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As the game becomes addictive, has good graphics and it should be emphasized that it is well structured. Our aim will be to dodge rocks that will appear to go far to make progress, we will have to circumvent and win points when we get to 300 points above the game. Do not go thinking that they are only 300 points is easy to achieve, in contrast, the rocks will increasingly have to be quicker and faster than them not to destroy us.

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alek has let it slip that a new version of the M33 custom firmware for the PSP will be released in a few days and with some new features too.

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Red Alert Retribution PS1 game (£3.99/€4.99)
Jet Rider PS1 game (£3.99/€4.99)
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Hi there, i'm here to release GameMusicGear_MX Version 1.0 (no more release candidate this time ).

The most important changes are the addition of a 10 band equalizer with preset support, a new browser/playlist behavior and several new input and visual plugins .

Here is the changelog:


Quote:
Version 1.0

+ add new vis_plasma visual plugin.
+ add info tag charset conversion.
Available charsets are: UTF-8, GBK, BIG5, SHIFT-JIS, EUC-KR, MS-EE, MS-CYRL, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2
You must change this value manually from the main config file.
+ ADD new browser-playlist behavior more ala winamp: you can browse
any folder and play or enqueue files to the playlist, wich is saved
in m3u format.
+ ADD psf input plugin . For now in_psf doesn't support equalization nor
volume boost.
+ ADD new mp3 input plugin based on the pspsdk's pspmp3 library:
Currently it doesn't support ff/rewind but consumes less battery life.
It only suppports files with 44k sampling rate.
+ add s98 input plugin.
+ add new vis_cube visual plugin
+ add new vis_gel visual plugin
+ add Steven Wittens's UnConeD Goldie semiclone 3d visual plugin (vis_goldie).
+ add hprm support .
+ add show attached picture in fullscreen visual mode.
+ ADD real time equalizer with presets support.
+ add implemented a 'semi' sleep mode. Clock is changed to 22 hz and
screen and power led are turned off.
+ add changed skins settings to a more friendly xml style format.
+ add (PSP Slim Only) Support for 7zip compressed files.
+ add ...

* fix selector is now placed in the last folder when browsing back.
* fix selected plugins are now shown first when entering setup.
* fix in_sid input plugin is now based on libsidplay1 since it was having
some issues with the libsidplay2 engine .
* fix songs with different samplerate than 44k and 48k caused a crash,
well for now only 44k and 48k samplerates are supported .
* fix files with different language names were not played at all.
* fix album art was not found sometimes.
* fix nsfe info was not shown properly.
* fix display bug when browsing plugin settings.
* fix crash when encoding some files to mp3.
* fix controller config didn't read simultaneous keys.
* fix crash when entering several zip subfolders.
* fix corrupted files and folders in 8GB memory sticks.
* fix log file is now closed when a crash occurs.
* fix zip icon was not shown correctly in folder name.
* fix changed cpu clock values of input plugins to optimize battery
life.
* fix play all subtunes was not working properly.
* fix crash when atempting to change subtune or play next song on an
empty playlist.
* fix changed max volume boost value to 15.
* fix in_spc plugin cpu clock is set to 266 by default for better playback.
* fix ...

- del removed exception handler because was causing some strange
graphic bugs.
- del removed fade in when playing new song.
- del rar files are no longer supported by psp fat due to lack of memory.

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400 Screens, 400 Blows is a weekly column that takes an in-depth look at the films playing below the radar, beneath the top ten, and on 400 screens or less.

Filmmaker Jean Renoir, the son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, is inarguably one of the great cinematic poets. He established a fluid, almost unobtrusive style that allowed him to burrow directly into the souls of his characters. In his most acclaimed film, The Rules of the Game (1939), he appears as a kind of buffoonish party guest, and speaks a line of dialogue that has come to be associated with the real-life filmmaker and all his films: "Everyone has his reasons."

Just this week I caught up with Philippe Claudel's directorial debut I've Loved You So Long (52 screens), which some critics have compared to Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married (216 screens). Both films feature contenders for Best Actress, both try to concentrate on human emotions and behavior rather than a forward-thrusting plot, and at least one film has been compared to Renoir. However, one film succeeds and the other fails, and it comes down to the issue of trust. One filmmaker steps back and lets his characters evolve within the film, and the other constructs the characters as specific types to drive the story (he tells rather than shows).

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