If you're the kind of coder who uses colors and wants the perfect color scheme without having to go through the hassle of finding out what "Dodger Blue" is, then you may want to take a look at andyauff's Color Studio. Color Studio is an application that allows you to change the red, green, and blue variables on your screen, instantly allowing you to see the color you're making.

Unlike conventional color lists, the beauty of this application is that you can easily create the color you want just by changing the variables. As andyauff notes, you can take the numbers down for future reference (add your own name to your notes so you don't forget), or take a screenshot of the color you've created, which is shown on the bottom half of the PSP's screen.

The readme file in the "colorstudio" folder has instructions for using the application and taking screenshots. Note, however, that you can only take one screenshot before it gets overwritten, so you might want to check to see if it works with a screen capture application like iR Shell, just in case you want to save more than one color. Enjoy!

Download: Color Studio v1
Visit: PSP Development Forums

   

Homebrew developer andyauff dropped by the QJ.NET PSP Development forum recently and released his new creation - Making a Legend. Those of you who lurk in our forums should remember that there was a certain thread looking for GFX creators for homebrew games. Well, Making a Legend is that thread's baby.

Anyway, the game is currently on Alpha version. Despite that, it is already packed with a lot of features and andyauff added that more will be included in the next versions. As of now, you can do the following in Making a Legend Alpha version:

• Select an enemy to attack on the grid by moving the selector and pressing X.
• Fight them by shooting bullets at them, decreasing their health from 100 by an increment of 5 at a time.
• You are supposed to get 100 gold when you defeat them, but I am still working that out (you'll get more than that)
• There is a shop where you can buy potions and megapotions, which currently have no use. The shop system does work correctly, though, and your amount of gold is saved automatically so even if you quit to the XMB, you will still have the same amount of gold when you start the game back up.
• There are 6 enemies on the screen, but you can fight them each as many times as you like- they don't go away even if you defeat them *yet*.
• No AI currently, as this is only an alpha version.

The developer would very much like to hear from the community about their thoughts on this homebrew game. So, let us all help andyauff out and give Making a Legend a try. Other coders included in this project are Deviant Savant and Bob Hoil.

Download: Making a Legend version Alpha
Visit: QJ PSP Development forum

andyauff has just informed us that he has rolled out v0.05 of his nifty instructional PSP brew, Todo Español. If you're like this writer here who didn't pay much attention to Señora back in Spanish 101 (and is now filled with regret for doing so, if I might add), you might wanna take heed of this release.

As you probably can tell already, Todo Español is an app that helps you learn Spanish with ease via a series of carefully planned vocabulary lessons. andyauff says that there are really no major updates and changes in this one, but he thought that the new L-trigger functionality should prove to be useful for users. Here's the full list of changes for this version...

Changelog:

• Somewhat improved general look
• L trigger takes you back one "page"
• New section called "Interesting Phrases" - one phrase so far (2 parts to it)
• Added vocabulary:
• Prepositional Phrases
• Celebrations
• Holidays
• School
• Alphabet
• Adjectives- One page of adjective vocab

Download: Todo Espanol v0.05
Visit: PSP Development Forum

 

If you fancy learning Spanish for whatever reason - whether it be for a holiday, for school, if you already know a bit of Spanish and would like to brush up on your skills or even if you just want to be able to describe yourself as 'multilingual' - then andyauff's Todo Espanol could be the app for you. It's a LUA application coded to help those who want to learn Spanish through the use of a series of carefully-planned vocabulary and lessons.

It's pretty simple at the moment, which is ideal for beginners but the developer andyauff (a high school sophomore Spanish student) has plans to update this app with a large database of Spanish vocabulary and maybe even an English-Spanish and Spanish-English dictionary. If you are going on holiday to Spain anytime soon, then this could prove useful.

Thanks for the tip CoolRaccoon!

Download: [Todo Espanol v0.01]
View: [Forum release thread]