deniska has updated his port of the Jazz JackRabbit engine to GP2x.

Changes:

- Added support for Slim PSP
- bundled with shareware version of the game

This is a PSP adoptation of Othello/Reversi clone, Reverzi, by Jakub Drnec.

PSP Features:

- Basic sound support
- Music support for tracker (s3m, xm, mod) and Ogg-Vorbis files.
Just rename the file in one of those formats to song1.xxx and
drop it in to music directory if you want music on the background.
- 3 difficulty levels settings for AI
- modable design - just edit the graphics in the img folder to create your own skins.

DSGIS (DS Geographical Information System) is a project making GPS function available on DS console. Now, all of the team members are making their best to accomplish most of the functions which have existed in the traditional GPS equipments.

Discussion: http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=4552.msg26383;topicseen#new

Other release notes:

For the moment,we entitle Ranger as the code name of the first development project.

So far, numbers of flashcards have been proven to be available when they are working together with Ranger, such as AK2(whith out FAT) EZ5 M3DSR M3SD(with out Real GPS) R4 SCDS. And, there are much more proof-tests on the way now.

"GRRLIB Move The Pussy Demo" is a technical demo for Wii showing a picture with a cat, moving on the screen.

This is an early, but working, Asteroids game for Nintendo's Wii, coded by aksommerville.

XtenDS allows you to make DS Games with an easy to use interface. All you have to do is combine your creativity, design and graphics skills and create a game with XtenDS 8. Prizes will be awarded to the two top entries.

Prizes:
1st Prize) Playstation 1 with Ridge Racer Revolution Game
2nd Prize) 1 GB MicroSD Card

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

Fring is a mobile VoIP application for iPhone's.

Wiki2Touch is an open source wikipedia server/reader for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch.

Changes:

Template caching works without any change of rights now for firmware 1.1.3/1.1.4, too. If you’ve not modified anything in the past while using 0.60 together with firmware 1.1.3/1.1.4 you will see the articles now displayed much faster once the template is cached.

Support for #expr/#ifexpr parser functions. Have a look at articles like “2008? (the year 2008). Mainly all the links in the head area are computed by the use these new functions.
Preliminary math support: At least the text from the math-tags is extracted and displayed with a gray background for better readability and the math symbol “Pi” is displayed as the Greek symbol. Nothing else.

More than 30 changes for better rendering support. The changes covering smaller issues like to much spaces or line feeds, correct handling of headlines, reference lists and enumerations, up to the support of sometimes very complex templates (i.e. in the English edition articles like “Al Gore” or “George Washington”. And a bug which crashed the server was also removed.

This game is similar NOIZ2SA (Yep, another shootemup!). The main menu allows you to choose from four different games modes and 10 levels with-in each game mode. Once you select which game mode and level you would like, just two finger tap to enter the game. You can move your little guy at the bottom by dragging it around. The objective of the game is to shoot the “thing” at the top without getting killed. You can two finger tap to set off bombs (they look more like shields to me!). The game play is smooth and the graphics are sweet!

Thanks to Brooke / http://www.appleiphoneschool.com for the news.

Eugene Plotnikov has updated his SMS (Simple Media System) multimedia playing application for the Sony PS2. Using this program you can view multimedia files including DIVX, AVI, XVID, MPEG, MP3, etc ... on your Sony Playstation 2 video gaming console.

Changes:

- fixed small problem (repeat glitch at the end) related to FLAC decoder (thanks to 'vectis' for the remark/sample clip);
- added suport for FLAC files containing ID3 tags (these are currently ignored) (thanks to 'vectis' for the remark/sample clip);
- updated USB mass storage driver;

MobileTwitter is an iPhone/iPod Touch client for Twitter.

Changes:

The Update View has been redesigned and moved. It is no longer on the button bar at the bottom of the screen, but exists on the top right corner of every view. Clicking the “Update” button will slide the update view down over your current view. No more mis-clicking on buttons while going for the spacebar.

Settings view reorganized, with new options

Enable/Disable secure connections. This was enabled by default under the hood, but some users are experiencing connection problems, disabling secure connections may help.

MobileTwitter now automatically checks for new @replies and direct messages, displaying the new number on the button bar for Messages. The “Messages” view has been updated to show this count, and also include the “>” arrow for each menu option. Any new @replies will show up with a blue sphere beside them (similar to MobileMail.app and new messages)

New menu option when tapping tweets: View user’s tweets. This loads the users 20 most recent tweets.

New springboard icon.

Black UI

Manual “Reload” button on each tab

Smaller font for tweets seems to help with fitting all the text in one box hopefully no more trailing “…”s on tweet texts.

Manually reloading a view will now make sure the view scrolls to the top

Public Timeline renamed to “Everyone” in accordance with Twitter.com changes

Many under the hood core changes.

This is the first Handwriting Recognition IME on iPhone. Developed by Hanwang.com.cn for Chinese character input. Latin alphabet is supported too.

The iPhone Dev Team has sorted how to unlock the latest firmware Apple has seeded to developers (240d), just a few days after it was released.

Quote:

Due to gray's initial RCE of the baseband, and combined with a neutered bootloader, unlocking recent and future basebands has been reduced to a simple byte search.

Thanks to http://www.modmyifone.com for the news.

FluBBa has released a minor update of his Sega Master System emulator for Gameboy Advance.

Changes:

* Fixed config loading for gamma setting.

Simple/useless RAM editor that demonstrates how to do stuff. If you're really bored you could use this to write machine code into RAM and execute it.

News from the Giana's Return team... for those who don't know, Giana's Return is a heavily "The Great Giana Sisters" influenced 2D jump'n'run game, which will be released for multiple platforms.

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World 4 has been tested and declared as almost bugfree. There seems to be a bee which does not behave as it should, but with some modification, everything should go, or fly, it's way

As soon as we have the modified clouds, we _might_ consider taking a video, but the chance of "more screenshots" is slightly higher.

Imagine your Android "cookbook" application tells you to buy eggs, ginger, and cardamom, your "birthday reminder" application suggests you to buy a blue tulip (for a friend who loves the color blue), and your computer at home notifies your mobile phone that the color cartridge of your printer is almost empty. Would you like to receive three notifications by three different programs next time you are close to a supermarket? Or rather have them all store that information in your central shopping list? (by the way, your internet auction application that watches the central shopping list has already found an interesting offer for that blue tulip...)

Imagine you have to specify for a handful of programs (the favorite "ring-tone selector" application, your "answering machine", your "smart to-do list", your "calendar", your "work time log", ...) where your "home", your "office", "gym", "music school", etc. is located by specifying the latitude and longitude or the corresponding street address for each of these applications. Would you not rather have a central place for your favorite locations that all applications can easily share?

(Many more ideas can be found on our list of ideas)

Keep your one great idea a secret that could make you win the Android Developer Challenge, but share those obvious and common ideas that you encounter while implementing and that you think could be used in many other applications as well. We will develop the most-required components together (e.g. a central shopping list), so you can concentrate on implementing your core idea (e.g. the weight-watching cookbook) while having interoperability with many other great OpenIntents applications built in right from the start.

Join this project if you have great ideas to share or if you are a good developer and look for a low-risk project.

It has been silent around bronto and his NDS email client "NDSMail". Yesterday there were some WIP news.

Quote:

It's been some time since the last release, as I've been very busy lately. As a consequence, I will finish implementing some features I've started (themes..), clean up the code and look for someone to maintain it. Remembering what happened to a certain instant messaging application, it probably won't be open source. If anyone is interested, please contact me.

WEP
It seems people are still not aware of it, but WEP is NOT safe at all. See the wikipedia entry.
This is the reason why WEP support is on low priority. If you want security, use a SSL-secured connection.

Forum (+ Max-Network)
The forum is currently offline.

MobileScrobbler connects your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch with the Last.fm social music website. As you listen to music on your device, MobileScrobbler sends the title, artist, and album to the Last.fm website. Last.fm uses this information to suggest new music, new friends, concerts, and events based on the music you listen to.

Features:

Scrobble tracks as you listen on your iPhone / iPod touch
Queues songs for submission when offline and automatically submits them the next time you connect
Listen to Last.fm radio over EDGE or wifi
Tag songs as 'love' or 'ban'
View album artwork and artist data for songs as you listen
View lyrics for the currently playing song
View upcoming concert events and add them to your calendar
All data is cached for offline viewing
Browse your friends and listen to their radio stations
Integrated with the iPhone / iPod Touch settings application
Multitouch gestures to ban, love, and skip tracks
View your top artists, top tracks, and top albums
Ban and love tracks from the Recent Tracks list
Browse a top listener's profile by tapping their username
Display arbitrary track metadata by passing command line arguments -track, -artist, and -album

Changes:

New Features
New radio player HUD contributed by Smooquai
New radio icons contributed by CompC
Add an option to queue tracks while device is asleep
Updated French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Russian translations

Bug Fixes
Fix a crash that can occur when playing a non-existant playlist
Fix a crash that can occur when the last.fm server is unreachable
Stop caching playlists
Improved detection of duplicate scrobbles

LuaPlayerHM is a modified Lua Player application.

New:

System.runeboot() Loads and starts a *.PBP File Eg. System.runeboot("ms0:/Eboot.PBP")

System.playerVer() Returns the LuaPlayerHM version Eg. ver = System.playerVer()

System.cfwVersion() Displays the CFW Firmware Version Eg 3.90 or 2.50 Doesnot include M33 addon

System.loadPrx() Loads a Prx file and starts it. Warning it could cause the player to not function properly or crask the system

System.nickName() Returns the psp's nickname Eg. name = System.nickname


System.message() Prints a message to the screen with Yes,no,back options. Eg. System.message("Hello",0) has only back option Eg. System.message("Hello",1) has Yes,No and back options.

System.buttonPressed() Performs an action from the option selected in the System.message() function Eg. button = System.buttonPressed() If button == "yes" then System.Quit() end

System.copyFile() Copys a file from one place to another Eg.
System.copyFile("oldfiled ir.lol","newfiledir.lol", 1) Will copy the file from one place to another and delete the oldfiledir.lol. replace 1 with 0 to not delete the oldfiledir.lol

System.suspend() Puts the PSp into suspend mode

System.shutdown() Shuts down the psp

System.startUMD() Load and runs a UMD in the UMD Drive. If no UMD then a message is displayed and tells there is no UMD in the Drive

System.startISO() Loads and runs a ISO image from the memory stick.
Eg. System.startISO("ms0:/ISO/game.iso") UMD MODE SET TO OE isofs

System.startPSX() Loads and Starts a Ps1 game from the playstaton store (PSX)

System.startOSK() Displays the On screen Keyboard. Eg outputtxt = System.startOSK() screenprint(1,1,outputtx t,red)

System.startGameSave() Saves game data Eg System.startGameSave("Nam e of savegame","Name of game","Details/message",data to save)

System.startGameLoad() Loads the save data selected Eg data = System.startGameLoad()

System.usbDevFlash0() Sets the USB device to be Flash0

System.usbDevFlash1() Sets the USB device to be Flash1

System.usbDevFlash2() Sets the USB device to be Flash2

System.usbDevFlash3() Sets the USB device to be Flash3

System.usbDevUMD() Sets the USB device to be the UMD Drive. If no disk it will tell you and use the memory stick insted. The UMD will be read as a ISO image

System.getModel() Reterns either PHAT or SLIM

%%%%%%%%%%%%Wlan Functions%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Wlan.init() Initates the wireless and Netdialog selection screen
Wlan.term() Terminates the wireless
Wlan.getIP() Returns the IP address

%%%%%%%%%%%%Socket Functions%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Socket.connect() Connects to a host and port Eg. Socket.connect("www.googl e.com.au",80)
Socket.createServerSocket () makes a socket usable Eg Socket.creatServerSocket( 80)
&&&Socket methods&&&
Socket.isConnected() Returns a 1 if connected
Socket.accept() will accept conections
Socket.send() Will send http calls
Socket.recv() Will receve data from a send
Socket.close() Will close all sockets that is open
&&&Socket meta&&&
Socket:gc()
Socket:tostring()

%%%%%%%%%%%%Adhoc Functions%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Adhoc.init() Initates the Adhoc

Adhoc.connect() Connects to the adhoc or makes a adhoc connection

Adhoc.getState() Returns the state of the connection 1=ok 0=error

Adhoc.send() Sends data Eg Adhoc.send("hello")

Adhoc.recv() Receives data send from another psp as a string Eg data = Adhoc.recv()
Adhoc.term() Terminates the Adhoc

Adhoc.getMac() Returns the mac address of the psp. The Adhoc does not need to be Init to use it.

%%%%%%%%%%%%UMD Functions%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
UMD.init() initiats the UMD drive and checks for a Disk. If no disk it displays a message and does not load the UMD drive. UMD drive is "disk0:"


UMD.term() Stops the Umd drive


UMD.checkDisk() Checks if there is a disk in the drive.

UMD.ripISO() IMPROGRESS WILL BE ON NEXT RELEASE rips the ISO from the UMD

Following functions are only for Fw 1.52 and Lower
System.sioInit()
System.sioRead()
System.sioWrite()
System.irdaInit()
System.irdaRead()
System.irdaWrite()

Following functions are only for Fw 2.00 and higher
System.runeboot()
System.startOSK()
System.startPSX()
System.startISO()
System.startUMD()
System.startGameSave()
System.startGameLoad()
All Adhoc
All Wlan

Pixel Fixer tries to revitalize stuck pixel on your PSP LCD.

Collect as many green boxes as possible before the timer reaches 20. When you touch the green box, you gain a point, you are returned to the starting place, and the green box randomly reappears somewhere else on the screen. You can also not touch the black box or you die. You can go off the screen, though, and you will have to in order to get to the green boxes (that is part of the fun of the game). When you go off the screen to the left, you appear on the right, and vice versa, and when you go off on the top, you appear on the bottom, and vice versa.

Notaz has updated his Genesis and Sega CD emulator for GP2x. This release is just a tiny bugfix release.

Lexeme is a variation on the classic game of "Mastermind" using four-letter words. Author is Tim Pyle.

Gecko Region Free by NUke lets you load Wii games from other regions. Load boot.elf from Chain Loader. Insert any Wii Game and press reset. Enjoy your region free gaming.

Changes:

v1.2 Forces video mode to NTSC when launching an import on a PAL system. This should fix the issue PAL users are having with USA/JAP games