Karol Krizka

I am starting to realize that doing weekly updates on homebrew PSP application releases is not that good of an idea, because the community is just too lively. Over the week, over 30 applications piled up on me and that is quite a lot of catalog in a day. Also the posts get very lengthly (this was over 9 pages in OpenOffice Writer!), so they are not fun to read either.

Battle Star 0.2 (Download)
Developer: Kingromain
A scrolling space-based sider shooter for the PSP.

• The game has now sounds when the vessel fired or explode
• The effects were added when you kill the boss
• The bump-shooting blue balls does more damage
• There is more to the possibility of increasing their lives or to bring down with R or L
• The game now has a pause with start

64 Moon Rise-Set Calculator 1 (Download)
Developer: Art
A simple application that calculates the moon rise and set times at any location. It needs a Commodore 64 emulator, like PSPVice, to run.

XvidD4PSP 5.028 (Download)
Developer: Winnydows
A video converted for the PSP. It converts any video files into a format that you can play use on your PlayStation Portable.

• From main installer unnecessary splitters. These functions must do your codec pack now.
• To main installer added AviSynth 2.5.7 MT (multi-processor version) now.
• Added a lot of new filtering presets, many of them with a multi-processor support. Thanks HellGerhard and Andrew_B.
• FFMpegSource decoder updated to version 1.15. Now it is a static version does not require the installation of files in the system32.
• Updated components: ffmpeg, MP4Box, x264.
• Added MKVRebuilder tool. It helps rebuild damaged MKV files.
• Added FFRebuilder tool. Use it to decode or rebuild any problematic or damaged file.
• Added translations to French, Spanish, Hebrew, Portuguese and Chinese. Thanks to mwm, leglaude061, Ginger, chrono_kazumi and evanren.
• For simple bitrate encoding added auto bitrate calculation.
• Fixed audio tracks selection.
• Fixed crop aspect fix for cropped sources.
• iPod profiles renamed to MP4 iPod 5.0G and MP4 iPod 5.5G.
• Archos profile renamed to MP4 Archos 5G.
• Tweaked and fixed Archos format.
• Added MP4 Archos 650 format.
• Added Italian translation, thanks to 9600pro.
• Fixed resolution masks.
• Fixed XviD profile creation crash.

MUX 2.1 (Download)
Developer: KingSebo
Helps you manage different firmware updates in /PSP/GAME/UPDATE

• Copy as UPDATE or as GAME (for UPDATES not using PSP/GAME/UPDATE)
• Increased the speed
• Small changes by read the Update Folder Infos.
• Completely in English (Menu and Readme)

Recovery LE 1 (Download)
Developer: theketchupman
A plugin for the M33 firmwares that improves the recovery menu.

• 100 functional in 3.80 M33
• adding “M33 network” setting in Advanced.
• Pandora now use (thx to HellCat & SilverSpring) hardware functions, since pandora’s main functions no longer exist in 3.80.
• Removed : backing up and writing up EEPROM.

FreeRadio 1.7 (Download)
Developer: FreePlay
Server-free Internet Radio for the PSP that supports custom plugins and many more radio stations.

• Added support for custom plugins. Included an example - a two-channel equalizer that displays beneath the ’stop’ button. For an example of how plugins work, open X: radio plugins equalize r.plugin in your favorite text editor.
• Plugins are self-contained JavaScript files, so if you’re any good with that, you can easily make your own plugins. FreeRadio will automatically load any plugin files stored in the X: radio plugins folder with a filename ending in ‘.plugin’. The only requirements for a plugin are ‘load’ and ’start’ functions and a variable named ’started’. The rest is up to you.
• Plugins are only loaded in the Shoutcast, Stream, and Playlist views; this is because rest either don’t play audio or might not always look the same (since podcasts and RSS can use HTML).
• The web browser and bookmark links now open in a new tab, rather than the current one.

PSPMSX 1.2.4 (Download)
Developer: Zx-81
MSX emulator for the PSP.

• Add missing keys such as HOME, GRAPH, STOP (Thanks to symBioT for the bug report)
• Auto joystick fire mode, press RTrigger X to switch it on/off (useful for games such as 1942)
• Add several new hotkeys :
• settings such as fps, render mode, auto fire speed can now be directly modified inside the emulator (no need to enter in the settings menu)
• quick save / quick load current state (no need to enter in the main menu)
• Bug fix in the low battery watchdog
• Analog pad can be used in the rom file requester
• RTrigger/LTrigger keys can be used in the keyboard settings menu to navigate between Normal, LTrigger and RTrigger compose mapping.

CreatDir 3.80 (Download)
Developer: Mirzab14
Creates all the necessary folders on your memory stick without formating it.

• Support for the 3.80 M33 custom firmware.
• Alternative VSHMenu 3.5 (Download)
• Developer: Red_Squirrel
• A plugin that offers an onscreen menu for configuring your PSP.
• Changed the disposition of menu lines to avoid to occupy all PSP screen height.
• Added a function to enable/disable M33 Network Update.
• Now when VSHMen begins, the button “Shutdown PSP” will be selected as the first. In this way the process of PSP turning off, reboot and standby is quickly.
• Added 2 new versions of the PRX: one of them is the Italian translation (by Red Squirrel) and the other is the French Translation (by Britix).

Satfinder Portable 1.2.1 (Download)
Developer: Pedro_J
A application that allows you to track most of the satellites in the air from the PSP. Great for night sky gazing.

• To determine the current position of artificial satellites and if they can be seen by the observer.
• To determine the current position of the stars, the sun and moon in the sky. We can use them for finding the satellites in the sky.
• To determine the position of constellations.
• To determine when will be the next times you will be able to see the International Space Station (ISS) in your hometown, drawing the path the ISS will follow in the sky.
• To determine which satellites are visible in the next half an hour.
• To determine the precise moment when the Sun and Moon raise and set.
• To determine when the moon phases will happen: 1st quarter, full, 3rd quarter and new.
• To determine the night starts and ends..
• To have a world map with all satellites drawn at their current position, showing up for each one if it is eclipsed or not by the Earth, and the path the ISS will follow during the next hour.
• To listen to an voice assistant that notify us important events, letting us not to keep seeing the PSP screen all the time. These are this events:
• The dusk and dawn, to know from when we can start looking for satellites and when not.
• The emergence of a new satellite above 0, 30, 60 and 80 degrees of elevation when there is no one with higher elevation. It is useful for long waiting times in the absence of satellites, which we can look away from the screen and wait while we look at the sky.
• The appearance and disappearance of the ISS, in addition to the time when it reaches its maximum elevation.
• In each notification also is said in what direction we should look: N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW and UP are the possible directions.
• Sunrises and sunset. Moonrises and moonsets. There are two notifications, the first one few minutes before and the second one just when it will happen.
• It has an installer for the PC that help us to easily install the application on our PSP, taking into account the type of firmware installed, searching the corresponding directory. It is called Satfinder Updater.
• Change the SatFinder settings:
• The possibility of changing the location of the observer using the installer (permanent change), or directly using the options menu in the PSP (temporary change).
• Ability to switch between day and night vision.
• Possibility of configuring the colors for night vision and for the daytime.
• Possibility of enabling and disabling the elements to represent in the sky (Sun and Moon, stars, satellites, constellations).
• Possibility of configuring the number of stars to be shown changing the magnitude limit.
• Possibility of using automatic magnitude limit adjustments.

Kosmodrones 1.02 (Download)
Developer: Abhoth
Another side scrolling shooter.

• New race level
• PSP Slim support

Icon KillerZ 1 (Download)
Developer: VettaCossX-AlphA
A popular games’ icons game based on the PSP Dungeons 3D engine. In this release you go against Mario.

Reminiscence PSP 0.1.9.3.80 (Download)
Developer: Sektor
Port of Flashback: Quest for Identity.

• Compatible with 3.80 M33 firmware (should work on slim PSP)
• Added analog nub support
• Fixed a bug that made cutscenes always display in English even if French was selected
• Removed power and credit cheat since it caused crashes and it was useless
• L & R no longer quick/load save since they could be pushed accidentally

Wormstation 2.0 (Download)
Developer: Jbskateur
A mutiplayer game that allows two worms to shoot the lights out of each other in a bathroom.

OpenTTD 0.5.3 (Download)
Developer: Jaime Pe alba
A port of Transport Tycoon Deluxe for PSP. It requires files from the original game for Windows to run, which you need to get yourself.

• Code updated to be Slim and 3.xx firmwares compatible
• Code updated to 0.5.3 to be able to play on latest online servers
• Game crash while playing background music fixed
• Bug from last resize of replace trains window fixed
• Windows can now be dragged out of screen limits, to be able to see windows which exceeded the screen height, such as the patches configuration dialog, just hold square pressed over a window to move it
• Place Tree window now is displayed inside screen limits
• PSP dedicated server upgraded to 0.5.3

PSP UAE4All 2008-01-16 (Download)
Another Amiga emulator for the PSP.

• Based on latest Chui s Dreamcast UAE4ALL and notaz s uae4all gp2x v0.7.2a optimized blitter routines;
• Maximum speedup hacks using single precision math hardware support;
• full screen hardware scaled support;
• Fixed Overclock to 333 MHz while emulating, 222 MHz in menu;
• Only 546KB kernel build version (1.7MB user mode build).

ScummVM 0.11.0 (Download)
Developer: ScummVM Dev Team
A emulator for the SCUMM scripting language

• New Games:
  • Added support for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.
  • Added support for Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus.
  • Added support for I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream (demo and full game).
  • Added support for preAGI game Mickey’s Space Adventure.
  • Added support for preAGI game Troll’s Tale.
  • Added support for preAGI game Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood.
  • Added support for Amiga version of Waxworks.
  • Added support for Lure of the Temptress.
• New Ports:
  • Added iPhone port.
  • Added Maemo port for Nokia Internet tablets.
• General:
  • Added ARM assembly routines for code in the sound mixer and SCUMM video playback, resulting in some nice speedups on several ports.
  • Improved the way keyboard input is handled internally, resolving some odd quirks in some game / port combinations.
  • Added optional ‘confirm exit’ dialog to the SDL backend.
  • Added support for TiMidity MIDI server.
  • Added DMedia MIDI driver for IRIX.
  • Improved detection of new game variants and localized versions.
  • Completely reworked internal access to files. (GSoC Task)
  • Added option to delete games from the list with Del key.
  • Added support for ” /” prefix being substituted by HOME in paths on POSIX systems (Linux, Mac OS X etc.).
• AGI:
  • Added support for AGI256 and AGI256-2 hacks (GSoC Task)
  • Added support for Amiga menus and palettes (GSoC Task)
  • Better support for early Sierra AGI titles
• AGOS:
  • Fixed crashes related to OmniTV playback in The Feeble Files.
  • Improved work on 64-bit systems.
• Broken Sword 1:
  • Added support for FLAC encoded music.
• Kyrandia:
  • Added support for Macintosh version.
• Parallaction:
  • Added support for Amiga version of Nippon Safes, Inc.
  • Many bugfixes
• Queen:
  • Added support for Adlib music.
  • Added missing music patterns playback in Amiga version.
• SCUMM:
  • Added subtitle skipping (via ‘.’ key) in older games which didn’t have this feature so far (e.g. Zak, MM, Indy3, Loom).
  • Added support for Chinese COMI.
  • Better support for eastern versions of games.
  • Various fixes for COMI and other games.
  • Added support for original save menus (browse only). Use Alt-F5 to activate.
  • Added support for Spanish version of NES Maniac Mansion.
  • Better support for German version of C64 Maniac Mansion.
  • Fixed bug with cursors in Windows versions of Humongous Entertainment games.
• SAGA:
  • Added support for compressed sound effects, voices and music.
• Touche:
  • Added workarounds for some glitches/issues present in the original game.

Protect-Me 4.9 (Download)
Developer: maxthebest
A plugin that allows you to lock your PSP from other users.

• Added FRAISE icon0 and pic1!
• Added on screen keyboard to the installer
• Now the installer CREATES the PSP and SYSTEM directories if
• they don’t exist (it used to crash if they did not exist).
• Now the prx displays a message when you log with correct password,
• and displays another one if you entered a false password.
• Corrected some little bugs…
• Now you can go directly from A to Z
• At the beginning the password is ” ” instead of ‘aaaaaaaa’. (but this doesn’t change anything…)

PSP Tools 0.1A (Download)
Developer: Darksidious
Several important maintenance utilities packaged into one application.

• Pandoriser / Depandoriser your battery
• To format your Memory Stick to create a Pandora
• Write msipl.bin on your Memory Stick (needed for Pandora)
• Sauveguarder register
• Restoring the registry previously recorded
• Delete config.se which puts the default configuration
• Format flash1
• Delete Internet history
• Create files on the important ms0

Shoot the Warriors 0.2 (Download)
Developer: xevious78
A shooting game where you gun down random objects on the screen. The score consists of your speed and accuracy.

• Adding Levels 4 BOSS
• Adding to its when you pull
• Addition of a pause in (Tap start)
• Deletion of a score already going into the game
• News of the next version:
• Adding levels
• Added management Analog Stick
• Addition of a background music

Tux Game 0.1 (Download)
Developer: Jack
A simple applications that allows you to walk around a town. There is not much to do yet, but many features are planned.

Wake2up 0.1 (Download)
Developer: Poison_xtreamlua
A French application turns your PSP into an alarm clock.

Charge Control 0.1.0 (Download)
Developer: Welyall
A useful plugin that allows you to disable charing of your battery when plugged into the charger. This allows you from overcharging and damaging the battery.

• Buils for 3.7x and other firmwares
• [ALL] Works at low priority and combinations are checked one time every second
• [ALL] It’s possible to enable and disable battery charging immediately

PReSS 0.2 (Download)
Developer: The Underminer
RSS reader for the PSP that supports text feeds and images.

• Image full screen - Handy for comics or another way of browsing topics
• Added Newly Added category under catalogue
• Add links to browser bookmarks
• Auto-update
• Font size
• Hide feed view
• Feed update combo
• Next unread combo
• Faster saving/loading feeds
• Fixed leftmost pixel column bug: the leftmost column is simply not blitted anymore, which would display improperly sometimes
• Added activity indicator for feed download: if it doesn’t move for 5 seconds; it never will
• Parallel feed downloading cuts waiting time
• Improved unreadable character replacement

PSPVICE 1.2 (Download)
Developer: Christophe
Commodore 64 emulator for the Sony PSP. You need this to run applications like the Moon Rise-Set Calculator.

• Support huge ZIP archives.
• Support GameBase64 format (V05).
• Tool for recompressing GameBase and save lot of memory of PSP stick.
• Speed up zip parsing.

PSP Quake 1.1 (Download)
Developer: jurajstyk
A port of the famous original first person shooter, Quake 1, for the PSP.

• Fixed bug that prevented changing sky texture between levels (HW rendering only)
• Fixed z-buffer related bug when rendering sprites (HW rendering only)
• Added options to turn on vertical synchronization and dithering (HW rendering only)
• Reorganized options menu (Select ‘more options’/'less options’ to switch options list)
• Added more options for analog stick controls
• Added analog stick strafing (while you hold stafe button or always if allowed options menu )
• Configurable heap size
• MP3 playback changed from madlib library to playback trough module in firmware
• New command line options
• Simple startup screen to choose game mod directory, heap size and cpu clock (use -prompt command line option)

No Bull Moose 0.2.1 (Download)
Developer: Archaemic
Allows you to convert progressive JPEG images to baseline JPEG images.

• [Feature] In place converting of ZIP and RAR archives (sorta)
• [Bugfix] Fixed a crash if a ZIP or RAR is specified in the current directory

PSPTube 20080114 (Download)
Developer: SofiyaCat
A media player that supports most of the popular online video sites.

• Dailymotion settings that are not logged out and search. -> fixed in version 20080114
• Play stopped immediately after the play and stop play immediately after the freeze. -> Press gently -> please. -> fixed in version 20080114