Even though the contest has officially ended, this doesn’t mean the developers aren’t able to update their homebrew creations. In fact, today NIGathan has released a new version of NPaint — one of the first submissions to the PSP Hacks Homebrew contest.

NPaint v2.0 changes:

• Fixed various bugs
• Updated instructions menu
• Added the song selection menu
• Fixed the brush movement so now when you draw it is perfect control
• Added eraser — hold L + R + CIRCLE and move the joystick to use
• Added the ability to change the color of the brushes between red, blue, green, purple, pink, yellow, and white by pressing left added menu animations within the menu
• Added a 9 song soundtrack
• Added Precision Mode which allows you to hold circle and use the D-Pad to control the brush with precision
• Disabled the ability to load saved Drawings while drawing so you have to go back to the menu and go to load to load your drawing
• Fixed the loading of your drawing so now it loads the drawing a lot better. before it would sometimes not work when clicking on load.
• Changed/added a few controls
• Changed SND0.AT3
• Fixed the red brushes that used to look distorted so now they look amazing
• Added the ability to use partially transparent images as the brushes
• … And im sure theres more that i did but forgot to mention.

• Исправлены различные БАГи
  
• Улучшены инструкии в меню
  
• Дополнительное меню для выбора песен
  
• Улучшено управление кисточкой
  
• Добавлен ластик, при нажатии: L + R + КРУГ и управлять им, двигая джойтиком
  
• Дополнительная возможность изменять цвета кисточе: красный, синий, зеленый, пурпурный, розовый, желтый, и белых
• Добавлено 9 новых песен
  

Name change aside, several refinements have made their way into the point 4 release:

• Many people said that in rooms with bright light or outside, the buttons were hard to see. They couldn’t tell which Simon was lighting up. This is now fixed with the letter of the color displaying on the button (see screen shots).
• Finally got screen shot implementation to work. They will be saved in the PSP/PHOTO folder.
• On a programming note, redefined the delayThread function to allow pausing / screenshots to work in a game.
• Another programming note, freed memory from splash screen which allows me to use it for better features later on.
• Reduced some lags brought about in the game.
• Provided the kxploit version eboots.
• Made images slightly smaller for a faster download.
• Made it so that when it is your turn to go, Simon stays lite for as long as you hold down the corresponding button and returns to normal when you release it. Now you can see how many times you press the button in a row.
• Also fixed a bug where the last color that the user enters doesn’t show.
• Lastly, when the last color you enter is yellow, the menu won’t go down to the quit button.

Submitted for the approval of the PSP Hacks Homebrew Competition is Automotive Conversions. Developed by jay543_uk, this program will carry out simple automotive calculations. Convert KPH to MPH, miles to the gallon, oil mixture ratios, and more…

As noted by the author:

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 really just want some pointers on if I am doing stuff right or if I should just give up.

So you know what to do — download, give it a try, and provide your feedback below.

Features:

• Insane difficulty by default (this CANNOT be changed.)
• Background music (C) fanatical productions) — 3 tracks
  ***WITH LICENCE FROM THE AUTHOR MARC A. PULLEN*** => fanaticalproductions.net
• Screenshot system (it will NOT overwrite your screenshots)
• sounds (//freesound.iua.upf.edu/ — FREE SOUND PROJECT)
• 2 space ships to select
• More than 10,000 enemies to defeat
• 8 different type of enemies (+1 BOSS)
• Story mode
• Bonus weapons (”Ultimate”)
• 5 (&boss) => levels to complete.
• Mini-games (ie “ultimate” weapon installation — actually there’s only one “mini” game!)
• AI
• Bonus pop-ups
• Play list manager
• In-game (mini)tutorial
• 4 Scrolling backgrounds
• Hi-score system
• HUGE amount of enemies. Each level has at least 2,000!
• Different fire modes.
  Use L or R, or do a combo by holding both shoulder buttons while firin

PSP Organize features:

1. Calender
   -12 Month 2007
   -Peugot Backgrounds
   -Automatically loads current month
   -Use L or R to scroll through adjacent months
2. Timer
   -Set hours, minutes, and seconds independently
   -Pause and resettable
   -Counts down
   -Sound when timer reaches 0
3. Stopwatch
   -Pause and resettable
   -Counts up!
4. Calculator
   -4 basic functions
   -Select first number with “+” operation
   -Which ever number you select second will be performed first number with whichever operation is highlighted
5. Light
   -PSP light to see in the dark!