Here's a piece of good news to the PSP homebrew community. Early last month, as some of you may recall, FreePlay has released a video showing us that he has successfully hacked Sony's latest handheld iteration that got everyone buzzing with excitement. Well, now he's back to give us a status update on his project. According to his YouTube channel post, he is now making progress on the exploit with his NID resolver working flawlessly, and if he can get the eLoader source to work, we may have a PSP Go eLoader soon that will allow us to run our favorite homebrews on the PSP Go.

Heads up to the PSP homebrew community! Team GENyUS has announced that Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-C will be released real soon. So what's new with the latest version of 5.50GEN you might asked? More info after the break.

Even more good news for the PSP homebrew community! Homebrew developer Yoshihiro has released a patch of Ahman's iR Shell v5.0 for all CFW 5.50GEN-B2 users. If you may recall, the latest version of iR Shell includes the uber cool advance multi-tasking feature.

Download: iR Shell v5.0 patch for CFW 5.50GEN-B2 (full)
Download: iR Shell v5.0 patch for CFW 5.50GEN-B2

System Menu 4.2 caused quite a bit of grief not only for the Wii homebrew community but to the general Wii populace as well. While we haven't heard anything from Nintendo yet about the latter, we do have good news for the homebrew fans out there: a new version of Bannerbomb has been released.

Download: Bannerbomb Alpha v2

Team Twiizers is back to release a new update of HackMii Installer, a handy homebrew utility that is capable of installing the latest update of the Homebrew Channel, BootMii public beta 4, and DVDX v2 on any version of the Nintendo Wii's system menu. The latest update is set to counter the recently release Wii System Menu Update 4.2.


Download: HackMii installer v0.5

Heads up to the PSP homebrew community! Homebrew developer Yoshihiro is back to release a new update for his homebrew saving utility, Games Decrypter. The latest update fixes the Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 bug brought about by the previous release and now, almost all games that requires the OFW 5.55 can be patched using custom firmware 5.50GEN-B2.

Download: Games Decrypter v2

PSP homebrew community rejoice! Homebrew developer Yoshihiro has finally released his highly anticipated Game Decrypter for the PSP. This homebrew tool will allow you to run your backup games that requires the OFW 5.55 to work properly on custom firmwares 5.03GEN and 5.50GEN.

Download: Yoshihiro's 5.55 & 6.00 games decrypter
Download: UMDGen v4.00

Heads up to the Wii homebrew community! Nintendo has released a new system menu update for the Nintendo Wii, and by the look of things, this one's not gonna be pretty.

Last week's announcement of a new CFW in the works was marred by cries of shenanigans from the homebrew community. We already touched on that a bit in the previous edition of the PSP Homebrew Weekend Warrior, but the issue didn't stop there. In the past seven days, we saw new videos both backing up and debunking the one that Team Mack showed. Read on for the rest of this week's PSP Homebrew Weekend Warrior.

More bad news for PSP custom firmware users. Apparently, the upcoming Gran Turismo PSP will require you to have the latest firmware 6.00 installed before playing the game. More after the break.