via Computer and Video Games


SCEE president David Reeves has admitted that while piracy on PSP "is a problem", it can fuel hardware sales.

The piracy and homebrew scene has thrived on PSP since hackers busted the console's protection software wide open just months after its 2004 release.

"There is a piracy problem on PSP," he said at the recent DevStation conference in London (MCV reports). "We know about it, we know how it's done.

"It sometimes fuels the growth of hardware sales, but on balance we are not happy about it," he said, while explaining that Sony will soon be introducing new measures to tackle piracy on the handheld. ...

New version of the controller input plugin for Nintendo 64 emulators for PC.


Download and give feedback via comments ...

Once again a new version is out. Apart from adding TR-DOS and few little features I haven't touched anything else, but I thought you might want to have it anyway.

Patrik




Download from official web site:

http://zxds.raxoft.cz/ ...

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Call of Duty 4
2 Halo 3
3 GTA IV
4 Battlefield: Bad Company Demo
5 Guitar Hero III
6 Gears of War
7 Rock Band
8 NINJA GAIDEN 2
9 NINJA GAIDEN 2 DEMO
10 ET: QUAKE Wars Demo

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)
1 Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3
2 UNO
3 Aces of the Galaxy
4 DOOM
5 N+
6 Worms
7 Penny Arcade Episode 1
8 Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting
9 Marble Blast Ultra
10 Sonic The Hedgehog 2

Red = New
Green = Re-entry

The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased. ...

via IGN

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Via PlayStation.Blog



Hi all – Firstly, we’d like to thank you for helping us make the launch of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots a tremendous success, with a special thanks to the many of you who attended our midnight launches to support it. It was great to meet so many of you in person, and the some of the MGS related costumes were truly spectacular. We had a lot of fun, and we hope you did too.

Of course, the launch of MGS4 is just the beginning – with it now in your hands, surely you are finding that there is much to discover within the game itself. It’s packed with so much, in fact, that there is bound to be new revelations, strategies, and details in the coming months as everyone makes their way through every nook and cranny. Add in Metal Gear Online, with its endless and deep multiplayer game play, as well as new downloadable content forthcoming - there is truly so much more to come, with our continued support of MGS, that will extend well through this year.

With that, we are happy to reveal a very special surprise, upon the PLAYSTATION Store update tomorrow (Thursday June 19th) we will be releasing the Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Database!


The MGS4 Database is a free, downloadable interactive application that contains the official knowledge base of everything that is Metal Gear, reaching all the way back to the very beginning of the franchise. Including complete storylines, character profiles, relationship diagrams, and much more! The MGS4 database is a great way to catch up for someone new to Metal Gear, as well as a useful resource for any veteran of the series, with complete official details on every aspect of the intricate Metal gear lore.

The MGS4 Database also contains a special feature – if you want to make use of the database, but have not yet fully played through MGS4 yet and are worried about spoilers – all MGS4 spoilers are “blacked out” until you’ve beaten MGS4. Give it a try!

But that’s not all, within MGS4, check out the EXTRAS option of the main menu (if you haven’t already). There’s already new, free downloadable content available for the game - with new camouflage and a new music track for the in game iPod. There will be more forthcoming, so be sure to check this often! ...

Code and GFX by J3r3mie

Sorry for my bad english, i'm from Quebec

Second test version of iPhone Simulator, a lua shell with a complete iPhone interface

Here's a lot of screenshot (Of the french version) :



Here's some more infos :

APP

- Safari
~Launch Sony Web browser
- Music
~Play MP3/OGG with chowing album, artist and title
- uManager
~Launch ISO
~Launch UMD
~Dump UMD
- Calculator
~ Basic operation
- LuaProg
~Read and Write file
- Extractor
~Extract Zip file
-PBP/ELF
~Launch ELF
~Launch PBP
- Explorator
~Rename / Copy / Move / Delete
- Photo
~Print JPG and PNG image
- Customize
~Change Wallpaper
~Change mouse

Other feacture

Full interface of iPhone
Taking screenshot with L + R
Printing battery in taking care of the % left of the battery
Printing hour on the middle top

How to use it ?

General
X : Validate
Start : Menu
L + R : Screenshots
0 : Use the top right button
/\ : Use the top left button
Stick Analogique : move mouse

- Explorator
^ / v : move of 1
> / < : move of 6
X : launch

Thank to

Darksidious for his LuaProg
Alexsim for the code of his calculator
Seanpaul223 for giving me a tip
Homemister et Pickdat for their Lua Player HM
Romane93 for his support
sam for his BMP Lib
UltimatePSP.fr for the support and mouses
XtreamLua.com for help on programmation
EvilMana.com for lua tutos
Appleiphoneschool.com for iPhone Icons
Dafont.com for the font

Download from here : http://www.ultimatepsp.fr/jeremie-up...%20-%20ENG.zip

ENJOY ...

The new version of Nanodesktop is online on Visilab servers:

http://visilab.unime.it/~filippo/Nan.../Downloads.htm

There are a lot of changes.

- Support for TrueType fonts;
- Support for C++ language (via NanoCPP, a porting of STDCXX Apache library);
- Added new OCR engines: ndGOCR and ndOCRAD
- ndISpell is an engine for spelling correction;
- The HAL as a new API for audio recording;
- NanoC integrates EmbPThread library for POSIX compliance (by hectic128
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pthreads-emb/) and UTF-8 widechar
library
- NanoC has been improved with new routines (mkstemp, getenv, setenv..)
- The HAL supports new routines for accessing to GoCam CCD
working parameters (brightness, contrast). The resolution of the driver
is 1024*768 now
- Added new libraries for VOIP (Voice over IP) support (ndeXOSIP2, ndOSIP, ndORTP)
- ndZip/ndUpzip support compression/decompression of zip files
- The new function ndHAL_MouseControlledByAn alog allows to control
the mouse using analog controls
- ndFLite Voice Synthetizer now uses FAST LPC reconstruction to improve the
speed of the computations via VFPU

The software is accomplished with a new user guide (250 pages) with
new chapters about network, EMI, OpenCV, C++ programming (thanks to
Sam Gluck for his correction work of my English ).

Ok, the new distribution must be installed in a new directory, after
deleting Nanodesktop 0.3.3.

Thanks for the attention
Filippo Battaglia ...

via Games Industry


Seeking to answer claims it is not doing enough to promote its new games download service, Nintendo of Europe has revealed plans for a major TV push to raise awareness about WiiWare.

Marketing boss Laurent Fischer this week acknowledged that it is "Nintendo's job" to support its developers by working harder to drive consumers to the service, and pledged to "promote this more heavily on an above-the-line basis on TV and in print."

WiiWare, which launched in Europe on May 20, is Nintendo's response to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, offering complete, low-memory games as part of the company's existing Virtual Console Channel on Wii.

But with relatively little marketing spend going on the launch, Nintendo has received criticism in the press and from gamers via forums that it is failing in its duty to support and promote the titles developers were producing for the service.

Fischer, speaking exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz, responded to these claims, insisting that the company was already making use of existing mechanisms to fuel awareness.

"What we are doing, and this is I think important to keep in mind, is within the tools that we have at Nintendo to support and promote this feature, we are already use them as extensively as possible," he said.

"The key tools of course are the website, which is updated automatically every time we have a release. We also inform the journalists all over Europe about new titles; and we use the Nintendo Channel, which basically allows us to go directly to all of the consumers who have connected their Wii online. These tools area already there and we use them proactively and intensively."

However, Fischer conceded that a broader campaign was necessary, and revealed specific marketing initiatives were in the works to promote WiiWare via mainstream television and print media.

"The next step is that we start to develop TV campaigns – this is on different paths in different countries," he explained. "In France the TV campaign to promote WiiWare in general has already launched and I know that we're considering that kind of activity to promote WiiWare via mass market media. It's just a matter of timing between the different countries.

"We believe that this software we have is very unique so the idea is that we need to drive awareness of what is available and how it works. We know that it takes time to drive that awareness among the general public."

And in a move to reassure the small independent developers Nintendo is keen to attract to the service, Fischer added: "That's our job – to make sure as many people as possible with a Wii check out the WiiWare content. That's Nintendo's job; we are committed to this."

Fischer this week also sought to clarify as a "joke" comments quoted in the press, where he claimed only "geeks and otaku" were interested in extra storage for the Wii, revealing that Nintendo was currently "working on a solution".

LostWinds, by UK developer Frontier, is the current top-selling title on WiiWare in Europe. ...