Duey2k over at www.duey2k.com has many interesting and upcoming mods for many different consoles, including the PSP! Below are some screenshots from a LED mod - changing the wifi and memory stick activity LEDs!

Want to do this yourself?
Check out the tutorial here.

Enjoy! :)

Also check out our forums for further information.

For those who are using the Wipeout browser to surf the net, there’s been a simplifed on-screen keyboard developed in JavaScript to aid in entering URL’s a lot easier.

We have added a direct link to this JavaScript keyboard from our PSP Hacks Wipeout portal. If you’re using a different portal, then manually browse over to www.airscanner.com/wipeout.

Just a little news update - we’ve got some new homebrew apps & games in our downloads area:

• Arkanoid
• RIN 1.12 (Gameboy Emulator)
• Neo Geo v1.0 Emulator
• Maze Game

Keep in mind, these only function on firmware 1.0.

We’ve also got some new PSP UMD Movies available to purchase:

• Boogeymen
• Are We There Yet?
• Charlie’s Angels

Thanks to psphacker.com and ps2dev.org for these PSP homebrew releases.

loser over at ps2dev.org discovered a device called “lflash:” using a brute force style attack against all PSP I/O devices. This device allows block access to all 32MB of the PSP’s flash memory and it also opens up the device with read/write access!

This may possibly mean we’ll be capable of downgrading the PSP to firmware revision 1.0 - not entirely sure yet. Check back for future updates on this story!

Below is a list of PSP devices and their purpose: (from psphacker.com)

• flash0: - fat access - system file volume
• flash1: - fat access - configuration file volume
• ms0: - fat access - memcard
• fatms: fat access to memstick
• isofs: fat access to umd
• irda?: block access to irda port (doesnt support seeking), (? = any number - 0-9)
• mscm0: block access to memstick (doesnt support seeking)
• mscm?: error 0×80220081 (? = any number - 1-9)
• umd00: block access to umd
• umd01: block access to umd
• umd0?: error 0×80010013 (? = any number 2-7)
• umd??: error 0×8001B002 (?? = any number 08-99)

Firmware version 1.51 update is now available to us North Americans. This is the same as the JAP update a few days ago.

I’d suggest waiting to upgrade until further details are released. I’m under the impression Sony has discovered something in 1.50 that they wish to patch immediately.

If you wish to investigate further, you can download the firmware update from PSP Hacks -

Firmware 1.51 Update

Place EBOOT.PBP into a sub-directory “UPDATE” on your memory stick in the “GAME” directory.

i.e.) X:\PSP\GAME\UPDATE\EBOOT.PBP

X: = the PSP drive letter.

Let us know what you find! :)

The time has finally come! Wipeout Pure Gamma Pack 1 for the US (and North American) PSPers!

If you’re having difficulties downloading the gamma pack via your PSP and Wipeout, you can browse over to www.wipeoutpure.com and download the US gamma pack directly onto your PSP’s memory stick!

Simply hook your PSP up via USB and put your PSP into USB mode. Browse to the site, and upon download - using a Java app - it will automatically detect your PSP (if it’s connected properly) and download the gamma pack directly to the memory stick. Very fancy stuff!

Or, as an alternative, you can just download the gamma pack from PSP Hacks below:

Download US Gamma Pack 1

Additions include:

• Piranha skin
• Staten Park track
• Tigron ship

Team Xecuter has discovered an easter egg in the Sony’s PSP encryption. It’s nothing spectacular but it’s interesting:


.adata:0043DD96 loc_43DD96: ; CODE XREF:
.adata:0043DD8Aj
.adata:0043DD96 ; .adata:0043DD90j
adata:0043DD96 mov dword ptr [ebp+848Ch], 6675636Bh


6675636Bh = “fuck” hahaha

Check out Team Xecuter’s article.

Thanks Luke for this find.

Sony announced today at E3, Wipeout Pure and Fired-up will have downloadable multiplayer and demos for the PSP. Basically this means you’ll be capable of playing multiplayer games with one UMD. A portion of the game will be uploaded to the player’s PSP via wireless. It’s alot like the UMD swap hack but without all the hassles.

This makes me think that Sony probably doesn’t care about the UMD swap trick and won’t do anything to patch it up in future firmware.

check out IGN for more info

Our downloads section has been updated once again to reflect some of the latest homebrew applications/games and other PSP utilities floating around the scene.

What’s updated:

• PSPE Elf Interpretor (”PSP homebrew emulator”) v0.6
• PSP Gameboy Emulator (RIN) v1.1 final

Thanks to psphacker.com for these updates.

According to this article at IGN - the PSP will communicate wirelessly with the PS3 allowing it to act as a controller.

Quote from IGN:

“PSP won’t just be used for wireless file transfers — according to the official specs for the system, the PSP can be used as a controller for the console. Whether PSP will be used as a PS3 controller much is up to developers — the GBA and GameCube got along great together, and the PSP obviously has a lot more capable hardware to do interesting things than that duo. Whether PS3 developers enjoy that gimmick of a system with a full-color screen or else decide to stick to the more complicated PS3 controller configuration is a matter we will find out in time.”