Portable Gaming Revolution

  
Well is my last story depressed the UMD Movie fans, maybe this one will help to cheer you up. Sony has just announced the Memory Stick Entertainment Pack, which should be released in stores next month. The Entertainment pack comes in 2 flavours, 1GB and 2GB which will sell for $60 and $100 respectively. The [...]

The bad news concerning Sony’s UMD video format keeps rolling in. According to a post over at Joystiq, Target has just announced that they will be removing all UMD Movies from their store shelves. This doesn’t come as a surprise to those in the know, but general consumers may wonder why this is happening. Sony, [...]

[Update: a couple hours after this story was posted version .44 was released featuring 2.71 emulation]
Yours and my favorite hombrew application has just recieved a major update. The biggest and most important new feature is the Firmware 2.6 reboot more. What this means is that all your firmware 1.5 users can now use Devhook to [...]

bLaugh, a new web comic has just exploded on to the scene. What makes this one different, and relevant to my readers, is that it’s perfectly sized for your PSP screen! Brought to you by Chris Pirillo (Geek Extraordinaire) and Brad Fitzpatrick (artiste tres magnificant!), bLaugh exists to parody the blogosphere and it’s self-proclaimed royalty. [...]

A Spanish coder by the name of Xtrusion has released a more user friendly version of the 2.50/2.60 downgrader. The “Light Version” has a complete GUI and even a talking voice that will guide you through the process. Unfortunately, the requirements for the Light Version are as stiff as the original downgrader as it uses [...]

The final non-beta version of the 2.50/2.60 downgrader that we reported on previously has been released. Apparently the estimated success rate at this point is around 93% which is pretty high. The 7% who failed probably made an error some where along the line so as long as you follow the directions very carefully, you [...]

Here’s a neat little homebrew app created by French student Netoo, that has allowed him to control a simple robot using his PSP and its built-in wifi functionality. Simple experiment, but fun nonetheless.
I wonder how long it would take to add the “bring me beer” commands.
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Well, I never thought it would ever happen but it looks like hackers of prevailed once again. Dark_Alex, Mathieulh and Yoshihiro from the SonyXTeam have released what appears to be the first working 2.50/2.60 PSP downgrader. This version is still beta so it might have some bugs still. Apparently Dark_Alex, the main developer, is asleep [...]

zx-81 has done it again…
Here is a new version of PSPVBA the GameBoy Advance Emulator for PSP.
First of all i would like to thanks Tommydanger for his help on bug tracking for the firmware 2.0.
What’s new in version 1.0.3 :
- Always better speed !
- Add new render modes (scanline)
- Add FPS/CPU statistics
- The Start key [...]