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Independent Xbox 360 developers polled by Eurogamer about Microsoft's decision to reorganise the Indie Games channel pricing structure have said they had no idea it was going to happen until it did.

"The new pricing structure is an interesting move because it came out of nowhere and no one really expected it or was prepared for it," Matt Davis, developer of Easy Golf: Course Architect, told Eurogamer today.

Weapon of Choice developer Nathan Fouts said: "It seems a little out of left field as they've never mentioned it before, but perhaps they've been reading some of the complaints on forums that some developers are charging too much."

Davis concurred: "I think the change was to adjust prices to consumer expectations as opposed to developer expectations," he told Eurogamer.

Microsoft's changes mean that the most indie developers can charge for their games is 400 Microsoft Points (GBP 3.40/EUR 4.60), with 200 MSP (GBP 2.04/EUR 2.40) and 80 MSP (GBP 0.68/EUR 0.96) price points also available, although to qualify for the latter games must be less than 50MB in size. The changes go into force on October 22.

Despite the loss of the highest-possible price point, both Davis and Fouts were broadly in favour of the changes, agreeing that the new low-end price point in particular is a good move. "I hope they never feel the need to allow for a free game option," Fouts added.

"I don't think the price change will hurt developers at all," said Davis. "Based on my experience with the system I would argue selling at 400 Points would bring in more money than selling at 800 Points.

"Some developers are worried about a race to the bottom with the new 80-MSP price point while others are disgruntled over the loss of the 800-MSP price point. Having gone the 800-MSP route before, I'm personally not going to miss it." Easy Golf - along with other titles like Biology Battle - have voluntarily reduced their prices to 400 MSP in the past anyway.

"I think that's the ideal scenario," said Fouts, "which is to allow the individual businesses to work within the free - or sort of free - market."

The two developers were also pleased with changes included in the XNA Game Studio 3.1 update, both applauding the option to sell games in other regions (Sweden, Germany, Japan and Singapore were mentioned), to prompt gamers about updates automatically rather than expecting them to find out on forums, and to distribute up to 50 trial versions - review copies, effectively.

As ever though, there's the feeling that more can be done, particularly in the area of marketing, which other indie developers have previously rubbished.

"Voluntarily crippling a service and then hoping it will succeed seems confused to me," Fouts said, supporting those views. "Indie Games are buried within the Xbox 360 Game Marketplace and I've spoken with plenty of gamers that have tried to buy Weapon of Choice but struggled for a while or eventually even gave up and had to search for help. How can you sell a product that no one can find?"

Fouts advocates the creation of a "permanent, high-level dashboard connection to the Indie Games section". "Total consumer volume has always been Indie Games biggest hurdle and giving gamers the ability to easily find the section would help immensely and only makes sense for both Microsft and developers," he told Eurogamer.

Otherwise, both developers would like to see leaderboard support and an Achievement system or equivalent. "Gamers are paying real money for Indie Games and the economy of gamerpoints could still be balanced after allowing this powerful tool to Indie Games," Fouts argued.

"Mommy's Best Games is currently developing Grapple Buggy with the hope to get it released on XBLA, but if we must release it on Indie Games we're hoping more changes are enacted for the best release possible," he added.

Despite their concerns though, Davis and Fouts are united in their support for Microsoft's efforts in general.

"I suppose the best news of all of this is that Microsoft is still investing in Indie Games and making changes - as long as they're still making adjustments I think they still care about it and are trying to help it succeed," Fouts said.

And Davis went even further: "The bottom line is that the XNA team is constantly working their tails off to evolve Indie Games into a successful distribution channel, and if a person doesn't like how it is at any given time they can check back four-six months later and find the system is upgraded for the better."

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What the hell is it?

It's a little CFW plugin for m33 that let's you assign key combinations to launch your favorite homebrews from the XMB

What does it do?

By configuring shortcuts.conf, you can assign virtually all (well depends on how many combinations you can make and your fingers can handle) your homebrew apps, ISO/CSO game or the UMD game or even pops games (not tested) to any combination of buttons you choose. Then from the XMB, you push those combinations and hopefully the assigned homebrew/game starts. No more XMB navigation.

Installation?

1. Download the package
2. Extract them to your ms0:/seplugins folder
3. Read the notes in shortcuts.conf file (this is very important otherwise you will not get it to work if not configured correctly) and configure/assign keys to your apps/games.
4. Put this like in your vsh.txt ms0:/seplugins/homebrew_shortcuts.prx 1
5. Push the buttons and watch your homebrew run

Thank you to the pspsdk creators who opened up the PSP to some lowly nut like me.
Special thanks to Dark_Alex for M33 modules

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The Jpcsp Team have released a new build of their PSP Emulator for Windows thats written in java, the emulator does play some commercial games too.



Heres whats new:

r1114 Fixed again Spot light cutoff .
r1113 Fixed decoding of Vertex Info: this should fix a lot of 3D rendering problems
r1112 Fixed IndexOutOfBoundsException introduced in r1111

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I have released an update to DS Game Maker. There has been much anticipation for this release and it is a major milestone in the development of the program.

The most exciting developments in the release, which makes the most recent version 'DS Game Maker 3.0', are, global Copy and Paste, a Pack and Go tool, the fact that devkitPro is now the only system requirement and many many bug fixes. Overall, the entire user experience is enhanced and using the program is more productive.

Whats New:

Global Copy and Paste of Sprites, Backgrounds, Fonts, Sounds and even Rooms - with Actions, Sprites and Backgrounds intact (an exact copy).
PAlib is now included with DS Game Maker and the PAPATH Envirionment Variable is not required. The only System Requirement now is the devkitPro toolchain.
'Pack and Go' feature added. This gathers all the project's resources and the XDS into a ZIP file. It can be extracted anywhere and the XDS will open with the graphics etc. loading fine. This is great if you need help; Pack 'n' Go your project and upload it to the forum.
Added a Right Click menu to the Actions list. Useful, you don't have to constantly move up to the tiny controls at the top right of the window. Items on the menu for an action/selection of actions: Duplicate, Delete, Copy to Room, Move to Room, Shift Up/Down, Move to Top/Bottom.
The following features have come available in the Free Edition of DS Game Maker: Show scrollbars, Turn on/off transparency. Scroll bar area is now correctly sized so that sprites do not wrap (thanks PAlib wiki).
Guitar Hero controller support in the Registered Edition.
Saving support in the Registered Edition with Save Variable and Load Variable actions.
Ability to download the latest copy of the Registered Actions without having to Re-enter a Registration Key.
Alot of verification when renaming resources, for your protection. For instance characters like commas and brackets are now banned to prevent compile errors and the program does basic checks for programming terms in names too, for example "main" or "int".
Fixed a minor bug where the includes folder was not cleared on compile when it should have been like efsroot. Fixed, and thanks, Eldude!
Fixed a problem where users could get away with changing the 3 Description Texts by editing them outside DS Game Maker. This is now impossible.

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juanvvc has released a new version of Lemonboy for GP2X with all the improvements and some more of Pickle.

Whats new:

- New graphics modes: Notaz scaling in gpSP, Scale2x, Scale53x.
- Fixed a bug in the function of changing palettes and menu watch
- Massive changes in the interior to make it portable (Wiz / Pandora). Includes the code for the version of Pickle Wiz.
- Advance the internal clock for games that support it (Pokemon Gold)
- New default settings for the button A, as many have asked not to change by hand the configuration file
- Support SuperGameboy preliminary. The edges work well, the blades are not included SGB border option to save and use it in normal mode.
- Lots of bugs here and there.

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