Thursday, April 13, 2006 - Posts

Book Review: Hacking the PSP - A book by Auri Rahimzadeh

PSP-Hacks has posted a review of my book, Hacking the PSP! You can find my book on Amazon.com, and at booksellers worldwide, including Barnes & Noble, Borders, Fry's, and many others!

Here's Gary's review:

While chatting in our chat room a while back, I ran into Auri Rahimzadeh, the author of a book on hacking the PSP. I managed to get a hold of a copy for review (thanks!).

If you have ever had a question that isn’t answered in our forums, but don’t want to show off your “noobism”, then this book is perfect for you. It covers many hacks which I had never even heard of before reading this book, such as making a mount to put your PSP in your car, and making an adapter to use other memory formats. It also covers the basics which can be found on the web, such as downgrading your PSP, building a battery pack, and even shows you how to start programming in C/C++!

Reading more reveals even more things this book will teach you: checking your email on the 2.0 web browser, viewing RSS feeds on firmware 2.0, using the Wipeout web browser on 1.5, and even shows the complete insides of your PSP, for all those who want to keep their warranty.
There is even a site which gives free updates to the book online!

If you don’t want to ask in our forums, or on our IRC channel, and can’t find a guide in our hacks section, give this book a try.

You can purchase the book for only $15 here (be sure to check out the 5-star Amazon rating!), and find out more about his books at his site.



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PSP Firmware v2.61 is here! (well, in the new PSPs, not for download yet)

Playstation PortableIt is now confirmed that the new $199 PSP basic pack (consisting of a PSP, battery pack, and AC adapter) contains v2.61 Firmware, which currently will not run any homebrew (including GTA Loader), emulators, nor ISO loaders.

Needless to say, the preferred Firmware version is currently v1.50 (which runs everything) and if you happen to get a v1.51 to v2.00 Firmware PSP (still very common in most places, with minor searching) then you can simply use the PSP Downgrader to bring them back to v1.50. It's important to NOTE that you cannot downgrade PSP Firmware v2.01+ yet.

Source: PSPScene
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Free PSP eBook Creator Released

PSP eBook Creator is a free program that converts any text file (.txt) into a formatted eBook that can be read on your PSP. Thousands of freely available publications are available in ‘.txt’ format at Gutenberg.

Features
• Landscape / portrait page formats
• Background images
• Smart formatting (efficiently fits text to PSP screen dimensions)
• User defined fonts, ink color and page color
• Navigation bar (including page numbers and custom title)
• JPG compression settings
• PSP display window
• 1:1 page previewing
• Chapter breaks

Check it out here.
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Homebrew: New PSP Homebrew Releases for April 13, 2006

Something for everybody today! Enjoy!

Games

Planet Fighter - Side-scrolling shooter like Defender.
Abombniball v2 - Port of the popular gaming classic.

Utilities
PSPBMC - Web bookmark transfer utility.

Emulators
HP48 Calculator Emulator - Need I say more? :)

Game Cheats & Saves

PSP Cheat Hacker v0.11 - Hacking utility that helps you cheat at many games.

Firmware Hacks & Launchers
FontHacker v0.93 - Change your PSP's font!

Shells & Operating Systems
iR Shell v1.4 - Universal remote control, program launcher, and more!
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