As Evil Dragon (the leader of the Pyra handheld project) mentioned before, the case is more or less finished, and last week there was a final poll as well to decide the layout of the keyboard. While the layout will be tweaked further, those renders are pretty close to what the Pyra is supposed to look like later this year. [ Note, this article was updated again on July 30th with new content. ]
A lot of updates in the past month, but not much new ports or new software this time. There is still the notable addition of the Yabause Saturn emulator that shows what the Pandora can do, and what we could expect from the Pyra (full speed Saturn, probably!). Among the updates, ScummVM 1.7 brings more adventure games to the Pandora, and that’s pretty much always a good thing.
The participation this past month was pretty low, and I am partly to blame since I did not really spread the word much either, and did not even compete myself. Anyway, let’s see how everyone did on the three games we had to compete on.
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