Source - Gamespot

--In Japan, Sony Computer Entertainment announced it will release six additional PSP games as budget-priced reissues under the PSP: The Best brand on March 2. The series is akin to the Greatest Hits series for the PlayStation 2.

SCE previously released 13 titles as PSP: The Best reissues in November, and it will also release Koei's Dynasty Warriors as part of the series on February 16.

The budget-priced reissues up until now were mostly games that appeared around the PSP's launch. The March lineup covers the missing titles from the period, and there are also a few newer games, like Konami's Coded Arms. The games are priced at 2,800 yen ($24), nearly half of their official catalog price of 4,800 yen ($41). Konami's Mahjong Fight Club will be an exception at 2,000 yen ($17).

The complete lineup is as follows:

Bleach: Heat the Soul (PSP: The Best), Konami
Coded Arms (PSP: The Best), Konami
Mahjong Fight Club (PSP: The Best), Konami
Piposaru Academia (PSP: The Best) [Ape Escape Academy], SCEI
Saru Get You P! (PSP: The Best) [Ape Escape: On the Loose], SCEI
Shutokou Battle (PSP: The Best) [Street Supremacy], SCEI ...

News via Engadget

No, it isn't GPS on your PSP (if you want that, you'll have to roll your own). But if you live in Japan and want to use your PSP as a navigational aid, Sony is making it a little easier with a UMD-based mapping program that the company plans to release in April. The software is similar to most PC-based mapping programs, and allows users to store annotations on Memory Sticks and share info via WiFi. No word on whether Sony plans US or European versions, but that's fine with us; until it has GPS, we're not interested.

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Infantile Paralysiser have released a new version of their Multiple file supporting shell for the Nintendo DS, heres the details:

Change point for high priority.

The file information window was displayed by NSF/BMP/Jpeg/MOD/SPC/WAV/MP3/DPG/OGG.
The setup program was added.
The backlight was turned off automatically when there was no input.
The file name was sorted.
The shuffle list was added.
The user interface has been improved. The click noise has decreased a little.
Capacity unlimitation of the text viewer. (The maximum number of lines are 262144.)
The next tune selection processing. NormalPowerOff and ShufflePowerOff was added.

Change point for multi language.

MS100(UTF-8) and CP949 were added to the language set.
readme.txt of Finnish was added. (Thanks Xtreme)
readme.txt of Swedish was added. (Thanks Mithos)
EXFS(EXtendFileSystem for FlashCart) was made to store the Unicode long file name.

Change point for settings.

The configuration environmental files was made to read from the media that recognized automatically.
SoundVolume was added to the [System] section. It is a volume initial value.
WhenX was added to the [BacklightTimeout] section.
DefaultSongLength was added to the [SPCPlugin] section. It is standard sec when there is no TAG.
The skin function was added. (Please refer to the SkinSample folder.)
A color setting and a window positional setting were read from skin.ini.

Change point for plug-in.

for DPG. The synchronization of the audio and movie has been improved.
for DPG. The bug that stopped in 12 minutes was corrected.
for NSF. When it is a no sound for three seconds. it ends.
for SPC. When it is a no sound for three seconds. it ends.
for OGG. The bug to which the seek bar was not refreshed was corrected.
for Text. The bug to which the number of lines display of the title bar was not updated was corrected.

Change point for inside.

The bug to which The soft power off did not function when the cap was shut was corrected.
The touch panel acquisition code was updated to "touch.c,v 1.13 2006/01/12 11:13:55 wntrmute Exp". (Thanks for "Touchscreen accuracy... again" forum members.)
The touch panel coordinates were smoothed.
When media were moved while reading the stream, the stopping bug was corrected. (IMFS->MPCF,MPCF->GBFS etc.)

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YopYop has posted this news about his Nintendo DS Emulator for Windows:

Here's some wip screen shots of new tools added to the next version
Text background are quite well supported (16, 256, ext pal ...)
And corrected BL instruction in thumb mode
WIP version without the new 2D engine
Drop a message on the forum if you find a bug in the tools.

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Todays PSP Homebrew releases carry on, Shatterdome has updated his game PSP Helicopter

Heres whats new:

I added some point balls that you can now collect, they are worth 150 and the multiplier affects them...also you won't run out of buildings, but they never speed up, so i'll figure that out yet, I have some ideas...

Also the point balls require new graphics and there is a death animation now, so you'll have to replace the old folder if you've checked this out before...

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NJ has updated his emulator NeoGeo CDZ to the PSP, heres the translation:

As for trouble of beta 6 you think perhaps it was repaired. Drowsy * & *.
* Trouble of drawing when Zoom1, Zoom2, FULL is appointed when starting for the second time correction.
* Drawing processing of user interface (the pg.c) provisional above-mentioned attendant upon problem, rewriting.
Because trouble is easy to occur unlike the drawing method of emulation side, finally abolition schedule.
* When restart is chosen, correction of the trouble which has fallen to the infinite loop.

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Lostjared has released a great compilation of games exclusively for the V2.60 firmware PSP, these games are loaded via Fanjitas new Eloader for v2.60 PSP.

Heres the list of releases:

3D CUBE DEMO
3D_DEMO2
3DCUBE
3DWALK
ATARI VM
ATARI VM EXAMPLE
ISO-FRACTAL
JAREDSALPHAFLAME
LOSTMASTERPEICE
LOSTPUZZLEBOX
MASTERPEICEPSP
MOVING FRACTALS
PSC CD THE GAME

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Max Thrane has posted an excellent tutorial on converting media from DVD to your PSP, the tutorial has it all and is very well written, check it out here --> http://maxt.dk/archives/2006/02/01/dvd-to-psp/ ...

Lumo has once again updated his 3DB loader, heres whats new:

changed doublesided to singlesided meshes & backfaceculling (-> draws only visible triangles, front side! Planes might be invisible, because of orientation)
new conversion tool (as cmsh might be v2, v3 i just call it v2 now...)
rewrote maya export script to export the faces in correct* order
added Gouraud Shading -> no more flat view!
added a light
note: max face/vertex count is 65xxx (not limited by my loader) but you can split your mesh into multiple 3db files and load em up...

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