Enter HardHat’s Battle Arena version 0.61… In this 3D world you’re the Mage Master and you must keep all the other master mage wannabes in check. Do that, and once ya done did it, enter to win the Sushi Island Tournament. Actually, HardHat describes it best…

Welcome to Sushi Island. As an aspiring Mage Master, your mission is to collect and train a party of up to 6 low level mages and eventually win the Sushi Island Tournament.

You start with one of 29 Mage Apprentices and through battles of skill and strength, you can upgrade their experience points, gradually growing stronger and stronger mages until you are ready to enter the tournament for the top prize of the Sushi Cup.

Battle Arena v0.61 changes:

• added trainers who guide you through the whole Mage Master experience.
• fixed underpowered spells from increasing your opponent’s health. It now says attack was ineffective.
• moved game save to START so that those O saving loops go away.
• use O to exit from battle preparation screens.
• all new mage upgrades now happen at green or white training centres.
• rearranged the order of the training centres to have a more natural flow around the road, and switched the game save format. The order is now: white, yellow, red, blue, black (tournament) and green. Please consider restarting your game, I load, but don’t guarantee the integrity of your old games.

Download: Battle Arena v0.61

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Whether you’re trying to learn a new language or remember select terms & definitions; HardHat’s PSPFlash-Card will assist in that process. Create and learn from text, image, and audio enabled flash cards. Samples are included; see “flashcard.txt” to get started.

 

Version 0.5:

• Fixed sound cutoff when pages turn.
• Fixed word wrapping bug for the last word on a card.

Version 0.4:

• audio cards (terms or definitions)
• image cards (terms or definitions)
• multiple *card*.txt files to better organize your quizzes
• fixed batch mode to work more reliably
• new background by Mike McMullen
• new icon, pic1 by LNAtropic
• now custom firmware friendly (3.xx and later)

Download: PSPFlash-Card v0.5

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Prepare to be resonated with Hardhat’s Resonate v0.57.

Resonate is a distinctive fast-paced rail-shooter putting you undersea initially as a Zooplankton. Your goal: evolve from your heterotrophic state into a mean ass Thresher Shark and own the ocean.

I should mention Resonate v0.55 was submitted for Homebrew Idol. This article covers both that release and the post-competition release.

version 0.57:

• fixed boss damage visualization

version 0.55:

• new compo title screen with water drop special effect
• new main level which is easier for Meyitzo but still interesting
• now fight against the tall ship of doom to free the sea (boss fight)
• moved old main level to version0_45
• Intel Mac level editor now available
• added model preview in the level editor
• increased the number of supported enemies to 512
• increased the memory used by the CFW build to 20MB for bigger sounds, etc.

Download: Resonate 0.57

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Developer and Homebrew Idol contestant, Hardhat, has released an Internet ranking-enabled version of Resonate.

New readers should know Resonate is a fast-paced undersea rail shooter with one primary objective: become King of the Ocean. And now prove you’re king shit by sharing your high score online. Further enhancements have also made their way into version 0.45 — check ‘em below…

Resonate 0.45 changes:

• added high score upload/Internet ranking
• added new XMB background picture
• added new XMB song from DimensionT
• fixed some crash bugs in the level editor
• filled in some user levels with enemies
• updated credits to list some missed people
• made terrain more continuous
• new level transition effect
• windows level editor included in distro
• level editor includes preview of enemies on screen

Download: Resonate 0.45

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From developer HardHat is something new for Homebrew Idol… Resonate — a fast paced undersea rail shooter. While on your oceanic journey to become king thresher shark, you must destroy enemy fish, collect power-ups, and of course stay alive. Not only that — go online to share custom levels and compete for the #1 ranked spot.

Resonate features:

• five hero forms: Zooplankton, Sea Urchin, Seahorse, Stingray, Thresher Shark
• high score tracking for each game
• enemies in various attack formations
• three kinds of power ups
• level editor for Windows, Linux or MacOS based on fltk and OpenGL

Keep in mind; this is an early, non-final version of the game. A polished version is on the way.

Download: Resonate 0.35 (level editor included — see “red09a.zip”)

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