S2U2 version; you can install whichever version of S2U2. But if you want an instant wallpaper change, only S2U2 v0.97 or later can do that.
– removed the start-up animation which caused some problems on some devices.
– removed the forced lowercase view when browsing folders.
– enlarged the subfolder buttons (pls press this button when you want to view the subfolders, instead of posting a complaint)
– fixed some minor bugs.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=358187