Its initial release elicited quite the positive response with many saying it resembles Loco Roco to some extent; however, this ain’t no Loco Roco… This is Walaber’s JellyCar ported to the PSP by Drakon. Watch…

JellyCar v1.1 changes:

• 10 new levels
• Map reverse — press X while playing
• Best jump record — when jumping in the air — jump length will be counted
• Car skins — dress the car in some nice skin (skins can be easily add by user)
• 2.5D — no more flat 2D; we are going in 2.5D

To add your own car skin: prepare 4 images — big car, small car, big tire, and small tire; put these in Assets/Car_Skins. Next add one line to car_skins.xml; i.e.) –

Enjoy.

Download: JellyCar PSP v1.1

EXTER re-enters the spotlight with a Rubik’s Cube update. I witnessed a good friend of mine solve this last weekend, and with the quickness I must say… Me, I still suck; however, holding L+Start in a stealth-like manner while randomly rotating the cubes axes works rather well.

Rubik’s Cube v1.3 changes:

• Back and Back Inverted moves.
• Cube solve and scramble animations.
• Move counter at the top right of the screen.
• Session saving.

Download: Rubik’s Cube v1.3

Take a moment, pause Kill Zone 2 — it’s time to update your memory stick with Mediumgauge’s latest version of PSP Filer. Like I’ve said before, PSP Filer does everything you’d expect from a file manager: move/copy files around, dump UMDs, preview text and other binary files… All that and more direct on your handheld.

PSP Filer v6.0 changes:

• fixed a bug wrong free area was shown when using large (>4G) MS Duo.
• added a feature to show GB mode. And, even in larger scale mode, small files are shown on smaller scale.
• fixed a bug USB connection was failed on kernel3 using under FW 5.00.
• fixed a bug at ripping UMD, to be frozen, when MS Duo was full (that happened depending on CFW version).
• fixed a bug to be frozen when finishing built-inn OSK at 333MHz.

Download: PSP Filer v6.0

Looking for a simple means of converting just about any video format for playback on the PSP? Then look no further — Nick has a new version of his free PSP Video Converter set for download.

PSPVC requires .NET Framework 3.0 and the Combined Community Codec Pack.

PSPVC v2.7 changes:

• A new version of FFmpeg and Avisynth has been added
• Improved internal commands for increased image quality
• Added support for .ass/.ssa subtitles (Substation Alpha)
• Improved “UPLOAD” feature
• Added a PSP-n00b folder check, if the VIDEO and/or MUSIC folder is missing, it will automatically be created on your PSP before upload
• Added video-download stats showing the progress in MB
• Fixed a video-download bug that caused PSPVC to crash
• Fixed an AUTO-resolution bug
• Misc small improvements + a small facelift as a little extra

Download: PSPVC v2.7

One of the most simplest effectual homebrew apps for the PSP — Mediumgauge’s PSP Filer. Now sitting at version 4.9.

You already know what it’s all about; but if you’re a new reader –

Mediumgauge’s PSP file management homebrew app for managing both files and directories on your memory stick, UMD drive, and flash0/flash1. PSP Filer also includes a set of integrated applications — rip UMDs directly to your memory stick, view pictures, text & binary files — WAV playback, read-only RAR support… And much, much more…

PSP Filer 4.9 changelog:

• added Bulgarian mode.
• added a feature to change length of drawing file name (short, middle, long).
• removed a feature to mark/unmark all of sub-folder’s files by analog left/right.
• changed to ignore extract-memory-size written in a RAR file because Filer could not extract it that expects more than 22MB.
• fixed a bug that Filer could not play low sampling rate WAV files correctly.

Download: PSP Filer 4.9

This was just brought to my attention… Whether or not you knew about it — PSPTube is capable of DivX video playback!

It’s simple –

1. Download PSPTube 2008/02/28 and install it; if you haven’t already
2. Copy DivX video file(s) to PSP/GAME/PSPTube/favorites; ensure the video file extension ends with .divx
3. Start PSPTube and cycle to favorites by pressing Select

Again, confirmed working on my Slim. I’ve only tried smaller sized videos — no full length features or anything of that nature. Try it out and let us know your experience below.

- source: P1@ystat&0n Un]erGr0un]

PSP Filer fanatics know Mediumgauge’s last release was somewhat problematic when dealing with certain RAR archives. According to the latest PSP Filer change log, many RAR-related bugs have been corrected in version 4.8. Enjoy!

PSP Filer v4.8 changes:

• added Hungarian mode.
• fixed a bug that some kind of file in RAR was considered as a directory.
• fixed a bug that Filer was crashed when it tried to open an encrypted RAR archive.
• fixed a bug that Filer was crashed when it tried to open a RAR archive on few memory.
• chased to fix that extracted files and folders from archive files would be ReadOnly and could not change nor delete anymore under CFW 3.90 or later.
• fixed a bug that Filer was crashed when it tried to rename a long file name (more than 128bytes).

Download: PSP Filer v4.8

• Limited the heap size used by sound font to fix a crash bug.

Sleepper has released PSPKVM v0.1.0 — a JavaME VM capable of running mobile j2me apps/games on the PSP. Once you get the hang of PSPKVM’s control scheme, you’ll no doubt find games much more enjoyable than using your phone’s keypad — especially those still sportin’ the Nokia 3650.

To use: start PSPKVM and select a “.jar” file. The default device is the SE K800i; press Triangle to cycle through available devices. The last selected device will be loaded on the next boot.

Stay tuned for improved versions of PSPKVM; it’s said the author of pspME, M@x, will be merging his project with Sleepper’s in effort to provide a better Java Micro Edition Virtual Machine for the PSP.

Download:
PSPKVM v0.1.0a
PSPKVM source

- source: pspkvm.com

Not only does Dark_AleX hold the PSP championship belt of awesomeness, he probably has your girlfriend washing out her panties in his reverse engineered Maytag. Hitting hard yet again with a fresh new release — TimeMachine v0.1.

The timemachine is useful to run software that is not supported anymore, and also as a way of booting psp’s even if the internal firmware is destroyed. It can also be useful for developers to test their homebrew in different firmwares.

The packaged readme details the available installation options, usage, known problems and considerations; I strongly encourage you to read that over before you begin.

TimeMachine v0.1 currently supports the following:

• Original 1.50 — can only be loaded on the phat
• 1.50 with some 3.40 hw modules — can be loaded on both, phat and slim
• 3.40 OE — can only be loaded on phat
• 3.60 M33 — can only be loaded on slim

Other firmwares are said to be added in the future.

Download: TimeMachine v0.1

Still rockin’ Custom Firmware Extender (CFE) 1.9.2? If so, it’s time to update… Cpasjuste has released CFE version 2.0, adding support for Dark_AleX’s latest work — both custom firmware 3.90 M33 and TimeMachine.

As the name implies, “Custom Firmware Extender” is a collection of useful 3rd party plugins, which in effect extend the functionality of whatever custom firmware you may be running. Full feature set can be read on the download landing page.

CFE v2.0 changes: (from the README)

• Removed usb/wifi ISO streaming for multiples reason, principally it was not the goal of cfe at the beginning. There is now “USB ISO Loader” by psp.padawan that will do the job well. You should soon be able to grab it from http://www.mydedibox.fr/~psppadawan/
• 390m33-2 and 150_340TM custom firmware now supported (cfe should now work on any firmware), note that on the 150_340 time machine firmware, the ftpd server will not work, and remotejoy under ISO/HOMEBREWS won’t work too for now. All other functions should work well.
• Time Machine compatibility: You can now reboot “on the fly” from one time machine firmware to another, just edit the cfe.config file under “ms0:/seplugins/cfe/” to choose which firmware you will reboot to by pressing a combo button. Format is the same as the original time machine configuration file. Default configuration is NOTE+LEFT => reboot to 150_340 firmware, NOTE+RIGHT => normal reboot (NAND).
• Remotejoy fixed to work on both slim and phat psp, without savegame bugs, so it should now be completely usable for gaming and recording.
• Tested on 390m33-2 and 150_340TM firmware on SLIM and PHAT psp.
• And more, can’t remember all the work i have done on this

Download: Custom Firmware Extender (CFE) 2.0

Click-click-pow! Mediumgauge has released PSP Filer version 4.7.

PSP Filer bundles a whole whack of useful features and functions — rip UMDs directly to your memory stick, manipulate various types of flat and binary files, manage homebrew apps/games, etc… Follow the download link to learn more.

And the 4.7 changelog says…

• mutes sound while CPU is busy.
• added a feature to create a directory in copy screen.
• added a feature to access RAR archive file. (read-only)

Download: PSP Filer v4.7

Earlier today Tim emailed informing us of Hexaxis XXI Update #9. While the timestamps show otherwise, number 9 is new and more dope than ever. A few weeks back Tim added these 3 major features:

1. Help System: The help system is accessible anytime during play by pressing select. If you select the standard mode, it will already come up. To navigate simply use the left trigger and right trigger. There are 13 steps in the how to play steps. To hide simply press select again.
2. Pulsating Combo Dice: When you create a combo, the dice pulsate both in color and size to show when they are going to switch to red. This will help people to plan out their moves a bit more wiser.
3. 3 MORE LEVELS for a total of 7:
   • Space Dye Vest
   • Vertere
   • Sleepy Spudgy
   • Tornado Card
   • Re-added Hippie Tie Die (Tie Die Hippie) with slightly different look
   • Re-added Mercury 42 with slightly better look
   • Added Big Business (one of my favorites!)

So now it’s released and here’s the video –

Download: Hexaxis XXI Update #9

Good news on the homebrew front… Over at irshell.org are instructions to remove iR Shell’s firmware check, thus enabling itself on custom firmware 3.90M33. But wait — there’s more! Further instructions here detail the necessary steps to get ISOs/no-UMD mode working.

How to remove iR Shell’s firmware check using a hex editor:

irshell/bin/irshell38x.prx: offset 0x284e, 0x82 -> 0x00
irshell/bin/irshell38xs.prx: offset 0x28da, 0x82 -> 0x00

Or download the already patched files below. Have fun!

Download:
iR Shell 3.9
iR Shell 3.90 M33 Patch

- source: irshell.org

Transform that PSP of yours into a portable karaoke machine! Now make a fool of yourself wherever, whenever. Marvin’s PSP Karaoke supports MP3+G playback; that’s 2 files, a .mp3 accompanied by a .cdg.

The background can currently be customized by replacing BG.PNG with your own image.

The player will play songs from the MP3G folder. The songs have to be named m1.mp3, m2.mp3, …mX.mp3 with a corresponding m1.cdg. The ‘1′will be used as the song number.

Alternatively, you can populate an sqlite3 database (kpl.db) which allows you to forgo with the naming convention and store MP3G files in different locations on the memory stick. Note that most MP3G files on the internet don’t have mp3 id tags. The sqlite database has columns for artist names and song titles.

This is a concept beta version with the following features:

• Play+ CDG Format
• Add songs to queue
• Play Pause
• Skip to next song
• Sqlite3 songs database

Controls:

• TRIANGLE - Show song number input
• UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT - Input song number
• CROSS - Add song number to the songs queue
• SQUARE - Skip to next song
• CIRCLE - Play / Pause

While the readme says “psp slim & lite”, I’ve confirmed it working on my PSP Phat with 3.90 M33.

Download: PSP Karaoke (Concept Beta)

- source: marvin.mindhyve.com

Get it while it’s hot — LOAD Magazine Issue #10…

We’re back in 2008 with our biggest issue ever.

Maxing out at over 70 pages, issue 10 is the best yet, featuring J.J. Abrams’ fantastic new monster movie Cloverfield. With an in-depth timeline, looking at all the important events since its creation only February last year, and the plethora of online viral marketing. We review the film too.

Also on the cinematic side of life, we’ve got opinions on the latest and greatest films of 2008 including The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Be Kind Rewind, cult Spanish horror film [REC], No Country for Old Men and new Britflick horror/comedy The Cottage.

To mark the glory of film, we have a special art spread, taking a look at some of the finest films and cult images through the eyes of cell shading.

Moving to music, we talk to Long Beach’s finest new talent We Barbarians, also reviewing them mesmerising debut EP. Hot property Operator Please’s debut also gets the critical eyes alongside new albums from Lightspeed Champion, Vampire Weekend, Hot Chip and These New Puritans.

With season 4 of LOST impending, we’ve got the lowdown on the mysteries you should be looking to solve plus for you gamers, PS2 classic Okami, now due for Wii, is given some overdue space. With the PSP dragging its heels, we see if Jeanne D’Arc is the game to get it back on track, plus we go drumming on the DS.

Visit loadmagazine.co.uk for the PDF-formatted version.

Download: LOAD Magazine Issue #10 (PSP)

John has recompiled PSP UAE4ALL with this change; he reports –

…there is a speed increase! Okay, it’s really only a very slightly speed increase and some maybe won’t even feel any improvement at all, but there’s more to it: Paradroid 90, one of my favorite games of all times, always locked up after a couple of “droid-control-battles”. Not anymore!

Another minor but notable change to the control scheme: hold L-Trigger for slow mouse movement with the analog stick. Hold R-Trigger for fast movement.

Download:
PSP UAE4ALL r1 (TTYman’s)
PSP UAE4ALL r1 Mods — Kernel Build
PSP UAE4ALL r1 Mods — User-mode Build

Yet another PSPTube homebrew update from developer SofiyaCat. This January 29th release is now working with the PSP Fat again. Other changes improve the Slim’s TV out support.

Here, once installed, add this URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pGva3yU8RZw

Download: PSPTube 20080129