Good News! – Well Neon says it is and if this video is anything to go by then we may be inclined to believe him. The video shows a PSP Go running a Genesis Emulator and the hack is apparently a kernel level exploit.

Now for the bad new, Neon says he has no plans on releasing the hack, whether he is just playing hard to get is not yet apparent but it will no doubt lead to many pessimists insisting that the cake is a lie.

So what’s your take on things? Do you think we’ll be enjoying 16GB of internal CFW goodness in the near future or is it just wishful thinking?

A good laugh is always healthy… Stay in good health; check this Mega64 video.

I bet this’ll happen, or something vastly similar, to some kid somewhere come Christmas morning. Hopefully it gets YouTubed too.

Released to legitimate/licensed PSP developers is firmware 6.00 beta. It’s clear Sony has taken the motherly role in protecting their newborn: the PSPgo. PSPGEN, who we all know and trust, shed some light on the 6.00 situation…

Sony has no doubt performed a serious firmware audit plugging all known vulnerabilities — even unpublished kernel exploits — found in the current firmware versions, which of course leaves their new hand-held much harder to hack; or any [newer] PSP that is upgraded to 6.00+ for that matter. Those are the details we know right now. We’ll keep you posted.

- source: pspgen

To coincide with the gutting of the PS3 Slim; levelup.cn gets deep inside the PSPgo. Here are some pics:

       

For the rest, you know what to do…

- source: levelup

From GamesCom MaGiXieN shares video evidence of PSP Firmware 5.70. Will the PSPgo be shipped with said firmware? It’s possible, who knows…

Now I only speak un peu français, so I have no idea what you’re looking at in terms of XMB items and such. Nonetheless, here it is…

- source: pspgen

The fortunate folk at Eurogamer got their hands on a PSPgo pre-release model… So here’s the inside scoop straight from the source –

The pre-release sample of the new hardware arrived with an unreleased firmware revision: 5.70. This may or may not be the system software that ships with the retail unit coming on 1st October. 5.70 does feature a number of changes over the current 5.51 operating system.

Not surprisingly, it’s the Settings area of the XMB that gets the lion’s share of the changes:

• Network Update is now listed as System Update, but, curiously, has the same options.
• Video Settings obviously doesn’t have the first four UMD-related toggles.
• System Settings now has a “Your Birth Date” option (second from top), and a “Display Panel Close Option” toggle, which allows you to set it to either “Standard” (goes to a clock graphic) or “Enter Sleep Mode”. Also “Battery Information” seems to be gone, as do UMD-related options, but there’s a “Format System Storage” option in addition to the usual Memory Stick format option.
• Power Save Settings loses the “Backlight Auto-Adjust” option for some reason.
• There’s a new “Bluetooth Device Settings” entry, which consists of a toggle for switching Bluetooth on and off and a “Manage Bluetooth Devices” entry.

Hooking up the PSPgo to a Mac via USB, we find that the total available storage available to the user is 14.74GB, formatted in the FAT32 configuration (hence introducing a 4GB file-size limit).

Sony has opted out of using a conventional USB cable format on the new handheld. The PSPgo itself uses a wider, thinner connector for the console, terminating in the standard USB connector. So, similar to the iPhone and iPod Touch, it’s proprietary cable time. It also appears as though Sony has moved away from the old AV port that debuted on the PSP-2000 – there’s a common-or-garden 3.5mm stereo jack connection for headphones only, not the more traditional extended interface with its support for external remotes and the like.

That’s the gist of things. For the full article, follow the source. It’s a good read.

- source: eurogamer

First and foremost… Merry Xmas from us at PSP Hacks. We hope you all have a safe and happy holiday.

On top of that… ZX-81 playing the Santa Claus role by wrapping up various homebrew emulators, apps, and games in four virtual packages. So crack open those brand new PlayStation Portables, or grab your old one, and start loading up that memory stick.

Download ZX-81 Xmas package:

PSP Board Games — PSP GNU Chess, PSPGo, PSPMancala

PSP Homebrew Apps — PSPWrite, afkim, PSPFTPD, PSPIRC, PSPPoste, PSPVNC, PSPSSH

PSP Calculator Emulators — TI-92, X48

PSP Emulators & Old School Stuff — Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 800, Caprice32, ColecoVision, Intellivision, MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+, SamCoupe, Thomson TO7, Texas instruments TI99, Sinclair ZX81

- source: ZX-81’s web site