I know it's been a while, but StrmnNrmn sure hasn't forgot about our Nintendo 64 emulation needs. In fact, this time around, he's even added in an extra feature for us to use. How does savestate support sound? Yea, sounds darn good. StrmnNrmn discusses, in his blog , that he's already implemented the feature and that he needs to work on the user interface a little bit before it's released. He also says that he's excited about having savestate support from a developer's point-of-view, as it will allow him to skip intro screens and work on other issues in a more timely manner. As far as anyone can tell, that's pretty much the main feature of this next release. He does say that there's, "a number of additional optimisations" that he wants to work on before releasing R13. Release date? – September 29th, or shortly after.

BOOSTER, the creator of the famed DevHook program and advancements in custom firmware, has released a handy little tool for those Pandora's Battery junkies out there.

With this new tool, you will be able to use a battery that you've converted to be used as a Pandora's Battery, as the primary battery. Before, trying to power a PSP unit on with the Pandora's Battery inserted was a joke. You weren't able to power the PSP without help from the AC cord. Now, what this little tool does, is write an IPL to the memory stick pro duo which allows the XMB to be booted into properly without having to revert the Pandora's Battery back to a normal battery. Useful? – yes, and also no. No because the battery will only work in your PSP with YOUR memory stick pro duo… but that may also be a good thing as well. Have a little brother or sister that bother you and try to use your PSP all of the time? Not a problem! Just take out your memory stick from the PSP and that sucker won't even turn on! Of course, it may be a bit of a hassle, but for those of you that may want to stick with your Pandora's Battery, at least now you have another option.

It's important to note that you should not install this on a memory stick that you used during the creation of the "magic memory stick". Also, 32mb memory sticks are not compatible with this. Make sure to READ ALL DOCUMENTATION CAREFULLY before installing this tool. Since we don't have this in our downloads section yet, just pick it up at any neighboring PSP hacking website.

Team M33 comes through again with another win for the homebrew scene. This is the first custom firmware ever made for the PSP Slim. Anyhow, here are the release notes for Custom firmware 3.60 for the Slim…

• We are proud to present the first custom firmware for the PSP Slim, and the first custom firmware that runs using a 3.XX IPL (3.60).
• 3.60 M33 for PSP Slim has all the features of 3.52 M33, except the 1.50 kernel support, as that kernel doesn't work properly on psp slim (hardware problems, screen problems). 3.60 M33 will load homebrew from GAME, GAME150 and GAME360 directories, but all will be executed with 3.60 kernel.
• This mean that some homebrews done specifically for the 1.50 kernel cannot work on 3.60 M33. However, the adaptation of code to 2.XX+ kernels is not difficult, and homebrew developers can port their aplications to work in these firmwares.

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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More great news arrives from Team M33. This new version of Popsloader is compatable on all current custom firmwares released to date (with the exception of the new 3.60 M33 for PSP Slim). For those of you who have been living in the dark, popsloader is basically a PSOne emulator for your PSP. Anyways, without further ado, here are the release details…

• Added the remaining pops: 3.00-3.03
  • These pops require the following modules: kd/meaudio.prx kd/popsman.prx kd/pops.prx and vsh/module/pafmini.prx. As always, they go in seplugins/popsloader directory with the naming meaudio3xx.prx, popsman3xx.prx etc.
• Added compatibility between savedata <= 3.30 and those of 3.40 and higher.
  • The thing works like this: If you have been playing in for example 3.52 pops, and then you select a pops from 3.00-3.30, popsloader will automatically convert the savedata into the old format.
  • The reverse operation, from old format to new format, will be done by Sony code with a confirmation dialog.

• popsloader plugin work in 3.51 M33, 3.52 M33 and….. 3.60 M33 for PSP slim. Coming soon.

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As promised, Fanjita and Team Noobz have delivered a downgrader and homebrew enabler (HEN) for 3.11 firmware users. In order to run the downgrader/HEN, you will require a European or US version of Lumines. It is also noted that this release will fix the problem with idstorage issues that disallowed TA-082 – TA-086 motherboards from upgrading past 3.30 on official firmwares.

Anyways, to clarify the details of this release a little bit more, heres what you can accomplish with this package…

This release consists of HEN for v3.11,  plus a v3.11 downgrader, and an idstorage key fixer for v3.11.  This allows you the choice of either

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- Buy Lumines

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