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This is a tool to run homebrew EBOOT programs on your v2.0 PSP. It will not run on any other firmware version. It’s very much work in progress, but can load quite a lot of existing EBOOTs. Thanks to psp-news for the news. Changes:

Introduced a configuration file, to allow tweaking of EBOOTs by end-users. See loader085.cfg for details

Improved kernel-mode override patching logic – makes a lot more apps run

Attempt to kill surplus system threads, for stability

Run loader from reserved memory for increased stability

Tidied up some memory reuse in ELF section header handling

Bundled graphical menu now filters to only display the names of EBOOTs for selection – all the surplus fluff is hidden. Also now handles v1.5 kxploit-style homebrew directory structure

Added option to allow L+R+START reset to go back to loader menu, rather than main menu

http://www.fanjita.org/psp.html

Image provided by: psp-newsJzBMSPlayer, a Beatmania port for the PSP has been released by Shiroimakeinu. Thanks to psp-news for the news.http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/JzBMSPlayer.shtml

Image provided by: NrxNrx released his game Bomb Jack for the GBA, it’s a remake of the Amstrad CPC game Bomb Jack. There is also the source code available on his site. Thanks to Nrx for the news.

Help Jack jump around the platforms, gather all the explosive devices and get the highest score! Do you think you can reach one million points?

http://www.artplastique.free.fr/nrx/GBA/Bomb%20Jack

loopy_ has updates his SNES emulator for the Nintendo DS. Changes in this new version are :

fixed DMA, new modes and wrapping within bank supported

Sprite register writes are done correctly with latching now

Better CPU/APU sync (hopefully for the last time – yew you note crashes in level transitions in eg. mario, let me know)

Speed up one the APU side, should Be less sound crackling

http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/snesds.shtml

Lua is a port of a coding/script language over to the PSP. Changes:

screen:clear bugfix (was always black) [Shine]

updated Windows version with sound [sweetlilmre]

JPEG image/screen load and save functionality [Shine]

http://www.luaplayer.org/index.html

FBGrab is an utility by Efegea that takes screenshots of GP2X’s screen. Thanks to GP32x for the news.

It’s an script that launches”fbgrab”executable and outputs a file named fbdump.png 10 seconds after running the utility.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=22168

Similar to b2fxec, this compresses .gpe files (gp2x executables), making them smaller (but staying executable). Thanks to EvilDragon for the news.http://www.emulnation.info/retrodev/

PSP Millionaire recieved a tiny bugfix. This version fixes the”green answer light”.http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/pspmillionaire.shtml

The Commodore 64 emulator Frodo by snaff has been updated to version 0.9.2.

Graphics code is speeded up – it now runs at full speed with no frameskip

Zip file support is now working

http://gp2x.org/gp2x/frodo/

NK has updated his Snes emulator for the GP2x. Thanks to gp2x-emulation/gp2x.de for the news.

New version of the emulator, includes a GUI that let’s u have a list ofROMs instead of just a ROM renamed to”top.smc”.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,880