So official firmware 6.00 is here. As with every OFW release, there's bound to be speculation about what steps the homebrew community would counter the new protections it puts into place, and who do we all turn to but Dark AleX? Those hoping for a 6.00 M33 release will likely end up waiting in vain, however.


Thanks to shadownhero for the tip!

The good news is, Dark AleX isn't leaving the homebrew scene. That's what Dark-AleX.org webmaster announced earlier this week. The bad news is, not a lot of homebrew traffic went past our PSP blog during the past seven days. Still, there's a little something for homebrew afficionados past the jump. Hit it and check out this week's PSP Homebrew Weekend Warrior.

A couple of days ago, the PSP homebrew community was in shock as we found news about the Dark-AleX.org forum closing down. What could be the meaning of this? Does this mean there's no more homebrew slices of heaven from Dark AleX himself? Not exactly.


Thanks to hender and dargx001 for the tip!

Alek, the Admin and Webmaster of Dark-AleX.org, has announced that they are closing down the sites forum after more than one year of existence. The Dark-AleX.org forum is the home of Dark AleX's great homebrew releases, a place for various developers to chat and exchange ideas and a great reference for the homebrew community.


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Chiri_13 from Dark-Alex.org has released his new PSP homebrew application, designed to simulate a higher firmware ( and this is where the translation gets tricky) "to us that neither the PSN, or the latest game demos and we ask our Actulizer keep 5.00 or 5.02 GEN-A. Details for the release after the jump.


Download: Update Trick v2.5

Man, when exploit fever hits, it hits hard! A user by the name of p2s2p on the Dark-AleX.org forums has apparently been able to run MaTiAz's Laughing Man TIFF exploit (the slim.tiff one, it seems) on a PSP-3000 with OFW 5.02.

Some of you may have noticed that your plugins no longer work when using Dark AleX's Time Machine to use CFW older than 5.00, M33. This is caused by a new format of plugin entries in the appropriate text file. Here's a simple solution offered by Spiros: SEPlugins Time Machine. Details after the link.

Download: SEPlugins Time Machine
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After releasing their latest download stats, Dark AleX's webmaster Alek concludes that only a minority of PSP gamers use custom firmwares. He concludes that: "Are CFW users a threat to Sony? I think not." Message to Sony: stop adding more security to the PSP.

It seems we're about to give a great sendoff to the kernel that's been a part of the homebrew scene for the longest time: the 1.50 kernel. Over on Dark AleX's website, site admin Alek posted an entry explaining the need for moving forward using the 3.xx kernel. Read more about it after the jump!

Without delay, Dark_Alex has released a bug fix for the PlayStation Portable custom firmware 3.71 M33-4's multi-disc Popsloader. With this, the Popsloader setting will no longer remember which firmware you picked for a multi-disc game. More details at the full article!






Download: CFW 3.71 M33-4 multi-disc Popsloader bug fix
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