Friday, December 16, 2005 - Posts

Top PSP Games Chart @ Epinions

http://www.epinions.com/PSP_Games/show_~top_sellers

This week:

1. Grand Theft Auto
2. Lumines
3. Ridge Racer
4. Burnout Legends
5. Tiger Woods PGA Tour
6. Twisted Metal: Head On
7. Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee
8. Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
9. NBA
10. Need for Speed Underground: Rivals

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UK PSP Weekly Games Chart

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ELSPA have released their weekly UK game chart summary for the week ending on December 10th. GTA: Liberty City Stories is still commanding first place (and probably will for awhile,) Everybody’s Golf made a jump from 12th place to 7th, and Lumines continues to clutch at number 10.

1 (1) Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
2 (2) Pro Evolution Soccer 5
3 (4) World Tour Soccer
4 (3) Need for Speed: Most Wanted
5 (6) FIFA '06
6 (7) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
7 (12) Everybody's Golf
8 (5) Pursuit Force
9 (8) Crash Tag Team Racing
10 (10) Lumines
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Katamari Damacy Coming to PSP NEXT WEEK! DEC 22! SWEET!

For those of you who are PS2 Katamari fans, you're gonna love this!

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The release date is close. Next week, on December 22, “Me & My Katamari Damacy” will be released. In this title, “Eternal Mode”, the highest rank for the main mode, is added, together with mini-games and all kinds of data.

– The Praise To The Best Katamari “Eternal Mode”

Listen to the hopes of the animals, roll up “Katamari”s in the “Land of Sunflower” which has all kinds of stuff and make islands for the animals using the rolled-up Katamaris – this represents the main idea of the game. The Katamaris made on the Land of Sunflower will be converted to islands by Ousama’s (the King) new skill, “Ousama Breath”. The appearance of the islands will vary from Level 1 to Level 3, according to the size of the Katamari. If you managed to make a Level 3 island, the hope of the animal on that island will change. You will be able to select “Eternal Mode” for the next time.

The “Eternal Mode” is a mode that has no limitation for time. You can roll up your own katamari as you wish. Wanna challenge the best record? Go for it!

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– Mini-games are 2D action games?

Details are not revealed, but it’s clear that there are more mini-games beside the main game and the mini-subjects. This game is a 2D scroller. You move forward to roll up a katamari. Time limits are present for each game. You need to achieve the designated size in the time limit. Maybe the main idea of this game is for Time Attack.

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About gifts. There are 14 categories in the games.

 

– Wonderful Collection

Things rolled up in main mode and mini-subjects can be viewed in Wonderful Collection. Sort function is present. You can even exchange the collection via the communication function.

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– Present

You can equip the presents you got in the game. Now, you can loan your presents to your friends using the communication function. But if you loan the present, it will disappear from your body.

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– Pachinko Platform

Fly to the island for the mini-subjects from here. Though it is simply for changing your location, Ousama will use his countdown to add some drama effect.

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– Ranking Board

The place for the records you made in main mode and mini-subjects, including the size and the clear time.

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– Data

Talk to the duck in the outdoor plunge bath to bring up the save & load options.

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– Royal Album

The place for storing the pictures taken using the camera. Up to 12 pictures can be stored here. You can also set the picture as your PSP wallpaper.

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– See The Islands

Look at the islands you made throughout the game. Move the fire balloon towards the island to get a clear view, listen to the hope of thr animal which lives on the island, and challenge the same subject if you want.

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– Sound

The place for setting the BGM and SFX.

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– Memorial Shore

Listen to the BGM and watch the opening movie here. The number of the BGMs and movies will grow with the progress of the game.

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– Name

You can change the name of the islands. The name will be displayed on the nameplate. The name will become your player name in the communication battle. 5 characters are allowed to be inputted.

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– Communication Table

Start to host the communication game and wait for players to join.

– Communication Raft

Join the hosted games as a client.

– Communication Record

The place for records of the communication battles (ranking).

– Move Among Islands

Move among the islands in the game.

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PSP Split-Screen Do-It-Yourself Board - Cool! (PSPUpdates)

Pipo Saru Present - Get The Saru Board

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The Piposaru Academia 2 official website has updated with a theme board – “The Saru Board” (Saru = monkey). The purpose of this board is to split the screen of the PSP when 2 players are playing a game that requires screen splitting.

How to use:

  • Download the saru board
  • Print 2 copies and stick them back to back
  • Cut the blank part with scissors and fold it to the final shape

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You can get it from PSP Updates' new QuickJump Download site [here].

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Blood + Video Download Service For PSP (PSPUpdates)

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Aii has started the Blood video download service site for PSP – Blood+ for PSP (http://blood.aii.co.jp)

– What is Blood+?

Blood+ is an exclusive website for PSP internet browser. You can download Blood+ to your Memory stick PRO Duo/Duo.

Currently, there are 4 downloadable items available in the site:

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Episode 1

“First Kiss”

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Episode 2

“Word of Magic”

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Blood+ Special Episode

“Okinawa”

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Drama Promotion Video

 

– How To Access This Service?

Open the internet browser on v2.00 or higher PSP, access http://blood.aii.co.jp. You will see options for downloading the animation. The problem is, the site checks if you are from Japan or not, and will block you if you are from foreign countries. Sigh.

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PSP 2.01 Firmware Unlocked! (BoingBoing)

Once again, some PSP owners can install and run their own software on PSP handheld game devices, thanks to hackers who've defeated Sony's 2.01 firmware, which contained anti-customer measures that shut out homebrew games.

On Dec 1, some cheats were published that allowed players of "Grand Theft Auto:LCS Trainer" to add new weather conditions and other play options.

This gave firmware hackers the crib they needed to unravel the game-format, and thence the whole firmware. Now a new hack allowed PSP owners to once again play homebrew games and add new functionality to their PSPs.

Now, how freaking bizarre is it that Sony continues to spend good money removing features that make the PSP more attractive to its customers? Someone needs to be beaten about the head and shoulders with the business-model stick.

First 2.01 Homebrew Game Ported By PSP 3D

That's right. From Hello World yesterday, to Tetris today. We at PSP 3D have successfully ported the first 2.01 game EVER. Thanks to Fanjita for the tips and for the wonderful GTA hack (props to all the people who helped him too). In the next few days, expect this and more games to be ported to 2.5 also (if and when we get SYSCALs working)...

If you are a homebrew developer and would like your game converted to 2.01 format (2.5 in the near future), please feel free to contact us with the SOURCE to your homebrew (aka, the C++ files, not an EBOOT or .bin).

Link (Thanks, Tom!)
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PSP OSS (OpenSourceShell) Nearing Completion! (PSP-Hacks)

PSP-OSS is almost complete! It is an Open Sorce Shell that has been in development for quite a while.



Working Features:

Mp3 playback
OGG playback
PNG viewing (pictures (only 480x272))
Eboot Loading from within psp-oss
UMD Loading from within psp-oss
Fully skinnable (reboots the oss to change skins)
Wallpapers Changable while in the oss.
File Browser


Todo before release:

Jpeg viewing
Text Viewer

We hope to eventually include many more features


This application is designed for 1.5 however we are considering creating a 2.0 supported build.



IRC Details:
irc://irc.toc2rta.com/psp-oss
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