Apple have always said that the Apple iPhone, backed by the vast collection of games found on the AppStore, will dominate the mobile gaming market. Sony, the creators of the Playstation Portable, disagree and have released a new advert that mocks the iPhone as it doesn’t play ‘big boy’ games like the PSP. You can view the ad after the break! Read the rest of this entry »
It is rumored that Sony are going to be debuting the PSP 2 at E3 this year. Everyone is excited to see what Sony have got up their sleeve to ensure they keep the handheld gaming market from the iPhone and iPod Touch. VG247 claim they have received some details about the new PSP 2. Read the rest of this entry »
Custom theme converter is an application used to create XMB Theme’s for the Sony Playstation Portable, and Sony has recently released a new version of it.
Here’s a quick fun little screenshot with no real purpose. It seems that between snapping sarcastic comments to everyone but still saving peoples lives, he spends his time playing the PSP Go! Read the rest of this entry »
Drama on the PSP homebrewing scene once again. This time it’s between FreePlay and Fanjita. The exploit that FreePlay released earlier today was infact not his and against the original creator, Fanjita, wishes, he released it to the public. Read the rest of this entry »
FreePlay was the first person to manage to hack the PSP Go. He managed to get a ‘Hello Word’ exploit working on it and he has now finally released it to the world for us to try.
The exploit itself sparked A LOT of debate about whether or not it was real. I’m guessing it was released to try and stop all the arguing. However there is also bad news. Sony heard about the exploit and have patched it in their latest firwmare 6.20. Read the rest of this entry »
Team Typhoon, the creators of the ChickHEN exploit that has allowed PSP 3000 to use custom firmware, have manged to get their HEN exploit working on the new PSP Go!
They have released a show-off video proving that it works BUT they are not going to release it for unknown reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
MaGiXieN, one of the members of the GENyUS team who create the GEN custom firmwares for the PSP, has come forward and apologized for all the problems created by the 5.50GEN-C custom firmware release. The firmware was buggy and caused quite a few people’s PSPs to freeze up. Some found that reformatting the Flash1 fixed it so if it’s happening to you, try that! Read the rest of this entry »
The GENyus PSP hacking team have announced that they are going to be releasing there newest version in the 5.50GEN series bring it to version C. Read the rest of this entry »
Bad news for CFW 5.50GEN-b users I’m afraid. If you have tried accessing the PlayStation store and come up with the following error:
You will now the Sony have started blocking CFW 5.50GEN-B users from accessing the PlayStation store. Read the rest of this entry »
MaGiXieN is a well respected member of the PSPGen.com community. To silence all the doubters of Freeplay’s hack of the PSP Go, he has posted a video demonstrating the hack as well and proving that is a 100% real hack.
As has been explained a few times, the exploit does not (yet) allow access to the kernel which means no CFW as of yet.
Long thought as speculation, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is coming to the PSP, and the first trailer was released.
There have been quite a few doubters following FreePlay posting a video of the PSP Go being hacked. So, to silence these doubters, he has posted another video showing the exploit on every other model of the PSP out there (1000, 2000, 3000 and the PSP Go!). Read the rest of this entry »
Hello World! A meer two days after the PSP Go! is released to the world, it has already been hacked by the elite in PSP hacking. The one behind this hack is called FreePlay.
This is more of a proof of concept thing because as the PSP may be hacked, it is complicated to do and has some problems that need to be fixed before (if) it is released. Read the rest of this entry »
YoshiHiro to the rescue. According to some sources, the PSP coder YoshiHiro is working on and close to completion of an app which allows you to play new games requiring higher firmwares than your PSP has i.e. the Gran Tourismo game requires 6.00 however this app would allow you to play it on 5.00m33 or 5.50GEN-a! Read the rest of this entry »
