Sabacc is a card game of luck known throughout the galaxy in the Star Wars universe.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146769

PSP Tool is a multi-purpose utility to application which can perform various general management functions on a PlayStation Portable console.

This includes:

– Backup and Restore the IdStorage of the PSP
– Check the IPL injected on the Memory Stick or a file located on the Memory Stick
– Check, Backup, Restore and change the battery EEPROM
– Connect various devices through a USB cable
– Create a checksum of the IPL injected on the Memory Stick or an IPL located on the Memory Stick
– Create a variety of different Magic Memory Sticks
– Erase the entire IPL space of the Memory Stick
– Extract the IPL injected on the Memory Stick to a file
– Format the Memory Stick
– Inject a variety of included IPLs or an IPL from a file to the Memory Stick

Changes:

– Added options to create DC3, DC4, DC5, DC7, DC8 or an original 1.50 Update Flasher Magic Memory Sticks (read manual for requirements, same as original installers).
– Added a Memory Stick format function based on Hellcats Pandora Installer.
– The wave colours are now random and customizable (the wave colours can be changed by pressing SQUARE or holding L while pressing square toggles between the flash0 colours and the internal colours).
– Other minor alterations and fixes.
– Fixed crash when attempting to use a flash via USB when run under DC.
– All files (except loaded PRXs) are now stored in a zip archive in the PSAR section of the EBOOT for easy editing.
– Sources are no longer included to reduce file size.
– IdStorage keys are now saved and restored from a single file and the integrity of the file is validated before restoration.
– Added more information to the system information pandels.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146768

This program is designed to prepare your PSP Memory Stick to be used with the Pandora Battery. Unfortunately this program can not change your Battery to Pandora, however it will copy programs to the Memory Stick in order for you to do this yourself.

Changes:

– Replaced the Readme screen with a Status screen.
– Updated the following Support Tools:
Hold+ 3.5 (XMB)

http://www.psp-hq.com/postt343.html

DJ Drops is a musical puzzle game where you have to clear levels by resisting until the end of the song.

Release notes:

I just compiled a new demo of my DJ Drops game so people who like the serie can have a look on what I’m doing.

It contains the old level “S Soup” in normal difficulty, that I finally decided to finish.

It contains also bugs, some graphics are not done (mainly the blocks!) but gameplay-wise it’s finished (hasn’t changed since last demo I think).

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146759

Homebrewing is possible now on a PSP-3000! This might also enable a way in the near or far feature to install a CFW? Read on:

Quote from Fanjita:

You’ve probably seen the news that MaTiAz and FreePlay have found an exploit in the ancient game GripShift, which works on all PSPs (including PSP3000) and up to the latest Sony 5.02 firmware.

This is great news, it’s been a long time since a new game exploit was published, and it opens the way for at least user-mode homebrew on the PSP3000. Here at Noobz we saw the bat-signal calling for “someone who has experience in progressing exploits” to help out with developing this one further, and I’m glad to announce that we’ll be joining forces with FreePlay and MaTiAz.

The exploit already includes an SDK to allow porting of homebrew by devs, but that’s cumbersome. Our initial focus will be to make it easier to run standard homebrew via this exploit, by adapting eloader to it. This will be restricted purely to user-mode homebrew, since there is currently no public kernel-mode exploit that could be used here, and compatibility is likely to be patchy due to the security measures in the later firmwares which make determining all the syscalls almost impossible. Still, you can expect that at least some emulators and other popular pure user-mode homebrew will run.

Beyond that, if anyone finds a usable route to kernel-mode then a HEN and downgrader ought to be doable, but we’re not focussing on that at this time.

Pre-announcements aren’t normally the Noobz way, but in this case it seemed worthwhile to let people know, in case anyone was thinking of doing similar work. We won’t predict timescales, especially as everyone is very busy at the moment and there’s a fair amount of work to be done – so please don’t ask.

http://www.noobz.eu/joomla/news/exploit-fever-is-here-again.html

Cpasjuste updated his Custom Firmware Extender.

Changes:

– Removed the USB autostart feature since the 5.00 fw include a similar function.
– Fixed a bug that prevented the auto-sleep and backlight auto-off features to work.
– Combo button’s are back (change the cpu/brightness, take screenshots with a quick combo key).
– Fully configurable via the menu, changes can be saved. Note that there is now a different configuration file for game and vsh modes.
– Usb streaming recoded, based on the great work of Poison (hostcore). PC hard drive is redirected to the PSP, alowing streaming of homebrews, music, videos, and isos in any mode (sony, m33, umd..). Just select “Remap usb to ms” in the menu then browse your games like you usally do.
– Music player improved, can now be completly stopped from the menu, and/or properly restarted with another music directory source.
– PSP phat compatibility added, but in-game music player is removed for now (not tested).
– Gui colors configurable via the configuration files (“game.cfg” and “vsh.cfg”) in ABGR hex format.
– Added the possibility to prevent the plugin to be loaded (hold L trigger) while starting a game, or load the light version of cfe (hold R trigger) so extra slim memory is not used, preventing some plugins (pspstates) to not work.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146731

Bullet Physics is a professional free 3D Game Multiphysics Library.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146700

LightMP3 is a MP3/OGG Vorbis/FLAC/Atrac3+ player designed to drain little energy from your battery. Can decode MP3 and ATRAC3+ via Media Engine with CPU set at 20Mhz, OGG Vorbis with CPU set at 50Mhz, MP3 via libMAD with CPU set at 70Mhz, FLAC with CPU set at 100Mhz. With battery at 100% and display set to minimum brightness it should last 9 hours.

With battery at 100% and display turned off (press START while playing a track) it should last more than 11 hours.

Features:

-Added: You can sort records in the Media Library (press TRIANGLE)
-Added: support for filename with foreign characters. Many thanks to cooleyes for the FAT driver
-Added: cpu clock set to minimum value when music is paused
-Added: French, German, Polish, Spanish language
-Added: Smoother progress bar
-Added: Icons for folder/music in file browser and media library
-Added: New ICON0.PNG and PIC1.PNG (many thanks to dario1crisafulli)
-Added: Display will turn off when HOLD is set to ON, and will turn on when HOLD is set to off
-Added: In Media Library when you select an artist you see an album’s list (not a song list)
-Added: You can add a playlist to the current one by pressing start in the file browser (or square on the directory containing the playlist)
-Added: Option to change the media library root dir (look at the file “settings”, this option doesen’t appear in the settings tab)
-Fixed: Crash with some album art (switched to libjpeg, thanks to Kevin Kim)
-Fixed: Better Korean support (thanks to Kevin Kim)
-Fixed: Strings are limited inside the menu area.
-Fixed: Sleep bug for MP3 and ATRAC3+ files (doesen’t work with OGG)
-Fixed: Some crash in the Media Library.
-Fixed: Bug in audioscrobbler log (wrong UTC time

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146720

j3r3miedev updated his Tic Tac Toe game.

Changes:

– Completely redesigned by me (Code and Design)
– Most innovations are found in game (New menus, new pieces, new cursor)
– Adding a music player accessible at all times with R + L (Ci you’re in the middle part, it will be paused while you’re in the music player)
– Now in English and French
– Added benchmarks for the cursor. Press Square to switch

http://j3r3miedev.e3b.org/?p=250

Akop Karapetyan updated his Spectrum emulator Fuse PSP.

Changes:

– Fuse updated to version 0.10.0.1
– Miscellaneous bug fixes
– Support for compressed disks (see documentation)
– Option to enable/disable sound while tape is loading (only works with Fastloading disabled)
– Option to enable/disable “Issue 2” keyboard support
– Extra button options – Square/Cross/Circle/Triangle with L or R trigger held down
– Option to enable/disable tape fastloading (some games do not load correctly when enabled)
– Virtual keyboard: emulation should not lag as much when virtual keyboard is displayed
– Virtual keyboard: classic display mode (show when R held down), or toggle mode (show/hide when R is pressed)
– Added state exporting to other versions of Fuse – press Start while the ‘Save/Load’ tab is selected—an SNA file will be written to the snapshot directory
– Tape autoloading (not to be confused with save state autoloading, already in the previous release)
– Snapshots are now saved into PSP’s own PHOTO directory (/PSP/PHOTO), and can be viewed in PSP’s image viewer
– File selector snapshots – while browsing for games with the file selector, pause momentarily to display the first snapshot for the game

http://0xff.akop.org/