PSP Power Saver turns off the UMD driver when you are not using it. This should save you about 5% of your battery power.
Changes:
-Fixed a few bugs, having to do with the powersaver battling for ram against prxs like cxmb and nitepr causing random shutoffs
-Psppacked it now it runs smoother
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