PSP-Hacks is proud to present it's first PSP homebrew competition for 2007.  For all of you programmers/homebrew makers, this competition is for you!  You may enter either a Game or an Application as homebrew for the competition.  This competition officially starts Tuesday February 27, 2007, and ends on April 29, 2007, 2 months from now.  Judging will then commence the first week of May.

--- IMPORTANT NOTICE ---
The closing date for the competition has been extended,  The new closing date is now the end of Sunday May 13 2007 PST (Pacific Standard Time)

What about the prizes?
Well PSP-Hacks staff have donated all of these prizes for the winners of the competition:

1) Modded PS2 with the DMS4 pro mod chip and an internal 80 gig hard drive inside plus an internet adapter added on the back of the PS2.
Note: I just found out that some DVDs skip while playing on the PS2 so I will also include the unpatched PSP game Grand Theft Auto Liberty Cities with this prize. This is the PSP game you need to downgrade all PSP firmware 3.03 and below. Everything else on the PS2 works fine



2) Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder

3) Regular PS2 (Non-Modded)

4) New DMS4 pro modchip for the PS2 versions 1-10

5) 3 PS2 games: Star Wars Battlefront II, Battlestar Galactica and Front Mission 4

6) Free month of Premium Rapidshare account. (Donated by Calo)


All of the prizes have been donated by PSP-Hacks staff unless otherwise stated. More prizes may be added before the end of the competition.
The way the prizes will be awarded is like this:
First place in the competition will be able to choose which prize he wants form the list first.  Second place will have second choice, third will get third choice and so on.  As of right now, there are 6 prizes but only 5 places for the prizes.  The last prize, the prize that is not chosen will goto a random entry in the competition.  That way everyone gets a chance to win something regardless of how good your game/application is.
When more prizes are added to the list, the more winners that will be selected for the prizes.



RULES of the competition:

1) Must be your own homebrew. No improving or updating other people's homebrew.

2) Must start from scratch. Must not be something that you made awhile back. If it was posted somewhere else already, it doesn't count.

3) No copying other people's work. At the end of the competition, you must either post your source code with your homebrew or you may just pm any mod or admin here with your source code if you do not want your code to be public for everyone.

4) You may post your Homebrew for feedback and you can continue to improve your work up until Sunday May 13 2007 when the competition ends

5) Can be either a game or application that runs on the PSP.

6) If you are creating an application for the PSP, the application must be in eboot form in order for it to be entered in the competition.

7) No LUA!

8) Must not enter your homebrew in another competition while entering in this competition. If you enter your homebrew in this competition, then it must not be entered in another site's competition.

9) Must implement one of these splash screens created by ...SHAD0W...  into your homebrew entry:









All PSP Splash Screens were created by ...SHAD0W...  Please say thanks to him for the great Splash Screens he made when you enter the competition.  Image can be in any format (PNG, JPEG, BMP etc)

NOTE PSP-Hacks Splash Screen of your choosing must be implemented inside[/] your program/game and not just as an icon in the game menu of your PSP.

Note that these rules can be either changed/modified/edited at any time during the competition by [i]PSP-Hacks staff with given notice.  Any breakage of the rules will result in disqualification.


Scoring/Judging:

Scoring will begin the first week after 13th of May. The scoring of all entries will be a 50/50 split between Mod judges/Special guest judges and forum wide voting.  The mod judges/Special guest judges score will be 50% of the total score and the forum wide voting will be the other 50% of the score.
These are the factors that the Judges will be looking for when scoring the homebrew:

GAME:
1) Completeness of game.

2) Originality.

3) Fun factor.

4) Gameplay

5) Graphics and music/effects quality.

APPLICATION:
1) Completeness of application.

2) Originality.

3) Usefulness.

4) Ease of use

5) Overall quality of the application.

Again, these are the qualities the Mod judges will use in scoring each homebrew.  When you participate in the forum wide voting, please use those qualities for the basis of your decision as well.


There will be members who donate prizes toward the competition be made into special guest judges to the competition.  The special guest judges will hold the same scoring weight as the Mod judges.
Would you like to donate something towards the competition?  If so, send a Mod here a PM with your request and we'll consider it :)
Once you are ready to enter the competition, post in this thread the name of your homebrew, a brief explanation of your homebrew and a download link to your game/app and I will add you to the list of entries here.

Moderators here that will be part of the judging:

- cls
- PSdonkey
- LeifErikson
- p0Wer
- Joe88
- RaiderX

Special guest judges:

1) Chernobyl
2) hibbyware


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Homebrew Entries:
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Name of coder: NIGathan
Name of entry: Npaint 2.0
Type of entry: Paint application
Description of program: A small paint application that lets you draw different kinds of designs on the screen using different types of images (brushes)

Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ocjxwj

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtop … 44&p=1

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Name of coder: foebea
Name of entry: RosettaShard
Type of entry: PSP Interpreter for The Rosetta Stone and custom flashcards as well
Description of program: An application which has been long desired by some. This will allow you to use some of the more popular tools from the Rosetta Stone language learning tool while on the go. This early version includes 8 flashcards with sound. The flashcard images are royalty free images and the vocal work was done by my mom. This will allow you to see what the purpose of this application is, and with any luck, those of you who have not heard of The Rosetta Stone might check them out. They really are the best for language learning.

Download link: www.psp-hacks.com/file/1114
Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=82618

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Name of coder: MK2k
Name of entry: Sleep'n'Wake PSP 1.2
Type of entry:   Time triggered MP3 app with some extra features
Description of program: Doze off with your favourite chill-out music playing silently and wake up with some loud and hard music (or even with the beep.wake.mp3 in the package) with volume maxed at a predefined time.

Screenshot

The Main Screen
https://www.hostco.de/temp/snw.1.2.scrn.png

Download link: https://hostco.de/temp/Sleep.n.Wake.PSP.1.2.zip

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtop … 76&p=1

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Name: J@ricanese
Name of Entry: Simon
Type of Entry: A simple memory style game.
Description of Program: This is a game that is very simple yet fun. Sort of like Simon says. A round color thing, called a Simon has four colors on it. To play, the Simon will light up its colors in a random order. The user (you) then must input back the same colors in the same order. There are seven rounds with the first round having four colors and each round after one more than the last. Beat round seven and you beat Simon.

Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/e9hukt

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=84045

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Name of coder: Silverfox
Name of Entry: LeeSP
Type: Game
Discription: 2-d, 2-player fighting game utilizing both sides of the psp for movement for the left and right players. The game will soon have more                                players, and more levels, as well as more backgrounds to fight in. the game is for now centered around lee, and is thought by me to be a fun 2 person to a psp game and will soon have a story mode...I hope you all enjoy.

Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/sk5wll

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=84494

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Name of coder: JASON STEPHENSON (jay543_uk)
Name of Entry: AUTOMOTIVE CONVERSIONS  (working version)
Type of Entry: APP TO CARRY OUT SIMPLE AUTOMOTIVE CONVERSIONS.
Description of Program: This is my first ever complete working code,started learning about coding about two mouths ago on the net and then came across psp-programming.com.It is a little app which will work out some simple automotive conversions.Sorry if the code is all messed up, i am very new to all this and realy just want some pointers on if i am doing stuff right or if i should just give up.

regards jason.

Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/mt2vyo

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=84586

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Name of coder: PIRATA NERVO
Name of entry: Setgool 3.0
Type of Entry: Game
Discription: 2d platform type of game

Download Links: http://www.mediafire.com/?7z4jomk4nyj

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=86474

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Name of Coder : Crystalized
Name of Entry : PSPMusic(version 0.7)
Type of Entry : A basic music-reading teacher.
Description of Entry : It's an application for the PlayStation Portable System that can help you with music reading if you are a beginner in music playing.

Download links:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6mttiwjtz5q

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=87643

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Name of Coder : teachme
Name of Entry : Screen Defender V5
Type of Entry : 2D Shooter game with story mode
Description of Entry : "Screen defender" , is a simple 2D Shooter game with story mode!!  Defeat thousands of enemies , the boss , and save the earth(how rare)!

Download link V5: http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?c … nderv5.zip

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=88490

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Name of coder: Rocamatics
Name of entry: GuitarBox 1.52
Type of entry:   Real Time - Guitar Effects Processor
Description of program: GuitarBOX is a GUITAR REAL TIME EFFECTS PROCESSOR (a.k.a. MultiFx Processor). Althought is main purpose is to process a guitar signal, you can use it with any electric instrument, even a single standard PC MIC!!!. By now, it contains the following (REAL TIME, very low latency) effects:Noise Suppresor, Phaser, Distortion (overdrive type), Delay, Equalizer (3-band).

Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/iqi9dq

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=88799

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Name of Coder : Cy-4AH
Name of Entry : Sloynik
Type of Entry : Sloynik is program for reading StarDict text dictionaries
Description of Entry : english to russian and russian to english dictionaries, but you can add your own.
You just need convert dictionaries from StarDict format to my own with BtdxMaker.

Download link: http://www.xd-studio.com/sloynik_v1.0SS.rar

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=88653

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Name of coder: CBarox
Name of entry: roboflood V3
Type of entry: Top Down Shooter (Game, Duh!)
Description of program: A TDS with 5 levels a with varying number of enemies and lots of bullets and shooting, and a  boss at level 5.

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?9mn2gydngwz

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=89076

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Name of coder: MK2k
Name of entry: Tankw00rst PSP 0.1
Type of entry:   Tank Wars clone Game
Description of program: You know "Worms"? Good. There was a time before Worms and it all started with Tank Wars aka Bomb32 by Kenneth Morse back in 1990-1992. Tankw00rst is a project to transfer this idea to the PSP making use of the much bigger screen (480x272 instead of 320x240). With the 0.1 version you have 2-10 Player Hot-Seat Strategy Action, Enjoy!

Download link: https://hostco.de/temp/Tankw00rst.PSP.0.1.zip

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=89118

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Name of coder: Sousanator
Name of entry: Serve N Go v3
Type of entry: Time limit game
Description of program: Be a fast food employee who gets the food the customer is asking for, in a certain time limit

Download link: http://sousanator.psparchive.de/ServeNGo_v3.rar

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=89147

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Name of coder: coldtoiletseat
Name of entry: PSP Organize!
Type of entry: Organizer for psp
Description of program: A collection of useful functions for your psp

Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tfwe9k

Release thread: http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=89223

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Last edited by hibbyware (2007-05-14 09:42:06)