Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - Posts

Popstation PS1 Game Compatibility List

DCEmu is keeping a running list of games that have been tested to be compatible with Dark_Alex's new Popstation. If you've had experience with Popstation and using PS1 games then head over to DCEmu and post your findings, whether you've had success or problems.
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OE-A, OE-B and Popstation Guide

DCEmu has posted a pretty through guide on how to install Dark_Alex's Custom Firmware OE-A, upgrade to OE-B, and run PSOne games using Popstation. You can get these files in the Firmware Hacks and Launchers section of my homebrew software library. If you're confused about how to go about doing all of this and would like to know how, then check out the guide over at DCEmu using the link below.

DCEmu OE-A, OE-B, Popstation Guide

Via DCEmu
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Vids of PS1 games on OE-B!

Steve-O (probably not the one from "Jackass") let us know of a clip he put up on YouTube. If there's one thing Dark_Alex's OE-B can definitely do, it's bring some decidedly dead videogame characters back to life.

Duke Nukem is a case in point. You could have raised a puppy from birth to death in the time it's taken for Duke Nukem Forever to see the light of day, and it's still not here. For all intents and purposes, the pretty alien babes he's been trying to save are now old and decrepit, and his guns fire rust instead of bullets.

Here's a video showing Steve-O playing the PS1 version of Duke Nukem: Time to Kill on his PSP. The video is kind of spotty due to the use of a camera phone, but there's enough detail to show that it really is the Duke blasting away on your handheld.

How can we be sure? He ends up dead as a doorknob at the end of the video, kinda like the rest of the franchise.

Check out the video here...


Source: PSPUpdates
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Dear Sony...

The PlayStation Portable continues grow in ability and features, with new updates and system overhauls released to enhance the system. Still, PSP owners are eager to see the system play at its maximum potential, to use all of that horsepower inside this powerful handheld system for bigger and better features. We want system-wide abilities that make gaming on PSP better and faster and more reliable, like cross-game Friend Lists and more common Game Sharing. We want multimedia that's open and that plays just about anything we can stick on a Memory Stick. We want PlayStation Store on PSP so we can download and play games and demos, just like big-brother system PS3 can do. We want PlayStation Network on PSP so we can talk with our friends on PSP (or PS3) over text, voice or maybe even video. We want developers to have the option to unlock the full 333MHz ability of the PSP, giving us peak performance for even more incredible games and features. In short, we want the PSP to be all that PSP can be.

What started as just a goof in our write-up of the new PSP v3.03 Update on what we'd like to see next time spurred a flood of emails to IGN about what readers would like to see the PSP's next system update include. Some of your ideas are out-there, while others sound completely doable in future PSP updates (and, if we wanted to get snarky about it, we could mention that some features have already been done by the PSP homebrew/hacker community, but since most PSPs lock this content out for fear of piracy, few gamers get to enjoy these unofficial PSP programs.) After the first 300 messages came rolling in, we knew we had to share these -- we also knew we had to get these ideas out there in the hopes that Sony would see what PSP owners are thinking about and pick up some of the ideas for the system.

Read the full article and letters here...

Source: IGN
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Blue PSP able to hard-down to 1.50?

0okm has recently posted a little something on his blog that may be of interest to some of you who might have been lucky enough to get your hands on blue PSP (PSP1000MB) this holiday season.
PCB Ver. : TA-086
CPU Core : CXD2967GG
Media Engine : CXD5026-203GG
MCP : K5E5658ACM-D060 1.8V/1.8V

Test report :
Factory FW3.01 (BoxCode M)
can HardDown to FW1.50 :)
There isn't any other information about this other than what 0okm posted but maybe this means that there could be a downgrader on the way for the new blue PSP.

Via 0okm
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