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J2ME Ported to PSP

DickyDick1969 has created a port of the J2ME, successfully creating a Java virtual machine for the PSP. Unfortunately, Sun will not let him distribute it (yet?). Here's what he had to say about it:

Yep, I made a small port of the j2me (K)VM, making my PSP capable of running JAVA programs.. It was a very easy port…. as the Sun KVM is easy to port. It was done in a jiffy… …

See my video of running these classes:

PeeJayStart.java
org/pimpware/Test.java

So why not sharing the stuff ?? (giving you a download link for example…)

It’s sad…

I asked SUN for permission for distributing my port and they said I could not (yet) distribute it for some (not to mention here) reasons. At least not now..

Source: dcemu.co.uk

Edia GPS navigation software gets mapped on the board

Sony homed-in on an official GPS unit (again, emphasis on "official") a month back. And aside from Deniska's Map This! v0.3 Mapviewer that came out just a few days ago there is no known software for GPS tracking. But now, there's a new player on the map - sorry for the pun.

The company is called Edia (after the FFVIII witch? har, har... ), and they're going to be the first ones to make use of the GPS add-on of Sony. They've come up with a GPS navigation system software for the PSP, and it will have maps of Japan with Point of Interest (POI) capabilities.

Yes, yes, we know. "Why Japan?" Well, it seems likely that America won't have the software anytime soon, but Japan's got first dibs on it. They're getting it as early as December of this year. Let's just all hope that Edia ports their software soon enough. A lot of you guys keep on commenting that one of the top reasons they bought their PSP was because of the GPS capabilities. With Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops coming out real soon, who could blame you?



Source: PSPUpdates

Homebrew Enabler for fw2.71 now ported to DevHook

It's well known that there are aftershocks after huge earthquakes. Although it's a funny analogy, it works perfectly in this situation. After the big earthquake by Dark_AleX with regards to the Devhook launcher port, he has been working on it non-stop to get new features in.

And today, we have one more feature, thanks to him. Many people I know won't be upgrading to 2.71 anytime soon. For some, it's the nostalgia of 1.5. Others are simply waiting for more homebrew on 2.71 before upgrading. Well, nothing to worry about, because Dark_AleX has just ported the Homebrew Enabler to Devhook. Now anyone who uses Devhook on their 1.5 firmware can replace a few files with the ones supplied below and have kernel mode homebrew from within 2.71 firmware on Devhook. While this might sound confusing a bit, it's not.

All you have to do is replace the dh folder with the one supplied in the file below. Once done, simply start Devhook and load 2.71 firmware. You will be able to run all your homebrew even inside Devhook now! Since this doesn't modify the flash in any way, you can safely perform this mod. Just make sure to keep a backup of your firmware dump. In case something doesn't work right with this mod, simply restore that backup. So without further ado, here's the Homebrew Enabler for Devhook!

Enjoy!

Download HERE

Source: PSPUpdates & Dark AleX