Here comes a rather sad story from the guys at noobs.eu, concerning a well known company, but read on:

You’ve probably already seen the news that Datel are selling a clone of the Pandora battery. You may even have been excited by their marketing information:

“Special TOOL version of our PSP battery works in exactly the same way as a standard SONY PSP battery but has the ability to put your PSP into service mode for custom firmware use.”

You might have thought that this means that you no longer need a homebrew PSP to be able to get started with Pandora. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong. And Datel don’t seem to be in any hurry to put you right.

This product is useful, in that it allows you to skip the step of needing a homebrew PSP to modify an existing battery. It even comes in a nice fire engine red colour, so you don’t get it confused with your other batteries. And it’s not a bad price. But you still need a homebrew PSP to create the files to place on the memory stick. Without the special memory stick, Pandora is useless. And no-one is able to legally give you the files required to prepare that stick without a homebrew PSP.

When you buy the TOOL battery, you get just the battery. No instructions, no indication that you even need a memory stick, let alone how to prepare it. Datel seem to be happy to let the buyer make the mistake of thinking this is all they need, and they don’t even help you figure things out once you realise your mistake. I think that’s pretty crappy, and relying on the community to do their customer support for them is rotten.

http://www.noobz.eu/joomla/news/datel-tool-batteries---buyer-experiences.html

Here is a quote:

As we promised a long time ago we have now finished a version of eLoader which can be run from a custom firmware and HEN.

I know that a lot will probably wonder what the use of this is now that we have Pandora out so that anyone can downgrade, well the main reason is the PSP-Lite. As a lot of people are finding out the PSP Lite is unable to run 1.50 kernel, this means that old homebrew games are not able to run on the PSP Lite custom firmware, however eLoader makes it possible to run some of these older games without needing to recompile them. So I hope all you new PSP Lite owners enjoy getting to see some of the old homebrew games running on the new device.

For further details on how to install and use eLoader v1.000 see readme.html in the ZIP file.

For a list of homebrew that is reported to be working with this release, see the PSP homebrew database . And please, if your favourite homebrew is working (or not), then add a report to the database so that other people can see your results.

http://www.noobz.eu/joomla/news/eloader-prx.html

nervegas, author of NES.app, a very sweet and advanced NES emulator for iPhone’s is looking for help:

Call for Developers: I’ve been struggling to fix InfoNES’ broken PPU scrolling code. I’m looking for other developers with experience in NES emulation who would be willing to take a look at the code. Please contact me at nervegas(at)natetrue.com. I will be releasing a new project, NESCore, shortly, which is a portable NES emulation core (LGPL) based on pNESx, only with many fixes from the original code…

http://iphone.natetrue.com/nesapp/

There has been another message about the WIP status of iPhone MAME.

OK we’re back in business!

Let’s see when there will be “more detailed” news.

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-sdl-mame/

SvSIP is a VoIP software for Nintendo DS. It’s based on pjsip.

Changes:

Third public version: SplashSreen. Possibilty to hangup when you receive a call. Screensaver after inactivity or lid closure, audio continues to work. Disable wifi at end (after press ‘A’)

http://libw11.free.fr/

Another updated demo of “Clonker Advance” is available. It’s going to be a platformer for GBA.

Image taken from http://www.dev-fr.org 🙂

http://conker-advance.fr.nf/

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

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

If you are sure to have the v1.02 iPhone Firmware on your baby, then you can UNLOCK it easily without hardware modification. Just follow the instruction on the linked page. Of course everything at your own personal risk.

The software itself is LEGAL and considering that there are no commercial iPhone games yet, it will just enable you to try out homebrew stuff. We believe there is no economical damage at this time of posting.

http://www.freeiphoneunlock.com/unlock/

Kanji learning software for the Psp. Create Kanji/Hirigana/Katakana lists and practice remembering their pronunciation/translation through flashcards quizs. Aims to be estheticly pleasing and can be used as a Kanji dictionary.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=175476

The development of CrocoDS an CPC emu for Nintendo DS will go on. So far those innovations are new in the upcomming v2:

* Reshaped User Interface
* Better Autostart-Management
* Save-States
* and more…

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

http://deadketchup.kyuran.be/