Archive for January, 2006
Set Your PSPs Free Once Again.
Sony is known for trying to stomp out their most valid user base by providing firmware updates to PSP units that disable any kind of hacking or homebrew (including emulation) code. Well pspupdates is proud to let the world know that any PSP in the world, including firmware 2.60, can once again run home code.
Relax, [...]
DS Lite
According to a Nintendo of Japan official Press Release (and a b0rked translation via Google), the DS Lite should be sprung upon Japan on March 2nd of this year. With a retail price of 16,800 yen (approx $145 USD), the DS Lite will be in the same price range as the current model.
Even though this [...]
Who doesn’t love Google?
Of course many of you have gmail. Many of you have a PSP. Now many of you can enjoy both at once. Just check out the following URL
HTTP://M.GMAIL.COM
on your PSP. This has been working great on my Treo 650 for about a month now.
TAGS:PSP:portable gaming:gmail
Why do Videogames Claim Lives?
So this isn’t exactly our question of the week, but it’s a good question to post to all of you over the weekend anyway. Why DO videogames claim lives? This doesn’t happen much here in the USA but overseas it’s a rare, but true, phenomenon. Want to read more about this? Check out this article [...]
rRootage Released for PSP
An oldie but a goodie for all your PSP fans out there. Check out this R-Type clone that was released for the PSP. Looks pretty good and it’s up and running on the latest firmware as well.
Tags: portable gaming:R-Type:PSP
Dog Fire on Animal Crossing
Hey All,
This is simply the best Blog about Animal Crossing ever written. It’s written by a 12 or 13 year old girl who has been playing the GameCube and DS versions. She meets all kinds of interesting people/perverts Online while playing it. Very sick and very funny. Enjoy!
Tags: portable gaming:DS:Animal Crossing
QOTW - Where would you go?
Hey All,
It’s time for the Portagame Question of the Week (qotw). Lately it seems conference fever is in the air. Everyone is talking about CES or MacWorld, or the upcoming SXSW or even E3. So if you could get a free trip to any of these, which one would it be? Or is there one [...]
CES = Boooring
So why am I saying that? First of all CES stands for the Consumers Electronic Show and you would think it would be a haven for Video Game tech nology, however the biggest news we heard from this year was GBA in your car and some new faces for your PSP. Not that big a [...]
Google Video Launched with PSP Support
As many of you might know, there are several new services out there trying to give consumer’s video on demand. These include itunes, Vongo, and more. However Google Pay-For-Video (launched yesterday) is the only one that let’s you download video formatted for your Sony PSP. No extra work required. So what the hell are you [...]
First 2.01 Homebrew Game Ported
Tetris anyone? As you know there are hacked PSP’s floating around out there and on some of them you can paly homebrew games. Well for those of you who want to know even more than that check out this link. Looks like the hombrew and hacker folks are keeping up as fast as Sony is [...]