Sony has just officially announced the PSP 3000 at their press conference event at Leipzig. According to David Reeves, the PSP 3000 will have a built-in microphone, and an enhanced LCD screen. It will retain the size and features of the current, slimmed-down PSP (PSP-2000). That's a screenshot of it up there. The unit will launch on October 15 in PAL territories, tagged at EUR 199. Full break down below:
Update: For those of us outside of Europe, the PSP-3000 will be launched in North America as part of two packs. One of the packs will be the Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters PSP Entertainment bundles which will be released on October 14th. The other pack will be a 4GB Entertainment Pack which is due out in November. Both packs will be retailed at US $199.99. Later, Sony will be releasing the PSP-3000 Core Pack, which will be railed at the regular price of US $169.99.
Thanks to a Japanese programmer, he/she has coded a working NES emulator for the PlayStation 3 using the built in Blu-Ray BD-J. Although not much information is known on the creator of the emulator, the app is promising.
Days later the emulator was updated. Changes in the update were unnoticeable but the dev once again added their words:
The controls are simple; use either the left analog or the d-pad. The square button for "B" and the x button for "A". For start and select, simply press triangle to bring up the PS3's video options menu and then press 1 for select and 2 for the start button. Pressing 3 will return you to the rom-list selection menu and 4 will toggle between different frameskip options.
To install first copy your NES roms into the folder named "Roms" then simply copy the AVCHD folder into the root of a storage device, like a memory stick(PSP) or a USB stick. Then go over to the video section on your XMB and press X on the said device. Then once inside you'll see what appears to be a video called "AVCHD". Run it and there you go.
Sloppy translations aside, this application works really great and has been tested by yours truly. Although the emulator does not have working sound for games and isn't in fullscreen display, its a great sign of the PS3 homebrew scene expanding. Hopefully in the future we can see an update to this emulator with working sound and fullscreen capability. The download link is below which includes the newest version of the emulator, enjoy!
Please note that all roms may not work. Also be aware that posting links to roms/rom-related sites on the ConsoleSpot forums is NOT allowed. Please use Google for such needs. :D
The creator of PSPVC (PSPVideo Converter) has updated his/her PSP video converter to 2.81. This new update brings us new video and audio features. For those of you who don't know what this app is, it's a video converter for the PSP that is able to convert almost any video-format into the PSP format. If you're wondering if this needs a custom firmware PSP, well, it doesn't! You can add your own subtitles in your own language and you can also tweak the image to your liking. PSPVC also comes with a built-in video downloader so you can download and convert from any of the supported sites.
NOTES: Decided to do a more "in game" style interface for this XMB. All the icons and XMB elements were re-created from game screenshots from the PC version. I also added custom click sounds taken directly from the game to add to the experience and feel of the xmb. The gameboot is much shorter this time because I've had some complaints about them being too long. (no one from CS, other friends)
One last thing. I'd like to dedicate this one to our good friend MUDBONE, He LOVES the RE series games as much as I do. A true RE fan every inch of the way. Congrats on making XMB Creator bro, you deserve it!
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EDIT: For those of you who want skype and Gomsngr I've enabled them. Just replace the original vshmain.prx with the vshmainCOMPRESSED.prx, delete the original and rename the newer one. I'm not sure if it will work so be sure to back the original one up just in case. Hopefull this will fix the crash bug in GO. I've personally never gotten GO to work so it might actually be a system bug and not the theme.
Developer, Dark_AleX, has released an update to his Despertar del Cementerio - Universal Unbricker, bringing it up to v7. Features:
- A format flash function has been added which is useful to correct problems in some PSP's that get an error when installing 4.01 M33, or to have a custom partitioning of the flash.
- An IDStorage tools function has been added. It allows to create a new IDStorage (including for first time, the regeneration of region and umd keys), change region (including umd region), or fix wlan mac address.
Homebrew Developer, Zack, has released Wolfenstien 3D v5.0. This final release fixes various bugs and has a few improvements, most notably the sound and the instant save/load feature. Furthermore, a proper fullscreen mode and TV out has been added. Also, the author notes if you use the floppy version of Wolfenstien 3D, please use the patch below before you run the game or else it won't work. Just copy and replace the files in the patch folder with the ones you have already. Download and comment.
Well we have a great release here. Dev AlienMind has given the world a YouTube video client for the Nintendo Wii. This is based on the popular open source multimedia player MPlayer. This application will either let you watch streams from the site or let you download them first then watch them. Obviously as this is the first release, it is a bit slow so it's best to save the video's to play them. to use WiiTube, you must configure "mplayerwii.conf" file located in the archive. Here is an example of a playlist. Notice that the youtube_cache is set to "1" which will download the video first before playing.
All I can say is what a great release. I will be sure to keep everyone updated on further releases and updates of this. To use this dump the contents of the zip straight to the root of your SD card.
If you're bored with the Nintendo DS theme you have on your DS right now, soulanger from Neoflash has posted a preview video of his project for Neoflash Coding Contest of his PS3 XMB for the DS app! From the looks of the preview video, soulanger has made his Nintendo DS app look almost exactly like the PS3 XMB. The best way to describe this app is that it makes your Cart GUI look beautiful with a PS3 theme as the default GUI. This app has some pretty neat features like sending PC2DS, DS2PC, total-conversion theme editing, seeing in-game video footage while selecting your game, etc. The expected release date of this app is going to be around August 20th, but soulanger isn't sure yet.
Andy_maN, developer from Team FuSa, has recently updated screenShoot, an application that lets you take a screenshot of the "real screen" and is compatible with FuSa, a PSP slim plugin which enables you to play games on your Standard Definition TV.
