Datel out of all people have “cracked” the PSP-3000 and booted it with a new TOOL battery.
Lite Blue TOOL
Compatible with the PSP-2000 and 3000, it goes for $19.99 in the UK and $29.99 in North America late this month.
BUT! There’s a catch. This battery doesn’t actually install CFW on your PSP.
From Alek:
1. To have a LED indicator ON, doesn’t means that you can install cfw or hack anything. Remember 088v3 mobos? Right.
2. It’s spreading like a timebomb that it can be hacked and so on. Well, what any user can see is an interesting campaign to promote an article that is not yet released. It would be interesting to see.. how about an old “hello world” like on Noobz time, instead of a “buy today” call?
3. Just to remember all this things up, LED indicator ON and nothing on screen means directly what Dark_AleX explained here about the preIPL.
So, don’t be tricked by another scam by Datel to steal your money kids!.
AhMan has released an update to iR Shell. This update adds some extra enhancements with PSP Slims extra memory and a few bug fixes. Full change log below:
New Features for PSP Slim:
- Added support to homebrews that are built with the option PSP_LARGE_MEMORY, that is, to use the extra slim memory. When running these homebrews under iR Shell, they will have access to another 26MB slim RAM. Pls note 2MB of slim RAM is reserved for iR Shell.
- Enhance the HTML Viewer (originally developed by Dark_AleX) to use the extra slim memory. These should help to reduce “Not enough memory” message when accessing larger web contents. The HTML Viewer can be accessed via predefined homebrew #1 icon.
Bug Fixes:
- Some homebrews weren’t correctly recognized by iR Shell and application names were displayed as garbage.
- When setting np9660 mode in iR Configurator, some homebrews failed to launch.
- Launching PS1 games via popsloader wasn’t working properly.
- Copying a large file from ms0: to nethost0: will crash the system.
This rather cool video has surfaced on youtube. A PSP-3000 being disassembled and re-assembled in time lapse fashion. Well worth a look. Still no break through on this model being hackable. Its still unhackable, just like the TA88 v3 motherboard.
Daedalus is back from the dead, in the form of Daedalusx64 - taken over by various PSP dev’s after the disappearance of StrmnNrmn (Presumed MIA). Chilly Willy, Hlide, Wally, Howard0su and Kreationz have been working together on DaedalusX64 Public Beta 1. This release features many bug fixes over StrmnNrmn’s work and some speed improvements through optimised code. Beta 1 also includes TV-out support, nice!
(DaedalusX64 Public Beta 1 - 2.1 MiB - 2,110 Hits)
AhMan has released iR Shell 4.7, the complete shell replacement for the PSP. This new version adds support for 5.00 M33 firmware as well as many other changes, listed below.
Changelog:
* Support Dark_AleX latest 5.00M33-3 CFWs. Users of original 5.00M33 & M33-2 should upgrade to M33-3 to avoid incompatibility issues. The latest Popsloader 5.00 is also supported.
* An Infra-Red learning remote is added for PSP Phat. You no longer need to hunt pronto codes for your appliances. Just point your remote unit at the PSP and it will learn the iR code. It is available under higher firmwares and not fw 1.5 mode. Refer to the Release Note for usage details.
* The nethostfs connection handling has been redesigned to be more robust. However, iR Shell 4.7 and onwards can only connect to the new nethostfs PC server v2.1. Make sure you’ve updated the nethostfs PC server.
* Enhance UMD/ISO game compatibility via nethostfs MAX mode. Most previous failed games will probably work.
* Usbhostfs & nethostfs host redirection under XMB has returned.
* The Adhoc PC connection for nethostfs was broken since fw 3.71. This feature has been brought back for PSP Phat.
* Enhance the HTML Plugin (by Dark_AleX) to allow direct launching of flash games with extension SWF.
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.
The final version of this program has been posted up by RainMotorsports.
These are the 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.
Installers for 1.50 up to 4.01 are available and can be downloaded via the forums.
Zx-81 has released an update to PSPMSX his MSX and MSX2 emulator . Its now compatible with 5.00 M33, version. This new version (version 1.4.1) is a text editor that allows you to save notes on the games.
Changelog:
* Finally fix issue with “Home -> Exit” !
* Text editor to write your own comments on games
* Display first comment line while browsing game files
* Digital pad is now usable in file requester
even when danzeff keyboard is displayed
* Fix inconsistency between zip rom file names and save game name.
* Improve cheat menu & memory monitoring engine
* Text editor to modify the global cheat.txt file
* Tested on new FW 5x-M33
* Bug fix in unzip function (if you tried to unzip
more than 10 files, it wasn’t able to open any
other files, and you had to restart the emulator)
* Add option to disable auto fire in settings menu
