Don’t you like it when you get two completely off-topic articles during the same week ? This time my excuse is that all Pandora users are Linux users by default so you’d better be interested in Linux world news. Well, do not worry I’ll be back very soon with more Pandora-focused articles. Following the announcements last week from Valve, I thought it was a good time to digest them all in a single article and see what it means for the future of gaming.
This past week has been RATHER quiet which is good for me as I have a lot of catchup to do and I am recently playing with the latest Firefox version on Pandora which is some good fun altogether. This will be for an upcoming article, while PtitSeb is still fighting with Mupen to get the best out of it before an official release…
About a week ago I was still at the Tokyo Games Show, and here’s my full report of it. This article is going to be as much off topic as I can imaging getting, but since Pandora owners are usually gamers, I can probably afford to venture into this article without much restraint. So let’s get down to it.
You probably know, especially if you live in the US, that nowadays there are tons of services to listen to Music online (usually for free, at least for simple functions). Grooveshark is one of them. And you know what? It works on Pandora, too. Isn’t that a great way to use the excellent audio capabilities of your beloved machine?
Until now when I was presenting the Open Pandora to newbies, I have usually never failed to mention it was an excellent all-purpose emulator machine in the palm of your hands… “except for N64” is what I was always careful to add, too. Our last Mupen release was not performing as well as most people wish and unfortunately it made many games unplayable. PtitSeb has taken on himself to change things and is currently working on Mupen 2.0.
This past week I was at the TGS in Tokyo and as you can guess with all the preparations and excitement around the show I did not have much time to work on anything else. You’ll see very soon a full article on the TGS (ok, it’s not Pandora-related, but bear with me) and in the meantime here’s the weekly repo update!
After the relative quietness of last week, we get a storm of updates and releases in this week ! How appropriate since yesterday we were just hit by a violent typhoon in Japan. No damages but it was very very windy and tons of rain poured from the skies. You don’t get to see that very often.
A couple of months ago I mentioned the work we (as in TraylorPark and me) did to develop a new box packaging for the Japan Edition of the Pandora. Since there was a lot of interest from a number of folks to get such a box (even without Pandora), I have made them available for overseas customers.
What’s wrong guys? No more updates/releases in the repo ? It seems like September has caught the Pandora community unaware. It’s possible many people are returning back to work/school at this time, so it’s hardly surprising. Oh, I won’t complain, for once I get a little less work…
Maybe the name is unfamiliar to many of you, but Kenta Cho is the Japanese game creator behind many of the shoot’em ups available on Pandora (and ported by MH-T and mcobit). rRootage, Tumiki Fighters, Titanion, just to name a few. Most of his games source code is available, and I guess you now realize he specializes in shooters. After looking at his productions I started to wonder how he came to do that. What was his story ?