Dark_Alex has updated his custom firmware for Playstation Portable.

Readme.txt:

3.90 M33-2

Requeriments:
– 3.52 M33-3 or higher

Instructions.
– Copy UPDATE folder to /PSP/GAME and run the program.

If you are in 3.90 M33, that’s all needed. If you are in previous version, you need to download 390.PBP and put it in same folder or let the program to download it for you.

Changes:
– Improvements in plugins loading code:
* Fixed some problems with problematic cards due to filesystem not mounted.
* Now plugins should read the faster.
* Problem fixed with lines with spaces at the end.
– Added the rest of regions to the recovery option fakeregion.
– (PSP SLIM): Added patches in nand ipl to allow Booster multiiplloader and TimeMachine iplloader to boot from nand.

Note: only 3.90 M33-2 and higher can be booted from nand in slim with those ipl loaders, not official Sony firmwares or previous versions of M33.

Changes in updater:
– The 3.90 eboot downloading code is now more stable, no more freezes after selecting AP
– Memory stick write in the 3.90 downloading code is delayed the maximum possible for faster operation
(the system prefers big chunks of data written at once).

http://www.dark-alex.org/

Adventus updated his Hexen 2 port for the GP2x.

Changes:

– I’ve added support for portals of praevus (actually this was working before you just could play the demoness character or play the intro.). I had to do a nasty hack to get this working, but it seems stable.
– You can now play the demoness character in the original missions.
– Model Caching. Improves loading speed (after initial level load anyway).
– Improved the general rendering speed.
– Improved the transparency rendering speed.
– Other minor things i can’t remember.

At 275mhz, Ram timings ON, no music and Portals of Praevus installed i get 13 – 18 fps. It definitely feels 100% fullspeed with these settings.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=40562&st=15

CrossWalk aims to be the New Yorker’s swiss-army-knife. Feed it an address like “1337 Broadway” and it will produce the cross-street (approximately 35th st., btw). Also includes a scrollable subway map with more to come soon!

http://10base-t.com/software/mobile/crosswalk.html

Here is a new version of PSPAtari the emulator of Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 series.

Changes:

– fix issue with NTSC colors (thanks to carpy)
– bug fix with vsync option
– bug fix with pal/ntsc video system change

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/286-guid.html

Beat2x, a Dance Dance Revolution like game, is now available for GP32 – all our thanks should go to kidchaos2k5 for this release.

For all who don’t have an account at GP32spain, get a local download without registration here at PDRoms – //files/1554/

http://www.gp32spain.com/foros/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52489

MobileScrobbler connects your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch with the Last.fm social music website. As you listen to music on your device, MobileScrobbler sends the title, artist, and album to the Last.fm website. Last.fm uses this information to suggest new music, new friends, concerts, and events based on the music you listen to.

http://dev.c99.org/MobileScrobbler/

Mobilecast allows you to download and listen to podcasts via WiFI or edge on the iPhone. The latest stable release is 2.2.2.

http://code.google.com/p/mobilecast/

Certain computing tasks should be dead simple and just work – like transferring your files from one machine to another as quickly and easily as possible. Now, with Mobile DropCopy, that premise is a reality on your iPhone and iPod Touch as well.

http://10base-t.com/software/mobile/dropcopy.html

iNewsGroup is a newsgroup client for the iPhone.

Changes:

Firmware 1.1.3 support fixed. Thanks Tinman for feedback and testing.

http://code.google.com/p/inewsgroup/

Both recently released J2ME emulators pspME and PSPKVM will be merged into one project!

Here is Sleepers message from pspkvm.com:

pspME and PSPKVM merged

After a fully discussion today with M@x, the author of pspME, the two projects, PSPKVM and pspME, will be merged, and keep the name as PSPKVM. After a quickly release with sound support in the next days, PSPKVM will discard some old code to base on phoneME feature. We will try to offering a better JavaME VM on PSP.

Sleepper

And here is M@x’s quote:

After a wonderful meeting today, Sleeper, the author of pspkvm, and I decided to merge our works into a new project. The new project remains the name “pspkvm”, and current pspME source code will be used as new project’s code base, all the current pspkvm features (e.g Nokia UI, Chinese file name supporting and devices selector etc.) will be inherited. The new pspkvm project’s home page is now still under construction, and will be hosted by SourceForge. Sleeper and I will work together in new pspkvm project from now on, we promise to keep offering good JavaME implementation on PSP.

The next release of new pspkvm will be available with source code under GPL, and keep the game compatible list consistent with current pspkvm.

pspME project will keep alive. While pspkvm will be based on phoneMEFeature, pspME will change to implement phoneMEAdvanced on PSP, and the 2 projects will share codes for their JSRs’ implementation. Since I’ll be working on pspkvm, however, next release of pspME may not come very quickly; But once it comes, it’ll be a CDC based and JIT Compiler enabled VM.

See you in pspkvm!

pspME by M@x: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspme/
PSPKVM by Sleeper: http://www.pspkvm.com

http://www.pspkvm.com/