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FuSa SD is a plugin for PSP-2000 (Slim) models that enables TV out at a full-screen aspect ratio using any cable — full-screen at full-speed — and now it works on custom firmware 6.3X thanks to neur0n.

Install it, try it out… If you’re using TV Out on your Slim you’ll find FuSa SD much better than Sony’s implementation

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Sony has launched its second digital PlayStation Store in Latin America, in beautiful Brazil. Following Mexico, Brazil now has access to 200 items of first- and third-party digital content, including Assassin's Creed II and the demo for LittleBigPlanet2. Sony is also extending the Welcome Back program to Brazil, offering two PS3 and two PSP titles to everyone affected by the hacking blackout, through August 21. Sony also established a PlayStation Blog and PlayStation Website for its users in Brazil.

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Sometimes a gem can go majorly unnoticed. This could be the case of JJS’s port of AGS (Adventure Game Studio) to the PSP, and that would be a shame, so I felt I had to talk about it.



When I was 9, Santa Claus brought us a computer for Christmas. It was an insanely powerful machine, with a huge 30MB hard drive, a 10MHz CPU, and 1MB of ram. Santa claus had pre-loaded the machine with a bunch of cool games. All of them had an ok level of detail (320×240, 4 colors)… but one of them was different. It had, like 256 colors or something. It was incredibly beautiful, and had an amazing story. It captivated me for months. It was called Monkey Island.

If you ever owned a PC and are as old as me, there’s no doubt you’ve tried at least once in your life a LucasArt point and click adventure, and most likely you loved it. And maybe, nowadays, you follow the updates of ScummVM as much as I do, hoping for more compatibility every release. Or you’re a dosbox fan… or maybe you moved on because even though you love the old point and click games, you don’t like to play the same 10 games over and over again.

Yesterday, I discovered a whole new world: there are thousands of dedicated fans creating games with Adventure Game Studio, a free game development platform. Some of them are free, some of them are commercial. Some of them are simply awesome. All of them are crafted with love by independent devs. I’m shamelessly announcing that I didn’t know about this before yesterday, although now that I think about it, I heard about it a lot on ScummVM’s forums.



If you’re below 20, it’s possible you never heard of point and click adventure games, they’re not cool anymore, and somehow even in my era they were a bit nerdy. They’re like a great book. you have to use your brains and a bit of imagination, and they’ll provide dreams for a lifetime (I swear I still have dreams of Monkey Island).

And now we have access to hundreds of those on our PSPs, most of them free (and legal), thanks to the work of JJS.

The first one I wanted to try was Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth (FoY), a work in progress attempting to revive the old Lucasart Indy games (Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis is one of my best memories as a gamer). FoY has a bit of a “Duke Nukem Forever” feeling to it, having been in development for the past 10 years, but a demo is available, and if you ever played the old Indiana Jones games, you’ll be excited by this one.



Another example is Gemini Rue, a critically acclaimed commercial game, released earlier this year (9/10 – “Amazing” on IGN). A free demo is available, and runs on JJS’s port for you to try. This is the game pictured in the video above.

If you think games are not only about killing terrorists in a realistic war environment, you have to try this homebrew. There’s literally hundreds of hours of game waiting for you! Thanks JJS, hoping to see more updates of this port!

Authors website --> http://jjs.at/software/ags.html

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News via http://wololo.net/wagic/2011/07/20/release-wagic-0-16/

Wagic’s releases are more sporadic (the last release was more than 3 months ago) but always of greater quality, so I’m sure you’ll forgive us .


What is Wagic?
Damn, do I still need to introduce Wagic? Often compared to commercial games for its replay value and quality, Wagic is a heroic fantasy card game, in which you fight as a wizard against the computer. As you win battles, you unlock new game modes and earn credits that allow you to improve your army. Wagic is community driven, entirely customizable (you can create themes, mods, even new rules), available in several languages (English, French, German, spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian), and open source. It currently runs on the Sony PSP, Windows, Linux, and N900 (maemo). We are also working on ports for other devices such as the iPad, and we are still looking for devs to help on that

Changelog
As usual, this is a great release, with more than 500 new cards (including hundred of cards from New Phyrexia and Magic 2012), many bug fixes, and exciting new features. Especially, we are making Wagic even more customizable by moving more and more of the game core rules into configuration files. What this means for the player is basically that you can create your own mods for Wagic. Want to create a game where your opponent’s creatures all get +1/+1, or where your opponent gets to draw one additional card each turn? You sure can. Want to start with 100 life instead of 20, change the hand size limit, remove some phases in the game, or have two untap phases instead of one? All of this is possible too, but it doesn’t stop here. We are progressively adding more and more settings like this so that people can completely customize their games. Wagic doesn’t allow you to create an entirely new card game yet, but hopefully we’re slowly getting there, and I think some of the new features will inspire people to create new mods for Wagic.Sounds interesting? Check the detailed changelog below:

•More than 500 new cards, including cards from New Phyrexia, Commander, and Magic 2012. Wagic now supports more than 8150 unique cards (14700 total), and a total of 100 sets.
•People who want to manage their MTG collection can now go to their options and set the “grade” level to “unsupported”. This will basically unlock all the cards that Wagic doesn’t fully support, bringing the total unique cards to roughly 12’000. Coupled with the cheat mode, this will allow you to use the trophy room and the Deck Editor as a database of all Magic cards.
•Improvements to thread support for images, and overall cache/performance improvements. The experience on the PSP should overall be smoother than in Wagic 0.15.
•Files in the rules folder are now loaded dynamically, allowing people to create their own mods without hijacking existing files such as mtg.txt. As an example, added two new game modes : Hermit Druid and Stone Hewer. Also added a file modrules.xml, which in the long run will contain most of the needed information to define a Wagic mod.
•Decks and rules can be “unlocked” (useful for mod creators).
•Added a “hint” system for AI decks, giving some “guidance” on how to use a deck (experimental)
•Many improvements in the mouse handling on non PSP Platforms
•Some new abilities/keywords in the engine, including a “tutorial” message system, allowing mod creators to introduce the rules of their mods to players.
•Switched the windows version to SDL, merged the “keyboard” and “mouse” versions together, there is now only one Windows version.
•Countless bug fixes in cards and the engine

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PlayStation players have donated more than 129.7 million yen (over £1.01m) to Sony's Japanese earthquake appeal.

Thousands of gamers answered Sony's call for support following the devastating natural disaster in Japan earlier this year.

North American PSN users raised £260,955, those in Europe and PAL territories stumped up £538,122, while Asian countries other than Japan coughed up £16,673. Japanese gamers themselves put down £181,751.

The money is being donated to organisations in each region already supporting relief and recovery efforts in earthquake and tsunami hit areas. Beneficiaries include the American Red Cross, the British Red Cross for Europe and the Red Feather Community Chest Movement for Japan and Asia.

PSN users who donated have now been given several unique PS3 themes as a reward for their efforts.

Sony itself initially donated 300m yen (£2.34m), a figure matched by Nintendo. Sega, Namco Bandai and Tecmo Koei were among other companies to make sizable contributions.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...quake-donation ...

Japanese publisher Irem, which owns the IP for arcade shoot-em-up R-Type, has announced that it will pull a number of its games from PSN on August 11, as well as removing all themes and wallpapers relating to the titles.

The company's Home presence will also be largely closed down from September 1, although a couple of areas will remain.

The games affected are:

R-Type Tactics (PSP)
Mousukesu based on Carton-kun (PSP)
Bumpy Trott Beagle Battle Tournament (PSP)
Ikuze! Gensan Yuyake Daikou Monogatari (PSP)
R-Type Tactics II Operation Bitter Chocolate (PSP)
Sengoku Esatsu Yugi Hototogisu Ran (PSP)
Sengoku Esatsu Yugi Hototogisu Dairan (PSP)
Narisokonai Eiyuutan: Story of the Sun and Moon (PSP)
R-Types (Game Archives)
R-Type Delta (Game Archives)
Gussun Paradise (Game Archives)
Irem Arcade Classics (Game Archives)
Influential ex-Irem developer Kazuma Kujo left the company in May to form Granzella, a new studio in central Japan, taking a number of staff with him

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The 3DS is back on top of Japan's hardware chart, with sales of the handheld more than doubling over last week.

As detailed on NeoGAF, Nintendo's portable sold 46,637 units, up from 22,943 to take the number one spot. The PSP dropped to second with 26,565 sales, a negligible increase from 26,407 last week.

The 3DS's increase can largely be attributed to the release of a new colour – Fire Red, though the launch of Star Fox 64 3D will no doubt have helped out too.

Here's the full hardware top 10:

3DS: 46,637 (Last week: 22,943)
PSP: 26,565 (26,407)
PlayStation 3: 23,322 (22,900)
Wii: 14,237 (13,068)
DS: 9208 (9592)
Xbox 360: 1734 (2016)
PlayStation 2: 1405 (1309)
Konami baseball effort Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2011 topped the software chart, selling 117,759 on PlayStation 3.

New entries included a new Taiko no Tatsujin title at two, footie RPG Inazuma Eleven Strikers at three and Star Fox 64 3D down at six.

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2011 (PS3, Konami): 117,759 (NEW)
Taiko no Tatsujin Portable DX (PSP, Bandai Namco): 80.215 (NEW)
Inazuma Eleven Strikers (Wii, Level 5): 74,227 (NEW)
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2011 (PSP, Konami): 73,247 (NEW)
Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary (DS, Sega): 34,903 (NEW)
Star Fox 64 3D (3DS, Nintendo): 32,475 (NEW)
UnchainBlades ReXX (PSP, FuRyu):18,256 (NEW)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS, Nintendo): 15.636 (Life to date: 256,374)
Wii Sports Resort with Remote Plus (Wii, Nintendo): 14,725 (402,799)
Danball Senki (PSP, Level 5): 12,085 (256.875)
Pokemon Black / White (DS, Nintendo): 10,951 (5,238,287)
Wii Play: Motion (Wii, Nintendo): 10,522 (27,531)
L.A. Noire (PS3, Rockstar): 10,036 (68,473)
Steins;Gate (PSP, Kadokawa Shoten): 9928 (109,016)
GoldenEye 007 (Wii, Nintendo): 9473 (58,863)
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (PS3, Capcom): 9336 (74,772)
inFamous 2 (PS3, SCE): 8324 (41,798)
To Heart 2: Dungeon Travelers (PSP, Aquaplus): 8082 (54,799)
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon (PS3, D3 Publisher): 7864 (38,053)
UnchainBlades ReXX (3DS, FuRyu): 5592 (NEW)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...s-sales-double ...

EA's movie tie-in Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows has failed to replicate big screen success, only entering the UK charts at number seven in its debut week.

According to official monitor Chart-Track "it's by far the lowest ever sales in a launch week for a Harry Potter game, despite charting higher than Part 1, which came in at number 20 in November 2010."

505 Games' Zumba Fitness remains number one in the UK for its fifth consecutive week, and eight weeks at the top in total, boosted by a Wii version of the game.

Activision's Transformers: Dark of the Moon climbs one place to number two with only a 6 per cent drop in sales, while Codemasters' Dirt 3 drops to number three with a 25 per cent drop in sales.

Promotions for Call of Duty: Black Ops pushed sales up 35 per cent, and EA Sports Active 2 jumped back into the top ten at eight with a 338 per cent climb in sales.

Last Week This Week Title
1 1 Zumba Fitness
3 2 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
2 3 Dirt 3
7 4 Call of Duty: Black Ops
4 5 LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
12 6 LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
NEW ENTRY 7 Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2
RE-ENTRY 8 EA Sports Active 2
8 9 Brink
15 10 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
19 11 Dungeon Siege III
11 12 FIFA 11
5 13 L.A. Noire
RE-ENTRY 14 Marvel Vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
14 15 Red Faction: Armageddon
13 16 UFC Personal Trainer
17 17 Wii Sports Resort
9 18 FEAR 3
RE-ENTRY 19 Mortal Kombat
RE-ENTRY 20 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4


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New update for CustomHOME ABCanG made by coders, plug-in utility that allows you to have a touch of a button a convenient alternative to in-game menu to call up by pressing the HOME button, which will replace the classic screen to choose Yes / No to return to XMB.



Thanks to the plugin CustomHOME we will not be limited to the choice of whether or not to quit the program running, but we choose to exit the program, restart, turn off the PSP, put it in standby or manage some options. Version 0.6.2 released today the developer is to correct the battery icon, adds brightness control and adds support to pspstates (plugins at any time to save our game sessions).
The developers note that with each release is necessary to replace the stack of libraries prxcmlib. For the convenience of our readers, PSP-ITA repack the archive makes available ready to use
It 'good to remember that the plugin is still in beta. [Additional Info: Features, changelog, installation and download]



.: Features:.

Exit the game and return the XMB.
Restart the game (function disabled using "ISO Loader Prometheus")
Turn off the PSP
Put the PSP in standby
Pause and resume play
Ability to change settings
Languages ​​supported English, Japanese and German
Ability to change the assignments X / O cofermare / cancel
Customization of video information
Set Mute while viewing the menu
Enable / Disable descriptions
Ability to pause the game while the menu is open

.: Changelog:.
Beta 0.6.3
- Support for FW6.39 - Model 05G
- Changing the menu settings to the new style.
- Change the position of the game ID, Brightness, name of the game
- Add brightness icon. (Thanks Lock !)

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