COMPEQ, a Taiwanese manufacturer, has announced that it will be producing circuit boards for the upcoming PlayStation 3. Claiming to have an informant from inside the company, Chinese website Mydrivers (translated by The Inquirer) has reported that said production will begin in June or July of this year--hence, no spring launch.

Even if the news is true (and until Sony says it, this is unofficial speculation), COMPEQ may not be the only company assigned t produce circuit boards. While we doubt Sony's insistence that a spring launch is in the cards, we are still hesitant to say this is proof of a delay. Maybe we will learn more at the upcoming GDC. ...

Source Joystiq

Namco has confirmed that Me & My Katamari has gone gold, ensuring that the game is on target to roll onto PSPs March 21. If you're a fan of the series, you best treasure this portable sequel. It could be the last.

Me & My Katamari producer Toshiya Hara didn't leave much hope for the future of Katamari. "The core concept of the Katamari series was complete from the first game... The PSP version was made basically so that the game could be... played on the go. So for now, this is where we wrap it up," Hara stated bluntly. Can you imagine if Neversoft had said that after the third Tony Hawk game? ...

Source Manchester Evening News

METROLINK has been forced to cover up a poster on a tram platform reading: "Take a running jump from here". The poster, advertising Playstation, was spotted by a railway worker and Metrolink was ordered to take it down for fear it could encourage people to leap on to the line. Metrolink says the poster was the responsibility of JC Decaux, which is in charge of billboards at the station, and they were told to cover it up as soon it was realised what it said. The poster, on the platform in the underground station at Piccadilly, was covered over with tape and was due to be taken down today.

"The message goes completely against all our safety messages, particularly because Playstation is aimed at youngsters and we are constantly telling them not to trespass. Most recently, a 60-year-old woman needed hospital treatment after being hit by a tram in Piccadilly Gardens.

Sony, which makes Playstation, said they did not want to comment.

Well looking at the ad, it begs the question what idiot would put that type of ad in a train station, if you spot any more daft PSP ads post the photo or tell us via comments, Sony really needs to learn how to advertise ...

The Multi Arcade emulator MAME has now been ported to the Ipod.

imphasing posted this news:

Here is a port of MAME for the ipod. Note that this will only work on the 5G ipod, unless you put another LCD driver in, so feel free to do so. I WILL NO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THIS. If you can't figure it out, you're on your own. I wrote this becuase I wanted to play pacman on my 5G, so it worked out.

Note that not all the MAME games are supported yet. Only these at the moment:
Pac-Man
Pengo
Cetipede
Millipede

Centipede and Millipede don't really "work" yet, but I'm working on that.

A few things you need to know:

This is a standalone binary, so you will need to start it from your rc, or from pz0.
You need to have a folder called "pacman" in the same directory the emulator is in, with all the pacman roms in it.
You need to not ask me for pacman roms.
The screen is oriented sideways, so play is right, menu is left, FF is up, and RW is down.

The source is released under MAME's license, which does not permit commercial useage, so don't sell it. Got it? Great, here's the download:

Download and screens here --> http://ipodnews.dcemu.co.uk/ipodmame.shtml ...

xodiac21 has released a new game written in Lua for the PSP, heres what the coder posted:

O.k HERe it is, my wanna-be ti-83 port....
few things about the game:
1. instead of the one hit kill thing i made it so it counts your hits and lets u go forever.
2. starts off kinda slow but increases speed with each level
3. Levels SHOULD continue forever sooooo I WANNA SEE SOME HIGH LEVEL - LOW HIT SCREEENSHOTS
4: take screenshots with L button
5. no know bugs

Screens and download via comments: ...

+ T + has released a new version of FBA-xxx Pro. (arcade emu)

What's new:
* Fixed inverted CPS buttons 5 and 6.
* Fixed inverted CPS PPP and KKK controls.
* Other fixes to controller config. (should be perfect now)
* Fixed sf2ce default dipswitch settings.

More info --> http://www.1emulation.com/forums/ind...howtopic=17031 ...

Xport has released a port of MEKA to Xbox. It Supports Sega Master System / Game Gear / SG-1000 / SC-3000 / SF-7000 / MK3 Consoles.

Features:
* Emulates Sega Master System/Game Gear/SG-1000/SC-3000/SF-7000/MK3
* Excellent compatibility - ported from Meka
* ZIP support
* Loads of hardware/software filters and video options to tweak
* Cheat system - Search/Create your own cheat codes (see notes)
* Favorites list
* Save states
* Light gun support (see notes)
* Fast forward/throttle
* Resizable game screen
* Text file viewer
* ISO9660, Relax, Samba support
* Take in-game screenshots and display them on the game selection list
* Record/Playback feature - record your gameplay in the emu and then play it back again. Record up to 10 minutes of gameplay.
* Every single in-game command is fully customizable on any of the four joypad controllers.
* Map any emulator or UI command to a single button or a combination of two buttons. (e.g. RTrigger+LTrigger = Save State)
* Autofire capabilities for any emulator button on any controller
* One-button combos (define a series of emulator commands to be played back when you press a user-definable XBox controller combination.) (E.g. Press RTrigger+LTrigger to execute the command string A,B,A,B,Up,Down,Left,Right)
* Traverse any directory on any drive ( Continue selecting the parent directory entry on the file selection list to get the drive selection list. Selectable drives are C, D, E, F, R, X, Y, Z, RLX, and SMB. R is the CDROM drive. SMB is your samba share, RLX is your relax share. Press Y from any file-listing screen to go up one directory level.
* All UI commands (save state, load state, screenshot, etc) can be invoked from the Options/Pause menu as well as in-game via your customized joypad mappings.
* All the other standard features found in XPort ports.

More info --> http://xport.xbox-scene.com ...

Go deep with baseball's hottest housewife. Right after Anna Benson took her first photograph for her FHM cover, she found out from her husband, Kris, that he had been traded from the New York Mets to the Baltimore Orioles. “I can’t believe they traded him for a bag of balls,” Anna said, referring to Jorge Julio and John Maine, the pitchers the Mets received in return.

But don’t worry about this 30-year-old Atlanta native. In addition to being the new belle of Baltimore, she has a reality show and a radio show in development, and an Internet poker site that could earn her a higher salary than Kris will this year. “In the poker world, they call me Gold Digger, because I dig gold out of other players’ pockets. That’s what some people think of me anyway, so I’ll have fun with it.”

Via PSPmags

This is the sort of Magazine i want to see, Download via Comments ...

Via Guyfawkes

The NeoFlash writing software NEO-MAX has been updated to version 1.7. Heres whats new:

1. Add the NEO cart / XG2005 cart type display,easy to report the bug to us
2. Upgrade the FAT code,support more SD/MMC cart
3. Revised the install program,auto add the default skin.
4. NDS loader support english and chinese
5. Build in the MOONSHELL v1.0
6. Add the new tools - SMS EDITOR.

Visit the homepage at http://www.neoflash.com/ for the downloads. You can purchase the Neoflash cart here.

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