New figures for console sales in Japan are in with a shift in the first 3 positions shown below as follows:


Playstation Portable: 129,986
Nintendp DS Lite: 58,916
Nintendo Wii: 48,785
Playstation 3: 11,206
Playstation 2: 10,296
Xbox 360: 1,547


The PSP shoots well past both the Wii and DS to 1st place by roughly 70,000+ up from last week. The Wii in turn takes a 12,500 drop while the DS dips by about 6,100. Last 3 places are the same as usual: PS3 drops by 1,800, PS2 up 396 and Xbox 360 down 150. ...

Dhewg has released a new test version of ScummVM for the Nintendo Wii



Heres the details


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Hi All,

fMSX is a famous emulator of the MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ 8bit home computers.
It runs MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ software on many different platforms including Windows and Unix.
See http://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/ for further informations.

It has been first written by Marat Fayzullin, and later Vincent van Dam ported it on SDL.

GP2X-MSX is a port on GP2X of the version 2.7.0.40 of fMSX-SDL from Vincent van Dam
that i had previously ported to PSP.

What's new in this version ?

- Speed improvements in CPU and sound emulation
- Add missing keys such as HOME, GRAPH, STOP
- Add option to increase emulated sound volume
(different from gp2x volume)
- Auto-fire mode, press RTrigger+X to switch it on/off
(useful for games such as 1942)
- RTrigger/LTrigger keys can be used in the keyboard
settings menu to navigate between Normal, LTrigger
and RTrigger compose mapping.
- Add several new hotkeys :
. settings such as fps, render mode, auto fire speed
can now be directly modified inside the emulator
(no need to enter in the settings menu)
. quick save / quick load current state
(no need to enter in the main menu)
- Default Hotkeys can now be set in the keyboard mapping menu
(useful to add hotkeys on existing/previous keyboard files)

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

It's distributed under Marat Fayzullin's license for the original MSX part,
and under GNU license for all the GP2X part.

You may find binary and sources on my blog :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/

Enjoy,

Zx. ...

A quite amusing article on online gaming


http://www.gamasutra.com/view/featur..._idiocy_a_.php ...

Killer Dr3w is a self-described ‘mature 30-year old gamer’ and contributor to Three Speech that many of you already know. His Killer Dr3w blog is his place to speak his mind so if you enjoy this get over there and take a look. Over to Dr3w…

Over the last few months the most requested feature for the XMB has got to be in-game messaging and custom sound tracks. It’s got to the point where I haven’t even seen any other feature requested for months. I thought I would throw my Top-10 users’ XMB feature requests out there to get a healthy discussion on other things that the XMB and the PS3 needs.

I am sure that a few of these feature requests are going to be made redundant when Home and in-game XMB does eventually come out, but I am also pretty sure some of these features are for will still be outstanding this time next year…




1) Better handling of headsets

Imagine the scenario, if you will. You’re kicking ass in Warhawk. Your clan is winning, but it’s a close match. The blue team has some good players on it but due to your excellent teamwork the lead is yours. Then the zone you’re guarding gets rushed, a tank stays in the distance and a jeep with three ground troops charges at you. You call for the help of your buddies but your Bluetooth headset is flat! Nooo! No fear, you still have your PlayStation Eye, you plug it in – and then realise that before it’s going to be recognised by the PS3 you’re going to have to quit the game, go to the accessory settings, change the default input device from the Bluetooth headset to the USB one and then re-load. Yes. You lost the zone; your clan lost the game.

If the PS3 could use the last connected device as the default audio input then you might have been able to call in support. Alternatively it could give the user the option to change the default audio devices in the controller I-D screen.

2) A better way of displaying any waiting messages

I can’t tell you how many times I have received a message on my PS3 and have had it sat there for some time. Two easy fixes for this. Number one: show a simple email icon when you press the PS button on the screen that shows you the controller charge. Number two: show an animated email icon on the XMB when you’re not in-game or in movie. Why not flash the controller charge icons on the SIXAXIS in a specific order, or flash the PS3’s power button from blue to green every ten seconds? Choices, choices…

3) Fix USB devices

Why are USB devices treated as second-class devices? I appreciate that you shouldn’t be able to download DRM’d games, music or video to your external hard disk, but why can’t I create an animated preview icon for my movies? Why are my albums all sorted incorrectly when they are stored on my external hard disk? Why is almost everything messed up when using an external hard disk?

4) Quicker media access

After a few weeks of owning a PS3 I realised how I can really make use of it. I started using it to hold all my CD’s, podcasts etc… The only problem is, once you have more than around 20 or 30 albums on it, it takes quite a while for all of them to show up.

On the movie side, things are much worse. A folder with around 40 or 50 movies in can take quite a few minutes to actually list all the files in the XMB. The movies seem to show up in chronological order, so if you have 30 episodes of the 1Up Show on your PS3 and you want to watch the latest one, you’re going to have to wait.

Things get much, much, worse when you’re using a USB hard disk too. So let’s tie this feature in with the above one and fix it all in one go.

5) DNLA server

I liked the PS3 so much as a media device I bought a second one, but now I have to keep both of them manually sync’d with my music and videos. Yes, the PS3 can act as a DNLA client, but I don’t want a PC server in my house sharing out my media; I want my PS3 as my media device. It makes sense to me to have my PS3 in the living room as my central media device where all my movies, photos and music is stored. This then acts as a DNLA Server for my other PS3.

6) Pre-loading of PSN network games

Okay, this one is not specifically to do with the XMB, but it’s still a great feature. Steam offers the ability for users to download games they have pre-ordered and activate them on the day of release. No downloading on release day - just launch the game and play.

This would be awesome for the PSN. Imagine pre-ordering Warhawk or GT5: Prologue knowing that it’s ready to play on the day of release, rather than knowing you’re going to have to wait hours for it to download.

While you’re at it - why not let us pre-load our firmware updates too?

7) More integration of the PSP

Being able to use your PSP in remote play mode is pretty cool, but I want to be able to use my PSP for other things too, almost like an extended media controller. I want to be able to browse the music on my PS3, choose tracks, create playlists, fast forward videos, all using the media on my PS3.

A cool example of how this ...

The latest in that brand of Japanese titles featuring anime chicks and lots of dialog has a World Ware II theme, complete with girls in bikinis that sport symbols from the Third Reich.

There's nothing to be alarmed about, though, as the PS2 and PSP versions of Moe Moe World War II should be as harmless as their Windows predecessor, which was known for its character designs from Haruhiko Mikimoto (Macross) and Hiroyuki Kitazume (Gundam ZZ).

Like the PC version of the game, the PS2 and PSP versions feature a blend of strategy and adventure, although publisher SystemSoft Alfa has added a new scenario, a new character, and made a few gameplay and visual adjustments. The PS2 and PSP versions are said to be identical in terms of content, so you'll only have to pick up one when the both hit Japan this Fall.

And if you do pick the PSP version, please cover your screen when scenes like this show up:



http://uk.psp.ign.com/articles/864/864510p1.html ...

The new Variety Map Pack for the Xbox 360 edition of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has just been released.


Priced at 800 Microsoft Points (£5), the downloadable content packs four multiplayer maps: Creek, Broadcast, Killhouse, and Chinatown (a remake of the classic CoD map Carentan).

The PlayStation 3 release of the map pack will carry the same $10 (£5) price point when it arrives in roughly three-four weeks, with the PC edition possibly following after that.



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For windows users there is a new homebrew PSPSDK that requires no cygwin installation and integrates with popular IDEs (Visual Studio, Eclipse)

It allows users to compile all the samples from the SDK from a DOS command line box and also other samples such as the minifireASM.

To make things even easier there are 26 devpaks, that are installers that will add popular Open Source libraries to the SDK making them ready to use without the fuzz of having to build them yourself and managing the dependencies.

Version 0.7.1 is up to date to the SVN reppo and includes gcc, gdb, docs, man reader, info viewer, docs and visual studio integration.

You can get it here:
http://www.jetcube.eu/projects/minpspw.html

Or get the SDK directly from this link:
Minimalist PSPSDK for Windows ...

imbNES is a NES emulator for PlayStation and PlayStation 2.

Information:

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