PSP goes pink with Pink

Sony was a little lax about making sure we knew they were going pink with Pink on the PSP today, too, but it does indeed look like we can chalk up another color for the portable. Apparently the singer's just doing the usual sponsored / co-branded business, releasing the P!nk Limited Edition PSP with headphones, remote, 32MB Memory Stick, but what raised a couple eyebrows over yonder is the fact that she's not signed with Sony, and what's more Sony will also offering Pink downloads on their YourPSP site. Anywho, from what we understand Sony pulled the official release, so they're apparently not yet prepped to discuss the ramifications of the PSP getting femmed out even though we now know it will run you €229 or £169 when it debuts October 27th. Read

Easy Emu Nstaller v0.1.2

Are you a newcomer to the emulator homebrew scene, a.k.a "a noob?" Are you at a loss when it comes to installing the vast variety of available emulators for the PSP? I know you are because I receive your emails every day. Or perhaps you're just plain old lazy… Regardless of whatever the cause may be; RavenLife has shared his simple Windows installer, appropriately titled 'Easy Emu Nstaller' v0.1.2, which is ultimately responsible for installing the latest [popular] emulators on your PSP - with ease!

Included in the package:

• Homer's RIN v3.3 (Gameboy / Gameboy Color)
• ScummVM v0.9.0 (modified - save games location changed)
• DGen v1.60b (Sega MegaDrive / Genesis)
• Snes9x_TYL v0.4.2 (Super Nintendo)
• NEOCDPSP v0.9.1 (NeoGeo)
• PSPVBA v1.2.4
• MAME4ALL v0.0.3
• PSPMaster (Sega Master System)
• NesterJ v1.20 (Nintendo - NES)

with exception of my personal favourite, PSPUAE.

Download: Easy Emu Nstaller v0.1.2

- source: blindraven

Devhook running into legal problems!

 

With all the success of Devhook, I guess it was getting too uncomfortable for Sony on their comfy chairs. It seems that pspsoftware. ddo.jp, the actual release site of Devhook has received a Cease and Desist Order from Sony with regards to distributing Devhook.

Now my Japanese isn't something to write home about, so I'll leave it to 0okm, who has got the translation covered. Here's the translated text:

"Reboot_1.50.bin is the copyrighted material by SONY, that is mixed with DevHook0.43fix.
Warning from SCE to those who up-load DevHook0.43fix comes.
Moreover, please annul it at once when downloaded 0.43fix is preserved at hand, and it uses it.
Not seeing this knows and there is a possibility to use, too.
Please inform me of this when there is an owner in surroundings.
Moreover, the main body of DevHook and the relation file of all versions were deleted from this site.
As a result, opening DevHook on this site to the public is completely stopped."

Now you don't need to have a masters degree in English to make sense of that. Sony has taken action on PSPSoftware.ddo.jp for distributing Devhook and have also requested them to notify someone at Sony when the uploader ( Booster) is online.

One thing's for sure, Booster will need to find a new place to host his awesome homebrew. But seeing this happen, I wouldn't be surprised if SCE/Sony start going after sites who are hosting Devhook. Well, let's just wait and see how everything pans out. A small suggestion by me would be to download the latest versions of Devhook as soon as possible, just in case everyone is forced to remove them off their sites.

PSP Compressor v1.2 Released

From the keyboard of danny_kay1710 arrives PSP Compressor v1.2; the user-friendly front-end which provides simplicity when converting/compressing ISO images to DAX and/or CSO format. The graphical interface has been totally revamped to make things even simplier, and it no longer requires the Visual Basic runtime files; however, you now need the .NET Framework 2.0 from Microsoft.

v1.2 changelog:

GUI has been completely overhauled
Batch Support! You can now select multiple files.
LIMITATION: If you do select more than one input you can NOT change the default file name and location of the multiple outputs.
Code rewritten in .NET
System tray icon has been added with pop-up ballon alerting the user how many images have been converted during batch processing.
Download: PSP Compressor v1.2