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by Published on February 24th, 2008 21:31
As our bat-eared readers discovered when the game was first released, the Wii edition of Guitar Hero III, though advertised as possessing Dolby Surround Sound capabilities, could only duplicate one channel of audio through multiple speakers (a.k.a. mono sound). Incensed, Nintendo's virtual troubadours demanded action -- Activision responded with a somewhat less-than-timely disc replacement program. Now, four months after the game was released, Activision has announced another method of atonement for their single-channel sins.
Instead of replacing your half-mute disc with a standard one (though this option is still available), you can now replace said disc with cold, hard cash (or warm, soft cash, depending on your local climate and the weariness of the bills you receive). While we're sure this policy will be exploited by those who tire of faux rocking and simply want the cash, it's refreshing to see Actie-V face their shortcomings so directly -- if not a tad unpunctually.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/24/ac...itar-hero-iii/ ...by Published on February 24th, 2008 20:24
via Nintendo Life
SEGA Europe today revealed that they are to allow fans the chance to help name one of the all new enemy races in the highly anticipated Sonic the Hedgehog RPG adventure, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood™. Developed by industry admired story-telling specialists, BioWare, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood will appear on the Nintendo DS™ system during Autumn 2008.
Between March 3rd and March 14th fans will be able to visit the Sonic City website (www.sonic-city.com) to cast their vote in naming the new race. After the votes have been counted the winner will be announced on March 15th and then appear in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood when the game launches in Autumn 2008.
Sonic fans should add these dates into their Official Sonic Calendars 2008 and then get back to playing Sonic Riders, go now, go play! ...by Published on February 24th, 2008 20:06
Finally in the last few weeks we have seen real Native Wii Homebrew working. (previously it was Gamecube Homebrew on the Wii but Nintendo blocked that route meaning you needed a Modchip to play Gamecube Homebrew on the Wii.
Things Needed
Nintendo Wii
UK US or Jap Version
Gamecube SD Card Adapter
Available at Play Asia
SD Card
1GB or higher should be OK
A copy of Zelda (It must match the version of console, ie US Zelda on a US WII)
UK / US / Jap Version
First check
On the Zelda Disc on the side thats played look for the following strings:
This exploit does not work with every version of Zelda:TP. Easy way to check your version is to compare the text string which is on the inner cycle of the data surface with the ones below.
RVL-RZDP-0A-0 JPN - working
Some minor problems reported e.g. Some greeny lines around the top area of the screen that appear with the penguin and if the TV type is set to 480i/p (60Hz or EDTV mode) the bottom is cut off
RVL-RZDE-0A-0 JPN - working
RVL-RZDE-0A-0 USA - working
RVL-RZDE-0A-2 USA - working (if you encounter problems with alpha2, re-download the latest rzde2.bin)
RVL-RZDJ-0A-0 JPN - not supported yet
Next Job
Extract the Twilight hack zip archive into any folder.
Grab your SD Card and on it
Make a new folder on it and rename private
inside private folder make a new folder and rename wii
inside wii folder make a new folder and rename title
inside title folder make a new folder and rename RZDE (for USA)
RZDP (for Pal)
RZDJ (for Japan)
Then from the Twilight hack grap the file you need and rename to data.bin - stick that inside the RZDE (change to suit your system) Folder.
Next
Go into Wii Options --> Data Management --> Save Data --> Wii. Find your Zelda save, click on it, and click "Erase", and click Yes.
Now, go into SD card, and select the "Twilight Hack" save (the icon says "Wiibrew Loader"). Click copy, and yes. Now, go back out of that menu
Then start the game. Select the first save file (called Twilight Hack), complete the brightness setting, and talk to the man in front of you.
The Elf Loader Will then load You now have Wii Homebrew
, what it will say is "Coming Soon Elf Loader and Beyond with a big fat penguin sitting there
Next is the harder part and it may be where a lot of you will fail and believe me i dont think its easy either but here goes.
Now you will need the demo.elf file from the Twilight Hack zipfile
You will also need Writeelf, once you have downloaded it then extract it to your desktop.
Now you should have the writeelf file and the demo.elf file on your desktop.
Now heres where unless you have used command lines before you may struggle.
I had to move the 2 files to my c:/documents and settings/billy folder because when i opened up the Command Prompt that is the folder it started in.
Now my SD Card showed up on my J Drive so this is the command i pasted into the command prompt box:
writeelf -f=demo.elf j
basically you can use this for any wii homebrew by renaming the file say tetris.elf to demo.elf or by changing the command above to whatever.elf you need. The J part is the drive that your SD Card is on so again change that to the drive you need. (do not change it to your C or Windows drive)
If successfull then it will write to the file
Then grabbing your SD Card insert it into the Gamecube SD Card Adapter, then insert that into Slot A on the Gamecube Memory port on the Nintendo Wii.
Then start the game. Select the first save file (called Twilight Hack), complete the brightness setting, and talk to the man in front of you.
The Elf Loader Will then load and you now will see the Demo and you are in the World of Wii Homebrew
This method can be reused for any new releases, so yes its not easy but if your a homebrew fan im sure you will try it 
, hopefully an easier way will be released that doesnt need require you to use command lines via a command prompt.
As Usual Please Discuss Via Comments and thanks to Wii Brew for the Twilight Hack and for some of the instructions that ive tried to simplifiy and make a little more sense of them. ...by Published on February 24th, 2008 17:30
ozgur hanoi is a simple Towers of Hanoi game project aimed to produce know-how about coding games for GP2X using SDL.
* initial alpha release.
* almost playable.
usage
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disc count and some other parameters may be changed by editing the configuration file "hanoi.ini".
CLICK: CPU solves the game with animated moves of the discs.
JOY_LEFT, JOY_RIGHT: changes the selected peg.
SELECT: marks the selected peg or moves the disc on the top of the marked peg to the currently selected peg.
Y - resets the game.
http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfile...,0,0,0,25,2493 ...by Published on February 24th, 2008 16:31
via gp32spain
I publish the new version of PocketSnes. In this version were added the following changes:
Added stereo
Added advanced configuration options
Audio performance Hack
Ignore Palette writes
Ignore Fixed Colour
Ignore Windows clipping
Ignore Add / Sub Modes
Options to disable the different layers
Download and Give Feedback Via Comments ...by Published on February 24th, 2008 16:25
Metalbrain has updated his Spectrum emulator for the GP2X:
Here we go with another version of the ZX Spectrum emulator!...
This one should have been called 1.6, but since the topic name of the pre-release version of 1.5 has caused some confusion, we've decided to skip it and jump to 1.7
As usual, here it is:
http://www.speccy.org/metalbrain/GP2Xpectrum1.7.zip
What's new:
the big stuff added by Seleuco:
- Full tzx support. New tape code for tap and tzx formats.
- Added Tape sound emulation.
- "fast loading" option to disable speed emulation, tape sound, and contended mode while the game is loaded.
- "flash loading" option to flashload tape blocks when possible.
- "edge loading" option to accelerate game loaders dynamically.
- "Tape Auto Play/Stop" option to play/stop the tape automatically. Best for multilevel games.
- A yellow play label is shown on the screen while the tape is playing; if the label is green, the emulator has detected a loader
and is applying the "edge loader" algorithm.
- Auto "full screen off-on" when the tape is playing.
- Added a Tape browser to view/select tape blocks, play/stop the tape manually and to change the tape without resetting the speccy.
- Added the possibility to select the file to load from a zip file.
- Resized the program selection screen to allow longer file names and view the file extensions.
my humble contribution (Metalbrain):
- Added reset for +2A mode.
- Fixed a bug when loading .z80 files saved in +2A/+3 mode (the ROM wasn't properly selected).
- To improve performance, the battery won't get polled on F100 models when battery icon is inactive, and it gets polled less frequently when active.
- Replaced the text "ROM LIST" with "PROGRAM LIST", and "+3 disc" with "+3 disk".
- Updated documentation.
and the finishing touch by headoverheels:
- Compiled with profiling option.by Published on February 24th, 2008 16:23
by Published on February 24th, 2008 15:55
Antoine "Royale" Jacquet has released what looks to be a new space shooter for the PSP, heres the release details:
t h e s t o r y
You are captain of the cargo ship Chromium B.S.U., responsible for delivering supplies to our troops on the front line. Your ship has a small fleet of robotic fighters which you control from the relative safety of the Chromium vessel.
y o u r m i s s i o n
Do not let ANY enemy ships get past your fighters! Each enemy ship that makes it past the bottom of the screen will attack the Chromium, and you lose a fighter.
Use your fighters as weapons! Crash into enemies to destroy them before they can get past you.
Strategic suicide is a powerful tactic! When the Chromium launches a new fighter, it releases a high energy burst which destroys all enemies in range.
Self-destruct to preserve your ammunition! A double-right-click will cause your current fighter to self-destruct. Before the ship blows up, it ejects its ammunition so that the next fighter can pick it up.
Known issues:
Some graphic effects are disabled in the menu.
The game is a bit slower during the first seconds.
You may experience some speed variation during the game.
Download and Give Feedback Via Comments ...by Published on February 24th, 2008 15:47
Quirky has updated Bunjalloo,his homebrew web browser for the DS
Fix clicking URL on url/image menu, as reported in issue 44.
Download and Give Feedback Via Comments ...by Published on February 24th, 2008 15:28
Hi All,
DCMO5 is one of the best emulator of the Thomson MO5 home computer running
on many systems such as MacOS, Windows and Unix.
It has been written by Daniel Coulom (see http://dcmo5.free.fr/ for further details).
PSPMO5 is a port on PSP of the version 11 of DCMO5.
Thanks to Raven for the eboot icon's stuff.
How to use it ? Everything is in the README.txt file.
Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public licence v3,
read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.
You can download it from my blog :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/
It's a first release, work still remain, for tape and disk support, save states etc ...
Enjoy,
Zx.
UPDATE: I've uploaded a new version, because the keyboard on the previous one was buggy ...
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