I was hoping such a game would consist of atleast a sword and shield, but my hops brought attention to an icon and a crosshair. We all know Tactical penguin and his amazing homebrew games, this involves one of the most cleverist and more creative homebrew games I could ever of seen! It involves you having to stop the Sony PSP Firmware updates from getting into your PSP!

Heres how the game works, you are suppose to stop the updates from infiltrating your PSP by shooting them with your cursor/crosshair. If the update has any collision what so ever with your PSP, then its all over, game over that is. To make it difficult, the speed goes higher each step as you go. Heres Tactical Penguins clever radical game: defend your PSP!

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[ Defend your PSP v0.1 ]

Flash-Free cIntro Mod for CF 3.0

SHADOWZ has released a flashless version of his cIntro mod.  Last week there where reports of cInto bricking 3.0 custom firmwares, this version fixes that.

Here are the flash free instructions:

•  Download the original copy of cIntro
  
• Ok the original instructions call for the modification of the config.txt located in the SYSTEM folder. This used to be used for the custom firmwares like 1.5, but not the 3.00 and above ones. So instead…
  
• Copy the INTRO folder found in the .rar file you download and put it into the SYSTEM folder in your psp's memory stick.
  
• Now you need to copy the same folder to whatever folder you have defaulted for running 1.5 kernel (for me this is simply the GAME folder but you need to consult your recovery mode to see what yours is).
  
• Next you need to rename the folder that u copied to GAME (or whatever) to BOOT and then open it and delete the "intro" file (this is not necessary and basically taking up space).
  
• Now that this is done, go to your SYSTEM folder and open up the INTRO folder that you just copied there. You will see the exact same files as the one you placed in the GAME folder. This is where you place your .pmf file that you want to use for the coldboot movie. Rename it "intro" and overwrite the current one. Now the hard part is over.
  
• Cold start your psp and enter recovery mode. You need to enable auto run program.

The read me includes a how-to for 3.02 and 3.03 OE custom firmwares. And thank you to SHADOWZ, dark420bishop, and Piccahoe for developing this app and its mods. 

Remember, this is meant for 3.0 custom firmwares, hopefully no one else will try using the original cIntro and brick their awsome 3.03 OE-B psp. Enjoy!

[ Flash Free cIntro mod ]

Rather to be safe than sorry, we decided to post this news.

Basically it seems that atleast some Cintro mods modify recovery mode so that it loads from flash1 rather than autoloading from an eboot on the memory stick.

So Basically you cant load up your PSP in recovery mode and you can brick your PSP.

Forum Thread Here

PSP firmware 3.03 OE-B has been released folks! For those of you who are not aware, OE revision A and B were previously released for PSP firmware 3.02 Kernal, after upgrading from a 1.50 kernal, you could do up to so many things. These things also included being able to do anything a 1.50 firmware could do thanks to the 1.50 kernal from recovery. Recovery too was a good feature, because of the new plugins, you could do almost any PRX you wanted to add on your PSP! Including VSH, so you could go back to 1.50 firmware anytime you wanted! Lots of people are already aware of the Playstation Emulator, being able to have compressed Dumped Images onto your PSP thanks to OE-A, but OE-B has a complete new concept:

• Video now play at a higher frame rate, including 480X272 resolution (full screen)
• PIC0.PNG information background image is now able to be shown on the XMB
• Some games now will not run at the selected cpu speed while chosen in recovery mode
• sysmemp.prx removed, systemctrl.prx plugin is split into both systemctrl.prx and vshctrl.prx
• More free space of ram now available

If you do not already have OE-B, then you are required to update from 3.03 OE-A. (remember, an update from 3.03 OE-A means you must have updated from 3.02 OE-B, vice-versa 3.02 OE-A aswell)

Simply drag the MS_ROOT folder containing the update EBOOT.PBP into your PSP/GAME directory.

[ PSP 3.03 OE-B ]

3.03 Open Edition Release A' (or A2)
A few fixes, and cpu speed for umd/isos:

This is the update from 3.03 OE-A to 3.03 OE-A'.

Execute this only from 3.03 OE-A.

Changes:
- Added cpu clock selection for umd/iso games. (not for vsh yet)
- Fixed various bugs regarding the recovery menu, one of them made "rare text" appear when
entering in plugins if pops plugins existed, the other one caused a crash when pressing triangle.
- Fixed a small part of code in umd emulation that was not multithread safe.

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For some people, strmnrmn created the essence of N64 Emulation, mostly just for PSP, but Windmillhas transformed that essence for Dark Alex's 2.71 Homebrew enabler (HEN-D). Using PatchSFO, he

was able to mod the eboot for xloader under the PSP/GAME directory (in this case, Daedalus on the xloader) and so he did.

Same as always, put the folders in the designated directories, and roms too, and

you're good to go! If you are unclear read the readme or come and ask about it at out forums .

None the less, enjoy!

[ Daedalus R-8 for 2.71 HEN-D ]

For those of you who don't know, before people were struggling with the annoying Hotshots Golf 2 Icon and pictures, having troublewith telling what game is what. Have no worries, Xaniseth's Icon pack is here to help! Xaniseth has kindly given us some great icons and pictures for your Playstation 1 Emulator for  your PSP's XMB. Download link below. Enjoy!

[ PSP Icon Pack v1.0 ]

For we reach the end of the christmas holiday, Sony and Nintendo think otherwise. The number of sales gone through these are extraordinary! Sony's new game: Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is quite the smash hit sais Weekly Gamer insights. The game reveils quite the storyline with great gameplay and graphics to add on your PSP! But can it compete with Nintendo's new weapons?

1. Pokemon Diamond (DS): 209,379
   
2. Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops (PSP): 178,370
3. Pokemon Pearl (DS): 164,670
4. NSMB(NewSuperMarioBrothers) (DS): 154,107
5. Wii Sports (Wii): 152.756

1. DS(Lite): 485,584 Consoles Sold
2. Wii: 279,277 Consoles Sold
3. 138,588 Consoles Sold
4. PS3: 76,882 Consoles Sold (break point)
5. PS2: 46,209

via DCEmu