Forbes has an article talking with Nintendo of America's VP of Marketing Perrin Kaplan. She talks a little bit about Nintendo's upcoming plans, and the concept of the Blue Ocean. From the article: "For us, it's all about the experience, not if the technology allows you to play your game on the high-definition formats, which are now in such a small percentage of homes. Many independent sources tell us that experiencing current high-def games on a regular TV makes it near impossible to see everything clearly. That means the majority of homes are experiencing something lesser than what they bargained for. ...

<A HREF="http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=18478">Here</A> are the latest PLynx sources.

Feel free to modify and improve the emulator.
If you modify the sources, please post a link to your modifications so that everyone can benefit from the improvement. ...

Our pals at PSP Vault have posted the details of a review of a Bluetooth Adapter by a Japanese site, heres the info in English.

A few highlights from the review:
-The adapter fits underneath the PSP quite well, and has two protrusions that slip right into the speaker holes on the bottom of your PSP for added stability.
-The package includes a USB cable (for recharging) and a 2cm stereo extension cable.
-The adapter is only one part of the package -- the company plans on including stereo Bluetooth earphones in one of two styles: neck band or ear-hanger.
-Audio quality is on par with that of the original PSP earphones
-There are no controls on the headphones (or a connector for the PSP remote), but they do have volume adjustment
-Reception is good; he said there were no problems when he inserted the transmitter into a nylon bag, and there were no problem when he walked into the next room (but left the door open)

Could Bluetooth be an option for the PSP Homebrew Scene in the future

Screenshots via the comments. ...

Our pals at PSP Vault have posted the details of a review of a Bluetooth Adapter by a Japanese site, heres the info in English.

A few highlights from the review:
-The adapter fits underneath the PSP quite well, and has two protrusions that slip right into the speaker holes on the bottom of your PSP for added stability.
-The package includes a USB cable (for recharging) and a 2cm stereo extension cable.
-The adapter is only one part of the package -- the company plans on including stereo Bluetooth earphones in one of two styles: neck band or ear-hanger.
-Audio quality is on par with that of the original PSP earphones
-There are no controls on the headphones (or a connector for the PSP remote), but they do have volume adjustment
-Reception is good; he said there were no problems when he inserted the transmitter into a nylon bag, and there were no problem when he walked into the next room (but left the door open)

Could Bluetooth be an option for the PSP Homebrew Scene in the future

Screenshots via the comments. ...

Our pals at PSP Vault have posted the details of a review of a Bluetooth Adapter by a Japanese site, heres the info in English.

A few highlights from the review:
-The adapter fits underneath the PSP quite well, and has two protrusions that slip right into the speaker holes on the bottom of your PSP for added stability.
-The package includes a USB cable (for recharging) and a 2cm stereo extension cable.
-The adapter is only one part of the package -- the company plans on including stereo Bluetooth earphones in one of two styles: neck band or ear-hanger.
-Audio quality is on par with that of the original PSP earphones
-There are no controls on the headphones (or a connector for the PSP remote), but they do have volume adjustment
-Reception is good; he said there were no problems when he inserted the transmitter into a nylon bag, and there were no problem when he walked into the next room (but left the door open)

Could Bluetooth be an option for the PSP Homebrew Scene in the future

Screenshots via the comments. ...

Software for Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s DS portable game device dominated the January best-sellers list in Japan on the back of strong demand for games such as Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and three games designed to test brain power, an industry survey said on Tuesday.

Enterbrain, which publishes weekly and monthly retail sales data for games and game devices, said overall software unit sales in January were flat from a year earlier, while hardware sales were down 6.2 percent.

It blamed the lower hardware sales on the scarcity of Nintendo DS, which it said was the most popular device in the market.

Enterbrain, the publisher of Japan's leading game magazine Famitsu, said in its monthly report that eight of the top 10 best-selling games in Japan were DS games. Seven were by Nintendo.

A sequel to "DS Training to Strengthen Your Brain", a popular brain-training game developed under the guidance of a brain imaging professor, topped the chart with sales of over a million units since it was launched on December 29.

Nintendo also sold 231,770 units of a new game that helps to develop English skills in its first four days of sales, indicating that games for adults are accelerating in popularity.

Among games for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 2 games, Square Enix Co. Ltd.'s "Final Fantasy VII Dirge of Cerberus" topped the list, coming in fifth overall with about 365,495 units sold.

The top-selling game for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 game console was Tecmo Inc.'s "Dead or Alive 4", at a distant 26th place with 74,782 units sold.

Nintendo DS as well as Sony's Playstation Portable and Playstation 2 were the top-selling game devices in January while Xbox 360 console sales continued to lag.

Microsoft sold 112,657 Xbox 360 units since launching in December, significantly less than January unit sales of each of the top three best-selling devices, Enterbrain found. ...

Squidge has posted news of the progress of his PCEngine emulator for GP2X:

Made some small performance improvements. Used the 2x’s hardware blitter for copying data, and optimized the graphics routines. On the part of R-Type that I test against, these combined gives an improvement of ~15 fps. This means 60 fps instead of 45.

http://squidge.wordpress.com/ ...

Zordak has released a new version of his game which he swears is the final version, well whatever maybe the case it is a great looking game written in Lua for the PSP, heres whats new:

This is the last version for sure.

Added:
-Better cursor control.
-Scoreboard fixed.

Screenshots and Downloads via the comments. ...

sly_catt posted this on the forums about a week ago, and I just now noticed it:

<blockquote>Just copy these onto your PSP using a USB cable. When its plugged into the computer, click start>my computer>Removable disk(F, and create a notepad document, name it "cheats.txt", copy and paste these onto the blank page! (the screen you're saving it in should have the folders "MP.ROOT" and "PSP") You can access them in the game with L1 + up, and scrolling to the third or fourth page!</blockquote>

These include several new teleport locations, plus Invisible Tony, Turn HUD On/Off, Max Money, and more.

View the list here: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=85431 ...