Tomorrow will redefine the way people think about survival horror as the honorable Resident Evil franchise welcomes its next chapter. Resident Evil 5 comes out on “Friday the 13th”, a release date which wasn’t planned out at all… well, ok, maybe a little.

The game will feature a revolutionary Co-op mode where you will have the joy of rampaging with a friend or being ravaged together by the hordes as well as keeping the “over the shoulder” camera style of its popular predecessor, Resident Evil 4, which was a giant success for Capcom.

Resident Evil 5 will be available on the Xbox 360, the PS3, and the PC.

Take this for what you will, but I thought I’d share something I recently stumbled across. I was looking at my ATT account a few weeks ago, and while checking my available minutes I figured I would check to see when I was available for an upgrade. I don’t recall the exact date, but it was definitely around Fall 2010. No big deal, I have an iPhone anyways, and wasn’t planning on upgrading, it was more curiousity than anything. I started skimming my account again today, and checked to see when the other lines on my account were available for upgrade. Then, I noticed something: The date on my upgrade was changed to 7/12/2009. With all of ‘new iPhone’ rumors about, I thought there may be some significance to the change. Any ideas? Feel free to comment, or visit the forums.

I came across this at the NES-Hacks

page and thought I’d share. The new SoftMii is out and it has some great updates you need to check out. There isn’t an updated readme so here are the details we’ve gathered thus far. To download CLICK HERE

-Ability to run GC Backups from the Disc Channel 

-Updated applications (Preloader v0.28 etc) 

-SoftMii NAND Browser 

-NAND Dumper 

-Bug Fixes are assumed. 

If you manage to find anything else new, comment on this post, and we will update this section. 

Also, a helpful tip: If you have SoftMii previously installed, you can install this newer version of SoftMii without uninstalling your previous version. Just start the installation instructions (included in the download) from Phase 3.

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This is by far one of the best (not easiest) homebrew apps for the Wii.

The app formally known as RiskMiimod has been released in a full blown 1.0 ALPHA version.

This has been tested and confirmed working, but please make sure you know what you’re doing before you attempt this.

SoftMii is capable of doing the following:

v1.0 Alpha Features:

-Custom System Menu Alpha
-SoftMii Health Screen-
-Improved Hacks.ini (Fixed )
-Customizable Via Jizmo’s Theme Packs
-Full Disc Channel Region Free Back-up Loading
-Diagnostic Menu (Recovery) access through GCport1 Y-Button
-No Copy Save Protections Removed
-Retail Discs run 6x, Backups run 3x
-Auto boot ANY Disc Through Recovery Menu
-Skip Disc Updates
-No Error 002 in new games like NFS Undercover
-No Annoying Menu BGM
-Pre loader 0.27 installation
- Regular cIOS for those who have patched discs to 249
- Move your Disc Channel anywhere
-Home Brew Channel 1.01
-Region Free Channels
-Downgrade Method Included

For all questions, comments, and concerns please visit the forums.

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Who here likes Sony? Show of hands? Ok, I figured there’d be a few of you. Even if you hate how Sony has handled the way they’ve marketed their products, showcased their hardware, or uselessly updated pointless aspects their products sometimes before addressing larger issues that homebrew coders developed workarounds for… (gasps for breath) well, to put it simply, if you hate how Sony has been managing itself, you aren’t alone, even though you like Sony for making your precious PSP.

Sony released their profit margins for their 4th quarter business earnings recently. The 4th quarter is usually the biggest quarter of the year, especially for many electronics businesses due to the holiday season shopping. As reported on Gizmodo, however, Sony has to acknowledge a 95% loss in profits due to harsh world economy. In Japan, they received 10.4 billion dollars for their 4th quarter this year…whopping ninteen and a quarter times lower than their profits the year previous – 200.2 billion.

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It’s the day of updates! First Dark-Alex brings us 5.00 M33-5 then a few moments later he bumps out another revision bringing it to 5.00 M33-6. Listed are the updates to both revisions…

^{_{“5.00 M33-6}}

_{^{This update is a try to fix memory stick low speed since 3.80.}}

The included file fat_comparison.html contains a comparison of perfomance between the 5.00 fat driver, the 3.71 one, and the 5.00 one with the speed up hack during the read of an iso.
The test was done on the game Valkyrie Profile in cso format in march33 mode. Other games, modes and applications different than iso reading showed similar results.”

Now for those of you who are still on official firmware, visit the tutorial section of our forums to find out how you can convert your PSP to custom firmware. For those of you already on custom firmware, the download for this update is linked below. Enjoy!

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- 5.00 M33-6

Sony rolls out a new update for our PSP firmware bringing it up to 5.03. For those of you interested, here are the changelogs for this update according to Eric Lampel…

_{“Hi, everyone, I wanted to give you a quick heads up that a new PSP firmware update, v5.03, will be released soon. This is a small update that improves system software stability during use of some features.”}

Now for all of us on the brew scene, we already know what that changelog means. It’s basically an update to prevent the new exploit found in gripshift. For those of you who own 2000 or 3000 model PSP’s and would like to have homebrew, I would advise against updating your firmware from this point onward until the gripshift exploit is perfected. Of course, on the other hand…if you enjoy what Sony has to offer then by all means update.

Thanks to Devil May Cry for the tip off.

We all knew it was on its way. Now we see it in action! Homebrew enabler for the PSP 3000 and 2000 v3. While the files haven’t been released as of yet, the PSPGen team have given their reasons being that they need to find a second kernel exploit and that Sony will patch the exploit files upon release. This is definately great news to those of you who might own one of the aforementioned PSP models. We’ll keep you posted on the status of the operation. Video available on the source page.

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 Well, here we have it. The PSP 3000’s very first homebrew game. Using MaTiAz and Freeplay’s “Hello World Sparta SDK” exploit, dragula96 a PSP homebrew developer has managed to release a very beloved classic for us all to enjoy. Ping Pong! Go ahead and indulge yourselves. Download link below.

- Gripshift Pong

It’s a good day for the PSP homebrew scene. MaTiAz, a well known developer on the brew scene has found an exploit that uses the gamesaves in Gripshift to run arbitrary code. Now while this is just a proof of concept, this is a huge door open towards being able to fully hack the latest 3000 models. Here are a few words quoted from MaTiAz himself…

_{^{“So, happy new year. I think presenting a new usermode exploit on the PSP is a good way to start 2009}}

It was tested on 4.01M33-2 with US version of GripShift (ULUS10040), and psplink.prx, usbhostfs.prx and deemerh.prx loaded (also without psplink and usbhostfs). The decrypted savegame (sorry, couldn’t [be bothered to] get Shine’s savegame tool working so it’s in plaintext form) is in the SDDATA.BIN form which Hellcat’s Savegame-Deemer produces (thanks to him, if the program didn’t exist I wouldn’t have bothered with this.). Just copy the ULUS10040SAVE00 directory to /PSP/SAVEPLAIN/ and run the game. EDIT: yeah, don’t forget to have Savegame-Deemer working, duh.”

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