iLife is a file browser, launcher and media player application for PlayStation Portable.

Changes:

– New theme included
– Restart iLife PSP avalaible in menu options
– Show the PSP model
– iLife Update improved
– Fixed bug about showing pictures
– iLife PSP Music has english, spanish and french languages
– The screen is off when is playin the music plays after 2 min.
– Fixed MP3, AA3 and OGG player

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146140

Mediumgauge has updated PSP Filer, which is a file explorer with a bunch of extras.

Changes:

general:
– fixed a bug to be frozen while accessing UMD (depending on CFW’s version).

filer:
– added a feature to scroll left to draw file names wider in deep folders.
– fixed a bug to have shown a wrong bit rate of VBR MP3 file.
– fixed a bug that some MP3 file cannot be played which has a large (>64KB) header.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://www.geocities.jp/mediumgauge/

StrmnNrmn who disappeared for a while from the scene, and famous for his Nintendo64 emulator Daedalus, spoke up on his blog recently.

Read on:

No, I didn’t choke on a mince pie 🙂

I’m sorry for the lack of updates, both to the blog and to Daedalus. I’ve been working on Daedalus for about 10 years now, and those that have followed the project from the beginning will know that I have fairly regular periods of ‘radio silence’ followed by bursts of activity. I have lot of inertia, so once my interest shifts elsewhere it can take a long time to get me back on track. That’s just the way I am.

This time around it’s because I’ve been really busy with work. I don’t want to go into specifics, but for the past couple of years I’ve been working on a high profile game, and since January most of my energy has gone into helping to get it finished.

I am unbelievably out of touch with the PSP scene. Recently, Kreationz got in touch to tell me about the progress that has been made with DaedalusX64. I was really pleased to hear that the project was being actively updated, particularly because I have a lot of respect for the people involved. The whole reason for making Daedalus open source was to give people the opportunity to learn from the source code and update it as needed, so it’s great for this to be happening.

I can’t guarantee that I’ll have the time to actively help with DaedalusX64, or even that I’ll be able to regularly update this blog. I thought it would be a good idea to give my public backing to DaedalusX64 so that the team can get on with rolling out updates. I probably won’t be making a PSP release of Daedalus any time soon.

For what it’s worth, I’m currently working on a new port of Daedalus. I’m going to keep the target platform secret for now, but I think it’s very exciting. At the very least it means that I’m working on Daedalus again – I’m hoping to keep merging changes from DaedalusX64 back into the Daedalus source, and hopefully provide DaedalusX64 with one or two fixes of my own.

That’s all for now. Apologies in advance if the next blog post is in December 2009 🙂

-StrmnNrmn

Thanks to Maturion / http://www.sega-dc.de for the hint.

http://strmnnrmn.blogspot.com/2008/11/yes-i-am-alive.html

Lockdown In-Game will require you to enter a password when you resume your PSP from suspend mode. Useful to prevent other people from messing up your progress if you put the PSP in suspend during a game.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146102

Mickael2054 has released a new version of his note taking application for the Sony PSP. Using PSPNotes you can create, save and delete notes for yourself on your portable video gaming console.

Changes:

* First version of “PSPNotes creator”: creation and transfer of notes in the right folder on your PSP (via PC).
* Integrating keyboard Danzeff
* Ability to insert a comment for a note.
* Possibility of appointing a note.
* Removal Tool all notes (in the menu).
* The extension of a note is now. “TPN” (TextPspNotes) (order to more easily distinguish the type of note).
* The aid is now available via the button Picture .
* Opportunity to visit the website of the author since the party estimates.
* If a file extension other than. “TPN” it is displayed.
* Possibility to record the language in the flash1.
* Improved code.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk and http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.pspgen.com/forums/post1437538.html

Bombe-H has released a new version of his drawing application for the Sony PSP. This new version features a virtual keyboard, management settings and an improved circle function.

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.pspgen.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article

FBA4PSP is an emulator for PGM, Cave, CPS, Seta, Sega, Konami, etc on PSP. It emulates MC68000/Z80 based arcade games. OopsWare ported FinalBurn Alpha to PSP.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fba4psp/

Ever felt like tricking your friend? Ever felt like scaring the daylight out of him? Well, wait no more as TrickBrick v4 is out.

TrickBrick is a “fake” flasher which will output “bad” messages, which make the user things his PSP his bricked.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/f141/release-trickbrick-v4-t229564/

Powernoid is a Breakout clone by Art.

Changes:

Change to multiball powerup behaviour, the ball now splits in two when a player gets this powerup.
Player no longer loses a life if the multiball powerup is active, and one of the two balls is lost.
Difficulty is increased by slightly speeding up the ball movement compared with the first version.
Program keeps track of highest score with an encrypted save file.
Added extra type of brick that causes bricks to move down every time the ball is hit with the bat.
Extra life can now be gained by passing stage 15, and any other 15 stages after that.
Changed some characteristics to give the bat some control of ball direction as in Windows DX_Ball.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146079

PSP Tool is a multi-purpose utility to application which can perform various general management functions on a PlayStation Portable console.

Release notes:

Features:
– Connect various devices through a USB cable
– Inject a variety of included IPLs or an IPL from a file to the Memory Stick
– Erase the entire IPL space of the Memory Stick
– Check the IPL injected on the Memory Stick or a file located on the Memory Stick
– Create a checksum of the IPL injected on the Memory Stick or an IPL located on the Memory Stick
– Extract the IPL injected on the Memory Stick to a file
– Check, Backup, Restore and change the battery EEPROM
– Backup and Restore the IdStorage of the PSP

Changes:
– Added options to check, change, backup and restore the EEPROM of the battery
– Added IdStorage backup and restore options (excludes IdStorage index file)
– Added system information panel
– Fixed a bug which caused the IPL to incorrectly be identified in certain cases
– Fixed issue injecting an IPL from a file if the IPL was changed through the USB connection prior to injecting the IPL
– Fixed issue detecting some IPLs which were smaller than 4KB

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146074