Dev-Scene Top50 News (News Archive)

2009-03-25 - Dev-Scene Forum was hacked
Dev-Scene Forum was Hacked!

Dev-Scene Forum was Hacked!

While Dev-Scene hasn't been directly updated in 6+ months, user security has always been of major importance to me and as such I've continued to apply updates and security patches to services over this inactive period of time.

PHPBB2 has recently been abandoned by the PHPBB group and it seems while I'm still running the most recent release. Exploits are readily available for this forum. Naturally, the first solution would be to upgrade to PHPBB3.. but due to the fact this forum is also dead. I've decided to simply neuter it.

I became aware of the hack recently and in response, I've shut the forum down. Removed posting privileges and NUKED the existing passwords and contact details from the MYSQL database.

This forum will remain for history. The blog service is currently being discussed but is mostly likely going to be removed due to common security concerns.

Now, I think the hacking was used to turn the Dev-Scene forum into a spamming gateway with a large amount of traffic being send to/from the forum at all times.

I think it was an SQL injection because I found 180MB of spam on my forums MySQL

but this doesn't mean they didn't have access to usernames/passwords and contact details. The good news is - PHPBB2 has recently had hashs and salts applied to the passwords but this could be broken if they had the right information.

PLEASE CHANGE PASSWORDS SHARED ON THIS SERVER!

• Locked down forum privileges to read open. No registration/No login.
• Removed password and contact details
• Changed all passwords on shell and MYSQL
• Removed creation, modification, drop access to the MYSQL database. (Extra Security)

http://forum.dev-scene.com/viewtopic.php?p=2012

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2008-12-12 - Update
Update

I've updated the forum software to the latest edition due to a spam issue.

I've installed some additional checks to stop spam bots..

Dev-Scene is still "sleeping"..

Hope you guys don't have any other issues

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2008-12-12 - DSMI v3.0
DSMI v3.0 is out, supports OSC!

Thanks to Tim Wood (fishuyo) DSMI now supports the OpenSound Control (OSC) protocol!

OSC is an emerging standard for exchanging music control signals that is much more flexible and modern than MIDI. For example, OSC can directly communicate via network, so the PC-side DSMI server is not required.

fishuyo also made a nice demo of the new OSC capabilities with a Kaoss pad and sliders. It comes with a pd patch that is a nice little synth. Check out the demo’s source code! OSC is really easy to add to your application. And it’s the future! So, get libdsmi v3.0 now!

http://dsmi.tobw.net/

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2008-02-27 - News Catchup
News Catchup

Anyone feel like helping?

• Seek And Recharge - A puzzle game called Seek And Recharge, aka SAR.

• ThreaDS - Samel have ported a little library to the DS that let you create thread.

• Pocket Physics v0.5 - Added the moving tool, Improved speed, Better repeatability.

• DSmaps 0.2.1a - Map viewer using images obtainsed on-the-fly from the Google Maps ‘keyhole server’.

• MIDI Jammer - It lets you "draw" musical ideas and shapes to access a MIDI Controller.

• Tuna-viDS v1.0 - New skin by Ferrie, a file chooser and fixes a few bugs.

• Warcraft : Tower Defense v0.5 - Alot of improvements including fat/DLDI.

• Pocket Pixie - New sprite editor.. fun for pixel by pixel art :)

• Closed 1.2 - Ali banana's puzzle project..

• Hyena v1.00 - Hyena allows game-books to be played with only sound and just one button. Bundled with Lone Wolf - Flight From The Dark!

• AmplituDS v3.1 - Approximately twice as fast start up time and Anti-aliasing used for 3D graphics.

• Bunjalloo 0.5.3.1 - The Web Browser has received another set of bugfixes and improvements.

• ScummVM DS 0.11.1 beta1 - There were bugs found in a few of the ScummVM engines, ScummVM 0.11.1 will be release to fix them.

• iDeaS 1.0.2.2 - Bug fixes, speed ups, added Optimize CPUs PipeLine and Optimize Loops.

• Pong 3DS - A crazy 3d take on the classic Pong.

• Lockjaw v0.44 - Tepples has updated his Tetris clone, Lockjaw.

• StepMania DS - LETS D-D-R!!!

• Animanatee 1.3b - Fixes a sneaky little memory corruption bug. *Click here for Animanatee gallery*

• Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe DS Alpha 5 - There's a readme that comes with the source. I suggest you read it.

• FlickBook 0.2.1 - Shiny new user interface and move between frames.

• Rainbow Sprite Wars - 2D sprite-based shooter.

• DSFTP 2.6 - Fixed hardware hangs, directory contents bug and new transferblocksize option.

• Blackjack DS v0.4 - General tweaks and sound effects. Enjoy :)

• Spinal's Movie Player - Similar to Eponasoft's media format, using jpg images for the frames and uncompressed audio.

• Game of Life (Colours!) - yet another game of life for the DS but this time, it has a twist!

• VespeneGas Sudoku DS - Another Sudoku clone, enjoy :)

• dsBill - Port of xBill.

• Race Into Space DS- Port of Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space.

• Castlevania: Devilish Resemblance - NES Remake work in progress.

• CrystalChase DS - Clear the crystals on the game field.

• Geografika v1.0 - 00 questions over: locations of cities, countries, monuments, and physical features;

• PadrinatoR Wifiloader - Untested application lets you boot homebrew in your DS using a wifi connection.

• Fate/Stay Night Demo - an abridged port of the Trial Edition of Fate/stay night, a Japanese visual novel game, as translated into English.

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2008-02-17 - Wii Timeline
Wii Timeline

Follows the released videos, binaries and interviews.

This is a side project and might be moved in the near distance future.

http://wii.dev-scene.com/

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To play the game you require a slot-2 card that has a minimum of 16 megabytes of RAM on it.

About the game:

• every level is playable in single-player mode
• there is no multiplayer
• nearly all graphical effects are done by the DS hardware
• there's auto and manual saving
• there's no mod or TC support (not my fault, I'm afraid)
• there's an on-screen keyboard as well as eight touch buttons (so you can bind functions to them)

The bad stuff:

• again, no multiplayer
• some levels are poorly coded and the performance will hit the floor (in particular security.bsp)
• GUI Z sorting is broken
• no sprite rendering
• some textures are misaligned
• cinematic rendering is disabled
• bits of the world will often pop in/out cos the DS GPU is SO overworked by this game! Some boss models have more polys than the DS can render in a frame...

http://quake.drunkencoders.com/index_q2.html

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Pushing the Nintendo DS capabilities to the limit, the DSVideo player offers a simple and intuitive interface. The top screen is devoted to video playback, and the bottom screen contains the touchscreen navigation interface. The DSVideo encoder is flexible, accommodates a wide variety of source material, and is based on the widely used and highly portable ffmpeg.

Important features include:

• Video playback up to 12.5 fps
• Stereo Audio playback (MPEG-1 Layer 2 @ 112kbps / 32kHz)
• Full seeking support
• Feature-complete video playback controls
• File browser

http://dsvideo.recoil.org/

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2008-02-11 - Twilight Hack
Twilight Hack - Wii ELF Loader v0.1-alpha1 by tmbinc, segher and bushing

A demo of the Zelda Twilight Princess exploit has been released.

http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Twilight_Hack

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2008-01-28 - More News Catchup Part 4
More News Catchup Part 4

Anyone feel like helping?

• Pocket Physics v0.3 - Larger paper, dual screen support, updated to box2d 2.0 and alot more.

• DSOrganize v3.2 "Final" - Dragonminded has released his "final" DSOrganize release.. Enjoy this release because it could be the last.

• JabbaDS 0.1 - theli has released his Jabba IM client for Nintendo DS.

• WireWorld DS v0.3 - Asiekierka has added support for loading/saving. If anyone wishes to continue this project, source code has been released.

• jEnesisDS v0.6 - Custom Z80 ASM core implemented, Custom YM2612 and PSG sound emulation and many parts rewritten.

• Animanatee 1.3a - DekuTree64 added cache flushes in hopes of fixing some saving problems people are having.

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2008-01-25 - More News Catchup Part 3
More News Catchup Part 3

Anyone feel like helping?

• Tuna-viDS - Tuna-viDS plays AVI files that contain Xvid encoded video and MP3 encoded audio.
• StarLite v0.03 - StarCraft clone has been canceled due to legal threats by Blizzard. (Big Shock)
• ClIRC - IRC client for Nintendo DS.
• DSoric - Alekmaul's Oric 1/Atmos emulator.
• Super Mario Galaxies v0.71 - Shoot Em Up
• Sokoknight v0.1 (Alpha) - Sokoban clone, Push boxes around a maze.
• Pixel Triforce - Eye Candy with sourcecode.
• Chat Noir DS - Clone of the popular flash game.
• OpenTTD DS Alpha 4 - Transport Tycoon Deluxe is getting ported.
• SoKo DS - Another day, Another Sokoban.
• Finger Drum - A little finger tapping drum kit.

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2008-01-25 - More News Catchup Part 2
More News Catchup Part 2

Anyone feel like helping?

• SAMBA now included in DSLinux DLDI builds as of rev 2112.
• Protein DScratch v080122 Audio Manipulation - Offers direct streaming from filesystem. New demo-video.
• Area 10 - Get all the same colors in the right side.
• Scrabble Assistant DS - Ease the life of Scrabble players. It provides word-validation and anagrams search.
• WireWorld DS - Port of a cellular automation simulation tool. Zero player :)
• DuSTED - Tile editor for GBA and DS hardware-based graphics.
• metro-wardive 1.1o - Adaptive game with locative levels. it converts wlan-waves into game objects.
• Staris 0.7 - Customizable Tetris, be careful if you are accustomed to the ease of Tetris DS.
• Powder Release 100 - Fifth anniversary release!
• DS2Win Fusion v0.81a - Designed to allow you to do ALL the things you could do with your PC.
• Clonesmine v0.2 - A mix of Tetris and Lumines.

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2008-01-25 - More News Catchup Part 1
More News Catchup Part 1

Anyone feel like helping?

• 3rd Annual Drunkencoders Chirstmas Compo Winners announced - Congratulations to Melw, GeekyLink and cbeley.
• Lazyone's Mini vMac DS R3 - You can run up to System 7.5.5, but don’t, stick with 6.0.8.
• Pocket Physics v0.2 - Now with pins, you can play with seesaws, Cars and even ragdolls!
• GhostBustersDS v0.7 - The Ghost Busters remake.
• Laser Hockey DS - Multiplayer coming soon.
• PuzzleManiak 3.6a - Another bugfix update for the popular release.
• ScummVM 0.11.0 - "Your Palindrome" released with new games supported: Elvira 1 and 2, Waxworks (Amiga version).
• iDeaS 1.0.2.1 - Fixed a bug in CPU Speed Mode, Bind Textures, Temp File for compressed file, Fog Effect.
• NetHackDS 1.17 - NetHack for the DS utilizing the unique features of the DS.
• Rubik's Cube 1.1 - Extensive touch screen support.
• Touhou Fangame DS - Move your character around and shoot at the boss. The rest of your time is spent dodging bullets.

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2007-12-28 - Wii Homebrew Preview
Wii Homebrew Preview

Thanks to Crediar for this Video.

'Console Hacking: State of the Wii' by Ben Byer+others

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H5YB1Mmx7E4

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2007-12-09 - GCFTP
GCFTP 1.0 by emu_kidid

A FTP Server for the Nintendo Gamecube built with libOGC. This FTP server in no way meets all of the requirements of the complete FTP protocol, however it does work in FlashFXP which is what I tested with.

Features:

• Backup and restore memory card files
• Backup DVD Games or individual files from inside them
• Saving of configuration to memory card and Auto Loading config
• Maximum Speed is about 1.6mb/s to 2.3mb/s from DVD

Note: there is no resuming of downloads/uploads and there is NO delete feature as files on the memcard are not easily recognized from their internal filenames and you may make a mistake. Also, please only upload valid .GCI files to a memory card.. I have done some checks to see if it is valid, but if it's not, I am not responsible if you somehow corrupt a card.

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5578

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• Japanese Training 0.3 - Practice your hiraganas and katakanas.

• Rise of the Triad DS v0.7 - Rewriting parts of the video code, fixing a bug in the keyboard handling, and adding a mouse driver for the touchscreen.

• NetHackDS 1.8a - Another NetHack Port, this release includes alot of changes and is highly recommended.

• DSCalibrate - This application is used to calibrate so your actual touchscreen

• Woopsi 0.26 - A BSD-licenced windowing system loosely based on the Commodore Amiga’s “Intuition” windowing system. (Sadly requires PALib)

• Puzzlemaniak 3.3 - Fixed bug on sending scores.

• Laser Hockey DS - Clone of the Wii play lazer hockey.. First Release!

• HUP "Master balloons with helium" - This mini game is a little like Tetris.

• Platdude’s Retro Collection v3 - Added 6 extra games (18 total) and the odd bugfix.

• BrickFall LP-5 - mainly includes bug fixes and improvements.

• Cube Breakout 3.7 - This release corrects a number of bugs.

• DS-trivia (IRC trivia, without the IRC) - Contains 10,000 questions from an IRC Triviabot.

• Morning timer Ver1.1 - Infantile Paralysiser has updated his alarm clock with various optimizations to save battery power.

• ProTracker Mod player for DS - Direct conversion from the original Amiga one so it's should be as accurate as possible, also it handles modules from 4 to 16 channels and it's very small.

• And-or Sniff_jazzbox - Sniff_jazzbox creates an audible city. it converts the wlan-waves into sound waves.

• And-or Metro-wardive - Wardive is an adaptive game with locative levels. it converts wlan-waves into game objects.

And-or is an art group which is looking to find new ways of communication by tapping into the subconscious streams of human minds and network data.

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2007-12-09 - MSXAdvance 0.3
MSXAdvance 0.3 - MSX1 emulator

FluBBa has updated his MSX1 emulator for the GBA today

• Added 64kB of RAM instead of 32kB.
• Fixed initialization of horizontal position of keyboard.
• Fixed initializing of all CPU regs on reset.
• Fixed pushing and poping of AF register (BC Quest for Tires II).
• Optimised some of the SBC instructions.
• Optimised DAA opcode.
• Optimised one of the SRA opcodes.
• Optimised tile rendering.

http://www.ndsretro.com/gbadown.html

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• WabbitDS TI-83+ Emulator - A fantastic and almost perfect TI-83+ emulator/clone. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

• DsKara v1.0 - Read karaoke lyrics on its DS.

• Tiliting Labirinth 0.2b - get to the finish and avoid red block and get most green fruits. Game is controlled by DSMotion but can be control also by Dpad or stylis.

• Powder 0.92 - POWDER is a roguelike that continues to grow with every release.

• Japanese Academy v0.48 - Learn Japanese characters quickly.

• Spirits DS Beta 6E - New level added and minor graphics corrections. Now 50% of graphics are done (all upper floors).

• Lights of Myndell - A fantasy point and click adventure game.

• Woopsi 0.25 - A BSD-licenced windowing system loosely based on the Commodore Amiga’s “Intuition” windowing system.

• Spinal Menu - Graphical loader based on Chishm's DLDI loader.

• JellyBlocks DS - Glue all blocks of the same color combinations. Tous les blocks se déplacent en même temps. All blocks move at the same time.

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• Duke3DS Duke Nukem 3D for DS - GPF has released an update with basic sound.

• Dotas v0.93 - SeikoTheWiz has released a homebrew clone of Defense of the Ancients (often referred to as DotA). This is very impressive with a 3d models and smooth gameplay with creeps.

• WeeBasic v0.3 - Now you can use both screens and stylus!

• Sukka Racer - a Never Ending Racing Game by the developer of Explosion of an Aeroplane.

• Project DS-GPS - Now open source

• White Dwarf v0.1 - Arcade style shooter you can have some fun flying around and shooting nasty enemies.

• LOCKJAW: An Accurate Tetris Simulator 0.40 - is out with several GBA- and DS-specific changes.

• DScratch - The Audio manipulation tool has been updated to v071111. Whats new? READ ME

• Animanatee 1.2 - Yet another little art program for DS.

• dslibris 1.0.1 released - An ebook reader for the Nintendo DS, focusing on comfortable and uncluttered presentation.

• Byook v0.2 - The DS, held on the side, symbolizing the open book and invites the player to immerse themselves in the story.

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• Arcade Slots - 6 Mostly-Different Slot Machines with a variety of Arcade Rules.

• Scrabble Dictionary - Look up words that are challenged while I play Scrabble.

• LinesCS v0.2 - Frozenjazz has released a new puzzle game, align five squares of the same color.

• Morning timer 1.04 - Infantile Paralysiser Morning Alarm Clock Mp3 player.

• Jetfighter 0.4b - Two players compete against each other on a single DS.

• Super Mario Galaxies v0.1 - Grab the stars and destroy goombajets while dodging the bullets.

• Woctochat - TCP/IP Based internet Pictochat clone.

• Platdude's Retro Collection - A collection of retro styled games, kicked up a notch. Gameplay>Graphics

• Baukasten 0.2 - Use the stylis to move objects around the screen.

• Rubik's Cube DS - Twist a a pseudo-3D cube on the bottom screen.

• DSgf - SGF file editor for Go game.

• Combox- A FTP/HTTP client/server to transfer files with your NDS.

• SNEmulDS v0.6 WIP2 - Fixes issues with Slot 2 and reduces battery consumption.

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• November 19th, marked the 1 year anniversary of the Wii’s first launch.

• NO$GBA 2.5c released - Offering 3d frameskip, 3d vram viewer, wifi details and alot of other bugfixes.

• pokeyDS 1.1 released - Alekmaul has released yet another high quality emulator for console Atari 800 XL.

• PuzzleManiak 3.2 released - Now with music! A memory bug has been fixed, so swapping profile should not crash anymore, and background musics and sound effects have been added.

• Bunjalloo 0.5.1 released with SSL - Make cookies work more thoroughly, Update to dswifi 0.3.4.

• iDeaS 1.0.2.0 NDS Emulator released - Alot of interesting little bugfixes. The Audio plugin has been updated with a bugfix release.

• Normmatt releases NDS Emulator desmume 0.7.4 alpha - Featuring Cheat support and a series of bugs related to crashes fixed.

• SquareDS - Recompiled with the latest PALib.

• MorganDS Sudoku - Another Sudoku release :D

• Dicewars v0.4.3 debug - Dicewar now supports single player, Internet based multiplayer and local Ad-hoc games.

• Blackjack DS v0.2 released - The object is to get to 21 with your cards without going over.

• Tabbed v0.16 - Update to the Guitar chord finder. Support for MOD format.

• CrocoDS 2.0 released - Amstrad CPC emulator updated

• First Strike Shooter game - Vertically scrolling shoot 'em up based on 1942.

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Pikilipita Advance is a software for live videos artists (VJs). It's ready for an immediate use: all the interactive video content is setup into the software. Following the same structure as old schools games, the software is structured around levels. Each level is a kind of "mini game" where the user can interact in various ways to produce animated visuals.

http://www.pikilipita.com/vj/

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2007-11-29 - DSOrganize 3.1129
DSOrganize 3.1129 (Download)

Dragonminded has given us all a gift - Fixing a few crashes, several bugs, and adding SSL support to the browser!

• PNG files now support proper alpha channel.
• Added server-based auto perform to irc.
• Added missing ascii characters to all fonts, changed some fonts slightly.
• Added SSL support to web browser.
• Fixed side tab icons not showing up when startup screen was irc or web browser.
• Fixed random crash on shutting the lid.
• Fixed inconsistent help messages on configuration.
• Fixed more incorrectly written pages that don't display.
• Fixed deflate raw encoding not working.
• Fixed random scroll down on pages that fit entirely on top page while on favorites.
• Fixed invalid directory configuration message not showing up.
• Fixed orientation messing up when viewing pictures in web browser.
• Fixed some image placeholders overlapping each other before rendering.
• Fixed disappearing cursor on scribble pad.
• Fixed graphics corruption on side tabs with other themes.
• Disabled help from appearing while files are downloading in web browser to stop freezes.
• Updated dswifi to 0.3.4

Because Its his birthday, please consider giving him a gift via donation.

http://www.dragonminded.com/?loc=ndsdev/DSOrganize

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• Added support for attachment style downloads (usually download.php style).
• Added deflate and gzip encoding support to web browser.
• Added letter view mode to the picture viewer.
• Added optional click noise to keyboards.
• Added many more special character tags like è etc to web browser.
• Changed large font to Arial 13 from Century 16 to be more consistent.
• Fixed download filenames being badly named when longer filenames were downloaded beforehand.
• Fixed "Removing invalid lfn entry" error in FAT after deleting a file.
• Fixed "Invalid file size on entry" error in FAT after creating a new empty file.
• Fixed "Errors in . and/or .. corrected" error in FAT after creating new directory in root.
• Fixed files randomly not being created and "directories after end" error in FAT.
• Fixed seek bar not updating while paused.
• Fixed text boxes getting the generic text color instead of the textbox text color.
• Removed plugin architecture and resources file. Were causing too much trouble with no real benefit.

http://www.dragonminded.com/?loc=ndsdev/DSOrganize

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2007-11-07 - dswifi 0.3.4 release
dswifi 0.3.4 released

WinterMute has just updated dswifi with some minor bugfixes and feature requests.

The changes are fairly minor but improve UDP support and fix a rare issue with broadcast addresses.

• Added gethostname and sethostname.
• Provide DNS record for localhost.
• Correct minor issue with broadcast address checking.
• Enable select support for UDP.
• Correct code for ntoa.
• Close DNS socket on no answer.

http://www.devkitpro.org/dswifi/dswifi-034/

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The tools allow to you create classic "pixel art", ideal for the composition of blocks and graphics for your games.

The art files are stored on the memory card but can also be sent and received through the Wifi tool "runme" that accompanies the software.

• Version 0.2: WiFi integration support and updates to the software, support for multiple sprites
• Version 0.1: Support for basic animations, a small palette editor any beast
• Version 0.0: it pixelise to save it.

http://sylvainhb.blogspot.com/

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First you need to find the other tank and then destroy it using your handy cannon. However look out for your remaining energy as it decreases with every second spent on the battlefield.

• [FIX] Made it work on Cyclo without launchers (removed all PA_DeleteSprite)
• [FIX] Fixed the simple mode
• [FIX] Fixed a little bug with the score display
• [ADD] Added collisions between tanks
• [ADD] Added some lovely tank explosions

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3731

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The wifi configuration is possible without commercial game. Improve wifi management. DS rings when call is received. Using of key [A] to call or to answer, [B] to hang up.

http://libw11.free.fr/svsip/index.html

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2007-11-01 - Protein DScratch
Protein [ DScratch ] - audio manipulation software for Nintendo DS

Protein project is to create a set of creative audio/visual toys you can play with anywhere you go

DScratch is the first module made using Protein engine - it's a little audio manipulation software running on DS which ables you to play with an existing .wav file or recorded audio sample; you can pitch it, scratch it, rewind, mute and apply effects on it. Moreover, DScratch sends MIDI through wifi connection, which ables you to control external applications, like a VJing software as I do.

http://gorgull.googlepages.com/

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• bonus level
• highscore list ( with DLDI patch )
• smoother UI
• more levels ( 30 )
• more eye candy
• continue a lost game ( with DLDI patch )
• pause mode
• surrender button
• yingyang-hint-items
• lot of bugfixes

Following bugs are fixed in 0.81

• selecting an item -> backgound -> item did remove the item
• the hint-items did not display before you picked the 1st pair when a game was restarted
• selected items were not reset when a game was restarted

http://preussie.miscstuff.de/ds/

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• Added 5 units (valkyrie, golem, troll, sorceres and djinn)
• Added battle and strategy HUD
• Added gameflow: change between battle and strategy mode
• Added unit indicator (touched unit is also selected)
• 2 player "hotseat"-mode playable with a limited number of units
• Added 3D-text intro
• Added game mode menu

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?forum=9&post_id=22018

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• No longer crashes when loading a file that doesn’t exist
• Variable names are no longer restricted to 1 character. Wee Basic now supports variable names of up to 8 characters, starting with a letter but can otherwise use a combination of letters and numbers. eg test, a1, string12, a1b1, hello$
• One dimensional string and numerical arrays are now supported. To use them you first have to declare them with the “dim” statement. eg. dim a1(10) dim hello$(5)
• There is a maximum of 100 numerical and 100 string variables
• Each string array is limited to 30 members
• Each numerical array is limited to 100 members
• You can print at a particular position on the screen using the “print at x,y”, where each of x and y is a numerical expression.

http://z3.invisionfree.com/Wee_Basic/index.php?act=idx

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The game is now feature-complete, so I figure it's time to release it! I hope you enjoy it - it's taken an insane amount of work and the help of dozens of people to get here.

• Rendering performance has improved by ~30%
• In game performance has improved by ~20%
• All graphical effects are now drawn, included animated sprites (for explosions), and particles (eg for blood)
• 99% of texture maps are rendered correctly
• The sky box is now rendered correctly
• GUI corruption has been fixed
• Animated skins are now supported
• The on-screen keyboard has been improved
• Eight user-configurable quick-access touch buttons have been added
• Pen sensitivity has been fixed and view snap disabling a la GLQuake has been added
• QuakeC compatibility has been enhanced
• Command line (through qdsopts.txt) is now easier
• Sound corruption has been fixed
• Console corruption has been fixed
• Cut scenes and 'intervals' have been cleaned up
• 'freeing precaches' bugs have been fixed
• Improved support for the second Quake Mission Pack: Dissolution Of Eternity
• The game now supports the RAM available from certain slot-2 flash cards in order to obtain near-perfect compatibility with Quake mods and total conversions. Everything I've tried works correctly, however some mods overload the DS' GPU and stuff starts to disappear...

...and too many other fixes to list

http://quake.drunkencoders.com/

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• Major changes
  • Basic image support added
  • gzip content-encoding supported
  • Cache files to flash card (mostly optional - see config.ini)
• Minor changes
  • file that defines allowed cookies can now contain http:// at the start
  • Plain text rendering semi works again (no font changes though)
  • Unicode shrunk to 16 bits internally to use less memory
  •  !URIs with spaces are escaped to use "%20"
  • libnds-20071023 compatibility changes
• Build changes
  • Build with devkitArm r21
  • Changed to scons build system

Bug fixes in version 0.3.6:

• Fix newline bug in header parser for servers that send \n instead of \r\n
• Remove the accidental inclusion of cache dir

http://code.google.com/p/quirkysoft/

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• Added extra checking to the image parser code to hopefully stop more freezes.
• Added back in ability to create lowercase filenames that are short.
• Added bad file check to gba_nds_fat so corrupt files shouldn't freeze DSO anymore.
• Added ability to download files on web browser.
• Added auto-hide setting to web browser.
• Changed default progress color on web browser to be more visible.
• Changed all audio formats that read on interrupt to read from a buffer.
  • OGG, AAC, M4A files play faster now.
  • OGG, AAC, M4A, MP3 files more stable.
• Fixed a bug in the downloader code that added garbage extensions to some images, making sites crash.
• Fixed a bug in the mp3 player that detected some stereo songs as mono, decreasing the quality.
• Fixed directory sort order bug.
• Fixed bug where sites using <script src="file" /> notation would not render.
• Fixed a few buffer overflows in web browser which should increase stability.
• Fixed a bug where uppercase hex digits converted to zeros in WEP keys.
• Fixed not being able to clear WEP keys.
• Fixed issue with random freezes while using the touchscreen in the sound player.
• Fixed random seek crashes with aac/ogg/flac/m4a.
• Fixed link issue with some php links.
• Fixed a bug with saving favorites.
• Fixed a bug where the cursor wouldn't auto-scroll when editing text.
• Fixed a disappearing cursor bug with fixed width text editing.
• Fixed a bug with sites that used bad tags like <br/> instead of <br />.
• Fixed a bug that allowed todo's with illegal characters to be created.
• Fixed a crash bug with small png images that run out of memory.
• Fixed several out of memory crashes with web browser in general.

http://www.dragonminded.com/?loc=ndsdev/DSOrganize

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2007-10-23 - devkitARM release 21
devkitARM release 21

With much blood, sweat and tears we finally have a toolchain for DS Homebrew which works on Vista and Vista64 out of the box. There are several components to this new release including updates to libnds, the msys shell provided with devkitPro toolchains and the ever popular Programmer's Notepad. Head over to http://www.devkitpro.org to get the full details.

• Upgraded to gcc 4.1.2
• Added gdb by popular request
• Now including libraries for ARM big-endian devices - this relates to a request from the winARM maintainers, not DS related.
• Newlib patches extended to allow time() to work on the DS
• argv has been added - this will require support from the homebrew launcher menu on various cards
• ndstool now uses the default arm7 core distributed with libnds in preference to an embedded one
• Now working on Vista/Vista64 - users who were impatient and modified paths should now remove those changes

Everything is available via the automated installer/updater as usual.

http://www.devkitpro.org

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http://dicewars.drunkencoders.com/

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There are about five different accessories for SLOT-2 that feature RAM, including the expansion pak included with Nintendo DS Browser. They all have their failure modes. This program makes sure that your RAM pak is working fine.

The application falls back to testing 3 MB of DS internal RAM if it doesn't detect a RAM pak.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=14099

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How it works:

• Select the type of dice you want to roll, or choose a custom type
• Choose the number of die to roll
• Adjust the modifier if needed
• Click on either of the "Roll" buttons, depending on the type of dice you chose

http://rainbow.dev-fr.org/

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• Move using the Dpad
• ‘Fog Of War’ is fully integrated
• Random dungeon generation
• Monsters roaming the dungeon
• Attacking monsters, and receiving attacks
• Levelling up
• Picking up items
• Equipping weapons and eating
• Examining and dropping items

There are still a number of things I have planned that remain to be added.

http://blogs.moddz.com/outofrange/

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• When setting the date, the bug where AM/PM indication of end time becomes strange was corrected.
• Simple disk check was installed.
• Added new font to countdown screen
• Hours Unit Added
• New Boot License Screen
• Calender is now displayed in countdown screen
• Screen Brightness toggle added
• Skin option added

http://mdxonline.dyndns.org/archives/nds/

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Now with support for "Color Pack" tweaks.

0.75

• Fixed a map bug.
• Improved the speed (The difference is noticeable in quite afew games.)

0.7

• Addition of the colour tweaks (compatible MasterBoy/VisualBoyAdvance EC)
• Improved the access pallets speed (typically fades)
• Improvement speed for the games that makes copies in VRAM
• Faster Management of the maps
• Force default colors when no colour tweak is loaded.
• Improvement of the colors to improve quality.

http://playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12949&page=3

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2007-10-09 - Codename DVD Emulator
Codename DVD Emulator

TehSkeen have released information about an upcoming project for the original GameCube.

Codenamed "DVD Emulator v1.1" - This small board housing a MicroSD slot replaces the proprietary DVD-ROM assembly and allows you to make use of the storage space and speed supported by the latest generation of SDHC cards.

• Plug n' Play (No Soldering Required)
• MicroSD / Transflash (SDHC) Support
• Up to 32 Gigabytes of Removable Storage
• Load DOL/ELF Files Directly
• Boot GameCube Backups Directly
• Boot Legacy MultiGame Images Directly
• Includes Custom Operating System

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5422

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• Added a pause button. Hit start to pause/unpause the game, you can continue to give commands to your troops while it's paused, but give too many and the game may crash, I haven't tried.
• With units selected, you can now select a specific tree/mine to harvest or a specific enemy building to attack. This doesn't work with building or repairing friendly buildings, you still need to move your workers nearby to do those actions.
• If you have no friendly units selected, you can select a tree, mine or enemy and see its stats.
• You can no longer build near trees/mines/other buildings. You need to space them out a bit.
• Not quite a game over screen, but I added a small notice when you win.

http://www.atouchofwar.com/

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• Blackbox
• Bridges
• Dominosa
• Fifteen
• Filling
• Flip
• Galaxies
• Inertia
• LightUp
• Map
• Mastermind
• Mines
• Net
• Netslide
• Pattern
• Pyramide
• Rectangles
• Samegame
• Sixteen
• Slant
• Slitherlink
• Solitaire
• Sudoku
• Tents
• Twiddle
• Unequal
• Untangle

http://www.puzzlemaniak.com/blog/index.php

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• Different board sizes: 2x2 to 6x6
• Numbers are coloured like the Gnome version (gnotravex)
• Hints
• Can move all tiles at the same time with the D-pad

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=14259

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• (0.3.5) Crash in the HTML parser.
• (0.3.4) Crash deleting text when editing a URL.
• (0.3.4) Do not initialise sound system as it isn't used.
• (0.3.3) Background colour removed. It wasn't fully implemented and caused some pages to be unreadable.
• (0.3.2) Cancel URL no longer reloads page.
• (0.3.1) Regression in charset handling corrected.
• (0.3.1) Potential crash when text area scrolls off the top of the screen fixed.

http://code.google.com/p/quirkysoft/

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2007-10-09 - No$gba 2.5
No$gba 2.5

Martin Korth has updated NO$gba making it more accurate and faster.

04 October 2007 * version 2.5

• help: updated gbatek standalone version 2.5 (about one hundred news since 2.3)
• vram viewer: supports extended palettes in bg map windows (eg. magnetica demo)
• nds/help: added ds 3d overview chapter (basics on geometry/rendering engines)
• nds/help: added ds technical data chapter (containing some basic overview)
• nds/help: replaced ds various chapter by new ds memory control/timing chapter
• nds/sound: fixed major unreported bug in 80x86 code sound_bias SWI function
• nds/3d/help: corrected shininess formula (ie. fixed that max cos 2 angle mess)
• nds/3d/help: added caution: specular reflection WON'T WORK on camera rotation
• nds/3d/help: maths basics of vector-by-vector multiply (and purposes thereof)
• nds/3d/softlight: allows light+color nonsense double def (eg castlevania clip)
• nds/3d/softlight: much better light-accuracy, and now supports shininess_table
• nds/3d/softlight: lighting fully calculated by software (without opengl light)
• nds/timing: split timings for nds7 (fast access) and trashy nds9 (slow access)
• nds/timing: split addr_clks_table to CODE/DATA addr_clkc_table/addr_clkd_table
• nds/timing: emulates "half" cycles on 66MHz/nds9 (tcm/cache and n32/2 thumb)
• nds/timing: emulates nds7 exmemstat gba-slot timing bits (like nds9 exmemcnt)
• nds/timing/help: added detailed/tested nds7/nds9 code/data memory-timing chart
• nds/timing/cache: allows more CPU load on bios/mainram when cache is enabled
• nds/timing: emulates shared N32 access time for two NDS9 thumb 16bit opcodes
• cpu/speedup: precalculates opcode-timings on interseg-jumps (usually faster)
• cpu/speedup: faster conditional opcode handling (maybe yet another 3% faster)
• cpu/speedup: thumb: uses 16bit reads (3% faster on non-32bit-aligned addr's)
• cpu/speedup: replaced dumb jmp exec_opcode by exec_opcode_mac (ca. 10% faster)
• cpu/speedup: added more code alignments in cpu-core (not significantly faster)
• nds/help: added note that 66MHz-nds9 actually runs MUCH SLOWER than 33MHz-nds7
• nds/cpu: emulates superslow nds9 memory access time (bios,wram,vram,oam,etc)
• nds/cpu: emulates operand-independend ARM9 multiply time (eg. slow thumb time)
• nds/wram: emulates wramcnt mapping (no idea if it's used by any games though)
• nds/3d: adjusted z-rounding (avoid opengl-clip-plane in club house games demo)
• cpu: emulates cp15-trace-id, debug: disass auto-comments on trace-id and bist
• nds/help: fixed key1 [scratch] writeback lsw/msw are exchanged (thanks simon)
• nds/help: cp15 info on trace-id, bist, cache debug/test, supported cache cmds
• cheat: fixed occassional crash on delete cheat (push/pop) (thanks Hiei Youkai)
• thanks: rockmanrotties for submarine (timing) and clubhouse (clip) bugreports

http://nocash.emubase.de/gba.htm

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• New GUI using framebuffer for sub screen
• Better human interface, improved file selector (alphabetical sorted), buttons, check boxes, multi choose zones, etc.
• New GUI supports joypad (joypad is not supported when emulator is running however).
• Multi language support (more than 10 supported, including katakan japanese !)
• Memory pak support (Opera RAM, Slot 2 card reader, etc. using libram) with paging or with large ROM mapping
• Scaling with pseudo bi-linear filtering and sprites squishing : full screen scaling (like snezzids), half scaling (half scaled and without sprites squishing), and no scaling (classic snemulds mode)
• Autiomatic SRAM saving when needed
• Some other bugfixes and improvements in GUI

http://www.snemul.com/ds/

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SvSIP allows to Call in VoIP (Voice Over IP) with SIP protocol and receive calling, for the moment responding is automatic without ringing

• Fifth public version: New interface of numpad. Managing of DTMF for IVR. Should be correct problem in authentication step with some provider (e.g. BroadWorks)
• Fourth public version: Correct bug with IP address including 10 or 100. Volume control of micro in config file. Switch off wifi and reboot the DS a the end.
• Third public version: SplashSreen. Possibilty to hangup when you receive a call. Screensaver after inactivity or lid closure, audio continues to work. Disable wifi at end (after press 'A')
• Second public version: configuration file simplification (3 or 4 parameters). Calling/answering should be work better.

http://libw11.free.fr/svsip/index.html

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Major updates in v1.06

• Major precision overhaul
• Opacity slider in brush-screen
• Pressure-Controls-Size option in brush-screen
• New user-interface with graphics by madwurmz.com
• Playback controls with the option to continue painting from mid-playback
• The possibility to send your painting directly to an e-mail address
• Unlimited save slots
• One additional zoom-level

Improvements in 1.06h

• Less stylus jumping (I need feedback on this)
• Reduced input latency and slightly improved painting performance
• Improved Wi-Fi robustness (but flooding problem seems impossible to completely remove)
• Removed clear-animation for small paintings
• Fixed a bug where calibration settings weren't saved correctly
• Upgraded to newer versions of efs-lib and dswifi libraries
• From this version on I will also include .ds.gba equivalent in archive

http://www.collectingsmiles.com/colors/

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