A blast of homebrew from the NEO Summer Coding Competition you may want to download and check out… And should you like whatever homebrew, vote accordingly. Click each app or game title for more information, any included screenshots, and of course to vote.

Apps:

PSPconsole v1.7 by Hotter

Do all this straight from the XMB…

• Quickly see battery info.
• Delete, cut, copy, rename, create, view properties of file/folder, set them hidden/read-only.
• View text files
• View and edit with hex editor.
• View loaded threads, modules files.
• Use alarm clock.
• Play C snake, Tetris, Pong.
• Sort your games and homebrews.
• Use calculator.
• View calendar.

DayViewer Beta 4 by Total_Noob

You know what’s up… We covered this one before… DayViewer adds the day of the week to the VSH.

Beta 4 changes:

• Added support for 5.03, 5.05 and 5.50
• Made code more dynamic, should no longer require an update each fw
• Improved the main code
• Improved flashing of prx on installer
• PRX size smaller

PSPTweaker v2.0 by ab5000

PSPTweaker is a multi-purpose app to perform various operations on your PSP, such as registry hacks, cleaning the system of temp or unnecessary files, and more…

PSN License Manager v0.40 by Light_AleX

Again, you know the deal… Learn more about PSN License Manager right here. Simply put: manage multiple PSN licenses of purchased content from different regions without deactivating/reactivating your console.

AVEC V1 – GPS Vector Map Viewer by Art

AVEC is a Vector map viewer capable of displaying and navigating maps in the common Polish format maps. The 1.50 kernel version can also receive location from a GPS device and display your location on the map. If the map file has street information, the program tells you what street you are in, or look up the name of a street selected with the cross hair.

The 1.50 version should be installed to GAME150. If you have a GPS setup for MapThis! it will be compatible since it uses the same GPS routines. The newer firmwares version should be installed to PSP/GAME352 or
PSP/GAME5xx, etc.

Games:

Random Shooter – Space Shoot ‘Em Up by Zack

Random Shooter is a PSP port of the game of the same name by parellelRealitys. With a few adjustments and enhancements. The object of the game is to achieve the highest score possible as you battle against an army of UFO’s. You only have one life, 1 hit and your dead. Classic retro style action.

My Snake Pet by leviadragon

My snake pet is a Tamagotchi. Instead of the pet there is Snake from Metal Gear Solid… I leave to your imagination how much this can be funny!

Portable Bubble v2.0 by Gefa

Just a few posts down… Portable Bubble is the Bust-a-Move/Puzzle Bobble clone.

Download:
PSPconsole v1.7
DayViewer Beta 4
PSPTweaker v2.0
PSN License Manager v0.40
AVEC V1
Random Shooter – Space Shoot ‘Em Up
My Snake Pet
Portable Bubble v2.0

Gefa is back with Portable Bubble v2.0… I said it before and I’ll say it again; Portable Bubble is a Puzzle Bobble/Bust-a-Move/pyBubble inspired homebrew game. The concept is simple: Blow bubbles from the bottom to the top in attempt to hit identically coloured bubbles. Form a group of three or more bubbles and them suckers are popped off the playing field.

Yeah, the video is from Portable Bubble v1.0, but you get the idea…

Portable Bubble v2.0 changes:

• Added two background musics (thanks to sakya);
• Now the game uses oslib (thanks to sakya);
• Frame rate is stabilized;
• Added a system of record for each level;
• First to play a level, is now possible to see a preview of that;
• Added two new level sets;
• Added the possibility to download new level sets from you PSP;
• Solved some bugs;
• Graphic improved.

Download: Portable Bubble v2.0

- source: qj

Gefa’s got a brand new homebrew… Inspired by Puzzle Bubble Bobble, I think that’s right… And also Rui Barbosa Martins’ pyBubble script, which is a similar clone written in Python, comes 100 levels of ball-blasting goodness — Portable Bubble v1.0.

You can create your own levels too — It’s real simple…

Once you’ve unpacked the Portable Bubble archive, browse to PSP/GAME/PortableBubble/lvls. Take a look at the default_levels.txt file.

Now, to create your own level set, simply create a new text file in the same directory and follow suit using default_levels.txt as a guideline.

The numbers 1 to 7 correspond to the different coloured balls, while the dashes indicate a blank space.

That’s it, that’s all.

Download: Portable Bubble v1.0

- source: psp-ita

It’s the game of Chess, written by Gefa in Python… This is the first public release. PSPChessGame is powered by Steve Osborne’s chess engine.

Download: PSPChessGame v1.0

- source: dcemu

While it’s not really a dictionary at all, PSPDictionary is no doubt one handy tool to have… Translate words or phrases from/to English, Italian, French, Spanish, and German.

PSPDictionary features two translation modes — offline and online. Offline mode uses the translations available from wiktionary.org; there are about 6000 for each language. Online uses any of the following translation services — langtolang, Yahoo! Babel Fish, or Google Translate.

So next time you’re traveling abroad, ensure your PSP is equipped with Gefa’s PSPDictionary. And maybe actual word definitions will make a future release. Till then, keep fit and have fun.

PSPDictionary v2.4.0 changes:

• Now the program is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
• Improved the offline mode, adding the support for the translations freely distributed by Wiktionary. Now there are about 6000 translations for each language. Besides for the offline mode has been added a new language: Latin.
• Some little improvements.

Download: PSPDictionary v2.4.0

- source: qj