Here’s a brief walk-thru of the PlayStation Store accessed via the Media Manager on the PC.
Sony treat us today with the released of the new version of Media Manager for the PSP for “Free”, yes that was for Free now. If you don’t know about it, it was an apps that allows you to organize and sync your music, photos and other digital content. The new media manager also grants access to the PlayStation Store through the PC and is designed to accommodate the expanding functionality of PSP. With the recent PSP firmware (v 5.01) update which gives you direct access to the PlayStation Store and the new media manager you have multiple ways to get content and manage it.
And for those early adapter consumers who own the retail version of Media Manager (v2.5), you will be able to upgrade to the online version of Media Manager PRO (v3.0) for free.
Media Manager for PSP is an application you can download to a PC to manage content for use with the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system. Media Manager for PSP provides an intuitive interface
to purchase game content and to transfer content from a PC to a PSP system.
Here’s the official changelog for Media Manager v3.0:
* Access to PlayStation®Store is now available directly from Media Manager for PSP™.
* Support for Russian, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese has been added.
Everybody knows that the limited edition gun-metal grey PS may have been enough to satisfy a hardcore fans of the game willing to pay a premium for their console of choice but, what if you can afford to shell out more that a thousand dollars, just to own the only one of a kind PS3 in the theme of Metal Gear Solid 4, crafted by Morpheon Mods—aka, our buddy Ramon who was responsible for many, many other wicked console mods—the entire PS3 console and controller is a combination of carbon fiber and midnight black done in a digital camouflage technique and protected with nine coats of DuPont Chroma clearcoat. Added to that, the laser-cut stainless steel marquee artwork is illuminated by 15 white micro LEDs and Hideo Kojima himself was kind enough to autograph it together with Yumi Kikuchi. Btw, and there is a working backwards-compatible 60GB PS3 hidden in there somewhere as well.
Just a warning guys don’t expect any of that to come cheap, as bidding is already topping the $4,000 mark with six days left, As mentioned, you can actually purchase this beautiful piece of machinery on eBay along with a bonus bag of rare MGS4 gear like t-shirts, decals, dog tags, strategy guides—even a GA-KO alarm clock thrown in to sweeten the deal, not just you have a chance to own this master crafted PS3 console but remember 15% will proceeds to help the Child’s Play charity.
Damn good Job idol, Ramon..
Let’s make our mouth watery in the pix below for now or go to eBay and Bid now.
A freshly brew with added cream from Dark-Alex with the released of 1.50 kernel add-on for CFW 5.00 M33. Like the previous version this will go along hand in hand with CFW 5.00 M33. As the update of all apps running now in this custom firmware this will be your bet to run well all your homebrew apps filling-up your memory card.
Full installation notes are included in the readme document.
Get it Here:[download#5]
History:
Since a lot of stuff going on after the release of the OFW 5.00 last week and also the release of PSP Brite, here what’s new with: Dark AleX’s PSP custom firmware 5.00 M33.
• 4.01 to 5.00
• Bug fix: when changing speed in xmb, and the psp turned the brightness to 0 automatically the speed was reseted to 222 again.
More notes from Dark AleX are included in the readme.
Get it Here: [download#6]
-Dark AleX also did a quick respond in their forums, responding to some reported problems with loading PSX games on CFW 5.00.
Here’s his note:
Some people have noticed an error 0xFFFFFFFF appearing launching their psx games.
The reason of this is due to some converters like psx2psp using 32 bits depth when converting the png icon, and new pops only support 24 bits format.
In future versions M33 will check if the depth is invalid, and in that case replace the icon by the dracula one, anyways this is not critical, and an update won’t be released only for this.
If you want to make those psx games work in this version, reconvert them using popstation command line tool and using a 80×80 24 bits png icon. Alternativelly if you want to continue using psx2psp and you don0t mind about savedata icon being dracula one, go to options in psx2psp, and in icon0 select “Old default”.
He has also then released a bugfix for this PSX problem. For now, he won’t release a new CFW version just for this update, but for those who want a quick fix, here it is.
This is a bug in M33 code that is caused sometimes with certain icons. I’m not gonna bother do an update only for this but I’ll post the file that fixes this for anyone wanting to fix it manually replacing the file.
This also fixes document.dat not working.
Get the PSX bugfix Here: [download#7]
Dark AleX already explained from his site to the PSP homebrew community why the TA-088 v3 motherboard of the new Slim models can’t be hacked yet.
He even gave us a flowchart to boot. Now, he gives the Homebrew community the “TA-088 v3 identifier”, a simple app just to ease the craving of homebrew user with their new PSP-3000 to run a homebrew app. But the main use of this app is to find out once and for all whether your new “PSP Brite” has a hackable motherboard or not.
To run “TA-088 v3 identifier” follow the instruction (thanks to PSPHacks):
Copy each firmware EBOOT, both 3.90 and 4.05, to the root of your memory stick. Launch the TA-088v3 Identifier (GETIPL) from a homebrew-enabled PSP and it will extract and create the IPLs; if you’re good to go, the app should auto-exit in 10 seconds. This leaves you with an “ipl390.bin” and “ipl405.bin” file in the memory stick’s root.
Next, do this –
* Connect the PSP via USB.
* Format a memory stick with the included “mspformat” tool.
* Use “msinst” to install the 3.90 IPL onto the freshly formatted memory stick.
* Insert the memory stick into the PSP to be TA-088v3 tested.
* Turn it on with a Pandora Battery. Two (2) possible results:
o PSP immediately turns off — your PSP is NOT equipped with a TA-088v3 motherboard.
o PSP stays on with the green light — your PSP is a TA-088v3, or perhaps you’ve done something wrong. Continue…
* Connect the PSP via USB again.
* Repeat the above steps with the 4.05 IPL. Again, two (2) possible results:
o If the PSP turns off immediately with this IPL and it previously remained on with the green light — this indicates a TA-088v3 board.
o PSP and the green light remain on — you’ve likely done something wrong. Try again.
o Whatever the indicator — the TA-088v3 ain’t hacked yet.
Don’t forget to grab the tools below.
Get it Here Now: [download#2]
[download#3]
[download#4]
As the news all over the gamers world, Sony released today in North America the third generation of PSP. PSP-3000 is now available in retail stores across the US and the rest of North America. The first PSP-3000 or PSP Brite pack, which is out now starting today, is the Mystic Silver PSP 3000 Limited Edition Ratchet and Clank Entertainment Pack. It’s a Silver PSP with a copy of Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, a National Treasure 2 UMD movie, 1GB memory stick and an online download voucher for echochrome. The price remains the same as the older bundles at MSRB $199.99. And if you’re looking for that other bundle (PSP 3000 Limited Edition 4GB Memory Entertainment Pack) which is the black PSP Brite with the 4GB memory stick, you’ll still have to wait for next month, November 30 in order to get that. The Mystic Silver pack will be available in all European countries except the UK a day later on October 15. EU countries will also have to wait for the black bundle in November.
In Japan, PSP -3000 will be release on October 16 in Pearl White, Mystic Silver and Piano Black at the Price of US$249.90. So if you want to have the Piano Black version now visit Play-Asia to secure your copy on October16.
. It’s a Silver PSP with a copy of Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, a National Treasure 2 UMD movie, 1GB memory stick and an online download voucher for echochrome. The price remains the same as the older bundles at MSRB $199.99. And if you’re looking for that other bundle (PSP 3000 Limited Edition 4GB Memory Entertainment Pack
) which is the black PSP Brite with the 4GB memory stick, you’ll still have to wait for next month, November 30 in order to get that. The Mystic Silver pack will be available in all European countries except the UK a day later on October 15. EU countries will also have to wait for the black bundle in November.
