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Dark_AleX Releases PSP MAC Spoofer

Yet another release from Team M33/Dark_AleX! This time it's a mac address spoofer for all the hardcore WiFi hunters out there. Here's the notes from the readme.

This is a plugin to temporally change the mac address that your psp sends to Access Points or other wifi devices.

Requirements:

- 3.71 M33. It may work in future M33 firmwares but it is not guaranteed.

Instructions:

- Copy PSP directory to your memory stick. Execute the MAC Spoofer install program.
This program will reflash the configuration files changing a bit the modules load order.
This is needed because the macspoofer plugin needs to be executed before wlan.prx.

- Copy seplugins folder yo tour memory stick, and activate the plugin in recovery in both, vsh and game.

The mac address will be spoofed to the address contained in /seplugins/mac.txt
You can use the characters RR to specify that macspoofer should randomize that byte.

Download here.

Playstation - By The Numbers

From Sony PR (altho their PR folks never talk to me... how annoying is that? Art - you know who you are... ) :

The PlayStation® platform is off to a great start this holiday season based on NPD November 2007 sales data:

Hardware Momentum (PS3, PS2 and PSP) 

• For the month of November, PlayStation hardware unit sales reached more than 1.5 million units, an increase of 160% when compared to last month's unit sales (October 2007).
• PlayStation total hardware revenue was $373 million in November, sales dollars increased by 170% compared to last month's sales.
• For the month of November, PlayStation console sales reached 962K units.
• 466K PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) hardware units were sold in November, a 285% increase over the previous month's sales. PS3 had the biggest October to November sales increase of any hardware platform.
• PlayStation®2 (PS2) also experienced great momentum in November, hardware unit sales reached 496K, a 170% increase over last month's sales.  Since its release in North America on Oct. 26, 2000, more than 120 million hardware units and more than a billion units of PlayStation 2 software have sold worldwide, making it the best-selling gaming platform ever released. 
• According to the latest Nielsen data (April ­ November 2007), PS2 is the most played videogame console averaging 42.2% usage minutes compared to 11.8% for Xbox 360 and 5.5% for Wii. 
• PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) continues to experience strong sales momentum with new pricing and the availability of new entertainment packs.  In November, 567K PSP hardware units were sold, nearly a 100% increase over last month sales.

Software Momentum (PS3, PS2 and PSP)

• PlayStation total software revenue in November was $414 million, sales dollars increased by 128% compared to last month's sales. 
• In November, retail dollars from PS3 sales totaled $138 million, a 192% increase over last month's sales.
• PlayStation had three software titles in the top ten list across all consoles: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for PS2 sold 966K units, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for PS3 sold 444K units and Assassin's Creed for PS3 sold 377K units.

PLAYSTATION®Network Momentum 

• Just one year after launch, there are more than 3 million registered PLAYSTATION Network users worldwide who have downloaded more than 60 million pieces of content.
• In North America alone there are more than 1.8 million registered users who have downloaded more than 34.5 million pieces of content.
• A recent PLAYSTATION Network price promotion for Calling all Cars, Everyday Shooter, flOw and Pixel Junk Racers resulted in a combined 920% increase in total downloads.