The PlayStation Network is to undergo maintenance tomorrow, Thursday September 8, between 5pm and 11pm UK time.
During that period PlayStation Store, account registration and account management services will be unavailable.

If you are already signed in before the beginning of the maintenance, you should be able to remain signed in and continue with your gaming session. Trey to sign in after the work begins and you'll be presented with a maintenance notification page.

Sony said earlier this week it was surprised by the level of audience engagement with PSN following April's cyber attack on the service.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ance-tomorrow/ ...

Sony has detailed the second batch of PSP games that'll be available at a discounted rate beginning later this week as part of the PSP Power Sale promotion.
Last month the platform holder began offeringsignificant discounts on 50 downloadable titles, including games in the Grand Theft Auto, Street Fighter, Assassin's Creed and Prince of Persia series, with the deals open until September 7 when the new discounts are set to go live.

"Now there is one game on this list I have to give a special shout out too and that is the eagerly awaited Persona 3 Portable," Andy Stewart of the PlayStation Store Team wrote on the PS Blog. "We have been waiting for this game release for quite a bit in the EU and because of that, the publishers have agreed to a 2 week discount for this game on the day of release. So don't miss out and get your copy now to take advantage of this discount.

"We also have some other great games available and some of you will notice that games you requested last week on the blog are now in the sale. So don't be scared to make a request and get involved."

You'll be able to pick up the following games on the cheap from September 7- 21.

PSP
Aedis Eclipse: Generation of Chaos (was £13.99/€17.99 - now £9.99/€12.99)
Alien Syndrome (was £11.99/€14.99 - now £6.29/€7.99)
Astonishia Story (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Brain Challenge (was £3.99/€4.99 - now £1.59/€1.99)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars (was £11.99/€14.99 - now £7.99/€9.99)
Dead or Alive: Paradise (was £27.99/€34.99 - now £11.99/€14.99)
Dynasty Warriors (was £13.99/€17.99 - now £7.99/€9.99)
Dynasty Warriors Vol2 (was £13.99/€17.99 - now £7.99/€9.99)
Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce (was £23.99/€29.99 - now £11.99/€14.99)
EXIT (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Generation of Chaos (was £6.29/€7.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus (was £23.99/€29.99 - now £12.99/€16.99)
Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley (was £23.99/€29.99 - now £13.99/€17.99)
Indiana Jones & The Staff of Kings (was £23.99/€29.99 - now £3.99/€4.99)
Iron Man 2 (was £27.99/€34.99 - now £9.99/€12.99)
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean (was £23.99/€29.99 - now £13.99/€17.99)
Midnight Club Bundle (was £15.99/€19.99 - now £11.99/€14.99)
MX vs. ATV Untamed (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Open Season (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Persona 3 Portable (was £27.99/€34.99 - now £23.99/€29.99)
Peter Jackson's King Kong (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Petz My Baby Hamster (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Petz My Puppy Family (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Phantasy Star Portable 2 (was £27.99/€34.99 - now £15.99/€19.99)
Prinny 2 (was £23.99/€29.99 - now £15.99/€19.99)
Ridge Racer (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £3.99/€4.99)
R-Type Tactics (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £5.49/€6.99)
Samurai Warriors: State Of War (was £13.99/€17.99 - now £7.99/€9.99)
SEGA Mega Drive Collection (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £6.29/€7.99)
SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny (was £23.99/€29.99 - now £11.99/€14.99)
Spectral Souls: RotEE (was £13.99/€17.99 - now £9.99/€12.99)
Spinout (was £6.29/€7.99 - now £3.99/€4.99)
SpongeBob's Truth or Square (was £23.99/€29.99 - now £13.99/€17.99)
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes (was £31.99/€39.99 - now £3.99/€4.99)
Star Wars: Battlefront Elite Squadron (was £31.99/€39.99 - now £3.99/€4.99)
Star Wars: Battlefront II (was £15.99/€19.99 - now £3.99/€4.99)
Star Wars: Battlefront Renegade Squadron (was £15.99/€19.99 - now £3.99/€4.99)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (was £15.99/€19.99 - now £3.99/€4.99)
Stateshift (was £6.29/€7.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Surf's Up (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Thrillville: Off the Rails (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £3.99/€4.99)
TNT Racers (was £6.29/€7.99 - now £3.19/€3.99)
Tom Clancy's EndWar (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Undead Knights (was £27.99/€34.99 - now £11.99/€14.99)
UNO (was £3.99/€4.99 - now £2.39/€2.99)
Valhalla Knights 2 (was £11.99/€14.99 - now £8.79/€10.99)
Valhalla Knights 2 Battle Stance (was £15.99/€19.99 - now £8.79/€10.99)
Voodoo Dice (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Warhammer 40k Squad Command (was £7.99/€9.99 - now £4.79/€5.99)
Warriors Orochi (was £13.99/€17.99 - now £7.99/€9.99)
Warriors Orochi 2 (was £23.99/€29.99 - now £11.99/€14.99)

minis
Edge (was £3.99/€4.99 - now £0.99/€1.19)
Enigmo (was £2.49/€2.99 - now £1.24/€1.49)
Heroes of Sparta (was £3.99/€4.99 - now £1.74/€1.99)
Jane's Hotel (was £2.49/€2.99 - now £1.24/€1.49)
Lets golf (was £3.99/€4.99 - now £1.74/€1.99)
Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess! (was £3.49/€3.99 - now £1.24/€1.49)
N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance (was £3.99/€4.99 - now £1.74/€1.99)
Pac-Man Championship ...

The PlayStation Network hack that compromised 77 million user accounts earlier this year was a PR nightmare, but the whole affair doesn't appear to have harmed Sony as much as initially feared.
The platform holder was concerned the data breach might put some consumers off returning to the service, but European PlayStation boss Jim Ryan says Sony has been taken aback by the level of consumer engagement with PSN over the past few months.

"What has surprised us is the willingness of the consumers to re-engage when it came back up," he told MCV. "The level of activity on PlayStation Network since then has exceeded our expectations."

Last week, Sony CEO Howard Stringer claimed "PSN is more secure and better than ever". He added: "We are aggressively expanding its content. We have more than three million new customers since the network came back online, and sales are exceeding what we had before the cyber attacks."

Late last month Sony announced plans to unify online entertainment services PSN, Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited under a new brand titled Sony Entertainment Network.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ity-post-hack/ ...

The PSP Emulator for Windows has been updated again:

And here we are again with the latest svn builds from jpcsp development. Fixes since the last entry are fixes to IO , MPEG and more speed to recompiler. Enjoy

win32 build:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/183379...windows-x86.7z

win64 build:

http://www.filesonic.com/file/183384...ndows-amd64.7z

linux64 build:

http://www.filesonic.com/file/183387...linux-amd64.7z

linux build:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/183384...8-linux-x86.7z

MacOSX build:

http://www.filesonic.com/file/183384...2298-macosx.7z

http://www.jpcsp.org/ ...

The Lavalit guys have released a new of their Beatem Up for the Dreamcast, PSP, Wiz, Wii, GP2x and Dingoo:

penBOR is a continuation of the Beats Of Rage 2D game engine, which was originally
created by the wonderful folks over at http://www.senileteam.com.


History
----------------------
In 2004, Senile Team released Beats of Rage, a free beat-'em-up for DOS inspired
by SEGA's Streets of Rage series and using sprites from SNK Playmore's King of
Fighters series. The spread only by word of mouth, but it nonetheless
amassed popularity very quickly. Senile Team soon released an edit pack allowing
anyone interested to create a mod for the BOR engine.

In 2005, Kirby2000 asked Senile Team to open the source code to BOR. They
agreed, and OpenBOR was born. Development on the engine was continued by the
community, and still is to this day.


Available Platforms
----------------------
OpenBOR has a very modular and portable design inherited from Beats of Rage. Ports
to the following platforms are currently supported:

* Windows
* Linux
* Mac OS X
* Wii
* PSP
* Dreamcast
* GP2X
* GP2X Wiz
* Dingoo a320

In addition to the above, the original Beats of Rage engine (downloadable from
the Senile Team website) is available for the following platforms:

* DOS
* Playstation 2
* Xbox
* GP32
* Palmtop




r3420 | utunnels | 2011-09-04 22:42:51 -0400 (Sun, 04 Sep 2011) | 1 line
Changed paths:
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AI character more tolerable to player_min_z and player_max_z, if they hit the two point vertically, they'll turn to the opposite direction instead of choosing a random direction that leads out side the screen.

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After the hacking of DCEmu earlier in the year many of our websites were lost and then merged into one website, this meant a lot of homebrew releases were lost in the wilderness. One of DCEmu`s favourite coders over the years was and still is Deniska who is famous for so many releases for the PSP Homebrew scene, many that gave some of the very biggest homebrew releases over the years for the PSP.

Let me remind you of his releases:

Deniska whos site is now back to life was the coder behind Map This which was a map software for the PSP which actually sold thousands worldwide and gave the GPS adapter for the PSP a reason for owning it. Deniska was also responsible for ports of opensource games such as Rise of The Triad, Bermuda Syndrome, Biniax 2, Circus Linux!, Dave Gnukem PSP, Defendguin, Dodgin' Diamond II,Hex-A-Hop, Jazz JackRabbit, Kill Everything That Moves, Metal Blob Solid, Nicky Boom, Nicky II, Nikwi Deluxe, Noiz2sa, Project Starfighter ,Reverzi PSP, Supertux, Toppler, Tyrian. Relive the best days of the PSP Homebrew scene once more.

Check out Deniska`s site here --> http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/ ...

Watch out, teenagers of Europe -- Sony's new, less costly PlayStation Portable is coming for you! So says Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe head Jim Ryan in an interview with MCV, pointing to the lower price barrier as aimed at a "younger" crowd.

"It's all for the audience. If we are going to take PSP very young -- teens and much younger -- they are happy to just play the game," he explains. "If taking Wi-Fi out is the price to pay, we're happy to." Ryan also believes that the price point will give the console a much-needed sales bump, especially during the upcoming holiday season. "At €99/£89 it will make a great Christmas gift."

The latest iteration of Sony's PlayStation Portable handheld console, dubbed the E-1000, was unveiled last month in Germany at Gamescom 2011. It should be arriving exclusively in Europe "this fall."

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/05/so...rgeting-teens/ ...

The game, according to reports, will hit the US PSN this week as a PSone Import title, which you might find strange since the game WAS released worldwide - on its original platform, the NES, in 1992-3.

The 1999 PSone re-release, however, was only let loose in Japan and that's the version that will obviously be used for the PSN release.

Mega Man 4 was notable for being the first game in the classic series in which you could charge up your shot before firing - something which upset Mega Man purists but a mechanic we loved as care-free nippers.

It also stars a new main villain, with Dr. Cossack taking the spotlight from the long-running bad man Dr. Wily.

As usual for PSone games on PSN, Mega Man 4 will be playable on both PS3 and PSP. Look out for this week's full PSN update release list soon.

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SCEE chief Jim Ryan says a sub-£90 PSP will grow the platform’s audience and draw in the younger consumer.
A new-look PSP was unveiled at Gamescom last month. As well as a fresh design, it omits the wi-fi functionality and has a new budget price.
“You will see the audience skew younger,” said Ryan. “At €99/£89 it will make a great Christmas gift. It’s a device to play UMD games. It’s all for the audience. If we are going to take PSP very young – teens and much younger – they are happy to just play the game. If taking wi-fi out is the price to pay, we’re happy to. The €99 price tag is a real barrier that we’ve got under which will help us lift off.”
Sony has been surprised by PSP across Europe this year, with gamers responding well to the budget range of games and a lower price.
“We delivered very well on the Essentials software range,” he added. “Having a catalogue of high quality PSP games for £9.99 gave us a kick-start. It’s very successful across UK, Europe and emerging markets.”The new PSP will also prime a new generation of handheld gamers ahead of the similar-shaped high-end Vita, added Ryan.
“PSone fans upgraded to PS2, and the first adopters of PS3 were PS2 owners. So the form factor might speak to that, but it happens regardless. PlayStation has an army of followers.”

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/sony-...new-psp/084231
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