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by Published on November 24th, 2008 19:13
via Computer and Video Games
Sony has moved to clarify recent comments made about the number of active PlayStation Network accounts.
Having said last week that there are 14 million active PSN accounts, the company has now confirmed that the number includes both PS3 and PSP accounts, but no duplicates.
"Seeing as PlayStation Portable does include PlayStation Network services (i.e. games store natively on PSP), yes those numbers do include all PlayStation Network registrations," Sony told GameSpot.
Sony said that one person using the same login for both PS3 and PSP is treated as a single account and that, as with Xbox Live, the 14 million figure includes multiple accounts on a single console or in the same household.
Sony's original comments on the matter were made as it celebrated the PS3's second birthday, and revealed that PSN had matched the 14 million subscriber base of Xbox Live, which has been around since 2002.
Despite all these comments, at the end of the day it's still unclear how many PSN users are logging on via the PS3, although Sony says it has seen an "increase in unique [PS3] consoles registered for PSN... lately, based on the new features we've added to PSN". ...by Published on November 24th, 2008 19:06
via Eurogamer
Sony Europe has declined to comment on the supposedly leaked contents of its staff annual briefing, dismissing the D+Pad report as "rumour and speculation".
The information, provided by an attending "source", included plans to be "more competitive" with PS3 pricing from March 2009.
Sony Europe boss David Reeves also said there will be technical innovations to come for both PS3 and PSP, although no details were given.
The source claims to have seen footage of Uncharted 2 and God of War 3, the latter of which apparently looked so pretty the mole couldn't tell if what he was seeing was CGI or not.
The trailer, we're told, showed Kratos destroying waves of skeletons and Cyclops with his trusty chain-swords, before hopping on the back of an eagle, killing it, and then staring into an immense cavern thought to be Mount Olympus.
Uncharted 2, on the other hand, was said to look much the same as Uncharted 1, which looked rather good anyway.
The source went on to say that Sony showed footage of LittleBigPlanet PSP, which Media Molecule has apparently been hard at work on for four months. Target footage of MotorStorm PSP was shown, too.
Apparently Sony Europe is also the pride of Sony Computer Entertainment, for the region has a higher PS3 installed base than Xbox 360. ...by Published on November 23rd, 2008 22:31
News via Nintendomax
Frezzy has concocted a text editor synpathique and truly comprehensive for the Nintendo DS, "WordDS" available in German and English.
v0.1 - First Release
* Text editing:
- Typeface (Arial, Times New Roman, Chinyen, Courier New, Flubber, Viner Hand ITC)
- Fontsize (from 1 until 7)
- Fontcolor (black, gray, orange, blue, red, pink, purple, green)
- Text alignment (left, right, center, justify)
- Way of writing (bold, italic, underlined, normal)
- Attention! The text editing will not be visible on the Nintendo DS, only on the computer!
* The keyboard contains the alphabet and all additional character
* The maximum text size amounts 623 characters per document
* The maximum filename length amounts 16 characters (without file extension)
v0.2
* Some bugfixes
* 5 new typefaces (Calligraph421 BT, Digifit, Asimov, Candles, Gazzerelli, Fingerpop)
* 216 are selectable fontcolor
* Added 216 selectable pagecolor
* Added a character counter
* Added a word count
- Attention! The word counter does not count the real number of words, it assumes that a word is averagely about 6 character long!
known bugs:
* The opening of files does not work yet
* Editing of the text more shares does not work
* The text size is too small
things planned for version 0.3:
* To enable the opening of files which are created by WordDS
Download and Give Feedback Via Comments ...by Published on November 23rd, 2008 22:26
by Published on November 23rd, 2008 22:12
An interesting article from t3online:
When game and software developers talk about ‘open source’ software, they generally cite widely-understood examples such as Mozilla’s superb Firefox internet browser or the Linux operating system. The Open Source movement’s philosophy is based on developing projects that are ‘self-organizing’, which generally means building stuff that is iteratively improved by a network of volunteer programmers. It is a ‘hive mind’ and decentralised way of developing software, as opposed to the bigger commercial developers’ more traditionally centralised and ‘top-down’ way of organising things. More simply put, it’s a DIY ‘punk’ ethic, almost in direct opposition to the ways of the megacorps such as Microsoft and Sony....
So when T3 heard recently that there is not only one, but TWO new open source handheld gaming consoles – the nattily named Gamepark Wiz and the Pandora – heading our way early next year, we of course wanted to know more. What will we be able to do with these shiny new toys? Will we finally be able to make that game about the flying monkeys we dreamed up while tripping on mushrooms at Glastonbury in 1993? Or is this all going to be a bit ‘hobbyist’ for us?
The first new handheld that caught our eye was Gamepark’s Wiz system, the successor to its (now-discontinued) GP2X, pictures of which first leaked into our eyes (via the internet) back in the summer. The Wiz rocks a 2.8inch OLED QVGA touchscreen at 320x240 pixels and a 533mhz CPU, which means it is technically faster than the PSP's 333mhz processor. On top of that, you get a built-in microphone, SD memory slot, 64MB RAM, 1GB of internal storage and an intriguing-sounding "3D Acceleration" listed by the manufacturer.
Aside from its impressive spec-sheet, the Wiz’s USP is Gamepark’s promise of commercial game releases for the system. Which means that it could well appeal to a wider market than the usual homebrew crowd and the harder-than-hardcore fans of arcade and retro game emulators. Indeed, the boxed console comes with 12 built-in games, including a shooter called Myride and the rather awesomely entitled Snake on Dope.
Talking about the open source gaming development scene, Canadian game designer (and creator of BattleJewels) Jeff Mitchell, told TechRadar recently that, “the scene in general is one of the best around; the public at large is smaller than with your mainstream devices and so attracts people who are more interested in the devices and are a little willing to tinker - like your aftermarket car folks would be.
“The development scene itself has often been compared in spirit to the roaring days of the early 90s (Atari ST and Amiga and whatnot); suffice to say I think it's one of the best communities of homebrewers and retro-developers around.”
For Mitchell, the key thing, in true open source style, is that “if you need some help there's a hand usually around to assist… people who are not only willing but dying to help out, to beta test, to help with artwork for your emulator front-end or whatever. The PSP scene, the DS scene and so on. They're lively as well, but larger and less pulled together.”
The real question for more mainstream gamers is: “will the Wiz make any kind of dint on the commercial handheld gaming scene?” Might it even (*whisper it*) begin to compete with the mega-successful Nintendo DS and Sony’s sleekly powerful PSP?
“The Wiz will be enormously popular for emulation and homebrew fans,” says Mitchell, “and I expect people will buy a title or two of commercial-ware if it is priced well, and is priced to the quality…the trick is finding the balance.”
But in Mitchell’s mind, comparing the Wiz with the DS and the PSP is kind of missing the point, “just like SanDisk selling mp3 players doesn't dent the iPod market - but it keeps SanDisk going.”
Let’s not forget that hobbyist developers sometimes hit paydirt, though. “This is how Quake mod teams suddenly end up being game developers themselves,” says Mitchell. “Ten years of bottom feeding and finally getting their break.”
The other new open source handheld due to make some noise in 2009 is the ARM Cortex A80-powered Pandora, developed by an off-shoot team of the guys and girls behind Gamepark’s GP2X. The photos T3 has seen on the OpenPandora.org website are of a device which looks like a mash-up of DS-style clamshell design with (home console style) dual analogue controllers and a full QWERTY keyboard.
You want specs? They got specs. The ARM Cortex A80 processor runs at an impressive 600mhz. To put this in some kind of context, this is almost double the PSP's 333mhz. The graphics are powered by PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 hardware presented in all their glory on the Pandora’s 800x480 4.3in 16.7 million colour LCD touch-screen.
And if you want to hook up to the internet or to your PC or Mac, then the in-built 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and High Speed USB 2.0, dual SDHC card slots andby Published on November 23rd, 2008 22:12
An interesting article from t3online:
When game and software developers talk about ‘open source’ software, they generally cite widely-understood examples such as Mozilla’s superb Firefox internet browser or the Linux operating system. The Open Source movement’s philosophy is based on developing projects that are ‘self-organizing’, which generally means building stuff that is iteratively improved by a network of volunteer programmers. It is a ‘hive mind’ and decentralised way of developing software, as opposed to the bigger commercial developers’ more traditionally centralised and ‘top-down’ way of organising things. More simply put, it’s a DIY ‘punk’ ethic, almost in direct opposition to the ways of the megacorps such as Microsoft and Sony....
So when T3 heard recently that there is not only one, but TWO new open source handheld gaming consoles – the nattily named Gamepark Wiz and the Pandora – heading our way early next year, we of course wanted to know more. What will we be able to do with these shiny new toys? Will we finally be able to make that game about the flying monkeys we dreamed up while tripping on mushrooms at Glastonbury in 1993? Or is this all going to be a bit ‘hobbyist’ for us?
The first new handheld that caught our eye was Gamepark’s Wiz system, the successor to its (now-discontinued) GP2X, pictures of which first leaked into our eyes (via the internet) back in the summer. The Wiz rocks a 2.8inch OLED QVGA touchscreen at 320x240 pixels and a 533mhz CPU, which means it is technically faster than the PSP's 333mhz processor. On top of that, you get a built-in microphone, SD memory slot, 64MB RAM, 1GB of internal storage and an intriguing-sounding "3D Acceleration" listed by the manufacturer.
Aside from its impressive spec-sheet, the Wiz’s USP is Gamepark’s promise of commercial game releases for the system. Which means that it could well appeal to a wider market than the usual homebrew crowd and the harder-than-hardcore fans of arcade and retro game emulators. Indeed, the boxed console comes with 12 built-in games, including a shooter called Myride and the rather awesomely entitled Snake on Dope.
Talking about the open source gaming development scene, Canadian game designer (and creator of BattleJewels) Jeff Mitchell, told TechRadar recently that, “the scene in general is one of the best around; the public at large is smaller than with your mainstream devices and so attracts people who are more interested in the devices and are a little willing to tinker - like your aftermarket car folks would be.
“The development scene itself has often been compared in spirit to the roaring days of the early 90s (Atari ST and Amiga and whatnot); suffice to say I think it's one of the best communities of homebrewers and retro-developers around.”
For Mitchell, the key thing, in true open source style, is that “if you need some help there's a hand usually around to assist… people who are not only willing but dying to help out, to beta test, to help with artwork for your emulator front-end or whatever. The PSP scene, the DS scene and so on. They're lively as well, but larger and less pulled together.”
The real question for more mainstream gamers is: “will the Wiz make any kind of dint on the commercial handheld gaming scene?” Might it even (*whisper it*) begin to compete with the mega-successful Nintendo DS and Sony’s sleekly powerful PSP?
“The Wiz will be enormously popular for emulation and homebrew fans,” says Mitchell, “and I expect people will buy a title or two of commercial-ware if it is priced well, and is priced to the quality…the trick is finding the balance.”
But in Mitchell’s mind, comparing the Wiz with the DS and the PSP is kind of missing the point, “just like SanDisk selling mp3 players doesn't dent the iPod market - but it keeps SanDisk going.”
Let’s not forget that hobbyist developers sometimes hit paydirt, though. “This is how Quake mod teams suddenly end up being game developers themselves,” says Mitchell. “Ten years of bottom feeding and finally getting their break.”
The other new open source handheld due to make some noise in 2009 is the ARM Cortex A80-powered Pandora, developed by an off-shoot team of the guys and girls behind Gamepark’s GP2X. The photos T3 has seen on the OpenPandora.org website are of a device which looks like a mash-up of DS-style clamshell design with (home console style) dual analogue controllers and a full QWERTY keyboard.
You want specs? They got specs. The ARM Cortex A80 processor runs at an impressive 600mhz. To put this in some kind of context, this is almost double the PSP's 333mhz. The graphics are powered by PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 hardware presented in all their glory on the Pandora’s 800x480 4.3in 16.7 million colour LCD touch-screen.
And if you want to hook up to the internet or to your PC or Mac, then the in-built 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and High Speed USB 2.0, dual SDHC card slots andby Published on November 23rd, 2008 22:12
An interesting article from t3online:
When game and software developers talk about ‘open source’ software, they generally cite widely-understood examples such as Mozilla’s superb Firefox internet browser or the Linux operating system. The Open Source movement’s philosophy is based on developing projects that are ‘self-organizing’, which generally means building stuff that is iteratively improved by a network of volunteer programmers. It is a ‘hive mind’ and decentralised way of developing software, as opposed to the bigger commercial developers’ more traditionally centralised and ‘top-down’ way of organising things. More simply put, it’s a DIY ‘punk’ ethic, almost in direct opposition to the ways of the megacorps such as Microsoft and Sony....
So when T3 heard recently that there is not only one, but TWO new open source handheld gaming consoles – the nattily named Gamepark Wiz and the Pandora – heading our way early next year, we of course wanted to know more. What will we be able to do with these shiny new toys? Will we finally be able to make that game about the flying monkeys we dreamed up while tripping on mushrooms at Glastonbury in 1993? Or is this all going to be a bit ‘hobbyist’ for us?
The first new handheld that caught our eye was Gamepark’s Wiz system, the successor to its (now-discontinued) GP2X, pictures of which first leaked into our eyes (via the internet) back in the summer. The Wiz rocks a 2.8inch OLED QVGA touchscreen at 320x240 pixels and a 533mhz CPU, which means it is technically faster than the PSP's 333mhz processor. On top of that, you get a built-in microphone, SD memory slot, 64MB RAM, 1GB of internal storage and an intriguing-sounding "3D Acceleration" listed by the manufacturer.
Aside from its impressive spec-sheet, the Wiz’s USP is Gamepark’s promise of commercial game releases for the system. Which means that it could well appeal to a wider market than the usual homebrew crowd and the harder-than-hardcore fans of arcade and retro game emulators. Indeed, the boxed console comes with 12 built-in games, including a shooter called Myride and the rather awesomely entitled Snake on Dope.
Talking about the open source gaming development scene, Canadian game designer (and creator of BattleJewels) Jeff Mitchell, told TechRadar recently that, “the scene in general is one of the best around; the public at large is smaller than with your mainstream devices and so attracts people who are more interested in the devices and are a little willing to tinker - like your aftermarket car folks would be.
“The development scene itself has often been compared in spirit to the roaring days of the early 90s (Atari ST and Amiga and whatnot); suffice to say I think it's one of the best communities of homebrewers and retro-developers around.”
For Mitchell, the key thing, in true open source style, is that “if you need some help there's a hand usually around to assist… people who are not only willing but dying to help out, to beta test, to help with artwork for your emulator front-end or whatever. The PSP scene, the DS scene and so on. They're lively as well, but larger and less pulled together.”
The real question for more mainstream gamers is: “will the Wiz make any kind of dint on the commercial handheld gaming scene?” Might it even (*whisper it*) begin to compete with the mega-successful Nintendo DS and Sony’s sleekly powerful PSP?
“The Wiz will be enormously popular for emulation and homebrew fans,” says Mitchell, “and I expect people will buy a title or two of commercial-ware if it is priced well, and is priced to the quality…the trick is finding the balance.”
But in Mitchell’s mind, comparing the Wiz with the DS and the PSP is kind of missing the point, “just like SanDisk selling mp3 players doesn't dent the iPod market - but it keeps SanDisk going.”
Let’s not forget that hobbyist developers sometimes hit paydirt, though. “This is how Quake mod teams suddenly end up being game developers themselves,” says Mitchell. “Ten years of bottom feeding and finally getting their break.”
The other new open source handheld due to make some noise in 2009 is the ARM Cortex A80-powered Pandora, developed by an off-shoot team of the guys and girls behind Gamepark’s GP2X. The photos T3 has seen on the OpenPandora.org website are of a device which looks like a mash-up of DS-style clamshell design with (home console style) dual analogue controllers and a full QWERTY keyboard.
You want specs? They got specs. The ARM Cortex A80 processor runs at an impressive 600mhz. To put this in some kind of context, this is almost double the PSP's 333mhz. The graphics are powered by PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 hardware presented in all their glory on the Pandora’s 800x480 4.3in 16.7 million colour LCD touch-screen.
And if you want to hook up to the internet or to your PC or Mac, then the in-built 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and High Speed USB 2.0, dual SDHC card slots andby Published on November 23rd, 2008 22:06
News/release from HeadoverHeels
New version of the snes emulator PocketSnes. Changes of this version:
Fixed: background graphics bugs in Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden 2
Fixed: bad sound in Actraiser.
Fixed: error loading default rom directory.
Fixed: bug in compressed savestate loading.
Fixed: Sound issues in firmwares < 4.0.
Optimizations in c4 emulation code.
Changes by headoverheels[list]
You can download it from http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=B9EQ651I
Download and Give Feedback Via Comments ...by Published on November 23rd, 2008 22:03
News/release from Bigs
REminiscence is a remake of the Flashback game engine. I did port it from http://cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/. I will setup a page there http://wii.bigs.fr soon.
You need to own an original version of Flashback to play. You will need the original files, here is the required list :
FB_TXT.FNT GLOBAL.ICN GLOBAL.FIB GLOBAL.SPC *.OFF *.SPR *.MAP *.PAL *.ANI *.CT *.MBK *.OBJ *.PGE *.RP *.TBN *.CMD *.POL *CINE.*
Put all of them in "DATA" directory.
If you have a version distributed by SSI, you'll have to rename some files :
logosssi.cmd -> logos.cmd logosssi.pol -> logos.pol menu1ssi.map -> menu1.map menu1ssi.pal -> menu1.pal
In order to hear music, you'll need the original music files (.mod) of the amiga version. Copy them to the DATA directory and rename them like this :
mod.flashback-ascenseur mod.flashback-ceinturea mod.flashback-chute mod.flashback-desintegr mod.flashback-donneobjt mod.flashback-fin mod.flashback-fin2 mod.flashback-game_over mod.flashback-holocube mod.flashback-introb mod.flashback-jungle mod.flashback-logo mod.flashback-memoire mod.flashback-missionca mod.flashback-options1 mod.flashback-options2 mod.flashback-reunion mod.flashback-taxi mod.flashback-teleport2 mod.flashback-teleporta mod.flashback-voyage
Feel free to repport bugs to bigs at zapoi dot fr
v0.90 08/11/23
Sound is much better, ...not perfect yet...
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