36658621
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Croakyvoice writes:
In what seems to be the in thing at the moment comes another auction to add to last months Zelda Nes auction and that crazy Million Dollar Collection. This time for RPG fans this could be classed as the Holy Grail of Nes games. The game in question is Final Fantasy 2 which was never released outside of Japan but luckily for the person who at this time is selling this on Ebay for 50K, there was one made for the 1991 Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by SquareSoft, sadly the USA version never had a release because they decided to work on the SuperNes instead.
36490833
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Croakyvoice writes:
Nintendo has today released the 3DS XL in the U.S.A. The console comes with features such as screens which are 90% bigger in size than the original 3DS, a much needed improvement in battery life and also the 3D effect on the console has noticeably improved. The 3DS XL is Nintendo's attempt at even moreso dominating the handheld console market over the PSVita but also bringing back the gamers lost to the likes of Android and iOS Devices. The other major 3DS news of the day is the release of New Super Mario Bros 2 a continuation of the DS game released in 2006. In Japan the game has sold over 800,000 copies since game launch and Nintendo will be hopeful to replicate that success in the U.S.A.
35815639
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Croakyvoice writes:
A few years ago the Homebrew community went from one console to another releasing some excellent software, from the Days of the Dreamcast the first breakthrough homebrew console, to the PSP which gave us the first handheld Nintendo 64, GBA and PSX emulators on an handheld. The last few years we have seen Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony and Apple all bring out means to thwart homebrew develepment. The app store on both Android and IOS has took many homebrew devs over to them to try and break the market. With the major consoles they have so many firmware updates these days that the days of Homebrew seem to be numbered, is there a way back for the Homebrew Community?
1217867
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Croakyvoice writes:
Finally months after the official announcement 3000
lucky people can now preorder Pandora, the Worlds fastest handheld console
that boasts a processor capable of up to 900MHZ, PowerVR 3D Graphics, a large
800x480 LCD Touchscreen, Wifi, Bluetooth, USB, Dual SD Card Slots, TV Out, Dual
analogue and digital controls, a clamshell DS Lite style shape and a 43 button
mini keyboard.The Console already boasts an amazing amount of ready to be released
software such as Ubuntu
and many full speed emulators for systems such as Snes, Amiga,
Megadrive and many more
that are not publically announced yet. The Console is as powerful as original
Xbox and on a par with the Nintedo Wii, Those Interested should visit OpenPandora.Org
the home of the Pandora Console.
For the full history of news about the Pandora from start until now check out
the Pandora Homebrew Site
1086677
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Croakyvoice writes:
Gamepark Holdings the makers of the GP2X
Console have today announced
the successor which is called the WIZ, the new GBA Micro sized console features
a touchscreen, Linux OS, an Arm9 533MHZ 3D processor with 64MB of ram and will
have commercial games on sale at launch in October. Best of all for fans of homebrew
and emulation on the GP2X all that needs to be done is recompiling of sourcecode.
816855
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Croakyvoice writes:
Jube an Electronics Engineer has
today posted 2 videos of his Touchscreen
Project for the PSP, Basically he has replaced the LCD Screen in the PSP with
a Touchscreen of the same size, the
videos show the touchscreen in action, the projects aims are also to increase
battery life and feature a re-designed control pad. The Homebrew Community again
lead the way on Sonys Handheld for innovation.
793531
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Croakyvoice writes:
Dragula96 has released the first 2
player Homebrew Game using the Blue Disc Java runtime on the PS3 and the Minimal
BD-J (Java) Devkit, this will run on any PS3 on any firmware, Pong finally
arrives on PS3.
745065
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Croakyvoice writes:
Dark Alex the PSP Hacker
from Spain and his Team M33 have released a new version of the Custom
Firmware for the PSP that now supports the very latest Official
Firmware from Sony. Benefits for the end user is the ability to play the many
hundreds of games,
demos, applications
and emulators written by the homebrew community for the PSP.
733419
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Croakyvoice writes:
Only days after Nintendo brought out Wii
Menu 3.3 which stopped the Twilight Hack from working, the team lead by Bushing
brought out a new version
of the Homebrew
enabling hack for the Nintendo Wii using the Zelda Game and a hacked save
game. (added an extra link to main news because of server overloads)
633740
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Croakyvoice writes:
Law56ker has today released the Nxdoom Collection, a massive collection of 220
Doom Mods for the Dreamcast, a collection of best Total Coversions, Megawads,
and Various levels for use on NXDOOM for the Sega Dreamcast. Wads Include Duke
Nukem GP, Half Life, Star Wars, Goldeneye, Quake 2 and Star Trek and come on 2
CDS.
540738
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Croakyvoice writes:
Fans of Homebrew on the Nintendo Wii can celebrate with an explosion of releases
today, in just a few hours there has been a release of a
proof of concept version of Linux for the Wii, an MP3
Player, the Super
Nintendo emulator Snes9X has been ported and a converter that converts Gamecube
Dol files into Elf for usage on the Wii (Which opens up a multitude of emulators
and homebrew games and applications). A tutorial
on how to get homebrew working with the Twilight
Hack will help those interested.
452828
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Croakyvoice writes:
Sony have today officially
announced that Skype is arriving on the PSP at the
end of January, the application will be available via a firmware update and is
only compatible with PSP Slim & Lite Consoles, however after that announcement
the PSP homebrew Scene released a new application called Furikup which will allow you to make phone calls with your PSP and is compatible with the original phat PSPs. From the readme " Here are some of Furikup's best features:
It's free software — in both the beer, and speech senses.
You can use it anywhere in the world, subject to signing-up to a suitable local
SIP-based voice-over-IP provider and being near a usable wifi access point.
In many countries, you can find those for free or nearly-free — e.g. with SIPGate,
in the UK, you can call to your PSP from any standard phone (landline or cellphone)
for just the standard local call cost, and from PSP to another SIP phone (another
PSP or a PC) for free.
It runs on both slim and fat PSPs.
It uses open standards, for maximum compatibility with other phone systems.
You can use a Go!Cam (Chotto Shot), Talkman microphone, or SOCOM-style headset
for audio input. (And even if you don't have any of those, you can still send
audio from a WAV file in a pinch).
It's still pretty much beta software — the audio quality needs some work (but
it is usable), the UI isn't very pretty, and video calls aren't working (yet!).
But it works, and it's a nice demo of what is possible".
191899
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Croakyvoice writes:
DCEmu is hosting the worlds first Nintendo
Wii and Nintendo Gamecube Homebrew Coding Contest with prizes of $500 on offer
for Homebrew and Emulators for the Wii and Gamecube, The hope is that through
this contest an exploit will be released that will allow full homebrew on the
Nintendo Wii without a Modchip. Gamecube
Homebrew is already on the Wii with a host of systems emulated such as Snes,
Genesis, Gameboy and Neogeo.
