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Pirata Nervo may have this contest won… Available direct is NervOS version 1.6. Plenty of improvements and additions bound to please, check ‘em below…

NervOS 1.6 changelog:

• Added:
  • New menu animation (when in music column, I have a new animation made but will be used on the net version)
  • Ability to change the CPU Speed from the configuration file.
  • CPU Speed is shown on the top bar.
  • Added a “Are you sure?” question when running something from NervOS.
  • Battery percentage is shown in red if it’s below 10%.
  • Displays “Charging” if the battery is charging.
  • Added “Control Panel” title to L+R Window.
  • You can change the text color of the Control Panel (L+R to access it).
• Changed:
  • Fixed bug with the task manager.
  • You can have up to 1000 themes in your THEMES folder.
  • Fixed a file browser bug.
  • Fixed bug with the volume.
  • Now when exiting from something, you return to the same point as you were before (example: “when going into browse for tracks, then exiting it should put you back at the music menu rather than putting you at the USB”)
  • Removed the stop button.
  • No more crashes when pausing/stopping music and then loading music again.

Download: NervOS v1.6

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Weltall with CWCHEAT 0.2.2 Revision “A” — for Awesome!

Some God of War cheats…

– infinite double jumps by dc4
0×6033614C 0×00000001
0×00020002 0×000002C8
0×30000060 0×00000000

– infinite health proper by vosman
0×60346B00 0×42C80000
0×00020003 0×00000064
0×200000A8 0×20000068

CWCHEAT 0.2.2 REV. A:

• [ALL] fixed a bug in the difference search which could lead to an evaluation error making the difference function unusable in the case that the game allocates more than entire user ram - 50kbs
• [ALL] Removed allocation of user ram for the difference search. This should increase compatibility with never games and reduced the plugin size of about 200bytes.
• [ALL] Various optimizations in the controller management in the menus, additionally some menus now auto repeat just like most. This allowed to reduce the size of the plugin of 632bytes
• [GAME] Added multilevel pointer codes. This will allow you to track a point in ram by going trough a series of pointer like those seen in god of war. this is the code type:
  • 0×6aaaaaaa 0xvvvvvvvv
  • 0xqqqxnnnn 0xiiiiiiii
  • 0xSwwwwwww 0xSwwwwwww
  • a = the starting pointer
  • v = the value to store at the found point at the end
  • q = the offset to add to a each loop(x4) most probably you want this to be zero in this case
  • x = pointer type (check the normal pointers)
  • i = offset to add/subtract (depending to x) from the last pointed area in the pointed chains to find were to put v
  • n = number of times to point (you must start counting from one, so if the level of pointer you want to do is 2 you put here 2 if it’s 3 you put 3, the first pointer is considered first level, so if you put two offsets in the third line the value you need is 3)
  • S = offset type to find next pointer (2 for normal offset(+w), 3 for inverse offset(-w))
  • w = offset from the last pointed area to find the next pointer
• [GAME] some performance optimizations to avoid unnecessary repeated loops and assignments in the pointer codes
• [ALL] reworked, yes again, the db downloader now the 3.x version is libhttp based so it should work better. Plus various enhancements were added and some additional checks and functions. No changes for the 1.x version.
• [ALL] removed some repeated code this reduced the size of the plugin of 916bytes
• [ALL] now last text file opened is reopened when you go to the text reader

Download: CWCHEAT 0.2.2 REV. A

- source & latest cheat DB: cwcheat.consoleworld.org
Donate to Weltall

MK2k with yet another homebrew hit… This comes in the form of a chess clock simulator, used when playing chess, obviously. So the next time you’re strolling through High Park equipped with your PSP, break that bad boy out, and checkmate that fool.

Features:

• Two connected clocks
• Each clock containing:
  • a big clock pointer
  • a small clock pointer
  • a flag
  • a star-shaped wheel for activity indication
  • 2D physics simulation on the flags
• The pointers are rotating by an estimated angle velocity, so this app does NOT feature the most accurate clocks on the planet (it may vary by some seconds per hour)

Download: Chess Clock aka Game Clock PSP v1.0

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Update: Quick fix for that XML itch…

• v.1.0.2: fixed issues encountered when filename has ‘&’ symbol

Looking for a simple method to create an RSS/XML compliant feed from your [huge] library of MP3s? Bravekn1ght’s DIR-to-XML does just that to enable easy steaming streaming of your collection from the PC to PSP.

Download: DIR-to-XML Tool v.1.0.2

Likely to cause altercation between DepheCt and ZX-81 is the release of PSPDragon v1.0.2 — a Dragon32/64 and Tandy Coco home computer emulator.

PSPDragon is a port of Xroar v0.19 running on many systems such as Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and now — the PlayStation Portable.

PSPDragon v1.0.2 changes:

• Speed improvements
• Add vsync option
• Add artifact mode
• Auto-fire mode, press RTrigger+X to switch it on/off
• New command menu to run disk program
• Bug fix in the low battery watchdog

Download:
PSPDragon v1.0.2 (fw 1.50)
PSPDragon v1.0.2 (cfw 3.xx)
PSPDragon v1.0.2 source

- source: ZX-81’s web site

The ‘brew known as Project4 just received one hell of an update… Serving as a complete XMB replacement; Open Beta 4 adds more functionality, eliminates many bugs likely experienced in past versions, and features a new super speedy installer—less than 20 seconds now.

Auraomega isn’t clownin’ around. She’s a big one…

• Added a “faded” look to menus.
• Flash3 mounting in read/write mode.
• Added disc0:/ mounting in read mode.
• Split the fonts allowing for separate main fonts and clock fonts.
• Fix background loading some files, this will be used in the next version more.
• Changed the way the album art is displayed, when a song is played with “Album.jpg” the image is placed in the centre of the screen with a black background surrounding it.
• Icons now have a transition effect instead of just appearing they now slide from each other, this can be turned off for a speedup or just to fit more with the theme.
• Added the ability to change CPU and bus speeds via the config, the default is 222 and 111, these can be lowered for normal use if the transition effect on icons is switched off.
• BSoD errors can be bypassed by pressing the 2 shoulder buttons and square, although users do so at their own risk, most of the time errors just stop functions working, but they could lead to some serious errors, use with caution.
• Removed sysDump for this version.
• Added an errorLog dump which dumps the information that appears when a BSoD occurs which means you can post errors even if you don’t have a computer around at the time.
• Added an alternative load menu which can load files in different ways. Current options are:
  • Extension Mode
  • Hex
  • Delete
  • Rename
  • Create Directory
  • Copy File
  • Paste
• Utilized the PSPs OSK.
• Icons can be linked to both folders and files for even faster use of Project4
• Date now added to the “Extended Menu”, along with current folder location.
• A “Message Box” has been added to tell you what mode you are in, and when you have changed modes.
• Extended the filebrowsers file list to now show up to 10 pages, instead of the old 4. If anyone finds this value to low let me know so I can increase it further.
• Volume checking (thanks to sakya for helping with the kernel exports).
• Volume bar.
• Image viewer movement smoother as now uses both frame buffers and culling. This removes a lot of graphical glitches.
• “Extended Menu” now has the ability to change what loading mode ISOs work in, meaning you can load video and music ISOs (this is untested as I do not have any video or music UMDs, feedback on this would be helpful).
• Added a screensaver functions.
• System idle time can be changed for the screensaver, anything 0 or less will disable the screensaver completely.
• Sped up the change from the image viewer to the filebrowser / main menu.

And of course, plenty of bug fixes. Please see Project4’s readme for everything of the utmost importance; it’s encouraged you read that over before installing/using. Enjoy!

Download: Project4 Open Beta 4

- source: darkmessiah.byethost13.com
- Donate to Auraomega

Team C+D shocked the PSP world when they released the first tools to ultimately revive or downgrade any PSP. While many similar Pandora software solutions have been developed; Quake of SubZero DeZigns takes us back to where it all started—wrapping a GUI around Team C+D’s command line utilities.

Download:
Pandora CMD
Firmware Updates (1.50, 3.71, 3.80)
Pandora CMD Torrent (includes source, fw updates, etc…)

- source: trading-post.sytes.net

Weltall delivers another hefty bunch of changes for CWCHEAT. Tagged as version 0.2.2, CWCHEAT not only offers the ability to cheat each and every PSP / PSOne-emulated title, you may also search for and create your own cheats. Aiding in the cheat discovery/creation process, Weltall has bundled a new GTK-built interface for Windows and Linux — “CWCHEAT Pointer searcher.”

Further notable changes — the DB download tool has been refined and ported to the 3.x kernel. As well, if Dark_AleX’s msfatmod patch for 3.8x/3.9x M33 was installed, the memory stick information is again available; however, that remains disabled for those who haven’t installed the patch.

Please read over the included documentation to get started.

Props Weltall, great work.

Download: CWCHEAT 0.2.2

- source & latest cheat DB: cwcheat.consoleworld.org
Donate to Weltall

CWCHEAT 0.2.2 changelog:

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Avid puzzle goers should find interest in MK2k’s latest homebrew creation. Kakuro Nichiyou is a variant of Sudoku often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword.

To get the hang of things — read this.

Features:

• Kakuro Nichiyou features 234 hand-picked/created Puzzles from Puzzlemakers all over the world. Permission granted by Otto Janko, a great Puzzle collector, visit his website: www.janko.at
• Play Kakuros by setting numbers in the free fields, you can even make “notes” in each field (small numbers from 1..9)
• In Kakuro Nichiyou you can save your current progress to one of 20 different save slots.
• Kakuro Nichiyou features a solver which is work in progress. In the current state it is able to solve 203 out of the 234 Puzzles completely. It cannot find a solution for the other puzzles but gives you the found notes of the remaining fields (or maybe just a good laugh).

Download: Kakuro Nichiyou PSP 1.1

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Still scouting your whereabouts using PSP-Maps version 0.5? Step your pocket-sized atlas game up with Royale’s PSP-Maps 0.6 — it just keeps getting better and better. Nice work, Royale.

PSP-Maps 0.6 changes:

• added splash screen for the NEO Spring coding contest 2008
• added a progress bar when shrinking the cache
• added an image to help zoom in (show/hide with button O)
• updated the Makefile to remove old version number

Download:
PSP-Maps 0.6 (cfw 3.xx)
PSP-Maps 0.6 source code

- source: royale.zerezo.com/psp