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    by Published on September 30th, 2007 20:07

    From the readme file:

    UltraMSX2 is an MSX2 emulator for N64 based on fMSX 1.5 by Marat Fayzullin. The AY8910 and SCC emulation are replaced for better sound emulation (ripped of the MESS project).

    With the rominserter you can insert your favorite game in the emulator. At the moment the maximum romsize is limited to 128kb. The rominserter will generate a file called 'Patched.v64'. Fix the checksum of the file with RTOOLS or IAS or another tool that can calculate the checksum and download it to you N64. ...
    by Published on September 30th, 2007 20:05

    News/release from NephilimNX:

    Wow! Its been a long vacation until I've updated ThemePlus! Anyway here's the new features:

    New Features

    - Gameboot can now also be changed randomly
    - Ability to change Wallpaper, Gameboot, or both
    - Added an option to add images and gameboots under the sub-directories in the list
    - Fixed a bug when changing the directories from the configuration file. The bug occurs when the directory's length is lesser than the original
    - This has been tested on 3.52 M33-4 only and may not run yet on 3.71 due to PRX incompatibilities. I'm still using 3.52 M33-4 and may not upgrade yet until the 1.50 subset installer for 3.71 M33 is out. But this is only for personal reasons.


    Introduction
    This plugin lets you change your PSP's Wallpaper and/or Gameboot randomly and timely.

    You can set the option to change them:
    * Always - Changes the PSP's Wallpaper and/or Gameboot everytime the XMB loads up
    * Hourly, Daily, Monthly, and Yearly - Changes the PSP's Wallpaper and/or Gameboot on the next hour, day, month, and year the XMB loads up
    * Never - Don't change the PSP's Wallpaper and/or Gameboot at all

    You can use any quantity of images and gameboots and you have the option if you want the plugin to search for images and gameboots inside the sub-directories.

    Be sure to read the readme.

    And for now, this only works on 3.52 M33-4. Sorry 3.71 M33 users.
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    via NephilimNX: ...
    by Published on September 30th, 2007 19:55

    Via what japan thinks

    I haven’t looked at video games for a while, so I was glad to find this survey from goo Research on video game usage by children. Video games cover handhelds, TV-connected games and even PC-based gaming.

    Demographics
    Between the 25th of June and 13th of July 2007 1,165 elementary school children (or people claiming to be children) responded to a public questionnaire available on the Kids goo web site. The sample was 60.0% girls, 3.4% in first year of elementary school (ages six or seven), 5.0% in second year, 9.9% in third year, 20.3% in forth year, 26.9% in fifth year, and 34.6% in sixth year (ages eleven or twelve). Note that since this is a public internet-based survey there will definite sampling bias.

    There’s so much great data in this survey! Q4SQ is perhaps my favourite; based on my casual observations, not surprisingly the DS totally dominates everything else. However, the other new portable, the PSP, is played less than the ancient Famicon and Super Famicon. I’m surprised that these two machines did so well; is this due to parents being cheap, to them having less worries about graphic violence in the older titles, not wanting to spoil the kids on photo-realism, or do kids really choose themselves to play these machines?

    Note that this survey was conducted before the new PSP Slim sold quarter of a million units in one week.

    Q4: What kinds of video games do you often play? (Sample size=932, multiple answer)
    Portable games (PSP, Nintendo DS, etc) (to SQ) 68.8%
    PC-based single-player games 67.8%
    Television-connected console games (to SQ) 47.5%
    Online games 22.5%
    Mobile phone games 16.4%
    Game arcade or shop game corner 10.8%
    Other 6.7%

    Q4SQ: What kinds of video games machines do you often play on? (Sample size=764, console and portable gamers, multiple answer)
    Nintendo DS 82.2%
    Nintendo Gameboy Advance 39.8%
    Sony PlayStation 1, 2 or 3 37.4%
    Nintendo Wii 35.3%
    Nintendo Gamecube 31.4%
    Nintendo Gameboy, Gameboy Micro 19.8%
    Nintendo 64 15.2%
    Nintendo Super Famicon (SNES) 15.1%
    Nintendo Famicon (NES) 11.9%
    Sony PlayStation Portable 10.5%
    Microsoft Xbox 5.8%
    Sega Saturn 5.1%
    Sega Dreamcast 4.8%
    Other 16.4% ...
    by Published on September 30th, 2007 19:50

    News/release from 3r Ch4mp1

    Parts of code are from Anissian's PRX tutorial samples and from DAX
    HEN SDK samples and some other code that I found on pspdev.org forum.

    Hope this crap can be useful to someone, I did only to learn and enjoy with C/C++

    Code from Booster's DevHook SDK is used in this plugin, it is included
    with the sources in the CONTRIB folder

    Modified blit.c for 3.71 from CFW Extender 1.5 is in the CONTRIB folder

    NIDs were extracted from the PS2DEV.ORG forum and from the stubs of
    CFW Extender 1.5

    Uses Dark_Alex's 3.71 SDK, be sure to have it in order to recompile it

    You are free to use and modify this source code, if you do it, give me credit
    and keep this whole notice.

    Setup
    -----
    Copy the content from the binaries folder to ms0:/seplugins, if you have a
    VSH.TXT copy the line of the file bundled with this pack to your file.

    Open the recovery and activate the plugin.

    Changelog
    ---------

    0.22 Version
    ------------
    -Ported to 3.71 Kernel, for use with previous firmwares, use 0.21 Release
    -To turn off the PSP use R+SQUARE, it was changed in order to avoid conflicts
    with M33 Firmware VSHMenu

    0.21 Version
    ------------
    -On Screen notiications when you activate a mode are displayed, thes ones
    are a bit experimental, so their behaviour may not be the adequate under
    some situations.

    -The Software Full Power Off has been modified, it now turns off completely
    the system without risk of crash. If PowerLock is active, the Software Power Off
    will be locked too.

    -The plugin seems to work in all the places of the XMB but is recommendable to turn
    modes in the XMB root to avoid conflicts with button press combos, crashes seem to have
    been bypassed.

    0.2 Version
    -----------
    -Added the Black Screen Mode, it turns off your PSP Screen, and if you press
    buttons it will remain black, useful when listening songs

    -Fixed the compatibility bugs which lead te system to a crash with the latest
    M33 Firmaware updates

    -Some of the key combinations were changed in order to be more compatible with
    the latest M33 updates, and by popular demand with Wildcard Firmwares too

    Plugin Features
    ---------------

    This plugin has been designed and coded to optimize the energy consumption of
    the PSP while we stay in the XMB.

    This plugin has 4 main functions described here.

    -Music Mode: To activate this mode you have to press L+R, this performs an
    underclock to 60Mhz for the CPU and 30 Mhz for the main system bus, suitable
    to listen to your Mp3 and even ATRAC music files. Pressing again L+R will set
    the CPU/Bus speeds to the ones you had previously configured.

    -ToggleIdle: This mode disables the autoidle feature of the console (not of the screen)
    this mode can be toggled on/off by pressing R+START, useful when watching pictures of any kind
    (even porn! xD).

    -PowerLock: Pressing R+NOTE you will block the console power switch in order to prevent an accidental
    turn off of the system, if you toggled it on and you attempted to turn off the console it will simply
    don't, but when you unlock it, the console automatically will turn off (if you did not touch the power switch
    it will unlock but it won't turn off the system).

    -Black Screen Mode: Pressing L+START we turn off the PSP Screen until we press L+START again, the screen
    will turn on and set itself with the previous brightness level we had. Useful used toghether with Music Mode
    it can save you a lot of battery!

    -Software full power off: Pressing R+SQUARE, the system will turn off totally, this feature was too easy to
    implement, I lef this here because you liked it, and if it is useful to someone I won't remove it.

    Suggestions, bug reports and new features to implement are welcome, leave me them in this post or better
    in my devblog at http://erchampi.wordpress.com

    Don't forget to leave me a greeting for my birthday in August 24 it's the only thing I demand from you!

    Credits and dedications
    -----------------------
    About my personal life
    ----------------------
    - All the ones from previous releases are valuable to me, but this release is unique and entirely dedicated
    to my friend Noemi, she is passing by moments that she does not deserve.

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    by Published on September 30th, 2007 19:43

    Read the .txt file for information and how to use it. ...
    by Published on September 30th, 2007 18:53



    Hi All,

    For those who haven't seen previous versions, Caprice32 is one of
    the best emulator of the Amstrad CPC home computer series running
    on Windows and Unix, written by Ulrich Doewich.
    This emulator faithfully imitates the CPC464, CPC664, and CPC6128 models.

    What's new in version 1.2.0 :

    - Major Speed improvements, it's now close to fullspeed !
    - Import CRT emulation part of older version of Caprice32 v4.1.0
    (less accurate, but much faster)
    - Add two new render modes : Fast and Ultra.
    - Sound is now played in 16 bits and stereo !
    - Display and save thumbnail images for each save state
    - New speed limiter function
    - Add option to display fps rate
    - Option to prevent the blue led to be displayed when
    L or R are pressed
    - Add a simple intro splash screen
    - Support iso8859-1 fonts in print text functions
    (might be useful to translate menus in german, french ...)
    - Bug fix and code cleaning

    How to use it ? Everything is in the README file.

    This package is under GPL Copyright, read COPYING file for more information about it.

    You can download it on my blog : http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/

    Thanks to KaosOverride for the hints on VDU stuff

    Enjoy,

    Zx. ...
    by Published on September 30th, 2007 17:50

    Homebrew games:
    77a Special Edition
    Manic Miner 64
    Pips World
    Puzzle Master 64
    Shufflepuck 64
    Sporting Clays

    Demos:
    Absolute Crap Intro #1
    Alien Style
    Christmas Flame Demo
    Fireworks
    Fish Demo
    Friendship Intro
    Kings Of Porn Vol. 1
    Lcars
    Nacho 64
    Nbc N64 Scene Gallery
    Nbc Tag Gallery 1
    Nintendo On My Mind
    Pamela
    Protest Design Meeting
    Rip Jay
    Sitero
    Split's Summer64 Intro
    Topgun Demo


    (Check the next replies for the demos) ...
    by Published on September 30th, 2007 17:46

    via Engadget


    Well would you look at that, instructions are now available for downgrading your iPhone from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2. It won't downgrade your baseband, meaning so far you can't re-unlock an iPhone that's been 1.1.1-ified, but it's still 1.0.2 in all its third-party application glory. The iPhone Dev Team folks are working on a way to downgrade the new firmware to let people unlock their phones again, but for now AT&T users sitting pretty, and non-AT&T folks can at least do the WiFi thing.


    Video tuturial here ...
    by Published on September 30th, 2007 16:01

    Via Dark_AleX

    Dark_AleX promised us a 1.50 Kernel patch for 3.71M33, and here it is.


    Requeriments:

    - 3.71 M33 previously installed.

    Instructions:

    - Copy the directory UPDATE to /PSP/GAME/UPDATE.
    - Get sony 1.50 update and copy it to the root with name "150.PBP"
    - Run the program and done.

    Notes:

    - This program is only for PSP fat. The program will reject PSP slim, due to the 1.50 kernel
    not working on it.

    - Because of lack of space, the installer will remove Location Free Player, and the korean font.


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    by Published on September 30th, 2007 13:19

    CPS2PSP is a single arcade (Capcom Play System 2) emulator for the Sony PSP and Sony PSP Slim. MVSPSP is a Neogeo Cartridge emulator for the PSP. NJ released new test versions for the Slim and CFW 3.71 M33

    Google translation:
    This one, it does not own new model PSP, but that the friend makes correspond, because it is noisy, it drew up once.
    Because it is slipshod job of 2 hours, addition/is only correspondence to the ROM set which is modified up to correspondence and MAME 0.119 to the memory of 32MB which is expanded, but it is the time because angle, it releases.
    The friend or we not to desire many, because the return of PSP which is borrowed are one week later, it is correspondence of period limitation.
    Only one there being a new model PSP, because either operation verification is not possible, it does not correspond to AdHoc.
    The next time (2007/10/07 schedules) with formal PSP-2000 + 3.71 M33 corresponding binary (also MVSPSP renews correspondence schedule) with the source code (only includes the one for old type PSP).

    Source: http://nj-emu.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

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