Here's another entry to the Neo Spring Coding Competition 07 courtesy of homebrew developer pucelano. The program is a fully functional Spreadsheet for the PlayStation Portable known as PSP SpreadSheet. Do take note that this is not the first build for the application as it was first released back in July.

The latest release, version 2.00, comes with a lot of new features aside from the usual stuff that comes with a spreadsheet application. Among the more notable ones include basic mathematical operations and formatting capabilities to the cells texts and cells numbers. Here's the complete list of features as provided by pucelano:

• English and Spanish language menus and functions.
• Format cells options: Font, size, bold, color, decimals, alignment and superpose.
• The integrated functions are named and work like those of Excel (English or Spanish version), to facilitate the exchange of files and the learning.
• Exchange of files with Excel, using txt files.
• Show or hide gridlines.
• Turn on-off the USB connection.
• Save screenshots in Memory Stick.
• Possibility of changing the columns width.
• Cut-Copy-Paste-Delete the content of the cells.
• Clock and indicator of battery on screen.

Before installing PSP SpreadSheet v2.00 on your handhelds, the developer included a comprehensive manual in .pdf format. Read that first to avoid any problems while using the application.

Download: PSP SpreadSheet v2.00

  

Homebrew developer pucelano first released the application Easy PSP Calculator back in March 2007. But seeing that there's an on-going competition, the Neo Spring Coding Contest, the developer decided to create a new build for the Lua calculator project and make it an entrant.

Easy PSP Calculator lies somewhere along the middle of basic calculators and scientific ones in terms of features. While it doesn't have full the full utility and functions of a scientific calculator, the homebrew does offer some trigonometric functions. Its other features are as follows:

• Memory functions.
• Operations with angles, as much in degrees as in radians.
• Exponential numbers available.
• Conversion centesimal degrees<–> hexadecimal degrees (new in v2.0)
• Sounds on errors (new in v2.0)
• Four different skins (new in v2.0)

pucelano included a Readme.txt file in the download package below which contains information on controls and installation instruction. Browse through that first before installing the program on your PSP units.

Download: Easy PSP Calculator v2.0

Pucelano, creator of the PSP Spreadsheet homebrew application, is back and this time with a game. It's the developer's entry to the Neoflash Summer Coding Competition (deadline for submissions is August 20, btw). Now introducing: PucePong v1.0.

There are three modes to play the game in: solo, versus, and record. Difficulty settings can be adjusted between easy, medium, and hard. You can also set the number of points needed for a game set match - either 9 points or 15.

Some of you guys might think that the game is pretty simple, but once you try it out yourself, you won't have any doubts about the effort put into it. The AI was pretty tough and seemed like it knew what it was doing, and ball physics are actually well done as well.

Installations instructions are found in the readme.

Download: PucePong v1.0

 

Pucelano, the creator of the Easy PSP Calculator, has produced a fully functional spreadsheet for the PlayStation Portable called PSP Spreadsheet v1.00. This program looks very well made and offers most of the functions one would expect from such an application.

Obviously, the basic operations are all present and accounted for. In addition to this, the coder has implemented multiple functions which streamline calculations and simplifies management of the different cells. Here's a list of features that have been implemented in this build:

• Format cells options: Font, size, bold, color, decimals, alignment, and superimpose.
• The integrated functions are named and work like those of Excel.
  
• Exchange of files with Excel, using txt files.
• Show or hide gridlines.
• Turn on-off the USB connection.
• Save screenshots in Memory Stick.
• Possibility of changing the columns width.
• Cut-Copy-Paste-Delete the content of the cells.
• Clock and indicator of battery on screen.

The program and manual are both in Spanish so if you don't speak the language, you may have a hard time with the program. However, if you can wait a few days, Pucelano gave word that an English version of the program complete with an English manual will be released as well.

Download: PSP Spreadsheet v1.00

This is a take-it-easy Lua project of pucelano's that should find some use in a classroom setting (though bringing a PSP to a SAT exam might actually get you in trouble...). We have seen a lot of PSP calculators pass through our hands, from the bare-bones basic to the pimped-up full emulations like Zx-81's HP48 emulator (certified for classroom use, but your teacher may disagree).

Easy PSP Calculator, despite its name, is not a bare-bones Lua release. While it doesn't have the full utility of a scientific calculator, it nevertheless incorporates basic trigonometric functions, useful for algebra, basic calculus, and geometry. You know, basic high school stuff. Despite being encoded in Lua, it's been worked so that it can be opened off the MemStick, so you're not gonna need a copy of Lua Player for this homebrew calc.

So if you're stumped trying to long hand calculations for sine waves, you could try reaching for some help...

Download: Easy PSP Calculator v1.0