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.