The time has come for another homebrew roundup. Many interesting projects have appeared since the last homebrew feature, including some frequently requested titles and some unexpected gems. Note that a number of entries are marked (WT) for Working Title – if you have naming suggestions for any of these games, get your word heard!
Homebrew. What does the word conjure for you? Novice coders? Quality indie releases? Free stuff? Community? Any of these answers would be correct. Sometimes awesome, sometimes hilariously crap, homebrew is a petri dish of dedication, obsession, and talent, and the GP32X scene has the entire spectrum covered. So let’s take a look at some of the stuff being cooked up under our own roof.
Here be the latest entry from Craig in this week’s series of Youtubes. And here’s what it contains, in high definition text:
Here is a fun video showing a broad range of Pandora Games, both 2D and 3D as well as a little keyboard action. Quake 3 is on HIGH DETAIL. It goes quite a bit faster on lower, but I can’t resist pushing the Pandora
The keyboard isn’t great as my case is an old prototype one and the keypad is a little low on the back row, but it still works fine.
I could not get Descent working with the controls in time and wanted to get this posted, sorry.
No nub action as my prototype is too old (the nubs have outdated firmware).
Extra thing: MWeston posted the following in the Youtube comments, with regard to nub firmware:
We’re about to test new nub firmware as the boards currently have some bug in them that makes the coordinates go nuts after a little bit of use. Craig is waiting on the success of that before re-implementing analog control. Pickle will be the main man on those tests very soon (if the bug truly is fixed!), with help from me.
Craigix has posted an interesting question in the forums. He’s asked what commerical games we would be interested in seeing on the Pandora and why.
After reading thought the Gizmondo liquidation details I was surprised to see just how cheap they obtained some of their game ports for the console. Of course having those games didn”t save the system in any way but…
If we could throw some money at having a commercial game or two ported over which ones would they be and why?
Which do you think would get the Pandora the most attention or the most sales?
Or is the money better spent elsewhere?
Could we see some commercial games coming out on the Pandora? Or is it generally a bad idea taking ideas from the failed Gizmondo?
Cpasjuste has just added a ton of new applications available for testing.
Full list and download link after the break.
Here’s a list I wrote up today showing the various apps that should be available, and links to the source. I’ll keep it updated, so check this thread for the latest. Check past the break (yes, we know how to use that now) for the complete list.
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