Portable Gaming Revolution

Its finally here! If you decided to update past the 3.03 firmware and missed the downgrader, you probably kicked yourself. Well kick yourself not anymore; the 3.50 downgrader has been released.
People are skeptical when they downgrade as they fear of making their PSP “bricked” or non-functional. Well the Noobz team have made sure this downgrade [...]

You heard right folks. It is now possible to run homebrew on all firmware versions. The Noobz team found a “goofy” exploit a few short days ago and has now released a downgrader for firmware version 3.03 (the latest). The exploit takes advantage of a kernel mode hole found in the old GTA exploit that [...]

I talked about this a bit in the last PSP Podcast; days after Sony released firmware version 3.01 it was promptly decrypted for all to look at. We all speculated that it would be just a matter of time before a new Devhook supporting the PS3-talky goodness that this new firmware brought us. That [...]

Those of you out there who are fans of both the PSP and DS and own one of each (I happen to fall into the category) might be interested to know that a coder out there has written an app where you can play Tic-Tac-Toe across the two systems via Wifi.
I [...]

With a bittersweet announcement, Ahman’s prolific do-all application iRShell is no more. This comes as a bit of a surprise to me as the relases and feature additions were coming fast and furious since the first version was made available. The message over on irshell.com simply reads:
iR Shell 2.2 Final is released. The [...]

Users of a 2.80 firmware PSP can now rejoice, the first piece of homebrew using the recently found libtiff exploit is now out there. Noobz brings you a version of Tetris that runs on your 2.8 PSP. Simple download the Tetris package, extract it to your ms0:/PSP/PHOTO dir and play away.
While a bit simplistic, this [...]

Dark_Alex in conjunction with Mathieulh has released the first known 2.71 downgrader. The 2.71 downgrader is a port of the old 2.50/2.60 downgrader to use the recently discover libtiff exploit. The procedure is almost identical to that of the 2.50/2.60 downgrader except this time around you won’t need GTA. As always, be very cautious. Homebrew [...]

Homebrewers can finally play homebrew on their 2.00+ PSPs—without GTA. After the discovery of the TIFF vulnerability by NOPx86, a team of homebrew developers including psp250, Skylark, Joek2100, CSwindle, JimP and Fanjita banned together to create a “Hello World” application. The exploit can be run on 2.00+ firmwares and developing an eLoader type application shouldn’t [...]

An update to one of the best homebrew applications (at least I think so) has been released. Bookr 0.7.1 doesn’t introduce any new features but does fix several bugs. Previously, Bookr had problems loading graphic heavy PDFs but this new release should alleviate some of those problems. Support for CJK fonts in PDF documents has [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]