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Hi All,

Here is a new version of PSP-Mancala the mancala board game for the PSP.

What's new in version 1.1.0 :

- Bug fix in AI (now it is much stronger !)
- New graphics and eboot icons
- Add EBOOT music
(see Phenom album from NeXuS)


Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public license,
read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

How to play ? Have a look to the rules in the README.txt file.

pspmancala-v1.1.0-bin.zip

pspmancala-v1.1.0-src.zip


Enjoy,

Zx.


If you want to discuss on this homebrew, you can do it there :
zx81's forum on dcemu network or zx81's forum on qj.net

Hi All,

Here is a new version of PSPMancala the mancala board game familly for the PSP.

What's new in version 1.0.3 :

- Compatible with custom 3.x firmwares (and i hope with psp slim)
- New graphics and eboot icons
- Add Intro Splash screen
- Support iso8859-1 fonts in print text functions
(might be useful to translate menus in german, french ...)

Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public license,
read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

How to play ? Have a look to the rules in the README.txt file.

pspmancala-v1.0.3-fw3x.zip

pspmancala-v1.0.3-fw15.zip

pspmancala-v1.0.3-src.zip


Special thanks to all PSPSDK developers.

Enjoy,

Zx.

If you want to discuss on this emulator, you can do it there :
zx81's forum on dcemu network or zx81's forum on qj.net

Hi all,

Here a Mod from MasterChafed for PSPMancala :
pspmancala-mod v1.0.2

Enjoy,

Zx

Hi All,

Here is a new version of PSPMancala the mancala board game familly for the PSP.

What's new in version 1.0.2 :

- We can now play two mancala variants (common Mancala and Awari)
- The AI has been modified and should be stronger now
- Final score is now properly computed
- Small bug fix

Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public license,
read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

How to play ? Have a look to the rules in the README.txt file.

pspmancala-v1.0.2.zip

Special thanks to all PSPSDK developers.

Enjoy,

Zx.

If you want to discuss on this homebrew, you can do it here :
zx81's forum on dcemu network

Hi All,

Mancala is a board game familly, originated in East Africa. The word "Mancala"
came from arabic word "naqalah" that means literaly "To move". PSPMancala
is the "Awari" variant, and even if the rule of this game is simple, the complexity
can be compared to chess Game.

It has been developped on linux for Firmware 1.5 and i hope it works also
for 2.x using the great eloader (0.99x) from http://www.noobz.eu/.

The AI is based on the source code of H. Huseby & G.T. Lines, for their
implementation of the classical Minimax algorithm.

How to use it ? Everything is in the README.txt file.

Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public license,
read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

How to play ? Here is the rules available from awari.cs.vu.nl :

Awari is played on a board where each player owns 6 pits. In the initial
position, all pits are filled with four stones, thus the initial position has
48 stones.

The player to move chooses one of its own, nonempty pits and removes all
stones from the pit. The player then sows the stones, counterclockwise, over
the remaining pits.

If the last stone is sown into an enemy pit that contains 2 or 3 stones
after sowing, the stones are captured.

In this case, if the second last pit is also an enemy pit that contains 2 or
3 stones, they are captured as well, and this process is repeated clockwise,
until the own pit, or an enemy pit containing less than 2 or more than 3
stones is reached.

The player who captures most stones, wins the game. The game end when a
player cannot move, however, to avoid such a situation early in the game, it
is not allowed to do a move that leaves the opponent without countermove,
unless all moves eradicate the opponent.

pspmancala-v1.0.1.zip

Special thanks to all PSPSDK developpers.

Enjoy,

Zx.

If you want to discuss on this homebrew, you can do it here :
zx81's forum on dcemu network