Another Press release:

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has used the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles to take the wraps off two new iterations of the ever-popular Bomberman® series. Bomberman® will be released for PSPTM (PlayStation®Portable), with Bomberman Act: Zero bringing the series' explosive fun to Xbox 360.

Bomberman marks the debut of the bomb-toting hero on the PSP system with classic gameplay and a wealth of new handheld gaming twists. An ominous black shadow is creeping towards Bomberman's planet, and sudden attacks by a mysterious robot army have brain-washed the inhabitants of surrounding planets, creating mass chaos. Now Bomberman must embark on an intergalactic adventure to stop this evil menace and save his planet.

Bomberman brings a classic selection of characters and environments to life in full 3D with a variety of different play modes. 'Normal' mode offers single-player Bomberman adventures, complete with a new story and 100 levels and a new item stock system that allows for the collection and strategic use of items.

'Classic' mode is based on the original Bomberman gameplay and features over 50 different levels of explosive fun. Multi-player battle mode allows up to four players to fight for survival in a variety of highly customisable game types across 20 different stages via wireless ad hoc play. Similarly, game sharing lets up to four players battle together in timeless multiplayer party modes with just one UMD.

BOMBERMAN Act: Zero for the Xbox 360 redefines the series for the next generation with breathtaking high resolution graphics and all-new gameplay elements. Deep within an experimental underground facility in a bleak alternate future, humans are imprisoned as test subjects and trained to become deadly soldiers. Equipped with armoured battle suits, players must fight for survival and eliminate each other to determine who will become the final human weapon. As Bomberman, your objective is simple: destroy your opponents before they destroy you.

Players are challenged to survive through 99 stages as they try to escape this failing experiment and reach the surface. As they progress through the corridors of the facility, it will be a scramble for hidden items such as the program extension chip needed to strengthen their armour or other powerful ability enhancements. Up to eight players can battle for survival online in classic multiplayer action through Xbox Live® and earn points to become the ultimate weapon on the World Rankings. Online players can also customise their character from a wide variety of visual options, including gender, colour and armour type. ...

Heres the press release:

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has today announced Silent Hill Origins (working title) for PSPTM (PlayStation®Portable).

The first handheld title in the legendary horror series, Silent Hill Origins uses the PSPTM to tell an original story with disturbing graphics and all-new gameplay elements. The game's narrative reveals the origins that transformed Silent Hill from a sleepy town to a hellish stronghold of terror and introduces several new characters to the franchise.

Silent Hill Origins follows a solitary truck driver stranded in Silent Hill while making an ordinary trip. Confronted by perversions of his imagination that mirror his troubled past, he must escape from the town as it falls into ruin and also uncover the truth behind the hallucinations that have haunted him for so long.

The game introduces several gameplay mechanics that are new to the franchise and provide the player with an enhanced sensation of isolation as they make their way through the desolate streets of Silent Hill. Key to this is a new barricade system that lets players manipulate the environment to impede the progress of pursuing enemies, using furniture and debris to create a sanctuary from the evil that lurks outside. Players can also utilise an enhanced camera designed with the PSPTM in mind, as well as an updated control scheme for improved combat and more detailed exploration of the environment. Fans of the series will also revel in Silent Hill Origins' original soundtrack by series composer Akira Yamaoka.

"Silent Hill Origins delivers all the terrifying moments, gruesome enemies and memorable characters and story-telling the series is known for on to a handheld gaming system", said Hans-Joachim Amann, Head of European Product Management for Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH. "Players can now experience greater freedom with the game's enhanced combat and barricade systems and also learn how the chilling events of later Silent Hill games were set in motion."

Scheduled to launch this Winter, Silent Hill Origins is developed by Climax and will be on display at Konami's booth (#800) at the Electronic Entertainment Expo May 10th-12th, 2006. ...

Raf and the PSP Radio Team have released a new version of the Links Homebrew web browser:

Heres whats new:

- Now screenshot directory is created by default. Also filenames now say links_..png instead of pspradio_...png
- Now it won't load network modules if f/w version is 2.0+ (hope this allows it to work via eLoader).
- Added download directory configuration for AVC MP4 files. Added support for 'other' download directory.
- OpenSSL ported to the PSP. Links now links against it to provide SSL support.
- Updated to version 2.1-pre21.
- L+ UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT now scrolls the screen in those directions.

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Somthing just hit me call it a stroke of insperation
or just seeing beyond the excitment of the psone emu for psp

But If sony does release an offical psone emu for the psp

Wouldnt that officaly make all other psone emus past preasent or future, OFFICAL WAREZ

Now far be it from me to Call this psp psone emu and offical attack on homebrew,
But screw you sony, screw you and the horse you rode in on
By makeing psone emus warez, that means not only will the psone homebrew emus become rare and hard to find because sites like dcemu will refuse to host them, But this attack will have a wider range possibly effecting other emus aswell


Comments please! ...

Via IGN:

Sony Computer Entertainment's first console is coming roaring back, this time in portable form. SCE announced earlier that it would be featuring downloadable PS1 games for its PlayStation portable system, and in a test station here on the show floor, the company showed off Namco's PS1 game Ridge Racer playable on the portable.

Ridge Racer was a good choice to show on PSP, because it's one of the most visually-impressive and yet simple to control games on the PlayStation 1. And "simple to control" is key here, because several questions are still left unanswered with this demo. Chiefly, how will PSP cope with the lack of a second set of trigger buttons? It's possible that SCE and developers may be able to map one set of the triggers to the D-Pad when using the analog nub, but since the Ridge Racer demo didn't use both buttons, it's unknown how that'll work. In fact, it's unknown in general how emulation interfacing will work -- as demonstrated by the Pre-E3 demo by SCE, the PS1 demos on PSP boot straight to the game after download (although it's possible that there will be an option outside of the boot menu before the game starts.) Once in the PS1 game, it's a PS1 game -- the select and start buttons do what they did on PS1, and the only buttons that you can interface PSP-style are the volume, screen, and home buttons. Games made for the emulator from PS1 will be carefully remapped to the PSP controller to make the most of the system. On the start menu, when you go to controller options, you see the ancient PS1 white controller, pre-DualShock. Interestingly enough, the analog nub didn't work at all in the demo -- we're not sure if this is because the real PS1 game didn't have analog (although that should be an easy thing to cheat onto the stick), or because we were not able to find the analog switch-on feature, or if the feature is just not implemented yet.

Whatever the control system, the emulation was clear and nice. Framerate was not at all a problem for the advanced little portable, running Ridge Racer at full speed. Textures were sharp, possibly with some texture smoothing (road signs were perfectly readable.) The boxy textures of the old system were not nearly as much an issue as we expected, with flag girl Reiko looking like a dream all these years later. Color depth was incredibly rich thanks to the PSP's mondo screen, and aside from some graininess (which may be inherent in the PS1 original ... it's been a while since we've played this oldie), the game looked colorful and speedy. Using the PSP's screen button, you can change the aspect ratio while still at full play, between PS1 res, full res (scaled up to the PSP's boarders but not stretched beyond that), and widescreen (a full stretch to widescreen.) The full res option was probably the best way to play, with little issue in blowing up these low-res textures since the screen is so small; widescreen, meanwhile, should probably be avoided, since it stretches things obscenely, makes text look soft, and overall loses the good look of the emulated game.

Ridge Racer was the only game playable in PS1 emulation on PSP, so we still have a lot of questions and concerns for the feature, but as far as performance, the PSP looks to have no problem running its forerunner. Look for more PS1-to-PSP emulation soon.

True Emulation fans will also remember that Ridge Racer ran on the PSone Emulator for PC Called PSEmu pro and the size of the rom was only 2.5mb.

Interesting times ahead for this new commercial emulator - Unless someone ports a killer PSOne emulator to the PSP ...

To follow on from what Nintendo are calling their Next Gen console we have today changed the name of our former "The Revolution" site to Nintendo Wii News.

As you would expect it has masses of the latest news and screenshots from E3. Some great news items if you havent followed it lately.

Check out Nintendo Wii News, those looking for the best in Next gen news should also check out Xbox360 News and PS3 Evolution ...

Just a quick newspost to say that The Revolution is now to be called Nintendo Wii News and the new url is ---> http://wii-news.dcemu.co.uk ...

I've not spent much time on MAME-PSP recently, and it seems it has shown! MAME4ALL has been ported to the PSP; something I probably should have looked into myself.

So what are your thoughts on this, my fellow arcade fans!

I will keep my promise. I will release a BETA of MAME-PSP that runs 30 games near flawlessly very soon, just give me a day or so to clean up a little. It's worth the wait I promise ...

Main changes:

- Hardware video scaled.
- Previous menu for choosing a MAME4ALL.
- New skin by DarkSlain.
- VSync Option.
- Filechache for speed up loading time.
- A lot of minnor fixes.


Also MAMEGP2X 2.3 changes incluided:

- Bugs solved:
Bug in the sound with some games (Bomb Jack, Pinball Action, etc).
Bug with games with I8085 processor (Phoenix runs with sound again).
Screen centering in the not scaled + rotated video mode.

- Some changes by Slaanesh:
New playable games: Robocop, Hippodrome.
Sound improvements: Sly Spy, Midnight Resistance, Dark Seal, Juno First.
Control Improvements: Midnight Resistance, Heavy Barrel, Ikari Warriors, Victory Road, Defender.
Optimizations: Galaga.
Other improvements: Time Pilot, Pooyan, Tutankham, Gyruss.

- Modified romset (MAME 0.35b5): Sly Spy (revision 3) (slyspy)

- Support for 3 new romsets (MAME 0.35b5):
Boulderdash / Boulderdash Part 2 (bouldash), Sly Spy (revision 2) (slyspy2), Gate Of Doom (revision 4) (gatedoma)


Downloads and more info at MAME4ALL Site. ...