SX has released a new version of his port of OpenBOR for the Sony PSP. OpenBOR is a 2D game engine that runs “PAK” files which are stand alone games or game mods. These games are free and are usually side scrolling beat em’ ups, but there are a few 2D space shooters available. [Text by brakken]

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.psp-hacks.com/2009/12/30/openbor-v3-0-build-2615-released/

CoD3r-D released a alarm application for PlayStation Portable.

Changes:

* New alarm music (Name:alarm.mp3)
* New PIC1 & ICON0
* New images
* Sleep mod fixed
* Kernel fixed
* 1.50 support
* New Pic

http://forums.qj.net/psp-development-forum/163056-release-pspalarm-3-0-ultra.html

JoySens is a custom firmware plugin for Sony PSP that allows you to control the sensitivity of the analog stick in a very efficient way as well as “repair” faulty analog sticks. In very bad cases where the analog stick is not repairable, you can also just disable it so it doesn’t interfere with your games anymore. Apart from that it includes functionality to swap and remap DPad input to analog stick and vice versa, hence allows you to control the XMB with the analog stick for example.

Changes:

Version 1.5 brings the following new features:
– code cleanup
– added possibility to choose only from a selected list of remapmodes (ie only switch between your favorite modes) per game/vsh
– fixed that adjust=0 will turn off the analog
– added LITE version, that does not support config file saving, no ingame info output as well as no ingame config settings with buttons
– added “threshold” config parameter, to adjust button remapping from analog
– added “thresholdupbtn” and “thresholddownbtn” config parameters, to set buttons for setting the threshold ingame
– added “idlestop” and “idleback” config parameters, to set when the analog movement stops the idle timer or returns back from idle (brightness dimming/display off feature of PSP firmware).
– optimized config file reading a bit
– updated FAQ

http://forums.qj.net/psp-development-forum/163084-release-joysens-1-5-a.html

The “AutoStart” plugin lets you launch homebrew, PSX games and ISOs on startup by pressing the configured button. You can also set something to automatically start without the need to press any buttons.

Changes:

Changed the hooking method, apps like irshell’s exit game works correctly now.
Fixed the bug where you couldn’t turn back on the screen if turned off.
The constant LED blinking on startup shouldn’t happen anymore.
Made the text in the options menu easier to understand.

http://roeurboat.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/autostart-v5-5/

GNU Robbo is a free open source reimplementation of QXLand’s Robbo for the Atari XE/XL from the late 1980s. The gameplay of the original is faithfully reproduced with a few modifications.

http://gnurobbo.sourceforge.net/#downloads

Measure stuff with your PSP, without any ruler! Lay the thing you want to messure on your PSP Display after you’ve started OnScreenMeasure. Then move the dot to the start of the thing and press X. Then move the second dot to the end of the thing and press START to measure. The length will be given in cm! Press SELECT to restart or correct the second dot with the arrow keys.

Changes:

-Added inch unit
-Added Background
-Added ability to measure circle area
-Added Analog stick support
-Added font

http://forums.qj.net/psp-development-forum/162927-onscreenmessure-v0-6-release.html

AVEC is a Vector map viewer capable of displaying and navigating mapss in the common Polish format maps. If the map file has street information, the program tells you what street you are in, or lookup the name of a street selected with the crosshair.

Changes:

Here is the AVEC GPS V8 release. I haven’t touched it for a while.
This one has greatly optimised projection routines for much faster screen rendering.
Everything else is untouched and the PSP clock speed is still the default 222MHz.

Both serial GPS and PSP-290 USB GPS versions of the program are updated and included in the zip file.

http://forums.qj.net/psp-development-forum/162990-release-avec-gps-v8.html

Play the classic retro game Tunnel on your PSP. Enjoy this simple and classic game. Navigate through tunnel which is becoming more and more narrower. Highscore system is integrated. D-Pad and Analog-Stick support.

http://forums.qj.net/psp-development-forum/162980-psptunnel-v1-0-release.html

CoD3r-D released a alarm application for PlayStation Portable.

Features:

*Works on 5.50 GEN-X,5.03 GEN-X,CFWEnabler,5.00 M33-X
* 3000-2000-1000
* Sleep Mode Alarm with support for custom MP3 Audio file.
* Power Off Mode Alarm that plays sound in XMB. (Plugin Required – Seperate Package)
* Uses 12 Hour Time system (AM/PM), no more Confusing time conversions
* Display’s Hour’s and Minutes remaining as the Alarm time is being set; updated in real time.
* Alarm can be set up to 23 hours 59 minutes in future, Check for (Invalid – Readjust message).
* Alarm Accurate to the Second.

http://forums.qj.net/psp-development-forum/162921-pspalarm-beta-v2-0-a.html

Xenon++ released a Popsloader Extractor to install Popsloader PRX’s in an easier way.

Release notes:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mtnimhnxqmn/popsext002.7z

0.02.091222
Popsloader Extracter no longer stops when 401.pbp is not found, if ms0:/seplugins/popsloader/impose.prx exists.
#It doesn’t change the fact that popsloader requires impose.prx from 4.01.
Automatically mkdir ms0:/seplugins/popsloader

Todo:
Merge libpsardumper into EBOOT.PBP
(pspPSAR.c available for static build but emits 0x8002013c possibly kernel mode issue)
6.20 decryption
(pspdecrypt.prx in EDecrypt 1.3 seems to be able to but it cannot decode old pbp).

Afterword:
I have seen applications like this but they didn’t meet my need.
Only this meet both of these: 4.01 extract and free to redistribute.

Thanks to http://forums.qj.net/psp-news-announcements-contests/162858-popsloader-extractor-v0-02-released.html for the news.

http://www.pspgen.com/forums/popsloader-extracter-t192859.html