via Games Industry


Wii Play: Mario Tennis has held onto the top spot in the Japanese software chart for the week ended January 25, according to data collected by Media Create.

The Nintendo title sold 31,000 units putting it just ahead of Namco Bandai's Fragile, also for the Wii, which debuted in second place at 26,000 units.

Rhythm game Taiko no Tatsujin Wii, climbed from number 12 to come in third with 25,000 copies sold, followed by newcomer Zill O'll Infinite Plus for the PlayStation Portable also with 25,000 units.

Capcom's Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) took fifth place with 25,000 units, while DS mainstay Rhythm Tengoku Gold took six place with 20,000 units, bringing its lifetime sales up to 1,614,000 units.

Wii Fit came in at seven with 19,000 units, PSP title Final Fantasy Dissidia took number eight with 18,000 units, while DS titles Megami Ibunroku: Devil Survivor and Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode closed the chart at nine and ten with 18,000 and 17,000 units respectively.


Japanese software chart follows:

01. Wii Play: Mario Tennis (Wii)
02. Fragile (Wii)
03. Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Wii)
04. Zill O'll Infinite Plus (PSP)
05. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (PSP)
06. Rhythm Tengoku Gold (DS)
07. Wii Fit (Wii)
08. Dissidia Final Fantasy (PSP)
09. Megami Ibunroku: Devil Survivor (DS)
10. Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode (DS) ...

via IGN


Nintendo on Thursday released its third quarter financials for its fiscal 2009 and made official, among other details, life to date Wii and DS shipment numbers. Amazingly, since its launch, the company has shipped a staggering 45 million Wii consoles globally. Nintendo said it shipped another 312 million Wii game discs. Meanwhile, it revealed that more than 96 million DS systems have been shipped globally since the portable launched along with 533 million game carts from the publisher.

Wii owners might also be interested to know that the Big N said it has shipped globally 14 million and 13.67 million copies of Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii respectively since the two titles launched.

In other news, Nintendo reported nine-month (April to December 2008) global sales of 1,546 billion yen, an increase of almost 17 percent over the same period in 2007. It also reported a 27 percent increase in operating profit over the 2007 time frame. "This marks the fourth consecutive year that Nintendo Co., Ltd. has exceeded the previous results for the same nine month period," the company stated in its financial recap.

Nintendo did, however, cut its yearly sales target for Wii, likely due to the economic crisis. It now expects to sell 26.5 million systems globally this year, down from a projected 27.5 million.

Regarding its '09 forecast, the company offered, "Nintendo will continue to pursue expansion of the gaming audience and provide products that offer unique entertainment that puts smiles on the faces of people of all ages and genders." ...

I am currently working on fixing bugs from v0.9. I'll be posting updates here as I continue to work on graphDS.

In v0.9.1, I focused on fixing bugs with graphing. Graphing will no longer result in random pixels and lines being plotted and I've also refined my algorithms so that weird things don't happen near the edges of the screen. Please be aware that I also resized the graphscreen, so there will be a white space 4 pixels wide around the entire graphing area.

Download graphDS v0.9.1 here.

As always, I greatly appreciate your donations.

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Klutsh & RainMotorsports grace us with convenience at its finest… Here we have another Windows app to easily create a magic memory stick for use with a Pandora battery.

As illustrated in the screen shot, PSP Grader not only creates a magic memory stick, it packs a few additional options: inject an IPL only, clean the Pandora stick ridding any files created by PSP Grader, and the ability to change the default trigger to load Pandora when you’re ready.



Features

Download the eboot straight from the app!
Load eboots stored in ZIP files.
Coming Soon:

RAR & 7z Loading - Rar loading didn’t make the port to pascal but only due to time restraints, it and 7zip loading are planned!
Backup Script - Once again due to time constraints a backup function didn’t make it. Grader never had one and mine never worked to begin with so I put this off till it could be done right!
SPEED - While this app is no slower than anything I have written before it is slower than Grader 6. We have already begun finding ways to speed up the app and it will be sped up soon!

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Nick Swardh has posted another release of his Video Converter for the PSP:

PSPVC v3.44 - Converting videos for a PSP near you

Updated FFmpeg engine
Added a codec pack check
Fixed yet another queue bug
Fixed a bug when converting videos without audio
Fixed a fade in/out bug in "Tweak Image"
Made PSPVC fully UAC friendly

http://pspvc.nswardh.com/forum/viewt...f1e008b1f6a2cf ...

News/release from Torch


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via Gizmodo US


Adorably-mascotted Firefox Mobile 'Fennec' is on its way to an early February release for the Windows Mobile-powered HTC Touch Pro, according to a post on the project's developer wiki.

The quote isn't gospel, but it's a pretty solid indicator:


The Touch Pro is an interesting choice for the first release; the decision, I'd wager, stemmed from the ease of porting—resizing interface elements and managing the GUI is much easier when you got the Pro's 480x640 display to work with, and dealing with performance issues, which were evident in the early Nokia N810 build as well as the emulator, wouldn't be so hard on this relatively beefy piece of hardware. Not to mention the fact that the QWERTY keyboard simplifies finger-friendly text input.

Whatever the reasoning, the release of a Windows Mobile version of Fennec represents significant progress toward a wide Windows Mobile release. Plus, I don't see why this build wouldn't at least sort of work on other VGA WinMo phones like the functionally identical Touch Diamond. ...

News/release from Xart

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Deep Silver Inc., a publisher of interactive entertainment software and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Media, today released new information about the turn-based strategy game Mytran Wars. The game is being developed exclusively for PSP (PlayStation Portable) system by Stormregion, winner of numerous awards for their strategy games.

By the mid 23rd Century, Earth stands united under the rule of a high praesidium of multinational corporations. Fossil fuels, drinkable water and other natural resources are all but depleted. The corporations, having invested large sums to space exploration, are hoping to solve the impending crisis.

The planet of Pythar is a prime target for resource extraction. The Kondor Corp., began investing in space research and development in the hopes of exploiting much needed resources. Fund were provided to research teams tasked with discovering these valuable deposits as well as on military technology to protect these research projects from potential harm.

The shareholders are now expecting to see results - even if it means stripping Pythar bare of its natural resources. Human prospectors, hard pressed to supply the ever-growing hunger of Mankind, soon find themselves in war with the inhabitants of this new world. Here is where the story begins...

Features:



Riveting plot full of twists and turns that plunges the player deep into the game's unique universe

Diverse missions and tasks with every level offering new challenges and new situations

Easy-to-use base management system where players can research new technologies

3D graphics with free camera movement

Different, story-driven, immersive campaigns with two highly different, well balanced playable sides

Comic-style cut scenes with a catching atmosphere ...