Source - Engadget

It took 'em a couple of days, but Google Video now allows you to buy that Charlie Rose you've been jonesing for, along with some CBS episodes (we just nabbed a few Macgyver episodes to get the creative juices flowing), NBA games, and random crap that reminds you that Google isn't just about the premium partners for their new Google Video Store. They've also added a download button to get an iPod or PSP formatted version of free videos, but most of the for-pay content is going to have Google's own special flavor DRM and require their Google Video Player to peep.

http://video.google.com/ ...

Source - Engadget

It took 'em a couple of days, but Google Video now allows you to buy that Charlie Rose you've been jonesing for, along with some CBS episodes (we just nabbed a few Macgyver episodes to get the creative juices flowing), NBA games, and random crap that reminds you that Google isn't just about the premium partners for their new Google Video Store. They've also added a download button to get an iPod or PSP formatted version of free videos, but most of the for-pay content is going to have Google's own special flavor DRM and require their Google Video Player to peep.

http://video.google.com/ ...

Source - Engadget

It took 'em a couple of days, but Google Video now allows you to buy that Charlie Rose you've been jonesing for, along with some CBS episodes (we just nabbed a few Macgyver episodes to get the creative juices flowing), NBA games, and random crap that reminds you that Google isn't just about the premium partners for their new Google Video Store. They've also added a download button to get an iPod or PSP formatted version of free videos, but most of the for-pay content is going to have Google's own special flavor DRM and require their Google Video Player to peep.

http://video.google.com/ ...

Last we heard, things degraded from gung-ho to so-so for Samsung on the prospect of going in on a dual-mode device that'd bridge the gap between HD DVD and Blu-ray for the consumer. But it looks like guarded has now turned to closed-until-further-notice according to a SVP of Marketing at Samsung North America, Peter Weedfald. We had no idea there were licensing agreements in place that prevented a dual-mode player, but apparently "Until everyone agrees to check their egos at the door and help the consumer, there is nothing [Samsung] can do about a universal product." And thus today our final hope for a truce -- even if involuntary on the part of both warring factions -- is dashed. We're not going to worry too much, however, you know how these things like to turn around every fifteen minutes, or how tech execs get "misquoted" and rescind.

http://engadget.com/2006/01/10/samsu...er-is-a-no-go/ ...

PMP Simple Converter 0.03 for memcoder and pmp_muxer
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What can it do?
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Convert any video (rmvb, rm, avi, mpg, wmv, asf) to PSP PMP format

Change from version 0.02

1: should fix the pmp_muxer.exe error (I hope)
2: Add video scaler option (from 0-fast bilinear to 9-lanczos and 10-natural bicubic spline)
3: A default button to reset everything to the initial status
4: minor fix .....

Change from version 0.01

1: Fix the pmp_muxer.exe (if pmp_muxer.exe is not available, encoding will not continue
)

2: add 160x120, 368X208
and 400x192 resolution
3: Add high quality encoding option
4: minor fix .....


Component Requirement:

1: Get all the memcoder component from here
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html
and intall all any directory you like. e.g. C:\Memcoder

for real media and windows media video format you need the codec from here
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html


2: Put pmp_muxer.exe to the intall directory e.g. C:\Memcoder

3: Now extract my PMP Simple to the intall directory e.g. C:\Memcoder

4: .Net Framework Runtime 2.00 from here
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...a/dotnetfx.exe


Develop by miemt11 Date 11 Jan 2006 ...

Fanjita has released Tetris which is playable on Firmware V2.5 PSP Consoles, heres what he posted:

There are still a few issues with the v2.6 GTA loader, so for now I decided to release the Tetris for v2.5 users, so that they can have some fun. Full instructions for installation are in the README.TXT file inside the archive. Remember that you will need WinRAR or a similar utility to open the RAR-format package.

Heres the full details from the readme.txt

Tetris for GTA v1.5 by Fanjita
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Includes code by:
Groepaz
Delyan Kalchev
Edison Carter
Bitmap1
Ditlew

This is a simple demonstration that homebrew games are possible for PSP firmwares v2.01 and v2.5 via the Grand Theft Auto savegame exploit. It is also a test of the general-purpose GTA loader that will be used as the basis for running the EBOOT loader on v2.01+.

At the moment this game will not work on firmware v2.6, but I hope to release an update very soon that will. It also will not work on the censored German version of GTA - again, I hope to release an update soon.


To install:
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Unzip the contents of this package into the /psp/savedata folder on your memory stick. Note that if you have an existing savegame that uses slot 5, then this will be overwritten by the Tetris savegame.


To use:
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Start up GTA as normal. When it has loaded, select "Load Game", select the Tetris savegame and confirm the load as normal. After a short delay, the Tetris game should start.

To quit the game, you will need to hold your power button for 10 seconds. The HOME button looks like it might work, but it doesn't, yet.

So for all of you with v2.01 and v2.5 PSP Firmware, get trying and let us know how you get on and your findings, bugs and of course credits to Fanjita for this reakthrough.

Download Via Comments ...

Hello I just got my gp2x today it seems to work fine but when i plug it in to the computer nothing happens; no found new hardware icon, no anything. I was thinking it might be that i dont have a card in it but starting to doubt that i would try it but my SD card didnt come yet. is it not able to conect to a PC if there is no card in?
running windows xp pro sp2 ...

The first PSP News & Lik Sang Coding Competition was a great start to a series of competitions for the Homebrew and Emulation scene on the PSP, the winner of that Competition was indeed Deniska with the port of NOIZ2SA (v0.7).

This competition sees a top prize of the excellent 4GB Hard Drive by Datel



A decent prize for any Developer or infact any fan of the PSP.

The competition ends on January 10th 2006.

Full details can be found Here --> http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/psp30codingcomp2.shtml and questions etc can be posted here --> http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=15195

Thanks again to Lik Sang for supporting the PSP Emulation, Homebrew and Development Scene

Remember that it can be a new version of an already released game but that new version must not be made public until after the competition winner has been announced

YOU HAVE TILL THE END OF TODAY AT 11.59PM GMT, TO MAKE SURE THE ENTRY HAS REACHED ME PLEASE PM ME ...

Zelurker has released a new update to the continuation of Yoyofrs original Neogeo CD Emulator for the PSP, heres whats new:

I didn't want to release something else so fast, but I had to find a way to load samurai spirits rpg zipped and fast. And the difference is so incredible that I had to release this version as is. It loads samurai spirits rpg in 23s if it's zipped now ! It might actually load faster the zipped version that the unzipped version now !
Actually the trick was to add a read cache to unzip.c, if some other emus want to use the trick, they are welcome to !

I also stopped to display the loading picture while ingame, and I added the patch.prg file, necessary to load samurai spirits rpg.

Also, be careful at the filesystem corruption bugs : if a program quits without closing its opened files, then there are good chances that the psp corrupts the files. So if you quit neocdpsp with the home key, a reset of the eboot loader for firmware 2.0 if you use it, or by a crash, then I advice to run something to check the filesystem on your memory card (like scandisk).

Download at our Comprehensive NeoGeoCD Emulator download page here --> http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/neocdpsp.shtml ...