Are your CTF themes not working with Miriam’s 5.02 GEN-A + CXMB? Try putting them through this CTF Convertor for Windows.

Drop your seemingly incompatible CTF theme(s) into the same directory as “CTF_Convertor.exe” and run it. That simple.

Download: CTF Updater/Convertor v0.3

- source: pspgen

By now you’re feeling good and no doubt digging custom firmware 5.02 GEN-A. Although, perhaps you were a little saddened when you learned CXMB was no longer functional… But that’s all changed; Miriam has released an unofficial version of Poison’s CXMB that is now fully compatible with CFW 5.02 GEN-A. So boogie on down and enjoy countless user contributed XMB themes all over again. You can find a bunch here.

Download: Unofficial CXMB for 5.02 GEN-A

- source: pspgen

Red Squirrel’s CTF Manager for Windows is an all-purpose tool for creating, extracting, and installing CTF themes on the PlayStation Portable.

You’ll require a few things before getting started: common_gui.prx, paf.prx, vshmain.prx — dump those using PSARDumper with whatever firmware EBOOT. As well, you need the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.

CTF Manager v5.00 changes:

• Possibility to create CTF themes for CF 5.00M33
• Possibility to extract file from a CF 5.00M33 CTF file

Download: CTF Manager v5.00

- source: psp-cheats.it

Over at PSP-Italia is ccpspita’s comprehensive proof-of-concept showcasing the MyPSP Touchscreen. Combining a little of this ‘n that — namely a RS-232 touchscreen and controller interface, a SIO cable, a hacked PSP Fat or Slim, and of course some mean lean coding skills — you’ll too have a functional MyPSP Touchscreen.

More photos are available via the source link.

- source: psp-ita

Play Super Nintendo the way it’s meant to be played… … Well, sort of… The F00 has crafted something so crafty, I’ll quote the mod master himself:

Some time ago I was contacted by a nice guy in the US. He asked me whether I would be interested in building a psp mod for his partner. She has limited use of one of her hands and as such can’t use a psp, but she can however use a SNES controller perfectly (I’ve seen it, its quite a talent). So he asked if I would be able to add a SNES controller to a PSP for her.

Well at long last here it is.

And in related news, you best ready your eBay auction paddles — the F00 is [soon] selling a collection of individually modded PSPs on eBay this week. Check the source link for updates on that.

- source: thef00.blogspot.com

Check out alien_x’s disassembled, splayed, and racked PSP… The end result: one fashionable PSP hardware development board. EBGames (or Gamestop) should setup a functioning kiosk like this. Wall mount that bad boy, man oh man… Pretty hardcore. Kudos, alien_x.

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Quoting alien_x –

Now, why is there no UMD drive? How is it controlled I hear you say?

Well the main controlling is done via a modified PS2 controller, that plugs in via the DSUB 25 pin connector, but also due to the boards plug and play nature, I could make an array of tactile switches to control it if the need arises. And for the UMD drive, I could implement it if it becomes completely necessary, but at the moment I am happy playing games from my memory stick.

I spent a lot of time on this project, and literally blood sweat and tears, so please tell me what you think.

This will be for sale in the near future as I need the funds for my new cnc machine build.

- source: qj

Stemming from gr8npwrfl over at ps2dev is a little black box prototyping the concept of USB to the PSP serial interface. No modifications to the PSP hardware — just hacked with piKey installed –

I currently have completed the USB mouse driver and a USB Keyboard driver. I am currently debugging the gamepad drivers for the XBOX 360 wireless gamepad, the PS2/PS3 wireless gamepad, and the Logitech Wingman wireless gamepad.

And to top it all off –

Now that you have seen it, I will also say that yes I have tested a USB hard drive on this interface and can we say Sloooooooooooow.

It was never intended to do hard drives through the serial port anyway, but I did it to say yes it can be done. Besides I had the driver code for a mass storage device.

Oooh-la-la.

For further technical details and whatnot, follow the source link; she’s an interesting read. Nice work gr8npwrfl.

- source: ps2dev

Equipped with a special version of piKey and the 360 Chatpad custom flashed, l0rdnic0 is keyboardin’ like no other.

Developed by Jean @ ps2dev, this hack/mod is fully functional with the Sony on-screen keyboard (OSK) and Danzeff’s OSK under AFKIM. Currently, for the moment, keyboard-enabled homebrew from ZX-81 doesn’t quite work; however, there is a more suited driver in development.

- source: acidmods

PSP CTF themes downloaded direct to your hand-held, all thanks to trobert94 and his freshly released homebrew. Currently 214 themes are available and best of all — no intermediary. You’ll only require USB for initial installation of this app. Connect, browse, download, activate — all via Themes Downloader version 1.0.

Themes Downloader features:

• French and English languages
• Display a little preview for each theme
• View screenshot of the actual size
• Downloading subject directly into the PSP/THEME/ folder
• Display faster and more responsive than in the browser
• Display name and authors of themes

Download: Themes Downloader v1.0

- source: qj

Update: highboy has released version 3.0 of his WAV to VAG converter. And if you’re uncertain how to flash the resulting “system_plugin.rco” file; I recommend using Xplora or PSP Filer. Copy “system_plugin.rco” to “flash0:/vsh/resource.”

Personally, I disable key tones or click sounds, whatever you want to call them. In any event, maybe you don’t, and just maybe you want to customize these chimes with extreme ease. Do that with highboy’s WAV to VAG (and vice versa) converter.

Remember: always create a backup of the original RCO file(s) first.

Download: Key Tone/Click Sound Replacer (WAV to VAG) v3.0

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