iPod Games Ain't Got Nothin' on This!

    
This may seem like it's a Photoshop (and it is, I had to add the gradient! ;) ),but this is a portion of my Zune's main menu as of yesterday. And to prove it's no lie, I offer you this:

That is a game (Rock Rain SD) currently running on my Zune. I now have three; the other two are the Zuneboards official Clock (ZBClock), and XnaTetris. Both pretty cool casual games, and Rock Rain has some pretty stellar graphics.

How did I do it? Well, thanks to Jamezspot, I followed this link (which was actually from a Gizmodo link he posted), installed the required programs, and compiled some source code. Now, for me, the two examples provided did not work (Galactic Wars 3 had some invalid characters in a filepath, and Alien Aggressors was made using an earlier version, so it said). But, I went over to the Zuneboards game thread, and downloaded a few, and they all were neatly compiled and deployed to the Zune. It's actually really easy guys! You may have read in my blog that this process is not n00b-friendly, well; it really almost is. The only easier solution is game deploying right from the software, which is what we'll probably see in the next update.

Branhower on 12 May 03:27 PM | View | Reply

Spring Update For Zune

    
Yes, we are having a update that will go 'live' tomorrow morning. Bald, gapless playback is included so make a decision quick! To the rest of you, download it tomorrow. Scratch that, mine just updated so just turn on your software and hope.

zuneary bypass on 6 May 12:35 PM | View | Reply

Change the Looks of Your Software Without Hacking It!

    
Here. I created my new Halo 3 theme using it, and thinking of creating a new theme later on down the line. It's so easy to create themes with this thing, and imports the "custom image" hack, and even puts in a "browse" button, so you don't have to type out where you put your background.

Click the small picture to see a bigger version.

In other news, we've gained 99 members since Chronic's last news post.

Branhower on 12 Mar 05:29 PM | View | Reply

XNA Games for the Zune, you Morts Pay Attention Here!

    Engadget has it here. Great news, but I'll have to do some touchpad training. They work off of the XNA framework and are creating using XNA studio.

Now where's that clock at?

Branhower on 20 Feb 11:48 AM | View | Reply