Gaming

Remember, you can’t use this if you go 2.0! Stella PSP v0.1- This is a port of the Stella Atari 2600 emulator to the PSP. Original code by Bradford W. Mott, Stephen Anthony and Jeff Miller and many others. This PSP port was made by Alysa Habraken (aka Aenea). It’s not very optimized and not all games run or at full speed. Some have a little flickering, but this will be resolved in upcoming versions. Roms must have a .a26 extension and also they go in the ms0:/Stella/Roms. [via] Link.

Some PSP games check to see if the PSP has the latest firmware, since we don’t want to update to 2.0 and lose the ability to run games and applications we make, here’s a tool that does a tricksie on the PSP game- This is described as the First Firmware Trick for Games that need Firmware 1.52 to run on your PSP and Cant Run UPDATER 1.52 or 2.0. The System thinks it’s a PSP v1.52 ,v1.0 ,v2.0 even if its a v1.5 or 1.0. Link.

Adding an external antenna to the PSP…we are going to examine the possibilities of increasing the PSP’s wireless signal strength to make it more adaptable to situations where you might need a few extra dBs to get that quality connection. Link.

Another nice PSP HOW TO from AOTS – It’s surprisingly simple to play your favorite classic LucasArts titles on your PSP. We snagged a couple steps from the great hardware hacking forums, DCEmu, and combined them with a little of our own knowledge to give you this little tutorial. How to Install ScummVM for the PSP… Link.

Some good news, hopefully in a few weeks we’ll be able to run our own apps on the new firmware – Some very interesting things going on in the PSP hacking world. It would seem that someone has gotten the DATA.PSP files from the various update EBOOT.PBP files decrypted. This is the next step in unlocking the secrets of the PSP’s firmware. How to flash/re-flash, and modifying firmware files to suit individual hacker’s needs, etc… Link.

DDRLord says it best, here’s why NOT updating the PSP to crippleware 2.0 is better- you’d lose “…a web browser, an SNES, an NES, a Lynx, a Gameboy Color, a Gameboy Advance, a Neo Geo CD, a Turbo Grafx 16, a Genesis, a Master System, a Game Gear, a Neo Geo Pocket, and Amiga, a Chip8 system, an MSX, MAME, a Wonderswan, a VMU, Nethack, Angband, ToME, an eBook reader, a calculator, a scheduler, a calendar, Scumm games, a Sudoku game, a portable VNC client, an X86 emulator, irda transfer programs, remote controls, vCard reader, FTP server, avi player, advanced music player, drum kits, file browsers, an easy to learn coding environment, graphic changing program, a fullscreen movie player, a scrabble assistant, a notepad, a dictionary, and all that other garbage. Link and update (don’t do it).