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February 27, 2008
Become the #1 PSP Hacks Homebrew Idol — of the World!

Posted by greg

Update: The contest deadline has been extended — please submit final entries by April 30th, 2008. Furthermore, PSP Hacks member, Donkey, has donated his fully hacked 3.90 M33 PSP with carrying case, car charger, and 2GB memory stick. The lucky winner will receive that plus the $500 (CDN) cash prize.


We at PSP Hacks truly enjoy the fine art of homebrew development. Over the years we’ve held several contests allowing authors to showcase and reap the benefits from their hard work.

Now it’s due time for another PSP Hacks homebrew showdown. Unlike previous competitions we let you — the player — be the judge. This time ’round there will only be one homebrew evaluator — that’s me.

All submitted entries will be posted and readily available for download; while other users feedback is certainly appreciated, I’ll be the one responsible for selecting your Global PSP Hacks Homebrew Idol.

Rules:

  1. Create a new homebrew app/game or PRX plugin that will blow mine and everyone else’s face off;
  2. Update your existing homebrew/plugin to feature something new that will blow mine and everyone else’s face off;
  3. Entries must be compatible with custom firmware 3.90 M33-2;
  4. Multiple updates/versions before the deadline (see rule #5) are allowed;
  5. All final entries must be submitted before March 31st April 30th, 2008.

1st place will land you $500 (CDN) cash OR a brand new PSP Slim + games/accessories equaling $500 in value — your pick. All other contestants will receive a complimentary kudos and a make believe participation ribbon.

If interested, send your creation to imgonnawinthis@psp-hacks.com.

Should you have any questions and/or concerns, please leave those below.

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168 Comments »

    Comment by Shadowkillerz
    2008-02-22 17:35:17

    Wow…It’ll be homebrew-competitiveness taken to the next level….with $500 cash of course

    Comment by djinc
    2008-03-03 13:34:16

    Well well well, $500 Canadian? Sounds nice considering the American dollar is basically worth nothing these days… Canada Pwnz!!!

     
     
    Comment by Bob
    2008-02-22 17:40:38

    the ppl who go to this site are the real winners- they’re gonna get 100’s of homebrew apps/games!!! cant wait. (i hope they’re good :D)

     
    Comment by Puma
    2008-02-22 17:43:45

    Is DA going to participate?? lol if so, why even try

     
    Comment by Ash
    2008-02-22 18:00:28

    we already know who is the psp hack homebrew idol

     
    Comment by Jaryth000
    2008-02-22 18:28:05

    Wow… Thats a pretty nice prize. Should stir up some nice competition!

    I fail at Programing (other then Visual Basic and HTML), so I will not be competing, but I wish all those talented programmers out there good luck!

    XD And I love that email!

    Comment by blaized
    2008-02-22 19:12:01

    i been usin vb for years and went to doin psp homebrew when last contest was here. not too hard to convert to from vb, same concept just a little different since its in C :)

     
     
    Comment by AK
    2008-02-22 18:51:00

    I’m waiting for mines and my face to get blown off :P Good luck to all the contestants ;)

     
    Comment by Billy
    2008-02-22 18:59:35

    SOMEONE MAKE A BETTER N64 EMULATOR AND/OR PS2 EMULATOR

     
    Comment by Jaryth000
    2008-02-22 19:34:09

    You do know… PS2 emulation on PC is just barely reaching playable speeds across the board, and you want them to do it on a PSP? Yeah, like thats going to happen.
    As for the 64 Emu, there has been a LOT of work put into that… and people do not seam to realize that, just because it can not play at full speed yet. It will come.. just be patient.

    Comment by calhau0
    2008-02-23 06:30:36

    but emulating ps2 on psp wont be so complicated cuz psp has a similar architecture

    Comment by Jaryth000
    2008-02-23 08:40:35

    It also has no where near the power. It just barely manages to emulate PS1…

    Comment by Guardian_Demon360
    2008-02-28 08:36:12

    WHA D’YA MEAN IT BARELY MANAGES TO EMULATE PSX GAMES.i never had any problems with PSXP games .well except on the obvious SECOND analouge stick.

    (Comments wont nest below this level)
    Comment by BrendanL
    2008-02-28 18:47:35

    The PSP isn’t as powerful graphics wise as the PS2, so therefore having a PS2 emulator would be completely useless seeing as it’ll only run at like 1 frame per second, and the PS2 uses DVD9 so the games would be huge. As for the N64 emulator, we have StrmNrmn. You shouldn’t trash talk the developer or the emulator just because it isn’t perfect yet. It’s very hard to code for the PSP. And besides, the latest Daedalus emulator makes Mario 64 playable. And there should be a revision on the Daedalus emulator later on this year.

     
     
     
     
     
    Comment by tim
    2008-02-28 00:35:03

    lol. Troll

     
     
    Comment by unknown
    2008-02-22 19:12:52

    ps2 emulator…..mmmmmmm

    now that would be nice….

     
    Comment by chewbacca
    2008-02-22 19:20:28

    if some1 cud create a psp program that allows UMD’s/PSP ISO’s to be read from the psp to the PS3 via USB cable, now that wud be fucking sweet, specially for us Phat PSP lovers!

    Just a thought thats all, just if u can play downloaded psp games from Online store and send um to ur psp, im sure theres a way of playing um from your psp ISO folder or somin…….

     
    Comment by fatman
    2008-02-22 19:34:45

    i rather would donnate the money to Dark Alex for makeign these awesome CWF´s and homebrew :)…keeep it up…and think about it ;-)…

     
    Comment by Mike
    2008-02-22 20:05:57

    good luck you guys and you rock psp-hacks.com XD

     
    Comment by eddib
    2008-02-22 20:29:08

    if the psptube guy releases a version that supports youp0rn.com, its a sure win

    perverts!

    Comment by 2wii
    2008-02-22 20:57:21

    lol, i like that

     
    Comment by XGOS
    2008-02-24 02:02:00

    lol…

     
     
    Comment by danny aka libertybenz
    2008-02-22 21:04:10

    Hey greg. YOU p0rn! hahaha yea that will “BLOW” anyone, anytime, off bigtime so i will make it.

    Comment by Loler
    2008-02-23 13:55:49

    Lol….all I have to say….

    Comment by lolwut
    2008-02-27 15:42:37

    lol indeed.

     
     
    Comment by The Underminer
    2008-02-28 11:46:08

    LOL once more

     
     
    Comment by Seraphin Eveles
    2008-02-22 21:08:21

    Wonder if Dark_Alex will show something…

    Comment by tim
    2008-02-28 01:02:40

    Of course not

     
     
    Comment by steve
    2008-02-22 21:37:33

    yes psp porn tube would win easy but i would like a wifi sniffer for the slim that has an audio alarm.

     
    Comment by Weiyuezz
    2008-02-22 21:43:16

    Dark_Alex has better thing to do than participate in this child competitions. With Dark_Alex and its teams, the only competition even worth the challenge is to compete with Sony’s developers.

     
    Comment by hydride
    2008-02-22 21:55:35

    the good thing is that everyone benifits…the winner gets 500 smuckeroo and us members get an awesome app or game(hopefully app).

     
    Comment by LastmanOut
    2008-02-22 22:03:52

    Could we have the contest changed to $500 bucks for some one who breaks the PS3 system with a “REAL WORKING USABLE EXPLOIT” instead??

     
    Comment by DepheCt
    2008-02-22 22:18:45

    I cant help but think this is due to no updates lately… whatever works =)

    Comment by Jay
    2008-02-22 23:54:30

    Shut up

    Comment by DepheCt
    2008-02-22 23:56:43

    Lawlz ZoMG JOO shut UPZ, L1|<3 WHO4!!!11ONEONE

    (Idiot).

     
     
     
    Comment by THE PHOENIX
    2008-02-23 05:21:54

    it would be great if any hacker make a psp internet connection via USB not wireless
    so any one who doesn’t have a wireless connection can play online and do many things on PSP that required a wireless connection

    Comment by 0CLY450
    2008-02-23 08:15:21

    Great idea. i’ve been wishing about a homebrew similar to this. i was hoping for someone to make a homebrew that can do this and also for a homebrew that will enable us to use the psp as a wifi device/adapter for the pc/laptop. so if ever our own wifi adapters fail we can use our psps as a backup wifi device. i know this is possible. ive been thinking about doing this but i dont have it in me. xD i remember that there was a homebrew that uses the psp for FTP stuff. i think that is valuable stuff for a project like this.

    Comment by CodyD536
    2008-02-23 14:00:43

    You can probably do that, its just the main problem is that the PSP would probly make the connection pretty slow :-\
    Another thing would be…how would it conenct to a phone jack…that would be near impossible unless you harware hack it, or plug it into your computer via usb, and then plug then computer into the phone jack…

     
    Comment by psphakr
    2008-03-24 23:44:22

    i would like an app that uses the psp as a wifi adapter thru usb that would be nice

     
     
     
    Comment by madness
    2008-02-23 06:06:01

    u will win if u make a firmware downgrader (make vers 3.71 for me :D)

    Comment by Jaryth000
    2008-02-23 08:42:16

    *cough* Pandora?

     
     
    Comment by aa
    2008-02-23 06:28:18

    march? hmm not a lot of time to get started

    Comment by greg
    2008-02-23 14:42:31

    i was thinking the same thing… it’s likely I’ll extend the competition depending on how it goes.

     
     
    Comment by BasicBoy
    2008-02-23 10:16:35

    If someone would code a Basic compiler with built in editor for the PSP that would be nice. Or it could be other programming language or a totally new one.

    Comment by MK2k
    2008-02-23 22:25:59

    Hey basic boy, just use dosbox and microsoft’s basic for DOS :)

    Comment by BasicBoy
    2008-02-24 11:21:31

    That is an option if you want to write DOS programs. What I’m talking about is a version of BASIC that will make programming the PSP a breeze, that is it can produce EBP files that can be run inside the PSP itself.

     
     
     
    Comment by Stond
    2008-02-23 12:46:26

    I can’t wait for some people out there to start entering apps I would like to see a Video app to allow yoou to play Divx video an your PSP without having to convert it first or a app that converts it if thats even possible I don’t know and who knowa this might gives us the chance to see if there is another Dark Alex out there besides the Orginal PSP King himself Dark Alex but I dooubt it since he was the first to hack the PSP he is the Godfather of PSP homebrew

     
    Comment by CodyD536
    2008-02-23 13:57:44

    If someone was able to make an old PC games emulator, theyd be sure to win. Say windows 95 or 98…
    Or make an internet browser thats legit and not crapped down…

     
    Comment by realsnakeater
    2008-02-23 14:18:00

    Damn… I wish i was a hombrew develper, such copmetiton never seen on any other psp site…

     
    Comment by ajdante
    2008-02-23 14:22:33

    another thing if someone could make a video player with a fantastic interface, good progress bars, easy graphical file manager and that can beat MTPlayer that plays mpg, wmv vid player currently(in very ugly way though) he might hav a chance ta win

    Comment by manny
    2008-02-28 00:36:04

    yeah someone should make that

     
     
    Comment by joey
    2008-02-23 16:48:47

    ok i will enter my game psp wars witch is a on line sever that will make it live and will be all based in a string hold war stlye and my version of degons if alowed sry for spelling

     
    Comment by Pirata Nervo
    2008-02-23 17:58:50

    Hello Greg, Im insterested in this competition, I’ve been making an application, and I guess I will release it for the first time because of the competition. Can I release it at any other forums besides psp hacks? I will send you the version 0.5 or 0.6 in 1/2 weeks.

    Comment by greg
    2008-02-24 02:12:50

    Yeah sure - that’s fine. As long as it gets sent to the correct email address.

     
     
    Comment by bladefinor
    2008-02-23 19:05:30

    I will vote for PSPTube!
    Make it better (much better)! :D

     
    Comment by mr.
    2008-02-23 19:23:33

    hmmmmm..someone should compile all the emulators on the psp and create one giant emulator…that would blow my mind ;)

     
    Comment by MAC99
    2008-02-23 19:49:00

    I guess this is the part where fans like me should wish to all PSP Kings… lol

    -I wish there be a psp homebrew that could emulate NDS hehehe…
    -I wish there be one that could play DivX movies (I know PlayerMT can but wish to improve it :-)
    -I wish there is a dictionary english to chinese with pinyin and voice translator … it be great if there’s one for japanese too.

    there’s more to wish… :-)

     
    Comment by Odin
    2008-02-23 22:18:18

    PSP flv player….*crosses finger*

     
    Comment by Tom
    2008-02-23 23:02:38

    PSPTube can play FLV’s. stick em in the faves folder :)

     
    Comment by silversurfer
    2008-02-24 00:29:50

    hopefully someone will come up with someway to downgrade 3.52..crosses fingers

    Comment by some guy
    2008-02-24 00:47:43

    r u kidding?

    PANDORA’s BATTERY already does this.

    Comment by LastmanOut
    2008-02-25 13:55:49

    Could be he has no access to make one or borrow one. After the battery came out, I don’t think anyone cared to continue looking for loopholes for exploiting and downgrading psp’s. Pandora kinda killed that, with good reason too.

     
    Comment by smalls
    2008-02-28 13:03:04

    LOL,LOL,LOL

     
     
     
    Comment by John
    2008-02-24 03:02:07

    N64 emulator,
    wifi adapter app
    A really beefed up SNES emulator

     
    Comment by diablo
    2008-02-24 04:08:45

    THINK WE NEED A PSP TORRENT CLIENT!!

     
    Comment by diablo
    2008-02-24 04:19:19

    think we need a torrent client and maybe an avi player for the slim

     
    Comment by nouseforaname
    2008-02-24 05:28:41

    may be a nice gui for the PSP filer. Something that would make it feel like a desktop. i know there is the File assistant but it can’t handle zip and rar. that would be nice. and another web browser(?) not portals.

     
    Comment by nouseforaname
    2008-02-24 05:33:44

    may be a nice gui for the PSP filer. Something that would make it feel like a desktop. i know there is the File assistant but it can’t handle zip and rar. that would be nice. and maybe a new another web browser(?)

    Comment by ramrod24689
    2008-03-04 18:39:26

    PSP FILER and IR SHELL 3.9 can handlezip and rar files

     
     
    Comment by zephroelectro
    2008-02-24 05:33:59

    If I were a decent psp coder, I would do either of the following things:

    - Make the NDS emulator run as good as the other completed emulators on psp.

    - Make a simple solution to plugging in USB storage and using it on the PSP.

    or

    - Make a multiplayer homebrew game that is to the equivilant of Heroes of Might and Magic 2.

    Now if Realtech VR would take part in this it would rock, I hope they have been noted of it. =D

     
    Comment by GM10125
    2008-02-24 11:28:32

    Do you guys know the Game Maker program that is simply a GUI to make games easily? If someone would create an app like that we would likely see a homebrew games explosion. By the way can I ask a question does this contest include PC utilities for the PSP? Not another Media manager but the likes of a Game Maker that can produce EBP files?

    Comment by zephroelectro
    2008-02-25 09:43:36

    heck, if someone made a version of Game Maker that was for making homebrew games via C or Lua or whatever it is, I would sure as hell pay for it!

    Only if it was as easy as GM is. Which being an interpreter of Delphi, im sure its possible to make the same type of PC app for making psp games.

    It would have to run under linux tho im guessing, because aparently testing homebrew apps directly in Windows is a bit of a bitch?

    I might be wrong, either way this would be awesome if it was done.

     
     
    Comment by ragtas
    2008-02-24 13:42:07

    I’d like somtehing like:
    - torrent client
    - rmvb player
    - good web broswer (with youtube support)

    I think of compiling fully functionable linux for psp based on DamnSmallLinux

    Comment by zephroelectro
    2008-02-25 09:45:19

    Sad thing is, most of the rmvb videos on the net are usually at a resolution which the PSP would have too much trouble scaling down.

    Your better off just re-encoding the rmvb files to mp4 ones.

     
    Comment by green
    2008-02-28 10:39:27

    WOW U STOLE ALL THE THINGS I WAS GOING TO METNION THATS RELE WEIRD??!!!

     
     
    Comment by zk
    2008-02-24 17:22:00

    it would be nice if someone got tvsp working with sound

     
    Comment by Sussex_Chris
    2008-02-25 09:11:40

    Im still loving the custom firmware online update thing!!!

    Also avi player would be cool!!

     
    Comment by sean
    2008-02-25 21:03:14

    make a dual screen psp!

     
    Comment by jimbo101
    2008-02-25 21:05:53

    a dual screen psp would blow all the competition out of the water

    Comment by lolwut
    2008-02-27 15:44:17

    lol, cause you can totally program a second screen on to the PSP.

     
     
    Comment by dzac
    2008-02-26 01:08:45

    possibly a app to run xlink kai on my psp so i dont have to jack up my router (again)

     
    Comment by ajdante
    2008-02-26 14:31:59

    a password protected recovery eboot so that no one can chnage ur setting or disable prx for ur hidden files, videos etc….

     
    Comment by doyle4
    2008-02-26 14:48:10

    i know theres already apps out for the pandora battery, but is there a program that can be installed to the flash so wen u insert the battery it gives u the option to press either X for service mode or O for normal boot? so u can have pandora battery all the time?

    Comment by zk
    2008-02-26 16:14:22

    no but if you install timemachine v0.1 start it up select install iploader and pandoras battery will work as a normal battery

    Comment by doyle4
    2008-02-27 11:41:01

    Cheers for that, wasnt sure wat timemachine was, ill give that a try.

     
     
     
    Comment by anonymous
    2008-02-27 14:19:56

    it would be cool if someone made an app allowing u to stream ur webcam on the psp through wifi

     
    Comment by ok
    2008-02-27 15:39:05

    I hope someone picks up the rosetta shard project. It was the best homebrew app ever in my opinion.

     
    Comment by Lee
    2008-02-27 16:27:42

    OMG there should be a MMORPG for the psp I will help if people teach me how to program 3d games!

    Aol aim - Leet413
    Email - leet413@aol.com

    Comment by Oo
    2008-03-04 10:34:40

    Just lol

     
     
    Comment by Topgun
    2008-02-27 17:02:51

    Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!! Rocket Jockey!!!

    A Rocket jockey homebrew anyone?

     
    Comment by DepheCt
    2008-02-27 17:57:49

    How about, DIVX on the psp? That would be great…

    Comment by Jim
    2008-02-27 19:44:01

    Naw that’d suck (jk, read on). How bout VLC on psp. Wouldn’t that be better? But rather then a player like ur suggesting I think, how bout a vlc codec homebrew that has all the cabibiltes of playing the formats but with the native psp player. This of course would have to have subtitle support for mkvs but hey, I’d settle for just avi compressed. Which reminds me. How bout a compresser homebrew. It would compress files stored on the psp based on the preferences set. Like mp3 192kb compress to 128kb. Just thinking. But I belive the end all be all for this contest would be a fully funtioning Firefox 2 or more importantly 3 (not gonna happen since it in beta) browser. Good luck to all u awsome programmers out there. Can’t wait to see all the great stuff you’ll cook up for us.

    Comment by hai
    2008-03-21 19:45:36

    Vlc doesnt use codecs.

     
     
     
    Comment by Jim
    2008-02-27 19:35:43

    So, where exactly will the entries be posted? Will they be easy to find?

     
    Comment by Jim
    2008-02-27 19:47:51

    Wow, can’t believe I didn’t think of this. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAKE APPS FOR THE MAC! Psp content manager and something like a video encoder would be the best.

    Comment by jo3_sum
    2008-02-28 21:23:55

    use virtual box instead

     
     
    Comment by GREG LOVES BOB
    2008-02-27 19:53:47

    The contest was extended because only gregs boyfriend entered.

     
    Comment by dm333
    2008-02-27 19:59:31

    i like the end date cuz that day is my b-day lol
    if i knew how 2 make homebrw apps/games ide do it… but sadly i dont have the knowlege that dax/m33 have

    Comment by jo3_sum
    2008-02-28 21:24:49

    thats my bday too!!!

     
     
    Comment by fatal
    2008-02-27 20:24:31

    i would love to see something like (psp media.prx) an all in one media plugin that when you press a key combo or better still,press the home button there are a list of options as well as EXIT,there would be mp3 playback like music.prx ,also music playback from wifi host,usb host,and best of all pspradio as a standalone option ,so you can play radio and your mp3s all from any location like vsh,game,game150,pops or psp web browser.
    ==============================
    play music from wifi pc harddrive directory
    play music from memstick directory
    play music from usb host directory
    play online radio from pspradio
    ===============================
    all as a single plugin

     
    Comment by fatal
    2008-02-27 20:35:45

    if all else fails ,can we have pspradio as a prx plugin simular to music.prx !!!!!!
    ===============================
    another top idea is a psp media player that can do all of the above as well as play vlc,divx and xvid at a decent speed.
    ===============================
    linux on psp would also be very very kool as you could no dout do all of the above to some extent running linux.
    ===============================
    last but not least …..

    remember {e}mulator (pc engine psp emulator)
    cant we have something like that,only with more emulation all in the one place ,say a nintendo emulator and a sega emulator that can run all of the already emulated systems.

    i hate the way the psp emulators are all different and take a little getting used to ,it would be nice to have them all in one place and have thumbnail pics of each game like snes tly.