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The team DemonHades presents a new video of CFW, the JFW DH.
Here is a new category of JFW DH, VISOR, which could result in "viewfinder" in French. This new category is designed to quickly show the contents of the PS3. article of Bhaal Ps3-Addict.fr

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News from our pals over at Neoflash:

The NEO Retro Coding Compo 2011 is closed! Have 20 entries total
We will consider should keep to run this compo in 2012 or not,maybe a public poll is need …
more info: http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.....msg51574.html

Anyway, below is the entries list for this compo 2011:

The APP division, total 8 entries Author
[PSP APP] pspythagoras by JamesC
[NDS APP] WhatTheHex by x711Li
[NDS APP] Wildlife Greenhouse by SimplexProductions
[NDS APP] TuneItDS by SimplexProductions
[N64 APP] Myth64 Video Player by Conle
[DS APP] U.S.A. Naturalization Civics Test by DesertDog
[PSP APP] PSP Music Center by RNB_PSP
[PSP APP] AnyLanguageStudy v2.0 by nakano
　 　

The GAME division, total 12 entries Author
[NDS GAME] Flyin' by ds
[NDS GAME] DScraft by smealum
[PSP GAME] Hamtaro Holidays v2 by leviadragon
[PSP GAME] Spacial Wars! by 10$man
[Wii & GC GAME] Toy Wars by davidgf
[NDS GAME] Everyman by algraphics
[PSP GAME] REminiscencePSP v0.2.1 by Sektor
[NDS GAME] Mind Maze - Neo Compo 2011 Entry by NightFox
[NDS GAME] Arsenal by smealum
[SNES GAME] MegaFamilyBros V1.0 by dieudunet
[NDS GAME] Super Smash Bros Crash! DS by miguel28
[PSP GAME] Company v1.0 - Story Edition by nakano
　 　
　 　
Now is the time to do your homework --- make the nice review to win the TOP NEO REVIEWER award! 　
Here is the last time neo review collection: http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index....ard,131.0.html 　
We will announce the compo result after 2 weeks, so you have around 10 days to do this homework

PS: sorry for the later announce,because busy to fix the server problem,seems got some hack attack... 　

SEE YOU AT NEXT NEO RETRO CODING COMPO AGAIN --- Aug.20th 2012? Not sure yet, we need your poll now : http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic ...

Heres another update from the Openpandora Team:

A lot of important things have happened behind the curtains, I'll try to summarize everything up here, though it might not be easy. I hope I can make myself clear and won't forget anything.

One thing upfront:
I saw some posts that asked if Craig simply ignores the Pandora right now, as you don't read any Pandora news from him.
Craig is still in the team, of course.
However, all he can do right now is wait for CC to produce and ship the boards. Well, and to take care about possible legal actions...

I am mainly the one working on continuing the production in Germany, of course with a lot of help by Michael and Fatih.

Craig uses most of his time to take care about the iControlPad, while I am fully working on the Pandora right now.
I never was the smartphone gamer, but I love OpenSource stuff, so I'm happy to mostly work on the Pandora and not on the iCP

This is just a quick information at the beginning of my post.



Creating a business plan

You all know that we're currently working on moving the production to Germany.
This is a very important step and therefore needs to be done very carefully.
We have no idea how fast and how many finished boards CC can provide us in the near future.
So for my business plan, I am currently assuming the worst case scenario: Not a single board from CC anymore.
That's highly unlikely, but better be safe than sorry.

In case someone doesn't know exactly what a business plan is:
It's basically a document you create, that includes a detailed plan of the total costs needed, any plans for production, how you plan to make profits, what issues there are left, what needs to be done, etc.
This is absolutely essential if you try to get a bank loan or an investor, as they use the business plan to calculate their risks.

I'm about 90% finished with that, I just need a few more quotations, including the most important one: The PCB production. I'll get that one probably within the next days.


So... what IS the plan?

Well, of course: Produce Pandoras
That's the simple version.

It's much more complex though. Moving the production costs money. Thanks to the production issues, we lost an awful lot of money as well.
The goal of the plan is, to find out how much money is needed to start the production and how many Pandoras need to be sold to make sure the production will continue and we can deliver the remaining preorders as well.

Altogether, there are 1200 preorders left (500 from me, 800 from Craig). This includes ALL preorders. Also the ones from Batch 2.
While the plan is not yet finished, it looks like with 3000 units produced, we'll be able to fulfill all the remaining preorders AND have enough money left to continue the production.
Right now, it looks like about 250.000 EUR is needed to get everything rolling.

This actually sounds like a lot of money, but for such a production, it is not that much. And with 3000 units produced, the money can be paid back and everyone of you would have his Pandora!
After that, profit starts.

This is, as said, the worst case scenario. Every PCB delivered by CC will make things better.

Where to get that money?
I've got plans for that as well. Investors would be possible, I'll also try getting a loan.
With a carefully thought business plan that shows that the loan could be paid back within a reasonable timeframe, this shouldn't be a big issue.

I'd still love to get notch as investor. He was one of the very first preorderers of the Pandora, he seems like a nice chap AND he really supports indie stuff.
I was in contact with him early this year and he was interested, however, I never got a reply from him since then.
I guess he's just swamped with his normal eMail address, so he probably missed mine.
If anyones in good contact with him, please let him know I'm trying to contact him. It would really rock if he would support us - and it would make things so much easier!

BTW: Global Components (they will most probably produce the PCBs) are also interested in investing. That would also be great


Preorders... again?

Yes, there will probably be another preorder round.
However, with ONE significant difference: NO money has to be paid upfront!

What use is this, you might ask?

Easy. Imagine you are looking for investors. Or you are trying to get a loan from the bank.
Of course they are careful and will ask you: Are you sure anyone will buy that thing?
Then you'll take out a big list with a lot of people who preordered already... and you win.
That way, getting money will be WAY more easy!

I'll inform you when that preordering starts - and then you can tell anyone who always wanted to buy a Pandora but didn't want to pay before it's available to go and preorder!
But please don't order another one there if you're not interested in actually buying it later. It would just lead to problems.

It will be exciting to see how much interest there is. But based on the daily "I want to order a Pandora"-mails I get, there should be quite a few orders.
I also know some of you told me you'd want to get a few more units once they are available without prepayment.

If this will be a success, getting a loan will be easy and production can continue!



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News via http://www.codetactics.com

We are pleased to announce the release of 1.7.4 of Mobile Assault for PSP homebrew and iOS devices. Additions include a new mission, dynamic menu background and new frigate unit. The full changelist is as follows:

Features
* New dynamic menu background.
* Added a 28th Mission called 'Beachhead'.
* Added a frigate unit which acts as a helipad.

Bug Fixes
* Fixed bug where all AI Apaches were having their weapons upgraded along with the player's Apache.
* Fix bug where hellfire accuracy is reported to the leaderboard server as 100% all the time.
* Fixed stability issues and random texture disappearances on PSP.

Improvements
* The player's Apache can now collide with other aircraft.
* The player's apache, when landed into a building, will automatically take off again.
* Tank shells are now white.
* Added a water texture.
* Fixed some typos made in mission messages.
* Added lighting/shading to units and structures (PSP)



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The fourth issue of N64 Magazine from July 1997 has been digitally archived over at Out-of-Print Archive. The classic videgogaming magazine from Future Publishing was the spiritual successor to the cult Super Play magazine and followed Nintendo’s 64-bit games console. To accompany the digital release, there are four articles to view online which were taken from he magazine and include ‘How to survive in a Japanese arcade’, ‘Have a nice play’ development feature, War Gods review and a feature on International Superstar Soccer 64. The full magazine release can be downloaded in full 1920 pixel resolution or 1024 pixel iDevice friendly, or both – surely, the only classic magazine archive project to offer such a service. All these services can be found from the N64 Magazine issue 4 catalogue page. ...

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Today I have released a translation for Maten Douji. I am extremely satisfied with how the hacking turned out for this project and I implore all of you to spend an afternoon to enjoy this wonderful game splendidly hacked by me and beautifully translated by Eien ni Hen.
RHDN Project Page
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Debias: Legendary Space-Time Hero, formally known as Jikuu Yuuden Debias has been released as a 100% full English translation. This game is a Famicom game with an accessory that can be viewed at my website that will help you during your adventure in using the Zodiac like wheel. I also have maps given to me by reyvgm and the original manual from Pennywise.
This game somewhat resembles Cadash and has day/night cycles similar to Castlevania II without the messages. After passing Elbos Gate, you’ll find three doors leading to very large areas to explore. You can read more about it in the readme file I provided with the patch.
A big thanks to Steve Martin for translating the scripts and also to Paul Jensen who translated the title for the game.
Have fun and enjoy!
RHDN Project Page
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WiiMC (Wii Media Centre) is an open source media player for the Nintendo Wii. The GUI is powered by libwiigui.

Features
Attractive libwiigui-based interface, designed with the Wii in mind
Picture viewer
Music player
On-line media support, including SHOUTcast, YouTube, and Navi-X
FAT32/NTFS from SD and USB 2.0 (FAT32 recommended)
Network playback via SMB, HTTP, and FTP
Multi-language support: Asturian (in WiiMC beta), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tamil

Version 1.1.9 has been released, fixing YouTube and providing a few minor bugfixes and enhancements. Full changelog:


Synced to MPlayer r34002
New YouTube scraping code (thanks jhb50!)
Fixed problem with some subtitles not appearing
Added support for subtitles over FTP
Added chunk support in HTTP protocol
Added Bulgarian translation
Other minor bug fixes

http://www.wiimc.org/

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