Shinobi III On Your iPhone
I spent many an hour and many a quarter on Shinobi back in the day and now I can spend just as much time (but not as much money) playing it on my iPhone. Sega has just released the great Genesis/Mega Drive classic to the App Store. The controls as great and the game play [...]
Sony 1 – Geohot 0
Remember the decision from a few weeks ago where a judge didn’t think they had jurisdiction to decide on the fate of jailbreaker George Hotz, aka Geohot? Well, Sony has finally seen their day in court and has managed to win a restraining order against Geohot. We all know that once you put something on [...]
Yet More PSP Phone Leakage
In probably the worst kept secret of 2010 and 2011 the Sony Xperia, or PSP Phone has seen more press time than any other product I can remember and it hasn’t even been officially announced or acknowledged yet. This isn’t new for Sony – remember the PSP Go or the PS3 Slim that hit the [...]
Sony Could Remotely Disable PS3s
Now that the PS3′s key have been leaked, its open territory for homebrew and hacking. Many people have been wondering what type of action Sony will be taking to combat this so called “piracy”. We have seen how ruthless they are with the PS3′s little brother the PSP and it’s no doubt that they will [...]
PSP Phone Caught On Video
Last week we showed off some video of the yet to be announced PSP Phone (which has been dubbed the Xperia Play). Now we have stumbled on some video of the actual unit in action. Funny enough the above video shows the unit running an Android app called ROM Buddy PSX, which is a PSOne [...]
PSP Keys Hacked
First is was fail0verflow crippling the PS3 security and now Mathieulh has revealed that he has found the KIRK encryption/decryption keys that are used to sign PSP code. What does all of this mean? Much like the PS3 keys that were discovered last week during a presentation at the CCC, any piece of software for [...]
Video Of The Playstation Phone
We talked about a Japanese newspaper reporting on the details of the new PSP Phone last week and now we have stumbled across some nice and clear video of the unit running. YouTube user “xxmajstor” displays this Android powered beatuty. More reason to drop my iPhone and move to the new PlayStation Phone This video [...]
PSP Phone This Spring
We have been hearing about Sony’s Playstation Phone for quite a while now, and today Asahi Shimbun which is one of the largest newspapers in Japan reported that the device which is supposedly based on the PSPgo will be released in the coming spring. If you believe the report the units will hit the US [...]
Emulate a PSP on Your PC
PCSP – the PSP emulator for Windows just got an update to 0.3.0. Although most games don’t work properly yet it’s a step in the right direction. The latest upgrade brings an overhaul to the graphic engine which now renders textures better and speeds gameplay. Some of the major changes include: Plenty fixes on GE [...]
Modded PSP Includes LEDs, Camera And More
What do you get when you take a stock PSP Slim 2000 and add a second joystick, 32GB of flash memory, a second port for charging, and a built in camera? A usable PSP, that’s what. Of course the unit is running custom firmware so you can easily run every emulator under the sun and [...]
PSP GO FW 6.10 Hacked?
A video that has been flowing around the inter-tubes shows a PSP Go running firmware 6.10 running a Genesis Emulator. This can only mean that the Go’s 6.10 firmware has been hacked, no? According to PSP Hacks …. Good News! – Well Neon says it is and if this video is anything to go by [...]
PSP Go Gets Patrially Owned
What’s the thing been out for? 4 or 5 days? and it already has been partially owned. This has to be a record somewhere. It looks like your typical save game exploit, but it also seems that it doesn’t allow enough access to the hardware yet to install something like custom firmware. If the great [...]
SNES Controller Mod For The PSP
A crafty hacker received a request to adapt a SNES controller to a PSP. The requester has limited use of one hand which made the PSP controls to difficult for her to use, but she had no problem playing with an SNES controller. Born from that request is this clean mod. A port in the [...]
PSP 5.0 Firmware Hacked
Is there anything that hacker Dark_AleX can’t do? I mean just a mere 2 days after Sony releasing version 5.0 of it’s firmware for the PSP he has gone and thwarted the security measures. This will allow people to update their PSP without the fear of losing and homebrew functionality. 5.0 brings some useful features [...]
DarthCast
Looks like Ben Heck has been raising some crafty apprentices. Only a few months after Ben Heck Forum member hellraizer churned out an impressive portable Nintendo 64, he has struck again by crafting an handheld Dreamcast using a Lazer Doodle shell like he did with the N64. Inside the chassis he jammed a Dreamcast, Quantam [...]
