The joystick will be available January 2009. No announcement on how much this will cost.

Source: via email ...

Thanks to Amazon.co.jp and a brief site update on the Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 1st Love site, we now know that the popular Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 1st Love is getting a special rerelease on the DS. On March 12, 2009, you can pick up Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 1st Love Plus, almost two years after Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 1st Love came out for the DS. Yup, otome games really are that popular in Japan.



As far as new content goes, it looks like Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 1st Love Plus is just going to feature loads of voice acting. It will have full voice acting, plus there will be commentary from each of the “guys” when you look through the omake galleries. There’s no word about any new events or characters. An official site hasn’t opened for Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 1st Love Plus yet, but the original site does announce the forthcoming remake.



So this remake is that it will be packed with voice acting, be out in time for White Day 2009 and will cost ￥5,250 / ~$58. If you don’t already own the 1st Love, and you’re interested, then I could see 1st Love Plus being a good buy. However, I’m not so sure 1st Love owners are going to run out to buy 1st Love Plus, just because of the extra voice acting.

http://www.siliconera.com/2008/12/21...-voice-acting/ ...

A recent patch lets you make the text bigger in banjo-Kazooie:

Nuts & Bolts.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/21/ba...larging-patch/ ...

It has been but a matter of hours since we first heard of the Cupcake branch of Android, but the tweaked-for-the-better operating system has apparently already made its way onto Nokia's Internet Tablets. The latest port of NITdroid is chock full of those sweet, highly fattening Cupcake goodies, and honestly, this whole development makes us cautiously optimistic about where all this is headed. Anyone care to give their N810 somethin' new to run on? Let us know how it works out.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/a...ternet-tablet/ ...

This week’s DevTeam Funday features a live demo of yellowsn0w!

MuscleNerd will use Qik to broadcast a live video and audio stream (from an iPhone 2G) of an iPhone 3G being soft-unlocked with yellowsn0w. He’s in Florida for the holidays so there won’t actually be any snow in the live demo (although strangely enough if he were back home in Los Angeles he’d be very close to snow this week!).

Qik creates a chatroom for its videos but it may not be feasible to field questions live from the chatroom. So if you have a question that hasn’t already been answered in our previous blog posts, please tweet them in advance to Musclenerd.

We’re aiming to do the live demo in about 12 hours, or 3PM EST/9PM CET. The actual URL will be tweeted via MuscleNerd’s twitter account just as it starts.

Hope to see you there!

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/6602...sn0w-live-demo ...

All Thanks Go To JK108 For Taking His Own Time Making Scripts For Us To Use

Here it is. Ultimate PSPtube 1.6. A modification of PSPTube which allows you to watch videos on your PSP. There are 26 sites included. Below is the readme which includes how to change the site order and disable certain sites.


Ultimate PSPTube 1.6
--------------------

Scripts & Various Features - JK108
Original Program - SofiyaCat
Main Theme - Psimxc
Optional Theme - Salvy

This is a modification for PSPTube which aims to deliver a fully working video
streamer to the PSP with as little trouble as possible. The original PSPTube was
created by SofiyaCat. All scripts and various other features were created by JK108.
The main theme for Ultimate PSPTube was created by Psimxc. The optional theme was
created by Salvy. If there are any problems with the program please let me know
on the PSPHacks or MaxConsole forums and I will do my best to fix them.


Sites Included
--------------
-CrunchyRoll
-Dailymotion
-Google Video
-Guba
-LiveLeak
-MetaCafe
-MuchoSucko
-MySpace Videos
-MyVideo
-NothingToxic
-Pornhub
-RedTube
-Shufuni
-StageVu
-ThatVideoSite
-TNAFlix
-Tube8
-TubeIso
-Tudou
-VBox7
-Veoh
-Wanktube
-xHamster
-XVideos
-YouTube
-Yuvutu


Known Issues
------------
-Videos don't save to favourites for Veoh, Guba, Yuvutu and xHamster
-Longer videos in Veoh dont load because they use a format that PSPTube doesn't support
-Shufuni shows the first page of results for all pages
-There are various issues with the quality of the videos for many sites because they use a non supported format


Installation
------------
Delete any old version of Ultimate PSPTube that is already on your PSP and then simply copy the folder
"Ultimate PSPTube" into the directory "PSP/GAME" on your PSP. There should now be the folder
"PSP/GAME/Ultimate PSPTube". Thats all you need to do.


Controls
--------
While Not Playing Video:
Select - Changes the selected site which is displayed in the top left corner.
X - Play the selected video.
O - Search for videos on the selected site.
Triangle - Brings up the menu where you can save to favourites, add to playlist etc.
Square - Switches the view. Either search results, video playback or split.
L Trigger - Previous page of results.
R Trigger - Next page of results.

While Playing Video:
O - Stops the video returns to search results.
Square - Switches the view. Either search results, video playback or split.
Triangle - Hides the time display. Press again to hide video playback and then press again to show all.
Select - Change the video playback size.
Start - Pauses the video. Press again to resume.
Left Arrow - Slows down the playback speed.
Right Arrow - Speeds up the playback speed.


How To Change The Site Order & Disable Certain Sites
----------------------------------------------------
Ultimate PSPTube has a feature allowing you to change the order that the sites are
displayed in as well as selecting what sites you actually want to display. To change
the site order or stop sites from being displayed, you need to edit the config.js file
found in root folder of Ultimate PSPTube. Below is an example of the section that
contains the site order and what sites to display.

//Order Of Sites
//To not use a site just comment the line out
var site_order = [
"YouTube",
"TNAFlix",
"CrunchyRoll",
"MetaCafe",
"Yuvutu",
"Pornhub",
"MuchoSucko",
"Dailymotion",
"LiveLeak",
"TubeIso",
"StageVu",
"Guba",
"NothingToxic",
"MyVideo",
"VBox7",
"Tudou",
"ThatVideoSite",
"MySpace Videos",
"Veoh",
"Google Video",
"xHamster",
"Wanktube",
"RedTube",
"Tube8",
"XVideos",
"Shufuni",
];

As you can see the order in the example above goes YouTube, then TNAFlix, then
CrunchyRoll, etc. If you want to change the site order all you have to do is switch the
lines around. If you want to disable ...

It is time again for another episode of the annual SEGA Saturn Coding Contest. A few small changes compared to previous contests mean significant improvements for all contestants:
Your effort is directly rewarded with a prize. No more "I don't have a chance to compete with contestant x", because your prize does not depend on your rank. Instead the amount depends solely on your effort.
The goal to port games over to saturn lowers the amount of annoying debugging work, so you get more result out with less work and you can concentrate on the funny things of homebrew coding.


Objective:
As Porting Party suggests, the objective is to take an existing game of your choice and port it over to SEGA Saturn! This implies that the source code of that game is available and written in C or C++. It's totally up to you which game you choose! Choose your game carefully, try playing it yourself before starting to port it. You'll be best off picking up a game that's finished, very enjoyable to play and that doesn't exceed the hardware capabilities of the SEGA Saturn console.


Time:
The contest is running during winter 2008/2009. Meteorologically, this is the time from december 21st 2008 to march 20th 2009. So march 20th 2009 is the deadline for submitting your entries. To submit your entry: upload the Zip-compressed ISO CD image to a file hosting service like megaupload.com and submit the link via email to [email protected].


Prizes:
All entries are rewarded, no matter which rank. The better your entry is, the more money you win. The more entries you submit, the more money you win.

• Money: Every entry wins as much money, as it got points from the judges. So having achieved the maximum results in: 90 point = 90 euro. Even more if you collected extra points by using special saturn hardware features. Multiple entries means multiple times money! Money is transfered via paypal, contestants in the EU can alternatively use bank transfer.

• USB Data Link v2: This device connects your Saturn with your PC and transfers game saves, bios and uploads homebrew games for testing. Version 2 is brand new and exclusive to contestants, it transfers data much faster than version 1, you can't get it anywhere else. All contestants who haven't got a one last year, will get one for free. Those who won such a device last year, can have it upgraded to v2 for free!

Judging:
The entries are judged in the three categories: graphics, sound and gameplay. The judging is done by 5 to 6 judges in parallel. Every judge rates each entry in each category by giving a rating between 1 and 5 points. This means each entry can get up to 75/90 points regularly.
Additionally, extra points can be achieved by using special hardware features of the Saturn console.


So happy coding everyone. Porting is perfectly suited to submit multiple entries, because each single entry is being rewarded!
The Rockin'-B ...

This isnt a serious awards thing but a way to guage public reaction as to what the people here at DCEmu think is the best in each category for the Year of 2008, ill let each category run until the end of Dec 31st to see who has won, theres no prizes but it will be interesting to see whats the winner voted exclusively by the members of DCEmu.

So one vote each.

Whats the GP2X Homebrew of the Year?


Your Votes Via Comments - GIve some info for your vote too. ...

This isnt a serious awards thing but a way to guage public reaction as to what the people here at DCEmu think is the best in each category for the Year of 2008, ill let each category run until the end of Dec 31st to see who has won, theres no prizes but it will be interesting to see whats the winner voted exclusively by the members of DCEmu.

So one vote each.

Whos is the GP2X Coder of the Year?

Your Votes Via Comments - GIve some info for your vote too. ...