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Gaming for Cancer, Metroid Marathon

WinterMute — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:35:17 +0000

While not particularly in keeping with the usual posts here on the devkitPro site I thought this was worth a mention since it’s for a good cause.

The SpeedGamers are having a 72 hour Metroid Marathon to raise money for St Jude’s Children’s Hospital. In their first marathon they raised $1090 for St. Jude. The second marathon they rasied $1355 for Giggles Therapy, one of their local Autism organizations. The current marathon started on August 15th at 6pm CST and has raised $3152 of their $5000 target so far.

If you’re feeling charitable then I’m sure your donations will be greatly appreciated over at The SpeedGamers

All donors are entered into a prize draw for a copy of Wii Metroid Prime 3 signed personally by the development team.

2008 Sourceforge Community Choice Awards Voting

WinterMute — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:53:17 +0000

It’s finally time to get your votes in for devkitPro. We made the finals in 3 categories

--  Most Likely to Be Ambiguously Accused of Patent Violation
--  Most Likely to Get Users Sued
--  Best Tool or Utility for Developers

Get over to the voting page now and help us win one of the categories this year.

In case you need a little incentive Sourceforge are giving away a discount coupon for Thinkgeek - I think I might have to spend mine on this little gem. Create your own Mario themed environment with restickable vinyl wall decals. Click the image for more details.

Cheap SD cards

WinterMute — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:14:58 +0000

Here’s a little something that may be of interest to DS owners.

Yesterday I got an email from buy.com to say that the google checkout promotion is finishing at the end of the month so I had a quick look to see what it was about. Turns out that google checkout are giving new users $10 to spend on whatever they like and there happen to be some good deals on buy.con for, yes, you guessed it, $10. Here’s a link to a 2gig micro SD card you can basically get for free if you haven’t used google checkout before. By way of a little bonus, devkitPro will get a small commission if you happen to buy through this link so, if you don’t have any spare change in paypal to make a donation then you can still help out by grabbing a great deal before it ends forever at the end of the month.

Crucial 2GB MicroSD Card w/ SD Adapter - Micro SD

corrected buildscripts

WinterMute — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:54:57 +0000

Some spurious version numbers from CVS testing and DOS line endings crept into the last release of the buildscripts. This has now been corrected and a fresh set of scripts uploaded.

buildscripts 20080624

WinterMute’s Birthday

WinterMute — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:27:36 +0000

June 3rd marks the day that WinterMute was born. If you’re feeling generous, appreciate the toolchain work and would like to help the birthday beer fund then please feel free to visit the donations page.

libogc updated

WinterMute — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:47:12 +0000

The latest release of libogc brings vastly improved Wii support.

Shagkur’s lwbt port and reworking of Para’s wiiuse library bring us wiimote support.
The old sd card library has now been removed in favour of libfat.
Extended and improved API for accessing the nand filesystem.
Internal console now understands VT escape sequences.
argv support for passing arguments to applications.
Improved Video detection scheme for setting mode.

libogc 20080602

The gamecube and wii examples have been updated and improved including ports of the first 5 NeHe examples to GX.

wii examples 20080602

gamecube examples 20080602

libfat now supports SD cards on Wii and gamecube. Please note that this release is not currently suitable for GBA/NDS.

libfat 20080530

devkitPPC release 15 is here

WinterMute — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:25:40 +0000

The latest edition of the gamecube/wii toolchain now uses newlib 1.16.0 with updated patches to allow libfat to be ported. As usual, windows users should grab this update through the automated updater.

devkitPPC release 15

Sourceforge Community Choice Awards 2008

WinterMute — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:14:25 +0000

It’s that time of year again when Sourceforge open up nominations for the community choice awards so you have a chance to show your appreciation for the devkitPro toolchains. Only registered SourceForge.net users can nominate projects and we’re not eligible for Best New Project since we’re more than a year old. Last year we made the finals for Best Tool or Utility for Developers but were beaten to the punch by the very deserving TortoiseSVN. This year sees some new categories where we might stand a better chance - I’m rather entertained by Most Likely to Get Users Sued which Sourceforge describes as “These are dark and dangerous times for hackers and users alike! The winner of this award is a project that provides freedom to those who use it - more freedom, in fact, than “the man” approves of.” Users can nominate the project for any number of categories so get clicking and show your appreciation.

devkitARM release 23b

WinterMute — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:29:22 +0000

This is just a minor maintenance update to fix some linking problems.

fix rename hook for newlib file IO layer
fix dependency filenames for special files

As usual, the binary is available through the updater for windows users. For other platforms several binaries are provided on the devkitARM release 23b SF package. The latest buildscripts are the 20080516 package.

devkitARM release 23 now available

WinterMute — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:49:54 +0000

updated gdb to 6.8
updated newlib to 1.16.0
use static libexpat for gdb, enabling target descriptions.
use static libgmp and libmpfr for gcc, avoiding the need for users to find their own.

There is now a linux x86_64 binary available thanks to DesktopMan for the loan of a machine to build this. Please report on the success of this binary in the forums.

Several users have been adding support requests and other toolchain related questions to the comments. Please direct these to the forums where more help will be forthcoming.