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January 3rd, 2006, 00:19 Posted By: wraggster
The Unofficial PSP Magazine has been upgraded to Issue 3, heres what they posted was new:
The Unofficial PSP Magazine - Issue 3!!
New and improved! Reviewed: NFS Most Wanted, SOCOM, New Wallpapers AND MUCH MORE!! You'll have to download to see!
Download via the comments:
Just a side note, we are a bit slower tonight because our GP2X Site got slashdotted, seems that the mainstream wants some GP2X action and with us having one of the worlds best GP2X as well as PSP sites its giving us a kicking 
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January 2nd, 2006, 21:13 Posted By: wraggster
My friends at Lik Sang have sent me another Audio adapter for the PSP to review in my own special way, now remember i am like any other member of the public, im no expert, i dont give technical details but i give an honest verdict, anyway heres the info about the 2.1 subwoofer system for the PSP:
The 2.1 Subwoofer Speaker System features a tiltable stand for the PSP, a charging function, dual headphone sockets and subwoofer. The system can be powered either directly by the PSP or using a PSP power supply, which will also charge the PSP while playing your music, videos or games. Also included is a wireless remote control.
Heres an excerpt from the review:
The Adapter like the other adapters that are released can be also used to charge the PSP, but a word of caution this adapter wont work if you have the 4GB Hard Drive attached or bigger than the normal (meaning sticking out the back) batteries.
The unit itself is very light and to be honest you get what you pay for, it isnt the Build quality of the Playgear Amp but its sturdy non the less, the Speakers can be adjusted up and down to your hearts content, the unit also has 2 headphone adapters although why you would use them is beyond me.
Read the full review here --> http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/21subwoo...m-review.shtml
Thanks to Lik Sang for the review sample.
Later tonight ill do a comparison of all 3 audio adapters released for the PSP. 
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January 2nd, 2006, 19:22 Posted By: wraggster
valkyrie over at Meristation has posted some great scans of Splinter 4 for the PSP, Check the 4 out in full size via the comments
Thanks to everyone who pmed me this story
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January 2nd, 2006, 17:10 Posted By: wraggster
New information has been released suggesting that the Blu-ray disc format, which will be used by Sony on their upcoming Playstation 3 console, will have only one encoding for both the US and Japanese game markets. From the article: "Japanese reports are surfacing that Blu-ray disc will adopt a new region encoding scheme that will put Japan and the rest of East Asia into the same region as North and South America. If this region encoding applies to Blu-ray games, this would mean that PS3 games could flow easily between Japan and North America."
If the reports are true, there will be the following four regions:
Region 1: North America, South America, and East Asia (excluding China)
Region 2: Europe (including Turkey), and Africa
Region 3: China, Russia and others
Region 4 (null): no region specified, playable anywhere.
Let the mod-free trade of PS3 imports begin.
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January 2nd, 2006, 15:13 Posted By: wraggster
The first PSP News & Lik Sang Coding Competition was a great start to a series of competitions for the Homebrew and Emulation scene on the PSP, the winner of that Competition was indeed Deniska with the port of NOIZ2SA (v0.7).
This competition sees a top prize of the excellent 4GB Hard Drive by Datel
A decent prize for any Developer or infact any fan of the PSP.
The competition ends on January 10th 2006.
Full details can be found Here --> http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/psp30codingcomp2.shtml and questions etc can be posted here --> http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=15195
Thanks again to Lik Sang for supporting the PSP Emulation, Homebrew and Development Scene
Remember that it can be a new version of an already released game but that new version must not be made public until after the competition winner has been announced
8 Days to go, spread the word to your favourite developer
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January 2nd, 2006, 15:08 Posted By: wraggster
A new audio addon for the PSP has been recently released, its called the Home AV Arts Organisation (cool name eh), is it good enough to take on the Logitech Playgear amp well lets see, heres an excerpt from the review:
The audio unit can be turned off, or speakers on or charging so the unit can be used as a power charger. The unit has a pull down slot at the back which is enough for 12 UMDs, the speakers pull out and seem sturdy enough, the PSP fits nicely into the slot, which holds the console nice and steady. The unit has buttons for volume up and down, prev, next and play. Their is also a nice remote control with all the features of the buttons above. The PSP in the unit can be brought forward or satback.
Read the full review and judge for yourself here --> http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/homeavarts-review.shtml
We are always looking for reviews of any PSP Games, UMD Movies or PSP Accessories or even comparisons, if you have any then please post them in our PSP Review forum here --> http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=86
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January 2nd, 2006, 11:57 Posted By: wraggster
The latest Quake 2 Port to PSP update by McZonk:
Why is the headline #?$%& ? Because this time you have to read the text to find out what is really new in Quake II PSP and it is a lot. I have decided not to post news as often as I did before: That's a compromise, because i really thought about stop posting news. But I don't want disapoint the people waiting wishfully for the release.
But at first I want to thank everyone how wrote a nice comment in my blog or in one of the boards, you make me belive in the work. Thanks to everyone how buys a good game instead of playing iso rip. Thanks to everyone how writes homebrew for the psp, just one little word of criticism: do we really need more lua shells Thanks to everyone how supports the psp scene.
So what is new in quake 2. I added a lot of effects like sprites and beams/rays. Both effects are needed by the bfg.
There are tons of new stuff in the last days. But one word about Quake II PSP firmware 2.0 compatiblity: No. I talked to fanjita about the aviliable memory. This guy did an awesome work with the eboot loader, but Quake 2 will not run on 2.0. Perhaps if I reduce the memory usage (there is still a lot of memory wasting).
Another new feature is linear texture filtering. Nothing special because it is hardware based but it looks much better with it enabled. If the player moves it reduces the flicker of textures in the back and reduce the smoothness of textures near to the player.
The really impressing about the texture filtering is. That the png files of the screenshots are much bigger than before Because a 256 color palette is not enough anymore. I added a fade screen to the menu so you see the game in the backgound of the menu. Another senseless feature I added was the handness of the player.
Here are two more screenshots of quake. Without words and without sense 
And here is the big fish. As you can see in the psp hacking 101 episode 10 video, Quake II was not playable. You could only playback demos. If you don't have watched psp hacking 101, stop reading and watch it, because you can learn stuff, the show is funny and you can see the first Quake II video.
Rehbock, one of my testers and the designer of the small maps, mentioned out, that you can already start single player games with the help of the console. I added all stuff for movement and you can play Quake II now.
So I could release Quake 2 now, but there are to much bugs and I would get tons mails from people having problems and cannot read an faq. We already discussed the psp community is full of newbs. So you have to wait some more days.
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January 2nd, 2006, 11:49 Posted By: wraggster
An industry insider who goes by the name Fishie (how very appropriate) says that he got some hands-on time with Playstation 3 games in Japan and wasn’t too happy with what he saw.
From his comments:
PS3 Info Before I Head Out Of Japan Friday Towards Noon, Thats Tokyo time. Have fun waiting a while longer boys. No way that thing is coming out in March. The games just arent there and lots of other isseus I cant delve into right now.
Before you start thinking that Fishie’s post is, um, fishy, he has earned himself a tad more credibility than the typical poster by reporting dead-on facts about the 360 a few weeks before E3. Back then he called the 360 titles underwhelming and said that while there may be some kickass stuff, most people won’t be floored.
So, what does this mean for the PS3? Will it be a rocky starty or a delayed launch, or is Fishie just full of crap?
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January 2nd, 2006, 11:25 Posted By: wraggster
PSP Zones have released the first issue of what they say will be a weekly magazine for the PSP, heres the info:
PSPWeekly, the new weekly psp emag from pspzones.com has been officially released. Yes that's right, weekly!
It features, news, reviews, previews, cheats, tips and lots more every week directly from pspzones.com and the rest of the web!
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January 2nd, 2006, 11:16 Posted By: wraggster
Danzel has just updated his PSP Telnet application, Heres whats new in this latest release:
0.8a
– Fixed the irc bug I added in 0.8 (One whole line, the _only_ line that changed in the irc code between 0.7 and 0.8 lol)
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January 1st, 2006, 23:25 Posted By: wraggster
Zelurker the author of Raine has released a new patched version of Yoyofrs NeoGeoCD emulator for the PSP, heres whats new:
Version 0.5.3 :- Art of fighting is now playable
- Fixed the broken save states which oculdn't be loaded in most games
- removed the annoying error messages behind the game screen when playing in zoom1 mode.
- Added a binary for firmware 1.0 in the binaries package.
Version 0.5.3-fix :
- Just fixes the loading of unziped cd that I had broken in 0.5.3.
By the way I advice to zip *ALL* the games, unless you have a lot of space to waste, the loading lasts longer, but the playability remains the same, and you save quite a lot of space on your memory card !
Download here --> http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/neocdpsp.shtml
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January 1st, 2006, 23:17 Posted By: wraggster
FreakDave of Xbox Emulation and Gaming Ports fame has ported over Abombniball to the PSP heres the information from the readme:
<blockquote>About Abombniball:
Abombniball PSP is a PSP port. The original game was made by Martin Donlon (Akawaka),so all credits go to him. Visit his site on http://akawaka.csn.ul.ie/abombniball.php3 This game is released under the license of GPL.
Playing
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The objective of Abombniball is to defuse all the explosives on each level. As a ball, this would normally be a simple task, however each level is filled with traps and devious puzzles placed there by...oh...lets say "Dr. Y-Front", your arch-nemesis (he's very evil). These traps take the form of special tiles which disappear or do other nasty things.
Grey Tile - A solid tile. He never falls away and abandons you like all those other tiles. He's always be there for you.
Blue Tile
Green Tile
Red Tile - These all vanish after you leave them. Leaving a gapping hole in the grid and an empty space in your heart.
2 Tile - More caring and forgiving than those selfish color tiles. You can bounce on these submissive fellas twice before they vanish.
Blue Arrow - Rude fellows. Shove you in whatever direction the arrow is pointing.
Red Arrow - Even ruder still. They make you jump in whatever direction the arrow is pointing.
You defuse bombs by landing on the bombs square, however you can only defuse the bomb thats currently counting down. Trying to defuse any other bomb will cause it to explode.
Each level provides you with a certain amount of jumps, they are limit
so use them with care.
Controls (Analogue stick)
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Left - Move left
Right - Move right
Up - Move up
Down - Move down
(hold) X button - Jump
Abombniball PSP Changelog:
v1 initial port and release:
- ported to PSP
Known bugs:
- If launched through Fanjita's Eboot Loader 0.9, the game will crash while trying to quit with HOME. Just use the ingame QUIT instead
Things to come:
- Cheat support ?
Misc:
Tested on FW 2.00 and Fanjita's Eboot Loader 0.9
freakdave</blockquote>
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January 1st, 2006, 20:46 Posted By: wraggster
PSP RK has released a new version of the interactive graphical novel for the PSP,
Heres a Translated version via google 
* Like " the KM3_1_ " having frozen at the place where it ends with the under bar correction
* When recombining the CHIP to the FPK, the bug which does not move correction
* With the CharaId.tbl name the bug where voice of the キャラ of 5 letters or more is not played back correction
Looks like just a bugfix release basically
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January 1st, 2006, 20:34 Posted By: wraggster
Source Joystiq
In Yahoo's top product-related searches for 2005, Sony's came in at sixth place overall. The Xbox 360 came in seventh overall. The Nintendo Revolution and Sony PS3 were not searched for enough in 2005 to earn a spot on this year's rankings. Only one other electronics device (the iPod) outranked the PSP and Xbox 360. This is interesting because search activity is a raw measure of general interest in a product.
Is it surprising that the PSP topped the Xbox 360 as a search item in 2005? One interpretation is that search tends to be driven by advertising and word of mouth and that there tends to be more of it after a given device has launched. Since the PSP had more post-launch months in 2005, it's natural that it would outrank the Xbox 360. If this is the case, then the Xbox 360 has done nearly as well in one month as the PSP has done in nine months.
Another interpretation is that search activity is directly correlated to pre-launch hype. In other words, it's the pre-launch buzz that really drove Yahoo's search traffic. If this is the case, then the Xbox 360 underperformed versus the PSP. We can't know for sure unless Yahoo wants to release the numbers behind their rankings.
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January 1st, 2006, 14:53 Posted By: wraggster
Slow PSP new day so i thought id let you know that our Console Hardware News Site has been given a makeover and a fresh new emphasis, for a while it has been sitting and rotting away but now it will be the site for New Gadget, Retro Consoles and Clones and also Reviews as well as the Shop guides for each system (although theres lots to update there)
Check out Console Hardware News here --> http://console-news.dcemu.co.uk/
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January 1st, 2006, 14:31 Posted By: wraggster
Whats the hack that we want the most, maybe its to have full homebrew capabilities on PSP firmware v2.6 but maybe a hack that could have been released is one that most if not all of us want more than any.
That is...
A Region Free UMD Movie Hack or Software
We know that games are region free but its such a pain that we cant use different region UMD movies on our PSPs, in this day and age theres no need surely for region encoding, most of us have probably got multi region DVD Players at home and with the internet these days we can get our hands on titles worldwide so easily it makes sense to have region free.
Lets hope Datel release some freeloader type device so we can load films from any region and put a stop to the barmy practices.
Its one hack i would gladly pay for, come on Sony ....
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January 1st, 2006, 11:52 Posted By: wraggster
Zelurker the author of Raine has released a new patched version of Yoyofrs NeoGeoCD emulator for the PSP, heres whats new:
- Fix sound effects not working in aero fighters 2 & 3 (it was a communication bug between the 2 cpus, it's quite amazing that the problem was only in these 2 games !)
- Code cleanups for removing some of these warnings with gcc-4.
I don't think I will need to release anything more for neocdpsp now !
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January 1st, 2006, 11:39 Posted By: wraggster
I got a fantastic news submission last night, so here goes in full the submission:
<img src="http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=2118&stc=1">
A new version of Adventure Maker Free Edition has just been released!
You can download the new version (v4.2.0 - Freeware - No registration required)
from the official website: http://www.adventuremaker.com
The changes include:
- New PSP engine for better visual experience
- Integrity-check routines for error-free software compilation
- Added support for animations (animated GIF's)
- Added support for timers to go to other places after a given time
- Added semi-transparent background for the text messages
- Improved installer for loading the produced software on the PSP
Adventure Maker is the ONLY toolkit available for creating point-and-click
software for legal 2.x PSP's. No scripting or programming is required, and the
program is totally free!
The produced software is compatible with any legal firmware 2.x, and does not
require any system modification or hacking of any kind! (it is safe HTML-based
software that runs through the PSP built-in Browser)
What you can create for the PSP is:
- First-person point-and-click adventure games
- Interactive magazines
- Myst/Riven-like games
- Educational software
- Quiz games
- Interactive visits
- Tour guides (museums, sites...)
- Interactive presentations and brochures
- Interactive comic books...
..and any other pre-rendered point-and-click software!
The concept is very simple: you import your pictures (photos, drawings,
renderings...), you add hotspots to link them to one another, and you are done!
You can even create complex puzzles without any scripting: just create some
variables, and then make the hotspots or pictures appear or disappear depending
on the value of the variables!
To see a few examples of what you can achieve without any programming, make sure
to try out the free PSP games available at the following URL:
http://www.adventuremaker.com/games_for_portable.htm
You will find more information and tutorials at: http://www.adventuremaker.com
Thanks to the Adventure Maker staff for the rather great submission.
Those on 2.6 Firmware and below, why not try it and get back to us
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January 1st, 2006, 11:32 Posted By: wraggster
Source - Gamespot
This is the highest honor that we bestow upon a PlayStation Portable game, and with it we acknowledge the one game that stands out from all the rest as being the greatest, most highly recommendable game of the year. Sony's first handheld system had a strong launch, followed by a fairly typical drought of good games that lasted up until the very end of 2005. But with our eyes fixed on the offerings of the Tokyo Game Show, and the precedent being set by the end-of-the-yearbatch of releases, it's easy to be hopeful for the PSP's lineup next year. This year's lineup still had a few very noteworthy titles, and here they are.
Burnout Legends
Burnout Legends is the best racer the PSP has to offer, and any PSP owner should definitely check it out
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Liberty City Stories has its share of minor issues, but it gets enough of the GTA look and feel in there to be an exciting portable game overall.
Lumines
Between the beautiful presentation, the innovative gameplay, and the excellent single-player and multiplayer modes, Lumines may very well be the greatest Tetris-style puzzle game since Tetris itself.
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo
Fireteam Bravo effectively captures the spirit of previous SOCOM games on the PlayStation 2, making it easily the best shooter yet for the PSP.
Wipeout Pure
Wipeout Pure is a joy to look at, and it's viscerally satisfying enough to please fans of the series and new players alike.
And the winner is... Lumines
Lumines, the launch game from legendary developer Tetsuya Mizuguchi, has a noteworthy pedigree and the gameplay to back it up. The simple genius behind this puzzle game can best be compared to Tetris, and yet it doesn't just derive from what made the most classic of all puzzle games great, but brings its own brand of ingenuity to the table. Not only does it play well, but it looks and sounds sensational too. A strong soundtrack and beautifully rendered graphics only help to enhance this stylish and personable game. Though the PSP certainly has the strength to become the powerhouse of all the portable consoles, its greatest achievement this year was one of its simplest, proving that you don't need a lot of muscle to make a great game.
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January 1st, 2006, 03:25 Posted By: wraggster
What a year for the DCEmu Homebrew & Gaming Network, the network expanded from the original Dreamcast site to take in all of my sites and then with the server problems we upgraded to a Vbulletin Forum and now the forums actually serve as news forums for all the network sites.
The community is expanding at a massive rate with a total of 20 sites under the network covering all these consoles
PSP
Nintendo DS
GBA Micro/GBA SP
Nintendo Gamecube
Xbox
Xbox 360
Dreamcast
PS2
PS3
GP2X
GP32
Nintendo Revolution
Tapwave Zodiac
Gizmondo
Nokia N-Gage
iPod
Retro Consoles & Gadgets
We also have some of the Homebrew scenes best developers hosted here at DCEmu:
Chui
PSmonkey/Nexis2600
GPF
We are a network of sites who post news about Homebrew, Development, Hacking, Emulation and the Commercial side of each console, we never ever take the easy road and post warez or host iso loaders etc, the quickest way to destroy a scene is to do that so we keep well away from it.
This year has seen the emergence of the PSP scene and our PSP News site has enjoyed so many releases to a new console that it has been staggering, of late the GP2X has took over the billing of the scene with the most releases but that could change at anytime.
We have over 18,000 members now and looking at the stats we had over 4100 online at one time and thats pretty damn decent, some of the scenes we cover dont see much activity but we follow them regardless.
In 2006 we hope and well with a nutter like me running the place, this network will get bigger and better and hopefully one day the legal Homebrew scene will be looked on more favourable than it has been in the past, we can but hope
Of course even though i do a heck of a lot of work id like to thank Martin64 for hosting me and my server killing sites (yeah we actually killed a server), also Soully and DS69 and indeed all the staff and mods at DCEmu and the members and helpers who make my job easier, a big thanks to you all, it has personally been a year with some great ups (this network) and some severe downs ( losing family members) but its great to come home and emerse myself in the Homebrew scene, a scene ive followed for 9 years or more (im forgetful), ive had some crackin arguments (yeah those are fun) and made some great friends but its all worth it overall, just remember though without the developers and hackers and i suppose in a smaller way newsposters and webmasters/mods etc you wouldnt have your scene, so its always worth trying to say things in a correct way even if you dislike their work or release.
Ok ive bored everyone to sleep and im drunk anyway but HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
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