News from Torch:

What does Hold+ do when the switch is enabled?

* Switches off the LCD backlight.
* Switches off the actual LCD screen.
(This is important because the backlight and actual screen are two different things. You can have an image being displayed on the screen while the backlight is switched off, such that you can see the image if you use a flashlight. You can also have the screen switched off while the backlight still illuminates the powered off screen.)
* Underclocks the CPU to 61MHz
(Sony has changed the clock speed functions such that only certain combinations of speeds work correctly. Simply trying to underclock to arbitrary values will result in the CPU simply running at the stock speed. I have verified that Hold+ successfully underclocks to 61MHz.)
* The original screen brightness and clock speed are restored when the Hold switch is released.
* Prevents the PSP from going into suspend mode if you accidently push the power switch too far when turning off Hold mode.
* Allows operation of the PSP with the display turned off, to change volume, skip songs etc.

Release notes:

Added feature to allow normal Hold mode where only the keypad will be locked without changing the display or CPU speed. Hold ANALOG UP when turning on Hold to do this.
The button for operating in Display Off mode has also been changed to ANALOG UP while turning off Hold.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=141671

Quran PSP allows you to read the Quran comfortable on your PSP. There is no english language version yet.

Changes:

-adding search functions
-Adding functions Chapter 32
-new menu
-correction bugs

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=142318

homemister91 is working on another update of his modified LUA Player for PSP.

Here are the WIP news:

About a week ago I told everyone that LuaPlayerHM8 would no longer support .ttf fonts. Well, After some time I have figured out how to include both IntraFont and .ttf fonts. Here is a screenshot of the Intrafont (red with silver glow) and .ttf font (title).

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=142269

The object of the game is to stop the timer at an exact second. There are 10 levels, each with a different amount of time. Your score is based upon how close you are to stopping it at the exact second (eg. 5.000 seconds). Your scores for each level are combined and at the end of the game, the game checks to see if you have set a “low score” (lower scores are better). If you have, your low score is updated.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=142291

dragula96 did not abandon his Tetris project Tetriabetes, but it has been silent for a while.

He decided to go publich with the second beta of version 1.50 and if no bigger bugs are found, version 1.50 might be the final one.

For those Tetris fans out there… go and grab Tetriabetes!

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=142285

The objective of Mario Gold Rush is pretty simple. You want to try and collect as many coins and points as possible before you run out. There are two types of coins, a red coin and a yellow coin. Yellow coins are the normal coins worth 1 coin each and count as 350 points. The Red coins are worth 2 coins each and count as 725 points. It’s really your decision as to whether or not points are more valuable than the number of coins you collect.

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

http://homebrewheaven.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5041

News from Torch:

What does Hold+ do when the switch is enabled?

* Switches off the LCD backlight.
* Switches off the actual LCD screen.
(This is important because the backlight and actual screen are two different things. You can have an image being displayed on the screen while the backlight is switched off, such that you can see the image if you use a flashlight. You can also have the screen switched off while the backlight still illuminates the powered off screen.)
* Underclocks the CPU to 61MHz
(Sony has changed the clock speed functions such that only certain combinations of speeds work correctly. Simply trying to underclock to arbitrary values will result in the CPU simply running at the stock speed. I have verified that Hold+ successfully underclocks to 61MHz.)
* The original screen brightness and clock speed are restored when the Hold switch is released.
* Prevents the PSP from going into suspend mode if you accidently push the power switch too far when turning off Hold mode.
* Allows operation of the PSP with the display turned off, to change volume, skip songs etc.

Release notes:

Bugfix: When the PSP was left in Hold mode for longer than the idle timeout, and then you hold UP and turn off Hold, the screen used to turn on even though you were holding UP.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=141671

This Tetris game by Mia might freak out some of you out there. It’s using a realistic physics engine to drop the tiles, which makes you drive nuts after a while.

This is a high recommended download. – Tetris the different way!

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=26045

TromUS has updated his WinShell, which is a shell application imitating the look of Windows XP.

Author homepage: http://audio.ya.com/trom_us/

http://dcemu.co.uk/winshell-v80705-released-119057.html

Homebrew Idol fans will recognize this one; Sangheili’s PSP Pileup. Visually improved over its last release, PSP Pileup 0.4 features more or less the same game play.

Thanks to Greg / http://www.psphacks.com for the news text. Thanks to http://www.portablenews.de and http://www.qj.net for the more or less (in)direct hints.

http://www.psp-hacks.com/2008/07/06/psp-pileup-04-alpha-released/