news via http://www.psp-ita.com/4411-240-Xplora_v2.05.html

The developer ne0h again Xplora v2.0 update bringing it to version 2.05, a convenient alternative to the XMB shell of the house to install on our Sony PSP equipped with CF and will allow us to have a more clear and appropriate for the content of your Memory Stick.



Xplora 2 includes an image viewer, a media player, a text editor, a PMF player, allows you to read ZIP archive, back up your UMD games and easily launch applications, manage plugins, and more. The entire project was completed in the C language to ensure the best performance. The version 2.05 adds two new languages, fixes some bugs that plagued the browser, the file manager and some of its functions, adds support for 7z files and includes a review of some applications of the shell.
Currently the list of compatibility of the new shell are excluded PSP Go While everything has been successfully tested on CF from 4:01 onwards.
For more information please consult the source (developer blog)

[Additional Information: ChangeLog functions and download]

.: Changelog:.
- German translation updated
- Browser upload patch directories
- File operations menu bugfixed
- Minor bugfixes Gui Manager
- Debug apps added to the website
- Polish translation added
- Revised the Application Manager
- Added a new setup manager to install updates
- Added 7z format to the Archive Manager
- FileMgr Bugfixes:
- Copy function
- Delete function

.: Features:.
- AUTOBOOT
- Desktop
- Image Viewer -> (JPG, BMP and PNG files are supported)
- Music Player -> (MP3 and OGG formats supported)
- Text Editor
- Arc Manager -> (ZIP files are supported)
- PMF Player -> (PMF Every file is supported)
- Homebrew Sorter
- Games & Applications
- UMD Dumper
- Nand Dumper
- Plugins Manager
- Internet & Home Xplora

.: Compatibility:.
SI: x000 PSP with CF 4.01 or higher
SI: PSP with CF 6.xx ME
NO: Go PSP

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news via http://www.psp-ita.com/4410-224-Lamecraft_rev.25.html

New update for one of the most impressive homebrew game-last period. And 'in fact available Lamecraft 25 of the revision, the clone for the PSP developed by Drakon developer of the renowned Minecraft, which debuted on the scene at the PSP Genesis Competition.

The build today, said that as the application to update revision 25, introduces some improvements with the introduction of alternating day / night and are fixati some bugs and compilation errors. For those unfamiliar with the game, Lamecraft is nothing but a port to PSP Minecraft, game in which you can explore the world around them and modify it at will.
Following the complete changelog of the latest revisions and a link to download.

Rev.25
Small progress with lights
Rev.24
Fixed compilation errors
Rev.23
Block ID now accessed from static getID getbasicID or by class.
Rev.22
Sun / Moon changes

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news via pspita

A short distance from the last release here is a new update for MP3PlayerPlugin, homebrew coder created by the renowned Japanese Plum by which we can listen to MP3 files found on our Memory Stick choosing as an alternative to the famous MusicPRX that had dominated the scene until shortly time ago.



The coder plum back to update one of its most popular plug-ins. The version v2.1 is mostly used to improve the management of Channel Mute restored to its original configuration some versions ago and now changed again. Recall that the coder has chosen to abandon support for the HEN-TN. That decision, as you will be able to understand from the readme attached, is due to some problems with the HEN NIDResolver of that, which should be constantly updated. Unlike the case for CF PRO / ME NIDResolver which does not create many "nuisance".
This release includes the source code folder mp3pp_src not necessary for the normal functioning of the plugin
Following further information.

[Additional Information: Changelog, Instructions and Download]

.: Changelog:.
- Optimization of the Channel Mute

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Duke Nukem Forever, the FPS which began development fifteen years ago and seemed to have stalled irrevocably several times during development, has debuted at number one in the UK charts despite a Metacritic rating of just 50 per cent on Xbox 360 - its leading platform by sales.

The game sold 56 per cent of its copies for the 360, six per cent of which were the £64.99 special edition version. It pushes L.A. Noire, also from publisher Take-Two down into second place for the first time since its release. Sales of L.A. Noire dropped by 54 per cent from last week.

505 Games' multi-platform workout game, Zumba Fitness, climbs a place to third, putting PS3 exclusive Infamous 2 in fourth place on its debut week. LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean drops to fifth place from second, with DiRT 3 slipping to sixth from third.

THQ's Red Faction Armageddon debuts at eighth, with seventy per cent of sales on Microsoft's console.

This Week Last Week Title
1 New Entry Duke Nukem Forever
2 1 L.A. Noire
3 4 Zumba Fitness
4 New Entry Infamous 2
5 2 LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
6 3 DiRT 3
7 5 Brink
8 New Entry Red Faction Armageddon
9 7 Call of Duty: Black Ops
10 9 Portal 2
11 8 FIFA 11
12 6 Wii Sports Resort
13 13 Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
14 12 Art Academy
15 10 The Sims 3: Generations
16 14 Hunted: The Demon's Forge
17 15 Just Dance 2
18 11 Mario Kart
19 17 Crysis 2
20 18 Wii Fit 2
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...from-l-a-noire ...

Sony has said that the cost of the PlayStation Network hack - currently expected to be $170 million for this financial year - won't have an impact on hardware or software development budgets in the PlayStation business.

The bill comes at a time when Sony's PlayStation division had reported a profit of $435 million for the last financial year, off the back of falling hardware costs and better games sales - although the entire Sony Corporation suffered a $3.14 billion loss.

"It's a cost for which we'll have to make provisions and that I think we, ironically, were also at the same time talking about very, very strong profitability for our division overall," European president Andrew House told GamesIndustry.biz last week at E3.

There's a very good and sensible reason why we haven't clarified exact timing in regions and geographies - we were significantly impacted by the events of March 11
"I'm hoping that profitability will allow us to just sustain our business at the operational level in much the same way as we would have done without any of this happening."

The PSN hack isn't the only disaster to affect Sony this year. The Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March had a devastating effect on manufacturing, and it's this disruption that has left the PlayStation division unable to define a solid release date in any regions for the new PlayStation Vita handheld.

"There's a very good and sensible reason why we haven't clarified exact timing in regions and geographies - we were significantly impacted by the events of March 11 in Japan," said House.

"We've undertaken, across Sony but also SCEE, a significant assessment of impact on our supply chain and what we think the long or medium term impact is going to be. Once we've completed that assessment and have a full understanding of what our supply chain looks like then we'll be in a position to be more specific about launch in specific regions."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...o-game-budgets ...

Following the arrest of three alleged 'Anonymous' members by Spanish authorities on Friday, Turkey's state-run news agency has reported that police have detained 32 individuals allegedly linked to the hacktivist group. The Anatolia news agency said today that the suspects were taken into custody after conducting raids in a dozen cities for suspected ties to Anonymous. The group recently targeted Web sites of the country's telecommunications watchdog, the prime minister's office and parliament as a protest to Turkey's plans to introduce Internet filters."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/...d-To-Anonymous

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via http://wololo.net/wagic/2011/06/12/d...ave-the-scene/

Yesterday I was contacted by HacKmaN, close friend of Total_Noob who worked with him on TN Hen. It turns out that HacKmaN is the one who released TN Hen for 6.39, after discussing with Total_Noob and making sure they were both ok with the idea. The reason this was released “so” late is that they initially had no plan to release their 6.39 exploit, but since some1′s exploit came up as part of the genesis competition, they decided there was no point in not releasing 6.39 Hen, using some1′s exploit.

HacKmaN made the following additional comments:

- TN Hen for 6.39 is nothing more than TN Hen, adapted to the 6.39 exploit by some1. Nothing else was added or removed from the Hen, there was close to no additional work.

- Total_Noob and HacKmaN want to thank the following persons:

We say thanks to some1 for his Kernel Exploit, without this HEN wouldn’t be released. We also say thanks to neur0n, for a perfect CFW and for all previous PSP programmers for paving us the way to do this.
I also personally say thanks to my nice programmer-friends, that already helped me a lot with programming and that I still really like to chat/programm whith: dx3m, DarXPloit, PSP_Lord, -blue7, Ceikor, Namenloser, etc.
We sure also say they thanks to our great comrades, that supported us really much over the time (not through codes, but through News and similar things): The Z, fkrone, flofrucht, and so on… quite all moderators of PSPKing.de and surely even the administrator of this great site: Alexking. The same thanks goes to the other great psp website by flofrucht: pspcfw.de

A really special big thanks goes to Dr. Soup, that previously helped a lot on the HEN.

Furthermore we say thanks to everyone, that didn’t jump over to PRO.

And on top of this, also a great thanks goes to sony, for greating a perfect gaming device

Now, the sad piece of news that came with this message (and, this was a surprise for me, as I never officially heard about this before) is that both Total_Noob and HacKmaN are now officially “out” of the PSP scene. Quoting the original release thread on pspking.de:

This [release] does not mean we’re back on the scene, we’re doing this release purely for the faithful TN-Hen users with 6.39, who had no other choice but to use cfw pro.

Well, choice is always good I guess.

HacKmaN, Total_Noob, thanks for what you’ve done so far, and good luck for your future projects

So, err…was I the only one not knowing Total_Noob had officially decided to leave the scene? And what’s your opinion? Will that impact your choice for the next Hen you put on your console? ...

The Lavalit guys have released a new version 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 game 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

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News via http://www.psp-ita.com/?i=4407

Just a few days after the initial release, developers Total_Noob Hackman and update their Homebrew Enabler for firmware 6:39. This is a Fix, useful to increase the compatibility with the various plugins are already in the PSP scene.



This first update dell'HEN 6.39TN-A, but adds no nuovafunzionalità allows you to use, but will introduce support for two of the most famous and used by the user plugin PSP Game Categories and DayViewer .

NB: We remind all users that the 6:39 HEN TN-A, like any HEN is a Homebrew Enabler. Despite being provided with VSH Menu, Plugins support and support PS1 games, does not allow the backup of any type (ISO / CSO).

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