gpSP mod 03/11/08 — Gameboy Advance Emulator Updated



An unofficial gpSP release has surfaced from an anonymous Chinese developer. It’s based off the work of Exophase and many others. You can find all the original documentation within.

I won’t bother attempting to translate the mess of a change log; however, I can tell you gpSP 03/11/08 works just fine under custom firmware 5.00 M33.

Now it’s time to exercise your Google skills and locate the Gameboy Advance BIOS image yourself; it’s exactly 16384 bytes large. Name the BIOS “gba_bios.bin” and copy it to the same directory as the gpSP EBOOT.

Download: gpSP mod 03/11/08

- source: dcemu

Datel profiting off the work of non-profit PSP coders


Remember Datel’s Action Replay for the PSP? Upon inspection by Dark_AleX and VoidPointer, it appears that the $40 device actually contains the IPL used in Pandora within the supplied memory stick.

Datel’ Action Replay does uses code that isn’t from itself, code that isn’t distributed to be used the way they use it anyway. The code involving this terms is, for first instance, the Pandora forged IPL block, and on second place but of course not less important, Booster’s IPL SDK.

Datel doesn’t seem to give any credit to the original Pandora developers at all.

Here’s some more interesting things to note; from Alek’s blog:

* It has been confirmed that Datel’ Action replay does interfere on the Custom Firmware code

* They use a bigger memory footprint due to the graphics involved in it, and it’s interesting also to mention that they had a pretty small database, that being compared it to cwcheat one, this first one isn’t even a database tbh.

So what do you think?
I suggest sticking to CWCheat for those who have CFW.

Via Sceners.org

Rain’s UltraLite MMS Maker v1.1 Released

Inject that, inspect that; make that, shake that — Rain’s UltraLite MMS Maker v1.1. Easily produce a Pandora-ready memory stick for whatever firmware and Dark_AleX’s Despertar del Cementerio v7 (DC7).

Rain mentions a firmware 5.00 enabled version will be available soon.


Rain’s UltraLite MMS Maker v1.1 changes:

* Added Unicode support to the backup script.
* Changed to smaller 12kb fresh rip of the TM IPL
* Added detailed error information and cleaned up error handling along with some minor bug fixes.

Download:
Official PSP Firmware Updates
Rain’s UltraLite MMS Maker for 4.01 (v1.1)
Rain’s UltraLite MMS Maker for 3.90 (v1.1)
Rain’s UltraLite MMS Maker for 3.80 (v1.1)
Rain’s UltraLite MMS Maker for 3.71 (v1.1)
Rain’s UltraLite MMS Maker for 3.60 (v1.1)
Rain’s UltraLite MMS Maker for 1.50 (v1.1)

- release/discussion thread -

Power Manager v2.0 Released

Manage the power of your PSP with pspjoke’s homebrew plug-in. Effectively control brightness levels, CPU clock speed, and I should also mention it works alongside weltall’s CWCHEAT. Follow the release / discussion thread to learn more about the CWCHEAT companion mode.

Power Manager features:

* PSP 4th brightness level is only 68, with this you can reach 99. (same as 100)
* Plug PSP into charger to unlock the full brightness of the screen. (higher then the fourth brightness of the slim)
* Plug PSP into charger for forced 333mhz CPU clock.
* Can auto-clock the CPU based on usage. (to save more power)
* Can enable/disable the MAX brightness when plugged in.
* Now works alongside CWCheat for increased power saving.
* CWCheat Companion Mode (see notes)
* Companion Mode is enabled by default, to disable see controls.

Download: Power Manager v2.0

- release/discussion thread -

RemoteJoyLite v0.18 Released: a TV out like experience over USB

Akind’s RemoteJoyLite is now at version 0.18. Once equipped your PSP will capture and deliver video frames straight to your computer monitor — all over a USB connection.



And while your hand-held remains connected to the PC, you may as well give PSPdisp a shot too. It’s a similar plug-in which extends your Windows desktop to the PSP screen. Use your PSP as an additional monitor to display whatever desired.

RemoteJoyLite v0.18 [translated] changes:

* Screensaver suppression system changed a bit.
* Add images of asynchronous transfer mode.
* Select USB connection in the XMB works a little better.

Download:
RemoteJoyLite v0.18
RemoteJoyLite v0.18 source code

- source: cgi.din.or.jp

Hold+ v3.3 Released — Save PSP Battery Power *Updated*

Update: And one more for the count –

Fixed a bug where if the battery was low, and the Power LED was blinking, and you turned off the Hold switch exactly at the moment before the Power LED blinked, the problem of the disappearing battery icon would occur.

The method of prevent accidental suspend has been changed back to adrahil’s SysEvent method, instead of Booster’s method which was used from v3.0, which was causing various problems as it worked by corrupting SysCon packets that contained the Power Switch On signal.

Update: Torch has released Hold+ v3.2 which fixes a couple bugs –

* Fixed a bug where after you exit a Photo or the Browser, the battery icon would keep disappearing and reappearing.
* Fixed a bug where each time you exit a Photo or the Browser, the first time you turn on Hold after that it would only go to Normal Hold mode.

Prolong your [hacked] PSP battery life by simply installing Torch’s Hold+. When the hold switch is enabled, Hold+ will take the necessary steps to ensure battery juice is preserved to the fullest. How does it work? See the download page for details.

Hold+ v3.0 - 3.1 changelog:

* Reduced CPU usage by delaying longer in main loop. Since v3.0 the main loop doesn’t do much so it needn’t run as fast as before. This *should* alleviate problems with the battery icon.
* Now its not possible to accidentally press ‘other’ buttons in hold mode while holding Select button. Ex: If you are holding Select + VolUp to increase volume, and you accidently press X, the X button will not have effect.
* Completely overhauled the plugin to work using only the SysCon functions based on Booster’s example.
* The prevention of accidental suspend was changed to Booster’s method as that is more efficient.
* In Display Off mode, pressing the Screen button to return to normal no longer causes the firmware’s internal brightness variable to become one step higher and the original screen brightness.
* Added the ability to use some of the buttons while in hold mode, by holding the Select button first.

Download: Hold+ v3.3

- source: mformature

Hold+ v3.2 Released — Save PSP Battery Power *Updated*

Update: Torch has released Hold+ v3.2 which fixes a couple bugs –

* Fixed a bug where after you exit a Photo or the Browser, the battery icon would keep disappearing and reappearing.
* Fixed a bug where each time you exit a Photo or the Browser, the first time you turn on Hold after that it would only go to Normal Hold mode.

Prolong your [hacked] PSP battery life by simply installing Torch’s Hold+. When the hold switch is enabled, Hold+ will take the necessary steps to ensure battery juice is preserved to the fullest. How does it work? See the download page for details.

Hold+ v3.0 - 3.1 changelog:

* Reduced CPU usage by delaying longer in main loop. Since v3.0 the main loop doesn’t do much so it needn’t run as fast as before. This *should* alleviate problems with the battery icon.
* Now its not possible to accidentally press ‘other’ buttons in hold mode while holding Select button. Ex: If you are holding Select + VolUp to increase volume, and you accidently press X, the X button will not have effect.
* Completely overhauled the plugin to work using only the SysCon functions based on Booster’s example.
* The prevention of accidental suspend was changed to Booster’s method as that is more efficient.
* In Display Off mode, pressing the Screen button to return to normal no longer causes the firmware’s internal brightness variable to become one step higher and the original screen brightness.
* Added the ability to use some of the buttons while in hold mode, by holding the Select button first.

Download: Hold+ v3.2
- source: mformature

3.71 Memory Stick Driver (fatmsmod.prx) for Custom Firmware 5.00 M33

I guess “fatmsmod.prx” from firmware 3.71 is still the recommended memory stick driver of choice. And thanks to Dark_AleX, you can now enable the 3.71 driver under custom firmware 5.00 M33.

Instructions:

1. decrypt 3.71 using psardumper (square option).
2. copy fatmsmod.prx to the root of the memory stick.
3. copy FATMS371 to /PSP/GAME or /PSP/GAME5XX and run the program.

Download:
3.71 MS Patch (fatmsmod.prx) for 5.00 M33
PSP (Official) 3.71 Update
PSARDumper

- source: dark-alex

CXMB for 5.00 M33 Released

Homebrew developer Poison has released an update to CXMB his cfw plugin which allows users to load custom CTF PSP themes. And all from the memory stick and not the flash memory so there’s no risk in bricking your PSP. This release add’s 5.00 M33 support, nothing else has changed.

Download : Here
Source: 2Alien.info