Speaking in a recent interview, Sony Computer Entertainment America product marketing manager John Koller revealed that the battery life of the PSP-3000 will be decreased by 20-30 minutes, due to the larger power draw of the brighter screen.

"Battery life will decrease by a small amount, it’s about 20 minutes maybe 30 minutes and that’s because there’s a larger power draw with the brighter screen."

Good news is, despite previous reports to the contrary, the PSP extended battery life pack is not being discontinued and will be available to consumers this holiday season, offering 8-10 hours of play time. ...

Hellcat has updated his Pandora Installer for 3.xx kernels, heres whats new:

Changes in Rev4b

*- replaced DDCv6 install with DDCv7

*- replaced ELF-Menu 0.3 with 0.4 for DDCv4 additional tools

Key features

* Prepare (repartition and format) your memstick for Pandora
(to reserve space for the MS IPL)
since revision 3 you can also choose the name after format (see below)
* Make normal battery to Pandora one
* Make Pandora battery to normal one
* Install a full 1.50 to the memstick, including the Pandora (classic, Fat and 1.50 only)
* Install a full 1.50 to the memstick, including DAX' DDC universal unbricker for Fat+Slim
* Install DDCv7 to the memstick
* Install optional tools (ELF-Menum NAND-Tool) to a DDCv4 stick, already propperly set up and ready to use
* Backup current battery serial to file
* Restore battery serial from file
(if trying to restore from a backupfile without one beeing present,
the default serial will simply be used instead)

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News/release from Hellcat:

- Flashes a fresh M33 CFW (3.71, 4.01)
for recovering semi-bricks or to up-/downgrade CFW
- does not use Pandora, runns from the recovery menu or the XMB
- does not use (as in launch) the original Sony Updater (only extracts
all required files from the original .PBP)
- runns fine on CFWs lower than 3.52-M33-3 - handy for upgrading older
FWs w/o the "need to go 3.52, then 3.52-3, then higher" odyssey :-)
- runns fine from TimeMachine (3.40-OE on Fat and 3.60-M33 on Slim)
- can backup the FW flash and restore selected parts (XMB theme,
settings, PSN activation)

Usage
========================= ===============

After launching the app, either from the recovery menu or via the XMB
you'll eventually get into the mainmenu.

Everything should be pretty selfexplanatory, you can flash a new
firmware, make a complete flash0 to flash2 backup or restore certain
things from your backup.

The option "Launch another app" will give you a list of the games/apps
you have in /PSP/GAME on your memstick.
You can then choose one and run it directely from Recovery Flasher.
Usefull to use some other apps on semibricks when you can't use the
XMB to launch them, or for those people who already have a preffered
app they use from the recovery menu but want to install the Flasher
as well.

Restoring a complete firmware from a backup
-----------------------------------------
Since v1.30 you can restore a complete firmware from your flash backup.
This can be almost any firmware you like and it doesn't matter what's
currently installed on the PSP (current firmware and firmware to be
installed can be different).
It could be a FW not natively supported by Recovery Flasher or a
premodded one, for example.
You can even flash the backup of one PSP to another one!
The signchecks, that usually prevent copying a flash0 between
different PSPs, are removed during backup and recreated while restoring!

REQUIREMENTS: There's only one tiny bit required in addition to your
backup: The original updater .PBP of the firmware you are going to
restore! Again, this can be either in the RECOVERY folder itself, or
in the memstick root, with the usual renaming applied.
The updater is required to load some special modules needed for
initialising the flash for the firmware that's going to be flashed.

Finally, take note that this is a bit more dangerous than installing
a fresh FW since we can't know what has been done to the files, and
if some are damaged or even missing it can result in a brick - so always
be cautious if using a backup from someone else!

NOTE: For restoring a 3.60-M33 on the Slim, use the 3.52 updater (352.PBP)

Backup Folders
-----------------------------------------
Since v1.30 you can also have multiple backups at once.
When making a backup you have the coice of overwriting an existing one
or creating a new one. When creating a new one, folders will be named
like "Backup_001", "Backup_002" and so forth.
You are then free to rename those folders to whatever you like to give
them more descriptive names for what's in there.
Recovery Flasher will show the renamed folders with no problems and
you can then use them to restore or save new backups in there.

You can also create folder with propper names before making a backup
and then "fill" the backup into them.

The backup folders are located in ms0:/flash_backup/

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Hellcat has updated his Pandora Installer for 3.xx kernels, heres whats new:

Revision 4a: (12.08.2008)

* - added DDCv6 installation

Key features

* Prepare (repartition and format) your memstick for Pandora
(to reserve space for the MS IPL)
since revision 3 you can also choose the name after format (see below)
* Make normal battery to Pandora one
* Make Pandora battery to normal one
* Install a full 1.50 to the memstick, including the Pandora (classic, Fat and 1.50 only)
* Install a full 1.50 to the memstick, including DAX' DDC universal unbricker for Fat+Slim
* Install DDCv6 to the memstick
* Install optional tools (ELF-Menum NAND-Tool) to a DDCv4 stick, already propperly set up and ready to use
* Backup current battery serial to file
* Restore battery serial from file
(if trying to restore from a backupfile without one beeing present,
the default serial will simply be used instead)

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News/release from roe ur boat:

I've updated my AutoStart Plugin to V3. Changelog below.

ChangeLog:

Version 3:
*Now you can assign a homebrew to autoboot. Handy for cintro. (No looping!)
*Now you can not only assign homebrew but backed up games too.

Version 2:
Added more buttons
Improved the configurator
Fixed a bug that showed the SCE logo when you exited from a homebrew
Descreased the prx size from 30kb to 9kb

Version 1.1:
Descreased the prx size from 90kb to 30kb

Version 1:
Initial release(obviously)

Send any suggestions/bugs to [email protected] or just post here. Hope y'all like it.

roe-ur-boat

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Coinciding with the release of PS3 firmware 2.36 is the immediate availability of firmware 4.00 for PSP.

The update can now be downloaded from Network Update and as promised, includes two new main features. Namely, the ability to search Google without the need of launching the PSP’s often slow Internet Browser and change the viewing speed of video played on the PSP by pressing up or down on the directional pad. Personally, we were expecting a little more from a X.00 update, but it is what it is. Complete changelog:


* [Internet Search] has been added as a feature under [Network].

* You can now change viewing speed during video playback by pressing the UP/DOWN buttons. Use this feature if you want to watch a video quickly, or if you want to slow down playback and listen to the dialogue carefully.

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Homebrew developer Red_Squirrel updated Alternative VSHMenu which is an essentially a plug-in which provides users with a number of convenient features not present in the M33 VSH Menu.

Changelog:

CFW 3.90 M33:

*Possibility to hide the MAC address in System Information page (like CF 3.93/3.95GEN option!)

*Now PSP will be rebooted if you change CXMB, MAC or M33 VSHMenù options (to enable the changes!).

CFW 3.95 GEN:

*Added Hide MAC Address option.

*Changed "M33 NET UPD." line in "NETWORK UPD.".

*Added GEN Updater under NETWORK UPDATE
option.

*Changed "M33 VshMenu" line in "SELECT KEY ".
Added VSH Recovery under SELECT KEY option.

For BOTH:

*Possibility to enable/disable CXMB plugin directly from the VSHMenù (read the CXMB installation in
CXMB_readme.txt to know how it works)

*Now config file will be saved in flash1, so if you decide to flash the A.Vshmenù, Memory Stick will not be required!

*Added a Slim Flasher

*Because of lack of time, language translations will be released in next update.

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Weltall returns with a brand new CWCHEAT revision. REV “C” primarily focuses on cleaning up the situation created with REV “B” and fixing other various problems. It’s all detailed in the changelog below.

And for those who continue asking the question, “is there a Game Shark equivalent to cheat PSP games?” Yes, you’re looking at it. Cheat each and every PSP title, as well as PSOne game under POPS emulation, using Weltall’s CWCHEAT. Read the documentation to get started.

CWCHEAT 0.2.2 REV. C:

* [ALL] Fixed a timing bug which could lead to the dump function not working after enabling the usb mass device. this is because the memory stick device wasn’t mounted when the dump was taking place: making the function fail.
* [ALL] Removed some optimizations which made some regressions (rev b’)
* [ALL] Changed slightly the behaviour of pointers codes. now the q part is effectively useful by itself (this change is be needed for upcoming cheats)
* [ALL] Now if connected to a hotspot like connection (so a connection requiring the browser to login in the network), the db downloader will automatically open the browser to let you login upon connection. Making so possible to download the database through this type of hotspot (available only on 3.x build)

source : http://cwcheat.consoleworld.org/ ...

Changes/Additions:
*Added new icons to menu (main: Applications | sub: Calculator, Text Editor, Web Browser and USBHostFS)
*Fixed 2 bugs in recovery menu.
*Improved Calculator
*Fixed memory issues
*From now on, file browser displays ICON0.PNG when you are highlighting a PBP/CSO/ISO file
*Removed NervOS Boot PBP and replaced by Main PBP.
*Added Scripting System - this scripting system was made by me and it is still under creation, a lot of functions will be added on future releases and the parser will be improved.

The scripting system was made to allow users with no programming knowledge to create their own games or programs.
Of course this is the first version of the scripting system so a lof things are missing and some bugs may be found.



Remember this is the first version of the script and it's slow.

Download NervOS 2.0.5.zip (1.85 MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/?zubgvwtrre9

Theme Pack 1.5 (1.78 MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/?h59dnkm2myl ...