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MrPeanut has released Duke3D-PSP Build 98!

Mr. Nukem can now reign king on your PSP while listening to the original midi soundtrack. Yes, build 98 introduces music support! You will however require the gravis ultrasound sound patches. Details can be found in ‘readitreadit.txt.’

Note: you require the shareware or full retail version of “DUKE3D.GRP.” Shareware versions can be obtained here.

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If you prefer downloading software titles and content off the Internet rather than hopping over to the nearest store for your games, then you’ll be pleased to know that the PlayStation.Blog has updated itself with a lot of new PC downloadables for your PSP handheld.

Grace Chen, Senior Manager of the PlayStation Store has posted this week’s content release for Sony’s online store for the PC. The most notable releases include Beats, as well as the return of the classic PSone RPG Wild Arms. Here’s the complete list of the new releases:

Downloadable Games

• Beats (US$ 4.99)

PS one Classics

• Wild Arms (US$ 5.99)

Game Videos (free)

• SOCOM FTB Trailer
• GTA IV Trailer 2
• Heaven Sword Anime 1
• Heaven Sword Anime 2
• Heaven Sword Anime 3
• Heaven Sword Anime 4
• Heaven Sword Anime 5
• Ratchet & Clank Future ToD Trailer 1
• Uncharted Trailer

PSP Wallpaper (free)

• LocoRoco Holiday Wallpaper
• Ratchet & Clank Size Matters (2)

You can also check out the official PlayStation Store on how to properly install your downloads, as well as the full descriptions of the content and directions on how to get started.

Alright, so it’s not really Halo for the PSP. More or less it’s a themed out Quake mod — a good one though! Two maps are included: “HALO hig” and “HALO pri.” HALO hig doesn’t allow bots and will crash if you attempt to load any; it’s more of a training map to help familiarize yourself with things. HALO pri is a huge map supporting bots.

You may have saw PSP Halo before, but this is an updated version –

1. complete menu change as well as loading (everything is new)
2. better graphics (all around design of the stages, weapons, and so on)
3. only 5 bots allowed (the last one featured up to 7 bots but it caused an extreme case of lag in both 1 player and multiplayer.)
4. new icons (for the actual homebrew)
5. download size decreased from around 65mb to around 35mb (memory conservation is always good)
6. support for the psp fat and slim running a 3.XX-X custom firmware (so you just drop the homebrew right into the GAME folder and your all done)
7. better audio (although some at this point dont load, they still sound a lot better)
8. Settable RAM (although this is not completed yet)
9. 2 different bots (Master bot=hard as hell to kill Demo bot=easy to kill)
10. 2 Maps (both are HUGE)
11. Bug fixes (what update is complete without them)

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After Sony releasing and the decrypting of PSP FW 3.73, Mathieulh and Dark_AleX say that the only changes they’ve uncovered so far are the module versions and the index.dat/version.txt file that displays the firmware version. Mathieulh also says that there’s over 20 different bytes worth of changes to lflash_fatfmt. The kernel and csh modules as well as the rco files remain unchanged.

Both Mathieulh and Dark AleX are still examining the recently-released PSP firmware 3.73 just so they don’t miss anything, but Mathieulh says that it looks like the firmware “does not need ANY patches to be modified/updated in any way to run a custom firmware.”

Those who have been enjoying the PlayStation Portable portal WiFiX will be happy to know that homebrew developer jfig111 recently released a new build.

Aside from all its other features like games and applications, the WiFiX portal essentially allows PSP users to connect to others around the globe by giving them options to save name, emails and addresses.

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Mediumgauge has released a bug fix update for his popular homebrew application, PSP Filer.

As well as removing several bugs, he has added a feature which allows re-ordering of XMB icons is available!

General:

• Reduced cyrillic font size of UTF-8 and Cyrillic-1251 charset.
• Added a feature to re-order XMB icons.

Filer:

• Fixed a bug Filer was crashed when it plays a large wav file.
• Fixed a bug Filer was crashed when it opens a folder which has some kind of ISO/CSO.

Picture viewer:

• Fixed a bug following PNG picture was not drawn correctly: 16bit gray scale, 48bit color, and having alpha-blend.
• Fixed a bug that caused in version 4.2, a wallpaper could not be saved.

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Sony Computer Entertainment America has just released an official statement outlining its hardware sales for the month of October. In general, this month has been an excellent one for the PlayStation brand with a 39% increase in total retail dollars generated year-over-year in the U.S.

Going to the specifics, SCEA said that it was able to sell more or less 120,000 PlayStation 3 units in America alone for the month of October. The company also cited results of own research pointing out to a great spike in sales with a 192% lift for the PS3 over the past two weeks.

The PlayStation Portable platform, on the other hand, remains strong as well with a total number of 286,000 units sold this month. Overall sales went up, according to SCEA, by 120% year over year due to the popularity of the slimmer and lighter PSP.

Homebrew developer Cpasjuste announced that a new build for the PSP Custom Firmware Extender plugin is now available. This homebrew adds several extra functions to PSPs running on custom firmwares, such as the ability to adjust your CPU speed, screen brightness, or take screenshots.

Custom Firmware Extender v1.9 has been configured to work exclusively for PSP running on the recently released CFW 3.71 M33, and carries these new changes:

• Added iso and homebrew redirection via WIFI with the use of dark alex nethostfs optimized by ahman. (iso streaming is not really usable due to speed transfer)
• Memory usage optimized.
• Text rendering graphicaly optimized.

Users interested in reading up on how to install and properly use Cpasjuste’s Custom Firmware Extender v1.9 plugin are advised to view the readme included in the file bundle.

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Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ) has released a new firmware update for the PlayStation Portable, bringing the official firmware up to version 3.72. This update concerns models PSP-1001 and PSP-2001 sold in North America.

Here’s the official changelog of newest system software update, PSP firmware 3.72:

* You can now set a theme under [Theme Settings].
o The home menu color, background and icons for XMB™ (XrossMediaBar) will change, based on the theme that is selected.
* You can now search for a scene when playing a movie that is saved on Memory Stick Duo media.
o You can select and play the scene you want to see from a thumbnail image.
* Simultaneous playback of content under (Music) and (Photo) is now supported.
* Games
o New for 3.72: Support for PLAYSTATION ®Network titles has been expanded.
* Network
o [Assign Buttons] has been added to the (Remote Play) menu.
* Video
o Sequential playback of videos saved on Memory Stick Duo™ media is now supported.

* Support has been added for [Remote Start]* of the PS3 system under [Remote Play].
o To use this feature, the PS3 system software must be version 2.00 or later. For detailed information about [Remote Start], visit the PS3 Help & Support section at eu.playstation.com and select Connecting to other devices in the General Guides area.

StrmnNrmn posted an update today over at his personal website regarding the promised R13 version of Daedalus. For those not in the know, this program is an emulator that allows PlayStation Portable owners play N64 games on their Sony handheld.

According to the coder, he will be releasing R13 after he has added the final finishing touches to the savestate support. These include checking if the savestate you’re loading is for a different rom than the one currently loaded as well as linking some metadata to the savestate so they can be shown in the UI.

“In summary R13 is really close and I’ve not forgotten about it. Just a few more things to sort out and it’ll be ready for release,” StrmnNrmn added. Currently, here are the already functioning features of Daedalus R13’s savestate option straight from the coder himself:

The current implementation provides 10 slots which are shared across all roms.
You can save to any slot at any time from an option on the Pause menu, or choose to reload a previous savestate.
In this way it works just like QuickSave/QuickLoad found in various PC games.
I’m tempted to add a special slot for this to the top level of the Pause menu.
I used zlib to compress the savestates, so an 8MiB savestate compresses down to 1MiB (or even smaller if you’re running games which don’t use the Expansion Pak).