The CPS or Capcom Play System is an arcade system board by Capcom that debuted in 1988 with Forgotten Worlds and Ghouls ‘n Ghosts. Street Fighter II, one of the most popular fighting games of all time, ran on this board.

Some of the classic Capcom games run on the CPS system, including Street Fighter II, and Final Fight! Read below to find out how to get these gems on your portable gaming system! Read more »

The CPS II or Capcom Play System II is an arcade system board that Capcom first used in 1993 for Super Street Fighter II and Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom. It was successor to their previous CPS arcade hardware and was succeeded by the CPS III hardware in 1997.

While this might be old for some, if you ever wanted to play some of the classic Capcom games on your PSP, here is how you do it! Read more »

New Limited Edition Madden PSP Hackable! (Atleast ours was) - Purchased 8/12/08

The folks at Game Retard let us borrow their new Blue PSP to find out more details about it. There are rumors about newer PSP’s being not hackable, and as of now the TA-88 v3 motherboard still seems to be causing some problems. We wanted to find out what version the Madden PSP’s where running.

Stock Madden PSP that we got came with firmware version 3.95. We used our trusty how to hack the psp guild and brought it back to CFW 3.90m33 with no problems. BOO YAH!

Madden PSP

Our friends over at Game Retard have just released unboxing photos of the Blue Madden PSP. Not only did they include the Madden PSP unboxing photos, but they also included a Star Wars PSP, and a normal black one for side by side comparisons.

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Earlier we covered how to get Windows Vista running on your PS3 but because of its lag time it truly wasn’t useful for much else than a demonstration of how far we can stretch the PS3. If you want something that’s actually somewhat usable, Windows XP is a far better option and that’s exactly what we’re going to cover today. The basic principle is similar so Windows XP runs on an emulation layer on Linux on the PS3. Read more »

There’s no reason why you should do this as it’s completely unusable (consider the 25 minute boot time to start it up) plus you need Linux installed first just so you can get the emulation layer in place to run Windows Vista, but if you really want to be l33t h4×0r or are just really bored, simply follow these steps to install Windows Vista on your PS3. Read more »

One of the nifty built-in features on the PS3 is its unabashed support for installing an operating system on it, namely Linux. We recommend that you to at least upgrade the hard drive just so you have enough room for the OS and your game and media data. The PS3 is pretty much nearly a computer and having Linux installed on top of it really reaffirms this. Because it’s so powerful yet so cheap with Linux installed, it’s actually become somewhat of a favored research tool in academia. Hopefully you’re excited now as you’re going to need that enthusiasm to carry yourself through these very involved steps. Above all else, have patience. Read more »

The latest sales numbers are in, and Nintendo reported Wii sales of 171,851 units in Japan for the month of July. While the PSP continues to ride a wave of strong sales in Japan, the Wii-rival PS3 only sold 54,823 units last month, allowing the Nintendo Wii to outsell it by 3-to-1 according to game magazine Enterbrain. But all is not lost for Sony as the PSP remains the king of sales in Japan, hustling 256,765 units out the door compared to the Nintendo DS’s 217,639, certainly not too shabby in its own right and not very far behind. The PSP’s newfound usefulness as not just a gaming platform but also a handy media and mobile device as launched its sales over recent months as more and more gamers snap them up. Read more »

PS3 Update 2.42 addresses the quality in the playback for some PlayStation 3 format software. (Including Call of Duty 4) There are no new features added to this release and the XMB bascailly looks unchanged. A few updates ago, Sony released 2.40 which ended up breaking thousands of video game consoles, and now are only releasing minimal changes.

Some users are waiting a few days to make sure no one is having issues with the newest fixes.

Most of the early reports are that the Update is fine and have actually helped with their game play:

Hi, I have just downloaded it and I can’t see a difference expect in when I’m playing call of duty, it doesn’t say downloading game settings a lot only for a few seconds. I am also more connected and not getting games quit because I am disconnecting from the access point. This update has really helped me now I can finish matches without counting them as a loss with a few seconds to go

Update - TA-088 v3 MB’s are the only ones not hackable at this time (8/13/08)

As of this month, there have been reports of newer Slim models utilizing the TA-088 motherboards rendering Despertar del Cementerio (DC), Pandora, and Time Machine useless.

The new motherboard blocks Custom/unsigned IPLs from loading from the memory stick; that’s likely a result of the kernel 1.50 & 3.40 mix. With that said, we won’t see a new version of DC — Dark_AleX’s universal unbricker — until the revamped core and interface is finished. So in the meantime, be careful.

A post on the Dark AleX blog addressed the problems with running Despertar del Cementerio, Pandora, and Time Machine on certain PlayStation Portable Slim and Lite with TA-088 motherboards.

According to the announcement posted by webmaster Alek, the IPL used for the three applications doesn’t work. Now interestingly enough, IPLs can still be run from the Memory Stick, but are limited to those signed by Sony. This in turn “will probably block the actual way of running your cfw’s, as you couldn’t even load on this NANDs the custom IPLs with different signature.” He explained the problem further:

Even though, IPL is not the problem, but probably the mixed kernel of 1.50&&3.40, and it will be the best option to use a new kernel on Despertar del Cementerio future versions.

So what does this mean for homebrew users? Well, a “new Dc version will not be released till the new Core and interface is finished.” So does this mean that they’ll find a way to get around the problem? Most definitely. All they need is a little time.

DAX WILL BREAK IT!!!

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