DCEmu Server Update - Also Nintendomax New DCEmu Affiliate

Posted By: wraggster

Hi all sometime this weekend we will be moving to a much faster server with more ram 4 quad speed cpus and other stuff thats over my head so the future of the site looks a lot better, also Martin let me know that he should also be upgrading Vbulletin to the very latest stable version which should mean many new features and hopefully a lot of the bugs will go. The faster server should also mean the site loads a lot better too.

Im sure you will know if you have entered by any of the network sites that theres lots of errors on the pages, these will be fixed once the server is totally migrated.

Finally once i get a chance to add them, id like to say welcome to Nintendomax our newest affiliate, for those who dont know Nintendomax is an excellent French Homebrew and Hacking site that focuses on Nintendo Consoles, check them out here --> http://www.nintendomax.com/

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DCEmu World Wide Prize Giveaway: Ends today!

Posted By: Darksaviour69

DCEmu World Wide Prize Giveaway ends today! If you have not entered yet, what are you waiting for? Do it now

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Pandora News = A bunch of Updates

Posted By: wraggster

News from Evil dragon:

Hi folks!

We got overwhelmed with eMails, so it took a while to answer them all - and also to find a few minutes to post at this blog again.

Quite a few things have happened, if you followed the boards, you might've seen most of them.
If not, here are the latest news for you:

1. WiFi is working!
Yep, finally, after months of hard work by mostly DJWillis (with help from other devs), WiFi is working!
WEP, WPA, WPA2... including one of the best GUIs, the Network Manager are working fine!
Additionally, XFCE is shaping up, so you might even get a REAL cool desktop manager!

2. Cases will ship sometime this week
According to the company which creates the moulds, the first samples of the cases should ship within this week (they didn't say any exact date).
That does mean that they should arrive latest next week - and if everything is fine, it's CASE MASS PRODUCTION time. Yeeeha!

3. First preview of Silk Screening for the case
Michael released a very first version of the silk screening for the case which led to this gp32x.com-Thread. You guys did provide a lot of good ideas there which we will implement into a final version. Thanks! You're a really cool community.

4. Emulation goodness
Devving for the Pandora continues. There's now a first version of a MUPEN port already - an N64 emulator.
Thanks to Ari64, Pickle and all the devs involved (you can find out more infos about it on this GP32x.com thread)

Here's a nice video of Michael playing Super Mario 64. The sound is stuttering as emulation is not fullspeed yet, but it's really really promising already.



5. CE Testing documents and shielding
As I promised in my last blog post (though a lot of time passed), everybody who's interested can take a peek at the documents.
Michael already shielded the LCD cable, so everything should be fine now.

http://www.openpandora.org/index.php...emid=2&lang=en

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DCEmu Prize Giveaway: Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2

Posted By: Darksaviour69

Since we are such nice people and all, we at DCEmu are going to give away Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 for either the PS3 or Xbox 360 (winners choice) to a Lucky DCEmu reader. To enter this contest all you have to do is to post a reply to this news post and answer the following question:

The Call of Duty games are set during WW2 and modern day, but if you could make you own COD game, what war/time period would you base it on?

You may only post your answer once, and duplicate entries will be disqualified from the contest. This contest is only open to residents of the UK, (sorry to all our members outside of that region).

This contest will close on Friday 20th November 2009.

If you want to post a reply to this post but do not qualify for the contest e.g. live outside the UK* please post "I'm not entering the contest" thanks

This prize has been supplied courtesy of Argos.co.uk who provide a wide range of Xbox 360 and PS3 video games.

Winners will be chosen randomly from qualified posts and contacted via PM on the DCEmu forums and E-mail. If a winner does not respond within a week a new winner will be picked at random from the other entrants. No purchase necessary. One online entry per person (one e-mail address per person/address). Entry constitutes agreement by winners to be publicized and permission to use each winner's name for the purposes of promotion of the Contest without further compensation. Contest void where prohibited. Odds of winning dependent on number of entrants. No alternative prize will be offered. We reserve the right to issue an alternative prize of the same value should the prize no longer be available

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DCEmu Server News

Posted By: wraggster

Hi all on nearly all the dcemu network sites you may see php errors, im working on fixing these asap, they have occured because of new security measures taken by our server admin.

Thankfully this doesnt affect news or downloads, just some side bars and feeds.

thanks for your patience.

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DCEmu World Wide Prize Giveaway: Less than a week left!

Posted By: Darksaviour69

Less than a week left for our DCEmu World Wide Prize Giveaway. If you have not entered yet, what are you waiting for? Do it now

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Mupen64 Video - Nintendo 64 Emulator for Pandora

Posted By: wraggster

Craig one of the people behind the Pandora messaged me this video on MSN, so here is the first video of a N64 Emulator for Pandora:

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DCEmu World Wide Prize Giveaway, Sponsored by GameYeeeah.com

Posted By: Darksaviour69

DCEmu and GameYeeeah.com have teamed up, to give away 10 great prizes to 10 Lucky DCEmu readers. And the good news is This contest is open to everyone World Wide!*

HDMI Cable for PS3
Memory Card Adapter for PS3/PS2
Wii Lan Adapter for Nintendo Wii
Wii Component Cable for Nintendo Wii console
Dual Wii Remote Charger with 1800mAh Battery Pack
Replacement Case for Nintendo DS Lite
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1Emergency Battery Charger for PSP2000
5 in 1 Crystal Case for PSP 2000 Btton Kit for PSP 2000

First prizes winner get first pick, second get the next choice untill the final winner (10th) gets what ever prize is left.

How do I enter such a wonderful contest, I hear you ask. Simple. To enter this contest all you have to do is to post a reply to this news post and answer the following question:

Which Video Game Most Enriched Your Summer Holidays and Why?

You may only post your answer once, and duplicate entries will be disqualified from the contest, If you want to reply but have already entered the contest post "THIS IS NOT AN CONTEST ENTRY" at the start of the post .

This contest will close on Saturday the 31th of October 2009.

Winners will be chosen randomly from qualified posts and contacted via PM on the DCEmu forums and E-mail. If a winner does not respond within a week a new winner will be picked at random from the other entrants. No purchase necessary. One online entry per person (one e-mail address per person/address). Entry constitutes agreement by winners to be publicized and permission to use each winner's name for the purposes of promotion of the Contest without further compensation. Contest void where prohibited. Odds of winning dependent on number of entrants. No alternative prize will be offered. We reserve the right to issue an alternative prize of the same value should the prize no longer be available

*Contest void where prohibited

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The Pandora is ready to roll

Posted By: yaustar

From the newsletter:

Hello everyone, Craig here,

This is the last OpenPandora newsletter before we start shipping Pandora consoles to customers.

Yes, we have finally, after a lot of serious tweaking, decided the Pandora is ready to roll.

You will have already seen all the videos, the emulators, the various game ports, firefox, they are on the website if you have not.

Just before we get going, how about one more? The Pandora running a Dreamcast emulator:


Right, now, this email is about what happens next.

Well the Pandora is being made in Dallas, Texas, USA. We decided not to go down the usual 'Made in China' route.
It might cost a little more but we believe the level of service you will get from us will be far greater due to this.

For those of you who still want a Pandora from the first batch there is a small number (about 100) still available to preorder, on a first come first served basis, at $330 each, if you want one email: openpandorasales@gmail.com.
These are limited to one per customer.

We are also able to offer a very limited number of consoles to web stores (less than 150), again on a first come basis.

There won't be another batch until 2010.

So, between now and then, what's going to happen?

Currently we have 105 test mass production Pandoras, as well as numerous full pre-production Pandora consoles.
A lot of these are with developers who are working on software, you will have seen a lot of it in the videos we have posted on youtube.

In October the factory will start to populate 4000 Pandora PCBs, this will be a slow process at first which will become substantially faster after the initial 800.
As the PCBs are completed, they are tested then put in to cases, boxed up and shipped out to you.

After we ship the first 4000 units , and before the second batch, we will then be concentrating on software development, looking after the current customers and, well, trying to make the Pandora the best open hand held ever made.

Also consider that there is still nothing like the Pandora on the market; digital dpad, dual analogue nubs, qwerty keyboard, 800*480 touch screen, over 10 hours of battery life and lots more, we think you will really like it.

So, you can finally sit back, be happy and join the fun on the forums at http://gp32x.com/board or our fancy new website http://openpandora.org

Thanks,

Craig and the OpenPandora team.

PS if you got this email more than once I'm really sorry, new website teething problems!

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Pandora News - Press any key to continue

Posted By: wraggster

News from Evildragon:



Well, I just saw we have some more news for you.

The final keymat prototype did arrive a few days ago at Michaels place, so we have a nice picture for you.

Michael did a few tests with it already and the keys really work perfectly! Nice one!

http://openpandora.org/go.pl?A969

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