Saturday, July 29, 2006 - Posts

Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:34 PM

Top 10 Sony PSP Games - Week of July 29, 2006

And heeeeeeeeeere are the top PSP games, based on Epinions.com's results:
  1. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (I wonder how the patched version will affect this rating)
  2. FIFA Soccer '06
  3. Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
  4. Need for Speed Underground: Rivals
  5. Ridge Racer
  6. Tiger Woods PGA Tour
  7. Dragonball Z: Shin budokai
  8. Def Jam Fight for NY
  9. Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
  10. Burnout Legends
Source: Epinions.com

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Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:32 PM

Flash Competition Closing - Last Chance for Entries!

Flash Competition by TeamOverload

It's finally that time of the month, and we will be closing our competition in roughly 12 hours from the time that this is published. For those of you who are not aware, or somehow missed out on our first announcement, you have 12 hours to make a flash portal or application/game by the end of the day. You can read about the contest in our previous coverage including the prizes and requirements.

So far we have a handful of entries; something of which I'm hoping will increase in quantity over the next few hours! So, if you just simply forgot about this contest and never made an entry, you can make an attempt still - just might want to work on it as if your life is on the line! The voting will actually begin on July 30th and will last for exactly 1 week. In this one week's time, you can go over to our forums and vote for your favorite entry. I will also be making another reminder for everyone the middle of next week just in case you forget. So, good luck to all those who have submitted or plan to submit, and may the best man (or woman) win!

Submissions ONLY: [Here]
Discuss: [Here]

Source: PSPUpdates
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Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:32 PM

Out of this World Ported to PSP (SWEET!)

I *LOVED* this game when I was in my teens... played it all the time on my Apple IIGS. At that time, it was ported by "Burger Bill" Heineman (sp?), who also ported Wolfenstein 3D to the IIGS. If you think 333 MHz is a barrier, try 2.6 (although lots of us had ZipGSX and TransWarp accelerators). This is great news, and a friggin' sweet game! Check it out! -Auri

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The Eric Chahi-developed Out of this World (known as Another World in some countries) may not be the most famous game around, but it certainly made its mark in the gaming community for introducing a cinematic style and feel to computer games. Originally created for Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS platform and finding its way to Mega-CD, 3DO, and Windows later on, Out of this World was able to create a sort of cult following with its groundbreaking graphics, sound, cutscenes, and in-game events.

If you were one of those mesmerized by the game before, or if you're starting to wonder just what made this game a popular title during its release, I'm pretty sure you're now clamoring for it to find its way to this generation's console. Unfortunately, no such thing is being made public as of the moment - but one lucky soul by the name of gawd is able to play with Out of this World on his PSP.

gawd has ported Out of This World to PSP but due to some circumstances is unable to share either the binaries or source of his unofficial, coded-by-himself version of the game. His Out of This World game currently has faulty 16bit sound samples but there's only one logic bug left making it "almost completable". Using his "unlimited bragging rights", he now shares with us some images of his Out of this World port...evil, evil as he perfectly knows we can't get our hands on it.

Maybe we should all start praying now to the video game gods to grant us the same wonderful privilege gawd is enjoying...or we can just sit back and forever envy gawd. Which do you prefer? I'd easily go for the first, especially since gawd leaves us with a hopeful, "I might be able to squeeze out a binary only PS2/PSP elf/iso of the 3DO version".

Source: PS2Dev via PSPUpdates
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Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:31 PM

PSP Magazine Issue #01 Released

PSP Magazine #01


There are just some things that you can only express in your language and German PSP gamers will go wild over this news. Experiement1106, has sent us word about their release of the first ever issue of PSP Magazine #01. Their initial serving covers all PSP essentials from Lua Player 2.0, Pimp Streamer and homebrews. Even though I'm a non-German speaker, I truly enjoyed browsing through the nice layout and colorful images that comes along with each article.

He has this to say for everyone:

Hope the People outside like this Version when you have comments about that feel free and visit us. Ok thats enough we hope in future we go better and better.....

Viel Glück!

Download it here.

Source: PSPUpdates
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Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:30 PM

News Flash: Daedalus R7's Bug Has Been Fixed

StrmnNrmn's Daedalus R7 seems to be a series of ups and downs. First, we were given the good news on how much the speed has increased, Justin B. even had it in bold letters on his previous article. But there was also the piece of bad news about a persistent bug that made Mario 64 unplayable. Like I said, a series of ups and downs, so you know what's coming.

Just recently, StrmnNrmn announced in his blog that this nasty bug has already been fixed. He said that it was "due to very rare situations where the trace recorder would exit a trace when there was still a branch delay instruction pending. This caused the fragment generator to inadvertently skip the branch instruction, causing the odd behaviour I was seeing."

He indicated a 20%-25% increase in overall speed this time. Given that he hasn't yet implemented all the optimizations he has lined up for the R7.

Scene
R4 Framerate (Hz)
R5 Framerate (Hz)
Current Framerate (Hz)
Mario Head
#@%!194#@%!6
8
Mario Main Menu
14
25
30
Mario Peach Letter
6-7
11
13
Mario Flyby (under bridge)
6
10
12
Mario In Game
5-6
9
11
Mario Kart Nintendo logo
10
23
24
Mario Kart Flag 6
6
11
13
Mario Kart Menu 7
7
11
13

Source: PSPUpdates
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Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:27 PM

Russia's PSP Extreme Magazine Issue #3 Out Now

Not to be outdone by the Germans on their recent release of the first issue of their very own PSP Magazine, the Russians have also released their take on the PSP Mag. Nobody here at the QJ HQ actually speaks Russian, but we definitely enjoyed the solid layout of the magazine. The choice of graphics is exceptional as well, and even if you don't speak Russian, you might still have a blast browsing through this lush magazine.  

They currently have three issues of PSP Extreme Magazine out, which include the latest PSP news , cheat codes, wallpapers, reviews and more.

Download it here.

PSP Extreme 3

Source: PSPUpdates
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