The coder known as Fanjita, recently affiliated with team Noobz, has decided to step down from the PSP homebrew scene.

As read here , Fanjita is leaving for a few reasons. The main reason, as one would assume, is that a bond of trust between Fanjita and his partners was broken before the release of Pandora's Battery. No word is out as to who is responsible for the "betrayal of trust" that Fanjita describes in his "rant". Furthermore, he is leaving for more personal reasons. If you've been following his more personal life, you should know that he is entering into the realm of fatherhood and not only that, but he has a couple projects that he'd like to finish up and then be through with the PSP scene. Apparently, Fanjita is finishing up those last projects and then is leaving the homebrew scene for good.

We at PSPBrew would like to thank and also congratulate Fanjita on his various projects which enhanced the homebrew experience for thousands of PSP users worldwide. Fanjita is most well-known for his hand in the creation of the e-loader which enabled homebrew for those 2.xx users who hadn't previously had it, as well as his genius in the aid of the Pandora's Battery project. Farewell Fanjita, you will be missed.

Our host decided we did too much traffic and took down our downloads and packgens…

downloads are back up. packgens should follow soon.

cheers.

This is a monumental day for the homebrew community as Team Noobz and Team C&D have released a program entitled "Pandora's Battery" which allows you to unbrick a psp. What this program does is turn your normal PSP battery into a "Jigkick Battery" and a regular 256mb memory stick pro duo into a "Magic Stick". These are the tools Sony themselves use to unbrick PSP's. Before you start though, you'll probably want to use a spare battery and a 256mb memory stick pro duo for this because you wont be able to use them for normal gameplay after the conversion has been completed. Here's some of the notes and restrictions packaged in the readme…

NOTES AND RESTRICTIONS

- The firmware in the Memory Stick is not a full 1.50, but a minimal
  subset. Therefore, not all applications (such as flashers, or
  recovery apps) will load.

- Only Memory Stick Pro Duo are compatible. Memory Stick Duo
  (e.g. 32MB sticks) are not supported.

- The IDStorage cannot be totally restored, as there is no known way
  to regenerate it properly.

- It is strongly RECOMMENDED to make a flash dump of the PSP before
  any downgrading operation.

- There might be a BSOD at the end of the downgrade. This is normal,
  and happens on the standard downgraders.

- All hardware revisions known at this day are supported.

- This release contains no Sony-copyrighted material.  All required
  Sony data is generated from the v1.50 update files.

Many thanks to…

- All work done by the Prometheus team aka Team C+D:

  Adrahil (VoidPointer)
  Booster
  Cswindle (Caretaker)
  Dark_AleX (Malyot)
  Ditlew
  Fanjita (FullerMonty)
  Joek2100 (CosmicOverSoul)
  Jim
  Mathieulh (WiseFellow)
  Nem (h1ckeyph0rce)
  Psp250
  Skylark
  TyRaNiD (bockscar)

- With thanks to everyone who has contributed to the PSPSDK, without which
  nothing would have been possible.

For further information and instructions on how to use this program refer to the readme file included in the download.

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- Easy Installer

- Installation Tutorial

PSPBrew is proud to announce their first Game Review and Referal Contest.

As the title of the implies, this contest will be focusing on the aspects of PSP game reviews as well as member referals. Naturally, the person with the most points at the end of the contest wins. Read on for more details…

The contest rules are as follows:
1. You may submit as many reviews as you like.           

2. You must use the template provided for your reviews.
3. Your reviews must comply with our forum rules.

4. Your review must be of a PSP game title.

Our rating system goes as follows:
1. For each review you will receive 10 points.
2. For every full 3 reviews you submit, you will receive an additional 20 points.
3. If your review is good, you will receive an additional 10 points.

Our referal system goes as follows:
1. For each person you refer to the site you will receive 10 points
2. Your referal must post your user name in our referal forum for you to receive points.

Prizes are as follows:
1st Place: Winning review will be posted on our front page
               Custom Signature
               Custom Gif Avatar
               Custom Avatar
               Custom Name Title of your choice (within reason)

2nd Place: Mentioned on front page
                Custom Avatar
                Custom Signature

3rd Place: Mentioned on front page
               Custom signature

There will be a scoreboard available for all contestants to view how many points they have received and there will also be a leaderboard for all contestants to view the top thre competitors of the competition. They will both be updated daily.

To make things a little more clear for people, for the referal portion of the contest you get a friend, family member, or online buddy to sign up at pspbrew. Once they have completed the sign up, they must post your username in the referals forum.

Example:
I got my friend Julia to make an account on PSPbrew
Once Julia finishes signing up, she goes to the referal forum and posts "I was referred by Staxx"

I then receive 10 points.

We will be monitoring IP address's. If anyone is caught cheating, they will be automatically disqualified from the contest.

The competition will begin on August 8, 2007 and will end on September 1, 2007. We will anounce the final results on September 5, 2007.

Good Luck!

- Link to review template
- Link to contest game review forum
- Link to referal forum
- Link to scoreboard forum

 

Team Wildcard does great service for the homebrew community with their release of 3.40 LE. This firmware was compiled by completely reverse engineering Dark Alex's 3.10 OE firmware. They then proceeded by updating all the tweaks for 3.40 and adding their own patches. Heres the features list…

• Everything you know and love from 3.40 OE-A
• Sexy new SCEP-style recovery menu
• In-XMB configuration menu
• Auto-detection of the kernel needed for homebrew – no need for GAME150 and GAME340; just put it all in GAME

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Team Wildc*rd's Shout-outs
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• Thanks to Mathieulh and Dark_AleX before all others! They inspired us with their awesome releases. Without them this wouldn't have happened.
• Greetz to poison for making SCEP open-source
• Greetz to eXonet and Malloc.us
• Greetz to Noobz. You continue to be most excellent.
• Greetz to Skylark, adrahil, and our benevolent testers.
• Greetz to maxconsole, qj, and any other website that supports us!

As always, make sure to follow the instructions that come with this package and take notice to its warnings as neither I or any members of pspbrew.com will take responsibility for your misfortunes.

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The long wait is over! AhMan almighty and StoneCut have given us a new update to the very popular homebrew application IRShell. This version of IRShell is usable at full functionality on all custom firmwares released to date. Take a look at the v3.6 changelog…

- Added support for Team M33's newest custom firmware (See note 1). If you don't want to update to M33, you will still be able to use this new release with older OE firmwares.
- Launch and multi-task with PS1 games from within iR Shell (works also via USBhostFS and NetHostFS) (see note 2).
- Backup ISO plugins now integrated into iR Shell 1.5 EBOOT and 3.5x EBOOT (also supports USBhostFS and NetHostFS).
- Backup UMD Video ISO support (also supports USBhostFS and NetHostFS).
- Direct switching between 1.5 EBOOT and 3.5x EBOOT via new shortcut combo.
- System-wide "Quick Exit" function to quickly shutdown games, homebrew etc and return to iR Shell.
- Improved Autoboot to iR Shell plugin.
- New Comic Reader plugin based on PSPComic for CBZ and CBR files by suloku.  Original version by Archaemic.
- Added the ability to flash/blink the menu highlighting cursor.
- Added support for adhoc PC nethostfs connection under 3.xx CFWs (some additional firmware files required)
- Added a new config item in configurator to turn on/off the Music button for screen capture.
- Other bugfixes and tiny improvements.

Note:
1) CFW 3.51 M33 Original version, 3.51 M33-2 (patch 2 with WLAN fix) and 3.52 M33 are supported.  3.51 M33-3 to 7 (patch 3 to 7) are not supported due to a sceKernelLoadExecVSH bug which had been fixed in 3.52 M33.
2) The launching of PS1 games via USBHostFS & NetHostFS works on all OE firmwares and also 3.51 M33 Original & Patch 2.  The latest 3.52 M33 firmware currently has issues when launching user converted PS1 games via USBHostFS & NetHostFS, but PSN store purchased games works fine.  Team M33 is currently looking into the issue.

As always, make sure to follow the instructions that come with this package and take notice to its warnings as neither I or any members of pspbrew.com will take responsibility for your misfortunes.

AhMan and StoneCut would like to send their special thanks to…

- Dark_AleX for his previous contributions & help in iR Shell development.  We hope you had enjoyed hacking the PSP.  Happy retirement and wish you best of luck in your future endeavors.
- Team M33 for continuing DA's work and their help in fixing M33 firmware compatibility issues with iR Shell.
- All iR Shell private forum members for their contributions, including donations, testing, skin making, plugins, etc.  Without their support, especially StoneCut, you won't see this special public release.

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- Now uses 3.52!!!

New iR Shell public release coming SOON …

It's been more than six months since the last public release but … today AhMan, god of iR Shell, has confirmed that he will be briefly returning from his psp-scene retirement to drop "the bomb" on us all: A special new iR Shell version compatible with the newest Custom Firmware by Team M33 !

The new release will include all the excellent features which were already shown in the leaked video for a previous internal beta build of iR Shell from a couple of weeks ago. If you missed that video here's the link again: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bfk3phJ84VU – please note that this video was made using an older beta version of iR Shell made for FW3.40 OE.

New features added since the last public release:

• Added support Team M33's newest custom firmware. If you don't want to update to M33, you will still be able to use this new release with older OE firmwares
• Launch and multi-task with PS1 games from within iR Shell (works also via USBhostFS and NetHostFS)
• Backup ISO plugins now integrated into iR Shell 1.5 EBOOT and 3.5x EBOOT (also supports USBhostFS and NetHostFS)
• Backup UMD Video ISO support (some additional 1.5 firmware files required)
• Direct switching between 1.5 EBOOT and 3.5x EBOOT via new shortcut combo
• System-wide "Quick Exit" function to quickly shutdown games, homebrew etc and return to iR Shell
• Improved Autoboot plugin
• New Comic Reader plugin based on PSPComic for CBZ and CBR files by suloku
• Added the ability to flash/blink the menu highlighting cursor
• Added support for adhoc PC nethostfs connection under 3.51 EBOOT (some additional firmware files required)
• Added a new config item in configurator to turn on/off the Music button for screen capture
• Other bugfixes and tiny improvements

This special public release will not come with any support from AhMan but the iR Shell beta testers will be happy to help you in all the various forums out there.

Please be a little more patient while the final testing is taking place and the installation package is being prepared. We cannot give you an estimate of how long it will be until you can get the new release. All we can say is: SOON!

Stay tuned.

Diehard335 dropped by our forums to notify us that he has released HCPortal v1.2. This application uses the psp's web browser to bring flash games, movies, music, and more right to your finger tips. No need for custom firmware either as it works on any firmware. Anyways, here's what you can expect from this application…

- over 20 games

- 4 applications

- Direct links

- Music

- Videos

- Pictures

And a lot more! all for any flash enabled psp!

To install this application all you need to do is unzip the folder you downloaded. Take the hcportal folder that's inside the unzipped folder, and copy/drag it into the root of your memory stick. Then you go to your browser and type in: file:/hcportal/index.html

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