Youresam has updated his Lua Netlib app, heres whats new:

Wow, this is what, my 4th program in 2 weeks?

Anyway, this is netlib v1.4. It features sending text messages (SMS) to a cell phone. (Its free for you, and cheap for them!) But seriously, it is free for you, but it acts like a normal text message for them. It might even cost them money if they dont have a subscription for text messaging so I advise you do NOT send random text messages as many times as you want unless you know if it would be ok with them. Imagine getting your phone bill and it has $20 worth of text messages

However, that doesnt mean you cant enjoy this new feature! Right now, the limitations are that it must be [not sure though] in the US, and you cannot use the 'enter' key. It has to be one line line.

The function added is:
netsms(number,text[,from])
number: a text string containing the 10-digit destination number
text: the content of the message
optional from: text string of who its from. If left blank, "PSP" is used.

I would also like to thank PsPmad for the idea...and well, finding the way to do it all!

As always, I have included an example for you to test it out.

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Zodttd posted this news:

Hi everyone,

Unai, Chui, and I had a talk about GP2PSX. We're aiming for a GP2X release within 7 days. This means the Zaurus port (which is very fast now btw), will be ready in the same time period.

Chui has made great progress on the Dreamcast version of emulator's codebase. There's even a video of it floating around. It uses a dynamic recompiler.

The switch from the interpreter to the recompiler for the SH4 cpu gave us an indication of what to expect in terms of a performance increase. The CPU emulation currently is profiled as taking about 50% of the total runtime. With the recompiler we can expect around 3x the performance over the interpreter. Maybe even more as ARM has a very powerful instruction set.

Unai is making great progress on the GPU. He has a few bug's to work out, and it's going through a major reworking. Hopefully it can be in a good state within our release time frame.

I made some improvements to the interpreter (CPU emulation), and got another frame per second added to the slowest of games.

I also improved the ISO loading process and emulator's cdrom handling.

Compatibility is up, but there's one bug I want to get fixed. It seems Tekken and Einhander crash after running a bit. This bug was fixed at one point and has returned, anyone remember at what point this bug was fixed? If so, I can figure out how to get compatibility up further, much quicker.

Unai and I estimate most 3D games such as Wipeout, will run at lowest, around 20 FPS without frameskip. At this speed games should be playable with frameskip.

Currently Wipeout 1 runs at it's slowest, 7 FPS in-game. With frameskip it's still too slow to play. Though it is impressive to watch. Were hoping the dynarec and new GPU core will solve the performance issue.

Tinnus is working on the dynarec, and is making progress.

So, news is, we're aiming for a release within a week. Not sure if it's going to be the release everyone wants, but we're trying our hardest. Those with Sharp Zaurus' will be pleasantly suprised.

Oh, one more thing. We've named the codebase that GP2PSX runs on as...PSX4ALL. We have the domain, www.psx4all.net and we have hosting for an official site. Depending on how hard it is to maintain the website, we might need a webmaster to design the site to make it easy to update and interactive enough for people to get information they need on the ports.

That's all for now...

Awesome News ...

Luke Miller released a new version of Tunar, a very abstract and unique puzzle game for your gp2x.´

New in this release:

- tweaks and changes
- boids now can fly faster
- changed game balance - game gets harder slower (squares flash less quickly)
- Boids restock every 100 points (instead of an increasing value)
- added drum graphic and sfx (for variety)
- added bevelling to squares
- added volume control
- changed key mapping (fixed no repeat problem)
- changed title screen
- changed high score screen
- fixed major bug with recording high scores

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The Supercard Team have announced a new Superpass 2 for the Nintendo DS, heres whats featured:

1. New shell design, more beautiful and easy to insert into and plug our from DS slot.

2. New switch, no so easy to broken.

3. Support All version NDS and NDS Lite.

4. Easy to use with the software on PC, just one button click to update the firmware of SuperPass 2.

5. Programmer also included. ...

Via NYtimes

According to a new AP-AOL Games poll, 40 percent of American adults play games on a computer or a console. Men, younger adults and minorities were most likely to play those games.

Among those who describe themselves as gamers, 45 percent play over the Internet. And more than a third of online gamers spent more than $200 last year on gaming, compared with nearly a quarter of those who don't play games online.

Online gamers also spent more time playing those games.

Forty-two percent of online gamers said they spent at least four hours playing games during an average week, compared with 26 percent of those who don't play online. About one in six online gamers play more than 10 hours a week.

The survey results come as Sony Corp., Nintendo Co. and Microsoft Corp. prepare to push their new consoles this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. All three are hoping to make broad online features such as multiplayer games, video conferencing and downloadable content a core element of the video game experience.

Casual games like board or card games were the most popular, followed by strategy games, action sports, adventure, first-person shooters and simulations, the poll found. Casual, strategy and role-playing games were most popular among online gamers. ...

Via IGN

One of Japan's most well-known development tool providers is on board with Wii. CIR Middleware, maker of the popular ADX and Sofdec sound and video libraries, has started official support for Nintendo's "new generation" console via four libraries: CRI ADX, CRI Sofdec, CRI Sound Factory and CRI ROFS.


Of these, ADX and Sofdec should be most recognizable to gamers, as logos for both have been appearing at the startup of games as far back as the Sega Saturn. ADX allows for at most 16 simultaneous audio streams, as well as support for the playback of streams from multiple audio files. Sofdec allows for multiple movies to be displayed simultaneously, with video streams even used for textures.
On Wii, Sofdec will compress a 10 minute, 6Mbps (megabit per second) bit rate movie to 450MB. The Wii implementation will support 60 frames-per-second progressive movie playback.

The other two libraries aren't as well known. CRI Sound Factory is a sound authoring system. CRI ROFS is provides a virtual file system to developers.

All four development libraries are currently available for other game systems. ...

Vobbo has released a new PC Engine emulator for the GP2X, heres the details from the readme:

ok, copy hu6280.gpe and simplefont.tga into any directory you want...

boot hu6280.gpe


Select a rom image... it lists roms in /mnt/sd/roms/pcengine (press B to select rom)

you will now boot into the pc-engine emulator running my default game jamanoid...

Press the 'R' (top right button) on the gp2x to boot the rom you actually selected

Please let me know how it runs, I havent had time to try it much... and this is the first time I`ve compiled it with gcc, so there may be some minor issues...dont worry about the speed, I`ll sort it Its pure C at the moment and it has a disgusting screencopy in there to
get the pcengine emulator onto a sdl surface... its really really really ALPHA

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Pepone has released a new version of his Neogeo Emu for the GP2X:

GnGeo2x 0.6.11 modified version. added encrypted gfx rom support in gp2x. now perfectly support mslug3n, kof2000n romset. (you need redump using include dumpgfx, romrc) modified source code is include zip file. (diff patch file)

P.S: fixed TV-Out support.

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Critical has updated the Snes emulator for the Gizmondo, heres whats new:

NEW STUFF: transparency back on by default. Option to switch it off, along with sound emulation (menu options now exist). Load/Save states implemented as described below.

Up and Down on the joypad in the main menu select the menu item.
When on the ROM selector menu item, left and right select the ROM to load when PLAY is pressed.

Load/Save state operations may only be performed when the emulator has loaded a ROM and is paused.
This means that you should load a ROM as normal, then press HOME to go back to the main menu. You may now select either LOAD/SAVE state. Pressing PLAY performs that action.

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