PSP Grader v008 Released

Klutsh & RainMotorsports grace us with convenience at its finest… Here we have another Windows app to easily create a magic memory stick for use with a Pandora battery.

As illustrated in the screen shot, PSP Grader not only creates a magic memory stick, it packs a few additional options: inject an IPL only, clean the Pandora stick ridding any files created by PSP Grader, and the ability to change the default trigger to load Pandora when you’re ready.

Now you just need the Pandora battery itself; use this tool (with an already hacked PSP) to create/convert one. Otherwise you can hard mod an existing battery; see here or here.
PSP Grader Screenshot

Features

* Download the eboot straight from the app!
* Load eboots stored in ZIP files.

Coming Soon:

* RAR & 7z Loading - Rar loading didn’t make the port to pascal but only due to time restraints, it and 7zip loading are planned!
* Backup Script - Once again due to time constraints a backup function didn’t make it. Grader never had one and mine never worked to begin with so I put this off till it could be done right!
* SPEED - While this app is no slower than anything I have written before it is slower than Grader 6. We have already begun finding ways to speed up the app and it will be sped up soon!

Download: PSP Grader v008

FX PowerSpoof!

Now you’re playing with power! Introducing NoEffex’s FX PowerSpoof plugin. You know when certain [game] updates require 75% or more battery power to install, well this little doozy of a plugin will simply bypass that reporting a 100% charge each time. Easy does it.

The main use for this is those games that install updates sony-style, and require 75% or so battery, when that is totally unnecessary and a waste of your time, because if you run out of battery - oh well, start over, nothing harmed, as it does not flash a thing.

How NOT to use:
During flashing things that require 75% battery. Not a bright idea. You can, but if you screw up, not my problem.

How it works:
Patches

1. scePowerGetBatteryPercent to always return 100 via jr ra->addiu $v0, $zero, 100
2. scePowerIsLowBattery to always return 0 via jr ra->addu $v0, $zero, $zero
3. scePowerIsBatteryExist to always return 1 via jr ra->addiu $v0, $zero, 0×0001

THEN

Unloads itself, so it won’t make your kernel memory all lame and sliced up

Download: FX PowerSpoof

iR Shell v4.9 Released

Forget the XMB and just have iR Shell auto start straight from the get-go… AhMan’s iR Shell is a feature rich shell replacement that does everything: multi-task between a UMD, homebrew, ISO, and any of the integrated iR Shell functions, enjoy TV out via RemoteJoy, Net/USBHostFS support for PC<->PSP connectivity, control other infrared (Phat only) electronics, listen to your own tunes while in-game, and the list goes on and on… It’s no doubt the #1 shell with a bullet.
PSP iR Shell Screenshot

iR Shell v4.9 changes:

* Support PlayStation Network: download games & demos.
* Interlaced TV support has been added for PSP Slim. Games & homebrews launched via iR Shell will inherit the iR Shell TV mode. Most games will run at full speed with default CPU clock.
* For Slim PSP TV out, added an option to control the audio output to PSP speaker. This will be useful for docking station with TV out & charging capabilities.
* Added an option to disable Memory Stick MagicGate support. This is meant to be used for PhotoFast microSD to MSPD adapter, or other similar non-MagicGate MS. By disabling the MagicGate support, you will no longer experience the annoying pause in XMB, such as turning on the PSP, switching off USB mode from XMB, quitting game/homebrew back to XMB, entering XMB video directory, etc.
* Added connection timeout support for NetHostFS.
* For IR learning remote, added the ability to abort the learning process without waiting for timeout.
* Support user provided font files.
* Plus various bug fixes.

See “Release_Note.txt” for complete details.

Download:
iR Shell v4.9 (Full)
iR Shell Skin Pack
USBHostFS / NetHostFS (for Windows/Linux/Mac…)

ISO Read Log: Measure Access Time for Reading ISOs/UMDs

Interested to see how much faster custom firmware 5.00 M33-6 really is? Here’s a straightforward plug-in from Dark_AleX to measure read times from both the UMD and memory stick.

Install isoreadlog.prx like you would any other plug-in, load a UMD or ISO, and whenever you want the logging to finish, press L+R and the output will be written to “drivers.txt” on your memory stick.

Download: ISO Read Log

PSP Filer v5.8 Released

Here’s more of the homebrew you love — Mediumgauge’s PSP Filer version 5.8. PSP Filer is a multi-purpose homebrew app featuring a set of integrated tools for handling common tasks — ripping UMDs, organizing or moving files around your memory stick, flash0 and flash1, extracting RAR archives, playback WAV files, view pictures and text files, etc… It basically breaks down to a fully functional file manager for your PSP.
PSP Filer Screenshot

PSP Filer v5.8 changes:

general:

* added Swedish mode.
* added a feature to ignore analog pad.

filer:

* added a feature to extract all files in an archive file.
* fixed a bug that files in RAR archive which had a broken file name (e.g. ‘?’) could not be extracted correctly. (Those “unusable” characters will be replaced into ‘_’).
* fixed a bug that memory leak was occurred after failing to extract archive files into RAMDISK.
* fixed a bug to have shown wrong count of files after copying.

Download: PSP Filer v5.8