We've all seen the crazy new XMB modifications spring up out of nowhere these past couple of weeks. The mods that you see continuously popping up everywhere are results of people editing the .rco files within the PSP's flash0 (vsh/ resource – to be exact). This new mod will change the "busy" icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the psp (seen when loading a umd or accessing the memory stick). This mod comes to you from pimpmypsp and pspfreak101.

If you are a nut about modding your psp to the hilt, you should definitely check out this new mod. The file provided in the link below is red; however, you can most likely search and find other variations.

You can download this HERE. This has been tested to work on 3.10 oe-a as well!

If you are still hungry for mods, you should satisfy that hunger by modifying other aspects of your firmware. As of now, you can change your battery power indicator, your icons, your font, your gameboot, your bootsound, and my personal favorite… the XMB wave and other (more minor) things as well. If you want to learn more about these different things and see or show off your own, feel free to do just that in the forum. If you aren't a member, signing up takes just a few short minutes and will give you access to a great peer network here at pspbrew.com!

Those of you with a wii may have noticed a blue fading glow coming from your disc slot this morning. I was suprised and excited to see an unannounced update today. Go to the wii shop channel then to "wii ware" and add the "Everybody votes" channel to your channels for free. Although I couldn't care less about eggs and there wasn't a choice for hating both of the mario brothers at least Nintendo is keeping up with additional content, no matter how useless.

When I first looked at the title I was thinking an actual 3D Mario Model, my first thought was N64 Mario,
my new thoughts are: "Is that possible? In C???" Yup, or thats what SANiK intended. He sais

that this will for sure not be a fully completed game, because of the lag, he sais its possible to boost

the FPS up, and the speed up to 90%. Heres what he said:

^{_{"This demo is never going to become a full game. It lags at certain points but could be sped up 90%, I didn't give a kwap though to put more time into it. My little Mario Demo is just a taste of what could be done if one actually tries (with just 6 days to code it + 1 day to port it to the PSP)}}

This isn't within everyone's ability, and of course depending on the homebrew game 2D could be the better of the two. However this demo illustrates that 3D homebrew game is not impossible (take AnonymousTipsters' ThrottleX as evidence for that!) and therefore SANiK is giving developers the chance to finish this game; which apparantly can be achieved by starting from scratch using poly.c and math.c."

To be honest, Its pretty obvious C++ can have quite the potential, but in C, wow just amazing.

All I want is your opinions on this. Download below. Enjoy!

[ Mario 3D Demo + Source Code ]

Ya, you heard me. daedalus is back. R9 will release in a short while,

were just glad strmn nrmn is back right? Right. The release wont be out

for atleast the couple weeks of february. One of the major updates

hopefully in his changelog include audio support (sound enabled) and

the ability to dump textures!! Thats right, soon maybe your own textures will

roam on Peach's castle wall. Who knows.

Now lets get to what you are all waiting for:

    3.03 Downgrader released!

     It has finally come, Fanjita came, saw, and conquered 3.03. Just days after the proof of concept he released, he has produced a downgrader. We can expect Sony to make another update, then DAX to make another custom firmware.

[ 3.03 downgrader ]

Well I’ll be darned, Fanjita has come back with a hack for firmwares up to 3.03. Seems as if the GTA exploit was not fully patched. Right now it is just a proof of concept showing some text. Fanjita is going to wait a while and let us soak this in before he works on it more, he also wants to give Sony time to smack their heads and say “Doh!”

The remaining question, is there venerability to kernel mode? Here is what Fanjita had to say, “It’s a bit tricky, but yes, ther kernel mode found by Team C+D still works from the Goofy exploit. The down grader will use this to perform its magic.” The problem is you will need a copy of the original, unpatched, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (No Vice City). The new UMDs in stores are patched, so look for used or a friend who has one.

Here are the instructions

• You need an original, unpatched GTA:LCS game. The new copies that you find in the shops now will not work.
• This only works for Liberty City Stories, not Vice City Stories.
• Extract the files from the ZIP into the /PSP/SAVEDATA folder on your memory stick.
• Start the GTA game, and enjoy the feeling of freshly-minted homebrew

Enjoy, hopefully we wont get any more people asking for hacks for some of those newer official Sony updates.

[ "Goofy" Exploit ]

This is it, the moment you've been waiting for! Sony has released it's info on the EU launch. SO without further stall, we give you the goods:

• The PS3 will be launched in the PAL territories of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australasia on March 23, 2007 at a price of EURO 599 (GBP 425, AUD 999.95, NZ 1199.95).
• One million PS3 units will be made available during the initial launch period and only the 60GB model would be available, with the 20GB model to follow later in the year dependent on demand.

As for the games that will debut on the Playstation Network and will be available for download during the launch, here's the full list:

• Tekken: Dark Ressurection
• Gran Turismo HD Concept
• Go! Sudoku
• Go! Puzzle
• Blast Factor
• flOw
• Lemmings
• Blast Factor
• Super Rub'a'Dub
• Gripshift

And what is a console without release titiles? Well here they are!

• Resistance: Fall of Man
• MotorStorm
• Genji: Days of the Blade
• Formula One CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION
• Ridge Racer 7
• Call of Duty 3
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
• Tony Hawk's Project 8
• Gundam – Target in Sight
• Full Auto 2: Battle Lines
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Virtua Fighter 5
• Virtua Tennis 3
• World Snooker Championship 2007
• NBA 2K7
• NHL 2K7
• Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWll
• Enchanted Arms
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
• The Elder Scrolls lV: Oblivion
• Def Jam: Icon
• Fight Night Round 3
• NBA Street 4 Homecourt 2007
• Need for Speed Carbon
• The Godfather: The Don's Edition
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007
• Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
• F.E.A.R.

That is is for now, we will be sure to keep you posted!

Despite the language barrier, I can tell a good app no matter what. A Brazilian developer, Luiz Pestana, has just released an excellent FTP app based on Zx-81’s PSPFTP. But here’s the thing, this version was developed for use on the OE firmwares, taking advantage of the higher firmware’s WiFi security. This kind of App is also perfect if you've lost or cannot find a USB cable for your PSP! Note that you must place it in the normal GAME folder, not GAME150 like any other homebrew. Great job Luiz, we hope to see farther updates to your new homebrew!

[PSP WiFile Transfer v0.01]

This application by Infantile Payalysiser before had quite a few bugs in its

final final beta 1 release.
He has come back to the scene today to fix most of those today! Its most unlikely that this will be the last release, for we hope for a finalfinalfinalfinal beta release to fix most all of the bugs atleast.

One of the main changes in this release is the L/R button is locked item is added to the system menu.

You can find all of the changelogs in our downloads section.

Heres Moonshell v1.6 finalfinalfinalbeta1 by Infantile Paralysiser

[ Moonshell finalfinalfinalbeta1 v1.6 ]