Homebrew coder HardHat, together with Team Sushi, has released another update for HardHat's Battle Arena, a homebrew game where you are tasked to collect and train a party of up to 6 mages and eventually win the Sushi Island Tournament. The latest version has added new features like trainers, some fixes and more tweaks.

Download: HardHat's Battle Arena v0.61
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PSP homebrew developer HardHat has once again released a quick update for his and Team Sushi's Battle Arena homebrew game. Version 0.52 fixes a bug where hitting triangle enables cheat mode. This new build now repairs your character if you ever come across that bug.


Download: HardHat's Battle Arena v0.52
Visit: QJ.NET PSP Development forum

PSP homebrew developer HardHat and the rest of Team Sushi have released a new version of HardHat's Battle Arena, a PSP homebrew game where you collect and train a party of mages and eventually win the Sushi Island Tournament. Version 0.51 is an optimized build released mainly for improving the game's stability and make better use of the PSP's memory. Hit the full article for the changelog.


Download: HardHat's Battle Arena v0.51

Looking for a certain Sony PlayStation Portable game that's a bit more on the trippy side, in terms of gameplay and  visual style? Then look no further than Team Sushi's Resonate, an ocean-based rail shooter with very awesome Tron-like visuals and an evolutionary gameplay mechanic squeezed in. No, there's no playable build out yet, but the team has released a preview video of it - and you can check it out in the full article.

The first time we heard about the rhythm-based homebrew game Gunnar Hero was around March of this year. It was created by HardHat and the inspiration came from, needless to say, the highly successful title Guitar Hero. We learned today that the developer joined forces with Team Sushi and came up with a new build for the Neo Spring Coding Competition 07.

Team Sushi noted that compared to the previous versions, this is one's the most stable and with a lot of additions such as keyboard re-mapping, high scores, points multipliers, and support for multiple plays per sessions. The complete changelog for this version is as follows:

• Nicer text for list of songs (based on the filename instead of the XML)
• Transparent menu background
• Targa-based vid capturing
• High scores are now saved, so beat your high score
• Multipliers are based on whether there are active notes or active sparks.  If not, the multiplier is reset to 1.
• Replay now reset properly, so score is not cumulative
• Nicer sustain bars (but still no points for sustains)
• Added intro keymap instructions

Team Sushi has some important reminders included in the Readme file like installation guide, changelogs for previous builds, and more importantly, a How To for getting songs that you will use with Gunnar Hero v0.20.

Download: Gunnar Hero v0.20