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The problem with using the filename is that there are many different ways to name something. For example; SuperMarioWorld Super_Mario_World super_mario_world SUPER_MARIO_WORLD etc, it gets even worse once you mix in exclamation marks and hyphens; King Arthur's World King Arthur's World King...

As for the roms themselves, and having screenshots etc, two solutions come to my mind; 1. A central repository, keeping MD5 hashes of every game to every platform, and letting ZiB access it whenever new content is detected on the SD-Card Pros: - Easy to set up - Once the database is...

And then, when she stands on top of the slain demon king, she realises she has become the new demon king! Or Queen, as it were. And a new age of darkness descends upon the land...

And what happens when more games require the same thing? when merely making progress requires a login? Steam, no matter how good it is, has stepped over a threshhold that many are reluctant to cross. It feels like Steam will be a slippery slope...

Hmm, this is just pure speculation from my part, but... "Cheap parts from China" does not neccessarily equal "Slightly less cheap parts from Thailand" or even "Expensive parts from China". Of course, could be any asian country manufacturing electronics, doesn't have to be Thailand or China. So...

Could one have the measurements in mm instead of those silly non-standard Imperial Units?

The Pandora is more or less made for the homebrew crowd, but making a commercial game for the Pandora is probably very viable, as long as you keep the budgets small. That said, I'd like to tell you the secret recipe to profit on a homebrew console (and in a world with rampant piracy); make...

Not a bad idea, however, I'd like to suggest one thing; instead of making it an XMPP *server*, make it an XMPP *client* with support for Jingle and PEP (Personal Event Publishing) and where one can simply "connect" the desired game. I've been thinking about something similar for quite a while...

Well, if it supports a 3G modem I'm quite happy, but how hard would it be to integrate a 3G modem inside the Pandora? That's about the only thing I feel this console lacks. Once you've gotten used to the flexibility of the 3G internet, you don't want to go back ever, so I'm hoping the next...

I'm game! On the way ...

Dealing with cheating is actually very simple; never trust the client (in a dedicated server game - if it's not DS, trust the host but not the client). This means, among other things, only send data to the player that he or she is supposed to be seeing. Do it on a need-to-know basis. Of course...

It's not that hard to do, if you've written proper wrappers for everything. However converting from DirectX would require a bit more than just OpenGL, you need stuff for input and audio as well. Today that's SDL, but SDL has many drawbacks unfortunately... :( I'd much rather see one could use...

I'm not only going to develop for it - I'm going to try my best to make something worth paying for. :) Me and a couple of friends are right now pitching together ideas little by little, still too early to tell if there'll be a *real* game of it (definitely needs a concept artist for that to...

For what it's worth, my "limit" for the Pandora is 300 Euro (including VAT). What that would be in dollar, I don't know since the US market is that close to a depression.

Hi! Don't know if anyone reported this yet, but Puzzle D-07 can be solved in two moves rather than the three allowed. :D As for the GP2X going "Black" at game shutdown; that happens to me too sometimes, don't worry and wait a little while and it'll be right back at the menu. Now, I just wish...

Check your spam folder, my spamfilter caught it for me. :/