It seems a group of Russian hackers have discovered a way to edit config files in order to play Manhunt 2 uncensored. You just need to dump your PSP ISO file and then using UMD Gen edit a few files and put the ISO back together and whala you have an uncensored Manhunt 2 ! Of course this requires a Custom Firmware enabled Playstation Portable.

Instructions:

1. Open ISO in UMDGEN
2. Extract PSP_GAME\USRDIR\GLOBAL\LVLSETUP.INI and PSP_GAME\USRDIR\LEVELS\A01_ES\GLVLSET.INI
3. Open this files (with notepad) and find

# - # [GK"] execution colour ramp options: flash fadein (sec), flash duration (sec), flash fadeout time (sec) EXECUTION_COLRAMP_TEXTURE FE_execramps EXECUTION_COLRAMP_FLASH_TIMES 0.25, 0.6, 0.3 EXECUTION_COLRAMP_FADE_TIME 5.0

delete this strings.

4. Replace original file in PSP_GAME\USRDIR\GLOBAL\LVLSETUP.INI
5. Replace original files in all levels in PSP_GAME\USRDIR\LEVELS\ with GLVLSET.INI
6. Save ISO
7. Play

Source of Info: Prozzack.ru

Official PSP Firmware 3.72 was released today.

Sony have released Playstation Portable firmware update 3.72 today in Japan, this release only seems to be an update to Playstation Network titles.

Changelog:

Support for PLAYSTATION®Network titles has been expanded

You can download this over your PSP’s network update feature or direct from Sony.

• Download: Playstation Portable firmware update 3.72
• Disclaimer: This could render your PSP Homebrew useless… Update at your own risk

NJ has released another update for his Capcom Play System Emulators and Neo Geo emulator to version 2.3.1. Improvements to video and sound emulation and several bug fixes on his almost perfect PSP emulators. No support yet for full screen TV output, I hope that NJ can implement this soon as I would love to have CPS and Neo geo games full screen on my TV!

• Download: MVSPSP 2.31 for PSP Slim
• Download: CPS2 2.3.1 for PSP Slim

Homebrew developer Chilly Willy has released a port of Jarmo Laakkonen’s ADoomPPC version 1.7.Chilly’s Doom PSP port and is now compatible with the PSP Slim and older PSPs running a 3.X custom firmware. This release also features PSP Slim TV out support.

• Download:

Source: Exophase

Durka Durka Mahn has just released an easy installer for Edison Carter’s Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stoires / Vice City Stories Cheat device.

Cheat device allows you to apply extra cheats to GTA games on the PSP, such as hover bikes, money and the ability to spawn cars etc.

• Download: Cheat Device Easy Installer for LCS and VCS

Source: QJ.net

Mediumgauge has released version 4.0 of PSP Filer, the homebrew application that allows you to manage your memory stick files, flash0/flash1, UMD drive open text files. It also includes utilities that allow you to rip a UMD to the memory stick and more.

• Download: PSP Filer v4.0 for firmware 3.xx

We now have some PSP themes up, these themes are all in the .ptf format so work with original firmware 3.70+ and custom firmware 3.70+. Simply extract the theme .ptf to you PSP/THEME folder to install. Then apply the theme in your PSP, through Setting => Theme Settings => Theme

Themes can be found here in the themes section here

So Daedalus R13 is closer to release? StrmnNrmn has posted on this blog that the release of Daedalus R13 is close that he is currently working on the final touches of the new save state function and that hopefully we can expect a new release soon of his promising N64 emulator.

“I’m very close to releasing R13, I’ve just been struggling to find the time to add the final finishing touches to the savestate support. I’ve found it hard to get into a regular working pattern since moving, so what should have been a 1 week job has ended up taking a month. Bioshock and Halo 3 haven’t helped either”

Read the rest over at StrmnNrmn’s blog

Today THQ Released a PSP demo of Warhammer 40,000, the soon to be released RTS title for the Playstation Portable. This demos weighs in at 6 Mb so its rather light, however firmware < 3.71 is required to run this. The game is due out on the 12th of November.

• Download:

Warhammer 40,000 Squad Command Demo Installation Instructions.

1. Extract the ZIP file contents.
2. Connect a USB cable to the PSP.
3. Move the extracted ULUS10313 folder to PSP/GAME on your memory stick.
4. Start the demo from the Game menu on your PSP.

 Emulator developer Uberjack has updated his set of emulators to be compatable on PSP Slims which can´t execute 1.50 kernel´s. There now written for 1.00 kernels which the PSP Slim can run without issues. Emulators include Handy PSP (Atari Lynx emulator we featured here a few days ago), Atari800 PSP, fMSX PSP, NeoPop PSP, SMS Plus PSP, and ColEm PSP.

Downloads:

Thanks Uberjack for letting me be a beta tester for your PSP Slim compatible emulators

Source: Uberjack