Hey, you… You like fighting games? Do you have Fight Night Round 4 for the PS3 or Xbox 360? What about Tekken, are you a Tekken fan? Wanna get your ass kicked for a chance to win? Ok, no more questions… Here’s the deal: KO (or TKO) my buddy and me consecutively in FNR4 — you win. If you have what it takes to beat the two of us — Mortal Kombat endurance style — you take home a free copy of Tekken 6 for the PS3 or PSP or Xbox 360. Your pick.

Here’s how it works:

1. It’s going down on Saturday, January 9, 2010 between the hours of 12:00 pm and 5:00 pm EST;
2. We have 1 copy of NAMCO’s Tekken 6 to give away for the PSP, 1 copy for the PS3, and 1 copy for the Xbox 360;
3. It’s first come, first serve…

   If the first contestant loses any of the two bouts, we immediately move to the second contestant, and so on…

   If the first contestant wins both fights, he/she gets first pick at Tekken 6 for whatever console and a complimentary PS3 or Xbox 360 skin.

   Then we move to the next contestant in line; if they win, they get their pick at whatever Tekken 6 copies remain.

   If no one wins at all or we run out of time, we’ll see you next Saturday and do it all over again with a new round of contestants and whatever copies/skins are left to giveaway;

4. We’ll keep you updated in real time on both Facebook and Twitter.

How to enter:

1. You must be a US or Canadian citizen;
2. Join our Facebook Fan Page or Follow Us on Twitter;
3. Post to the Facebook Wall or Tweet @dashhacks with the message “It’s on!” Remember: first come, first serve;
4. We’ll be in contact with you via facebook or twitter to confirm the spot and exchange PSN IDs or 360 gamertags; if you fail to show up on game day or you’re unresponsive, the next contestant in line will be contacted;
5. Again, we’ll keep you up to date on Facebook/Twitter.

You can read more about NAMCO BANDAI GAMES’ Tekken 6 — news & events, characters, new features, etc. — right here.

See you on game day!

- Tekken 6 Press Release -

Lets talk awesome… Lets talk Andy_maN & FuSa GamePad v0.3: Turn your PSP into a fully functional 12-button gamepad for your PC (XP, Vista, Mac OS X, Linux tested) and, get this — your PS3 too.

It’s real easy…

Launch FuSa GamePad on your PSP, connect via USB (to PC or PS3), and you’re set. Even more awesome, combine this with a dual nub-modded PSP… Wireless would be nice too. Is the go hacked yet?

FuSa GamePad Features:

• Plug N Play
• Does not requires any drivers
• 4-Axises (w/ switcher)
• 8-directional POV
• 12 Buttons
• Led indicating
• Adjustable configuration (via config.ini)
• Deadzone support
• Digital/Analog modes
• No conflicts with drivers (No more “PSP type D” – now it’s “FuSa GamePad”)
• Very easy in use (but find a time to read the readme.txt)

Download: FuSa GamePad v0.3

- source: foosa

I think the screenshot is self-explanatory… Zack’s Battery Warning Plugin — when your battery is low, you’ll know.

The change log answers all your questions.

Battery Warning Plugin v0.2:

• Fixed warning message appearing as white box on PSP’s using a custom theme
• CXMB compatibility
• Message now clearer to read
• Reduced memory usage to 256KB (as opposed to 1MB)
• Fixed warning message getting hidden by textures on certain games (still happens on some loading screens)
• Reduced flickering (somewhat, still flickers in certain games)

Download: Battery Warning Plugin v0.2

- release / discussion thread -

Oh, my bad… It wasn’t an M33 firmware check. It was a Slim (hardware) check. To quote NoEffex –

The author separated the slim and the phat builds, and did a hardware check. If someone tried to run the slim build on the 3k, it would not work, because it doesn’t pass the slim hardware check, and as such wouldn’t be able to fully utilize the 64MB of RAM that the 3k has, and is a lot slower.

So, what I did was simply remove that check and that way you can use it on your 3k (Or anything newer for that matter). It’s not GEN/M33, it’s hardware.

The 00’s are sooo M33; that said, my main man NoEffex has re-compiled and re-released 3 rounds of NJ emulators with the M33 check removed: the Capcom CPS1 & CPS2, as well as the Neo Geo MVS.

Simply said: you can now enjoy these classic arcade systems on your Slim (PSP-2000) or 3000 using custom firmware 5.03 GEN-C.

They’re notably faster than PSPMame, too.

Download:
CPS1PSP / CPS2PSP / MVSPSP v2.3.1

- source: mformature

Manga fans and OneManga readers — you’re gonna dig this… This is ChaoticXSinZ’s newest version of OneMangaPSP. Read your favourite and the best Manga direct from OneManga.com. Sure, you could use the PSP web browser, but that’s lame. Don’t be lame.

Known issues:

• Trying to quit via HOME button when a msg/net dialog is active won’t work.
• Crashing problems on Phat PSPs: At times when trying to go to next image it will never load and the loading indicator might spin forever or might look funny. The best thing to do is bookmark your page with the SELECT button then quit and restart.
• Only mp3 files can be used as background music. And they can’t be stopped/restarted as they loop forever.

To change up the track, rename any mp3 to music.mp3 and copy that to your PSP/GAME/OneMangaPSP folder.

Download: OneMangaPSP v1.0 BETA

- source: luqmanrocks.co.cc

I hope Takka improves on this… PSPMame (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) v0.4, which was released 5 years ago, has been re-released today with support for custom firmware 5.50. Sadly — it’s still slow. But here’s how it works…

Each arcade system is its own individual EBOOT; you’ll immediately notice the file structure representing that. For whatever system you want to play, create a “roms” sub-directory under each; i.e.) PSP/GAME/snk/roms, PSP/GAME/cps1/roms, etc.

Start the appropriate EBOOT and you’ll see a list of supported games.

Press O on the game of choice, and before pressing O for a second time, take note of the first line — this line represents the zipped rom file name and it should be located under the corresponding “roms” directory; i.e.) PSP/GAME/snk/roms/pow.zip.

Roms Googled separately.

Download: PSPMame v0.4 w/ CFW 5.50 Support

We got some other MAME emulators if you’re interested; check out TTYman’s PSP MAME4ALL. To me it seems more stable.

- source: psp-ita

One year in the making and our first post of 2010: Raphael’s JoySens version 1.5. A screen capture wouldn’t justify this type of plugin… So it’s good ol’ fashion book reading for you — no pictures, no video — imagination. Check the JoySens v1.5 feature list:

• It changes the axial mapping to a cubic (or other selected) form so that small movements don’t get recognized too early. This means that you can move cursors more exactly and don’t have it jumping around on the screen. Also, this greatly reduces and fixes the ‘ghosting’ of a faulty analog stick.
• It applies a sensitivity scale to linearly change the responsiveness (and maximal amplitude for values < 100%) of the stick. With this you can 'slow down' the analog stick.
• It filters movement of the analog stick so that abrupt changes are further smoothed (adjustable).
• It is possible to calibrate the analog stick so it centers properly.
• It is possible to rescale the analog stick so it returns correct ranged values (when analog doesn’t work in one or two directions any more).
• It allows to remap the DPad or round buttons to the analog, so you can play games that require analog input with a broken stick.
• It allows to remap the analog to DPad or round buttons, so you can for example control the XMB with the analog.
• It allows to swap analog and DPad or round buttons, so you can easily change control of your games from analog to DPad
  (or round buttons) while still having DPad (round buttons) input.

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SX, the ninja behind the engine that powers all those beat ‘em up games (or mods), has released a new version: OpenBOR v3.0 Build 2615. Mad fixes, mad improvements, and support for a couple new consoles have made its way into this one. I suggest you cat VERSION_INFO.txt for the complete set of changes.

There are a number of great mods utilizing the OpenBOR engine; go here, create an account and login, then go here — you’ll find ‘em all.

The download includes binaries for all supported consoles and computers. Enjoy!

Download: OpenBOR v3.0 Build 2615

- source: lavalit

Original Author: -lilfibz-
5.50 GEN Conversion by: Mudbone
5.50 GEN Black Mod: Diabelski Chojrak
Format: CTF for 5.50 GEN

Download:
Black Serenity 5.50 CTF
CXMB for Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN

- release / discussion thread -

Which way to the beach? Oh, nevermind — I’ll just AVEC it. That’s what you’ll be saying with Art’s new & improved AVEC GPS for the PSP. It’s now faster than ever, when it comes to rendering frames.

Both serial GPS and PSP-290 (PSP USB GPS) versions are included.

AVEC GPS V8:

• Optimized projection routines to render frames many times faster than any previous version. The search routines are not altered however, and this is where most CPU time is consumed.

Download: AVEC GPS V8

- source: qj