What’s it? It is an Alternative VSHMenu that has ALL same functions of the M33 VshMenu and other utilities such as the possibility to change the background color, to power off and to sleep the console, to activate and to disactivate M33 VshMenù from dashboard or to make screenshot of XMB!

Changes:

– Added FIVE new background colours
– Now Alternative VshMenu can not be started before of 3 seconds: in this way you can avoid console crashes when you accidentally start it during coldboot or returning from games.
– Now there will be a pause of about one second when you exit from A. VshMenu: in this way your key pressing will not have any effect on XMB (like happened in past).
– Changed HIDE MAC ADDRESS function in AUTO USB CONNECTION: if you enable it, USB connection will be enable always in XMB! In this way when you connect a USB cable your PSP will be connected to your PC/PS3 without you have to press on special icon! (like in PSP-3000).
– Changed CXMB PLUGIN function in LANGUAGE: now you can select your language from the menu of A. VshMenu! In this first version, there will be only two language: Italian and English.
– Changed M33 VSHMENU in SELECT KEY: now you can choose what to associate to SELECT key in XMB (M33 VshMenu, a Homebrew, Nothing).
– Erased all difference of code between CF 3.90/3.95GEN/4.01M33: now plugin will be the same in all CFs.
– Added a homebrew-flasher for the plugin: it will flash the Alternative VshMenu in your Flash0 directly from PSP without other steps!
– Cleaned the code to try to compensate the increase of the PRX size caused by language translations..

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=144690

PSPHugo is a port on PSP of one latest version of Hu-Go. Hu-Go is a famous emulator of NEC PC Engine console, running on many system such as Linux and Windows, see http://www.zeograd.com/ for details.

Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public licence v2, read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

Changes:

– Rewrite sound engine using part of code from Hugo-Wii port version, it is now much closer to real PC Engine sound.
– Fix sprites display glitches in Gunhead and several other games
– Fix save state issue in all games (it was a miracle if that worked)
– Improve global emulation speed (fullspeed in many games at 266Mhz !)
– Add a new overclock option resulting in a faster emulation speed (but if you encounter any graphical glitches then you may have to set overclock to 0 and increase PSP clock speed instead)
– Improve file requester with virtual keyboard to choose sequentially rom files beginning with a given letter
– Volume booster
– Bug fix in the keyboard menu (joystick keys)
– Add documentation for settings in help menu

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/334-PSPHUGO-PC-Engine-Emulator-for-PSP-v1.0.2-sound+speed.html

Weltall has updated Cwcheat, a cheating application for PlayStation Portable.

Changes:

– [ALL] Now > 4.x firmwares are checked for the sony msfatmod thread suspend bug and the check of the memory stick space is disabled to avoid a freeze situation.
– [ALL] Optimizations in the firmware checking
– [ALL] Added support in the gui for setting a button combination to open the text reader directly
– [ALL] Added the possibility to have cwcheat look after a certain adress and show changes happening to it (you can access it from the cheat search menu)
– [ALL] Updated the pointer searcher to allow use from the command line. These are the arguments it takes in order to use it this way: -cli
– [ALL] updated the toolchain to the latest version
– [ALL] Various optimizations which allowed to reduce the size of the binary

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=85812&page=72

smallHex is a hexeditor for Playstation Portable by Xeeynamo.

Changes:

– Add “Go to offset”
– Correct more visualizer bug
– Only Hex
– Only Char
– Changed the char visualization
– More little changes

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=144611

DJB has updated Pandora Deluxe to v1.4. This application automates the process of making a magic memory stick for your Pandora into a very easy and noob friendly process.

Changes:

– Fixed the Registry files for the 1.50 Downgrader and DC 3-7.
– Changed the backgrounds on the Test 4.01 M33 function in DC 7 to Black (so its easy to distinguish between the Memory Card and Flash0 XMB).
– Removed NAND Manager 1.4 from the Support Tools.
– Updated the following Support Tools: FuSa SD 1.0.47, PSP Filer 5.6

http://www.psp-hq.com/postt319.html

Gefa released a clone of the of the flashgame kax2003.

Release notes:

Today I release this very simple homebrew game, written in C with OSLib. pspKax, this is the name, is a clone of the flashgame kax2003 -that you can to try here: http://www.flashgames.it/kax2003.html

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=144565

OpenBOR (Open Beats of Rage) is an open source engine to play Beats of Rage.

Beats of Rage is a freeware open source video game and moddable game engine made by Senile Team ( http://www.senileteam.com/beatsofrage.html ) and inspired by Sega’s classic Streets of Rage series. The term “moddable” means that the program allows users to create their own content, and thus their own beat-’em-up game, which is then called a “mod”.

Beats of Rage was first made available for download November 2003. It was not advertised in any way other than by word of mouth, yet it soon gained enormous popularity.
OpenBOR is now managed by the guys at Lava Lit.

Thanks to wraggster of some banner and product placement blown page called http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news, who claimed to be the first one who has found this marvellous news. God bless you for your sharp eyes!

At both pages, Lava Lit and DCemu you need to register to get the file, you may bypass this by downloading the desired version locally from PDRoms, in particular here: //files/1869/

Thanks to kedo for the file upload!

http://www.lavalit.com/index.php

This is an Alarm application which utilizes the PSP’s Hardware Capabilities, setting an Alarm that will wake up the PSP from either Sleep Mode or Powered Off (standby) mode. It is compatible with ALL PSP’s including Slim & Light.

Changes:

– You couldn’t cancel an alarm that was already set by Pressing RTRIGGER. Fixed. This bug accidentally crept in due to a last minute change. Thanks to users for timely feedback.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=144542

maxthebest released the source code of his PSP protection program.

Quote:

I’ve decided to give up Protectme’s develeopement a while ago, and I didn’t feel good about having the source code totally unused on my computer while some people were asking me for it.
So, here it is, releazsed under GPL Licence, which I hope you will respect.
Use it well, and don’t judge me on a work I made while I was very new to PSP and C developement. The code is a mess, I’m sorry…

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=144563

Nil3E, a young developer from Czech Republic, has updated his homebrew game “CzRace”.

Changes:

– En,Es,Fr,Jpn translations
– CzRace Live! portal
– 8 cars , cars select
– New graphic (completly)
– Highscore tables

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=144539