For those of you who use the PSP to read our news, you may find that the PSP doesn’t display the page well. Good news for you then. Forum member hakk3r has kindly made a mobile version of the site to suit the PSP’s web browser. His webpage makes use of our RSS feeds and turns them into HTML format so the PSP can read them. Click here to access the page. Note th...

Prepaid Playstation Network Cards are coming to the US soon. Sony will be introducing prepaid Playstation Network cards which allow you to purchase games from the Playstation store for you PSP and PS3. Maybe a good Xmas gift? No idea when these will be officially out in the USA, but it shouldn’t be too far of as PSPFanBoy received one from Sony as a  Christmas gift&...

Some pretty nice games are coming out next spring… Seriously. That’s right, decent PSP games. No joke. Sony announced their 2008 spring lineup a few days ago, and it’s lookin nice for all of the systems: PS3/PSN MLB: The Show 08 (PS3) – Spring 08 Hot Shots Golf 5 (PS3) – March 08 Wipeout HD (PSN) – Early 08 Rat Race (PSN) – Winter ...

PSP MAC Address Spoofer Released: Dark_AleX has released a Playstation Portable MAC Address Spoofer. Its a custom firmware plug-in that allows users to temporally change their MAC address of there PSP Wifi adaptor. This plug-in only works on 3.71 M33. PSP Mac Spoofer. This is a plugin to temporally change the mac address that your psp sends to Access Points or other wifi ...

We have suggessfuly moved to our new managed dual core server, hopefully now we can enjoy some server stability and better uptime. We need a break! And looking from the logs the AMD X2 4800+ isn’t even working up a sweat. On another note I have also added a donation button to the site here, if anyone is generous enough to donate towards our recent costs. With no refu...

In order to solve our recent issues we have been having lately, I have brought a new beast of a server. It might just be slighty over powered for our needs really, but like I say better to be over powered than underpowered right? Specially when it comes to the internet, speed is king. I’m copying over the files now to the new server, so hopefully later on today I can...

Soon after the fourth installment of 3.71 M33 firmware, DA has made a bug fix for the multi-disc Popsloader that came with the update. The purpose of this fix is to change the way the Popsloader’s settings remember what firmware is chosen for a multi-disc game. Most people may not need this bug fix, but if you are one of those who use the PSP to play PSX games freque...

Custom Firmware 3.71 M33-4 Released! DarK_AleX has released an update to 3.71 M33. Now he rolls out Version 3.71 M33-4 which features mutli-popsloader support and mainly other bug fixes to the popsloader. Great work, I guess in a few weeks we will see 3.80 M33 as soon as Sony releases that (3.80 that is). Here’s the changelog: – Bugfix: Multidisc psx games bo...

Since Sony’s recent announcement of PSP firmware 3.80 we have learnt that this will be a major & worthwhile update to the Playstation Portable. Two major features will be introduced, one concerns only the Japanese who are lucky enough to have a digital TV tuner. Since with the 1-Seg TV Tuner (Japan only) they will be able to record live TV onto there memory sti...

I’m fully aware and ripping my hair out here over the servers uptime issues. I’m not 100% sure its an attack as my tech has discribed or an attack on their network. Or their network is suffering massive speed issues / overloading. But the connection to our dedicated server is horrible at them moment. We are meant to have a 10mbs uplink port, at any rate its bee...

Japan’s PlayStation website has posted an article planning the release of the new 3.80 firmware. For the first time, Sony tells us when to expect the update – 18th December. There are numerous changes causing a jump from .7x to .8x. The changelog is in Japanese so we’re not going to post it, but if you’re willing to have a go at translating it, chec...

Homebrew dev Mathieulh has reported that a new Popsloader binary with full support for building multi-disc PSone EBOOTs will be released shortly. What does this mean? Well soon you’ll be able to make single eboots of multi disk games with out having to worry about making separate eboots for each playstation disk. Screenshot below from Mathieulh demonstrates Metal Ge...

Mediumgauge has released another update for PSP Filer. This newest version adds the ability to calculate SHA-1 hash values. Also includes various bug fixes. Changes In Version 4.51 filer: - added a feature to calculate SHA-1. - fixed a bug that a smaller file could not be overwritten. - fixed a bug that Filer was crashed when CPU runs at 100%. (e.g. changing device when c...

Developer Takka has updated the unofficial gpSP GBA emulator, making it test 8.6. The original changelog is in Japanese so the following is made from an online translator: UPDATE page from the “main update” to please. Wireless LAN environment is not the way from here Fonts created for the conversion tool, is included. Comments pointed out that there was garble...

Amstrad CPC Emulator - PSPCAP32 v1.5.1 Released Zx-81 has released an update to PSPCAP32 the Amstrad CPC emulator for the Playstation Portable which is a port of Ulrich Doewich’s Caprice32 emulator. This new update features many new additions and improvements. See the changelog below: What’s new in version 1.5.1 : - IRDA Joystick box support - Add “IRDA joyst...

Hombrew developer Mediumgauge has released PSP Filer 4.5. If your new to PSP Filer its a PSP file management application that lets users edit, delete, copy and transfer files to and from the memory stick and the PSP’s built in flash memory. This newest release features French and Serbian language modes. And the ability to use the full 64 megabytes of ram available o...

Playstation Homebrew developer Deniska has released his PSP adaptation of Tyrian, The PC shooter released back in 1995. This is a PSP adoptation of TYRIAN, PC game by Eclipse Productions, published Epic MegaGames. The original game was programmed by Jason Emery, illustrated by Daniel Cook, and its music composed by Alexander Brandon and Andreas Molnar.This port is based...

I have just returned from a 4 day break in London to notice that the server has down for some time. I apologize for this down time. Being away from internet for 4 days I had no idea that the server was out of memory. I have tightened up the memory usage, as it seems yet again the problem came from the forum… Also will insure that this doesn’t happen again in th...