Nickspoon has released a Flash Player for the GP2x. Heres the information for this release:

This program will play flash movies, and to a certain extent flash games. The mouse movement is a little dodgy at the moment, and there's no keyboard or sound support. To run, simply create a script that includes the line: ./flashplay and run it from the same directory as flashplay.

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Danzel has released a new version of his PSP Telnet application, heres whats new etc:

"Whats new in this version?
I wrote an (almost) complete vt100 emulator and added in some telnet protocol negotiations.
What does this mean to you? Well it means that PSP is now a very powerful and featureful machine.
You can now browse the web, check email, stream movies, get on MSN/AOL/ICQ/GTalk/IRC, play text adventures and play nethack!!!

Heres a cutdown version of the changelog:

fixed some p_sprint bugs, the keyboard image is correct now.
Much better telnet support, I've implemented a vt100 emulator, currently it lacks a few features and seems to have some bugs, but it is good for most programs.
There is a known crash bug in telnet, read the README, I want your stack trace if it happens!
Programs List (If you have ran some programs, please post feedback and I'll add statuses here)

nethack
Works fine with default term, make sure you have colors turned on in your .nethackrc so you can enjoy them
Hard to control though, will get its own keyboard layout in a future version.

elinks
Works fine with default term, the control keys keyset is very good here .

nano
Doesn't work with default term, runs with TERM=vt100. You can't do anything as ctrl-keys dont work. (I <3 this app so I'll definately get It fixed)

mplayer - Stream movies to your psp! (sorta, lol)
I run mplayer with - mplayer -quiet -vo caca /myvideofile.avi
It runs fine render wise. However on high framerate clips it likely runs too slow, infact you'll probally find that peldet 0.8 runs too slow to watch stuff, overclock your psp to 333mhz and it should run better (this will get improved in the future)

BitchX
Works great use it with bitlbee (www.bitlbee.org) to get on all the messenger networks."

Theres 2 versions one which runs at 333mhz, download both via the comments ...

Woogal has updated his port of the great Duke Nukem 3D to the GP2X, heres the info:

Duke2X 0.02

Music is here . You will need to get the timidity patches from http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_m...ty.tar.gz(14mb) and install those to your SD (see the duke readme) in order to get music to work.

This release should (hopefully) now work correctly with all versions from 1.3 upwards (should be no more jumping or floating alien problems). Pay careful attention to the installation instructions in the readme - you must make sure you use the correct version of some files or you will have problems. Also fixed is the abillity to assign B from the options screen. I noticed that someone on the wiki reported that the projector wasn't playing in the theatre - this isn't a bug and is happening because adult mode is switched off in some config files. Please see the wiki for how to enable adult mode.

Download here --> http://gp2x-emulation.dcemu.co.uk/duke3dgp2x.shtml ...

The Wall Street Journal posted a good flash up showing a good comparison between the new home video game consoles. Covering the Xbox 360, the Playstation 3 and the Revolution, this article goes in depth to speak about market shares and base unit installations.

With the launch of Microsoft's Xbox 360 in 2005, Sony the current market leader, and Nintendo will both follow in 2006 there is sure to be fierce competition. All consoles promise amazing graphics, high fidelity audio, wireless networking support and a focus on multiplayer games. This year alone gamers are expected to spend approximately $12.8 billion on hardware and $19.3 billion on software according to Wedbush Morgan Securities.

Current Installed Base
Microsoft Xbox - 24 million
Nintendo Gamecube - 21.5 million
Sony PS2 - 83.2 million

Microsoft Xbox 360
Pointing out that Microsoft's initial push to release their product was a important jump on the competition. Microsoft Expects to sell around three million units within the first 90 days of launch. However they have less games then were hoped for. In addition where was Halo for Xbox360? This game would obviously put more Xbox 360's in the hands of gamers, looking at original Halo sales. Had it not been for lack of consoles for sale however the disparity in price was no help either. Seeing Xbox 360's being sold from the $299 base price up to $1500 or more, including rather sleezy business tactics by Best Buy.

Sony Playstation 3
Master of the Market, Sony has consumed the video game market for the last two generations of video game consoles. Selling 150+ million Playstation consoles and holding relationships with many top video game console developers. Sonys new system boasts a DVD Drive that supports Blu-ray format, providing 54GB (11 1/2 times as much storage as a typical DVD-R) However this time could be tougher for Sony seeing 'Microsoft's aggressive push and their deep pockets'.

Nintendo Revolution
Responding to the Nintendo's new sleek design, they said that despite that the console 'lacks a hard drive or built in DVD player, it is expected to be priced lower then its rivals.' With the addition of Nintendo's virtual console, Revolution owners might be playing Mario Brothers and Chrono Trigger on their new consoles legally! While bringing so much history that is based on years of solid games, the Revolution does throw one interesting curve, the controller. While their will obviously be other controller options 'some analysts worry the unusual device may confuse and scare of some gamers', other controller possibilities (such as an original Nintendo controller) were announced during a press conference. ...

The Wall Street Journal posted a good flash up showing a good comparison between the new home video game consoles. Covering the Xbox 360, the Playstation 3 and the Revolution, this article goes in depth to speak about market shares and base unit installations.

With the launch of Microsoft's Xbox 360 in 2005, Sony the current market leader, and Nintendo will both follow in 2006 there is sure to be fierce competition. All consoles promise amazing graphics, high fidelity audio, wireless networking support and a focus on multiplayer games. This year alone gamers are expected to spend approximately $12.8 billion on hardware and $19.3 billion on software according to Wedbush Morgan Securities.

Current Installed Base
Microsoft Xbox - 24 million
Nintendo Gamecube - 21.5 million
Sony PS2 - 83.2 million

Microsoft Xbox 360
Pointing out that Microsoft's initial push to release their product was a important jump on the competition. Microsoft Expects to sell around three million units within the first 90 days of launch. However they have less games then were hoped for. In addition where was Halo for Xbox360? This game would obviously put more Xbox 360's in the hands of gamers, looking at original Halo sales. Had it not been for lack of consoles for sale however the disparity in price was no help either. Seeing Xbox 360's being sold from the $299 base price up to $1500 or more, including rather sleezy business tactics by Best Buy.

Sony Playstation 3
Master of the Market, Sony has consumed the video game market for the last two generations of video game consoles. Selling 150+ million Playstation consoles and holding relationships with many top video game console developers. Sonys new system boasts a DVD Drive that supports Blu-ray format, providing 54GB (11 1/2 times as much storage as a typical DVD-R) However this time could be tougher for Sony seeing 'Microsoft's aggressive push and their deep pockets'.

Nintendo Revolution
Responding to the Nintendo's new sleek design, they said that despite that the console 'lacks a hard drive or built in DVD player, it is expected to be priced lower then its rivals.' With the addition of Nintendo's virtual console, Revolution owners might be playing Mario Brothers and Chrono Trigger on their new consoles legally! While bringing so much history that is based on years of solid games, the Revolution does throw one interesting curve, the controller. While their will obviously be other controller options 'some analysts worry the unusual device may confuse and scare of some gamers', other controller possibilities (such as an original Nintendo controller) were announced during a press conference. ...

olafds is a brand new Nintendo DS Emulator for windows, heres all the info:

about

olafds is a nintendo ds emulator that does nothing more than emulate the nintendo ds's wifi capabilities. this program is used to communicate with other microsoft windows applications as though it were a nintendo ds (for those without a nintendo ds or without the proper utilities for the nintendo ds). examples of these types of applications would be: stephen stair's udp test program or infernods's ds chat.

download
the current version of olafds is 0.1,

known problems
- does not allow incoming packets
- does not emulate anything other than the nintendo ds's wifi capabilities

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olafds is a brand new Nintendo DS Emulator for windows, heres all the info:

about

olafds is a nintendo ds emulator that does nothing more than emulate the nintendo ds's wifi capabilities. this program is used to communicate with other microsoft windows applications as though it were a nintendo ds (for those without a nintendo ds or without the proper utilities for the nintendo ds). examples of these types of applications would be: stephen stair's udp test program or infernods's ds chat.

download
the current version of olafds is 0.1,

known problems
- does not allow incoming packets
- does not emulate anything other than the nintendo ds's wifi capabilities

Download via comments ...

Pox and Ragable have released the 10th PSPHacking101 video episode. This video covers the 2.50 web browser on a 1.5 PSP, PSP firmware by Box and a cool review of Quake 2 port to the PSP by McZonk.

More information here --> http://www.psphacking101.com/ ...

miemt11 has released a new version of his patched release of MPHs Firmware Launcher, heres the info:

MPH Firmware launcher for PSP 1.50. Version : 1.3.7u5 (Last version)
Author : MPH Patch by : miemt11

u5 version:

1: Include a new special mode for FIRMWARE 2.50 only (Should inprove stability)
2: Triangle + SELECT to toggle the mode status (Only can be set before emulation start)
3: Default special mode status is "OFF"
4: Fix some driver.c and patch.c conflict to minimize hang (Only tested on FIRMWARE 2.50 and little bit stable)
5: What is the special mode? It is a background thread to minitoring the sceIO.. API and to prevent hang
6: Patch the ICON
7: The last U version for MPH 1.3.7 series and now wait for MPH 1.3.8
8: Final note: Always remember to support the original software company
miemt11: Bye bye everyone and see you all next year

Note: Real Author is MPH and all credit will go to him
Patch by miemt11 date 01 Jan 2006
Any feedback are welcome

Download at the release thread here --> http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=16225 ...