Take this from a guy whose brilliant mind turned figments of the imagination into glorious cultural icons. No less than the man behind Marvel himself, Stan Lee, has expressed his admiration and respect for gaming development. His exact words: "It's lke a miracle."

Developer chicky95 is proud to bring us his Mastermind game coded in Lua for the PSP. If you're unfamiliar Mastermind, it's a code-breaking board game involving colored pegs and a game board that looks like a big Battleships game. More info inside.


Download: PSP Mastermind

Sony PlayStation Portable owners who enjoy homebrew games can look at homebrew developer cyril92's Mind Breaker. Currently in version 1.0, what we have here is a small puzzle game similar to Mastermind that you can toy with and enjoy. See the full article to learn all about it.

Download: Mind Breaker v1.0

No French jokes here, folks. Only a lot of gaming goodness. The French homebrew group known as Team 280 released the latest version of Mastermind, now called Mastermind v1.0 . From the 0.5 version that used TIFF, to new graphics and support for 1.00, 1.5 and 2.xx firmwares in the pre-1.0 versions (can we call it 0.75?), you can now call Team 280's Mastermind a dual-language puzzler for the PSP.

As with any game of Mastermind, your job is to figure out the hidden combination of colors by a process of trial and error. In Mastermind 1.0, you have ten tries to figure out the combination and the program will respond as to whether your assumptions are right or wrong. Guess right and you get points for a running score total. Best of all, they have English and French interfaces for this version, so you don't have to wonder what the interface is talking about.

Here's Team 280 directions on playing the game on your PSP:

Combination Inputs:

• Cross: put a red
• Circle: put a green
• Triangle: put a blue
• Square : put a brown

Home : Exit
Sound : Stop or play music
Start : Help Menu

A white light shows you that one color is well-placed, while a black light shows that one color is not well-placed.

There are currently two versions of the game out: a 1.00 & 2.xx version using Kriek eLoader, and a 1.5 version. Feel free to pick up the one that suits your needs, and make sure to give Team 280 props on a fun game and Cloos for some sweet Mastermind music. Just make sure you know what you're doing so you don't brick your PSP, and feel free to check the discussion thread linked below if you want to ask any questions. Enjoy!

Download: [Mastermind v1.0 (1.00 and 2.xx version using Kriek eLoader)]
Download: [Mastermind v1.0 (FW 1.5 edition)]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]

Once again, Team 280's theketchupman (aka ketchup) passed by our QJ forums recently and hooked us up with updates on their team's homebrew game, Mastermind. He comes to us bearing both good and not so pleasant news, let's start with the bad tidbit first. He mentions that Team 280 decided to stop developing TIFF homebrews, so that Mastermind v0.5 TIFF homebrew game we talked about two days ago may be their last TIFF creation.

Now, the good news. The team has decided to broaden their horizons as they are all set to develop 1.0 and 1.5 homebrew since it can be played with the new eLoader. Part of the good news is a version of their Mastermind game for 1.00, 1.5 and 2.xx users, amped with more graphics and a lively music to boot.

In the future, the Team 280 guys made up of  jbskator, xpierrex, Cloos and ketchup, will be coming out with an English version of their game as this one that you're about to try out is purely French. Great job and good luck to all your future plans, we hope to hear from you soon, guys!

Download: [Mastermind for FW1.50 PSP]
Download: [Mastermind for FW1.00 and 2.xx PSP]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]

theketchupman stopped by our forums to talked about this TIFF homebrew game by French homebrew coding team, Team 280. The game is called Mastermind and it's now in version 0.5. How do you play the game? Well, basically, you have to find a four-color combination and you 10 chances/tries to accomplish that. The right column of the game will show just how well you're doing - a white dot shows that one color is well placed while a black dot will tell you that one color isn't well positioned.

From the looks of it, it may be a port of Mastermind - a two-player board game wherein one player becomes the codemaker and the other becomes the codebreaker. For now, the game is in French but you can expect an English version to come along our way in the coming days. Here are the game's controls:

• cross : put a red, circle : put a green, triangle : put a blue and square : put a brown
• home : exit
• sound : stop / play music
• start : help (in french)

Team 280 is made up of programmers jbskator, xpierrex, and ketchup. Manning the graphic designing portion is Cloos. We hope to hear from you soon guys!

Download: [Mastermind v0.5]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]