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I have been working on 8-bit Memoirs for the past 5 years, and now it seems it'll finally be released this December.

It is an eBook that'll run on your PS3, PS4 and XB1, because it uses standard Blu-ray Disc Java technology.

This project will be interesting to anyone who likes to read and has an interest in the old 8-bit consoles and computers from the 80s. If you're that generation yourself, you may find it interesting to recognize scenarios from your own life.

And if you're a younger generation, you may find it fun to read about how my generation experienced the beginning of what has now become the modern PC's and gaming-consoles we use today.

You use your gamepad to navigate the menu and pages. Usage guide available on the first pages, but it's very straight forward:

• General: Click left/right to browse pages back and forth in the current text.
• General: Click up/down to go to previous or next text.
• PlayStation: Click SQUARE to enter MENU MODE from where you select another text with X.
• PlayStation: Click SQUARE again in MENU MODE to exit to main menu.
• PlayStation: While reading a text, click X to show screenshots and illustrations in fullscreen.
• Xbox One: Click MENU to enter MENU MODE from where you select another text with A.
• Xbox One: Click MENU again in MENU MODE to exit to main menu.
• Xbox One: While reading a text, click A to show screenshots and illustrations in fullscreen.

8-bit Memoirs will be available as a free ISO download, so you can burn your own copy. But I will also offer a physical disc release that you can buy if you're too lazy to download and burn yourself - or if you just want to support the project.

The book itself contains the equivalent of 250 pages of text, 5 hours of background music, 9 hours of supplemental videos, 100 screenshots and 14 illustrations. Enough entertainment for a while.

Early YouTube preview available at http://8bitmemoirs.com/
Will post again when the project is available.

A few weeks back I shared a preview of my Blu-ray disc Java (BD-J) game, and now Ukko's Journey is officially released at www.Blu-Play.com; the very first "Blu-Play" homebrew game for PS3, PS4 and XB1!

Intro

"Ukko's Journey" was originally developed as a cellphone game back in 2008-2009 by LuBlu Entertainment.

Now here in 2017 the same team has ported the game to Blu-Play, proof-of-concept demonstration to show an example of a what you can do with Blu-Play.

Blu-Play games are "small-scale homebrew games coded with Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J), and which therefore runs on any game-console that comes with a built-in Blu-ray player", which at present time includes PS3, PS4 and XB1. In other words, you don't need a special version of a Blu-Play title in order to run it on your console. One disc runs on all. More about Blu-Play here.

Demonstrated Blu-Play elements

• Performance: The game plays with 50+ fps
• Audio: Plays ingame music + sound-effects
• Persistent storage: Remembers your settings between disc ejects
• Controls: 11 buttons on the gamepad useable
• Internet: Uploads/downloads highscores to/from UkkosJourney.com
• Network: Sends the cellphone version of the game to your Wi-Fi connected JavaME enabled phone via your local network

Download

Ukko's Journey is 100% free.

Download: UkkosJourney-BluPlay.iso (83 MB) / Blu-Play.com Games Page

How can I get to play this?

For a stock PS3 / PS4 you need to burn the ISO onto a BD-R or BD-RE disc, which means you need a Blu-ray burner. Luckily Blu-ray burners has become very affordable now, and a BD-R disc only costs about half a euro. If you buy a BD-RE, it can be re-used several thousand times due to the small size of Blu-Play games.

For a jailbroken PS3 you can run the ISO from harddisk by mounting the ISO with webMAN or multiMAN from the BDISO folder.

For Xbox One you can burn the ISO onto a DVD, which means you need a DVD burner. (If you have a Blu-ray burner, BD-R and BD-RE naturally works too). You can also play the ISO from harddisk on your PC if you have a software media-player...

Following my recent PS4 BD-J (PS4 Blu-ray Java) Homebrew answers, today I have a preview video of a PS3 Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J) game port of Ukko's Journey I'm currently working on demonstrating Java homebrew on the PlayStation 3.

Ukko's Journey was originally a cellphone game developed by LuBlu Entertainment in 2008-2009. (See www.ukkosjourney.com).

In 2017 LuBlu Entertainment is porting the game to BD-J purely as a proof-of-concept project, demonstrating that homebrew for the PS3 + PS4 + Xbox One is possible with Java.

Once this project is complete, the game should run on all 3 consoles - from the same disc!

Here is a preview video showing the game running on a PS3.