Hi all,

I released a new version ( 0.81 ) of AcChen.

This is a bugfix release. For more information about the game visit the AcChen DS page.
The following bugs are fixed:

selecting an item -> backgound -> item did remove the item
the hint-items did not display before you picked the 1st pair when a game was restarted
selected items were not reset when a game was restarted

New version: alpha 2

Changes:

Alpha 2

fixed:

- no longer crashes when loading a file that doesn’t exist

added/changed:

- variable names are no longer restricted to 1 character. Wee Basic now supports variable names of up to 8 characters, starting with a letter
but can otherwise use a combination of letters and numbers. eg test, a1, string12, a1b1, hello$
- one dimensional string and numerical arrays are now supported. To use them you first have to declare them with the “dim” statement.
eg. dim a1(10) dim hello$(5)
- there is a maximum of 100 numerical and 100 string variables
- each string array is limited to 30 members
- each numerical array is limited to 100 members

PSP had a huge spike in sales recently, thanks to Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and PSP Slim & Lite, 600,000 units were sold since it’s launch last month, Famitsu threw some questions at the 68 gaming stores they have connection with to find out what gamers like about the new PSP. So here’s some interesting data.

Note: This survey appear on Oct 26th issue of the mag, which is the issue before last.


Most Sold Colors
17.4% | Piano Black
17.1% | Ice Silver
17.0% | Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Limited
15.4% | Ceramic White
14.9% | Felicia Blue
11.3% | Lavender Purple
06.9% | Rose Pink
% of PSP Software Sales
The % of PSP games in the total number of games sold for all system saw great increases as well, thanks mostly to Crisis Core and MGS PO+. Aug 27 - Sep 2 4.5%
Sep 3 - Sep 9 4.3%
Sep 10 - Sep 16 30.7%
Sep 17 - Sep 23 26.2%
Sep 24 - Sep 30 19.8%


September Top PSP Games
All new PSP games were quite well received during the month and MHP 2nd, released back in February, had a big spike in sales as well.

663,820 | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
129,873 | Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops +
64,530 | Fate/Tiger Colosseum
30,168 | Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Tagforce 2
28,723 | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd
Games that sold well with Slim & Lite
51 votes | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
22 votes | Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops +
17 votes | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd
7 votes | Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
6 votes | Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Did Slim & Lite Meet Expectation?
The sales are unexpected for most of the stores questioned, many of them observed that there were quite a number of “old” PSP owners buying the new model as well.

62.7% | Unexpected
35.1% | As expected
02.2% | Below expectation
Reasons For Buying?
Despite critics on it’s reception, the 1seg TV Tuner was the top reason people getting the new PSP.

17 votes | 1seg TV Tuner
14 votes | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
12 votes | Slimmer and lighter
10 votes | Previous owners changing their system
09 votes | TV output
1seg TV Tuner Sales
It seems that many store owners already knew that 1seg TV Tuner will be a hit among new PSP buyers.

46.2% | As expected
40.3% | Unexpected
13.5% | Below expectation
Will PSP strong sales continue?
The most recent sales numbers already said no to this, although at around 60,000 units, it is still much higher than usual sales pre-Slim & Lite. Here’s what the store owners’ predicted, with the main reason for “No” being the lack of big titles.

43.3% | No
35.4% | Not sure
21.3% | Yes
Finally, the magazine highlighted some of the comments made by the store owners, here’s a few interesting ones:

More games like Monster Hunter Portable 2nd needed
The new models attracted quite a number of female buyers as well
Hope there are games that will support the 1seg TV Tuner
How about some limited edition colors?
Add record function to the TV Tuner
Current colors are too similar to NDS, some PSP exclusive colors would be nice
Games for the holiday season are severely lacking
Third party games has been quite successful on the PSP, hope there will be more games from them

Beauty and power co-exist.

iFind 4.0 is here today. Re-mastered on the outside - iFind's elegant and detailed yet simple interface sets it apart from everything else. Revamped on the inside - Even though you won't be able to see it, iFind's core has been recoded to achieve maximum performance. Open up a whole new world with the array of features and links iFind presents you. Join the social with the new look Chatrooms and built in babblr.* iFind also has a clever password protection which allows you to protect your private files such as photos away from others’ eyes’. Going to your favourite sites and checking your mail has never been easier because iFind contains hundreds of sorted links allowing you to get where you want fast. The LiNK Browser, only available on iFind, gets you everywhere, surf the net, listen to music, do whatever you like while allowing you to your stuff in three tabs, meaning it can theoretically expand the three tabs in your PlayStation Portable browser to an incredible nine tabs.

It’s gorgeous.

iFind’s been acclaimed for it’s exceptional beauty in it’s graphics and design. Luminos is no different; while everyone is still catching up in this department, iFind once again sets new levels of standards with portal aesthetics and designs. Style up with iFind as changing to your favourite wallpaper is a breeze with the new Wallpaper Changer in iFind. It’s beauty that’s unparalleled.

Keep your personal media secure.

iFind can protect your private files from strangers' access. Keep all your private images and or .txt files in a folder known only to you and leave it to iFind to protect for you! Passwords can easily be configured on a computer with a text editor.

Find anything, fast.

Find your files or portals quickly and easily. Never ever will you need to type a long address to get to a file in your PSP. Finding and opening files will always be easy as iFind’s search feature is built straight into its main page.

Investigate, work, play and explore.

With handy text editors, paint applications, massive game library, and whatnot, do what ever you please with iFind’s built in applications and games allowing you to do much, much more on your PlayStation Portable.

Now playing.

Have a favourite tune you love to listen to? You can now play it inside iFind’s own mini Jukebox accessible via the LiNK Browser so you can surf the internet while listening to your tunes!

Make a connection.

LiNK brings you the both the convenience of browsing the internet and giving you the choice of quickly navigating back to iFind instantaneously, not only that LiNK now features a tabbed browsing, theoretically allowing you to view a total of nine web pages simultaneously, a break through on the PSP. It truly is the best browser in a browser.

Your guide, to the internet.

iFind comes with iPLP, providing you a rich experience of the internet. It has hundreds of categorized specially formatted sites just for use on the PlayStation Portable. Who ever said browsing the internet on the PlayStation Portable wasn’t fun?

Develop for iFind.

XDE (Cross Developer Expansion) allows users to easily create their own applications or games to be installed on iFind easily without any alteration of the code on iFind. Why not create something special for iFind and share it with all the iFind users around the world?


Bonjour!

Nice to meet you; join the live Chat Rooms exclusive to iFind users and meet up with your buddies or just have fun and meet new people all around the world! Want to use AIM, MSN or YIM? iFind has babblr integration allowing you to chat with people who are on their computers.*

Stay on track.

iFind is also completely expandable through it’s online web extension, the LiNK Centre.* The LiNK Centre provides news updates on iFind, global news updates via Digg, and many other neat services!*

See for your self.

With tens of thousands of users around the world, and being beautifully designed by Cronos you just have to see for yourself how good iFind just really is. Make the switch today and get iFind. *Will require WiFi internet access



Here's a run down of it's current core features:

- Passkey Protection (Improved password protection)
- LiNK Browser (Allows 3 tabs in inside iFind)
- Fully customizable GUI
- Media Browser
- Media Player
- XDE support
- Jukebox
- Games (18 in total, expandable through updates/XDE)
- Applications (11 in total, ditto above) - Iorkara's PSP Links Page
- babblr 2.0 (AIM, WLPM and YIM Messenger support)
- Wallpaper Changer
- LiNK Center
- Chatrooms

New/Improved features:

- Totally revamped GUI
- LiNK Browser (fixed bugs and cleaned up coding)
- Online game database access
- LiNK Station
- Mobile Mail Centre
- Jukebox
- Better XDE integration
- Cleaned up coding for faster loading
- About page with Help
- babblr 2.0 integration
- New customization features (much more easier to customize)







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