Installation Wizard to install all the files need on your SD card to run the Twilight hack and the Homebrew channel.
You will be running homebrew in 3 minutes using this installer.

updated for firmware 3.3
Package includes:


Wii Homebrew channel v0.8
The Twilight saves distributed with the Homebrew channel.

This program is written by Penpvdbs, sourcecode can be made available for making your own quick contributing tools by request.

Version 1.1 Updated for firmware 3.3

New version of MAD Quiz, a set of questions and answers in the same vein as Trivial Pursuit.

Directed by nores, the game already contains 5000 questions in English and 400 in Spanish (unfortunately none in French). You can add other (up 10 000 in total) by editing the files trivia.txt located in each category of issues.

News / corrections:

-- Adding background music
-- Added panel of the best scores

Odds are that you’ve probably heard about the new PSP-3000 model (colloquially called “PSP Brite”) that’s due to be released soon, and one that will replace the PSP-2000 series (”PSP Slim”). The new model will include a built-in microphone and a brighter, more responsive screen - an improvement that is almost negligible when one considers the improvements between “Slim” and “Phat” (PSP-1000 series).

Like many other developers and hobbyists, I suspect that there’s more to the system than what the press release lets on - I’m fairly certain that the new PSP model will be built differently to eliminate the extremely efficient “Pandora” hack. A recent dcemu thread discusses just that - probability of the elimination of PSP’s “hackability”, and raises some interesting points, among them “will this stop piracy?”. I’m fairly certain that the answer is “no” - and not just to piracy, but hacking in general. After all, the initial hacks of the PSP centered around badly implemented loading routines in the PSP’s image viewer and GTA: LCS, and as long as there are inquisitive people, there will be exploits to be found and security holes to be exploited. While I expect to see the end of Pandora, I doubt we’ve seen the end of buffer overflow exploits - hardware (and firmware) necessary to deter/elminate buffer overflow exploits would, in all likelihood, break backwards compatibility (not to mention prove too costly).

One thing that I believe is important to remember, however, is that Sony shouldn’t necessarily be chastised for this step. Piracy is an unfortunate side-effect of homebrew development - while I’m not going to venture a guess as to how much money the company is losing/has lost due to piracy, I’m fairly certain that it’s a considerable amount. For many, like myself, the PSP is a retrogamer’s dream come true - there’s no better way to waste hours on end than by playing Legend of Zelda, a port of Doom, or any of the large number of homebrew applications. For too many, however, it’s just a way to hoard modern games.

Sony has stated in the past that they’re aware of PSP’s homebrew community, and that their problem is not with homebrew, but piracy. While I have no reason to trust any particular large company (Enron, anyone?), I have no basis to doubt this fact in the current situation - if anything, homebrew development has helped Sony sell more units. At the same time, piracy hurts those who make the PSP into what it is - the makers of the PSP games. No PSP games means much fewer sales (I don’t think homebrew alone will carry the PSP); fewer sales means no motivation to support or manufacture the PSP.

Comments are welcome.

In an earlier post, I noted that extended DSK support in the latest version of Fuse PSP does not function correctly. After some testing, it looks like extended DSK’s do work, but only outside ZIP archives - I tested this by loading Robocop 2, and it works fine. Extended DSK support is provided by libdsk, which does not support loading from binary data, and which will be replaced in a future release of Fuse.

Until the next version of Fuse comes along, please keep extended DSK files decompressed if you wish to use them with Fuse PSP. Note that not all DSK files use the extended format, though there’s no easy way to tell the difference between the standard and extended formats without examining the file’s header.