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Ho ho ho, here’s our present to all Homebrew fans: A new version of Wagic, full of Christmas joy!

We’ve worked very hard in the past two months to fix bugs and add features, so I hope you’ll enjoy this new version. Many thanks go to the people who have given their time for this release, especially Abrasax, Daddy32, Dr.Solomat, Ilya B, J, Jeck, Lakeesha, Leungclj, Psyringe, Yeshua. I also especially want to thank Raphael for fixing the purple screen bug, a bug that had been in Wagic for several months now.

What is wagic?

Wagic is a fan-made heroic-fantasy card game, in which you fight with your army against the computer. As you win battles, you earn credits that allow you to improve your deck and unlock more cards, and extra game modes. Wagic started as a small project, but has grown over the years, and is now often compared to commercial video games for its replay value and its high quality graphics.

Wagic is free, runs on Windows, Linux, and the Sony PSP. It is available in many languages, and fully customizable. you can create your own themes, your own cards, and even your own rules. Because Wagic is community driven and open source, it gets regularly improved with original contents and mods.

What’s new?

It has become difficult for me to summarize a release. It’s not only about new cards anymore, every release seems to bring more new stuff than the previous one! The major new features for this release are the “trophy room” and the “tasks mode”. The trophy room is a cool place where you can see details about all the sets and modes you have unlocked. The tasks mode is a very fun way to get more credits when you play: In the shop, press “start”, and see the “available tasks”. They are usually pretty clear on what you need to do to get extra credits. The tasks require you to build very clever decks that have a very specific purpose, such as winning a battle with insane amounts of life

Of course, we also added many (many!) cards in this release. Actually, we added as much cards as we could, and Wagic now has more than 5000 cards you can play with, in more than 50 sets.

You think that’d be enough for a new release, but we didn’t stop here. Wagic 0.10.1 has two new themes included: Final Saga by Ilya B (that’s now the default theme), and the Christmas theme by Lakeesha. There are also 50 new opponents, which brings the total of AI decks to 100. Overall, unlocking all the modes/cards and “beating” Wagic should take you a fair amount of time, definitely more than it takes to beat Uncharted 2

And so many other things: ingame music, bug fixes, language selection (no need for international players to wait for a patch anymore)…

Complete Changelog:

• More than 1500 new cards. Wagic now allows you to play with 5149 cards, from more than 50 expansions, including Magic 2010, Zendikar, Revised, Alara, Conflux, shadowmoor,…
• Added a “cheat” mode (don’t ask, I didn’t add it, I can’t tell you how to unlock it )
• Deck statistics improvements
• Bug fixes with audio
• InGame music
• Language is now an option, no need to wait for patches, you can choose English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, or Portuguese
• New parser abilities: PreventAllcombatDamage, becomes…, horsemanship, myTurnOnly, asSorcery, myUpkeepOnly(and similar…), 0 mana activated abilities now work, equipment, threshold, cycling, protection from(target), nofizzle, autohand, autograveyard
• Minor AI improvements, and bug fixes
• New theme: final Saga (thanks to Ilya B)
• New theme: Christmas (thanks to Lakeesha)
• External rules system now allows you to create your own rules. Check mtg.txt in res/rules
• “Purple Screen of despair” issue solved, thanks to Raphael and Yeshua.
• New feature: Trophy Room
• New feature: Tasks. Get more credits by fulfilling the quests given to you by the shopkeeper!
• hundreds of bug fixes for specific cards

Note for beginners:

Wagic requires you to know the basic rules of the game that inspired it. If it’s you’re first time playing, you might feel that the decks of your opponents are too tough. I suggest in that case to play against the 10 first decks of the “choose opponent” list, as these decks are historically less strong than the other ones. Good luck

Download:

If you like Wagic, please consider making a donation. I do my best to use the money wisely. Thanks in advance!

Go to the download page

As usual, enjoy Wagic!

This is probably the first time we get a seasonal Theme for Wagic, and this one not only perfectly fits the Christmas season, it is also very well done and funny, so I hope you’ll fall in love with it the way I did.

I’ll cut the crap, screenshots and a download link are all you need:

Download

To install, just unzip the Christmas folder to your WTH/Res/themes folder, then in the game, go to options > User and choose the “Christmas” theme

don’t forget to go to the original thread and thank Lakeesha for this awesome work!

By the way Wagic’s next release is coming real soon, so stay tuned

I thought PSPGen’s site was extremely slow today.

I believe it’s because they just released a new version of their custom firmware for the PSP3000 congrats to Team GenyUs!

If you have difficulties downloading it, here’s a mirror.  Don’t distribute that link, or I’ll remove it. Instead, just tell people who have issues downloading from the Gen site to come to this page. Thanks for you understanding

source

Devs m0skit0 and ab5000 have been working on an eLoader for the MOHH exploit in the past months. Today, m0skit0 released an alpha version of his work, named “Half Byte Loader”. He mentioned that this is currently only useful for devs, as it doesn’t allow to run homebrew yet, but let’s hope this will lead to something good in the weeks to come.

An important point to mention is that it is the first open source eLoader that’s been released, in 4 years of PSP hacking. Many thanks for that This could probably become the base of future homebrew loaders, and this will at least be a useful source of information for lots of devs around here!

source and download: advancedPSP

We regularly get lots of brilliant user-made contents on the Wagic forums.

Sometimes, the result is not only brilliant, it is awesome. This is the case of the Theme “Final Saga” posted by Ilya B yesterday. I was amazed to see such a gorgeous and coherent theme. Pretty much all graphics have been redone, and the theme includes some really cool avatars. It’s not difficult to do better than the current default avatars in Wagic, but these ones are truly excellent. This is now the Theme I use on my PSP

How to install:

1. Download the theme here and put it in your “WTH/Res/themes” folder
2. Launch the game, and in the options > user, select the “Final Saga” Theme
3. There is a bug currently with fonts in Wagic 0.9.1, so if you want the theme fonts (I highly recommend them), download this additional file and extract it into your Res/graphics folder

Don’t hesitate to say thanks to Iliya B for this awesome work. And use the opportunity to browse the forums for extra contents

We released Wagic 0.9.1 a couple days ago and got lots of feedback. There are a few issues that seem to bother lots of people, so I’ll attempt to give you solutions to the most common problems.

I’ll start with translation updates:

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Translation Updates

Wagic 0.9 en Français/ Wagic French version

Here is a patch to translate wagic into French. Explanations on how to apply the patch are in the README.txt (in french, obviously)

Voici un patch pour traduire Wagic en Français. Lisez le README inclus dans le zip pour l’installation

Italian Translation Update

Icarus updated his Italian translation file. You can get it here. Then copy it in WTH/Res/lang/ and rename it “_lang.txt”

Wagic 0.9.2 (for people who need translations)

Wagic 0.9.1 has a problem with translations in the option menu. If you want your options in a different language than english, you can download Wagic 0.9.2 here (just rename it as EBOOT.PBP and overwrite the 0.9.1 EBOOT.PBP file). This update only fixes the translation issue and is not useful for people who play with the English version of Wagic. Moreover, it is not officially supported, so don’t report bugs for it. It is just here as a convenience for our international users

This version is included in the French patch so French users don’t need to download it, but people who want the game in Italian, Spanish, German might want to download this eboot.

Common issues in Wagic 0.9.1 (and how to solve them)

Purple Screen

If you get a screen that looks like this at startup (minus the text maybe):

This is a known issue. We didn’t find the root cause for this, and decided to release with the issue.

The easiest solution is to restart the game. In most cases, it should work after a few attempts. Another solution is to try to replace your EBOOT.PBP with the file included in Wagic 0.9.1 called “alternate.PBP”. If you still have issues, come and discuss on the forum

I can’t play during my opponent’s turn

Add the following line to your Res/settings/options.txt file:

interruptEndTurn=1

Alternatively, you can try one of the following keywords. Their meaning is generally obvious:

“interruptBeforeBegin”,
“interruptUntap”,
“interruptUpkeep”,
“interruptDraw”,
“interruptFirstMain”,
“interruptBeginCombat”,
“interruptAttackers”,
“interruptBlockers”,
“interruptDamage”,
“interruptEndCombat”,
“interruptSecondMain”,
“interruptEndTurn”,
“interruptCleanup”,
“interruptAfterEnd”

Hypnotic Specter doesn’t work anymore

It happens. We sometimes break cards. We try not to, we have systems that warn us when it happens. But it still happens, when you have more than 3500 cards to handle, some of them, even the most famous ones, can end up broken. I’m personally pissed about that. I love Hypnotic Specter, but hey, he’ll be back in next release…

Meanwhile you can fix it yourself. For example for the 10E edition of Hypnotic Specter, open the file Res/Sets/10E/_cards.dat with a text editor, and look for Hypnotic Specter.

It should look like:

[card]
text=Flying (This creature can’t be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)  Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.
abilities=flying
id=129600
alias=1165
name=Hypnotic Specter
rarity=R
type=Creature
mana={1}{B}{B}
power=2
subtype=Specter
toughness=2
[/card]

Simply add the following line and save the file:

auto=@damaged(player) from(this):discard:1 opponent

So it should now look like:

[card]
text=Flying (This creature can’t be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)  Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.
abilities=flying
id=129600
alias=1165
name=Hypnotic Specter
rarity=R
type=Creature
mana={1}{B}{B}
power=2
subtype=Specter
toughness=2
auto=@damaged(player) from(this):discard:1 opponent
[/card]

Note that this is not entirely how Hypnotic specter is supposed to work, but unless someone has the hypnotic Specter deal damage to its controller, it will do for now.

I hope this answers most of the important questions we got so far. Thanks for your support and have fun with Wagic