Romsource Homebrew News

Dreamcast Reborn As A Tablet PC

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:25:14 -0500

The DeamTablet is a portable Dreamcast build into a 15" lcd tablet like system. It not only runs on batteries but also contains the holy grail of Dreamcast modding, an ejecting GD-ROM drive(First time I've ever seen one work)
This mod was created by the WERD You can find a worklog on WERD's blog: http://modsbywerd.blogspot.com/

Wii Emulator Allows HD Graphics

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:43:56 -0500

Ever wondered what your Wii games would look like in HD? Well, it's your lucky day. With the release of the Wii Dolphin emulator, you can view them in 720p. You will probably need a fairly decent computer to pull this off and have it run well. It can be a little buggy (as you can see in the videos) but it just released. Check out the videos and make sure you hit the HD button to get the full effect.

PSPlayer v2.0

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:27:21 -0500

It's about time. After years of waiting, the original king of media playback on the PSP returns to take back the throne. Now PSPlayerMT is back and better then ever. Will this get regular updates? Or will we have to wait another 2 years for more. Either way, this is going on my PSP.

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Based on FFMPEG nearly latest source(svn rev. 14728).
avi/mov(mp4) containers supported. No container specific limitation.
Video codec : Mpeg4 video(xvid etc), Mpeg4/AVC(h264) supported. (HW accel only)
Audio codec : AC3, MP3, AAC supported. (MP3/AAC are HW accelerated.)
Subtitles are supported. (smi, etc. through mplayer subreader.c and custom rendering of subtitles.)
Supports B-frames in H264.
audio 8-48kHz sampling rate supported. (linear resamling to 44kHz used in PSPlayerMT)
Real-time volume boosting(1-20x). Apart from system volume. (Can be used for Replay Gain. Of course by hand not automatically.)
Super high quality custom YUV rendering using PSP video acclerator. Precise color conversion. Deblocking in chroma channels. (from PSPlayerMT)
Fast avi loading by optimizing index loading.
Max video resolution. 480x272. (PSP HW codec library does not support higher resolution. maybe)
No restriction in framerate.
Buffering mechanism used in PSPlayerMT. (but extreamly reduced buffer size.)
FF/Rew supported.
Using internal bookmark mechanism, resuming supported.
Async reading of video files. Less memstick access.
usbhostfs, nethostfs supported. (first should be enabled using irshell. etc.)

Link

Sonic r280

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:14:38 -0500

Homebrew Developer Jeff, has released a new version of Sonic.

Sonic r280:

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sonic is the development name for my homebrew nintendo ds 3d game project. some notable features include skeletal animation, static & dynamic point lights, shadow volumes, skyboxes, picking, gravity and object & environment collision detection. in the near future i will build the game logic, a.i., scripting and i hope to include an interactive 3d map builder for easy world creation and object & creature placement.

please be aware that this project is in it's very early stages of development.

Developer's Source

sonic_r280.zip

Fencing App for the DS

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:37:06 -0500

Fencing App is a Nintendo DS application that keeps up with scores, cards, and games as well as features a coin flipper.

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Explanation:
First choose your mode,

Pools-5 points, one period.
DEs-15 points, three periods.
free-unlimited points and periods.

Press A to start the timer (it will beep so u know).
Press it again to pause it.
Record Fencers' scores with L and R (when the timer is paused)
If a fencer gets a card (for ex. Yellow) Then click on the yellow card in the touchscreen.
Pressing Select Resets the time (You must do this when a period is finished).
A triple beep will sound when a period is over.
The number above the timer is the period you are in.
When the bout is over a results screen will pop up
and you may have each fencer sign

Developer Source

http://www.romsource.us/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=827