Dark_Alex seems to get faster and faster. If you like to have a costum firmware on your PSP, then go with this one!

Release notes:

3.90 M33
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Requeriments:

– Installation requires a PSP with 3.52 M33-3 or higher.

Instructions

– Copy the UPDATE folder into /PSP/GAME/
– Get the 3.90 sony update from somewhere, and put it in same folder, with name “390.PBP”.
Alternatively, you can let the installer to download for you via wifi.
– Run it, the update will be done by Sony updater. At the end when you are asked to reboot the
PSP pressing X or O, do it.

Changes:

– 3.80 -> 3.90
– March33 NO UMD: fixed (yet another) bug related with exiting with home. (infinite semaphore wait)

Changes in updater:

– The degeneration check and correction of IDS keys happens too in 3.71 now.
– Added code to download 3.90 PBP from net via wifi.
Note that his code is not yet 100% stable, it may crash when selecting AP. In that case,
reinit the installer.
– L+triangle has been restored as method to bypass battery.
If you already have 390.PBP keep those buttons pressed until you see “Veryfing 390.PBP”.
If the 390.PBP is being downloaded bia wifi, press those buttons at the end of download until
you see the previous sentence.

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

Red Squirrel has updated his dumper tool for Playstation Portable.

Changes:

-Increased the available buffer to allow the CORRECT extraction of the 3.90 Firmware from Official Updater Eboot.
-Now the 3.90F Firmware can be extracted perfectly
-Only X and O functions will work without problems, the SQUARE function (extract and decrypt of ALL files) works fine but ends with and error when search for reboot.bin!

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=133890

Art has updated his “Pointelss Pacman” game for Playstation Portable.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=133888

wbb’s Modo (Ultra simple MOD player) has been udpated.

Changes:

Added MP3 support via libmpg123
If you embed the song lyric in a MP3 file the player will display it, use Up / Down to scroll through it. The lyric has to be in the id3v2 tag USLT (Unsynchronized lyric transcription). Max. 80 lines.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=115671

EBoot2PSP is a Linux script which allows the easy compiling and testing of homebrew.

This script allows you to :

– Delete files as *.o
– Compile
– Copy EBoot to your PSP
– Copy folder where are your data files such image, music etc… on PSP
– Unmount PSP

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=133910

A new version of the official PSP Firmware is out. An update by now is not recommended, as it would spoil your ability to enjoy homebrew.

http://www.playstation.com/

According to brakken ( http://tehskeen.com/modules.php?name=News&file=showarticle&threadid=6245 ) Dark_Alex, famous for his custom PSP Firmware M33, has discovered PSP’s not capable of creating a Pandora battery.

Read on:

Dark_Alex has discovered the TA-85 v2 motherboard which has been created with Pandora users in mind. How so? You can’t create a Pandora Battery with it. However, batteries that have already been turned into “service mode” will still work so you’ll still need a buddies older modded PSP or buy one of Datel’s batteries.

“New alarming news arrives from Dark_Alex. It seems in fact that or in circulation a new model of PSP SLIM & ARGUMENT with firmware 3,73 of factory and a new one mobo, called TA-085 v2.

This type of card mother would prevent in fact the creation of pandorizzate batteries, inhibiting therefore the access to the writing of the eeprom of the battery.
This new way will not prevent I use but it of batteries already pandorizzate, and therefore it will not prevent the possibility to install a Custom Firmware.

Al moment does not exist methods in order to go around such new system, does not remain to us that to attend ulterior developments.”

http://psp-ita.com/?module=news&id=11658&view_reply=1

crazyc has updated his port of DOSBox for the Playstation Portable.

http://www.emunews24.de/dosemus.html#sony%20psp257

Art goes game programming (kind of).

Release notes:

This is “Pointless Pacman” a 2D Pacman clone for 1.50 kernel PSPs. This version was completed within 36 hours of starting which includes time spent on non programming related activities that are required to keep the Human body functioning.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=133888

Andy released an updated version of Jewel Thief. Make sure you steal all appearing jewels on the screen, before someone is catching you!

Changes:

–Can now control player with d-pad as well as analog nub
–Code overhauled: now just one, much more efficient script
–Backgrounds appear randomly
–Unlimited levels
–Gradually increasing difficulty up to level 20
–Pause function

http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-development-forum-11/t-releasejewel-thief-v025-133862.html