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News/release from Fullarms5

Here is the v2 of my homebrew polygunwars mission asteroid arrived !

The principle remains the same we must avoid asteroids falling from the top of the screen moving from right to left but we also recovered the lost energy .

the novelty is improvement are:
the new are :
- Improved Graphics
- Choice of three different vessels with characteristics specific to each
- The bug of the music has improved a bit slower and less important

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News/release from bwwd

Heres a fixed version of Moonstone a Beats of Rage Mod for the PSP:



New version with 2 new playable characters - dragon and mudmen,if you find some bugs then let me know.Have fun.
I also changed some attacks to up+attack and forward+attack. ...

News/release from M14_b2



Metroid Escape Mission, developed by chus (also recognzied as samuschus), is a game in which we have to guide Samus Aran through different places, with the purpose of arriving to her spacecraft. This homebrew could remind you the fantastic Metroid Fusion (GBA).

While we are running to our spacecraft, we must destroy some monsters previously, but taking into account that we only have 30 seconds. Also Samus can kill monsters with 3 kinds of arms.

At the moment there's only a level, but in the future you'll be able to play some other levels that the coder is preparing.

Controls:

Menu:
D-Pad: Move options.
X: Accept/Enter.
O: Return.
Juego:
D-Pad: Move character.
Start: Pause.
X: Jump.
Square: Shoot.
Triangle: Missile Shooting.
O: Supermissile shooting. ...

With the release...I mean announcement of PS Jailbreak and clones and the recent release of the open source PSGroove and ports (i.e. PSFreedom), this was bound to happen. You didnt think Sony would just let run wild on its console right? PS Jailbreak, Jailbreak clones, PSGroove and ports all run on 3.41. However, installing 3.42 will make all USB exploits non-functional as it patches the hole that these Jailbreaks use. So if homebrew is important to you, DO NOT update the firmware. Within a few weeks or even days, there will probably be new exploits. Let the cat and mouse games begin!

PlayStation Blog:

PlayStation Blog Europe:


It seems the update is mandatory. However, you can bypass it. All you got to do is go into your Network settings, and set the DNS nameservers, to custom/manual and change both of them to: 67.202.81.137

File is attached below. How long this method will work is anyone's guess. ...

With the release...I mean announcement of PS Jailbreak and clones and the recent release of the open source PSGroove and ports (i.e. PSFreedom), this was bound to happen. You didnt think Sony would just let run wild on its console right? PS Jailbreak, Jailbreak clones, PSGroove and ports all run on 3.41. However, installing 3.42 will make all USB exploits non-functional as it patches the hole that these Jailbreaks use. So if homebrew is important to you, DO NOT update the firmware. Within a few weeks or even days, there will probably be new exploits. Let the cat and mouse games begin!

PlayStation Blog:

PlayStation Blog Europe:
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Torch has updated another of his apps for the PSP:

The various Lockdown applications were getting out of hand so from this update I've consolidated them into a single Pack.

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Lockdown Pack 2 Changelog
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Lockdown XMB Style updated to v4.1
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Fixed a critical bug where a new installation of Lockdown XMB Style would hang after entering a new password for the first time.

Lockdown unchanged at v4.0
Lockdown In-Game unchanged at v2.0

Lockdown allows you to password protect your PSP from prying eyes.
You can also protect the Recovery Menu so that the protection can't be bypassed at all.

Lockdown XMB Style uses the XMB Wave as the background, and is only for the PSP Slim.
Thanks to Dark_Alex for his VLF library, without which Lockdown XMB Style would have been impossible, and also for adding the Plugins Disable feature in 5.00M33-2

Lockdown In-Game will require you to enter a password when you resume your PSP from suspend mode. Useful to prevent other people from messing up your progress if you put the PSP in suspend during a game.

http://sites.google.com/site/torchddl/lockdown ...

Torch has updated his app for the PSP:

Hold+ is the ultimate companion to the PSP's music player. It adds useful features and gives you TWICE the battery life when used properly.

It does the following when the Hold switch is enabled:
* Switches off the LCD screen and backlight.
* Underclocks the CPU to 60MHz
* Fixes malfunctioning Hold switch
* The original screen brightness and clock speed are restored only when the Hold switch is released fully to the power off position
* Prevents the PSP from going into suspend mode if you accidently push the power switch too far when turning off Hold mode.
* Turns off LEDs in hold mode.
* While in hold mode, allows the use of Left, Right, LTrigger, RTrigger, Volume and Start buttons, if you hold the Select button first. Useful to skip songs, pause etc.

Additional Features:
* Enables the 5th brightness level on PSP Slim.
* Increases the vertical scrolling speed of Music player by around 50% (scroll 300 songs in 10 seconds).

Usage:
Turn on the Hold switch to automatically disable the display and underclock the CPU. Release the Hold switch fully to the power off position to return the CPU to normal speed and enable the display.

If you push the ANALOG UP button when turning on the Hold switch, it will only lock the keypad like normal hold mode. The display and CPU speed will not be changed, so that you can watch videos etc. with the keypad locked. Release the Hold switch fully to the power off position to unlock the keypad.

While the PSP is in hold mode, if you first hold down the Select button, you can use the following buttons: Left, Right, LTrigger, RTrigger, Vol+, Vol-, Start.

Installation:
You can install it in the seplugins folder, and make an entry in VSH.txt. Thus it will be active in the XMB. Its also possible to use it in games by adding it to GAME.txt, but some games may crash etc., if the CPU is underclocked to such a low value.

Optionally, its also possible to install it in your PSP's flash0 so that it will work without a Memory Stick. For this you can use FreePlay's "NewBTCFNedit" and enable it for VSH mode in the all the PSPBT?NF.bin files. Add it before vshmain.prx.

Advanced:
If you want to change the clock speed to your own values, you can use a hex editor to change them. The offsets in the file for v4.0 are
0x1154 - CPU
0x1158 - Bus (Should be half the CPU speed or less)

The values should be entered in hexadecimal. The default value for CPU is 3C (60 MHz in decimal) and the default value for Bus is 1E (30 MHz in decimal).

Note that simply using any arbitrary value will not work. You will have to test and see which values for CPU and Bus speed work.

Credits:
Thanks to adrahil for helping with preventing the suspend mode.

Thanks to Booster for the SysCon Hook sample, based on which Hold+ v3.0 was updated.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Changelog
Changelog v4.0
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This is a fix for people with broken Hold switches that keep randomly switching on and off while in Hold mode.

Now when the Hold switch is enabled, the PSP remains in hold mode permanently until the switch is fully pushed to the power off position. This will prevent a malfunctioning Hold switch from randomly interfering.

Removed Display Off mode (hold ANALOG UP while releasing Hold) since holding Select is sufficient for most users.

http://sites.google.com/site/torchddl/hold ...

News/release from Sunny

I (if you write a news-artivle please use the name "Sunny") released 2 levelpacks of the homebrew game "Laserix 3". If you don't know what Laserix 3 is:

It's a puzzle game. The aim is to redirect the laser so he hits all diamonds. But there are some objects you shouldn't hit.

I released Levelpack 1 a few days ago and this is the changelog:

15 new level
update function
you can change the cannon angle manually (or you can deactivate this function)
you can enable a timer (or you can deactivate this function)
option- and pause-menu
new titlescreen and menu background

Changelog of Levelpack 2:

5 new level
new update-function (now you can search for updates)
changelog-overview added
new titlescreen ...

News/release from ryanclose



This is an Undead Terror (awesome homebrew demo that's in the Horror Show competition!) Mod that replaces zombies with pokemon!
I have replaced everything that I could with pokemon items, such as:
* Arms (Pokeballs)
* Death Screen
* Enemies (Pokemon: Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and Charmander)
* Rounds of Ammo (Magazine)
* Main Screen
* Levels
* Sounds (Music)
* Splash Screens
* Gun Bullets
* Buttons Touches ...